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VOLUME XVIL-NO. 782.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, 'DECMEBER 13. 1890.
A PUSHING LITTLE CITY.
That’s What Madison, Florida,
May be Called.
A Fine People Who Are Full of
Pluck and High
Purpose.
EW TOWNS In Florid*
I have as many substantial
I reasons to be called boom-
’ ing, as Madison.
Situated on the F. C. and
P. railroad, In the sub
stantial farming country,
Bhe is near enough to Jack-
sonville to go and return
, without sacrificing much
time. There are two
other roads making thtir
I way here, one completed
almost and the other will
try to overtake the rival—
thus adding ways and means to ship the
produce and reduce our freight to a min
imum.
Madison is in the hill country of the
State, and one has a faint idea of the
bracing atmosphere just far enough from
the coast to temper the salt breeze with
the resinous ozone of the pine forests.
Invalids, hunters and cotton buyers
find just the thing desired in the ever
pleasant climate, the virgin forests fuil
of game and the hundreds of acres of
cotton planted in this section. Situated
on a plateau much higher than the sur
rounding country and drained by a hand
that never 6rrs, the town is singularly
free from alt malarial troubles, and the
people have complexions more like
mountaineers than “low country folks.”
From a business standpoint this place
is particularly inviting. The trading
center for three counties, she otters rare
inducements to rII locking for a home.
From the v. inflows cf the hotel, or the
cupola of the court-house, one of tho
handsomest in the 3tats, one can sac
almost everything one raises on the farm.
In one direction the smoke and waving
masses tell ns a sugar boiiirg is going
on, and the waving acres in uncut cane.
In another we see the cotton fields, and
jnst across the street we see the wagons
and hear the bum and whirr of the gins
as they separate the fleecy staple and
roll out the bales ready fer market. Tf,en
we ara told of tlw " •’*- ‘
themselves. Ope man sends about four
thousand dollars’ worth otf every yea”,
and he don’t buy them from any one
esoeolally—just picks them up from
people who make a surplus In such
^Tobacco and rice grow well here, but
neonle are too much absorbed in cotton
to°nay it tne attention it deserves.
Melons do well here, and some plant
lareelv Pears and pecans are more
«Habie than oranges, although they are
raised In this county sufficiently to form
aulte an Item for the one fortunate
enough t o have them for sa.e.
While no occupation Is crowded, there
ia no cabinet-maker nor tinner here.
We ■** d the milliner say that the
reason she did not advertise was. she got
more than she could attend to now. An
other milliner and dresB-maklng estab
lishmeot would do well here. .
The only vessel In this sea of Journal
ism la the Recorder, and true to 1W name
we have all that’s worth the reconi In
that eight p8gc—an established venture
that has been h. re many yearn and whose
list of subscribers and advertisers “bows
that a good paper Is appreciated In Mad
ison and thatMessrs. Davis and Pond
know what goes to “make up one, and
do not allow “form” or unholy “pi” to
drive them to verbosity When space
stares them In tbe face.
Bide by side with the newspaper we
must put the Central Park” the most
home like hotel in the state. Plentyof
room, attentive servants and a chief that
knows his business and considers cook
ing a flue art. With a’bus to meet every
train and a tospitabie greeting upon
vour arrival one must be far gone to
trouble about how be will get cn.
Situated on Main street one has a pic
ture, worthy an artist, in the magu.n
cent oaks that are on all sides and tue
glimpses or the lake as it sparkles In the
sunshine and the busy life a bit further
down tbe street.
Among the prominent people one
meets in business here are three lawyers
that in their several lines are ur.ques
tioned authority: C il. H. J. McCall, Hon.
Angus Patterson and Col. C. B. Ashley.
Col. McCall Is good at anything, but
especially so at collecting bad debts. A
mighty power in the Knights of Honor,
he may be so imbued with their nobility
one feels rebuked when he appeals to
you and forthwith pays; ary way he gets
* S Patterson’s forte is land titles and
righting the defrauded. He is a K»yal
Arch Mason and takes that worthy order
as a role in business, and things are
“plumb and square,” we can assure you.
Col. Ashley la eloquent and is popular
and for a ycung man quite a power in
the land. „ .
Among the merchants wo will first
mention the pioneers. Men who linked
their fortunes with Madison when she
was a country place getting supplies from
St. Marks and Jacksonville by means of
wagon trains.
Fust cornea A. Livingston, whose early
Investments In the mercantile line have,
bv unfailing honesty and low prices,
turned over until the result la oolossal.
8. 8. Smith has watched this same
town develop from a yellow pine forest
Into a “citified plaoe” and kept pace
with It In all his former lines until now
to please hia patrons yon can get any
thing from a “blue beck speller” to *
carload of salt. .
W. H. Dial takes even rank with urn
other two and if one peeps into his ware
room and sees furniture and hard warn
“to the beat of ruin” and In the main
■tore sees all he keeps they see the secret
of hia old customers staying right there.
