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ROUND ABOUT GOTHAM.
THB LATEST GOriSlP OP TBB BIG
UETHO-OLIS.
Ccnfus'.on Among the rut o!tu Tm
pors.ng Kou-es-Mr. Withers’ First
Fit of An ;er—lncrease of Tornado s
A New Cee for Hectricitjr-Men
V.' ho Like to Help Struggling Touths.
< Coi/l/right.)
Niw York, Sot. L—lndications are not
wanting at present to convince the most
skeptical that toe majority of the importing
bouses engaged in the fine cut g.ass trade
will have to go to the wall be fare many
mouths have pas ed. The McKinley bill
has virtually cl sed all outlets for tneir
go di. Two of the most prominent firms
in Bare ay st-ee: have determined to wind
up tneir bus.ness on Jan. 1, and
their example will be followed
by others. The importers of
B emian and Vienneae glass were slow to
realize taat the section of the McK. day bill
affec-ung t.jeir wares would paw wih ut
amendment. Tneir criers to foreign houses
t'.i.sciuni the effect of the new tariff were,
thereto e, c mparatively small und toe
Americau manufacturers now threaten to
reap a r.cn harvest from their overs,gbt.
Co.Terences have already bee 1 held iy
representatives of t e Pennsylvania fac
tories wit., their agents in New York, and n
gradual advance in price has been greed
upon to keep pace w.th the depletio i ,f
the stek of foreign goods. The
ntanufac.urers of druggist,’ sipplies
are to take the initiative, and
w en the p e-nt plan of action is ca-ned
out in e.l i:s detail, f .reign ltnnoris will be
virtually abandoned. (Jnarles A. Tatum
of Whit-ball. Tatum & Cos., talking upon
the subject the other day, said: ‘'The idea
is to mark up the pries l per cent, every
thirty days, beginning with the cheaper
grade of goods. Up to Oct. 1 there was an
apparent pr fit to the importer of 5 per
cent., if cneap freight was secured. In
otner word-, tne importer c mid undersell
the American manufacturer 5 per cent, in
the same I.net of cut glass; but the sug
gest! >n has been in ide, and will probably
be carr.ed out, to reduce that margin to
less than 1 per coot.
HR. WITHERS’ ANGER.
D. D. Withers, the well known breeder
and owner of thoroughbreds, is one of the
most imperturbable me i vho frequent a
race track. He never sends any money
i to the ling and only races his horses for
glory. At ihe same time he is very much
ebag ined wn- u anything goes wrong, but
he was never known to ve t his disap.oint
ment upon any one in bis employ until toe
ot er day, w hen Jockey Simms got a severe
raking over from the sage of Brookdale. It
appear- that Mr. Withers had a filly en
tered in a two-year-old stake on one of
the last days of tho Morris Park meet
ing. He bad come all the way that
morning from Long Branch to .ee the
you igate’s performance. With a power
fu. fie.d .lass be wab-hed the start, and
altnough bis representative was no: espe
cially fav red sne got off well in the ruck.
The contestants had not run a hundred
ya de, however, before tne filly got p cfc
eteo. With a feeling of dtsg ist he 'owered
his field glass and allowed his neigbb ir to
describe the race to him. It turned out
that t e youngster was pocketed no less
than fur times and then finished third.
You g Simms was sum coned before the
Bo.ge of Brookdale and given a severe lec
tii ‘6.
‘•How was it, Simmsr said Mr. Withers.
“I was pocketed,” replied the jockey.
“Of course; 1 know that,” ejaculated his
employer, “andev n four t mss at that.”
*Beg y.ur ardon, sir; only three.” re
spoi.de t Hirnuis, “for after I saw 1 had no
c ance to win 1 pul,i and up the filly, and
what you took for a either octet was only
my ki td ess to the ani ual."
‘ Zounds, b iy,” roared Mr. Withers, “I
came from Brookdale t >see rny h' rses win
and n>t to have them petted; you are dis
charged.”
Young Bimms will never ride another
r oe for Mr. Withers, but the latter’s ill
lucu has stuck to him and he has since sold
the fitly that cause 1 him t * lose his temper
for the first ime in his life.
THE INCREASE IN TORN ADOES.
Lieut. John P. Finley of the signal ser
vice has just compiled a statement regard
ing he increase in tornadoes in America
during tne 1 ist seventeen years. While in
1810 ttiere were only nine, the number has
iuerva el annually, the year 1886 being
e; edited with 280. Since that time there
has been a gradual decrease m the
numbe-, only f rty-two having been re
corded in 1889. So far 1890 has a clean
record. Toe lieutenant estimates that in
1819 over $89,000,000 wgrth of proport) was
destroyed by the*) tornadoes aud 200 lives
lost.
A novelist’s appetite.
