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THE CARDINAL VOL. I PLATTSBURGH, N. Y., DECEMBER 24, 1906 No. 10 THE TWO ARTISTS. \WELL of all the places I ever saw this is the worst,\ exclaimed a young man looking down a long alley in one of New YorK's back streets. \I never imagined that New York pos- sessed such a looking hole. I guess some one is happy in spite of these miserable surroundings\ he added as he heard a snatch of a song through an open window. \Why—\ As a brook rippies and dashes over the stones, now loud and strong, now soft and caressing, but always with a silvery undertone, so did the voice of the singer increase in volume, then sink lower and lower until it sounded like a sob from a broken heart and through it all coursed an undertone of sweet- ness that can come only from a pure soul: \All the Word is said and dreary, Everywhere I roam. Still darkies how my heart grows weary, Far from the old folks at Home.\ Gradually the voice faded away, leaving the young man outside in speechless wonder. A moment after a girl appeared in a window near him. Instinctively he knew that she was the singer. She was apparent- ly about fifteen years old. There was nothing particularly striking about her appearance her one re- deeming feature being her eyes which were large and coal-black, and which with the extreme paleness of her