Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 29, 1873, Page 11

e a— ] NEW YORK. Mercfleas Persecution of Travs - elers—A Novel Rail- way Feature. The TLecture-Field—Some of " the . Qifted, Candidates for Ly- ceum-Laurels, The Next Italian Opera-Season---A New Process for ~ Masculine Renovation. Prom Our Own Correspondent. Nzw Yore, Juno 98, 1873, .. At this time, when 50 many persone aro going ‘ot of town, their interest, s well as that of all travelers, demands that they should make their foueys with as Littlo discomfort as possible, Travel has many snnoyances st best, and thore fsno good reason why they ehould be deliber- staly increased. A GREAT RAILWAY-ANNOYANCE. . - One of the greatest inconveniences of railway- cars, at present, is from the vendors of all sorts of gimerdcks, who, from the beginning to the end of your journey, make you the involun- fuy depositary of their waros. The train garsely lesves tho station before men arboys pass down tho aisle, throwing hooks end zswapspers into your lap, which they expect you totake perticular caro of until they return, It + you let their publications fall on the floor, as souought to, they look deaply grieved, and, not fmprobsbly, express their angor in anything but delicate terms. You are glad that this unpleas- satness is past, but you are glad too soon. The nme wretches, or persons equally wretched, tome along again in a few minutes, and deposit poxes of lozenges on your knees, or in the seat souoccupy.” These are collected in turn, with the same contingent rosults as before, and are fucceeded by s goneral distribution of maple: ugar and parcels. Frait,in every etate sither of greenness ordecay, isthen introduced by the commor enemy, and, i!mh‘gpen to be asleep, you are awakened by the cry of oranges, apples, or cherries; and, if vou do not ehow that you are awake, a basket is fhrust into your side, until you open your eyes, and protest against such infliction. You have Eiely lost your temper by this -time to such & degree that you feel inclined to throw these in- fernsl yendors out of the window. But you thoke down your wrath, and once more address sourself to alumber, when & clamorons demand is made that yon should purchase chestnuta or 0] Btill exercising self-restraint, you 0ld your peace until yon aro besmlqht to buy cough-drops, . warrsnted to cure colds, pneu- monis, pleurisy, consumption, and nva? poasi- ble disease of the throatand lungs. Then, if seabe an ordinary you swear for & fow #sconds; but excite so much attention by your unamiability that you feel mortified at your tem- per. and gink into the grimmost silenco: You ink, “ Ob, well | it isn't worth while making froublo abou trifles; it i all over o, at say ntal ¢ Mistaken maortal! The thing was only begun. Jt moves in & continuous circle, and has 1o end. Tha cough-drops merely serve to resume the offer of nowspapers,—ususlly cheap weeklies, remarksble for ngnxmnnbls English and hideous finstrations. The books como on again; and suchbooks ! Tha trashiast novels and the most vulgarly-sensational romnnces, which no person of taste or culture could be pursuaded to read, are hurled into tgcur Iap, or piled up under your eyes, without the lesst regerd to your conven- ience orcomfort. Then the lozenges, the maple-~ candy, pop-corn, etc., etc., etc., revolve and re- revalve, and always in time toprevent your read- ing or getting a little nap. * Ihis persecation of ‘travelers has become S0 common that nobody thinks of complaining of it. Indoed, it has grown to be regarded as one af the rights of the road. A NEW NUISANCE. Anew nuisance is just beginning to be in- ugurated, as the roporters would esy, in the shape of beggars and cripples, who _either come o 7o led into the cars Guring the time that the yendors are resting from their labors. This tranchof the basinesswill, I am gure, be rapidly extended and improved. ''The beggars will be 1ore disagreesblo, dirty, and importunste, and ihe eripples more loathsome and repulsive. Ve thall soon have & very choice bt of the maimed and diseased, ¥ho will doubtless display their sores, wounds, snd fractures, sfter the manner of the Span- igh mendicants, We shall have, too, that charm. ing company of musicians, g0 familiar to all of 8, who torture encient fiddles, and shriek dis- cordantly with the sesumption of singing. The question is, Have travelers any rights that the railrosd companies are bound to respact ? As everybody Imows, the railwsys roceive—st last their representatives do—a ceriain price for permitting such ‘perpbtual inflictionz on fieir patrena. They do not.care a fig, it would seem, for the pujlic, except 8o far as its money is concerned. ~ Getling _that, they are in- difrent to eversthing ~ else. 1t is sid thst' the monopolizig corporations bive ‘o sdditional object in thus peracuting travelers. Tho object is to drive their customers from the ordinary cars to the Palace-cars, where an extra rate is pild,—thus estz.bfishinmfi by degrees, first and sxond-class sccpmmodations. the compn~ nia will nso their usual enterprise, snd seoure & 4 fow thousand juvenile Italisn fiddlers and screcchers, and import several ship-loads of Ialin and Beville beggars, they would accom- {lih heir objoot in ao uusually short apace of e WOULD-BE LECTURERS. The Lycoum Buresus—as they are stylod— bive just made up their list of lecturers for 2extgeason; anditis smusing to observe how many distinguished nobodies the list contains. 4 Nestly hulf of all the men and women 1 have - sson snnounced for the gea- ¥n of '73-'74 are persons of whom I brro naver heard, and it is my business to know tithose in any way prominent. I wish somo s wonld tell me~who engages such men 88 J. Pusons Pudjins, the famous bumorist, or Ben Bulsy Buchu, the renowned travelor; Ars. Bemphine Smithers, the noted reader, or ‘Miss Jemms Jumpup, the eloguent advocate of her : k& Bomoof these are advertised year after year, but most of 4hem, finding that they are 10t st all in roquest, Withdraw to private life, wed condemm, forever sfter, the country snd an \ Which chnnot spprociste_them. Nothing ov3 the vanity and egotism of persons moro b {heir putting themselves forward as leo- foren vhen they have neither reputation mor Fat 6xample, the sub-editor of s villagenewspa- P‘:’ ¥ho has written stereotyped fustian for sev- A years, and who has received superabundant refor, imagnes himself to be so intel- ly gifted that he must inform the gres =idof the ecutt of which he is composed. Ho uub‘:,u fie Lyceum as the means of czzimmnni; fim'him." unfortunstely, the Lycoum does no Anotber rustic acribbler squires » little local A gosi -to bo propariug for tho stac. reputation, that ehe will adoubtless draw large houses, whatover be De Murska's fortune at the oux:e: hong:.h a It ia fo oped that the artists supportin prima donna will be as good as thaygg ht L% ?:, and that the chorus and mountings will be effi- cient and safficient. 