The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907, January 10, 1891, Image 1
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VOLUME XVII.—NO. 784.
ATLANTA, GA, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY JO. 1891.
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THE WONDERFUL SOUTH.
Narrative of Her Unprecedented
Material Progress.
The Story that Continues
Astound and Startle the
Modern Universe.
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National Bank of Waco. Mount Lynn is
the highest point west ot Waco, from
which It is 2'-miles distant. Its eleva
tion gives it commai ding views of the
conntry for many miles. The purpose
la to make it a suburban residence city,
and to establish a sanitarium, the pure
air and the hot water from subterranean
springs both warranting this enterprise.
Railroad engineers, wbiie running a
line through Boone county, West Vir
ginia, discovered, on the face of a moun
tain on the Pond fork of C >al river, the
outcrop of 11 distinct veins of coal, rang
ing from 2 inchef to 20 feet in thickness,
and aggregating 08 feet and 11 inches. A
correspondent of the Wheeling Intelli
gencer, who reports this discovery, says:
“One vein is pure car.nel coal, 12 inches
thick; ano'her has 34 inches of pure
cannel coal overlaid with splint coal, and
another vein of bituminous coal is 20 feet
thick with 2 feet of ‘parting' 7 feet from
the bottom.” Other railroad engineers,
according to the some correspondent,
“have lately traced the Pocahontas held
of coking coal from the head of the
Guyan river, where it was supposed to
end, across Indian Ridge to Pinnacle,
Otter and Barker, across all the forks of
Guyan river, through Wyoming county,
across into Kalelgn, and following the
PeDey valley through Payette connty
into the familiar New river coal country.
Through this entire section there are
from two to hve workable veins of coal,
one of them 10 feet thick. In some
places they dip a little below the water
level, but the outcroppings, as a general
thing are to be seen on the mountain
sides.” * » “Immense tracts of coal
and timber land are being bought np by
the capitalists. A short time ago Mor
gan, Drexel & Co , of Philadelphia, rep
resentfDg the Vanderbilt interests, pur
chased 50,000 acres of coking and coal
land in Raleigh county, and have already
completed a railroad survey. The Ches
apeake and Ohio Railroad Company har.
also bought large tracts and has an ongi
neering eorp3 out laying down a new
railroad line. Tie Baltimore and Ohio
people are also endeavoring to got a
share of this undeveloped wealth, and
have purchased 76 00 > acres of coal lands
from ei 8. nator J N Camden. The syn
dicate represented by J lines G. Bialne,
S nator Gorman, ex Senator Henry G
Davis and others have also made large
purchases, and many smaller purchases
of 10 000 and 20,000 acie tracts are con
stantly being made throughout the coal
and timber regions of the State.”
^The Georgia Rolling Stock Co., a cor
poration now organizing in Macon, Ga.,
h is a policy that other new companies
would do well to adopt. This company
has an authorized capital of $1.00u.0t0,
and will engage in the manufacture and
repair of railway cars. In Older that the
l^-ocuiMiicb aiiu wutkinguhji. of .naCOil*
may have a direct interest in this enter
prise, it has been decided to issue to
them, and to them only, first preferred
guaranteed 7 per cent, stock to the
amount of $100 000. Subscriptions for
this are payable, 10 pei cant, when or
ganized, 10 per cent. 60 days later and 10
per cent, a month thereafter until the
entire amount has been paid. Under
this plan a man buying stock of the par
valne of flOO would have 13 months In
which to make his payments. It has
been the experience of all those places in
which building and loan associations
have been well conducted that habits of
economy and thrift were formed among
the stockholders that inured both to
their individual benefit and to the wel
fare of the community. Great manuf&c
turing establishments that, like the
Brewster Carriage Co. in New York,
have permitted their workmen to become
sharers in their profits have fonnd them
selves gainers in all respects. In these
days of labor unions and strikes such
concerns are absolutely Bafe from trou
ble, be' ause their workmen are as much
interested as are the larger stockholders
in having the business flourish. The
same is true of all concerns in which
A Philadelphia Devil.
The night employes at the roundhouse
and workshops of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, Fifty-eighth street and Darby
road, according to the Philadelphia Press,
say the devil has appeari d on the earth,
and has been bothering them in their
labors for the past several D’ghts. The
devil has transformed himself fnto a big
ape with a long-tongued tail, and spits
fire ir >m his mouth. His infernal high
ness made bis first appearance Thursday
night, and created a panic among the 100
or more employes.
Engineer Sierner, who runs a fast ex
press to Baltimore and Washington, had
the honor of diecovcring the demon as
he was taking his puffing engine into the
roundhouse at 12 o'clock Thursday night.
