Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1889, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1889-TWELVE PAGES. : wi < be Sir Robert Hart and His Wonderful Work in China. CHINESE MARITINE CUSTOMS. AND PUNCTUALITY HIS GENEROSITY | HOW HE TREATS HIS SUB- | ORDINATES—-HANDLING IMMENSE SUMS. Brom THE Stan's Traveling These letters, meaningless at I up instantly in the mind of every foreigner in China a very distinct and striking r here in the far proportion of those who hear them is that of the benev- dlent despot, whose outstretcli Severs the Celestial kingdom and th barbarien world; through whose fingers five hundred millions of dollars have run ifto the { coffers of the Son of Heaven, and never aone of | them stuck; to whom the proudest Chinamen ails tarn for advice in difti- culty or danger when other helpers fai has staved off a war by writing a telegram; who has declined with th envoy extraordinary potentiary of her Britannic majes' Finged China round with commercial organization the whole world can- not surpass; whe b that ever wore pig! » proffered dignity his life over ‘dolla: matic nut which other people have faile * signifies a person and a post: the former is Sir Robert Hart. K. C. M. G latter is inspector-gene 1 of the impert ence of the customs service judged from the fact that a commissioner once affront and quitted the sacred a missionary implored the Al- “deliver this people from their Just as Mrs. in China may be wicked customs.” suid to have interpreted a pious allusion to “One above” as a polite reference to her hus- band in the drawing-room upstairs. THE MOST INTERESTING FOREIGNER. After the above, I fear it will seem an anti- climax to say that Sir Robert Hart is ff away the most interesting and influenti: o begin with, his power is jar and | quence is €igner in China rned, is much the and with the Tsung-li Yamen he has the iflu- thirty years of close dealing with ials gives him. he handles the ser- m nothing to one which :rly 3.000 people, pre 000,000 tons of ship- 3 1.800 miles of co Yet very few of moment in his b Yet Sir Robert owes all his sue Does he learn of an old fri e fallen upon evil times? he telegraphs, and the . in delimiting the months of lonely ad solitude, with never a breath to might not bring fever with it, whom Yet his avowal of isrefreshingly frank. “Ihave never,” 4 Worse man over a better, to one of two men of equal deserts, and one of them is of my own flesh and blood, it would b to pass him over.” put the son of some seen him grow up in the service mmissioner, save his ec ing his benefactor and c! the same number of hours € day at his desk. Chinese frontier yet if promotic simply unnatural A FIRM RULER. h But he rules with a despotism that a czar | ¢. Any subordinate reported to the | cruis ports, for drunkenness or diserediting | the service in 2 1 be fired from his hy gram couid re Fesentative in England. C.M. G., who has already diplomacy on bebalf of Ch is permitted {| wn friends. otherwise | @ certain number of im- | Lepotism works, Sir Robert Hart left th ars that have nd once for six—that is, he has to which all th t in summer. the great wall = he has rendered to 1 to the world the states- them very well, and it volume to tell them to others. BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA. creation of the itself, which will be the latest ex: etween France a : the ministers of the telegraph in cipher b aud the Quai d'Orsay, and ones they were. Month after month they proc id at last when $0,000 ed in Paris, a and went to the ministers were ched, the prote ference of the Ori hine months to-day Gations with France in my hands, aced the nego- e of the ministers, seeing the truly Chinese way | rmation. And the funny | that all this time a been residing of couveying the i partof the busiz special French ¢ would not speal sending the last telegr: itish minister, As he entered the chapel nger caught him witha da moment and opened | it—a dispateh from Lord Granville offering who had jast died. of the legation ax BRITISH MINISTER pted, after muc hesitation, and his appointibent received the queen's signature on 3, 1885. At his own request the matter was kept secret at home while arrangements were making for the succession to his position as the head of the customs service, @ conservative government succeeded to office iw England, and telegrams from the foreign king. ““May we not publish the ap- Sur Robert had seen, however, by is time that the customs service would suffer severely if he left it at that time, and this was any other honor in the world. He therefore telegraphed. “Must I keep it?” and Lord Salisbury replying in very terms that he was free to do ought best, a declined, y truly but per- that more to him tha comphmentar: exactly as he the empress, a0 his a re! inadequately explaine: be should pear nd A MUCH DECORATED CIVILIAN. I have said that the statesmen of Europe are well aware of Sir Robert Hart's services, and the proof of this is that there are few civilians so decorated as he. In England a conservative government made him C. M. G., and a liberal one added the K. C. M. G. e chevalier of the Order of Gustavus Vasa; Bel- gium, a commander of the Order of Leopold; Sweden made him France, a grand officer of the Legion of Hon- our: Italy, a grand officer of the Crown of Italy; Anstria sent him the grand cross of the Order of Francis Joseph. America has presented him with several medais of republican appreciation; Portugal