Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1891 — Page 11

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, .WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 22. 1891-TWELYE PAGES.

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A COMMERCIAL TRAVELER.

HIS FINE LOOKS AND WINNING WAYS. ITh.r.T.r lie Oo.i II la eta Welcome) aa the riow.ri of Spring Meatlaa; of Old Tim Acquaintances A Moat Ilemavr kable Beoord. HIS very elegant gentleman of trade is fortunately nn" fortunate, and pets as much pleasure out of his discomfort as is consistent with his oppor tunitiea. It is a m ' y,-r'P4''f-t pleasure to see him, ' '.' ''A1'1 and he invariable ,when he sees you, and doubtless speaks the truth. Take a man who has been away from home for a few months and he is glad to see even a yellow dog that belongs to his native city. While it ia hardly necessary to tako the comparison to heart, still the comparison is necessary to ehow pomethinp; of the commercial man's nature. Of course one assumes the right to generalize when speaking about hira above a whisper, or, in Other words, when limited on either side by the column rule. However, if our prince of trade knows nothing of column POST OP

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SO GLAD TO rules and home rules from personal experience he has heard sufficient, perhaps, to keep him otf the reef. The drummer, as he is eurnamed, is clad to Fee everybody, whether he sells them anything or not. He squeezes your hand with a ''have-a-drink" gra.-p and understands how to read your heart without going around the road. Ye?, he was glad to see j'ou, and he was glad to gee your brother and your brother-in-law, and you were correct in your tpecu'ations when you thought you detected a glimmer of genuine satisfaction about his beaming face when he tumbled into your shop, bag and bag!et, and took quarters behind the cheese box near the fPINXINO TARNS. Btove, previous to taking orders over your counter. Cut you should see him when he meets a genuine, old, congenial ro:id runner, for whose house he usd to travel himself. They rueh together like chemical combustibles, and from the roar, fizz and general effervescence out in the bar-room you might infer that they had actually exploded and had blown each other out of existence. They emerge presently, however, from that favored sanctuary, drenched to the core with all the decoctions which make an evening merry or a morning miserable. You leave them at 8 o'clock in the hotel office thrown over their chairs in all the desultory abandon of neglected meal sacks, cracking old jokes and inquiring about old girls, down old rou'es, lost long ago in the doubtful memory cf ever changing experiences, and when you take the TO THE OLD HOUSE. key to your room, they are still slapping each other's shoul lers, daring each other to take another drink, and tuning their voices to perhaps a Intle higher key than they cared to reach a little earlier in the eveuing. Now, there is a genuine fraternity for you, and these men are two of its Trother compeers. The commercial traveler has ever, since "the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," enjoyed the reputation of the only original masher, but this is certainly due to his winning ways, and without such a virtue he could not do goal work for his house, and it seems, from a business point of view, he should be pardoned by the mothers of the land for such an accomplished failing. There once lived a traveling man who was so handsome and who supported such a lady-killing mustache that no less than thirty-two young rosebuds of a certain town always congregated at the depot to see him come or go, and pick up whatever particles of pleasantry might fall in their way. Ha was an exceptional fellow and beat the record. At the end of three months thirty-one of the number claimed they were positively engaged to the parsing Adonis. Bat just when their hops were strongest holy smoke ! he brought

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the ugliest kind of a freckled-faced, red-headed wife down to the town and left her there among them for a week's recreation. The eirle seemed crrievcd at first, but later

