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The Mistress of
Hazelwood.
11; OKIlAi.D CAKLTOX.
CHAPTER VIII—Continued.
“Young yon lighting _ , .. against . ,
man, are
your own interests-yon are darkening
your own prospects, said the banker.
I am sorrj tliufc you tiiiiiK ho, bir
Lundy," replied NV ill. “But I cannot ac
cept vour offer.
Mr. Tnfoil, aHhough I condemn vour
folly in refusing, went on .Sir Bondy, I
am ready still to effect the desired result
m another way V imsh the pictures you
bavo on hand you have son. i time to
spare and I w ill purchase them, or pro
curetheir i eing purchased at a hign price.
"Once more l thank you, but once more
I hi n»t retnse Ol an»weied.
I h.s is sheer eh.ld,shness cried the
banker, losing temper. “As here is no
obl.gat.on m the matter i wil accept no
}' ' 18a i iTVtiiu'niMwl <,
ih.■ „ I.ilbtt posMs’s .'f nrm in:,:,.
W r i„
itfA'a 1 J
in a week’s time, Mr. 'J ryfoil, ou this sub¬
ject. By then I linpo to hive your recon¬
sidered do ision. For tho present let the
subject bo closed.
In due timo they arrived at the railway
station.
“Consider well on what I have been say¬
ing,” Sir Lundy observed, just as the train
came in sight, “and do not rely too much
on remaining at Hazelwood House for a
year. Miss Wentworth is changeable, and
a thousand unexpected events may happen
before tho year is out. For instance," he
added, uneasily, with his eyos fixed on the
approaching train, “my interview with Miss
Bentley last night may lead to a chaugo in
Hazelwood 1 louse, which would possibly
result in your departure from it. I say
possibly, leads because ouo change invariably
to others. I therefore strongly urge
you to accept one of my offers,and to make
yourself a firmer footing in life. ”
It seemed to Will that Sir Bandy was
trying which vainly to drag into Iris words certain
ones would not fall in naturally, and
he was right. Seeing that tho tr.iin was
only a hundred yards from the platform,
tho banker spoke the certain words—the
effect of which was very sudden and some¬
what startling.
“It is likely that Miss Wentworth--Imean
that Miss Bentley may marry before tilt
year is out.”
“Oh, indeed!” said Will. “I hope you
will have a pleasant journey to London,
sir."
“Yes,” said Sir Bandy, takiug no notice of
tho young man’s expressed hope; “it is very
probable “Indeed!” that she will boeome my wife.”
said Will again, not knowing
what else to say under the circumstances.
“Yes," said the bauker.
Two minutes after which “yeB” ho and
his man were journeying to Edinburgh to
change trains for London, while Will Try¬
foil walked back at a brisk pace to Hazel¬
wood House.
So briskly, indeed, did he walk, nnd bo
busily did his late conversation with the
banker set his thoughts to work,that when he
deemed himself half-way to his destination,
he found that ho was moro than half a mile
past it.
when Accordingly arrived ho retraced Hazelwood his House stops, aud
ho at the
hall clock silently intimated to him that the
hour was ton minutes to seven.
dressed He hurried to his room, and quickly
for dinner.
While ho was giving tho lust touch to his
necktie. Miss Bentley knocked at his bed¬
room door.
“Are you there, Mr. Tryfoil?” she in¬
quired.
lie opened it immediately.
“I beg your pardon, ” he said. “I hope I
havo not kept you waiting. 1 have only just
returned from the station.”
walked She put down tier arm stairs through his, and they
the together.
When they reached tho hall, Miss Bent¬
ley laughed lightlv, and said:
“Well?”
“Well—what is the matter, Miss Bentley?"
It had just occurred to Will at that mo¬
ment that he had forgotten something.
“Wlwt is tho matter with your memory,
Mr. Tryfoil?" she asked, playfully.
"Good gracious!” ho exclaimed. “Mr.
Graham—has he arrived?”
“Yes. lie is in the dining-room.”
“And do you like him?"
“You want my opinion, of course?"
YVill bowed.
"No!” she replied. “He is not a gentle¬
man. Ho is dreadfully vulgar, dreadfully
theatrical; though it was very kind of him
to come; but I shall be really more obliged
to him when he has gone. ”
Will instantly thought of that sketch of
Ada’s which he had destroyed in ihe
librarv. should “Perhaps,” he ruminated, "I
not have risked his coming. She
may be struck with the resemblance, as I
was. for the instant. ”
Entering the dining-room, the group anil by
the fireplace, of Mrs. Harcourt, Ada,
Jack Graham, caused them to laugh very
heartily. whole thing eminently
The was so un¬
like Hazelwood House!
Airs. Harcourt had lately purchased some
fine pomegranates, which were placed on a
side-table as curiosities. Jack had pos¬
sessed himself of three of these, and, nftei
the manner of street jugglers, was hurling
them one after another into the air, and
catching them as they fell most dexterio us
ly, only to threw them high into the aii
again. auditors laughing gleefully
His two were
at his efforts.
During dinner the annuity business
which had brought him to Hazelwood
House was in a few words settled; aud on
that subject, at least, it was evident that
Jaek Graham was a valuable authority, lie
advised Mrs. Harcourt to invest her money
for the benefit of her Madras grandson, iu
a way that no one had thought of before:
giving her his reasons, and telling her ex¬
actly what had to be done, and how she
was' to do it; and altogether satisfying hei
on that momentous matter which had puz
ried her brains so much.
His advice was good—clearly, Harcourt cleverly,
and quickly expressed; and Mrs.
resolved to follow it.
YY'hen the ladies had retired, and the two
young men were left alone together, YVill’s
first words were:
“Well, Jaek, how was Emily when you
last saw her?"
“Splendid," replied Jack. “By Jove!
though, I have forgotten something! ’
“YYhat?”
“I had a few lines from her this morn
ing.” Jack answered; "and I was told to
give you a special hand shake on her ac
cox ~\}\ 1 ”' 1 1 ., 0 ' . thakiu- . , 1 U
her said Miff heartily!* Gnhanfls vouf^I out
sketched hand,
Jack.” * *
get it.
