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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 8, 1900.
THE MADRID PICTURE GALLERY
(Copyright, 1000. by Seymour Eaton.)
THE. OREGON! AN'S HOME STUDY CIRCLE: DIRECTED BY PROF. SEYMOUR EATON
FAMOUS ART GALLERIES
OF THE WORLD
BY WrLLLVBI HOWE DOWNES.
V.
The Soyal Sluseum of the Prado. In
Madrid, contains the most remarkable
collection of pictorial masterpieces In the
-world. It is a collection "which makes no
claim to completeness, and the primitive
examples of the various European schools
are almost -wholly wanting in It. Again,
although a certain master may be fully
represented by an unequaled group of his
best -works, Another and equally great ar
tist cf the school may not be represented
In the museum at all. This fault, if it
be one, is easily overlooked, in view of
the most sacred of all meccas for the ar
tistic pilgrim. Thus, -while it Is inferior
to the Louvre In Parts as a historic as
semblage of the -world's greatest paint
ings. It is even more brilliant as a collec
tion of masterpieces, more or less unre
lated and more or less unclassified.
The number of paintings in the Madrid
gallery exceeds 2300, and some idea of the
astounding artistic value of the collection
may be derived from the statement that
1t contains 46 paintings by Murillo, 14 by
Zurbaran, 58 by Klbera, 64 by Velasquez,
E5 by Tenters, 65 by Rubens. 10 by Ra
phael, 20 by Poussln, 6G by Luca Giorda
no, 22 by Van Dyck, 54 by Breughel, 10 by
Claude Lorraine. 16 by Guldo RenI, 43 by
Titian, 54 by Tintoretto and 25 by Paui
Veronese.
This magnificent collection of paintings
is very -well housed and advantageously
displayed In the Prado, and the general
good condition of the canvases testifies
' to both the Intelligent care of the di
rector and the dryt pure air of Madrid.
The catalogue, edited by the eminent
writer, Don Pedro de Madraso, is wen
made, and Is Issued in both Spanish and
Preach. The gallery 1b open, free to the
'public on Sunday, and on week-days
there Is a small admittance fee, equiva
lent to a dime. From the Pucrta del Sol
tho great square in the center of Ma
drid) the visitor approaches the museum
through the Carrera de San Geronimo,
passing the palace of the Cortes and a
line monument to Cervantes on the way.
The museum contains two main picture
galleries, each about 130 by 33 feet In di
mensions, well lighted from tne top, and
devoted to the Spanish school. The nu
snerous 3lde galleries opening to right and
left are lighted from the sides, therefore
the light Is fluctuating, and on cloudy
days rather scanty. These rooms are de
voted to the Italian, Dutch, French and
Flemish schools, respectively. Half-way
down the great central galleries a door
opens into the so-called salon of the
Queen Isabel, a room hung with the most
popular and famous paintings In the col
lection, chosen from all schools and form
ing a group of about 100 works. Drought
together on the same plan as that or the
Salon Carre of the Louvre and the Tri
bune of Florence. This gallery Is oval,
and is lighted from overhead. Were the
actual and supposed masterpieces here
assembled to be weeded out today, there
would be some radical changes In the ar
rangement, no doubt; however, the room
Is remarkably rich in good things as It
is. To name only a few of the most cel
ebrated and valuable works In It, there
are Raphael's ""Virgin of the Fish," "Holy
Family of the Lamb," "Virgin of the
Rose," ""Holy Family of the Lizard" and
"Portrait of a Cardinal": Titian's "Trib
ute to the Goddess of Love." "Venus and
Adonis' "Bacchanal" and portraits of
Charles V and Philip II; Tintoretto's
"Portrait of a Young Man," "Sebastian
Venlerl," etc.; Velasquez' "Drinkers,"
Mercury and Argus,' "Portrait of a
Sculptor," "Court Jester," "Forge of Vul
can." "St. Anthony's Visit to St. Paul,'
"Don Fernando of Austria" and "Por
trait of a Man," with many choice exam
ples of Veronese. Rubens, Van Dyck, Hol
bein, Claude Poussln, Rlbera, Moro,
Murillo, Correggio. Glorgione, Durer,
Cano, Rembrandt. Fra Angellco. Glullo
Romano. Guldo. Van Eyck. Lulni and
Guerclno. In fact, there are few rooms
in the world holding a more .striking
group of International old masters.
But the one supreme and sufficient glory
of the Madrid museum Is not the hetero
geneous gathering of star canvases in the
salon of the Queen Isabel It Is the pos
session of the only great and representa
tive collection of the works of Velasquez,
the prince of Spanish painters, and one
of the most extraordinary luminaries of
the world of art since painting was in
vented. This distinction alone would be
enough to set the Madrid museum apart
upon a pinnacle of its own. Without
traveling to Madrid no one can really
know Velasquez. He stands especially
for the Bomewhat Indefinable but never
theless very real spirit of aristocracy,
which was to some extent exemplified in
iho work of Van Dyck. though In a less
deep way. The fact of his being a court
painter does not necessarily enter Into the
causes of his mental attitude toward
mankind. Velasquez was more aristo
cratic himself than were his noblest sit
ters. He was the gentleman of gentlemen
in art. and he ennobled everything that
be touched. He has reserve power; there
is a touch of perfection in his refinement
that makes all pretense seem Ineffably
mean: never has there been such genuine
ness, such perfect poise, such unassumed
d'stinctlon of manner, such unconscious
authority and Inborn elegance. The first
thought of most persons, on seeing a
portrait by Velasquez for the first time,
is- "How very simple and easy! Is that
ajl there Is of this wonderful artist?"
