MY LOVED ONE SLEEPS.
Cy loved one lies nslccp wltbla licr grate;
Her votco Is still, no more I licar
A whispered word of hope or fear;
My loved one Ilea asleep wltbln bcr grave.
My 1ot?i1 one lies asleep wltbln bcr crave;
Sbo who pledged tonic her love and life,
Aim i.rited me with faith of loving wife,
My loved one lies asleep wltbln her grave.
My Jovwl one II -s alccp within her grnvt-;
Upon tny clieek there falls a silent tear,
In rail remembrance of inv treasure dear,
Mr loved one lies asleep within her grave.
Will JT. Llciiicw, in the Current.
A SEQUEL TO JIATIIIAS SA.NDOKF AKD
BOCTOIt AXTEKIUTT.
JEZy Jules ei-jae
ai7tho ov jouriKiir to the ckntjiu
op tkk nAitTii, "imr to the moon,"
"auodno tiie wonr.D in eighty
DAVR, " "jtlCIIAEIi STIIOOOKF,"
" TWENTY THOUSAND liEAOUES
OJ1EIl TIIE HEA," ETC., ETO.
Tnoixlallon coiwlghlcd hy a. W. Uanna, 1SS3.
CHAPTER XVI-Continukd.
One, tlicti, of tho thrco traitors who
hfttl brought nbout tho sanguinary col
iapco ot Iho conspiracy of Trieste was in
Clio bauds of tlio Doctor. Tltoro woro
tlus other two still to bo seized, and Oar
pen Und just told whoro thoy could bo
fonniL
An Iho Doctor was known to Toron
thai nnd Picrro was known to Toronthul
ruJ Surcuiy, it soonied best for thorn
not to nppcnr until thoy could do co
with ooine clmnco of success. But now
they woro on Iho track of tho noeom
pliees, it was important not to loso sight
oEtfiem until circiunstanoos favored tho
attack. And so Point Pescado, to follow
them wherever thoy wont, and Cupo
Matifou to loud tho strong hand whon
needed, were Bent to Morineo, whero tho
Doctor, Picrro and Luigi would como
in. tho Ferrato aa soon aa they woro
wanted.
JIk noon an thoy arrived thoy set to
work. Thoy had no difliculty in dis
coveries tho hotel in which Toronthul
and Sarcany hud taken up their quar
ters. While Capo Matifou walked
about tho neighborhood till tho evening,
Point Pescado kept watch. Ho saw tho
two friends coma out at about ono
o'clock in tho aftornoou. It seonioJ
fJutt tho banker was muoh dopressod
wwl npoko littlo, while Sarcany waa
rtarlicriliirly lively. During tho morn
ing Poscado had hoard what had
happened tho provious ovoniug in tho
mtoonn of tho Corclo, that is to say, of
that oxtraordinary narlin which had
mado 110 many victims, among tho chief
of whom wero Toionthal and Sarcany,
He therefore nssutnod that their couvcr
tatiou was about that curious picco of
bad luak. In addition ho had learned
notr theso two men had boon heavy
loucra for some tituo, mid ho also as
mimed Uiat thoy had almost oxhaustod
tlicir funds, and that tho tint owns coin
ing when tho Doctor could usofully
intervene.
Thin information was contained in a
telegram which Pesende, without men
tioning names, sont olT during tho
morning to Malta, whonco it was for
warded by tho private who to Anto
Sirttx When Sarcany and Toronthal entorod
the hall of tho Casino IVscado followed
tliem ; and whim thoy onterod tho
aniiii saloons ho was oloso behind.
It was ilieu thrco o'clock in tho af tor
noon. Tho play was growing iiniiuatod.
Tho banker and his companion first
strolled round tho rooms. For a niin
nlo or bo they stopped at different
tablet) and watched tho game, but look
no part in it
Point Pcscado strolled about among
the spectators, but did not loso sight of
them. IIo oven thought it best, so as to
disarm suspicion, to risk a fow llvo-lrnuo
pieces on tho columns and dozens of
roulutto, and, as was proper, ho lost
thoin with tho most exemplary cool
ness Dili ho did not avail himself of
tho excellent advico given him in confi
dence by a professor of great merit
'To Biicceed, sir, you should study to
loso the email Htakcs and win tho big
ones 1 That is tho secret 1"
Four o'clock struck, and thon Sarcany
and Toronthal thought tho time had
como for them to try thoir luok. Thuro
wcroROYornl vacant places at ono of tho
roulotto tables. Thoy seated themselves
facing each other, nod the chief of tho
tablo soon saw himself Burrounded not
only by players, but by spectators eager
(oneaistut tho roveugo of tho famous
loscra of tho night before, Quito natur
ally Pcscado found himself in tho front
rank of tho spectators, aud ho was not
ono of thoso least mtorostod iu tho vicis
situde of tho battle.
