After this the wonderful boxes were In those days and nights there fell odious mountains, so says monsieur le The Gold That ears. wings. At last it occurred to the woman never opened again. Madame is cold and away from Gretchen's soul all taint of docteur. Why, they are" like the grave, that these were certainly her swallows We parted one eve at the garden sate strt nge and silent, and one day the lumbering earthy longing. He who has sinned long only there is a chance to squirm. Still, and that their entrance to jthe nest had "When the dew was on the heather, carriage bears them all away from and deeply may require much repentance. they say I must make my choice between And I promised my love to come back to her been closed. In spite of the distance and Ere the pleasant autumn weather the little Wirtshus. She who has but erred in thought the two. If the people are as refined pressing work, the good woman went That we twain might wed and faacy yielded back her allegiance at looking as the girl, I shall at least have Then the days pass slowly for Gretch* back to see, and if *o, to put her dear When the leaves were red, the first touch of chastisement, and lost some one to. speak to. And then the en. There is a feverishness about her "swallows to rights." She opened the '**?$& i And live and love together. all dread of suffeiing the simplicity town is within an hour's ride. There we life which she hopes will be calmed by window and had the pleasure of having of her trust. may find a little lifeif I am ever well She cut me a tress from her nut-brown hair Han's presence when he comes. Strange her supposition confirmed.Animal As I kibsed her lips of cherry, enough *o live again ,and the sentence fancies flit across her mind, and she is But Gretchen is not to wear a martyr's Friend, Vienna. And ga\e her a ring of the old-time gold, concludes with a sigh. not sure but that she is longing for the crown all that is best anel sweetest on With a stone like the mountain berry Gretchen's sorrow ends in a bustlp and great world about which she has promis earth is her birthright, and the storm A Rhinoceros Attacks a Train. As clear and blue As her eyes were true commotion most wonderful and unusual. ed him never even to ask. In her daydreams that has gathered over her head is mer,ry! At Pittsburgh, Pa., there was an exciting Sweet eyes so bright and The young French lady desires rooms at she sees the gleam of satin and but the pretense of a tempest, after accident occurred recently, while the ol-1 inn for herself and maid. Such shimmer of pearls, and wonders in wnat all. She has entered the door of the "The wealth of my love is all I have the railroad show of *he Sells Bros, was au almost unprecedented demand aftects manner of place they are worn. She gieat courtroom, but we shall not follow To give you," she said, in turning making its advent into the city. The "The gold that wearslike the radiant stars the household like the awakening kiss ot hears again Angelique's stories of Kings her, where she stands rapt the consciousness cages of the menagerie were loaded on Inyonder blue vault burning!" his prince in the fairy tale. Old Vater and courts and crowded halls, where of innocence, and indifferent And I took the trust, flat cars. A projection near the Point Schonfeld is startled from a Rip Van music rings, and the air^s heavy with to the curious gaze of the multitude As a mortal must, bridge struck the cages and overturned Winkle-like snooze Chr stine, the faithful the breath of flowers that grow neither gathered there to view her as a specticle. Who&e soul for love is yearning. three of them, containing a rhinoceros, old servant, who administers house on hill-side nor plain Gretchen puts on She has no kinship with the hard, unsympathetic lion and black bear. A large crowd of hold affairsfor it is many years sine the marvelous blue dress, and then she men whose business it is to Fate kept us apart for many years, people had been attracted to the spot, And the blue sea rolled between us, Gretchen has known aught of mothei has tasted of the iorbidden fruit, and its administer justice to the erring woild: and following on the heels of the accident Though I kissed each day the nut-brown tress lovecomes bustling forward, filled wnu subtile poison begins to steal through still les can she oe troubled with the And made fresh vows to VenusTill there was an incident that made the wonder and amaze Marthe. her somntu her veines. groups of God's lost chrildren who gather I sought my bride, people scatter like leaves before the