has decorated him with the Milita Orange friends at Belfast—his native place— will no doubt be much interested and pleased tofearn that he is, by direct gift from the pope—nothing less’ than ‘sub annulo pisca- Chinese, there is no one Living who can com- pre with him, and I learned more of the inner working of celestial affairs during the fortnight that I had the honor of being his guest than years of simple residence could have afforded. TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE. The “I. G.” and Sir Robert Hart, however, are two very different people. ‘I was calling upon Lady Hart one said a lady to me, “and as T wished to speal shown into his office. I found the ‘I. G.’ ther Oh, it was terrible—I covered my face and fled! The distinction has, indeed, been admitted by j himself. He is not Jekyll and Hyde, but he is y poet and person. Among the many written at different times I have ch avows the fact, Heine-like both nce and form, It is called “The Twin Hearts,” and tells how serious and unchanging cne heart is, while “The other heart's a monthly rose: Tt blossoms oft and smeils so sweet] It towers ani tades—betore one knows It buds, it dies—does both completely THE SECRET by which Sir Robert Hart has accomplished so much is an extraordinary devotion to method, most extraordinary of all for an Irishman. This ich he is far from averse to ablishes an im- mediate e guests. “Your | early te when you ring iy. holding th count thre to tiffin ordiale with h button pressed while you can ‘Then it will be convenient to you 2 sharp? Because if not, I will tifin m sharp and order your tiffin to be served at any hour you like. [ride from 3 to 5—there is always a mount for you if you Wish it. Dinner at 7:30 sharp, and 1 must ‘ask You always to excuse me at Il.” ‘The eonse- that at vse! EVERYTHING RUNS LIKE CLOCKWORK in Sir Robert's household, and a guest is per- fectly at home from the start. But the above methodity is nothing, in comparison. In the dining-room there is a big wicker chair, al- ways covered with a rug, so that you cannot s down init. In that chair the master of th house has had his tea eve afternoon for thirty years. Upon a shelf sti rge blue- i-white cup. of that he has drunk his tea for thirty Aud by employing the odd moments that his “boy"—who is punetu- ality itself—has kept him waiting ¢ that chair for that cup. he has managed during re i | the last year or two to read the whole of Lucan’s | Pharsalia! Of course he has kept a diary since | he could hold a pen. ALWAYS ON TIME. To test his preciser standing each day behind m hand, till the clock struck | Then I walked in to the r | own side of the house. Sure enough the door | opened opposite me and my host walked in | from the : transit of Venus, or ws me outof the clock And as I find I have not suid a word of his outer IT may coucinde these personalities by say- hat he is of medium height and slight uild, rather i i | humorons face, a low voice, a shy and punctilious ha P wnner; that he isa most entertaining com- chil- | of fun and merry bape ny, devoted to h dren—as well he may be—a player of the v and ‘cello, and a host whose care and thought- ess for his guests are feminine in their in- and famous in their execution, THE CUSTOMS’ SERVICE. And what, in a word. is the customs’ service? simply the collection of all their maritime ustoms at the nineteen treaty ports, re: ing over 220,000.000 last x . their ‘ source of national meome. which the Chinese si ry | have confided to the hands of one foreigner, leaving him absolutely tion unhampe counts Wi ast of China free and irresponsible, d by any colleague, and adited. In passing round the a frequently see a smart little F llow flag, with perhaps a miniatare steel turret and a couple of quick- firing guns on board, or in # swift launch pass- | ing you will notice the Chinese crew and for- | eign skipper in dapper uniforms r- reled Nordenfeldt — proje ‘These are the customs’ fleet, watching the coast smugglers, and ready at a moment's notice fe ack some outgoing junk that disobeys ing of the red flag’signal to heave to examined. The duty on opium is so high that smuggling is extremely protitabl and therefore the customs’ officers are propor- | tionally keen in discovering and preventing it, ALONG THE COAST, too, in the neighbornood of Hong Kong and the ¥ ports you will see little station ng of a house or two. a few boats, look-out. ‘These are also the customs the lighthouses are in the same hands. Sir Robert liort bas alread: ud a ten pt for the influence at Chefoo he would have gi perial post-oftice and an imperi as well, The relations betwe | Hart and the Chinese government exhibit the most extraordinary example of confi- dence in individual that I re ever heard G.” fixes ! ist of the service, the Tsung-li wands it over to him without a word, money collected is paid directly by. the merchants inte the Chinese ban! A little While ago it 1 nnually (a “Haikwan” or ¢ © Official mone- tary standard in Chin Mexican dollar and a half, 4s. 6d.), but an envious Chinamen whom I jot name, approached the ministers at the Yamen with a sec less. Th Robert of the @ttempt to cut him out. What ervice | did he do? ality, to take | HE RAISED IT. One of his most characteristic actions. He replied that the ennual sum had been inade- d matters looked | quate for some years, and that he, on the other + | liand, must ask the : me to} which they imme: ved to take up the task on | 000 tacls a year Sir d} he