There Is a feeling akin to disappointment;
one was. possibly, expecting something
dazzling, unusual, phenomenal. But, no:
there Is nothing In Velasquez that Is sen-
Fational at all; his scheme of color Is i
usually verv quiet, based on gray and I
brown tones, without great brilliance !
though soberly rich and deep: striving
for effect is uttorlv foreign to him; ho, i
was just simply the most natural of
pninters.
The most remarkable pictures by Velas
quez are: "Las Hllanderss" ("The Tapes
try "Weavers"). "Las Mcnlnas" C'The
Maids of Honor"). "Las Larzas" ("The
Surrender of Breda"), an equestrian por
trait c the Duke of Ollvarez. the various
portraits of King Philip IV and of his
children, the Princess Mary Margaret and
Prince Balthasar Charles, with the oicht
pieces hung in the salon of the Queer I
Isabel, which have been mentioned above.
But it must be remembered that all of
Velasquez' G4 pictures In Madrid are re
markable, and that all the other mu
seums in the world cannot show so many.
to say nothing of quality. Nothing that
Velasquez did was trivial or unworthy.
though it would be too much to expect
that all of his productions should exhibit
equal merits. ,
Perhaps there does not exist a more
perfect specimen of painting than "Las
Menlnas."' which depicts Velasquez hlm
pelf in Ms studio, palette in hand. In the
act of painting the portraits of Philip IV
and the queen, while. In the foreground.
the young Princess Margaret Mary of
Austria is being entertained by her maids
of honor including two dwarfs So ex
aetlv nd satisfactorily does this Interior
-with flgures counterfeit the actual ap
pearances of things, so adorable Is the
combination of power and modesty with
which it is painted so charming are the
quaint types of the maids in the fore
ground, so beautiful and harmonious is
the color, and so palpitating with life is
the scene that it may well be called a
typical and Ideal specimen of the great
Spaniard's art. It Is almost Impossible to
realize that these are the figures of peo
ple who have been In their jrraves at
let two centuries and a half.
Indeed. Vlasquez. belonging to the 17th
centwry. was essentially modern in his
nolrit. He founded in his own time no
school; but bis influence is more powerful
tdav among pn'nters. and pirtlcular'y
nrnortr TKrra1t ra'rs es tin - f jin-f
old master He deto'td his mature art
almost entirely to portraiture, for we can
hardly call his few religious pictures
either representative or typical. Neither
were his early mythological subjects fully
expressive of his true personality. Some
of his landscapes are vastly admired by
good Judges of art. but he used landscape
customarily merely as a background for
his portraits. Among the American paint
ers who have worshiped fervently at the
shrine of the master are John S. Sargent,
James McX. Whistler, William M. Chase
and Frederic P. Vinton. The purity and
nobility of his style makes him an ad
mirable examplar for painters. His In
fluence is wholesome and elevating. He
had every negative merit possible no
tricks of the brush, no commonplaceness,
no affectation, no artificiality, no self
consciousness. A profound and Innate ln-
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tegrity of sentiment, an utter and un
sought Individuality and originality, and
a complete spontaneity and naturalness
set his works apart. Their material
beauty and nobility is aDDarent to all. i
but their highest and deepest quality Is '
spiritual and mental, the perfectest pic- ,
torlal expression of a rare and lofty soul. ,
Note. This study by Mr. William Howe
Downes, of Boston, will be concluded on
Wednesday next.
LEVEL OF THE GREAT LAKES.
Unexplained Rise and Fall of the show that during January, February and
"Waters of the Island Scan. I March the lake level was Just about what
I It was In December of 1899, although each
Chicago Inter Ocean. day's record shows a variation of several
Among old sailors and engineers who' inches. On January 11 there was a varla
have studied Lake Michigan for 50 years, tion in the lake level of one foot. From
Captain Keith's "discovery" that the February 11 to February 12, In 1894, the
drainage canal has lowered the lake lake level at the foot of Randolph street
level five Inches does not produce much rose a little over two feet,
consternation. Lake Michigan, like all ; These dally fluctuations of from six
or tne great lakes, is a mystery. Old sea-
men recall the fact that Lake Michigan
once rose up bodily seven feet In an hour
along this coast. In 1SSG It fell three feet
In two hours. There was a great tidal
wave In Lake Erie in 18-13 at Buffalo,
which drowned 20 people In their beds
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So strange and unaccountable are the rush through the straits from Lake Mich
uctuatlons In the levels of all the great j igan, and Huron will rise, mysteriously,
fluctuations
lakes that sailors have an abiding faith
In "Old Sub," the underground monster
who turns the water off and on In a
subterranean passage under the lake.
