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that he cared for the Mnrillo in the
National Gallery or the noble statue of
Lord Lawrence in Waterloo Piace, had
no sooner seen Lucia Maynard. The wife
os Sylvan. thuu he pronounced her a
woman repletc with charm
She had abundant bronze-hucd hair
with eyebrows and eyclashes that were
dark as ink. Her eyes were large, liq
uid beautiful; you had to look as them
for some time before You knew whether
black or yellowish-browH prevailed in
them As for her features. il they were
not perfect, their relations, each to
each, must have been delightfully."- So
for you forgot their defects in the sub
tie spell wrought by this peculiar con-
cord. She had 4 warmth of tint that
rarely decpened into rose. Her smile.
which nawless teeth by no means
married, seldom lit her face. but when
its bright mystic funds were drawn
upon it dwelt in the remem brance like
echoes of dulcet sounds.
Thorndyke promptly saw that she
had married q man who had never
stirred in her one passionate thrill Not
that she seemed woman who desired
or demanded the homage which evokes
passion. Her tall and well-nolded
shape had the effect, both in movement
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and repose, of that placid dignity
which bespeaks a kind of sexual indif-
ference. And yet, as he watched her
more keenly, he told himself that he
discovered in her the unrest of some
thwarted ambition. Was it a craving
for wealth, for social prominence? He
decided to waiS and discover. She inter
ested him so acutely that he was haunt
| ed by this idea Of waiting and discover
ing
Meanwhile Sylvan's welcomes were
always warm. He had indeed disap-
pointed the doctor, and especially after
knowing and loving Gerald. Sylvan was
no reflection of his brother-not even a
pale and neutral one. He expressed for
| Thorndyke all the conservatism of his
| mother and all lin the Judgment of this
new observer) his mothers rigid wrong
| headedness. Thorndyle was in many
ways free-thinker, and Gcrald's fear
less liberalisms had vastly pleased him
| He hardly knew what to answer, one
| day, when Sylvan said, in reference to
| his brother:
| Il suppose Gerald now and then
| greatly shocked you. He often shocked
| me- But he had got to represent the
severely radical element at Cambridge
| by the time l bade him goodbye"
MY husband believes in being con-
ventional,'' said his wife, before the
| doctor could frame a fitting response.
Thorndyle started a little, and looked
at her. "And have you no such be-
lief?" he inquired.
She gave a short, gay, non-committal
| laugh. "Oh, / take things as find them
Or try to-
That try to- haunted Thorndylse.
He would sometimes watch Sylvan
and think how thoroughly his stopped
frame and large, gray, restless eyes
| betokened that he had inherited his
fathers body, and yet how dominant in
| him was the pious, conservative spirit
| of his mother. Being ignorant of what
the packet confded him by Egbert
Maynard really contained, Thorndylle
wondered whether it might not work
| trouble in the nature of this sensitive,
| God-fearing soul. If it were, as he
| suspected certain tidings which con-
| cerned that once-treasured elixir, might
| it not produce in Sylvan something of
| the same mental revolt and disarray
wears ago Weakened in the mother whom
| he so resembled?
| On Sylvan's twenty-ffth birthday
Thorndyl1e formally and privately de-
| livered the packet. Sylvan did not
| open it in his presence. The young
man seemed deeply impressed by the
very tidings of such a legacy Twill
he tell his wife any Ting concerning
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HOW THEY BITE.
He Could Tell the Kind of Fish without
Seeing 1t.

He Could Tell the Kind of Fish without
Seeing 1t.
He was old and weather beaten, and
his clothes were the same, but there
was an expression of supreme content
upon his tanned face as he sat on the
edge of the wharf and let his legs dam
gle down In his mouth was pipe
that had been new and sweet in the
dear dead long ago, and in his right
hand he held one end of fishline. The
other end was held down upon the bot
tom of the river, a long distance from
the shore.
'Any luck, captain?" asked young
man who was strolling by. 1t is con-
sidered the proper thing to call every
man along the river who is old and
weather-beaten captain"
"Nop-they ant bitin' much to-
day
'',rhey don't bite much anyway these
days, do they?"
''Nop-not like they useter. 'Tuseter
be so't l could come down here an
catch baslzetful in maybe an hour or
So"
''That was quite long ago, wasn't it?''