likes, keeping as mi ud that his connection with | own remnueration a 1! ott ise it by 400,000 did! With this 1,700, bert does exactly what or as little for his s he pleases and paying to laries he considers just. The pay when he enters the service to nese is 900 taels a year, and this rises to $000 taels, more or less, the pay of a full commissioner, Instead of a promise of pen- sion, which Sir Robert felt that he could not be certain the Chinese would keep when he should be gone, he pays a bonus of one year's pay for seven years’ service to the indoor staff, for ten | outdoor staff, and for twe 3 he Chinese staff. But this bonus ma | held at his ph r yet withheld it), and it the form part of a | dead man’s estate—a thoughtful provision for widows and children, The indoor staff get rs’ leave after every ¥ outdvor one year after ¢ |. both ay. As may be expec nnel of so attractive a service is of a very high class, comprising all nationalities, and to be “in the customs” confers social standing through- out the fareast, He is a fortunate father in these days who can see his son safely started had been on foot uutil he | On so pleasant, so well paid, so assured a road that he might re- | of livelihood, ‘THE ONE DARK SPOT on the horizon of this great organization is the question of Sir Robert Hart's successor. If it is a foreigner it is almost certain to be an Eng- lishman, atleast the appointment of a man of any other nationality, however qualified in other respects, would be as unwelcome to the service ode would be impolitic and unfair. Of this, Lows tempted. when Sir Robert resigns, to replace ice will now run of itself, and that they may, of selling the post to the highest bidder. Such an event would be a calamity for the | troni commerce of the world. For whatever east to contradict me, when I say that am money without regarding it first of all asa native administration, as honest and as eflicie! to replace it.” Does the ex of a —— a century lead him still to cherish baer re hes of — butI extremely surprised to learn Henry Norman. $< €* “Onward and upward” is the motto of Tue Eventno Stan. Onward in its extending EASTER VIOLETS. L—THE GUILD. Young Dr. Naseby's young parishioners had ; | formed a very young charity guild, and having Order of Christ; the emperor of China has con- | Tented their headquarters in a properly squalid ferred upon him the coveted peacock’s feather | part of New York, the question arose as to the and the Order of the Double Dragon, and bis | choice of a name. ulence arraigning 's money foo in the gutters or plucked like daisies in the field? Why, what “Who's the old woman that lives there’ do you learn of the relations of toil and wage froin the juxtaposition of the words in the a peals of charitab that a needle-woman's hard labor from sunrise to midnight can procure her only so many cents a day is a certain shock; but never hav- ing felt the bitter punishment of the pay that - is just enough to make never-ceasing toil im- | Do you think she can be craz: perative and possible, you can never under-| “Nota bit of it,” understand even the | shrewd old eye.” © constant spurring of ¢ ¢ impossibility, from cradle | leen, “and we've only one day. the poor thing in comfort, and then on easter of violets! How Miss Van Coyte, a great heiress, who had literary pretensions, proposed “The Eleemosynary.” spell it?” came so patly from Mr. Kilbraith, an toris”—a Commander of the Papal Order of | impecunious journalist, whose fame was as yet Pius IX. As for knowledge of China and the | But “How do you You can neve fuil meaning of toil— the jaded fra: of ever knowing a fair rest or recn; tal disgust at the dai You know of all this about | she longed for those flowers the bird that has wings to skim the} _ Kilbraith laughed teasingly. . | of the sufferings of the poor ship- | Very young-lad: way of dealing with your ures who, lacking such wings, | proteges—so much br sbriek and go down in the black 80 m: obscure, that the motion died of its own ab- Kilbraith was a broad- shouldered young man who carried his stre somewhat loosely, who was of the complexion and whose prematurely | lined face was not overhandsome, but very €s- known as “sandy,” A young lady, rigidly patterned on an English | horsewoman, made the next proposal—The v ‘Then a school girl proposed “Gentle Deeds,” and a thoughtless fellow suggested “The Jolly Mariners, | derisive laughter blushed very creditably. But at last up spoke Charlie Bond-—Bond, the rich stock broker, a handsome man, shining w: Prosperity, from the latest thing in neckti with a black pear! in it. down the correct waist- coat and unwrinkled marvel of the London trousers, to the points of his glossy boots, as | rakish as the yacht he owned. Charlie held up | a bit of card-board, on which was emblazoned | by Tiffany a gorgeous monogram. said he, tracing out the involutions with his I fancy I've settled this matter. °C. R. ¥ : ed Refreshmentand Enter- | it Organization.” Olly Chittenden, a young man_ possessed of | harmless intentions, feeble intellect, and a | father whose pocketbook was prac 8. raised a jubilant “You ve hit pproval and In another second | the guild would have been christened, but Kil- braith, the profane, remarked, with distinctness, and without cha which he lounged against the piano, ‘The peo- will take us for a patent health-food con- | ae Miss Bryce bent her head and watched him, | with a half-scared mtentness, from under her | ble aspirations of the poor. Ob, to Sir Robert I was | Vie 5 — es,” he continned, ‘on the smooth faces of | Miss Br. your class there is no trace of the pinching of | Tights over her conduct in a way that the unrest of | found to the last degree dangerou diy di when she put out her hand and said, “Don't torment me @o, but find our old woman. . 