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A FRENCH STORT.
**• Adventure. of ti Japanese Vase and
the Terrible Trouble it Caused.
On New Year's Eve Baron C. took
ont of liis visitiug cards, penciled a few
wonis on it, and put it in an envelope,
-winch he carefully sealed. Tlien lie
went to Boissier’s candy sliop. On liis
way his thoughts ran thus: “Mv Nin
xsh is very fond of candies. She ‘ adores
them. Therefore, besides the diamond
necklace which I have just sent her, I
will buy her some candies. Here is
Boissier's.”
The Baron entered the shop, selected
a costly old Japanese vase, put his card
nt the very bottom as a final surprise,
and had it filled with the best candies.
He left word where it should be sent,
and then retired cpiite contented with
himself.
Two hours later Mile. Ninish was con
versing in her boudoir with a young actor,
Adalbert. Her maid entered with a
Japanese vase in her hands.
“More candies, madame,” she said.
“Mho sends that ?”
“No card, madame.”
“Put it anywhere,” skid Ninish, care
lessly. The youug actor looked at the
■vase.
“What a beautiful vase,” he said.
“If you like it, take it.”
“Well, if yon give it to me as a sou
venir ”
In an hour Adalbert was entering the
room of a singer. •
“Adelaide, I have brought you a sur
prise, some candies,” cried Adalbert,
opening the door.
“Well, leave them here.”
In a few minutes Adalbert left.
“I will give them to Justine,” said
Adelaide.
“Who is talking about me,” cried a
silvery voice.
“Here is my Justine.”
“Ah, what a fine vase!”
“It is for yon."
“Thanks, thanks. I will give it to my
professor, who has promised to arrange
my debut.”
On the next day, the beautiful Justine,
after her music lesson, said to Senor Fa
diezini:
“That is for you.” She handed him
the vase. “My debut shall be soon?
Yes ?"
“Yes, soon.”
Senor Fadiezini went home in aliappv
mood.
“That is just in time,” thought he “I
have no money to buy a gift for my wife.
How glad she will be ! Times are liard,
the lessens pay badly; coal is dear.”
The w ife of Senor Fadiezini, professor
of singing and elocution, formerly basso
canlante of the theatres of Milan and
Turin, was indeed glad. But she was a
practical woman.
“Giuseppe,” she said, “I am sure you
did not buy these candies and the vase.
That would be. madness. Don't reply, I
know you. Somebody gave them to
you. and you have brought them to me.
That is very kind of you. But we must
make a good use of them. Take them
to Mine. Bondnrin, the wife of the Chief
of the Department of Arts, lie may
appoint you as a rehearser to the Acad
emy of Music. ”
“You are right. You always foresee
everything. Put my card on it, but not
t".e one containing the price of lessons.”
Mine. Bomlurin said to her husband:
“Here is a beautiful vase. Please take
it to my mother.”
“But—but I think it would tie better
to give it to the sister of my chief, who
could promote me.”
“You are right, monsieur.”
The sister of the chief of M. Bondurin
asked her brother.
“Have you prepared a present for
Madame the Baroness C.? You have
dhi. and i t ilie Baron's, and it would be
impolite not to send something to the
madame, particularly in view of the fact
that the Baron is a Deputy and an influ
ential member of J&et Left Centre. ”
‘ 'Ah, I had forgotten all about it. I
' will go and buy ”
“It is not necessary. Take this vase
which I have just received from M. Bon
durin, who serves under you as a chief
of department.”
An hour later the Baroncsß C. sent for
her husband. She was pale, and trem
bling with anger. The Japanese vase
stood before her empty. She had emp
tied the candies into a big basket which
was intended for an orphan asylum ol
which she was a patroness. In one hand
she held a visiting card of Baron C.,
whereon was written f
“Happy new year, my Ninish.”
The Baroness sued for divorce. The
Japanese vase figured as evidence in
court, and the Baroness’s lawyer found
it necessary to relate the adventures of
the vase.
A Temperance Town.
