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LINCOLNTON, N. 0., FRIDAY, NOV. IT, 1893.
NO. 31.
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CHARLES LOT IN IIILDKETH.
1
LEWIS TEMPLE,
ARTIST.
Crayon Portraits, Photographs Reproduced.
When I bud fastened the tin sigu
T-paiotod by aiytolf, tor economioa'
reasons to the doorpoat, I stepped
back and Hurrayed my work with
mixture of complacency aud coo
tempt. The Bipo, in its reapoctable
black and gold, waa verv Ratiafacto
r s a rilmi. It was ntnf, and u
tlitMniH t iiiih ntt ho ve, per-utiHl ve
yit not vulgaily obweqiiiouw. Bu ,
oh, y1 1'OweiH that rule the fortunes
of ujeo ! What fall was bere!
Whrtt a plunge from Oiympiai
he'gbfH of ambition to the nether
most dt-epH of t-ie fbscure coiiiihoDj
place. Photographs rt-produced,
fotco th ! Aud i that same Lew
is Temple, vlose uauio waa s
pioudly to giace the great histoiic
can VfseH tfore whieti admiriuj;
crowds should 8 aud, wbile the awe
world bailed the riHing of a ue
btar in the riraianent of fame. Alas'
poor di taniH ! phantom, rainbow
winged, blown into the limbo of lout
hopes by t he breath of poverty ; the
golden halo of immortal geuiu
pawned for a pennyworth of bread
and cheese I
Yec, I had put my vanity in my
poeket, together with the small sil
ver which constituted my whole
capital, alter pajing the first months
rrut lor the dingy room, which was
hereafter to be my ntudio, ami had
any decent, tradesman of the quar
ter happened along at that moment
possessed with the fancy of having
his Miiug features transferred to
canvas or cardboard, I should have
taken off my hat to him with grati
tude. For tilings had indeed come
to a desperate paswith me. I had
returned from abroad with a port
forlio full of hkrtchee, which the
great Gerome himself had turned
over with all indifference which did
not conceal his envy, and a dozen
paiutingM whose wonderful but
there, I am a modest man by nature
aud dPhpi.-e th egotism which has
always seemed to me the prime d
feet of the ailistic tempeiameut. It
will suflico if I say that it was no
want of power on my part which bad
reduced me to a back street tene
ment and to copyiug photographs.
Llaing satisfied m self that my
sign was properly adquated, and
having nothing else to employ mej
I stroilrd discontentedly down lb
febabNy Kieet and entoied a small
p-iik a few lilocks listaut. It wae
a dnarv btlle place, wh e arid soil
,lh
avt. giuging support to a scor9
dmsy titea and some patches of
straggling grass where rival eoion
le of spairows met to ettle auc ent
feudf. At inter vals along the ill
kept walk wtood weather-beaten
settees, where, ou clear days, nuise
muds read cheap literature, while
their juveuile charges quarreled or
played about unheeded by guardi
aos deep iu the woes of Lo'd Algei
oou and Lady Alice. Ou this dull,
gusty moruiug, however, tbe only
visitor beside myselt appeared
be a woman sitting upou a settee
one Of the CrOSS paths Led by
j the merest idle curiosity, I tamed
aside aud walked past her, bestow
ing a casual glance as I went by.
Uer slender figure waa clad in
deep black, and her attitude be
token either protouud meditation or
dejection. At tbe sound of mytep
she raised ber bead and looked at
m-. She had been weepiDg, and
the tears still glistened upon her
loug lashes. I had seeu many beaai
tifui women. totii abroad and at
LoJie, and meti of my profession are
supposed to be judges of beauty ;
r.ut I bad never seeu a face like the
oue I uow g&zed npou, Not that i
was sa temarkable iu torni of color
ing; indeed it was uunaturally pale
and pitiably tbiu. But there was
something in its expression, a sweet
nees, a delicacy, a out who ever
yet described a woman's face in
words Y It cannot be done, because
ber mere outward presentment is
only a part of a quality of which
herself, her soul call it what you
iil is bv far the more important
component.
Atrived at the end of the path I
paused irresolutely. What waa it
iu those clear, gray eves, with their
tear-wet lashes that appealed to me
so powerfully ? Tbe girl was in
trouioe; she had been Wteping.
Bat what business was it of mine !
I surely had anxieties enough of my
own at that moment without euti
mentally sand hug myM'lt with those
of other i-eople, even pretty girls
wi h iarge appealiog eyes. I wen
ou deleiminedly a few steps, thee,
abruptly turning ou my heel, auc
walked back to where tbe girl sat.
