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20 _———————————— FREAKS IN BUILDIN The Interpretation Placed Upon the New Departure in Architecture. ORIGINALITY SEEMS 10 BE THE AIM Some Examples of Eccentric De- tails in Designs of Buildings. Se er BUILD IN THE FASHION Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. HE “NEW DEPAR- 1 ture” is an apt name Yh for what some of its ) a followers describe as ——-—., the new “school” in architecture and paras decoration. It has MrT .| still, after several years of almost full 4 Sway among the young architects of this country, all the appearances of a de- parture, I might say @ hurried departure, end gives no signs of an arrival or even of a@ direction. It is, in fact, a general “breaking up” in buildings, as the disper- sion of Babel was in speech, and we can only and somewhat desperately hope that the utterances of every man upon whom a @ialect has suddenly fallen may at least be intelligible to himself, which, when we consider some recent examples of the “new Ceparture” afforded us in this city, seems very doubtful. Some of our Washington architects evidently construe tie “new school” to mean something strictly original, and if that is the true definition, they are “right in it.”* The mediaevalists acknowledged a sub- fection to certain principles of design; the classicists accepted certain forms and for- mulae as efficacious and final, but the as- piring genius who follows the new move- Ment will not be fettered by any mechani- cal laws or academic rules. He must be allowed a freedom greater than that ac- corded those who made the classic, the Gothic and the renaissance architecture what it Is, in order that he may be original, absurdly original. We laugh at the men of two or three generations ago, who covered Europe and America with private and pub- He buildings in reproduction as exact as they could contrive of Grecian temples. zg A Projecting Cornice. But, after all, if the Greek temple be the ultimate, consummate flower, not only of all actual, but all possible architectural art, were not these men wiser in their gen- eration than their successors, who in the present disdain even the attempt to com- bine free composition with classic detail, in which the architects of the sixteenth century failed, but look beyond this with Xhe view of being original? Botanists Rather Than Architects. Compare, for instance, the capital of the richest classic order, the Corinthian, in which every line is conventional, with that of the “rich” capitals of the “new depart- ure," made up of the most natural jack a bay window, with a well modeled festoon on it which looks as if the wind had blown it clear over, but it is certainly original. Perhaps it was the same architect who, in designing two attached houses in the northwest section, has placed his molded courses in their proper position on one house and turned them upside down on the next. There is another outcome of the “new school,” in which the architect attempts a very bold treatment, with varied success. In one instance the architect nas a grand archway eight or ten feet across with arch stones only nine inches deep. This massive arch is supported on one side by a delicate little column about six inches in diameter. This gives a general effect about as bold as an April rainbow. Another example is a doorway about five feet wide and six and a balf high in a seven oreight-story building with a frontage of something like sixty feet. ‘The arch stones in this case are about three A TERRACOTTA PANEL feet and are supported on two massive col- umns, which have apparently been mashed out at the bottom under the great surain. One feels inclined to crawl through this porthole as hurriedly as possible, that he will not be crushed should the hole close in on him. Again we have an attempt at a bold cor- nice; if, Indeed, we can call it a cornice. It a box-like projection, some three or four feet deep, covered with stamped zinc ornaments, and overhangs the building by at least five feet. This is, indeed, original in that it is the only one that exists, and when one stands on the curb to behold It, he feels—almost hopes—thag this one will THE PORT-HOLE not exist long. Another example, which makes the observer feel anxious, is a cor- ner tower of brick, two stories high, be- gifining at the second story, and supported on @ glass window, which is divided by only two columns, about two inches in diameter. However, to disparage such architecture is not to explain its acceptance. In this city it seems to have originated as a caprice, | by which a clever and dashing but by no means epoch-making architect misled our unwary citizens. American architects and American builders, before there were any “American architects,” have been exhorted, as they have lately been exhorted again, to do something distinctively American, If I suggest we all “talk United States,” you will probably say there ts no such lan- guage, and that a few bits of slang do not constitute a poetical vocabulary. Still, some of our architects seem to think that a few vulgar ornaments, &c., school of architecture. So the “new departure” is still but a de- | parture, and it seems time that such of the victims of it as are artists who take their | art seriously should ask themselves why constitute a new) rabbits being cruelly hunted by horrid | they continue to work in a style which has snakes, which in the chase have incidental- | never produced a monument and in which ly coiled about the cornucopias at the four | corners of the capitals and thereby spilled several of those choice New York eating apples, to say nothing of the abundance of other fruit thus wasted, all of which sug- gest the imense wealth of the owner rather than any thought of architecture. Again, compar2 