Julian Hawthorne, in a sketch published
last Burnley entitled. “Some of New York’s
Buh-s .riaco Seelies,” wiiich, by the way,
has attracted a great deal of comment, paid
an old score waich he hns long laid up
a-aiust one of his bast friends. In tne
sketch lie drew a character of a man of
mystery—just such a nmn as one would
suppose Jahk the Ripper to be—and
christened him Charlie Nortbran. Tue
identity of the c::arac,er will b q litecou
cealo t.even in the name. The m m whose oen
caricatuie was drawn is Charles Sotheran,
n well-kucwn literateur and a cou in of tne
Sotherar.s of Lo don. the well-known and
wealthy publishers. Hawthorne has been
itching for a chance to get back at Botbera i
for many months Bothei an exposed some
f Ins friends weak points at a dinner party
lust winter, and this is the first opportunity
the author has had of getting his revenge.
Hawthorne has a mo t marvelous arra ge
ment in the place where ordinary
mortals have their stomachs. His
appetite is s >mething entirely
unique and abnormal. Sotheran
f uud this out and exposed it. One day
last winter Hawthorne. Sotheran, ad sev
eral frit-nds met in ihe cafe in the casement
of the Washington budding at (501 Broad
way. Tbei purpose was t, take a driuk.
Hawthorne lo ked about and discovered on
one of the t hies an en vinous pie. It v,as
three ti nes ihe usu <1 rize of pies. Haw
thorne ordered It, and ate it bet a een drinks
like a c mm u man would a bit of free
lunch. Sotheran watched him with wide
open eyes. Teu days later the two frien Is
were ata dinner par-y at a large restaurant
in Lafayette place. As they passed upstairs
to the banquet loom Hawthorne observed
two large pieces of strawberry short-cake
op a lunch counter.
,- H Id up a minute. Sotberan,” he cried.
•"I want these.” He ate both pieces of short
cake, and taeu passed in to the banquet
tao.e, whe. e he did full justice to the viands.
Sothe a mad-- a little speech after the
dinner, and in the course of it said he did
not know whether he would survive his
friend, Julian Hawthorne, but if he did he
should insist on an autopsy being made
after his ueath, and should ask his friends
to c intribute to a fund to send his stomach
abroad, where it mignt be thoroughly ex
amined, a,d if necessary presented as a
natural curiosity.
A NEW USE FOR ELECTRICITY.
Electricity has been put to many uses of
late year , b t ihe very late t application
of tbi unseen but miguty power is novel
inde and For the past year Dr. Blair of the
city b< spilal has been experimenting wi h
the tel. phone, and has finally e unpleted
connecao s between too w ird/and tiie re
oeption oom, s> ihat - isit .rs ca i converse
with sick friends whose nervous co nii
tio i or affliiti n with a conta
gious dime renders close approach
inadvisable. At the heal of eich
earu cot L u receiver and in the receptiu
room a cor. e<po ding muciator an 1 a
switch- oard fitted with plugs aud straps.
Tuis board contains the names of ihe pa
tients, an 1 the attendant simply places the
Jdug Into th h le uude-tfhe name w icn toe
Ineud desires t coinmqlicate with the pa
tient. it nas been founcjto work with great
success and will toon be adopted by the
other Hospitals. \Y,,tie at the r-oenc me acal
e egress in Berlin, the doctor lute iel
with i.,tere-t to the ex ended disc s ions
on the asaistan"e rend red by electricity in
surgical ojerau >ns S.nce he ,be bis ex
perimented to some extent, and recently re
moved a stoue fr >m t • oali-r of one of
• bis patients by an aDplicati aof this fl aid
through r. wet sponge. He is very tang line
about tbe good re Uitsobta.ua' 1- i , ci-es of
spinal d.-eese by this means, but as yet has
not experimented.
A BENEFICENT FAD.
The nomination of Francis M. Sritt as
candidate for mayor of New York by the
I factions opD sed to Tammany hall Sjgg- s s
that t. ousaij i- of men who are now hold
ing high positions w old t-day be boned
in obscurity but for the generost.y of
wealthy benefactors. A number of well
known millio aire s an known to have a
hobby for p. using no deserving young men
who are bad yin nee 1 of a . elping hand,
and caring for the youths as if they were of
their own fl-sh ad blood.
Mr. Sc ,tt is one of these fortunate young
men. He bad tue good lucx to meet witn
ex-Mayor VYiuiam R. Grace, the many
tim-i milli >naire. Mr. Scott was ihe.i
striving to bud 1 up a law practice and ex
perts cl ng hard li es. The ex-inayor soon
discove.el teat tho young man only 1 eked
( pportunlty to make his mark in the
word. He immeiiateiy took hold of Mr.
Scott, gave hi.n a grea deal of law bu-i
--ness. and, after he i.ad tecome proepe cus
through the inlluanoe of the ex-mayor,
be was given a nandsoma position in the
office' f t e corpo.au n counsel. In this
position he soon dem n-tr.te-i that his
beoelactor had not misj i lged him. Then
Mr. Grace had aim appointed an aqu duct
commivsioner, an ofti e wmcb ne still holds.
Again, through tne same influence, he has
been selected to head ihe oppos cioa to Tam
mv'j Hi L He is al ealy o onfortably well
off in a financial way and owns a nice
home.