1f thoy are not, I question whether the patronage exonded will bé at all Inrge. Tho public bave grown tired of tLird or fourth-rato performances at first-class prices. ‘When one is compelled to pay 85 or 26 for & sin- fi]e seat at the opers, ono is certainly entitled to car good music very well readered, BALAMAGDNDL. It has been noticed recently that a number of our most ancient gallants have prosented in pub- lic & particularly fresh and renovated appear- ance. Itis not dye nor_corsets alone,—these they haveheretoforo used,—thoy have imparted to their face and form the semblauca of com- porativeyouthand vigor. Their intimate friends sy thcay look from twenty-five to_thirty years less old than they did. Much curiosity is felt among other vencrable beaus to know low they bave managed this; bu!, thusfar, the secrat bas been well kept. - Bome wag has circulated the roport that Pierre Blot is dying of dyspepsia from eating dishes of bis own proparation. Dlot pronouces this & villainous Jibel, end declares, if his culinary rules were followed on tlis side of the ses, there would be no dyspepsia in the Republic. Noless than six well-educated women, occn- pying good positious in society, are now reported ] Strange to say, thoy intend {0 gerve a regular dramatio appron- ticoship, beginaing at the bottom iratead of the top of the ladder; and, consequently, they may e foreuno o he late Chal arras, e fortuno of the late Charlea M. B of ¢ Black Crook ” fame, will not amount, it is 8aid, to more than $60.000 to $70,000, inatead of £350,000, a5 was supposod. The reduced sum Tardly bo enongh to_satisfy the mumerous and rapacious rolatives who Lave risen to the surfaco since hia demiso. Henry Ward Beecher expects to finish his * Life of Christ " within the next month ; and tho salo of tho socond volume will be larger than that of the first. The rumor that bis intimato ncquaintance with Henry C. Dowen assisted him id his subject is assorted to be wholly without truth. ” An experienced detective avers that not less than £5,000,000 of countorfeit-monoy, of all sorts, is mado within a radius of fifiy miles of the Metzopolis. Tt is said that, by next Christmas, thore will be about thirty theatres and variety-eutertain- ments in the city; and that the autumn and wintor seacon will be more prosperons than any hias ever been Lere before. Though Willism Cullen Bryant is popularly presumed to be the principal owner of the Even- ing Post; he roally owns less than one-third, while Alexander Henderson, tho publisher, holds two-thirds of the paper. CoLSTODY. LOST AND SAVED. - Ifesred there was dapger. 1 knew that he wert there daily. But he plead all those ox- cuses with which men delude themselves and thoso who love them. His confidence in his safety quioted my fears for a time. Bat, with vision sharpened by love and fear, { penstratod walls, and saw what more ehould see. Driven by an impulse which overcame fosr, I entered the outer door, whose worn threshold sttestod to the multitude *who walk to- gethor thers,” and, pessing that respoctable show of cigar-boxes, reached the inner room. I paused, and saw its garnishing. of botties, glasses, and cards, and around s tablo s group of men, who, with unnatural voices, laughed and talked with the maudlin gilliness of intoxication. + Above the din of convereation thers was an- other sound,—n clanking sound,—and I saw that each man had heavy chans hanging from his wrists and ankles ; but thoir sight was so giddy that they could not see them, and their senses so dullod that they conld not feol them.~ And, 28 they tossed the cards and gestured in their wild excitement, the chains clanked and rattled. 'The game is finished. Another bottle is open- od: tho glasses zre filled and emptiod; and, with keener zest and wilder hilarity, a new game is commenced. In a strange glow of light, in ths corner of the room, a ternible sight festens mygaze. A ghapo too frightful to doscribe,—a drecdfnl coun- tenance, glesful with hellish triumph,—is watch- ing tho group around the table. In his hands is a pair of fetters, from which hang ponderous chaina. At the_table, see, now, one man who is not munacled. But his time has come; his delusion ig complote ; bis blindness is such that the red- hot irons can bo fastened to his wrists, and he will not know it. 1 see the chains now hanging from the wrists of the man I love,—the father of my childron,— the light of my home,—the godiike inan I wor- ship. T%m agony is too great! With a cry I awoke to find myself in the seclusion of my chamber, and to hoar the heavy, unatural breathing of my husband, who is sleeping st my side. ‘But it was not a dream. 1t is & dreadful re- ality. The saloon is thors, tho inner room, the tablo, the cards, the liquor, the glasses, tho men ; yes, and the cliains aro there, sud the hidoous moaster, with the red-hot irons, ready for tho poor victim when he shall be sufiiciently blinded and belpless. o God of Heaven! have mercy on them in their great danger. O wives and mothers | who love those men, is there no power to break those chains and ‘sot them freo ? Prayer and fasting are good, but they must be joined with works. Let some effort be made that shall prevent their terrible doom. O men that keep these gates of Helll ralse your hands ; do you not see the fotters 2 hove our feet ; do you not sce that you are chained ? Furm awag from the glare that blinds you; do Jou not see the legions that swarm around you from the regions of damusation, dancing, singing, shouting, in. hellish oxultation ? ‘here are no better men than many of those whose danger is o fearfal. Of all God's no- ‘blest works, they are the c’“““‘,g effort. With intellects which almost reach the infinite, and hearts so full of love and kindness as to be al- most divino, thoy are tho sun and centre of & universe all their own; and, in their terrible fall, they bring, with dreadful sorrow, the hearts of those who love them to the grave. O yo whoso feot are in the slippery places ! Raiss your fettered hauds, and grasp the hand of the Almighkg. He alone can save you. Ho alone can make you'free. He alono can clothe you in an armor against which the daris of the enemy shall not provail Do you not seo that hideons shape bringing the fetters red-hot from the forge ? God of Heaven have mercy on you when all that is mortal shall pass away from you ; when, with cleared vision, you shall see, in long procession, in their ter- Tiblo rnin, the men you have tempied within your doora ; when, with hesring sharpened to {orrible acutences, you shall hear the cry of the orphans you have mnde ; when you shall see, in all their desolation, tho homes you have do- stroyed ; when these untimoly widows, whose hearts you have brokon, shall appear against ou. 7 Can you console yourself then with the thought that, if you bad not gathered toll on this dread- tul highwsy to Hell, soms ons elso would bno done so? Scribes, Pharisees, hypocritos! when tho Almighty Judge shall ask you, * Where is our brother?” what will you answer? You ve seon bim carried away by the torrert of cir- {ime by rehearsing old stories, and by reprinting, ikl sitaratioms, extracts from tho losding b Inkis own mind, -he i aunother it :‘n“{ 'Ward, or Mark Twain, and is convinced, e ' Write one of his supposcd-to-be sida-split- i es, that thousands upon thousands uc‘mfi_hbauhlm. gh“mm”! woman, who learns that Mrs. o or Anna Dickinson has achicved re- gy belinteselo hoa a osation to_show tho .mu'flwgs of her sex, snd hopes to do soin & of loctures. Sho has no idosa and no ik 380 but ehé does not. imagine that such The #land in the way of her advancement. Propoge 278, f0me of the smiable idiots who m,,m.b illumine ths pubiic mind from the msfld who, when they are denied the g, 215 deem ' the time thoroughly degen- i, it i > Tt naver rgi ‘THE LYRIQ DRAMA. InTiyg, o TANS but 1t pours, appears to be true IaLelian opara tn this gity, You kmow. what a ] pouthwe havohad for several years e Poorly Luccs was sustained av Fudingg, Ademy sesson. Now we aro [ nest autumn, two complete opera- e gthey 30 3t the Academy, with Nilsson, and Vi, g the Grand Opera-Houso, with De Miroizey Sirskosch s to have tho formor, snd e e — ARA i letter,—provided the programme Tatagery Pflgflu promised. If it bo, one of tho ity “mlI:nh und to lose money, eince it secms M&! we aro willing to do to support 2, or thovt Any at 4 time, ~ Gye and Maple- Toaing - D2ckers, s you aro aware, have 1," money in London for a number of Longoeung lytio rivalry to one snother. 0 do, .“"‘l""-l ot do, New York will not be. S el least’ in music. Nilsson 18 guch & - 4 30d has established such & social g cumstances, associations, habits, appetites, de- lusive temptations, and havo turned away on the other eide, thanking God that you were not sa other men. Yon have seen him struggling on_ the slippery bsnks of the fearful whirlpool, Sonk, dizzy, belpless, praying for Relp, and have put forth no hsnd to save. I toll 'you it shell be mors toicrable, in that dag, for the poor victim than for you. i FenRUARy, ' 1873.