For tho first hour tho chances scorned
about equal. To divide them better
Toronthul and Baroany played indepen
dently of each other. They staked
separately, and won a fow largo
amounts, eoniotiinos on Biniplo combina
tions, (sometimes on multiple coinbiua
tions, and sometimes on many combina
tion!! at onco. Luok decided ueithnr
for or against thoin. But between four
and tux o'clock it seemed to bo ruuuiug
in their favor. At roulotto tho maxi
mum is 0,000 francs, and this they
gjniued&overul times on full number.
Taronthal'8 hands Bhoolc as h
stMlehcd them across tho tablo to stake
kwrnwHoy, or aa ho snatched from iimkr
tbe rxk tlio gold and notci of tlio
roupira. Sarcany waa quito inastor
0( himself, ijd his orunteuauco giwo no
eM at Uis emotions. Ho contented
hiuMM'.U'HitjiouoouriiinghU companion
vifclihw l6oks, and it was Toronthul
whom chatioo thou followod with most
0mUtioy,
Ioit I'cscadc, nUbongli rathor
dmailr 1 by tho ooustaut movement of
Hbm nkl and iioto. kept clow watoh on
timni. and wondered if they would bo
yredjMt uougU to luwp tha wulth
Sandorf's
Reven
which was growing nndcr their llands,
and if thoy would stop in timo. Then
tho thought occurred to him that if they
had that good sense which ho doubted
they would loavo Monto Carlo and fly
to somo other corner of Europe, where
ho. would havo to follow them. If
money did not fail them they would not
fall so easily into the power of Doctor
Antekirrt
"uertnmiy," no tnougltt, "in every
way it will bo better for them to get
rumcil, and I am very much mistaken
if thnt scoundrel Sarcany is tlio man to
stop, onco ho is in tho swim 1"
Whatever wero Pescado's thoughts
and fears tho luck did not abandon tho
two friends; luok threo times, in fact, that
would havo broken tho bank, if the chief
of tho tnblo had not thrown in an addi
tional 20,000 francs.
u.110 stnio wa3 quito an ovont among
the spectators, tho majority of whom
wero in favor of tho players. Was not
this id rovengo for tho insolent series
cf rougo by which tho administration
had do largoly profited during tho provi
ous ovonmgC
Athalf-past six, when thoy suspended
thoir play, Toronthal and Sarcany had
realized more than 20,000 pounds. Thoy
rose and left tho roulette tablo. Toron
thal wnlkod with uncertain step, as if
ho wero slightly intoxicated, intoxicated
with emotion nnd corobral fatigue. Ilis
companion, impassable as ever, watched
him, thinking ho would bo tompted
to oscapo with tho money he had won,
aud withdraw himself from his influ
ence.
"Without n word thoy passed through
tho hall, descended tho peristyle, nnd
walked towards tho hotel.
Pescado followed thom at a distance
As ho came out ho saw near ono of tho
kiosks in tho garden, Capo ISIntifou
seated on a bnnch.
Point Pescado stopped up to him.
"Has tho time como?" asked 3Iatif on.
' What time?"
"To -to "
"Tocomo on tho stage ? No! not yctl
you must wait at tho wingsl Havo you
had your dinner ?
"Yos."
" My compliments to yon 1 My stom
ach is in my heels and that is not tho
place for a stomach 1 Hut I will got it
up again if I havo time ! Do not movo
from hero till I got back !"
iVml Pescado rushed oil dowii tho hill
nfter Toronthal and Sarcany.
Whou ho found that thoy wero at
dinner in thoir rooms, ho sat down at
tho tallo d'hote. Ho was only just in
time, and iu half an hour, as ho said, ho
had brought back his stomach to tho
normal plaoo that that organ occupies
in tho human machine.
Thou ho wont out with a capitnl cigar
in his mouth and took up his position
opposite the hotel.
Assuredly," ho said, to himself, "I
must havo boon made for a policeman 1
I havo mistaken my profession I"
Tho question ho thon nskod lnmsolf
was: Wero tlieso gontlemen going back
to tho Casino this evening?
