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YOLUME XYII.-NO.
ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, DECMEBER 6, 1890.
PRICK*
SOUTH’S GREW GROWTH.
Editor McClure's Impressions of This
Favored Section.
Col. A K. McClure, editor of the Phlla
delphla Times, who has returned from a
Southern trip, publishes the following ss
a leading editorial in his paper:
“A recent hasty visit to some of the
leading centers cf Industry in the South
era States east of the Mississippi, dem
onstrated the wonderful progress the
South is making in eveiy line of indus
try. If the people of tbe North under
stood tbe material interests of the South
as they really are, and appreciated the
steady and iapid advatc: rnsnt not only
in the development of the mineral wealth
of those States, but also in the growth of
the agricultural interest, it would be of
priceless benefit to both sections.
The Montgomery Exposition, now just
closed, was a most interesting study to
any Noithern visitor who has been accus
tomed to tbe State Fairs of P. nnsylvanla.
It exhibited tbe remarkable progress
that the South is making in tbe cultiva
tion of the fertile lands of that region.
We have seen many State exhibitions of
the agricultural products of Pennsylva
nia, where we point with just pride to
our excellent farms, but we never wit
net sid a display of tbe products of tbe
field that < qualed the display of the farm -
era of Alabama.
Tbe common idea o' the North is that
the Industrial progress of tbe South Is
wholly or chiefly in the coal, iron, etc., of
that section, but it is a grove error. Our
people know of Birmingham and the
many other industrial centers whlca
have sprang tip as if by magic because of
the development of iron, coal, etc , but
the very important fact is very generally
overlooked that the advancement of eg
riculture in the South is fe'ly abreact
with the growth in other it-dustrits. In
all the Scuihern States eaet cf the Mis
siesippi, from the Virginias and Ken
tucky down to the Gulf, there has been a
rapid growth in the farming industry.
The old system of large plantations is
rapidly yieiolDg to small farms purchas
edfor leased by both races who work tneir
own fields, ana the result is that the pro
ducts of the land are doubled or trebled
by tbe better tilling that pievails.
Ten ye; rs ago the Times pointt d out the
advantages of the South over the West
for farming emigration, and each year
has proved more clearly the wisdom of
that suggestion. There are today cheaper
and moie productive lands, with better
climate and access to markets, in ail ti e
States esst of the Mississippi, Including
Alabama, Florida and.MIssissippi, than
can be round in any of the Western
States. Georgia was '.he earliest of the
reconetructer States to advanco in ag
riculture, but the Viiglnias, the Caro
linaa, tbe Gulf States of Florida, Ala
bama and Mississippi, and Tennessee and
Kentucky have ail advanced in rapid
strides, and the ol 1 plantation system
has almost entirely disappeared before
tbe p.-igrc.f s of oettT m'thoCa of culii
t avion.
Even in Mississippi, where there is lit
tle or no mineral development to attract
the capital and skilled labor white so
speedily transform every community in
tbe South wbere they locale, there Is now
visible ai.d substantial advancement.
Tbe city of Merldon, with only agricul
tural wealth to quicken its&rowtb, today
exhih its more energy, more progress and
better architecture than can be found in
any of our agricultural towi s In Penn
sylvania, ana capital 1b as safely invested
there as In any section of the North and
at increased rates. The growth of agri
cultural advanced', nt is naturally slower
than the growth of communities created
by mineral development, but the one
most grslifying prospect in the South
now Is the positive, steady and substan
tie 1 improvement of the vast agricultural
resources of the reconstructed States
Alabama logically jieads her sister
States of the South in the development
of wealth, because there is no State in
the Ur.ieu with an i qual combination of
wealth in field, in forest, In mine, in mill
at d in natural highways to tbe markets
of the world, aue- it is specially gratify
irg to note that while her cities, sudden
ly created by her profusion of iron, coal
and limestone in proximity, have sprung
up in startling suddenness, but on sure
foundations, her fertile lands, capable of
outstripping Pennsylvania in wheat and
corn and tquaiiDg any State ir. cotton,
have mado her agricultural Industry
rapidly advance in both product and
profit, ana her forests of virgin timber
are now greatly swelling the wealth of
the Stato.
Ten years ago Birmingham, the first of
the iror. centers of the far South, was a
straggling village skirted with forest, and
conservative business men feared the
permanency of its growth, but today it
is a lubstuntia! city o‘ 30,000. with imant
cities springing up around it, and busi
ness credit is new as well established
there as it is in conservative Philadel
phia. Ncr is Birmingham aior.e as a
landmark of industrial growth. A score
of industrial centers have grown up in Al
abasia,as well as other scores in Georgia
and Tennessee, with Atlanta and Chat
tanooga as their centers, and ail of them
give every evidence ot cerUin, safe and
marvelous advancement.
It is a fact not generally understood in
the N rth that the industrial growth of
the Mississippi, and especially the agri
cultural growth, has been mom rapid,
more substantial and more satisfactory
to emigrants than the industral growth
of the new States of the West. The cli
mate is more salubrious; the access to
markets Is vastly better; the certainty of
crops is much greater, and the variety of
prodccts is many times multiplied. In
deed, If the industrial people who start
from the Eastern States to find new
homes for their families in new sections
of the country were intelligently advised
of the coontless advantages the Sooth
offers them over the far Western States,
the whole tide of industrial emigration
wou'd speedily torn from tie coasted
sway of empire toward the setting son
and settle down In the Sunny Sooth. It
most be so sooner or later, and soon at
the latest; and the sooner it is so the
soocer will onr migrating industrial peo
pie best employ their opportunities.”