wind. lent assistant, calls upon the saints with morbid curiosity wherever another And Fate defied, At last theie comes a breath from that The rhinoceros escaped from his cage, That had failed from loye to wean us protect her against such a break in the recruit can be found to join their marvelous world, not flower-scented, but and at a fast gaii started up the raihoad legular order of thigs. pitiable ranks. bitter and ominous as the fierce blasts ot track. No one was particulaily desirous I found my love at the garden gate late autumn: Only Gretchen is delighted. Her Our business is with Christine, the ot being in his way, and consequently When the dew was on the heather, eyes rest upon the grafile, incomprehensible faithful seivant, who, unable to witness "Send back madame's ring at once, if And we twain were wed at the li'tle kirk everybody cleared out or got in secure face that peers from the carriage her dailing's trial, has thrown herself in In the pleasant autumn weather, you value your safety. Send it, child, or positions. The frightened and exasperated And the gold that wears windows, and the strong youn arms despair at the foot of the little altar you will be branded as a theif and cast beast soon encountered a locomotive, Now eoothes my cares, assist the invalid to reach her own spotless whereon Gretchen has enthroned her few into the nearest prison. You do not at which he made a lunge, and from the As we live and love together. chamber. Here she is laid, worldworn sacred treasures, and where night and know its history. God grant you never pilot tore off an iron bar with as much and utterly weary, her head pressing morning she used to kneel in humble devotion. may! Why did you bring ruin on your ease as it would have ripped away a strip the little pillows where Gretchen's But Christine's thoughts are not head by touching a jewel she will not HANS AND GRETCHEN. of board. Then he dashed at a freight rosy cheeks are wont to lie. After her of prayer rather are they of anger and live without?" car, in the side of which he knocked a comes a procession of trunks and boxes, furious rebellion against a world in which In the sunniest coiner of the angular The note is written in Angelique big hole. Mr. Kelly, his keeper, finally An^elique's peculiar care. such injustice can obtain. Her horny little porch that poked itself out from the scratchy hand and as Gretchen reads, caught up with him, and, catching him withered fingers lace themselves impotently Soon the business of nut sing is under her eyes grow wild witn sheer amazement. side of the old Wirthshaus in such a curious by the ear, attempted to lead him away, together, as if in longing for something way, and goes steadily foiwaid. Christine A ring!what ring? The only but he refused to obey. Kelly then leaped and irrelevant manner, sat Hans and they might tear and rend. At composes marvelous soups, which one she knows of is the slender little circlet on his back, and was treated to a ride Gretchen. The yellow head of the girl last her tear-blinded eyes light upon an Angelique supplements by dainty dishes that Hans put on her tiny finger. of several hundred yards. The showmen inclined suspiciously near to the honest article which she regards as suitable for the soft breezes play round the bed, What has madame to do with that? It eventually succeeded in lassooing the blue uniform in which the Vaterland destruction. It is the blue dress. *he one bringing their own peculiar element of is her own, her very own, pa^t of herself rhinoceros, and with the aid of half a memento of mad.ime. Ah! if she might life and streDgtli, but, most of all, Gretcnen's clothes its soldieis, and the grasp of a and in her bewilderment she kisses it hundred men he was forced into a box but feel the delicate limbs of the owner tender care helps to raise the rough musculai arm round a very tender convulsively, as though she and it were car, from which a transfer to his case was within her grasp as she does the poor garment drooping spirits ana restore the weary little waist, told the story of appropriation in danger. Then she thinks of the great subsequently made. The bear displayed which once adorned them! At last soul and body to their accustomed blue jewel that malched the blue dress. his agility by running up an inclined that had its first instance in the garden it shall be burned but meanwhile no health Tne days of convalecence are But it was cairied away weeks ago in the plane for some distance before he was of Eden. Hans, however, was now trace of its hateful, intricate