"Oh, yon may relv on my not forgetting
it,” said Jack; “besides, " ho added, “l will
see her the day after to-morrow."
Will sighed,’ and Jack grew very ’ thought
ful for a mimite or two.
Ho sat softly whitting a tune, and
cleverly balancing an orange on the blade
upau 1 owu ^
blade with Off
Suddenly he dropped the whistling, the
knife, and the orange, ° and gave his leg "
a vigorous slap.
"By Jove! Will, vou're a lucky dog, e and
no mistake!” be exclaimed.
"Because of Emily’s love?”
Yes. that s one reasou; but—but. by
George! Tryfoil, you have fallen on a
g.onouely soft bed down here!”
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"Jolly!” said Jack. “I should think so.
If it were not for the master—I mean the
rr.i I should say that vou were better
off than you deserve. *
“You don't like Mis? Bentley, then, eh?”
said Will, feeling somewhat disinclined to
speak to Jack about the inmates of the
house, though at a loss at the time to find
any other topic to talk about.
Jack laughed, he facetiously. answered;
“I do not,” "she’s a bogey
to rne, sir. She’s the first person I have met
who has made me feel that she is one toe
mu ny for me. I’ll tell you my notion of her,
Will,” Jack went on; “I think she is a mag
rdficent creature, and I think, too, that O.d
Nick himself, dressed in Lis Sunday c.'othes,
would find it too hard a job to take her in.”
Will Tryfoil smiled.
He woad h ^ e ,ikod t nst lboa tokb *
some one, and he would have preferred that
8om e one to be Mr. Graham,
The idea of vulgar Jack criticising gentle
Miss Bentley in that coarse manner was, to
very r^voltiDC.
“The niece,” pursued Jack, “seems to be
a sweet girl. Awfully foad of her dreadful
uU()t j Hhou , a , ay „
«y eB - Baid Will; "Miss Wentworth is
Te much attached to Miss Bentlev.”
canuot unders tand her,” said Jack, lo
quaciouslv; “she’s verv pretty, lively, and
ingenious, and all that, but—”
“Well?” j
« My ; ea is that 8he - B cracked; aot
ecc6a .
tnc 4 n lo]d £ m j| y j n VOlir letters, old
boy < _ b downright B cracked!”
vm left his ch air and walked to the fire
plaee< not knowing really what to say.
Luckily the t.mepieco struck nine, which
P”| » » l "P to Jack Graham's nucoUed-Ior
jTssusrs you will have to -*:*“<■« say good-by, you say, at
ten, I think it would be only civil now to
join the ladies."
"Very well,” Jack replied, rising from his
chair; “I have no objection, for you are
abominably duJl to-night, old fellow—you
are, really.”
CHAPTER IX.
FATE FINDS THE MAV.
Once in the drawing-room, Jack Gra¬
ham’s loquacity returned.
As the hour of his departure from the
house drew near, Miss Bentley felt more
kindly disposed toward him.
She thanked him with charming grace
for his visit, and for the trouble he had
taken on Mrs. Harcourt’s account.
“No trouble at all. Miss Bentley,” Jack
replied, heartily. “I assure you that I h ive
spent tho time so pleasantly at Hazelwood,
that it more than compensates me for the
journey.” While they
were talking. Ada was seated
ou a low stool at her aunt’s feet. She had
observing, a weary expression on her face, which Jack
said he hoped she was notill, to
which Miss Bentley replied that her niece
had a slight headache.
At this point, Mrs. Harcourt uncon¬
sciously sowed more of the seeds which
were destined to produce such unexpected
results: and in this way:
Standing by tho piano arranging some
music, she happened to come across a se¬
lection .from a certain opera by a French
composer. With her the opera wns a fa¬
vorite one; this led her to ask Jack Graham
if He he knew anything about it.
answered that he did, and began to
hum an air from it forthwith.
Mrs. Harcourt’s next question was wheth¬
er bo knew a certain operetta by tho same
composer.
He replied that he knew it very well.
Could he tell her, then, how (he little comic
duet at the opening of the second act went:
He thought he could—he tried to hum it—
but failed when in the middle of the mel¬
ody.
Jack had a good ear, but ho was no mu¬
sician.
The tune had been bothering Mrs. Har -
court for weeks, and, to appear obliging, he
said he would try and pick up the notes on
the piano.
He tried, accordingly, jesting meaning at
his bad playing.
All this was entertaining to Airs. Har¬
court, but very uninteresting to the others:
particularly and being greatly to Ada, who, hiving a headache,
asleep she fatigued, came nigh fall¬
ing as sat at her aunt’s feet list¬
ening to Graham’s effort.
Jack, striking a false note, laughed pian'c very
loudly, and turned his eyes from the
to where YVill was sitting, ins with a jest re¬
garding The the false note on lips.
jest was never uttered, however. His
eyes foil ou Miss YVentworth’s motiouless
form. For a moment he gazed at her fixed¬
ly, with a pale face and trembling lips.
YVill was tho only one who noted the
change in Jack’s face; and he alone knew
the cause of it.
“Miss YVentwortli!” he said, impulsively.
Ada opened her eyes.
"Yes, Mr. Tryfoil,” she answered.
YY'ill asked her a trivial question, keeping
his eyes, as he asked it, on Graham's face.
He saw Jack start, as though he had just
been awakened from some horrible dream;
and then speaking a few words apologetic
cally to Mrs. Harcourt, Graham left the
piano. Neither Miss Bentley Airs.
nor Harcourt
had noticed this incident—which we may
say began and ended in an instant.
From that moment until that of his de¬
parture, Jack’s boisterous tongue gave way
to inexplicable silence. Previously his
voice had drowned all the others. Now it
was scarcely audible, for when he spoke he
did so in an uncertain whisper.
The singular appearance of Aliss YVent
worth, when in repose, had clearly pro¬
duced a profound impression on him.