The Cosmos Fibre Co., of C harleston,
S. C., bas, according to the Charleston
News and Courier, been making rapid
progress in the preparation of vegetable
and wood fibres for the general market.
Its latest achievement is said to be tbe
perfecting of a process for converting the
fibre of tree moss into a comm -rcial form
In a few minutes, Instead of snbmittirg
it to tbe slower, old fashioned method of
rotting in earth for a term of weeks. The
mechanical device employed is pro
pounced simple and i gjnious, and the
economical featnre of it is that tbe cov
erirg ter.g js is saved and utilized as a
fertilizer, u containing 2 02 per cent, of
ammonia. Bales of this prepared moss
find a reed? market among upholsters
and carriage makers.
company’s securing a depth sufficient for
tbe passage of ships of the largest class
within a specified time. A correspondent
of the Fort Wort h G zstte states that tbe
oompany, composed of Northern capital
ists, has completed ail its arrangements,
and that it had purchased the steel and
other materials for building a doable
track terminal railroad from the new city
o'Aransas Harbor across tbe bay and
island to tbe point where tbe two jetties
Will be erected, between which will be
the deep-water channel crossing the bar.
Ooe jetty will have St. Joseph’s Island
fir its base; the other will be boilt from
Matogerda Island Work will begin at
once. The probable cost of the railroad,
jellies and docks will be between §1.000,-
000 and §2,' 00.000 It is also stated that
two Wes:, rn trunk line roads will build
connections to the terminal railroad as
soon as a sufficient depth of water over
the bar is assured.
Very few people know anything about
the amount of freight transportation a
single iron furnace requires. There are
five such furnaces in Sheffield, Ala., and
the Enterprise of that city has, in a re
cent publication, shown what demands
thi y must make upon the railroads cen
tering thore. These five consume daily
2 500 tons of ore, 1.600 tons of coke (which
is equal to 2 241 tons of cos') and 80 tons
of nmestone. The tonnage of raw ma
terial required to keep these furnaces in
blast for a year is nearly 1 800,000 tons.
To mine this material and put it on the
cars for shipment to Sheffield would re
qnlre the labor of 2 500 men in the min
eral region adjacent to Sht ffield. At the
lowest estimate this would compel the
disbursement of flS 750 per week to the
miners and other employes. The amount
of material required and the products of
the furnaces would, loaded on cars, re
quire a continous frieght train 975 miles
long, to be drawn by 1.640 ten-wheel
Baldwin consolidated locooiotivi 8. This
enormous business is what has estab
lished tbe reputation of Sheffied as a
great iron manufacturing center.
Tho cjntract for the construction of
the Waco, Lampasas & Llaro Railroad
was let to tbe Llano Construction Co ,
which is composed chiefly of Texas cap
italists ol d has its bea ’quartere at Lam
pasae. The road between the latter
place and L'aeo will be first constructed,
and it is !o be completed within twelve
months frcm October 1 last. The com
ple-tion of this road will make available
tbe vast resourc.sof the Llano district,
to which attention has b c en call d from
time to time in these columns. Tucre is
already in existence a strong organlza
lion for the development of Llano’s vast
stores of high grade Bessemer ore, aad
the company has only awaited the build
ing of a railroad to go forward vigor
ously with their plans. Contracts have
already been made for tbe location of
several large enterpriser at Llano.
THE PROPOSED GRADY HOSPITAL, ATLANTA, GA.
In January last the city council, on motion o’ Hon Joseph Hlrsch, passed a bill for the founding and erection of an instltn
lion in Atlanta to be known and maintained by tbe cite as the Grady Hospital. A committee of three members of council
and a number of public spirited citizens were named for tfceourpose of carrying Into effect tbe te ms and spirit of the enact
ment - Messrs Joseph Hirsch, H. T.(Ioman and Albert Howe il, of council, together with Messrs. S. M. Inman, M. C. Kiser. W.
A. Mbore Jffiius L Brown, Dr Hunter P. Cooper, J W. English, R B Bullock W. A. Hemphill, A W. Calhoun, and other
citizens were selected to act in concert. The plan of the handsome structure here reproduced was drawn by Messrs. Gardner,
Payne & Gardner, architects, and r presents the institution as it will appear when com pleted. By contract it is to be finished
in twelve months, or by December 1891.
PHRASES AND THEIlt ORIGINS.
The ltoinance of a Window.
The first morning I came down on tl e
Third avenue elevated with the bald
headed man lie called my attention to a
XOBir wh-Asat sewing near a window
not more than thirty feet from the sta
tion. She was both good-looking and
happy. •
“Often Bee her husband np therewith
his arm around her,” said bald-headed.
“Cosiest coup'e I know of. Always look
in on them. She’s devoled to him and
home, and my ideal of a wife.”
After that 1 always looked for the wo
man. Sometimes the bald-headed men
and I exchanged words about her, but
tbeiewas nothing new. One morning,
after about three months, baid headed
observed:
“She’s got an anxious look. Husband
Is probably sick.”
Three days later he said:
She's awfuliy worrie 1 . Husband is
probably worse.”
