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LIGHT.
’ "he night has a thousand eyes, .
-1111! the day but one:
Yet the light of the bright world dies
thh the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes.
And the heart but one;
Yet. the light of~a whole life dies
When love is done.
—-F1a11cis W. Bourdillon.
LOVL '4‘ IS BLIND.
Feathery palm trees, banks Of flowers.
softly hued fai ry lamps, and delicious
1,,strains of eVel- changing music, all
these go to make up encampment.
So, at least, thought Lord Ronald
d’Estei re.
He had but just returned from a two
years’ sojouin in the heart of Af1ica,a
3- sojourn filled with dangers and priva-
tions; his yea1s numbered but five and
twenty, he was possessed of awell- knit,
springy flame, and a keen, -clea1 eye;
and he had come back from his t1 avels
with fame. couiage and endurance, but
without a penny that he could call his
own. ,
What was next to be done? This was
the problem that filled all his spare
thoughts. His elder brother had fitted
him out fo1 his expedition with the po-
lite intimation that the act wasa vir-
tual washing Of his hands Of the super-
fluous cadet; his aunts had kissed him
so warmly at parting that he was
amazed to find them f‘not at home”
when he returned to London; his god-
father had given him a twenty—pound
note and such a hearty farewell, that it
was bewildering to be cut by him when
they met once more in the club smoking
room.
. “It really seems as if they wish I had
never come back!” said the young man
tohimself, with a smile at the incredi-
ble idea; but as time passed on his
smiles died away, and he ground his
teeth savagely as he realized that his
relations had thought it a good invest-
ment to lay out £500 and an infinity of
farewell in the hope of getting rid of a
troublesome e11c11111b1ance.lt was a
bitter tho ught, and 111 his first fury he
vowed to leave his native shores by the
next ship and never return to them
again. But upon the heat of his pas-
sion there fell a cooling breath, as if
from heaven itself, and the lion was
straightway- changed into a lamb. Lord
Ronald d’Esterre had been accustomed
so long to be looked upon as a “detri-
mental," that at first he scarcely dared
to show the attraction that lay for him
in Violet Harvey’s appealing gray eyes
and soft, shining hair. TO his amaze-
ment, however, he found that obstacles
melted away miraculously at his ap:
proach. Violet herself was shy and re-
tiring, it is true, but her mother smiled
sweetly upon him, andpher father shook
him warmly by the hand.
Was ever man so blessed before?
“True love does 11111 smooth some-
times, after all!“ he said to himself on
this b1ight June evening, as he walked
homeward after a meeting with M15.
Harvey in the Park.
“Shall you be at Lady Chesterford‘s
party tO-night?” she had said. "Violet
and I are going, and we shall be so
disappointed if we do not see you
there.” ' '
His honest face had glowed with de-
light as she spoke, and he seemed to be
treading on air as she walked away.
“Even Aunt Maria has taken me back
into favor again,” he thought; “she
was horribly cross when I first came
home, but now she is sugared satin
whenever I come near her. I dare say
it is all my fault, though. I know that
I was an ill conditioned brute until
Violet came to soften me!”
Lady Maria’s flowered headdress was
the first object that met Lord Ronald’s
eyes when he entered his hostess’s
crowded drawing-rooms that evening,
and somewhat to his surprise it was in
close proximity to Mrs. Harvey’s frizv
zled gray head. , .
“I Should not have thought that aunt
Maria would have anything tO do with
her,” he reflected. “She always says
that she can detect the faintest tincture
of trade, and sire must know perfectly
well that Mr. Harvey made his money
in malt."v
At thisl moment, however, he caught
sight of Violet, and forgetting all else,
he elbowed his way eagerly through
the crowd, until ‘he reached her side.
It might have been only fancy. but at
any rate it seemed to him that her wel-
come was a warmer one than she had
ever given him before, and his 'heart
beat faster as he bent,over her.
“Will you not come into the conser-
vatory?” he said, pleadingly; “it is so
hot here.”
She rose without a word, and they
. walked away together.
"Do you know that it is only six
weeks Since I first saw you?" he asked.
"I can hardly believe it myself, for it
seems as if I had known-you all my
life.”
He had an ilea even as he spoke that
he had seen the remark in almost every
line story he had ever read. but he
could not refrain from uttering it, for
it seemed so exact an expression of his
feelings. Violet, too. had probably
ueard it before, but from Ronald‘s lips
it sounded absolutely new, and her long
eyelashesdrooped lower upon her check
as she listened.
They were walking between banks Of
flower and fern, and the silence be
tween them was too sweet to be broken
at once ;f but Ronald knew that their
solitude might be disturbed at any mo-
ment, and rousing himself from his
dream he had just opened his lips to
speak, when a voice from some hidden
speaker came plainly to their ears. '
“It is almost certain to come off to
_ night, I think. I got him an invitation.
on purpose.’
