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A LOVE SONO. When Love comes to my garden He walks with dainty tread. The lilies blaze before him, The moss-rose lifts its head; The trim-kept lawns grow greener. The borders blush with pride, The buds burst into blossom When Love walks by my side. When Love leaves my sad garden The roses' petals fail. The jasmine's scented clusters Fade, dying on the wall; The lawns grow dock and thistle. The paths are rank with weeds, And all the dainty borders Are strewn with fallen seeds. I Sweet Love, stay in my garden, Rest in its rosy shades. Bask in its scented sunshine, Dream in its leafy glades; Sing to the strings of pleasure, Through all life's pepilune; I Make every season summer. Let every month be June. •-Ball Mall Gazette. S Fate’s Caprice. esOIIN VAN STYVER pushed the -JI swinging door of the ¡«ostotttce, ' went in and dropped bls letter In tlie l»ox marked “Pacific coast.” “The little woman will be glad to get It, and If a big duffer like me can’t earn his dinner somehow, wliy be don’t de serve to have any,” he mused. The letter he had just dispatched was addressed to Mrs. John Van Sty ver, 204 Front Bay street, San Francisco, Cal. It contained, besides ail extensive col lection of terms of endearment, which proved that Van Styver's collegiate ed ucation had been good, and that he pos sessed a considerable amount of enthu siasm and warmth of feeling, a cheek for every available cent he had in the world, sent to a violet-eyed young wom an and a baby girl, living at the other extremity of the continent. Of recent years all things lind con spired against John Van Styver. First a savings bank failure, then the protracted litigation over a mine, which John persisted was rightfully theirs, and could be worked at a protit, had swallowed up their remaining small capital, and now required more funds If the fight was to be kept up. So when an offer came from a pub lishing house in New York to Van Sty ver to Illustrate a new and promising periodical, lie telegraphed Ids accept ance. packed his valise and took the night train east. That was one year ago. Of course, It would have been absurd to bring the two away from their cot tage home to so trying a climate as that of New York, where the child would have sickened, possibly died. Van Styver laid not made n very pro found art study, but there was a dash and spirit about Ids etchings and pen pictures, and Ids campfire scenes on the prairies and American Indians were so strong and original and full of lift* that ids reputation lmd reached the big cities, resulting Iu the* offer which brought him east. After a six months' struggle the mag azine collapsed, went down In failure, as did the salaries of those connected with It. Determined and naturally buoyant, he threw himself heart and soul in the work, got a position of sketch artist on a Idg dally, dashed off an occasional reminiscence of California days, ole talmsl occasional work from art dealers and had obtained an order to fresco the ball room and hallways of a million aire's palatial residence, Just complet ed. when persistent ami nagging fate felled him In the shape of a protracted anil desperate attack of typhoid fever. Van Styver thought lie had his foot In the stirrups and would mount ami rise to success when obtaining the con tract to decorate the ball room panels and arched gallery of the white marble lions«* on Fifth avenue. He had com pleted Ids preliminary work, had re ceived Ids first payment, had eagerly dlspntehe«! it home, when stricken down. Two months of constant fever In a hospital, however skillful th«* nursing, leaves him a pretty sad wreck of his former self. Add to th«* shabbiness In evitable to garments'worn unremitting ly summer and winter, the broken and patched shoes, and weather-beaten hat, and the disguise Is quite complete be tween a man in easy clrcumstanc<*s ami n poor devil on whom tin* world l«x«ks askance aud shows neither mercy nor favor. tiolng to ascertain. Van Styver found Ills place taken on th«* newspaper ami th«* mural de«*oratlons of the white mar ble house all completed. A dogged determination seised hold of him to recuperate quickly and get nil Inning In the game, and Ids anger nt th«* kicks and cuffs of fat«* gave him a revivified pugnacity of infinite value to him just then. A windfall In the way of some Illus trating to Is* «lone hurriedly gave him the check he Inserted In the letter he