Tivo or three days later we saw her in
mourning, and it was nc me to tell each
otter that her t usbaud had passed away.
•‘Too bad! Too Dad!’’ sight.d my friend.
“Well, she ll reverence his memory ail
tho rest of her days.”
Almost e: cy morning for three months
we saw her at the sewing machine as the
train pulled up at the station. On one
occasion n:y friend blurted out:
• Sadi She’s got into second mourning
already! It's probably a case ofnecessi
ty I suppose she can be just as sorry in
that.”
A month later we saw her attheglsss
curling her hair. My '.riend didn’t say
anything, but he looked uneasy it
wasn’t a fortnight before her second
mourning had disappeared, and wa hoard
her humming a lively air as sbe threaded
a spool I looked at my !r end.
‘ Probably visits nis grave overy Sun
day,” he replied. “Light-hearted women
never got over grlevir g. She’s Binging
to ease tne pain in her heart.”
Just a month from that day she stood
a! tae window. There ^as a man hbsido
her. She had her head on his shoulder.
Married again, by thur-deri” almost
shonted my friend.
“But I thougtityou said she wouid nev
er . “Durn her!” he cried; and now we
never look into that window,
During the recent session of Congress
a bill was passed by which the general
govtmmon 1 surrendered to a corporation
ail Us rights and interests at. Aransas
Paso, Texas, and give it tho exclusive
right to ob’ain deep water at that, point,
hut made its gift conditional upon the
A Mint of His Word.
It was a boiling hot day in August,
and a St. Louis clothier was mopping
his brow at the door when an acquain
tance observed:
“Y yu seem to be taking it hard.”
“My soul! but I vhas proke in two in
der mlddh I”
‘ Heat affect you that way?”
“Heat Who said heat? I can shtand
fifty degrees more of dot. No, it vhas
something else. I find a man who ke< ps
his word mid me.”
“How was it?”
“Veil, dis morning der mate of a
shteamboat comes In here to boy cloth
ing. He vhas a werry honest looking
man, nnd he says he can pring forty
deckhands to my place. I says if dot
vhas so I like to gif hlm.a suit of clothes.”
“Rather risky, Moses.”
“Oh no. I fix him like die: I bundle up
dot suit und leaf him next door. If forty
mens came and enquire for clothing der
suit vash his. If not he doan get him.
He has shnst gone avhay mit der suit
“But you are a long way ahead If yon
sold to forty men.”
“I doan’ sell nottings to a single man.
How yon suppose I vhas tooken in? It
vhas a great game. Ash dot, flS snit he
took avhay only cost me ft 20 I can al
most laugh aboudt it myself. Here is
how she vhas. One man after anothir
comes in, looks abant, nnd says:
“‘Good day, Moses. Say, Moses, I vhas
going down to Florida die week, nnd I
like to take a far trimmed oafercoat
along. Show me somethings for about
twenty dollar.”
“Eatery man said dot same thing und
vhen der last one vhas gone oud: und I
vbas lying on dc-r floor in a dead faint,
dot mate comes in und says:
“Vhell, Moses, I take dot suit alODg. If
you doan’ haf some fur-trimmed oafer
coat for rny beys I haf to go semawhere
else. I vhas a man who always keeps my
word.’
••Und dot’s what ails me,” gasped
Moses, ss he fell upon a stool at the door.
“Fur trimmed oarercoats vhen it.vash
105 degrees in my ice box!”
If You Don’t Believe These Genu
ine, Get Better Ones. ’I
The phrase : I acknowledge the corn”
originated with a slave in the South. Ha
was charged with stealing corn for nd in
his possession. Havi ng a sack with him
he was also chrrgedwuh stealing tbn‘.
His reply wns, “No. sir; I ’knowledge de
corn, but I ain’t gwine to ’knowledge to
“Tipping the wink,” generally regaid
de. as a vulgar phrase, is to be r found in a
grave historical ;rouiancr. It occurs In
• Valerius; a Roman Htcry,” by John
Gibs; n Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott s son
ic-law, and for many years editor .of the
Quarterly Re view.
4 Any co!o', eo it’s red,” originated
among the class of characters called
Jakeys in the icca! drfi. a O e of them,
being on a committee appoiLtacr.to pro
cure a new fire engine, was asked what
color the com pa ny desired the Apparatus
painted. He replied. “Wby,*S.ny color
so It’s red.” " . »
The origin of tbe phrase “lEa^JaSee it”
is tract?-! to LordNcisWh, wl’JW«f>ie t-J-
tie of Copenhagen was told that a signal
was given to cease firing and the dlrec
tlon pointed out to him. Seizing a tele
scope he applied it to bis b lied eye and
exclaimed, “I can’t see it.”
“Ha I^ijovtr r e coals’’ dates s'x or
seven centuries back, when feudal barons
oft n us d harsh me .hcds of exacting
gold from the rich J. wsby suspending
their victims above slow tires until they
paid ransom or died. There is a scene of
this Bc.rt in “lvauhoe,” in which the
Templar endeavored to extort money
from Isaac of York, father of Rebecca.
“Barking np the wroDg tree” is a very
common expression in the West. It orig
mate d from the fact that a dog will bark
at the ft ot of a particu ar tree to ictii
cat d to his masltr where the game Is lo
cated. Whl e end< avoring tn see the an
imal he discovers it on another tree, and
it finally escapes him altogethcr. In its
application it denotes that a p. rson has
mistaken Ms object, oris lookiLg for it
in the wrong place.
