Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1896, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. aw PART I. I wes asked one morning by my legal preceptere Potter & Patterzon, to help prepare for trial a law suit they had brought against the Children’s Industrial Home. I was not yet old enough to be admitted to the Lar, having barely passed twentieth birthday, but I had assisted Mr. Patterson in the trial of a number of impertant causes and was theroughly com- petent to look up and digest authorities well as to seek out and examine wit- nesses before trial. 1 knew how to col- lect salient facts and brief leading au- thorittes, and I locked forward eagerly to the day when 1 could open a case, as mak- ing the first argument fs called, with my preceptor and friend sitting by, making yeady for the closing speech. Lawyer Pat- terscn had already warned me with @ Jaugh against “opening” a case “so wide" he “could not close it.” But I fairly the chance. I aidn’t see much of ahead, however, in this suit of “William H. Peckham and Wife against the Children’s Industrial Home.” It was a May morning, and 1 could not help s that Isaak Waltoa’s gentle lore Was more to my taste Just then than Sir Wilham Blacksto.e’s. Of course, Mr. Patterson kad a general idea t facts cn which our bill in equity, the first paper in such a proceed- irg, was based, tor Mr. Potter naa talked them over with him before drawing the Pleadings: Mr. Potter aiwa drew our pleadings . Patterson said an advocate Who was Sure of nis pleadings had half won. But he thought it just as well that I should call on Mr. and Mrs. Peck- ham thal morning and make careful not of the facts and dates which he would have to depend on them to prove under cath. I found them on the perch of the hand- seme Villa Mr. Peckaam had taken the epring before. I was struck by the mourn- ful beauty of Mrs. Peckham’s face and the graceful melancholy of her volce and ges- tures. I suppose the near approach of the Gate when the sad story ef her life would have to be told in public at the county seat, fifteen miles away, had opened the old wounds. And when I remembered that the objec this very suit, in whose prep- aration I was now assisting, was to compel the managers of the Childrer’s Industrial Home to reveal to Mrs. Peckham the fate ot her baby boy, committed to their charge by a false friend nearly twerty years be- fere, I realized suddenly how gentle I ough to be in my treatment of so painful a sub- ject. acs Peekbars was'd Wimtshoe man of milit bearing and dégnified manners. He came to meet me as I walked up the lawn and shook his head when I explain- ed my employer's instructions. “I suppose it can't be helped “but 1am ex- ecedingly sorry Peckham must be harassed in t y. She has seemed to me unusually depressed Im spirits of late he lady herself showed no hesita- tion when her husband. leaning over the back of her long porch chair, explained what I had for. “I will tell vou as best T ean,” she said, this ef of my life.” so t of her husband, who sat by her side. holding her hand with ate tent ss which is a hus- mpliment to wife. She agement in them and went on: nu living happily in the town of for nearly two years. when my first z.. received a nnouncing the dangerous in Milan. He was her thought came into the s beth. by a lightning flash of illness of his mot only son, and the minds of sympathy, that he ought to go to her. A steamer d from New York the next day at d althouch the last train to the city kad gone down t night, it would be easy for him to catch the boat Saturday morning. We kissed our baby year old, as he lay asleep in lle and set abo: king my hus- trunk. He thought he would be ck again in a month, surely, and some- how, the dreadful shock of the parting had net yet come over me. Weeks passed and I heard no more from I tried to imagine him overcome by ath of his mother, but I c 1d not understand how he could be forgetf il of his wife. A month passed, and I wrot# to the American consul at Milan, asking him to cable me as soon as he had anything defi- nite to communic: No cable message came, and one day if my desperation I turned to my neighbor, ‘'s. Bartlett, as he sat on my little vine-covered piazze, comforting me, and cried out: “Oh, Fanny, will you keep little Henry if I go to Milan? If I don’t do something I shall die! I can’t sit here and just wait any lorger.’ Then I remember I burst into tears and sobbed on Fanny Bartlett's shoulder until she sooth- ed me with a speedy acquiescence in my prayer. My little boy, she sald. should be as dear to her as though he were her own. And. God forgive me. I believed her! “With no less haste than for my hus band’s, I prepared for my own departure. He had left me hundred or two dollars in ready money. which I also left in the local bank to Mrs. Bartlett's credit. My diamond earrings, my husband's present to me a short time before, on my birthday, I tock straight into New York to the great Jewel house from which I knew he had purchased them. I explained the cireum- Stances and received for them in cash $400, He had paid $00: but [ was delighted with the bargain I had made. male a few hasty purchases, bought a ticket to Genoa and hurried home to my baby. The next the de: day but one I was to sail. That night L pt but little. All the