"How Women Love Uress." "Do no," sullenly. "Yes," she replied I live here with ing you," he continued. To attain one's "Yes, I do." 3 '%*t%^ wjsy "Yes you do, Terry," emphatically. my mother." ambition, Miss Pennyfeather, ought to be He sat by a window at twilight, "Well, you don't runV ,,1 ^Ijjgg. There was a minute's silence. "And may I not call to see you some And placidly puffed his cigar, an occasion for congratulationought it "Why, no how sheuld I loolc running "Come, Terry, you might as well tell time?" He s:azed on a neighboring sky-light, a not?" down Bioadway what would the people And thought of his bank 3tock at par. me." Miss Pennyfeather hesitatedhe was She looked up at his questionthen think?" Another pause. certainly a very recent acquaintance, but dropped her eyes nervously. "Thank Two voices came upward, as high as "Just tell them you are running after he promised to be a pleasant one. To be "Terry McGuire!" you," she said. It was all she could say. The place where lie sat lrom the street your health, and they wouid not think a sure he was interested in another girl, Two ladies "gored" and on "bias," The boy fairly jumped. Thi=, then, was the end of it all. To of it. Weie holding communion sweet. but that need make no difference, except "There was five, dollars,' hestainmeied be sure, at was the end Maud had wished This was either wise little maiden, or as it might define more clearly their own "Any more?' Thiee months ago, she had no deanr else she was trying to quote some person Then he mused upon feminine folly relations. Miss Pennyfeather began to desire. Had anything taken iis place? "There was ten dollars in another And fashion's absurd excess: who haa told her That running in the feel quite a friendly inteiest in the pretty Was Maud decided about herself after place." And he said with a tone melancholy: sweet,fiesh air accounted for her rosy face which Mr Denike carried in his "How women do r.we over dress! all, and did she have no ambition dearer "How much-more, Terry?" cheeks. At any rate, she had got hold of pocket. So she only said, with a half than that. The boy looked up at Miss Penny feather the secret of strength and healthy blood. "Just get any two of them started smile, in almost the same words she had and learned fiom her expression the And so Maud woke upto find the And the}'11 talk lor a month about clothes." Alas, thousands of our women sacrifice used before: uselessness of deceit. thing that had seemed best to her now He spoke like a hero, strong-hearted, theii health 'o their clothesl Our duties Why, yes, if you want to." "Who all such liivohty loathes. "There was a place inside," he grow led, within her reach, but stale and unprofit cannot be well performed unless we have Denike bowed. in a barely audiole tone, "as he had able the thing for which she hadn't cared the vitality which they require, and suffering "And the way they oppress the poor creatures "Let me answer your question," he seventeen dollars and a half in it." out of her leach, but of all things in the Who build all those di esses and things! is the penalty of neglect and im said, before I go. Of course I share the Miss Pennyfeather went over the item world the most to be desired. And yet They like to make marks on their features prudence. But comfort and duty are responsibility with every one ele who For a little mistake in the strings." in her mind. she could not complain. Mr. Denike consumed on the altar of vanity. An rty-two dollars and a legislates for the people. But the pioblem "That makes th had only taken her at her word, and interested American lady makes little provision Here a knock at the door. Then a waiter is a difficult on. Maybe you have half," she said. "Now, Terry McGuire, himself in a friendly way, to her And a new suit of garments appear. for unpleasant weather and dusty walking. some proposition," as he noted her more give that money to me." to realize her aspiiations. Now he would "Oh, they'\e come, have they? Strange they're The delicious houis of the morning not later, eager expression. go off and marry the girl in the picture, And Terry with another side look at his are lost and unknown, because the dew Quick, light up the whole chandelier!" The girl gave a little low' laugh, per. whom by this time, Maud absolutely hatand detei mined teacher, extracted it irom his is on the grass, and one's clothes, would haps half asuamed of her excitment. she wouid be left to teach an industrial pocket and did as he was told. The sum One glance from apioper position b-. spoiled The sun may be obscured, school to the end of her days. Suffices their fate to decide Yes, I have. Mr. Denike," she said was correct. Miss Pennyfeather restored and the air may be cool, but women and The linings are only Silesian But she never would let Mr. Denike indeed it's my hobby. Whenever I get it to the pocket book, and looked Terry children must be confined to the house or The trowsers a trifle too wide. know how it pained hernever So she hold of people who have influence, I bore severely in the eye. the yard through the tyrany of long dresses forced back the teais and steadied her them with it until their lives become a and fine leather. The dust wiTl ruin "Well, if I don't pitch into that Sehmdler "For next Sunday's