Another man who has made a big stir in
the metr pons owes nearly ever/t ling to
Mr. Grace, m tne same way that Mr. Scott
doe--. Ho h Will am M. Ivins, w.,0 nas a
wide reputation a< the couas-l to ■ the Fas
sett co.nm ttee, which has beau i .vest'gat
ing the Tammany officials. Ivins held a
small cle kshlp over in Brooklyn whoa he
came under the eye of Mr.’Grace, 'ho
saw that the young man as possessed
of fine intellectual endowments, and t iat all
he needed a a little hoist to go to t e head
of tne procession. Ivins was taken into the
ex-inayo. • office and rapidly prom ted.
Wniie thus engaged be was enabled to lake
a thorough course in the law. v\ hen Mr.
Grace became mayor for ta- sec ,nd time
Ivins was ap-minted city cuamb“r,ain,
which commands t e bands ,me salary of
$25,000 per year.
There are a number of other men, while
not m iking as great a aucee-s as the two
prut Ages of the ex-mayor already me i
tioned, who recei ve*l first-clasa education at
the expense of Mr. Grac\
State Senator J. Si a r'ass tt, who many
think will land in the United States Senate
at the expi atioi of William M. Evarts’
term, is a mther man who tares a great de
light in picking up bright young lads who
arepoira id givi g ham a go 4 start in
life. 1 am told by pe pie who live in
Elmira, the home of the senator, that -here
i probably not another mi i in tne country
of his me .ns wuo does more to aid des- rv
ing young men. Three lads graduited in
collegiate courses las. year by ai i of the
senator’s generosity. Senator Fassett had
some hard knocks himself w,ien a lad, but
became rich through his marriage to Miss
Crocker, the daughter of the California
millionaire.
Chauncey AL Depew devotes a good por
tion of his income every yeir iri aiding
poor you ig me i in securing g od educa
tions and a s art in life. Three or four
scholars receive Yale College diplo mas
every year at Mr. Depew’s ex
pense. One of these Mr. Depew
never saw until he made the offer to send
the lad to college. He met the b,y during
a visit *o Wasuiiigton. Tue b >y, wh a was
but 16 years of age, was employed upon a
newspaper and received an alignment to
interview the distinguish 'd N-w Yorker.
The youth did the job r markably well, for
Air. Depew sent for lm and co.igru umted
him. The youug reporter was a high
school graduate and far enough advanced
in knowledge to outer upou a collegiate
cjune.
“You have good stuff in you, mysoti,”
said Mr. Depew, ai.d it would be u shame
not to complete your educatio
The boy said his pa: ems cou and ill afford
to send him to college and bei g a se f-. eli
ant youngstT he prefe red to make his < .wn
wa Mr. Daps wsaid that he was pe fee.ly
willing to take the risk of the boy bei g in
a position someday where he wouid be
abundantly able to r pay him, and insisted
that hi youi g fiend should lake a course
at Yale at iis expense.
In a conversation the other night with
Senator Geor :e Hearst of Calif r ,ia, who
e joys one of the argtst incl ines of any
man iu the country, he said that the know
ledge of having a de l poo; boys to rise in
the world gave hi u tho greatest pleasure in
life by *e sous of his great weiltu. The
senator’s great racing stable is a g urce of
great pleasure to him, but that plea-ure was
not near so tunsta .Ual os the otLer just
meutioio L I have been told
by old western friend of the
senator that no man in his section ,with the
cxcep.i in of his c 'lletigue, Be >ator Stan
ford, had and me more for young men than
Uncle George Hearst, as his friends delight
ii calling him. Be ator Hearst is very to and
of the society of young men, aud he has
often been known to leave a company of
wise and venerable senators to pass his lime
with young folks. M st of the senator’s
mines, ra .ches aud other large interests in
the west are managed by men who were
picked up as poor boys and given a
good education aud a business start. When
the so lator comes to New York f r recrea
ti m be usually tel -graphs to three or four
of his proteges to come and join him ii
having a good time. One of them wh m I e is
uai'ticnla ly attached t>is a u:phe of Jim
Keene. The lad was just ready f>r co lege
when his uncle mot with financial disaster.
The boy bod had his heart set upon gradu
ating fr m Harvard. He seemed doomed
to disappointment, when Senator Hearst
heard of his case and se it him through col
lege. Now he has t e management of the
great Hearst ranc ' in Texas.
Congressman Roswell P. Flower is
nn the. one who has been a great bene
factor to poor ycuug men. I k ,ow at
least half ad za i who are in highly
prosperous circum tances who owe both
their success and education to this
big-hearted congressman. Daniel L.
Gibbo s, who died a few months
ag ~ was a good illustration of what
Mr. Flower has done in this line. Gib
bons was a poor tutor when Mr.
Flower’s attention was attracted toward
him. The millionaire quickly discovered
that the poor tutor posses-ed fine intellectual
trails, and he aid and him in securing an ex
oelleut legal education. Afterwards Mr.