next day--it was Friday, June 13—Fanny spent with me. ne had no children of her own, and her husband was away from ‘home weeks at a time on business. My house was to be shut up and my baby's nurse was to go to Fanny's with baby. “Saturday morning, the lth, T_kissed my brave little laddy, my blue-eyed baby. gcod-bye and hurried to the train in an agony of tears. Fanny petted me and cheered me all she could, and held im up so that I could see him almost all the way to the station. He smiled and cooed.” Mrs. Peckham’s voice choked, and, on looking up, I perceived that her head was resting on her husband's shoulder and that tears were streaming down his cheeks. There, thought I, ts a second marriage whose happiness may yet make up for the misery of the first. “I made a quick voyage,” Mrs. Peckham went on, by and by, “and reached Milan without misadventure. I drove straight to fo the American consul’s and was most Kindly received. After watching for many hours at the bedside of his dying mother, my husband had himself expired suddenly on the day of the funeral. They had been buried in one tomb. The mother, having been a resident of Milan for so many years, her friends, in the confusion attend- ant on the double fatality, lest sight en- Urely of the home and. the loved ones the son had left in a foreign land. Nobody knew, so nobody thought anything about me and little Henry. ‘When T learned that my husband was dead I fainted. The con- sul had not seen or heard of him. “It was a long time before I was able to talk of my troubles. The consul was very FIELD & FANNING'S JUNIOR. BY JOHN PAUL BOCOCK. (Copyright, 1896, by the Bacheller Syndicate.) SPSS H Sy. a kind. He didn’t know anything about my baby boy at home, and I couldn't tell him. I was for Weeks in a weary dream of un- consciousness, lying motionless, speechless, on the hospital cot, waking now and then to the reality of my woe and again laps ing into feverish visions and black depths of nothingness. Brain fever, the doctor called it, in those days. When I could sit up in my cot and brush my hair before a hand mirror I didn’t know myself. “You poor thing, you poor, emaciated sufferer, I thought, you are indeed to be pitied. “The angels must weep for you, here, alone, friendless and helpiess, a “Oh, God! my baby boy! widow, in a strange land. find him here, your prote band, and you found him d Welcome was the grave. Now, as I sat so, commiserating my- self, I could see in the mirror a frightened look steal into my own eyes and I grew cold and trembled. What else was there? What other, fiercer, sharper grief was this that had been gnawing at my heartstrings these long weeks of oblivion? What was it that thrilled me now with terrible an- guish— ‘All of a sudden the handglass dropped to the tiled floor and broke into a dozen Pieces, ard I shrieked with all my strength: ‘My baby! Oh, God! my baby boy! and I fell back once more into merciful oblivion.” PART IL “All through the racking pains and fren- zies of the yet more dreadful fever which now preyed upon me,” continued Mrs. Peckham, “I talked and sobbed and prayed and shrieked of just my baby boy. “There was nobody there that knew me except the consul; he didn’t know anything about my wee lad, so far away. or how one litle bit of news from him might have healed up the poor stricken mother’s heart and soothed the throbbing of her brain. He was gentleness and kindness itself, all that a manly, courteous gentleman should bi and I'll never, never cease to be grateful to him for it. Here she patted her husband's shoulder as he leaned over her chair and held her hand in his, louking down all the while into her beautiful, melancholy eyes of gray. So you were the consul, my fine fellow, I thought. “The doctors quite gave me up this time, and when I did regain consciousness, they say I had forgotten all about baby and home and husband. I could only sit on the long portico and look out through the stone pilasters to the smiling bay. t was October before I was strong enough to be moved, and when I Slarted for Havre the consul and his good, patient sister, whom TI had learned to love, went with me. It was they, too, sir, who brought me back here to’ P—, safe home again. But not to baby—I have never seen my boy since the Saturday morning when Fanny Bartlett held him up in her arms. laughiag and crowing, twenty years ago.” Mrs. Peckham’s voice broke into a sob, and, indeed, I, too, was much affected. Her husband, who.I now understood, had re- signed the consulship at Milan to accom. pany her back to the United States, took up the story here for her. We found, sir,” said he, slow “that th You thought to or, your hus- d. Your only ly and dis- i e Bartletts had gone to San Francisco to live. Not hearing from the child's mother, they had at first marveled and fretted, and finally made what may have seemed to them proper « isposition of the child. My wife had no near relatives living and no other close friend here, for now, you see, we have chosen our home not far away from where she and the Partletts then lived. They had not written to her about the boy, because they had never heard from her. They could not know that she was ill among strangers, unable to write, broken down mentally and physi- cally under her intense sufferings. So the placed the