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A B CHELOR'3 JOYS.
A NEW YKAIi's STORK".
1 f$t? HAD BEEN LIV
'fj y,j li since my birth,
-V" ( fifty-five years ago.
in an old-fashioned
v ' e, left to me
father. It
coiiv.kuiv . several
apartine n t s , the
best of them rented
to the family of a
schoolmate of mine,
who had seen some
sad days. A financial crisis, had im
poverished him, and made it necessary
for him to look for less expensive quar
ters. Heing a lonely bachelor, and
feeling at home in his family, I in
vented some trifling excuse fc lower
ing the rent, and thus I keptn y lriend
with me. His wife and daughter seemed
overwhelmed with my kindness, showed
great feeling', and I had many invita
tions to take dinner with them. Who
would not have been charmed with so
much attention from two beautiful
ladies! My own apartments were on
the third lloor. I had cut off two
rooms from them, which were rented
to two sitters. One wes a forewoman
In a large establishment, the other a
weak, gentle girl, who sewed at home,
as I judged from seeing1 her at her
window, always with a needle in her
hand.
One day she was gon. but I cared
nothing about them. The rent was
paid promptly and I had never seen
much of them.
Xew Year's day was drawing near,
and, according to my usual custom, I
wandered from store to store, in search
of something1 original and costly for
my little friend, my schoolmate's
daughter! Little? Why, now she was
a young lady, 19yearsold. Next month
she would make her debut, and I must
find some pretty jewel to heighten her
beauty.
"Oil! MR, WHAT fill AM, WE DO?"
I know she Is rather vain and super
Geial, but all young ladies of her age
ire more or less vain and I try to find
ome excuse for her. The mother, a so
siety woman, has had very little time to
educate the heart of the daughter,
rime will help, I think, us I stop here
ind there to admire the exquisite gems
lisplayed In the show windows to
'A'mpt the buyers. Finally, I see just
A-hat I want a ring of rubies and dia
monds. I remember how the girl has
4alked about this very ring, with a
,on'gIng sigh. How could I have over
.ooked the plain hint the innocent child
iad given me?
I buy the ring with a childish joy,
ind having atored it carefully (n my
pocket, I walk out of the shop, to find
f47elf face to face with the mother and
11 ili
daughter, who with an enchanting
smile and friendly salute hurry on their
way. I feel like a scholar caught by
his teacher with a cigarette in his
mouth, and I actually put my hand to
my pocket, to hide more effectually the
surprise it contains.
I wander leisurely home, to find the
wife of my janitor in an excited state.
"O, sir, what shall we do?" she
says. "The girl on the third lloor is
very ill, and the doctor has just left,
saying that she will not probably live
another week."
"She must be taken to the hospital,"
I answer in a very positive tone. "See
to it at once." I walk upstairs, feel
ing in a certain measure sorry for the
poor girl. Hut I soon forget her. She
is only a stranger, and, no doubt, will
be better dead than suffering, and the
hospital is a very good place, so I have
heard.
I now remember my purchase, and,
cfttr admiring it again in its velvet
case, I lock it in my closet to wait for
the happy New Year's day. Lighting
a cigarette, 1 sit at my window, dream
ing of days gone by, when I had
thought of a plain gold ring to adorn
a dear little white hand. I was only
a f tudent then, and full of enthusiasm.
My father's objection cooled my warm
heart, and I soon become an inveterate
bachelor, and a very scllish man with
only my own pleasure to consider and
no one to care furl 15ut then I had
friends; such good friends, even in my
own house, in whose home there is al
ways a plnee for me. Some men are
far less fortunate.
And so I sit and forget even time,
la a week and a half it will be New
Year's. 1 am invited to my friend's
for the Christmas dinner day after to
morrow. The bell rin js suddenly and with un
wonted violence. Who can it be? Kosa,
my old housekeeper she has been
thirty-seven years with my family
opens the sitting room door and says:
"Please, sir. a lady wants to see you."
"Let her come in, Rosa." I rise to
meet the visitor. But a flush of an
noyance comes to my face. It is my
third floor lodger!
"What can I do for you, madam?"
"A great deal, sir. Please, oh please
take back the order to send my sister
to the hospital! I could not go with
her, and it would kill her."
I look at the tall, dignified figure be
fore" me. She stands, because I have
not offered her a seat! Where is ray
courtesy? I am ashamed, and I hastily
push an arm chair toward her.
"No, thank you; my sister is ill, and
needs me. I have only come to tell
you that she can not leave the house."