It was manifest, too, that he was anxious
to leave Hazelwood House.
The perverted mind of this brilliant
drunkard had grasped a new idea—quick
as the lightning's flash—one of his big,
deep ideas that he was so fond of chuckling
over. But his thoughts were so intense
this time that they got the mastery ovei
him.
TSSSX&St nr f n npSm n c mil, iSX&Si i^ihonon in
at the timepiece. he When it his pointed to t
quarter of ten. rose from chair sud.
denly, and interrupted Miss Bentley, whe
'
was I speukiug.
am always nervous about catching
trains,” he explained, in an embarrassec
manner, tradicted as by though he expected I wouldn to be con
some one, t misi
MiSk'At' Bentley. Tryfoil. SSp£S°S»J
how does a fellow get tc
the station?”
Wiil said he would accompany him.
“Nonsense!” cried Jack, with an awkwarc
laugh. “Yon don't imagine I shall be fright,
ened of the dark roads, do you?”
“Scarcely; I but I think that yon will lose
your way if do not go with yon.”
'A ery well, then! Good-by. Miss Bent
ey. Thanks for your hospitality.”
kit he sh°°tlaads vithMrs. Hofcrart.
o. ow ad\ice about the mves.ment,
f° me duTt'end^^ aCr °u 88 -^
’oilda t remomb'Thow the
He shook hands with Miss Wentworth
ast: but to her lie said nothing.
Jack, followed by Wil 1 , left the drawing
room, and MBs Bentley smiled and ex
daimed:
nan goot ne>s. b
».
!, T vlnn! l 1 l.i
rnH th„ m.-n 'uSfthe i«a *»roimdsintc u
House aud nJ passed craped tin- them!
the road. w-ord
When they w -re in the road the third act
of Jack’s singular behavior commenced.
H* put h s arm through Will's, and ex
claimed:
"Thank God! ^ Iamclearof that place at
, Ias _-'”^ I
j\\ hat is the matter with you?’’Tryfoil
, ... ^ hat j
. „ is
‘
it. Jack? *
’
"Didn’t vou see that girl Miss Went- * '
worth, while I was at the piano_”
“Ah! ah!” Will said, with forced laugh, ‘
a
“I know wh.it you mean now. It is a harm- 1
less "It pbei has om quite non—nothin-more.” anyhow,” j j
Graham. upset me, replied
"Old Nick even could be hood- j
winked by it I never saw any one took sc 1
" °“ £ J
Suddenly he pulled Will s arm.
j hey stopped.
"Did you hear that echo. Tryfoil?”
“Echo be hanged.” said YVilh “ Mis*
Bentley® wine has ben too strong ____ foi
you.’
Bosh!” exclaimed Jack, as they wa’ked
on: "the contents of her cellar would not
upset me. Ion know well how much I can
itau<1 -
“Did you ever have the delirium tremens.
Jack?”
“No!"
. Z°<oZ%v "* jon ” e
“Yes. What wonder?"
“AIncb.” Lis friend answered. “I have
beard you declare over and over again that
vou had seen more horrid sights than anv
living man that nothing had t rrorforyou;
Vet here you are m-n^ditconduciing your
»e.f like a madman, and trembling from
ileeps.” ” • 1
"No; it isn't that," said Jack, with a shiv.
er, "it is not that, upon my honor.”
Again he stopped Will suddenly.
"If sL:” he exclaimed.
Y\ ell, what is the matter?"
Someone is follow,ng its.
° nOU '" h f ° r
,, w roo S 5i Sl houl wewUll£e^ l^^
with another risit a baby car
riageforvou.” *
At thisGraham laughed unnaturally, and
finally Uiey walked on and spoke of "other
things. It was evident to Will, however,
that Jack’s mind was not on what he was
saying. During the conversation he was
continually looking over his shoulder.
After a short time he again stopped.
“I.ethim *H1»frohto, he ,„ii «I
b ft tf.^ alklu ft withany one at my bacs.
s’A”jss
the footsteps approaching, when Jack stop
pedand said: "Let him get in front ns,”
whereas Graham had detected them when
he had said: "Some one is following ns.”
They stood still, filled an Hit their pipes,
so as to give the owner of the approaching
footsteps time to get ahead of them.
The person coming up proved to be a man.
He passed them at a quick but unsteady
and that he was unmistakably clothed in
vatrs.
TO BE CONTINUED.
She Knew Him.
“I’ou know the defendant in this case,
do you?” asked a Kansas lawyer of a
female native of the soil.
“Know which?” she asked.
“The defendant, Jake Lynch.”
“Do I know Jake Lynch?”
“Yes.”
“You want to know if I know Jake
Lynch—well, if that ain’t a good one.
Why, mister, the Lynch family an’-”
“Can’t you say yes or no?”
“Why, Jake [Lynch's mother an’ my
step-dad’s father was once first cousins,
an’-’’
“Then you know him?”
“Who, Jake Lynch ? Me know Jake
Lynch. You’re a stranger in these parts,
ain’t you ?”
“That has nothing to do with the case.
If you know Jake Lynch, say so.”
“If I know him! Lemme tell you
that Jake Lynch’s birthday and my
brother Hiram’s is on the same day, an’
“You know . ,. him, of course, then?” .
“Who—Jake Lynch? Ask Jake if I
know him! Ask him if he was ever in
terdooced to Betty Skelton.”
“I don't care to ask him anything. I
simply want to ask you if Jake Lynch is
known to you personally.”
“Pussonly ? Well, I don’t know what
you mean know by ‘pussonly,’ but if you
want to if / know Jake an’ if he
knows me, I can tell you in mighty few
words. Jake Lynch’s father an’ my
father-”
“Now, I want you to say ‘yes’ or
‘ no >’”
“Tli ought you wan ted me to say if I
knew Jake Lynch.”
“That’s just what I do want.”
“Well, then, lemme alone an’ I’ll tell
you all about it. Jake Lynch was born
in Injeeany an’ I was born iu the same
county an’-”
“And of course you know him ?”