chiid in the Children’s Indus trial Home, a highly respectable private in- stitution, as you know, and it is to find out what became of him that this suit you are now preparing for has been brought; for when we reached here the bey also had dis- appeared. “For eighteen in vain. years we have sought him ain. We followed the Bartletts to Cali- fornia, and thence to the Sandwich Is- lands, and would have followed them to the bottom of the sea if the gale which wrecked their steamer had not spared ours. We advertised and we hired detectives and employed lawyers. I had no children, and I longed to welcome the lost darling of my dear w'fe. It was not untll last year that we found that he had been placed by the Bartletts in the Children’s Industrial Home just before they started for San Francisco. It nearly broke my wife's heart when the io, no, not that president of the home informed us that by the advice of counsel he must decline to tell us what had become of the boy. He acknowledged, however, that soon after the Bartletts had entered him, under an assumed name, the lad had been removed from the home. By whom he refused to y. And that is the history of the law suit which is to be tried next month.” I went back to the office of Potter & Pat- terson wondering at the existence of stat- utes which allowed such cruelties to be perpetrated in the name of the law. Field & Fanning, the attorneys for the home, took the position that it was for the bo: own good that he should not now be un- settled in “his present family relations,” having grown up in absolute ignorance even of his baptismal name. This was the only hint we had had that the babe had lived. At the opening of the term the calendar, or list of ceses to be heard, was formally called. Peckham versus the Children‘ Home would probably be reached the third day. Field & Fanning protested, through a junior partner whom I had ‘not seen before, that they could not be ready at that time, but the judge declared that the case must be tried when reached. I took this as an augury in our favor. Field & Fanning’s junior left the court room when I did, and I was filled with envy when I heard that ie was going to try the case himself for ls firm. It seemed he had just been ad- mitted to partnership, and was very anx- foug to succsed in this his first serious un- dertaking. I was equally determined to re- Ny no effort in behalf of Mr. Peckham. corese’ Mr. Petterson was to bear the brunt of our side of the case. When court opered on the day of trial neither old Mr. Field nor Mr. Fanning was present; they had left everything to their junior. President Carter of the Children’s lome, a venerable-looking man of great wealth and many charities, sat by his young counsel with several of the board of directors. Mr. Carter was a retired lawyer himself, and I was rather surprised to Tearn that Field & Fanning’s junior was his son, and that President Carter had been young Lawyer Carter’s first client. The old men had asked Field & Fanning if they were willing to trust his son with the con- duct of the case, and they, not without some misgivings, it turned out, agreed to let young Carter manage it. Well, we put in our evidence, and Mrs. Peckham’s story, told in court much as she had told it to me, brought tears to many eyes. Young Carter, as handsome a youth as I ever saw, cross-examined her with dignity and intelligence. His sympathetic yet searching questions moved her greatly; When he asked her if she did not think that Mrs. Bartlett was warranted by her long and unexplained absence in believing she had abandoned her child, Mrs. Peckham's emotion became uncontrollable. She stretched her soft white hands appealingly cut to him from the witness box with such a look of agony in her eyes as no beholder could forget. “No, no, not that!’ she moaned. I thought I saw her cross-exam- iner turn pale. As his Mp quivered for a moment I imagined he must have thought of his own mother. Yet I knew old Lawyer Carter had been a widower for many years. The dignity of the law soon reasserted it- self in the court room, however, and the case proceeded. When it came to his clos- ing specch in behalf of the home and the beneficent statutes which had created and sustained it, and the benevolent men who irected it, young Carter's tact was master- ly. Mr. Patterson on our side had appealed for the broken-hearted mother, her lifetime of anguish, her heart hunger still unsatis- fied, her affections still clinging to the babe she had prayed and wept for this score of years. He did all that any man could do ard would have carried any jury irresisti- i But the judge was imperturbable. Young Carter pleaded for the future of the boy whose legal adoption had given others a right to his love and obedience, who had learned to regard his present pro- tectors as his parents, and whose life had heen placed, in accordance with governing the Children’s Industrial Home, amid new scenes and faces. “I do not know,” he said, in conclusion, “where or who that lad may be, or into whose kindly hands he has fallen. 