Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1887 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE ÖKNTINKL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 1687.

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THE FIRST EASTER SONG.

KARION COLEtEN. The sad world slept In the stillness That follows a day of pain, 2i?at folded the quiet city, Peace nuatled the outer plain. Above the shadowy mountains Faiut stars in vigil shone. Below ia the darkened garden, A watch, and a sealed atone The night wind sighed In passing Its sorrowful, lonely way. Light mists arose to herald Ihe daybrea cool and gray. Soft couched 'mid the o!Ive branche A bird ia her tiny nest. Feeling her young ones nestle Coseij against her breast, Ftirrel in the early twilgkt luttered a little way Wnere close to the rock-hewn chamber, Droopetn a lily spray. A down thro' the vlne-wrcathed garden In the fragrant early gloom, Two came a weary, teeting Their dead in the guarded tomb. But the chamber closed at even, Was empty at break of day, Far from the sealed portal The stone was rolled away. A-near, like a radiant presence. One stood with an angel face, And spake. "Had ever the living VYita the silent dead a place? ""He Is not here, he is risen." And lo! in the day spring fair 'Ti raid, in the Easier legend, A bird soug filled the air. A eng of the tiny birdling Fioni the nest in tne olive tree As if tor the Christ arisen To immortality. It tell on the weary spirits Like the touch of a perfect calm, And the whole earth hushed and listened To the world's first Easter psalm. It may be bnt a fancy. But it fills our eyes with tears, And tver the sweet bird music Bingeth across the years. .Ever to endless age. To peoples yet to be. Shall come the song of the birdling from the nest on the olive tree. Youth's Companion. THAT EASTER BONNET. BY FA55Y FOSTER CLARK. I. She leaned back luiuiiou3ly against some bright sofa cushions, bhe talked in a sancy, amusing way, she gave roguish glances from her tine gray eyes, and she was lazily eating a tutti-frutti. Mr. Winford Hollis sat near by, returning her banter, and bending toward her with such show of homage as a polished teel shirt front permits to the modern knight, and he, too, was eating tutti-frutti. "Take care, Miss Leroy," he said, a? the young lady emphasized a remark with her spoon, "you'll scatter the ice oyer your pretty dress." "Never mind,'' answered Miss Leroy, gaily; "this is only a Lenten dress, and Bext Sunday will be Easter." ''Harnpb! a pale blue satin penitential robe, eh'"' remarked the old gentleman, who lounged up and leaned on the back of the Jofa. Ue was a man of tixty, with a well-preserved, sinister face, a languid manner, and as to dress, a tailor's model. 'Ohyes!M he went on, "'in Lent ladies wear Something clinging, subdued, saintly, sent out direct from Worth, and with a heavenly suggestion of angels' wings in the batterings of real laces, for we mourn our sins. Then for entertainment we have music and ices; no dancing or punch, for we fast and pray. Eh, Miss Leroy?" and he regarded her through his half-closed eyelids. "Just so. Mr. Wells," she replied garly. "You understand us women perfectly "Ah, Miss Leroy, there's only one ia the world whom I cars to understand!" he said, with a deep s:gh and a meaning glance. "Ah, Mr. Wells, how fcappy she should be in your preference!" and she sighed deeply in return. Then Mrs. Isherwood, the hostess, came bustling along, and cried, "Such a naughty girl to ait in a corner when everybody is asking for you Whereupon Miss Leroy Was borne away. Wells, still leaning across the sofa-back, watched the two ladies until they passed through the curtained doorway ; then he laughed a little, sneered a little, and dually exclaimed: "Lord! Lord! Ilollis. wüat creatures these society women are! They're like mechanical dolls that can eqneak oat a set of words, courtesy, take a short walk, and the rest is steel, brass and furbe!ow3." 'You're a lovely child of nature to critic'se the insincere and artificial!" an -swend Hoilis. ;Tve been forty year3 in what the newspapers rail our upper circles," said Wells, ''and I'm the graduated pupil of these Charmbg society women, with their ready wit, their Paris and London made piety, their discreet indiscretions." "Don't you belieye," asked Hollis, "that a woman may be fond of expensive luxury and given to social gayety, yethave goodness and gentleness in her nature?" "My dear boy," replied Wells, screwing rp the end of his waxed mustache, "can a peach be tossed from hand to hand yet ieep its bloom? Hah! no. A fashion able girl, like our lovely Misi Leroy, for instance, ia like the diamond she wears glittering, polished, beautiful, and hard through and through." Mr. Winford Hollis shrugged his shoulders and said: "It may be. How is a poor devil of a bachelor to find out?" "Take the word of an old campaigner," Bald Wells, clapping him on the shoulder. 