About oight o'clock thoy appeared at
tho hotel door.
Pescado saw and heard that thoy wero
in eager discussion.
Apparently tho banker was trying to
resist once more tho entreaties aud
injunctions of his accomplice, for Sarcany
in an imperious voice, was heard to say:
"lou must, bilas! L will havo it so!"
Thoy walked up tho hill to tho gardens
of Monto Carlo. Point Pencado followed
tliem, without being able to overhear
tho rest of their conversation much to
his regrot.
lint this is what Sarcany was saj'ing,
in a tone which admitted of no reply,
to tho banker whoso resistance waa grow-
iug feebler every minute:
"To stop, Silas, whon luck is -with us
is madness! You must havo lost your
huid! In the 'dovoiuo' wo faced our
gamo like fools, and in tho 'veiuo'wo
must faco it liko wise men. We havo an
opportunity tho only ono perhaps an
opportunity that uiaj never occur again,
to bo masters of our fata, masters of for
tuno, and by our own fault wo shall let
it escape us I Silan, do you not feel that
luck"
If it is not exhausted," said Toron
thul.
No! n hundred times, no!" roplied
Sarcany; "it cannot bo explained, but
it can bo felt, and it thrills you oven to
your spinal cord! A million is waiting
for us to-night at tho Casino tallica.
Yes, a million, and I will not let it slip 1"
"lou play, thon, Sarcau.
"Mo! play alouo? No! Play with
you, bilas les; anil it wo navo to
chooso between us I will yield you my
place. Tho 'voino' is personal, and it
is manifest that to you it has returned.
Play on then, nnd win !"
In fact, what Sarcany wishod was that
Toronthal should uot bo content with
tho fow hundred thousand francs that
would allow him to osoapa from his
power; nut tliu lie wouiii either bocomn
tho millionaire ho had been, or bo
reduced to nothiu Jtioh, ho would
continue his former life. Ruined, ho
would havo to follow Sarcany where ho
pleased. Iu either case, he would bo
uuablo to injure him.
llesist as ho might, Toronthal felt all
tho jwssions of tho gambler rising within
him. Iu tliA nusornblo abaaouient into
which ho had fallen ho felt afraid to go.
and at the same timo longed to go back
to tho tables. Sammy a words sot lua
blood on fire. Visibly, luck had
deolarod iu his favor, and during tho
last few hours with such constancy that
it would bo unpardonable to atop.
llio madman I lake all gamblers ha
epoko in the present whon ho should
havo spoken only in tho past! Iustead
of saying, "I havo boon lucky "which
was true ho said "I am luckv." whioh
was fnlso. And in his brain, as in that
of all who trust to chance, there was no
other reasoning ! They forgot what waa
recently Haid by ono of tho greatest
mathematicians of Frauco, "Cliancj
has ita aaprices, it has not ita habits."
bareuny and Toronthal walked on to
tho Casino, followed by Pescado; thero
they stopped for a moment.
"Silas," uaid Sarcany, "no hosiUtion!
You hato resolved to ploy, havo you
not?"
'- Yc, resolved to risk ovcrjthiag for
everything!" replied tho banker, In
whom hesitation had ceased, when ho
found himself on tho steps of the peri
btyle. "It is not for mo to inflnenco you !"
continued Sarcany; " trust to your own
inspiration, not to mine it will not
lead you astray. Aro you going for
roulotto ? '
"No trcutc-ct-quarantol" caid Tor
onthal, as ho entered tho hall.
"You aro right, Silas! listen only to
yonrsolf. Iloulotto has almost given
you a fortune ! Trcnte-ct-quaranto will
do tho rest I"
Thoy entered the saloons, and walked
around them; ton minutes afterwards
Pescado saw them seat themselves at
ono of tho trente-ot-nuaranto tables.
There, in fact, thoy could play moro
boldly, fox if tho chancos of tho gamo
aro simple, tho maximum is 12,000
francs, and a fow passes can uivo. con
siderable differences in gain and loss.
Ilonco it is tho favonto gamo with de.s-
porato players, and nt it wealth and
poverty can bo mado with a vertiginous
rapidity sufficient to raise tho envy of
all tho Stock Exchanges of tho world.
CHAPTER xvn.
A CHECK FOU HAltCAIJT.