droppe«! in th«* postotll«-«* I h » x before go ing to see if then* was nothing to la* had In the waj of extra work at the oltt. e of th«* Herald. There was nothing that day, and be went slowly back to th«* shabby «lark bull room In a shabby ami poor board ' tng house. A letter ha«l been brought by the post man during Ids absence, and was I thrust under the door. Tearing It open. Van Styver read an agltat«*«i entreaty that he come back as fast as steam could take him. Their rosebud an«l joy lay III ill unto dearti, and her on«* cry was for him. The manager of one of th«» depart ment« of an enormous trunk line, a road having ramifications all over the Fu ton, sat io his otllee In a dissatisfied brown study, Fanner Davidson had great resiionslblllties resting ou him, which his big salary could not cover. On the wide desk before which he sat lay a confusion of sketches, showing in more or less claborat«* form ami hack neyed style the route of the main line, from east to west, to be used as adver tising cards by the road. “Mere, Dick, chuck these things In the tire, will you? They nre not worth the pasteboard they are drawn on. Not one of ’em will do,” said Davidson, turning to a young clerk who was ed, he played for his guests while Chi checking up some books across the L’ST seventy years ago something cago grew up. It is related that in room. in the nature of a "boom” struck those days such things as white sheets “It seems d—d queer that there’s not Chicago, gave it a start towards aud table linen were a rare commodity, a single artist In this town who can catch my idea. Why, I explained what the great metropolis it lias become. and that after a guest was asleep the I wanted fully to at least fifty of them, I Before that, its history was practical specious landlord would Invade his and not one seems to have caught the ly that of a frontier village, a trading room with a hideous yell, suggesting faintest glimmer of what I want. If I ' point In 18311 a canal connecting the “Indians!” whip away the sheet from , Illinois River with Lake Michigan was the frightened stranger—who would could draiv I’d do the thing myself." “And yet, hang It all,” said Davidson, under consideration. Congress set prudently burrow In the blankets— rising and walking up and down his of fice, hfs hands in bis pockets, “the road must have the cards out iu a mouth's time for the spring traffic. There are I those prairie lands out in- Texas. It’s got to be shown In a clever ami novel ray, what are the sections the road covers.” John Van Styver, gaunt, poorly clad, with bloodshot eyes and tumbled hair, a look of haggaril wretchedness on his worn face, his hand trembling froir weakness and anxiety, was not a pre possessing figure. Nor could Davidson distinguish between the ravages of ty phoid fever on his once splendid phy sique or those which long habits of in ebriety would have produced. “What do you want, my man?” hr asked, scanning the wan appearance of the figure before him with growing dis CHICAGO IN 1830 FROM THE LAKE. favor. “To work my passage from New York to San Francisco on your road,” said apart land to aid the project. A por while the trophy was smoothed out to Van Styver. tion of the allotment fell within the do service as a table-cloth. “Ever been connected with a rail limits of Chicago. An auction sale was Began to “Feel Its Oats.” road?” asked Davidson. made, the lots bringing an average of By 1836 the “Garden City” began “to “Never.” $34. Deals in the same became brisk. “Tills road doesn’t take tramps. Il A “boom” was started, settlers came feel its oats!” The first vessel built has all the men it needs, and only em in, Chicago began to make metropol iu Chicago was successfully launched, ploys honest, sober fellows,” said Da itan history, and the years since then and ground was broken for the long vidson, turning and taking up a lettei have been simply forward strides of talked of Illinois and Michigan Canal. The Galena railroad was chartered. to end the interview. majestic progress. John staggered a little and sat down It is pleasant ami interesting to note Speculation became rife, and real es on n stool. what occurred to bring all this about tate reached figures that discounted j the wildest previous speculations. Chi “Besides,” continued Davidson, mov cago was now the largest town in the ed somewhat by the man’s deep and ■ State, the question of incorporation Intense disappointment, "I'm