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tion. My lord answered II. Tho boy,
glanced wonderingly at each other, snt
from somewhere fell the comment:
English eowboyl Well, if that aim
curious"
Another mental note to be preserved fol-
the diary: Cowboy. Now, what might
cowboy be? Perhaps" But the Viscount
perceived that some more questions were
about to be asked; so he worked his way out
of the crowd, released the sleeve, put or
the coat and wandered away to seek ar
humble and obscure lodging. He found it
and went to bed and was soon asleep.
In the morning he examined his clothes
They were rather assertive, it seemed tt
him, but they were new and clean, at any
rate. There was considerable property in
the pockets. Item, five 500 bills. Item
near $50 in small bills and silver. Plug oi
tobacco. Hymn book, which refuses tc
open, found to contain whisky. Memo.
randum book bearing no name. Scattering
entries in it, recording in scrawling ig.
norant hand, appointments, bets, horse
trades, and so on, with people of strange
hyphenated names-Six-Fingered Jake,
Young g-Man-Afraid-o of His-Shadow, and the
like. No letters, no documents
The young man muses-maps out his
course. His letter of credit is burned; he
will borrow the small bills and the silver in
these pockets, apply part of 1t to advertis-
ing for the owner, and use the rest for sus-
tenance while he seeks work. He sends
out for the morning paper next, and pro-
ceeds to read about the fire. The biggest
line in the display head announces his own
death. The body of the account furnishes
all the particulars; and tells how, with the
inherited heroism of his caste, he went on
Il r
himself was impossible; then, with the eyes
of weeping multitudes upon him, he stood
with folded arms, and sternly awaited the
approach of the devouring fend; "and so
standing, amid a tossing sea of flame and
on-rushing billows of smoke, the noble
young heir of the great house of Rossmore
was caught up in whirlwind of fiery glory,
and disappeared forever from the vision of
men,"
The thing was so fine and generous and
knightly that it brought the moisture to his
eyes. Presently he said to himself: "Whst
to do is as plain as day now My Lord
Berkeley is dead-let him stay so. Died
cred1tably, too; that will make the calamity
the easier for my father. And don't have
to report to the American claimant now.
Yes, nothing could be better than the way
matters have turned out. I have only to
furnish myself with new name and take
my new start in life totally untrammelled.
Now breathe my first breath of real free
dom; and how fresh and breezy and inspir-
ing it isl At last I am mani A man on
equal terms with my neighbor; and by my
manhood, and by it alone, shall rise and
be seen of the world, or shall sink from
sight, and deserve it This is the gladest
day, and the proudest, that ever poured its
sun upon my head.
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Thu Ruttarflv,a First SEASON.

If you should chance to pause in front Of
any Broadway window where theatrical
faces are displayed you will invariably sur
prise some footlight fairy looking at her
counterfeit presentment. The worse the
counterfeit-the more it fatters her-ths
oftener she will be there to LOOK at it. The
mere act of looking is not SO satisfactory to
her; but it attracts attention. Other people
look to see what she is looking at. The
chances are that somebody at some time
will note faint resemblance somewhere
and will say There she is, now"-and then
everybody within hearing will stare at her
and whisper. Then the footlight fairy will
go away happy.
/ have seen soubrette playing q Broad
way engagement stop every day to look at
her pictures in the windows. If there were
dozen to the block she would stop from
one to ten minutes to silently worship each
one. Such is the glory of the first season
"on the road"
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is prolonged hiss One can dismount at