Toronthal lost his fear ns soon as ho
was seated at tho tronte-ot-quaranto
tablo. Thero was no timidity now about
his play; ho staked ids money liko n
man m a fury. Aud Sarcany watched
his every movement, deeply interested
in this supromo crisis, deeply interested
in thoisuie.
For tho first hour tho alternations of
loss and gain almost balanced each other,
the advantage being on Torontlud'a
side. Sarcany and ho imagined they
woro nuro of success. Thoy grow
excited, aud staked higlior and higher
until tliey sluiced only tlio maximum.
ISutsoon tho luck returnod to thoimpor
turablo bank which, by this maximum
protccto its interests iu no inconsiderable
measure, and which knows no transports
of folly.
Then camo blow nttor blow. Tlio
winnings duringthe afternoon wontheap
by heap. Toronthal waa nn awful spec
taclo ; his faco became congested, hisoye3
grow hnggnrd, ho clung to tho tablo, to
his chair, to tho rolls of notes, aud the
rouleaux of gold that his hand would
hardly yield over with tho twitohings
and convulsions of adrowniug man! And
no ono was thoro to stop him on tho
brink of the chasm! Not a hand was
stretched out to help him ! Not an
effort from Sarcany to tear him from tho
place before ho was lost, boforo ho
finally sank beneath tho wave of ruin I
iU ton o'clock Toronthal had risked
his last stake, his last maximum. Ho
Won ! Tiun ho staked again and again
and lost. And then ho rose, dazed
nnd scared and fiercely wishing that tho
very walls would crumble and crush tho
crowd around him; ho had nothing loft
nothing of all tho millions tiiat had
been left in the bsuk when the milhoua
of Count Saudorf had poured iu to ita
aid.
Toronthal, accompanied by Sarcany,
who acted as his jailer, loft the gaming-
room, crossed tlio liall, aim Hurried out
of tho Casino. Then thoy fied across
the square to the footpaths leading to
La Turbie.
Point Pescado was already on thoir
tr ices, and as ho passed had shaken up
Capo Matifou as ho lay half asleep on
his bonoh, with a shout of
" Wako up ! oven and los;s!"
And Capo Matifou had como along
with him, on a trail it would not do to
loso.
Sarcany nnd Toronthal continued to
hurry on, side by side, aud gradually
mounted tho paths which twist and
wind on tho fiank of the mountain
among tho olivo and orango gardens.
'Iho capricious zig-zags allowed Pescado
nnd Matifou to keen thoin in view.
although they could not get near enough
to hear them.
"Como back to tho hotel, Silas!"
Sarcany continued to repeat, in an impe
rious tone; "como back, ami bo cool
again !"
'2oJ we aro ruined ! Lot us part! I
do not want to soo you again ! I do not
want"
"Part? nnd why? You will follow
mo, biiaal To-morrow wo will leave
Morocco I Wo havo enough to take us
to Tetuan, and thero wo will fiuisli our
work !"
'No! no! Leave mo, Sarcany, lea vo
mo! raid 'loronthal.
And he pushed him violently nsido
as ho tried to catch on; then ho darted
oil' at such speed that Sarcany had soma
trouble in keeping up. Unconscious of
his acts, Toronthal at every step risked
falling into tho s oop raviuos above
which I ho winding foot paths lay unrollod.
Only ono idea possessed him ; to escape
from Sarcany whoso counsels had led
h m to misery, to oscapo without earing
whore ho went or whui became of him.
Sarcany felt that his aeoomplico was
nt lat beyond him, that he was going to
escape lam I Alt 1 if the Danuer Had
not kuown those seerol.s that might ruin
him, or at least irretrievably compro
mise tho third game ho wishod to play,
how littlo anxiety ho would havo felt
for tho niiu ho had draggnd to tho brink
of destruction! Hut, before he fell,
Toronthal might give a last cry, and
that cry ho must stiile nt nil hazards!
lhen, from tho thought of tho critno
on whieh ho had resolved, to its iuuno
iliato xeoittion, was only n step, and
this stop Sarcany did not hesitate to
take. That which he had intended to
do on tho road to Tot nan in the aolitudos
of Morocco, might Ihi done here, this
very night, ou this very spot which
would mou bo deserted !
