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THE MINUET.
Bt Charles Lotin Hildreth.
.'■■right, I" s *- by the United Prett.t
.•V. r'are ia for it. Buckle. The storm will
v opoa us in wn minutes, and there is not
_ bouse in sight.
„X or within ten miles, I should say,"
—ubled Bucklo. with the freedom of an
U rvant. “X said we should lose our way
* - these mountains after dark; butyou
wcuUn’t listen to me."
..y 0 u were right and I was wrong," I re
-liel gocJ humoredly; ‘‘hut the question
to god some sort of shelter for
E .,-.lres and the horses. A century ago
C ’. was a populous region. Some of my
bad a place hereabouts. If only
t®*" f tbeir genial old ghosts would
c ° B i(w’enJ to take pity on his descendant
lisTcow end gently B ,jide ua to a shed or
'"•"•Don’t talk so reckless. Mr. Gerard,” in
fracted buckle, nervously. “Losing our
aud getting wet to the skiu is bad
ih. without mixing up ghosts in the
b “’-Wba- i s that y° nder bfhind that clump
, trees ’’ I exclaimed. “It looks like a
j t ] g a house. It is strange there
j no lights in the windows so early
s:3 #wve!iuig. However, we can’t stand
ffeeremeny. for here is the rain.
burning aside, we entered a grass-grown
I \ between neglected hedge-rows, and
“"Li up before tho front of the building.
ViV now understood why we had seen no
ton the place was deserted and falling
’ jDg The windows gaped shutterless
‘“‘j wit boat casements or curtains. One of
iarge front doors hung by one
Jr .? ld the wiud moaned drear
f' 6 through the empty pas
fbe edifice was one of those huge,
(•looms s’one structures of the eighteenth
I LiturV hyno means prepossessing at the
I tst and now in solitude and decay it was
I ,Versa!. But the rain was now falling
I Lvilv and th re was no alternative.
■ Hastily dismounting, we led our horses
I ttrouga its broken basement entrance.
I Striking a match and converting some of
I the rubbish with which this stone floor was
I • ••ere! into a torch. Buckle led the way up
■ stairs where we hoped to find more satis
■ factory quarters for ourselves.
I We first entered a large apartment with
I high ceiling upon which still clung tome
■ re ' an-,* r.f gilding. The furniture had been
■ removed; but the traces of former orna
■ pnt visible tbi ouch the stains of time and
I cecsy proved that tho room had once
■ been 'the hall of state of the raan-
I ion in the days of its ancient
■ -ra-deur. But these very relics of past
■;. j.. n ,ior, combined with the cracking walls,
I /•;;cg fl'i r a: and the lofty, unsheltered in
■ admitting ibedriving rain and shriek
■ | , wind, gave the place an indescribably
■ Viurr.fai aspect aud we hastened to
H have it.
■ I’ossing through one or the doors we
■ entered a smaller apartment adjoining,
I whore we foun 1 the moans of making oue
-9 t Ives i:i sme degree comfortable. A por
-9 tion of the furniture still remained in tho
9 r.*: two or three chairs, a rickety table
9 and a large lounge. In the wide chimney
9 there was a heap of wood, and touching his
9 t - ■>„ f, it. Buckle soon bad a cheerful
■ bine r arlng suit crackling on the hearth.
H •■ \ •*. Master Buckle,” X said, drawing
■ r.;i .-..e t the chairs, "what do you say to
lye Kv;i y. nr fastidious taste should be
s/pfed with this."
H The old servant shook his head orain
i can’t say as I like tho looks of
i' ne . gi-v, ing around rerrously.
"i- uii to ,:!a Ito see to-in rrow’s light.”
■B "s i. dl 1,” ITi sjiondod cheerfully; "for
91 t f ti;o morning sun I imagine
WM fi■ 1 1 r .i: •? n verv picturesque' object."
|H| "iliera ihcrc Italian notions of yours,
U Mr. i n.-d.” be m:1, with tho same omln
• "mil get y ••! into trouble before
y u ~V IVe wouldn’t have been in this
9 : >:: ' i idu’t made up your mind
t.i c the mountains by night.”
heaving him to grumble and shake his
1 lire, I threw myself up n the
t ■'•‘■a- ’ii.ge, and despite the strange
■ i • cf my sur: :m lings, and the roar of
■t' tii. i .itoile, 1 soon fell asleep.
■ -• cj ideiiiy with a stai l, as if I had
m I r i■ uch.l. The storm appeared
■ • .1, f r there was a silence,
rvidi’ig, almost palpable. The lire
.. .' '.[! . t i, iai tid glow, which
r 1 thefgure of Buoklo In bis chair,
H 5Ui ao-up it seemed.