Gibbous was one of the subway commission
ers of this city, and at the time of his
unexpected death he gave promise of
becoming one of the great men ot the Em
pire State.
A GIBUS TEHRIBL 0 EXPHKIENC B
Thrown Before an Express Train Alter
Frustrating an Assault.
from the Philadelphia Press.
Chicago, Oct. 37. —Pretty Frances Du
chalk, aged 17 years, had a terrible evpa i
ence yesterday. At 0 o’clock, while c ming
borne from churcn, aecompa ued by her
youmrer sister, she was seized by an un
known man at the corner of Wright aid
Seve ity-nintn st eecs and thro ve violently
to the ground. The girl successfully res.s ed
him and, with the aid of her sister, strug
gled to her feet.
The assault happened near the railroad
track, and tue fell. , mad lened at Deing
frustrate 1 in his desig i, sized tue girl aud
th.ew h r on the track just as an express
tram came thu dering along. H r yo neer
sister pulie i her almost from u der the
.'heels and saved her lile. ihe p lice we e
notified, but the unknown villain made
good his escape.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1890—TWELVE PAGE'S.
LITTLE OLLIK HE ODER.
TdUCaiNG ETO3T OF A TEN'NKS-
S3- GI3~.
Eow She Struggled to Support Her
Trill ng Paml.y aid Hep Herael'
and How it All Ended S x cres of
Southern boll in a Young City
3rlngs Her a Little Fortune-3er
Eappy Marriage.
Harrimav, Tenn., Nov. I— Whet I rode
up onto Emory Heights, overlooking
! this place, the early twilight was almost
i upon me, bat I could see. In softened out
line, the curves of the beautiful Emory
1 winding below me, the rolling h.IL b-yond,
and the mountains, silent, watchful, and
j slumberous purple ranged aruund, w bile in
1 the middle ground peeped out the roofs of
i Harriman itself.
When I was here some two years ago, the
| only beacon that lit me to the valley wjs the
i c .eerful beam from a single farmhouse—
the Jacks n homastead, which was after
ward my stopping plate. Now, as the dusk
deepened, the 7-months-oid city began to
wink with electric lights.
Phebe was “bora and raised” far up the
mountains, and is hopelessly rustic and
cou .try bred, never baviagfseen more t an
a dozen houses together in her life, and re
garding a group of ten [leoi.le as no less
than a riot. She loosed with pat oic dis
may at this appalling and u natural illumi
nation. If the skie-i had not ral.en. piainly
the moon and a large number of the s.a s
had; ad she later objected strenu jusly to
goi g down among tne planets.
I went to a real, sure-enough hotel, where
I felt very wayworn a 4 dilapidated, and I
put Phebe in a genuine livery s able,
where, sofarfrom sharing my diffidence,
she ate her uat- and took her rubbing wi h
a contemptuously indifferent air, waich a
struggling pirveuue would have envied,
and was as saucy and arr ga it as p sibl-:
with the sleek city bred horses auit ng warn
she found herself.
One of the members of the Ja-'k-son house
hold iu wnom I bad come to feel a warm,
aim .31 tender hue rear, during my previous
visit was Oimads la—Ollie f r snort—a girl
of about 15, a pleasant, round faced, lit le
thing, with big blue eyes and a sort of co i
fl ling, boyish manner, entirely different
from the stolid iumpis or u tamao e
s .ynesi of the ordinary Tennessee crac er.
Bhe 'as the little maid of aii Work, tne
only “nelp” in the bouse, very faithful and
efficient help too; and, withal, the jolliest
little soul iu the world, wnich f ct, in the
face of her story as told by Mrs. Jackson,
was to rae particularly touching.
Her parents were of the common poor
country people, a little better tnan the or
dinary white trasn, thougn neither of tueiu
cou and read -r wrue. Tnere was, of course, a
big family, one girl older than Oiiie and
younger children ad libitum, tue house
never being without a po >r little dirty
baby that bad to be carried by its mother
out into tne field and laid unde, a res cr
hedge, while she hoed or dug pota oes, or
tended corn, for this was the only kind of
work iu whicu Mrs. Hadder was skil.ed.
The old man was trifling and worth! s. be
yond expression; he occasionally and and a l.ttle
tinkering work, or a little peJdluig of
cuickens, eges and butter for some farmer.
Tbeo.de6t. girl, Lometa, famiha ly L >iny,
was a fine-looking,good-natured crea ure, m
aooeara..cea 4 di-position muc i like her
fatner. She usually did such po>r cooking
as was and >e, ad worked beside her m nher
in the field, when they could get a day’s work
to do.
Her people were not, I suppose, absolutely
cruel . r unki id to Ollie, as they regarded
it; but, like nearly all of their sort, when
they found that she was -mart ad capable
a id could earn good wage , they regarded
her as a valuable work-anioiai, and her
earrings as their rightful due.