on clubbed and together acreed to fuht trie case uirougn under a plea ol general denial. A great many people were for acquittal and a few for conviction on fir-t ballot, but on second thought concluded to turn the Rirls loose on an unsuspecting eoap man who rode into town one night under a flaming tlambeau, kissed his hand to them with every packase, and took their hearts, as well as their small change, away with him in the morning. The commercial man ia truly a pood fellow, a fond lover, a pleasant acquaintance, a loyal brother, and like all good husband?, hi? U glad to get home to hia wife and babies when he can, and like some of the verv best husbands on earth, he 6eeiD8 often just as glad to get away. FUNERALS OF THE FUTURE. Raforma Which It la Said TVHl Yet Come lata Operation. fN. Y. Telegraph. "The time is coming," said an undertaker of New York city the other day, "when people will cease to go to funerals in troops, and when the friends of the deceased will take farewell of the remains at his home, instead of following him to th grave as they do now. This will be a decided change for the better. "Funerals as now conducted are foolish and meaninirlefs performances. They bring discomfort to all who attend them, and in many cae they do positive injury. Think of the thousands of people who catch their deaths of cold from Handing shivering around an open crave and from Eitiing for hours in carriages traveling at -' N. s ----- SEE YOU. a mail's pace for miles into the county. Of course the time is not far distant when burials will he suspended by cremation. "On tho whole, I am disposed to regard cremation as a blessing. People are opposed to it now because they think it unnatural and horrible. It is simply an assistance to nature's work; it does neatly and quickly what nature accomplishes after a long time and in a very unplrasant fashion. I wonder if people ever realise that when a human being dies the body which he leaves behind him is not himself. "There is no more relation between a man when he is living and when he is dead than there is between any living thing and a piece of clay. Eut we have not reached the stage of civilization when the popular mind can grasp this fact. When we do, there will be very different funeral ceremonies from those now in vogue, and other methods of disposing of dead will change materially." Hebnklnr ft Flrst-Rato Snob. Chicazo Daily News. When .TeiTVrson returned from his triumphal engagement in London a number of New York swells determined to honor the actor who had made so ereat a stir in England ; accordingly a splendid dinner was given to Jefferson and all the conspicuous representatives of (iothatn swelldom were there. It befell that on the very morning of the day when this great banquet was served Jefferson's son, Tom, married a very pretty and estimable girl who had been a member of ODe of the epectacular ballets. So, during tne banquet, one of the guests (a very swell personage) referred to a newspaper item in which Tom's prospective wedding was mentioned. ''Ye, it is true," said Mr. Jefferson, "Tom wag married today." "But it is not true, I suppose, that he married a ballet girl ?" inquired the aristocratic person. "Yes, it is true," answered Mr. Jefferson laconically. "Ah, I did notsuppo9 you would allow your son to marry a ballet girl," said the other. "And why not?" asked Mr. Jefferson. His mother'was a ballet girl." The aristocratic party lapsed into a vociferous silence at once. Leabia. Th setting tin burns low adown tha wait And fires the eveuiog mist with lurid, burnished splendor; Theslumb'ring palms, by sighing winds carrraad, repeat their orisuiit In accents soft sad tender. Kow, gondolier. The stars appear, And thro' the told of hearen iwtatly gliiten; Tha water-nrmphs are pausing far and near. And to thy nappy descant wait ani listen. Sing to rue tha old-time, sweet refrains. And wafea the silr'ry echoes sleeping 'mid the mountains; The songs of shepherds on the sunset plains To sighing maids boside the cork-tree fountains. King, gondolier, Unclouded, clear, Tha burning moon thro' eastern palms Is shining; And, o'er tha wave, like Hope's serene career, Her track of splendor creeps, beyond diTining. Afar upon tha boundless plaint ot night, Tby gentle, sweat refrain in softest echoes djrlrjg, Brings back tba lsU of ray own lost delight. Amid cerulean wares of ocean sweetly lying. Cease, gondolier, To mera'ry dear Tba happy i:enes of life thou dost awaken The way of life is clouded o'er and d rear To one who wanders there alone, forsaken. aloszo I Hick. Ray's Crossing, Ind., Apr J 6. Anything for Relict, f Harper's Bazar. Miss Trims "I fear there is nothing in Miss Mumsley. Did you see her yawn while you were saying such bright things to her?" Mr. Secundus "Yes, and I kept on hoping she would nod next." Miss Prima "Why?" Mr. Secundus "I thought it possible she might talk some in her sleep, you know." A Close Comparison. Harvard Lampoon. J First Maiden "How well Mr. Fastleigh holds himseli?" Second Maiden "But that doesn't compare with the wav in which he holds another." Everybody knows that at this season the blood is filled with impurities, tho accumulation of months. All these impurities and every trace of scrofula, salt rheum, or other diseases may be expelled by taking Hood's Farsapariila. lie sure to get Hood's.