He says the devil swung his five-foot tail
till it whizzed like a buzz saw, aud with
“flamy ’ mouth shot through the brick
walls of the roundhouse. As soon as the
devil got within the building be gave a
yell like a screech owl, and ail the lights
went ont. Then ne belched forth fire and
jumped on the engines. Stricken with
terror, the employes rushed pell mell out
of the building. Night Foreman Rod
erlck and Caller Hansom stood at one of
the doors. They say he would jump on
top of the locomotive and tbe next in
stant he would be ia the ash pit, screech
ing and expectorating a flame of fire.
From the roundhouse tbe devil madea
straight streak for the mac bine shop,
and so frightened the workmen there
that they took to their heels. A copper
smith named Connors was shaping a
pipe, and he says the devil snatched it
from him and gave iijpi a rap over the
head with his forked tail. The devil
also overtook an employe named Banes
and pulled nio whiskers.
Some of the terrified employes found
Officer Taylor of the Twenty-first dis
trict standing on the cornerof Fi’iy-
eighth street and Darby road Ho laughed
at their story of the devil being on t e
face of the earth, and started to the ma
chine-shop to make the acquaintance of
the alleged demon. Waen Office Taylor
stuck his head i r the building he saw the
devil-ape” beicuiog fire and roaring.
The policeman found he had no use lor
the internal monster, and skedaddled
The employes stood shivering outside
the building until -1 o’clock in the morn
ing, when they say the otvil took hia do
naiture down the railroad track toward
Darby. Full ot fear and trembling they
returned to work. The devil did not
make any reappearance on Friday or
Saturday uight. On Sunday night, how
ever, the roundhouse employes say he
stuck his head through the wall, and,
after belching some fire, disappeared.
.. iVULi wore >'4i jrejjpsi. H »a
■subuuca fright to? fear that ne may re
turn any evening and create tLe same
rumpus as on Thursday night. They pro
test he is the real devil, and say it is ab
surd to assert he is nothing more than
an ordinary ape, when he has such
supernatural powers.
Stealing Women in Touquin.
While in most parts of the world, ex
cept Africa, slave-catching is becoming
a thing of the past, tbe practice is still
carried on to some extent in Tonqnin in
spi .e of the efforts of the French to put
an end to it. The slaves who are wanted
there are only women and children.
Slave dealers find women and children in
the forests, away from the villages, drag
them into the mountains, and sell them
to Chinese merchants, who cairy them
Into some of the western provinces of
China aud sell teem to r.ch families.
This odious traffic began about twenty
five years ago. Formerly Tonkinese wo
men were almost unknown in Caina.
The practice of exporting them as slaves
came aonut in this way:
mechanics and salaried employes in all I Jn isG5 the Chinese soldiers who in
kinds of business are stock to ders. The ] V aded ionquin, which was ia revolt
plan of the Georgia Robing S.ock Co. is j against China, found themselves incum-
cininently wise and safe. bered by prisoners taken from the Ton
j kiness. They did not know what to do
The Memphis Appeal Avalanche pre- with the prisoners, but at last decided to
„„„. j i ship them to China and soe if they couid
sents t-s readers vci ,n a Sjuvcmr edition uot ge!1 j t was at this time that
commemorating the fiftieth anniversary emigration agencies wire recruiting in
of the founding of the Appeal. As a | China thousands of worimen to toil on
work of art it ranks among the first of' r ' r ‘ ‘ ll ’ T '*’“
the guano islands of Chili. The hun
dreds of male pmooere were easi’y t!s
posed of to these emigration agents and
the women and children who were
among the unfortunates werti sold to
such productions, its covers being high
ly illuminated with choice pictorial rep
resentations of tho Appeal’s progress ro
tbe Isst fifty years, and of tee city of j well-to-do Chinese.
Memphis duriogthat period. Thevaliey T ils opened a now trad", although
of the Mississippi is shown in colors, I at first it was not easy to sail tho women,
with rail and water was s correct y given, because wealthy families did not wish to
and the lints in every instance finely j have servants with black teeth, the re
drawn Its contents embrace 32 pages I suit of the practice of betalnut chewing.
of wtll wiitten text, setting forth t-
past, present and future of the Appeal
and Avalancwhich joined issue in
.November, 2890. Tne reminiscences of
Col. Matt Galloway are most interesting,
aud his editorial career on the Appeal
and Avalanche faithfully chronicled. A
leading feature is the beauty of its pic
tures in half tone, embracing viowa of
tbe Mississippi north and south of Mem
phis, and the collection of portraits of
leading representative citizons of that
city. This souvenir wili be readily ac
cepted throughout the country as a
bright production of one of the leading
progressive newspapers of the South
west.