is prolonged hiss One can dismount at
any point.
A convenient system of correspondence in
tickets is also carried on, by which, if there
is no direct line to ones destination, he can
change to another without paying extra
fare. The method of marking the cars is
both simple and sufficient. On each side is
a long sign bearing the names of the ter
mini, as "Madeline-B -Bastile." Below are
the names of all the principal places passed
en- route. At the end is the name OF the
terminus to which the car is bound. It re-
quires unusual stupidity to take the wrong
car in Paris.
The most serious fault is that at certain
hours there are lines on which a congestion
always occurs. The company being obliged
to pay so large license for each car Of
course avoids putting on more than will ac-
commodate the ordinary demand.
The speed is not great but as satisfactory
as can be expected from horses. The Par
isan omnibus horse is a stalwart beast
trained by degrees to steady trot. No
lover of horsefesh can v;si. Paris without
taking delight in his splendid proportions
Che usually comes from Normandy or
Perche), his intelligence, and his kind
illness. His treatment explains his behavior.
For SIG omnibuses which the company ran
in 1890 it furnished each, daily, an average of
1495-100 horses. They are ordinarily driven
three abreast and the three must match in
color and size. One bay, one gray and one
black would be an offense for which the
compagnie generate would have to answer to
a severe tribunal-the public taste of Paris.
The food of the horse is the result of long
study. Their quarters are the best. When
they become "run down." their feet are
sore, or any accident happens to them they
are retired for recruiting to farm near
Paris which the company keeps as sani-
tarium for its four-footed servants.
Horses Far Better Than Men.
It Is pretty certain that the compagnie
generate des omnibus takes better care of
its horses than it does of its men. The
strike of the latter in Nav last brought out
the fact that they were obliged to work Is
and 16 hours day. Hard service it is, too,
and the pay is small. The first year they
receive 81 or 81 10 a day; each year after an
increase of 10 cents day is given them.
The strike in the spring was terminated by
the company reducing the hours to II. This
contract, the men claim, has not been faith
fully kept, and they threatened to leave
their work again in November, but fortu-
nately the matter was adjusted.
One OF the most familiar of Partisan
street sights is the line of public cabs which
stands near every place of interest. The
shining carriage, the well-kept horses, gen.
orally with their noses in dingy oat bags;
the red-faced drivers doing on the boxes,
gossiping in groups or drinking IN some con-
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have located him. You go and stand on
the corner and watt. I'll prospect the
hotel"
The Earl drifted here and there through
the swarming lobby, and finally took a
waiting position in the neighborhood of the
elevator. During an hour crowds went up
and crowds came down; and all complete as
to limbs; but at the last the watcher got a
glimpse of figure that was satisfactory
got glimpse of the back of it, though he
had missed his chance at the face through
waning alertness. The glimpse revealed q
cowboy hat, and below it plaided sack of
rather loud pattern, and an empty sleeve
pinned up to the shoulder. Then the ele-
vator snatched the vision aloft, and the
watcher fed away in joyful excitement
and reioined the fellow conspirator
"We've got him, Major-got him sure |
I've seen him-seen him good; and I don't
care where or when that man approaches
me backward, I'll recognize him every
time. We're all right. Now for the requi-
sition."
They got it after the delays usual in such
cases. BY 11:30 they were at home and
happy, and went to bed full of dreams of
the morrow's great promise.
Among the elevator load which had the
suspect for fellow-passenger was young
kinsman of Mulberry Sellers, but Mulberry
was not aware of it and didn't see him. 1t
was Viscount Berkeley.
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NEW YORK'S SPASMS.
Every Once in Awhile the Dizzy Old
Town Gets Awfully Moral.
A FEW MURDERS BRING THEM ON.
How the Summing Habit Brings the
Metropolis $25O.O0O Night.
FRESH GOSSIP FROM MURRAY's PEN
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH

rcoaREsPoNDENcE OF THE DIsPATcH.1
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-''If this moral re-
form wave keeps mp" muttered hotel
livery man with sigh, "there won't be
ANYTHING worth seeing in New York. You
might as well be in Philadelphia First
they shut all the games, then they jumped
on the pool rooms, and now they're going in
to close all the dives. When q guest asks
me now what he can do with himself to
spend night, tell him he can go to the
theater and then go and look at the
Cathedral by moonlight or go to bed. There
amt anything else. That is, there amt
anything wide open. No moral waves can
shut people off from deviltry, but this
crusade business shuts it out of the general
view.
'It never lasts long," he added cheer
fully, as if the moral wave interfered in
some way with business. SIT does," said
he when the suggestion was thrown out.
ut Injuries business. Perhaps you never
saw it in that light, but tell you that not
less than an average of 20, 900 strangers are
staying in New York tonight because it is
New York, and not because they have any
puoAAcss, anu tHelc are dS Hiduy every ulSHb
in the year. Not less than 10000 of them
are Summing around every night in the
year seeing the sights During the "a
hours they are at it they drop from SO to
$500 apiece. Put it at an average of $50
there's 100000. day. A quarter of a
million a day would not be too high figure,
counting hotel bills Now, that is-let's
ses," figuring on card-;'that is from S70,-
100000 to 1000, 900 a year! N-no. 1
don't know as we ought to let the laws be
violated and turn all sorts of immortality
loose just to draw a. crowd. But it's fact
that every hotel man in New York Is per-
fectly familiar with, that strangers don't
stay here and run around much if there
amt no place running where they can see
something-and if they don't stay and run
around they don't blow in much money.
See?" The tone of this lament would have
made even Brother Talmage laugh.
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Impr.snated With Western Flavor.

The other evening gentleman from Mon
tans sat in the Hoffman House art gallery
among several wellknown New Workers.
He was New Yorker himself by birth and
education and had lived here all his life,
but had spent the last few years in the far
West. There was a Western flavor about
him-about his dress, in his manners, on
his tongue-that set him distinctly apart
from the rest. He saw it himself and
seemed somewhat embarrassed by it. He
knew these men had always known them.
He was better equipped mentally than any
of them, and knew that also. But it seemed
to puzzle him to understand how three or
four short years IN Western city could
make SO much difference between him and
them. It puzzled the rest of us, too. L
was not easy to point out any one particu-
lsr-it was the flavor of the whole. It is
remarkable how rapidly and thoroughly a
man will become impregnated with his
daily surroundings.
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This company has an exclusive privilege
until 1910. It pays the city for each omni-
bus S400 year, for each tram car $500. In
1890 this tax amounted to S327, 400. Besides
its licenses the company is obliged to as
sist the city in disposing of the snow in win
ter and in sprinkling sand on slippery
pavements in wet or icy weather. On de-
mand it must furnish 500 carts with men
and horses for the former service.
The Compagnie Generate des Omnibus is
strictly under the direction of the city au-
thorities and in all cases where the public
demands improvements which the company
hesitates to make the municipal council can,
if it thinks best, compel it to action. For
example, there has long been demand that
the omnibuses be heated in winter. The
company has pleaded various excuses but
as it has been demonstrated that the vehi-
cles can be warmed at an expense of but
81 cents day, and as the accounts of the
company show that it is wei able to afford
this outlay, the counsel has b.ea consider
ing this winter the advisabiiii- u. using its
authority. Under this project, the com-
pany has become tractabie aud the Presi-
dent has recently, annouuced that before
long we shall be able to ride in Partisan
omnibuses with our feet on hot brick and
doors closed. He also limited that covered
imperiales are not out of the question.
System of Reserved Seats.
There are many conveniences in vogue on
the lines. The little stations which occur
every two or three blocks enable one to be
comfortable while waiting his car The ar
rangement for giving number at these
stations, by which seat is secured in the
coming carriage-if there are not too many
numbers given out before you-is an ad-
mirable feature of the system. When all
the seats are exhausted placard appears at
the end, "Complet," and NO one is allowed
to enter until somebody gets out. It is
whom full that Parisian omnibus ever rs-
fuses 70 stop between stasionA The signal
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Scandal Is No Aid to Genius,

"when 1 hear great artistic sing, or see
her play" said General Furlong, at the
Fifth Avenue, 'any previously conceived
notions of her individuality fade from my
mind at once. ALI the miserable scandals
NAV have read about her are forgotten. 1
see and hear only the genius that causes me
to forget them. When I first saw Bern
hardt abroad all Paris was ringing with her
reputation. 1 went to the Comedie Fran
case full of the prejudice excited by these
stories Five minutes after she appeared
on the stage had dismissed everything but
the great artistic from my thoughts. People
who think scandal helps an actress are in
error-genius survives scandal, buds and
blooms in spite of it. If Bernhardt had
lived an unspotted life she would now be
much greater than she is. Grimes against
good morals never helped anybody-women
and men have merely risen to eminence in
spite of them
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CHAPTER VIII.