H ‘ had awakened urn, an.l what was
■ V s’ range un.-nsiness—the sense of ex
-1 ”! oli p ssessed me# At, that
ni n.-:,’ it ccrta.nly was not any hint of
■ 1 is alarm. My heart was boating
rs[i:.., n, from time to time a quick,
■ r ■' it thr.il ran I v■ r me. As I lay there
■ ‘ the obscurity, Buckle stirred
■ I 1.1 his chair and iu a low, tremu
■ > -5 v. 1 . s(H.r called uiy name.
‘-dr. tlorard!”
what is iti” I answered in
Upsa.ne tune.
■ ju*t it;” was the reply. * ’What
■ ' ' ghastly going on iu the
tH-no.-n. ’
H /„••• .Uusnndgje nothing,” I said.
H upon tho >p>n and .or leading
■ , : a|)?irtmont—the hall
■ 1# ‘j 1. I r.ibbed them and looked
a faint, Muisli light was k'rad-
H there! .Not moonlight; for
••'•er .•!.•• 1 that strange phosphor*
H, ' 8111 "hich soemel to grow and
BH. * . “t”f the heart of tha darkness,
BH w an-l iliutuinating nothing
H . I _ l • n w -to e were. Brighter and
Ho' 1 ' until Urn .! tor nay was an
■ ..V* -•<>• yu intense light.
■ r - wnat that means.” I said,
BHj, w-1.-bly as l could from my
Ipv' ’ y- n I I not go near it,” wlds-
lourseiv. "It is something
H ‘de.; Don’t go, Mr. Uerard.
HH. . . ‘ that 1 tick no heed of his
Ht ' : ' a: si also and, seizing my
BH; rr , r. a. ■ 'lnpanied me to tiie
BH -hi which we cautiously peered.
r what 1 saw with a
H; : *"d t . reel and gwiui as I
■H ' ’!ate ainrtin.mtof two In >irs
Hi with a brilliant light
BHm ; 11 ■I r c, ed from the scores of
BHt , H- ring chandeliers; rc
*ll ” t! e brocaded furniture,
1 Uriel before the mul-
Hi ' with diamonds
BH" '/ r h'iiuß, the golden or-
Hl marble mantle and tile
*" ri sa 1 tlw rosewood
SH'- c.'ii, .g glowed with the fresh
BH* '' ’• "i. no trailing vines and
i : v s .n and oat among
- : ' dsbnl rafters. Tha lloor
SHv . lies we had trodden wiih
■Hit- v.ariiUhed and waxed till
■H B K •'■ hurror.
HH*. I!1 g, the incredible tiling
" which crowded the room!
BH- , . s "' re ass •milled there,
BH’ “ splendidly attire.l in ’he
HH- . | iry ir more ugo. r lho
■Hi'..:- .v.-t >a.a, embroidered with
SM 1 , ! a ’.‘l silver, knee breaches,
'*'• I'lkles, and ponder" 1
""'nen in their stiff
HH- : •<!'•!: r.-, and hair won
all s aimed like the
hrs in some splendid
HH sitting upon chairs
■H 1 f g" i 'trains' the walls, while
&gH‘ numb*r were moving ti
Smß; and stalely figures of a
■H mar hi- end of tho hall sat
* • nr sc. .res before them,
■H' ' ■ ' st-ams to whioh the
|HH,*h: ‘hue.
H I senses recovered a little
H 1 H 1 jioi ce.i that from
company came a
OK" r." a chord of music.
t fall. All was deal
|H •' r had been empty of a
jHH ’’ . t'i b th *se faces were not
H^P t, s< f y makers. Kaoh vu-
Sgjßy 8,3 uaUi, the features lucked
end expressisnless, the eves gazig f rth,
unseeing and without intelligence. Like
wierd automata moving tnrough some set
performance, tLey played instruments,
gilded to and fro, or eat in groups about
the department.
All ibis I saw and comprehended almost
at a glance, and with sensations impossible
to describe. Fear, repugnance, incredulity,
ali settled in my brain at cue?, until it
seemed as if I must be mad.
My servant stood b.-side me rigid and
breathless, clutcaing mv arm in an iron
grip. Suddenly he lifted his hand and point
ing at the couple nearest us—the leading
couple in the minuet—cried in a voice of
horror:
‘‘Look! look! Do you see who that is?”
I uad already seen. In the young man,
attired in wig and ruffles, 1 beheld invself!
Cold, white, emotionless —still my own facel
His partner was a young girl whoso wou
derous beauty affected me powerf ullv, oven
in that m >me it of wi!d agitation. I never
forgot that form and face; they haun'etme
afterward, with a strange, nameless regret
ful longing that 1 could neither comprehend
nor shake off.
As if my servant’s cry had broken the
mysterious spell which had summoned
these Shapes together, the lights went out
instantly; the dancers disappeared, the
room was dark and through the empty
window frames the night wind sighed
mournfully.
Poor Buckle had sunk upon the floor in
sensible. I stirred the firo into a Maze and
got him upon the sofa. Presently he came
to himself, but all the rest of that night he
lay silent and distraught.