beauty, devised, long and wearisome, however, and the resouices gieat casket bound with brass and double captuied. He would doubtless have new to the woild and wanting in experience, as Christine thinks, by demons of nurse and patient are often bolted, where all the treasures were bestowed. reached the top had he been let alone. like our primitive foiefather when and wrought out by fiends, shah remain. taxed to find some pleasant way of ha3t She knows nothing of itnothing One by one delicate puff and ruffle are he lost his rib only to regain it in such a enmg time's slow march. Madame has Bow Old He Was. and yet she is called upon to give it eliminated. Double destruction shall heard all Gretchen's htte story: how she delicious fashion, nor did he, likp Othello, up! The b.ue eyes grow strained and light upon it first, a heap ot mins, and has grown up at the little Wirthshaus Smith H. is a notorious jokei one ot know much startled then one by one the tears fall, then a holocaust. When her darling where there have been no guests to entertain those queer fellows who joke everywhere, "of most disastious chances, and old Christine, slicing a plethoric shall come back to the Wirthshaus, perhaps how the mother died when she was in all company, and from force of habit. Of moving accidents byfloodand field, wurst for the mid-day meal, is frightened as a criminal who has served her Of hau-bieadths 'scapes 1' the emmment but an infant, and the little cne was He was attending court in answer to a by the sound of smothered sobs. Soon timeah! how Chr.stine's fingers work as deadlj breach cared for by the good old Wirth and subpoena, and was dining at the publie she has the suffering little one in her she thinks of it! there shall be no odious Yet he had learned something of the faithfu' Christine how the school-days table. He began to chat with an acquaintance, arms but the faithful soul knows nothing blue mystery of millnery to rend her woild beyond the shadow of his native passed, followed by simple years of easy who presently asked: of the wonderful exhibition that took little heart in twain with its loathsome hills during the time when Prussia pushed labor under Christine's somewhat exacting "Smith, how old aie you?" place in madame room. beauiy. her way to Paiis, and the very heart rule thenoh! most wonderful and "If 1 live," replied Smith solemnly,, "What hast thou to do with rings, ot beautiful France was crushed under glorious'how Hans came home, and "till the 30th of next month, I shall be But stop! What is the gieat hard thing Liebchen? Thou knowest naught of such the feet of the alien host Hans had pondered the world, beautiful before, became illuminated seventy-one." in the flounce? Christinete lingers are things, save Hans's little folly." well upon the subject of humanity, with a radiance such as llnngs A lawyer who sat opposite here looked paralyzed, and with a great smothered Then Gretchen tells the story, and a its aims and issues, and, like manya greater must wear in heaven. "For," Gretchen at him with an expression of surprise, cry, she fliug9 herself once more before troubled and indignant look comes into mind, his had grown confused with all concludes her stoiy, "be loves me, madame, but said nothing. The next day Smith he little shrine, this time in rapturous the old servant's eyes Grave Vater the vexed and various problems whose and I love him and the good priest was called as a witness, and aiter giving adoration of the Holy Mother who has inerposed Schonfeld is called from his pipe, and meaning no man knows. Now he had at the chvrch tells us, 'Love is all the his name and residence, was asked his age. to save her child. But there is great lines of trouble marfcs the smooth come back fiom the rush and whhl of a law so, you see, I have all of earth and "Fifty-three," was the prompt response. time to be lost. Christine starts for curves ol his face. It is too wonderful great Pity, aud for weeks had been enjoying heaven, and everything is finished and the kitchen. She must be off. Even now "What!" exclaimed the lawyer, "didn't for them all, and soon the sturdy Wirth the perfect tranquility that leigned complete." Madame sighs and trembles tne com is aittiDg, and sentence may be I hear you say at the hotel yesteiday that takes the great stick and brings the good in the atmosphere ot his native village. and turns her held away. Then little ycu would be seventv-one it vou lived lo passed. Ah! but she is oldold so old priest to Gretchen's side. At last a. note He drank it in great draughts, and would