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With good or ill, with false or true.
Mathers found that his Italian went bat I Mr - D™fard laughed aloud and then
, * very little wav; and. besides, he had to i sw , c * re ‘ TT ...
i do the work of three clerks. Sometimes I JIr - Hodgson choked and gasped for
he was tempted to regret tliat lie liad left ! hreath - If a shell had burst m the room
his comfortable rooms in Torrington j 11 could not have occasioned more sur-
square. Bloomsbury; I,ut in his calmer P*i*e than Tommy s modest request. If
\ TOE PARTNER.
Mr. Thomas Mathers was only a ledger
dark in the banking clerk of Hodgson,
Dunford & Parr, St. Swithin's lane. Lom
bard street. It was neither a very re
sponsible nor a very lucrative position,
and Tommy (as all his friends called him)
longed, as jierhaps fifty thousand young
men in a similar situation in London are
longing at this moment, for a cliance of
turning his brains to better account than
adding up columns of figures and copying
entries from one big book into another.
The chance did not come, but Toinmv did
not despair; and there was this difference
between him and the great majority of
his fellow prisoners of the desk—he had
the pluck to work away manfully at
whatever he thought might jiossibly some
day help hint to better his position, even
though he could not see exactly how it
was to Ik* done. With this end m view
he got up French. Gcrr.in and Italian,
and he did everything lie could to pick
up information as to the financial circum
stances of the customers of the Link. He
Benqied acquaintance with every clerk
employed by those who had accounts at
the Lin!;, as far as lie possibly could, and
picked up in time an idea, more or less
accurate, as to the commercial status of
most of them.
One day he happened to Ik* at lunch in
his favorite restaurant when an acquaint
ance named Darling came in and sat
down lie-.ide him. After a little casual
conversation Darling asked him lo let
him know of any vacant clerkship ho
might hear of.
“I will, certainly, old fellow,” re
turned Tommy; "but I lioi>e you haven’t
got into a row with Appleton.” (Fred
erick Appleton was Darling's brother-in-
law, and he was also the secretary of the
Mudford and County Chemical company,
in whose counting house young Darling
had a suLu'dinate post.)
"Oh. no, nothing of the kind.” re
turned Darling; anil then lie changed the
subject.
On his way hack to the bank after
lunch, Mathers asked himself why Dar
ling should leave his present situation.
Ho had a capital prospect there—his
brother-in-law lieing the secretary; and
there was no disagreement between him
tiud bus influential relative. Could it lie
that Darling had had a hint from his
brother-in-law that the Chemical com
pany was getting into shallow water, and
that it behooved him lo lx* looking out for
another situation? It seemed more than
likely; and young Mathers determined to
net at once. lie slipped into the bank
parlor that afternoon, hoping to find the
junior partner, Mr. Parr, a good natured
sort of man. who was not likely to snub
him for volunteering information. To
his disappointment, he found only Mr.
Hodgson, a sour tempered old man. who
was struggling into his overcoat, prepara
tory to leaving the office for the day.
"Wen," growled the banker, "what
do you want?”
Tommy was on the jioint of saying that
he had come to speak to JIr. Parr, but in
a moment lie changed his mind.
•*I heard something to-day sir,” he re
plied, "that made in# think that the
Mudford company are not in a very good
"Nothing, sir; only I thought there
was no harm in letting you know.”
"Anything of that kind you can say to
Mr. Parkinson,” answered tire old gen
tleman. as he seized his umbrella and
waddled down the passage.
Tommy felt snublied. but he did not
mind.tluit much. He had done what he
wanted, brought himself under the jier-
gonal notice of one of the partners. If he
had given the hint to Parkinson, the ligad
cashier. Parkinson, not he, would have
had all the credit for it. He retired to
his place-among the other clerks a little
sore at the rebuff, yet not entirely <? : sat-
islieil.
On his way homo JIr. Hodgson remem
bered that the bank held some shares of
the Jludford Chemical company ns se
curity for the balance of the account of
one of their customers who was deemed
rather shaky. Next morning accord
ingly he called Tommy into his room
and questioned liim as to the nature of
his information.
“Perhaps you will excuse my entering
into that, sir,” said Tommy, with the ut
most coolness.
Mr. Hodgson dismissed Mathers to his
work with a dissatisfied grunt and a
wave of his hand, and immediately set
to work to have the shares of the Mud
ford company exchanged for other se
curities.
Tommy, who managed to know most
of what happened at the bank, noted the
fact and rejoiced.
Within six weeks the shareholders of
the Mudford Chemical company met and
resolved to go into liquidation, and.
though JIr. Hodgson did not think it
worth while to thank the junior clerk for
the information he had given, Tommy
was satisfied. He knew that people do
not forget things which save their
pockets.