At the earliest gleam of day we led out
and mounted the horses. As we turned to
enter the lane, my eve caught sight of an
inscription carved in the stone work on the
corner of the building.
“Gerardus Vandeleaer; MDCCXXI.”
My own name Latinized! I had passed
the night in t e ruined home of my fore
fathers unawareß.
I never forgot that night in the old house,
but the salient point in iny memory was the
face of that girl—or phantom! I had never
solved the mystery of that experience; in
deed I had long since given up the attempt;
and it remained one of those incompre
hensible events which occur more fre
quently than we are willing to acknowl
edge in our dread of the scoffs of the world.
But that face haunted me, olung to me;
with a blending of strange pain and pleas
ure. And it was this more than aught else,
that made me restless and incapable of set
tling; down to any fixed residence or occu
pation—muoh to the disgust of poor
Buckle.
||Oneevening after a long “lav’s journev,
we were drnwing near a small 'town In the
northern part of the state, where we pro
posed stopping for the night. Just as we
we were passings handsome dwelling sit
uated upon a terraced bluff, removed from
the road, my horse shied suddenly at a
gleam of white drapery in the adjacent
shrubbery, and before I could catch the
loosened bridle I was thrown heavily and
became insensible. As I fell I heard mv
servant’s amazed cry: ‘ 'The face! the face!”
Then ali became dark and soundless.
It seemed as if an age had elapsed when I
became aware of a pervading souse of lan
guor and pain; a vague semi-consciousness
of being, dreamlike and unreal. I heard
someone moving about in the room, and
after a time I was able to open my eves.
As I did so I gasped, shuddered and sank
back into mv pillow with a feeling as if my
brain were going again. For bending above
me, not white and fixed no v, but with
sweet eyes suffused with tears, and the
gentle mouth tremulous with compassion, I
saw—the face!
I must have fainted or slept, I know not
which; for all became a blink: until I
awoke with a clear mind and an eager de
sire to assure myseif whether wbat I bad
beheld was a dream or a figment of de
lirium. But no; there it was still, standing
at a little distance; and near it, his bluff
features contorted with the attempt to keep
back his tears, stood my servant. Buckle.
“Oh, Mr. Geram! oh, my dear master!”
and tho poor fellow seizing my hand, whose
thinness surprised me as ho lifted it in his
own strong palm. “You have come back
to us at last? Yes,” ho added, seeing my
questioning look, "it is the face —not of a
ghost, but of one except for whoso nursing
you would have died. Speak to him, Miss
Alice, see how his poor eyes stare!”
And she did, lu the sweetest voice I had
ever heard, cooling my hot bro w with a
touch like a rose-leaf. And so I fell off
into slumber again. And day by day I
grew stronger; aud the wound 1 had re
ceived from my horse’s hoof healed and
health returned under her gontle ministra
tion. One day when I was able to move
slowly through the rooms of the house sup
ported on her arm, she checked our prog
ress before an ancient and faded portrait
hanging; upon the wall, i looked up at it,
and with a shock I leoognized the face of
the mau in the wig aud ruffles, my own
facel
“The portrait of an ancestor,” she said.
“My family and yours were ouce connected,
how Ido not know, for the records have
been lost.”
“And you,” I murmured, “I saw you
with him.”
“ Yes,” she iuterposed, with a slight pal
ing of the face, “your servant has told me
the story.”
For the sake of her face as I saw it in
that weird scene, I loved her. I loved her
for her ovn sweet sake And because I had
been stricken down at her feet and because
she had nursed me back to life with her own
dear hands, she loved me. When I recov
ered my health I asked her to be my wife
and she did not deny me.
For herself she asks no questions; she does
not seek to lift the veil 6f mystery which
surrounds this brief, strange file of ours.
She loves me and that is enough. Aud I
love her, heaven knows, dearly and do
votedly! But I sometimes wonder if it is
not true that we return to this earth again
and again, after the changj we call death,
and seek out those we 1 ved in the prsviom
existence —who are bou id to us by the in
comprehensible law of love, and from
whom we never roally separated.
Buckle, who is a philosipher in his way,
and who shares the care ot our children
with my wife, thinks so.
Prevention is Better
Than cure, and those who are subject to
rheumatism can prevent attacks by Keep
ing the blood pure and free from tbo acid
which causes the disease. For this purpose
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is used by thousands
with great success. It is the best blood
purifier.
Constination is caused by loss of the
peristaltic action of the bowels. Hood’s
Fills restore this action and invigorate the
liver. — Ad.
Criticising a Younar Lady.
“She would he a pretty girl but for one
thing.”
“What's that?” asked Charley.
George—Her face is always covered with pur
ple and red blotches.
Charley—O, that s easily enough disposed of.
Used to be the same way myself, but 1 caught
on to the trouble one day, and got rid of it in
no time.
George—What was it? _ .