Gretchen, fearing she has given pain in the 30th of this month?" that she cannot save hei darln g. Time is written back, denying all knowledge fain keep it to himselt foieverkeep it to some way that she does not understand, and labor and many wintry winds laden "A/ext month, sh with that orrection of the ring, and the holy father testifies hijusfelf, as he meant to keep Gretchen, kisses her softly and leaves the room. with rheumatism have done their work. 1 did say so."' to the innocence of the poor little lamb, fan and pure and innocent, unbreathed upon But such stories as these do not fill all But Marthe is voung, Maithe can run. "And now you swear you are but fiftythree?" whom he has known and loved since the and unsullied by any tempests of emotion, the time, and one day Angelique, who And so it is Marthe who first reaches the baptismal waters touched her brow by any taint of sin. has grown bitteily jealous of Gretchen, "Yes, sir." the town, and burst into the solemn courtroom, within a few hours of her birth. So tar all had gone well. Blue eyed begins to explain some of the things that where, amidst sighs and tears from "Well, sir, tell us what kind of a witness Gietchen sits down to wait, for What Gretchen had shown no longing know are wanting in this small world that the many in the audience, the grave judge is you arM anv way. What do yon she does not know. Christin never of the world beyond the cloud-capped girl deems so perfect and complete. She calling upon the prisoner to stand up meanP leaves her side the W^rth sits no longer hills where heaven toucned earth each tells of dresses and jewels aad costly and receive the dread sentence. Maithe "Why, I think that if you live to the in the little porch with pipe and mug, morning, and sanctified the place thereof, sight, and scenes where gay cavaliers attend it is who hands the blue garment, shorn 30th ot next month, you may be a hundiedbecause, but paces restlessly back and forth neither did she trouble hei sell about the ladies clothed in eimine and lace. now of all its pride and glory, to the bewildered sh, next mext month is tinousxn the little house and the good thoughts and fancies that wound themselves Then she suggests. Look at the sunset officer ot the law, and waits in Febiuary, and hasn't but twenty-eight priest comes every day. and at parting in and out under Han's heavy if you want to see how the silks shimmer breathless silence while he draws from days, and wnen I see the 30th cf February lays his hands on Gretchen's fair head brows. Sometimes when he gazed at and shine, and at the dew-drops if you its folds the sad memento of a love dis I expect to be seventy-one." with a tender blessing. It is ail very uothing with a thoughtful and troubled want to know the sparkle of diamonds. honored and betrayed. The court, the bar, and the audience strange and sorrowful, this terrible expression, and the maiden asked him Or, if madame would let youbut she all join in the laugh, and Smith's examination But Christine also comes, jolted thither waiting, waiting in alternate hope and why, he would answer: is too illtoo ill and Angelique pauses was proceeded with. by the grave donkey 01 the Leichenbesorger, fear. Madame may not crush their "Good child thou must nevei at.k, and to sigh over the hidden glories that must which, being accustomed to the quiet Liebchen, or, best of all, she may find the -VW 1 never wilt know by expeiience how not be revealed movements of the dead, could not ling. A Horse's Sense of Smell.. crookedly and confusedly every thing But madame overhears, and a new hurry for the livingcomes at last, At last a day comes such as never goes on in this world. Thou must not amusement suggests itself. The depths but comes in lime to receive her Liebchen An African pony, unlike Job's war dawned over the little valley before. always be questioning me when I am of those boxes contain many meracles of in her arms as she reaches the horse, "smelleth" not "the battle afar Gretchen, sunny-haired Gretchen, the lost in thought. All soits of things go the milliner's art, and if sunny-haired outer steps of the court-room. Reverently off," but he Will smell a poisonous snake fairest of all the village maidens, beloved round in my head. Only be cheerful Gretchen would like to explore them, she they tarry for Christine's greeting a' a sufficient distance to avoid himAn of the little children, and first in the now, be happy that there is so much thou shall do so. Then the keys were brought Christine, who has sorrowed as they do English gentleman