THE STRICTEST ORDER OF HONKS.
Ken Who Keep Perpetual Silence, and
Wbo Dip Tlielr Own Grave*.
The abbots of Mount Miliary, in
Ireland, Sept Fonds in France, and
Mariastern in Turkey, all monasteries
of the Trappist order of monks, have
decided to purchase land in Maryland
to establish a house in the United States,
and have appointed, as their agent,
Brother Francis de Sales, who will
probably present his credentials to the
Archbishop of Baltimore immediately,
and be formally received into iimt
diocese.
The order of Trappists is the se
verest in the church. Perpetual silence
is one of their vows, and dispensation
is given to speak only when necessity
demands it, or to those few of the
brothers who fill offices in the mon
astery which demand occasional con
versations. They are not allowed meat,
eggs, butter, cheese, fish or oil. They
sleep on narrow beds of straw, raised
a few inches from the ground. They
dig and refill, and dig again and refill
from time to time their own graves as
a reminder of their mortality. They
rise hours before dawn, and after prayer
and meditation, betake themselves to
i their respective employments. Among
them are shoemakers, tailors, carpen
ters, farmers, dairymen and millwrights.
The Trappist monasteries named above
are very wealthy, but wealth has ac
crued from the industry of their mem
bers. These monks ask no charity, and
consequently Brother de Sales was able
to say that he has not journeyed to
America with a subscription list. He
asserted that the monastery of Sept
Fonds, in France, alone offered to de
fray the expenses of the new mission.
A temporary house is to be rented, and
in December two hundred Trappist
monks, selected from three monasteries,
will occupy it.
Brother Francis de Sales is a French
man by birth, and he speaks English
without much peculiarity of accent.
He is sanguine of the success of the
mission he is sent to superintend. He
says that the Abbot of Sept Fonds, in
France, was a count of great wealth;
that the Abbot of Mount Miliary, in
Ireland, was at one time a candidate for
election to Parliament, and that the
six-feet-two Abbot, of Mariastern, in
Turkey, is an Irishman.
A Melancholy Story.
A letter from Lord Shaftesbury in
the LondonTimes draws fresh atten
tion to the recently issued report of
the Inspector of Factories and to the
valuable and painful information
which it contains on the subject of
female labor in the Black Country and
neighborhood. The account given by
Mr. sub-inspector Brewer of the state
of things prevailing in what is known
as “the nail and chain district” is of
especial interest. From both the nail
and chain trades there are, he says,
“strong representations made against
the labor of women, whether as to the
number employed or the size of the
articles made. The women are said to
take the place of fathers as well as
husbands, while the men are idle and
drunken.” On entering a nail shop in
the outskirts of a large manufacturing
town, Mr. Brewer was greeted with
the remark, “I thought this was a free
country;” and, on his inquiring what
was the matter, be was met by the
ijiiestinn. “Oovnii e«l] tbix a free coun
try wheie women are employed in such
trades as these?” ‘Mr. Brewer replied
that he had again and again discussed
this question with working men around
> him; and he adds: “I am now con
tinually asked whether I cannot do
something to stop women’s labor, espe
cially in and around Halesowen, where
‘hundreds’work (the manufacture of
the large class of nails and spikes) is
the order of the dav, and is far fitter
for men’s work tnan women’s. The
root of all evil in the Black Country
appears to be drunkenness; no matter
whether the drinker be a puddler, col
lier, chain or nail maker. The outcry
against the colliers’ and puddlers’
wives working is very great; not, per
haps, so much from .the influx into the
trade, but from the fact that they
Work night and day, toil and slave; and
for what? Not for the price that
straight-forward masters would give,
but for any price any crafty knave of a
master chooses to offer.” In the mean
time the husband is luxuriating in
some public house, at his ease, and
“training bis ‘ whiffet.’ for some future
running on beefsteaks and the best of
good fare.” Nor is it only in the nail
and chain trade that the practice of
husbands living on their wives’ labor
prevails. A young women, address
ing Mr. Brewer, said, “Master, I
wish you would make my man do a
little more work, and me less. I mar
ried a swell, I did.” To the inquiry
what she meant by a swell, the reply,
was, “Why, when I married him in
the morning he had a smart gold
watch and chain, and a smart dickey,
but when we came to go to bed at
night I’m blessed if he had e’n a shirt
on, and ever since I’s had to keep him
by working in the brickyard, and not
only keep him but find him money to
drink.” And it is, it seems, a growing
custom for idle, lazy young lads to
look out for skilled, industrious wives
in order to obtain an “easy life.” To
a question addressed by Mr. Brewer
to some “intelligent and wellmeaning
chain-makers,” the answer was that one
of the evils arising from female labor
is the number of hours women are al
lowed to work being so many in excess
of a great deal of male labor. “We
would suggest that all females com
mence work not earlier than 8 A. m.,
and not work later than 7 P. M. “We
would suggest that every occupier or
owner of a chain shop should be served
with a copy of the rules, i. e., the
rules of the trade, which it should be
compulsory by law to have hung in
the shop, and that the Factory Act
holidays be applied to chain shops.”
The sanitary condition of the shops,
Mr Brewer says, is often bad. Wo
men work often in an advanced state
of pregnancy, and a shocking story is
told of a girl working at a brickyard
“looking exceedingly ill,” and who, to
a remark of the manager “that she
did not lookup to much this morning,”
replied, “No more would you if you
had had a child during the night.”
Tweed’s Faithful Wife.