Her tone vexes me, it is so decided.
"I beg your pardon, 6he must go
for I do not wish to have a death in
my house, especially not in these days,
when my friends "
Hut, heavens! What is that! The
woman reels, and I have barely time
to prevent her from falling to the
ground. What a brute I am! How
could I speak so carelessly about a
death, which would leave her all
alone, and take from her her dearest
and best friend? I should never, never
forgive myself.
Rose is near at hand, and with her
help I am soon relieved bv seeing Miss
Casanova open her eyes again. As
soon as she is able to stand, she says
In a low but cold voice: "I am sorryl
Pardon the trouble I have made you,
air," and without another word she
walks out like one in a dream, with a
terribly bitter smile on her lips.
I felt so guilty that I stood like a
statue, without a word of apology.
When she was out of sight I
felt vexed at the part 1 had
placu .a tlii.-. uugedy, a to
console myself I went down to my
friend's to talk it over. Just as I was
about to pull their bell, the door was
opened by the maid, who was let
ting out a messenger with some parcel.
I was such an cvery-day guest that she
allowed me to step into the parlor, and
went about her own work. This room
was divided from a second one by only
a portiere. Hearing voices fn the next
room, I concluded that there was some
visitor there, and I sat down, busy with
my own perplexity, and waiting for the
Lady of the house. Ten minutes must
have passed when I was recalled to my
self by the sound of my own name. I
rose involuntarily, but no one came in
and I sat down again, while tho voice
went on:
"I am sure I don't mind the harmless
old fool, mamma, but can't we have
one New Year's dinner without him?
We need another lady, if you Insist on
having him, and our dining-room is not
very large."
"But, child," I hear the mother say,
"how can we offend him? I do not
eare to have him, but he always sends
such nice presents and flowers. And
then he might raiso the rent. Tapa
says we mutt be polite."
"Oh, bother!" says the daughter.
But I hear nothing more; I 6teal away
like a thief, and close the door gently
behind me, as I return to my bachelor
apartment. How poor, how lonely I
am! My flowers, my presents, buy a
few smiles, a friendly word. It is un
bearable, the sorrow that has struck
my heart. Since my dear mother's
death, though it is long ago, I have
never felt so lonely and forlorn as now.
I must go out, I must walk, I must see
people. I rush down tho stairs, and in
ray impetuosity nearly knock down
two men who are coming up.
The janitor's wife directs them up
stairs, and turning to me she adds.
"The ambulance."
Oh, horrors! The ambulance stands
at the door, and those two men are go-
JW Mix
IIP!?
"WHAT CAN I DO roll TOL MADAM."
ing for the poor girl, accordiug to my
orders. If they reach the door before
I do, the shook of those well-known
uniforms may kill her. I forget my
ago and my usually dignified walk,
and hurry upstairs, calling all the
way: "Stop! Wait! Do not go on!" and
I heave a sigh of intense relief as one
i man turns his head. They wait I
actually believe with a suspicion that I
am out of my mind, for I hold my hat
in my hand, and must look almost wild
with excitement.
"Please step in here," I say, and I
open my own door.
"Rose, bring two glasses of wine. Sit
down, my good fellows. I am happy
to tell you that the call for the ambu-
j lance was a inu-Lako. Allow me to pay
you for your trouble, and tell them at
the hospital that it was all a misunderstanding."
ineracn accepted my explanation,
thanking me politely, and depart with
a lurking doubt as to my sanity. But
what do I cave? Tho poor girl is safe.
I wonder how she is. Perhaps she
knows of my heartlcssness, and dreads
the arrival of tho ambulance. Will
Miss Casanova ever forgive me? She
looks to proud, like a uccn, more than
like a bread-wiener.
"Rosa," I try to look unconcerned,
"how is the sick girl?"
"Shall I inquire?" says the good old
soul, with a glad ring in her voice.
And withcit waiting for an answer,
she hurries from the room, and I hear
her speak in a subdued voice to some
one outside. She returns to tell me it
is the doctor, who has just gone in to
prescribe for the invalid.
"Tell him to come and see me, Rosa,
when he conies out."
Something has lighted up her dear
old face, and her eyes look kindly into
mine, but she talks little. I am less
lonesome when I look at her, for she
loves her cranky master, I know.
Presently the doctor is ushered into
my library. I find that he is an ac
quaintance of mine.
"How is the invalid?"
"She has pneumonia, but I am glad
to sec a slight change for the bitter
to-night."
"Thank God!'' I say with a profound
ly sincere accent.