For Cadiz has a railroad of its ovm,
says Burdette. It is short, but circuitous,
ail'd belongs to the great Pennsylvania
system. It has a hard road to travel,
but it climbs nimbly around the hill3
and through a beautiful country. Cadiz
was a prosperous and important town
long before the railroad happened. Two
great stage roads crossed at this point
and the town grew up in the flush old
days of the stage driver and freighter,
when the great red wagons rumbled
along to the music of the bells that hung
and jingled, arched about the shoulders
of the horses. Greatly flourished the
tavern in those days, and it may be that
often the horses were no thirstier than
the sooted driver with his black snake
whip slung about him, scarf fashion.
And if it so be his ghost ever comes 1 >ack
in these days, it goes away thirsty as it
came, for a back in the crusade days the
temperance people made short work of
the saloon-keeper. They did not dynamite
him in the night, they did not pester
him with anonymous warnings, but in
open daylight, and without any foolish
ness about it, they bounced him with an
exceeding grand bounce; they fired him
out neck and crop, and dumped his
wares on top of him, and sent him forth
with such celerity and good earnestness
that he never more returned,
j. “ Are you going back to try it again,”
-some one asked him.
“Not much I am not,” replied the
deeply impressed vender of beer, “a
man might as well try to run a powder
mill in hell as a saloon in Cadiz."
He was about right, for they of Cac’b
are a most earnest people.
A Gco<l Opinion.
At a memorial meeting of the Ameri
can Geographical Society, held in New
York city, Chief Justice Dailey said that
he had known Peter Cooper for upward
cl forty years Ultimately, and what im
pressed him most during the long and
familiar acquaintance was the consistent
uniformity of his character. He died
l leaving a fortune of §2,000,000, and gave
laway during his life for benevolent pur
looses, more than §4,000,000. Sir. Cooper
Shad said that he always recognized that
Bthe proper use of money was to do gt and
Bto others, and in these words he had
I furnished his own best epitaph.
Wanted —A Bright Young Man.
A time-honored swindle has been re
vived in New York. Some days ago
there appeared in the columns of a City
paper an advertisement calling for the
services of a bright young man to act as
“traveling salesman and collector,” it '
being particularly stipulated that appli- j
cants should come well recommended and |
ready to furnish good security. An ad
dress in Fourteenth street was appended I
to the notice. Among those who called |
in response to it was a young man of :
good connections and some means. He
found his way into a small but well-fur
islied offiee iu the building indicated,
was greeted with much politeness by a
gentleman of venerable appearance and
the best address. The gentleman in
formed him that he was the advertiser,
that he did a large business in Philadel
phia and other cities near New York,
and that he found it necessary to employ
a young man to make collections in those
places. He stated further that for this
service he would pay a salary of §2O per
week and traviling expenses, and that in
order to protect himself he would be
obliged to ask from the person he em
ployed a cash deposit of S2OO as security.
For this deposit, however, he would give
a “duly executed receipt” and bind him
self to return the money on demand.
All this was stated with so much frank
ness, and the terms seemed so just to
both parties, that the young man, con
gratulating himself upon his good for- !
tune, hurried off to a neighboring sav
ings bank, where he had money to his
credit, drew two hundred dollars, and,
placing it in the hands of liis venerable
employer, received in return “a duly ex
ecuted receipt. ” The next day, “upon
most urgent business,” he was sent to !
Philadelphia with instructions to hire a |
room and wait for further orders. Ten
dollars were given to him for his expen
ses. He is still awaiting orders. He
went to Philadelphia ns directed, waited
for his venerable employer one, two,
three days, a week, and then returned
to New York to find the office iu Four- '
teenth street closed and to let, and tlio
gentlemanly custodian of liis two hun
dred dollars—nowhere. Upon laying
the matter before the police authorities
they were reluctantly obliged to inform
him that under the law his only remedy
was hi a civil suit, and that they were
not authorized to give him any practical
ai.l. Possibly his case may be a warn
ing to other young men wlio-are tempted
to enter the employ of polite and vener
able gentlemen in need of collectors
who can give good reference and secur
ity.