was leading his heart of the goo I priest, is torn away knowest not." out, and the little maiden retires into a sorrow over the children of others who pony one day in South Africa, when he from the old Wirthshaus and borne to Then Gietchen would leply: "What world of wonders cf which she has never have known no children ot iheir own. saw his Kaffir servant suddenly jump on the prison in the neighboring town. thou thinkest I ought not to know, I will dreamed. Meanwhile madame sits in Then one and all they press forward. one side. Knowing that it was a snake Loud outcries follow the officers of the never ask." her high-backed easy-chair, and lazily Little ones are raised to catch the first that had alarmed him, the gentleman law as the shrinking child is led away enjoys the scene. glance from Gretchen's tender eyes, and dropped the reins and went forward to* To night there was to be a parting. between them. "Why had they not torn Breathless with wonder and amazement, women clasp rheir hands in eagerness to kill it. It was a puff-adder, the reptile Business called Hans to a remote corner the fair image of the Virgin" from the Gretchen pulls out one costly dress hear her gentle greeting. Old Vater which, it is thought, Cleopatra used recommit ot the Vaterland, and Gretchen was to be altar, and polluted her with their nasty after another, and apropos of each Angelique Wortman, blind and feeble, suffers himself suicide. Killing it with a stone, left alone. Thus it was a very tearful touch? What had Gretchen to do with has a story to tell. This one was to be led forward by a little child, he examined its glands and found them pair of blue eyes that lifted themselves to the gaudy trickery of the foul creature worn at a grand concert in Paris another and poor Wilhelm, whose wooden leg filled with poison. his when the time came for the last kiss, the Wirth had harbored in his home? was made specially for the great occasion does but poorly for the one he lost so On returning to the pony and advancing and tne smalL lips trembled as they What had she to do with jewels fit for many years ago, struggles from the when Madame la Marquise de sent his hand to take the reins, the horse touched his own. shameless women, Gretchen, the child of bench wheie he has kept watch since for her mistress at an evening party a shied back in great alarm. For several Gietchen stands by the gate of the old honest parents, the betrothed ot Hans?" early dawn, and strains his deaf ears to third appeared before her Majesty the minutes he would not allow his master to Wirthshaus alone. The shadow of the In the midst of the tumult the good understand the story of the child's release. Emppress Eugenie"Before your rough approach. Some of the odor of the adder porch does not fall upon her, and the retreating priest lifts his hands, and w'-ile the tears soldiers overran our glorious capital," had attached itself to the gentleman's form of the young soldier seems roll down his withered cheeks, answers, adds madame, smiling and Gretchen hands, and the cautious animal, being to take away with it Ihe piotecting atmosphere It was a yery simple home-coming. "Be quiet, my children. Thus was One blushes, remembering who was among warned by his sense of smell, was afraid of great love. The sunshine The strength that had sustained tittle led up from Jerusalm the host. For each toilet there are jew that there was danger even in his masters falls upon the waving masses of golden Gretchen when the otorm beat over her, Then followed days and nights ot els, some more costly than others, but all touch. hair, for Hans has withdrawn the disfiguring fled as the clouds lifted Between them anxious suffering. Gretchen's fair eyes suited in hue and radiance to the costumes cap so that he might caress them The horse's nose is, as every boy who they carried her to the tiny chamber in look out upon the world from behind iron they must accompany. At last the blue eyes that follow him are tearful has trained a colt knows, one of his the old Wirthshaus, and laid her on the bars while the day lasts, and when the Gretchen catches the trick of matching with emotion, and the graceful figure means of gaining knowledge. If a horse snowy bed, from which she was not to evening falls her little hands are clasped the one to the other, and great is her that leans against the gate vibrates with is afraid of an object, the best way to r* rise again for manya weeknot, indeed, in prayer as she lies low on her prison pleasure when madame tells her she is the passionate sorrow of a child. move