When she had bee i with Air.-:. Jackson
two or three mouths, they having received
ra II sums along as their ueels demanded,
they came and applied .or every cant due
her up to dale, and as much more as her
employer was willing to advance. They
wore in high feather. Lomry was going to
be married ti an idle, worthless fellow, a
vicious, disreputable scamp, a sort of neigii
b >rhood scourge, whom no decent giri
the. eabout, however poor and bumule,
w ould have spoken to. Oiiie knew what a
scoundrel the fellow was, and tuat nothing
but misery for all concerned could result
from su -b a marriage, but she could do
nothing ii the matter, and dutifully hauded
out the money. Tawdry finery was bought,
and egg', butter and sugar procured, from
w ich the expec ant bride constructed
Cukes. They went into the oven f. eight a 1
with fond hopes and deadly possi ilities,
raised like a pre-ideut al boom, but col
lapsed as entirely as the suns i an off year,
and came out a sallow, sad, giuey sub
stance that to any civiliz 4 anatomy would
have only b ten less deadly than weli di
rected bullets.
They had their wedding; they gorged
t hemsclves on these and similar dai .ties mi l
lived, because they were poor ad wretched,
and had nothing to hope for, aud the wor.d
did not need them.
Wuen the last baby was born they sent
again for .dl of Ollie’s money with which
to buy fool, clothing and provisions, and
O.lie give all willingly. Her ki id litt.e
heart was eipocially tender aud pitiful to
tue poor little ones.
With all a young creature’s love for
p etty things, she yet deuied herself every
. hing but the coarsest, commonest clothi g,
always saving, saving; hoping to get
enough together to do some permanent
go d—to lift the miserable family out of
their slough of poverty.
1 well remember one day I was sitting in
my own room talking to Mrs. Jackson,
when Ollie sud lenly burst in, with her
mouth already opeu to deliver s me start
ling news, bit sue stopped abrup.ly, with
her hand yet on the door knob, and" looked
at me with her soul in her eyes, as a young
devotee might gaze at his particular pe.
saint.
“O, Miss Alice! O, Miss Alice'” she ex
claimed, “What a putty dre. ! What a
beautiful dress! Mrs. Jackson, did
you ever see such a lovely dress! 1
Tne.n, af era devout pause, in heartfelt
tones, “I’m a going to havea frock liket.iat
before I d.e!”
Poor child, I had on a gray, pic uresque
house gown. After a pause, in which her
big soit eyes dra k in every detail of its
flamboyant beauty, she su denly gave a
little g sp and sud, “0,1 forgot! Mi’
Mabry sent Je iny over to tell ye the leaves
is afi e in tneir nigh wools, and they’re
af aid hi ’ll burn ihe fence, an’ can Jim an’
Oscar come over au’ help light it awhile.”
On the morni .g after iny late arrival in
Harriman 1 set oat for Mrs. Jacks n’s. I
found the old farmhouse upon a Uoad, new
street, is pastures and meadows cut into
town lots, its ancient dignity iiertiy elbowed
by smart new structures.
Mrs. Jackson was quite her unchanged,
natural, motherly self among her meta
morphosed s ,ri oundings. Ass 'on as our
first greetings were over I asked for Ollie.
“Ollie? Ido wish you’d been here last
Monday,” said she.
“Why, what happened Monday?” I in
quir and.
“Well, I won’t tell you now; that would
be begiuni- g at the wr mg end.”
“You renie her what a time the child
had with that shiftless family of hers; well,
shortly after you were here she saved
enough outside of their con tant demands
to buy two voungc .ws for them. H e was
greatly delighted t .at now . hey coil and have
butter and milk for the little ones. But a
week os. afierwurd she came back from a
visit home crying bitterly; and, whe i I
q .estioued her, sue told me with many
Idineuta io is, how the Id man had traded
off Daisy for a blind Texas pony, an i the
very next nay the owner of tue horse, from
whom it had been s.oleu, appear'd and
took it.
“ ’A i’ now he savs he’sgoin’ to heo’ Rosv,
sbe said with another burst of tears. - He
says be guesses they’ll have one good bait of
fresh mea., anyhow! She ain't givin’muca;
they don’t feed her none, au’ they only hunt
ter to an’ milk her when they vaat some
m ik.’ V, ell it wes one tLing or anottertl 1
1 organ t< Li k tne toor und would have
to go awsv, when they suddenly mode ated
their rvquia tio l to sue. an ex-ent that in
. seven m<> :thr she ha i my hands upward
of SSO. I wonde-ed at ttis, Lut soon came
i np n the exp a ati u.
‘Hudy, ur wasu woman, you know, is a
I thrift t and she has been for yens
: saving money to b,y a bit of land." rice
u ages htrself a trific u popular a ong the
neighb r by bragg.nz ■! this a little, and
| and s.ng as a capitalist, and she told me . ne
morning, w.th a i mcreduLus snort, that
the Heiders had sal t to her as she came by
I teat they were going to r-uv land, too,
they were saving all c-f Oilie’s money to buy
’ witr. ’
, “I said nothing of this to Oiiie. but ex-
I plaining to her wtat w >uld be the necee
-1 sary arrangement In such a case, had Mr.