“Who—Jake Lynch ? Do J know
Jake Lynch, when the very horse lie rid
here on was one he traded my man a
pair of young steers for? YYliyq man,
Jake’s wife was Ann Elizy Skiff, an’ her
an’ me is the same age to a day, an’
“That will do, I see that you do know
him.”
“Know him? Know Jake? Why,
man-”
“That will do.”
“Why, I was married on a Chewsday
an’ Jake was married the next day, an’
his oldest boy an’ my oldest girl is most
the same age, an’-”
“That will do.”
Too Near the Stage.
If ever a voune man has a need of all
his fibbing resources it is when he is try
ing to make a cold, cruel and inconsider
ate girl believe that the rear row of seats
in the balcony are just as good, if not
really a little* more desirable, than the
81.50 orchestra seats. As they ' take
their seats he says, cheerily:
“I never like to sit too near the stage,
do you?”
discouraging “Well I don’t 4 know ” she suvs i don't in a
“Of course
like to be too near.”
“No; I don’t either,” says the voting
man a dffiSRj trifle trloomilv “One is more ant X
t„ se e
thin--don’t von think so?”
i_'i_ suppoS e so ” she says in
tone that no girl of any feeling would
eYer use after T her? she lias had 75 cents
squandered ou
“I rather prefer the balcony to any
rmrt of the house,” says the young man
cheerily and falsely.
“The front seats are verv desirable,”
she *
says.
“l*es I like them* and yet do you
know, it alwavs aid makes Lk oSr me*feel a littlo
dizzv to sit the balcony
railing?” *
“Does it?” she asks in a kind of I
know - you - are - fibbing tone. “How
strange’ I like the front row best of 1
aH ”
“I tried to get seats there,” he savs,
“and I had a messenger boy stand* in
line three hours’’—this is a big one—
“but there wasn’t an orchestra or front
balcony seat to be had when he got to
the window. All sold four days ago.”
“How strange!” she says, “they must
have told the boy a storv, for brother
Fred got three splendid orchestra seats
this afternoon.”
“Grot them from speculators, didn’t
says the desperate young man. the
“No; he got them right at box
and he said there were lots left;
if I were vou I’d complain al>out it.”
“I certainly will,” he says earnestly,
he makes a solemn vow that he
‘again will not take that girl to the
as long as he lives.
______.
Mr. W. S. Caine. M. P., of England, who
bas been traveling in Japan, reports that
wi h ^ Fm“™ ion ° f 3 J’ 0 °A° JO f 5un A r /
, - P fhe^drink tea^
fact that there instead
0 f beer, ’ whisky and other intoxicants.
—I--
The Rhode Island State authorities recent
ly poured out on the ground beer, wiue, and
uSSSuS' b ” D
INDIA'S CANALS.
THE MOST EXTENSIVE 1RRIGA
TlO \ WORKS IN TI1E WOKLD.
__
Water From the Himalayan Slopes
Brought to Hundreds of Thou
sands of Fields Along Artiti
cial Conduits-Their Cost.
In an interesting article on India’s big
canal svsteru, Thomas Stevens writes as
follows in the New York Sun ■
Here and there alonu- the Grand Trunk
road its smooth kunkah bed passes over
a substantial brick bridge SSIt spanning a
canal “to’ broad 0 :? eno-h to asrhnnner
in the Pun ab, on the road between 1 a
bore and Amritza. Standing on the
bridge there stretched away into the dis
tance on either hand a broad avenue of
luxurious silenttv vegetation, beneath which
flowed a placid stream wider
the Broadway Straight as an arrow
aqueous avenue made a silvery streak
- Bari ile W° nd mile across the levels of the
doab » the most charming vista im
aginab e. It has been customary to plant
the banks of the canals with trees, and to
encourage the tropical vegetation of In
dia to flourish and sustain the soil Abun
dantly supplied with water with a rich
soil and tropical climate the trees have
grown to magnificent mndf proportions md
manv ^ of thp snnllpr jteajlv
are
overarched Ik™ bv the vegetation so that tlm
bave looked along these tunnels where
the “masonry of trees'’was so compact
that very little sunlight reached the
water. A chastened twilight prevailed
even at noon and to look down the
vista and see half a mile or i milosts-w
a string 6 of dusty * boatmen sculling "i ni.i theiV
. f , a
a
dual purpose of holding the banks firm
and preventing the wholesale e vapor a
tion which would otherwise take place
Up to the present time there has been
nearly $10J,000 000 spent, on iw, AnK n n]
system of India And this sum
represents the amount spent on the main "
works English constrnrtf'd companies^ i™ Ik. rw,- old' n . t
canalsfof or The mGvo
which there were a good many
iSlS^lo^SiTd^ in ouasi-existence and whirh®™ rvfmr.
the new ones are not included nfmilot in°thfs
estimate. Nor are the thou-ands
of small distributing canals of which
the big canals are the feeders’ bv’theonmn for these
were in the most cases dug
ized efforts of the cultivators them ufv es ii
No country in the world is VVP
adapted by soil climate and nbvsP.ni
geography to reap the best sSas results India Horn
irrigating canals on a lame «ii?,“
i*l0Din<r Vast level nlaim r2n?n-nVoVfr i 0 : u
P IlinSLvi ffentWover Inrl the 1 ’ 1 f I m
i the vector nm.«\,nn m ° U v^"' -
chains ha In no- n
1 redemption J bnrnbiiMai?, at the hands of i' T
wei ual^ 'rabffa w t kipped ^ be
scant thoui v ann h‘il I di y a ?
it had f al iu, 1 e a on hot iron, and
tj” ° . . 1 , results
“ ine t l “?. ica r ® °l the - afforded Others
“ monsoons,
pas uie anti cultivation in ordinary
seasons, put with a season of drought
5\ ftDU ' bvuuue tbat swept away millions of
; llv 3
I l ae caiial3 . have put quite .