'You are rich, handsome, clever. Keep your freedom, my boy; don't marry. Look at me!" "I do look at you," answered Hollis, frankly, "and the sight Isn't pleasant;" then he turned on hia heel and wandered off to Mrs. Isherwood' 8 deserted billiard room. There he nt down with his face to the wall and his htnl ttirust deep into his pockets. His cogitations were about Miss leroy, and were something in this wise: "Yes; she's a heartless flirt. Why, Bhe actually sighed and languished when that old Wells whispered hia rubbish to her. And yet how gentle and womanly she looks sometimes! Pshaw! merely a physical accident She happens to have fine eyes. By the way, I wish her eyes would'nt haunt me; its very disagreeable. Humph! she'd marry me, perhaps, for my money; then, if a day of adversity cems what then? Indiöerence, disgust, .parting. No; the mother of my children ahall never be a mercenary woman. I'm perhaps rather chilly and sarcastic myself, out then it's such bad form to display sen timent and feeling. Pshaw!" he was get ting bv thia time very much wrought up, "May Leroy Is a cold, wicked woman of the world, tickle, heartless cruel, and" "Come, this won't do, Mr. Hollis," said a -voice from just behind his chair. "Mrs, Itherwood wants everybody In the draw-ing-rosnv He jumped up, faced about, and there Stood Miss Leroy herself, her soft draperies md fair haix just touched by the shadei I!sht in the room, her eye meeting his - 3teadiastiy and tenderly; in her lace a grave sweetness. Holiia instantly forgot his bitter reflec tion?, and cried, holding out his handj to ward her, "May, ilay, l " uat the pre cepts of Mr. ells intruded, and the lover hesitated. Whereupon Miss Leroy broke 'nia m l'orfi 1inoh then ITlM l.nnk..1 too. and, deftly utilizing his indiscreet out burst, said in a mock-heroic fashion. "May. oh, may I have the pleasure of escorting you to ize drawing-room t" "Whai a delightful fraud you are!" said Mar. as she took his arm. "You are the delightful fraud," ha an Ewered. very pointedly.

tappose I could be earnest in any any nonsense, I hope?" "Ob, no," responded Hollis, with grim empbaaii. "Such womanly nonsense as as affection, for instance, 1 wouldn't for a moment suspect you of. Miss Leroy. I understand. I believe, the length, breadth and depth of that charming illusion be-rhymed by old fashioned poets as 'woman's love.' " "Certainly," she replied, fanning herself. 'A woman's love is as long as your purse, as broad as your lands, and as deep as your manly truth and devotion." Then she lightly trilled the beginning of a little song which, shortly after, when he flung out of Mrs. Isherwood's house, Hollis could hear her singing in the drawing-room-singing with a tender simplicity that at the same time thrilled and angered him: 'A king there lived In Thüle Whom, faithful to the grave" II. Even the next day, as Mr. Hollis went lourjging through a picture-gallery, to keep from humming "Tne King in Thüle," he had to button-hole some people and pour out oceans of artistic cant about realism and low tones and middle distances. He was just in the midst of the veriest unmeaning jumble about Corot's greens, when he saw May Leroy enter the place, and immediately resolved to avoid her carefully. In just five minutes he was at her side, and later they left the gallery together. "Dear me! that's over," exclaimed May. "Everybody talks about t'iose pictures, so I had to see them." "More social humbug eh, Miss Leroy?" said Hollis, disagreeably. "How much do you know about hiza lights and middle distance?" retorted the young lady. "Nothing at all," he acknowledged, savagely. "Good-by," and he was about shutting her carriage door, when she put out a detaining band. "Stop." I'm going to the water-color Exhibition ; would yon like to come with me? But I warn you I must stop at a milliner'a on the way." "Thanks, no; I have an engagement," said Hollis, stkHy. But after one glance at the äeckless face smiling into his he forgot the engagement, and took the seat by Miss Leroy's side. They were soon driving through a modest street, and presently stopped before a little house, on the door of which appeared the legend, "Miss Eobinson. Milliner." "There's a box here," said May, as she tugeed at something under the seat. "I