W. J Witherspoon has not been long
In the race, but he’s a farseelng young
man and keeps a fall line of fresh family
groceries. He sells so cheap and delivers
so promptly his goods never get stale.
Shaw & Smith in that pretty brick
store across the street argue that all of
life la not spent at tbe table, and carry
nioe line of dry goods In addition to their
family groceries.
Henry W. Smith, a most accommcdat-
irg young man, serves hot meals at all
hours and keeps on hand ail sorts of
cakes and contectionery, so that unex
pected company is no longer a bugbare
if jou nave some one to send to Mr.
Smith’s to buy whatever you lack.
H. V. Morrow is the produce merchant
IN SHAKSPEABE’S THE.
Curious Description of Life Lonsr
Ago in Stratford-on-Avon.
Sidney Lee’s Book on the Things
That Affected Shakspeare’s
Imagination.
Many are the books that have been
written about Shakspeare’s native
town, but one more may be worth exam
Ining, particularly at this time when
thers is talk of duplicating In Chicago
the memorial theatre erected a few years
cash. He has just paid the sturdy farmer
for meat or bis thrifty wife for lard,
chickens or eggs.
J. H. Southall has only been here a few
months, but he proves to be a man of his
word, and bis stock of general merohan
also Is all ho claims for it and he has a
good trade.
T. W. Dale oomes next on the list as
dealer in general merchandise, and his
customers sigue that he can’t be beat in
anything. From onr acquaintance we
endorse Mr. Dale’s praises.
J. B. Brinson’s is headquarters for
drags, eye glasses, perfumery and seeds.
A good pharmacist, deseivedly popular,
bis stock never gets old, and bis word Is
his bond. A person must be purely blind
net to find a pair of eye glasses to salt
him in his stock.
Fralelgh. Coggins & Fra'eigh handle a
superb line of goods, ladies’ dress goods,
notions, fine shoes and a full line of
gents’ furnishing goods. This house
has the men for the work aud tbelr t«st*>
and discrimination can be relied on
Who comes to Madison and in-.et -- /,
Capt. Market Genial, clever ana wnae |
awake, be is deservedly popular As a j
real estate agent he can’t be“tnrn*d , i
down,” and you may be certain that it I i
he says there’s phosphate in this county | ”
he honestly thinks so. Just now he h»H '
three bargains in real estate that he of • ■ 1
fers so cheap it would take you ;• breat h.
away. Captain M. says even h s string I I ___ . .—
l-.ngs can’t stand It more tnan nt • f vra-?!
days longer. ImgM&m ' p ~_P±? ot
Infoimation will bo cheer!u ly feiv-.->. I 1
any one that contemplates movie* •
Florida.
Like Hamit t with the ghost u hoj d
be a letter from here without mentioiii
the lakes Iteming with fish; tne oscc ae
where natnro peiforms a word, r ui ini: g j
and has adorned the spot with toweriug
magnolias, trailing vines and ot desofj
yellow jtssemin-; the B:uu sprir g
deeper than my regard for my veracity
altows me to put in print, and the water
beautifully blue and so e'ear one ctu
select the ilbh th:y especially want and
drop a dynamite there, and the fish is
yours.
Or, if it is game you want, real ga i.e
likG bear, deer, etc , Just get Capt. Liv
ingston and Editor Pound to take you to
their lower plantation and your heart’s
desire wili be granted.
Ail these places are near enough to be
pleasant drives, aud thi3 county has
nothing “slouchy” in lha way of hors--s
Tatra Is a beautiful d:iv6 around a lake
aud the display of fine stock one fees
exercising there will mako you almost
enviout; but nice folks don't do that, you
know.
Some one says, Where are tho sceools
ar.d churches,? Right here, and ail you
want in cither way. Just come and see,
and if you come you’ii be sure to stay.
We guarantee that.
Why need any more bo slid? As a final,
let me impress upon you this: Madison
of Stratford hsTTHWW fff-what we under
stand by corn! t. In the smaller houses
fora long tlm chimneys were rare. A
hole In the wi allowed the smoke !o es-
caoe. In mai casts the internal space
was not pari loned off. The ground
fl jor formed t Ingle ball, and -‘each one
made hi* firci ainttarereflosln the ha l
where be din and dressed his meat.
The opening < the ’rant door revealed
the pot hook#£d bangers with which
the cooking The tables, aa a
raleTwere m. i with flami to “torn up.”
Capulet, In “1 h«o and Jo let,” when be
wants room f< the dancers in bis ball
shouts out to I I servants to “turn the
tables up.” TtJfi^N clothe or arras
were features i all Elizabethan houses,
wht ther rich o poor Shakspeare writes
of these hangli ;* in “Lucrece ’:
Who fears k hb« inee. or an old man s saw,
Shall bv a pain d cioti be kept in awe
The floors wtte qirewn with rushes or
people will welcome you in the old fash
toned hospitable style, assist you in a 1
you undertake, have you riding behind
those fast horses ai d as a ‘ clincher”
give you a drink from the artesian well,
the only one ia Florida that goes through
eighty six feet of granite, \Kpan.«»■-
HIS MUSTACHE.