! a new face
on the matter. Ihe magic transforma
tion brought about by the distribution
of water m£cinde, where the annual
rainfallTrbrrt nine inches, a mere baga
e e f° vhat the sun-blistered earth
, something
requires, is marvellous. Along
every ramification of the canal system
one can see a ^ r i n gf e of gieen fields,
immediately t , beyond which is the baked
and sterile plain on which there is not
even a blade of grass. Just as far as the
■water from the ditch extends there the
sod revels in a wealth of intense green,
yieldmg crop after crop almost as far as
they line can be sown and reaped. But the
between that which is irrigated and
that winch is not is as sharply-defined as
| though it were an affair of paint aud
canvas.
„„ hole , districts ... have
complete change. The undergone a
city of Jacol abad stands now thriving
which, to the on a plain,
previous construction of
the Begari canal, was a verdureless
waste, the hottest place in all India,
and supposed to be quite uninhabita
ble. The thermometer climbs up to 145
degrees in the shade at Jacobabad, but
since the canal put life into the desert,
several thousand people have made the
place their home.
With this tremendous heat, rich soil,
and plenty of water, vegetation grows
with extraordinary rapidity. The plain,
formerly barren, smooth, and shiny as a
P av * e ment, is now very much of a forest,
aloicftC 15 actually under the plough,
Sp rUD § Uke I,U1Siro °T
^ „ nf i fi^ the ^hole i face , ’ da of , t& the G roves country abound is as >
I d ^ ereut ^ hat Jt was thirty years
“Sf a. a^ht from day A Ho wonderful
transformation that an old Hcindi
1 J ho ca me home after an aosence of many
years and found a dense forest where he
kad Dever before seen even a blade of
*»» th. Sahib, must be
Gods in human guise. Henceforth the
° ld Scipdi insisted on prostrating him
, se “ as be t ore an idol, whenever he saw
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-_ mm,
Fimiieia! Aeiimnn
*
A . man, who has a deposit in a
fsjTed ,
jjj 1, Casn. a sing, S do iar of his
don t bother with nothing less
,, $°* 1/you
it, but want $5 you can have
nothin-less.”
“But it is printed in the pass-book
tbat sutns of $1 and upward 1 will be re
ceired deposit.'’
“I es; but that’s a different thin-. You
can deposit less th $5.” °
m
d ' be y°un- man was thoughtful for a
moment havi . and then he said • “Well let
me $5 in one-doilar bills ’ The
money was gracefully flipped out to him.
He Rut one of the bills into his pocket
a Imnded the remaining four back
with . the remark, that he wished to de
posit the money.
The bank man reached for his sword
cane, and was inclined to be indignant,
but when his wrath faded into a smile he
said they’d have to send out a fire alarm
and amend the rules.- Chicago Tribune,
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Yankee Girls 1 a« Whittier^ B nittlers.
An A interesting . specialty worked
was
Into . the programme of a literary enter
tainment in a Western Maine town re
cently. It was a bung-whittling con
test by the ladies. Each of the fair con
testants was gi en a square piece of
wood from which to shape a bung to fit
a large stone jug. Prizes were given for
the best and poorest specimens, and all
these pleasing literary productions were
then £old at auction. It is said that
some of them resembled spring poems,
that two or three weie bloody enough to
pass for dime novels, and that one bun
would actually CmZrrM keep the molasses in the
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A Russian Hallway Station.
Tlie following description of a railway
station in the Ural Mountains is taken
from George Kcnuan’s account of histrip
across the Russian frontier, in the Ccn
he read with surprise and
peculiar interest by many in America, the
railway country: "We were greatly sur
prised to find in this wild mining region
of the Ural, and on the very remotest
of European Russia, a railroad
o°;; d
t
"\ Mch wc ,' vere tra vellng from Perm to
Lkatenneburg. best The stations were the
very we had seen m Russia; the
road * bed was solid and wel1 ballasted;
the rol.ing stock would not have suffered
1B comparison with that of the best lines
in the empire; and the whole lalroad
rr ty ■: emeJ to •«*•* *•,—*
feet possible order. , In usual attention
evidently had been paid to the oraamen.
\ at,on the g r ° undi A'"o ad J acent t0
tbe stations and the trues. Even the ,
vor<t ;posts were set in neatly fitted
mosai « three or four feet in diameter of
colnred 1 ral stoues - The station of
Nizhni Ta S ik on thc Asiatic sl<*>e of the
mountains, where we stopped half an
Jf highest u . r J°. degree r dinner, creditable would to have the been best raiB the
r ° ad ™ tbe l mted States 1 he sub
stantial station bunding which was a
hundred f e tov more m length, with a
covered platform , twenty feet wide ex
tending along the whole front,was ta*te
fully painted in shades of brown and had
a red sheet-iron roof. It stood in the
ark of » garden, ^ »«•««>Pa»ne.l
P or whose
iTe iu .*«• '«*«.
^ °/ ^ v^f ^ ° ^ Gr
‘ aded , b 7 ; t li b e fcatheiy e foliage nl of f
g»ceful windin f white-stemmed birches; whose
S walkg were bordered by neatly
trimmed hedges; and whose air was
filled with the perfume of wild roses and
^ he m l lrmurin S P lash of falling water
from the slender jet of a sparkling "station fonn
tain. The dining-room of the
dark ^metrical patterns, wood, a lngh dado of
carved walls covered with
oak *S nun P a P er - and a stucco cornice iu
re a !' long ef ' dinmg-table, 3 P 0wn the center beautifully of the rooin set with van
tasteful china, snowy napkins, h ghglass
e P er " ,,es ’ and c, T stal candelabra, and
ornamented cedar with potted plants, little
trees in " reei1 tubs ’ bouquets of
CU t fl ° w ® r s * ar ; istic Py r f mids pohslmd
wine-bottles, - 1 druggists’ jars of colored
water, and an aquarium full of fish,
P lants aud artlficial rock WOrk -
chairs around the table were of dark
hard wood elaborately turned and carved;
at ° ne end ot the room was a costly
clock aa lar g e 83 a » American jeweler’s
“regulator,” and at the other end stood
a huge bronzed oven by which the apart
nia nt was warmed in winter. The wait
era were al1 in evenin S dress ’ with low *
Cut waistcoat3 ' s P otless shirt-fronts, aud
"wtute ties: and the cooks, who filled the
iters’ orders as in an English grill
room, were dressed from head''to foot in
white linen and wore square white caps.