Hut just at present ln'tweon Monto
Carlo ami La Turbie a few belated way-
la-era wero alous: tho slopos, A cry
from Silas might bring tliem to his
help, aud the murderer intended the
murder to bo commuted in such n way
tunt it would never be suspected. Aud
wi ho had to wait. Higher up, beyond
Li Turbui nnd the frontier of Monaco,
along tho Cornicho clinging to tho lower
buttit'&soa of tho Alps. 2,000 feet above
tlio sea Sarcany could strike a far surer
blow. Who could thuu come to his
victim's help? now nt tho fool of such
precipices aa Iwrder that road could
Toronthnl's corpse bo found ?
Hut for tho Inst time, Sarcany tried
to stop his accomplice and tempt him
back to Monto Carlo.
"Come, Silas, come," said he, seizing
him by J lie arm; "to-morrow wo will
begin again! Ihnvo somo money left."
"Nol Leave me! Leavo me!"
exclaimed Toronthal, with nu angry
gesture.
And if ho had been strong enough to
struggle with Sarcany, if ho had been
nrraiM, he might not even havo hesitated
to tako vengeance on his old Tripolitan
broker for all tho evil ho had dono him.
With n hand that anger mado tho
stronger, Toronthal thrust him aside ;
then ho rushed towards tho last turn of
tho path and ran up a fow steps roughly
cut in the rock between tho littlo gar
dens. Soon ho reached tlio main road
of La Turbie, along tho narrow neck
which dividos tho Dog's Head from
Mont Agol, tho old frontier lino between
Italy and Franco.
" Go, then, Silas I" exclaimed Sar
cany. "Go! but you will not go far!"
Then turning off to the right ho
scrambled over a stone hedge, scaled a
garden wall, and ran on in front so a3 to
precedo Toronthal along tlio road.
Pescado and Matifou, although they
had uot heard what had passed, had
seen tho banker thrust Sarcany away
and Sarcany disappear in tho shade.
"Eh!" exclaimed Pescado. "Per
haps tho best of them has gone ! Any
how Toronthal is worth something ; and
wo havo no choice I Come on, Capo; for
ward n way 1"
And in a fow rapid strides they wera
close to Toronthal, who waa hurrying
up tho road. Leaving to tho left tho
littlo knoll with tho tower of Augustus,
ho passed nt n run tho houses, then
closed for tho night, and at length camo
out ou tho Coruiche.
Point Pescado and Capo Matifon fol
lowed him less than fifty yards behind.
But of Sarcany thoy thought no
moro. iio nnd either taken tho crest of
tho dope to tho right, or abandoned his
accomplico to return to Monto Carlo.
Tho Cornicho is an old Itoman road.
When it leaves La Turbie, it drops to
wards Nice, running in mid-mountain
by magnificent rocks, isolated cones,
and profound precipicea that cleavo
their ravines down to the railway lino
along tho shorn. Beyond, on this
starry night by tho light of tho moon,
then rising m tho east, thero showed
forth confusedly tho six gulfs, thoislo of
Sainto Hospice, tho mouth of the Var,
the peninsula of Garoupe, tho Capo of
Antibes, tho Juan Gulf, tho Lerias
Islands, tho Gulf of Napoule, and tho
Gulf of Cannes, with tho mountains of
Esterel in tho background. Hero shone
tlio harbor lights of Beaulieu at tho
base of the escarpments at Petite-
friquo, then of Villefrancho in front of
Mont Louzn, and yonder tho lamps of
the fishing-boats reflected ou tho calm
waters of tho open sea.
It was inst after midnight. Toron
thal, ns soon as ho had got out of tho
La Turbie, left tho Cornicho, aud
dashed down a littlo road leading di
rectly to Eza, a sort of eag'o's nest with
a half-savage population, boldly placed
on n reck above a mass of pines and carob
trees.
Tho road was quito desortod. Tho
madman kept ou for somo timo witnout
slackening his pace or turning his head;
suddenly ho throw himself offto tho loft,
down n narrow foot-path runniug closo
to tho high olift' along tho shore, under
which tho railwaj'and carriage-road pasa
by tho tunnel.
TO EE CONTINUED.