Charley—Simply blood eruptions. Took a
short course of P. P. P 1 tell you. it’s the boss
blood corrector. The governor had rheumatism
so had that you could hear him holler clear
across the country every time be moved. Ho
tr iit And y<>u know what an athletic old fc.ent
he's now % somebody would give M ss Daisy
a pointer she would thank them afterward. All
the drug Stores sell it —Ad.
Windsor ties, lawn bows and Pequin
goods at LaFar a. Ad.
Success is the Reward of Merit.
Sternberg’s reputation
For fine jewelry
Is fully sustained
By experience.
Sternberg’s prices are
Never exorbitant, — Ad.
NsckwearT Fisk, Clark & Flagg’s fine
goods, fit La Far’s. Ad,
THE MOKMNG NEWS: SUNDAY, JANUARY IT. 1892—TWELVE PAGES.
NEW YORK HIGH LIFE.
WHAT SO'IEIY IM OOTHAM’S
SWAGGER SET 13 LIKi.
The People You Meet, and Wtr They
Are There—Under Silks and Dia
monds—Mamma’s Gentleman Friend.
Manners in Polite Society—The So
cial Adventuress—Gaming Tables in
Fr.vate Homes—"And Th's is Called
Society!”—7he Sweets of Adversity.
Bab Goes for Shakespeare, and Dif
fers With Him on a Point—“lt is the
Fool Who Soeaket i of Wnat He
Kocwoth Not.”
(Copyignt.>
New York, Jan. 16.— 1 don’t think that
as a : atiou we can be commended for our
good manners. "But there, I ought to put
an amendment to that. What I mean is
that Id n’t think the so-callei fashionable
set in New York van be commended for
anything particularly, except looking as if
they ate and drank too much. The men
look out of place, and with very few excep
tions the women as if they had too much of
wbat Dick Swiveller calls the “rosy,”ar.d too
much of rich gravies and rich food of all
sorts. If anybodv doubts my word he has
only to come to this great city and go to the
opera. He will there have the pleasure of
seeing so-called ladies, who so far forget the
rul >s of ordinary decency that they are
more undressed ihan the girl in tights in a
farce comedy; who know so little of the or
dinary laws of courtesy that they talk
through most of the opera, and in a way
steal from me the $5 which 1 have had the
pleasure of paying to try and listen to tho
music.
IX NEW YORK’S SWAGGER SET.
They will there see a very good imitation
of the worst vices of English society, that is
mamma, the gentleman friend, who is her
constant attendant, and her young daugh
ter just out; end this dear old friend of
mamma’s gives her her first coming out
dinuer, and presents her with tho most ex
quisite of white bouquets, because he feels
such an interest in her. And to this inter
est mamma does not object in the least,
while papa, well—the chances are ten to
one that he is very much more in
terested either in stocks or in stockings.
Nice stato of affairs, isn’t it? We have
achieved the triangle of which Dumas
wrote, aud its culminating point is found in
a marriage that took place the other day—
the marriage of the daughter and mamma’s
old friend. Everybody at the wedding
wondered if he would ever be afraid of his
mother-iu-law; and everybody said it was
so nice to think that he would' not have to
get acquainted with her, ns many a man
does with his wife’s mamma. But there
were some people who said it was disgust
ing. And so the world goes, aud that
fashionubla set—a set not having brains
enough to amuse itself in any other way—
finds plenty of mischief to do.
IT CALLS THIS SOCIETY.
There is not half as much society in it as
there is when a fox-terrier pays a visit ex
pecting to see an old friend and get a piece
of sponge cake. Now, when somebody
gives a dance or an “at homo,” the reasons
for inviting people are everything but
social. Miss Eatali is to have a party next
week, and you don’t want to be left out.
Miss Sillvtones is asked because rbe is the
best dressed woman in New York, and she
will help dec. rate the room. Mis. Rapid is
Invited because she knows such a lot of
men, and she never minds bringing a troop
with her. Miss Rage is asked because she
will say such disagreeable things if she is
not, and Mr. and Mrs. Brown-Jones are
especially invited because it has been very
nearly a hundred years ago since their
grandparents made a fortune selling skunk
skins, aud the tluv rof the roses—in their
case the skunks—has almost ceased to cling
to them, until they really seem to bo aristo
cratio.
UNDER SILKS AND DIAMONDS.
People are not asked beoause you like
them, or because you think they like to
come, or because you know somebody would
like to meet them. O, dear no! They are
asked because you want something from
them, or because it is the thing to ask them,
and the result is that the so-called society
is a how ling wilderness, where bad manners
are no objection; where loud voices are not
counted bad form, aud where lank of mor
ality, if it is hidden under a diamond cor
sage and a crown of diamonds and sap
phires, is forgotten. Occasionally, by some
mistake, somebody is invited who has a
slight knowledge of who the people are,
aud who knows the difference between a
a gentleman and a cad.