the:frieze of the Corin- thian or composite orders, enriched, with oue im this city (of recent date) which por- trays the bank of a pond overgrown with cattails, tall grass and other plants, with pond lilies, bull frogs, turtles, etc., in the foreground, and perhaps above this, instead of the beautiful classic dentils to enrich the cornice with their sharp lights and deep shadows, we have dentil nicely rounded off and well screened from the eys with the leaf of a lily on one, a bunch of ferns on the next, rose leaves on the next, and so on until one concludes the architect must be more familiar with botany than architec- ture. Such comparison fs hardly just to our nobie predecessors, and should not be made any more than the dome of the Capitol in this city should be compared with the thatched roof of the hut of a Hotteniot. I only make the comparison to show how absurd it is to follow nature too closely in architecture, for architecture is certainly the least like rature of any of the arts. Even in music the seven musical sounds can be found and many times multiplied in Fature. ‘The architects are probably not so much to blame as the popular taste of our citi- zens fcr some of the featureless features of cur modern architecture. Still, it is hard to belteve that popular taste ever called for some of the examples we have in this city. They seem rather to have beea suggested to the architect by seme hideous night- mare. Take, for example, a little tin nondescript which seems to be part dog, part parrot and has a touch of fish about the spinal column. This little beast (it is beastly if anything) is forced to perch upen the top- Fost point of the apex of a slated tower, the front portion of which has for some Beason (perbaps originality) been chopped ‘THE: NONDESCRIPT out. This leaves the poor little creature tn an awful position on the overhanging apex, with apparently nothing to support him. f have had the misfortune of seeing two ex- amples, shall I say of this spectes of archi- tecture? Another example which caught my eye, and has no doubt attracted others in the same uncanny way, ts what would have been a blank wall four feet long had it not been for the timely thought of the architect to decorate it with two galvanized fron panels, very suggesive of two large frying pans, into which have been dropped twelve Potomac herring when the pans Were just hot enough to make the fish curl up their tails and die. Another instance of the “new departure” Is the keystone of an arch over the doorway of an uptown resi- dence. The carving seems to have been suggested by the trunk of an elephant, and for the sake of originality has been deco- rated with oak leaves, a very pleasing de- sign. no doubt. Then we have the man who reverses escything, that {s, turns them upside d¢ mn, that he may be orgiinal. I have in mi one striking example of this kind of architecture, that of @ terra cotta panel in it is impossible to discern any element of Progress. In following it have they done anything but follow a fashion set, as fash- | ions in millinery and tailoring are set, by mere caprice? Some of our architects, who take this view of their calling, will of course bulla in the fashion, &s they dress in the fashion, | in spite of thelr own knowledge ghat the fashion is absurd. But it is impossible to pe RAIN-BOW ARCHo regard an architect who takes this view as other than a tradesman, or to discuss his works except by telling what are the latest modes, in the manner of the fashion maga- zines. it seems impossible for architects who take this view of their art to take it seri- ously, anything like so seriously, for ex- ample, as they take thelr incomes. But for the followers of the profession, who love their art and belleve in it, the point of “departure” is much less important than the point of arrival. By such architects the historical styles of architecture will be rated according to the help they give in ae the architectural problems of our e. —_—_.__. Presence. From the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. 1. A erescent moon in a primrose sky; Pale half-tints from the setting su A faint sweet bird note out of the woods, ‘Welling the even that day is done. A red rose Lending low on its stem, steavy with perfume and diamond dew; Only hait blown for the nightingale Sitting and singing the whole night through, A bope, vague, tender and half-informed; A er to God that it might be so— To ‘whose presence here iu the night ‘The listening soul would almost know. 11. A round gold moon in an azure vault, ‘a Giicle with diamonds sate cok eae urst of song from the nightingale, ‘Filling the dreamlike summer night, A crimson rose with unfolded heart Listening rapt to the swelling soug ‘That fills all earth apd air and heaven, Leaving no spot for thought of wrong. An answered prayer and a perfect joy; ‘The prayer unsaid now the boon 1s won; ‘The presence of God has been forgot Now that His work of love is done. m1. A moon deep hid in the sullen sky; Clouds by a moaning north wind blown; ‘The thrush with his breast against @ thorn Sits in the silence all alone. | A withered rose with its dry, dead leaves Stirred as the fitful winds’ sweep by, A-Gripping rain like human teurs As the leaves whirl softly down and dic. bie brosur of a joy now dead; Passionate prayer and weept 3 Yet hover before was the weaty tou So near to its God in paradise. —-____see Getting His Di From Life. ischarge. THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. WEALTH IN METALS Tariff Tinkers With Tin, Lead, Cop- per, Iron and Quicksilver, WILL RUIN AN AMERICAN INDUSTRY The Oddities of Mining tor Quick- silver. LEADING FACTS ON LEAD bo Written for The Evening Star. HE CONTEMPLAT- ed removal of the tariff on quicksilver will