''Yep, quite spell ago. l member
one time-hellow
The old man had given his line a
vicious jerk and was now all excite
ment
SCOT bite, captarn?'
"Yep, an he's whopper, too. i ant
quite sure whether I've hooked him.
Yep, there he is. l feel him a-wigglin'
on the line. He's great, big striped
bass" All this was said in sort of
stage whisper
s'How do you know what kind of a
fish it is?'
Glow do know?" repeated the old
man, as he began slowly and deliber-
ately to haul in his line, and he threw
supreme pity for the ignorance implied
by the question into his voice. '.How
do | know? Why, young man. can tell
jes' what kind of fish tbs by the way
he bites. Now, there's an eel; he kind
o makes little bits o. pecks at yer line,
an then he takes holt an swims away
with yer line sort o. easy like. Then
there's the sucker: he jes' sucks yer
bait, an we can't hardly feel him pull.
An then there's the yellow perch; he
takes holt right away and swims away
like streak"
''And how does the striped bass
bite?" interrupted the young man.
..Oh, he monkeys around a whole
lot, and then he takes holt all of sud-
dent and swims away down stream. l
knowed right away when this Teller
took holt he was a striped bass.
never make no mistake. l."
Just then the old mans catch came
to the surface. 1t was an old boot
Albany Express.
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WHY Dentists Use Gold.

People seem to wonder why it is that
dentists use gold only for the best fill
ings, and are inclined to believe that it
is because they wish to run up the bills,
saws a dentist. AS is well known, sill
yer would resist the acids found in the
mouth quite as well, and l have been
asked at least twenty times why / did
not put in silver filings. If those who
are so anxious to cast aspersions on the
dentists would only study metallurgy,
they would find that the reason why
we employ only gold is that it is
the only metal that will weld while
cold. Silver will not do SO nor will any
thing else. The cohesive properties of
perfectly smooth and clear gold are
astonishing. If Won take a sheet of
foil and let it fall upon another both
will be so firmly joined that it will be
impossible to separate them 1t is this
property that makes gold valuable to
dentists. and not the desire to increase
the bills-Indianapolis News
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MANS lNHUMANITY.
How the Big Fish Gobble Up the Lit

How the Big Fish Gobble Up the Little
Ones.
Live and let live" is a rule not often
followed. Grab, Chokeman & Co. have
a large store. They sell more goods
than any in town. They brag over
their income and the size of the glass
in their show-window. They have
enough clerks on tight salaries to man
a small navy. Mr.. Needham. an honest
man, with a small capital, opens store
in the same business. One morning
Mr.. Grab says to his partner, Mr..
Chokeman: DO you know a young
chap has opened store down on the
other end of this block in the
same business?'' HAS, eh? We
viii settle him very speedily" Forth
with it is understood that if at the
small store thing is sold at fifty
cents, at the larger stores you can get
it for thirty-fve. That is less than
cost. but Grab & Chokeman are an old
house and can stand it, and Needham
can not. Small stores stock OF goods
is getting low, and no money to replen-
ish Small stores rent is due, and
nothing with which to pay it. One day
small store is crowded with customers,
but they have come to the sheriff sale.
The big fish have swallowed the little
one. Grab & Chokeman roll on the
floor of the counting-room in excess of
merriment. Needham goes home to
cry his eyes out. Big store had put an
end to small store. Plenty of room for
both, but the former wanted all the sea
to itself-Talmage, in n. Y. Observer.
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could study to be physician in one
country and seek his patients in an
other. 1t was different with a lawyer.
And I'm now a lawyer" Sylvan at
length continued to write, ''in full
blossom of activity. Old Judge Rath-
bone has been vastly kind to me, and
since I've quilted the Columbia Law
School | find his aid Il ruby beyond
price 1t will serve me well, | feel
more than sure. Keep straight, dear
brother, and study hard in the profess
sion you've chosen. think that there
really may be good chance for you
here. / hated New York at first, but |
am far more reconciled to it now.
Much that the English call vulgarity
in this land is merely a national diff
ference in the way Of doing things.