I don't allow the coachman to leave the horses; can you help me?" Hollis jumped out, and jerked a big bonnet-box into sight. May tried to take it from him, but he insisted. "No, no; I shall cany it for you." "l'on't trouble your High Mightiness," was her grateful reply. But he earned it, after all, and at the dor he remarked: "How heavy it is! Bonnets in it, I suppose'1' Ob, there's to ranch jet and metal on everything nowadays," she explained. "ADd is this a famous milliner?' inquired Hollis, looking at the door-plate. "Net at all, but the young person builds my bead-gear at moderate prices and in a very Fa) u.ian way." Presently the door was opened by a little girl, who, seeing a tall gentleman" with a bandbox, became quite speechless. The coaebman meanwhile, not understanding tbe maneuvers, was by this time walking his horses several blocks away; so Hillis said, "Why can't I go in? ' Miss Leroy hrsitated, but finally answered, "Certainly, you may come in with me." Then she hastily ordered the child, "Take this box to your sister." Bnt the load was heavy, and dropped from the small hands. Miss Leroy at once bent down, and fairly forced the box into the little thing's arms, with the sharp admonition, "Now don't let it falL" "Wasn't that rather too much for her?" asked Ilollis. Pshaw! no," she said coldly, as she swept into a room that was at once shop and parlor. ion don t believe in spoilin the chil dren of the poor, I see," he remarked, with sarcasm. "As I've told you before, I don't believe in any nonsense whatever, replied Mav, haughtily. ilollis stood noting the perfect neatness of the cheaply furnished room, the few pictures, ornaments, and bits of color that told of an effort after refinement, and the array of bonnets on long upright rods. Presently the door opened noiseless y, and there glided in the milliner herself, a pale, Eretty young creature, ybo turned an emarrassed look upon the strange gentleman, then stood humbly before her tail, hand some patron, and asked, in a soft voice: "Is it about another bonnet. Miss Leroy?" "l es," said May, In her clear-cut tone, something to suit a new costume." "Would you try on some of these styles?" asked the girl, taking a gauzy s'ructure from its perch and fitting it upon May a queenly head. Uofes this become me; ' sail Miss Le roy, and Ilollis saw how perfectly the delicate stuffs framed her blonde beauty, bnt he saw as well the girlishness of Miss Robinson's splender fierore and the eneaeing, self -forgetful look in her pretty face. "asow" Bald May, "you ve quite the right notion about shape, but for shade I want an ecru, toe bat to be bordered with black, and lightened up with a few of those new roses you showed me in a rare shade of crimson. It must be delivered by let me see, to-morrow will be Good Friday well, by Saturday, or, at farthest, Sunday morning early. I want it on Easter without fail." "Yes, 'm, I'll do my best," answered Miss Robinson; "but, please," and she gave an embarrassed glance toward Hollis, "may I speak with you a moment?" "I've no time to-day for talk," said May, hurriedly. "Oh! please, please!" the milliner besought her in a low voice, and very unwillingly Miss Leroy went toward the door, while Hollis considerately looked out of the window. Among several whispered sentences he heard wv-i times repeated and distinctly th-c Aoda: "It's too much, Miss Leroy. I can't; oh, indeed I can't!" Then May said, imperiously: "Hold your tongue! Remember, now, that hat must be re; dy, sharp and sure. I want it for Easter morning. Ecru with crimson. Remember! Come, Mr. Hollis." As Hollis followed the young empress Out he observed the poor little milliner. She stood clasping and unclasping her thin hands, two great tears had welled up from her soft, patient eyes, and were coursing down those pale cheeks. Miss Leroy svept out without a backward glance, and when HoUis took his seat in the carriage hs felt a wild desire to appeal to her better feel ings, to ask her in burning words to make mercy, pity and love the crown of her womanhood. The burning words he did at length bring himself to say were: "Queer little party, that milliner; seemed to be crying." "Indeed," taid May, Indifferently. "Now for the water colors and middle distances, Tr TTnlHa ' That night Hollis came across Mr. Wells at Delmonico s, and as they discussed perfect salad, the young man said: I was present to-day at a scene mat made me thoughtful. A poor, feeble workinn-cirl told her rich patron that it was impossible to fini ta certain work in given time, and the woman treated her with cold disdain, insulted her despair, and insisted on having the work at the re quired moment." "Just what I told you," answered Wells; "there is nothing but cruelty in the worn an of fashion. I love the poor and lowly the pa!e-laced working-girl, the invalid mother, the honest old father with his mug of beer. Take some of this Green Seal, Hollis, it Is uncommonly good." IIL The more Hollis thought over the scene he had witnessed, the more miserable be became, Vj eai.kiog (teat may excel-.