It happened that, some montlis after
the incident of the Mudford Chemical
company, Messrs. Hodgson had import
ant business to transact in Turin, and it
was thought advisable that the senior
partner should proceed to that city to
look after it. There was some idea, if
the prospect seemed favorable, of start
ing a branch house there. The question
then arose, which of tire clerks should
moments he reflected that at least he was
occupying a different position from that* ma!1< ied to be allowed to help himself
accompany the head of the firm as his „
secretary; and JIr. Hodgson, mindful of sir. saul the young man. coolly,
the service which Mathers had rendered
him, consulted the head cashier on the
propriety of the selection. Parkinson, it
happened, had a favorite of his own. and
Tommy would have lost his opportunity
if he had not remembered that at one
time, wlien he was bent on acquiring
foreign tongues, he had spent his even
ings "for a few montlis over an Italian
^ TT _ . T -J 1^4* fnot
of the rest of his fellow clerks.
The cliief man in Turin, so far as
Hodgson. Dunford & Parr were con
cerned, was a certain Count JIarsoni.
The count's nobility did not prevent his
being the principle member of a large
firm of merchants anil shipowners. To
cultivate this man was. indeed, the cliief
reason of JIr. Hodgson's journey to
Turin; and, as the old lianker knew very
well how to lay aside his crusty and
jiom|iou.s manner when it suited his I took
to do so, he soon came to lie a not unfre-
quent guest at the Villa JIarsoni.
Mr. Hodgson began to see that there
was a very fair opening for an English
hank at Turin, and he was still engaged
in pushing his way here and there, when
he received news that his wife was se
riously ill. This made him hurry off to
England, leaving Mathers L hind him to
complete a transaction which lie had al
ready practically arranged.
Delighted at lieing left to represent the
firm, for ever so short a time, and ever
so formal a matter. JIatliews -was jiacin;
one day down the principal street of the
city with a look of considerable imjiort-
ance on bis face when he met Count Mar
soui. The count stopped and asked after
the old banker, when Tommy proudly
informed him that lie had returned to
England, leaving him in charge of the
affairs of the firm.
“All. indeed! Well, there's a little
matter I wanted to s|>eak of to liim.”
"I shall Ik* happy to serve you, count,’
said Tommy in his very liest Italian
“Well, suppose you (line with us to
night. and we can tali it over after din
ner," returned the count, who thought
he ought to show a little attention to the
lonely Englishman.
Of course the invitation was accepted,
and Tommy had no sooner entered the
drawing room at the Villa JIarsoni than
he lost his heart at cnce, irrevocably and
forever. Jlaria JIarsoni was. indeed,
beautiful mu! vivacious enough to have
turmil the head of a wiser and colder
blooded man than Tommy JIalhers; and
so ready was he to amuse her by Iris
efforts to speak a language that lie jiar-
tially knew tluit lie. won more favor in
the maiden’s eyes than many a more
brilliant talker would have done. Such
an impression, indeed, did the signorina
bright eyes make upon Tommy’s suscep
tible heart that he was barely able to give
due attention to the count, when, after
dinner, ho began lo talk of bills, discount,
mortgages and debentures.
Time went on; JIr. Hodgson did not
turn to Turin, and JIr. JIatbers paid
several visits to the count's residence,
suing away more in love every time,
Meanwhile, by dint of going aliout con
tinually among tbe citizens, the youn;
man was able to send home so gixzl a list
of prospective customers that tile partners
determined to establish n branch office at
Turin. ;md offer young JIatbers a sulior-
ilinate [Hist in it.
Nothing definite, however, had been
fixed, when one day Tommy findini
Jlaria JIarsoni alone when lie called at
the villa, lost his head completely, and
was making love as well as his ini[iorfcct
knowledge of Italian permitted, when
the count, suddenly coining in. caught
liim in the act of kissing his daughter's
hand.
Jlaria fled like a hare disturbed on her
form, and the count advanced with
heavy frown on Ills aristocratic brow.
More as a matter of form than any
thing else, for he knew his case was hope
less. Mathers formally asked the hand
of the signorina in marriage, laying the
blame of his irregular declaration on the
strength of his passion and his ignorance
of Italian etiquette.
The count heard liun to the end, and
then surveyed liim from head to foot
with a look of contempt,
"It is a piece of gross presumption in
you—a mtro clerk, a nobody—to address
iny daughter." said the count at last in
English, with his chin in the air.
“Of course,” sa’d Tommy bitter
stung by the count's look. “If I were a
partner in Hodgson's, though, you would
give me a different answer.
"If you were a partner in Jlessrs.
Eodgson. Dunford & Parr's,” said the
count, with an altered expression, "t’uat
would make a difference of course: but
as 1 do not understand that you have any
prosjicct of entering that firm, I don't see
how that affects you.' ’
Tommy sighed, and made his escape as
soon as possible. lie knew that lie might
as well ask for the lord chancellorship as
ask for a jiartnersliijr in the bank.
For two. days he remained in a state of
collapse ami then he received advices
from London informing him of the do
cision to which the firm had come with
respect to the new branch. A fe
montlis before Mathers would have been
transported with delight at. the proposal
which tlic firm made to him; but now he
considered that lie was getting barely his
due. and. besides, he was so cut up with
respect to the beautiful Jlaria that mere
commercial matters did not possess their
usual interest for him.