MADEMOISELLE FfiURlE'S CHOICE Maurice Thompson In New York Ledger. In the published histories of Louisiana we find an account of twelve brave men wiio were punished by Don Alexander O'Reilly, at New Orleans, in 1709, on account of the part they had taken in forcing Don Antonio do Ulloa to leave the

state. The names of the men arrested were Focault. Noyan, Bienville, Boisblanc, Lafreniere, Brand, Marquis, Loucet, Petit, Mazent, Joseph and John Milhet and Yillere. Of these men, five were ehot, Yillere was brutally murdered on board a vessel in the Mississippi river, and the others were transported to Havana, where thoy suffered greatly as prisoners, receiving the most inhuman treatment. This was almost the first public act of O'Reilly after assuming command of tne Spanieh colony in Louisiana. The men upon whom his vengeance fell l)elonged to tho best French families of "ew Orleans and the surrounding country, and no calamity could have caused more consternation among the creole population. Gloom and mourning were in almost every house. No one knew where the tyrant's malignant vengeance would next fall, nor did there appear any hope for the French residents nave in abject eubmi?iion to Spanish domination, which meant a sort of slavery but little above thy thralldom in which the negroes were held. One man. who took a very active part with Yillere and his companions above enumerated, is not mentioned in the histories. His name must have been supC reused by order of O'keilly, for reasons est known to him ; aud, not appearing in the Spanish records, it has failed to reach the uttt ntion of those whosu labors have done so much to preserve the singularly romantic story of the days when New Orleans was a 6mall town in the midst of a wilderness, and peopled with the most adventurous and courageous men and the most daring (and it is said the most beautiful) women ever thrown together as companions in alternating happinees and misery. Just what part this unrecorded individual played in the ill-considered pro-cf-ediug which precipitated O'Keilly's wrath is certainly not known; but he was the youngest of the insurgents, and, as tho frtorj aoti, the handsomest man at that time in the colony. Tall, slender, dark, with curling hair and a drooping, black mustache, he had added many manly accomplishments to tho natural grace and the magnetism of bis presence. He waa an unerring marksman, a daring and brilliant rider, and, among his companions, a matchless swordsman. At the time that the others were arrested he eluded O'Reilly's grap. fc'ou.e say that lie remained for many days hidden in a email house on the outskirts of New Orleans where he was taken care of by an old colored weman; but another dory is that he had a rude tent under a great live oak in the midfit of a swamp a luiie or two outside the town. One thing, however, is well-known: O'lleilly gave orders for his capture dead or alive, and threatened death to any person harboring or assisting him directly or indirectly. Furthermore, after a time, when every eliort to secure hrn seemed about to fail, a large reward in eo:d was olftred for hia head. It was while matters etood thus that O'Reilly held a reception at his house, which was a somewhat pretentious building, and called together a large company of the best people in the colony. His invitation was regarded by those receiving it as an order, and none, especially if French, dared disobey. Bitter as waa the thought, and hard to meet as was the humiliation of accepting hospitality from the man who had struck such a blow to their hearts, they felt that anything were better than to call upon themselves again the visitation of that monster's absolute cruelty. The mere namo of O'Reilly was a terror, and but a suggestion of displeasing him sent a chill to the very marrow of the bravest of the chivalrous men in New Orleans. So it came about that the parlors of the commander's house were filled at the appoiuted time and everylody strove to appear gay as became the distinguished occasion. By common consent tho belle cf the evening was Mllle Ilortense Kauri-?, only daughter of Alfred Faurie, a wealthy refugee from another French colony. Horteuse was about 17; but, although slender and by no means tall, she bore herself, as the diary left by a member of the family states it, "with the air of a queen in tho midst of her court." The commandant's house was beautifully decorated with tlowers, pahnleaves ana festoons of gray moss. There was music, and the danc ing began early. To quote from the diary again: "One would have thought one'a self in Paris, as one looked about at the