T115 SHIP mo THE SONG. l ts'i- p was launched at midnight. ‘1'? it. 11111 a parting cheer: I.u1,i'11111 .:ing wealth from lands afar, . ’ ‘11 n". :11 seas where calms or tempests arc. . M" .. .ile doomed barks miss the lighthouse star. She sails for many a. year. 1‘ l-1 . song was wrought in silence, '1" n1 our _rh starless night of pain. To (in: koned homes the words are -,light And faint souls feel the master’s might; While poet on fame’ s sunlit height May sing a song in vain. —George T. Packald. MADAM’S FRIEND. ,_ “Yes, but when, Dick—when?” 'anx- iously inquired Madame Gira1din. looking up at her friend beseechingly, , as he 11 as preparing to depart “You must leave that to me,” replied Dick Halston. “You must trust me im plicitly. We will seize the fi1 st favor- able opportunity, of course More than that I cannot tell you now. “'e must conceive some pretext for removing your husband beforehand, until when, my visits to you must be an inviolable secr,et 01 cm plotting will revert to our own destruction. And now I Will be going—in case monsieur turns up unexpectedly.” You will come again tomorrow Dick? Do!” she pleaded. "I feel so nervous and apprehensive When you are gone until you return. You will V come, Dick?” “ll'isdom advises Good-bye, Winnie!” Madame was reclining, looking pale and .dejected. She sprang to her feet as her husband entered. “.Victor! Is it you, dear! Ilow early you have come home today!” Monsieur looked fixedly at her while he w ove his own interpretation around her remark, then he said: ‘Yes; I am earlier than you pected.” The constraint in his manner and an inferential something in his voice pricked her sensibility to danger. “What is the matter?" she inquired. “Is anything wrong, Victor?" "Nothing,” he replied, “Nothing that I know of.” Then he sat down and perused a pa- per, to give his wife an opportunity to explain, but she remained silent, with her fears and misgivings and her long- ing for the morrow and Dick Halston’s protecting presence. Monsieur Girardin was a jeweler, with a shop in the Rue de la Paix and a luxurious second floor apartment in the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore, the other side of the Madeline, close by the English embassy and the English church, for Monsieur was a Protestant and his wife an English woman who had brought him a considerable for- tune. His business, ever a failure be- fore his marriagehtook a prosperous turn immediately his wife‘s money as- sisted him in opening the shop in the Rue de la Paix, and bad flourished ever since. Now, monsieur had glided into the habits of clockwork regularity, leav- ing for business immediately after breakfast,- taking his lunch at a neigh- boring café, and- returning home at fbur in the afternoon for a-read, a gos- sip. a. little shopping 01' an idle stroll with his wife along the boulevards be fore dinner. \Vhatever had prompted him on that particular day to break through his established routine was quite obliterated from his mind the following day, when he sought for a pretext to do likewise, and he left his shop two hours earlier than was his custom with an excuse that drove the blush of shame to his cheeks. He was going to play the spy upon the one wo- man he ever loved, and whom he had honored and trusted before all others. As he reached his house in the Rue ‘No,’ but I will. OX- abruptly. du Faubourg St. Honore the blush of shame was suddenly overwhelmed by a flush of anger when he saw a man issue from the house, spring lightly into. a waiting cab and drive away at full speed. It was madame’s English friend. * 11: o :1: o o a: * :1: One day a messenger knocked at madame's door, handed in a note from Dick Halston and departed. Madame tore open the message and read the message; then in haste she sat down and wrote upon a blank telegraph f01m which she had in readiness for this emergency; “Meet me tomorrow at Metz. Best to travel separately. “'INNI E.” She directed it to Dick Halston, and walking to the Window glanced up and down the street. Satisfied with her inspection, she descended the stairs to the street door, and waved her hand to attract the attention of a man whom she had observed from the window. l‘he man answered her signal with ulacrity. “Will you take this to, the telegraph ofiice for me?" she asked. “It is Very important and urgent.” She