Met His
Apropos
Wife on tho Battlefield,
of romantic marriages.
lliero is no man in congress who can
show a hotter record than Representa
tive William .7. Stone of Kentucky,
who takes Oscar Turner's place in tho
house. Tho story of Stone's tcrrihlo
wound on tho battlefield was told not
lonjr ago, but the best part of tho story
was left out. Tho battle where ho lost
his log was near C'ynthiana, Ky. lie
was iu tlio Lonleuerate service, anil
after that battle was lying on tho field
gasping for water, with his leg shot
away almost to the hip. A Federal sol
dier saw him and asked him if he was
not thirsty. Ho replied that he was
iind tho Yankee went oil' and brought
hack a canteen full of water. Ho raised
the wounded man and gave him a
drink, and then in kindness left his
own canteen by the side of what ho
thought to be Iho dying rebel. Said
he, "I will leave this, as von may want
to drink again after awhile." Stono
thanked him. As ho turned to go
awuv another Union soldier eamo up
and said: "Hello! my man, is that rebel
dead?" Tho first Yankee replied ho
was not, but he thought ho was dying.
The newcomer then said: "Stand aside
ami I'll finish him," and with that ho
raised his musket. Tho kind-hearted
Yankee stepped iu front of him and
told him if ho shot the rebel ho would
shoot him. This ended the matter, nnd
tho gooil and tho bail Union soldier
wont nwav together. This much of the
story has already been told.
Mr. btono lay upon the battle field
for somo time, hugging the canteen to
him. Tho troops had now all left tho
field, and none hut the dead and dying
remained. At this a number of young
ladies from tlio town of Cvnthiana
camo to visit the hattlolicld. They hud
gathered up the ramrods scattered
among the dead, and ono of them, find
ing Mr. Stone still alive, and the sun
beating down upon him. took a bundle
of these ramrods and stuck them into
tho earth, making a half-moon of paling
fence about his head. Over this sho
spread her shawl and did what sho
could to ease him. This young woman j
is now Mrs. Stone, ono of the accom
plished women of our Congressional
soeietv. Stono fell in lovo with liar nn
tho batlelield, and after his recovery .ho
sueeei'dod in winning her. The storv,
If told Iu tho shape of a novel, wo'vd
bo considered improbable. But truth
is stranger than fiction, and there are
more romances nil around us than there
are on tho book shelves. turn tn
Clcvctunil Lanier.
A rcblilent of Santa llarbara, Cat, has a case
of eight domesticated humailajj bird.
GOING TO CONGRESS.
Thero is n certain fascination to a
) oung or old man, in b?ing "talked of,"
as the man who ought to go to con
gress from his district, and the con
gressional boo is buzzing in thousands
of bonnets all over the country. Men
there arc, who think tho world would
havo no further ambitions for them, if
they could once go to congress, nnd
thoy will work nnd wait, and plan, nnd
humiliate themselves, and bargain and
sell and buy, until finally, after years
of the dirtiest and most detestable work
they will get the nomination, when
they will work night and day, and lie,
cheat, steal, get drunk and debase
themselves, and be elected. Then they
think tho trouble is over, aud they will
have two years of peace, associating
witli the great men of the nation. A
few. days since a iiaper published a long
list of members ot congress who nan
positively asserted that they would not
under any circumstances be re-elected,
and that inoney could not hire them to
-ervo another term in congress. Many
who have not investigated tho annoy
ances of u congressman, wonder why
men who have been there should not
have the same desire to go again. It
looks as though congress would be n
splendid place for a man to go, who
wanted to amount to something. It
seems as if a wealthy man who w anted
to retire from business, could he elected
to congress aud be perfectly happy.
Well, the liapppy member of congress
is one that is dead. There is no posi
tion more trying to a man. lie is the
body servant of any man in his district
who wants anything at Washington,
from a post ollico to apackago of pump
kin seeds. The congressman necessari
ly makes many promises of attention to
liis constituents, and lie goes to Wash
ington hoping that tho constituent has
forgotten about it, hut the constituent
never forgets. If lie does not want any
thing himself ho hunts up someone who
does, so that ho may bring it before the
congressman, and show his influence
with tlio great man. If told that the
matter is not worth taking the timo of
the congressman, ho will say, "Gosh,
our congressman will do anything for
me. I don't want it to get out but con
fidentially, if it hadn't been for vie, he
would have boon beaten. He told me
after election, says he, Jim, I lay the
success to j'ou, and you can draw on
me at sight, for anything!' Thoro may
bo a hundred such friends that the con
gressman has made in his district, and
he knows that on the least appoaranco
of lukowarmness on his part, thoy will
go back on him, and talk it over at the
corner grocery, how he has got too big
for his boots. " Men get mail at their
congressman because ho does not write
to them, whether ho has any business
with them or not. Thoy remember
that he used to write to thoin when ho
wanted work done. Then if he writes
to them, by tho aid of a secretary, thov
say ho is getting above his business. If
ho" sends a letter to a constituent, print
ed witli a type writer, the- got mad and
say they want liim to understand thoy
can rea'd "writin'." anil it isn't neces
sary for him to print his letters to them.