Jaczs n to get timielf appointed her
* guard.an, and buy the land —a nice little
piece of six acres down hereon the Emery—
rur ti-r, from Mr. Jam s. It was for tne
family; they were to live on it and have it,
bu -.ne wanted it so the rid man couldn’t j
tr-.de it a way or be ch a at and out of it, and I J
as d^te'mined she should have it so.
“out when they heard of it they were |
furious. They can.*- raving over and or- ■
and red Oiiie home. 1 1- 'id her she need n t
go unless she wished; but she is a gentle
creatura, you know, aid she went. They
carried on shamefully; the old man swear
ing and threatening ad Mrs. Hedder be
ramg and abusing. They w >uld sue Mr,
James, hey said, for iDal.ng with a minor,
and they inade tee chi and so n iserable she
finally gave up, ami greed todoauytuing
thev want. Sue i <■: ir. Ja-ksoa over at
riqu.ro Buncombe's office and they fixe! up
anew deed in Airs. Redder's name, but I
Airs. J a-its <n insistol on having some re- j
strict.ons on the se.ir.g of it includea in tne
paper.
“O lie took it home, f itiful and discour
aged, but thinking now there would at least
t>e pe .ce.
“Tne next day sle came here about noon
the most miserable looking little creature
you ever saw. Sue had tisted nothing
since the day before, and had cried pr tty
much all the time till tier round, pink face,
was haggard and w..i e. and her Pig blue
eyes 'ere red and sw lien. I made her a
cup of c .ff'-e and got her fixed up a little,
and she told me how things were.
VViiea she to k the deed home her mother
met her and demanded to know what sue
had and nia
“ ‘l've had the deed made out to you,’
said O ID, ‘h.-re it is.’ *
“ ‘What does it say, then; read it,’ 6aid
the woman. OHij read it, and the moment
the mother caught the r-t hintof a restric
tion sne snatched it from her ha and and
s urea me 1, ‘Tuat’s the kin’ o’ paper ye got
me. is it? Well, do you know what I do
with such a paper? I’ll show ye! That’s
wtiat I do!’ and she hashed it in the fire.
“1 he bad soolden, abused and threatened
her all the rest of the day, and she was now
came, as they had ordered her to do, to
have Mr. Jackson go and get the deed made
to her mother, without any restnetio i, or
better to bri ig them the SSO payment back
if Air. James was willing. rile was to
fetch her clothes and belongings too,
and Airs. H-d ler bal said she’d have no
such doingg; uitie should be t.ired out
wi.h the understanding that her wages
were to be paid directly to her mother.
“ ‘They said it was n scandal and a
shame,’ said Ollie, ‘t >r a chili to be owning
lad, an’ a-.kiug their parents to live on it.
They say I can have the same sneer as any
of the rest when they’re gone—the same
sheer as Lomy’s ms.; that bt'ata her and
and n’t live with her half the time, and peter
has earned a mouthful for her I
“ ‘lt’.l all be oat. up and was ed, I can’t
help them any, an’ I can’t help myself; there
ain’t n i hope at ail, I can s;e.’ She tur..ed
her despairing childish face up tome. ‘I
leally wish I was dead,’ said she, ‘there ain’t
no chance at all.’ 1 was to exasperated;
it was time something was done. I went and
packed up iier thing-, tid ed her up and sent
iier with Mr. Jackin aero sto the railroad
In the wagon. 1 gave her some money and
a letter to a friend of mine in Kentucky,
asking her to get Ollie a good place in that
state.
“I heard only once from my friend, say
ing Ollie bad a nice place with an invalid
lady at some little reso t. Air. James re
ce.ved theremmittances for the payment on
her pie e of land—evidently forward by
her employer.
“The Rudders were completely cowed.
They never said a word nor made a sign,
and were very glad to go and live on the
land, which was again Oilie’s, the old doed
s anding since Mrs. Redder bad destioyed
the sec ud one.
“Well, she was away nmre than a year.
I never heard directly from her. though
Ollie can read and write quite well.
“When tne c > panv bought all this land
hereab >ut we, of course, sold to them as
everybody else did, and at a very good
price. Ollie’s little piece lay right ia the
ir iddle of l heir tow i site. They had every
thing around it and wanted it. Wa wrote
to her, and thev wrote, but we never got
any answer. Finally the company sent a
man up there and she ca ne borne with him.
“You never -aw a girl so improved. A
whole year free from i agging and worry,
passed amid refined and p easant influences,
aim at as the daughter of ths house—lor
anyone must love Odie that ho3 her about—
baa perfectly transformed tier.
“Wny did-.’t yotl answer my letters?” I
asked.
“ ‘Why, deer me, I never got any.’ said
she; then, looking a little shepish, *1 never
went to the p istofflce at all. I was afraid
Paw, or some of them, would be getting
BJtueb >dy to wri'e to me a lot of letters to
come home, nd ’twould make me so miser
able, I just had Mr. James send them some
money every month and never went to the
postoflflee at all.’