"I did not know you were acquainted
with them." ,
"Poor girls! I do not know them, but
I am sorry for the poor sufferer!"
"The sufferer, a3 you cull her, is the
least to be pitied. The older one is a
heroine. I knew her in Florence,
when she was still the mucu-sought
daughter of the rich banker Casanova.
He had a tecond wife and a little girl
by this second marriage. Do you re
member her complete ruin? It was
followed by his death. His wife be
came an invalid from sorrow, and Miss
Casanova, left with two helpless peo
ple on her hands, sought in vain for
paying work. Florence attracted her,
and she decided to try a place whero
no one knew of her former life. She
began at the very beginning, living a
life of Muerifice, but soon reaching a
better position by her industry and in
telligence. The mother died, blessing
the faithful heart, suro that the deli
cate child left in her sister's care would
be safe. Yes, she has been safe, and I
shall spare no trouble to cure her."
"And these are the women I wanted
to send away!"
I thanked the doctor, and begged
him to let me know if I could do any
thing for my lodgers. Then, under a
sudden impulse, I confessed to the doc
tor my heartlcssness, and the story of
the ambulance, and how I had deeply
regretted my behavior. Would Miss
Casanova ever forgive me?
The doctor looked almost severe, and
rising he said: "Try and mako amends
by leaving the two ladies from this
time unmolested."
He said good-by without much cor
diality. The nextday a bouquet was brought,
of beautifully fre-.h cut-roses. It was
intended for my friends down stairs,
but I sent it to Miss Casanova. It
c me back with regrets. "The per
fume might hurt the sick sister."
A proud girl, Miss Casanova. I
never asked after them, but I allowed
Rosa to give me news, which she did
so discreetly that it seemed quite her
own wish to inform me, while I was
really thinking of nothing else all day.
A summons came to mo from down
stairs, but 1 pleaded a bad cold and ate
my lonely dinner with gusto, to tho
high delight of Rosa, whocoul ' hardly
believe it to be true.
The invalid became better r. New
Year's eve arrived, and I heard that all
danger was past, as if it were of a near
and dear relative Rosa was the bearer
of the good news. Then she confesses
that she has carried the sick young
lady every day some broth, chicken, or
mutton, also beef tea. To-day she has
broiled a little leg of chicken. I listen,
then I jump up.
"And she has not refused?" I break
out. "Not refused? She has accepted,
Rosa?"
"Yes, 6ir, and to-day, as she has gone
to take some work to the shop, 1 sat
with the dear, sw'et, young lady, In
order that she might not be left alone."
"Oh, you dear good Rosa! Then
you, you have softened tho cruelty of
your master?"
Somehow I do not care now to be
alone. Of course I send an excuse for
my absence from tho New Year dinner
of my old friend. I enjoy better eat
ing by myself!
A year has gone! YfLere is tho poor,
lonely, tolerated bachelor? Alas, he
is no more!
He sits gravely, a happy husband,
and nods joyfully at Rosa as she an
nounces dinner.
"Doctor, your arm to Miss Casanova,
and take her in to dinner."
"Miss Casanova" is a dainty, delicate
little damsel, for the other Miss Casa
nova is my own sweet wife. She has
forgiven me!
Rosa, all smiles, stands in the door.
I really believe she is as happy as we
are.
As the doctor is to be my brother-in-law,
he has decided to lay down his
arms and be as forgiving as the rest.
My friend downstairs is still there, bat
he leaves soon in order to make room
for ur. We meet, wo bow, wo smilt
and pass!
Tlrora Task
Clarence Done anything lately,
Cholly?
Cholly Yaas; bought a diawy for
1895 last week and am waiting for New
Year's to come to begin it. rwfully
tiresome work writing, awfully.
Wot Italre(L
Old Boy What are you doing there?
Younger I'm wetting my thumb,
preparatory to turning a new leaf.
Old Boy That's all right-but don't
go wetting your lips. Boston foat
AFRAID OF PEANUT3.
European rnnoqanlnf4t "Willi Some
Choice Tliimr to Eat.
Americans eat n good ninny thing
unknown to European and other,
which tho people on the other side
would not eat even if they had a
chance. Bananas, sweet potatoes, pop
corn and peanuts are almost unknown
la Europe. A young Chicago. did not
know this, and it cost him several thou
sand dollars to find It out. He return
ed from the Antwerp Exposition last
week, where he experimented with the
sale of popcorn and peanuts, and the
stories he tells of his experience are
amusing.