lesson," she said, voice, and said in a low, quiet tone: I never did see such a bilk! burden. My notion is to start here in Mabel's shoes and if it fills the flounces "you will learn the eighth command- Why I told the outrageous old swindler Chepaehet an industrial school, under the "Thank you very much, Mr. Denike of her mothei's dress, it must be counted ment.'' I wanted the linings hall silk! school board, where vagrant children can you have been very kind out of the list, or a "fearful" laundry bill "Know it already," growled Terry: be brought in and taught some useful His own \oice, seemed to tremble mast be incured! Both mother and "yer taught it to us last Sunday "Oh, hang all the scoundrelly tailois! trade. It's my highest ambition, Mr. a little when he snoke. child had better miss the blessing for The collar's a half-inch too high, So she had. And Miss Pennyfeather The trowsersthcj might be a sailor's! Denike, to have the charge of a school But I'm goiDg to offer you an alternative," which Dr. Wiseman sent them into the felt all the more discouraged. Now wouldn't 1 look like a guy like that." he said. country, and go back to the city with For two days John Denike carried resentment Maud looked up, she was quite indifferent Her eye kindled and her face glowed their complaints that the were "unfortunate in his heart. He went so far, Each glance makes him more and more irate, now to what he might say. with the words. John Denike, as he in the locality to which they were "Why, they look even worse from behind! indeed, as to ho'.d the girl altogether responsible I'll blow up the sneaking old pirate lo \ked at her, forgot for a moment the I want to know," he continuid, "if advised," and that it was "intolerably for his misfortune. "If she had I'll give him a piece of my mind. face in his pocket-book, and thought that still remains 70111- highest ambitionor, stupid iu that out-of-the-way place taught the boy not to steal'this was his he had never seen a much prettier if as people sometimes do you argument"I shouldn't have lost Nellie's I'm done with Ihe scoundrel, that's certain. Dear friends, expend a trifle upon your pieture. may have changed it." picture." So on Monday afternoon, when Now, if e\er I saw such a sight" wretched bodies and your languid souls! (But here we will let down the curtain Maud gazed at him with open eyes, he met her again at almost the same Indeed, Miss Pennyfeather," he said, Get one more dress, which may have the The rest wouldn't suit ears polite.) quite uncertain what he meant. Was he spot, he looked across the street, and as though protesting against her suggestion beauty of appropiiatencsss to your needs, going to offer her some other position? would have passed on, but that she put that he was bored, "I am very wearing-apparelr hungrytsesi and then go out and let into you It was all one to her which she took. a herself again directly in his way. th0e*new much interested. And I'd like to talk the Maud Peimyfeatlicr's Ambition. beings' life of the day and the 1 l^ "It may be asking you to give Waitm=a up matter over with you. Perhaps I can do th "Excuse me," she begau," her face all inspiration of the morning. Generallyn luopnauu i tut morning uenerai IF"? -r^f ii' It was an exhilarating spectacle that something in tht way of legislation. May 6 aglow with a sense of her disagreeable f?r W the people oi* Chepaehet beheld one January I come soon and continue the conversation?" forher reply "indeed, it strikes me as tied by fashion and the looking-glass position "but I came this way on purpose afternoon the picture of a grown rather impertinent on my part, knowing to meet you." We look with hope and longing for the man pulling and tugging a small boy c IUUR. VVXLU nuue anu. longing ior the John bowed. "Frank," lip thought. Miss Pennyfeather nodded "Yes,'' and along Main street. The man was Mr. this thing, but I must take my, chance. I Perhaps the girl interpreted his reflectiont bade him good-by. Then the door opened women uu. and children uiuueix suaul shal nave have "fre iree John Denike the boy, Terry McGuire. and shut, and Denike was left alone for the color deepened on her Of the ludicrousness of the scene Mr. concludeask want to you, Miss iMaud,abefore teacheu yo course," and the material and style of to settle down life a face as she continued But the thought of Miss Pennyfeacher's their garments shall contribute to the Denike was not unconscious. His face if you won't consider the idea of becoming bright expression and the echo of her best interests of soul .and bodv. A "wo- "I was very much grieved, yesterday, was red-, and wore an expression of my wile fresh, ringing voice lingered with him all man's clothes, in this age, must unquestionably to find that you had lost your pocketbook. mingled vindictiveness and shame. To Mr. Denike did not get any further be reckoned among the most the way home. I am glad to be able to restore it add to his discomfiture, a young lady,coni than that. If he intended to, he was oppressive of her disabilities Grace Three months after that, the school to jou." and with the words she placed ing in an opposite direction, checked her summarily cut short. For Maud making Webster Hinsdale. board of Chepaehet found itself in a the article in Lis hand. "Will