I a the counties of Johnson and Carter,
in East Tennessee, and in those that ad
join them in Nor.h Carolina, lies the Doe
mountain iron district. Welsh miners
have made cuttings in the vein in John
son county a ci?t a .nce of 11 miles, and
find that it varies from 75 to 120 feet in
thickness, with an unknown depth. A
Johnson City correspondent of the
Knoxville Journal states that this prop
erty is owned by Philadelphia aud B is
tol capitalists, who value it at $2 500 000
The Bristol & E izubethion Railroad was
intended to develop this properly. The
owners of the iron mine are building the
furnace at Bristol. T :e same correspon
dent states that the Vlrf inia, Tennessee
& Carolina Coal & Iron Co. own other
large ore deposits in Johnson county at
the mouth of Roan’s creek, where they
have a force of miners at work whose
pay roll amounts to more than $600 a
week. The same company 1b said to be
expecting to build one or more Iron fur
naces at that point. They are r-ported to
control tbe mineral rights to 80 000 acres
of iron beari"g la nd in that district, and
8o small a price, however, was asked for
them that ali the women were finally
sold. Today these women are in much
demand in some parts of western China.
As servants they aro gentle, obedient,
and laborious, and are oo highly es
teemed that they command a good price.
It is a very lucrative trade, and fiun
dreds of poor women are every year
dragged a way from their homes by these
pitiless dealers in human flesh. Many
Chinese are engaged in the business.
It is gratifying to hear that the French
are making good prrgrcssin their ef
forts to stamp out the traffir. Tory have
visited very severe punishments upon
some Chinese whom they have caught
stealing women and dragging them into
the mountains.
Cause of Failure.
One cause of failure to secure blooms
is injudicious watering—deluging at one
time and withholding at another,and pay
ing no attention to the needs of the dif-
erent varieties. The appetites and needs
of plants are as varied as those of people,
and their temperaments diff er, too; there
aro the sanguine, the sensitive, the
phlegmatic—each requiring to be dealt
with accordingly. Wnile one plant will
thrive, notwithstanding the utmost neg
lect, and subsist on almost nothing, an
other must have nourishing food and
warm drink. It is a good plan tc adapt
t li 3 water to the temperature of the
room, and always be quite sure that tho
drainage is good. (J ten a plant will
droop and look sickly, when, if the mat
ter is looked into, it will be found that
water stands in the bottom of the jar.
A bent wire is always useful in this case,
lor oy penetrating tbe holes at the bate
to own over 200,000 acres cf coal lands in of the pot, and salrrirg the earth, pas-
KeMucky ana Southwestern Virginia.
Mount Lynn, Texas, is the name of a
new town adj icent to the flourishing city
of Waco, which has been laid out by a
company con-posed mainly of New Eng
land men, who piircha;ed the property
and incorporated under the lavzs ofMaino
as the B»-Waco Lard Co., authorized
capital $1,000 000 Tuer fficc-rs are: P.es-
ldont. M. w Halsey, p esident Prndtn
tial Loan & Trust Co of Boston; vice-
president. Fr<-d. L. Coburn, of Coburn
Bros., Boston; treasurer, H. H. Savage,
president Boston Land Improvement
Co.. Wakefield, Mass ; secretary, Wilfred
B. Rich, Etq., Boston; bankers Suffolk
Trust Oo. of Boston and Provident
sages will be maue for i.ne escape of snag
nant water and gas. Then water freely,
being sure that the water runs through
quioalj;dratn all off’, loosen thesollat
me top of the jar ami wis-hnold moisture
until the p ant is again healthy.
The caila, as is well known, requires
plenty o'quito warm water; if in a Gourde
j .r boiling water may be used in tie
lower jar and will wonderfully hasten
growtn and blossoms. Fuchsias are
thirsry plants, esfc c ally when in fl r.ver,
end moisture is necessary to (he Cuine-e
primrose. The majority of pian.s require
a weekly bath; in taut, nothing so invig
orates them as a shower bath of tepid
water. Those which cannot be removed
readily for tbe showering, may have
their leaves sponged.—Vick’s Magsz ne
for December.
The Other Man’s Wife.
A MOST CHARMING STORY OF EARLY LOVE.
BY JOHN STRANGE WINTER.
Wf/v:. Cc xy
CHAPTER IX.