'I knew tho conecsslonnaires at tho
world's fair in Chicago earned money
out of nickel bags of popcorn and pea
nuts," he said. "The firm who had the
concession here made something like
$100,000. I had $4,000 or ?3.000 saved
up for a good Investment, and so when
the fair closed here I made applica
tion for the solo concession of the sale
of peanuts and popcorn at Antwerp.
Thero were no competitors nnd I got
the concession. Now I wish I had not.
I bought up all the popcorn and peanut
roasters left over from the fair and
went south nnd purchased a carload of
peanuts and made contracts for sever
al other carload to Ik; shipped later
on. But I did not cat them. The para
phernalia, together with several hun
dred bags of old corn and peanuts',
went over nnd I followed it.
"After week of hard labor I was
ready for business. But there was
none. Money Is less plentiful in Eu
rope than in the Unlttsl States. Those
people over there thought as much of
5 centimes as an Aemrlcan thinks of
half a dollar. I saw I had to make a
low price for my stuff. 1 put the pop
corn and peanuts on snip at l." cen
times a bair. wlt'c'i Is cqu.il to abot ',
cents In United States money. Well,
I had my hopes built up, and before I
started to sell I dreamt oC bagsful or
20-franc gold pieces and what I would
do with them when I got back to Chi
cago. You can imagine my surprise
when I saw what the first woman did
who had Induced her companion to buy
a bag of popcorn. She bit a piece in
two. looked 6eard, ar.d then exclaimed
In French, 'Why, it Is cork. The
Americans want to poison us.'
"Her companions tasted the corn,
and jabbered something in French,
and then took the w hole bag and threw
it away. When I saw this I was ready
to faint. One after another the pop
corn bags found their way to the llor.
My hopes shattered, I still had confi
dence In the peanuts. But they did
not like them either. They broke tho
shells, took out the nuts, hull and all,
munched them, andthen cried, 'B-r-r-!'
and the peanuts went tho way of the
popcorn. How did I come out? I came
out, and that Is about all. I staid there
six weeks, and after I lost my money
I started to see some of the continent.
Now, I am glad that I nm in Chicago,
and I don't want anything to do with
popcorn or peanuts in Europe hereaf
ter. It has been a lesson to me, and I
paid $.",000 for it; still, I guess it Is
worth Its price." Chicago Tribune.
LATESA FROM THE LIARS' CLUC.
Three Inill.-jeatlble Vnrn Told by Its
Mont Veracious Member.
In a Virginia forest the other day,
says the New York Recorder, a very
large tree was cut down, near the
heart of which was found a lock of
hair, or rather two.lntertwined of dark
er and lighter meshes. By cnrefullly
splitting the wood the initials "I. S."
and "I. IV" were discovered, faintly
legible, in what must have been the
bark several hundred years ago. By
carefully counting the rings which cov
ered the Initials they were found to sup
port the theory that tho mystic letters
stand for I-o-h-n, or "John Smith" and
"Pocohontas Powhatan," whose lock of
hair had been in some romantic mood
intrusted to the keeping of the cleft
bark.
Not content with slaughtering wild
ducks in the usual methcUIcnry Jones
of Currituck, procured a Catling gun
nnd loaded the cartridges with bird
shot Concealing himself, he waited
until a large flock approached him at
great speed with a favoring wind.
When they had nearly reached him ho
opened fire. The destruction was terri
ble, but such was the impetus of the
birds and tho force of the wind that
almost the entire flock was slaughtered
flopping dying upon his hiding place,
nnd beneath their mangled bodies
Jones perished miserably by retribu
tive suffocation.
A lady In Thorr.nston, Me., has a cat
Fanny which had kittens, as cats
so named frequently do. Hearing her
mistress remark that the kittens must
be drowned Fanny removed them one
day to a safe hiding place. After a
day or two she brought them back to
tho mistress with nn nlr of triumph.
It was then seen that she had with
teeth nnd claws torn to pieces an old
canvas and cork life-preserver and had
fastened a piece of cork around each
kitten's neck. Moved to pity by the
sight tho mistress said: "Fanny, not
one of your kittens shall ever be hurt."
At this the Intelligent mother took off
the bits of cork and went to (deep in
perfect confidence.
InTrMifrntlnjr the Rther.
