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VOL. IV. NO. 43.
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THEN THE TEARS ARE NEAR TO
FLOWING.
When the heart is overburdened
Full of sorrow, lost in woe;
When the world is draped iu cypres-?.
And the dirge-winds through it blow
Then the tears are near to flowing.
Whf-n 1 lie soul with joy is freighted,
Full ot love's delightful glow;
When the world is c!ad in color,
And the sou;-bell.s thrilling go
Then the tears are near to flowing.
ho it .seems tht bounding gladness
Sister is to sad-eye i woe;
For, when either, thrilling, throbbing,
Throurh the being floodeth lo.
Then the tears are near to flowing
On? is just outside the portals,
Sprinkling life with grief-thawed snow;
One i just insil i tb.3 roaj-plot,
Spivnt wit pleasure's pearly flow
And wa si-, the tears are flowing.
L. it. Inrnbfrlin, i.i Tis-De)nocrat.
T!i3 Broad Street Turn.
BY NY.M CRINKLE.
"Curt Cliny Ilalsted, broker, Broad
street, turned over a new leaf on a New
Year. I met him at Dr. Hall's church
in the morning, lie had a reformed
look ia the corner of his eyes. "I am
through," he said in a calm, business
like manner.
Everything that Cline did was done in
a bu.sir.ess-like manner. I've known him
to get off a car and chase a newsboy for
two blocks to get a cent change, because
it was business and he would not be
swindled, and I have known him to
write a note to Ned Harrigan to get a
free box and then spend $200 on flowers
and supper before the night was over.
With a Broad street peculiarity he in
sisted that that was business too.
I believe that anywhere Cline would
be called a good fellow. He held strict
ly to the business principle of skinning
his fellow-man alive on Broad street and
blowing in a pile when the boys were
not on that financial warpath.
One day Cline, as I said, turned a leaf.
He did it methodically, calculatingly and
firmly. He was polishing his dome be
fore the glass, and as he laid the brush
down he said, "I must get married."
Very punctilious and discreet was
Cline. He proposed to get mairied just
as he proposed to buy Nashville and
Tennessee. It was a good investment at
that time.
Then he set about it in the most ex
traordinary Broad street manner. "I
don't want," said he, "any giddy beau
ties around. They've been around till
I'm tired. I want a mature, sensible,
sober, economical, tidy, level-headed,
modest, healthy, good-tempered, pru
dent, affectionate, sagacious, lovable,
motherly, genteel, sterling woman. Girls
make me weary, and I'm going to organ
ize the business of getting what I want.
I can give an hour a day for the next
year to the finding of wThat I want, and
I'm too old a business hand to have what
I don't want."
So Cline at forty-four organized him
self. Set up a matrimonial bureau in
that private office with cathedral win
dows. Put his number eleven gaiter on
gp.ntiment. Chucked the forget-me-nots
out of his soul and came elown to hard
pan. He would advertise. Yes, he would.
No nonsensical r3t about cultured gent
desiring to meet cultured lady, but
straight business proposition. It would
involve immense clerical system very
well, would get typewriter, dictate an
swers for an hour every morning. "First
thing to do get typewriter; must be
business girl."
II.
One morning there came to Cline's
general office in Broad street a girl in a
baby waist, with a pearl-gray pelisse over
her shoulders and a cornelian ring on
her finger. One of Cline's young men
first noticed her standing by the door.
He told me afterwards that what he
noticed was the absurd chip sailor hat
with a blue ribbon and an anchor on it,
and he wondered if she hadn't borrowed
it from her little brother to come down
town in: it set up so perky and saucily
on top of her ridiculous -.Tad of brown
hair us if she might be a lieutenant in
the Salvation Army.
It's astonishing what things these
young idiots notice.
He went round and said, "What cat
we do for you, madam?"
' lMadam" is a kind of official squelch
kept for girls who venture away froi
their proper salesrooms to where youp
men cau get back at them and pay thai
oil in their own coin. j
"I am a typewriter," said Chip Kt
very meekly. "I came to answer an fd
vertiscment."
They directed her into the little office
with cathedral windows. Then they saw
the chip hat go through the fatal glass
door on the other side of which Cline
kept his grim official severity.
III.
He was signing check?. It was one
of the most serious moments of his life.
He looked up and saw the chip hal
cocked on top of the brown hair. lie
leaned back in his cathedral chair and
fastened hi3 commercial eye on his check
book. "WTell, young woman, I want a dis
creet confidential s 'cretary to answer cor
respondents. She's got to be here at tet
o'clock every morning, attend to business
strictly, and she don't get away till two
or three. The salary is $12 a week. Dt
you think you can get down to that kind
of drudgery for that pittance and keep the
busines in this room?''