Ifc is not an exf| ggerat:on to say that this
was on « of the neatest, most tastefully
furnished, and most attractive public
dining-rooms that I ever entered in any
pa rt of the world• and as I sat there eat
i n „ a well-cooked and well-served din
ner of ^ our courses i found it utterly
impossible to realize that I was Nizhni in the
minino- settlement of
TasgiJ, on the Asiatic side of the moun
tains of thc Ural. This, however vva^
our last o-iimpse of civilized luxury for
many io tv , W earv mouths and after
that dav wm did not see a rail wav station
for almost a year ” *
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iYnrlrt’« Bnl<1 « nn nlv
. Probably nine-tenths . of all ., the , gold .
ob amec by man has been taken
from placer deposits, and our American
ex P en< mce lias been no exception to the
& en ma ru e, remarked an experienced
mining operator in speaking of the past
ai ‘d future pf this valuaole product the
Previous to 184 < our
nnrfnfn 1°^i ^ctmn amounted to $12,
n dm! 11 and
’ ®’i
about . * $l, <o0,000,000 nnn contributed ._
were
*° our 8t ° ck of S ( d d - tbi8 > nearly
\ . fr placer deposits.
1S came run
obtained more than ^ ff), -
L ), petjannum in gold from the placers
of Galifornia, and almost nothing from
gold-bearing veins. No\v, with an an
nua L production ot $80,00),000 about
one-half only is from placets. Our own
te rrltl) ry has been so thoroughly ex
p ered that no considerable superficial
deposits of gold are like.y to be dis
covered, and nearly the same thing can
De ®am of tne entire world.
I* tbe northern extension _ of
1 our
wes ^? rn mountain ranges in British Col
n mt) ia and A aska there are probably
“ n P ort ant deposits ot gold. It is likely,
dowexer, to (ome tiom this region in a
P^ate ^^ing but onhol^mi perennial stream, and acl not
of the cold transnortTn- g Ion- wfntTrs sunnlies ms and on the d mru ^
cultv in Unless
^ tli ; minesslmuld iirove beTdearth ' Cher thari ex- fn
ted li t W mav "e it Allelhefv of
$ r futu this^ the country" be't
j” mountains in ut’ there are
,§ denoaits C P°" of y°: ookl 1 l thev th.) are a c
difficult , to work*. l, industry . and
Mi
® ut ’ ’ 0 00 ’ 000 a^ear but no more littll The
a 101 . f *-OUtn c on th iimenca America viehL ) ieias nuie
1 .umoia, Venezuela Venezuela end ana ivrazii Brazil nave, have
on tne contrary, estimated always been producers
or gold. It than is that from Brazil goid
alone more $1,000,Out),000 in
SS p! “
and Venezuela are nSw yielding
. . .? 4 . ,. n „ „ , n ,
Jj ’ J 1 '
‘ n o re tb au this , can v be expected - in . the ..
luture.
Australia produces about $’->0,000,000
a J ear and we cannot h°pc f° r more
than $5,000,000 annually from Asia
I ba t will cover it al . I don t fear that
you and I will ever suffer from a famine
gold, but unless the North American
de P oslts are ric her than is expected
one will suffer .-Mail and Expros.
“
Reclaiming . . the Desert. .
Mr. Arey, an energetic capitalist, has
one of the largest vineyards in the world
on the line of the Southern Pacific Rail
road at Maricopa station. The land ex
tends along the line of the road from
Maricopa station east for a di-tance of
one mile on both sides of the roadbed
and contains about 3000 acres of splendid
Mr. Arey’s company has erected
lar " S e steam pumping works which will
rai the necessary water to irrigate this
princely tract. The well is some forty
and 14 by 20 feet in dimeu- ‘
feet deep will supply abundance of
sions, and an
water for all purposes. In connexion
with the premise* a large reservoir has
been constructed, whuh will store about
2,000,000 gallons of water for emergen
eies. The land has been cleared off and
ploughed, and the w ork of putting out
the vine; will be-in at once. A reporter
was informed that a twenty-foot strip of
alfalfa will surround the entire vineyard
for the purpose of protecting the grapes
from the numerous jack rabbits which
*nfest that heretofore uncultivated re- i
gioo. Loa r v « iX if; oy.v.
() 1) I) 0( V UV. ( T llill P \ TI IY 0 -iA \ O. S
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SOME UNCOMMON* BUT LTCUA
TIVE CALLINGS IN* CHICAGO
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. locks
~ at ” <■
- } '” s cast-Off Garments
_ “ l rivate Barber's
Handsome Income.
* ^**.
JJj-y » ‘J " orcign “at ™ to you us say Americans to Nicola don't Boraska it ?
nnvmg made his living at that calling
toi >e.euteen years—at least at that and
* hUle tinkering and clock repairing,
'j 0 • tie w a Bohemian, but speaks
German and all the various Austrian
,n vrj*n-v
the Bohemian district on North
tlobey stree - I housan.is of foreigners
’ l h “ frol '\ the
, i k ' C V r family . clocks. Many
1 '
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these are quaint ad affairs standing
the full height ot the rooms, while others
am minute time keepere 4rewed to the
" a ls and provided with loose pendulums
bur '^t long These are regard
* d ll g‘ ea th ?
'' r f; " u!d think of
^ ‘J, ^ f* had for ^‘. any r C ° con- cks
''ouml by a inofes-ioual emck-w „ nder in
tne om country and they like to keep up
g°°"< old custom At home, as
they call across the sea, the clock-winder
18 peHMtart T ulte !l visit privileged person, and his
is oi,e„ lookjd fonvant
1 ^ b v tb e housewife with genuine
.
ffrr "and H< b each* ,ak - es . thc fib''he ^
niomw r new \ rec*fives '
^inas him up tighter , , than He ..
ctei.