Suddenly, as lie sat with the open-let
ter bearing the well known signature lie-
fore him. Tommy conceived an idea.
Without a moment's delay lie called
for liis bill at the hotel, sent a waiter for
a cab and took the first train northward.
He arrived at Victoria early in the morn
ing. went to a hotel, washed ami dressed
himself, and. purjwsely delaying until
the partners should have reached the
office in St. Swithin's lane, he presented
himself before liis employers as they were
engaged in discussing the morning's let
ters.
••Hollo sir." cried Mr. Hodgson, as he
caught sight of the young man. “What
are you doing here? Anything wrong?”
"Nothing is wrong that I know of.
grammar. He contrived to let this fact
be known, and in due time Mr. Parr in
formed his senior partner that “it seemed
that young Mathers knew something of
the language.”
This decided the point. Tommy re
ceived his orders, and in three days more
found himself on board the Dover and
r>laia packet, in charge of a large dis
patch box and Mr. Hodgson's bulky
portmanteaus. The journey was by no
a comfortable one, for the young
man found that he was- expected to
travel second class, and generally act an
oourier to his employer. When at lai*
Turin was reached, things ware no better.
Then why are you here without
leave?” asked the junior partner. ■-Didn't
you get our letter informing you of our
new arrangements?”
I did. JIr. Parr. It is in conse
quence of that letter that I am here.”
Tlfis was said with considerable gravity,
and Tommy helped himself to a chair as
he spoke. *-I am afraid, sir." he contin
ued, --tliat I cannot accept the situation
yon were good enough to offer me at
Turin."
• --Don't, then!” burst out old Mr.
Hodgson, in great wrath at the tone
which the young man was assuming.
“JVe'U find fifty clerks ready to jump at
it—five hundred, for that matter.”
“You forget sir,” said Tommy, re
spectfully but firmly, -that I have been
at Turin for some time. I know the
business there, and what I came here to
propose was ’that I should have a small
share in the firm”—|——
Mr. Parr stared and ejaculated, “What,
■r?”
the sweeper at the next crossing had de-
from the drawers under the counter, it
would not hare seemed so absurd as this
demand of the jtlnior clerk’s.
“Of course, having no capital, I expect
only a very small share in the business.”
continued Tommy; "but you will see that
as Count Jlarsoni's son-in-law”
“Wliat! What? Wh@t do yon say?”
echoed the partners in various inflections.
“-Vs C6unt Marsoni’s son-in-law I
should lie able to influence a large amount
of business, and it would be more fitting
if my name appeared in the name of the
branch firm.”
"Do you mean to say that you are
going to marry that young lady, Count
Jlarsoni's daughter?” said Mr. Hodgson,
with wonder, incredulity, and a tinge of
new bom respect for liis clerk mingling
in his countenance.
“It is as good as settled, sir,” said
Tommy modestly. “Of course this is a
private matter, but it is one that would
naturally be taken into account.” This
was quite evident, and Tommy, having
made his shot, rose, bowed and withdrew.
Before half an hour had passed the firm
had taken their resolution. * The share
which Tommy was given represented
little more tlian a somewhat lilieral salary
but lie was included as a partner in the
branch firm of Hodgson, Dunford, Jla-
thers & Co., of Turin. As soon as the
partnership deed was drawn up and exe
cuted. Tommy returned to Italy, and had
another interview with the count, who,
imagining that he had misconceived the
young man’s true position all along, was
politeness itself. The young partner in
the wealthy house of English bankers
was one who might, without any impro
priety, lie presented to society as his
daughter’s husband. Within throe
montlis the marriage was celebrated.
Tommy had done the trick.—Whitehall
Review.
WHEN ALL THE DAY IS DONE.
When all tbe day is done, then ft Is sweet
To turn thy kmginc sttps upon the way
That wings brave labor to love’s endless day.
There, for thy coming, quickening pulse tnd
lay
Of heart-sung welcome, ringing true alway,
FID an thy home with ministry replete.
When all the day is done, then It is sweet
That loyal love hath drawn thee from the race
And direst trial of thy strength from place.
For then, the world shut out, thy heart can
trace
Its kingdom whole within one blessed face—
Thy wife, thy queen, thy other soul complete!
—Edgar L. Wakeman in The Journalist.
SftCRET OF MIND READING.
How Victoria Wma Named.
Considering the “strained relations”
with Russia which have marked the
whole course of the queen’s reign it is re
markable that her first name. Alexan
drine. should have been conferred upon
her in honor of the then reigning czar,
of whom the Duke of Kent was an ad
mirer, and who was our faithful and
close ally. It was in the Castlereagh
period of our foreign jxilicy. George IV
ras to have contributed another name,
Georgiana. But Georgiana Alexandria
would have deprived the emperor of the
place of precedence, and "Alexandria
Georgiana” would have derogated from
the claims of the name borne by the ac
tual king of England and all liis Hano
verian predecessors. The name of the
queen's mother was therefore substituted'
for that of her uncle. In the commence
ment of the christening of the new- bom
princess she was called Alexandria Vic-
toire. but the second name was speedily
Anglicized or Latinized ito Victoria.