lent Havanas, and riding hia fine horse through the park, he managed to pass two days without trying to meet May Leroy: but by Saturday evening he was seized with a strong desire to look again into that

perfect blond face, and to quell the long ing he bad to conjure up very strongly the image of the heart-broken little milliner. "By the way." he said to himself. "I won der if she has finished that wretched bonnet I wonder if she ia toiling away at it now ! lie smoked on in deep study for an hour; then he left his rooms and descended to some basement regions, where a grimy man sat by the great steaai-engine. He called to this man, and, after a short understanding, Hollis went back to his rooms, carrying a bundle of old clothes. In ten minutes he had completely disguised hinueLf as a stooping, shabby fellow, with a 8hu Illing gait, and car rying a sizable package. lie at once started out, and walking briskly through the quiet streets at midnight. reached a small house, and the sign, "Miss Robinson. Milliner." There were lights within, and he rang at the door. It was opened cautiously by an oldish woman. 1 ve got a particklar message and a bundle for the milliner," said Hollis, in a low comedy voice, adding vaguely, and on the chance of coming out right, "Smith s the name." "Ob, you're from Mrs. Smith," said the woman, looking at him sharply. "Its awful late ; but you may come in. Nellie," she called out, "I guess Mrs. Smith's sent the materials for them children's spring hats." The parlor was convertible into a bed room, lor three children were sleeping there: and through an open door Hollis saw in a back room the little milliner heself, pale, weary-eyed, but working awsy feverishly in the midst of a mass of feathers, flowers and ribbons. "Let the man come here, mother. I can t Stop," she cried ; and as Hollis approached she said, without looking up, "Wait a minute till I get this fold in the crown just right." "ion re putty busy, ain tyer: ' ventured Hollis. "Oh yes," she sighed, "for I've got to finish this bonnet for Easter if I have toset up all night to do it." Then tossing over a pile of furbelows, she said, "Oh, mother, where s them new crimson roses? leant lind 'em nowheres. Goodness me! I'm jest drove to death." Her English made Hollis wince a little, but he thought with pity, not disdain, of this poor child's lack of early training. He ventured a little nearer, for the vital matter was to know whose bonnet this was on which the younpr creature was toilng. at the expense of her health, liberty. perhaps life itself. "Ecru and a bunch of crimson roses;'' that was Miss Leroy's order. Then there arose the grave ques tion, what color is it that women call ecru? ' Mr. Hollis put on a vacant, stupid manner, and pointing to a bit of ribbon, asked carelessly, "What color do you call that ere, miss? Mauve." answered Miss Robinson, as she wearily pressed the needle through the stubborn hat crown. "Humph! I 'ain't goi no idee of colors," be said, resolved to make a bold dash. 'Now what do yer call that what you're wo r kin on : "Ecru," she answered, wearily. "It's to be an ecru bonnet, black velvet on the edge, and trimmed with a few crimson roses." Ha!" be exclaimed, as his suspicions were confirmed, and so nearly fell out of his role that Miss Robinson might have seen tbe change, but at that moment she et her wort fall, and cried out, "Oh, mother, mother, I'm fainting!" Hollis rushed forward, caught the slight figure as it fell, and laid the poor uncon scious little creature on a sofa near bv. The mother clasped her hands wildly and sobbed out, "Oh, my poor Nellie! She works too hard. "It's a burning shame!" said Hollis, be tween his teeth, as he bent In pity over the delicate face. Her lips were half parted, the long lashes showed dark on the marble cheeks, and one small needle-tortured hand lay across ber bosom. The mother bathed her forehead, and after a time there came a sigh, a start, and the ittle milliner's first word was: 'The bonnet! oh, the bonnet! Mother, I must finish it I must " "No, no!" answered the distracted mother. "My angel child, you'll kill jourself. No!"' ' "les, cried the girl, wiidiv, "I must I must, and I" she sat up bravely, though pale as death "I will. ' "Don t. exclaimed Hollis. pityincly, yet afraid of