THE ROOM IN WHICH SHAKSPEARE f AS BORN.
s.veet smelllni herbs. Grumio bids t':e
rushes be strewk 11 Petrucbi Vs hous ;and
Romeo bids waatooe light- of heart,
Tickle the senates 3 rushes with their heels.
The sanitari ooatlitions of the town
worn wretched. The clay fi tors of the
houses were at loom swept} refuse was
thrown on the street. John Shah8 v e'.re
was an habituM ed’ender in the latter
respect. 8 i p'jwyi !n tbe town were ao-
polnied for amassing ihe filthin lega'izod
muck hli's They woto near enough to
the houses to make them a constant
source <«’ danger to health and li r e. M
Halit well Pnli 1 !," has suggested that
William Shaktpeare’s devth in 1616. like
that of msny of hisj-tv-iinen, was due
to tbe tainted ’“’fsphsreof his environ
monfc. The ai ket’Hr ick visited Brat,
ford in 1769, &:t cribed It at that t i m
- • ■- apssemjy, wretch d
A Sad Romance of Bostonian Life
in Our Own Day.
CHAPTER L
Georgo Van Doczandyke and Matilda
de Bumblethorpe loved one another
fondly and passionately. Had yon seen
them on the evening on which onr story
opens you would have thought so. They
were In the palatial parlor of Reginald
da Bumblethorpe, Matilda’s proud par
ent. The lights were low, and in the
glimmerirg gloaming the young people
® — ..loaned to each other’s heart, with
a patent ?lasp adjusted on the lips, com
m G“or|fw« g“ng away for three long
months. The clock on the “antel struca
m 11 1° and yet he tarried, but as the
hour o ’ i chimed he tore himself away
and hastened home.
CHAPTER II.
A young man Is standing before a,
•». b ■ In.o.ltlv nt, asllcll
ago at SIritford-on-Avon. Amarioan
companies have already pisjed on the
stage at Sbakspeare's home; and the } ic
ture of an American actress. Mis3 Ada
Rshan, adorns the walls of Memorial
Hall.
That Si ratford was the birthplace ol
Shakspsaro has given it in the view of
tho modern world Its chie'attr.etiou. A
graater attraction, however, it has in the
fact that the poet spent there fuily two
thirds of his ife. Completely as the r6
sourc s of civilization have remodeled
the town in many of its aspic’s, it still
boasts scflicient survivals cf the age of
Elizabeth to give the eojourner a far-off
glimpse or Sbakspeare’s daily environ-
menls. The nineteenth century manufsc
turerhasnot s tbis mark upon i*;the
Inhabitants Know little of life at high
pressure. The chief streets still beer the
names by wh^oh Shak,-—— *T** —
fers on btratforo have en
Pomw w’• » attention of thestu
deayored to. fis t b ® 0 n points of Shak ;
.^rean inUrest, not giving an idea o
spearean i i Hevelopment or social
the theurasentwork,“S.ratford-
^vonlromX EwliestTimes.to.the
traditions which Influenced the life and
sisStK ffiaa’issK-
benuS^e to create for us a picture of the
(tncietv in which he actually moved.
Avon Is the Celtic word for river, which
as afon Is still good We sh. Arden is
the Celtic “ard,” high or great, and
“den” the wooded valley-a combination
which supplied Luxemburg with itsi dls
gar,
mainea in this condition of dependence
until tSe close of the Middle Ages. Agrb
i cu t ural pursuits chiefly occupied the
. i, ueoDle in the Talrteenth century; but
look I several turned their attention to trade,
tfirSfe* J"- anssemly, wretch d
citizens disc-ortali
vivid picture ortne u*ii
” i-Vattacked, and
Clopton mauo
Charlotte Olop-^ri ,,’ing girl of the
family, whose »w>sl i i<0 , 8 falr b , ae
eyes and pale ; j falling la wavy
ringlets on ttb1 I B,cken *d of the
disease, and, 'appearance, died.
The body was hurtled Into the family
tomb beneath Stratford Church. Befor
ln t giassf gaz^g lntedtly at a sllgiit'ex ^wWundatlc, of*^m^est inSus
5MSS on hi^upper right-hand Up- | g-have continued to the present
an excrescence that might have been ^ D«k Ages the town
caustd by someone hittlDg gave birth to several men who rose to
?aysthe fingeiS*upon the excrescence, ^e,’‘particularly for Its religious atrac
T ^;, b h t r s k // 8 ‘“rhave s y ucc3edod! V.c tn ^ kHpeare knew Stratford onlv after
torv has crowned my * ilorls. A P°f°®® Reformation had stripped it ofeccle-
nlaeter applied with a gag every night I ^^‘i^uncttons; but the majority
Fo?three months has prcducedthede- m had been solidlyembcdledhi
effect I have a mustache! When ., b wh j c h time in his day naa
left Matilda de Bumblethorpe the proud nnkina ly. They w«w menu
laiden refused to become my wife ( until “ ent8 eDS hrinlng traditions not wholly
should have produced a mush, an „ iij e i e8a and may well have helned a poet
now I have done 1>! Tomorrow I return re( , hze th6 setting of scenes, UkeKing
to Tlalm her as my bride. Wie geh.s! John’s death under the windows of 8 wln^
And he went to bed. 8te ati Abbey, or Gaunt s last moments in
CHAPTER III. E, . y t wasthe institution of the guild in
It is the de Bumblethorpes’ mansion th Foor teenth centv ry which deprive*!
