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chair and hoated into the arena, her spec
tacles aglow with her animation, and all
stood back, as she went through graceful
figure something like the figure on the
floor, to the delight of every one. 1t was the
event of the evening.
"I couldn't help it," said she as she took
her seat; "that music was so enervating that
could not restrain my exorbitance."
She famed herself, while the young pre-
pared for games, over which Mrs. Partington
was installed as umpire, her seat near the
open door leading to the kitchen. She was
fully equal to the position, and the forfeits
she imposed called for no arbitration.
kiss every girl in the room!" was the en-
ergetic edict, and the way the young men
obeyed it showed wonderful confidence in
her judgment, some of them repeating the
inhiction many times. The fun was at its
height when faint scream from Mrs. Part
ington caused a suspension. ard it was dis
covered that her face was held between two
firm hands, their owners face appearing be-
hind her chair, smiling pleasantly. 1t was
the good-natured face oT a small man, with
curly hair and side whiskers, and was evil
to extricate herself.
"Guess who it is" came hoarse whisper
to her ear.
The voice went to her heart, where there
is no concealment, with love for interpreter.
'IsaacW she dried, aud tainted away.
1t was, indeed, Ike, just returned from
sea. and with him Capt. 81, who had kept
in the background, and when Mrs. Parting
ton became conscious she bent on the in
truder look OF half doubt, the whlskers,
at first preventing Identification.
"Oh, you imardimate boy!" said she,
show could you complicate me by your ab-
trusiveness? But am so glad to see you
just in time for the conclusive end of
Thanksgiving; and 81, too, sail in as we
used to say at sea, and enjoin the fun"
Never could there have been happier
woman in the world than Mrs. Partington
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EDUCATING ARTISTS.
Opinions as to the Necessity of Study
in Foreign Studios.
THE DUTY ON IMPORTED PAINTINGS
Free Admission of all but Cheap Works
Thought to be Advisable.
THE ADVANCEMENT OF AMERICAN AIT
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH

WRITTEN FOR THE D1SPATCH.1
During the past two or three years in
watching the great sales of paintings have
been impressed with the general interest in
and preference for the works of foreign
artists, especially for those by French
painters. Our galleries, public and private,
are full of examples by foreign painters, and
that there is ample market for them and a
Giving profit" Notwithstanding duty of
25 per cent, is evident to all.
Many thoughtful judges are inclined to
attribute neglect of native talent to Ignorant
indifference, and to the effect of a certain
fashionable vogue that makes the possession
of foreign pictures criterion of taste. A
celebrated French artist has informed US
that here in America We have one of the
masters of landscape. Every French salon
holds examples by American artists that
compare favorably with those Of their foreign
competitors. We surely have enough native
ability, enough of the art instinct. What
our artists need is the appreciation and Prac-
teal encouragement that comes from interest
and purchase.
Is it not time. with every material ad-
vantage that great and peaceful nation
could wish for, to foster a great national
academy, one that we could proudly COM
pare with those Of France and England?
Why not have department OF the fine arts
at Washington, with department minister
chosen by a convention OF our representa-
tive artists?
The following questions have been SUBJ
mitted to some 40 or so we'll known artists,
and the substance OF lew replies should be
nj interest and yalue. Gan a th0r0uph art
education be acquired in America? Do you
think work in foreign studios essential? Is
there an American school OF art? Would
the free admission of foreign paintings be an
advantage to American art? Have you any
suggestions as to a method of advancing
American art interests?
j, B, CARRINGToN.
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4 GOOD FOUNDATION AT HOME.