betraying himself by saying too much. But the little creature stroeled to her eet, pressed her hands to her eyes, pushed back her hair, and said, "Now, before I go to wora, l 11 attend to your errand." "Tbe bundle," explained Hollis, &UMv, s Mr Smith's coat. He's to try it on. If taint right, I'm to nring it back to Isaac's, the tailor." "Oh! ' answered Miss Kobinson, wearily, "I thought it came from a customer. There's some mistake." "Ain't you Mrs. Smith, the milliner?" inquired Ilollis. innocently. "She's Miss Robinson," the mother informed him. "Guess you've got the wrong street." "Well, now," said Ilollis, "I guess I have. Guess I'd ought er have gone east instead of west. Good evenia'," and he made o:T. That night saw strange movements in a certain bachelor apartment. A handsome youn fellow walked up and down, up and down, until daylight, muttering to himself, - She ia unworthy, utterly unworthy: cold, cruel, heartless!" Throwing himself now and then into a chair, he would sob out, "But I loved her so; I loved her so." At last, springing up, as he brought his hand down upon a table with violence, he exclaimed, tolemnly, "I swear I will never see her again never, never!" IV. It was II o'clock on Easter morning, and Mr. Hollis, much calmed down by a few hours' sound sleep and a good break fast, felt an inclination to compromise with the passion-tossed lover of the night before. He re registered his vow in an other form: "I will never see her again unless by chance." Then he remarked to himself, half aloud: "I'll just stroll up Madison avenue, and see the people coming from Easter services." He did so, and quite by chance lingered near a certain exit of a certain church. By chance he kept his eye on the Gothic dooraay, and entirely by chance spied an ecru bonnet, on it a rare shade of crimson rose, under it a lovely face that smiled upon him. He grimly raised his hat, and grimly joined Miss May leroy. "Oh, is that yon t " said May. To which Mr. Hollis could think of no more telling answer than "It is I," yery tragically spoken. "Why, how sepulchral you are to-day!" she remarked. "I have reason enough to be serious," he answered, with bitter emphasis. "Indeed! Has your dearest enemy been let into your club? wasn't your last cigar perfect? or don't your gloves fit?" she rat tled off. "Miss Leroy," said Hollis, stiffly, "let me walk with you a short distance. There is soraethinz that I wish to say. Let me add that it is not agreeable." "Oh, how very nice!" she replied. "Let ns take a little walk, by all means. One is so bored wiUi pleasant speeches so ever lasting. Come, be disagreeable." Hollis, rather piqued by such frank In diflerence to his mood, informed her, "J would thank you to be somewhat more at tentive and less light-minded." "So von want me to be solemn," she re ioined. eayly "solemn on this bright Easter day? No, thank you; I'll be as happy as I please." Hollui looked into her dancing eyes. deep and clear in the broad sunlight as mountain springs, and he grew very angry that a w.cieJl r.Hit cguia wev q? i?9f

ma?k; so he talked argumentative and unpleasantly about trideä the last novels, new music, and some promised gayeties until they found themselves- at the entrance to Central Park. "We'll turn now," said May; "I'm not quite plebeian enough to walk in the park on Sunday, like Hans and Gretcaen." "Miss Ltroy," responded Hollis. seizing the happy opening for his lecture, "H would be better to think less of what is patrician, and more of what is charitable and womanly." "Very well done!" paid May, regarding him critically. "Now what piece of burlesque is that?" "Burlesque?" he repeated, vexed and puizlcd. "Why, of course. Whenever you look wideawake or speak seriously, I know you're iokiDg. Ia a natural condition you are always sleepy, indifferent or sarcastic." It flashed across Hollis that this might hold a grain of truth, and he stammered a good deal in replying. "Perhaps, I don't think it good form to show every emotion.'