I was going to speak to her. 1 wae
sioing to ank her I was going to
nake a stupendous ass of mselt, in
.short.
Exactly what folly I might have
been guilty ot 1 do not know ; but
wbn I reached the eat which she
bad oicipied, it was vacant ; and
some dis.ance ahead I beheld the
slender, blackrobed figure just
leaving the puk, aud too far away
to be overtaken, except by a most
undignified pursuit. With a mingled
sense of chagiiu and relief, I betook
myself to my studio, where, in de
fault of more prodtable employ
ment, I made a dozou sketches ot
the girPs face from memory.
A little before uoou ou the tollow
iug day, after haviug waited all the
morning tor the lucrative sitter who
obstinally persisted iu not present
ing himself, I waa preparing to go
out, when there came a timid kuock
at my studio door. With peasant
previsions of "lull lengths," "halt
lengths," ami 'heads," I ushered in
my visitor, and paused abruptly' in
the verv middle ot an elaborate
bow. For there, looking at mo with
the eyes that had haunted my
dreams by night aud my thoughts
by day, stood the girl iu black!
She- paused irresolutely near tbe
door, the delicate color coming ami
going in her pale cheek. I saw that
she bad rtcognized me in turu. J
am not easily embarrassed. Indeed,
I rather pride myself ou my sanq
froid, as bettts an old student of the
Latin quarter in Paris, aud a citU
zeu ot this great American repablie.
Uut for a moment I stood staring at
her stupidity, possessed by an utter
ly inexplicable leeling of doubt aud
anxiety. T heu I pulled myself to
gether, completed my bow, and ia
?ited my visitor to be seated.
"Mr. Temple, the artist?" she
a.iked, in a faiut, hardly audible
voice. I bowed again with dignity.
She proceeded to unwrap a small,
oblong parcel which she carried
"You reproduce photographs !" she
continued.
I bowed a thud time, stiffly. Yes,
I did leproduce photographs.
"This," she went on hurriedly, "
IS
a picture of my poor father, taker
some Tears ago. You see it is faded
and stained, but I thought, perhaps
you might make a portrait from it.
He died suddenly, and I have noth
ing else." She choked, and the
tears swelled iu the sweet, gray eyes
that were l fted to mine.
"Yes," said I, assuming a matter-of-fact
tone to cover my own emo
tiou. -'I can make a good picture.
of your father from this photograph
tOiwjtt, a few suggestions from you as
to detail. I have no doubt tbe re
sult will be very satisfactory,"
'Will it be dear ?" she asked,
wiatlolly. "I haven't much money.
There were debts my father's
cousin ' !
She paused ae if she bad said
more than she bad intended. Uo.
consciously my eye ran over her at
tire,and I noted how plain and even
poor, it was. Take money from this
fcrlone child ! As soon rob a dove's
neat.
"My dear young lady I began,
awkwardly, "we will not talk ot the
pncf at this stage of the proceed
ings. Let us leave that una!
we ate certaiu that the picture
is what it should be ,;
She shook her head, and arose
with a flushed cheek. -I wish to
pay your usual rates for such work,'
she said, with reserve.drawing forth
a very s'ender purse.
I turned hot with the conscious
ness that I bad committed an egre
gious blander.
'-The truth is," I stammered, "that
I havd had so little exp.rteneo in
this branch of art, that I am uot
sure whether I shall succeed or not
If you will leave this photograph
with me until tomonow, I will make
a sketch of the picture aad we cau
tnen talk about tbe price.',
She looked at me doubtfully a
moment, then apparently seeing
something in my faoe which reas
ur d her, he returned the purse to
her pocket and prepared to depart.
''I will come to morrow," she said
II.
I watched from my window the
slender, little figure in its sombre
attire, until it disappeared at the
end of the street, then I took up tbe
photograph she left and began to
si nil v it with something more than
mere art'stic interest. It repre
sented a niHU of middle age, with
elearcur, refiued features a pro
b Hsional gentleman or a studeut, I
judged. In the large, mild eyes,
and tbe delicate, sensitive moutb, I
eoula trace a distinct resemblance
to my late visitor. It was one o'
those faces we sometimes meet
which seem to be clouded with tbe
myaterious shadow of UMertune a
Rrrt of intangible prophecy of son
row to come. This man bad died
suddenly and in debt, leaving his
daughter in straightened circum
stances, it not in absolute waut.
