ANDERSON & WALLIS, Proprietors
the sweetest word.
nThat is the sweetest woid that mortals
ken?”
A woman asked who walked between two
men.
First one said "Horne;” the other "Love is
best;”
And then the woman softly whispered,
“Rest.”
v e s,” said the first; “wherever I may roam
My rest ideal is in a far-off home."
“Yes,” said the other; “it is Love’s behest
To those on whom lie fondly smiles, to rest.”
—Edu ard A'ash, in the Current.
WIINY,
Stranger to Canada, I think you said?
First visit to Ontario? Well, you’re
heartily welcome to Indian Creek. Take
a chair on the piazza till dinner’s ready.
IVe dine early in these new-world parts.
Fine farm? Well, yes. Indian Creek
Is a nice place, if I do own it. All, as
far as you can see—grass-land, corn
fields, w oods and creeks—all belong to
it. Stock too—they call it the best- ;
stocked farm in Ontario, I believe, and
1 date say they’re light. All mine; and j
yet I came to Canada twelve years ago,
without even the traditional half-crown
in my trousers pocket. You look sur¬
prised. Would you like to hear the |
story? There’s a good half-hour to diu
ner time yet, and it’s a story 1 never tire
of telling, somehow.
I began life as the soil of a village car- |
peutcr in the south of England. You
know that class pretty well, I dare say,
and what a gulf v as fixed between me
and the vicar of the parish. And yet—
from thc time she was seven years old
and I eleven, and slie fell down in the
dusty road outside the carpenter’s shop,
and cried, aud I picked her up, and
smoothed the little crumpled pinafore,
and kissed the dust out of her golden
"in /' ti' 1 ° ni S " i 111 16 '' 01,1 ,.
and that was the vicar \ s daughter, Winoy ’
Madness, you’ll say. Well, perhaps
and yet a man is but a man, and a
a woman; and love comes, what¬
one may do. There’s no class dis¬
recognized by childhood, and
were playmates and friends till she
to bearding-school. If Miss Winny
had a mother, no doubt things would
been very different; but we were
in never having known a woman's
and the old vicar was blind to
bui his theological treatises.
Urrf- vrlio-n alin back from her
boarding-school, a
lady, all smiles and laces and lit
lovclv wavs-then I knew I hud
ied • j my "i best . to study . and work, and
myself more like the men she
meet; but what cau a lad in an
village do? I just bad enough
to make every otner lad in the
place hate me; and beside the men of
world I suppose I cut rather an as
tomshing figure. Yet the love of her
was so beyond all else in me, that mad,
hopeless as I le t it, I had no power over
myself; and the first time I caught her
alone in the woods—she avoided me, I
saw, and I had to watch for a chance—I
told her the whole story, and waited for
her answer. She grew scarlet—a rush of
color that dyed her fair, sweet face—then
deathly white.
“Dick,” she said, and she was trem
b ing from head to foot, “you know it
can never, never be; you know you are
wrong even to dream of such a thing. I
Some girls would think it an insult—I
, know better;
you but if my lather heard
of this, he would say you had abused his
kindness to you; he would never forgive
you. Forget your madness.” And she
ran from me.
I let her go. I had seen the blush
and the tremor, and I guessed that if I
had been 3Ir. Loftus, the young squire,
instead of Dick Hawtry, the carpenter’s
son, her answer might have been differ
cut. A great resolve sprang up in my
soul, and I took a solemn vow in those
June woods. That very night I sold the
.
old shop (my father was dead and 1 had
taken to the business), and with tho
money I bought an outfit, and started
straight for Canada. It was pretty
tough work at first, but I worked like a
galley slave—starved, and pinched and
saved, and never spent a penny on my
*elf except for the books I sat up half
tbe night to read and study. Well, in
this country the man who works and
doesn’t drink is sure to get on; and I
had a mighty purpose in my head. By- !