MANNERS OF POLITE SOCIETY.
Not very long ago an elderly maiden lady,
I will call her Miss Oidschool, was at a re
ception; standing near her was tho some
thing that results from the marriage of a
man and woman who havo worked hard to
make their children gentle people, and who
think, poor souls, they have succeeded; i. e.,
a sometliing that wearß trousers and calls
Itself a man. A pert girl asked this speci
men: “How old is Miss Oidschool P’ And
he answered, with an air of knowing, oh,
so much: “I don’t know, 1 never studied
archeology ” In a second Miss Oidschool
turned around, and said in a perfectly dis
tinct voice: “And yet you do know, be
cause 1 remember bearing my mother say
that I was born the first year that you were
old enough to bring boo e the washing.” I
don’t pretend to say that this was not bad
manners, but can you doubt its being ob
served? And I don’t think that the speci
men, who had in bis early youth carried
home the washing, wag visible again that
evening or in that house.
THE SOCIAL ADVENTURESS.
The nouveau riche is as impertinent as
she is amusing, but the woman who gets
ahead of her is the society adventuress.
Just now she is represented in New York
by a pretty woman, who looks as if she
hadn’t a thought beyond the amusement of
the moment, aud who is quoted as being
so considerate of her husband. She says
she made up her mind when she got mar
ried that Charlie sh juld have all his amuse
ments at home; and he has them. But fun
nily enough, bis amusements take the form
almost exclusively of playing roulette,
poker anil faro, and a good many of his
friends know exac ly wl at they have paid
for visiting at ihat house. It is all very
cleverly done, but occasionally some woman
hits back at her. And this innocent little
spider is beginning to discover that the
women flies at least comprehend her little
game.
WHEN WOMAN MEETS WOMAN.
She was at a luncheon not long ago, and
was telling how unpleasant it was t i be at
tho theater unless you had a box. Said she:
1 ‘The theaters are very nice, you know, aud,
of course, one wants to see every:hing, but
when one can’t get a box and has t > sit
clown among all the people, it really be
comes quite dreadful. Why, the other
night, I was perfectly shocked to find my
self next to my dressmaker and her hus
band.” As she made this awful annouuce
ment her voice went up verv high, and the
woman who had determined to pay he r a
grudge she owed her called out from the
other end of the table, “ Isn’t she an honest
woman?" "Oh, yes,” was the answer; "but
it seemed so strange to have suoh a woman
beside me." As dryly as possible her enemy
answered, “It must have—so unusual, you
know.” If looks would stab tbe cororer
would have been in that room in five
minutes, but fortunately for womankind
looks do nothing worse than show ili-temper.
PRIVATE GAMING TABLES.
The funniest thing ever said to ber was,
however, intended ns a compliment. I have
forgotten to say that she is a Mrs. Gates,
vulgarly known to the men who have been
fleeced as "Golden Gates.” One evening a
very polite foreigner, who was tbe recipient
f r the first time of her hospitality, as ho
bade her good night, said: “You represent
to us poor foreigners in a strange land tbe
•Gates-a-jar.’” He then smiled in a
most delightful manner on everybody,
and thought be had said something
beautiful, but a deadly s len-e followed
this, lor it was ge era ly telievel that the
foreigners fascinated t.y Mrs. Gates we e
well fleeced by Mr. Gates. Funny, isn’t it?
But this is a pretty go and picture of a type of
woman that goes to make the world up, tho
so-called fashionable world. If i had a son,
I would rather he wculdgotoa flist-class
gambling bouse, play his game and lose his
money than take to visiting at a house
where “a little game” is always m order,
and the hostess is an extremely pretty
woman. Nine times out of ten she and esn’t
play herself; just hovers around the man
who is brought there to lose his money, and
distracts him so that he doesn’t know what
he is doing. This distraction does not await
him in a professional gambling house, and
for that reason your boy is safer there than
be is in sue i a house as the Gates’.
“THE SWEETS OF ADVER-ITY.”
Did it ever dawn on you what a consum
mate fraud Shakespeare so-.' Howcouln
he ever sit down and write “Bweet aro the
uses of adversity?” The uses i adversity
are not sweet at all. Adversity has driven
more men t > the mad house aud more
women to the devil than anything in the
world. Bread and cheese and kisses are
good for awhile, but the bread begins to be
ta*tek-ss without butter, the cheese grows
moldy, while a cons.ant diet of kisses
does pall on mo. I would he willing to
bet anything in the world that Mrs.
Shakespeare didn’t think the uses of ad
versity were sweet, i would De willing to
affirm (I never sweari that sue got deadly
tired of bread and cheese, and longed for a
partridge, a salad, a giass of burgundy, a
mouthful of something sweet, then of course,
she might h ive been glad to have the kisses.
I dou’t believe poverty is ennobling, aud
that is the reason that I have an immense
amount of respect for men who work them
selves out of it, and get the good things of
life.
