of the hemicycle hemicycle and of the various porticos and loggia are highly enriched with color, the pilasters in these places being decorated with scagliola, and the

capitals with metallic effects in bronze.

Van Brunt & Howe, of Kansas City, are the architects. The cost is $375,000.

WOMAN, 'RISE.

TUNE, "HOPE OF ISRAEL." Freedom's daughter, rouse from slumber; See, the curtains are withdrawn, Which so long thy mind hath shrouded, Lo! thy day begins to dawn.

Chorus:

Woman, 'rise! thy penance o'er,
Sit thou in the dust no more;
Seize the scepter, hold the van,
Equal with thy brother, man.

Truth and virtue be thy motto,
Temperance, liberty and peace;
Light shall shine and darkness vanish,
Love shall reign, oppression cease.

Chorus: Woman, 'rise! etc.

First to fall 'mid Eden's bowers,
Through long suffering worthy proved,
With the foremost claim thy pardon,
When earth's curse shall be removed.
Chorus: Woman, 'rise! etc.

L. L. Greene Richards.

A BIRTHDAY DIAMOND. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 152.) THE state of the city in regard to burglaries and "hold ups" was daily growing worse. Not a night or day passed without the occurrence of one or more successful attempts at robbery. Everyone. Everyone was apprehensive. Helen's early confidence in the security seemingly afforded by the publicity of hotel life against the prevalent depredations was put to flight one

morning when among the list of housebreakings and "hold ups" published by a daily paper she read the following item:

"One of the most successful of the many robberies which have lately taken place in our midst. occurred at the ---hotel last night, when the room of one of the lady guests was entered, her trunk opened and jewelry to the amount of several hundred dollars was skillfully purloined. The theft was perpetrated during the lady's absence from the room, though the means by which the thieves gained entrance remains a mystery. As usual, no traces have been gained of the identity or whereabouts of the thieves. The police are in hot pursuit."

The account precipitated Helen into a state of constant nervousness. The safe keeping of the jewel became an arduous responsibility, especially as the rare value. of the diamond made. it the imaginative object, in Helen's eyes, of any depredative attempt. which might take place at this particular hotel; though her better reason argued that the fact of her possession of the remarkable stone could not be an item of general knowledge.

She began to practice ceaseless caution. The pin was removed from the jewel-case in the trunk, and in the common pasteboard box brought from the jeweller's placed in a secret nook which Helen discovered underneath the drawer of the dresser. On every reasonable occasion, however, when obliged to be absent from the room, she wore the pin about her, dreading lest in spite of precaution, some occurrence such as that described in the newspaper should take place in her absence. Her demonstrative care afforded Harvey much amusement. "You won't notice it when you assume a crown," he assured her laughingly; "this responsibility of the pin is fitting you for the anxieties of empire."

Several days later Harvey's business necessitated his making a trip to Park City, and as the deep snows made it unpleasant for Helen to accompany him, the former, much to her consternation, found herself confronted with the situation of staying through his absence, as Harvey comprehensively expressed it, "alone with the pin." She was somewhat reassured, finally, by the promise of Mrs. Dalton, a rather intimate friend, to spend the week with her during Harvey's absence, so that the latter left her in comparative content.

The two letters which reached Harvey from Helen contained carefully stated news of the safety of the jewel, and Harvey's in reply overflowed with ridiculously

He made it upon his return to the city the first subject of inquiry after greeting Helen, who, in spite of her earnestness, could not keep serious against his ridiculous sallies.

"By the way!" he continued, with his usual pertinacity in teasing, "there is the other affair of importance concerning which I have received as yet no detailed report: your impression of the 'marquis.'"

To his surprise, Helen flushed painfully at his joking words, her eyes becoming downcast under his gaze.

"I saw him

on the street today," she answered quickly and with strange confusion.

Harvey regarded her with a look of curious amusement. She changed the subject somewhat abruptly, in contrast to the former playful bravado with which she had met his joking in regard to the handsome stranger, and Harvey did not continue it, dismissing, in fact, the subject from his mind as containing no possible significance.

Two or three days afterward business connected with a number

of important real estate transactions necessitated his return to the office after his six o'clock supper with Helen at the hotel.

He left her with the promise to return at half-past nine. It was after that time, though, before he left the office; then, in company

with his partner, who had been with him through the evening, he was walking up the street, when to his surprise, just before reaching the end of the block, he saw Helen crossing from the opposite corner, and coming towards them.

Reaching the sidewalk, she crossed the street southward, going in the direction of the hotel. She did not observe him, and he could not overtake her, as she was some distance in advance and walking rapidly. He could not guess what errand caused her presence on the street at so late an hour, especially as Helen's never valiant courage for such ventures had reached its lowest possible ebb during the present reign of desperate characters in the city.

The two men walked down to the post-office, and stood chatting for a few moments over the mail before Harvey took his way homeward again to the hotel. Going up stairs he found the door locked, as usual- -a result of Helen's precaution-but at the sound of his hand on the lock the latter came at once to give him admittance. She was somewhat silent, he thought, though the open book in her hand furnished some cause perhaps for abstraction.

her

He was busy for a short time. with his letters, and while putting them away spoke over his shoulder to Helen, who was sitting by the grate.

"I made an attempt to overtake

"Why Harvey, I havn't been out."

Harvey turned from his papers and looked at her.

"Didn't you cross the street from the drug store to Walker's corner and from there past the White House a half hour ago?" he asked.

"I haven't left the room since you went away, except for a moment, and then only to step along the hall to Mrs. Harley's door. That was directly after you left the office."

Harvey expressed his astonish

ment.

"It is, of course, a case of mistaken identity, but certainly the most remarkable one I ever experienced."

He could not help puzzling over it for sometime, so distinct and striking had been the resemblance of the person he had seen to Helen. Only the latter's unquestionable and all-sufficing word could have convinced him that he had made a mistake.

After breakfast the next morning Harvey came up to their room from the dining hall with Helen for a forgotten errand. Helen had loosened the fastening to the