“Wall, sbe got a big price for her six
acres of town lots —a little fortune it was
to her.
“Now, when she got all this money the
family Would have made baste to assert
their claims, and get hold of it. But in
stead of Ollie, they had a very manly and
forcible young nan to deal with. He was
interested not so much in the property as in
Ollie, and he saw to it very effectually that
she was not robbed or molested.
“I always had hoped the child might
marry well, but I could never have ex
pected a lything s > go si as sue has done.
'Vh.le I don’t t fink him beyond what Ollie
deserves 1 was really surprised when I saw
him. Though from her own class, he has
acquired a good education, is la a responsi
ble pos tion, and has a manner aud bearing
that would command your instant respect.
I tbi k his and Ullie’s courtship was mostly
carried on ver text books, and that much
of her improvement was due to bis influ
ence and help.
“Ti.ev were married last Wednesday
here in the parlor. I’m sure there never
was a happier creature than Ollie when she
left Harriman, with the old folks puace
tully loea ed on a little farm, a id Joe be
side he. to hew out her future pathway iu
life. I looked at them, bo t>ig, fine lo ’king,
full of force, energy aud ambition, en
dowed, and already fairly well equipped;
sue good, sweo., bright, with her share of
brains, too, quick, iutulions, unstinted
sweetness aud natural charm; aid 1 thought
they we e the very typical couple that,
here in our America, might well reach any
station.” Alice MacGowan.
Two Modern Dromios.
From Public Opinion.
An arnusing cise came bef re the Dover
mag strates on Mo and ty. in which a private
iu ti e Highland Light Infan ry, star oiled
at Dover, ns charged felony. In the
course of the hearing the case suade dy
broke and inn m a very extraordi iary man
ner. It transpi ed tla tne p is >ner had a
twin brother in the company of the
regimeut, both being s > exactly similar in
apparaoce that the pro 'edition could not
solve wfiicn "as tne right man. Tne inci
dent cans and considerable am isement in
court. The prisoner, who was im mediately
r- iea-ed, aid ibis was ihe third time he
bad a en mistaken for his brother in simi
lar matters.
Campaign money is called sugar because it
melts away so lust. iiaiUmore American,
WHO FOUOaT THE WAS?
A Few Figures rrouzht to Sear on an
Ancient > epublican i_a.umny.
t to 1 the Columbia > Jtfo.i si4fw<iai.
The statistical ad historical calumny
that the republicans foagh: ihe war ad sup
pressed the %e ellion, and in doing so
fought and suppressed the democrats, is
still on its travels,sand we suppose wi.l bob
ble along on its gouty feet till the American
people i verwheim and forever diivefrom
power tne party wnose organs and ora.ors
induigein such l.teratura.
Who fought the war of the rebellion?
Was it a party war? While it was inex
istence, either at its inception, culmination
or close, wasit at any t.me claimed to be a
republican orde nocratic war! 0.% rather,
was it not insisted, as it was, ii fact, an un
fortunate co diet between tvo ed verse
the ries of government, and prosecuted on
the part of ihe union forces without regard
to the then existing political distinctions?
No -ane man will contend mat if during
the war republican leaders bed claimed it
was a party wr, or in other words a war
by the Repu licaa paty tor the mairen
a,.ceof the unit n and against toe Demo
cratic party, that the rebel, on ever ould
have bee snperessed. Fr:t is historic ill]
ands atisticaily true there were in the
union army dur.ng the war more democra s
than republicans.
And ye republican leaders are not now
wanting, in congress and cut of c ngress, in
editorial chairs and on the hustings, wh >
with an air of luiicrcus self-importance
roar back their bristling hair ana loii up
t:.o.r hypocritical eves and boast that "we”
s ipprt-ssed toe great rebellion, that “we”
saved the union, that "we” alone are en
titled to the gratitude of oar c untrymen
and the plaudits of p rtenty. Whereas they
ougut to know, and someof them do k jo.v,
that bad it not been for tho services and
sacrifices, and the h roistn and shei-bl >od
of democrats on the field of battle the con
te ierates wouid hove whipped them out
of their H ots aud established the southern
confederacy.
What a*e the facts—the facts of history?
A few must suffice.
In 1880 Air. Lincoln reed red in Missouri
17.028 votes. But Missouri furnished 109,-
111 white soldiers for the union army. Did
these 17,000 republicans multiply themselves
in fi.ur years to tne number of 109,0UJ?
In 1800 there were 1,364 votes cast for
Lincoln fn Kentucky, aud Kentucky sent
75,760 white sddiers to the front for the
union. Who were they? By what sort of
nocus pocus could 1,300 Ke-utuozy repub
licans mul iply themselves in four years
into more Iha i 75,000?
Illinois in 183? gave Lincoln 172,161 votes
and furnished during the war 259,092 sol
diers, or nearly 77,000 more soldiers than
there were republicans in the state. Who
were they ?
Abu yla and in 1860, for Lincoln 2,294 votes.
Soldiers, 46,638. Wuo were thev ?