ruin the indus- try of mining for that substance in this country. It is a pity, too, for apart from its commercial value a certain pic- turesque interest at- taches to the metal. Its fluidity at ordi- nary temperature is one thing that makes it remarkable. One can hardly realize that when reduced by cold to a solid :it is very malleable and can be beaten out into sheets as thin as tissue paper. Deposits of quicksilver have been discov- ered recently in Utah, but nobody has tried to work them as yet. The entire product of this country comes from Cali- fornia. Cinnabar, the ore from which it is obtained, is a sulphide of mercury. By heat the mercury is separated from the sulphur in the form of a gas, which, being condensed, runs out of the distilling fur- nace in a thin stream like a continuous pencil of molten silver. Frequently the miner with a stroke of his pick penetrates a cavity in the rock that is filled with pure quicksilver, which runs out, sometimes as much as a pint of it. The ore is often filled with globules of mercury, and, when it is blasted, the high temperature created by the explosion volatilizes the metal, which in the form of gas poisons the air. Workmen in the mines eat without washing their hands, and in these and Other ways their systems be- come saturated with quicksilver. Symptoms of the Victims, The first symptom of resulting trouble is usually exhibited by the nails, which become diseased. Later the teeth drop out, bone-rot of the jaw follows, and the un- fortunate is fairly eaten up by the poison. These troubles are avoided to a great ex- tent by cleanliness. The men who work in the quicksilver mines of Wales are the cleanest people in the world; their skins, untanned by sun, are white as snow. The Mexican miners in California are dirty and die fast, but after two or three generations spent in the mines they last longer, their constitutions becoming more tolerant of mercury. Vermilion is obtained from cinnabar. The red paint on the bodies of Indians in Cali- fornia led to the discovery of the quick- silver mines. White men found out where it came from and began digging for ore of mercury.. The most familiar use of ‘the metal is for thermometers. It is very valu- able in medicine, but it is most largely employed in gold mining because of its at- finity for gold, which it dissolves. Quick- silver is the most easily lost of all metals, finding its way back into the earth sooner or later. ‘A queer sort of lemonade, made with sul- phuric acid instead of lemon juice, is drank by quicksilver miners. It has the effect of neutralizing the mercury. In the lead mines the same mixture of sugar, water and acid is used as a beverage. It precipitates, in the form of a sulphate, the lead absorbed by the body; in that shape, being insoluble, it passes out of the system. The conse- quences of lead poisoning are dreadful. Not long ago it was found out that the spread of certain mysterious diseases in parts of | England and elsewhere was due to Turkish nuff adulterated with lead. Sailors and tourists brought the snuff home from Smyr- ra_and distributed it. ‘The most picturesque use of lead is for making shot. Respecting this industry a remarkable delusion is current—namely, | that the little pellets are made spherical by falling from a height through the air. The fact {s that perfect shot could be made by falling two feet just as well as by dropping 200 feet, 1f only they could cool quickly enough. The shot, when they are let fall from the top of the tower, are as round as when they reach the bottom. It is neces- sary that they shall drop a long distance in order that they may have time to cool and harden before reaching the water well pro- vided for receiving them gently. The sheets of lead used for wrapping are not rolled or hammered. The molten metal is poured out vpon a flat stone, and another flat stone fs laid upon It. A thin layer of lead is thus formed between the stones; {t hardens quickly and is removed for a repetition of the process. The United States produced nearly 200,000 tons of lead last year. West of the Missouri river the lead ore yields more or less silver also. Sometimes silver is the more valuable pro- duct of a lead mine. The crude mixture of the two metals is called “base bullion.’ Extensive Production of Copper. This country produces more than half of the copper of the world. The metal comes from the Lake Superior region, from Mon- tana and from new mines in Arizona. The Lake Superior mines alone yield metailic copper in large quantities. There the stuff is found in a pure State, nuggets of it weigh- ing hundreds of pounds. These deposits were worked extensively by the Indians for centuries before Columbus, and the copper they obtained was distributed widely by barter. They left behind many large masses of the metal, because they could not break them into pieces and were unable to carry them away bodily. The United States can turn out 360,000,000 pounds of -copper yearly. The mines at Butte, Mont., are able alone to put on the market 200,000,000 pounds per annum, all of tt obtained from a single small hill. Of course, the world’s consumption of this metal ‘s enormous. The waste is very great. So many cents are lost that the United States mint at Philadelphia is obliged to furnish ninety millions of those small coins annually. The copper used for sheathing the bottoms of ships is chemically de- stroyed; it Is the virdigrjs, incidentally formed, that kills the barnacles. Vast quan- tities of copper are consumed for making brass and in electric wires, The wonderful new metal, aluminum, now costs only 55 cents a pound by the ton. The latest uses of it are for billiard cues, dog collars, hairpins and chair legs. he Ger- man army, having adopted {t for canteens, spoons