—Through months which bave seemed years, we have fllmcfgled sgainst the evil power which would drag down to terri- ble ruin the noblest and best of men. Wo havo fled away from the tempter; wo havo tried to hide from his reach ; but everywhere he has followed us, slways in sn unoxpocted moment, he has stolen upon us, &_mvemmg our hopes, defying our resistance. hen prayers and tears had nearly riven the fetters which were tao stropg for mental will to break, he cama sgain, and bound snew the wretched, unwilling vickim. One hope is left ; that, by constant prayer and effort, S:e priceless soul ‘may be save ‘ that Vhen promaturo death shall set the apirit free, the fettors will be left behind, and the redecm- ed soul will be carried beyond the resch of the evil power from which earth offers no invincible gheiter. ¥ Y What doIsse in the futurs beyond fl.\.;s? Dark clouds cover my way, which I do not wish to penetrate. K F ses & broken-hearted widow, whose only dower is shame and sorrow. * I gee helpless orphans, tance is a dishonored name. 5 God of heaven! hava ‘mercy on us, 88 we do put our trust in Thee. ey Hy, 1873.—Joy! joy! The faiih that would cast the mountains into the sea has prevailed whose only inheri- with God, and the fetters are broken. Thoy are burned to aslics in a fire that is hotter than the furnaces of Hell. Hope has spread her wings, and lifted my heart sbovo the reach of sorrow,. The sun has broken tbm:ngh the thick clouds, and shines upon iny patirvay, making it brij jron iy patlivay. g it bright 8o long as Poverty can briui no care. Death may come, and carry my loved oues across the river: bub thig would not be troublo. So long as God is with us in His Omnipotence, preventing the damning poyer of . liquor, my Leart can know no sorrow, aud the futuro can have in store for me nothing but joy! joy! Mgs. R, - THE LIFE OF SALMON P. CHASE. ¥ts Lessons to Young Men, Demarest Lioyd in the Christian Ieekly. As 2 boy, be stooped &nd Lad an impediment in his spoech, and was slow in learning: as & young man, he was et first unfortunate and slow tosuccoed. Graduating from Darimouth at 18, ke proceeded to Washington and lived there for more than & year without any indome, running in debt for his very subsistence. His uncle, then a Senz’or of the United States, refused to ob- tain hira a place in the Treasury; and it is one of tho contrasts of history, that the Treasury clerk who lived in the same louse with young Chase and whose good fortune naturally excited in him & dosiro for a similar position, wasa white-haired Treasury clerk still, when Chase came back as Secretary to hold up tho hands of war. As alawyer, his prospects were the re- verso of flattoring. Ho was only admitted to tho Bar on his explaining that he intended to go to Cincinnati to practice, and thero, in his first ar- gument broke down completely. For some fimo, tho spell of ill-auccess hung over him. It wsed t0 bo ono of his amusing stories that his'only foe for a lorg time was o silver half-dollar which his client returned after a short interval to borrow and never repaid. Overatudy, overwerl,. auxiety, and friendlesspess broke down his health, Is ho tossed on & fevered bed, could ko, the youug briefless Inwyer, have soon in the future the Lt~ tle scrap of paper President Lincoln was tasend to the Senate of the United States in 1864, would he not have thought it o ¥ision of 'a burning brain 7 As & curiosity, it may as well bo given hore. It hangs to-doy in Mr. Chase's dibing- room at Edgewood, and is written "in Mr. Lin- colu's ovn plain, manly band. It runs as fol- ows : Exrcurrve Mavstox, WastNGTOY, D, C., Dec. 6, 1864, To the Senats of the United Sta S I nomiuate Silmoun P. Chase, of Ohio, to be Chie Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, ‘vice Roger B. Taney, decoased. 3 Apnamay Liscory, Dreen Srives Sty In EXECUTIVE BESSION, Dec. 8, 1864, Read ; consfdered by unanimons cousent, and nomi- nation unanimously confirmed. D. W. C. Crizx, ® Principal Executive Clerk. There could hardly have been a more inauspi- cions begiuning or & more splendid success. Ho was conspicuous in Iater, as well as in early life, for his moral courage. Towards the close of his first term s Governor of Ohio, there were rumors of a defalcation in the State Tressury. It was a dsmaging thing to the State Administra- tion; smaller men would have hushed it up or smoothed it over, if possible; but Mfr. Chase, though s candidate for re-ele: , walked to the Treasurer’s office, took possession of the estab- lishmont, and instituted an _investigation. The exposure he had precipitated was his heavi- est load carry through the en- suing - campaign. Apother ~instance of his high courage was given also in his candidaoy for Governor. ~ He was nominated by s combina- tion of two parties, one of thom being the Know- Nothing orF:luizntion. Instead of cnncen.Lir:fi his antagoulsm ta the principles of & powerf: party which was supporting Lim, r. Chase, though standing on the common K%hflarm, To- pudiated any connection with the Know-Nothing organization, and donounced unsparingly the tenets of his'own adheronts. The consequence was, that though elocted, be ran many thousands dehind his ticket. No doubt many men thought as Gov. Brough said when young Chase argued for runaway slaves, *Thereiss fino young man, who has spoiled his bread and buttsr.” The soquel showed who was the wisest. . comparatively moderato circimstances been commented on in many of the tributes which have been poured out to his memory by pross and poople, witl & Lalt apology for any mention of the subject, and an intimation that public men deserve little credit for dying poor. Surely this is a mistake. Honcsty has become 10 such common thing that wo may ceaso to ad- ‘mire and praise it. Corraption is older than the pyramids and will still be young when tha pyra- mids bave crumbled. To eay that he was bonest, would be topaiut but half hismerit. Ho wa3scru- pulously honest, even fastidiously honest, if such nthin§ could be. As an illustration of this, I can relate an incident of which he told me him- solf, though not given to speaking of sach mat- ters. It was during his tarm as Secrotary of the Treasury, that his bankers invested somo thou- #ands of dollars of his money in a stock which rose afew months after, giving s profit on the transaction of gome four thousand dollurs. A check for the amount, nearly s yeer's salary of & Cabinet officer, was sent to Alr, Chase. He_roturned it to be destroyed, saying thst while at the head of the Treasury, and in control of the national fnances, he did not deem it proper for him to engage in sny transaction affocting in the Blighbest degree the condition of tho currency. Buch an example is surely too precions to be lost. His oppor- tunities for making himself rich, if the thought of such a thing over occurred to him, wero gimply illimitable. In the immenso transaotions of war times, the great shiftings of values, be might have eoriched himself to the very bounds of desire without so much as the taint of sna- picion on his garments. Our public mon have not become &0 pure that we can afford to dis- miss this example with 2 mere word of commen- dation. ey THE CHARMS OF MUSIC. 