A little before 'William IV’s death
there was some flutter among official
people as to the designation under which
the queen expectant should be proclaimed
and should remain, and Lord Campbell,
then Si John Campbell and attorney gen
eral, represents himself as having decided
tills matter, in conjunction with Charles
Greville and Lord Lyndhurst as represent-
ig the opposition, i favor of the baptis
mal names for the proclamation, leaving it
to the queen to choose af terward the name
miller which she should reign. Among
other absurd suggestions there was one
that she should be styled Elizabeth IL
The assumption apparently was that her
majesty was always to remain a maiden
queen, with jierhaps Lord Melbourne for
her Leicester. Lord John Russell for her
Essex, and Sir John Campbell for her Sir
Francis Bacon! The fates happily have
ithcrwise determined. But it is
curious to think tliat but for chance or
caprice or good sense we might now be
preparing for tbe jubilee, not of Queen
Victoria, but of Queen Alexandrina or
Queen Georgiana—I put Queen Elizabeth
II out of the question.—London World.
A West African Telegyapt.
Amid the throng of canoes that come
crowding around us as usual ajijiear three
or four big aristocratic boats manned by
twenty or thirty natives apiece, and roofed
in amiilslfijis with the awning of brown
matting which jiroclaims them to be the
projK-rty of a chief. One of these black
magnates—a rather good looking young
fellow, with features almost as regular as
those of a Eurojiean—conies on board,
md is presented to us by the somewhat
original title of "David Fine-Country. ”
As the boats circle to and fro there
arises from them a weird, monotonous
music like tile distant beating of. a drum.
This is produced by a kind of rude har
monium formed of thin slats of wood
nailed ujxm a rough framework, and
jilayed with two short sticks. Tlfis
curious contrivance is a telegraph as well
-- a musical instrument, every note lieing
signal unintelligible to outsiders. In
this way two natives can hold a conversa
tion at a considerable distance, and a
negro trader aboard one of the floating
•hulks" can signal to his agents on shore.
The huge wooden drums of the Duaflas,
on the Cameroon? river, are used in a
similar way.—Bonny (West Africa) Cor.
New York Times.
A Boston Editor Thinks He Has Discov
ered It—Hr Experiments.
One of the most attentive spectators at
the recent remarkable mind reading per
formances of Washington Irving Bishop
in this city was Charles H. Jlontague,
city editor of The Globe. Mr. Montague
is a gentleman of fine nervous organiza
tion, and he made up his mind that he
could duplicate JIr. Bishop’s perfonrl-
ances. He at once began practicing JIr.
Bishop's feats, and with such marked
success that on Friday evening he invited
some twenty of his acquaintances to his
room at Hotel Middlesex to test liis pow
ers. Here JIr. Jlontague pilaced himself
in the power of his friends, and under
conditions which rendered collusiom im-
jxissible. He successfully performed
every one of the masterly achievements
with" which JIr. Bishop electrified Bos
ton. A scarf pin was taken from a gen
tleman and placed in a match safe sus-
jiended from the chandelier. JIr. Mon
tague was then brought in from an ad
joining room blindfolded. By taking
the liand of a gentleman, who kept liis
mind intently fixed on the object, Mr.
Jlontague easily found the piin.
Various agents were selected from the
assembly, and with every one JIr. Jlon
tague liad no difficulty in finding the con
cealed objects. When the “unattached
process" was tried, articles were secreted
about the room by various persons, and
by liaving the agent hold his hand about
four inches over JIr. Montague's hand
the latter easily found all the hidden arti-
.cles. JIr. Jlontague then enacted the
mock murder scene exactly as JIr.
Bishop does it. While Montague was
blindfolded in another room a knife was
jiroduced, a piretense made of stabbing a
lady, and the knife was then concealed in
the sleeve of a gentleman. Mr. Jlontague
was then led in, still blindfolded, and by
simply elasjiing the hand of an agent
whose mind was fixed intently on .the
act, he found the knife and repieated the
feint of stabbing. Tlfis operation was
followed by the finding of a sjxiol hidden
in the attic, JIr. Jlontague being con
nected with his agent only by a piece of
wire.
Then the mind reader asked a lady se
lected at random to think intently on the
first note of some piece of music. He
then went to the piano, and, after a mo
ment’s fingering, played the ancient
song, “Go Tell Rhody, ” which the lady
said was correct. While blindfolded JIr.
Montague succeeded in four and one-
half minutes in reproducing a geometrical
figure drawn by a member of the jiartv
while he was absent from the room.
JIasy other far more complicated feats
were successfully performed.