«d-by I bought some land dirt-cheap,
“ d *old it for three times what I
for it—then I began to make monev fast,
I should call my iu ck wonderfui if ! be
heved in hick, and didn't prefer to think
I was helped by a Power far abler than
*yown. At last, ten years to the very
day after I set foot on Canadian soil, I
bought Indian Creek farm and be-an
‘o build this house. All the neighbors
thonght my good fortune had turned mv
br ain, for I fitted it *Sttte up and ^rocW furnished it
for a lady sLy-Table downto tSkbSS chair
by my rC,a “ t d : I t
with a ', h U i„d.
when all that was finished I took the first
•hip for Liverpool.
£* tawbuM.. at, am**. It
Bevonshire ‘.T** village. »» k ' —I* *“•«• to *
The verv gates
w «0 still half of, their hinges. Y I left
dead 61 x months; died very poor,
She Cotrindon Star.
they told me; there was nothing left for
Miss Winny. My heart gave one leap
when I heard that. And Miss Winny?
Oh,she had gone gave messing with some
people who were just off to Canada, and
the ship sailed to-morrow from Liver¬
pool.
The Liverpool express never, kerned
to crawl so slowly before. 1 got there
to find every berth taken on board the
Antarctic, and the captain raging at the
non-appearance of two of the crew.
Without a second’s pause I offered for one
of the vacant places. I was as strong
as
a horse, and active enough, and though
the captain eyed me rather askance—I
had been to a West End tailor on my
way through London— he was too glad
to get me to ask any questions, So I
sailed on the ship with my little girl, lit¬
tle as she kuew it. I saw her the first
day or two, looking so pale and thin
that she was like the ghost of her old
self, and yet sweeter to my eyes than
ever before. The children she had charge
of were troublesome little creatures, who
worried and badgered her till I longed
to cuff them well. But there was a gen
tleuess and a patience about her 4 quite
new to my idea of Miss Winny, and I
only loved her the more for it. After
the second day out the wind freshened,
and I saw no more of her.
We had an awful passage. It waslate
in November—an early winter, and the
cold was intense. It blew one continu
ou8 gale, and some of our machinery
was broken—the screw damaged—and
we could not keep our course. As we
drew near the other side of the Atlantic
we got more and more out of our bear¬
ings, and at last the fogs told us we were
somewhere oil the banks of Newfound¬
land, but where no one was quite sure.
It seemed to me it had all happened
before,-or I had read it, or dreamed it.
At ., all ,, events it hardlv , to
was a surprise
me when, on the tenth night, just after
m j dnight) thc awful cra?h and £hock
took place—a sensation which no one
who lias not feit it can imasine in the ‘
least—and we knew that the Antarctic
hud struck.
It’s a fearful thing, if you come to
think of it, a great steamer filled with
living souls in the full flow of life and
health.and in one moment the call coming
to each of them to die. Before you
could have struck a match the whole
ship ,, was in . a panic—cries, . terror, con
: 1
fusion, , agony—oh, , it .. was awful! , T I trust
never to . see such , j T moAo ,
a soon a ng<n*>.
my way through it all as if I had neither
eves nor ears, and got to the stateroom
1 which ^ T? belonged to ray glr\. 0,lt was i tnankod ,he one
.
at the door with a heavy hand; even at
that awful moment a thrill ran through
me at the taught of standing face to
f aC e with her again.
« lW j nny i” I cried, “come out! make
bas t e j there is not a moment to lose 1”
The door opened as I spoke, aud she
gtood within, ready diessed, even to her
little black hat. The cabin light had
beeil i e f t burning, by the doctor's orders,
and it fell full on me as I stood therein
m y sailor’s jersey and cap. I wondered
jf 8 h e would know me. I forgot the
Banger we were in—forgot that death
W as waiting close at hand—forgot
that the world held anyone but just
ber and me .
“Dick 1”she cried—“Oh, Dick, Dick 1”
and she fell forward in a dead faint on
my shoulder.
All my senses came back then; and I
threw her over my arm and ran for the
,
dock. A great fur-lined cloak had been .
dropped by the door of the ladies’ cabiu.
There was no light, but I stumbled over
it as I ran. I snatched it up ami car
r ied it with me.