There are traits of New York refine
mcnt that can beat some London ones
all hollow, as you would say, dear
boy"
After several more months came a let
ter that shocked and by no means
pleased Gerald His brother had quite
suddenly married a young American
girl whom he described as possessing
ure. Her name was Lucia Fythian, and
she was the daughter of a gentleman
who now was dead but who once had
been a jurist of great note. Lucia is
his orphan child" wrote Sylvan, land
when | first met her she was the ward
of an austere aunt who sowed the house
hold air with little jibes and sneers if
her poor niece ventured to ask for a new
pair of gloves. 1t was horrible, Gerald
and it woke my warm pity. Love soon
slipped into my heart by the same door
which pity had left q jar. | dare say it
is often just like that with us; don't you
think it is? Well, Lucia is my wife,
now, and Il fond little wife she makes.
am perfectly happy-or would be but
for yourself, dear brother OF course l
always can spare you something until
your own future prowess puts you firm
ly on your feet. Still, you will under
stand that my living expenses must now
undergo marked augment, and
Gerald read no more, for the present,
but crushed the paper in one hand with
his fair Saxon skin crimSoning below
his sunny locks.
1t was cruel of Sylvan to serve him
such a trick! But never mind; he would
move heaven and earth, now, to show
that he could shift for himself. This
was the unjust British law of pri-
mogeniture. Still, let Sylvan keep all,
since he legally had it. III live on a
crust a day." fumed Gerald. rather
than play pensioner. This Lucia
Fythian (yvho possibly married Sylvan
just to get those pairs of gloves that her
aunt was 50 stingy about giving hcc)
shan't be bored by any nuisance of
brother-in-law overseas. I'll turn sweep
first; by Jove l will ~
But as it happened, there was no need
for Gerald to turn sweep. Hardly day
after he had made this proud resolve,
stranger called at his rather humble
lodgings. Gerald read ''Dr. Ross Thorn
dyke on the card handed him, without
at first the faintest thrill of memory.
Soon afterwarS it flashed upon him that
his fathers old Cambridge friend had
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the heart and lungs?" Would he post
pone cutting them until a compromise
might be made with somebody else,
whose sacred privilege of picking the
helpless mans pockets would be there
by Invested of its value? Or would ne
give his round shouldered brother liber-
ty. leaving nature to do the rest?
We find men bound down by artificial
restrictions which DR.. Buckley must
have seen when he denounced the pres
ent system of land tenure as out OF
harmony with both philosophy and
religion, and spoke of himself as COM
ing into the world Handicapped" be-
cause 1.-The land was all held in private
ownership by some enc else" These
are the gives with which the masses OF
men are fettered Sorne, like DIR. Buck
ley, may release themselves, as some
slaves, by extraordinary effort and I'M
common luck, were able to buy their
freedom But the great majority are
helpless; and SO, with deep poverty in
the midst of abundant wealth and still
more abundant opportunities for pro-
ducing wealth, society seems to be
round shouldered. Single tax men do
not propose putting it in a wise. 1t is
socialism that proposes this. Single
tax men would simply cut the gives
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it?" thought Thorndylse. ''Well," he pro-
ceeded to muse. IF Lucia is left in
ignorance of its contents it will be just
like his secretive, timorous tempera-
ment"
The elixir had always appealed to
Thorndyke in no other light than that OF
a melancholy joke. He was a no less de-
vout disciple of science than his dead
friend had been; but that any concoc-
ton of the kind described to him by
MAYNARD on his death-bed could posi-
bly, be accredited with the potency de-
clared of it was like calling the grass
blue and the sky green.
Several more meetings occurred be-
tween Sylvan and the doctor, and still
no reference to the packet was made.
One evening Thorndyke presented him
self when the master OF the house
CHANGED to be absent. knowing how
rare was any such occurrence unless
Sylvan went out in his wife's company,
the visitor said to Lucia, when she APP
peared and graciously greeted him:
How odd that your lord should have
left home of an evening 'sr1acco1'i panied
by his ladyl 1 suppose you gave him
full authority to desert your
Lucia dropped into an easy chair
''Oh! yes. It's meeting of some law
yers' club, I believe, to which he be-
longs"
TTo BE CONTINUED.
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Z ROMANCE
rWO BROTHERS.
BIZ EDGAR FAWCETT,
AUTHOR OF 1.-THE CONFESSIONS OF CLAUD,"
IAN AMBITIOUS WOMAN THE EVIL
THAT MEN Do "a NEW YORK
FAMILY" ETC.
copyright, 1890, BY Edgar Fawcett.l
CHAPTER III.-CoNTINUED.