not th« was constantly agitated, nnd in the fol one to see about It. I have nothing tc lowing year a charter was secured from do with that department. But I may the Legislature. The population had ns well tell you at once you not'd not ai>- risen to 4,180 souls, there were 4 ware ply. We nre turning off, not taking on houses, 308 dwellings, 29 dry goods hands.” stores, 5 hardware stores, 19 groceries, John sat still and drew a long breath 17 lawyers' offices, and 5 churches. between Ills set teeth. The vision of a j rmsr < oUKTiioiisK, 1832. The young city, organized and ready wan little face tossing on a pillow, of | dark cur’s falling around two sweet, prior to 1830. The first permanent for business, prepared for an immedi brown eyes, of a little voice calling in settlement was made in 1803, when a ate influx of population and wealth, cessantly for one who could not come, sturdy Scotch-American named Kinzie but was doomed to suffer serious dis while the shadow of death was stealing followed in the tracks of French mis appointment A great panic presented steadily in, brought the dew out ou his sionaries anil explorers, anil took pos itself, and waves of disaster and col session of a rude squared hut, erected lapse sw«»pt over the entire laud, from forehead. "Hello! This one looks all right, sir, [ by a San Domingan negro named which Chicago suffered in common This one's g«x»d,” said Dick, pausing Jean Baptiste, who had drifted into with other cities. A passion for in before consigning one of the condemn the northwest twenty-six years pre vestment had carried the people away, «»«1 sketches to the (lames. "Why, it's vious. t-'lnzle established an Indian and a lack of money now led to no trading post, nnd as the pioneer mer end of business failures. “Hard Times” tine.” “Let's see,” said Davidson, Interest chant aud business man laid the held the city in its grasp. Retrench e«lly leaning over to look at It. Dick foundations of the greatest commer ment was necessitated, and 1838 fol- spread it out on the desk liefore him cial city In the West. Th«» government lowed gloomy as a continuous funeral, j with one other his youthful experience at once built Fort Dearborn, aud here A severe drouth and a most serious arriving visitors nnd settlers sought ; epidemic visited the city. Amid this thought good. “Bosh!” was Davidson's contemptu oils criticism. "Why, It’s ohl as tilt hills. I want a design which will show the line stretching from the dawning east to the setting sun In the west, without all this rubbish, with the light so arranged as to produce a novel ami striking effect, a chariot driven by Pro gress, Development and Wealth, ami The drawing was tin* best of those submitted. Davidson turmsl It iron: sfili* to side to see If anything could be doll«' with It. During th«* pans«* which ensued Jolir Van Styver, taking a blank sh«*et fron. his pocket and a pencil, dashed off a de sign, weird and bold ami beautiful. A vast, fair country, over a continent, th«' stars ami moon glimmering In the west, and n resplendent burst of the rising sun In the dawning east; a chariot driven by three figures, horses whose mad rush was tin* emliodiment of his own wild th'slre to reach that land when* the waves of th«* great Pa cific laved tin* seashore, stoml out in splendid lines, and a great rush of pros IH'rlt.v was pictured as following the straight Hue of tin* great road ns far ns It run from one ocean briuk to the other. Slipping the drawing over Davidson’s shoulder, John placed It silently before him on th«* desk. "Phew!” exclnlmeil Dick, with n vio lent start, looking on lu astonishment at Van Styver. Davidson said nothing, but looked long and hard at the splendid drawing la'fore him. Getting up, lie held out hit tin ml to John. "I don’t know your name, but you nr< a groat artist," he said with energy. “And what’s more, you are the only on«* who could come near Interpreting my Idea, and you have exeeut«*«! it fat finer than 1 hud thought It out myself. I’ll b«' glad to give you a pass to San Francisco, and I’ll buy your sketch fot fiSCP." A tnlst cam«» before John's eyes, and without one word he wrung th«' hand hard which extended him a check am! went out. "Be hopeful. Leave on train In hour's time, bringing money,“, he telegraphed. Rushing to his forlorn room. John be gan to gather his few belongings and his loved photographs to catch H h train. A telegraph messenger knock«*«! at his door. With trembling terror he tor«» open the envehqie. "Our darling I a* t ter. Coin«» nt one«» Good news of mine. M. Van Styver.''