No Young Artist Need be In Haste About
Going TO Foreign studios.
The landscapist can do very we'll without
an education abroad. We have enough
good pictures in landscape to show US the
best standards of foreign landscape art
Nature must be our great teacher, and that
we have here as we'll as abroad. In the
matter of figures the advantages are with the
students abroad. They have all the ABILITIES
of models and costumes with most perfect
school systems. We have here advantages
foundation, so that he need not be in haste
to take himselfabroad until ne is sufficiently
advanced to profit thoroughly by the best
he finds there. II he has talent and deter
mination 1 believe be can reach high
point without it. Several of our eminent
artists may be cited as instances.
The American school, 1 think, is still in
embryo. The germ is here, but we have
hardly yet an art which can be called dis
tinctly American. For the most part it
still reflects strongly the influence of foreign
thought and methods.
No more or better pictures would come to
this country if the tariff were entirely abol-
lshed. When Americans can pay Sl0O, 900
for single picture, I think 30 per cent
more or less. is not going to deter them from
purchasing anything. American artists, 1
believe, are as a rule in lavcr of a removal
OF the tariff on pictures. l think on gen.
eral principles all educational works should
be free. There are many pictures imported
here which are of no value to US education
ally, but are clever, poor things purchased
by spectators Tor song abroad and sold
here Tor three or four times their original
price. I favor, therefore, specific tariff of
say 500 on each painting, drawing o; sculp-
ture. This would be largely prohibitive
when applied to poor work and decreas-
ingly light on valuable works, accepting
the money value as a standard, and it ap-
plies more generally than any other stand
ard. 1t would also, in a measure, protect
our young painters at the very point where
competition can be felt.
The press can do great things by inform
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IKE AND HIS MOTHER.
Mrs. Partington Gives a Famous Din
ner on Thanksgiving Day.
HER ELABORATE EFFORTS IN PIES.
The Oldest Inhabitant of Three Towns
Never Saw Their Equal.
IKE BRINGS HOME SOME WHlSKERS
rwRrTTFN FOR THE DIsPATcH.I
CHAPTER XII.

The President and Governor, by very
singular coincidence" as Sir Joseph Por-
ter, K. c. B., expressed it, having named
the same day for Thanksgiving. Mrs. Part
ington, as she pondered it, thought she would
like to celebrate the festal incident by big
dinner at the old homestead, and she and
Amanda, the confidential help, put their
heads together, paragorically speaking, to
make preparations 'or the event. With con-
siderable intellectual effort invitations were
sent Rivermouth, Hogs Corner. Rumney
Marsh, Frogs Run, Tattle Village, Little
Turkey, Kidder Swamp, and places ICON
tagious," omitting none, as she felt that it
was sort of last appearance, and desired a
full house.
"Manda," said she, eve must have din
ner more commensurate and fulsome than
any we have had for many years, for 1 feel
that very few Thanksgivings are preserved
for me, and I would like to meet all my
friends about the fostering board"
Accordingly Mrs. Partington and Manda,
for a week before the event, went up to their
elbows in the preparation of mince pies, apple
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CHAPTER Xxx,
DISCOVERED AT LAST.

The winter was nearly over. About that
time in the year which corresponds to
the first week OF the month of February, as
known to our calendar, the underground
corridors between the Temple and the Pal
ace of Annas became the stage of thrill
ing scene.
The impatience OF the separated lovers
had now pushed aside the warnings of pru-
dence. Lazarus and Zahara had agreed to
meet at the old rendezvous; Abraham and
Rebecca, faithful tools of the adventure.
and the only medium OF communication, had
done their docile and sympathetic part in
the affair. The evening and the hour had
arrived.
Lazarus found both more difficulty and
more ease than he anticipated in approach
ing the corridor from the temple. Priests
were abundant and attentive. The builder
was obliged to watch his chance by the
warlest It even occurred to him that his
motions were observed by special order; but
he abandoned this theory when sleek
young Levite with whom he was conversing
deliberately interrupted the interview, and,
begging his pardon for leaving him a mo-
ment moved off to obey some summons
from the altar, promising to return lmmedl-
Rtely. 1t is needless to say that when the
Levite came back Lazarus had disappeared.
If the priest had looked at the tapestry
which hung before the marble slab that
closed the corridor, he might have seen the
fine material tremble slightly, as thing
does which has recently been set in motion.
Whether he cast an eye in that direction or
not, however, Lazarus was not there to see.
He reached the extreme end of the passage
something past the hour appointed. 1t was
empty and still. He pushed the great slide
softly. 1t was a cold night and, fortunately,
dark; but without rain; there was frost upon
the grapevine, which hung with shriyeled
leaves, a scantier shield than it used to be.
Lazarus dared not speak; he listened in an
agony which mounted to ecstacy when he
heard the delicate, quick fluctuations of a
woman's painting breath. Two passionate
whispers crossed each other:
"Zaharar'
'Lazarusr" and he had her in his hungry
arms.
OF what do lovers talk after a three
months separation and in face OF detection,
disgrace, and death? At first it seemed to
Lazarus that words were as idle as the drip
ping OF the dew from the dank root of the
vault. 1t was frosty, BY the way, for so
much dew; and it occurred to him once to
wonder where it came from; but neither this
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1t is perfectly safe to estimate that Of
every ], 900 houses, great and small, built in
this country during period OF so years, at
least 900 were as devoid of pleasing arehi-
tectural features as so many dry goods
boxes. 1t is not difficult to name large and
prosperous towns that cannot claim a single
fine exterior.
At the present time very few import
ant structures are built except from we'll
considered and approved designs. But there
is missionary work to be done regarding
considered unworthy of careful study and
design. 1t would be unbecoming, indeed,
for the rank and file to wear epaulettes and
cockades like the officers. but certainly they
should be SO comfortably and Dresentably at
tired as to inspire self-respect. An
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TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIPS,
Policy That Might Advance Arr IL KEPT
Apart From Politics.