and forks, has authorized {ts adop- tion as a material for flasks and other ves- sels, in place of glass. Experiments author- ized by the emperor proved that aluminum was not affected by coffee, tea and other fluids. Powdered aluminum mixed with chlorate of potash is now employed for flash lights, instead of magnesium. One ad- vantage that it has over the latter is that it makes no smoke. The Deposits of Tin. The geological survey has information of the new discovery of deposits of American tin, which may be profitably worked. Knowledge of the facts being as yet in- complete no statement on the subject is ready for publication, That there is plenty of tin ore in this country has long been known. Every hill of coarse granite is a mine of it. The difficulty is to get the metal out cheaply enough to pay. Thus far the mvch-advertised prospects of tin in the United States have failed to material- ize. It is hardly to be imagined that we shall ever be able to compete with the Straits of Malacca, from which two-thirds of the world’s supply of tin is obtained. Mining for tin in the straits region js done to a great extent by the climate. The tre- mendous rain storms peculiar to that part of the world wash the metal out of the rocks in the mountains and deposit it in the beds of streams, where it is found by the natives in small, round nuggets, re- sembling shot. Labor on the Malay penin- sula costs only $1.50 a month, and no ma- chinery is required. In the United States the tin must be got out of the hills by arti- ficial hydraulic power. Expensive plants are necessary, and workmen connot be hired for less than $2.50 a day. Thus, unless great masses of the metal should be dis- covered somewhere, {it {s difficult to see how we can produce tin profitably. Nickel js another metal that is not pro- duced profitably in this country. It has heen muted in Various parts of the United States, but the article imported from Canada and New Caledonia is Not long ago @ man out west found great China tea are made in an odd fashion. They | cheaper, | quantities of what he supposed to be meteorites in a ravine. They were com- posed chiefly of nickel; meteorites ordi- nuarily contain more or less nickel. But the notion that rains of meteorites occurred in that region was disposed of by investi- gation, which proved that the alleged mes- sengers from space were in reality nuggets cerried by water from some mass of ore- bearing rock in the path of a stream. Besides its usefulness in coinage, nickel is valuable as a non-corrosive plating and for making German silver. It is now being utilized in the manufacture of armor for | ships, as an alloy with stecl. Though rot hard itself, it makes the steel harder. Why this is nobody knows. Metals are queer things. A single patch of five acres in Bur- nett county, Texas, contains more metallic elements than are to be found in any other known place in the world. In that Lttle space are found not only nickel, gold, silver, lead and tin, but a large variety of the very rare metals, such as cerium, ianthanum, erbirum, thorium and uranium. Cerium is used in medicine to check the nausea of pregnancy. ‘The Extent of Aluminum, Seven per cent of the earth's crust is aluminum. It is the only metal that is more plentiful than iron. The latter is the chief cause of color to earth and rock. It enters into almost all substances, circulat- ing in the blood of animals and pervading the juices of plants, It is a valuable medi- cine, and is the only metal that is not poisonous to the human system. One of the oddest things about it is that it is never found in a pure state except in metzorites. It was known in the time of Moses, 1500 B. C. On the coast of Long Island, and elsewhere, it has been extracted from sea sand by the use of magnets. The small black specks to be observed in any handful of beach sand are metallic iron ore. Most of the iron in the United States is produced in tha Lake Superior region. those of the Vermilion range. built a few years ago for the purpose of fetching the ore from those mountains made a cut through the Mesabi range. This cut revealed the greatest iron deposit in ex- istence, but the ore appeared in such an unfamiliar shape that it was not recognized for a long time. It is a soft gravelly stuff, which now is dug out with steam shovels. Almost every swamp contains more or less bog tron, deposited from water. has been much used in New England, but it is only suitable for foundry purposes. The discovery of deposits of platinum in this country would be as welcome as the finding of a diamond mine. At present the -metal costs nearly half as much as gold, {having risen greatly in price within the last three years. It is absolutely indispens- |able for many purposes, being non-corro- ‘sive and resisting acids. It ts utilized for ! chemical apparatus, scientific instruments and incandescent lamps. There is some {platinum in the beach sands of Oregon, but not enough to pay for mining. Small quan- tities of it have been discovered recently in the copper mines of Canada, where it oc- curs in a new combination, with arsenic, Two-thirds of the wordl’s supply of plat- num comes from two Siberian mines in the Ural mountains. The metal is obtained there as a by-product of gold mining. The mining is done by scooping holes in the ground to a depth of about fifteen feet, and then burrowing rat fashion in all directions. Twenty-nine hundred cartioads of earth are required to yield fifteen pounds of platinum. The biggest nugget ever found was about the size of a tumbler. Now the gold is get- ting scarce, and the laborers have been drawn off to build the great trans-Siberian railway. Hence the increased cost of plat- inum, which, unless new deposits are found, is likely never to be cheaper