"Old Sub's tlnkerln' with the stop
cocks," say the seamen when the water
begins to creep up on the gauge. Some-
times the level goes lower and lower,
and then the talk Is that "Old Sub has . pan one foot As a matter of fact, the
taken to drink." annual rainfall always produces a waste
Some believe that a great undiscovered ' overflow past Niagara which greatly ex
passage exists between the great lakes ceeds tnat drawn off bv the drainage
and a body of open water about the I canal. If the water were not taken
north pole, and that a disturbance there through the canal it would go over Nl
accounts for the wonderful ebb and flow agara during Spring freshets. In gen
of the water In the basin of the great crai engineers agree that the physics of
lakes. Occasionally on a trip to Wauke- Lake Michigan and of all the great
gan some sailor announces that the boat i iakes has never been studied accurately,
passed over the very region where "Old and that the mysterious movements of
Sub" Is turning the water in. Ice cold and
In unlimited supply. In a little different
way scientists have sometimes upheld
the theory of a subterranean passage
which feeds the lakes, and cite the seven
years' rise and fall of lake levels as a
proof of It. Others take no stack In the
theory of periodical movements.
But through It all there is the mystery
which has not been fathomed yet by any
plummet or measured by the rise and fall
of any barometer. Long before the open
ing of the drainage canal a variation of
Ave Inches in the lake level was known
to bo an ordinary affair. Sometimes the i land began to raise a private army wlth
varlatlon can be accounted for, but more ' out making It clear that It was for the
often It cannot. Scientific men are as j good of the government would speed
much at a loss as the veriest old salt. i lb' And himself In serious trouble. Not
Day In and day out the lake level J so LI Hung Chang, however. For some
changes aside from those caused by tho ! time China's greatest statesman has been
winds. No man knows why and no man ' busily raising and equipping a large
can reckon 'the times and the places of force of soldiers, whom he will pay and
these lake "tides." So constant are the ' perhaps direct himself, and no one knows
fluctuations that a general fall of three whether his intention Is good or evil.
inches a year over the entire surface of
Lake Michigan and Lake Huron would
not be appreciable In the ordinary set of
gauge readings. The automatic gauge
shows an oscillation of the lake every 20
minutes, amounting sometimes to be
tween two and three feet. In 1SS6. after
the water had run down suddenly six
feet In Chicago harbor, an attempt was
made to account for these oscillations on
a scientific basis. Seven gauges were set
rtl,out the lake and read at flve-mlnute
intervals, xne upsnoi or 11 was umt some
of the ODserv'ers decided that the phe-
? cmenn ,was due ' a -"'wln of "V ak '
'" its bed from shore to shore. Others .
did not think this reasonable, but had
no better theory to advance. More re
markable still. It was found that one
aays ooservauon smmeu a general ow- .
ering over the whole of Lake Michigan i
u cra. ". f
As early as 1G73 Father Marquette took
n,tl,05,Ta?eS V ? A
Tht "iSoTS
low and back again In 14 years, or that
every seven years the water run the '
gamut. Baron la Hontan, In 1689. made
some tolerably extensive notes on the
variations In lake levels. He wrote that In
! 21 hours once at the northern extremity
of Lake Michigan he saw the lake rise
tTii-Att Aot omiI -11 flifw f&ftt In Ka An
u tthk thP firt to nhwrn. th flrtTr n'f i
water from Lake Huron to Like Mich- 1
lgan, or from Michigan to Huron, which
Is now acknowledged.
"We cast our fishing nets in the
straits," says the doughty old explorer,
"and for three days the current sucked
them to the eastward so strongly that
we could with difficulty haul them from
tne water, men ior two aays tne current :
set toward tne west ana carnea our nets
In that direction."
Stories of mysterious inundations by
the lake of times when the beach wid
ened, and a great fringe was added to
the sand along the shore, have always
been current among Indian tribes. From
Marquette down to engineers and sea
men of today, observation has confirmed
these legends. At Sault Ste Marie, Gen
eral Dearborn noted an ebb and flow
of one and one-half feet of water In
two and a half hours.
Lake Erie has been known to rise
from seven to 20 feet In a few hours. A
few years ago at Cleveland the lake sud
denly rose five feet. In 1SS6 Lake Mich
igan rushed tip to a height of seven feet
above the ordinary level at Milwaukee.
In that same year the water fell six feet
In Chicago harbor, and somewhat less
in the lake within a few minutes. High
masted schooners careened to one side.
-nd the Mg poles knocked together con-
fusedly. It looked as if the Chicago Riv-
er would be drained dry in half an hour,
and the experience has never been -forgotten
among the Chicago seamen. In
1S4S, It is said, the same thing occurred.