you please steps as she observed his plight, and then a vain effort to control herself, at length great quandary It was seriously proposedindeed see if the contents are right,' she added. stopped in his way. gave way, and, leaning back against the it had become a law He opened it mechanically, glanced at The Chief ot ihe Commune. The boy promptly began to howl. sofa, cued as though her heart would that in Chepaehet, education should be the picture, and seemed to draw a satisfied Ob, Miss Pen'feather!' he piteausly break. Happily, Mrs. Penny feather was made compulsory. More than this, for breath. "I dare say it's all right," The N. Y. "World has just discovered in a cried, "he's taking me to the jug." out, and there was no risk of inteiruption. the vagrant class and for children of poor he said. machine shop of that city one of the leaders "Why, Terry!" the exclaimed in a John waited until the tears were parents an industrial school was to be of the Paris commune, and the man who "Will you please count the money?" tone of reproach, what is the matter?" checked, very well persuaded as to their provided. The question that concerned headed the party on May 24, 1871, that shot Heie was certainly a very positive meaning, and hardly certain what to Denike had stopped, but still hf Id the Archbishop Darboy and five other hostages the board was not so much who had engineered young lady. John did as he was required. say. bov, who was crying with all his might in the hands of the commune. His name is the innovation, as whom they and main. "I didn't mean to grieve you"he began. Edmond Megy, and he is a leading spirit should appoint as principal. "Is it all right?" she asked. The lady looked inquiringly from Terry among the communists of the city. At the "Properly," said old Mr. Gallup, who "Oh, yes," he hurriedly said, "quite to the gentleman, But she put up her hand deprecatingly. downfall of the commune he was compelled was the senior member of the board and right and then after a second's pause to flee the countiy, and so he came to New "I know1 know," she said in a broken The latter bowed, acknowledged the very slow of speech, "the place belongs to voice. York, where he has diligently followed his "quite light. I'm suie I'm very much implied question. Miss Williams." wras impertinent in me," trade, and won a place ot much obliged to you. It didn't make mucJi "Ofcourse it The boy has been trying to pick my "But Miss Fairfield is very highly influence and consideiation among the communists diffeience about the money, but I should he went on. now savage with himself, "1 pockets," lie sai*l "and I'm going to recommended," put in Deacon Orwig. of the city. Megy is the hero have hated to lose the picture. ought to have known your charactei better. make an example of him." Then he added. "She is very young," remarked Mr of six murders. He was in the galleys at What did Miss Pennyfeather care You arc not the kino of girl to Are you particularly interested in Bushnell, who was himself verging on Toulon and was awaiting tiansportation for change." about the picture? "Oh certainly," she him?" eighty. twenty years to New Caledonia for the murder said in an indifferent ay, and moved a She covered her face with her hands. He is one of my Sunday school schol- "Well, affer all,,' declared Elder Knox, ot a police agent when the lepubhc was little apart as though on the point of "Oh, I am!" she cried. "I am! You do ars," she said, quietly. declaied, and he was leleased by deciee of "it amounts to about this: Denike has leaving him. not know what my charactei is. There John Denike shrugged his shoulders, the government. He was in Maiseilles when more interest in this thing than anybody isn't a more vacillating girl in the world "Aie you walking up Main street?" he and the girl saw and resented the motion. the commune was declaied and he headed else. He wants Miss Pennyfeather, and And I've lost every bit of interest in the asTced. the outbieak there, and after lemaining in she ought to be appointed." school." Miss Pennyfeather bowed. command eight days went to Paxis, wheie "You mean he doesn't do credit to my And that settled it. "And I may accempany you?'" Pie grasped her hands and drew them he was put iu charge of the defense of Foit teaching," she sail, hotly "I don't suppose In all her life Maud Pennjfeather had Lissy. On May 2-fth he learned that Ferret "If you want to." away from the crimson, tear stained he does. I have him just one hour never passed a happier time than those and De Lesclusse had given the order to face. in the week. You expect that I should "Peihaps I ought to introduce myself. three months. Never, indeed, had shoot Darboy and the other hostages because "Have you transferred it to me?"he demanded. offset that against the one hundred and My name is DenikeJohn Denike."" months passed so quickly. In her relations the troops of Thieis on the same day had sixty-seven,"when he is under other influences." Miss Pennyfeather bowed again. She with Mr. Denike the industrial shot six officers of the sixth battalion. He But Maud did not speak, and he was had heard of Mr. Denike, and knew him school had from the very first, been a topic at once went with the party to La liouquette contented to take her silence for