U P the housewite s clock and tells
her the latest scandal in the neighboring
t0 'J n - ^ he gives him a mite of money and
a lew points on her neighbors. Of
C0UIse . Mr. Boraska is much more dis
creet than this, lie keeps on good terms
H i o lIi. .I aiska has h.s hands
the ot clock-wmdnig and repairing, and
ancient European clocks in their
lram e f, al1 tick m un,80 n - \ l °
has followed . this . business ever since . the
great fire and has taken care of a large
thc income thus derived.
What do you do witn your old
clothes?” asked a sharp-eyed little
^^Xon^abuneTavenue a Galumet avenue. ^ 6 Wlth
‘Why, I don’t know,” replied the
adj S01 ? e T hat f ak ®? aback ' S 1 ™
some of them to . the housemaid and
c °o ] “
I will make you a cash offer for all
the cast-off clothes you have at any time,
saul the other in a business-like tone,
Have you any now? Ihe lady of the
house led the way to her closets and pro
du f dam ™ be 1 ’ f dresses which had
their . best days their
emier seen in ong
mat shape, or which had been made over
and were again slightly passs. (she had
often heard of cast-off clothing shops,
but had always regarded them with
®' 011 - 15ut tbls seemed very deficient,
Here a woman came into the noudoirand
purchased the garments for cash.
cially was nothing repulsive about that, espe
the cash, and it was not long be
fore three party dresses that otherwise
would have gone to Bettie the maid or
Johanna the cook, had passed into the
possession of (he sharp eyed stranger,
Following them went two pairs of satin
slippers, underclothing, two pairs of shoes, a fan, some
and several hats. In ex
change the lady received $5.50. It came
very opnortunely, for the lady was, as
many ladies besides her are, very short
of pocket-money. And what did the
littlewoman do with her purchases? They
w r ere bundled up by the reluctant house
ma j(j an d taken to the
waiting outside. Into this stepped
^ jjttle woman to be driven to a neat
s hop on a street crossing Archer avenue
not far from State. Once there an assist
aat too j { t } ie g00t i s anc f separated them,
The shoes and slippers were given to a
shoemaker in a side room, the bonnets
W ent to the millinery room, the dresses
to the dressmaking department, etc.
The dresses were taken apart, the pieces
Borte( j ont( anc ] a } ieac j dre-smaker de
cided ou t j le j r disposition. There were
80me excellent breadths of silk and satin
and several yards of embroidery as good
ag new> Q ut 0 f t p e t i u . cc „ own3 two
new tl re3Sea W ere constructed. One of
them was a garment that the original
owner might have been proud to wear,
The other was a plainer dress, but still
exceedingly neat. It fiad to have some
new stuf j interpolated into it. These
dresses were then exposed for sale in thtf
front windows. The better one was
marked “$15,” and it was well worth it,
an( j the second was labeled “$8,” and was
a bargain at that figure. In less than
two weeks both costumes were bought at
those prices, and the shoes, slippers,
fangj aa d hats had undergone similar
transformations that equally improved
* -'l h ® m tl<i ; ( h ? foo T . t ( \ W( 1 tl ;f r e J fr :is ? mes sold a^wly Pnvately, vara
T an< tU " trira - mm « and lowers
bn f htened ? p - werc d ) '«P osed « f a! most
fs fast as they were displayed It w U
be Se °, n that the H ttle wo,nan had mar ^ m
en0,1 S h to P : D* fair wages to her cm
pi 0 y es a nd , have considerable left for
ca b hire after that.
"'ha. do you say to . barber with an
inc . ,ome of $8°0 a month? Anu without
a shop at that ' ^ et that iS what WiIU
iam yyhelan, an expert barber in this
ci '- t ' «** ,m h " «. began several
yea rs ago to carve out a private trade for
hiraself He was an excellent workman
j n a down town shop, aid had a very
nice line of customers who were per
<7*1 ^ SeS® * ***
mg Billy suave them. He was an in
telli-ent man, a splendid barber, discretion and a
ra pid workman, and had the
to allow his customers to do all the
talking themselves. Gradually lie per
f e - : tcd his scheme, and before anyone
eIse kne w what he was about he had
thirty customers at $10 a month on his
Th s s included such people as the
Fj e !ds, the Pullmans, the Pecks, the
Kings, and others. I-*or the sum of $10
he visited the privat 3 residences, shaved
the man of the house in his own particu
Iar way, doctored up h s pimples, and
groomed calculated his hair in baldness, the manner hist
to forfend or. if it
were already approaching, to disguise it.
For that amount he also took charge of
the gentleman’s children, kept their hair I
at the proper length, and dressed my
lady’s head whenever occasion required
it. It keeps him busy, but it pays.
Chicago 7 ones. ;
Marriage of - Tnn Two Midgets.
A notable wedding occurred at Liver
more, Ky.. some weeks ago. Mf. G. A.
Al-ood, of Owensboro, Ky., who is only
four feet in height, was married to Miss I
Minnie Dewitt, of Livia, Ky., who is ■
several inches shorter in stature. Mr.
Al-ood is one of the substantial men of
the county, and has J^een At-sessor of
Davies County for twelve years past,
M ss Dewitt is twenty-three years of age
and is a beauty in miniature. Her
many accomplishments have rendered
her a rare favorite in society, in which
she has filled a conspicuous place. A
grand W reception has beea given Mr. «id
Algood.
Cooking Utensils in Mexico.
The C{H)k j ng stove of tbe Mexicans was
a model of cheapness and simplicity,
says a letter in the Pittsburg Dispatch.
