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VOLUME XVII.—NO. 787.
ATIANTA. GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31. 1891.
PRICE: *2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
Narrative of ller Unprecedented
Material Progress.
The Story that Continues to
Astound and Startle the
Modern Universe.
The Manufacturers’ Record has always
said tbat it is during times of depression
and low prices that the South's advan
tages are brought out most prominently.
When the iron trade is active and prices
are high all furnaces, even badly located
ones, can run, but when low prioes cut
down the margin of profit then only
those furnaces tbat are located to the
beet advantage as regarus ore and coke
can profitably continue in blast. It in
variably happens that at such times
Northern ana Western financiers make a
great howl against the South and South
ern furnaoes and Southern railroads.
The Rev. Sam Jones Inelegantly but
somewhat forcibly once said that “it is
only the hit dog that howls,” and so it is
doubtless true that Northern iron inter
ests are being badly hit by the South. A
dispatch from Pittsburg says:
“The c>mpetition of Southern iron is
beginning to make itself felt here, and
serious alarm exists among furnace
owners. They say they cannot continue
operations undt r the present conditions
on account of the large amount of South
ern iron now being shipped into Penn
sylvania and Ohio. They assert tbat
since May 20, 1S90, from 40 000 to 50 000
tons of this iron have been r<celved, dts
placingan equal amount of local produc
tion. For months a fair quantity of
Southern iron was delivered at the
Youngstown Mills for $11, and at this
price large sales were made. Last week
the prices qnoted were $13 25 to $13 So for
Alabama pig iron. Tue recent shut
down if 25 blast turnacts in the Sheuan-
go and Mahoning valley is attributed to
this destructive competition. Southern
railroads virtually enter into partner
ship with the Southern furnaesmej by
hauling material and prooucts under
the sliding scale arrangement, iron is
hauled from Birmingham, Ala., to
Youngstown, Ohio, about 500 miles, for
$4 10 per ton Tue rate paid on pig from
Youngstown to Pittsburg, 64 milts, is 80
cents per ton. In one c-tse this Is cent
a ton a mile, In the other 1 23 cents. In
moving furnace supplies the Southern
roads again favor the furnacemen.
Pocahontas coke is sent into the Chatta
nooga cistrict at the cost of Connells
vliiecokein the Mahoning and Shenan-
go valleys. Tne valley furnacemen say
that, being situated mldw sy between the j
oe abie to produce iron 'in competition
with any part of the North, and would
do so were they protected from Southern
inroads.
8 per ceDt , but the great majority seem
to hate paid 10 and 12 per cent., and
some even more, and at tho same time
added largely to thetr surplus account.
Manufacturing concerns, railroads and
many laDd improvement companies
paid liberal dividends during the year,
and enter 1891 with bright prospects for
still larger profits. A few items picked
np here and there during the last weok
as to dividends declared may be of in
terest.
DARLING ROBBIE BORNS.
Scotland’s
Great l’oct
People.
of tlic
RETURN 0E TUE HARD'S JilKfflDAY
The Clark Mills pioperty on the Au
gusta canal will be auctioned at Augusta,
Ga, Fdbiuary 3 The property includes
complete machinery for flour atd corn
mill, lot 160x183 feet, brick building 40x140
feet, ample storage capacity, railroad
tracks, elevator, scales and other mod
ern conveniences. The situation is said
to be the best on first level of the canal
above the highest freshet ever known,
with 200 never-failing horse power for
nished by three turbine wheels. The
mill is fully equipped with all shafting,
pulleys, etc., for any manufacturing, and
can probably be secured at a low figure.
Another development enterprise is
abont to be put on foot in Buena Vista
in the shape of the North Bnena Vista
Co. Its projectors are Poiladelphia,
Ohio, Lexington and Bnena Vista par
ties. The compaBy has been organized
and oliicers and directors elected, with a
capital of $3,000 000 as the maximum and
$150,000 as minimum, which latter has
Detu subscribed. Options have been
held for some time ou property adjoin
ing Buena Vista on South river, which
will be closed and about 1,000 acres of
land purchased, but no holdings to be
placed on the market at present.
The prospectus of tho Virginia Con
struction Co. nas been issued. Tuis
company proposes to organlza with a
capital of $100 000, and a charter enabling
it to operate anywhere in the State. The
principal office will be at Buena Vista,
and its first fi-!d of operation will be at
Shenandoah, Va., where It will improve
150 lots just purchased with buildings to
the amount of $3J,000 within twelve
months.