gave him some coins. and told him to pocket the excess for his trou- ble. Then she returned to her apart- ments and began to pack a small bag with the necessaries for a short jour- ‘ ney. The man, having glanced at the writing, walked briskly *rdown the street, but instead of entering the tel- egraph office he continued his course along the Rue St. _Honore, though the Place Vendome into the Rue de la Paix, and turned into a jeweler’s shop. Monsieur Girardin was in his pri- vate office alone, and the man present- ed ‘him with the telegraph form with- out comment. Monsieur recognized his wife’s handwriting, and his brow clouded ominously; but, having read the dispatch, he directed the man to send it from the nearest telegraph of- fice without delay. ' 'He made arrangements to be absent a few days; then he left— the store and walked quickly to his bank, where he drew a substantial sum of moneyih convenient form. ’1‘ It =0! * t t * 1k =1: "' 'ALa Paris terminus madame, from 3 1: of one compartment. 1111111111,: . :1 11 a man enter the other. ' '1‘. 11“: e :1 1 -.~< risk of discovery leaving 1.1- s 11:. s than together, and when ll)€_ .1 ;.lidcd out of the station the -t 1111' ath of relief fanned mad s face, but it was only transitm y :11'11'1 would lurk until the frontier Ins safely crossed, and the language 11111 the costume changed from French 0 1. erman. ’lhe t1ain crawled into Metz just as larkness settled downpin earnest. The. itation was indiiferently illuminated. .nd as she alighted she visually swept he platform. The smile that she had mmmoned vanished, and her heart gave a downward throb of bitter dis- lppointment. Where was 110? Had he changed his hind and alighted at an intermediate Nation? A voice spoke over‘her shoulder. “Surely your English friend has not played you false?” Madame turned quickly and con- fronted—her husband. If either exhibited embarrassment. .t was certainly not madame. Monsieur Clirardin in the course of the journey from Paris had drawn several mental pictures of this meeting, but the ac 111211 differed from them all. She stood oefore him with eyes filled with love— :hat sober love exhibited at a crisis oefore the passionate outburst. “I have known Dick Halston from :hildhood.” she replied, “and he never moke faith with anybody. But we :annot talk here.’ she led the way to the stuffy but nalf— desc1 ted waiting- room. “Where is he, then?” satirically in- quired Monsieur. “You made an ap- pointment to meet him here.” “He is in Paris,” she replied. “Then 'he turned coward before your departure.” “How blind you are, Victor! Can- not you guess what Dick is going to 10 in Paris during our absence?” “Solving conundrums is not my forte.” “Dick is a London detective. He is 111 Paris on professional business. Can‘ not you guess now?” “Again I must say 1101” “Victor!” the name broke from her like a cry. “Won’t you confide in me? Dick and I have conspired to save you. I do not believe you are guilty of—of “what they would have arrested you for, but for Dick’s timely warning and scheming. I know there is some eX< planation; that you are not what— what they say. “Ion’t you confide in me? We are safe now, dear. Dick says they will not follow you over the. frontier, and—” She stopped. The amazement in his face puzzled her. “Winnie,” he said, “what do you mean. I fail to understand your allu- sions.” 4 “I mean—I mean the coining. Oh, you must know! VVon‘t you confide in me now?” “On my honor, Winnie, your words are riddles to me.” He spokeemphatically, truly. Then she explained to him how the London police had su’spected that Eng- lish counterfeit coins were being im- ported from Paris; how they had gained the co-operation of the French police, ~who had tracked the coiners to Moh- sieur Girardin’s jewelry shop, and how Dick Halston had 'been sent to Paris to superintend their arrest. To all of which Monsieur Girardin lis- tened with stupefaction. Then he em- phatically denied: all knowledge of the affair, and vowed that the Paris de- tectives had made egregious asses of themselves. “Theyare to make a raid on your shop to-morrow,” added Winnie. “That is why we lured you here to- day, taking advantage of the jealousy you had displayed at Dick’s visits and my silence. that the man you had employed to watch his comings and goings would take my telegram straight