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2 TILE SEP A hi A V KE&Aj 1' BAZOO. T b h,SDA Y , NOVEMBER 22. ie7. GEOGRAPHY OF HARD LUCK 1 i Against a post there leaned his head A callow youth, who sighed and said: "Osage d'you Know of any trick To end a fellow's Sufferas Quick? Tou ask me Wye. and don't see tt rough My cause for Macon this ado ! "Tisthis: I loved a maiden Nice, sir. As ever charmed a young man's Iser; I pressed my suit with Zealand found My hopes not wholly without ground. Obe assured life seemed to Brighton, And Dover me skies seemed to lightem I Ava Bangor-count. you see, And scatter money rather free ; I thought that wealth and gen'rous deedf Unto a maid's affections Leeds. And it cost me many a golden Guinea When Marietta PhlUipine-a With me. and made me pay the due How uttle for her smile Toulouse ! "Yes, I was Avon a nice time, Thinking it nothing of a crime To drive upon the summer Rhodes, Or take a Hackensack the woods For springtime Po-sles. Happy Tours But yet I want no more Amours. "One night I thought I'd Colansay That she should name the wedding day Then did she Bristol up, and said : The Dayton which I am to wed With Mr. Squiggs is Sunda night; I'm Malta blame for your sad plight. "I strove my senses to impanel. My words could find no Eaelish Channel So I was forced to Bolton run. I couldn't even make a pun. "I felt like those whose luck declines Like Captain of some 'Appenines Who drops his smile, is sour and sassie When not a single Tallehassee. "My tears. 1 don't expect to dry 'em I'm Tyre d of living, now. Yes, Siam I" A. W. Belkitr. in Tid-Biti EOMANCE OF A SONG. $L Singer Who Lost His Voice But Found His Love. T was a baritone, a glorious, resonant baritone, that surged and swayed about the senses like the realization of dreams of the music of Eden. There was a rich, ripe, mel tow ring in it that fell upon the ear with a persuasive, caressing touch as gentle as it was intensifying, as sooth .ng as it was inspiring. You have heard such baritones a very few of them, for baritones are rare jewels and are therefore aware of the power that they wield, a power over the emo tions and the passions beside which all other influences pale and fade away into insignificance. This baritone, then, this prince among mortal voices, rose and fell in mellow cadences upon the soft July oight like that of a minstrel from the ikies. It came from the dimly-lit organ-loft of a little country church, whose brown stone walls and mod est steeple were wreathed with ihe ivy-vines of half a century. The singer was his own accompanist, and the harmonies evoked from the splendid old instrument proved him to be a master of it On swept the music, in a chaos of rwelling chords and exultant song, the sounds floating out and away beyond the mullioned windows and reaching the ears of half a score of tired labor ers on their way from the fields; The minstrel is breaking swiftly from one song into another; now tilling the little edifice with the noble strains of recita tive or aria from the ma ter- of oratorio, following it swiftly with the plaintive, impassioned notes of a lay of love and misery and death. And then, with one great burst of melody from organ and voice, transcending in beauty and gran deur a'l that has gone before, the sing er pauses abruptly, leaves the instru ment and steps lightly in the silence and gloom down the dusty little stair way He is a man, young, slight and grace ful, with eyes and huir of an inky blackness and possessing that Indefinable air which bespeaks genius and race. He steps lightly towards the door, but starts back in surprise on beholding a young girl seated in the corner of one of the great oaken pews. "Why, Genevieve, you here, dear,'1 he says, tenderly. Why did you not tell nit?" A. TOUNO GIRL SEATED. The girl shrinks back slightly as he tikes her hand. I could not help coming, Gu'," she answers, softly, "although you do not like to be dis turbed. But I did not disturb you, did IF And your music O Guy, Guy, you do not know how 1 love vou!1' She is erring softly, and over the man's foco there flits a look half of pain, half of weariness. But he stoops and reeves her. "Come, sweetheart" he says, "let me take vou home and ill spend the rest of the evening iff tne old way, under your father's apple trees, with nothing to do but dream, and nothing to wish for but our wedding-day." The girl a tall, graceful girl, with solemn eye and white earnest face lers him. and they go out into the moonlight, silently. e "Are you a fool, Guy Keith, or the next thing to it a contented human being?" he asked himself listlessly, in the solitude of his rooms over the little inn, a couple of hoars later. "Are you content, you you who had tho power to make the world mourn be cause you flouted it to bury yourself here forever as a method of revenging yourself upon one false woman? And yet is it burial? She, my Genevieve, God bless her! Is my whole being, moral, mental and physical, worth one beat of her little heart? I fear me it is not And yet she loves me wor ships me. It is not vanity to say it For I love her. I think I could cut this sinewy right arm off to save her pain. Yes, let it be so; it is fate. Gene vieve and Art! Could living man de sire two fairer mistresses, each perfect in nerelt and neither lealous or tne other? Yes, I am content" And he slept, while over the meadows a mile away a pure young face gazed from a window of a little toy cottage, a face wet with the tears of a happi ness that seemed too vast to be of this world. a a a a It lacked but a week of the bridal day. Again