It consisted of an earthen jar or pot, iu
which was placed charcoal, their univer
sal fuel. Upon this was placed the pot
or j ar tlu , y CJO ked in, ot either iron or
earthenware, containing the articles to
be cooked. Fresh meat can be kept in
its natural state in that climate only for
und dried or “jerked,” as we term it, in
thesmi. Thus prepared it will keep for
an indefinite length of time. In its ap
pearauce it is similar to our dried beef
but to an American taste is rather insipid,
or , to speak more clearly, leatherv. The
meat in *•-*•»S&s.’aX; sufficient quantity is placed in
To this is added the native chile pepper,
the extreme pungency of which to the
uncultivated taste takes away the breath,
our best cavcnne pepper being as mild as
lemonade in comparison. But it scorns
mild enough to these children of
and thev relish it highly. hearer
Each family, and I speak of t
classes, have their mill by which is pro
parcd the meal-corn-^>f which their
, bread is made, when required, and this
is» pattern of that described in Bibli.al
h lsU,l T- It consists of a slab of stone,
about , two feet square, made smooth on
one side and slightly concave from outer
edge to center. This is elevated upon
stout stone pegs to an angle of about
flue^rainrf forty-five deuces So*, hbolit A ,Z piece of hard
ten. th »„d
size of an ordinary .h/iiS rolling pin in modern
i»
't' tl '°„ ciltb f llrnis hcs the “upper mill
stone, as it-were. 1 lie corn to becon
verted into meal is first soaked in water,
-The earthen jar containing this is placed
alongside of the mill, the female whe
supplies the motive power rolls up hei
sleeves, if she is so encumbered, kneels
; ! down in front of the slab and jSr £iw?« taking a
handful o com out ofthe
the slab, and then, with a graceful up
and down movement, reduces it with
the stone rolling-pin to a paste.
When this is ground fine enough it is
taken between the hands and made into
thin cakes known as tortillas, and these
are cooked upon a piece of sheet iron
placed upon the fire. This apparatus,
we learn, was the same in general re
peCt S ^ ! hat uscd by the Wheat
- raised . to and have
mills is some extent, it,’but the'one they
for preparing I
have described is the mill of the poor,
The goatskin, pitched inaide, also de
scribedintheBible.wefoundinfre
quent use as receptacles of water, milk
and the fiery mescal, aquardiente, and
that most potent of all Mexican infoxi
cants, pulque. The filled goatskin is
slung over the shoulder with a broad
strap, and (he end of one of the forelegs
tied with a thong is used as a spigot to
draw off the contents. It takes one
some time to get accustomed to the
pitchy taste of the contents of these
primitive vessels, yet it was rather a
j novel experience to take a drink out ol
one of them,
Seeds ' Worth S100 ' nu Ounce ounce.
Few persons have any notion of the
fact that 99 per cent, of all the flower
seeds sold in this country come from
abroad. More than half of these are
grown in Germany, where vast tracts are
devoted solely to this purpose. Travel
er s say that these huge farms, with acres
upon acres of aste s, chrysanthemums,
mignonettes, in b sweet pease and so on, all
Imagine oom, whole are an district, astonishing sight.
a many square
miles in extent, all one coatinuous gar
den. The gathering of the seeds on these
plantations is a labor requiring infinite
‘Skill and patience. Each blossom must
individually receive the most careful at
tention. T’ake, for instance, thc pansy,
Gn each little plant no more than two or
three flowers must he always kept in pro
ca9s °f going to sees, which is tobere
moved from the bush when it is ripe
and before it has an opportunity to scat
ter itself. Manure-water must bo con
stantly applied, to make the little
tba “johnny-jump-ups” the grow bigger—for
t is way, you know, in which the
monstrous produced—and pansies one seed in hot-houses
are taken with the crossing great pains must be
obtain the best of breeds, so as
to possible results. (So
it is also with other flowers. The seeds,
once harvested, are bought up by con
tractors and forwarded in bulk to the
wholesale dealers of Europe, who send
them, by the ounce or pound, to this
country. The merchants here do
them up in small packages, marked with
their own stamps, and in this manner
they reach the public on this side of the
water. Home of them are enormously ex
pensive. The writer bought, last season,
a microscopic quantity of some pansy
seed which cost at the rete of $75 per
ounce. But they were well worth the
money. I he flowers which sprang from
them were vegetable butterflies, count
feding those gorgeous insects not
m the brilliancy of their varied
but even in the shape and the
™ arkin S 8 of win g- 1,k @ P^a’r
I uch seeds , of the ,
8 ; a finest quality bring*
$100 an ounce, and others—such as
those of the gloxinia, cluneraria, coleus
»n.l echeveria-fetch yet higher price,,
equal to many tunes thoir weight m gold,
A f, ew are 80 ^ ablab,e t }iat tb ey have act*
ua <ly , be counted out at so much gardener, ap :ece.
There is a small number of i„
the l mted Htates who make a business
of growing select strains of certain rare
plants for the market; but the supply
derived from these sources is consider
A Family of Five Living in a Tree.
One of the queerest residences among
the many oddities of the modern taste
can be found on the great Kanawha rivei
bl ^ eat \ irginia, not mo:e than five oi
six miles above the confluence of that
stream with the Ohio. The residence
referred to is a monster sycamore tree,
which doubtless was a monarch in a giant
forest when Cornstalk and his warriors
contested with the pa'e face for su
premacy in that beautiful valley, and
perhaps cast a grateful shade under which
'-" c chieftain when weaned with the
chase or conflict often reclined. This
monster tree is now hollow from its cen
to within a few inches of its outer
surface. So large is the open space that
a family ponsisting of two men, a woman
and two children have taken up their
abode within its rgeesses. ’
iney live, eat and sleep in _ it, _ and to
a11 a l>pearance3 are as happy a$ many
owners of brownstone fronts in large
Cities. “Yes, we are pretty well satis
fied with pur Quarters,” one of the men
replied iq answer to a query. “Tha
♦tdiord qever threatens us with a writ
of ejectment because we don't pay the
font; we never have any repairs to make;
the house never needs painting; the tax
gatherer never bothers us, and then we
never have the bother of moving. Taken
altogether, we think we’re better off
than a great many people.”
AL Pascal, who for many years has been
noted because of his intimacy with Prince
his Napoleon, was rich, but rather that spend
money he fired a bullet into his head.