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PJURAND'S ^ U APARTMENTS.

There is a friend of mine in Paris, a painter, who has all the talents and no talent of his own. He would copy or im­itate a Greuze or a Watteau to perfec­tion. A Diaz by him only wants the sig­nature, which an unscrupulous dealer does not hesitate to forge. My friend, whom we will call Durand, Is an excel­lent man, industrious and clever, bat too negligent to take the initiative in anything, even in painting. Well, he had given notice to leave his apart­ment last July, on the 15th of the month, at noon, according to the cus­tom of the country. He had, however, been so absorbed in his painting that he had forgotten to retain a wagon to take away his furniture, and when he did at last concern himself about the matter he only succeeded in secur­ing one for the end of the day.

But at noon precisely, just as he was putting the finishing touches to a copy of Greuze's famous "Cruche Cassee,"

! there came an imperious knock at the door. It was the new tenant, escorted by her furniture. She was furious to find that Durand was "dawdling" over his paint brush while all her furnl-

THE RED LIGHT. BY H. I. CLEVELAND.

In the days when the Union Pacific railroad was fighting for traffic and ex­istence the division between Eyanston, Wy., and Ogden, Utah, was considered tc be about as dangerous for an engine run as any between Omaha and the Salt lake. The track was rough, the curves almost right angles, slides nu- i merous and enemies of the road every­where. Miners, stockmen, pioneers and Indians did not meet early railroad building with that cordiality that their successors have. They thought little of drawing a rail, burning a culvert or starting a loose mass of rock from its perch for a slide down to the track and in the way of oncomingirains.

One of the early engineers was a man by the name of "Short" Tready, a youngster of 22, full of ginger and nerve and a capable employee. His fireman was younger than he, 18, and by name "Fat" Grlswold. They were mutual admirers of each other. "Fat" regarded "Short" as the bravest man that ever touched a throttle, and he could give reasons for his belief.

tare was out in the street exposed to j "ghort" admired "Fat" because he nev-the gaze of indiscreet passers. She j er fai]e(j jn performing his duty, even threatened to call the police. j "Short" was unmarried, but engaged to

Durand, like many painters, thinks a settler's daughter who lived with her the sea more charming than ever when • father in one of the mountain clefts agitated by a storm. He found some 1 near -the Devil's slide. "Short" and resemblance between this woman and "pat" had given this cleft the name of the sea and concluded that his fair visitor was rendered more charming by her anger. She was about 25 years of age. She had dark hair and blue

"Alice No. 1," the first part of the title being the name of the sweetheart and the last part the estimate placed upon her both by lover and friend. Just

eyes, a fine, nervous figure, ^ and her i of the cleft was a great bend in rosy nostrils were slightly dilated by her emotion. She was accompanied by a little girl of 6 years of age, a little golden haired fairy. "What," continu­ed the irate lady, "you are not going away until 5 o'clock? It is absurd! What am.I to do with my furniture? Where is the proprietor? I must see the proprietor."

Durand sought an ally. The little girl was playing with a shepherdess in porcelain that stood on a table.. "Would you like it?"

"Oh, yes! It is so droll.' "Take it." "Jeanne," said the mother, "I forbid

you to accept anything." "Only to please her," replied Durand. "I could quite understand your pro­

hibition, but it is an economy for me. I shall have so much less to move."

Women are eaily disarmed. The lady fixed her eyes on the tapestry in order to keep her countenance.

"Your name is Jeanne?" said the painter.

"Yes," answered the child. "And your papa—where is he?" "He died two years ago, and mamma

Is a widow." Then, turning to the lady, Durand

apologized for his sins, told her he had cleared one room and that he would go and help to get her furniture in. Soon the furtniture began to find its place—the wardrobe, the mirror, the bookcase. "Oh, madame, without

the track, above which hung tons and tons of mountain shale and rock, liable '

' under proper pressure to descend and 1

bury not only the track, but any train i which plunged into it. j

| "Short" and "Fat" hauled coal west , from Evanston to Ogden and fruit east from Ogden to Evanston. They ran

'on no particular time card in those , days. They were supposed to get over I the track just as fast as their old fash­ioned mogul could and to keep out of 1

the way of anything that had a faster I schedule than they. They never swung i Z~,TT ~~~\ , „,, „ , ' . , . . ° ; with complete decorum, by "Alice No. 1," day or night, but , *

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"No," said Miss • Marsh, who hated lies, "I've not seen anything of your man, but I've been at the back of the house, and he might very well have gone past without my knowing any­thing about it." She paused and added, "I shan't be able to sleep tonight after iwhat you've told me."