If he sends a package of garden seeds
to one, and another hoars of it, and
none camo to him, ho is mad, and says
they will teach the congressman a les
son next time. His voles aro watched
closely, and a congressman can make
life long enemies of his friends by votes
that are of no importance at all. Ono
member tried for a week to explain
how it was that he voted to adjourn at
two o'clock in the afternoon, when he
ought to work till supper time. Tlio
fact that he worked until after mid
night on a committee, had nothing to
do with tho case, and tho constituent
voted lor the opposing candidate, bo
causo ho believed the old congressman
was a shirk. Besides, he had sont a
neighbor a sack of cabbage seed from
tho agricultural department, and the
indignant constituent had not received
any. A man, with a million dollars,
wlio never let business bother him any
moro, and who has a lovely homo, sur
rounded by every comfort, and friends
innumerable, aud who is perfectly
happy, allows himself to ho elected to
congress, and he takes his wife and goes
to Washington, and they tako rooms at
a hotel. At homo the wife is loved and
respected by all who know her, and hor
houso is tho contor of social affairs.
After living in Washington a month
sho had four calls from persons sho
never hoard of before, who aro wives of
members from different parts of tho
country. Sho has made the acquaint
ance in the hotel parlors, of the wives
of two members, and four females,
whom sho believes to be lobbyists, who
have designs on hor husband's votes,
and she is tho "hoinesickest" woman
on earth. In two mouths she has got
acquainted with tho wives of three
members from her own state, two of
whom sho don't like; has attended ono
White House reception, and seen her
name in a Washington society paper
spelled wrong, but it was announced
that she was lovely in a low corsage and
diamonds, when sho knows she is bony,
and nevor had a low dress iu the past
thirty years. She tries to prevent any
of the society papers going to her home,
fearing her friends will laugh at hor.
In threo mouths she is sick and dis
couraged, and tho society papers an
nounce that tho loving aud accom
plished wife of Congressman So-and-so
has returned to her homo to prepare for
social festivities at tho capital later iu
the season. She returns to have a fit
of sickness, aud w.shos to heaven hor
husband had novor thought of going to
congress. In tho meantime the con
gressman, whoso life was so quiet at
home, and so full of enjoyment, is
humping himself night nnd day to keep
tip with the demands of his constitu
ents. He shadows the pension ollico
tmtd ho is culled a bore, ho works tho
postolllce department for offices, and is
the tired servant of everybody, walking
j.iuilas overy day, attend'
s sessions aud
committee meetings introduces con
stitueuts from home to tho president,
though ho is in doubt whether the pres
ident knows who he is, shows a gang of
vWitors through the eapilol building,
aud oth r places ot interest, as though
he wero a guide instead of a statesman.
IIo loses his uppet.to. and miiybo takes
to stimulants; perhaps ho dies of ma
laria, but if he lives he goes homo to bo
rc-elcctcd, s'ck, disgusted, but desiring
to be vindicr.tcd by a second term. Ho
finds that in his absence every public
act of his has been been misconstrued,
and many of his former friends have
gone hack on him. and if ho is re-elected
he has to buy his election, which ho
docs, and then ho serves out his second
term carelessly, nnd don't want a re
election and generally does not get it
He returns to his home broken down,
his temper injured so ho can't enjoy
himself if he wanted to, his wealth is
no good to him. and he dies, finally,
leaving to his fam.ly the legend that
"pa was in congress once." Tho glory
of statesniansh p is small. 'cat's Hun.
ART IN AMERICA.
The Two jroiitlccllls Ono n I.om
bnrd, tho Other n I'rencliman.
Amatctirship in America has been the
prop of many French painters without
earning their gratitude. Legislation by
congress a year or so ago gave them a
better reason for their openly express
ed contempt that they once had. Amer
ica's ready purse has kept sonic from
starving, and raised others to a position
which princes rightly envy. America
has also greatness: Barye, the sculptor,
Jean Francois Millet, were better un
derstood and better treated by Ameri
cans than by thoir own countrymen.
Go to Paris to-day and ask for Monti
cclli. It will bo a very well-informed
artist who can tell you who ho is.