4 partnership, in the “our.” Don't torment me so’ so, prom and being met with want, of the hardening of toil, “ temptation, the deformity of guilt; and when | most fixed principles could you try to help the poor, the straying, the . they shrink away, because there is no e of kinship in the appeal.” was a comrades! 30 well, then?” said | and the familiart; “to talk to these | turned him a little giddy | gorically to be faithful to his charge he hurried Kubraith for a moment turned his head | away then, clinching a hand over the little he looked rich, dainty, Miss Bryce straight in the face and an- | } ; ve you learned Miss Bryce, very softly, vr that stood ni “learned through struggling up. one of | #8 settling eight fatherless youngsters: through seeing my widowed mother’s i pling, God knows how, tion; through working at tre thing that would bring pay; through dreaming, | day and night, of some field in which to exer- | tit rary faeility of which I had become | cough of that old woman. "After cogitating a i way toa great | 00d while, Kilbraith walked off and brought ‘ up before a little drug shop on the nearest cor- ddressing a brisk young good cigar, several samples from the case and flung them down before his pd two fragrant Ha- vanas, and lighting one himself, handed the Naseby nodded a smiled his diser ¥ be brought to you | our bell—please ring it once | conscious; through fighting m3 center, and there being rebutfe ‘through wal nging the angle at this house weil. “What the deuce do you mean?” exclaimed | f-clad, literally starving creature, by Bond, angrily. y Why, ‘consolidated refreshment,’ answer- ed Kilbraith, quietly. No.” said Bond, getting very ‘consolidated organization. ery door. hleen had listened without moving, bat her bent face had grown excited and ” is placed so hap- Well, if our paper mother is in Texas, I look after her as I best goes into Wall stree right stock-market | at schools or at work. We a Some of the em dat roared outright to as was quite proper. and the situation was becoming oppr: iced to fall just at Dr, Naseb; bly sure of his next wee ing of the tribe to-day from common nev paper ‘re fect a little bunch of violets that had be ling in the front of a young young lady was vei Kathleen Bry: ch day in | old, much at Kilbraith: very Now ‘tometning too much of tt shell I order the plants for the guild ce rose and said, “Fl go with you,” | “I want some mor and in a few minutes they were Fifth avenue togeth Broadway she gave ir fragrance. uental in found- | not call it after » has been main! ing the guild.” he sai What do you s simple, and quite appropri- ‘vee has already ex- ng afew flowers to the poor At a cer less orders for growing | Wh lants. and then, pointing ata bunch of dark bine violets in the window, she dictated to the man who was writing out her di- | Jat once and looking at Miss Bryce cried, **( 1pped their hands, But Miss B: girl of about twent fair, with beautiful big brow don’t let us have a It was like watching for a | ie into bunches of twenty-five. aster morning carly, Four uch with a spra ing for the apostles to | d t’ Strasburg at noon, | two, slight and $, protested: ling personal, of lily-of-th 'y She seemed inclined to t t, and since she had left home | _ “Coroner's h Kilbraith. If he had } with a vu well eve had hardly g) not known too fatally re.” hen Mr. Kilbraith and as if approving only possible room for objection, personal about violets; every girl vou meet has tuck about h P id. with a kind, thoughtful and | |. half unwillingly, | nse there was no | here's nothing as, he felt rather puz- ion, a teller of countless good stories. fond | zled by a strange gigidity and pallor. Pres- | Friu od in the shop, there ap- turning to Kathleen with | dmirable fusion of dignity and gallantry, 2 jad the name comes from you, whole good work i Bond watched him closely peared in the doorw of an old woman A long cloak of some stuff that hed h all namable color and texture flapped | of Joe's. T have to walk up the a about her, and she clutched at the rents to hold | home. , I'll go with you. i her battered black bonnet bore a| “Te! wretched ensign of a veil that was slapped | ¢ ‘ace by the brisk wind. She | Side: window in which the bunch of | him and, Pointing as aera ba pled tiv ot much, gre en TS hollow (Mii wan easy enough, as Kilbraith mast the | “Oh.” answered the impatient florist, “a good | doctor, to peek a wore hes | deal—three dollars.” “What,” she exclaimed, “so muc! coughing frightfully the while, she stood star- | ng at the flowers, you don’t want them,” the man re- ate suit to Miss Bryce. *, Charlie,” whispered his friend Olly, | yu come to the point and decide matters? Everybody knows how rich echoed Bond. ten millions. What's | cough, “How much hat? Thereupon Olly produced uncon charming sarcasm on matrimony lie, TU go for a poor girl, after a fellow's dead sure of not being refused Kilbraith, overhearing this guileless d Miss Bryce and repeated I do want “em,” came the answer, as the | 01 @ bed i ed her miserable frame once more, | ture he “Oh, Ido want ‘em! How much for a fe ten?" and she spread out her claws cting