Up above, all was in the wildest chaos
the boats over-filled, and pushing off;
the ship settling rapidly, people shout
ing, crying, swearing. One hears tales
0 f calmness and courage often enough at
such times, which makes one’s heart
glow as one reads them; but there was
not much heroism shown in the wreck of
the Antarctic. The captain behaved
splendidly, and so did some of tbe pas
sengers, but the majority of them and
the crew were mad wi'h terror, and lost
their heads altogether.
I saw there was not a chance for the
over crowded boats in that sea, and I '
sprang for the rigging. I was not a
second to soon; a score of others fol
lowed my example, and with my prec
ious burden I should not have had a
chance two minutes later. As it was. I
scrambled to tbe topmast and got a firm
hold there. Winny wa, just coming to
herself. I had wrapped her round like
a baby in the fur cloak, and with ra y
teet hi opened my knife to cut a rope which
hung loose within reach. With this I
lashed her to me. and fastened both
to the top mast. The ship sank grad
ually; she did not keel over, or I should
not be telling the story now; she set
tied down, just her deck above water,
but the great seas washed over it every
second and swept it clean. The boats
ladgonel .b. on
ore*.
loose spars, were picked up afterward
no more. The rigging was pretty full,
<* near ~“"2» me. I felt glad to £i»k £ M
been «“"»**“*“* 1, * < '
‘“o»l»s°-«™b longest nigh, joo
and you will have some idea of that
COVINGTON, GEOEGIA, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 1885.
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night’s length. The cold was awful.
The spray froze on the sheets as it fell,
the yards were slippery with ice. I
stamped on Winny’s feet to keep them
from freezing. Did you notice that I
limp a little? 1 shall walk Drue as long
as I live. Sometimes there was a
splash in the black water below, as some
poor fellow’s stiffened hold relaxed, and
he fell from nis place in the rigging.
There was not a breath of wind, nothing
but the bitter, bitter fog. How long
could we hold out? Where were we?
Would it be by drowning or by freezing?
We asked ourselves these question
again and agaiu, but there was no answer
Death stared us in the face; we seemed
to live ages of agony in every minute—
and yet, will you believe me, that all
seemed little in comparison to the thought
that after all the struggles and the sor
rows, atter all those ten long weary years,
I held my girl in my arms at last!
She had puiled one corner of the
cloak around my neck (I stood on a level
just below her), and her hand lay there
with it—it was the hand that warmed
me more than the cloak—and her cheek
rested against my own.' Often I thought
its coldness was the coldness of death,
and almost exulted in the thought that
we should die together. And then I
would catch the murmur of the prayers
she was uttering for us both, and know
that life was there still, and hope lived,
too.
Well, well! Why should I dwell on
such horrors, except to thauk the Mercy
that brought us through them all? Day
dawned at last; and there was the shore
near by, and soon rockets were fired, and
ropes secured, and one by one the half¬
dead living were drawn from their aw
ful suspension between sky and sea, and
landed safe on shore. They had to take
M inny and me together, just as we were
and even then they had hard work to un
do the clasps of my stiffened arms about
her. I knew nothing then, nor for long
a ^ er ' an ^ M is wonderful that IV inny
^ rs * : recovei \ an d that it was
ske wko milsed me back to life and
lea S °^\
And » now did T I a.sk her to marry me?
Upon my word, now you ask, I don't re¬
member that I ever did. That seemed
utterly unnecessary, somehow. Caste
distinctions look small enough when you
have been staring death in the face for
hours; and words were not much needed
after ,, we , had , , been together , in . the , rigging . .
M "
that ...... night. Somehow „ . _ I was g'aA , , it , was
6 ... ____ . _
cap and j ergey) f or a common sailor, and
yet ] oved the old Dick through it all;
glad she never dreamed I was owner of
i n ^j all c ree £ f a rm, a nd the richest man
in that end of 0uUri and had wea \th
and a position higher tban Mr . Loftugj
the youn g 8quire at home. The people
she was with had all gone down on that
awf(J , ni ht . ahe had no one in (he wor i d
but me. We were married at Montreal
— tbe captain of the Antartie gave her
ftway _ an d then I brought her home to
Indian Creek. To see her face when she
gaw the roc king-chair, and the work
basket and tbe thimble I Heaven bless
her!