courtly men and richly-dresstd ladies." Don Alexander O'Keilly, himself, by no means an ordinary personage in address and bearing, graciously approached Mdlle. Faurie, and engaged her in liyht conversation. Many an eye noted this. The young lady found herself, indeed, the central figure of the occasion, thus specially honored by the terrible and yet singularly fascinating mati who mingled in his deportment the courtesy and grace of the pay cavalier with the grim reserve of a merciless master. A gain and again during the evening Don Alexander and Mdlle. Faurie led the dancing, aud when refreshments were announced the beautiful girl was once more accorded the highest honor by the host. Her beauty and gentleness, her sweetness of voice and ready sparkle of wit seemod to fascinate him completely. Doubtless the fact that she spoke tho Spanish with a pretty French accent greatly enhanced the singular witchery of her conversation. As was the custom then, especially in the Louisiana colony, wine flowed freely, adding its deceptive exhilaration to the ocension. O'Reilly drank to the health of Mdlle. Hortense more than once, and even insisted upon lifting glasses with Monsieur Faurie, her father. There were those present who whispered furitively to one another that this marked attention to the Fauries must have some sinister under-meaning. They had learned to expect sudden and dreadfully tragic results when O'Reilly did something apparently based in kindness or even friendliness. This surmise, however, was without any foundation in fact. O'Reilly had no desire to visit further punishment on the French population ; on the contrary, having Ehown them by one fell blow the extent of his power and the inexorable swiftness and certainty of his executive ability, ho was anxious to exhibit, if permitted, the other Eide of his strong nature. But beyond this the loveliness of Mdlle. Faurie had softened his heart and called into new life the tender and long since almost smothered tires of his passionate soul. She alFected him, as beauty will sometimes afiect a powerful character, strangely and deeply. Long before the evening's festivities had ended, and while yet tho music and the dancing were at their height, a thing happened that caused O'Reilly to wonder. A half-breed Indian boy stalked into the broad hall and went directly and silently, as if by instinct, to Mdlle. Hor

tense Faurie and handed her a bit of paper, then turned about and was gone like a flitting shadow. At this moment the commandant and Mdlle. Faurie were standing at the head of the hall under a large and fancifully decorated hanging-lamp. "Withvour generous permission I will read this.'' she said. He bowed assent with a word or two of soft politeness, at the same time the play of flush and pallor on her face and the trembling of her jeweled hands as she glanced with ill-controlled eagerness at the writing. He was a deep and 6hrewd man, with a memory that never lost anything. In stantly he recalled that he had been told a few days agone the story of a romantic love existing between Mdlle. Faurio and the one fugitive from his vengeance, Kmile Delpit. A grim half-smile played over his lace, and he touched his smooth, linn chin with his forefinger, a gesture characteristic of him when tome new thought arose suddenly in his mind. Mdlle Hortense read and re-read the short missive with nervous rapidity, and thrust it into the folds of her dress. When she looked up into the commandant's face, there was a strange brilliance in iier eyes, and on either cheek burned a bright red 6pot, that made the rest of her face look palo as marble; but she spoke lightly: "A small thinu to interrupt our pleasure," she said, touching his arm. "Are we too late for the dance?" "It is never too late when beauty calls," he responded, in the mode of flattery prevalent at the time. "I hope there was no bad news in your note?'' "Nothing of the kind, I assure you," she replied, with a return of certain archness very becoming to her; "it would make you smile to read it." "But not for the world would you let mo see one word of it." "Surely not. Young ladies do not share their pretty notes with their friends, not even with commandants." "B'lt commandant! sometimes have a way of demanding mysterious papers, even from beautiful young ladies." There was a tremendous meaning in his soft, firm voice, it seemed to her, and she felt a thrill of something like terror fly throuchout her frame, and her limbs became suddenly weak; but she controlled herself by calling up ail the forces of her will. She took his offered arm, and as they went to join the dance the looked up into his eyes. He probably never forgot that glance. A man of his years, a soldier accustomed to all the hardships and hardening circumstances of military experience in a time when war meant rapine, plunder, and, indeed, acquisition by any means fair or foul, could not be expected to havevery tender feelings, and, certainly, he was not in the least a sentimentalist; but, as the diary continues: "A flush was seen to suffus-j his strontrly furrowed cheeks, as he bent low and said something to tier." What Don Alexander O'Reilly said was meant to reassure her, but it failed to have that effect. It was: "Never mind, Mdlle. Faurie: even a