over the bow. | But as the langh of a/ y bear interpretation, Dr. | eby regarded her with intensity, Bond | with jealous anxiety, but Kilbraith darted off to open the piano, for this was an entertain- | ment evening and there would presently be an intlux of hulking half-grown boys, shy women said the shopman, ‘Five cents,” | front room also ts!" she quavered, and dived down | below-stairs, ev into the folds of her dress, ket, she took out some pennies, turned her back, loc sked Bond, looking after him, | “do you think Kilbraith, as a newspaper m: can have the time or the talent to be an effic: of our guild?” a | great deal—oh, a great ¢ r’ thin old 1 ” Then she shuffled to the door n old bundle of rags, she was q » wind and driven from side to sno everything is right Ail ais ade ver het ai. | 13 this woman 9 Me oe re Speen ee Un: | Dowell, ort eeaared (AGiMbems Ose Nake She’s just an old cretur as I've got the care of, and heverything’s right. You can hask'er if ut to, but I suppose she couldn't speak a Naseby, struggling to | : © left the membership of the in the hands of Miss Bryce, who | What do you say, Miss | ce Kilbraith turned to speak to Miss Bryce, who d been standing by his side, but’ she had sprung forward and snatched up the whole hi Two tears were cl hleen knew she was facing a question by | which two jealous and distracted lovers hoped | | to test her feelings toward the obj common aversion, and that object was the only | man she really cared for in the wide world. “Well, we must all admit that Mr. Kilbraith has been of more practical service in the guild | than anybody else, and he entices the people in | he replied, regarding the she said, hurriedly 0; she'll die : is hands: “Go. fof. | and held a candle 20 its light fell on the weird face in the bed. on the rolling, balf-closed ‘Tell her PU send her more—Pl eI the sunken mouth, and the few white elf-loc! Gein noe pene LEE | mnie congli eounlig MuuGledl “ave aaa Gell oeit I and | the grave were already closing her in. “Find ont { Chubbnek, being at best ghoulish, was not —her name everything. Oh, | Pleasant to see as he said thrusting the flowers into 1 give her these. Find out where she Oh, to beso ill so old, to wretched, quite wonderfally. t two gentlemen with a little sowrie discouraged further conversation on that sub- | more githered in the lovely eyes. won't you gov" Van Coyte, who affected a freem: with literary people, called out, jocosely, * Kilbraith, we are wondering what prompts you to belong to the guild.” “Oh,” replied Kilbraith, retiring with the , 48 the benches in front e filling up with the ragged poor of the neighborhood, “I come bere for the compan: for the feeling ti offer to do it for 500,009 | Test behind the pi. men quietly informed ‘Sir | castically, and giving a meaning look around | tears and pleading. only to follow old woman bee: “Don't trouble yourself,” answered Kilbraith, ly, while seating Miss Bryce at the piano, ning to the opening music on the otter side of the piano, not on | “Tmean the | ut ensign of a tattered v the old cre: topped, looked up at him with a ITH'S POSITION. The Violet Guild was flourishing, and Miss Bryce continually employed Mr. Kilbraith in looking after her poor pe aged with great success, note, he would meet the young lad dainty sitting-room, but with sometimes with a stern air, when she had sent for him as usual, he crossed Dr. Naseby, who was just leaving the house, ly stumbled over a huge basket of or chids bearing Charlie Bond’s card, which made him a little sterner that morning than ever aking guild for a while, | , is going to marry | she drew back as i ple, whom he man- mmoned by a little One morning, ‘I'm very poor, I can’t pay for ’em,” she hurried on as b “Oh, do stop: cried Kilbraith, out of ae aking her ‘once more. She gives them to IV.—THE END. The old woman presently spoke again, her feebly working fingers showing intense nervous eagerness. Her tones had here and there some- thing of the provincial burr of the north of eh? And money—money for a good cup of | England. “Did you ever hear o’ Kenneth Kil- Kathleen, after remarked, “Miss Van Coy Forshay, the young poe “L hope,” said Kilbr something beside his poe king’s daughter. n't you understand? that Forshay has |” “Gives them?” ry to offer an oil| She has been brought up to esteem, if not money itself, the qualities that go to money-making. She'll miss the enter- | ing bric-a-brac and seeing the world, 0 to speak, from her own carriage win- She grabbed them again Yes: and where do you live? Do you need anything—any help? ‘A doctor for that cougn— tainment of buy As he spoke the woman seemed to grow only still more terrified, and again letting the flow- | young man——*Kenneth Esme Kilbraith.” ers drop, she made desperate efforts to get |” “K away very fast. She even tried to run, and | mony o’ that name. My husband was Kenneth, stumbled’ and ‘swayed along with surprising swiftness, Up one street and down another she tottered, looking over her shoulder now “Oh,” said Kathleen, trying to command an r, and playing with the tassel at her gir- nty of money. They can buy n bric-a-brac toge a “What!” exclaimed Kilbraith, “do you sup- pose that a man who pretends to any self-re- spect can live on his wife’s fortune, take his ease in his wife's house, order his wife's coach- | ay his tailor aud his hatter with his | “But,” fultered Kathleen, twisting the tassel d, “perhaps Miss Van Coyte thinks his good | more than an