Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-24

~ tons are set on fire by
the JOYS OF sorross of those who move on the
mimic stage OF fiction, all the more 80 II just n
soupcon OF human Truth be portrayed in their
doings How much more interested. then.
would we be could We have opened to Us. in all
its details. that intensely human story Of How
the Other Half Lives"
This story is better known to those who fol-
low the profession OF journalism than TO sny
Others. 1t is only an ininitesiInai part OF what
they hear. and know that they can contrib
ute TO that Kaleidoscope and soraeWhs wonder
I sul compilation of latter-day journalism known
+ as 1.-THE local page" What instaaces OF evsuss-
cent but dearly bought pleasures aud their re-
suits they see daily. What pictures OF teeiing
! JOYS and lasting sorrows they familiar with.
/ What stories of human incompatihliity and sad
domestic infelicity are hourly poured into their
enrs. How numerous the skeletons ~ the closets
/ Of men and women Of high lie and Of low they
/ learn 80 know. What tales of moral aud lhvs-
| ical murder become impressed on their mem
| ory "a blets. What intrsgues, What r0lned hVe',
| what perverted ambitions, IL L. true, indeed,
that newspaper men know more OF evil than
/ any other class and vet do less OF it-that they
| live crime without having any fitcharged up
4 to them. And, eThaps. when the record OF TINS
mundane sphere lie placed before the Throne ~
Grace on the last Judgment day the Newspaper
men il will be who will testify. out of the full
4
/ passeth all human understanding
! What inspires these incoherent remarks! a
story.
| TIE BEeINSISG.
Forty years ago in one - tie most prosper
GUS Of the English "shires" baby boz was
/ born and great was the consequent JOY In one
| of the oldest and best known Of the county
/ families. One wear later in q neighborlng
family of distinction hspI mess reigued because
! ~ \, 4, ~. -. a..s
good birth, bus not noble" in the English
misused sense of that word. The gail
was born with title. / viii call her
I the Lady Mary because that Is not her
I name, but IL is one so symbollcal OF ~
/ expressible sweetness. and devotion ~ TO truly
! H. her character. Boy and girl were almost
/ reared together IN that rich English couatry,
! and, as boy and girl will sometimes do, they
| fell in love with each other. Il was genuine
/ love, and. therefore. pare one. he creams
/ they dreamt. the plans they made,
! the hopes they whispered. the air castles
they built were, | suppose. in full keep
ing with the dreams and plans and hopes and
air castles of other Young and intel gent
lovers. He to be famous for her sake. Of
( course. and. indeed, the early fruition of bis
artistic talents gave high promise Of brilliant
career. He won honors at the neghboring
seminary went brilliantly through the historic
school of Eton and " hen at the age Of twenty
/ he returned from oxford University with hIs
! L. A. degree his trotb to the Lady Mary WAS
formally plIghted and duly announced. with
/ the usual ''trlmmings, IN the society papers.
! That was twenty wears ago.
Hope was then high in their Young breasts. He
: was to be a great painter. tor his mind and I'm
/ gers had been shaped in that direction. Even
/ then LIS family influence and HIS admitted
talents found him remunerative and fame
) inviting employment on the London Illustrated
papers He '.deviled'' for the great artists a.
/ all great artists in embryo have to do. and in
/ Iive wears ne had the satisfaction Of seeing has
| own pictures, in his own name. hung in Che
minor galleries. He was halt up on fame =
ladder The murm1rs of applause for true
talent were beginning TO reach his ears. He
was proud of himself. The Lady asry's pride
in him was greater.stiil.
| THE FAIL.
! But O Misunderstanding, a rcputation-killing
and a Overwhelming force was even then at
work on him. II loosened the runG of the lad
! der on which he STOOD and he fell. Ii bllghted
I his prospects and 1t scared the eyes Of his ual-
bition it had blighted and scared the pros
/ pects and ambitions of so many others.
/ This force spelled-Alcohon
When the crude and undeyeloped and am
bi;ioness OF mankind become rum-soaked and
besotted and groyel
| like irs in mud
Til it 10 have entered their very blood"
philanthropists and economists mourn and the
! 9aOts ana tDe NOrh uOueS are luioNH OIEis
/ When, through drink. brains and God-given
talents are literally dragged in the gutter the
| very angels must lay aside their proyerbial
| harpS and weep.
/ This artist became a drunkard OF the worst
| type. He became a gambler and wa driven
J from the halls of upper tendon. Ali efforts by
| his family to reclaim him were in vain. His
| father disowned him and ne became outcast
! from society. His associates were hen OF the
| lowest and he drifted into that ayenae of dis
| sipation where he became known to the
police"
The LADY Ma-v never ceased to love the man.
bat all the instincts Of her pure womanhood
| revol;ed against the drunken brute. Still she
watched over him an angel would and did all
| that an angel could TO better his llfe and bring
| about the reformation for which he hoped aud
| PRAYED. she ENLISTED every reformatory agency
| in his behalf unknown TO his family aud her
own. but without avail If he got lnto"'trouble"
| she saw that his fines were paid
When the effects of his dissipations
brought him to the public infirmary
| she sent the best nurses TO care for him. When
| drink stripped him of decent clothing again
and again she reclothed HIM, and he did not
| know who his benefactor was. When he al
most reached the prison gates the Intervention
| of her agents saved him. When despair might
l have driven him to suicide the long arm of
| her love was thereto stop him.
coU8TrNG DEATH.
|
eve toward the Soudan and planned the con-
quest Of the mahdi. Perhaps in this our artist
| drunkard saw hope. Perhaps he saw a sol
dier's grave opening for him. and hoped by
filling it, like Don Cesar de Bazan, 10 ''blot
| out.every stain" Who knows. At all events,
he enlisted and. in private soldier 5 uniform.
followed Wolseley up the Nile. Who can tell
how he dared and coquetted with deathl He
WAS at the storming of Tel-el-Kebir. Was
| wounded in the left arm, sent home al invalid
| and discharged from the service.
"Love is not love that alters when II altera-
| ton Sees" quoth Shakespeare, and again did
| the love of the Lady Mary throw its influence
| over the unfortunate man. He carefully
nursed by those in her service and when he re-
| covered every effort made to keep him
| from lapsing into his former evil ways. po-
sition was secured for him in the South African
| diamond fields and he went to Kimberley with
complete outfit, good letter Of credit and
| the prayers OF his good angel But, alas, here
again King Alcohol got in his work. His money
was squandered. his reputation a drunkard
re-estsblished. and after ioag period Of loaf
| ing around the "diggings" he worked his pas
sage" back to London. His life in that great
city wac but . repetition Of his former one
since his fall from responsibility, though this
| time he tried to earn a living in his sober mo-
ments by painting the scenery in small the
afers.
The Lady Mary did not know he was in Lon