BAB GOES FOR SHAKESPEARE.
I think it is in the power of every man
who has got even half of a brain, to get
rich if he wants to. What is there en
uobliug in seeing your cbildreu want for
things that other people’s children have?
YVhat is there ennobling in wishing for
books to improve yourselt, in comforts to
make yourself stronger, and in all the beau
tiful things that m mey will got to make
you happier and better! I don’t say money
will get everything; I don’t believe it will,
but it will go a very long way toward it.
If it is your girl or my girl, or your toy or
my boy, who could gain what they desire
if they only had the chance and n little
money; sometimes the chance comes to
them, and tho money does not; but if they
have the money they can make the chance.
I tell you it is not easy to sit down and be
poor, and I don’t care if I shock every read
er of the divine William all over creation, I
say it with intense emuhasis, and with two
lines under it, that * ‘he was an absolute
fool” when he wrote about the uses of ad
versity t eing sweet. If he liked it, it is a
pity he didn’t live forever and eujoy it; no
body else wanted it.
MISFORTUNE OF BEING POOR.
In a play now being presented tn New
York, the rich man asks the Workingmen
not to strike because of his daughter, and
there she stands beside hi n, sweet-faced,
gentle-mannered and refined. One of the
men who is asking for more wages throws
open a door leading into the mill, and calls
to his daughter. She comes out, delicate,
ill-clad, grasping for breath, with a head
ache that never mis, aud asks with fear if
she is going to bo discharged: and the man
says: “Li ok at my daughter; 1 must care
for her." And then you remember that this
is labor and capital facing each other in the
form of two women. lam not upholding
the so-called shouting labor man. I am just
saying in my own way that it is not nice to
be poor.
WHEN YOU HAVEN’T THE MONEY.
It is your girl who is sick and delicate, and
of whom the doctor says she must be sent
where it is warmer, and you haven’t the
money to send her. How do you like the
uses of adversity?
It is your toy who has gone through all
the free schools, and whose great desire it is
to go to college, that he may become a great
man some day. and you haven’t the money
to send him. Hoty do you like the uses of
adversity?
It is your wife, who, after the day’s work
is done, is mending over tho old clothes,
freshening up the best ones and trying to
see what may be turned, so that the girls
will not le ashamed to go among their
friends. You think how well she would
look in anew gown; you remember how
pretty she was before tne cares of daily life
made the wrinkles come on her face, and
you wish, how you wish, that you could got
her a fiue warm coat for the winter days,
but you haven’t the money. How do you
like the uses of adversity ?
It is your baby sick, weak, crying, mak
ing a pitiful mmn because it does not have
the proper food. Before it was born its
mother was not well-nourished and eared
for; you hadn’t the money to do it. How
do you like the use of adversity?
Get thee gone, Will Shakespeare; roam
over the country, half beggar, half vaga
bond. It sounded pretty to write that line,
but you nevor wrote a greater lie. 1 have
no respect for you, and if your ghost or
yourself stood before me, I should still say
“the fool speaketh of what he knoweth
not.” Heresy? Probably. But when I see
what poverty is, then I know that I am not
orthodox, and lam not afraid to sign my
belief with your name in full. It is not a
long name; it is Bab.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, ahe cried for Castoria.
When she became Mias, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castorkf
At Sternberg’s.
Handsom ;st
Selection of
Ladies fine
Gold watches
In City.— Ad.
Dyspepsia and Indigestion
In their worst forms are cured by the use of P.
P. P. If you are debilitated and run down, or
if you need a tonic to regain fl sh and lost ap
petite, strength and vigor, take P. P. P. and
you will be strong and healthy. For shatte eJ
constitutions and 1 st manhood, P. P. P. [Prickly
Ash, Poke Root and Potassium’] is the kine of
all medicines, p. p. p. is tlie greatest blood
purifier in the world, ior tale by all druggbts.
.4ii.
Umbrellas, silk and gloria, and mackin
tosh coats at LaFar’s.— Ad,
At Rternborg’a.
Diamonds
and
Diamond jewelry,
Kings, etc. — Ad.
Chamois underwear aud chest protectors
at LaFar’s. — Ad.
Concerning lour Wanta.
The “one cent a word” column of the
Morning News places advertising within
the reach of every one who has anything to
sell or wants anything. Advertising snows
thrift aud enterpr.se. and for the small sum
of 15 cents you can demonstrate that vou
are possessed of those very necessary requi
sites to success in life. The Morning IS ews
circulates everywhere, reaches everybody,
is read by rich and poor alike, lias thousands
of readers who never look at any otl.et
newspaper.
It will print your advertisement, if lg
words or less, for 15 cents, and charge you
one cent for each added word. There is no
trouble to calculate what your advertise
ment will cost you. If you have an adver
tising account with the Morning News,
you can telephone your advertisement, if
you do so before 10 p. m. Business office
telephone is 364.