to you.” Monsieur Girardin had begun to knit his brows. He consulted a time table, and returning to madame remarked with a troubled voice that fortunately there was a night express to Paris, and he would be able to reach his shop in the Rue de la. Paix before the raid was begun. “Some time ago I let an electrically lighted basement room to two men purporting to be small working gold- smiths,” he said, ‘2 and I suspect that the coining apparatus will be found there. I was never quite satisfied with my subterranean tenants, but 1 never suspected until now—” They returned to Paris by the night expiess, and found Monsieur Girar- din’ 5 late suspicions established truths. Dick Halston was sincerely apologetic for his mistake, but Monsieur Girardin would scarcely listen to him. “You and Winnie have certainly made a mistake on a. foundation hard- ly flattering to me, but I have made a perfect fool of myself. I ask your par- don, monsieur.” Chewing Gum and Wrinkles. Girls, if you want your faces wrin- kled before you reach a hale old age, keep right on chewing gum. . _ It is impossible that such a gr0~ tesque and unnatural exercise of the facial muscles cliamping of the jaws for hours at a time should not only throw the menth out of shape, but must sooner or later bring on wrinkles. '1 he first, to appear are little fine lines just below the temples. Then a deep, ugly line begins to take up permanent residence about the corner of the mouth, and next in the cheeks. The plumpcst check that ever bore a rose will soon wrinkle under the force of lbis1 ugly gum-chewing habit. "This is a great country.” “Yes, with :1 great language. I heard me man say to another that the only way to makehim dry was to soak ai:1:.”~-C-incinnati Ez‘iquirer. And Dick felt certain" as is required by this ' '\ D 1'11. WMEJMWET w: NflW l} 1}". is‘ eIIM Q ' . s To Subscribe for the. AND Both Pacers-Sent to one Address "for $1.002aYear , 11’1 ' 4V@4%c. choice, 6m70c. ‘ . EVENINGWGAZETTE THE ALBANY CENTENNIAL Celebration of the Establishment of State Government There. ALBANY, Jan. 7. —Albany is celebrating today theone hundredth anniversry of the selection of this city as the seat of the gov- ernment of the state of New York. The ceremonies were conducted under a state commission composed of William Joy of New York, William Bayard Van Bens- selaer of Albany, descendants of the men prominent in the history of the establish‘ ment of- the state capital; John Boyd Thacher, mayor of Albany; Senator Myer , Nussbaum and Assemblyman J. M. E 0’ Grady, the newly eleqted speaker of the lower legislative branch. The celebration is paid for by state appropriation; The exercises of the day opene at day- break by the chiming of the bells in the belfries of - St. Peter's church and the Cathedral the of Immaculate Conception. Chauncey M. Depew, the orator of the day, arrived on the Empire State express and was escorted to the capitol by a com- mittee of citizens. John E. McElroy was the poet of the celebration. O'Grady Elected Speaker. ALBANY, Jan. 7.-—The state legislature convened today. The governor’s message was read in both branches. One hundred and forty-six members answered the roll call. For speaker J. M.‘ E. O’Grady of Rochester received 112 votes and was de- clared elected. Daniel E. Finn, the Dem- ocratic candidate, received 31 votes. Archie E. Baxter was re-elected clerk. ~ In the senate all the old officers were re— elected. Both branches then adjourned until next Wednesday evening. No Supplementary Message. ALBANY, Jan. 7.—Comptroller Roberts said today that the report that Governor Black would send a supplementary mes- sage to the. legislature recommending that a. bill be passed to remove the 2 per cent tax on state bonds is without foundation. The comptroller said that he had just had a conversation with Governor Black, and he had reason to know that no such mes- sage would be sent. First Gun of the Gas \Var. ALBANY, Jan. 7 .——Assemblyman For- rester (Kings) introduced a. resolution to- day providing that a. committee from the assembly be appointed byethe speaker to investigate all questions that may be rai’sed in relation to the gas bills. Aldridge's Reappointment. ALBANY, Jan. 7.