1 am assured by the president of the institution, the venerable man you see here before you, that the babe has fulfilled the fondest wishes of his adopt- ed parents, and that he ts ignorant that others ever had a claim on him. God in His infinite wisdom has seen fit to separate his path from that of his fond mother who bore him. We may wonder, but we may not repine——" At this point the extraordinary character of the scene around him disturbed the speaker in his ardent eloquence. body else had been i ing amazement. The judge's eyes fixed on Mr. Carter, sr. The latter's was convulsed with emotion, his seemed starting from their sockets. W anguished intensity he gazed at the sobbing were face figure of his mother, who for twenty years had mourned her son, dead only to her. »the presi- his With a violent effort,a hoars dent of the children’s home feet and fairly shrieking, your son,” pointed to t ter who at that mome white as this paper on which I am writing. and with a look of unutterable regret, of piteous entreaty, fell insensible over ‘the table. And to him, sobbing, “I knew it, I knew it,” flew his mother indecd. For a few minutes there was a relaxation of tense nerves and a general unbending of brows and drying of eyes. 1t rarely falls to the lot of any man to see such a spectacle. Court was instantly adjourned and an entry made on the minutes of discontinuance by rose to Madam, the paused, turned as Madam, there ix your son. mutual consent. And to the now smiling mother, the Hght of happiness tenderly glowing in her fair face, the wretched old man explained how he had himself adopted the boy, not long after Mrs. Bartlett had placed him in the home, and had grown to love him as his own, until he had been una- ble even after her sult was brought to con- | fess and surrender. And that's the way Mrs. Peckham's case was won for her, un- wittingly, by her own son. (The end.) ee How They Changed Places. m the New York Tribune. THe following story is vouched for by a Yale professor: Several years ago a young colored student was admitted into the freshman class at Yale. He was assigned in the class rooms a seat next to the son of a prominent New York business man, whom we may call for convenience Smith. Now, young Smith did not relish the idea of sitting by a “nigger,” as he put it, so he wrote to his father, complaining of the in- dignity. Mr. Smith, the elder, taking the same view, at once wrote an angry epistle to the faculty, demanding that his son be relieved immediately from such close asso- ciation with one of an inferior race. The professors were puzzled, but one of them, With long experience in class work, under- took to answer the letter satisfaciorily. He informed Mr. Smith, most polit= no present interference was possible, but that, in a few weeks, when the classes were rearranged and graded, he could as- sure him that the desired change would certainly be made. Mr. Smith was sati fied with this assurance, young Smith was appeased, and the far-seeing professor had no difficulty whatever in keeping his word, for, by the time the class was graded, the young negro had proved himself so superior a student that he was among the leaders of the first section, while Smith was an in- significant unit in the third. ‘The joke was too good to keep, and the whole college Jaughed over it—except Smith, who, nat- urally, did not see much fun in the ‘situa- ticn. But his father wrote no more letters to the faculty, at y rate. ae — A Notice About Hash, From the Cincinnati Enquirer. “There is no se in mincing things any longer,’ began the landlady, as a prelimi- nary to demanding a settlement. “From which I may infer, then,” said the young man, “that we are to be treated to no more hash at breakfast,” and made his escape before she could recover. See or, Champagne vs. Water. - From the Fitegende Blatter. Revenge; Soda “DOING THE BEAR” How a Merican Oourtahip is Oom- menced and Continued. on SOME OF COUPIDS VAGARIES Queer Ways of Carrying on a Love Affair, THE SERENADE AND MEETING es Written for The Bvening Star. NE WOULD SsUpP- Or that the old, old story is told in the same manner everywhere, but it has many variations. Nowhere, _ perhaps, “does Cupid aim his shafts im quite so fr- regular a way as he does in Mexico. Wooing in Mexico is called “haciendo el 080,” which, translated, literally from the musical idlom of that country, means “doing the bear.” ‘To any one who has seen these, maneuvers the reason of this appellation 1s obvious. The gay cavalier whose heart has been touched by his dulcinea’s charms perchance at a ball or on the paseo, stations himself on the opposite side near one of the balconied windows of her residence. Here he be- gins the operation ‘doing the bear’—that is, he walks up and down the space of four or five yards as a bear in his cage, and continues his solitary promenade un- til he sees that he has attracted the at- tention of some one at the window. If it be his lady love he blesses his lucky star, but if, on the contrary, it be some venerable duena who immediately scents a flirtation, then woe betide Don Juan, for his wooing will be attended with many mishaps. He ends his “walk” abruptly to return at a different hour on the mor- row. If his perseverance is to be reward- ed the object of his admiration, discovering, that something in the nature of a love affair is afoot, posts herself at ihe win- dew at the propitious moment and realizis that the gay cavalier Is paying attentions to her. She may not have seen him be- fore or may rewognize in him the