There she comes, with her baby on her
shoulder. Come in to dinner, friend,
and you shall see the sweetest wife in the
new country or the old; the girl I won
amid the ocean’s surges .—Bright Days.
How to Get Trade in Summer.
Entering the store of a prosperous city
merchant, yesterday, a gentleman, a
stranger in town, expressed surprise at
the busv scene that greeted him.
H(j inquired of the proprietor how
wag tbftt be wa3 getting more
than his share of business in
t ^ ege dud) midsummer days. The
merchant replied: “I attribute the ex
cellent bu8 i ness I do every summer to
j ugt tw0 tbln g s; First, I advertise bar
- ng and kee p my store before the pub'
^ gecond vfben the public calls 1
gaj .| g j y by kee pi ng m y advertised
prom j gea p cos t me $6,000 to learn
_
tb j 8 lesson, and it has paid me at least
jgg qqo. During three consecutive
gummerg dur ; n g the hard years that
{ 0 jj 0We B 1873 I ran behind in this store
on an average $2,000 every year. 1
made up my mind that there was
negg t0 do and that I would do it. In
j b e middle of the worst and dullest year
that we ha d, when clerks were absent on
thejr vaeationS- and half of the force in
tbe st0 re was id e, I started in and spent
Q ju advertis i n g midsummer bar
g ^ rcmn ants, old stocks, and so on. of
vithia ^ a we ek my store was so full
b ^ j „„ to send for every
^ ^ aw;iv , and t added two
' That instead of a
clerkg . year,
logg of $o, 000 in .the summer, I made
legide „ hat q paid for adver
j have ke nt it up ever since,
^ the m0st exI , en sive lesson I
ever , earned> b ..t it was the most in
gtnictive an d the most remunemtive. U
Itgd to gta n in budness again, as poo,
wag when i gta rted, I would
ake k itaru " 8 ] e to spend at least one hall
hole J papers in advertising in
SjISUxU, wouM not waste it in
, i.
judicioug i v j n the best and high priced
d tment and in the best an I largest
I X r.)
Buinos 1.7 bntte, .uppb.d with
' its
tiii , “lb....... „ thf . r r j (v o;
I
200 . 000 , it bn. «*.>-*»•«
paasenger. annually.
USED UP BANK NOTB,
How Are Disposed »f n, tUo
w When . the ., national . , bank.ofes have
rampe aiout 1 io country mtil they
have become ragged and vagfrond, and
hav^e datron, reached they the bundled lowest dept!, of degre
are up ad sent to
the tieasury department for edemption.
Many millions of these vagants are re
ceived at the department each year.
ey ave to> pass ln icview luough the
T™} those that ,a,lk are utterly rede “P‘ deprand' ion a ^ c and y- good
for nothing are sentenced i» be chewed
p, d those that have got^n through
he force of associatmn, butare still not
It ^ oufTtl I’ T 8 ° me g ° 0dDlay int “ 0t ° ^ b *
conXm P 06 ta,6e \ that ale
condemned A nice, new notet crisp P and
., *
thesennl onn „ , Tke
‘‘a .^enence of
™ Verv no° 1 ^ 1", 6 ’ * D< S * * ‘ some ^ ca8es talC
’
nnel n “ 1 y " J e n .7 UC V n get ‘® 5 *“ ’ lck d to ^ <lie
-
d department. T r . he . average length of time
tnat a new note can keep Ufa respect¬
able appearance is about tiree years.