.' Then, very much vexed, and very much in love, he broke out hotly, "Heaven mude you to be the angel you look, but through luxury and idleness you become unfeeliDg, selfish and crueL" May was paying but careless attention, and even as ne spoke her eyes were iixed on u. couple who were coming toward them and evidently about to enter the park gates. "I say," reiterated Hollis, "there is no kindly instinct, no love or pity, left in the fashionable woman. She is utterly unfeeling, frozen, and" May's face wore an amused smile, and her attention was entirely fixed on the approaching couple a dapper young man wearing a scarlet cravat, and a pretty, delicate-looking girL "Utterly frozen," repeated Holli3, angrily; just then May nodded to the young girl, who, with a confused blush, returned the greeting. Ilollis thought the girl's faoe was familiar; he halted, stared, turned about and stared again. "An ecru, bonnet," he exclaimed, "and crimson roes! Why, it's youra, Miss Leroy ! No, you're wearing yours, and and, she that young person wears one ixactly like it. Good heavens! she is she is " "Little Robinson, my milliner," said May, laughing. "She's taking an Easter walk witn her 'young man,' and she comEliments me by having made herself a onnet just like mine." "Tell me," vociferated Hollis, wildly, "when was your bonnet sent home? Answer." "Yesterday morning. Why, what is the matter with you?"' said Miss Leroy, as she caught the smiles of passer? by. "Then," pursued Hollis, in the same excited way, "I dare say that girl made her owr bonnet last night!" "What do you mean?" asked May, very much vexed that her escort was making a

spectacle oi Minsen. Oh. nothing," he jerked out, with a nervous laugh "nothing at all. I was merely merely rot feeling very well. Ha! pleasant weather isn't it?" And he whiikf d his walking-stick in the air to appear at ease and unconcerned. They had turned about toward home. and Miss Leroy observed him very curi ously. Tresen tly she fired a little shot. I hope you feel better now. ion seem more natural more like Mr. Wells " 'Like Wei's?' exclaimed Hollis. "Thank you for the compliment. He's a sinister, selfish 'the young man stopped for a good word, and found it "old society tramp." "i uate niai, said aiay, coolly. "You rlLrt with him," retorted Hollis. "I certainly don't make a display of sin cerity or kindliness to cynics who only rid icule wnat tney can t nnd rstaad," she said. cuttingly. "llnmph ! that sounds well frcm yon who satirize every honest word." "I don t have the chance," she replied, with deliberation. "I never hear one." They had reached her father's house, and as she passed in, Hollis, silently and uninvited, followed her into the parlor, careful ly closed the door, faced her, and said. 'Then yeu shall hear an earnest word now. Miss Leroy." Just the construction of that "earnest word" need not be explained. It was not very long, and it dissolved soon into a slight sound, which, fcr eloquence, shames the highest flights of oratory. "Now, May." said Hollis. aa she twisted her finger in and out of a button-hole of his coat, and looked shy as a school-girl, Must explain one thing more. hat was in tbe box you took to the milliner'."' "It was a box of Easter presents, and a sum of money for herself and the little siter?.'-' answered May. "Robinson is an in.pu'sive, hysterical little creature, and whenever I give her anything she grows so ridiculously thankful, and says: 'It's too mach. Oh! I can t I can't accept it.' Why, I can hardly keep her down by being eres-. How cou!d you deceive me so?" ex claimed Hollis. "Pshaw! I don't care to pose as' Lady Bountiful," said May. Then she laid her head on her lover's shoulder, and rained tears all over his new spring overcoat. "My heart's darlinz. " he cried, "what is tbe matter?" Oh!" she sobbed out, "it does a woman, especially a society woman, so much good to bave a nice, happy cry in in some body's arms," before which queer but perfectly true declaration Mr. Hollis Btood puzzled, awe struck, bnt entirely Diissrui. Harper's Bazar. Colonel Dick Thompson and De Leaseps. New York Special to the Enquirer. Ex-Secretary R. W. Thompson, of Indiana, is in quite a vicious irame or mma because the newspapers have discovered the fact that bis fat connection with the Panama Canal is at an end. He growls like an old bear every time a newspaper man approaches him, and otherwise displays an irritability quite out of keeping with the dignity of an ex-becretary oi tne Navy. A gentleman, who was with Mr. Thompson on the day that Count De Leaseps arrived here with tne party oi