In addition to these sudden and inex
plicable changes In the lake level thera
is a tolerably well-defined periodical
movement of the surface extending over
a number of years. Sometimes it is
claimed that this movement requires sev
en years, sometimes 10 years. Ossiaa
Guthrie and others declare that the move
ment is not periodic, .but that it usually
extends over from two to ten years.
Then there is an annual rise of the lake
from January to June, caused by the
ordinary Spring rainfall, which runs the
level of the lake up about one foot,hlgher'
in June than in January. For 30 yeara,
consecutively the Spring rise was found
to be 1V& Inches. A series of heavy
Spring rainfalls will raise the level of
the lake three or four feet above datum
for a number of years, and a series of
droughts will reduce ltgcorrespondlngly.
Beginning with 1S47, Ossian Guthrie
has kept a record of the fluctuations of
the level of Lake Michigan. In 1847, as
has been stated. Lake Michigan went
very low. From 1847 to 1S59, with occa-
GALLERY.
sional lapses. It crept up nearly three
feet above datum. From 1859 to 1863 11
fell, then it swung back to two and one-
half feet above datum in 1876, ran down
In 1879. going up abruptly In the Sorlns
of 1880. From 1SS0 to 18S6 the lake level
rose three feet. From 1SS6 to 1892 It fell
about four feet. In the Spring of 1893
( It rose 15 Inches In a few days' time. Since
1SS3 the lake has been going down, and
during most of last Fall and this Spring
It has been below the 1847 mark. Today,
owing to the usual rise from rainfalls,
the lake Is higher than it was before the
opening of the drainage canal. Figures
at the United States engineer's office
Inches to two feet are accounted for.
engineers believe, by winds and by ba
rometric pressure. A strong east wind
will easily raise the surface of the lake
here two feet. Again, if the atmospheric
pressure all over" the surface of Lake
Huron is suddenly reduced, the water will
perhaps, on a perfectly calm day.
Engineers at the office of the drainage
board estimate that if no rainfall were
to reach Lake Michigan, and the maxi
mum flow of 300,000 cubic feet of water
were drawn off through the drainage
canal. It would take a little over eight
years to reduce the level of Lnk MlnhU
the Immense Inland seas offer a compara
tlvely unworked field for useful and sci
entific research.
RAISING A PRIVATE ARMY.
Li Hnng Chang Mixes Milltnry Mat
ters With. His Statesmanship.
London Dally Mall.
Any European statesman who at a criti
cal moment In the affairs of his native
Since he was a young man the states
man has raised several private armies.
Although he Is not a gifted military com
mander himself, he knows almost In
stinctively a capable General when he
meets one, and lucky has it been for
China that he possesses this capacity. He
can obtain excellent soldiers, moreover.
The men who enlist under Li's banner
know that their pay Is sure, and that
thejr food will not be stinted. They also
knovr tnsit it they happen to do anything
notable and worthy their employer is
sure to bo generous In rewards,
LI Hung Chang's first experience In
ra!singr a private army occurred when he
was quite a young man. He was at that
time known only as a distinguished
scholar who had carried all before him In
the 1Iterarv examinations, but It was no
thou,-ht that hls intcrests would extern
t
thought that his Interests would extend
to the profession of arms.
It at the time of the Tal.Pln re
eWn- T Hung Chang's native town was
-rHusly menaced. The Inhabitants might
be massacred, their possesions would cer-
talnly be looted. Li gathered together his
friends and relatives, organized them Into
a regiment and fell upon the rear of the
rebels with signal success. His victory
won him nn Important place In the Im
perial army, to which was attached the
foreign corps commanded at first by
Ward, the American sailor-adventurer.
and later b C5 Gordon.
The Soldier on Hl.i Rack.
Nebraska State Journal.
Carl Schurz declares with tears In his
eyes that he doesn't want to see the
time when every man in America as
he goes about his work will have to
jy a s0ldler on his back. Carl's
w.K,-c trtii ho crating tw hnvo nn
use for 15,000,000 soldiers to preserve the
peace In the Philippines. Cuba and Porto
Rico. Nor for half that many. Carl has
a bogey on his brain.
The most rabid alleged advocate of
"militarism" has never contended for
more than one-tenth of one million, as a
full supply of soldiers for all emergencies
except in a war with a first-class power,
when we would naturally have to raise
as many as was necessary. If it took
us all. That huge standing army provis
ionally raised for present emergencies,
leaves us more than a thousand Inhabit
ants or more than two hundred able
bodied men to carry each soldier on their
backs, and the burden has not crurhea
us perceptibly.
For the last SO years, in Denmark, the
party of the Left has had a majority in
the Chamber, while the King has retained
In power a Ministry of the Right.
WONDERFUL BLACK PEARL
A1TDLA SKILLFUL THIEF "MARRED BT
HIS SOCIAL CRAZE.
Gentleman Geo rare He Was Called,
and His Unprofessional Instincts
Spoiled Plans.