offset for her miserable er, there is little danger. There is some | qualities ; however, that the Chinese ministers will | Money. at “No matter what the wife thinks. Canaman him by a Chinaman, in the belief that the sery- | be despised by her oil-king father, made the butt of her oil-wors! brothers, the slur therefore, just as well follow the usual custom | of her mother an Or, worse, can he feel they veil their contempt with pa- g kindness?” “Oh!” cried Kathleen, may be thought of the statement at | let the tassel fal! home, nota single voice will be raised in the | "And then to have the men at the club,” Kil- ‘say to him, when they're yu hung up your he brought his : phasis on the back of an un- little empire chair—“I'd let my love in helpless protest, and braith went on, hotly, her 350,000,000 China has not one accessible | confidentially drunk, ofticial who could be trusted to handle so much | hat, old fellow.’ No”—an: hand down in em: means of personal enrichment, ‘Twenty-five | offendin years ago Sir Robert wrote to a secretary of | for a ric! 1 woman, if I had it, eat my heart out state at home that the i te “will have | before I'd so finished ite work when it shall have produced a | either drag her to my level “Do you esteem is youthful hope of Chinese honesty and | ny one’s lev. manh force myself to money so servile]; it you hold it de “Esteem money? No,” cried Kilbraith; “but to—to Forshay, for instance, “Oh! And the old lady; what's her name?” the " replied the man. “Get a ou Ee Then he an George! how queet! “Weline somthing oat 8 went to the corner and duty there who lived in “What's that to was not a miserable ‘out of my area or that money itself, I usual readiness to. jibe consist en For Then, asked a policeman said Kilbrai morning to give her a bune'! me anywa of ver tightly dark on Saturda an ed les, arts—an | could hear a slight mufil wish it at every tarn streets of New| ner. He entered, and vee, I remember | Man in attendance, asked fur alked, a shiver- | _ The brisk young’ man too! customer. Kilbraith selec When Kilbraith | other to the young man. ange of attitude to | “Do you smoke?” he said. i care if I do,” answered jerk, accepting the proffered cigar. ed for a familiar chat, Kil- braith, after discovering that the brisk young can, and after the brothers and sisters who are | Clerk's name was Joe, entered skillfully upon cattered all over | hts investigations concerning the neighborhood crating generation | and the mysterious house in particular, starved to death, I believe, here in the east, for | When judicious questioning had shown that Joe heard of a Kilbraith that was reasona- | kn y ‘s dinners, The most | ly nk you. Don a detaining |, the The way being lightly, “my bat late n- | garded that dnight he be; by name Kei our serv. | into that shop a slouching old Where | Chubbuck. king down | 4 bottle on the counter, ain florist’son | “All right.” answere tenement-house people,” aglich accent. nnebody Change in her | a8 I'd better get nd to write a Then, | Bryce in the morning, ‘Then, apparently | the rest of the house was ei 1 at them care- | Walls. a Tear Chubbnek, who had followed at the doctor's deal!” sho muttered | heels, inquired, as Kilbraith eame in, ‘What ips trembling. “I | does he want here? , “TI told him to come,” said the doctor, sternly. ‘s going to be a death, and we must or there'll be trouble. Now the: n your sistes if she tried; eh? tears Tope, is there “nt | Ing ov ‘Amask | commanded, sternly, “Ot course,” answe ything’s: it. She likes me. braith?” to have these | named me.” in that awful ved old party—the owner, I ubbnck. Seldom comes ou' Said the policeman, “Haven't the least idea.” associations? To be told MIL—THAT OLD WOMAN. “Oh!” cried Miss Bryce, as Kilbraith told his adventure; “we can't leave her so! She may be abused. She is certainly poor and suffering. ; “she has a “I must find her out by easter,” said Kath- Think, to have “You have a J and meat and flannel, ny picture cards and fresh flowers. es.” Kathleen retorted, “and if I didn't give the flowers you'd say I ignored the possi- had lately been ceding to him Kilbraith had been a newspaper reporter too long to fail in obtainipg entrance to any house, it might be seated. evening, and the tional policy at the corner grocery, so Kilbraith recounoitered, There was hard» from toil; | NO glint of light anywhere, but standing with his ear glued against the basement door he “sound recurring at After a while he could dis- cough—undoubtedly the new nothing of the house aud innocen eved it empty, the visitor ungr: y oung man with unspeakable dis- ’ | gust, and felt greatly at odds with himself for list of some small promise, and a | baving chosen this stalking-ground. He is gaunt and sandy, | b anto respect his own judgment immensely, tor there came straight man, and he recognized the greasy coat and flabby face of said Chubbuck; putting Joe; “but, by the way, s this for? You've had a lot.” ter,” grumbled Chubbuck. remarked Joe, with emphasis, “you'd better look sharp, for if she dies with- “Ten thonsand violets like those, | Out a doctor you'll have a coroner's inques them | Ro end of fuss, Come, you'll have to get acer- ndred | tifieate. Idon’t want to be hauled up about valley | Siving medicines without a prescription round to quest?” mumbled Chub) ave believed it | 'm poor, but I'll pay a little—not much, rather case | _ “Say, dos,” Kilbreith called out, “there's Dr. on the avenue; he’s cheap, Old