. —New Orleans Times Democrat. NEW GOVERNMENT BUILDING. proti'ctlon, and the Indians exchanged skins nnd pelts for trinkets, general merchandise nnd whisky. In 1812 the savages practically destroyed the fort, aud massacred fifty-two persons. In 1810 it was rebuilt. Within the next ten years churches, ferries, stores, ho tels of a primitive character appeared on the scene, and the settlement be er me n tow u. Nearly all tlie new ar rive.!« came to start In business. Com petition lH'canu» an Immediate element, and as early ns 1825 there was evi dent that keenness anil foresight which made commerce the keynote of one of the greatest manufacturing nnd dis tributing cities in th«» world. In 1820 the government rewarded a resident for services rendered In negotiating peaceful relations with th«' I’ottawat- toniles by building for him free the first frame house erect«'d In th«' dis trict. Chicago's most lordly cloud grazer does not to-day attract such universal attention as did th«» owner of this princely structure. Up to that time everything was imported, nnd some Idea of tin* progress attained dur ing th«» past seventy years may be gleaned from the circumstance that the clapboards. sash, nails and brick us«»d In constructing tills mo«lest little lions«» wore all brought from Cleveland, then a much larger city than Chicago. Four years later th«* first bridges across the river were construct«*«!—on«' of these v ns ma*l<* of tloiitlm; logs tied together, nnd th«» Italians In its vicinity volun tarily contributed one-half of Its cost, which was lu the neighborhood of f 4<M1. The Sanganash wns the grand hotel In thus«* early days. Here a half-breed If a man tries to help Ills wife by kept a tavern, now within the memory weeding her garden, «he accuses hur of many a living patriarch of th«* West. of having pulled up the Howers lustea«' He* was th«* town's great musician, and ju«t as Nero fldilled while Rome buru- of the weed«. g loo in the first theater was built. Strange to say, It was a success and was patronized by many who were unable to pay their debts. For fully ten yenrs the effects of the panic acted as a caution upon citizens. Legitimate trade was nurtured, ami the marine interests of the city slowly built up. Newspapers were started, municipal buildings erected. In 1848 the Pioneer, a locomotive, arrived ou a brig from the East, ami pulled the first train out of Chicago over tin* Galena road. On Nov. 20 of that year the first wheat ever transported by rail arrived, and tlie locomotive began to make regular trips over the ten miles of tlie road then completed. From tills Inslgulflcant beginning the most magnificent railway system in the world has bt'en built up in half a centnry. It was the railroads that made Chicago tlie metropolis of the West, nnd It Is the railroads that will ever keep the city lu front, each new- tributary Hue adding to its greatness. In the same year the canal was com pleted. aud a board of trad«» was or ganized. with a total memb«'rshlp of eighty-two. careful capital and hard, energetic la bor. Some idea of the way these roads were built up may be gained from the fact that the Chicago and Northwest ern Railroad of the present day con sists of a consolidation of no less thau forty-five separate and distinct lines. By 1835 eleven trunk lines centered at Chicago. In 1857 panic again struck Chicago, and a great many banks fail ed. During this year Chicago’s first great fire occurred, thirteen persons losing their lives in the conflagration. Two years later the find street rail way made Its appearance—a single- track affair, quite primeval. A strong disposition was now evinced “to lift Chicago out of the mud,” and paving was the order of the day. Now the city began to be the center of import ant political events. It was In the Chi cago Wigwam that Lincoln and Ham lin were nominated, and at the same structure many momentous war meet ings were liel«l. The city became the recognized center of the West. Its progress was now all along the line of rapid advancement, balked only by the great fire of 1871, a conflagration over shadowing any in the history of the world. Then came the years of reorgan ization and rebuilding. With 1890 the prospering metropolis had reached the 1,000,000 mark. The most imposing structures in the world were