JIr. Montague says he jierforms these
acts through no occult piower, but purely
by natural agency. He blindfolds him
self in order to secure the most jierfect
abstraction of mind. He wants the en
tire outside world, except his subject or
agent, shut out. The subject must fix
his mind intently on the object to be dis
covered, and must give no muscular in
dication whatever. The secret consists
in this: A jierson healthy in body and
mind will go toward an object of which
he is thinking a great deal easier than he
will go away from it. He has been ac
customed ever since birth to do tins. If
he fixes his mind intently on some object
he is bound by the very nature of his
mental and physical organization to go
that way more easily than the oppiosite.
The province of the mind reader is
simply to discover in which direction the
subject wishes to go and to lead him
there. Being blindfolded and having his
mind intently fixed on his subject, the
mind reader observes the slightest indica
tions of volition and by quickness of mo
tion he soon throws his subject off his
guard, and the rest is easy. Various sly
tricks connected with the above described
principle enables the reader to jierform
feats without physical connection almost
as readily as with.—Boston Cor. Phila
delphia Press.
A REFORMED BURGLAR.
His Excellent Wine.
Cliampoireau was dining a few friends.
When dessert was placed on the table all
his guests joined in complimenting liim
on the excellence of liis wine. -And
yet,” cried Jlrne. Chamjioireau. intent
on maintaining the family reputation for
blundering, --do you know we have by
no means given you the best we have?”
—From the French.
A College Paring the War.
Tbe building of the bridge across the Hud
son at Poughkeepsie puts us in mind of the
fact that the project was first broached a
great many years ago by Professor Eastman,
c£ that to»vn. He labored long and bard to
ingthe public to see the advantages to be
derived from such a work, but died before he
had enough supporters to bring his plan to a
head. Eastman made an enormous fortune in
Poughkeepsie with a business college. At the
time of the war he was eking out a living as
the proprietor of a small school. Under
the draft law scholars were exempt from mili
tary service, and Eastman soon found his
school so full that he had to move into more
commodious quarters. The secret of tlffe plan
to evade conscription leaked out, and within
six months Eastman rented, every vacant
room in the town and tilled it with u 8cbolars. r
Illiteracy spread with alarming rapidity, and
middle-aged men who had been considered
fairly educated merchants suddenly forgot
howto read and write or to do their sums,
and found it necessary to attend Professor
Eastman’s business college. The prof ewer
prospered accordingly, and even when the
wardeprived him of his ‘^scholars’ 7 hisbosinea
was finely established.—Chicago Sieve. *
The Greatest Number.
Hume, the historian, found himself one
day at a social dinner next to Lord John
Russell. In the course of conversation
liis lordship said: “What do you con
sider the object of legislation?’’ “The
greatest good to the greatest number,”
was Hume’s answer. “And what do
you consider the greatest number?” con
tinued Lord John Russell. “Number
one, my lord,” was the historian’s prompt
reply.—The Argonaut.
Was Well Acqualvited.
An Oxford university man insisted on
keeping bees. One day a local clerical
dignitary told him plainly that his bees
must be sent away, because a gentleman
commoner liad just been stung. He re
plied instantly: “JIr. Dean, I assure you
you are doing us a great injustice. I
know that bee well. He is not mine at
all but belongs to Mr. Bigg, of Merton.”
—New York Sun.
An Awful Conceit.
It was an awful conceit of one sea
writer that the bodies of the dead that
have been cast overboard along the prin-
cijial routes between America and Eu
rope are now standing erect on the bot
tom of the sea shoulder to shoulder, from
port to port.—New York Sun.
■mr the Chanffe trta Brought About—A
Good K«iolutioD*Tlie Result.
On my discharge from prison I found
the way open to me far fresh offenses
even greater than the one I had com
mitted. My father liad died while I was
still in prison, and my mother liad mar
ried again. I found my former jirison
associate waiting for me in a large city.
We formed a partnership in crime which
lasted nearly seven years, during which
we perpetrated over fifty burglaries. In
none of these were we detected, though
several times we had narrow escapes, and
I was once arrested, charged with an
offense with which I had no connection.
Fortunately for me, the real criminal, a
man of whom I liad no knowltilge, was
discovered, and I was discharged from
custody. Why, then, did I cease being a
burglar and become an honest man? I
had been more than ordinarily successful
in my criminal career, and had, save in
my first crime, committed when I was a
novice in the business, escaped all punish
ment tar my violations of law. This is
how the change came about. One night
as I sat in my well furnished room read
ing the last number of a jiopular maga
zine, something that I jierused set mo to
thinking. It was a story in which oc
curred the expression that in the long run
a man, other things being equal, could
make more by honest than by dishonest
work. I stopped reading and endeavored
to call to mind the amount of my gains.
1 liad no trouble in doing so, being as
sisted by full notes that I had kept in a
cipher of my own designing.