In the intercourse.of every-day life tbe fric
tiou produced by mere thoughtlessness F far
greater tlian that caused by deliberate selfish
ness.
In due time Major Detnis returnt d to
Chertsey Camp from Loudon, reaching
homo in the most boisterous good spirits
posslb’e and bringing his wife a pretty
diamond broach as an offering. He pro
fessed himself thoroughly glad to be
home again bat otherwise did net tell
Ethel much of his movements except to
mention casually now and again some
theatre to which he bad been or some
person whom he had seen in the Park or
at Hnrlingham or St. Anne’s.
“And how have yon got on, Ethel?” be
asked. “Has Trevor been as good as his
word and looked after yon?”
“Yes. I have seen a good deai of him,”
she answered.
“That’s right. I want you to have a
good time, my dear,” he said brusquely ;
“all I bargain for is that you don’t Eee
too much of him, you know.”
“1 shall not do that.”
“I daresay not for your amusement—
but ycu’ll have to be cartful for your
name,” wich a careless laugh.
“Cosmo,” Ethel cried ia an agony—
“don’t yon care anything for me—not
even for my name, your name?”
“Of course I do, to be sure. I was
awfully fond of you whan we were mar
ried, awfully so. Only a man can’t go on
living iu paradise for ever, at least not
with tae same Eve, don’t you know—it
stands to common sense that he can
not.”
“Obi Cosmo.”
“My dear girl,” said he good-humor
ediy—“isn’t it much better to speak out
plainly? You never cared a brass larth-
iEg about me—probably if you had i
should never have married you—gad, 1
never want: d to inairy anv other wo
man, give you my word. Bui, as I say,
one can’t go on for ever ana I don’t want
to shut you up like a nun because I’m no
longer as mad about you as I was four
ysrn a»v—why, it wouldn’t be reasoD,
»,d I Ay,, jmreasor.abla p :op!e, they’re
A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL.
SOUTHERN MEMBERS.
Prominence of Congressmen from
the South on Committees.
WALLACE AN# GARLINGTON.
HOY AND DOG.
Tlie Latter Was in Charge of
Second Oriely Relief.
They Were Cut Apart After
Junction of Eleven Days.
Cheuncey F. Black, in a special to the
World from Washington, In discussing
the next House ana the probable effect c'.ih «'or'linn j nie 20 1,S49
of the election of a Southern Speaker Carolina, im.i
“If the House shall be organized
says
with a Southern Speaker let us see about
what eort of a from, it win present to the
North and the West. Almost every
great committee will necessarily be
headed by a Southern man in most cases
a far Southern man. The length, of their
service and the positions they have won
by their characters and abilities entitle
them to those committees. For tne
Ways and Means, Mr. Mills, if not
Speaktr, would stand at the head, other
wise Mr. McMillln; for Appropriations,
Forney, of A.abama; for Cofoage, Weights
and Measures, Bland, of Missouri; Com
merce, Turner, of Georgia; Rivers
and Harbors, Blanchard, of Lou
isiana; Agriculture, Hatch, of Mis
souri; Foreign Affairs, McCreary, Ken
tucky; Naval Affiirs, Herbert. Ala
baifir; Pus.offnea and Post Roads,
B’ount, of Georgia; Indian affairs, Peel,
of Arkansas; Territories, K lgoreot Tex
as, U Springer shcu d b come Speaker;
Railways and Canals, Cobb, of Alabama;
Manufactures, Wilson of West Virginia;
Mines and Mining, Rowland, of North
Carolina; Public Buildings aud Grounds,
Bankhead,of Alabama; Pacific Railroads,
Crain, of Texas; Levees and improve
ments of the Mississippi River, Stock-
dale, of Mississippi, Education Ourutb,
of Kentucky; Lanor, Catchings, of Miss
issippi; Militia, Forney, of Alabama, un
less promoted; Patenis,TilImau, of South
Carolina; Pensions, Henderasn, of North
Carolina; Claims, Mansnr, of Missouri;
War Claims, SLone, of Kentucky; Dis
trict of Columbia, Hemphill, of South
Carolina; Revision of Laws, Cobb, of
Alabama. Of the miner committees and
select committees, whilst the share of the
South would not be bo great, It would be
very considerable, it is thus seen that,
whether the Speakership shall go
South or not, the South ac tne
head of the committees maturing and
controlling legislation will dominate tne
House at auy rate. Wiih a Speaker thrown
in, such an organization of the House
mieht be made the paramount issue of
1S9-I, anu might be used with great lorce
to rekindle tho sectional animosities of
the unhappy past. NoSpeaker, Northern
or Southern, can deprive the distinguish
ed Southern Ropresoutativc-s above men
tionea of their proper places upon tnese
committers. Tcey have earned them.