Anxious mothers often tell their hai d
some daughters that beauty is but skin
deep.” The phrase prooably originated
with these two i nes:
B uuty is but skin deep, and so do ]i [all
Short of those statues made of wood or stoae
which occur in Rev. Robert Fleming’s
poem, published in 1691.
The term “bluestocking” wasoriginal
ly us d ia Venice about the year 1100, to
designate literary c asies by colrrs. In
Mill's “History of Cnivairy” v»e are told
that members cf tho various acadimi'. s
were distinguished by the color of tbeir
stecfclings, bluo beiug tbe prevaiiii g cot
or. The application of the term to wo
men originated with Miss Hannah
Moore s admirable description of a “Blue
Bl: eking Uiub ’ in her • B ;s Bleu.”
‘ Corporators have; o;sou.a’ Is a much
older exprss ion than must people im »g
ine. It originated with Sir Edward
Coke, vvhc in the 16th emtury was con
side red one of the best .'c^al writers of
the age. Ho says, in one of his treatises,
* Corporations cannot commit trespass,
nor be outlawed, nor t xcominunicated,
for they have no souis.”
“Dro ning the mhiei” originated from
the following faoi: If the mill stream
below the mill is dammed or stopped,
the water is ponded beck, and the mill
becomes what the ir liters call tailed.”
There is toa much water, tbe in; 11 will cot
work, and the miller is >a'd to be
“drowned out.” Hence, when too much
it is called of any one sr.icle is put into
a mixture, “dteWuing the miller.’
There are few such common-sen e pro
verbs as “every man is the architect of
his own future.” Applas Claudius, a
Roman censor, used it lu a speeen oeliv
ertd by him 150 years before the Chris
tian era.
“Better late than never” was used over
800 years ago by Thomas Tucker, In his
“Five Hundred Points of Good Husban
dry.” Later on Banyan nsed it in Ms
“Pilgrim’s Progress.”
Not a few of the phrases In use at this
day originated with Lyly, and are found
in Ms * Euphnes,” a popular book pub
lished in 1580. Among them mlgnt bs
mentioned “canght napping, ’ “a
crooked stick or none,” “brown study,”
catching birds by putting salt on their
tails,” etc.
When people do not particularly like
each other it Is sometimes said “There
is no love loat between them.” The
phrase occurs in the old ballad of
“The Bibee in the Wood,” aad in a tale
of the days of Suakeepears, entitled
“Moiitchensey.”—Detroit Free Frees.
What Sarah Said to Mary.
It was on a Madison avenue car at
6 o’clock. Among those who had Beats
were eight men. Among those standing
up were two shop girls. After waiting
for a reasonable time for some one to of
fer them seats one of the girls said:
“Mary, it’s too bad, isn’t it?’
“What, Sarah?” as«ed the other.
T hat they are all bow-legged.”
Who?”
“These eight gentlemen. I have pat
ronlzed this line for five years, and I nev
er saw a bow'egged man give hLr.setf
away by standing up In acar. It wouldn’t
be reasonable to expect it,”
‘ Of courss not.”
In just five seconds eight men were on
their feet, bowing and entiling and ask
i ing Sarah and Mary if they wouldn’t be
so everlasting knd and obliging as to
take half the car, in fact, and they took
' it.
Her Beautiful Booms and How
They ai£,.Furnished.
An Atrerican princess wtose fatter it;
a cotton king, hss just completed in tht.
paternal marsio:. the furnisbi-gs of her
private apartme They are four in
number, and crnld NiDon <’el’ Erdos or
even the late Madame de Pompadour be
shown through, certain it is th> se an
cient devotcos ot tie toilet would lose
t heir heads and star d embarrassed before
tbo glories of Mi.. Parvenue s boudoir.
Even in their 'd'tfest drsams those lux
ury-loving ladirs rerer corceivfd the
minute details of elegance surrounding
this daughter of s millionaire From the
te fiver-wreathed Psyche mirror that
“'swings to reflect nor full-length loveli
ness to the repot e spirit lamp burning
tOrvarm her lotto- t, mademoiselee isjen
<kphpassed by as. nptuousnessunknown
toyiaeens
Woo rcbeme >f color decorating the
* dhlte to blush pink in
r\Mlet and reception
L. -oty Her. bed-
Frieda cBeighm'd for
f/ maiden, so fine is
'ili . Mural decora
\lp ,nd silver. On the
V *n~
ONE GIRL'S LUXURY.
dogwood blossoms
f, 'ndi-rfol bit of fresco
save warms fro
the bath, and
rooms rut-(te 1
ebttmbcr
Hans Andersea
Its Immaculate]
tions are in v 1
wide silver fr
bloom, while by 1 ?
a cloudy, drifting J: g.
Here and thcr v tbe soft mist curls
about vaguely outlined figures, with a
sharp rift in the cectrc from which tango
a crystal chandelier blown to resemble a
bouquet of lilies. All of tte white en
amelled furniture is finished in silver,
and from the carved bed depend draper
ies of heavy silver fi .ur de lis. The spot
lees fie tee ot Iceland sheep provides a
fluffy carpet for the hard whitewood
floor, and glancing over the many tall
screens, low rocklne chairs, long divans,
and even rare bas reliefs on the wall, one
is impressed with tho dszzling white
ness of every part.