again We would have It somewhere J he b1stopB ofthe power andIpu^intnute
tfcrp,.->■ "ffig §-^*tk*-KSin3fi?SS
in early manhood. A tradition recorded
bj Aubrey states that there was at that
lime another butcher's son in the town
that was held not at all Inferior to him
for a natural wit, but died yourg What
could the world have done with two
8 jakapearest
Shakspeare as a child must have wit
cesstd many dramatic performances.
The plays were mostly brief moralities,
with the faintest semblance of a p ot.
When the players first came to a town
they waited on the mayor or bailiff to
inform him “wbat nobleman’s servants
they were, and so get licenee for their
pnbllc playing.” If the mayor liked the
players, or wished to show their master
respect, be would invite them to play for
Heir first performance in the guild hall
before bims if and the aldermen. After
wards they would perform in the court
yard of an inn. It is quite possible tbat
John Shakspeare occasionally took bis
eon over to Coventry to witness tbe mir
acles or mysteries on Corpus Christ! day,
the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. Tne
Strat'ord townsfolk had for an early
period b.en wont to witness these per
forman ces.
in “Tue Hundred Merry Tales,” a pop
ular just book of the Sixteenth century,
whence Beatrice taunts Bsnedick with
having borrowed his wit, there is a story
of a Wai wlckshiie priest wbo ended his
sermon on the articles of the creed by
saying, “1? you bsrieve not me then for a
more sufficient authority go to Coventry,
and there ye shall see them all played in
Corpus Chrlsti p’ay.”
E-itertaiumeuts of rudimentary dra
malic interest were gorten up among
Stratord people at Christmas and Whit
suntide. Fageauts and Interludes werb
piajea at Intervals at the neighboring
c.untry houses, wrare strolling compa
nies often ttt'ered their sorv c 3B. Shak
speare’e rather may have taken tl e b-jy
wben 11 yeaia old to witness the perform
ances at Kenilworth with which Lord
L: ic:ster honored Q »een Eozabetu’s
visit in 1575 The rererences to the occa
sion in ‘’Midsummer Night’s Dream” are
unmistakable.
It ii interest ng to follow Mr. Lee ia
his description ol the rural sports of Old
England and in his ci.ation of pas-ago.-,
from Shakspeare wh:cn show the pOtt s
acquaintance with them. “An a teat!
uaie uot skill in the hawking aud hunt
ing languages I'll not give a rush for
r.i-n,”says one of Jonsoa s characters iu
‘ Every Man iu H:s Humor,” atd there
is no lack of evidence that Shakspeare
studied them both. No more vivid pic
ture of tue purcuit of ‘ poor Wat’’ is
found in literature than'in the poet’s
“Venue atd Adori". ’ His fondness for
deergot him iu trouole iu his youth with
Sir TuODjas Lucy, master of Chariecote
Hall. Tne testimony of Archdeacon
Davies, who was the Vicar of Srp non,
G oucestemhire, late in the seventeenth
century is to tne effect that Shakspeare
-was much given to all uuluckicess In
stealing venison and rabbits, particularly
from Sir Tnomas Lacy, who uad Mm oft
whipped andsoun.tlm.ts imprisoned, and
at last made him ffy his native country
to bis great advancement.” „ nl ,i
tue bf-.uguige, ado' eii4i'*cftr
PRICE! $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
The Other Man’s Wife.
MOST CHARMING STORY OF EARL^WE.
BY JOHN STRANGE WINTER.
CHAPTER V.
“Time it a file that wears and makes no noise'”
Four years had gone by. Jack Trevor
had long ago become an established fa
vorite in the Fighting Fifteenth, was
keen on soldiering, gay as a boy, blessed
with a delightful fund of good humor,
though, on occasion, he could, and some.
Uses did, blaze up in a very pretty show
of fiery wrath:
The Fifteenth wero quartered at Chert-
Buy Camp. Not a particularly lively spot
nor one in which a soldier is ever very
well pleased to find himself. However
in a soldier's life, place is altogether a
q restlon of chance, and or, the whole the
Fifteenth had not been very hardly
used.
From Brighton they had gone to Leeds
and rrom Leeds to Norwich—where tfcoy
were utterly spoilt—and now they were
in camp at Caertsey for two years, with
ths pletissnt prospect of a ioDg spell in
Ireland when they should ff ad the mselves
on the move again.