CHAPTER III.-CoNTINUED.
Sylvan could not help rejecting that
there was number of lords just then
at Cambridge by whom he was certain
ly not expected to perform any such
servile acts on meeting them; but still
the idea of seeing America" and pos
sibly profiting by the splendOr OF stray
smile or TWO from that mighty man,
Judge Rathbone, allured him not lit
tie. His brother Gerald stood in the
way of such project; he was dearly
fond of Gerald, though sometimes think
ing him almost blasphemOus in his in
difference to religious things. And yet,
Sylvan began to muse, why should
year or SO of separation be held OF such
great account? There had once been
enough money for four of them; there
would surely be enough now for two.
Every thing had been left by their En-
plish mother who had received all his
property intact from her American hus-
band) to the eldeSt-bOrn. But Sylvan
was willing to share his last pound with
Gerald. Still, both boys wanted
more pounds if they could get
them, and both were willing to
work for them as we'll But
dollars were easier to get than pounds;
to this effect young Rathbone sapiently
assured the elder brother, who shared
the large faith which has lately grown
ND in England that the States and
quick money-mak:ng are very closely
allied. Gerald, on his side, fired at the
mere idea of an American residence.
| He was going to be a doctor, he. Med
| zeal questions were already of the deep
! est import to him. and as Sylvan one
day laughingly told him, his Greek
roots threatened to turn into those OF
| of rhubarb and quinine. If that should
| prove the case" Gerald as gay1y an
| svvered, Il shall be all the more pleased
| to transplant them into Western soil.
| Whenever | go up to London I've a
morbid impulse for strolling through
| Harley street. l begin at Cavcndlsf
| Square and end at Regents Park; and
| I count so many doctors plates on the
! door-paneIs that l grow depressed at
their multitude. 1t consoles me, Sylvan,
! to reflect that there may be no such
| place as Harley street in New York.
| Perhaps there isn't. I'm decidedly Gu
rious to go there and find out for my
| self"
| As it turned out, Gerald did not make
| his exclusive inquiries for some time
after he left Cambridge. Sylvan sailed
away from him, however, in the com,
pany of Rathbone, and later Gerald
| pursued course of medical study on
English shores. His brother wrote him
| that he thought this plan best. mar
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DiplOnacy.

A salesman should know his goods
and his customers; and if, beyond that,
he has some general knowledge of hui
man nature he viii often find it use
full.
Il am very sorry, SIR" said clerk in
a dry goods store, but l have nothing
exactly like the sample. The very last
remnant was sold yesterday"
but / must hare it" said the GUS
toner. otherwise how shall | face
my wife?''
..Well. now" answered the salesman.
.ff l might venture to suggest, why
don't YOU invite friend home to dinner
with youP',-Xouth's Companion.
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How to Abolish War.

On Thursday, August &c, at Mystic,
Conn, Mrs. NJ. L. Ormsby. of New
York city, addressed the Universal
Peace convention on the subject of "A
New Way to Abolish War. The audi
ence before whom she spoke numbered
ten thousand people, She argued that
the private ownership of land has ever
been the curse of the land. and she de-
clared it to be her belief that if the sim
gle tax were enforced, there would be
a universal brotherhood, and war would
disappear. Mrs. Ormsby is one OF the
best known members of Sorosis, and
now that she has become Interested IN
the subject will be sure to have the sin
gle tax discussed in that distinguished
body during the coming winter. She is
one of the most influential women con-
nected with that body, and her infiu-
ence reaches beyond the United States.
Three of her cousins are married to
peers of the British realm, one of them
to nephew of Lord Salisbury. She is
most intellectual woman, and is a
graduate of Vassar college
Fond Parent-''What are the cleo.
tive studies at your college. Walter?"
Walter-''Political economy. | guess.
That's about politics, and elections and
S,,ch things isn't stYn
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borne that name, and he went to meet
DIR. Ihorndylle with a sparkle in his
azure eve and q hcartiness in his hand
grip which cheered the visitor like q
magical drought.
Il see lots OF your father in YOU"
Ross Thorndylze at length said. His
ewes were gray, but yours would be ex-
actlv like them if they were not blue.