the little church was filled with music and again the girl sat in the shadows drinking in the sounds that to her were the sweetest thing that she knew. Down over the hillside the master of the rustic railroad station stood palsied with astonishment He had barely recovered from the semi-paralysis that had beset him when he beheld Guy alight from that same train three months before, and he was totally un prepared for the advent of these latest arrivals, this quartette of elegantly attired men and women who, consider ably entertained by his embarrassment were inquiring of him the name of the best hotel. There was only one, he told them, finally, and he would be happy to drive them to it in his own wagon if they would wait while he closed his office, for that was the last train to-night Thev waited, and a lank, shock-headed boy was sent in quest of the vehicle. Comfortablv ensconced within its roomy depths, the little party fell to conversing gaily. 'I know I am right" asserted one of the women, positively. She was a magnificent creature, robust of physique, with a magnificent head set upon a throat that for fullness and whiteness would have tilled a sculptor's heart with de light Her companions laughed lightly; they were unconvinced, but willing to humor her, and begged their host to proceed. They n eared the church, and a great light of triumph leaped into the woman's magnificent eyes. "Found!" she exclaimed, and sank back with a little gasp of delight Then she laid her delicately-gloved hand on the won dering driver's arm. "Stop here. please, she said. As they entered the church, noise lessly, leaving the station-agent to wait outside and speculate hopelessly , as to their mission, the girl arose quickly, conscious in some way of the approach of an unhappy element She opened her lips to speak, but turned again and shrank back into her seat Then from the organ-loft came the J plaintive prelude of Paolo Tosti'a "Good-bye," a song about which so many tender memories of the lovers hinged. The singer's voice came forth, j superb, mighty, tender, and the bosom 1 of the woman who had led the way into the church rose and fell in her triumph. She, too, knew the song and knew the singer. Good-by, summer, Good-by. good-by, carolled the unconscious minstrel in the organ-loft all his heart in the melody he was creating, and his aud itors stood silent waiting for the end. The end was coming. From some caprice or impulse the singer chose to let his voice die away as the glorious climax of the song was reached, but his fingers still wandered over the keys in pursuit of the air. Then the tall, splendid woman below stepped forward, parted her lips, and took up the strain where he had relinquished it ; All the to-morrows Shall be as to-day she sang, in a full, rich soprano that echoed and swelled like an inspiration through the - little sanct uary. The singer above knew the voice. The organ died into silence with a wail of discords, and there was heard the sound of a man leaping head long down the stairway. He reached the aisle, and with one swift glance comprehended all. "Why are you here?" he panted, hoarsely. "Speak, and quickly, in God's name!" "You ask me that?" said the woman, smiling upon him with a very heaven of tenderness, all her beauty en hanced by the gleam of her great eyes in the twilight; "I am here be cause whv should I not tell it here, a before your friends and mine? be cause 1 love you." Heedless, forgetful, conscious onlv I of the knowledge he a year ago would have bartered an eternity to gain, he sprang forward and clasped her wildly in his arms. consciousness. Good God!" exclaimed he wtiom she had addressed as Victor, and who had first rushed to his assistance, "he has bitten the glass through in his pas- It is really surprising hew people will surfer month after month and year after year with As they all left the church togethe, B"n fearsome otZl crvsta7has ft iT Q f 1 f Q f ( M me of them observed the girl stand- odj?ed in hig throat." ' W Ulld LI Utt LIU fr mute and white in the rreat new JL none ing mute and white in the great pew but little more than an arm's reach away. Long after the door had clanged behind them she stood so, gaz ing forward into vacancy with tearles eyes. "Forget me," he wrote. "She waj more to me than I knew. I have wronged you bitterly too bitterly tc ask or hope for forgiveness. But In a month he could speak, and that was all. He would never sing again. It was snowing outside, and he paced his room moodily. He had never dreamed of life removed from riches and had made no provision for such a position as that in which he was placed. The organ, of course, he was still mas ter of, and to this he owed the avoid ance of absolute povertv. Friends he when regular babit t Uwi can be secured with out chan. ing the diet oi ilsorg .n.i.ng the system, if they will only Ohio could not stay and let my whole life ( had none th had ftlf deserted him wiui j ou i h n tie- one run no wiM nm what she will, and I yield. God knows I wish you happiness. Good-bye." No wretch of the galleys was ever more securely shackled than he. Did he regret it? He could not tell, but though every day she bade him go if he so chose, he did not And here, to night at his own table, amidst his own within a week of his mighty loss. "It was a dream," he murmured, un consciously quoting from one of his favorite songs. "I was blind, and yet I should have been a fool to open my eyes. Oh, God!" he added, passionately, it is too bitter. I could have lost her. but my voice can I live and be what I am? No, bv heavens. s Mississippi fh The direct and fast line te Cincinnati, Louisville, Washington, Baltimore, New York and the East A Simple bat Effective Vegetable Compound. 