I had never fully contemplated the
matter before, but now, with pen and
paper, I put the whole subject before my
eyes. Not counting my first burglar}-, I
found that my share of all the others
amounted to the sum of about $21,000,
or nearly $3,000 a year. At tliat mo
ment I had as the entire profits of my
profession, the. sum of $210 in cash, to
gether with a fair stock of clothes and a
watch that I had bought, for I was too
slirewd to wear one that I had stolen. I
was not addicted to drinking, gambling,
or other of what I may call small vices,
but my expenses in traveling, in eluding
detections and in feeing certain officers of
the law had been heavy, so that I had
never been able to do much more than
to maintain myself in a way that was
neither luxurious as regarded the body
nor comfortable so far as the mind was
concerned. I was always unsettled and
constantly in fear of arrest. I was
never sure.at night when I went to bed
that I should not before morning lie in
irons and on my way to jirison. Besides
all this, I had had a great deal of hard
physical labor to perform, and was often
obliged to spend hours in all sorts of
cramped and otherwise uncomfortable
positions.
Three thousand dollars a year! Tliat
was all. I knew that I liad the ability
to make much more than that sum at
honest work if I could only get the
honest work to do, and tliat, too, with
out such wear and tear of mind as I had
endured for seven years, to say nothing
of my term of imprisonment.
Tliat night my resolution was taken,
and the next morning I was on my way
to a remote part of the country under the
name that I now bear. With my $200
and $150 more that I obtained from the
sale of my watch, I bought a small busi
ness that was for sale, and became a
citizen of a thriving town. Reading in
duced reflection, and better principles
were develojied in me, and little by little
the idea dawned ujxm me that it was my
duty to make restitution, and I began to
save money with that object in view.
I cannot, without danger of revealing
my identity, give any further particulars
of my life. Suffice it to say that I am
now nearly 60 years of age, that I have
restored over $15,000 of stolen money,
and that I have the rest in safe keeping
ready to give it back as soon as I can
find the lawful owners. I have retired
from business of my own, but I hold a
resjionsible jiosition in a first-class estab
lishment with a salary of over $4,000 a
year, and am, I believe, respected by all
who know me.—New York Star.
THE RATS OF NEW YORK.
A Very Remote Ancestor.
Word comes of the death of the Due de
Levis, head of the oldest family of French
nobility. In his ancestral halls he had
two jiaintings, one representing one of
his ancestors bowing, hat in hand, to the
Virgin JIary, who says to him, “Couvrez-
vous mon cousin!” and the other showing
a more remote ancestor shouting to Noah
as ne entered the ark, "Sauvezles jiajiiers
de la Maison de Levis!”—New York
Tribune.
A Curious Observation.
According to L’Electricien, M. H. Dun-
ville pledges his scientific reputation to
the accuracy of the following observation:
If two glasses of water be placed, one
ujxm the north jiole of a jiowerful mag
net, and the other upon the south jiole,
in four or five minutes the former ac
quires a slight alkaline reaction, while
tliat on the south pole becomes slightly
acid.—Boston Transcript.
Sure Sign.
“Why. my dear, what’s the matter?”
kindly asked a lady of her friend.
“Oh, I feel I’m beginning to look quite
old.” was the mournful reply.
Nonsense! Whatever put such an
idea into your head?”
Because,” was the reply, “I notice
that whenever I cross Breadway the po
licemen never take my arm as they used
to do.”—Judge.
Billions of the Pests nt Work All Over
the City—Property Endangered.
It Is safe to say tliat there is not now a
building iu the city not infested with
Norwegian rats. All the cats and human
rat catchers can at l«st hut destroy an
insignificant projtortion of them. As a
matter of fact, the brown Norwegian rat
is so big and fierce that an ordinary cat
Is no match for liim, and no cat possess
ing the usual instinct oi self-preservation
will beard a cellavfnl of these rodents as
big as himself. Most of the uptown hotels
keep all the way from a dozen to 100 cats
in their cellars, and even this nmnber -is
insufficient to keep their active foes from
penetrating to the rooms, destroying fur
niture and making timid jieople think
that burglars are “a-burgling. ”
The most serious asjiect of the rat ques
tion. however, is. as above stated, that
New York's billion of Norwegian rats
are all the time burrowing lieneath the
foundations of buildings, eating into jiil-
lars and supjiorts and thus actually en
dangering life and, property. And the
more they are driven from the houses
themselves the greater the danger, for
the rats, driven 1 iv ferrets, weasels, jioison
and cats from the living portions of a
house, take to the cellars, the sewers and
the great subterranean world of mold and
filth. Here they are not molested and
here they burrow and mine until more
than one sjilendid edifice is to-day liable
to topple and collajise.
A six story building uptown was a few
months ago condemned as unsafe be-
canse one side of the structure hail dan
gerously settled. When the workmen
who tore down the house reached the
cellar they found it literally paved with
rats, and it took an entire day to drown
them out by the use of a hose anil fire
hydrant. Then it was revealed that the
rats liad so burrowed under the supjiorts
in order to get at a provision warehouse
the other side of the supjKirting wall
that the brick had given way and caused
the wall to fall.
If the streets and sidewalks of New
York could be suddenly removed like a
cover to a box and the underground
world revealed,” said a well-known
builder, “the sight would not only apjial,
but alarm every house owner and
dweller in the city. It is a solid fact
that perhajK a biliion of rats are even-
second of the day and night burrowing
and mining lieneath and around the gas
pijies, the water mains, the sewer mains
and into the very foundations of the
buildings. The fact is liecoming a
serious one, I assure you. to builders, for
we already have to take into considera
tion the ravages of these jiests, and wliat
the result will lie ten years from now is
fearful to contemplate.