Chubbuck turned the bulging eyes upon he quaint and grotesque | Kilbraith, who held his breath —w ‘thin, tall and much | made sure there was no_ recognition in them. | Then he informed Chubbuck: “I'm a friend enue toward vegged Chubbuek, with veteyeing Kilbraith and ‘suspicion—“t ou know me; that I'm a poor man. e cheap. I'll pay a little; not mach— r; easy enongh ispatch to be delivered to Miss nd easy bring two men from a police station to watch outside the house. It was easy too, this time, to get in, for the doctor opened the gloor and led him to the back basement kitchen, where, the corner, lay the poor old crea- ax commissioned to serve. only | Wretched fire burned low in the great dirty ‘3 | Cooking-stove, a few chairs stood about, and over everything lay the grime of years. id a bed in it, ntly the two had lived, while riven over to the rats that were squealing and tumbling in all the soon.” said the doctor; here hain’t no Dear! dear! She can't speak Kilbraith, by a process swifter than reason- | 0r move. can she? Dear! dear!” ing. knew that this emotion was partly a tshe had been suppressing | She with all her might, and hiding beh of indifference—the feeling roused by his story but what the nature of that feeling might be he refused to name even to himself. Still, school himself as he would, he was only mortai man, and there stood the woman he loved, all What if the pleading was nold woman? To follow that rest object in life. the bed he touched her. ave a strangled scream, and the doctor You'll see as hing’s right.” Whereupon the doctor gave him an order to bring her some medicine to ease her at the last, and took care it should be found only in a distant part of the city. Kilbraith and the doctor sat long in silence, listening to the rattling breath, until unexpec Jutched the flowers, darted out, and guided | edly there came a respite. She opened caught up with | €¥¢s, put out a skinny hand toward some liquid ure, and tapped her on the | food that was on the stove; Kilbraith brought tf it to her, and she drained the cup almost pair of wonderfully bright eyes, and now, see-} greedily. She looked at the doctor with tho img her face, she seemed more broken by deprivations than by years. Having looked up, 6 in terror; then ventured | long and steadily, and ance, recoiled again, hugged her r. and hurried aw ” Kilbraith called out, kindl A lady has sent you the then she looked at Kil- aving looked, she pro- nounced distinctly the name, “Kenneth.” Kilbraith, in astonishment, nearly “stop, both cup and candle, and stammered y lets," | She spoke my name, ‘Is her mind wandering’ ed, took them eagerly, laid them ina | and by some chance has she known somebody sort of rapture against her face, crooning and | of thal name? ming overcome with fright “She's not wandering,” whispered the doc- ropped’ them on the sidewalk exclaim | tor; ‘‘she’s perfectly lucid.” Then Kilbraith, eagerly bending over the bed, waited—waited to witness a strange and pitiful scene that was to mark a turning point in his life, “Iam Kenneth Kilbraith,” answered the enneth Esme! My God! there couldua be I'm Eliza Kilbraith. He died five-and-twenty years ago, and I thought Isee his ghost when you give me the flowers in the street. You're and then, now and then uttering a muttered | his very pictur’, Kenneth Esme Kilbraith, of protest, until she reached an old neighborhood Dumfries, an’ Donald, his brother.” where ‘some great old-fashioned decaying Donald was my father,” said Kilbraith; #urround a barren, a ee square. | “Kenneth Esmé was my uncle after whom they New York has grown old enoug!} neighborhoods, formerly known as “genteel,” ] The old woman gasped The doctor raised but now in a state of dreary paralysis that | her a little more and she went on feebly and almost matches some of the oid London quar- | with sometimes a long struggle for breath, but ters. The old creature by this time, for very | lncidly: exhaustion, had to hold by the fence-raili to walk, and Kilbraith, in merey, kept back a little when she suddenly turned in at the area ‘The Kilbraiths hated me_becai ilings | wur not Scotch, and I hated them. I wur an English lass, Kenneth said I war loike a violet —pretty an’ sweet, Heaps o’ them growed down te of an imposing great detached house that 7 the orchard wall. Kenneth an’ me come to ad been in its time palatial. All the rusty, | Ne’ dusty shutters were closed, the front door fairly : c it sealed with piles of dirt driven against it from | cunning—‘‘an’ I kep’ it—I kep’ it hid from the the street, and no one could believe the place | Kilbraiths, It’s not much. Oh no! inhabited, Kilbraith heard the basement door | dollars. Hush! Yes, it’s a opened, then closed and bolted; so when she | and awful expression had passed in he advanced and knocked briskly. | stirred the fast-stiffening mask of death. The bolts were slowly ablesranlan ae See appeared in a narrow opening pasty, Ma Sey face of ear man with bulging, } robbed or murdered, or per! colorless eyes and a greasy coat. “What do you want?” he growled. “f mee to know who lives here,” said Kil- it w York, an’ he got rich, an’ he left all to me. Yes”—and she turned her eyes with a ghastly or tear it up ina second. See, it’s here—here. PROPOS s. He tried to take it when I couldn't speak, but ROI ALS, without murderin’ me he couldn't. He thinks it's a’ right, though. when I'm gone. Help me— | 5 help.” She plucked at her bony neck. The | doctor pulled at a string about her throat, and drew out a small folded paper, creased and | 3 dirty. She pointed to the candle. He brought | it. “Her quivering hand held the paper in the | flame, and the burning mass went out harm- | lessly on the floor. “Quick!” she whispered, the voice growing almost inandibl want to make a new will. Write.” 