"Sou wonders why I'm so handy to
have around, Kunnel,' slid Smithers, tho
con man, one day, just after he had fin
ished a thorough cleansing of the old
banker's corner In the prison hospital,
says the Now Tork Sum "well, I'll tell
you. In the course of my career as a
public charakter, it has been my good
furtun' not only to act as valet for sev
eral of the flash push posin' as gents, but
on one occasun to perform the duties of
butler in a swell country house, with ekal
credit to my head and heart, to say noth
ln' of my hands. Do I mark a sparkle
of int'rest in your glims; do you fancy
that thereby hangs a tale, as the tin. pan
said of the dog In front of it, what might
lessen the tejum by a half hour? Well,
arter I've stuffed this marsh-grass pillow
behind your back, and drawed a fresh
dipper of water for elocutun purposes, I'll
strain my mem'ry a bit for your benefit;
and so hera goes.
"It was back in the seventies, Kunnel,,
when I was better lookln' than now, not
havin' takln.' so many Jolts In the jaw
from luck, that I was frens with a sport
you've heard me speak of, whom we called
Gentleman George, which his real name
was Ringgold. He struck town about the
age of 16, with a fancy to be tough as
his only assets, having run away from
home, up in the interior of the state, be
cuz his pa objected to his stayin' out
nights a-playin' blll'arda. I don't s'pose,
Kunnel, there was ever a lad more care
fully reared by God-fearun folk, with
money to burn for his eddlcatun and ev
.ery adwancement, than he; and yet the
more they pulled one way the moro he
was bound to go the odder, until finally
he kicked the stuflln' out of the dash
board an' tuk the bit In his teof for
good and all, as I jest told you. Cur'ous,
ain't It, how dlff'rent life strikes a young
man? One is all full of ambition and the
odder equally as full of the devil. One
wants to make a name for hlsself; the
odder wants to make a record. This one
has high idees; that one is a high flyer.
It would seem as If some spirut acted
as a dlstributun' agent at birf, sayin'
to this babby you stick to the right, and
to that, you make tracks to tne left.
"Ten years on, the turf, Kunnel. made
many changes In Gentleman George, tak
ln' the freshness out of him like a Sahary
noon, and he found it easier to limp than
to skip over a rocky road. But for all
his misfortunes, he never wanted to go
home again, and when finally he got all
chiselled down, as you might say, by ex
per'ence Into a man about town, there
wasn't a slicker article between Battery
Wall and High Bridge, no, not Jest be
fore electun, with everything wide open.
"I've heerd say, Kunnel, that pious folk
excuse anny one of their number that's
been off on a twister by pleadun' that he
must break out Jest so often. Well, it
was jest the opposite in Ringgold's case.
Glnerally, hi was runnln' a bank, or
playin bunco, or passelln' out green
goods, attendln' strictly to business, and
as keen as a razor for takln" off all that
was touched; but now and agin old ln
flooances seemed to git holt on him, and
then he'd disappear from his us'al ha'nts,
and you might see him d rlvun' down the
avenoo on a drag, or handln out some
beaufus creatur' from the opery with a
japonlky in his button-hole as nateral as
If it had growed there. Society, then,
Kunnel, was Gentleman George's dlssipa
tun, and if you could see him, all stiff
and illgent, with white choker under his
chin and crush dicer under his arm,
a-gazin' out of a club winder with the
air of a earl, you'd swear as how he
couldn't be the same as had lepped plum
Into the wheel, as I once seen him, wltn
a gun in each hand, when luck was agin
the bank, and anounced as how the
game was closed and no chips redeemed.
It was natur', Kunnel, that mixed him
up so as to play eeder part, but to fall
short In bof, makln' him han'some In
appearance, and full of gen'rous Impulses
at times, and yet agin, lmpafent of all
legal restraints, and detarmined to take
and to hold whatever he fancied. I've
seed ahe sirae sort of amolamles in
animals, Kunnel; a mild-eyed boss what
would buck and bite; a dog with the
purest p'lnts, that couldn't be broke;
even a canary with the temper of a
hawk; and I do say that all them com
blnatuns have no fair show, no mor'n
you can expect a man at a hotel to walk
decent when the porter has left a pair of
mlssflts at his door for him.
After a Social Spell.
"Well, Kunnel, one day after Gentleman
George had been under one of his social
spells for some time. I got a line from him
to come to a uptown hotel. There I found
him, sure enough, In the best second
story corner suite, with all the hallboys
at his heels. 'Smithers,' says he, short
and quick, for he was alius a man of
few words. 'I've got a place for you as
butler at Malnworthy's country aeat,'
naming a swell village on the Sound. 'I
goes down tonight with young Main
worthy and you better show up about the
same time so I can wouch for you. If
there's anny trouble, which there won't
be,' says he,
" 'Do you think I'm up to It?' I ast.
" 'You do all right,' says he, 'If you'll
keep the liquor out of your skin, and don't
brag In the kitching or git gay with the
maids. There's your recommrnd and a
roll for your outfit; old Aaron, the fence,
will fix you out with the latest kit. And
one word, mark me. There's nothin' to
be done until I give the sign, no, not if
the stuff is fairly throwed at you.'