And so your brother Sylvan is in Amer
lea? How unfortunate that should not
have known it, who have lived in Chica-
20 for an age. might SO easily have
looked him up before l boarded the
steamer in New York.
Its too bad that you didn't know he
was there" said Gerald. You told me
a few minutes ago, | think, that you
greatly wanted to see him"
''Yes, greatly. | crossed the ocean
for that purpose
Just to see Sylvan? Really?"
Dr. Thorndylle slowly nodded. He
seemed to muse in the most absorbed
way. Gerald watched his aged and al
tered face. That grayish beard, those
lined features, that badness which en-
nobled his fine brow just as it sometimes
betrays and chcapcns others-an were
marks of change that had their sadden-
ing effect upon his own youth. For it
is true of us that when we are young
the matured features of those whom we
have last looked on as freed from all
times harsler touches, assume Ominous
hints and meanings which have their
roots in our human hatred of either Sc
nifty or death.
YES" replied DR.. Thorndylle, ''just
as you say, to see Sylvan. And he's
married. YOU tell me, and you've but
Yesterday heard the news. Has it de-
pressed you?"
Very much" Gerald murmured.
it his fathers old friend most intently
listened.
Gerald" he broke forth, as the
Young man finished, Il know exactly
why this marriage has disturbed you.
You're not yet through your course Of
medical study here in England. You're
afraid. But my boy, don't fear a
minute longer" And he put out his
hand, which Gerald grasped, with a
strange hope beginning to bloom and
brighten in his soul.
Il have the world to face all alone,
sir. now" said Gerald. THAT is, hate
to be dependent on Sylvan, who can
hereafter i'll afford
Il understand" shot in Thorndylle.
His face beamed kindliness as he pur-
sued: I'VE must arrange all that. We
can, my boy, and we shall. But first
| please answer me 4 question: How old
is Sylvan?"
Gerald reflected for a moment, and
| then said: He lacks few months OF
fve-and-twenty."
HE lacks a few months? You're
sure? I'm very glad to hear it. I'm
enormously glad to hear it."
He continued to speak with lowered
eyes and mouth pursed ruminatively
! Il didn't want to be too late. / dreaded
that l might be. And 1 wanted to be
on time
.'On time?" repeated Gerald.
Thorndyke lifted his eyes. Eyes.
| There were reasons"
Or Thorndyl1e," the young man re,
turned, curious and mystified, ''mGy
ask you, sir, what those reasons are?"
''Oh, nothing" answered the doctor.
''Nothing, assure you"
But Gerald was secretly very dissatis-
fed with that nothing" which struck
him as less diplomatic than repellent.
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ITo BE CONTINUED


DO you think Wagner's theory OF
music is sound, professor"
Eyes; too much Life.
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ACElTE para ALUMBRAD0 de las FAMlLlAs.
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Dres marcas, tanto por sus cualidades lumf-
nicas como por la seguridad que ofrece los
consumidores.
Nuestros precios son mucho mas reducidos
que los de las marcas extrangeras, que con
este mayor precio no brindan q los consuml-
dores ventajas de ninguna clase.
La experiencia adquirida on esta indnstgia
durante muchOs amos en- 9s Estados UnfdOs,,
Cuba, Mejieo y otros paises, nos perInite ofre-
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RetratOs
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The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-07-05
les All a Biz Fake.

To the Editor Of the Sunday Morniao Nesrs:-
see the Journal is printing boom
ing interviews for the Gore on
Gregory street for the new City Hail.
With few exceptions the interviewed
are directly or indirectly interested in
the matter One of the interviewed,
large property holder in the Gore,
was most lavish in It's praise portray
ing the playing OF fountain in front
of the proposed edifice; but how about
the fountain that would be playing in
the cellar and that would get its sup
ply from the ever choke and sewer in
this vicinity.
am a taxpayer and a builder and
say without fear of contradiction
that it is direct waste of money to
put up any monster building in this
locality. am in no way interested in
any particular site / have no axe to
grind In the matter. / am for the
building OF municipal building, but
am not for placing it in a mud pud-
die. Why, Mr. Editor, it would take
thousands of dollars to prop up the
building by piling this "Gore." I'm
fortunately the land in the lower city
is only half made up. but there are
a good many solid spots which could
be found on which to place astructure
that would be lasting and orna-
mental. TAXPAYER.