Gorgeous as the bathroom proves,
with its piok maibies end roseate hang
ings, it is in her boudoir that this young
moneyed womtn bts evidently found her
most sjrnpaibelie surroundings. The
apartment Is a study in that rare shade
of ro.-y lilac which, when found, btauti
lies all womankind.
It is called the w isteria room from the
wealth of paio purpie flowers decorating
the walls and woven into curtains, and
through the mesh of the thick carpet.
Here ail the woodwork is of black ma
hogany. upholstered in a warm helic
imps silk, m.Rny bronze ornaments,
v»iu«b!e otefcim s, and mirrors io carved
frames.—New York Sun.
For the Sunny South.
DBEAMIKG OF THEE.
I am dreaming, fondly dreaming,
In the silent twilight, gray,
Ol a spirit ever teaming,
Giving out the purest ray.
Eves so pensive! tresses golden,
Oliceks a bonny blooming line:
Form so statelv! mind beholden
Always to the good and true.
I am dreaming dear Viola,
Of thyself this eventide,
Thou w lio art the very solar
Light to me, my own, my bride.
Dresming, saying: ''Will life’s river
Flow serenely for us too?
Will the waves more gently ..uiver
Than they e’er forme would do?”
Dreaming, asking, tender maiden:
“Will the angels envy me
When I realize my Aidenn—
When I live my days with thee?”
‘‘When I place my heart, that’s yearning,
’Gainst thy gracious heart divine,
Press thee to this bosom burning—
Meet those rut y lips with mine?”
Dreaming wondTlng, holy ma’den:
“Will the seraphim a bote
Chant, our happy union, laden
With the grt atest. deepest love?
“Chant, as omen of the pleasure
Heaven will send us from on high,
Chant the joy that has no measure,
Heaven will send us from the sky?”
Love can hear sweet voices warning
Him how bright will be the day
When our new life has its morning,
Thence forever, and for aye.
I am dreaming, fondly dreaming,
In the silent twilight gray,
Of a spirit ever beaming—
Giving out the purest ray.
William L Ea«ley.
A $50,000 Dinner Set.
The Astor family poeeeases a gold
dinner service that Is the envy of every
woman who has ever seen it. It is one
of tho most ooetly in this country. It is
valued at fifty thousand dollars, and is
Soothe property of Mrs. William Astor.
It bas been In the family’s possession a
long time; It would be hard to deeoribe,
as it was made In different parts of the
world and was picked up on odd occa
sions. It is unique and has been talked
about more than any other dinner set In
this country. The larger dishes consist
of an immense p’ateao and centre piece,
end pieces, cacdelabruma, wine coolers
and pitchers. In tbe design is repre
sented fruit of all description, together
with the unicorn and lion ia repousse
work. Mrs. ABtnr uses a white linen
tablecloth of the finest texture, lna^e os
recialiy for ter, with a wide leco border
Blowing a liri’ g of pink sptin. Her
table ie alwuys dtcorafced with Glorio d©
Fb.is roBt s. their f xquis te shade of pink
matching exactly 'he satin underneath.
—Ladies' Home JouTV.al.
SKETCHES OF DEAR GIRLS.
Just as They Were Seen and Heard
in Various Places.
This little comedy might ba called
“Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman.”
Tho £C6no ia in one of those lovely now
cream-colored carrett, s that have just
begun running on Fifth avenue. The
characters are three very pretty girls,
one with brown eyes and b ond hair, an
other with gray eyes and dark hair, and
the other with violet eyts and auburn
hair. The eirl with violet eyes and au
burn hair has just entered thb carrcite,
and, rrcogrizlng an Rtquaintance in
Miss Browneyes, sits down beside her,
and receives effusive greetings.
•’On, I’m so glad to see you my dear.”
cried Miss Browneyes, fairly bobbing up
and down with emotional jiy. “How
love’yjou are looking How perfectly
sweet. Oh! let me introduce you to my
dear friend, Miss Grayejes You must
like each other, for I love you both.”
“Beautiful little jacket, my dear. Such
svi et buttons.”
fPosltlvaly don’t have ilrne to dress.
Always ava luncheon, a c inner, or some-
thing else. I can’t look ’'veil to save
me.”
“Dearest boy in the world. Wants to
give me a Baddle horse, but mamma
won’t let me accept it.”
“Horrid. Did you er j oy yourself abroad
this summer?
Delightful; yachting was the best fun.
The Prince is so charming.”
“Papa is going to cut my allowance,
he sayp. Jelly gny on him. He gave me a
hundred tiday, and I’m going down now
to spend ev ry cent of it on a hat, a pair
of Fnoef, and—(whispered, corsets.”
‘ No; I’m not engaged, really. I can’t
imagine how that English follow should
have started that story. To be sure he’s
a viscount, but he’s awfully fast, and I
never did more than go riding in the
Park with him on one or two occasions,
and always his mother drove in a car
nage near us.”
“Yes, I am a little stouter. Oh, please
don’t flatter me, I know it’s no. bscom
ing. Oh, bush! Your friend will laugh
at me if I sit cp and take your praise.