I rough old soldier may speak lightly." "Especially on so light a subject, she remarked, trying to smile brightly. "l)o not try to deceive me," he gravely respoDdf d. "I know who wrote your letter. A lover is a lover, no matter if a j price is on his head." She tried to nerve herself, tried to be brave and show no distress; but her strength failed her; she could not dance, and the commandant led her to a seat. He bent over her again, and speaking in a measured tone, said: "Control yourself. I do not wish a scene, and, moreover, I assure you that I have not meant to cause you pain." He turned and walked away, leaving her sitting somewhat concealed trout the rest of the company by a tall tuft of palmetto leaves. Doubtless he felt that she would recover her self-possession more readily in his absence. No sooner waa he gone than she drew I forth the crumpled note and read it again ! and again. No young lady, perhaps, ever received a more surprising missive under more exciting circumstances. She had not seen Emile Delpit since just before that dreadj ful day when O'Reilly had summoned the lll-iated t rench conspirators to his headquarters. This note, which was not only in his well-known handwriting, but bore his picturesque signature in full, 6ha read as follows: "Be prepared to dance with me at precisely 12 o'clock. I shall walk right in and claim your hand ; we will dance, and then I shall bid the company and the distinguished host au revoir, and depart. Hear yourpelf bravely. "Always aud always yours, "Kmile Delpit." The spirit of this writing waa entirely in accord with the young man's character, and it suggested but another exhibition of his audacious courage and self-reliance. Mdlle Faurie knew well that promptly at the hour designated her lover would stalk into the midst of that company with as little hesitancy as would trouble the breast of an actor of melodrama on tbe stage of a theater. What was she to do? It was already ll;:;o. It appeared absolutely impossible that an act so desperate could end in anything but disaster, and to her suddenly heated imagination the whole terrible scene aroe like a reality the capture, tho hasty trial, the swift execution, tlie coffin of her lover borne to the grave, the desolation of heart, the end of hope in this life. What could she do? She must do something, and that, quickly; but what? If she had known where to find Delpit. she would have fled to him at once with the hope of preventing his rash adventure ; but she could have no hint of his whereabouts, or from what direction he would come. She thought of going out to watch for his approach, but a moment's consideration disclosed how foolish this would be; for it was impossible that she could leave the bouse unobserved. It was while she was revolving a thousand conflicting and refractory suggestions in her strained and throbbing brain that Don Alexander O'Reilly returned to her side and said: "I hope you feel better Mdlle. Hortense." Tho tone of his voice struck her as almost parental; there certainly was a strange gentleness in it; or was it the condition of her own feelings that lent the sympathetic ring to his worJs? She looked up with eyes that appeared to light her whole fac with a flame of appeal, and, without speaking, handed him the letter, He read it quickly, showing no change in any line of his calm countenance, then turned cn his heel and left her as abruptly as he had come, taking the letter with him. Suddenly it flashed into the girl's heart that she had betrayed her lover, and the terrible se'f-rebuke gave her strength to rise and follow the commandant, whom she now Eaw passing among his ollicers, a number of them happening to be grouped near the farther end of the hall. The bland smile on his face had given place to a look which to the girl's eyes was sinister beyond anything she had ever seen. It was an expression of the most resolute and unalterable determination combined with an indescribably brutal cunning. Under diflerent conditions, perhaps, she - might not have noted this change ; for it seemed that the rest of the company, even the officers, were unaware of it, although the