All that Cline ever heard was a de
mure little "Yes, sir," that had th
same suggestion of tremolo in it that
one gets from raspberry jeliy.
"All right. I can't bother with yov
to-day; come to-morrow," and Cliue fell
to signing checks, and Chip Hat went
away, and the young man outside poked
his nose through the crystal portal o!
his barrier, puckered his lips and Hipped
two or three bars of "The Maid with the
Milking Pail" after her.
IV.
The little office with the cathedra1
windows took on a new fctue. Then
was un instrument under the s vi::, wii!ia.
black tin roof over it, and a little sailor'
hat, with a blue ribbon on it, lmag on
the bronze peg opgosite the door.
"Now, then," said Cline, putting on a
most forbidding air of strict busiuess.
"Yo'u understand that the matter for
which I have engaged you is eutirely
aside from the regular business of this
office. By the way, what shall I call
you? Miss what? Chalcey? Well, never
mind the Nelly, I'll call you Miss Chalcey,
it's more business like; and I don't want
you to talk outside ot this room r.oout
any of the business you have to transact
here. Do you Understand? If you get
that straight to begin with there Yi ol
no trouble."
Then she turned her demure face to
wards him and said, "Yes, sir," so
meekly and patiently and profounly that
he noticed her eyes. They were agates
moss agates, by Jove. Funny little
spots in them that swam anil danced
round and melted into each other in tho
most absurdly molten way, as if there
miffht be little caldrons under them
where the light was boiled and sotteneci
down into some ridiculous girl nonsense.
The worst of it was they always seemed
to be just on :he point of boiling over,
as of light, like music, had some kind of
inscrutable pathos in it.
V.
So they got along very nicely without
any nonseme. Cline would come in
about half past ten or eleven, look to
see if the sailor hat waa hanging on the
peg, grunt out, "Good morning, Miss
Chalcey," aid then sit down at his desk
to open letters. Sometimes she would
sit demurey for half an hour, her head
turned, lodring out of the one clear lit
tle pane in the cathedral window straight
at Bob Slccum's Gothic office opposite,
where there was never anything to see
except Bo Slocum's window shades, and
that piece of telegraph tnp3 that dangle I
forever frm tkewire3 overhead, in spite
of all th' sparrowsthat had tried to pull
it off. At other times Clins would dic
tate, tfid then the click of the instru
ment drowned the monotonous chirp of
the iinitor's bullfinch that was whistling
somewhere.
C;f course she got to know all about it
that it was he was trying to do and
hegrew to consult her on some of the
details. Like a good girl she put her
hole heart into it and really tried to
lelp him all she could to find the wife he
wanted. How could she help it, and
then, too, she couldn't help finding out
by degrees that Cline drew some heavy
checks and had a swell circle of aequaint-
I ances.
And he well he, like a good method
ical business niau, fell into a routine here
as elsewhere. His heart was constructed
on solid clock-work business principles,
and one morning when he came in the sai
lor hat was not on the peg. It annoyed him
3t once. It always does aanoy a busi
ness man to have things irregular. He
fidgeted in his chair. It was too bad.
Nobody could be depended on, and here
were several letters to oe answered. He
called Swain in. "Where is that young
woman?"
Swain started a little, as if he felt
guilty of having abducted her, and said, !
"What do you want, a typewriter!
Here's Wallace and Durea and Clapp,
any one of 'em can "
And Cline shouted, "onsense! Shut
the door!"
Then he noticed the bronze peg. It
had an ironical and plucked aspect.
He sat down in the chair by the win
dow and looked at Bob Slocum'3 shades.
He couldn't help wondering what Mis3
Chalcey found to think about during all
the vacant hours when she looked out
there, waitingiy.
The next day when she came he repri
manded her fiercely. "It annoyed me
very much," he said from his chair, with
out looking round. "You should have
sent me some word. I depended on you.
It's very irregular and unbusinesslike."
She turned round and looked at him in
her meek way. "My mother is dying,,!
she said. "I have neglected her to-daj
so as not to disappoint you."
His astonishment twisted him round iD
his chair, and he came plump up against
the agates, swimming in some kind ol
light he had never seen before.
"Confound it, Miss Chalcey," he said,
jumpiug up. "What do you mean bj
having a sick mother and not telling me's
What do you mean by coming here to
day? Will you never get any business
ideas into your head? I told you that
this room was to be confidential. Do
you call it confidential to act in this
manner? I'm surprised, Miss Chalcey.