Howover, after the manner of soldiers,
as they had nearly two years in front of
them which must perforce bo spent in
Ubertsey, tho regiment on the whole
b ttied itself down and made the best o f
the present witfcoat more ado than a few
groans at the mention of the future, The
mess hut had bean smartened as much as
possible and all the windows were gay
with bright flowers. The little enclos
ure in which the leng hut stood had heec
planted thickly with tali moon daisies.
r i crH vniIntsf p.n.lrf'mnrip.p.
S lakspeare ha\l his revenge for waat 1
ever rndignitteB ne suffered, for he im
mortaiizeu Cnariecote and its owner ii
the character of Justice Soallow. Slen
der in “Merry Wives of Windsor” alludes
to Saahow’s “dozen white luces” on his
od coat” of arms This isa blunder
ing jast on the arms of the Charlecote
Lucys, described by heralds as “three
luces hauriant argent. ’ A luce is it
modern English a pike, a fact that ac
“ h “ nk FalstatFa comparison else
where of Shallow to an “old pike.” One
f?hJ?. nl ? < L nt<>f the Luc y s In Chart* cote
Epg ?! 1 has ». ^““rtering of their arms
with three fish in each of four divisions.
Thus Slen ter may not be talking alto-
gather at random when he speaks ol the
dezsn luces.
Mr. Lee's account of Stratford on the
whole throws new light on many a page
or Shakspeare, adding to the sum of in
ternal evidence that the poet was the
author of his own works.
TUB AtMSF LUCV.
a week had pats«l either of the house
followed her ad Wabnrne to tho same
vault. A d thei th bearers saw by
their torches <> thateps leading from
the church to ti spul vhral chamber
Charlotte Clop! i! her grave-clothes
leaning against! wdl. She was dead
then, but It was ar bat the plague had
spared her. Aftsheiad been laid in
the gloomy vauhere had been a terri
ble straggle for. In the light of this
storv one reads in with added interest
tho great speecUalht in the potion
scene. Is it aithtr unlikely that the
superb imaginatuthurst was inspired
by Charlotte Ciq’s fate?
"Sich detailsro given help one to
form an idea cs life led by Shaks-
peere’s father his contemporaries.
As the authors: “We can picture
John Shakcpef a morning wrapping
his gown abotn and cursing the pigs
tbat impede hugress as he hurries
past the markes down High street
when the cloches 9 on his wav to a
meeting o' ttfv council. We can
watch him on fleet day purchasing
pewter ware ortnd at the fair driv
ing a brisk trails own aosount in
wools corn, . , , Everj
night in winteirefully har gi a lamp
out before his land before 9 o’clock
Thrilling Experience.
The telegraph operator at the tunnel,
about eight miles above Penu Haven
Junction, on the Lehigh Valle/ rai lroad
had a remarkable and thrilling expert
ence, says a letter from Wilkesoarre, Pa.
The place is a very lonely one. Thers is
not a dwelling within over two miles of
it, tho nearest one being at Mud Run,
where the awful railroad disaster occurr-
ed two years ago. Oa either side of the
railroad the mountains stretch away for
miles, covered with dense forests. The
operator in the little cabin hardly ever
sees a human face, except on the passing
trains. For a long time no one could be
got to stay there long, but six months
ago Edward Smith from New York city
took the place, and held it up to Thurs
day night. He has often seen many
bears and wildcats around, and of late
they have grown very bold. Thursday
night he was awakened by a noise outside
the cabin, and, on looking out, eaw two
large bears attempting to get in.
He shouted and beat the door to frigh
ten them away, but they replied with
ion Mouq paw saodweM ou psq on
SB 'poaus XgwojS omwaoq oh -ui jo3 oj
sjjo^o jjoqj poiqnopw paw s(moj3 ooiog
red ^eraciunib and yellow caiceolariaf’,
while odd corners were fllied up with
brave attempts at rockeries in the crev
ices of which little hardy ferns we;e
SrurisnlDg as cheerfully as if they were
gropin'' on a wild west country cllil in-
ttcad of an arid and ousiy cainp. Well,
well they were conscientiously watered
twice and even thrice a day, .Perhaps
the little ferns knew no better; let us
hope not. Anyway, certain it ia that the
er-c’osure around the mess hut at Cnert
seywas abb z 3 with bright hued flowers
to gather which was to incur the severest
penalty ofthe law, something very dread-
ltseif.
apMcinTSe ; 0«?8>BF..the o.vjV£a&
Jnrf. sometimes scarce** thing,
yet in most cases fostered by every arti
ficial means within reach of camp life,
every window had its little garden, and
within the huts now that the first bustle
of removal was over everyone was busy
making the best of the situatior.
In those of the married officers, the
wives were most of them very busy—and
let me tell you tbat there is nothing at
which a really smart army woman will
stop when sne is doing up her quarters.
There was much puzzling over a certain
column in the Queen, wherein a sister in
arms for a long time was wont to dls
course learnedly out of her own experi
ence on cosy corners, upholstery, paiat
Ing, papering and the like. Some busy
with needle and thread, others with
hammer and nails, or paint and brush,
and in one of the unmarried officer'ahute
or I should, to be quite correct, say out
side it, orr friend Jack Trevor with about
a hair dozen Dots of enamel was exces
siveiy busy converting an exceedingly
shabby collection of chairs and tables
into what would be described in the trade
as “a suit fer a bludolr in ivory white.”