latter appeared to be giving earnest attention to some communication he was making to them. To Mdlle. Faurie every moment was like an age, and yet, so paradoxical are the moods of mieerv, time seemed to be flying all too fast. Ten minutes more and her lover would apper.r; for it never entered her mind to doubt that he would come. Remembering but too vividly the fate of the other plotters against Ulloa, she realized perfectly the certain doom that awaited Delpit the moment he should put his reckless plan into execution, and wildly, almost madly, she strained her imagination to conceive somo means of rescue or prevention. Scarcely knowing what she meant to say or do, she hastened toward O'Reilly; but he appeared not. to notice her and walked away, his countenance masked with an expression that ballled and terrified her and yet drew her on. As she passed the officers they looked curiously at her, as if some sudden interest had attached itself to her ; but they, too, avoided her. As is sometimes the case with persons subjected to a great pressure of dread, there came to -Mdlle. Faurie on the moment tho stimulus of desperation, that, like somo powerful drug, strengthened as if by magic every source of her bodiiy and mental energy. If Dtlpit came, she would meet him calmly, as if he were a guest arriving late ; she would dance with him, if possible, and if she would have to die, she would die with him. The thought and resolve, strange to say, brought her back, to her composure, and afforded her a comfort that made her face g'.ow, w hile her eyes, as the old diary expresses it, "burned with splendid radiance remarked by ad the company, so enhancing her exquisite beauty and loveliness that she looked liko a very angel of light as uhe moved about strangely silent and smiling." O'Rcdly regarded her furtively from a distance ; his eyes, usually cold and steady, flashing now and again a most intense feeling. There was a suppressed but significant start, a rustle throughout the assembly, aa, promptly as the moment of midnight, F.mil Delpit entered the hall. A hush followed and the mockingbirds, singing their night Kongs in the orange trees Lard by, Mere plainly heard. Surely those tender phrases as they rippb-d through the open windows, had something incomparably significant in tbera, for they seemed tf be rendered in perfect accord with the under-meaning of the occasion. O'Reilly and Delpit met near the middle of the epneious hall. All eyes were upon them. They bowed low and txchanged some words not heard by others, aud then Delpit parsed on, looking ab ut, eagerly though calmly enough, for Mdlle. Hortense, who had r.een him the moment he came in and was vain y trying to move toward him. Despite all her courageous efforts she stood like a statue, powerless, almost breathless, her heart rising to-her throat and a deadly pallor overspreading her face. So soon as Delpit saw her he sprang toward her, for he knew at a glance that she was suffering. He reafhed her too late. With a "great crv, and flinging her arms above her head' says the diary, "she fell backward and lay as one dead"" Delpit reached her first and lifted her tenderly to his arms. "Bring a physician!" he cried, hia voice ringing out with peremptory command. Two physicians chanced to be present and by their orders Mdlle. Faurie was borne to a couch. The rooms were soon cleared, for it was announced that the young lady had ruptured a bloodvessel; so the reception was at an end and the uncounscious cause of the sudden termination lay white as a corjse, unable to bear removal from O'Reilly's house. Days and even weeks passed before Mdlle. Faurie regained herself sufficiently to know where she was or what had happened to her. Meantime her lover lay in prison, for he had been arrested promptly and put in chains. O'Reilly had shown no sentiment in the matter, but as soon as the company had departed and while the young man was still bending over Mdlle. Faurie and holding her cold hand an officer with two soldiers seized him and took him away. The affair caused a profound sensation in New Orleans, particularly among the French population ; but there was scarcely anything said about it in public. The people were used to romantic and thrilling experience?, aud they were too deeply impressed with the merciless power of O'Heilly to show any disposition to meddle with hia administration, or to risk any, even the slightest, movement in