That much I had gathered from ber
words. And tnis cousin ! Who was
;ie ! and what part had be played in
the history of tbe father and daugh
ter? As I sat gazing at the por
trait, with these questions rising one
afier the other in my mind, I felt
myself growing cold with an evil.
formless, utterly senseless suspicion
of what, of whom, 1 could uot
have said.
I arose hastily, aud shaking off
he ridiculous oppression of spirits
which bad fallen upon me, prepared
my materials and proceeded to
sketch the portrait. In a few mo-iu-iits
I became profoundly absorb
ed iu my work. I gave uo heed to
the passage of time. I forgot ev
eiything but the face growing iuto
the embiance of life beneath my
rapid touches. Tbe alttruoon
-lipped away insensibly. Tbe sha
clows of twilight thickened iu tbe
room uutil I could no longer see.
Aiousiug myself as liom a strange
dream, I got up aud stretched my
cramped limbs. Then I lighted the
gas aud placed iuyself before my
easel.
The instaut my eyes rested upon
the picture. I started back with a
cry of amazemeut and terror, and
tell into a chair, trembling Irom
he d to foot. The face upon the
eel was not that of tbe photo
graph ! It was the face of an entire
stranger !
Aud such a face I
It was that of a man of about
forty, sallow and thin, with close
cut black hair, and pointed beard ;
on of those mysterious, half-invisU
ble head that peer at you from the
g!oom aud staius of the old Italian
pictures, like beings from another
world. But it was the expression
that held me spell-bonud and dis
trustful of my own senses. If ever
a soul were utterly given up to the
devil, it was that which now looked
out at me through those narrow,
sombre, threatening eyes. Firm
set, with iron resolution, yet aghast
vith the terrors of conscience ; sav
iige, aud at the same time timid, it
vas tbe face ot a murderer, nerving
himself fot the irrevocable deed. So
lifelike and so fearful waa it that I
iecoiled, appalled at my own handi
work.
Who was this man ? What pow
tr had controlled my brain and
baud iu tbe creation of this evil be
ing? Utterly uunerved, I put the
drawing in a corner with its face to
the wall, and hurriedly left tb stu
dio. It was near midnight before I
returned home, fatigued by my long
walk and somewhat composed in
m:ud.
Tbe next morning I made another
attempt, and this time succeeded in
producing a very passable sketch ot
the photograph. When the lady in
black called at the hour agreed
upon, she declared herself perfectly
satisfied with tbe work, so far as it
had progressed. Without knowing
why, 1 refrained from mentioned my
singular experieuoe of the day bet.
(ore, aud devoted myself to learn
ing something of tbe history of my
interesting visitor. tSbe was very
reserved, and my cautions questions
elicited merely that her name was
Ursula Willi, tbe only daughter ot
a well-known scieutist, whose sud
den death I bad read of in tbe pa
per, lie had been accounted
wealthy, bat after his disease it was
f uud that he had dissipated bis
fortune in reckless experiments
and chimerical inventions. Even
the house he lived in had been
mortgaged to bis cousin, Gregory
Talland by name. Talland had
generously offered Ursula a home in
th dwelling which bad once been
tier tat iter's. Penniless, triend les-,
and u' loily without the means cl
earning her own livelihood, he bad
refused ail else. I say compelled
for t was evident tbat she regarded
this man with disbfce, if not w tb
downright dread.
Day alter day, duriug the pro
gress ot tbe picture, wicu I was in
uo hurry to com pie e, Ursula visited
me, and tbe interest which I had
fell iu her from the begiuning ripeu
e iuto love. 1 exerted myself to
win her confidence, and I succeeded
My heart bounced with a new hope
as, little bv little, I saw tbe look of
sonow and despair in her sweet
face give place to one of gentle
trust aud contentment, as if into
her life, too, a uew light were be
ginning to dawu.
I had not ventured to reveal my
feeling to her by look or word,
though she would uot have beeu a
woman had she uot beeu able to
read my heart and guess my secrot.
But one morning, when the picture
was nearly finished, I saw tbat some
thing had occurred to alarm aud
disturb ber. Very gently I urged
her to tell me her trouble, aud, as it
the uniepressed tenderness in my
voice bad broke through ber self
coutrol, she covered her face with
her bauds, aud burst iuto tears-
In the midst of her sobs she gtold
me that Gregory Talland had aok
ber to be bis wife. Ou her refusal
be bad taken off the mask he bad
hitherto worn in her preseuce, aud
fhowu himself tbe heartless villiau
we was. He held the pi oofs, he said
of her father's dishonesty, and, un
less she consented to marry him, he
would publish her dead parents dis.
grace to tbe world He bad given
ber a week to decide. If she still
refused, the blow must tall.