I feel safe in asserting that nearly all
the many recent cave-ins of buildings are
due to the hurrowings of rats. Of course
iron buildings are safer in this respect
than woollen ones, but even in iron
structures many wooden sujiiiort.s are
commonly used, and the rats eat away
at them until they are honeycombed,
likely as not thereby endangering the
stability of the structure and consequently
life.”
“How long has this state of things pre
vailed to your knowledge?” was asked.
“Only since the introduction :uid proj>
agation of that Norwegian rat. The old
American black rat. to the cellar bom,
was not destructive of such solid proper
ties as wood and iron, that I know of,”
was the resjxmse.
‘‘■Why, I was in a South street provis
ion warehouse the other day,” he con
tinued, “and hapjieneil to mention the
subject to the proprietor. He told me
tliat rats hail in two days eaten into a
dozen boxes of cheese and lard and bored
holes in two or three rider liarrels. letting
the cider all out into the cellar. The
next day he found about 100 rats dead
drunk on the floor from the effects of the
cider. It might seem incredible to you,
but from my own previous knowledge of
the jienetrating jiowers and the omnivor
ous apjietitc of the Norwegian rat I could
readily believe the statement.”
Professor Jennings said that one of the
most dangerous features of the Norwegian
rat, aside from his projiensity to under
mine buildings, was that his bite was al
ways dangerous and usually fatal.
“I have never yet been bitten by one
of tlie •Norwegians,” said he, “and I
take mighty good care not to be. I have
been bitten by the old black rat thousands
of times, but never with serious results,
and I understand that the bite of the Nor
wegian rodent is almost as certain death
as that cf a cobra.”—New York Journal.
0.1. DOIIGHEITT k CO.,
ATLANTA, GA.
No Introductory Chat with onr friends. There is no apol
ogy to offer for this, cither, because this is a
BUSINESS ADVERTISEMENT!
A\d Don’t You Forget It !
CLOAKS AND WRAPS!
We can openly defy the whole state on these goods. We have an overwhelming
stock and will close them out at wonderfully low prices. Tin winter has only bo-
gim. iiie prophets and the “goose lxme” all predict cold weather ahead. Come
while we can afford to give you timely bargains. Jerseys at very “low cut” prices
—away tindei wliat they were earlier in the season.
KNIT UNDERWEAR!
Here again we arc defiant, because nobody can touch us. Knit Underwear for
Ladies, Children and M in. We do all the business of the town in this line, and
are not afraid of lieing ton lied by factory prices. We have bought out the facto
ries and are underselling them."
LOWER YET.
On Flannels and Pant S'uff. we are ahead of the closest competitors. We have
an immense stock, and everything is down to low rock prices.
A new and extensive stock of handsome holiday goods, something useful and
something to please everybody.
Water Proofs and Repellants
For ladies’ and childrens’ suits. We know we are underselling everybody here,
anil we say it boldly. Cotton Flannels, from 5c to 20c, immense bargains, and you
Will not fail to say s i when you get the goods. New Wool Hosiery. New Wool
-Mittens, for ladies and children. New Silk Mufflers. New Silk Handkerchiefs,
we have them from 25 to 50c, sold last season at from 50 to 75c. New Cotton and
Linen .Handkerchiefs in great variotj', very low.
A Truthful Liitcner.
“Indeed, it hapjieaed in less time than
I take to tell it,” said the lady, who was
considered somewhat of a bore. “Oh, I
haven't the least doubt of that,” replied
her patient and truthful listener.—
Yonkers Statesman.
An Exception.
“Pitch your voice in a low key,” says a
writer on etiquette. We presume eti
quette can be temporarily dispensed with
when trying to wake tbe boys in tbe
morning. —— Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele
graph.
A Ventilating Window Pane.
A' German engineer, named Henkels,
has invented a ventilating window pane
which admits fresh air while preventing
a draught. Each square meter of glam
contains 5,000 holes, which are of a
conical shape, widening toward the in
side. The new device has already been
adopted by many of the German boa-
ptteda.—New Orleans Timee-Democrat.
Blind Creatnreti.
There are 172 ojjecimens of blind crea
tures known to science, including cray
fish. myriapods, etc. They are mostly
white, whether from lack of stimulus of
the light or from bleaching out of the
skin. Some sjiecies have small eyes and
some have not any.—Chicago Times.
Patti’s Beautiful Gifts.
Adelina Patti’s castle in Wales is filled
with the costly and beautiful gifts which
she has received during her career—testi
monials of homage for her matchless
jiowers. They say she has seven solid
silver services—one for each day in the
week.—Cleveland Leader.
The silver mills of Montana represent
an investment of $20,000,000 and mining
machinery as much more.
Tbe Japanese
A tea ship that recently arrived at
Portland, Ore., had on board a very pe
culiar lord, called the Japanese tumbler.