Ronald started; .it was Lady Maria’s
voice, but he had not the remotest idea
to what she was alluding. In another
moment, however, she received her an
swer, and it was violet's turn to stait,
for it came in her mother s accent s:
“Weshall only be to.) grateful to you
if it ddés come off, for 1111 papa 2111.1 1
have always set ,os.11','11o.~(.'.s 0.1 1.1-1- m..- '
0-. . ‘. s,
rvmg a Lord. The very minute ViOIBl
tells me he has proposed, the check
shall be sent to you.”
Ronald drew back a step, his cheeks
growing white beneath its bronze; his
11 1nds clenched involuntarily, and for a
ufi‘irnent Violet expected to see him dash
out among the conspirators; but their
voices were already receding in the dis-
tance, and as he looked around he saw
the anguish in her face.
‘V iolet, Violet!” he cried, seizing her
hands in his, “y ou knew nothing Of
this. I will swear it with my dying
breath!”
She diew her hands away, and
tui ned to es cape,,but he followed’her.
'I have not much to offer, ’ he said,
“but all I have is at your feet.”
She quickly looked up. and a light of
gratitude came into her eyes.
“How good you are,” she said.
Ronald looked at her in bewilder-
ment; the words were not what he had
expected.
‘ You do not unde1sta11d”he said.
"I want you to be my wife.’
“I do understand,” she answered
gently, “and I honor you for asking me,
after what has happened; but I will not
take advantage Of your generosity.”
“It is not generosity,” cried Ronald;
“it is sheer selfishness.”
But Violet showed no signs of yield-
mg.
“I will not leave you unless you tell
me one thing,” said Ronald; “if your
heart is free, I claim it; but if not, I
will never trouble youagain. Violet,
tell me, do you love any one?”
She looked at him with a face that
«1 ew pale under his gaze.
“Y es, ” she said, " 'I do.”
“That is enough,” said Ronald,
hoaisely, and dropping her hand he
tinned and went.
“'It is strange howr ungiateful young
people are!” remarked Lady Maria, a
few days later, to the friends gathered
around her tea table. “I had arranged
a most suitable match for my nephew,
really done everything in my power to
promote it, and yet he actually came
here the other day and used the most
terrible language; said I had spoiled
his life and other dreadful things; and
now he’s gone off abroad, nobody can
tell where. I’m sure I only hope I will
never see him again."
Her wish seemed likely to be ful-
filled, for five long years came and went
and brought no news of Ronald, and
though five years could not take the
bloom from her cheek, nor the gold
from her hair, they could, and did add
very materially to the infirmities of he:
frame. But when at last he did reap
pear, he was willing to overlook the
past in spite of her resentment, for he
had found his way into a profitable for-
eign partnership, and instead of fam:
he brought back money. «
“One of the best things I ever did f0:
you was getting you out of that entan
glement !” she exclaimed fervently whey.
they met, for Lady Maria came of mili:
tary stock, and she knew that one of
the most successful maneuvres is t:.
carry the war into your enemy‘s;
country. .
Ronald shot a glance at her from un-
der his dark eyebrows, but said noth-
ing, and she continued gayly:
“Mr. Harvey went bankrupt a year
or two after you went away. and they
are quite in poor circumstances now.
That upstart girl waits upon the lodg-
ers, I believe.”
"‘You don’t say so I” remarked, Ron-
ald. “Where are they living?"
“In Worthington,” she answered. de-
ceived by his coolness. “Lady Hen-
nington was there last week, and she
told me that she saw, Mrs. Harvey on
the Parade, and that the woman ac-
tually had the audacity to speak to her!
Can you believe it I”
» “I don’t know,” said Ronald, “but I
am going to Worthington this after-
noon, and I shall see whether she will
speak to me!”
“Oh, my dear boy!” cried Lady Maria
in genuine distress, “Pray don’t do
anything so foolish. You have no idea
how designing poor people are——”
But here she ceased, for the sound of
the loudly closing door informed her
that she was alone.
“But why did you send me away?”
said Ronald a few hours later. as he
and Violet stood together under the
stars and heard the waves beating upon
the beach.
“Because I thought, after what we
overhea1d, that you felt yourself bound
to say what you did out of considera-
tion for me.’
“SO your p1 ide came in the way, my
little one! Don’t you know that pride
is one of the deadly sins? However, I
can’t preach to you now, because I
want to ask you another question. If
you really have loved me all along, why
did you tell me such a dreadful lie?”
“A lie I” exclaimed Violet.
"Yes, a lie; a regular big black one!
When I asked you if you had loved any
One, you said yes. Now, then, confess
at once, because I’m not going to let
you off. ’
He held her away from him so that .
he could look into her face, and waited
for he1 answer.