than it is at present. Miners’ Superstitions. Miners in all parts of the world have many odd superstitions. The mines of Ger- many are supposed to be haunted by little old men, not over two feet high, dressed as miners. Sometimes they are malevolent and sometimes otherwise. Goblin miners, known as “knockers,” inhabit the mines of Wales. They make strange noises, and the tapping of their picks can be heard in ore bodies not yet reached by the human work- men. The dreaded Ladder Dwarf is a mali- cious hunchback of frightful appearance who kicks out the rungs of ladders in mines just before an accident occurs, Vegetables growing in mines are believed to have tal- ismanic virtues. In Sardinia an ancient lead mine has been deserted and permitted to fill up with water for dread of a small and venomous species of spider that in- habits it. ——__- A YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER, Remarkable Weather Experienced in the United States During 1816. From th» Louisville Courier Journal. Almost every one has heard of the terri- ble dark year in the early part of the pres- jent century. While every one is speaking of the present season as being remark- able in its characteristics I have gathered |for your readers some reliable facts of the year 1816, known as the “Year Without a |Summer.” Few persons now living can |recollect it; but it was the coldest ever known throughout Europe and America. |The following is a brief abstract of the | weather during the year: January was mild—so much so as to ren- \der fires almost needless in parlors, De- cember previous was very cold. February was not very cold; with the ex- |ception of a few days it was mild like its | predecessor. March was cold and boisterous during the | first part of it; the remainder was mild. A great freshet on the Ohio and Kentucy rivers caused great loss of property. April began warm, but grew colder as the month advanced, ana ended in snow and ice, with a temperature more like winter than spring. May was more remarkable for frowns than her smiles. Buis and flowers were frozen; ice formed half an inch thick; corn was killed, and the fields were again and again planted until deemed too lat June was the coolest ever known in this latitude. Frost, ice and snow were com- mon. Almost every green thing was killed. Fruit was nearly all destroyed. Snow fell to the depth of ten inches in Maine and three inches in New York and also in Massachusetts. Considerable damage was done at New Orleans in consequence of the rapid rise in the river; the suburbs were covered with water and the roads were only aassable in boats. Pauly was accompanied with frost and ice. On the Sth ice was formed of the thickness of common window-glass throughout New England, New York and some parts of Pennsylvania. Indian corn was nearly all destroyed. Some favorably situated fields escaped. This was true of some of the hill farms of Massachusetts. August was more cheerless, tf possible, than the summer month already passed. Ice was formed half an inch thick. Indian corn was so frozen that the greater part of it was cut down and cured for fodder. Al- most every. green thing was destroyed, beth in this country and Europe. Papers re- ceived from Europe stated that it would be remembered by the present generation that the year 1816 was a year in which there was ho summer. Very little corn ripened in New England and the middle states. Farm- ers suppiied themselves from the corn pro- duced in 1815 for the seed of the spring of 1817. It sold at from $4 to $5 per bushel. September furnished about two weeks of the mildest weather of the season. Soon after the middle it became very cold and frosty, and ice formed a quarter of an inch thick. October produced more than its share of cold weather—frost and ice abundanily. November was cold and blustery. Enough snow fell to make good sleighing. December was quite mild and comfortable. The above is a brief summary of the cold summer of 1816 as it was called to distin- guish it from the cold seasons. The win- ter was mild. Frost and ice were common in every month of the year. Very little vegetation matured in the eastern and mid- dle states. The sun's rays seemed to be destitute of heat through the summer; all nature seemed to be clad in sable hue ‘and men were anxious concerning future life. The average price of flour in the Philadel- phia market during that year was $13 per barrel. ‘The average price of wheat in Eng- land was ninety-seven shillings per quarter. Prices now and then are wide apart, but the coldness of the seasons run close to- | gether. May 1894, though very cold to date, | be not a “year without a summer.” J.R.K. Smith's Grove, Ky., May 21, 1804. — From Life. If you had to sit behind either at the |) theater, do you not think you would prefer Among the richest mines in the world are! Railways | ‘This ore} WINNING HIS STAR! OR THE ADVENTURES OF PAUL TRAVERS. Written for The Evening Star by Sam Clover. (Copyrighted, 1894. All rights reserved.) CHAPTER X. SELECT AUDIENCE had gathered in the big tent to see the/ property boy break | his neck. On the two | lower rows of re- served seats were) congregated half the/ talent in the show, whose witticisms at! Paul's expense would have quickly driven him disheartened from the field could he have heard them. But his eyes were fixed on the ringmaster and his thoughts on poor Dick, so that he barely noticed the buzz of comment which arose as he faced the manager. “Now, my boy," began Ringmaster Mac- Intyre, “I don’t want you to have an at- tack of stage fright and fall off and break your neck when you get up yonder. There isn’t any real danger if you don’t get rat- ued, and I hardly think you'll do that. Are you ready to try it?” “Yes, sir.” | “Up you go, then, and good luck