I’m rea’ly losing whatever good looks
I ever had. j
“Yes. do cal!. Come,tend I’ll show you a j
lot of pretty dresses I brought home from t
Paris. H-. re is my street. Good-by, dear. >
Gsod morning, Mies Gray eyes. When (
my dear fr erd calls you come with har.
I shail like to know you better.”
Ml,,a Vloleteyes alights from the car
rette and flutters io the sidewalk. The
two young women left to themselves
mate a few remarks.
‘“Isn’t she downy? There isn’t tho
slightest use of her going alrosd. She
never gets a thing that’s pretty.”
“Well, she used to have a sort of wash
ed-out style of Dtauty that a few of the
rn. n liked, but now she hasn’t an admir
er, I think she- puts something on ter
hair to make it auburn. I’m sure it used
to be s a dusty trowD.”
‘ Quite ouisids of society, you know, I
never meet her except on the streets.
Her mother is a^reat schemer,and man
ages to get ter daughter’s name into the
papers.”
“Her father is a shirt manufacturer.
Makes money, but vulgar to a degree.”
“Well, she flirts, you know, and the
gossips dosey ”
At this point the listener reaches bis
destination and escapes frem the cairette,
saddeDed by tbe lescon he has learned
from this comedy of feminine frendship.
—N.Y. Sun.
The Other Man’s Wife.
A MOST CHARMING STORY OF EARLY LOVE
I!Y JOHN i-TRANGE WINTER.
We Didn't Understand Him.
When I get to the depot half an hour
ahead of time, or when I am compelled
to wait for an honr or two at som e
junction. I like to be social with my
fellow victims. Hang the man who
makes a churl of himself under any cir
cumstances, particularly when he trav
els.
Eight or ten of us bad been thrown o ff
at a railroad junction In Indiana to watt
for two hoars, and it wasn’t ten minntes
before we were all talking, visiting, amok*
ing and yarning. All but one. I am, of
coarse speaking of the men. The ladles
held the sitting room, wMIe we took the
platform. This one was a middle aged
man, who took Ms valise and sat down
at the far end of the platform, as if to
K t as far from us as he could. Every
dy noticed his action andhewmspnt
down as a sour-minded chaplwho could
have added nothing to onr comfort. We
sfmply did by Mm as he did by ns—let
him severely alone.
About ten minutes before train time I
noticed that the man was asleep. I
made bold to approach him and
callout, but he did not move. Going
closer, the peculiar pallor of hie face
alarmed me, .and in another minute
I discovered that he waa dead. He
had passed away while he slept.
When we came to lift him np what
do ;you suppose we found? He had
been writing In a note book with a pen
cil, and the last lines he had written
were:
“A stranger in a strange land, and sick
unto death, and yet no one has a word
of sympathy—no one will even come near
mo. May God forgive them for being so
stony-hearted. I hope that by to-mor
row ”
But no to-morrow ever came to him.
It c,mie to ail the rest or ue, but, come
as often as it may, none o'us will ever
fee'just rigiittowf.I'd ourselves. We had
misjudged Mm.
CHAPTER III.
I remember in the sunshine o; my childhood's
happy days,
A little maid with fpir blue eyes and sweet ai-d
simple ways;
We wander’d ’mid the fragrance of the smiling
summer flowers,
And we play’d among the shadows of the fire-lit
winter houis.
Yea-s came atd went—springs gave
place to summers, aud winter snows
nipptd the last gleam of beauty from
aulumn foliago, and so lime passed on.
But Jack Trevor nevor wont back to his
fond and faithful little playfellow at the
Ciiffe.
Crummies settled down In his new
hotr. c and straightway forgot the young
master whose hoart had been so sorely
wrung at parting from Mm. You see
'Crummies is very young and it is only
old dogs who have anything to boast of
in the way of memory, and altkongh
Ethel talked to him often cf Jack, it
must be confessed ho was more than sat
isfied with the change.
And Jack never went back. Not that
Jack was to blame; but w! on his first
holidays came—that was at Christmas—
Et: el was lying ill with a mild attack of
scarlet fever, and the long talked of visit
was of necessity put off. And at mid
summer—it was before tho time of long
Easter holidays—Mrs. Mordaant and
Ethel had gone to Svi'zerlaud to spend
the summer, ar.d apparently Mrs Mor-
daunt never thought of asking him to
pay his visit there.
So t‘ e time went by, and gradually the
correspondence between tho two, which
bed a first been regular and voluminous,
fell off, not with apparent intention, but
really insensibly; it dwindled from week
ly levers to letters on occasion—birth
days, valentines, Easter eggs, Christmas
and New Year’s cards, acd so on. Then
at last there China a day when Ethel did
not send Jack a yaleutine and Jack did
not tend Ethel a birthday gift, It was
not Ethel’s fault in the 'east; she hfd
bought the card, but her mother had
renerstd in an acid sort of voice that
really it was time now that sh9 should let
Jack Trevor alone. Jack mis red the card
sorely, though he said nothing abont it
to any or e, and Ethel cried over the want
of the birthday gift and confided her
grit/ to Crummies, who W’iS getting >>
stain dog now and hao aiwaye been uij
crcet in keeping the cot.fidences made to
him—and the links of the chain once
broken, the friendship between the two
seemed to die out.