an. answer. John felt uncomfortable. This emphatic to be a member oi the General Assembly, of absoibing interest. The legislati n to assist in the execution. "When we went young person was certainly not but of course, she did not say so. Piobably affecting it was drawn in Mrs. PenDyteather's there.'" he said, "we weie one hundred and After a while, when she had regained afraid to speak her mind. He looked at Mr. Denike was now on his way fifty stiong, but a number of the men, about neit little parlor, and all the details her composure in a tolerable degree, a the boy. fiom the State House. one hundred and twenty of them, got flightened were there arranged fiom evening thought came to her that sent the blood "Will you ever steal anything again?" "I am Miss Pennyfeather," she remaiIced and the thirty of us that remained had to evening between the conspirators all out of her cheeks. How could she he asked. The child could hardly speak to do the woik."' in a quiet way. Having a secret of this profound and important have forgotten it? She drew away from through his tears. John Denike was now entirely reconciled. character, their friendship became him and looked 11p into his face with a "No, I won't," ne ciied, "if you'll le' 'What did you do?" he was asked. peculiarly intimate and infoimal. Had frightened glance. "Well, 1 do not care to speak much of me go." "You will pardon me,' he said after a it not been for the picture in Mr. Denike's what I did. It might injme me heie wheie But the picture" she stammered. John loosed his hold, and the boy did moment, while they walked along together, pocket-book, Maud might fiave imagined I work. We just called for the men we not wait for permission. In a breath he What picture?" in a perplexed tone. "for any implied leflection in my there was some purpose in his attentions. wanted to shoot, and we shot them, as it is was arouuel tfie coram- and out of sight. manner on Saturday." "Why the picture in your pocket- But of coarse the fact of the picture left customary to shoot men under such circumstances. The young lady bowed gravely. "Thank "Of course I will, said she calmly. book." Maud no reason to infer anything of the Wo took them out into the yard you \eiy much,' she sa:d. John stepped John Denike leaned back and laughed. kind. And, stiange to say, while It was the most natural thing in the and placed them tare to the wall, and the aside, raided hia hat, and in a moment "You poor child," said he, "have vou she fancied she was glad of this, she more world. There isn't a man in Chepaehet word was given, and they were shot: that's she too was. gone. been making a bugbear out of that? than once fouud herself entertaining a who wouldn't have expiessed the same all. II was all Thiers' fault. We offeied to He half smiled to himself as he went Why, it's only my sister Nellie! She's a feeling of positive resentment against the thought, and if the boy, Mr. Denike, give up all the hostages if he would sunender on his way. Indeed he was rathe.i relieved. missionary's wife, and lives in the Feejee pretty original, and a vindictive desire grows up to be hung, some one will write Blanqui to us. but he lefused, and so we shot It had been an episode, and the Islands. I was anxious about it, because the hostages."' to abstract the picture and tear it up. It his obituary and say: 'In early life he girl was certainly blight and pretty. He it would be haiel for me to get another "Fifteen days after the commune was o\ eithrown is only fair, though, to say that Maud, went to Sunday school and enjoyed religious put his hand in his pocket and drew it out one." Megy left Paris in a coal wagon and when she recognized these improper sentiments, instructions of Miss Maud Pennyfeather. went to Geneva. A friend advised him to go with an air of satisfaction. The handkerchief And so that cloud drifted away. And would blush with shame and If Miss Pennyfeather had done further away, and "so I went." he says, "to was there. It occurred to him that if it had not been ior Terry McGuire 1 vexation and crowd them down in the her dutv by her scholars, would Terry London and came to New Yoik. I letuined he might also contain the safety of his believe Maud would have been supiemely heart. McGuire now be in a felon's grave?'" to England in 1875, and worked at my trade pocket-book. He felt in the opposite happy. Somehow or other the boy The girl's cheeks were flushed and her It used to annoy the girl indeed, she in London and Birmingham until last December, pocketand felt in vain. The pocketbook learned the news, and took upon himself voice hkd severe tone. could only hardly account for it, that when I came to this countiy again, was gone. He stopped short in the the task of reproaching his teacher. Excuse me, Miss Pennyfeather," said when she first knew Mr. Denike she was and am now working at my trade here.' street aad ground his teeth. I am afraid "Iinteiduced you to 'im," he complain Denike, gravely "I think you overrate quite unembarrassed in his presence, Megy says of ei-Mmster Washburne: his thoughts W3re not strictly evangelical. ed, "and now yer've went back on me." your own responsibility." but that now, when she went down stairs Befoie the commune ended some of our "The little beast!" he exclaimed with Whether she had or not, Maud could She shook her head and looked him to meet him, it would be with a flush upon people went to him and asked him what the angry emphasis. "There was at least not satisfactorily settle with herself. In earnestly in the aee. government would do to us 111 case we surlendered her cheek, and tremor in her voice. thirty dollars in itand Nellie's picture, the contentment of her new experience, or were defeated. 