attend, re. " bow line | Slipping his right foot into that hung from the pole ring, and with both hands firmly clutching the rope, Paul was rapidly hauled aloft by two property boys until he reached the platform even | with the wire cable, where the bicycle was | fastened. | Waving his hand as a signal to stop, he! swung himself into the eyrie, released his | foot from the loop, and sent the rope down again for the use of the Keiseys. Up they came together, laughing and chatting lightly, as if it were the jolliest picnic imaginable. Their gayety, whether false or genuine, served to reassure Paul, Who, to tell the truth, was almost in a blue funk. But he held his teeth close together to keep his heart from taking an unexpect ed leap outward, and a dogged determina- tion to go through to the end possessed every fiber of his being. Loosing the chain which pinioned the wheel to the pole he let the machine slide along the cable until it was clear of the platform and then held it steady until the gymnasts had taken their seats on the trapeze below. Now came his turn. For an instant he glanced below and saw the set face of the manager inténtly watching him from the edge of the ring. He caught a glimpse of the “main guy” on the reserved seats sur- rounded by the flower of the troupe, now strangely ‘silent, and then, with a queer ringing in his ears and a siight film before his eyes, he vaulted into the saddle and was balf w between the poles before he re- ed what had happend. ravo! bravo! Chicago!” arose from a dozen throats, accompanied by a vigorous clapping of hands, as the company testi- fied its appreciation of Paul's grit. Arrived at the further pole, the young bicyclist reversed the action of the treadles and worked backward to the starting point, repeating the operation several times until he had acquired a perfect control of the machine. During these preliminary trials the per- formers remained Inactive on the bars, not deeming it prudeat to attempt any of their feats until the rider had become thoroughly accustomed to the novelty of his :osition. The severest test was yet to be made. After the fourth trip across, the gymnasts started in to rehearse their program, and as | the wheel swayei dangerously over from | left to right and then back again it was all Paul could do to keep from throwing him- self from his perch and grasping the cable at his feet. But the worst shock of all came at the finale, when the male tumbler, hanging suspended by his knees, caught his sister by the right wrist and left ankle, a dexterously turning her face downward, held the girl outstretched in full view of the audience. The suddenness of the movement carried the whgel far out to the right; then back | it flew to the left of center, rocking fright- fully on its grooved tires and threatening every second to become displaced. For a moment Paul had an awful feeling of nausea at the pit of his stomach, then his hair seemed to shoot straight upward, his lower limbs trembled so violently that his feet played a fandango on the treadles and a great desire to emit an agonizing yell be- came paramount. But the wheel righted, the wobbling ceased, and, with the word “go” rising from below, the discomfited rider pulled himself together and slowly worked the machine back to the platform, which he quickly occupied. Fastening the wheel to the pole, he was ready in an instant to make the descent, and a minute later was treading the saw- dust and receiving the congratulations of Ringmaster Macintyre and the entire troupe. He had won his spurs and was property boy no longer. Paul was to make his Initial bow to the colonials at the matinee performance. As he could not appear in his working clothes, it was absolutely necessary that he be fur- nished with a suitable outfit, so the ward- robes of the entire troupe were ransacked to supply his deficiencies, A pair of slippers from one, silk tights from another, trunks from a third, a spangled vest from a fourth, with a belt and other generous contribu- tions from the feminine side of the dressing room, served to provide him with a hand- some equipment for his new position. His trimly built, compact figure, which showed to good advantag= in his snug-fitting gar- ments, evoked numerous comments from the performers as Paul hastened toward the biz tent in response to the call from a property boy, and the sentiment was general t “Old Mac" had made a ten-strike in hiring “Chicago. As usual, the audience filled every seat and spread over the ground clear to the edge of the ring wherein Paul and the Kelseys now stood, with the girl hand- clasped in the center, making their initia- tory bows. This was no time to show the white feather, and yet that same sickening sensation which he experienced in the fore- noon was insidiously stealing over him as he mounted to his aerial perch. Again he clinched his teeth, @nd by sheer will force fought back the horrible feeling which threatened to overwhelm him. He won- dered, as he stood there watching his com- panions ascend, if this were akin to stage fright, and whether it would result disas- trously in spite of his efforts. H's heart- beats were so violent that he fancied every person in the tent must hear them, an. for a moment he held his hand at his left side as if to stifle the palpitatior But now the gymnasts were seated, there was no excuse for delay, and with a great gulp that was half sob, half sigh, he swung himself into the saddle and began anew his experiences of the morning. All at once the unpleasant sensations left him. It was if a leaden weight had been snatched from his shoulders and dropped into the ring below. The revulsion was so great that he could have shouted for joy had it been consistent with the dangerous part he was enacting. Back