"You needn't trouble, miss," said the mounted policeman. "He won't hurt you. We aren't more than a mile be­hind him, and we shall get him before nightfall."

"It's all right," she said in a cheerful voice as she opened the studio door. From the angle formed by a big canvas leaning against the wall there crept a man in convict's dress. He was clearly exhausted, and in. his face there was evidence of the relics of a gentleman. ,

"It's awfully good of you," he said. "No. It's bad of me. I've told a lot of

lies. I never did that before. Well, come on. You can't stop here. What can I do for you? When can you go?"

"If you had refused me shelter or had shown me that you would betray me, I should have killed you at once and without the least compunction. That will make it hard for you to believe that I am heartily sorry for all the trou­ble I am causing you, but it is true. I will get away as soon as ever I can. I've been a day and a night without food, and I cannot move safely in these things. So you see what I want-clothes and food."

She brought him a worn serge suit and the other requisites for his trans­formation. Then she went back to the house to prepare and fetch the lunch­eon. On her return she found a wash­ed and dressed Christian, with little against him in his appearance but tile fact that he had not shaved recently. He suggested that the studio stove would make short work of the convict dress, and he helped her to lay the luncheon table—a difficult task for a man near starvation to accomplish

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what there was the figipe of a young girl standing at the bend waving a hand and throwing kisses—the hand was for "Fat" and the kisses for "Short." If it was night when they cir­cled through the mountains, they knew the girl was there because she always carried a red lamp. She had said to j me up." Permit" me'io"pIss7on "Short" early in their engagement: | cn1o(1

I "That red lamp won't mean danger, as it generally does elsewhere. Red's my j color, and when you see that lamp be-

anything," she said, "except those lies that I had to tell the policeman."

"Those lies saved two lives," said the convict. "I should have put one police­man's lights out before they took me, and subsequently they would have

fore you hit the bend you'll know that the track is clear, that I'm well and that I love you."

So week after week the special freight swept through the canyon, whistling shrilly, and never a miss of the Alice of "Alice No. 1." It was

.something to see "Short" hang way out of his cab when he caught sight of per

the salad. Questions of ethics always had a fascination for me. I came to the conclusion that there was no abso­lute right conduct. Given proper hu­man feeling in an individual, conduct then becomes entirely a matter of cir­cumstances. The best test of a system

j of ethics is not in theory, but in prac-i tice. It is amazing how few people ! realize that. That is where every legal J system is wrong. Not one that I have ' ever come across in my studies takes

sufficient account of circumstances and ' of decent human feeling in the lndivid-I ual. The law judges by results—this is

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and skillfully drop at her feet some lit-knowing you I can read your mind— yg package of trinkets which he had Montesquieu, Balzac, Bossuet, Hugo, bought for her in the town. It was Lamartine"— . ' something also to see "Fat" manfully i ^B^t and that is wrong, and if you do

"La, la, la!" cried the angry lady, saluting his partner's future bride and | wronS you will be punished. The Why, anybody with

cried the angry "You would have done better to leave giving a few extra tugs at the whistle before 12 o'clock than to be trying to for her honor. 6tudy my character." | Everybody on the. line knew of

"I am working all the timey madame. "gimrt's" girl and the bend she watch-Look! I have placed the console there ed. other engineers would look for here the statue of the Virgin—this little jjer, jjU^ sjje never visible until an mirror opposite the window" ' engine's scream way down the canyon

"Oh, it is no use! You cannot make told her that "Short's" mogul was com-peace with me." Ing. Then she took her place and then

There was an Interval of 20 minutes, g^e saw the man of her love. during which the lady stood at the sa­lon window. Durand bad remained In his room with the child. "Are they com­ing today or tomorrow, your men?" she asked angrily as she came back in­to the room.

But she stopped In the middle. Jeanne, motionless and smiling, was seated on a chair, and Durand was painting her portrait

"Mamma," said the little one sudden­ly, "I am hungry. You have a pate and some wine in the big basket."

"Come, then, and breakfast on the balcony," replied the mother. Durand

This had been going on for about six months, and "Short" was beginning to think of his wedding day, when one day the mountain rains set In and tremendous slides descended on the tracks. "Short" escaped all harm for the time, but he was very fearful of the mass of drift above the bend at "Alice No. 1."

"Don't worry about that," said "Fat." "Alice will watch that, and we'll get he signal sure if there's trouble there." So on a September night they came

plunging down to "Alice No. 1" through the mist and howl of the wind, and

was left alone to finish his sketch, j there was the welcoming red light and fTVi Atin mn n at Dilntl/IA At* inn WkintlTAa I _ 9 13 There was a silence of ten minutes, Then the child returned timidly.