" 'It's a butler's juty to count thi sil
ver,' says I with a grin. 'Yes, and to ac
count for It, too,' he replied, sternly.
'You needn't be afeerd, mlthers; I'm on
the biggest lay you ever heerd of, and if
you play the game right there won't be no
arterclap of a exposur' needor. That is,'
he concluded. 'If the young fool of a son
has told me the trut' about his old fool of
a father.'
"Well, Kunnel, I got fitted out with un
exceptunal togs, in a sole-lcdder case, and
down I goes to the country, confident of
makin' a ten-strike. There was no trouble
at all about my credentu's, and by dinner
time I was Instilled in the pantry, with
my drej-s .clothes on, ready to chassay
around with the ongtrays and touch up
the glasses with the ruby, to say nothin'
of broken pieces and heel taps on the side
for yours truly.
"The house. Kunnel, was scrumptus, and
Its Inmates to match. There was the old
gent, a retired banker, like yourself, Kun
nel. but without anny string on him, who
was dewoted, one of the maids told me, to
the science ot metals and the study of
gems. Oh, ho! thinks I. I smells a mice.
But I must say, Kunnel. as I looked him
over, I thought there was a pretty sharp
glance to his eye, for an old fool, as
Ringgold called him, even If he did sport
big, round, benlvolent gaggles. There was
the darter, Miss Rachel: a slip of a girl
with blue eyes and flaxlng hair, and a ex
pressun as If she really believed every
one was as good as she was. If not bet
ter. There was old Malnworthy's sister.
Aunt Julia, an old mam from the twist
of her hair to her squeakless sneaks.
There was young Horace, the son, a regu
lar cane-chewer, silly and fast, who had
brought Gentleman George down to show
the fambly a speclmlng of high life. And
If you could have seen Ringgold, Kun
nel. as I did that evenln. settln to the
right of the spinster, with his wavy hair
all pompydure, and his complectun as
clear and cool as a dl'mond with a j-alfer
touch to It. you'd have picked him out as
about the best thing of the bong-tong,
and might have stared at him with as
simple a admiratun as did young Miss
Rachel, a-settin opposlt.
"He was a good listener, was Ringgold,
kinder holdln' his head to one side, and
lookln' at the ono talking" as much- as to
say, "well, ain't you shoutun?' Onct In a
while he'd let out a "haw. haw," T should
say so,' or aomethln of the sort, to give
the odder a breathln spell; but for the
most part he was quietly takin' in all that
was let out. This style of conversatun was
nuts to the old man. and he run on like
a phonnygraph. with a dynamo behind It.
Finally, arter payln' his resplcts to the
four quarters of the globe, he got down
to his dally pursoots.
" Do you know anything about gems,
Mr. Ringgold," he ast.
" 'Haw, hum, so, so," replied Gentleman
George; and you'd think from the rap ex
pression on Miss Rachel's face, that he'd
jest knocked out Solomtn in one round at
a wlse-ayln' go.
" 'Ah, I see you are more or less of a
dillatanty," old Malnworthy went on, 'and
I'm glad of It; for I've got somethln
that may make even your eyes open.
Rachel," he contlnooed, takln a little key
oft his watch chain, 'Jest go up to the
Buhl cabinet and fetch down the big
black pearL" 'Euchre!' thoughts I.
"Out tripped the young girl, as pretty
a Shebe as ever did stunts for the gods,
and soon kem back with a case in her
hand. I glanct over the old man's shoul
der as he opened it, and I was that took
back, Kunnel, that I was like to anlnt
his bead from tlppln' up the Brugundy in
the basket. Can you think of a bit of
ebony all aglow with light, not glittering
and fierce, but soft and calm, like the
moon on the water or the even
in' star behind a cloud? Why,
it was as big as your t'umb
nail, and layln" there on the white
velvet, H seemed as If some Eastern queen
was a wlnkln" at you. I looked over at
Ringgold, and if he had tipped me tho
odd eye I'd have taken all chances and
been out the winter with It in a lnstlnck.
But no, he set, gazln now up, now down
ag'ln, from the table-clot', with a lacky
dalslcal glance that seemed to say, 'I've
been there before, and there's nothin' in
It."
" 'It gives me much pleasure, Mr. Ring
gold,' began the old man, 'to ask your
critical Judgment as a connoshure, on this
wonderful gem. Though I says It myself,
which shouldn't, you might sarch the
shops of Amsterdam, without flndun its
ecal.'
"Gentleman George sighed. 'I know,"
he replied, 'there's a fatal faclnatun to
them. I've had my experence, and I only
hopes as how you may not have your'n.'
And then he sighed again.
"Why, how so?' ast old Malnworthy,
turnin' pale; what's wrong with it?
" They're so very perishable," explained
Ringgold, 'why, don't you know?" All
pearls, 'specially black pearls, is liable
to a disease which causes them to ex
plode. Well, I knows It to my cost. I
had a beauty, a heirloom from my gran'
father, Colonul Gov'nor. and one day,
jest as you did now, I sent to show it to
some frens, and Io and behold you, when
I opened the case there was nothin In
It but a little fine dust. Five Vousand dol
lar had gone and busted of itself. Excuse
me, I won't touch it. This is a remarkable
speciming, and well wuth the price your
son told me you paid for It; but even the
heat of the hand may prove disasterous.'