“I saw that you would not listen to
any other objection,” she' said, “and I
thought that you were sacrificing your-
self, and so-«——”
“Yes, I know all that, ” he inter-
rupted; “but you had no business to say
what you did! Unless, of course, there
really was some one. Come, now, tell
me." _ .’
A flush came over her face, and as
she raised her eyes he could see her
tears shining in the starlight; he
grasped her hands more firmly in his
now, and looked down at her from the
height of his six feet.
She tried to speak, but her quivering
voice would not be controlled, and with
a great wave of love surging up in his
heart, he drew her close to him.
“Who was it?” he whispered.
She turned to hide her face upon his
shoulder, and breathed her answer into
his ear bent down to catch it.
"You, dear, blind 'boy, it was you !"
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TIIB BONAPABTE FORTUNE.
Ihe‘Young Lady, “7210 Is Now a Countess.
Is Amply Provided For.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 29.-—An antenuptial
agreement between Miss Louise Eugenie
Bonaparte of Washington and Count Adam
de Moltke-Huitfeldt Of Denmark has just
been recorded here, although it was execut-
ed the 28th of last December, the day be-
fore Miss Bonaparte and the count were
married in Washington. Other parties to
it are Mrs. Caroline Le Roy Bonaparte,
mother of the countess, and Mr. Charles
J. Bonaparte of Baltimore.
By the agreement Miss Bonaparte con-
veyed all her property to her uncle, Mr.
Charles J. Bonaparte, in trust. She is to
receive the income for life, and the receipts
of herself or her husband are to be a suffi-
cient quittance to the trustee. Should the
countess die before her husband he is to
receive the income for life. After the death
of both the countess and her husband the
principal is to be distributed as she directs
by her will. Should she leave no will the
principal is to go to her children or heirs.
If the count dies before his wife, leaving
no children, the property is to be recon-
veyed to the countess. Mr. Bonaparte is
to receive no compensation for acting as
trustee.
The count by the agreement, if he dies
before the countess, is to bequeath her for
life such Of his property as he may be per-
mitted to leave her by the laws Of his
country.
Mrs. Bonaparte, mother of the countess,
agrees to pay her daughter an annuity of
$7,000 in quarterly installments of $1,750
on the 15th day Of each January, April,
July and October. The agreement is signed
by all the parties to it and was executed
before Charles S. Bundy, a notary public
of Washington, and C. Brun, Denmark’s
minister at the national capital.
An Exhibition of Motors.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. —A second exhi-
bitiOn of motors and machine tools will
be held in Munich, June 11 to Oct. 10,
1898, to which the inanufacturers Of all
countries are invited. The exposition Of
1888 was of a; similar character, but the
invention of new machines and the in-
crease of motive powers within the last ten
years have been so great that the two expo-
sitions will Offer interesting opportunities
for contrast. The General Industrial of
Munich celebrates by this exposition its
fiftieth jubilee.
Sufi'erlng Colonists.
CHIHUAHUA, Mex., Jan. 29. —- James
Ledsker, who was among the number of
Americans who took up their residence
at Topolobampo, the co-Operative colony
on the coast, a few years ago, has just ar-
rived in a destitute condition and is seek-
ing to get back to the United States. He
' states that the few colonists remaining at
Topolobampo are entirely without means
Of support and that they are suffering for
food. They are several hundred miles from
a railway station.
May Have Died of Hypnotlsm.
JAMESTOWN, N. Y., Tan. 29. —-The cor-
oner’ s jury impaneled to investigate the
death of Spurgeon Young, a negro boy
supposed to have sustained fatal injuries
while hypnotized, secured sufficient in-
formation to warrant holding another ses-
sion. The father of the lad swore that his
son had been hypn otized by a traveling
magician, who compelled him to budge
himself across two chair back s while a
heavy man jumped on his stomach.
Ivory Sails For Home.
QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 29. —Edward J. Ivory
of New York, who was recently acquitted
in London of the charge Of conspiring to
cause a dynamite explosion; John F. Mc-
Intyre, formerly an assistant district at-
torney of New York, who acted as Ivory’s
counsel, and the three American witnesses
in the case — Patrick Wynne, Patrick
O’Rourke ar. Thomas Smyth—sailed for
New York today.
Ibsen Is Innocent. ,
LONDOZT, Jan. 29.—The Daily News says
that Henrik Ibsen positively denies that
his latest drama, “John Gabriel Bork-
man,” is aimed at Bjornsterne Bjornsen.
Bjornsen, who is related to Ibsen by mar-
riage, claimed that “John Gabriel Bork-
man” was a work Of revenge and that it
drew freely upon his (Bjornsen’ s) life for
material. It was also claimed that Bjorn--
sen meditated a literary revenge.
