Arizona silver belt., 1894-06-09
A RISE IN TROUSERS.

MAo t@hOQN lO iNtlNG iuN OliiNb NO EO out to breakfast when the office boy brought me leaf torn from the block which is always to be found in the ante- room of newspapers offices and upon which was written, Louis Domare, !"
 knew the man well. We were fellow townsmen and had come up to Paris to- gether Fortune had drowned upon him 1 would like to say that I was out, but the fellow knew what he was doing coming at such an hour. He would only have to wait on the sidewalk until hun ger should drive me out Iresigned my self to admitting him.
 Show him in, Martin" said to the boy. "As the gentleman has probably come to borrow, here is some money. If l ring and ask you tt. lend mo some, give this to me and say thatit is all you have
 You're dead right to be fly with him, answered the boy. He looks as if he was on his uppers, and his pants is terrors.
 Demare came brisllly into the office.
 "Well, old boy" he said before had time to open my lips, T have come to borrow. But this is an exceptional case. 1 am not going to say that have not had good meal for week, nor that l need 50 louis to pay debt of honor, nor 90 francs to pay for car riage ride for two l want just louis; for l need precisely that amount. Just one and twenty francs. 1 have enough to match that and pay for my breakfast in the bargain, and he really showed me three 20 franc pieces. This louis will return to you this evening before dinner time As my demand may seem little extravagant, l will help you out by promising that if l do not bring the money back before tonight you may in- struot your boys to kick me off tho prem. ises if ever show myself here again. Shall sign that agreement? You know that 1 would not for the world cut off the source of So many benefits by not keeping my word l regret that can not tell you exactly what disposition l am to make of your louis. can only tell you that 1 am to use it in conner cial enterprise that is a daisy--you hear, a jim dandy"
 The fellow uade me laugh in spite of myself was completely disarmed gave him his louis, and truly believe should have invited him to breakfast with me if he had not been so meanly dressed. But with such trousers it was au impossibility.
 Promptly at 2 o'clock the boy an. nounced, with show of respect:
 "Mr. Demare.
 Faithful to my agreement, v said he gayly. Here is your yellow boy. As l know you are busy, l will go, but not without thanking you most heartily. i"
 Was your jim dandy q success!" l inquired
 Decidedly. said he, showing me a handful of money.
 Allow me to compliment you" said. You must have been playing the races.
 ''I am not foolish enough for that, !" he replied.
 lnoticed he wore new trousers, which must have cost him S4 CT S5. That ex- plained the increased respect of tho of flee boy, Surely tho fellow had not wasted his day.
 The next day he brought me an ar. ticle on some of our city institutions. Il was interesting, G9d l accepted it. When he went out, l noticed that he wore new trousers and different ones from those he had worn the day before. Two days later he called for tho pay for his article He came up to shake hands with me on going away. Mechanically I. glanced at his trousers--he had on a third pair, and they were perfectly new.
 met him often in the succeeding days in the office and outside, and on every occasion he wore fresh pair of trousers. Cautiously enough, he always wore the same coat, which was shabby in the extreme
 l gradually contracted the habit of looking at men trousers. After avaguc examination, lasting for several success. sive days, of the neither garments of all i the employees about tho office from the | proofreaders down to the jaajtors, discovered to my stupefaction that none l of these persons of slender incomes wore | the same pair of trousers two days in | succession. Some of them even changed twice day.
 ! l became convinced that l was tho victim of a special hallucination, and resolved carefully to conceal my nal. ady, as it would have rendered me ex tremely ridiculous. Still felt that il would affect me greatly, as it would in duce melancholy and become a mono | mania.
 Still the trousers filed before my eyes They were of all colors and of all shapes | Some fitted their wearers, others were 2 little too small OF little too large They were evidently ready made goods, | but what an enormous quantity of tTou sers my diseased imagination seemed tC | have seenl
 l seriously thought of making my will; but, persuaded of my inflrmity, knew it would be worthless and would only lead to exposure. With the great est secrecy consulted a specialist--no a specialist in trousers but in menta disorders. He showed nosurprise at this form of mental disorder, talk9d of neu rasthenia, ovcrwork and so on, ant charged me louis
 I began to feel that my days were numbered. Every one remarked th' change in my health. One of the con tributors brought me curious article it being history of trousers, past ant present. threw the article into tn, wastebaslzet and came near breaking with the unlucliy author.
 Just as was about to arrange m. business for long vacation, having de cided to make sea voyage and trave