I'm hurt."
He took down the sailor hat. "You
are to go back to your mother at
once."
He opened the door. "Here, Swain,
get me a coupe." And Swain saw the
sailor hat in his hand.
VI.
It was about a week after this. The
room had half a ton of letters in it. Cline
used to come in, look at the bronze nee
and go away again. Then the sailor hat
reappeared.
Miss Chalcey was there waiting, so was
her little lunch that she always ate when
Cline and Yallace went down to Del
monico's, and on Cline's desk was a tiny
bunch of violets. He shook hands with
her, congratulated her oa her mother's
recovery, and said: "Pshaw! don't men
tion it, my child. I'm just about as kind
as the average business man no more,
no less. We've got a terrible lot of busi
ness here."
They both laughed !
Cline was in particularly good spirit;
that morning. It was so comfortable,
dou't you know, to have the office rou
tine go on its regular business-like way
to hear the click of the instrument; to
get side glimpses of two white rounded
wrists dancing a gallopade; to know that
the chip hat was covering upthatbrocze
peg, and you couldn't hear the bullfinch.
It went on about a week, with a little
bunch of violets every morning on hi
desk, which he always put in his button
hole when he went uptown. There wer
two days when he hadn't got a pin, and
she had, and so t,he fastened them on for
him, and there was one awfully pasty
day when he actually helped her eat her
lunch, anel enjoyed it.
Then the whole affair came to a sud
den stop. These things always do in
real life.
It wTas a Monday morning. She had
hung up her hat and dusted off her ma
chine and looked to see if Bob Slocum's
shades were there, when Cline said, with
a horribly sad expression of counte
nance :
"Miss Cline, you've been a very faith
ful aud efficient secretary, and I'm sorry
I've got to lose you, but the fact is I've
found the woman I want, and of course
I shall not need you any more."
She was looking at him dreamily, a
if she wondered where the paragon came
from that filled hi3 bill.
"Yes," he said, "strange as it may
sound I've actually picked out the woman
who is to be my wife and I shall not
want a secretary. We've iiact a very
pleasant time here together, haven't we?"
"Yes, sir."
"Aud you remember all the qualities
that I was fool enough to expect in one
woman?"
"Yes, sir."
"Well, I've found most of 'em.'
"I'm very glad, sir." ,
"Do you think, Miss Chalcey, from
what you know of me, that she will have
me if I ask her?"
"Yes, sir."
"You really and truly think so, oa
business principles?"
"Yes, sir."
"Then, by Jove, I'll marry her. You
can consider yourself discharged, Miss
Cline Nelly."
And she was.
The only unbusiness-like thing they
did was to both try to look out the ridi
culous little pane at the same time and
no two business people could do that
simultaneously without looking like
Siamese twins. Xew Tori World.
LADIES' COLUMN.
TRAVELING PILLOWS.
Traveling pillowa are considered a very
suitable bon voyage gift. They are of
various shapes oblong, heart shape,
half moon to fit in odd corners, and the
usual square style. They are stuffed
with softest down and covered with
leather oftenest, as being durable and
neat. Some beautiful ones are of
colored suede, tan and wood shades, with
a suitable motto embroidered in gold
thread. A small strap serves to carry
them by, and a little corner pocket is
useful to restrain the bottle of smelling
salts that is alway3 slipping away, or the
evanescent handkerchief which, when
one is lounging, is always just out of
reach. New Torh Tbne-i.
A PllINCESS S FAVORITES.
In a scrap book in Bel voir Castle the
Princess of Wales recorded her sentiments
on sundry subjects, not very long after
her marriage. Here is a full list:
Her favorite King and Queen are
"Queen Dagmar, " and "Richard Cceur
de Lion."
Her favorite hero, poet and artist are
"Wellington," "Byron" and "Sir Joshua
Reynolds."
Her favorite author "Charles Dickens."
Her favorite virtue, "Charity."
Her favorite color, "Blue."
Her favorite dish, a "French tart."
Her favorite flower, the "Rose."
Her favorite name, "Mary."
Her favorite occupation, "Reading
aloud."
Her favorite amusement, "Driving my
ponies."
Her favorite motto, "Dieu et mon
Droit."
Her favorite locality, "Home."
Her chief ambition, "Not to be fast."
And as for her chief dislike, she has
"None."
WEDDING NOTES.