and forth he rode, utterly unmindful of the tumblings of the gymnasts, and not even at the fina! coup, which so upset him in the morning. Gid he exgerience the slightest tremor. There was a smile on his face that w, genuine as he bowed his acknowledgments to >the storm of applause which greeted the trio whgn they descended, and the ringmaster’s cheery “Well done, Chicago,” amply repaid him for the cost. But better than all was the thought that Dick's wel- fare was assured. Two pounds a weck in English money and his expenses was the modest stipend which MacIntyre allotted Paul for risking his neck twice a day in this manner. The sum was not large, but it more than sufficed for the lad’s wants, and in a few weeks he had managed to add materially to his scanty wardrobe, which sadly needed re- plenishing. Before leaving Wellington he called at the hospital to see his’ friend Dick, but the poor fellow was delirious and failed to recognize the youngster he had befriended. His wife was pleased to see Paul, however, and warmly thanked him for his generous action, of which she had heard through her circus friends. She as- sured him that if Dick ever got well he would be glad to know he had not made e mistake when he played his good Sama tan act. At which Paul blushed, and, with many fervent wishes for Dick's speedy re- covery, left the little circus woman dissoly- ed in tears. For two months following this interview Paul played his star engagement on the aerial wire without mishap and to the in- tense delight of thousands of good colonial subjects of Queen Victoria. In addition to his bicycle, his services were utilized in the ring to place poles for the horses to leap over, as the banner bearer, across which the bareback riders turned somersaults, and again as balloon holder, through which the lady riders dashed headlong as they ca- reened around the circle. The boy fully earned his salary. But he made lots of friends, too, and in a community that was always indulging in internecine quarrels, the result of petty jeal- | “Mimi,” | from wh ousies, he retained the good-will of every one. Perhaps his warmest attachment was for the lion tamer, a stalwari, black-mus- tached six-footer, known “Parson, who, in addition to subjugating wild ani- mals, had entire charge of the menagerie ann It was in the menage much of his leisure time been partial to natu: that Paul spent for he had always 1 this Was an opportunity to study at ¢ history, and not to be despised. “Old Tobe, toothless lion, learned to know his voice, and never failed to stick out his paw for a friendly shake when the lad passegg cage. Tiny “Mimi,” a pretty little set monkey, would chatter with 4% when Paul approached her, and at his oF parture would cling to the bars ory piteously for his return. Even vicious “Pot- iphar,” the black elephant that had kil two of his keepers, permitted Paul to for his trunk and feed him crackers, a supply of which he usually kept in his pocket when he visited the elephants. There was one member of the “Parson's” family with which Paul could never get intimate terms, despite all his friend vances. This was a beautifully tigress called Satan, which the lion tamer had formerly exhibited when she was younger, but whose ugly temper had com- pelled him to desert after two or three at- tempts that nearly cost him his life. One day, while showing at a place called Timaru, along nimety-mile beach in the middle islands, Satan broke loose from her cage. The time she chose for this pleas- antry was immediately following the after- noon performance, when, luckily, the Menagerie was pretty well deserted, only Paul and the attendants chancing ‘to be present. Feeding time had arrived, and a mass of raw meat, piaced inadvertently In front of her cage, had so tantalized Satan that she tore up the floor near the front of her prison, and, squeezing through, with a in of delight reached in a bound the quivering meat for which she had hun- At that moment Paul was feeding tiny the pet monkey, not a dozen steps ere ing. The shouts of terror from the scat- tering attendants and the hasty glance he caught of the liberated animal were ehough to cause him to join the others in a mad rush for safety, and in a minute he was shinning up the main guy of the center pole | as if a battalion of wildcats was hot on his trail. The “Parson” was feeding his pet lio ns strips of raw beef when Sa’ ans tries phent cries rang through the menagerie, and although b.s back was toward the ch ard the tigress he divined instantly what had hap- pered. Seizing his heavily loaded whip, Without a moment's hesitation, fellow strode across to where Satan worrying a bloody bone. She growled sav agely as he approached, and began lashing her beautiful tail from right to left, while her long, supple spine gradually arched as she rose for a spring. From his coigne of vantage aloft Paul Wes an “intensely interested spectator of What followed. He saw the lion-tamer con- centrate his fearless eyes on the escaped brute, which for one moment quailed be- fore his piercing gaze. That moment was fatal to her hopes of liberty. Like a flash of lightning the loaded whip leaped in the air and descended with the force of a siedge hammer on Satan's skull. She sank back with a long wailing cry of distress that was almost human, and in two min- utes lay insensible under the terrific blows administered by her trainer, By this time haif a dozen attendants had rushed to the rescue, when, with a single sarcastic reference to their tardiness, their chief curtly ordered the animal placed in strcnger quarters and placidly returned to the task from which he had been so ab- | ruplly summoned. The lion tamer chuckled as he caught | sight of Paul's lithe figure slipping down the center pole, and he