Some have been found at he end of
twenty years to be as crisp as on the day
of their issue, but these arc exceptional
cases, where they have fallei into the
hands of people who made pits of them
and carefully guarded them from rough
usage. The wandering nob soon be
comes a tramp. It rapidy goes to
pieces if it starts out for the vVcst, stop¬
ping along at the crossroad inns, or if it
frequents drinking saloons and falls in
with low company. Bad habits tell on
a bank note very quickly. Ii is in hard
luck when it falls in with a bloody-fin¬
gered butcher. Some have been known
to become good for nothing under such
circumstances in a few weeks. They are
subject, too, to all sorts of misfortune
by fire and water.
Many thousand get burnt up. Then
their charred and blackened remains are
to the treasury for redemption. One
>ady in the controller s office in this case
has charge of them, and they are sent to
for identification before they can be
redeemed. Her name is Fitzgerald, and
is said to be very expert, seldom fail
ing to identify a note, giving its proper
date and classification, no matter
how bad.}’ burnt it is. Sometimes pack
ages of several bn ad red; d «me up to be
burnt clear through to a black crispy
She then separates them one by
oue with a very thin bladed knife, and
places the charred remains of each one
separately upon a glass slab and exam
ines it very carefully with a magnifying
glass. She is familiar with all peculiari
ties of the issues of the various banks,
and a note must be reduced almost to
ashes to be beyond her recognition,
though to an experienced eye it might not
be distinguished from a piece of grocer’s
paper which had gone through the fire.
All those notes otherwise mutilated go
directly to the redemption agency. The
degree of expert efficiency displayed
tliere is something remarkable. This
branch of the service was organized
about eleven years ago by General Spin
ner. Prior to that there was no syste
matic redemption of the paper currency
as it became too worn for circulation,
and a good many ragamuffin notes were
wandering about the country. The ser_
vice began with about 152 people cm
ployed in counting and assorting the
notes that came in for redemption. Very
nearly the same amount of work is now
done by fifty seven, The counting in
and assorting of the notes requires great
care, and it is only after long experience
that it can be done rapidly. There is an
average of about 150,000,000 notes per
year handled, and they have to be
counted about five hundred times if
there is no hitch in the count, and oft
euer if any mistakes are made.
The force of fifty-seven, all except two
or three of whom are ladies, cun handle
j, ls t half a million notes each day. This
is very expert counting. The notes when
they come to be judged have firgt to be
counted in.” This requires the “coun
ter j n ” to go over them twice, and ghe
must make uo m'.st t - e and pass no court
ter feit, or the loss ihus caused will be
deducted from lie. salary. She is given
f l0m six to ten thousand notes, for which
elie gives a receipt; then she counts them
m; lh ,n she counts them back, and if
the two counts agoee she is given credrt
f ( , r them when she settles up rathe even
lng> turning in the money bound and
, abel ed with her name and amount on
each package. If the packages, or any
0 f them, me found short -he has to make
good the deficiency. Next, the notes
h;m to be assorted, those m good con
dition from those in had condition;
then they have to be grouped as
t o denomination; then d.stnbutea into
bank s of issue, and theni into denoimna
tio n, under the heads of banks. Then
,he, are “counted out.” The counter
fa “' bag to handle them twice and the
"counterout" thrice, but tho former has
the most responsibility, an mus
more expert. The counter-m hand ;s
«,Wt» *” ««'■ J'
*he counter out “fnd'i,, from MOO ,o
mJ'nlL no' L C
mUmken, *Ueh nukes .
1 To do this requires constant attention
I and is a great strain on the nerves, as
each note has to be scrutinized very
, closely to see that it is not counterfeit,
and thc ^ oume r-in” must know
name of every bank that has a
feit upon it> and have in hig mind a ful
description of the false note so as to
able t0 det(3ct it at sight . The superin
tendentsays counterfeit notes are
out b thege ts without besitat
every time they come to thcm . Tlley
bavc a bne 0 f ao tes passing before their
eyes at the ti and anydaw or dc/ect
they notice on the instant.