The effect of this story upon me
may be may be easily imagined.
I seated myself beside her, and tak
ing oue cold tittle baud, I told her J
a few simple words tbat I loved her.
"I am poor,'' I said, but yonr love
will give me strength and c urage
io work for us both. It is but a
bare and cheeiless home that I can
offer you, Ursula, but it is better
than the fate tbat is forced upon
you by that man. Let him do his
worst be cannot harm my wife.
And I do not beleive bis story ot
your father's sin. It is a lie, invent
ed to frighten him into compliance.
Uive me your answer, darling. Can
you care for me V 1
She had ceased weeping as I
spoke, and now in a whisper so low
that I could hardly catch its sweet
impoit, she ottered one word:
'Yes." j
Long after she bad departed I eat:
dreamiug, and oat of tbd golden
mists of tbe future arose always one
dear face, the face of her who was
8O80OU to share my lot and brignt
eu my life. Many times during tbe
past mooth I bad tried to transfer
that face to canvas, bat had never
sati-fled myself. Now, ucd?r tne
influence ot my new found happi
ness, I tried once more.
Again tbat protouud trance-bke
absorption seized me. As when I
had pinted tbe uokuowu face
wbich I bad never drawn from it
concealment in the corner of tbe
p udio, I became utterly oblivious
of time, place, thought aod tee'dcg
As I recall tt now I perceive that I
was literally like a man in a deep
sleep. It was dark when I came to
myself with a sudden shock.
For some momeuts I sat dazed
and bewildered, my bands cold aod
my limbs trembling.
For some moments I sat dazed
ud bewildered, my bands old and
my limbs trembling.
After a time I recovered suffitiient.
ly to arise and light the gas. It
tbat strange face bad startled m",
what I uow saw ou my canvas ap
plauded me. I stood stariug, mute,
rigid, with the hair actually arising
on my clammy forbead. For wbre
I bad meant to paint to pant a sin
gle face, that of a sweet young girl.
were tuj ngures ot two men in po
sitions of awful sigmfi-tuce.
Tbe picture represented a room
which I had never seeu It was
haodssmely furnished, aud liom the
saelva laden with books and soien.
title instruments, appeared to be the
study ol a scholar. At a table iu
tbe cent!- of a room, covered with
papers, sat itu elderly man with bis
head towed iu the act ol le.otmg h
ebeet which lay before him. This
figure I recoguized as Ursula's fa
ther. Behind him, iu tbe attitude
of oue taking a stealthy step, with
upraised arm, stood another man,
tbe'same wbose'portrait I had paint
ed unaware a month before. His
fece waa toward me, aud it wore the
same , savage, conscience-smitten
murderous expression which char
acterized portrait.
Iu his upraised baud he clutched
something that glitteting in the
light ot the reading lamp like a
thread ot silver. It was a dagger of
antique workmausbip, scarcely
thicker thau a needle.
Whatever bad been the mvster
ieuspwer which bad eoutiolled
me, it had caused me to paint with
a realism and accuracy that were
beyond limits of norm tl arc. It was
as it the dreadful scene itself were
beluiz tuacted before me. and I
grasped its import with a sickening
seuse of certinty tbat it had really
occured. All tbat Ursula had toid
me of her father's suddeu death, his
supposed ruin and shame, his cous-
ins's possession of the detd man's
property, uor owu instinctive tear
of the deadOu'd property, her own
i extinctive tear of tbe man, flashed
into my mind. The dreadful truth
stood revealed iu all its monstrous
ugliness. A bee's sting would have
beeu more easily detected thau the
puncture of that delicate blade.
I slept none that night, but when
the dawn stole coldly iu at my win
dows, I bad resolved upou my
course of action.
Wheu Ursula arrived tbe com
pleted portrait of her father stood
upou the easel as before. Strive as
I might to conceal my agitation, her
quick eye detected it. To her anx
lous questioning, I metelv replied
that I had made a strange discov
ery. Theu I diew lortb ibe por
trait of the etrauge man and t laced
it before her.
"Greyorv Talland," she died.
and oh what a trigbiful fa;e! But
I dnn'r. understand ! 1 did no'
think you knew hlm.'
"Ask me nothing now," I said,
'ail I can tell you is that I am cer
tain you have noihing more to fear
from tbat man.'
I dismissed her earlier than usual,
and ten minutes later bad dipateb
ed a note to Mr. Gregory Talland,
Inviting him to icspsct a picture on
exhibition in my studio. I bad eo
worked tbe note that I beleiv-d bis
curiosity impell him to come.