his fear is to let him smell of it. until the day when Hans lifted her in cot. "Hansl Hans!" she calls, but so right, finally, Gretchen pulis out a deep his arms, and whispered: "Mon Dieu' Angeliquej La petite! softly that the jailer pacing by the cor blue silk, and as it lies against her fair A Convincing Argument. "The breath of the world has passed She is beauti'ul. rider does not hear. For what right has ssin. madame calls out: over thee. Henceforth my love shall encompass "Where, madam?" pipes the shrill she to eall Hans?Hans who had likened He was squirting tobacco juice over the* 'There yon have your own color, little thee as the mountains stand voice of a French lady's maid. The two her to the white daisies that grow by floor of the saloon, and telling how capital Gretchen." You shall have it, petite, to about our home. See, their summits voices proceed from the depths of a the church-yard, to the soft clouds that oppressed labor, when one of the dozen make yourself a bodice for holidays. reach above the clouds of heaven, and travelling carriage that is making its shame the azure of heaven by their purity, men in the place inquired: See, its glory has departed and behold, when thou leavest me, it shall be to go way up the road. and who had forbidden her all "Air you one o* them communistsF* here is a mark where your own Prince thither. 'There, by the gite. Ah! Angelique, knowledge of the world, that in her innocence "I hold, that we must have an even distribution set his foot upon the train. Ah! it I had, had a face and figure like that, she might remain pure and unsullied, of propertyyes, sir, or we'li Sagacity of a Pair of Swallows. that was in days when I was younger I should not be as I am now. Tbey would even as the Virgin Mother before fight, sir!" was the pompons reply. than I am now,"or his Highness had not not have said, 'The great singer has lost whose altar they both knelt. At Rosenberg, in the neighborhood of "Stranger, kin ye lend me a chew ofT come so close to admire me." her fascination, and her voice its power.' In the anguish of the -days that were Graz, a pair of swallows had built their tobacco?'' asked the inquirer. .Gretchen laughs gavly. "The jewels, See how lovely she is, even though she passing the flesh fell from the rounded nest in the floor of a peasant's house. A box full of fine-cut was handed hiim madame! What jewels did you wear?" weepsand the fair color ia her cheeks 1 limbs no roses that a woman less fair When the door was closed, the only entrance He put it in his pocket, and was walking Ah! it is the health, the beautiful health Diamonds, perhaps. I have but one might envy, but only a pallor such as to the room was through thewindow away, when the communist called out: that is the best of all!" The last is spoken sapphire and madame shivers slightly. marks those whom Death has chosen, near by. One evening at harvesttime "Beg pardon, but you are carrying off in the fretful toaes of an invalid. "But And here it is," cries the girl, pulling lay on the tear-stained cheeks. When all the inhabitants of the house my tobacco!" what is she crying for? Pe itc sotte! to forth a great blue jewel set in a ring the morning came to lead her before the went to the meadows situated at the foot "8' all rights' all right," replied the cry like that when she has the beauty of so hea7y that it slips from her little fin men who were to judge whether or no of +hc mountain, almost two miles distant other. I was out and you have plenty: an angel and the strength of a young gen. she most be called guilty of crime, the from the dwelling. The wife forgot We've got to even this business up, yotn deer. What is the place, Angelique?a But madame is ill, apparrently. "Put little maiden that stood up to be led to leave the window of the cottage open, know, and you keep the box, and I'll keepthe Wirthshaus? Bid the old shed ever have it down, my child," 9he cries and once from prison seemed like a fair saint from and scarcely was the work of harvesting tobacco.' ^"tt^lJ* "'3j| a visitor I wonder? It does not look so more the strange spasm seizes her. whose countenance the beauty of earth under way, when a pair of swallows flew He was too big to tick, and the communist Let us stop. I must stop somewhere, Leave me now, and take the dress with has departed that it may wear the loveliness around her with loud twitterings, bitting pat the empty box his pocket, spend a monthughlamong these *a you." born in heaven. her on the head and shoulders with their and refused to laugh with the crowd. & $ $ 7