1 will r.,t T etinll on,! f t Tl . - c ! , I win iinii a nuaii cult i i 1 1 i. i iiri friends, she was jibing at him on a sub- ! hafl Ree tnat , value Ufe lcs9 y ,ect he had begged of her. as she val- j value me in my miserv." ued his peace, to let rest He drew a tiny from B dainty It was after the opera where they ' case and hamled it carcfull v. "This had both tasted anew of the triumph that seemed all the sweeter by reason of the charms its comparative nov elty had lent to it And they were all here at his house. I gay, witty Bohemians, every one of them, presenting a company of which every second member was the possess or of genius in some guise or o:her. Tragedians, singers, a poet or two and a trio of scholarly critics from the great daily newspapers were there, and all were listening with vast appre ciation to the raillery of the brilliant woman, the queen of prima donnas, who sat at the foot of the table. "Marriage," laughed she, gaily, in reply to the jest of an elderly journal ist 'bah! my dear Victor. Marriage is a specter, an ogre, that sensible peo ple avoid as mariners do the reef upon which the lighthouse stands. Marriage is the Gate of Tears of the Ocean of Genius. In marriagot, what have you? For an hour, intoxication, kisses yes, happiness, if you will. And afterwards mutual disappointment, disenchant ment and misery, tempered by the consolation in some cases, perhaps, that one might have done even worse if given time. Marriage is the true artist's bottomless pit which she should prefer to walk fifty miles round rather than attempt to jump over. As for romance, have you not it in the adorer whom you keep in a satisfactory and interminable condition of Jacob like servitude for that which he may or may not obtain as I keep Guy, there? Poor Guy" heedless of the passion rising in his pale, tired face "now marriage might have suited him. He played me false, the rascal. Flew away, like a liberated canary, and built him a nest in a little hole of a village in the New Hampshire hills, where he had re duced the people to a condition of tear ing their hair out by the roots out of worship for his singing. He can sing, you know a little. And worse than that, too. His nest was too capacious for solitude, it seems. The rogue act ually contemplated matrimony he, of all men! In a week I him just in time he was to have wedded a veritable little maid of the hills a white-faced little woman with two cherries for a mouth and eyes that you couldn't look into without feeling just how hopeless a sinner you were. I really do believe that for once Guy was in earnest, but if sile " He arose from the table, white as death. "Silence!" he thundered. "From this hour I renounce- shall set me free, but, first first I will go for an instant back to the past and to Genevieve." He placed the pistol carefully upon the case of the miniature organ, an ex quisite instrument, the one relic of his life of triumph that he had declined to part with. He seated himself before it and passed his hands over the keys. It is the good-by" that he plays, and the old sweet measure for the mo ment lulls to rest in him all that is despairing and bitter. The vox humana gives out the air with a plaintive sweetness that brings back all the flood of memo ries of things that after to-night and forever are to be silenced. It is ended. The last lingering chord has died away. Mechancially, with eyes half-closed and a smile upon his face, he arises and lifts the pistol from its resting place. "Ah, true friend," he murmurs, "do your work well, and I " The point of the weapon is at his forehead. But he is gazing into the mirror over the mantel-piece, and with a strange fascination perceives the door open and a slight, veiled woman enters. A moment's hesitation, and the- pistol is hidden in the pocket of his loose velvet lounging jacket He knows her at a glance. "Stay," he says softly, raising his hand with a courteously deprecating gesture, I am a thing unworthy of your compassion; I do not deserve it and I do not seek it But see" and with a bound he is on his knee at her side, pressing the hem of her dress to his lips in rever ence. The veil is thrown back and she speaks: "Guy," she whispers, they are dead, my father and sister, and I am alone. They said in the newspaper that you too were alone that they had all deserted you. Per haps I did not come so much to offer compassion as to seek it. And oh, Guy" her voice sinking into a won drous tenderness "it s:iid, in the pa cer that when thev thought vou were caught dying and the doctors came to look at your poor wounded throat that that my little locket with the lock of hair that you asked me for, was upon your breast, and that when you lay in that terrible fever you called and called and called for Genevieve." Can you trust me, crippled, voice less as I am?" he asks breathlessly. "Is it possible P" "I have ued aimm'Ds Lirer reeulat tipatiun an always with He i d benefit." Hiram Wak.iek, I- op - hi (- Jua ice if Ga. PREPARED BY J. H. Zeilin & Co., Phi la., Pa. The best and surest Remedy for Care of all fjSj caased by may derangement of the Liver, Kidneys, Stomaca and Bowels. Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Constipation, BUioos Complaints and Malaria of all kinds yield readily to the beneficent influence of Mil It Is pleasant to the taste, teats up the systeflL, restores and preserves health. 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