He Had No Home.
The idea that John Howard Payne I
was a victim of nature’s retributive I
justice will probably boa new one to a
majority of readers. Yet it appears to
be sincerely entertained by the Rev. E.
H. Shepherd, of Shepton Mallet, Eng.,
the clergyman at whose suggestion and
through whose efforts, while lie was act
ing as British Chaplain at Tunis, the
stained glass window in memory of
Payne was placed in the English church
there.
In a sermon preached by him recently
in his parish church at Shepton Mallet,
he referred as follows to the dead poet :
* ‘Poor man, it was from the aching void
of his heart that he sang, ‘There’s no
place like home.’ Though he lived in a
‘palace’ he was homeless. Though Via
‘roamed amid pleasures’ he was an un
happy man. Those who knew him well
have told me that in spite of his fine
poetic instincts it was a pain to converse
with him, he was so misanthropic. And
why ? In his youth ho disregarded the
voice of God and Nature. ‘lt is not
good for man to be alone;’ and in his old
age lie found that, left alone, the garden
of Eden is but a barren wilderness to
dwell iu. Having failed to make a liome
for another, by just retributive Nature
ho was deprived of home himself.”
Tiie tavern keeper is constantly in liq
uor, but he frequently knows bettor than
tu act the liquor into him.
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THE LIME-KILN CLUB.
X Lesson In Extravagance with a Sad 111 on*
(ration.
[From the Detroit Free Press. 1
“ Gem’len, I has a painful bit o’ news
to spread befo’ de meetin’,” began the
old man as he motioned to Elder Toots
to put down the alley window. “ Nico
demus Pembroke Scott, a local member
of dis lodge, has crossed into Canady an’
will not reappear among us. Fur de las’
three months I have bin expectin’
sich climax, an’ dis mawnin’, when 3
messenger informed me dat he had disap
peared, arter failin’ in an attempt to
shoot hisself wid an old hoss-pistol, I
war not a bit surprised. He leaves a wife
an two chill’en an’ about fifty creditors.
‘ 4 What sent him off ? De same reasons
dat am daily workin’ to bring abont
anoder panic—de same reasons dat ex
plain de hundreds ob bizness failures—
de same reasons dat am cripplin’ da
efforts of thousands of hard-working
men to secure homes of their own—
fam’ly extravagance. No, you can’t call
it extravagance; foolery am a better
name for it. Up to a y’ar ago Brudder
Scott was jobbin aroun’ an’ makin’ a dol
lar a day. Den he got a situashun by
which he aimed fo’teen dollars per week.
He was poo’ off in de house an’ had
debts hanging ober him, but heah was de
chance to get eben. How was it im
proved ? In less dan one month his wife
was rigged out wid a twenty dollar dress,
twelve shillin’ kids, a five dollar hat an’-
opera fan. He had no peace ob min’
onless he obeyed her. In six weeks she
became too high-toned to wash an’ iron
for udder folkses. In two months she
wanted a better house, wid a red parlor
carpet an’ cane-seat cha’rs all aroun’ de
room. In three months she had to
have a black silk dress, gold bracelets, a
tony bonnet, kid shoes an’ gold fillin’ in
her teeth.
“Dat foolery has reaped its harvest.
De husband found dat he was runnin’ be
hind, his home was bein’ neglected, his
wife was bein’ gossiped about, an’ in de
spair he has picked up his feet an’ slid
out. It was the nateral result. I tell
you, my frens, de tomfoolery of de wom
en of dis kentry am strainin’ on de chalk
line till de cord can’t stand much mo’,
an’ it am high time dat somebody sots
his foot down.
“De man who aims $25 per week has
somehow got de ideah into his head dat
de world expects him to dress his wife as
if he aimed a banker’s profits. Wives of
men who can’t keep up wid deir house
rent am canterin’ up an’ down wid seal
skin sacques an’ six dollar shoes. Wives
of men who have to dodge de butcher an’
grocer an’ tailor am now selectin’ spring
carpets an’ orderin’ $3O lambrequins.