Two hundred and forty appointments
have been made during * the eleven years
of the ageQCy ’ s exigte ce , and fortv of
the fifty-seven employes now there have
served from the first. A new hand is
doi “g remarkably well if he or she learns
• • months .u to . count five - , hundred , ,
! m six f per
day on the assortment, which is he
easiest, while these old hands will count
thousand a day, if the notes are fairly
good. Women are employed for this
business because of the delicacy of their
touch and on account o{ fact that
i they are not so apt to have bad habits,
or when they do, it is more quickly dis¬
covered than in the case of a man. They
must be young, quick and healthy and
well educated, and their salaries, which
are paid in through the treasury by the
banks, for the three grades of work are
rated at $900, $1,000 and $1,200. The
cashiers and two or three of the counters
are men.
To witness the silence and system in
the office is a remarkable sight; the eye
of the counters cannot for an instant be
taken from the notes, i.nd their fingers
fly through the money like fine machin¬
ery : one greenback following another in
a never ending procession all day long.
It is said that three counters (or counter
esses) see every line of engraving on the
face of a note at a glance as it passes
through their fingers.— Washington Star.
Favorite Dogs.
At this time there are more than 189
Oistinet varieties of the domestic dog,
bld for convenience they are generally
c ] ass ed in six grand groups, wolf-dogs,
g ,eyffounds, spaniels, hounds, mastiffs
and terriers; and each of these classes
ba8 j n turn, and recurringly, too, been
held in exceptional favor. The sheep
dog wag an ear jy favorite, and tho Euro¬
r<?
out the benevolence and kindly intelli
gence Q f Read that characterizes the lat
ter _ 'phese two dogs have respectively
beuu ru [ era 0 f f ;l8 hiou. The great St.
Bernard dog, which occupies a some
wba t uncertain position, first became
p 0 p U i ar a t the time of the crusades,
vvben the devotion and Intelligence of
one in saving the life of a knight who
bad taken him to the Holy Land brought
the whole breed into immense repute,
and these majestic animals have ever
s i nC e been nobiy esteemed, and fre
quently choice specimens have sold for
sums as high as $10,000.
The spaniel was an early English fav
0 rite, and its elegance and beauty as well
a8 its bright intelligence have served to
maintain it a pet with those who prefer
delighting the eye to securing a material
benefit. From the spaniel to the mastiff
was a long step, and yet the fashion
changed very rapidly. The mastiff has
all the courage, while in strength, intel¬
ligence, and mildness of disposition it
excels its near ally, the bull dog. It is
'one of the largest breeds, and is now an
expensive luxury, so that the breed is
more fashionable than popular. Hounds
of the various types had their reign as
the sport for w hich they were particu¬
larly bred was more or less cultivated.
Onlv nobles were permitted to keep the
old English greyhound, aud to kill one
of those animals was a felony punish
a i>le by death. When the restriction
was removed the dog became a universal
demand,
African Sunshine.
African sunshine always appears to me,
with all its great heat, to be a kind of
superior moonlight, judging from its
effects on scenery. “Once or twice in
this book I write of solemn-looking
hills. I can only attribute this apparent
solemnity to the peculiar sunshine. It
deepens the shadows and darkens the
dark-green foliage of the forest, while it
imparts a wan appearance of a cold re
flection of bght to naked slopes and
woodless lull tops. Its effect » ch.ll
austento-an indescribable solemnity a
repellmg are not warmed nnsociabxbty by it; silence Your ^h.es has set Us
seal upon it; before it you become speech
less. Gaze your utmost on the scene
admi« will but it your « you love may is not wom^p needed. ft if Speak you
not of grace or loveliness m connection
with it Serene it m.y be.but « »^
passionless serenity, ft is to be ont -
plated but not to be spoken o, ° r - V '
regard ts fixed upon a voiceless, sphynx
like immobility belonging more to an
I- -
earth. .M n ey.
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,te ,.,d iW iMi
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One oltb. Accomplishments
in U*. in to know -hen to hold on.',
A LORD’S AMERICAN WIFE.
How Lady Randolph Church¬
ill Was Won.
The American Woman who May Yet
Virtually Rule England.