Explosion In a. Coal Mine.
OTTUMWA, 1a., Jan. 29.——-By an explo-
sion in a coal mine at Foster 11 men have
been severely burned, one of them fatally.
The mine Officials claim that the explosion
was the result of natural phenomena; that
air of extreme low temperature met the
warm, gaseous air O.‘
shaft was suddenly Opened and formed gas
which ignited from the lamps of the min-
t
ers. . .
Telephone Rate Hearts.-.
ALBANY, Jan. 29. —-The committee on
miscellaneous corpOrations of the senate
will give a hearing on the New York board
Of trade and transportation bill reducing
telephone rates on Tuesday next.
One Day’s Government. Recelpts.
WASHINGTON, Jan 2.9. .—'-National bank
notes received today for refimptlon, 8390, -
169; government rec‘b‘ip‘ts from internal
revenue, 8487, 601; customs, 8281,148; mis-
cellaneous, 834, 703. * " ,
, tomei might have to
the mine when the ‘
ROYALTY LABORS
PRINC FSS LOUISE ADDS TO HER
INCOME BY HER CHISEL.
People Desirous of Obtaining Favorable
Notice from Queen Victoria. lVill Un-
derstand the See) et to Gaining 1101‘ A1)-
probation.
Sculpture is a favorite art among
those royal and imperial ladies of the
Old “'orld who are most distinguished
for the exuberance of their tempera-
ment, the independence of their char—
acter and the strength of their mind.
The young Princess of Naples has
already distinguished herself as a
sculptor. One of her works is a Statue
of her ancestor, the V‘ladilla Danilo of
Montenegro.
Princess Louise, fourth daughter of
Queen VictOria, adds to her annual in-
come by her chisel. She is far from
rich, her husband, the Marquis of
Lorne, being actually compelled to
work as one of the junior partners in
a third—class firm of house decorators
in Chelsea, London. The Princess al-
ways has her hands full of orders for
statues and busts of her mother, the
Queen, from people desirous of social
and titular distinction.
It has been found by persons of this
class that the best way to attract the
favorable notice of the sovereiguis to
present a statue Of Her Majesty to
some town or city, and when in addi-
tion to this the statue thus presented
has been executed:- at a more than or-
dinaiily la1ge1cost by her daughter
Louise, ofc (guise the Queen is especial-
ly appl e013 '0- of the compliment paid.
Thus some timeago Proprietor Borth~
wick, of the LondOn Morning Post, who
was member Of Parliament for the
Iiehsingtion district of the metropolis,
announced his decision to present to
his constituency a statue of the Queen
to be erected in the chief square of the
district. He placed the order for the
statue with Plincess Louise, and gave
her a check for $20,000 for the work.-
The result was that theQueen herself
presided at the unveiling Of the statue,
and before a year had elapsed the sa-
gacious proprietor of the Morning Post
had been elevated to a peerage under
the name and title of Lord Glenesk.
One of the Queen’s grandnieces,
Countess Gleichen, whose father was
Prince Victor I-Iohenlohe, earns her
living by her chisel, which renders her
independent Of the relatively small al-
lowance which the Queen has placed
at her mother's disposal.
Another royal lady who is renowned
from one end of Europe to the other
for her skill with mallet and chisel is
the widowed Empress Frederick of
Germany, eldest daughter of Queen
Victoria. Some of the best busts and
medallions of her lamented husband
have come from her studio.
An imperial lady who runs her very
close in this respect is the widowed
Aichduchess Marie Therese of Aus-
t1i- 1.
HOW WORTH WORKED.
And the Long Waiting \Vomen \Vould En-
dure h) be \Vell,GoWned.
011 days on which there were to be
Court dinners or other functions Paris-
ian ladies who had ordered gowns for
them came to Worth, the well-known
dressmaker, to be dressed. First come,
first served; but there was a waiting
room with choice refreshments—«a ve1 1'
access my arrangement—for a fab cuss
wait seven or
eight hours. When her turn came she,
entered the consulting-room. \Vorth
stood there, armed with a pair of scis-
101's. Two women stood beside him. 3
"‘hey undressed the lady behind a
screen—for her petticoats were to the
skirt of the gown what the skeleton is
(0 theflesh. When her toilet so far
was complete the new gown was don-
ned, and she emerged from behind the
screen to be passed in review by,
Worth. He was particplar about the
cut and plastic points. He criticised
aloud, worked here and there with the
scissors and pins. The women acting
under his orders also pinned and plied
their needles. Classes of wine were
administered when nerves had run
lown from long waiting.
“'lrat One Girl (fan 150.
A Kansas girl of seventeen won a
prize in an unusual contest. She was
notched against two most expert
3lacksmiths in the city, and to their
lismay, turned out a perfect horse~
hot; in less than four minutes. «Tid-
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