Wives of men who couldn’t raise $5O at
de bank to save deir necks am rushin’ to
balls an’ parties an’ havin’ deir expensive
dresses inscribed fur de benefit of de
public.
“De so called society of de aige am
composed of false hair, false pretenses,
debt-dodging and base deeepshun. Our
rich people am distinguished by deir
plain dress an’ quiet manners. De snides
an’ dudes an’ dodos do all de swaggerin’,
rush on all de colors an’ monopolize de
biggest sheer of de street. You wait!
De man who lives fur anoder ten y’ars
will h’ar sunthin’ drap, an’ arter de drop
takes place de thousands of idiots who
now feel ashamed to admit dat they doan'
keep but two servant gals in de house
will go back to deir cock-stoves an’waslr
tubs an’ take deir proper places in de
purceshun.”
The Growth of Our Manufactures.
The industrial growth of the United
States, as shown by the last census, is an
interesting study. The number of manu
facturing establishments" in 1850 was
123,029. Ten years later they had in
creased to 140,433. In the next decade
the number advanced to 252,148, but be
tween 1870 and 1880 the increase was
hardly noticeable, the number in 1880
being 253,840.
A different rate of increase is shown hr
the amount of capital employed. In
1850 it was $533,245,354, increasing to
$1,009,855,715 in 1860, and doubling
again between 1860 and 1870 to $2,118,-
208,769. Between 1870 and 1880 it in
creased to $2,790,223,506.
The shops and manufactories gave em
ployment in 1850 to 958,079 toilers, who
had increased in number by the year
1860 to 1,311,246, and by 1870 to 2,053,-
996. In the next ten years the increase,
as in the other cases, was slow, for in
1880 the workers numbered only 2,738,-
750, an annual increase for the decade of
less than 69,000. In this army of work
ers there were 181,918 children, 531,753
females over 15 years, and 2,025,278
males over 16, earning a total of $947,-
919,674, or a weekly wage for each man,
woman, or child of about $6.60. In 1850
the wages paid were $236,755,464; in
1860, $378,878,966, and in 1870, 8775,-
£84,343. #.
The materials consumed in manufae
tiwwertrtMuecl in 1880 at $3,394,340,-
TJ29. The products increased from $l,-
019.109,616 in 1850 to $5,369,067,706 iu
1880.
In the payment of wages, all tha
States show an increase excepting Ne
vada, Missouri, and Mississippi, Minne
sota and Texas doubled their annual pay
ment of wages in the last census decade,
and California increased from $21,000,-
OCO to $3B 000,000.
He Was a Gentleman.
Eli Peikins tells of a hotel porter he
met in Louisville, Ky.: I hesitated a
little about handing my portmanteau
to a seedy-looking menial to carry,
when the landlord said:
“Let him carry it, sah; He’s agen’le
man. He’ll take good care of it, sah.
Perfectly safe, sah.”
“Yes,” remarked the landlord, as we
walked up the hi]!, “that man carrying
your bag is a gen’leman, sah. Why, sah,
ho was once worth $200,000 —had fifty
niggers and seven hundred acres of tha
best blue grass land in Kentucky.”
“What became of it, sir?” I asked.
“Drank it all up, sah. Fast horses
and fast women and whisky got away
with it all, sah. And poker had a heap
to do with it, too. That man lost $4,000
and a 2:20 horse in one night. Oh, sah,
he’s got gen’lemanly instincts; he has,
sure’s yer bo’ne. He’s poor and ragged
and dirty, and bloated all over with
whisky—a perfect wreck mentally,
morally and physically, but he’s a gen’le*
man, sah. He won’t steal your carpefc
sag.”
Wanted His Money. —Solomon Fagly
was brought out of his burning house'’
with great difficulty by two brave
at Peru, lnd. He was nearly suffocated,
but, ou regaining consciousness, at
tempted to go back into the house for
>onw money that was iu the garret. Ho
broke away from those who tried to hold
him, and climbed up a ladder into tha
blazing upper story. He never came
out, though he reached the treasure, and
his hands wore fall of coin when his body
was found.