4 Yes, tho war-whoops of the Indisn may produce s ‘pleasant Ween they'ro mellowed by a distance that ono fols increasing still ; And the shrilling of ' the whistle from the steamer's ‘brazen anout Msy have minor tones of music, though I haven't found thom out. In tho grehostra of Naturo—in the wind, the wave, te oud— There are Larmonies unnumbered, though the styls 18 rather “loud.” Nay, I'm willing to scknowledge that, throughout the Tealms of sound— With one dreadful reservation—there msy melody ba found. But, 0, human follow-crestures, of the cheering faith ‘posseas That thero lurks a charm {n muslo fo beguils the sav~ ago breast, Now I put it to yon meekly, did there over bosom beat With s throb of joy responaive to tha Ausio of the Btreot 7 Did you ever know & brother, whéther civilized or From the pale-faced son of Europs to the dusky Afric Who %?g:;n:d s charm of music in the strangulary That s twisted from the organ of the nomsd Ganoese ? ‘Was there ever human tympan g0 inveterately bard ‘That i was not racked with torture by the strolling Bavoyard, When with grimy little talons he is plucking st tho arp Tintinnabulsting catgut of his wretched little harp 7 AR no wonder fabled Orphous moved the solid rocks and trees, lfhlj:hflo'm *“held a candle” to such fearful ones as eso ; Nor lhllt Plato, in the anguish of his music-troubled slocp, mm%mkfe to stop him, and believed the bargain chéap Up and down the highways, gathered in s Heaven-as- cending pyre, Bhould theso dreadful organs perish, in a holocaust r And if any :vflrthy boggar thenceforth broko the rest or sound, 1 wonld grind him, by the Powers, finer than the tuncs he ground. —Harper's Weekly. et Laces of the Countess Guiccioll The love of the beautiful, stimulated by curi osity, guided ns, ssy8 Gulignani, to the now abandoned residence of the lsto Alarquiso de Boissy (Countess Guiccioli), where tho uale of her laces was totake plsce. Wehad hesrd of MISS EUNICE’S GLOVE. I 3 For a long time, blithe and fragile Miss Eu- nica, demure, correct in deportment, and yot not wholly without enthusiasm, thought that day the unluckiest in her life on which she first took into her hands that unobtrusive yet dra- maticbook, Miss Crofatt's Missionary Labors in the English Prisons. - It-came to her notico by more accident, not by favor of proselyting friends ; and such was its singular material that she at once devoured it with evidity. A8 it title suggests, it wag the history of the ameliorating endeav- ora of a woman. in criminal society, and it contained, perforce, a large amount of tragic and pathetic incident. But this last was so ‘blended and involved with what. Miss Eunice ‘would have skipped 88 commonplace, that she was led to digest the whole volame,—statistics, philosophy, comments, and all. She stadied the analysis of the atmosphero of calls, the proper- ties and waste of wheaten flour, the cost of clothing to the Gonerul Government, the whys and whereforos of crime aud evil-doing ; and it vas not long before there was generated within her bosom & fine and healthy ardorto emulate this practical and courageous pattern. . Bho was profoundly moved by the tales of mis- sionary labors proper. She was filled with joy to read that Miss Crofutt and hor_ lientenants sometimes cracked and broke away thie formid- able husks which enveloped divine kernels in the hearts of some of tho wrotches; and sho fre- quently wept at the stories of victories gained over monsters whose defenses of gilence and stolidity had suddenly fallon into rnin above the glow bat persistent sapping of constant kind- ness. Acute tinglings aud chilling thrills would : porvade her ontire body when she read that on Christmas every wretch seomed to become for that . day, st least, o gracious men; that the sight of s fow ‘penny tapors, or the possession of a handful of 8weet stulf, or 8 spray of holly, or s hot-house bloom, would appear to_convert the worst of them into children. Her heart would swell to learn how Lh:gowtpd during. the one poor Lour of yearly freedom in the prison yards; that thoy swolled their chests; that they ran; that they took long- strides; that tho singera’ anxiously triod their voices, now grown husky; that the athletes wrestled, only to find their limbs stiff and their arts forgotton; that the gentlest of thom lifted their faces to the brosd sky, and spent tho sixty. minutes in s dreadful gazing at the clouds. . * The pretty student gradually became possessed with 8 rage. Bhe desired to convert some one ; to recover some estray ; to raform some wretch, She regrotted that she lived in America, and not in Ergland, where the most perfect rascals woro to be found; ehe was sorry that the gloomy, sin-saturated prisons, which were the scones of Miss Orofutt's labors, must always be ‘beyond her ken. There was zo crime in the family or the neigh- ‘borhood against which sho might strive; no one whom ghe knew wss even austero; she had never met & brute; all her rascals wero newspa- por rascals. For aught sho know, this tranquil- ity and good-will might go on forever, without affording Lior an opportunity. .- Sho muat be de- nied the smallest contact with thess frightful facos and figures; theso bars snd cagos, these deformities of the mind and heart, these curiosi- ties of conscionce, shyness, ekill, and daring; all these dramas of reclamation, ol these scencs of fervent gratitude, thankfulinees, and intoxi~ cating liberty,—all or any of these things must never come to be the lot of Ler eyes ; and ahe gavo herself up to the most poignant rogret. But one day she was sstonishod to discover that all of these dolights lay within half an hour's journey of her home; and moreover, that there was approaching an hcur which was annnally sot apart for the indulgence of the in- mates of the prison in question. She did not stop to ask herself, as ehe might well have done how it was that sho had 6o completely ignored this particular inatitution, which was one of tEs largost =nd best conducted in the countrs, especially when her desire to visit oobe was g0 keen; but she straightway sot abont preparing for her intend- ed visit ina manuor which shs fancied Miss Crofutt would have approvod, had she been present. 5 8he resolved. in the most radical sense of the word, to be alive. She jotted on some ivory tablots, with & gold pencil, & number of hints to ssuist her in her observations. For oxample: “Pronological developmont; size of cells; ounces of solid sud liquid tissue-pro- ducing food; : were mirrors allowed ? f B0, what wes - tho eflect? jim- my and skoleton-key, character of; canary birda; query, would not their sdmission into every cell animate in the human prisoners a similar buoyancy ? to. urge upon the turnkess tho use of tha Spanish garrote in A)lnm of the present distrossing gallows ; to find the propor- tion of Orthodox and Unitarian prisoners to thoso of other porsuasions.” DBut besides these and fifty other similar memoranda, tho onthusizst cast about her for something practi- cal to do. 8he bit upon tho capital ides.of flowers. She at onco ordered from a. gardeper of taste 200 bouquets, or-rather nosegays, which she intend- ed for distribution among tho prisoners she was zbout to visit, and she called upon her fathor for the money. Then she began to propare her mind. Sho wished to defins the plan from which she was to maoke ber contemplations. Bhe settled that gho wonld be grave and gentle. She wonld be ex- quisitely careful not to hold herself too much aloof, aud yet not to step beyond the bounds of that aweet reservo that sho conceived must have been at onco Miss Crofutt’s sword and buckler. Her object was to awaken in the most aban- doned criminals a realization that the world, in some rare Valenciennes, Brussels point, and Aloncon. With tho exception of six metres of the Intter, which went for 210 francs, sud two metres of the same which brought 106 frsncs, and another lot 290 francs, the queen of laces was not fairly reprosented; but the above- mentioned were exquisite, and were pu byan Englishman. The Brussels point con- gistod of four flonncas snd s searf, and were Bold for 800 francs ; th Valenciennes, consisting of five metres and two barbes, went for 810 francs; they were purchased by an American iady, o, having . already. s qflqx;g’aty‘:l w::a same in her possession, Was snxion om- ;lez: éha sot poyflw addition of this beautifal remuant. * its most benignant phase, was still open to them ; that socioty, baving obtainod s reguital for their wickedness, was ready