"God bless my soul, Hawkins."
The morning paper dropped from the
Colonel's nervous grasp.
"What is it?"
"He's gone-the bright, the young, the
gifted, the noblest of the illustrious race
gone. Gone up in flames and unimaginable
glory"
"Who?"
my precious, precious young kinsman-
Kirkcudbright Hanover Marjoribanks Sell
lers Viscount Berkeley, son and heir of
usurping Rossmore.
stNo."
tIts truc-too true"
sWhen?"
'Last night"
"Where?'
"Right here in Washington, where he
arrived from England last night, the papers
say"
"You don't say"
"Hotel burned down"
"What hotel?"
'The new Gadsby."
''Oh, my goodnessl And have We lost
both of them?"
''Both who?''
"One-srm Pete"
''Oh, great guns, forgot all about him.
Oh, / hope moi"
tHope? Well, 1 should say. Oh. we
can't spare him. We can better afford to
lose a million viscounts than our only SUP.
port and stay"
They searched the paper diligently, and
we're appalled, to find that ons-armed maa
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on Sundays and holidays, family parties of
four or more ''doing" the swell drives of
the Bois de Boulogne in a one-horse cab.
Riding on the River Seine.
The most delightful method of transit in
Paris is by the river boats. The Seine runs
from east to west through the city, almost
touching the center at one point. On it
there are three lines of boats, which in 1889
carried %, 653, 436 passengers-an unusual
number because of the Exposition. The
boats are great favorites, especially with
tourists-if they discover them. which they
do not always do. They are light steamers
with two cabins and one deck. The former
are warmed in winter, the latter covered in
the river, for they carry no whistle, their
only signal with a sound being bell, which
the conductor rings at the stations.
The cost of riding is very low-2 cents
within the city limits except on Sundays
and holidays, then 4. For persons living
near the river they are especially conven-
lent, as their stopping places usually are
not far from the omnibus bureaus.
The comfort and convenience of these
boats is equaled by the pleasure they give.
Running between the massive quays and
under the stately bridges, they pass one
view of beauty after another From their
decks can be seen with peculiar effect Notre
Dame, the Hotel de Vile, the Louvre, the
Eiftel Tower, and hosts of less famous
places. The shifting river scenes, the heavy
barges, the unloading of coal and -four and
wine, the bathing of dogs and horses, and
thousand other picturesque sights add to
the interest of the ride. Would that all
cities which are so fortunate as to be
threaded by rivers would make of them as
delightful means of transportation as the
city of Paris has made of the Seine.
IDA NJ. TARBELL
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horses, the plans Of construction are SINH
lar, the price the same.
The Big Two-Story Vehicles.
Ordinarily these huge two-story vehicles
accommodate 40 or Al persons with seats
end six more are allowed to stand on the
platform. Twenty Of the seats are inside;
20 more ons the imperiale, as the roof is
called. The imperiale is reached by stair
case running up behind and to my mind it
is the pick of the places. Here one gets
the air and that most fantastic of Partisan
spectacles, the street, and he pays just
half the price of seat below, that is 8
cents instead of 6. At first one may feel
about the imperiale as the Egyptian who
said to a friend of mine when she described
to him the high buildings of Chicago, ''Ah
Mile, they are too near the Good God"
but he gets over his hesitancy after his first
ride. Nothing manufactured is frmer on
its feet than Partisan omnibus. In stormy
weather the inperiale is out Of the question
because uncovered
All the omnibus and street car lines of
Paris are managed by one company, ex-
cepting two short lines in the suburbs.
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the sidewalk in the rain. She does not
translate omnibus ''always room for more. "
She does not carry you off into a strange
part of the city and set you down without
connections to the right or left. In short
she avoids several of the besetting sins of
American transit and thus gains in degree
what we seek by speed alone.
There are four means of city travel in
Paris-the omnibuses, street cars, cabs and
river boats. About the only difference be-
tween the first two is that one runs on a
track and the other does not. Both have
their fixed courses, both are drawn by
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on his knees, his hands thrust in either end,
and had far-agay look in his eyes The
ladies exchanged amused glances. The gem
tlemen regarded the muff with various de-
grees of wonder and contempt.
''Newest style" suggested one gentleman
to another.
eyes: it's going to be a cold day to-mor-
row. When you see the pigs carrying
straws-"
'sThat beats mep' came in q stage whisper
from across the way.
wonder if he wears corsets," said an
other
What is it, anyhow"
Sorry forgot my muf
II Ii steal my wife's sealskin sack to-
night
"POor fellow! Somebody ought to see
him home safely"
Amid these remarks the man with ths
mutt sat quietly looking out of the window.
He must have overhead some OF them-he
must have known that he was the object Of
universal curiosity and ridicule, but he
gave no sign. 1t appeared, however, that
he was only collecting himself for some
final effort, for when he arose to leave the
car at Seventy-second street he suddenly
confronted his fellow passengers:
This is my wife's muff,' he said bluntly.
"She left it on the bargain counter.
had to go back and get it. I'm taking it
home. If you see anything funny in that
I'm burned if do
But everybody else did, somehow, for the
crowd broke into shout of laughter. They
were laughing at each other.
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A Man CARVING q Mum.