unknown admirer of the last ball. In either case she is pleased to have him “hacienda el |enemy. But much good music is quite oso” if only to tell her girl friends that | beyond the reach of the public—Pales- she has made a new conquest. Coquetry | trina’s best motets, airs by Alessandro is innate in the Mexican maid. Perhaps | Stradella, the famous hymn of Raimondi many will say it is a part of woman's na-|in short, a great musical library, an ture, be she a child of the Montezumas or | archivio, as the Romans call such a col- a daughter of the Puritans. All women | lection, ‘all of which is practically lost naturally loye admiration, but all do not | to the world. crave it as do the girls of the tropics. +4 Dona Mariquita shows her approval of her Lothario’s attentions hy perhaps fluttering her handkerchief, using her fan or by a sort of mental telegraphy Should she detect a wary step: approaching she con- veys the fact by a look and Don Juan wakes his exit hasuly, only to return the next day. The Second Stage. After going on in thismanner for a fort- night or so, the second stage of this strange wooing takes place, It consists in follow- ing the adored one to ard frem church, at the premenade, to the theater, &c., but always at a distancé. Don Juan has not yet been presented, therefore must he ¢ tious in his proczedings. In the meantime the Hitle maid by a few artful questions among he admirer a friends finds out all about her 1, satisfied that he comes of a good famil Tf exults over her con- Then the bear ,operations hecome Don Juan, not content to teil his love psychically, sends a bille doux weight- a ed with pebble flying over the balcony at her feet. If she be not detected in the act of reading it she is indeed a happy girl. She manages in some mysterious warner to answer the note and drop it from the balcony. As the days roll on the notes follow in rapid suecession, then come the entrancing serenades, which are all the sweeter for being stolen joys. Gen- € ly at this stage the parents discover that a novio (admirer) is absorbing their ittle Mariquita’s attention, but, notwith- standing all their threats, she still man- ages to see Don Juan, and the love affair progress A Meeting at Last. Should a gran baile (large ball) be on the tapis, then Mariquita has just cause te re- Jeice, for tt goes without saying she has an invitation for the auspicfous event, and likewise Don Juan, and she will thus really meet her lover for the first time. Robed in creamy satin and bedecked with jewels she goes to the long-looked-for ball, and lefore much time elapses Don Juan is to her family and finally to her- Lut the happy moment has not yet e for the lovers. Don Juan has gallant speeches to make to all the maiden aunts and cousins of the family before he darcs | so much as address a word to Mariquita, who is considered a mere child. However, when the strains of the fascinating danza rise, the little Mexican maid's heart swells within her, for she feels that the third act of hor love drama is about to commence. And so it does, for between the slow mo- tions of the danza, so aptly called in Span- ish, the dance of the proposal, Don Juan pours out his love, aud the demure little maid, who possibly has heard the sweet old story several times before, receives it all quite naturall Nevertheless, before the music stops she will have given him -some encouragement, and from the numer: ous dances she bestows on him he is recog- nized by all as a successful admirer. Officially Recognized. In the m-antime the “bear act’ still cons tinues, but aow that Don Juan has been presented. he is allowed to bow, and seems nearer his prize. ‘The parents, not ill pleased with the young man, have some confidential friend investigate into his fam- ily connection and prospects, and, if blood and finances are of good quality, then the friend announces to Don Juan that he will be permitted to cali, He is from that time considered as novio official (official or rec- ognized lover), and pays his court three or four times a week, not, be it understood, in our free and easy American way, but in the presence of Mariquita’s entire family. The engagement ring is slipped on before every one, and never under any considera- tion does she see her lover alone until her wedding day, which, inimany instances, follows soon after. , ._ * Such is courtship in Mexico, romance and music and love. eee as THE :SISTINE CHAPEL, ain?) . The Choir Alwayk Sitges “at Sight.” From The Century. t No musical instrumentsiare ever used in the Sistine. In the thoir,'on the contrary, there are two large orgays. The one on the west side is employed. on all ordinary occasions; it is over two: hundred years old, and is tuned about two whole tones below the modern pitch.!' It is so worn out that an organ builder is in attend- ance during every service to make repairs at a moment's notice. The bellows leak, the stops stick, some notes have a-chronic tendency to “cypher,” and the pedal “trackers” unhook themselves unexpected- ly. But the canons would certainly not think of building a new organ. Should they ever do so, and tune the in- strument to the modern pitch, the con- sternation of the singers would be great, for the music is all written for the ex- isting organ, and could not be performed that land of