The traditions of the House require that
they should have them, and „ o Lu no event
could they or their section lose whatever
but the sirigfo honor of the chair. Saould
it take that—should it be accorded to
thorn if they insist upon taking it—will
the Dcinoc.atie campaign of 1-92 proceed
the more safely aud surely was a South
ern man in the char.-?’- ft is undoubtedly
iur. Black s opinion that this question
should be answered in the negative.
Tredegar, Ala., has made such pro •
gress that the passenger department of
tne Eus: Tennessee, Virginia and Geor
gia Railway Co. has considered it worthy
o'special notice as one of tne special at-
Irseii ms on that systtm. This has been
given in r.he ft rui of a neatly printed and
btauli ully ilrus-lrated pampnlec of 32
png .3, whic i in pleasantstyle tells where
ai-n what Ireritgar is, ana what are the
foundations for tue universal belief that
Tredegar is destined to be one of the
greatest industrial cities of the Sooth.
A map of this great railway system on
the last page shows the location of this
new Industrial city in Alsbuu.
Capt. George D. Wallace, who was
killed in the late battle, was born in
He was
So many false reports have been pub
lished from time to time in various news
papers of the condition of Johnnie
Gettius, his shinbone, and the dog which
graduated from W<3t Point in the class j supplied the hiatus in it at the expense
of 1872, and was appointed second lieu- of his own forepaw, that it seems worth
, ’ x . . , . - whlla to say wliafc laa actually been done
tenant in the Sevenh cavalry June 14 of iri tfae case.
that j ear. He was oade first lieutenant ' From an authoritative and trustworthy
Jane 25 187G, and received a captain's ! source the New York Evening Sun has
nrvrwmicaibTi c2'-tr«ih*r *** i Qcc ,r 'learned that th6 boy and fcne doer were
commission S -ptenber _o, 188o. He CQt aparfc Thanksgiving day, Nov. 27. It
acfctd as adjutant if his regiment from j is known positively that the boy is do
June 25,1876, to Jur*6, 1877. ! lug well and that the dog is still Rlive.
Heat. Ernest A. larlington is also a ! There is strong reason to believa that the
. . ; operation has oeen a success. Further
native of Souta Cahbns, and was grad- , than this no newspaper can pretend to
uat"d from West Point June 15, JS76 say. All the rest is vein imagining.
Lieutenant Garlinflion was in charge of ! The operation ofj placing a portion of
the second Ureely alief expedition sent ! a dog’s leg where it couid supply a hiatus
out in 1SS3. It .insisted of fourteen | in the shin bone of a boy was penormed
men, who tmbarke- on the steamer Pro- | by Dr. A. M. PnelpB Sunday, Nov. 16. The
teus, at St. J jhns, .one 29 of that year, name of the patient was J rhn Gethius, a
J uly 21 they reacted Do Carey island, i young boy who had previously had sever
wh6rs Lieutenant Gariington disem-| si operations performed on him in order
barsed and took opies of thereco-ds
left there by the Naes expedition io 1S75
July 23 the Protns was crught in
an ice pack and he party was forced
to abandon her, jetting off' in their
boats only twenty-ire minutes before
she sank. A part ot the stores were
transported to CaptSaoine and cached
th6re for Mr. Grerlys party. He decided
it was not practical* to proceed further
north in the small bats and determined
to crosB Smith’s soed and make his way
down to the Greenlnd coast to Uper-
navik. At cape Shsikletin, Aug. 23, he
was met by a party if Eqlmaui sent to
his relief, and ten <ays later the party
embarked on tbe stamer Yantic and re
turned to St. Johns. Gariington was se
verely criticized for tot leaving stores at
Littleton island, andthere ensued a con
troversy between hliselt and Gen. Hazon
regarding his course Gariington asked
for.a conrt of inquiry which was ordered.
This conrt, while coimending him for
bis zoai, energy, ad efficiency, fonnd
that he had erred inihe Littleton isiand
matter, but attributd the failure ot the
expedition to the “gave errors and omis
sions” of Gan. Haze.
The New York Pr«s saye: “C hauncey
M. D.-pew carries 600,000 insurance on
his life. When he tlks about insurance
his text is somethin dike the old woman’s
declaration that *ca» killed the cat.’ Mr.