The Buepa Vista Loan & TruBt Co., a
strong and reliable concern with a large
capital, Is an iDstltntion with the sav
ings bank feature, allowing interest on
deposits received in small amounts.
The electric light plant here has been
a marked success. Within one year
from the time it was introduced, S00
lights have been tskeD. The demand
for lights txce^di bj 200 the present ca
pacity of the dynamo, so it will be nee
essary to enlarge the plant at an early
day.
The Americas Investment Co., of
Amcricus, Ga., has been in cx’stence IS
months. Its capital at the start was
$500,000 At the ena oi its first year, in
July, 1800, it declared a cash dividend of
100 per cent., having earned $500,000 on a
capita) of $500 000. The stockholders
were offered their dividend lu cash or in
siock, as It had been dtcided to increase
the stock to $1 0 0 000 in the last six
months of 1800, during which the com
panv’s sti ca was $1 000,(00. it earned net
profiis of 50 per cent, or $200,C00, brine
at the rate of 40 pt r cent, a year. This
company is engaged in general railroad
and land development business.
The Harry Myers Manufacturing Co.,
one of the young and enteipilringinanu-
facturing establishments of Nashville,
Tenn., has secured contract for manu
facturing the Thompson Co. corn shel
ter. The Harry Myers Manufacturing
Co. makes a specialty of novelties, both
iron and wooc, competing with many of
the loDger established Eastern and
Northern concerns. The company 1b in
position to do electric work cl all kinds,
including plating. Its piant occupies a
large three-story brick building with
yard attached The energy oi this con
cern is commendable, meriting au at ur>d-
ance of success in all its undertakings.
Jessup Bros., of Augusta, Ga., are
manufacturers of what they claim to be
the best open draught arrester ou earth,
it is known as Wilson’s champion spark
arrester. The idea of its value obtained
from the testimony of many users under
various conditions would seem to con
firm the claim of the manufacturers.
Borne of the strong points claimed by
them are t h at it makes steam as safe as
water or horse power for ginning; ad
justability to meet the varylDg draught
of different boilers; has a free open pas
sage for the smoke and soot, and a con
venient manner of disposing of dtad
sparks; also possesses great durability.
A complete chair factory, located in
what is spoken of as the finest hardwood
section of Georgia, is offered for sate to
settle up an estate. Included with the
factory, which possesses a lull line of
chair and woodworking mschinery, ere
two acres of land ano a tract of timber
laud. This offi-r will bo held open on y
for a short wnile, and parties feeling in
terested should communicate at ones
with Dobbs & Saeiverton, Austell, Ga.
Southern financial and business enter
prises had a very prosperous year in
1890, judged by the excellent dividends
declared, A few Soutnern banks declared
The Fort Worth Iron Works, of Fort
Worth, Texas, which employs 130 men,
earned 28 per cent, net last year, paying
10 per cent, in dividend and putting 18
per cent, aside to surplus profits. Fort
Worth enterprises generally bad a very
prosperous year in 1890, all of the banks
bavlng declared 12 per cent, in dividends,
besides largely increasing their snrpluB.
The directors of the Norfolk Real Es
tate Investment Co. have declared a divi
dend of 10 per cent. Tnis company was
organized 18 months ago, and has paid
op in that time 90 per cent, and declared
17 per cent, dividends, besides having a
handsome surplus left.
The Chesapeake A Ohio Development
Co., of Clifton Forge, Va., which was or
ganized last summer, has just declared a
dividend of 10 per cent.
The India a River State Bank, of Titus
ville, F.a., paid 16 per cent, dividend,
besides adding to its surplus account.
Recalls Memories of His Homes
and Haunts in His Beloved
Ayr—Alloway Kirk
and Cottage.
Our monarch's hindmost year but one
Was live and twenty days begun
Twas then a blast o’Janwar' win’
Blew hansel in ou Uobiu.
One hundred and thirty-two years have
passed since the gossip keekit In the loot
of the waly Iny on whom the blast of
Janwar’ win ’ blew hansel. To-day the
name of that little visitant to the wee
clay biggin near the anld toon o’ Ayr en
circles the earth and the fame of Robin
grows greater and brighter as the years
roll on. He Is no longer the Ayrshire
poet, he is no loDger the Scottish hare;
he belongs to the world. Scotchmen
have carried to the ends of the earth an
undying love of “darling Robbie Burns”
and to day his praises are being sung in
every land and every tongne.