It has a habit of jumfiing from its perch,
turning a somersault and coming down
on the perch all standing; and this trick
it win perform dozens of times in suc
cession, till beholden deem the bird de
mented. It is conMAerabiy larger than
a canary and of rather pretty plunwge,
hot not namh in tbe musical line.—Hew
Otdeans limes-Democrat.
An .Eccentric Millionaire.
Stories are told of jiersons who have
shown their contempt for sujierahounding
wealth by lighting their cigars with hank
notes (jiossibly they took the number
beforehand i: and maniacs have been heard
of who have shod their horses with gold.
Following up these examples in a some
what more extensive fasliion. a St. Peters
burg millionaire has just had the walls
of liis .smoking room adorned with a
sehi tion of the Link notes of the world.
After all. the fantasy may not be so
costly as it looks. Jfost continental coun
tries, as well as America issue hank notes
of very small denominations; and so long
as the more valuable issues were used
bat sparingly it would be jierfectly jiossi-
ble to jiajier the walLs and ceiling of a
fair sized room with bank notes for much
loss than would be needed to be exjiended
u j ion pictures or frescoes.—St. James’
Gazette.
Mixed Sensations.
The scarlet sound of the trumjiet, the
chocolate voice of the contralto, the
Whistler symphonies of color and jier-
fumes in the major and minor modes are
notliing new. hut small Tommy hit ujKin
a transposition from the domain of one
sense into that of another when they gave
him an emulsion of codliver oil, the other
day. “It doesn't taste very liad. does
it?” asked the ring of kinswomen who
had gathered around, adjuring him to
“take it like”—like several sorts of heroic
beings. “No.” said he, trying to renew
the sensation caused by its passage over
liis tongue, “n : no! It taste like a bronze
kid slipjier—with a squeak in it.”—Bos
ton Transcript.
Let everybody blow theirhoms, but’you will make a m'stake’if you fail to come to
us for any of tiiese goods. Blankets from 85i: to $15.00. 10 per cent, low
er than any house in Georgia. Comforts from 50e to $3.50 and $4.00. Now these
are big-values, and we won’t deceive you when you come.
DRESS GOODS.
A fearful reduction in everything we have in the way of Dress Goods.
We have a heavy stock, a superb selection, choice material, and we in
tend to surprise everybody who will come and look at them. New
Evening Silk in great variety. New Silk Cord and Buttons to match
for evening trimming. The handsomest line of Holiday Millinery ev6r
brought- to Atlanta.
Gr
O VES
New Kid Gloves in all colors, 50,65,75, $1 and $1.50. Our $1 Gloves
are guaranteed.
TABLE LiHVEIKTS.
We will save you 25 per cent, on these goods. New Ruchings. New
Collars and Cuffs. Big drives in bleached and unbleached Domestics
Good Prints at 3 and3>£c. Prints at 5c, cheap at 7>^c.
SHOES.
We are ahead of our own purposes in Shoes. We run more men and
have more Shoes and sell more Shoe3 than any house—than any two
houses—in Atlanta. Shoes for everybody and Shoes cheap enough to
open your eyes.
1. 1 WGIBITY & CD.
THOMPSON BROS.
Bedroom, Parlor and Dining Room Fnrnitnro
Big Stock and Low Prices.
PAROR AND CHURCH ORGANS,
WOOD AND METALLIC BURIAL CASESl
eplfi-1*
/^■Orders attended to at any hoar day or night.
THOMPSON BROS Newnan. t*a.
E. VAN WINKLE & CO.
Manufacturers and Dealers in
Wind Mills, Pumps,
Tanks, Etc.,
ALSO
Cotton Gins, Cotton Presses
Oil Mills, Etc,
1 frphrtV"*
The Real English Holly.
The real English holly, with its white
berry, is not to be found in America ex
cept in a few isolated cases in the warm
Carolinas. Another so-called holly, with
a red berry, grows in various parts of the
country.—Boston Journal.
Gjpsnm Plains of New Mexico.
A striking feature and resource at
Dona Ana county, New Mexico, is its
gypsum plains, forty jniies long and
thirty miles wide. The mineral exists in
the form of jujwder, and in places is
“piled in drifts twenty to fifty feet in
height,” and which, from a distance re
sembles banks of snow. It is valuable as
a fertilizer for wheat fields.—Cor. Cleve
land Leader.
CONSTRUCT
Public and Private Water Works, "Railroad Water
Supplies, Steam Pumps, Pipe and Brass Uoodi.
Kend.lor Catalogue and Prices.
E. VAN WINKLE Sr. CO-.
52-13 Box 83, ATLANTA, GA.
g. g. McNamara
NEWNAN MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS.
ISON & McNAMARA.
-DEALERS IN-
MARBLE&GRANITE
MONUMENTS, TOMBS AND HEADSTONES, TAB
LETS, CURBING, ETC.
fV’Special Designs, and Estimates for any desired work, furnished on
application.
HEWHAN, GEORGIA..