Dopew declares tbt it is anxiety that
kills most men, or, rther which prevents
them from livingoutheir natural ‘length
of days.’ This anxby Is mostly for the
family he will lead behind him, and
when a man has a nmfortable amount
of insurance, by wich his family’s wel
fare wifi be made ecure, his anx ety
ceases and he can lie on and on as long
as it was intended hpbou'd live by his
Creator. AlthoughMr. Depew does not
have any auxi-ty to*ing him down to
the grave in a hurr, I notice that he is
quite particular inj* 8 habits of life.
When he was last insoglaud he consult
ed the groat medicalruthorities to know
bow to attain longerty, and heregalates
bis aatlDB with due jfcard to their pre
cepta. Ho believes J right breakfast—a
soft-boiled egg and dup of coffee—in a
Jong walk in tbe doming, in alight
lunch at midday anca hearty dinner be
tween 6 and 7 o’dtek. He may go to
ban ci nets and dinner hat if his fellow-
guests will note h habitat them they
will discover that hdarelj eats and still
more rarely drinks oything at thorn,
and that he never si no.”
to strengthen an inch of bis shin-bone so
that he couid use it in walking.
Dr Puelps was pro eminently the man
to attempt such an experiment. He had
tried simple bone grafting in this case
without success. In another case he had
successfully implanted a portion of the
living bone of a dog in a human subject,
and the union was all but accomplished
when the restlveness of the dog dragged
the bones asunder before tbe operation
was completed. As Dr. Phelps is pro
fessor of orthofarfiic surgery in the Uni
versity of New York he couid not afford
to risk his reputation in performing an
operation that was not practicable, feas-
bile, and beneficial.
The particulars of the operation have
been often described. The dog was in
cased in a plaster of parts jacket in order
to prevent nis restlveness from spoiling
the operation, as In a previous experi
ment. Ths first joint of one forepaw was
cut off' while the dog was nnder anesthet
ics. An inch of the bone above this
joint was then exposed and cut off’ with
out severing its muscnlar and vascular
attachments to the rest of the dog’s
bony.
Then the boy was placed nnder ether
and the parts of Ms sola where the bone
was wanting were exposed. Tne piece
of semi detached bone was let into this
hiatus and secured in its place by passing
a straight piece of strong aluminum wire
length svlse through the msrroiv of the
dog’s bone so aB to project at both ends
into the corresponding parts of the boy's
shin bone.
The muscles of the dog which were stiil
attached to the piece of detached bone
were firmly secured by wire sutures to
that portion ot the boy’s flesh which sur
rounded that part of his shin where the
natural bone was wanting.
in this way sufficient nutriment was
provided for the piece of dog’s bone to
Keep it alive until the capillary vessels
from the soft tissues ia the boy’s leg had
surrounded it, penetrated it, and assirui
lated it with the boy’s b >tly.
Signs of this assimilation were first
st eu tfoe ttajs after the operation, when
tue sains Of bnth ooy and tfog were stea
to be united where they came iu. contact
with each otuer. There were some fears
at first t rat tne dog would die from tns
unnatura! couflat-iee it from this plaster
oi patis j tcket, bat judicious treatment
maue this all light.
Eleven days after the operation was
performed the boy and dog were ont
apart, with what result will only be
known when Dr. Phelps brings the ease
nnder the notice of the Academy of
Medicine.
-A-
don’t j'bn know, besides, I can trust
you—that’s the besi of you proud, cold
women, you make very poor sort of
sweethearts but you make devilish good
wives—one esn always trust you.”
Mrs. Dennis turned away with a bitter
smile UDon her lipp, and the Major went
off to dress for dinner and quite satisfied
with his own generosity and magnani
inity towards his wife.
“The best of yon proud, cold women,
yon make very poor sort of sweethearts
bnt you make devilish good wives”—she
repeated under her breath—“poor sort of
sweethearts— good wives—ohl my God, if
this man could only look into my heart
and see just what sort ot a sweetheart I
could be to some men—to one man, at
least. Oh! Cosmo Dennis, if only you
knew what a bad wife you have, bad, bad
in every thought and wish if not in deed,
if you only knew how little she is able to
truet herself!”
She was standing at the window look
ing out over the tall white marguerites
and the 6howy red geraniums, over the
bit of garden and tho low paling against
which the wall flowers grew and the
sweet peas were; climbing over the row
of huts opposite to the distant sky be
yond. She looked in her trailing white
tea gown and with her shining golden
head, like a maTgnerite herself. How
young aud lovely she was still, in years
bnt twenty two, in looks a girl, and alas,
in hopelessness and pain of heart, she
felt like an old, old woman. She held
her hands press;d bard together then,
her blue eyes were full of pain, her face
was wti':e and tired.