J ick himself was very hot and very
much bedaubed with paint and he had
also got an ingenious way of putting it
on which, though entirely satisfactory as
to tbe resnit, involved a great deal more
trouble in the actual process. This con
sisted of putting it on hot—and let me
tell you that to re-enamel any article of
furniture out in the open air and keep
the pot c-f enamel hot the while, is any
thing bat an easy business.
“Hi, Tod.t—Todd,” Jack called out,
having discovered that his paint was
beginning to show signs of the brush—
“Todd, I must have some more hot
water.”
“Well, ’pon my soul,” saida voice be
hind him, “I don’t know much about
saintlng chairs and tables, but I never
inewyou did em with hot water be
fore.”
“Ah, is that you, Monty. Come in, old
chap,” Jack auswered “Come in—I’m
very busy.”
“»o I see,” said the new comer, push
ing the little gate open and strolling into
the tiny enclosure. “Are yon too busy to
come down to the town with me?”
“Monty—Monty—stop—don’t sit on
that chair—it’s wet,” Jack yelled—then
r. rTgat the~£ri.“s^e"^hes I ^contTm^d.”The bod£ at first
the door, and is c'asped In bis religious, was ultimately a sort *>f city
2dS, tS the“ coraers. Sniy !t 1. the gKiapupi's The master of the guild
same coraer for both—a little corner in ld hlm an annual salary of £10. It waa
S® n arlor where the lights brightly I this school, somewhat altered in
shine! where ttiere is a larp> armchair,is “flap”, that Shakspeare was afterwards
ask ter if it tickles
retain. I will wait «nl
ecstasies over it.”
Sufi 1 she°goi into j T ^iy d he was ciSed'btfore it ahjUnirftad
to leave the city. A anbetantial “ducking
The momenta roll by and still she | ltool » with iron staple, look, and Mnges »
w. not of it. She asks him about his j waa ke pt in good repair. The shrew was N|
trtlpj makes Mm swear that ko.*^*“ot J atUo hed to itTand bj means rfwyw. *■
flirted with a single, single girl (he la I plankS) and wheels was plunged two or
very glad* tbat she says nothing abort F brM times into the Avon whenever the
stock aud can sell
flirring with widows), and everything ponncll believed her to stand in need of
S 2. lovely. But she says nothing about emotion. The cltlzsn who sp^edU-
>i IresnaetfaUv ton town offioer wee com
® flilv oeorge becomes deeperete. SSed to s^nd three days end nighta in
W .Ma^he. “do I—have you— I the open stocks. No one might «*oeive
Darllng, **7 Notice any change in 1 a stranger into his house without tho
liSSv-woSSmfr’ I baiUff^s permission. No servant or ap-
y °“Whv U ve^Georgejq” she replied fond- prentice m'gat be out of hie mester e
i *•! y «o*> looks ever so much sweet- nouse after 9 o’clock at night. A ehouss
ly“I«jo! OoiooM ovw"; I keepers, of whom there were thirty in
er, ducky oo really o« I afntford in Shakespeare’s day, were
“Nothing else Biraie£ g . r jctly under tbe Connell’s oontrol.
^.»Lta d exuD«reted, but he holds on, Every inhabitant had to go to church
C^prge P® No b gays no more. 1 once e month, and absentees were Mable
W “pltfv^Lavs hef‘ iSn’t yon remember to a fine of £20. In 1577 there were many
Potty wy » - we -s amgy—bo me I fines exacted for faila eto weerthe pieio
I_er I
• “uToS; «
*” tk ® b “ hv dou*t you raise cne? Ycu in his youth, but obeyed sedately 'b * 11 , 8
---we, to please 'or U.tle |
Stable to that of bailiff’ and Ceief Alder
uoau, betw an 1557 ana 1577; and tbe poet
from his boyhood haunt have b3en fami
liar with every detail .ol municipal or-
® The interior of the Elizabethan houses
KB B MEMORIAL THEATRE, STRATFORD-ON-AVON.
he and
cannot i
respect I
deedthl
pro isle |
hisch"*
>nae ire et rest. He
wri t he has a distant
-1 ig. Nothing in-
i i done amid hia
lorn i likely to invest
Ith tag skin to tbe
P J .\!’-umaio tbe maidc-n from him, rises,
H. V. Morrow is the pre-dues merenanr, ® e h ^ r , h . vfrinkies from his trousers,
of Kiddie Florida. His business is im brushra the wrings ir outlatue
rr.cnsi, aud ho has cause to be preud of B,aps on M “‘i
the shipments of eggs, chickens, etc., he j cold, :old ’ uct ._Paul C. West
makes. Naturally, he keeps an Immense | Thns ends a romauo-.
cheap for the I in Boston Traveller.