By this time Jack Trevor had leit his
first school and had gone to Eton—he
was in fact nearly sixteen. His career
at this time was not especially remark
able. He had, owing to his father’s fore
sight and prudence, a fortune of about
fl,200 a year and was therefore as well off
as waB necessary for any Bchoolboy. He
e:ill lived with his grandmother and was
still the very light and life or her old
age. Like most parsons’ sons, he was re
markable for great proficiency in all
manner of sport and was very daring
and ?uil of courage. He rode well and
drove well, too, he was good at all man
ner of games and was a handsome lad,
well made and fair-faced, with frank
eyes and a pleasant mouth. He had that
charm, too, which is perhaps the very
greatest charm in a man, a sweet spsak-
ing votes.
It was no wonder that old Lady G.s
colgne loved him so, for he waB fur and
away the flower among her grandchil
dren. Lora Gascoigne, her eldest son,
nad married late and had two little sons
in his nursery who had no trace of the
Gascoignes about them, but strongly re-
simoied ttelr snappish, sharp nosed lit
t.'e mother both in face and in disposi
tion.
Mrs. Hnih Drummond hsd an im
mense number of sons a: d daughters, ail
sandy and frccklal lice ttu-ir Scotch
iat '-er. Her second girl had only one
very delicate boy, who spent most ot his
time lying on a sofa, and the little
Marclioneas who had given herseif airs
to Conty, was childless. Small wonder
then that the cld lady liked Jacktim best
of all.
From Eton Jack Trevor went to Sand
hurst, and from Sandhurst he was ga
zetted :o the Fifteenth Drtgoons Then
hts sou! was satictied and he set himself
to enjoy the two months’ leave as only
these who are young and unburdened
with care caD erjoy anything.
^te spent part of his leave In making a
round of country visits, and among
ethers he went to stay at the house of
the lA>rd Lieutenant of Blanks', ire, some
half-dozen miles from Blankhampton
and hla old home. As a matter of course
he met the Bishop, and equally as a mat
ter of course : e was introduced to Mm
as the ton of his predecessor, and
naturally enough he was asked to dine
at the palace.
S x years had gone by since he had seen
the place, but the dreadtulfamlllarity of
everything struck him most painfully—
he sat at tne same table, on one of the
self same chairs on which he had sat as
a boy, the same heraldic device was
bit zjned on the plates and dishes, graven
on the spoons aud forks—nay, the very
batter was the same, the same who had
served his father faitbtnlly duripg ten
years and called Mm “Mr, Jack” just as
he had done half a dozen years beiore.
Once the old man apologized for Ms fa
miliarity and Jack looked roned at him
with bis flank eyes and ready smile—
“Why, Smithers,” he said, “what would
you call me? I don’t suppose if 1 was at
home here still that yon would have
learnt to call me anytnirg else.”
“No, sir, I don’t suppose I sh-uid,”
Smithers answered with a gratified
smirk.
“Mr. Jack's just tbe same as he used to
be,” he remarked to the cook, who had
also been one of the late Bishop’s ser
vants, and whom Mr. Smithers had hopes
of marrying one day; “I don’t see a bit of
difference at all. And ’pon my word out
It’s a treat after this stuck-up lot that’s
afraid of opening tneir mouths for fear of
what they may let out.” ,
“Afai Mr. Jack was always a dear boy,”
said Mrs. Mennell—she was a spinster
still, but enjoyed the brevet rank In the
household—“many’s the time he’s come
to me for Ms cakes, or milk for the pup,
or something of the kind; and he gave
that bull pup to Miss Ethel over at the
Ciiffe. 1 remember it as well as if it was
yesterday.”
Nowlt happened that just at tnis very
moment Jack was saying to Ms •lostess—
“By the bye, Mrs. Jon a, doycu s:e much
of t he JVlordaunts now? ’
The Bishop's wife hesitated. “Well,
we do end we (ton-1! Jast now they are
abroad and the couse is shut up,” She
answered.
“Is th so?” said Jaik. “I’m sorry. I
used to know them all very well. The
Major was always awfully good to me—
he tsught me nearly all I know in the
oo.’dior line. And Ethel was a great
friend of mine—a grea: friend.”
“A<! yes!”—Mrs. Jonep, who waa a
beautiful woman, turned hirface a little
aride and looked pensively at a tray of
flo ■ ers in front of her— ‘But y^u have
not reen her sir es you were here?”
‘ Never,’’ J^ck answered. “We always
meant to spend orr holidays together,
but we never did—perhaps Mrs. Mor-
daunt didn’t want me down here, and my
grandmother is not young and perhaps
she did not want two of i s bothering her
at or.ee. I don’t know how it was, but
we never saw each other again after I
left Blankhampton. What is Eihel like
now?”
“She is pretty,” said Mrs. Jones quiet
ly— 1 decidedly pretty.”
I wonder why it is that there is no dis
paragement so t ffectual as damning with
faint praise. In that sho.t coi vernation
Jack Trevor gathered something that
was utterly unjust toward Ethel Mor-
daunt’s lcoks. Mrs Jones said ao more
on the subject and neither did he, but
presently she said, care’e3sly: By the
bv, jea know, of course, that Ethel Mor-
daunt Is going to be marries?”
Jack stared at her in astonishment.
‘ Going to be married? ’ he echoed;
“you don’t mean it?”
‘ Oh! yes, I do She is to be married
early in September,” the lady replied.