Policy That Might Advance Arr II Kept
Apart Frrm Politics.
We need study abroad. A man who has
not seen the old masters is no more thor.
oughly educated In art than is one thor.
oughly educated in literature who has moi
read the Greeks. There is hardly an Ameri.
can school of art-as vet nothing more than
the promise of one. National schools of art
are the outcome OF national peculiarities OF
temperament, and such art as we have is
necessarily American. Beside, we have not
enough good art of any sort, as yet, to dig
nify with the name of school.
think the removal of all restrictions on
foreign works of art would be a benefit.
The best method of advancing American
art would be to make importation Tree and
then let art alone to take care of itself
Travelling scholarships might do good if we
could be certain to keep them apart from
politics. KENYON Cox.
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THE CHILD OF THE FUTURE.
He Will be Put Through Long Series of
Microbe Inoculntiou.

1t is dreadful point about these microbes
that the only way to avoid having them in a
or attenuated form. The children of the
ganut of Infantile disease, but they will
probably be subjected to incubation with
various microbes every few months.
First, they will be vaccinated for small
pox; when they have recovered from that
they will be taken to a Pasteur Institute to
have mild Iorm of rabies. Next they will
be given dose OF the comma baciIli to pre-
vent cholera, and SO on through all the ever
growing series of disease microbes. Obi
luckless child of the future!
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that usually obstruct the rooms OF a small
house. During the heated term the large
Veranda is most agreeable substitute for
dining room. Vines trained at the front
or sides insure sufficient privacy. During
the cold season the yeranda may be enclosed
with sashes, at small expense; il this work
is we'll done. the heat of the sun will often
make the verauda a warm and agreeable
room. The large yeranda may be consid-
cred too large for so small cottage, but it
is useful as we'll as ornamental, as briefly
suggested in the foregoing.
Cost, $500. The estimate is based on New
York prices for materials and labor. In
many sections of the country the cost should
be less.
Feasible notifications: Heights of stories,
kinds of materials, sizes of rooms and colors,
may be changed. Cellar may be built. BY
building gable at the rear another bed
room may be planned. Veranda NAV be ex-
tended around either side or both sides. The
veranda inclosure may be open balusters
and rails, but the solid Enclosure is more in
in keeping with the design.
3. W. SHoPPELL, Architect,
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A COTTAGE FOR $500.
Design for One That is Neither Com.
monplace Nor Tawdry.
BOTH COMFORTABLE AND PRETTY.
Large Yeranda That Would Prove Para
disc in Hot Weather.
AMPLE sTOREROOMS AND CLOSETS


WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCHED
One of the most exasperating OF inanimate
things is an ugly building. 1t ofends the
eye as grievousiy as vile odor ofends the
nosfrils. 1t should hide its head for shame,
but 1t presents as bold, ten bolder front
than any OF its grace ul neighbors. 1t ought
to grow weak in the knees, so to speak, and
fall to the ground, but it usually has great
strength and durability-more's the pity.
Its ugliness is like gratuitous insult-en-
tirely unnecessary, for the materials which
compose 1t might have been shaped by the
labor which built il into a form of beauty.
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interlude of less pretentious fasting, when
dancing commenced in the "best room," a
fiddler having been procured for the occasion,
the room lighted by 20-oandle power. with
two placed ON each side OF Corporal Paul's
profile.
The fiddler seemed crazy with delight, the
floor rocked from the energy of thick boots,
and waves OF radiant fabrics rolled above it
like the waves of the sea. Everybody
seemed inspired, the elders, as spectators,
beating time with their canes, when, in the
midst of the dance, Mrs. Partington lett her
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HOW MAD A WOMAN CAN GET!
Lady Wouldn't Use the PostofIice Because
the Doors Didn't Suit Her.

4 Lady Wouldn't Use the PostofIice Because
the Doors DIdn't Suit Her.
From the Detroit Free Press.I
The storm doors on the postofice building
open outward, as all public doors should.
Thirty out of every 40 people who enter the
postofice, no matter how often they have
been there, give jump on the doors, fgur-
ing that they open inward. Saturday lore
noon lady got out of carriage and at
tempted to pass in by the inward bang, but
it was no go.
''Those doors open outward, ma'am," said
boy who was close by.
"Oh, they do, eh?" she queried. "Well,
let 'em openp'
And she walked off to q lamp-post box,
deposited her letter and stif1y entered her
carriage and was driven away.
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BLAMES THE CRITICS.
They Should Study Home Art Closer md
Write With Iurelligence.

A thorough art education can with diff.
Guilty be acquired in America, yet do not
think work in foreign studios essential.
There is no American school of art. /
think the free admission of foreign paint
ings would be an advantage.
If writers would take the trouble to find
the good qualities which exist in works of
art produced here instead of taking the cas-
ier and common course of adverse criticism.
perhaps the public might sooner learn that
the average or art here is as high as any,
where. But such criticism demands knowl-
edge of the subject, while the usual adverse
criticism does not Ed. MILLEr.
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ing its readers regarding the true art worth
OF our best workers and exposing the impo-
sition OF much foreign work upon US which
has no intrinsic value, but is bought at in
Asted prices here.
GEORGE 81, SMIILIE
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MISCELLANEOUS OPINIONS.