behalf of Delpit. Quietly, almost secretly, the young man was tried and condemned to death. It M as on the day set for his execution that the physicians informed O'Reilly that Mdde. Faurie's case was hopeless. Up to this time they had answered his constant inquiries with encouraging words; but now thev fraukly stated that nothing short of an almost miraculous turn could save her. "She asks to see you at once." said one of them, "aud I bep you to go." The linn face of" the commandant changed expression, and he walked back and forth lor a while in silence. He had not seen Mdlle. Faurie since the night when she was borne senseless from the hall. "What does she want?" he demanded, turning and confronting the doctor. "I do not know ; she is very weak, and simply asks to see you." O'Reilly motioned to the physican to leave him, and then continued to stalk to and fro, his eyes bent upon the floor. His countenance did not betray what thoughts might be in his mind. Presently he lifted his head, as if some sudden resolve had been made, and forthwith sought the room where Mdlle. Faurie lay like a pale, dying flower. Her mother sat by her bedside aud a maidservant stood near. A window was open, through which the fragrance of roses and the gay twittering of bird came in on a gentle, balmy swell of air. O'Reilly bowed to Mme. Faurie and went directly to the bedside. The poor girl smiled faintly and feebly extended her hand. He did not take it, but stood looking down at her. She motioned to her mother and the servant to leave the room, and when they were gone she turned to O'Reilly and said: "I am sorry to be troublesome to you very sorry, but 1 believe I am dying, and I feel I cannot go without thanking you for the kindness you have shown to me." The man looked at her. A little crucifix of gold and ivory lay upon her breast, rising and falling to tbe feeble fluttering of her breath. His eyes fastened themselves upon that cross, and for a time he was like one in a dream. His whole past life arose before him. "One little favor I would ask," the girl presently murmured. ' lie looked at her eyes with a start "Get a dispensation so that Finite may be buried beside me." O'Reilly began to walk to and fro. Presently he stopped before her and said, verj' softly: "Yoa are not going to die, Mdlle. Faurie" "Yes ; I wish it. I am glad to die." "Glad to die." "Yes; at the very hour that he dies." She smiled and looked eiherially beautiful as she said this. He stooped and spoke a few words in a

rapid whisper, as if he were afraid to trust himself to ntter them aloud. She raised both hands, drew down hia head and kissed him. "From that moment," poes on the old cord, "Mdlle. Hortense revived and ...ew better and better until she was quita restored to health. Emile Delpit waa quietly released from prison, and there was a very happy wedding boon after." The account cloa with a transcript of the magical woHi whispered in the ears of Mdlle. Faurie by O'Reilly: "If you live I will spare Delprit ; if you die I will have him shot an hour later. Make your ehoice." PLUCKY MRS. LANGDON.

Tbe Only Woman Mall Contractor In the l'ltd Plat. Washington Poet. Among the guests at the Willard is a tall, fair woman, with a business-like air which loads her frequently in the direction of the po6toffice department. She is Mrs. II. J. Langdon of Oroville, Cal., and if there is any one person who should have business with the postmaster general's department it is this same Mrs. Langdon. she enjoys the distinction of being the only woman mail contractor in the United States, and not only does ehe have routes sublet, but has always had more or less directly under her personal supervision. At present she has contracts covering over one thousand miles of mail service, principally in lutle aud Pluma counties, Cal. "You want to know bow I came to be a mail contractor?" "My fir-it husband had been a large contractor and I was familiar with his business aflairs. At his death he left a will bequeathing me twenty-five unexpired mail contractsand made me sole executrix of the will. I at once assumed control and after they expired I began to bid on my own account and was successful in obtaining contracts. It is now twelve years since 1 began to work for myself, and now that I am married again I have to bid in my Husband's name. 1 am the only woman who carries Wells-Fargo express, and from July 1 to the time the snows shut in we carried ?100.0)0 in gold dust. We have nineteen agents under our control. "At present the longest route we have is 115 miles long, from Weravil c to uaanville, and 250 miles, or one-quarter of