They were marrried when the man
was a chairmaker, and they might have
had a happy career had the former re
mained honest. They lived plainly,
mingled with mechanics’ society, and
were the parents of two boys and two
girls, good looking and healthy child
ren. The era of their unmeritorious
splendor has come and gone like a
dream. Each had a diamond wedding,
and each has sunk into obscurity and
poverty. The two sons once held fine
appointments in the service of the Ring,
but are now only lounging around the
city hall. The mother is in a widow’s
desolation. The ill-gotten wealth is
almost all gone. A million and a half
has passed into the hands of her law
yers, and her husband is still a prisoner.
A seedy and corpulent old man, inhab
iting a pair of rooms in Ludlow street
jail, is all that is left of one who has
been alderman, congressman, chair-
maker and lawyer, commissioner of
parks, public buildings and docks, state
senator, and for seven years autocrat
of this city. The only redeeming
feature is the faithful wife, who is re
ducing herself to poverty in hope of
obtaining her husband’s release.—Neiv
York Letter.
Employment is essential to happiness,
and so generally is this recognized that
there are times when even the laziest
man feels inclined to thank his creator
for having provided him with a mous
tache to twirl.
Bees for New Zealand.—Two
nests of English bumble-bees have been
sent to New Zealand by Mr. Frank
Buckland for the Canterbury Acclim
atization Society. These bisects are
specially desired in New Zealand for
the purpose of fertilizing the common
clover; the proboscis of the common
bee is not sufficiently long to reach
down to the pollen of the clover flow
er, while the bumble-bee is enabled to
do so. In this w T ay the insect is ex
pected to do great service to the agri
culturist by largely extending the
growth of the clover. The bees were
packed in their own nests in two box
es, and will be under the charge of a
member of the New Zealand Council,
who is provided with every necessary
for their welfare during the voyage.
They are expected to arrive about the
middle of January—midsummer at
the antipodes.
All who have heard of little Charlie
Ross should read the beautiful new book, en
titled “Cherry, the Singer,” published by
Edward A. Samuels, 125 1'remont St., Boston.
Possibly it may lead to the recovery of the
stolen child, as the character of the little he
ro of the book is partially founded on his
own life and abduction. Sent by mail, post
age free, on receipt of $1.00.
Wben writing to Advertisers
tion the name of this paper.
please men-
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GENERAL MARKET QUOTATIONS.
NEW YORK.
Fleur firm and demand moderate. Superfine,
western and state, $5.60@6.3(J; extra Ohio, S5.G5@
7.50; St. Louis, $5.80@9.00. Wheat quiet and firm
at ?1.14@1.16 for No. 3 Chicago; S1.2S@1.29 for No.
2 Chicago 81.32 for No. 2 Milwaukee; £1.37 for No.
1 spring; 31.20(31.40 for new and old winter red
western; $1.25@1.45 for new and old amber western;
$1.40@1.50 for white western. Corn is scarce and
very firm at 75%@76c. Mess pork heavy at 822.75
for new.
NEW ORLEANS.
Sugar in good demand. Inferior, 5kc.; common,
6@6kc.; fair, 6%<g7c.; good fair, 7]4@7%c.; prime
to choice,8@8%c.; yellow clarified 8%@9c. Molasses
quiet and easier. Centrifugal, 30®35c.; common, 40
@45c.; fair, 45@48c.; prime to choice, 50@58c. Flour
is dull. Superfine, 84.50; XX, 85.00; XXX.85.37U
@5.50; choice and family S6.75@7.50. Corn-meal dull
and lower at 82.75. Corn lower at 70@75c. Oats are
dull and lower. Ordinary to choice, 41@45e. Bran
is firmer at 81.10@1.15.__Hay is quiet. Ordinary to
* 1 * .00. Mr
prime, 823.00; choice, 825.1™. ...
quoted at 824.50. Dry salt meats are scarce. Shoul
ders, 10%c. Bacon is scarce. Held at ll%c. for
shoulders; 15@15kc. for clear rib. Hams—choice
sugar-cured, 17@17>4c. Lard is scarce. Jobbing,
tierces, packers, 14c.; refined, 14%@14%o.; keg, 16c.
Coffee is dull. Ordinary to prime l3@21c.. gold,
Whisky is scarce. Louisiana rectified, 8l*15@l .20.
LOUISVILLE.
Flour—Market steady. Extra, 85.0005.75; fancy,
S7.00@800. Wheat, 81.10@1.15. Corn, 60@63c. Oats,
SS(a45c. Rye, 75c. Bulk meats old clear sides, 12%
@12kc. Bacon—old, shoulders, 10c.: clear rib 14k
@18c. Lard, 14014%. Whisky js higher at $1.11.
Bagging, 12%@13c.
MEMPHIS.
Flour is dull at 85.0008.00. Corn, 66c. Lard. 14%
@14%c.
less pork is lower;
THE COTTON MARKETS.
New York.—Cotton market dull and weak at 13
5-16013 ll-16c.
New Orleans.—Cotton, demand good; prices are
irregular and easier. Good ordinary to strict good
ordinary, llk@ll%c: low middling to strict low mid
dling, ll%<ai2%c; middling to strict middling, 12k@
12%c; good middling to middling fair, 13%014%c.
Galveston.—Cotton market quiet. Middling,
12%c.
Mobile.—Cotton market irregular. Middling
12%c.
Mkmphi*.—-'Mton market steady at 12%c.
Louisville.—Cotton market doll at 12%@12%c
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