“It is so hard to bear,” she said in the
same hurt tone, under her breath,—“to
live with him who has long! ago grown
tired of me, and to have that other one
—ab!” she broke off sharp and short, for
■-.cross the open space between her win
dowandtbe opposite row of fcu'.s, she
saw Jack Trevor walk quickly by. He
looked at her window, and seeing her,
saluted, witn a gay gesture and a bright
smile. She forced her hand to reply and
her lips into an answering smile, and
then she dropped back into the nearest
chair, wishing wildly that she were dead
or that she had nevtr been born Into this
wor d of mistakes and weariness and suf
fering.
“I am safe enough,” she told herself.
“He cares nothing about me—Cosmo may
trust me—I am Jack’s old IrienU and
playfellow—that is all.”
Sue was still lying back in the big chair
when Mrjor Dennis returned, wearing
evening clothes aud a smart smoki
jacket, a quite gorgeous velvet aff'.’.ir
w ith collars and cuffs of superb embrold
ery. He turned himself about for her in
spection.
“I invested in a new smoking jacket
whilst I was up,” he told her. “Pretty,
isn’t it?”
“Quite resplendent,” answered Ethel,
her eyes still filled with Jack’s fair and
cleanly beauty.
“So I thought, but Bennett, in Bond
Street, you know, says it’ll soon tone
down. Do you think It will?”
“How should I know. Bennet must be
a better judge than I.”
“Well, I don’t know about that,” doubt-
lully.
“But he made it, didn’t he?” She was
trying hard to force herself to seem to be
interested in his new attire.
Yes, he made it, supplied the velvet,
of course.”
‘And not the embroidery?”
‘Ohl tbe embroideiy—no, I got that
elsewhere,” he replied rather awkwardly.
Ethel rose from her chair, a somewhat
satrical smile curling her lips. “I see.
The new Eve gave you the embroidery,”
she said scornfully, yet very quietly.
“What a pity to waste It down here—you
will take all the bloom off it.”
Not at all—the bloom ought to be off,”
cried h3, not sorry to find she had ac
cepted the evidence of a new Eve—which,
by the bye, he had not intended to let
slip to her—so quietly.
I think on tho whole that they got on
better than they hau done for two years
before tho Msj >r had ex9hanced into the
15ih. lu the old regiment Mrs. Dennis
had often been dull aud in low spirits,
s ie had been left a good deal alone and
Major Dennis had never be n able to go
away for a few days or even a few hours
without fseliug more or less of a brute
towards h-r. N >w no man in the world,
1 take it, likes to feel hi nself a brute; so
he was much inclined to accept, the ex
istence of Jack Trevor, his wife's old
piayftllow, as an entirely uumixed bless
tug.
Taey spent the evening very quietly—
the Major smoked a couple of cigarettes,
and wrote two or three letters, and talked
to her a little of what he had done in
London. And all the time in Ethel’s
heart there was raging a wild and fierce
tumult. A cry rose up and wou’d barcfly
be sitieffocr, that her life was hard -r to
bear than it had been before, that the
mockery of ;oing on living like this had
become a very hell to her, that she neith
er could r.or would continue it.
Yet Major Dennis smoked and chatted
complacently on, without a suspicion
that his wife sitting quittiy sewing at a
bit of filmy muslin a.d lace-work beside
the table where the lamp stood, was feel
ing any different to what she looked,
a suspicion that her exterior of ica cov
ered in truth a very volcano of fire, a
mine which might explode under his feet
at apy moment.
“By the bye, Ethel, is anything going
on just now?’’he asked suddenly, when
it was getting toward bed time.
“There is a garden party at Highfllght
to-morrow,” she answered, thinking
pleasantly of it because Jack Trevor
would be there—“and I believe we are
ail to be asked to an informal supper af
terwards.”
“Oh! at Highfllght! Are yon going?”
“Yes, I have promised to go and—”
with a laugh, “I have got a new gown on
purpose for it ”
“Really. Well, will the dogcart do to
drive you over in?”
•‘Oh yes, perfectly,” she replied.
Accordingly, the following afternoon
about 3 o'clock, tbe Major’s very high
dogcart with its bright yellow wheels,
came round to tbe little gateof their hut]
A rakish gray was between the shafts a
regular flyer, with satin coat and rest
less heels. He showed a great objection
to settling down at first but after a min
ute or two brongbt himBetf info the pose
ofa statue his head well in air and his
handsome feet extended as far as possi
ble.
Mrs. Dennis did not keep him waiting
very long, indeed as the Major opened
the front door, she came ont of her bed
room.