Take an ther view; Taomas Edgar Wil
son of New York, in the August number of
Belford's Magazine, co .clusively shows
that a republican President f ught the war
with democratic generals. Here is the tab's
that will show wuich party in the twenty
two loyal states fought the war for the
union:
Democratic Republican
Vpte. Vote
1860 1,957,119 1,866.261
1562 1,552,661 1.61*4,464
1863 1,487.882 1,868.5'*4
1?64 1,789,038 2,174,270
1808 1,791,245 2.144,018
1608 2,214,361 2,514,939
The democratic vote from 1860 to 186S
shows t iat thare had been a great war. At
tne 1863 elections there were more republi
can voters than in 186 J, but 690,000 demo
cratic votes were missing. They were dead
or fightiog iu the held. They were not all
dead, for 300,000 returned in 1866. Ti.e re
publicans diu not gain a vote by the dis
bandment of the u ion armies; they act
ually lost. The republican of iB6O was not
iu ell cases a fighter. He stayed ot home in
many cases to vote, to make money by
arin v contracts, and to milaign democra s.
Is>"k again: In 1360 Mr. Lincoln received
1,857,610 volts fur President Douglas,
Breckenridge ad Bell receive at the same
elsotion a i ngg. egate of 2,304,360 votes, or
936,969 more than Lincoln.
TANARUS, e number of men called for by the
President and furnished by aud creditei to
the states ad territories during the war
was 2,85y,132. But of these 186,097 ware
colored, leaving of white soldiers 2,663 903,
or 897,22'! more than Lincoln's vote in 1860.
Nearly 1,000,0*0 m excess of the republicans
who voted for Lincoln. Who and what
were this approximate 1,000,000? Whatever
they were they were not republicans. That
is certain.
It is said tho soothsayers of Rome never
met without looking into each others’ faces
and laughing. No doubt ou” republican
leaders who, for party purposes and to de
ceive ignorant people, brag and boast that
they euppre-sed the rebellion and saved the
union, and that the De nocratic party was a
party of rebels and traitors who deserved
the gibbet and the halter, never meet each
other alone without indulging o demagogi
cal leer of the eye and a horse laugh.
Note—For the accuracy of those statistics,
see Phisterer’s " tatistical Record of the
Armies of the United States, ’pp. 10 and 11,
and Tribune Almanac, 1811, p. 64.
PARIS TO LlVi£ IN.
A Town of Middle Cl S3 People—Rents
for Dwellings.
From the New York Timet.
The number of private hotels and resi
dential premises in Paris of a rental of over
£I,OOO a year is surprisingly small, consider
ing the reputation for wealth that tha
French capital has required, remarks the
Pall Mall Gazette. “Tnere are in this cap
ital altogether 81,291 h uses, divided into
1,141,955 tenancies, of which 28,159 are
workshops and manufactories, 303,228 are
shoos and places of busi ess, and 810,46S are
appartements or ‘hotels’ for human habita
tion. Half of these appartements or fists do
not bring in a higher rental than £l2 per
annum. Tnat is the average sum which a
workman wiil have to pay for two diminu
tive rooms on the fifth, sixth or seventh
story of a crowded tenement, where the
only advantage altitude gives is the chance
of breathing some of the fresh air of
heaven. Of flats ranging ir rent from £lO
to £OO a year there are 32,974; from £6O to
£!6J renal, 30.775; from £l6O to £4OO
rental, 12,222; from £4OO to £BOO a year,
1,980; while of inhabited houses with a
rental over £B9O there are only 470. Shop
rents in the busy parts of the town are
enormously dear.
"It will thus be seen that, with peobaps
the exception of tiie districts of the Fau
bourg Saint-Germain, the Champs Elysees,
and tee Parc Monceau, Pans, is essentially
a citv of middle-class people and workmen,
■who, in the matter of rent, taxes and octroi
h -vc to pay pretty stiffly for the privi.ege
of living in it. Large blocks of buildings
belong, not to private individuals, but to
insurance companies and banking establish
ments, who charge what they like, and do
not care much whether a shop or an
appartemmt stands on iheir books empty
for a time because an applicant refuses to
pay an excessive rent, feeling sure that
soon they will be able to extort their own
terms. It is estimated that the gr ss
rental of Paris roaches the respect
blo total of £39,000,000 a vear, while
the value of the whole of the property in
the French capital, dwelling houses, shops
ad mauufac ones, is put down at £4+o,-
000,000. A the present moment there are
nearly 49,000 places of business or flats
vacant, or ab ut 2,000 more than at t is
lime two years ago. Taking into consid
eration the convenience given in exchange
for the rental, the average London resident.
With his compact house and lit le bit of
garden, has much race e ijovment for his
money, tne Daily Telegraph thinks, than
the Frenchman iu a similar social positio 1
in France, packed op in a small flat on the
fifth floor if a tenement for whic i be pays
from £*> to £IOO a year. Much < f the
Parisians’love of cafes and open-air cafe
concert.-, is due to the cribbed ami confined
apartment! iu which they have tom.ke
their homes.
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