'rs 1 waxed warm in
eon f > 3l tr 4 “cational equip
ment faoB am Shakspeare.
There ly rest believe that i is
mastef him i grasp on Latin,
at leaf ed hiato Horace, Sene
ca, aiftus. brrt and worst
typesfural si nasterhavebren
pictuf Shabi s in his plays.
Hologi ‘‘Lov ’.her Lost” is the
best-job is, p 8> the worst.
Wf" not S leareonquitlirg
BChtfe an ary apprentice,
gccJtmston ic is litiie doubt
th»w® nt l2ei m he had known
at sw® his i ate companions
to do. Hie alarm Increased whens third
J*" sndeeversl wlldests joined the two
been outside, end they sh renewed their
efforts to get in. Smith tried to call up
the operator at Mad Ran to ask for help,
but could get no sniwer. Meanwhile one
ofthe beers had got on the roof and was
tearing off tho shingles. Another one
broke the window-glass and thrust
threugh its bead. Smith, seizing a heavy
bar, struck the bear with all his might.
This seemed to daunt the assailants for a
while, but they soon renewed tbe attack.
At last Mud Run answered, and Smith
told the operator to send help down on
tbe first train or be would be a dead man.
Ee did so, and the train only just reached
the seer e in time. The bears had torn
all tbe shingles off and were forcing a
way tl.rough the rafters when theap-
proach of the train drove them off. Smith
got on beard the train and started for
bis home iu New York.
at the sight of the jump which Monty
Carlton gave, he went off into a gay paal
of laughter. “Monty—Monty—Is there
another man in the world bat yourself
who would go near white paint in his best
uniform?”
“Then why the d 1,” asked Carlton
with Imperturbable placidity, “do you
spread paint about just wher a fellow is
likely to go? By tne by, old chap, are
you thinking of getting married?”
“Married! No—why?”
“This bridal-like display,” with a ges
ture which included the old chairs and
tables.
“Oh, they’re not mine—they’re for
Mrs. Stratton, poor little thing. She can’t
manage them herself and 8tratton won’t
try. I say, Todd, Todd.”
“Yes Sir,” said Todd, putting his h*»nd
oat the door.
“Mora hot water,” said Jack—“and
bring Mr. Carlton a chair oat—tbe big
one.
again*’ 8 * r ’” ***** Todd disappearing
“I’ll tell yon what it is, my friend ” re
marked Carlton when he had got the
ehair and had comfortably settled him
self therein—“you’ll have to look out.”
“Why?” Jack asked, as he
stirred the pot of point with Tbit of
■uOK*
“Why? It’s dear enough—pretty wo
man—indifferent husband—no money-
friendly subaltern—old chairs and tables
—new cost of paint—I say look ont.”
'What an ass yon are, Monty,” said
more famliar than she chooses ms to
be.”
‘ Yes, I know,” said Carlton, taking
his cigarette out of his mouth—“but I've
noticed several times before that very
pretty scandals have arisen out of the
mildest and moBt platonic Intercourse
with just tbat type of mild aud good
little down trodden woman. However,
it’s no business of mine—only I’ve had it
on my mind to give you a hint for some
time, and now I’ve done it it’s off’ my
mind and we neodn’t say any mors about
it.”
it was p3rhaps tho longes' spejeb that
Jack had ever heard from Carlton—who
was a man of remarkably few words He
laughed a l'.ttle at. the lecture and put cut
a rither paint daubed band to his com
rade. “Old chap,” ho said, it’s awfully
g od of you to tel! me if you tea anything
which makes you thiuk I’m going Into
danger; but I assure yon in this case,
th: re is no danger, I like Mrs Stratton
immeuse’y-‘immensely, she’s one of the
best little women I ever knew, out I’m
not even a little bit in love with her, and
if i wero it wouldn’t be any good for she
simply adores Stratton—worships the
yerv ground he walks on.”
‘ Good Go?! ’fjacuiatsd Carlton, piona-
ly.
“Yes, I know—but it’s true ail ths
same. And Stratton don’t care a brass
button "or her, not a brass button ”
“H’il!” murmured Carlton thought
fully—then after a moment’s silence, h e
continued In a difl’ereot tons—‘ By the
bye, you’ve heard of course, that La?r-
rence has arranged his exchange?”
“The Major? No—I never believed he
meant it. Who is it with?'’
“A Major Dsnnis of the 2itk L ncirs.”
‘ Ah!—Do you know anything about
him? ’
“Notathiog.”
“What does the Colonel say? ’
“Very little, ?or he knows very little;
he’s never met him. But he said just
now ‘I've heard of him a* a very mart
so dier,’ so I suppose it’s ali right.”
“Ah” and Jack -vent on with his paint
ing and finished off the leg of a chair
which he than very carefully set aside to
dry. “I wonder who he belongs to ana
where he comas from? ’
* Something to do with—witi-oh! 1
forget,” answered Carlton carelessly.
He sat watching Jack til! he had fin
ished the last article of^ furg^rs—
“You’ve done now. h ”*" * W:
“-HSciy"theflrat c rat, answered Jac i.