to embrace them again on proof of their repentance. above. The noisy files went up and down andto the right and to the left, shufling, and scraping, and making s grost tumalt. The men wers dressedin blae, and wereseon indistinctly through thelofty gratings. From above, and below, and all around her, there camo the metallic snapping of bolts and the rattle of moving bars; and 8o significant was everything of savage repression and violence, that Miss Eunice was compelled to eay faintly 0 herkelf, * I am afraid it will take _a Little time to get nsed to all this.” She rested upon one of the seats in the rotun- da while tho chapel services were being condrct- ed, and ehe thus had an_opportunity to regain a sartion of her lost Licart. ~ She felt ' wonderfully warfod and belittled, and her plan of recovering gouls Dhad, in_ some way or other, lost much of its foasibility. A glance at Tor bright flowars revived her s little, as did slso s enrprising, long-drawn roar from over her head, to the tune of *‘America.” The prisoners wero singi Miss Eunice was not alons in her intended work, for thero were several other ladics, also with supplies of flowers, who with ber awaited until the prisoners should descend into the yard and belet loose before presenting them with what they had brought. Their common parpose made them acquainted, and by the aid of chat znd sympatby they fortified each other. Hzil an hour later the 500 men descended from tha chapel to the yard, rushing out upon its ‘bare bread surfuce as you have scen & burst of water suddenly irrigate & road-bed. A hoarae and tremondous shout at once filled the air, and echoed against the walls like the threat of a vol- cano. Some of the wretches waltzed and spun around like dervishes, somo throw somersaults, soma folded their arms gravoly and marched up and down, eomo fraternized, ome walked away pondering, some took off their tall caps and sat down in the shade, some looked tow: the rotunda with expectation, and thero were ‘those ‘who looked towards it with contempt. ‘There led from the rotunda to the yard a flight of stops. Miss Eunice descended these steps with & quaking heart, and tarnkey shouted to the prisoners over her head that she and others had flowers for them. No sooner had thio words left his lips than the men rushed up poll-mell. ‘This was & crucial moment. ‘There thronged upon Miss Eunice an army of men who were being punished for all the crimes in the calondar. Each individual here had boon caged bocause he was either a highwayman, or a forger, or a_burglar, or a ruffian, or a thief, or a marderer. The unclean and frightful tide bore down upon our terrified missionary, shricking 2nd whooping. £very prisoner thrast out lus hand over the head of tho ope in front of him, and tho foremost plucked at her dress. Sho had peed of coursge. A sonse of danger and contamination’ impelled her to fly, but a gleam of reason in the midst of her distraction enabled her to stand her ground. She forced herself to emile, though she knew her face had grown pale, E Sho placeda bunch of flowers into an immense hand which projecied from a cosrse blue aleeve in front of her; the owner of the hand was ushad away 80 zi:nickly by those who came after im that Miss Eunice failed to see hia face. Her tortured ear caugnt a rough “‘Thank y', misa!” Tho spirit of Aliss Crofut rovised ia & flash, and her disciple thereatter possessed no lack of nerve, Bhe plied the crowd with flowers as long a8 they lasted, and s jsunty solf-possession en- abisd her finally to gaze without flinching at the ma-s of depraved sud wicked faces with which she was surrounded. Iustead of retaining her osition upon the steps, she gradualiy descended gmta the yard, as did several other visitors. Bhe Dogan to feol at home; she found her tongue, and her color came back again. Bho felt & warm pride in noticing with what care and respect tho prisoners treated her gifts.; they carried them about with great tenderness, and some compared thei with those of their friends. Prosently she bogan to recall her plans. It occurred to her to solect her two or throe vil- isins. For one, sho immedistely pitched upon a lean-faced wretch in front of her. He ecemed to be old, for his back was bent and he leaned npon a cane. His festures were large, and they bore sn expression of profound gloom. His head was sunk upon his broast, his lofty conical cap was pulled over his ears, and his shapeless uniform seemod to weigh him down, 30 infirm was he. Mise Eunico fpoke to him. He did not haar ; sho spoke again. He glanced at her lilse a flas! but without moving ; this waa &t onca followe by » serutinizing look. He raised his head, snd then turned towards Ler gravely. The eolemnity of his demeanor nearly threw Misa Eunice off her balance, but sha mastered hersolf by beginning to talk rapidly. The pris- oner leaned over a Lttls to hear better. Another came up, and two or threo turned sround tolook. She bothouglit herself of an incident related in Mliss Crofutt's book, and she esasyed its recital. It concerned a lawyer who was once Pleading in a French criminal court in behalf of o man whose crime had been committed under the influence of dirs want. In Lis ples he deacribed the caso of another whom he knew who had been punished with a just but short im- risonment instead of along one, which the gudga had been at libeity to impoge, but from which he humanely refrained. iss Eunice Lappily remembered tho wordz of the lawyer: *That man suffered like the wrong-doer that he was. He knew his punishment was just.#There- fore thero lived perpetually in Lis breast an im- pulse towards & better life which was not sup- pressed and stifled by the five years he passed within the walls of tho fail. He cawa forth and began to labor. He toiled hard. Ho struggled against averted Zacos and cold words, aud be began to rise. Ho secreted nothing, faltered at nothing, and nover siumbled. He succeed- od; men took off their hats to him onco mora; _ho bacamo wealthy, Lonorable, God-fearing. I, gentlomen, sm that man, alb that cri Aa_sho quoted this Iast declaration, Miss Eunico ercctod herself with burning eyes, and tonched hersolf proudly upon tho breast. A flush crept into her cheeks, and her postrils dilated, and she grow tall. Blio came back to earth again, and fonnd her- selt surrounded with the prisoners. Bhe wasa Littlo startled. “Ah, that was good!”_ ejsculated the old man Bhe determined to solect at the ontaet two or three of the most remarkable monsters and turn the full hoad of het porsuasions exclusivel; upon them, instead of eprinkling (as it were, the whole community with her grace. Bbe would arouse at first a very few, and_then & few more, and & few mors, and 50 on ad,infinitum. Tt was onabot July morning that sho jour- neyed on foot over the bridgo which led to the ‘Pprison, and there walked & man bebind her car~ rying the flowers. Ter eyes ware cast down, this being the po- sition most significant of her episit. - Her pace was equal, frm, and rapid; sho made herself oblivious of the bustle of the strests, and she repented that her vanity had permitted her to wear whito and Iavender, these msking a com- bination in her dress which she had .been told became her well. She had no right to embellish herself. Was she going to the races, or a maich, or s Lettle-drum, that she must dandify herself with particular shades of color? Bhe stopped short, blushing. Would Misa Cro—— But there was no help for it now. It was too lateto turn back. Bhs proceeded, fecling that the odds were against her. Bhe approached her destination in such & way that the prison _came into viow suddenly. She paused, with a feeling of terror. The enormons gray building rose far above a lofty white wall of stone, and a Bense of ita prodigious strength and awful gloom overwhelmed her.. On the top of the wall, holding byaniron railing, there stood » man withsnfle trailing behind him. He was looking down