The bequest of $115,000 which the
late Robert Stanton Avery has left In
his will to the Smithsonian institution
for "lectures and treatises upon and
concerning those mechanical laws
which govern ethereal mediums" might
appear at first blush to bo the testa
mentary whim of a very ethereal per
sonage. Tho value of this scientific leg
acy, however, may prove incalculable
from the standpoint of America's posi
tion In the world of science. The mys
tery of ether that unknown, hypotheti
cal medium for oil the waves of heat,
light, sound, magnetism and electricity
lies at the bottom of tho secret of
nature; and the Avery endowment may
yet bo the incentive to original re
search which shall take mankind a step
nearer to the sources of world energy
and force transmission. Philadelphia
Itecord,
ITEMS3FROM AFAI7.
London is now trying an apparatus
which, it is claimed, will abate th
sewer gas nuisance by utilizing ta
gas.
Tho touch of a baby's hand caaed
the launching of tha Ardent, a death
dealing torpjdo boat, in England, tha
other day.
In the mountains of Sweden, Nor
way and Lapland all vegetation won LI
be utterly destroyed by the Norway
rats were it not for tho white foxes
that make special game of tha
rodents.
German mineralogists have discov
ered that some of the gold mines
worked by the ancient Romans ia
Central Portugal will yield ahani
some profit still if worked by modera
methods.
The Republiquo Francaise of Paris
has discovered a "sleeping beauty" ia
the person of Marguerite Bounyenoal
of St Quentin, who has slept for
twelve years. The sleep was brought
on by fright Lifo is sustained by
artificial means.
They know how to treat wife-beaters
in Qe ny. The brutal husbani
has to work all through tho week,
turn over his wages to his wife on
pay day and go to jail Saturday night
and Sunday. About two weeks of
this sort of fun takes all the wicked
ness out of a fellow.
A pupil of the late Professor Ilelrn
holtz relates that when his master
had disooverod tho velocity of nervo
currents by tho aid of electric meas
urements, Alexander von Humbollt
remarked to DuBois-Ileyinond: "Tlvsa
nerve currents move only three timos
as fast as the Orinoco."
A political agent in England re
cently sent tho following protect to
an elector: "To Mr. X. Y. Z. Tik
notice that I object to your namo be
ing retained on the list of the owner
ship electors of the county, and I
ground my objection on the fact that
you are dead." Tho document was
addressed to the dead man and opened
by his widow.
RANDOM NOTES.
New York city has appropr ted
8100,000 for public baths for next sum
mer. The number of post-offices in the
United States increased last year
from C3.403 to 63,805.
Soldiers in the United States army
lose on an average twenty-ono days
every year from illnesx
Bangs have practically disappeared
in Boston, whence, of course, coinos
the announcement that tho belle now
wears her brow decollete.
William Anderson lately climbed
the flag pole of tho Manhattan Life
insurance company's building in Nevr
York, a distance of 470 feet from tho
pavement
The Lutheran church has twenty-six
theological seminaries in tho United
States, with 1,033 students, ninety
professors and property valued !
$1,037,600.
Ilnw'i This!
We offer $100 reward for any cae of
catarrh that can not be cured by Italy's
catarrh cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., proprietors, Toledj,
Ohio. .
We the undersigned, have known F.J.
Cheney for the hint fifteen yearn, and b
lieve him perfectly honorable in all tml
cesa transactions and financially abla to
carry out any obligations made by their
firm.
West & Truai, wholesalo r3rughikt3, To
ledo, Ohio.
W aiding, Kinman & Marvin, whole!
drugfrtBtB, Toledo, Ohio. ,
! Hall's Catarrh cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and 'tnu
cuous surfaces of the systj". Price. 7&
rents per bottle. Sold by iTw drugiu.
Testimonial free.
Hall'a family pills, 23 cents.
A new ipcclcs of giraffe has been discovered!
la Africa.
Kill the lion of temptation, ami the next time
you pass that way you will Unl It mouth fuU
of honey.
KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort and Improvement anfl
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. Tho many, who live bet
ter than othcr?Hid enjoy life more, witty
lcs3 expenditure, by moro promptly
adapting the world's best products to
the needs of physical being, will attat
tho valuo to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced la th
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its exceLcnce It due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of upsrfect lax
ative: effectually cleansing tne system,
dLpclling colds, headaches and fevera
anu permanently curing constipation.
It has given satinfaction to millions and
met with tho approval of tho medical
profession, because it acta on the KiJr
ncys, Liver and Dowels without weak
ening thera and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for ealo by all drur;;
gists in 60c and $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Byru
Co. only, whose name ia printed on tverjt
package, also the name, Syrup of Fig,
and being well Informedyou will no
accept any substitute if oflcrcd.
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