'I assure you of "But somebody ss responsible, Mr. Try as she might, she could not regain besides!" and then legretting his folly in this was almost the only disquieting element. this,' he re/lied, 'that all who aie taken will Denike if not I, who is? There are hundieds the composure of their eariier acquaintance. letting the boy go, and wondering if it be shot.' Duiing the siege of Paris, Washburne of such children in Chepaehet. She hoped it escaped his attention would be any use to seek the police, he was acting as a spy orthe Germans. "You must have a dreadful poor opinion They don't go to school. I'm a public Perhaps it did. That she was being urged turned slowly toward his home. He is an old rascal of the worst kind. We of me," she said, plaintively, one day, school teacher, and there aren't half a dozen for the position of principal of the new shall have another commune in Paris to Mr. Denike. Miss Pennyfeather, as she went on her of that sort in the village. They won't enterprise, she was quite unaware. Megy continued, "we were badly beaten, but "Why?" he asked, with unaffected surprise. way, was scarcely less disgusted then come the princmal doesn't want them, if The evening of the committee's decision, in case of a revolution against McMahon, we Denike himself, without knowing as yet they would. In Sunday school, my class Denike found her in her parlor. should try again and probably succeed. In "Because I've let my ambition be so the depth of Terry's turpitude, She is the only one of the kind, and that "You remember you told me once," the United States," he says, "organizations easily upset." could not deny that his conduct was the wouldn't be there, if 1 hadn't gone out he said, when both were seated, "that it arc being completed everywhere, in New John smiled indulgently. saddest kind of commentary on her teaching. and picked it up myself. The superintendent was your highest ambition to have charge York, Chicago, San Fiancisco, Paterson and "Not upset, dear," said he, "only diverted- Fancy her added annoyance, when doesn't like ragged, barefooted of such a school as ouis Newark. We have correspondents everywhere. on going to Sunday school the next day, boys. He draws the line of exclusion just A revolution cannot be foreseen, of Maud nooded, and looked at himwith she detected Terry McGuire exhibiting to And to this view of the case Maud not beyond shoes and stockings. But these course, but I see its elements here distinctly. a question in the look. the other boys a pocket-book which she unwillingly consented. It will come in the opposite way to what it boys have souls, Mr. Denike and they'll "The opportunity has fallen to me," he knew could not be his, and which, nnder will in France. There it is not the poor surely go to ruin, unless they are taught, went on gravely, "of gratifying your ambition." who revolt. It is the intelligent workingmen compulsion, he tearfully confessed to have not only for an hour on Sunday, but six What Makes You Look So Pale but here it is the most miserable." He stolen from the gentleman the day before. days in the week. If the responsibility The color went away all at once from professes to believe that the grievances of Miss Pennyfeather appropriated the isn't mine, does it rest on the church? or her face. She did not sav a word. A friend of mine, who is an invalid, the laboring classes here will some day cause pocket-book. There were papers in it, a on the school board? or on the legislature, The School Board, Miss Pennyfeather, told me of a little girl whom she met in an upheaval of the masses in this country photograph of a wonderfully pretty girl, Mr. Denike? After all, aren't you somewhat have concluded to offer you the appointment an omnibus, and who seemed to be very similar to the Paris commune of 1871. but not a cent of money. respensible yourself?" as principal of the new school. much astonished to see her so exceedingly "Where is the money, Terry?" she asked, This letter," and he handed her the envelope, By this time she had stopped in front pale. The reason given for a girl's not being imperatively. contains the official announce- of a house, and was resting her hand on "Why, what makes you so pale?"" she i able to throw anything with the accuracy The boy blubbered. He knew Miss Pennyfeather ment." the railing of the stoop. asked. of a boy is that her collar bone is some too well to attempt any denial. The girl took it mechanically, holding This is your home?" he said, inquiringly, 'O, I don't know," my friend replied. ii ches longer and some degrees lower "I took it out," he cried. it unopened in her hand. without having answered her last "You don't go out enough," said the down, and, being long and crooked, interferes "How much was it?" question. I have great pleasure in congratulat- v*,ay little thing. with the free action of the shoulders ^f