into the yard inside. His attitude 0f watchfulness, his weapon, the unseen thing that was being thus flercely guarded, provoked in_her such s revulsion that Bhe came to a standstill. ‘What in the namo of meroy had sho coms hare for ? Bkte began to tromble. The man with the flowers came up to hor and halted. From the prison there came at this instant the lond clang of & belll and succeeding this 8 pro- longed and’ resonsnt murmur which seemed to ‘increase. Miss Eunics looked hastily around her. There were Beveral people who must have heard the same eounds that reached her @urs, but they were not alarmed. In fact, one or two of thera scemed to be going to tha prison direct. The courage of our kiPuithropxlt be- gan to revive. A woman in a brick house oppo- site suddenly Jmfled up & window-curtain and fixed an amused and inquisitive look upox her. This would have sent her intos thrice-heated furnaco. . * Come, if you plesse,” sho command- ed the man, and she marched npon the jail She entered at firat a geries of neat offices in 8. wing of the structure, and then she came to a small door made of black bars of iron. A man stood on the farther side of this, with s bunch of large koya, Wien ho gaw Aliss Emnico he unlocked and openad the door, aad she passed through. She found that she had entered a vast, cool, and lofty cage, one hundred fest in diamoter; it had an iron floor, and thera were soveral peo- ple strolling about hero and there. Through several gratod apertures the uuflfih: streamed with » strong effect, and s soft breeze swapt around the cavernous apartment. Without the cage, before berandon either hand, were three more wings of the building, and in these were the prisoners’ corridors. At the moment sho entered, the men Wars leaving their cells, and mounting the stone stairs m order, on their wayto the chapel upon whom she had fixed her eycs. Miss Eunice felt an inexprosaible sonse of delight. Murmurs of :flimbmfln came from all of her Listeners, eapecially from one on her right hand. Bhe looked around at him pleasantly. Bui the smile faded from her lips on behold- ":,f him. He was extremely tall and very powor- ful. Ho overshadowed hor. His face waa large, ugly, and forbidding; his gray hair and bei wore cropped close, his eyebrows met at tho bridgo of bis nose ‘snd overhuag his large eyos like & screon. His'lips were very wide, and, be- ing turned dowpwards st the corners, they gave him a dolorous expression. His lower jaw was Bsquare and protruding, and a pair of ‘prodigions White eams projected from beneath his sugar-loaf cap. He seemed to take hiscue from the old man, for he ropeated his sentiment. ¥ Yes," gaid he, with o voico which broke al- ternately into a roar and & whisper, ‘‘that wasa good story." 5 3 o “Y.yes,” faltored Miss Eunice, ““znd it has tho merit of being t-true.” Ho replied with a nod, and ‘locked sbsently over her hoad while he rabbed the nsp upon his chin with his band. Miss Eunice discovered that his knee touched the skirt of her dress, and she was about to move in order to destroy this contsct, when she remembered that Miss Cro- futt would probably have cherished the accident 88 a promoter of a valuable personal influence, soshe allowed it to remain. Tho lean-fac man was nos to be mentioned in the samo breath with this one, thereforeshe adopted the superior villain out of hand. 8ho began to spproach bim. Bhe ssked him ‘where he lived, meaning to digcover whence he had come. He replied in the same mixtaro of roar and whisper, * Bix undered un one, North Wing.” Mies Eunice grow scarlet. Presently she re- covered sufficiently to pursne some inquiries respecting the rules and customs of the prison. She did not feet that sho was interesting’her’ friend, yot it scemed clear that he did not wish togo away. His answers were curt, yet be swept his cap off his head, implying by the act & certain reverence which Miss Eunice’s vanity pormitted ber to exult at. Thereforo ehe bo- came more loquacious than ever. Some men came up to speak with the prisoper, but Le shook them off and remained in an attitudo of strict attention, with his chin on his hand, look- ing now at tho eky, now a¢ the ground, and now at fisa Eunice. Tn handling the flowers her gloves had been stained, and she now beld them in ber fingers, nervously twisting them as she talked. In the course of time she grew short of subjects, and, as Les Listener suggestod nothing, several lapses gccurred ; in one of them sho absently spread Der gloves ont in her paims, meanwhile wonder- ing how the English gurl scted under similar cir- cumstances. i Sunddeniy & large kand slowly interposed itself ‘between her eyes and her gloves, and then with- drew, taking ene of the soiled triflea with it. She wag surprised, but the surprise was pleas- urable. Sle said nothing at first. The prisoner gravely spread his prize out upon his own palm, and aféer looking at 1t carefally, he rolled it up into a tight ball and thrust it deep in an inner ket. Po;‘hilact made the philanthropist sware that she had made progress. * She rose insensilly to ths elevation of patron, and she made promitos to come fraquently and visit her ward acd to look in npon him when he was at work ; while saying this she withdrew a little fiom the shade ’his nuge figure bad supplied her with. ‘Ho thrust his hands into his_pockets,. but he hastily took them out again. Still he said noth- fug snd hung his head. It waa while she was in'the mood of a conqueror that Miss Eunice went away. Bhe felt o tonch of repugnancd at stepping from befere his eyes a free woman, thareforo shie took pains to go when she thought he was not looking. . Bhe pointed bim out to o turnkey, who told her he was expistiug the sins of assault and burglarious entry. ~ Outwardly Mies Eunice looked grieved, but within she exulted that he 'yaa 8o emphatically a rascal. 4 ‘When she emerged from the cool, shadowy, and frowning prison into the ghy sunlight, she e;sonenced a sense of bewilderment. The aig- nitlcance of & lock and & bar seomed greater on quitting them than it had when alie had per- coived them first. The drama of imprisonment and punishment oppressed her Bpirit with ten- fold gloom now that she gazed upon the brillizn- cy and freedom of the outer world. That she and avcrshod({ around her wers permitted to walk hero and there at will, without guestion and limit, generated within her an_indefinite tealing of gratitude; and the noise, the colors, the cresking wagons, the myriad voices, the splendid variety and change of all things excited & profound bat ot the same time & mournful satisfaction. Midway in her roturn journoy she was ehricked atfrom & carrisge, which at once spprosched tho sidewalk. Within it were four gay maidens, bound to the Navy-Yard, from whence they were to eail, with a large party of people of nice assortment, in an experimental stesmer, which was to be made to go with kerosene lamps, in some way. They seized upon her hands and_ cajoled her. ouldn't she go? They (provided the o1l made the wheels and things fi?n round) were to lunch at Fort Warren, dine at Fort Independence, and dance at Fort Winthrop. Come, plesse go. 0, do! ‘The Germaniang were to furnish the music. Aligs Ennice sighed, but shook tor head. She had not yet got tho air of the prison out of her lungs, nor the figre of her robber cut of ber eyes, nor the sense of horror and repulsion out of hor sympathies, * At another time she wonld have gone to the ends of the earth with such a happy crew, but now sho only shook her hesd again and was reso- Iute. No one could wring a reason from her, and the wondering quartet drove away. 1. Before the day went, Miss Ennic awoke to the disagreeable fact that her plans hsd become shrunken and contracted, that a certain some- thing had curdled ber spottancity, and _that her ardor had flown out at some crevice and had left her with the dry husk of an intent. Bhe exerted herself to glow a little, but sho