Military goods ordered in any quantity
by LaFar.— Ad.
LITTLE GIANT WARSHIPS.
UNCLE S ‘ M’S MONITORS PUTTING
lO SEA.
Th 9 Mlantonotnah Has a Successful
Trial Trio acd the Terror is Getting
heady —Characrertetlcs of the Moni
tor Model as It Has Been Modernized
Torpedo Boats and Bams.
1 CopsneAf.i
New York, Jan. 16. —When Secretary
Tracy recently visited the New York navy
yard bis official attention was drawn to the
sturdy little monitor, the Miantonomah, on
whose iron decks sounded the feet of busy
workmen. After months of work that was
called “finishing” the monitor was about
ready for sea, and the secretary examined
with lively interest the massive, uncompro
mising turret, the steel mast, the lookout
shelter, the splendid modern guns and the
delicate yet vigorous enginery below stairs.
A few days after Secretary Tracy’s visit
the Miantom mah made her first trip, or
perhaps I might say trips, for her formal
“first trip” was accomplished in sections.
She is not a massive engine of war as she
appears above the water lino. Her lines do
not fascinate like those of a cruiser like the
Chicago. But the Miantonomah is a little
marvel when it cones to close inspection,
and the enemy who ever has tho ill-luck to
meet her will find her a little marvel at a
co: siderahlo distance. The Miantonomah
is, indeed, one of the most formidable of
our ships of war. Let us see why:
An American suggested turret ships be
fore Cowper Phipps Coles brought up the
matter before the British admiralty. Coles
took a three decker called the Royal Sov
ereign and a lapted it to his turret plan.
Although the nondescript warship resulting
from this combination was not what a
specially designed ves-el might l ave boen,
the turreted Royal Sovereign was admitted
to be the most powerful ship in the English
navy. Capt. Coles had a big turret ship,
the Captain, built after his complete design.
It was a very fiue affair, but it turned
bottom side up in the Bay of Biscay
twelve years ago with Capt. Coles and
600 men on hoard. Ericsson's monitor differed
from Coles’ design in having the deck very
close to the water line, leaving very little
mark for tho enemy’s guns save the circular
turret itself.. Ericsson’s ideas have dominated
every movement that has since been made
with the monitor designs England has built
the Devastation, but has not shown so much
enterprise with turrets in the monitor form
as the leading spirits of the United States
navy. The English ships carrying turrets
include the Thuuderor and the Agamem
non. Among her monitor type are the
Glatton and the Cyclops.
Ericsson claimed, aud experience ha
shown, that a monitor can carry much
heavier ordnance than a ship having guns
broadside. Tho rolling of tho turrot was
naturally her immense advantage, sinoo it
not only gave a splendid range to the guns,
but permitted the shielding of tho gunners
during the times of loading.
The United States laid the keels of thre\
double-turreted monitors in 1874 and 1875.
They wore named the Puritan, the Mian
tonomah and tho Terror. The original de
signs were never carried out, for work on
them was discontinued until 1886. when the
government decided to go ahead with tho
mo ito: s aud lit them out with the best
modern guns. The Miantonomah, as I have
said, has just been completed. She is a
splendid and terrible object. Her turrets
aro plated with llj.j inches of compound
armor. Heavily armored also are the
lower parts of tho smokestack aud tho
ventilators. Seven inches of steel are in
the armor belt. The iron of the deck is
two inches thick, aud with all the weight on
board Is only two feet abovo*tho water.
Two 10-inch high power rifles of most
threatening physiognomy protrude from
each turret —a quartet of devastating
engines. Tho machinery by which tho
turrets are moved is of the most ingenious
description. The rollers are a superb de
vice. It need scarcely be said that the
propelling engines are massive and lusty. I
have forgotten the exact speed of the Miau
tonomab but it is sufficient to guarantee a
marvelous agility.
The Terror is the Miantonomah’s sister
6hip. She is a month or two. if not further,
away from completion. I suppose if we
hail to go after Chile the Terror could get
down to business by March 1. The military
mast is being placed in position. The mill
tary mast of steel and iron is an important
feature of our modern warships. Around
the little circular platform at the top of tho
mast runs a sheltering rim. On this solid
rail the men aloft may operate gatling
grtns. Like the Miantonomah, the Terror
will have a displacement of 3,800 tons.
The Puutau will be a bigger monitor.
Her displacement will, indeed, reaoh 6,000
tons. In this valiant sea fighter two bar
bettes will take tho placo of turrets. The
shielded guns will firo over the ritn of these
barbettes, which are being covered with a
14-inch layer of steel. The two li-inch
guns in eaoh of these securely armed bar
bettes will throw shells weighing eaoh a snug
800 pounds. The two barbettes are united
by a superstructure on which will be oar
ried four 4-inch guns. Within the super
structure will be two more 4-iuoh guns.