1} The doctor sent Kilbraith to call in the two | men who were watching outside, and he wrote with a pocket peu.on a slip from his memoran- | 3° dum-boo! I my estate” (she dictated) “to Kenneth Esme Kilbrait! son of Donald Kil- braith and nephew of my late husband.” She made one supreme effort, secured the pen in her shaking hand, and wrote legibly, f at the last the keen eyes ha kilbraith.” The two men w document, The doctor h UPPLIES Po_R ADOUARTERG Uf. per oft ry wesed the strange ded it to Kilbraith. | then, with j ¥ like a malicious smile, | added, *Chubbuck wil! be ravin’ mad.” violet.” sa And then. wall.” And so “babbling o’ green she died. The Easter dawn, creeping through the be- grimed windows, found Kilbraith in a kind of stupor, The whole thing seemed to him hke some wild story, not a real experie! It was still early w Kath! | rived quietly, alone jabunek of her Es tx. He spoke to LE*® sousson & co, | her in the hallway. She went, with a sigh, and " oe | laid the flowers on the dead hands, and then he SORENEED Amb Canes took her home. PANAERS, : “You're very quiet to- You don’t even torment me.” Take care,” answered Kilbraith, making ber color mount with the new audacity in his “that don't torment you all your lif Fanny Foster Clark in Harper's Bazar, a Go, Comfort Ye. The Sabbath eve crepton | LOANS MADE AND NEGOTIATED: GENERAL ek sag cena p= BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. That made the earth to tremble and t Grow biack, while Nature turned aud bid her face Tn agony and shame? | And now the morrow’s dawn stretched up And hung its timid light above the h Through the gray shadows, si atly, tw The tearful Marys, at their steps towa The place, the hollowed rock whe 1 FINANCIAL, | \ Pennsylvania ave. and 10th st. 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Poxt-otticey, West Washaus” ranch eftice, Jephone—Va proaching the advanced age of sixty-five years, | , oc R wiry Sok csaoeatec ea sg more than | Cou: Coxe Ww — ; cand activity, Numerous authen- | JOHNSOX BROTHERS, e told illustrating the power and | Wharves and Rail yards, 12th & Water sts. Southwest, peculiar temperament of the man. Utlices Several y ars ago he wasengaged in religious work in Maiden Rock, a small village on. the | Mississippi river, in this state. The village | was overcrowded with the saloon industry, and 1132 Oth stn. w. 4 Exclusive agents in the Dis ‘ the best coal mined. ny Elder Holt was a leader in opposition ‘to the | Of,h° bextcom mined. Sy liquor traffic, making himself so conspicuous in| “WoxPst MEASCIE, Palle DEALING. PRONE the work that he incurred the bitterest enmity | prrivEnt! REASONABLE of the saloonmen. Going down the street one | day he encountered a gathering of citizens on the corner. and being a man who invariably seized opportunity, he mounted a salt barrel which stood conveniently near and proceeded to harangue the crowd’ on the evils of the H. D. Bark liquor traffic. The saloon men getting wind of | ee the unusual procedure, immediately despatched IMPORTER AND TATLOR, a burly emissary with’ instr: x ions to suppress Plas the houor te inform you that Las NEW GOODS the impromptu sp. if the act in- | have Juctarrived. . volved the necessity of dragging him down and | ¢.MT, BALL persoually fits all garments madein iis bruising his ministerial person. The emissary nee ee duly arrived on the scene. He forced his way to 2111 PENNSYLVANIA AVF. the front, took up a position near the salt barrel Woshineton, D.C. a stated to _ ——— pepe that if = = didn’t “come down right off and shut up his 2Y GOODS yawp” he would kick the Darrel aforesaid | - ___DRY Goobs. from under him and punch his head besides, ‘The muscular parson did not wait for a second invitation. He “came down” at once, and as | ecu soon as he conld reach the “emissary” he pro- | Secte ceeded to informally administer one of the old- | (824 Silk fashioned manlings that we read of in stories | 2piu%,D8 of Israel Putnam, Daniel Boone and other old- | aud Pill. timers who were great in their ability to create surprises of the nature in question. Illustrating Holt’s aptness at repartee, it is related that he was once driving a spirited team of horses along a country road. By the way, it is his custom invariably to drive two horses, and he is a judge of horseflesh, too. Meeting on this particular trip a brace of m: isters of the Presbyterian and Baptist pers! ti Metals, | uacity! Dru a] sions, respec he latter accosted him with | Coogixe the wor ; hows 'y-do, Holt How does it occur that you canatford to drive two horses?” “On, I'm none of your one-horse preachers,” Atul linea? replied Holt, as he drove rapidly onward. GAS COOKING STOVES Lb On band and for sale. GEMS AND THEIR COMPOSITION. Work that Nature’s MysteriousChemistry | ——————— Does in Forming Precious Stones. © | MEDICAL, &e. From the New York Sun. “No,” said the chemist, “the ruby is not | diherresideme sol Pet called a ruby because it is red, for the topaz, | to p. m. with Laces only which may be yellow or a delicate wine color, Lis WHO | and the sapphire, which is blue, are both | DAW rubies. 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