failed, Bhe talked well at the tea-table, but she did nat tell sbout the glove. This matter plagued hor. 8he ran over in hermind the various doings of Migs Crofutt, and she could no conceal from hersoif that that lady had never given & glove fo one of her wretches ; no, nor had she ever per- mitted the smallest spproach to familianty. Migs Eunicowopt & little. She was on tho eve of despairing. In the silence of the night the idea presented itself to her with a disagreeable baldness. There waga thief over yonder that possessed a confi- dence with her: 8 ‘They bad found it necessary to shut this man ap iniron and stone, and {o guard him with & rifle with a large lesden ball in it. . This villain was & convict. That was a terri- ble word, ono that made her blood chill. ; She, the admired of hundreds and the beloved of a family, had donea eccret and shamefal: thing of which she dared not tell. In these ;ulemn hours the madness of her act appalled er. Bhe asked herself what might not the fellow do with the glove? Burely ha would exhibit i among lus brutal companions, and perhaps allow it to pass to and fro among them. They would Iaugh and joke with him, and he would laugh and joke in return, and no donbt he would kiss it to their grest delight. Again, he might go to her friends, and by working upon their feans and by threatening an exposurs of her, extort money from them. Again, might ho not 'harass her by constantly appearing to her at all times and ail places and making all sorts of claims snd do- mands? Again, might he not, with terriblo in- genuity, use it in connection with some falze key or some jack-in-the-box, or some_dark-lantern, or something, in order to effect his escape; or might ho not tell the story times without count to some wretched curiosity-hunters who would advertise her folly all over the country, to her perpetual misery ? She became harnessed to this train of thought. She could not escape from it. Bhe reversed the relation that she hoped to hold toward such a gjzm, snd she stood in his shadow, not he in ers. In consequence of these ever-present fears and sensations, thero was one day, not very far in the future, that she camo to have an intolera- ble dread of.” This day was the oue on which the sentonce of the man was to expiro. She felt he would surely search for her; and that he would find Ler thers could be no manuner of doubt, for, in hor surplus of confidence, she had. ;‘a]dgim ber full name, inusmuch o8 he had told er his. ‘When she coutemplated this new sourcs of terror, Lier peace of mind fled directly. So did her plans for philsnthropio labor. Not & shred remained. The anxiety began to tell upon her, and sha took to peering ont of a cortain shade window that commsnded the square in front of her house. It waa not long beforo sho remembered that for good behavior cer- tain days wers deducted from the convicts’ torms of imprisonment. Therefore, her ruf- fian might released at a moment not anticipated by her. Hemight, in fact, be dis- charged on any day. Ho might be on’ his way towards her even now. Sho was not vory far from right, for suddenly the man did appesr. He one day turned the corner, as she wss look- ing cut at the window fearing that she shonld see him, and came in's diagonal dircction across the hot, flagged squara. Misp Eanico's pulse leaped into the hundreds. Sbe glued her eyes upon him. There was no mistake. Thera was the red facs, tho evil eyes, the large mouth, and the massive frame. What should she do? Bhould shs hide? Bhonld she raise the sash and shrie to the po- lice ? Bhould ahe arm herself with a knife ? or what? In the name of mercy, what? She glared into the stroet. He came on steadily, and she lost him for he passed beneath her. In s moment sho heard the jangle of the bell. She was petrified. She heard his heavy step below. He had gone intoa little reception-room beside the door. He crossed to a Sofa opposite the mantel. She then heard him get upand go to s window, then he walked about, and then sat down—probably upon a red leather sest beside the window. Meanwhile the servant wes coming to an- nounce him. From some impulse, which was s strango and sudden ove, she cludsd the maid and rushed headlong upon her danger. She nev- er remembered ber descent -of the stairs. BShe awoke to 3 cool contemplation of matters only to find herself entering tho room. ‘Had she mado a mistake, afterall? It was & I}ucafion that was asked and answered in o flash, 'his man was pratty erect and eelf-assured, but she discerned in an instant that thore was need- ed but the blus woolen jacket and the tall .cap to make him the wretch of the month before. Ho said nothing. Neither did she. He stood up, and occupied himself by twisting s button upon his waistcost. Bho, fearing a threat or a demand, stood bridling to receivoit. She look- ed at him from top to toe with parted lips. Ho glanced at her. She stepped back, He put the rim of his eap in his mouth and bit it ance or twice, and then looked ont at the win- dow. Btill neither spoke. A voice at this in- stant scemed imposeiblo. He glanced again Uk a fiash. Bhe shrank, and put her hands upon the bolt. Presently he bogan to stir. He put out one foot and gradu- ally moved forward. He made snother atep. He was going away. He had slmost reached tho door, when Mil anice articulated in a confused whisper, ** My—rmuy glove; I wish you would give me my glove,” Hoe atopped, fixed bis eyes upon her, and after sdsing his fingers up and down the outside of i coat, said, with_deliberation, in & husky voice, ““No, mum. I'm goin’ far to keep it as long 28 I live, if it takes two thousand years.’ “Keep it! sho stammered. “TRoep it," ho replied. - He gave ber_an untranslatable look. It nei- ther frightened her nor permitted ber to demand the glove more emphatically. Sho folt her cheoks and temples ond her hands grow cold, and midway in the process of fainting she 6aw him dissppear. Ho vanished quiotly, Deliber- stion and respect characterized his rovements, . and there was not 50 much as & jur of the outer 3 Poor philanthropist! This gncident nearly sent_ her to a sick bed. Bho fully expacted that her secret would sppesr in the newspapers in fall, 2nd she lived in dread of the onaflnghtof an angry sud outraged Bo- clety. 4 . Ttie more she raflected upon what her - bilites had been, and how she hsd used | them, the iller and the more distressed she got. Bhe grew thin and spare in flosh. * Her frienda Dbecams frightened. They bézan 6 dcze her and to coddlo her. Bhe looked 2t them with eyes full of supreme melancholy, &nd shs :frequently Wept upon their ahoi : ey _ THE CHICAGO DAILY" TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1873. ’ i1 y y = b In spits of her precautions, however, a thun- derbolt slipped in. One day her father read at the table anitem that met his eye. He repeated it aloud, on ac- count of the iar statement in the last lino: “Dotained on Suspicion.