Anent the wedding season the House
keeper' Weekly furnishes some appropri
ate items about fashionable costumes,
valuable to anybody interested either
closely or in a remoter degree in a pros
pective marriage ceremony :
Brides sometimes have the left hand
bare as they walk to the altar, but usu
ally the finger of the glove is ripped S3
as to receive the ring without removal.
At the reception the bridal party stand
under a bell or other appropriate floral
device," the horseshoe being a favorite
emblem.
The host and hostess the parents of
the bride stand to receive with the
bridegroom and bride, and the ushers
present each guest as soon as the wrap3
have been laid aside.
After the guest has said some pleasant
things to the parents and congratulated
the newly married couple she relin
quishes the usher's arm, and he return?
to the door for other arrivals. . The
guests chats pleasantly a little while
with others, presently going in to sup
per and afterward home.
A reception usually lasts two hours,
when the bride dbns a traveling suit,
the goodbys are said, and the happy pair
are driven off amid a shower of rice.
A wedding breakfast, which is eaten
standing, may consist of mmy delicacie-j
or be simple. Chicken and lobster
salad, boned turkey, scalloped oysters,
ices, cream3, fruit, claret are often
served.
It is customary for a newly welded
couple to send out after their marriage,
cards having the date of two or mors
reception days at their new home.
When this ia not intended the future ad
dres3 should be sent with the wedding
cards.
When from the large number of ac
quaintance3 or other cause, but few can
be invited to the reception, the church
invitation only should be sent.
Such an invitation requires no answer,
and the making of a wedding gift is op
tional. The showing of gifts is also
matter of personal taste, but is seldom
indulged in by people of culture and
refinement. A private home wedding
should be followed by "announcement
cards."
FASHION NOTES.
.Haimin toos have been devised a?
globes in blue enamel, neigntenea in ei
fect by small diamonds.
Pale shrimp ribbons with a rich white
satin gloss and pale brocaded flowers are
the newest and finest trimming for large
hats.
The smartest party slipp?rs arrof
white or black satin embroiuered in gold,
thread alter the fashion ot a spider's
web, and having a family of small spid
ers just on the point of the toe.
The white crochet work webbed over
colored grounds is new and pretty. Tho
robes in which almost the entire skirt is
of Russian or Irish lace pattern, in whii
or ecru, are exceedingly rich over silk
skirts.
The newest long frocks for babies aro
made all in one simply gathered into a
square yote, without any attempt at de
fining the waist. They are much piettier
than gowns made with a bodice, be
sides being better from a hy genie point
of view.
White chamios skin gloves are to be
worn for outing purposes. These are
not expensive in the first place, and then
if directions are followed they can be
washed successfully. For shopping pur
poses the natural color chamois glove is
very comfortable. '
It is not likelv that tca-sjowns will
ever go out of fashion. They are too
comfortable, too graceful and far too
picturesque to be forsaken, at least until
some garment with similar or greater ad
vantages or attractions can be devised,
and that creation has not as yet ap
peared. The jeweled and jetted bonnets,
which are mere skeletons incrusted with
this brilliant finery, and are so much
worn this season, are, many of them,
heavy burdens to their wearers. Their
weight, indeed, is so heavy that the
pressure, with women at all subject to
headaches, soon produces them.
Twenty-fivj Witty Staries.
Wendell Phillips declares that there
are not twenty-five original witty stories
id existence, and all the others an
founded upon or borrowed from these.
He tells us that the man who was writing
a letter as follows: "My dear friend,!
should tell you more if there was not an
impudent fellow looking over my
shoulder and reading every word"
"You lie, sir, I have not read a word
you have written" comes from Egypt,
and is two hundred and fifty years oldei
than the New Testament. So with the
story of the man who said: "I would
have been a very handsome fellow if they
had not changed me in the cradle."
"Take the Irishman," said Mr. Phillips,
"who carried around a brick as a speci
men of the house he had to sell; take
the Irishman who shut his eyes and
looked into the glass to so how he would
look when he was dead ; take the Irish
man who bought a crow, alleging that
crows were reported to live two hundred
years, and he was going to set cut and
try it; take the Irishman who met a
friend who said to him, 'Why, sir, I
heard you were dead.' 'Well,' says the
man, 'I suppose you see I am not. 'Oh,
no,' says he, 'I would rather believe the
man who told me than you, any day.'
Well, all of these are Greek; a score or
more of them of a parallel character come
from Athens." Boilon Transcript.
The ratio of insane persons in public
and private institutions in the United
States o each 1000 inhabitant is 1.56.
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