——'1'11e senate has unan- imously confirmed the appointment of George W. Aldridge as superintendent of public works. Lady Scott’s Defense. LONDON, Jan. 7,—Thetria1 of the libel suit brought by Earl Russell against his mother-in-law, Lady Selina Scott, and two male defendants, John Cockerton, an en- gineer, and William Aylott, a valet, was resumed today. Counsel for the defense contended that Lady Scott’s whole object was simply anxiety to vindicate her daugh~ her and defend the latter from her hus~ band’s attacks. Connecticut’s General Assembly. HARTFORD, Jan. 7. -—The general as- sembly for Connecticut for 1897 was or— ganized today by the election of Joseph L. Barbour of Hartford as speaker of the house and William H. Marigold of Bridge- port as presidam pro tem. of the senate, with Samuel A. Eddy of North Canaan as clerk. Frederick A. Scott of Plymouth was chosen clerk of the lower branch. . Steamer Snma Floated. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—The steamer Jason, which arrived today from Jamaica, reports that the Norwegian fruit steamer Sama, which was ashore at the entrance to St. Ann’s bay, was floated on Dec. 29 by the wrecking steamer J. D. Jones. The Same. will be towed to a northern port for re pairs. .—_—______.___..+.- Flagman Hurt by a. Back. NEW BRITAIN, Conn, Jan. 7.——Richard Flaherty, a fiagman at the Washington street crossing, was run down and danger- ously injured today by a hack driven by John Nichols, who was trying to cross the tracks ahead of an approaching train. A Factory Closed. ROCHESTER, Jan. 7.—The’ sheriff today closed the factory of the Smith-Kevanagh company, manufacturers of misses’ and children’s shoes, on judgments. The “feather. Generally fair; colder; westerly winds. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Closing Quotations of the New York Staci Exchange. , NEW YORK, Jan. 6. ——‘\Ioney on call nominal- ly at l}§@2 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, m4” per cent. Sterling exchange strong, with actual business in bankers’ bills at 84.86% @4.86% for demand and $4.839§@4.83% for 60 days. Posted rates, [email protected]}é and $4.87@ 4.88. Silver certificates. 64§4@65}:ic.; no sales. Bar silver, 64%c. Mexican dollars, 50%0. Gov- ernment bonds firm. State bonds dull. Rail- road. bonds firm. , Closing prices: . Atchison ........... 14% N. J. Central.. . . .101 Bur. & Quincy ..... 71% North American. 4% C., 0., C. & St. L.. 26% Northern Pacific 13% Chesapeake &. 0.16% Do. pref .......... 33% Chicago Gas ....... 74% N. Y. Central" .93 Cordage.........‘...-— Omaha. ........... 48% Cotton Oil ......... 14% Ontario & West. 14% Del. & Hudson” "113%; Pacific Mail ...... 24%, Erie ................ Reading ......... . General Electric” 34 Rock Island ...... 66% Hocking Valley. . . 17% Silver Bullion. .65§§ Lackawanna. ...... 157 St. Paul ......... 7456 Lake Shore ........ 152% Sugar Refinery. .1107,§ Lead ............... 2’05 Texas Pacific.... 9% Louisville & Nash. 48% Union Pacific.... 9% Missouri Pacific“ .2093 Wabash pref..... 16% \‘Vestern Union.. 83% Northwestern ...... 103% General Markets. NEW YORK. Jan. 6.——FLOUR—Sta.te and western dull, but steady; city mills tents. [email protected]; winter patents, [email protected]: mills clears, [email protected]: winter straights, $4.60 @4.80. WHEAT-Np. 2 red opened firmer on better cables, but later eased off under light clear- . ances; March, 9;. ’%@93c.; May, 88%@89%c. CORN—No.2 dull and easy; May, 31 9- 16c. ., July. 32 11-16@32§4c. ATS—-—No. 2 inactive: track. white, state. 20@30c.; track, white, western, PORK—Dull: mess, $8. .‘25@1‘3.'~ 15; family, 89. 50 @10..50 LARD—Dull: prime western steam, $4.0'1‘lé, nominal. BUTTER—Steady; state dairy, l3@160.: state Creamery, 13@19c. CHEESE— Quiet: small, 7%@10§’c. EGGS— Steady: state. and Pennsylvania, 19 $210.; western, l4@lllc. SUGAR—Raw firm; fair refining.213-16c.: centrifugal, 96 test, 3 3-16c.: refined steady; crushed, 5c.; powdered, 4%c. - TURPENTINE—Firm at 2‘6}é@28}4c. MOLASSEfi—Dull: New Orleans, 24@3lc. RICE—Steady: domestic, 3%@6%c.; Japan, ' state. large, Tlé@10%c.; ' 3’l‘ALLOW—Steady; city, 3%@3}éc.; country, 3,HAY—Quiet: shipping, 52%@57}§c.: good to ¢ . an elementary city a ,e h": FOR 1101s 11111) Guns. .THE cLEVER SEALS. How They Play in the Aquarium—A Lon- don- Seal Says “ Mamma.” , The Aquarium in Castle Garden has proved as great a source of delight as its most sanguine promoters could have hoped. Of all its occupants, none