all the contracts, is under my i ersonal supervision. "The largest route I ever controlled was SOO miles long and ran from Reno, New. to Fort Eidwell, in Northern California, That was after my first husband's death. Once every month for three years and a half 1 went over that line. I used Jo fret on the stage beside my driver at 7 o'clock in the mornii.g, and for thirty-six hours I never left that seat except to eat. inspect my stations and horses, and interrogate my men. I personally bought every dollar's worth oi hay nd grain coufeumed, all the horses and coaches, and my Btock in that lino was worth $10,000." Mrs. Iangdou is known to all the stage drivers, and to every man who has ever been in her emp oy, and through the mountains as "Tlie Litlle Boss." Every man has great respect for her ability. Some of her coaches have six horses, others four or two, and there is hardly a better four-in-hand whip in tho business than Mrs. Langdon. If word comes that a driver has made too close fedowship with the Mask, she discharges him and climbs on the seat and carries mail-t through herself. "Have vou had anv adventures?" "Several! One that I recall very vividly happened on that long line I told you of. I There wa3 a crossing on the Russian Kiver L'OO yards wide where we general y went over in a ferry boat with the bag3 and met the coach at the other side. The river was a swollen torrent filled with logs that had broken loose from up the river. My two white men looked at it and flatly refused to go. I couldn't make them, and then I finally hired two Indians, got into a dug-out with the pouches, and made the trip in sah ty. But in order to reach a point on the shore directly opposite where we started from, the Indians had to paddle one whole mile up the river. "Then Black Bart made his maiden attempt at stage robbing on one of my stages. It was on a line up the coast in Sonora county, which I do not control now. The stage was an ordinary Concord, with two horses, and Ash Wilkinson, a typical stage driver, was on the box. Black Bart did not. make a fortune by that hold-up, but he got the box with 6ome money. Ash was stopped again, and that time I happened to be along, and we had four horses on. The leaders brouffht up against a rope tied breast high across tlie road. Before we could get down to rir.d out what was the delay two masked men called 'halt,' and guns were presented. 'Jhey got away with the box, but only a small amount of money' "How did you feel?" "My chief feeling after regret at having to give up the box was wonder how under the sun so small a man ever managed to get hold of so big a gun." Gold thai Goes Into Molar. Interview with a Boston dentist : A dentist in good practice uses over $1,000 worth of gold in a year iu filling teeth. Some prepare their own gold, getting it from a United states mint, and then making it chemically pure. Others get it from the gold-beaters, but the greater part obtain it from dental supply firms. This gold is put up in eight-ounce package), packed in small glas vials, each containing a fraction of an ounce. The cylindrical pieces of gold in it are gold foil of a very soft and spongy kind. When hammered into a hollow tooth one of theso cylinders will not take up one-twentieth of the space it occupied in the vial. There are several dental supply factories in the country. The largest is on Staten island, and turns out S500.UOO in gold for dental purjoses every year. StTOm in MUAonrl. The census of Missouri shows that in proportion to population the greatest number of negroes is in New Madrid county, where there is oue colored person to every three and a half whites. .Strange to say. Dunklin county, which joins New Madrid, has a colored population of only 161 out of a total of lo.OSo. Stern Advice. IHarpor'i Batar. "Is he really your rival?" "Yes." "Great scott! If I had a rival that looked like that, do you know what I would do?" "No." "I'd'give up the girl." An Kliert. Smith, Gray tCo.' Monthly. Fair Prohibitionist "I am sorry, Mr. Thoroughbred, but I can not accept you. Your breath smells of -Angostura "bivters." Mr. Thoroughbred Well, I'm glad of it. I wouldn't want to marry such au experienced nose.'' Glrla art froroktng-, A 07 bow. l9omer?itt Journal. It is provoking to tell a girl scornfully that she is a heartless jilt, and then to hear her reply with saucy grace "Well, then, I'm pretty sure not to die of heart failure -don't you think so?" Poor Fallows! TtXM.8!ftiop. The emperor of China never uses the pronoun I. He always alludes to himself as "the solitary man.

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