—A rough-looking fellew, who gave the name of Gorman, was ar rested on the high-road to Tuxbridgo Sorings for saspected complicity in some recent robbaries in the neighborhood. "He wag fortunately able to give & pretty clear acconnt of his lato whers- abouts, and he was permitted to depart with a caution from the Justice. Nothiog was fornd upon him but a few coppers and an old kud glove wrapped }x:u a bit of pap: i unice’s soup spilled. This was too much, and she fainted this time in Tight good earnest; end she straightway became an invalid of the settled type. They put her to bed. The doctor told her plainly that bo knew she had s accret, but sho looked at him 50 imploringiy thag - ho refrained from telling Lis fancies; but he or- dered an immediate change of air. It wasset- tled at once that she shouldl go to the "pr-'_-fl" to Tasbridge Springs. The doctor ew thero were young eople thero, also plenty of daacing. So she ourneyod thither with her ps snd Ler ms, and wWith pillows and gervants. They wero shown to their rooms, sad strong porters followed with the laggage. Oue of thom had her huge trunk upon bhis shoulder. Ho put it carefully upon tha floor, and by so doling expoad this ox-prisoner to liss Enuice, and Eavice to himsol?. Ha was astonished, but ho remained eilont. But sho_must neads bo irightened and fall into snoiber fit of trembling. After an awkward moment ho went away, whilo she called to her father and begged piteonsly ta De taken avay from Tuxbridge Springa_instant- ly. Therewas no sppesl. She heied, haled, TED Tuxbridge Springs, and she shonld die it she were forced to remain, Sho rained tears. The wonld give no reason, but sha could not stay. No, millions on millions could not per- suade her'; go sho must. Thers was o lterna- tive. The'party quitted the place within the hour, bag and baggage. Miss Eunice's faiher was perplexed and angry, and her mother wonld ‘have been angry algo if she had dared They went to other springsand stayed a month, but the gai:em‘a frignt increased each day and 8o did her fover. Bha was fall of dis~ tractions. In her dreams everybody langhed at ber as the one who bad flirted with & convict. Bhe would ever be pursued with tho tale of her foolishness and stupidity. BShould. she over re- cover her self-respect and confidence ? She had become radically selfish. She forgot the old ideas of noble-heartodneas and self-de- nial, and her temper had become weak and child- ish,’ She did not meet her puzzI® faco to face, but she ran away from it with her hands over her ears. Miss Crofatt stered at her, and there~ gm she threw Miss Crofutt’s book intothe 0. : After two days of unceasing dsbate, sha called her parents and with the greatest sgita- tion told them all. It so0happened, in this case, that events, to use & railroad phrase, made connection. No sooner had Miss Eunice told her story than the mon came again. This time ho was &ccom- panied by & woman. “ Only got my glove away from_him,"” sobbed the unhappy one, *that is all I ask!” Thia was a fine admission! It waa thonght proper to ?ring an officer, and 80 & strong ono was sont or.. Meanwhile the couple had been admitted to the parlor. Miss Ennice’s father stationed tha officer at one door, while be, with a pistol, stood st the other. Then Miss Eunice went into the spartment. She was wasted, weak, and nervous.” e two villains got up a3 she cams in, snd Dowed. Bhe began to tremble as nsnal, and laid hold npon_the mantel-piece. *‘How much do you want ?” she gaspe The man gave the woman a push with his fore~ finger. Bho stepped forward quickly with her crest up. Her eyes turned, and sho fixed 5 vix~ enish look npon Miss Eunice. 8he suddenly shot her band out from beneath her shawl, and extended it at fall length. Across it lsy Misa Eunica's glove, very mach soiled. 44 Was that d\ing over yours?" demanded the woman gbrilly. ;i Y-yes,” seid Miss Eunice, faintly. The woran ssemed g{ tha apt word is to be excused) rtaggered. Shy withdrew her hend and looked the glove over. The man shook his head and began to Isugh behind his hat. “And did you evor give it to him?" pursned the woman, pointing over her shoulder with hex thumb. Miss Eunice nodded. “Of your own fres will 2" After s moment of eilence she ejaculated in & whisper, * Yos.” **Now wait,” said the mam, coming tothe front, *‘'nougl: has been said by you.” He then addressed himself to Miss Eunice with tho re- mains of the laugh still illuminating his face. “This is my wife’s sister, and she's ono of the jeslous kind. " I love my wife” (hare he became grave) “and I mover showed her any kind of slight that Iknow of. I've always been fair ta her, and she's always been fair tome. Plain gailin’ 80 far ; I nover kep' anything from ber,— but this.” He reached out and took the glove from the woman, and spread it out upon his orvan palm, 23 Miss Eunice had seon him do once be- fore. He looked st it thoughtfully. *Iwouli't tell her about this; no, never. Bhe waa never very particular to ask me; that's where her trust in e came in. She knowod I was sbove doing anything out of tho way—that is—I mean—" Ha stammered and blusbed, and then rushed on volubly. “But her sister hero thought I paid too much attention to it; ehe thoaght I looked 8¢ it too much, and kep' it sacrot. Bo she nagged and nnfigéd, and kept the pitch boulin’ until & had toléet itout: I told 'om™ (Aiss Ennice shivered). *‘No,’ says she, my wifo's sister, ‘that won't do{ Gorman. That's chaff, and I'm too old a bird." Ther'fore I fotched her straigh to you, sv she could put tha question direct.” Ho Siopped 8 moment a5 it in doubt Bow Lo g on. Miss Eunice began to open her oyes, and aho released the mantel. Thomanresumed with something like impressiveness: “WWen you last held that,” said he, slowly, bal- ancing the glove in his hand, “I wasa wicked man with bad intentions through and through. ‘Wheis I first helditI becamo an honsst man, with good intentions.” A burning bluzh of shams covered Miss Ea« nice’s face and neck. “An® as 1 kep' it my jntentions went on im- provin' and improvin’, ill I mada up g mind to behave myself in future, forever. Do you understand ?—forever. No backslidin’, no hiich- in’, noaslippin'op. I take occasion to ‘eay, miss, that I was beset time acd again ; that the in- stant I set my foot outside them prison-gates, aver there, my old chums got round me; bub I shook my head. ‘No,’ says I, ‘Iwon't go back on the glove.’” Miss Eunice hung her head. Tho two bad éxchanged places, sbe thonght; she was the criminal and he tho judge. “-An’ what is moro,” continued he, with the samo woight in his tone, **I not cnly kep’ sight of the glove, but I kep’ sight of the generous mperrit that gave'it. I dido't lot that go. S never forgot what you meant. I knowed—I Imowed," repested ho, lifting his forefingor,— “Y knowed s time would come when thers wouldn't be any enthoosiasm, any ‘hurrah,’ and then perhaps you'd be BOITY F0U Was 80 kind to mo ; o’ the tino did come.” Miss Eunico buried her facs in her hands and 'ra}:l alond. " But did I quit the fiovo ? No,mum. Theld ontoit. Itwas what] fought by, I masn'tgo- ing to give it up becausa it was asked for, All the police officars in the city couldn’t have took it from me. I put it deep into my pocket and I walked out. It was differcult, miss. But I come through. The glove“did it. It helped ma stand out againat temptation when it wasstrong. If I looked st it, I remembered that once thore was & pare heart that pitied me. Itcheersdma up. After a while I kinder got oat of the mud. Then I got work. ‘Tho glove sgain. Thona _ girl that’knowed me bafore I took to bad ways marricd me and no questions asked. Then ¥ ust took the glove into & dark corner and lessed it.” Miss Eunico was belittled. ) A noise wzs heard in the ball-way. Miss Eu- nice's father and the policoman were going away. L 2 Tge awksrardness of the succeeding ailenca waa relieved by the moving of the man and the womsan. They had done errand, and wera golng. = n Baid Miss Eunice, with the faint idea of mak- ingngwhu.l apology to her visitor, I go to tho prison once a weekafter t] #Then may God bless ye, Miss,” said the man. He cams back with teara in his eyes and took .her proffered hand for an instaat. " Then he and l!‘{!ua‘é ‘:i.:(m- wont away. * Miss ce’s remainin ark of charity at once crackled and burst ko & fame. hers 1y sure to be & little something that is bad in evers- body's phulanthropy when it is first put to usa; itrequires tobe filed down like & faulty casting before it will run without danger to anybody. Samaritanism that Zoes off with hslf a chargo 13 :u:u}o'da great mischief somewhere ; but Aiss Enunice's, ngw properly corrected, Lnncefarth shot off at the proper end, and. inevitably hit the xz:-‘uk‘ Bho purclhased. s new Crofutt.—Albert Webster, Jr., in the Atlantic for July. ' —An ol gentleman in Virginia bought # remdence near the buym""?,’ ;,g" .,'3‘.?:‘.’5 m e:-m" Deighbors who'd mind’ their own