was still smiling when the lad joined him in front of the hyenas’ cage, which happened to be next that in which the attendants were deposit- ing Satan. < “Say, son, you made pretty good time getting up there, didn’t you?” he inquired, in his quiet, drawling tones. Paul blushed and looked sheepish, but befere he could answer, the sturdy trainer remarked: “Oh, weil, I don’t blame you for | but I might have expected some- | it, boy thing different from my own men.” And that was the only rebuke the big-hearted giant launched toward-his weak-kneed at- tendants, nor did he ever recur to the sub- ject again. By gradual stages the circus covered all the principal towns of the middie isiand, and at lJength reached the pretty city of Christchurch, in the province of Canter- bury, where a two weeks’ stand was on the program. At this place the troupe was re- inforced by the arrival of Dick Baxter and his wife, the former still too weak to work, but enurely recovered from his illness and rapidly growing stronger. He greeted Paul very kindly, thanked him cordially for what he had done, but insisted on turning over half his salary to his sub- stitute. To this the latter stoutly demur- red, and ended latly refusing the prof- fered money. Finding him obdurate, Dick sought a jeweler’s and purchased a plain, broad band of Australian gold, inside which he had engraved: 7 DICK TO PAUL, Jan. 22, 1ss—. In grateful remembrance. Paul wore this ring in sickness and star- vation, in trouble and danger all through that eventful trip until he was safe home again. And he wears it to this day, al- though the donor has long since iain at rest beneAth the tropic skies of South America, a victim of a broken cable and his own te- merity. It was the last day of Paul's appearance in tights and spangles, for Dick was to re- sume his duties on the morrow. Sitting on a bale of hay out in the menagerie tent the lad was cogitating upon his next move. To return to the drudgery of “Old Props” rule was too distasteful after the glitter and glare of the ring, and the offer of peddling popcorn, peanuts, and the clown’s soug books was not at ail to his fancy. Circus life, in fact, was beginning to pall on him, when an incident occurred which thorough- ly settled the question in his mind and left ne hesitating doubts. 1t happened in this wise. The “boss host-| ler,” a man of powerful physique but with & most ungovernable temper, had accused Paul several times, of carrying cigarettes over to the horse tent to give to one of the hostlers, a half-breed Maori, to whom the lad had taken a great fancy. This was true, but when “Texas,” which was the hostler’s nickname, swore the boy sme them around the hay and abetted the Maori in breaking the rules, the youngster hotly resented the charge, and called on the half- breed to prove that he never smoked either in or out of the tent. “Oh, he’s just as big a liar as you are,” Texas. uu wouldn’t say that twice if I were a ."retorted Paul, savagely. fool. After this just keep out of my quar- ters, or it'll be the worse for you,” and the/ surly brute strode off. a Furious, but powerless, Paul turned to “Pete,” the half-breed, whose coal-black eyes shone with suppressed rage. “I kill that devil some day,” he hissed, “if he no let me be; I hate him. Soothing the Maori with a few well- chosen words, the boy quitted the tent and returned to the dressing room to get ready for the evening performance—his last ap- pearance. Two hours later, his act over, he heard Texas blackguarding his hostlers for some fancied slight in adjusting the pads on the riding horses, end just as he was slipping into his street clothes another wave of pro- fanity floated across the intervening space, the intensity of which proved that Texas was in a towering passion. Fearful that the Maori was getting into trouble, and with a vague notion of avert- ing some possible calamity, Paul hastily drew on his coat, wrapped a piece of spare canvas about his head and shoulders as a partial protection from the pouring rain, end darted outside the dressing room across to the horse tent. He arrived just in time to see Texas pick up an empty bucket and bring it down with ell his might on Pete’s head. The wicked blow shattered the pail, but did not break the Maori's skull. Howling with rage and pain the half-breed seized a heavy, iron- bound stakepin that lay at his feet and be- fore any one could divine his intentions or stay his hand the murderous billet de- scended with terrific force on the circus man's right temple, and Texas dropped like | a log. Not contented with this the Maori | repeated the blows again and again, and before assistance arrived the position of boss hostler in the great American consol- idated arenas stood temporarily vacant. Without an instant’s delay the crazed half-breed Jumped across the body of his victim, darted into a vacant stall, lifted the, flap of the tent, and disappeared in the black, pelting storm. But Paul had no heart for the circus after that. He had been an accidental witness of the fearful tragedy, powerless to pre and yet he accused himself of particip in the crime because he had lacked pre: of mind to cry out to the Maori to desist. He did not realize, poor lad, that it was demon, not a human, which pos If-breed in those’ brief mom that he might just as well hav ting tried stop the howling of the north wind. For two days longer he stayed with the troupe, and then went to the red wagon, drew what little salary was due him, bade good- bye to his friends and left the circus for. er. To be continued’ aa-| sm atted | Satan lay crouching and snarl-| the intrepid | ea} | You're a kid, and the nigger’s a mt | it, too horrified to speak or move a step, | RAILROADS. 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