designed and constructed. The year 1893 saw the World’s Fair open and close, after scoring a brilliant success. Great the metropolis in a way. A century ago the advantages Chicago utilized were counted trivial, but close applica tion nnd shrewd enterprise have nn nihilated distance, bridged rivers, and tumbled mountains, until, for all prac- SECOND COUllTHOUSE. tlcal purposes, Salt Lake City is nearer to Chicago than Boston was to Phila delphia tfce year Fort Dearborn was built AN OBSTINATE ARTIST. He Painted a Red Ear on the Baron de Rothschild. “A portrait painter can’t afford to be entirely independent unless he has a tremendous vogue,” remark«*«! an artist who has spent a number of years iu VIEW ON CLARK STREET, 1857. crowds came to view the city for the first time from all quarters of tlie world, enormously swelling the already great population of the city. Elec tricity was advanced in its highest form In all the industries. Mechanics of every class here found the ideal field for progress. The social, literary ami commercial interests hail reached the highest typical plane. The city- entered 1899 witli a marvelous history behind it. Tlie wonderful metropolis not only astonished the world, but sur prised its own people. Is To-day a Wonder. To-day Chicago is a wonder to sur vey. Its vast area, immense popula tion, magnificent buildings and enor mous industries are known to and ap preciated by all. Tlie city comprises in its limits about 190 square miles of territory. It is twenty-five and one- half miles from its extreme north to its extreme south limit. From absolutely nothing to a city of 2,000,000 people within the narrow limits of a single century, it has come to lead the world In many things—as a railway center, port, lumber market, grain market. In live stock of all kinds Chicago takes the preference. All this is not the result of chance or fortune. Good luck seldom has a run of sixty- one years. Chicago’s present and prospective greatness rests upon her location at the gateway of a fertile country as large in extent as Europe. All outside territory hns been tribu- stuily abroad to a correspondent of the New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat. “I re member when I first went to Paris, Sergeant, who is probably the greatest master in his special field that America has ever produced, was Just beginning to attract attention. He had painted a portrait of his preceptor, Durow, tnat was generally applauded, and the stir it created led to his getting a commis sion from the Baron Rothschild. It was his first big Job, but he went about it with exactly the same non chalance that characterizes him at present. During the last sitting, when the picture was receiving its finishing touches, it chanced that one of the Baron's ears became unusually red, a circumstance probably due to the heat of the room. Sergeant seized on it at once as a good bit of color and made« the painted ear redder, if anything, than the original. When Rothschild) inspected the portrait he was greatly pleased. ‘But of course,’ he said, 'you will tone down that left ear.’ ‘Oh. no!’ replied the painter promptly. ‘I think I shall leave it just as it is. I rather like that red.’ The banker was astonished and very angry, and while he paid for the canvas he never hung it. Of course, the incident raised a laugh and the artist's obstinacy was admired in bo hemia, but it really did Sergeant a great deal of harm, and was one of the things that eventually determined him to move to London.” Mosquito Bile Pain. The pain of a mosquito bite is Some City Improvements, Gas cam«* to Chicago In 1850, and the Illinois Ceutral Railroad began to plan out Its line. Iu the following year the drinking water system of th«* city wns put on a progressive l»asis. obviating the buying of small quantities from two-wh«'el«*d carts, which dispensed the same nt the rate of from 5 to 10 cents a barrel. The rule now seemed to be the organization of a new rail road company about every two years. The Fort Wayne, th«' Michigan South ern. the Burlington an«l Quincy, the Alton, and numerous other lln,»« sprang into being, but ouly at the behest of tary and helpful to Chicago, and the Iowa farmer, the Michigan miner, the Indiana merchant, the Wisconsin lum I berman, have all helped to build up caused by a fluid pots«m injected by the Insect Into the wound in order to make the blood thin enough to float through the mosquito's throat.