The New York Sun gives some in¬
teresting facts about the wife of Lord
Randolph Churchill, the young En¬
glish conservative leader who has
come into prominence after the fall of
Gladstone. Says the Sun: A few years
ago Miss Jennie Jerome, the second
daughter of Mr. Leonard Jerome, met
Lord Randolph Churchill at a dinner
in Paris. Attracted by her beauty
and the brilliancy of her conversation,
he soon confined his attention to her.
Those who sat near them stopped talk¬
ing and listened to them with undis¬
guised admiration. Miss Jerome was
noted for her conversational powers,
but they had never seemed to her
friends as brilliant as on this occasion.
Lord Randolph, however, proved a
match for her. Her satire was met
with sparkling repartee, and her wit
and humor for once found a fair ex¬
change. When the ladies had with¬
drawn, Lord Randolph turned to a
friend and said enthusiastically:
“That’s the brightest woman I ever
met;” and added, with the seriousness
of a fatalist, “and I mean to marry
her.”
Singularly enough, while he was
saying this, Miss Jerome was making
an almost identical remark concerning
him to one of her sisters. Perhaps
that evening she played her favorite
Chopin nocturne more tenderly and
wooingly than ever; at all events,
Lord Randolph was not slow in dis¬
covering that he had made as deep an
impression on her as she had on him.
Within a fortnight of their first meet¬
ing they were engaged, and very soon
afterward married. By this union
Lord Randolph secured a wife whose
aspiring and ambitious temperament
has spurred him on in his political ca¬
reer, end whose income is suifiei'ent to
form a welcome addition to his small
annuity. Mr. Jerome conveyed to his
daughter before her marriage the val¬
uable property upon which the Uni¬
versity _Club ot this city stands. Lord
Duke of Marlborough. Between his
elder brother, the present Duke, and
himself there has long existed a feel¬
ing of hatred, to which rather than to
his enthusiasm for Liberal cause, the
Duke’s opposition to Lord Randolph
is credited.
That this opposition inspired Lady
Randolph Churchill to take part in her
husband’s canvass, has not surprised
her host of friends here, who know
her to be as plucky as she is accom¬
plished, and who remember that, while
she can play Chopin divinely, she is
also an Intrepid follower of the hounds,
and usually in at the death. Indeed
her friends openly proclaim that a
large share of her husband’s political
success should be credited to her, that
his rise into prominence dates from
the time when she began tocoachhim,
»nd that his brilliant guerilla tactics
ire inspired by her. It is possible
ihat her friends exaggerate the part
the plays in her husband’s political
iffairs, aud that his unpopularity here
leads her American friends to underes¬
timate his ability. Though he is nom¬
inally a Conservative, he is in some re
ipect more democratic in his ideas than
the average Liberal. His views on
she Irish question show strong traces
sf American influence, and his politi¬
cal methods often have a dash of
American pluck in them. His wife,
luring their sojourn in Ireland, won
:he hearts of the people, and it is no
loubt to her that the modification iD
Lord Randolph of the traditional Con¬
servative views on the Irish question
is due. lie is thoroughly progressive,
mother American characteristic. In
these opinions and methods his wife’s
Influence may be traced. She is his
menter, and should Lord Randolph
ever become Premier, her friends say
she would virtually rule England. It
is almost certain that she will some
. . Duchess of Marlborough for the
TnsicZ’lT Marquis of
, '^Duke’s and there i
!>' wiJ goto 8° Lord
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A Shukspearean Enthusiast.
Harry Howard Furness, theenthusi
sst 0 f Philadelphia, has an alcove in
; , lis , ibrary that is almost a shrine,
From it looks down a mask of Shaks
^re’s face, taken secretly from the
bust in the church at Stratford-upon
^ * , as6 is a pair ot
n ,i lets . embroider ed with
** th The, »er, „„„ *
Miakspere during his connection with
the Globe Theatre, and are all well
w#"**** On „l,elf r.,l,a,kull t
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the names of Kean, Macready, Kent
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VOL. XL NO, 40.
