The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-06-27

10 hsa sant d legion Of circumstances
agnAnat certain man who had, before
that. been certain OF success, and the man,
after desperate struggle. had capituiated
20 the legion by dying abjectly.
So the king OF Circumstances smiled
and said to one Of his circumstances:
The king desires to be amused. Let
there be gamesl'
By the time the royal procession reached
the Coliseum everything was In readiness
The crowd was enormous, for the fame
Of tho kings exceeding cheerfulness had
spread quickly, and his subjects knew that
there would be some particularly fascinat-
ing games that day,
Now, them" began the king, little
impatiently, as soon as he had settled him
self on the divan In the royal box, what
comes firstii
1t was the custom In the Coliseum to
announce the programme by the mouth
of a Circumstance whom they called the
chairman. The chairman had an accent
that belonged to the English music hall,
but that also is merely circumstance.
HI ave to announce, lydies and gen.
tlemen, that Hive been harsked by the
well known Champion Circumstance to
Tissue challenge to hany man wob
wishes to meet i'm In foot ring. Ro-
man rules to prevail. Thumbs down,
hand the whipped man parsses hout
Thumbs up, hand he goes free. Walk up
walk upl Does hany one wish to meet the
championt"
First Of all, from a far door, issued
most beautiful girl, slim, tall and CARRIED
most delightfully."-. There were huge puffs
In her sleeves that made her hands look
all the smaller. Her gown widened little
where 1t came close to her feet, and thus
II was that the slenderness of her waist
seemed more symmetrical than symmetry
itself; her ourls We're flying into the breeze
little under her large, beaowered hat;
her shoes were brown and her step was as
buoyant as the spring. She was singing
something SO softly that the crowd only
caught the faintest echo Of 1t.
And while she was advancing thus,
singing, another door opened, and Cupid
came forth. No sooner had he seen her
than he took aim and sent an arrow
straight at her heart. AS the shaft
wounded her, the girl turned her eyes soft
ly toward the boy and moaned. She put
her hands to her heart. But the strange
thing was that she held the arrow fast and
made no effort TO pull II forth. So when
Cupid saw that he had wounded her and
that she was glad, he began to run toward
her to kiss her, and she, with one hand
still clasping the arrow so that it went
deeper and deeper into her heart, waited
for him with parted lips and an invitation
in her eyes.
The boy was within few yards of her
when third door opened and there ap.
peared a circumstance. Immediately a
most strange change came over the girl
Her eyes turned toward the Circumstance,
and steely look came into them. She
drew herself up little, and stern pur-
pose Strengthened her mouth.
Cupid. wondering and panied, stopped
short. She turned away from him, and
walked toward the Circumstance, who
merely stood quite still, smiling hideous-
ly, As she went, she tore the arrow Of
Cupid from her heart and threw it before
her into the sawdust, so that as she strobe
forward she stepped upon it and broke 1t
into fragments And while Cupid threw
himself upon his pretty face, shaking with
sobs, his culver flung beside him. the girl
kissed the Circumstances
But the Circumstance only smiled quite
eoldly, even while it folded her In Its
arms
For It happened to be a Bank Account.
The king had begun to be quite pleased
with this number when 1t happened that
he felt an irresistible desire to yawn 1t
was really due to late hours In the past,
but he decided at once that It must be due
TO the present. So he frowned at the chair.
man again.
ibid you see me yawn'" he said severe.
ly Did your When the games are SO
stupid that the king has to yawn, HIM
He did not finish, but the chairman felt
uneasy because of the things that the
king had omitted to say He FASTENED on
&c the next announcement
1.-THE title of hour next number is a
'Tableau of Today +" he cried, hand
which explains Itself
When everything had been arranged by
multitude Of slaves of Circumstance
the scene showed large office, with roll
er top desks and a typewriter stand In
the foreground was clerk who had served
his company II years He looked 1T.
AT the desk sat the Company. 1t was
thinking, through the pangs of headache
OF the night before and the day before
that On the day before it had run up
against a most unlucky lot of Circum.
stances. 1t had made huge speculation
In stocks OF the p. c railway and the
speculation had gone very wrong indeed
Then, In order to recoup itself the Com
pany had tried Its luck OF cards that even
Ing, And every trial turned out more dis.
astrously than the last So this morning
the Company saw that IL had got TO do
something to lessen expenses.
To resign at the club was out Of the
question. Tc give up the box at the opera
would be absurd When you have accus.
TONED yourself to an expensive brand Of
cigars and wines, 1t Is really quite impos.
sible to drink or smoke anything inferior.
There was only one thing to be done,
and the Company was going to do It,
II called the lovely damsel who was in
the next room. 1t said TO her, Take
letter. pleased"
And while the company was debating
the letter the clerk, who had served the
company for 10 years, was thinking over
the queer flute that had ruled him into this
rut where he only just earned enough to
Keep himself and his family from hunger
And then again he concluded by congrat-
nlhtlng himself on having such good,
steady employment 1t was more than
many men had
He looked up, some one having touched
aim on the shoulder 1t was the lovely
typewriter damsel, and she handed him q
letter IIo road this;
DEAR Sir Circumstances over which we
nave no control necossitate reduction of ex-
penses. Your resignation will be accented on
Ihe ist OF the month. The COMPANY.
This clerk looked out Of the window ST.
iently, Outside the people were hurryng
along the street oeaselessly 1t was Ike a
huge torrent, He read the letter again,
smiling rather queerly. Then he opened u
small drawer OF his desk and took out
very small tin box. II smelt Of peoples.
He poured the contents into his mouth
and threw his head bsal, swallowing with
quick gulp. Then he looked out of tho
window again, and waited fora certain
Circumstance.
Ono of the last things no heard was the
Company saying to the lovely typewriter
damsel, Wasn't this the night you were
going to take supper with mef"
There was great deal OF applause at
the conclusion of this tabloau. The king
CAMS so near to smiling that the chairman