t renca gentlemen who came over to see the inauguration of the Bartholdi statue, said to me to-day: j "I am positive that Thompson's $25,000 salary from the canal company has been cut off, and that the relations between himself and De Lesseps have been much strained. The American establishment was coating nearly $2X,000 a year, and its value and utility was questioned both by the directors and stockholders of the company. Thompson originally came into the Panama scheme through the fact that he had some mining interests in' Central -America. Paymaster Stevenson, of the Navy, was interested in the same mines and, Stevenson had some hold with De Lesseps. Thompson went down to the ship to meet De Lesseps and the French visitors. I was where I could see their greeting. The Count was as cold as an icicle. He merely nodded his head to Thompson end passed on. He neither extended his band nor made any remarks of any kind to him. It was literally the cold shoulder. Thompson went off up town by himself, not bein evtu invited to go with the Frenchmen.' The Langtry said to a New York Herald reporter, apropos her intended production of "Cleopatra" In New York next September: "It will be thebisrgest part I have yet endeavored, and I am prepared to spend 10, 000 In making it a complete and thorough illustration of the brilliancy and magnificence of Eastern Court life. My dresses will be halt Greek, half Egyptian, as history tells us was Cleopatra's wont to wear. The armor and such like, including anklefs and armlets, will come from Europe, but my silver ornaments will be made by Tiffany. There will be three spectacular balleta. Of course I shall have to Increase my company, for there are alone twenty peak Id k part3, and at moments there will be two or three hundred persons oa the stage.'' '

AMONG THE POETS.

"for I Know That Sly Redeemer Liveth." Shall the mole from his night underground call tbe beasts from the day-glare to flee? Stall the owtf barge the birds: "I am wise. Goto! Reek the shadows with me!" Shall a msn bind his eyes and exclaim: "It is vain that men weary to see?" Let him walk in the Peace be with him rieht gloom whoso wilL Bat whence is his To assei t that the world is in darkness, because he ha turned from the li?ht? Or to Etek to o'ershadow my' day with the pall of his self chosen night ? I have listened, like David's great eon, to the vire of the beast and the bird; To the voice of the tiees and the grass yea,' a voice from the stones I have heard ; And tbe sun and the moon and the stars in their courses re-echo the word! And one word speak the bird and the beat, and the hyssop that prings in the wall. And the cedar that lifts its proud head upon Lebanon, suleiy and tall; - And the rocks, and the seas, and the stars ani "know!" is the message of all. For the answer has ever been nigh unto him who would question and learn: How to bring the btars near to his gaze; iu what orbits the planets must turn; Why the apple must fall from the bough; what the fuel that sun-fires burn. Whence came life? In the rocks is It writ, and no ringer hath graven it there? Whence came light? Did its motions arise without bidding? Will science declare That the law ruling all hath upsprung from no mind, that abideth nowhere? "Yes, I know!" cried the true man of old, and whoeo'er wills it may know "My Redeemer extsteth:" I seek for a sign Of his pleasure, and lol As he spoke to the light and it was, so he speaks to my eoul, and I know ! Solomon Solls Cohen, in the April Century. Alas! The following exquisite poem a lament for death derives a pathetic and prophetic significance from the fact that it was received by the New York Independent and published after the author's death.j Alas for all high hopes and all desires! Like leaves in yellow autumn-time they fall. Alas for prayers and psalms, and love's pure fires; One silence and one darkness ends them all. Alas for all mankind sad, fleeting race! Alas, my Love, for you aad me alast Some day death holds us in a close embrace: We, too, like all the rest from earth must pass. Ala! to think wehhall forget some hours Whereof the memory like love's planet glews Foreet them as the year her withered flowsrt Forget them, as the sun forgets the rose. Our keenest rapture, our most deep despair, Our hopes, our dreads, our laughter and our tears, Shall be no more at all upon the airNo more at all through all the endless years. We shall be mute beneath tbe grass and dew We shall be Tery mute there, in Death's state, And you will be as I, and I as you One sameness shed upon us, anil one fate. Philip Bovrke Marstox. The Little Grave On the Hill. There s a spot on the hillside far away. W here in summer the grass grows green; Where, beneath a rustling elm tree's shade, A moss coiored stone is seen. 