" 'God bless my sou:,' srld old Main
worthy, with his Jaw a-hanglng' down like
a nanny gut.
"Kunnel, I was so overpowered with
the rush of my t'oughts that I had to go
into the pantry and pinch myeelf ca'm and
e'lected, and in that way I lost the rest
of the conversation. So this was the rea
son why Gentleman George had come
down. He had heard from young Main
worthy of this wonderrul black pearl, and
now he had showed me how he was goln'
to git It without resk to hlsself. Of
course, some fine mornln' the old gent
would wake up to find his treasure all
busted Into a little fine dust, as he had
jest been warned, when in real'ty it would
be shipped across the seas, with the price
In Ringgold's clothes, and no one the
wiser. Slick, wasn't it; but where did I
come in, and why did he bring me down?
It wasn't long, Kunnel, before I had the
chance to find out. I was passin' t'roo
the hall by the biirard-room, when he
kem out to me.
" 'Ah, Smithers, my man,' says he; 'I'm
glad you've got so good a place. Jest
bring the Scotch and hot water up to my
room at 11, will you, as you used to did; I
still have to have my nightcap.' And
back he went to give young Malnworthy
the high privilege of payln' for thinkln' he
could beat him.
" 'Well, Smithers,' said Gentleman
George, when I kem up with the poison,
and the door was double locked, 'are you
on?'
" 'Not exactly,' says I, 'the pearl's
agoin the way of all flesh, fast enough,'
says I, 'a turnin' Into dust; but the par
tlc'lars, the muddus operandy,' says I
" 'Listen,' says he. And then he tbld
me, Kunnel, that the Buhl cabinet was
upstairs In the library, with steel-lined
compartments, to be sure, and locks you
couldn't pick with a fork, but for all that,
we could crack It without anny ado, only
the fam'bly sooted him to the nines, and
he was goln' to marry the girl. 'And so,
Smithers,' says he. 'I don't want no scan
dal In private circles; and to do the thing
the way It's goln' to oe done you must
lust git that key off the old man's chain
and then git it back agin.'
Contract He Didn't Like.
"I must say, Kunnel, I didn't" half like
the contrack; for while the key might be
twisted off easily enough, how was I to
put it back again, without them sharp
eyes back of the benevolent goggles spot
tun me, especially, too, as old Malnwor
thy had a great habit of fumblln' with
,his chain as If it guarded his most pre
cious' posscssun. Howsomedever, luck,
as It often does in jobs, solved
tho problem as If playin' In with
us, lnstld of, as It turned out, stack
In' the kyards ag'ln us. The very next
mornln' at breakfast, there was. nothin'
to do but young Miss Rachel, must go up
stairs and see how the great "black pearl
was glttln on. She had dreamed about
it all night, she had, and if somethln
wasn't a-goln' to happen to It, then she'd
believe no more In dreams, that she
wouldn't. So, the old man gave her the
key. and up she tripped, with her fair
head a bobbin' tr'oo the ballisters llko a
sunbeam on a frolic. Old Malnworthy, it
seems, was in a hurry this morning, so
he didn't wait, but went right out to
d'rect some men a wukkin' about the
place, so, when Miss Rachel kem back
with the news that the pearl never looked
brighter and blacker and sounder, and
that she for one thought It was a shame
to give seen a darlin a bad name, and
sech like frivolities, there was no one in
the breakfast-room but Gentleman
George, and me a passin' muffins to him.
She kem clus to him In her excitement,
and I watched as clus', for there was
a fire In his eyes that warned me, and
began to joke with him about the rldlc
lous story he had told. He caught her
hand and 'pressed It, the hand, Kunnel
that held the key of the cabinet.
" 'Oh, sech a cunning little key,' I
heerd him murmur, 'Oh, sech a pretty
little hand"; and then, as he whispered
some more. I seen as how bis left hand
took the key from her grasp for just
one lnstlnck and then returned it. A
tiny space of time, Kunnel. wasn't It?
Hardly noticeable to a young girl, es
pecially while the man she loved was
breathln' soft nothin's into her wlllun
ear; and yet, arter the two had gone
out; togedder, she to find her father and
give over his key to him, and he to help
her, do you know, there in the muffin In
front of his plate was a perfect lmpres
slun of that key. Who'd have thunk It,
you say; who? Wby any fly crook that
never lets a chance git away from him!
"The rest was dead easy, Kunnel. The
very nex' day I had a key filed out and
that arternoon, while the family was a
plcnfckln somewhere, I was a plclnckln'
up In the library. I had the pearl out In
a Jiffy, and then I put a little fine black
dust In the case that -Ringgold had give
mc, and locked her up agin safe and
sound. And by nightfall tho great black,
pearl was in tho corner of Gentleman
George's wescut pocket.