re- ceives more attention from young peo- ple than the two young seals that amuse the public all day with their tricks. The fish excite interest because they are so strange and curious, and dif- ferent from anything, that lives on the land. The seals_owe their popularity. to another cause, for. they have all the best qualities of those animals which are most companionable to man. The elder of the seals is Nelly, an amiable and beautiful creature, two years and six months old. ' The other is her biother, and is not yet full grown. on which account he is known as Baby. .. . . .,-4 Nelly is decidly the more Vivacious of the two seals in the Aquarium. She has already learned many amusing tricks, although her education is yet in stage. She- comes promptly when she is called, stands up on her divided tail and most politely shakes flippers with the keeper. Then when she is told to go and play she turns a somersault into the water and there performs many feats of aquatic gymnastics. She is able to stay under water three 01' four hours, but that is not a feat Nelly feels called upon to perform in the Aquarium. It is one she would resort to in a storm at sea. She seems to be greatly pleased with her commodious tank. It is supposed that Baby needs more ' rest than his. sister, because he is still growing. part of his time asleep. Then Nelly will steal 11p to him and hip him smart— ly in the flipper. This irritates the youth, and he turns on the disturber. A brief mill follows, in which Baby is invariably worsted. At times they play together amica— blyfivrestling and chasing one another through the water. They play tag in the water in a way that should set. a stimulating example to small boys. The seal is capable of learning a sur- prising number of accomplishments. No animal excepting tlie pig has proved himself more useful 'in public exhibitions and better able to perform feats of an intellectual nature. Learned pigs have been known since the remot- est antiquity, but seals are now their 111 als in erudition. London was recently entertained by a talking seal. This animal did .not articulate very clearly whenhe tried to speak English, but perh'aps he would have done better in a language more suited to his vocal organs. “Mamma” was the word which he pro- mount-ed most distinctly, and ve:y touching it was to hear him say it, for he had dbubtless been brutally snatched from the arms of a loving parent- in Alaska or some other dis- tant place. All his remarks were full of meaning and expression. then asked if he would like to fish he squeaket “yes” in a most unmistak- able manner. He also had a very graceful way of returning thanks for a plug of tobacco. It was one of .his many peculiarities to be fond of chew— 111g. The seal has shown himself able to read as well as any other animal. He may be taught to combine letters of the alphabet so that they spell things which he needs—New York Journal. A KIN'G IN RAGS. He Sells Papers, but is Nevertheless a True Nobleman. . In a Cl'nistmas sermon written for the New York Journal Rev. Dr. Charles II. Eaton tells this beautiful storv. One Christmas Eve, but a few years ago, a ragged newsboy was seen to en— ter a saloon on Printing House Square. He sold a few papers, and just before he ldft the room he hesitated for a mo- ment before a small box standing on . the counter, marked “Gifts for Poor Children.” When the boy thought no one was looking he dropped a few pen- nies into the box—all the profits of his sale—and ran out into the night. A witness to his generous act fol- loWed him. It was very cold and snow was on the ground. The boy was seen to hurry away to a staircase on the " outside of a building, and there creep under the slight "protection of the boards. There he lay'down to sleep with only the heavens'for a roof, and the moist ground for a bed. When asked why he 'who had no home and was compelled to sleep in the cold and the snow had given his all, he replied: “I thought'there were some poor chil- dren not so well off as I am. papers, you know.” Is ,not'the highest order of nobility , shown inthe spirit and conduct of this street gamin? In gracious courtesy, in tender usefulness, it was never sur- passed, ' perhaps never equalled, .by king or priest. He spends a considerable. I can sell .
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