There are two Monticellis, one a Lom
bard. who paints genre pictures, nowise
different from the ordinal y atrocity of
modern Italy; and tlio other a French
man of Marseilles, who is probably the
greatest colorist alive. A riotous early
life, great reserve, complete withdraw
al from tlio world, and present incapac
ity to equal every work when Dins liv
ed and was charged with keeping this
eccentric painter concealed iu order to
profit by his work and counsel make
tlio recognition of Monticelli by the'
men of tho day nearly impossible.
Where was he recognized? In Ameri
ca. Where are his best pictures? In
America. By somo occult means he in
herited the palette which slipped so
early from the hand of Marilhat; with
out any known excursions into tho true
orient ho seems to have found in Prov
ence the glowing and deeply harmoni
ous colors of the best old oriental rugs
and carpets. This, to be sure, convoys
but faint praiso to somo minds who ask
that a definite story shall bo told in
every picture, and who use the term
"decorative" as a slur. Such will find
little to admire iu Monticelli. Tlio
Bacchanalian scene here produced a
vision of a dance iu that Italian gar
don to which tlio pleasure-loving Flor
entines who toid tlio stories of tho De
cameron withdrew is not by any means
tlio important point in tho original.
Tho groups are at first indistinct;" onby
gradually" ilo they announce themselves
to tho brooding eye; slowly thoy re
solve into threo separate rings of danc
ers, and one great cluster ot quiet spec
tators grouped before tlio ruined tem
ple on the left. In Monticelli it is tlio
wonderful color that atlracks, a color;
composed of an apparently haphazzard
but really deeply felt intermingling of
cream whites, lemons, subdued blues
and reds. Early Italian pictures often
show this heaping up of incident, this
tapestry-liko mingling of low colors,
and this high finish in tlio faces. It is
a sensuous tumult of color that arises
from tho ample gowns and ilowing
cloaks of devil-may-care dancers, as
they pace along ecstatic, or fiing their
limbs in a sudden burst to tlio thrum
ming of a Provencal Mephislo seated
on the loft. No painter like Monticelli
for startling and really griev
ing honest, orderly souls, who
wish to tako their line arts
serenely, with circumspection, with
instant grasp of all the painter
meant. To enjov Monticelli best it is
well to havo his picture at the foot of
one's bed, and open tho eyes on it
during tho white first hours of tho
morning, when the spirit is still half in
dreamland, and the amazing dopth anil
subtlety of his color-valves have a
chanco to penetrate before the hard
conventionalities of wide-awako day
draw tho blinds upon tho senses and
open tho doors to reason. Monticelli
at his best, as when lie painted this, is
a workman for poets and for amateurs
who will not give a lig for rules who
aro at onco wide enough and bold
enough to appreciate extremes in the
art. And to say that is to say a great
deal. Magazine of Art.
Had Gone Up.
Colonel Moloy sont a recently em
ployed colored man to tho postotlice for
fifty cents worth of postage stamps.
"Look here, Simon," said tho colonel
when tho man returned, "you have
only brought mo thirty cents' worth of
stamps. How's that?"
"I paid him fifty cents fur 'em, sah."
'.No, you didn't. You have kopt
twenty cents. Stamps aro two conts
apiece, and you have onlv brought mo
fifteen, instead of twenty-live,"
"Look hcah. boss, l'se powerful sorry
tor seo dat yer doan keep up wid do
market. Do pr.co o' stamps hub dim
riz."
"What?"
"Dun riz, I tells yer."
"Give mo twenty cents, Simon."
"How ken 1 gin yer do crinount whon
da charged so much fur do stamps?
Co'n nn' wheat an' oats an' rye an'
stamps is all dun gono up, an' hoah yer
comes makiii' or motif or bout twenty
conts. ftobor seed do liko in mcr life.
Es pusson kaint lib in dis heah country
widout gittln' inter trouble 'Taint
my fault dat do market changes.
Beckiu dnt if I went out tcr buy some
moat fur yer I'd be 'cuzed o'stealin'.
Neber seed do liko. 1 'spizo er whito
man no how." Arkamuio Traveler.
Ills Ruling Passion.
A certain editor of a weekly news
paper mado a practice- of "stopping the
proas to announce," if ho had nothing
more important to notico than a dog
fight. One week everything was dull
as a patent oillco report, but tho ruling
passion cropped out as follows: "Wo
stop the press to announce-that nothing
has occurred since wo wont to prejs of
siillic out interest to Induce u to stop
the press to anuounco it." Texas Stft-
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