“Hello, is that the new frvck?” he
asked—het’s have a look at you. ‘Fon
my word it’s very pretty—I fuel quite
proud of going out with you.”
“1 am highly honoured,” cried Etfcel
turning herself about—she was ia high
spirits and his little compliment pleated
her.
It was c-trtainly a pretty gown, plain
and simple of sof: creamy banned with a
smart sailor hat bound with a cream rib
bon, on her fair head, Sac carried over
her arm a coat of stone coloured cloth
with a coachman'b cape or rather ret of
-a. .wiceV cohr ’ aire ass.es.
“Uolciple a/v ->’ii be smothered if you
wear thi % -r' he answered,
“I Bhou/i y notliered in dust if I
don’t,” she Aeplied— ‘but I think it will
be enough to keep me warm comiDg
home. You know it 1b twice as cold in
that high trap as it is in the victoria.”
A prettier or more winsome woman
surely no man ever helped into a high
dog uart, and Major Dennis swung him
self into his place beside her, feeling
quite in a glow of satisfaction.
“’Fon my word,” his thoughts ran,
“there’s nothing like a little outside
interest and attention for smartening a
married woman np. Why, I shall be fall
ing in love over again if I don’t look
out.”
Mrs. Dennis cast a glance towards the
mess—yes, the coach was there already.
The Major saw her look. “Would you
rather have gone on the coach ?’’ he
asked.
“Oh! I didn’t care at all.”
“Because you couldn't have had the
box seat and I’ve no Idea of your sitting
behind, don’t you know.”
“OM no. I like this much better,” she
replied.
They swept through the gates as she
spoke, and once on a bit of open road
the gray went like steam towards tbe
town.
“Don’t go through the town at this
pace, will you Cosmo? ’ she asked.
Mrjor Dennis laughed- “1 shall fiad
myself in the police station if I do,” he
answered.
“I wonder if you would mind stopping
at Jift'erson’s for a minute—only for a
minute? 1 left my little scent bottle
there to be re charged.’*
He raised no objection and when they
reached tho narrow High Street, puiied
up the gray at the door of tbe chemist’s
shop.
‘ is my little smelling bottle ready?”
Ethel asfcel.
‘Yes, Ma’am—” and away he ran into
tbe shop again to get it.
What happened next was all over in an
instant and Ethel hardly know how it
came about, but just a. the man returned
with the neat little white parcel in his
hand and gave it to Airs. Dennis, the
Major exclaimed—“Damnation” under
his breath and gave the gray horse a cut
with the whip such as bent him off'at a
frantic gallop along the narrow street.
Nor did he moderate his pace until they
had got a good mile upon tho road to
wards Highfllght when with some dif
ficulty his master puiied him up to a
walk.
“What wa9 the matter?” asked Ethel
who bad been holding on to the side of
the trap In sheer desperation, expecting
every moment to be dashed to the
stones.
“Nothing—nothing—I think something
stung me,” and he put up his hand to his
neck, as if to show that the mischief was
there.
“Was it a wasp? Does It hurt much
now?” she asked; she had never loved
this mac, she knew that he was tired of
her. she guessed that he went '.fter other
gods—yet in one moment she was all
tenderness for Ms supposed hurt.
He looked down into her anxious eyes
with a smile which but barely covered
the fear which still lingered ia his. “I’m
afraid I frighten your wits out of you
every nowand then.Echel,” he said with
a rough Bort of apology. “R-ally, I’m
awfully Berry—but the tact was I was
startled and made a cut at the horse
without thinking what I was do.ng—aud
the brute resents being reminded ot the
wMd at all.”
“Then yon were not badly stung,” she
cried.
“No—a mere nothing; a year or two
ago I should never have noticed it. ’Fon
my word I fancy my nerves are going—I
shall have to ent the Service and travel
for a while.”
“Alone? ’ she asked scarce above a
whisper. Her lip3 had gone white, her
cheeks were pile, her whole face seemed
to have grown drawn and haggard in a
moment, drawn and haggard and old.
“Alone—of course not. I—but there,
what's the use of tslktng about that? I’m
seedy aud out of sorts altogether, but I
shall be all right after a bit, when X have
got, my nerves pulled together a little.”
He laughed as he spoke and began to
tals about other things, once or twice
looking back to see if the coac i was in
sight or not. They were more than half
Way to Highfllght ere it appeared, how
ever, and the Major urged the gray to
put his best leg forward so that the
others might not overtake them. By the
time they pu led up at the portico at
Highfllght, Major Dennis was in the
wildest ana most boisterous spirits imag
inable, but the color had not come haw
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