: At three ov.lock, the hour named-
there was a kuock at my door and
Gregory Talland entered. 1 ebould
have known tbat sallow tace with
itu darrow furtive eye, amocg a
thousand; bat it was composed now
in an expression of cold and imlo"
ieJt pride.
"Your request was a singular
ore," he began, "and I have come
to baye it explained.'1
'I have a picture upou wbich I
should wish to have your opinion''
1 Bii, as calmly as I could. "It
wa painted under rathe' remarka. jDg to fear From uncooked foods
ble conditions. Indeed, if I were jauj fom fluids danger is po8b'et
inclined, toward occutt beliefs, I and in tbe process of their prepara
sbou'.d say tbat spiritual influence tjor. for con gumption tbey should
hd something to do with it." guarded frpm every possible
"I have no faith ia such superti- tSOa-ce of contamination,
tioos," he replied, still more coldly. Ll time .Of kn eoldemic milk
S) much the. better tor your
peace of mind," I said, wheeling my
esel, on which stood a canvas cov
ered with a cloth, into a full light
of tbe window.
"What do you mean V1 he asked,
with sudden sharpness.
"Look !" I said, jerking the clot:
away troro tbe picture.
I bad been prepared for amate
raent. alarm, perhaps pretended ig
i oranee, but the efftot startled me
The man stood like oue mttte
dead ou tbe spot. His hands were
outspread before him at tt to ward
off a blow; his js dropped, bis
eyes started from their sockets and
his sallow face tnrued vivid green
For a moment be stood thus star
ing, breathless, paralyz d, then a
song lowjgroau of iutolei.ihle agony
escaped bis white lips, and without
a word, without looking at me, be
turned and staggered out of tbe
rxm.
Eirly the next morning Ursula
ej'eied tbe srudio in great excite
uent. What has happened T' she
exclaimed. "Cousin Gregory 1m
gj'ie. I found this note pushed
u?der my bed-room this morolDg.
Read it ! ....
It was a brief scrawl in ao almost
iUegible band, and every liue be
tiayed the agitation of a mind on
tbe verge of madness-
"My sin has found m out. He
has come back from tbe grave to
accuse me. Id no other way could
it have beeu discovered. I am go.
ing where, I know uot where, ins
ded, I shall be safe from his pur
suit ? What cave is deep enough
to bide tbe guilty wretch from tbe
veugeauce of tbe dead when they
come armed with the justice of an
offended God t I leave all behind
me and go forth an outcast and a
beggar. You will find tbe deeds and
papers in my dek. Take them;
they are yours You will never
see my tace again.1'
We found the papers, as be had
SHid, transferring tf e whole estate
to Ursula Willis. He bad taken
with him literally only tbe clothes
he wore. I burned that d'ead ul
picture and have uever reveaied t
Ursula the cr in it rought to t'ghr.
I sometimes think she nab guessed
the trutu, for n never refers to the
sub ject, and neve: speaks the uame
ot Gregory Talland. Turough what
mysterious influeuces I painted that
strange picture I do not pretend to
fay, t ut tt is nnofbor proof, If proof
were needed, tbat tne inhabitants
of the other world do sometimes
interpose iu the affairs of this.
Impure Water.
Impure water should not be used
for any domestic purpose.
Boiling is tbe mst common meth
od of rendenug innocuous or sterile
acy water suspec-ed or known to
contain material which might pro
duce disease convey able by water,
such as typhoid fever or cholera
It is safe to say that bait of those
, who give orders to have the water
boiled, and eveu of those wbo them
selves attend to tbe boiling, dririk
water from vessells rinsed with un
boiled water.
It is plain that the good effects ot
boiling water wbicu is to be used
for drmkiug purposes are lost if tbe
pitcher cr milk cau ba beeu rinsed
with unboiled water. Tbe boiling
of water is au excellent precaution,
but the ue of boiled water should
be extended.
Of the water used io tbe house,
bold, ibe proportion devoted to
drinking purposes is relatively small
In the kitchen water is oged for
wathiog vegetables and for rinsing
dishes and table ware. One or two
gerjoB of disease clinging to tbe
; sid'8 of a vessell into which milk
has afterwards been poured may
lino the milk an excellent place in
which to grow and propagate their
spejies.
From food which has been sub
jected to roasting, to boiling, or to
any thorough cookicg there is notb-
sho lid always be subjected to boil
ing or Bteaming befofe it is used.
If you feel weak
and all worn out take
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