Eest Various improvements.
think thorough art education can be
acquired in this country. There is hardly
an American school OF art, for there is too
much imitation of foreign work and not
enough self-reliance. Free admission would
not be of benefit, because We are now over
stocked. think elementary instruction in
art should be given in all our public schools:
that everyone should grow up with some
knowledge of art and beauty and love of
nature as applied to it..
J. r CRopsru
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No art education is complete without an
acquaintance with the masterpieces of the
world held in foreign galleries, but a good
technical training can now be obtained at
home. We have no school of art; localism
of subject does not form a national school.
A more generous patronage of the work of
American artists, removal of all duties on
works of art, endowment of some of our
self-supporting art schools and the establish
ment of travelling scholarships would do
much to advance our art interests.
j. CARROLL BECKWITH.
do not think work in foreign studios
now-since we see good things here-neces-
sary. The free admission of good works of
art would undoubtedly be beneficial, as the
more good work we see from any source the
better. AS to advancing American art I
believe if our wealthy men would discrimi-
nate justly they would readily purchase the
work of our painters. If this were done NO
other method of encouraging art would be
needed. r. SWAIN CLIFFORD.
Work abroad is essential, because there ia
a forced standard in drawing and in the
knowledge of anatomy and in technical
skill, by which all students are Judged. Or
course, one may acquire this skill without
being great artist, but great artist is
greater tor having it. Free admission vould
be an advantage. should say that we have
no American school, and think in the
future there Will be less and less difference
between the schools Of different countries.
RosINA E. SHERWOOD.
Visiting the pictures Of the ancient mas
tiers in some of the best galleries abroad is
essential to a thorough education. which
cannot, therefore, be completed in America.
As to advancing American art, anything
tending to convince individuals or the pub.
lie that art is very serious thing and not
mere diversion or decoration in the lighter
sense.
EDWIN HowLAND BLAsHFIELp.
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Il pray" urged Lazarus with a change
in his tone, which suddenly broke into an
agonized appeal, 81 pray, for the most
sacred of reasons, which would be urgently
appreciated by yourself, did you compre-
hend them-I pray you to allow me to de-
part in peace until reach the Temple exit
1 give you my word that will return again
unto you and meet your demads, it you will
allow me to do SO without the scandal of
interference.
1.-The honor of skulking man is a poor
guaranty" replied the High Priest irigidly,
You will not experience surprise if l de-
cline your request"
81 am in your power" answered Lazarus,
bowling drearily. He listened with held
breath, fearing some betrayal of her pres
ence on the part of Zahara. She gave no
sign. The black throat OF the corridor
yawned silently beyond the line of lessen
ing light where the glare of the torch died.
Il am In your power" repeated Lazarus.
wv Which propose to exercise" said the
High Priest coldly. Guards Advance
Whatever be your business, my ex-builder,
it is one that deserves the punishment it
shall receive. Think you," exploded
Annas, suddenly casting off the disguise of
icy self-complacency which he had chosen
to assume, Think you, Lazarus that L
know not the true nature of your abomin-
able business? Think you that 1 have been
gullible, easy old man, blind to the honor
of my household, and negligent of the vir-
tue of my daughter? That have not pen
etrated your scandalous design? That I
had moi. the intelligence to discover that the
sacred, secret avenues of the Temple we're
converted into the scene of low love affair?
Think you that do not recognize in you,
you dog of a Pharisee. the seducer of the
daughter of the High Priest oil Zion?"
Now, by the great name OF Jehovah, re-
vered by ssdducee and Pharisee, bv priest
and lsymauP" cried Lazarus passionatelv,
''and by the honor of lady, the noblest, the
purest the whitest, the most sacred in the
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-03-29

A lethargic, dormant condition Of the liv-
er is hardly 10 be overcome with drastic ca
thartcs and nauseous cholagogues. A
gentler, pleasanter, and far more effective
means exists of arousing the organ when
somnolent. This is Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, vouched for by the medical fraterni-
ty, tested by the public for many years. A
resumption by the hillary organ of its secre-
tive function, with the activity attendant
upon health, return to regularity of the
bowels, and renewal Of digestion, are the
no less happy and certain results OF using
the Btters Systematically. Its laxative ef-
feet is never painful and drenching, its ten
dency being rather to peipetuate regularity
than to produce a copious action. Malaris,
nervousness, debility, kidney troubles and
neuralgia it subdues effectually.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-03-29
A CUTTING AFFRAY,
Which will Probably send Man to
state Prison.

The Carson Tribune Of the 25th inst. says:
A young colored man named Binga. interest
ed in the Ozark Barber shop, was stabbed
last night by Martin Burke. 1t seems that
Binga and his partner, Liggins, were on their
way home from work about nine clock, and
when in the neighborhood Of the Ormsby
House they overheard Burke. who appeared
overcharged with liquor, calling hem ''black
SIS of b." Binga asked Burke to whom
he was addressing such epithets. Burke re-
piled, "You," at the same lime making a
lunge al him The colored man promptly
knocked Burke down and put a good head
on him. On arising Binga observed the
blood flowing from his leg. aud on further
inve stigation found cut about two inches
in depth on his left leg between the knee
and high. The injured man Immediately
out DR.. Lee and had his wound attended to,
while Officer Bryant conveyed the belliger-
ent and murderous Burke to the County
Jail. nr. Lee say, the wound will keep
Blnga in the house for Two or three weeks
As result of his spree, Burke will probably
land in the Safe Prison,