“What! Are you going to do em ai
over again? ’ ,, T k re _ aI f
“Wlrr.yes, of course, I am re,
coat or paint .u«. .uw.-,; table with at
“How should I know? A table'm’ght
have a hundred and fifty coats of paint
on It before 1 should be any wiser; but
look here, old chap, can’t yon drop It now
and come out with me? They can’t ba
dry enough to go over again ytt.”
“What as I ax?’ asked Jack with
much gravity.
“No, not as you are; get yourself cleaned
if you can and come along, I want you
to see a plate down there."
‘ Oh, all right. Well, you go and "et
out of your togs and I’ll be ready in a
jiffy,” said Jack, having carefully cleaned
his brushes.
He disappeared Into his hut and Todd
presently came out and cleared the paint
and brushes away. “Ain’t such a bad
hand at it,” he chuckled to himssif as he
examined his master's work, “i expect if
he knew I’d been in this 'ere v^ry line
he’d start me on painting for the ’ole of
the blessed barricks! Aye but Joseph
lodd am t such an ass as to let oa what’ll
Jack, beginning fo ply hie brush'again
“Perhaps. Keep it in mind aul the
seme,” answered Monty with absolute
good nature.
“Whet that yon’re an ass, old chap?
Ob! I needn’t trouble to do that—yon’ll
not let me forget it,” with a gay langh,
Monty laughed too. “Yes, I know all
that. It’s a c estnnt bnt no matter.
Just mind what I say, that's all.”
“All right, old chap, I will. AU the
same up to the present moment there’s
been no netd of it. I’m sorry for the lit
tie woman, for she’s bad hard Urns all
Rway as of trying to prtsatne on my ac
qnaintance or get the leaat little bit
et hlsself a mint o’ work without
less 3d penny to show for it. No Joseph
Todd ain’t quite such a ass a<> th»r."
In less than ten minutes Jick Trevor
came out of the hut looking as 3p!c and
span in his light summer clothes as if he
had never heard of such things aa old
chairs and tables in all his life. He went
across to Carlton’s hat and knocked on
the door with the handle of h!s walkimr-
stick.
“Rsady, old chap? ’ ho shouted.
Carlton opened the door. “I was just
coming over to you,” he Eaid.
And then the two officers turned and
went away together in the direction of
the town.
They bad got about half way the: e
when Carlton suddenly uttered an ex
clamation: “It was Frothingham,” he
said in a tone of relief.
“What was Frothingham?’ asked Jack,
little puzzled to know his meaning,
“Well, it was Lord Frothingham that
the new msjor is connected with,’’ Carl
ton replied. “I’ve bten trying to think
of the name ever si.- ce. 1 fancy he was
next to the title at one time, and that
old Frothingham married when he was
about a hundred and had several chil
dren.”
“Hard lines for the Major,” said Jack,
then walked on in silence try-lug to piece
together certain recollections which were
hovering in his brain—“Dennis—F,oth-
Jngham—next to the title—why I have
it!’ he cried alond; “ne was the man who
married Ethel Mordaunt.”
“And who was Ethel Mordaunt?” Carl
ton asked.
“She was the greatest pal I had when
f « ^ oy ’ her people's place was next
to the Palace at Blankhampton, where 1
was born, you know. By Jove, what a
jolly litt e soul she was.”
Carlton looked aside at him. “First
love?” he asked with a comical expres
sion in eyes and month.
Jack laughed. “Well, perhaps.”
“u’m!” with a disgusted tone.
Jack langhed yet more. “Oh, nothing
of that kinds I haven’t seen her for—for
—oh! for over twelve years. She was a
child in short frocks when I remember
her. She’s been married for years.”
“She’s younger than your’
“Oh, yes, several yean.”
“Than aha can’t have bean married so
Any yean, old chap. I suppose now
yonTl spend all your time thoreT”
“You foraet. her husband will perhaps
break my head if I try that on.” p
“It’s devoutly to ba hoped ha wilL”
aMd Carlton, who waa nev«WM*py^,
when with Jack, and greatly res rated hu
Jala? snob a favorite aa ne waa with all
£* m ** r J*d women with whom hawra
brought into contact.
CHAPTER VL
“0, for yesterdays to come"
In due time Major Lawrenoe bade fan-
wall to the Fighting Fifteenth and de
parted with the usual honon, end in due
time Major Dennis appeared upon the
scene.
The first impression he made was a
distinctly unfavorable one; he was big
and loud-voiced, with a hard, weather
beaten face, and an unmistakably cruel
mouth. Tbe first day he sh iwed in bar
racks, or I should say in the mess room,
and aloj’cl little woman too and Isiiou d j lu^ch^aud 1 introduced 1 bi n tifaH^thn
as soon think of cutting my throat right officers^“Seibtod thSw. Mmta Carlton
Rway as of trvinsr to ortsumn on mv nc I opened his eyes a little mora than u«uil
remembering that Jack Trevor 'had