"Mamma has something to ask you." "She wants to turn me out?" "No." "What then?" "Mamma wants to know—if you—if 1

you would like a piece of pate?" j This happened on July 15, and when i

the porter arrived to announce that the i

back of it the shadow of the girl. She was probably 300 feet from the bend and the upheld shale. Just as the engine was abreast of her and "Short" leaning out so that she should see his face a scream came from her Hps. There was a rumble up the mountain sides, a crashing of things, an awful roar, and the bend at "Alice No. 1" was suddenly buried in an avalanche men had at last come to remove Du-, of m rock flnd

rand's furn.ture he found him sitting. ..SUort„ had onlJ feet to work on the ba cony at table with the mother ,n and bad b * aDi r5 g thtChlld °n hiS kneCS- I versed, "Fat" working with him. He Misfortunes, however, never come 1

iV,„ , „ , . . ,, . singly. The wagon was too small. It. f'Tb^n^LTi « T f would not hold all Durand's things at i d . v w n! ,,09" onoe "Leave vour nictnres vour easel i jump? He was not built that way. once. Leave your pictures, your easel, He Md <IFat„ went wlth thelr eng,ne

and train into the mass and staid there. and your palette," said Jeanne. "I will take care of them, and then you will be obliged to come back again and finish my portrait."

He left them. He came into posses­sion of them when he took all his fur­niture back to his old rooms. This time, however, there was no difficulty about the outgoing tenant, for before that date she became Durand's wife, and the two households were merged Into one.

After a long time the sun came out of the clouds around the peaks, the larks in the damp valleys piped cheeri­ly and the long "halloo" of the cow men rang over the grass ranges. At "Alice No. 1" the wreckers had taken out of a ruined mogul the battered forms of two men and laid them In the

absurdity of it! ! imagination can think of circumstances ' in which it would be the only right I thing for a man of decent feeling to commit a murder."

"The law admits that to some ex* tent," said Miss Marsh.

I "To a miserably Insufficient extent, I As a matter of fact, we do not want j any laws at all. We want judges wise and sympathetic, with absolute power, who will judge each case separately on

! its merits. You see, I am not advocat-j ing anarchy. The Inquiry would be, first, as to whether the accused had done what he was said to have done;

j secondly, as to whether he was a man of ordinary decent human feeling; last­ly, as to the circumstances of the case. With a common sense procedure of that kind we should frequently hang the drunkard and discharge the mur­derer. What could be worse than onr present chance system? I waB sent to penal servitude because I did not al­low sufficiently for my revolver throw­ing up. If I had allowed sufficiently, I should have finished the man'that I felt ought to be finished, and in that case I should have been hanged. Why, it 1b abominable. The moral question Is sunk altogether. I escaped death not because I was moral, but because I was clumsy and inexpert with firearms. Is it reasonable?"

"The law's not perfect," said Miss Marsh. "But your system would have still more chance in it. You would not be able to get a supply of judges fit to be trusted with absolute power."

They argued the question at length oyer the coffee and cigarettes, and at last the convict rose. "I must be go­ing, Miss Marsh. Many thanks for' your charming hospitality and the great services you have rendered me."

"That's nothing. You must have some money." She fumbled with her purse. "And put the rest of those cigarettes In your pocket. Is there anything else?"

"You overburden me with kindness. The money, of course, I shall return,

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All Mnrrlaeea Are Love Marriages. "Was it a love marriage, do you

think?" "Certainly. All marriages are love

marriages." "Isn't that rather a, sweeping state­

ment?" "Not at all. There Is a love of ad­

venture, you know; love of luxury, love of advertising and various other

i. mv. i.v * but the kindness—that must always re-sunlight. The cold tace of one was main w„n if t, t„ke me j £ turned up to the burning eyes of a young girl, who could not weep nor speak. By her side was an old red light—Chicago Record-Herald.

Qnlte Simple. "If I was a weather prophet," Bald

the man with spreading whiskers, "I'd gef it right once in awhile, I'll bet."

"How would you manage it?" "Whenever I saw a circus headin for

any rate luivo lived again for a little while. Good by."

J She hesitated and then held out her hand. Me look it. bent over It and klss-

I ed it. Ir was an impulsive act, with nothing studied or theatrical about It

j Then lie went out by the front door ] and walked down the free road Into

. . . , , . itown rd simply put up my maps an kinds of love. There is no need of go-, Instruments an start in predlctin rain Ing into details when one speaks of a 1 on general principles." — Washington love marriage."—Chicago Post. gtar. >

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the wide world as if he had no fear of anything. She, watching him, thought it wrong that he should ever have been a convict, right that be should have escaped and right again that she should have lied for him and helped him,— Black and White. . • :

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