If what the navalinen say is true tho Pu
ritan will draw 10 feet less water than the
big foreign battleships with which she may
safely be pitted. Her draught is 18 feet.
The draught of the two other monitors is
even leas. Both the Miantonomah and the
Terror draw only 14 feet. The importance of
th.s fact will be seen when it is p iuted out
that the special utility of these ships is in
coast defense. Powerful warships capable
of scurrying around in 14 and 18 feet of
water will have an immense ad vantageover
vessels that necessarily draw a much greater
depth of water. Then a monitor ridesso
stondiiy as to form a fine basis for her guns
and an effective sighting point tor her gun
ners.
No one who saw the Miantonomah move
away from the dock will forget the sight.
Tho first impression of a monitor is per
haps of a short, fat ship. But the Mian
tonomah is nearly 300 feet long. Her tur
ret guns, capable of throwing a shell a dis
tance of seveu miles, were painted a
glistening black. Everything on deck was
spick and span aDd in fighting trim. Fight
ing trim, in this case, means ready, if ueed
be, to go under water, for in action tho
Miantonomah will let water into her hold,
with the deck beneath tho level of the viator,
and leave the enemy nothing but the tur
ret to pepper away at.
Among the other little giants of our navy
nhicAtne Now York yard has just been
giving its parting blessing is tho torpod >
boat Cushing. The Cushing is a first at
tempt Oil the part of the United States
navy, but it is probably true that she ha<
no superior on the seas. Hhe is % "rustlor”
for s,ieoi, her engines sending her through
the water at a thrilling gait.
Tho little ram Alarm is being polished up.
She was built from Admiral Porter’s de
signs, and has 800 tons displacement. Her
ram bow hug a wicked and aggressive look,
and is provided with an opening through
which a long shaft bearing a torpedo may
be run out and drawn in. Originally a 15-
inch gun was mounted at the bow with a 4-
inch armored shield; but at present they
are planning to place anew 6-inch rifle
at the tow. and use the little ship for train
ing gunners. The navy in this, and other
directions, is rapidly advancing with the
work of modernizing the navy. Naval
science advances with such rapid strides,
and congress aud shipyards move so slowly,
that warships soon become unmoderu. So
far as it goes the United States navy is now
reasonably modem.
“What we want,” said one of tho com
manding officers to me yesterday, “is three
or four nsw ships of tho very first class,
such as England and Italy have been turn
ing out wituin the past fifteen years. And
we need several more monitors for coast de
fense. The Miantonomah should have half
a dozen sisters instead of one.”
Victor Sms.
25& for a box of Bebcham'b Pills worth
a guinea.—Act
_ 11RI GOODS:
Four Years’ flOTfiTm Four Years ’
expiration paKrM SHI expiration
February 1. Wlltfl ILU February 1.
A~ SENSATION!
That is What Has Been Done
BY THE LAST
Terrific Slaughter in Prices
—A.T THE
GUT DM SALE
Substantial and tteiine Bargains
Were never so emphatic as last week when the slaughter
reached its /.cnith, surprising even the old time bargain
seekers. SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS to-moErow
and every day in the week of EXTRAORDINARY
VALUES till the entire stock is sold out.
We’ve sot tho Dry Goods talk of the town going. It’s
apparent everywhere. The chief topic among the ladies is
the WONDERFUL BARGAINS obtained here.
Come Early and Often to
the GREAT DISSOLUTION
SALE. _____
MORRISON, FOYE & CO.
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MILLINERY GOODS.
1892 PROSPECTUS FOR SPRING 1892
tails Haiti linn In
• r
I3 closing a very successful Fall and Winter season,
and ia now making unusual preparations for the grandest
display of Spring Millinery ever seen south. In order to
surpass our previous displays we are unsparing in our ex
pense to procure from European and homo markets tho
rarest novelties in the Millinery art. We will show pat
terns in Round Hats and Bonnets from the most cele
brated artists in Paris and London, and everything beautiful
in the Millinery line will be displayed at our Grand Millinery
Fair, the opening of which will be announced at an early
date. Meanwhile our entire stock of Winter Millinery is
offered at our usual closing out price. Our Ribbon salo
continued as heretofore.
mmn iilliiry house.
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DRESSMAKING.
Savannalt l)rj Ms ami DrcssiaJting Ca.
H. A. DUMAS, Manager,
Removed to Krouskoffs.
ejarara—mamv w m wwhum awwp—
We are now offering our Choice
Dress Goods at greatly
Reduced Prices !
At Oar New Qnariers, 151 BROUGHTON STREET.
DRES MAKING DEPARTMENT upstairs in charge
of a first-class Modiste.
HOTELS.
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* j v. South. No place more healthy or desirable as a
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(FORMERLY OF THE BROWN HOUSE, MACON, GA.)
This Hotel has been renovated and put In first class order In every particular. All the latest
conveniences ami modem improvements. Special accommodations for tourists.
.Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria/f
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