'Tis a quiet and uu frequented f pot, A solitude looeand wild; Yet somtlody's hopes are buried there 'Tis the grave of a little child. In winttT. alas! that mossy stone Is hid 'neatn a shroud of snow; But around it, in springtime, fresh and sweet, Tbe daisies and violets grow; And o'er it the summer breezes blow, With a fragrance soft and mild. And the autumn's dead leaves tnickly strew That grave of a little child. And every vear there's a redbreast comes, When the month of May is nigh, And builds her nest in this quiet spot, Mid the elm trc e'sbranches high: With her melody sweet, by the hour 6he trills, And if by the scene beguiled. Perhaps who knows? 'tis an ar gel comes lo tbe grave of that little child. Yes, somebody's hopes lie buried there, Some mother is weeping in vain, For, though years may come and years may go, Twill never come back again. Yet bleased are they who die in youth, The cure and tbe undefiled ; Some road to heaven, perchance, runs through That grave oi a lime child. New York Express. A. Friend's Hand in Mine, I.ads. Sometimes tia Mav, lads. The sky soi't and bright; We sing on our way, lads. With brave hearts aad light. But May can not last, lads; With great clouds rolled. The skies are o'ercast. lads, The world turns cold. A friend's hand in mine, lads, A kind hand and true. In rough ways and dark daysIt helps a man through. We've small gifts to give, lads, A poor purse to show. But what man can live, lads, Witn oanght to bestow? A word of brave cheer, lad, A warm grasp and strong. Boats all your gear, la Is, To help hearts along. A friend's hand in nine, lads, A kind ban i and true, In rough ways and dark daysit helps a man through. Do what you can, lads. And do it with might: God isn't man. lads. To judge by the sight, rence pounds outweigh, lads, When wills are right good. And, oh! to hear him say, lads, "He'i done what he could." A friend's band in mine, lads, A kind hand and true, Ia rough ways aad dark daysit helps a man through. KRF.rERftK LANGBRIDGE. Peace. Winds and wild waves in headlong huge commotion Scud, dark with tempest, o'er the Atlantic's breast: While underneath, few fathoms deep in ocean, Lie peace and rest. Storms In midair, the rack before them sweep ing, Hurry, and hiss, like furies hate possessed: While over all white cloudlets pure are sleeping In peace, in rest. Heart, O wild heart! why in the storm-world ranging Flit'st thou thus midway, passion's slave and jest. When all so near above, below, unchanging Are heaven, and rest? A. G. B , in the Spectator. The Nan. She lies upon the cold stone of her cell. And the nitrht deenens: and the night ischill, Fasting and faint, she nerves her flagging will, Resembling tne weviiaDie neu. Yet niU her lover's voice she hears too well. And "Love, Love, Love," she hears and an swers StilL The Christ looms high against an angry hill, Her heart and Love would roam a lowly dell. Fa -tin g add fain t she lies. The shepherd Night Leads the calm stars across hia plains like chnfi n Earth slumbers. When shall slumber seal her eye? . , Who, crying with lamentations infinite "Heaven, heaven!" yet, ineradically deep. Hides in her heart an alien Paradise? Arthur Symons, in the Academy. An Easter Message. Peep in the HUy's perfumed heart of snow T t ' - n-'.a moDCD rrn writ in frOldPTI tlOff! Ulf. 1 ' t ' J no , ... h r - - n V' Mion if meaniDg, strong to banl&li grid imma Carlton, in the Tattler. AMONQ THE JESTERS. Tim 1 oolale Cashier's Advantage. 1 Omaha World. Omar a Dame There now. The Woman's Jonrral says women are more reliable in pcBitiona of trust than men are. Husband How do they make that out? From statistics. It is known that where 100 men abscond not more than one woman can be found who is in the least dishonest. 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