MUSIC OF two notes higher, not to mention the con- fusion that would arise where all the music is sung at sight. This is a fact not generally known, but worthy of notic The music sung {a St. Peter's, and, indeed, in most Roman churches, is never re- hearsed or practiced. The music itself te eulitaly in manuscript, and is the prop- erty of the choirmaster, or, as is the case at St. Peter's, of the chapter, and there is no copyright in it beyond this fact of actual possession, protected by the simple jos of never allowing any musician to lave his part in his hands except while he is actually performing it. In the course of a year the same piece Gladness Comes Wit a better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys- ical ills, which vanish before proper ef- forts—gentle efforts—pleasant efforts- rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual dis- ease, but simply to a constipated condi- tion of the system, which the pleasant, family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt- ly removes. That is why it is the only remedy with millions of families, and is everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value good. health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that itis the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness without debilitating the organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important, in order to get its bene- ficial effects, to note when you pur- chase, that you have the genuine arti- ele, which ig manufactured by the Cali- fornia Fig Svrup Co. only and sold by all reputable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health, and the system is regular, laxatives or other remedies are then not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to the most skillfal physicians, but if in need of a laxative, one should have the best, and with the well-informed ncre, Syrup of Figs stands highest and is most largely uscd and gives most general satisfaction. may be sung several times, and the ol4 choristers may become acquainted with a geod deal of music in this way, but never otherwise. Mozart is reported to have learned Allegri’s “M “by ear, and to have written it down from memory. The other famous “Misereres,’” which are now published, were pirated in a similar way. The choirmaster of that day was ver unpopular. Some of the leading singers who ‘had sung the ‘“Misereres” during many years in succession, and had thus learned their several parts, met and pot | together what they knew into a whole, j which was at once published, to the no small annovance and discomfiture of their SUCCESS IN LITERATURE. fhe Re to Wealth Who Do Not Wan icago Post. yes, I've been quite late,” said the writer in gestion that he was perous than when st krewing the busine started in I didn’t know anything about it and tried to work alone.” “And now you collaborate with some one, I suppose?” | “Collaborate nothing. I've simply form- ed a partnership that is of advantage to both me and my partner. You see, my stories and articles were always all right, but no one knew me, and no editor or pul- Open to Fame. From th “Oh, stul a sig pros- of succes swer to looking more seen, “It's all in You see, when I lisher wanted anything by a man who | wesn't known. Consequently I set out to |find a man who was known. I had some treuble, but I finally located a despersdo who was known from one end of the coun- try to the other.’ “But he couldn't write, could he?” “Of course, he couldn't, but the publish- ers and magazine editors didn’t know that, and I gave him a percentage of what T got for the use of his name. I just put that on scme of my old stories that I nad been trying to sell for the last five years and disposed of them inside of thirty days Then I got hold of a woman who had just | | Got out of the divorce court, put her name on a couple of essays and’ sold them for about twice what I had ever expected to set for them. Just now I am using t! nome of a man who has become notorious through his connection with ward politics. | | He couldn't write a grammatical sentence, | but the magazines are ready to pay h i for his views on the political system of France, and I am giving them an old col- lege essay of mine with his name on it. Oh, it’s easy to sell stuff when you know jhow. Now, next week T expect to close a deal with a publishing house for a book of poems.” “You are dealing with them personally in this case, then?” I'm conducting the negotiations, I'm posing as the private secretar of a man who couldn't make a rhyme i seven years, but his sister married a no- bleman and he got himself talked about ? trying to get into a duel over a ballet giri. Besides, he had a famous father, which makes the outlook doubly promising.” — sos Arimondi’s Fate. m the Daily Messenger, being saluted as usual by a soldier returned from Africa, stopped and asked him why he had nex saluted. The soldier opened hi cloak and showed that both his hands were cut off. The officer kissed the soldier and asked his pardon, and then gave him sev- eral 10-franc motes. The people who hal gathered round the two also made a collec- tion for the poor fellow, eforth unable to earn his bread. Arimondi is now ascertained. He died, Baratieri has betrayed us. 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