‘You surprise me,” he exclaimed; “but
— but—isn’t she very young?”
“Yes, I suppose she is—about IS, 1
think. She has been introduced nearly
a year.”
“Aad who is the man?”
“A M ■ jor Dennis cf the Twenty fourth
Lancers. They have been quartered
here for nearly two years.”
“But he must be old enough to be h6r
father,” Jack broke out.
“Scarcely that,” said the Bishop’s wife
indifferently, “but he is older, of course.
You see it is a good raaiiage—ilajur
Dennis is nt xt to the Frothingham title—
that makes such a differer c
“Yes, I suppose it does,” Jack agreed.
I hardly know how it was, but he left
the pa r.ee that evening with h!s earliest
aad teuderest ideal aha 1 t.red Although
he had never seen Ethel since they part
ed, just after his father’s death, he felt
as if he had lost something—something
dear to him.
He was romantic < nough, however, to
borrow an amount the following morning
and ride over to the Ciiffe, where he
found a strange lodge keeper, who did
not know him, but who told him that
the family were away and the house in
charge of Mrs. Sommers
“Mre. Sommers?” repeated Jack, “that
was old rutse’s name, surely ”
“Mrs Sc-m.61. “Li use ti be ,MiS3 Mof •
daunt’s nurse, sir,” replied the lodge-
keeper.
‘ Tnen I'll go up to ths house to see
her,” said Jack, and rode through the
gate and along the well kept drive to the
white wa led mansion where his first
love had lived all her life.
A neat housemaid came to the door.
Yes, she told him, Mrs. Sommers W3S at
home. Who should she saj ?
“Mr. Trevor,” Jack answered; and in
two minutes Mrs. Sommers came to him.
“Dear heart,” she cried, “if It Isn’t Mr.
Jack.”
‘Yes, nurse,” aiiswered he, holding out
both his hands, “it is. And who is this,
not Crummies sureij?”
“Yes, it is, sir The master and mla.
tress and Miss Ethel are abroad and
Crummies stays to keep me company.”
The bull—well, I was going to say Dad-
pup, but Crummies was long past the
days of his yruth—the bull dog came
quietly up to Jack and investigated him
suspiciously.
“Now, now, cld chap,” said Jack
easily, “you don’t, know me. of course,
how should you? but you may teire me
on trust, old chap, give you my word for
Inal.”
Apparent y the investigation satisfied
Mr. Crummies, for after walking several
times around Jack's chair he sat down
beside him and rested himself in a
humpedup sere of way against hiaieg.
“D. e3 ha do that often? ’ J tek asked.
‘ Not often, Master Jack,” answered
Mrs. Sommere; ‘ only when he’s most
pleased with »ny ooe.”
There was a moment’s si'ence, Jack
smoothing the dog’s brindled head ti e
while. At last he looked up at the old
lady.
“Nurse,” he ssid, “I hear Ethel is going
to be married.”
“Yes, I believe she is, Piaster Jack,”
answered sae, shutting her lips Very
closely and smoothing her silk apron
down in a severe kind of way - .
^.“Don t you like the marriage, nurse?”
he assed.
Mrs. Sommers’ Zips took a yet severer
curve. “I haven’t been p.sfced to give an
opinion, Master Jack,” she said, ia a ras-
sion'ess kind of voice.
Jack knew by experience that wild
he rses would not drag ano’her word out
of the old lady, so he began to stroke
Crummies again and then to r.sk after
various old servinta and persons about
the vicinity of the palace whom ho re
membered as a boy.
“You used to say you were going to be
a soldier, Master Jack,” said Mrs. Sonr •
mers, wieu they had came to an end of
that subject.
“So I am, I’m an officer of the Fif
teenth Dragoons now. 4 haven’t joined
yet, but I shall do so next month. I say,
nurse,” he wont on, “have you a photo
graph of Miss Ethel anywhere? I should
like to see her.”
“I’m afraid I haven’t, Master Jack, but
there may be one in the drawing room,”
she answered. “Will yon ccme and
see ?”
Bat Jack was doomed to disappoint
ment. Either tbe albums had been put
away or Ethel bad taken them with her,
for Mrs. Sommers con d find nothing but
a faded old picture of Etbel taken yean
before in the garden with the dog Crum
mies sitting beside her.
“I’m afraid that’s the only one,” she
said. “And that waa taken about the
time you left the palace, Master Jack.
Miss Ethel has altered a good deal sinoe
then.”
“How altered, nurse?”
“Well, she’s tall and pale, sir. She
doesn’t know what it is to have her own
way. The mistress fancied she had got
to be hoydenish, and sbe bad gover
nesses for this and masters for tbat, till
all the life seemed to be taken out of
her.”
“Aud yet she la marrying early.”
“The mistress wishes it, sir. Tbe mis
tress believes In early marriages if there
is money in the case. Ard there is money
here, any amount of it.”
“I see,” said Jack.
But all the same, Jack only thought
that he saw; and presently he rode away
from tee C iffa where he h d spent so
many happy houri in the days that were
gone by, feeling—well, as if. e had been
to iook at some fond'y cm-rUhed and
carefully hidden treasure aad hiu found
that it hsd oven sto'eu away long before
and only a blank !ett..
Poor dear little E .nel I He did not like
to thiak s imetoiv of that br*v« and fear
less little soul being cramped and r9.