The other day well-dressed man sat in a
Boulevard car going up town. The day was
cold, the car was full and the usual discom-
forts of surface transit were turned on. The
man mentioned was the observed Of all OBJ
servers He carried a common black mutf
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DASA M Shs
PARIS, Jan. B.
CITY cannot be
said to have a sat-
isfactory system of
public transit until
its people can so
from one end to the
other speedily and
cheaply and with
out danger of de-
lays, accidents,
chills or fevers.
Paris has no rapid
transit in our
American sense of
the phrase-no un-
derground or eleva-
ted roads, cable or
electric cars. But
she has som e
things which we
have not-conveni-
ence, security me-
thod. She does not
ask Won Tn wait nm
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Stuff some Men Are Made OF.

A heavy truck loaded with lumber wss
being driven slowly along Thirty-third
street Monday morning. In front of small
combination grocery and butcher shop stood
an empty, horseless, one-horse delivery
wagon parallel with the curb. The shafts
were turnedcarelessly somewhat toward the
street. There was at least 40 feet of road
way clear, but the truckman consciously or
unconsciously drove over the shafts, smash
ing them like they were matches. Both
the grocer and his wife saw the act and
rushed to the door. He was a big fellow,
and I stopped to hear that truckman get his
deserved blessing, perhaps worse. 1t was q
case for justi6able profanity at least. The
man looked at me moment and seemed to
comprehend the fact that expected some
thing. He laughed:
''That fellow had the whole road, and yet
had to drive over my shafts. It's good
thing for him nv wife Joined the church
only yesterday, for he'd got it, surel'
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A Monarch's Adyice.

Harper's Bazar.1
Charles the Second" said Charles the
First, addressing his. son, just before the
execution, '1et my fate be warning TO you;
never be without an axeident-insurancs
policy.
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa

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FURNITURE upholstered and repaired.
HAUoH q KExNAN, 80 Water street.
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RIDING OVER PARIS.
Four Systems of Rapid Transit Slower
but Better Than Ours.
THE TWo-STORIED OMNIBUsEs,
Delightful Trips on the River Seine Oh
Pretty Little Boats.
A HoNopoLY'S DEAL WITH THE CITY

rcoRREsPoNpErcE OF THE DISPATCH,