Breaking in Car Horses;
“What do car horses cost?” Super¬
intendent Newell of the new Broad¬
way Railroad said in answer to the
reporter’s questions. “That requires
some explanation. The average
cost of the horses, when they are got
in good condition to work in front of
the cars, is close to $225. Say that I
buy a lot of horses at $120 each, the
chances are that not one of them will
be able to do a full day’s work, for a
month or two. You see they are
green, and pulling a car load of people
Isn’t as easy as drawing a light road
wagon. Put a new horse to a car,
and at the end of a full trip he will be
sick. They have to be broken in
slowly, and have to be as careful with
them as if they were children. There
are a lot of them in what I call our
hospital, and when some go out there
are always others to take their places.
Sometimes we get a horse, which
seems at first wholly unable to do car
work. One little black fellow, a year
or so ago, got sick every time he was
put before a car. I didn’t know what
to do with him. 1 drove him for a
while to a light buggy, and afterward
put him to his work gradually. To¬
day he is about the toughest little
horse that we have got on the road.”
“How many horses for each car ?”
“Ten. We make seven trips a day,
and each team makes two trips one
day and one the next, and so on.
This gives them a rest. For one 100
cars at least 1,200 horses are necessa¬
ry, because 20 per cent, are apt to be
sick.”
“How many sets of harness are
needed in running 100 cars?”
Two thousand, and two sots of
harness for each horse.” —New York
Sun.
The Wonders of an Egg.
Every one who eats an egg eats a
sermon and a miracle. Inside of that
smooth, symmetrical, beautiful shell
lurks a question which has been the
Troy town for all the philosophers
and scientists since Adam. Armed
with the engines of war—the micros¬
cope, the scales, the offensive weapons
of chemistry, and reason—they have
probed and weighed and experimented,
aud still the question is unsolved, the
rtti friu urav'aidumta ts edUrpuscu: m
so many molecules of carbon, and nit¬
rogen, and hydrogen, and can persuade
you of the difference between the ac¬
tive and passive albumen, and can
show by wonderfully delicate experi¬
ments what the aldehydes have to do
in the separation of gold from his com¬
plicated solutions; but he can’t tell you
why from one egg comes a "little rid
bin,” and from another a bantam.
You leave your silver spoon an hour
in your egg cup and it is coated with a
compound of sulphur; why is that sul¬
phur there? Wonderful that evolution
should provide for the bones of the fu¬
ture hen. There is phosphorus also
in that little microcosm and the oxy¬
gen of the air passing through the
shell unites with it and the acid dis¬
solves the shell, thus making good
strong bones for the chick and at the
same time thinning the prison waffs.
Chemists know a good deal now about
albumen, and if they cannot tell us
why life differentiates itself therein
and thereby, they can tell you how
not to spoil your breakfast by overdo¬
ing your egg.— W. Matthien Williams.
Chinese Oath.
It a Mongol murder case in San Fran¬
cisco the following oath was adminis¬
tered to each of the Chinese witnesses:
“This is to inform the spirits of the
gods, also the evil spirits and the de¬
mons, all to descend here to hear, over -2
see, and examine into the case of
Wong Ah Foo, charged with murdering
Loi Ah Gow. If I come here to swear
profanely and tell the untruth, or not
according to the facts of the case, j
humbly beg the celestial and terres¬
trial spirits to redress Loi Ah Gow’s
grievance and to punish the false wit
ness immediately and to arrest his
soul. May he die under a sword,
or die on the half-way of the sea, and
have no life to return to China. This
is the true end solemn declaration of
oath sworn by my own mouth ami
signed by my name by my own hand.
Dated this day, second month, in
the eleventh year of Quong Soi.”
It is believed that all who take this
oath will testify truthfully, as the Ce¬
lestials believe that if they should per¬
jure themselves after passing through
the ceremony they will die an everlast¬
ing death, and that the gates of the
Flowery kingdom will be closed upon
them.
He Knew the Resemblance.
“My son,” said a father gravely,
handing the youth some money’, “do
you know why a ten-dollar bill is a
carrier pigeon?”
“Certainly, father,” replied the
vouth, pocketing the money, “It ibes
so fast after it Is once broken .”—New
York Sun.