'The nex' morning came the denoo
raent. Again the young girl Insisted on
examinin the pearL Again, she tripped
up the wide stairs like a darter of the
sun. But oh, what a dlfTrence In her
comln" down. Kunnel! She came tottertn'
Into the room, Kunnel, wtlh the case in
her hand, like a llttltt white coffin with,
nothin' but prec'us dust in It- 'Look,
look." she cried to her father, a-sobbln'
as If her heart would break.
"I must say that the old man took it
good, Kunnel. though the maiden atint
she did a song and dance, and hot
young Horace and Ringgold jlned in with
lammertatuns. 'It can't be helped, ne
said; 'a very remarkable' coincidence,
isn't it, Mr. Ringgold that we bof should
be sufferers from the same disease?" And
arter a little, he put the box in his
pocket and lef" the room.
"I didn't like it, Kunnel, blow me if
I did; and the fust chanct I got. I
begged Ringgold to skip while the pat
was clear. But he give me a laugh. The
trut' was he was lnfaterated with Miss
Rachel: they was togedder the live-long
day, and at nightfall when I went Into
the drawln'room to light up, there they
was a-whlsperlnr on the sofy In the
corner. Just as I finished with this Juty
Kunnel, and was retlrln", there was a
quick narvous step, and old Malnworthy
kem In and stood under the chanderller.
As tho light struck full on his face, I
knowed from his stern and determined
expressun that the jig wa3 up, and so
it was.
" 'Rachel, my darter, come here,' he
said, and she passed over to him, Ieavun"
us two, Gentleman George by the sofy,
and me by the rear doorway In the gloom.
My child." continued tho old man, I
have been to town and had tho dust in
the case examined by a chemist, and ho
assure.-? me that It Is nothin" but ground
glass, bits of a black bead, probably. Now,
since you are the only one besides myself
who has had the key, and especially
since you have been much in the com
p'ny of the estimable gentleman who
so trut'fully forewarned me. I must ask
you to say trut'fully whether, even for a
moment, you parted with It. Speak, my
dear," he concluded, 'rememberin that
you axe the most prec'us pearl I can
ever possess." Somethln" of a trump,
wasn't he, Kunnel, for an old fool?
'tShe stood there, Kunnel, all white and
tremSlln", her hand on her heart, her
lips parted, as if her breaf refused to
come and go. In an lnstlnck she saw It
all, saw that the man she loved In some
way had made her his unconsus accomp
lice, and sho resolved to save him. T
took It, father," she said: 'I had some
debts I was afeard to tell you of, so I
took It and sold it!"
T seen a look of Incredulity, Kunnel.
on old Malnworthy's face; I felt myself
advancln' as If I must say somethln", I
knowed not what, when Ringgold brushed
by me, and t'rew the great black pearl
on the center-table. 'There's the sun,"
he said; 'for I won't plead no sech babby
ack. I'm a crook all right, all right, but
I come of good fam'bly, and they calls
me Gentleman George!'
"Old Malnworthy picked up the gem
and looked it over carefull. 'Yes, ho
said, 'this is the pearl, and it seems to
be free from disease. I don't know that
I need to ask your furder comp'ny in
my house, sir; you seem to have acted
as well Jest now as It Is posslbel for a
damned scoundre to act. and so, good
riddance to -you. And, by the way, he
added, 'jest take that shifty-eyed indlvid
dle what you recommended as butler
along with you, or he may And his Jutles
very conflnln".
"And so we two rogues, Kunnel.
sneaked away, and If Ringgold, as he
seen that poor crlttur" stretch out her
arms arter him In mute entreaty, felt
half as mean as I done, he'd have hired
the' bouncer of some Bowery show to
t'run him down the stairs and jump all
over him. He didn't say much sech beln'
his custom: but he went straightway
back on the turf, where he showed seach
reckless deviltry to make up for one good
action, that ho soon got ketched to the
tune of a five-specker. I didn't regret It,
Kunnel, for who knowed how soon his
society craze might have come on ag'ln,
and perhaps led him Into seeekln" out
Miss Rachel;' and when, a few months ar
ter, I seen it In print as how they had
marret her to a bald-headed widower with
six children. I felt easy in my mind, for
I knowed she was safe. And that's the
story of how I lamed good manners in
sarvice. Kunnel. and a good thing lt'3
over, too: for vour pillows need punchln
up, and my dipper. It has run dry."
HOW SLANG BECOMES POPULAR
Mnny Words In English Lnngnnge
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polite use. A writer In the London
Academy contends that many words re
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hewn stones that are necessary to fill
crevices In the language and that the
critic who would exclude them Is ignor
ant of his calling. William Cullen Bry
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and : widely consulted ever since, the
Academy critic objects to as a bag filled
with bones of contention and liable to
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The difficulty seems to be that while
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Is likely to crop up at any time and put
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What is the difference between an offi
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and he can make you feel he Is an official
If you run up against that reserve power
of which you see no outward manifes
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should keep In mind the constant manu
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