From the uttermost ends of the earth a
a straggling l* u .e place, with queer,
cro ihe.l strceipr Burns’ Inn is a place
*o which the a ention of a visitor is at
first directed. Tners one finds several
rellcj cf Burns' freemason days, par.'ic
m'ariy the lucga books containing the
minutes he siloed Tarbolton has been
immortsizid in “Death and Dr. Horn
book.” In the Freemason’s Cmb was one
J :hn Wilson, a village teac- er, who also
sold drugs sod gave m dical advice.
Burns and WilsJti" quarreled one night,
and Burns, trailed “to hing him up
in sang like an c l d potato bcgle"—as he
after*aid saM- - rote that terrible t ffn-
sioe:
Some books are lees frae eu' to en'.
Tarbolton krew of many or Barns’ ex
cesses, and as ooe.eaiks along the road
between Lotb, YJTid the village thire
naturally arisen • Viclure of the swarthy,
flashing-eyed plowman, five feet ten, of
bnirdly manhood, striding along with
manly independence—and sometimes “a
weedrappie over muckie’’—goy late at
nicht. after some debate at the Bache
lors’ Club at Tarbolton.
Dear Old Moiagiel.
Mauchline and Mossglel, what memo
rles cling around them! The queer old
village has mbib that recalls the poet.
Over in the little kirkyaird sleep the Ar
mours—Burns’ wifte’s family. There, too,
lie Deddy Auid.’Hoiy Willie and Gavin
Hamilton, Burns’ laird and friend. Near
the church la the famous Cowgate. ' At
its entrance stood Johnny Dow’s public
house. A new erection has taken the
A Bedford City land company recently
declared a dividend of $900 a share on a
par value of $100
The I’almatto Brewing Co., of Charles
ton S. C., has declared a 10 per cent, div
EMMA ADROIT.
flow the l’rima lloutia Soothed
Emma Abbott once sang “The List
Rose of Summer” to an audience of one,
according to the San Francisco Exami
ner. She sang the touching words and
plaintive music without putting a price
on them. She was not Emma Abbott
the prlma donna, for the moment, but a
big-hearted, charitable woman, able and
willing to contribute of her riches to
soothe the feverish fancy of an unfortu
nate foliow-creatnre whose sands of life
were nearly spent.
Philip J. Boost, who died recently of
consumption, was a resident of Detroit
a few years ago, and a passionate lover
of music. He was a regular patron of
the Abbott seasons in tbat city, and
never missed hearing the singer in
“Martha.” Her solo, “The Last Rose of
Summer,” was his ideal of music.
When he was first attacked by tbe pul
monary affrctlon, he came to California
in hopes of bring benefited by tue change
of climate. He gained strength and
vigor for a time, and was able to accept
light employment, bat not for long. For
weeks he wri bedridden at the home of
his brother, 113422J st. With hope of
life gone, poor boost had little lo wish
for beyond a speedy termination of hi3
sufferings, until Emma Abbott began
her late engagement at tie Baldwin
Theatre. Tne young man read every
criticism that the press afforded, and
with the r adieg came a longing for
“The L tst It -se oi Summer.”
He implored his physician ana rela
tives for permission to attend just one
performance of F.oto.v’s masterpiece.
The man of medicine pronounced judg
ment that Boost could not live to make
the journ-y between his bed ana the
theatre. It was impossible—he was too
ROBERT BURNS’ COTTAGE.
who died 2lst July, 1796 in the thirty-
seventh year of his age,” etc.
But Burns wrote his own epitaph, and
it will live when all others are forgotten:
Lives there a moil whose judgment clear
Can others teach the course to steer,
Yet runs him-,If life’s mad career
Wild as the wave.
Here pause, and thnugh the starling tear
Survey this grave.
The soor inhabitant below
Was quick to learn, and wise to know,
And Keenly felt the friendly glow
And toiter flame;
But thought'ess follies laid him low,
And stain'd his name.
Reader, attend! whether thy soul
Soars fancy's High is beyond the pole
Or, darkling, grubs this errthly hole
In low pursuit.
Know prudent, cautious Self-control
Is wisdom's root.
Remembered by His Virtues.
The world has acted upon a good
Christian principle as regards BurnB.
S aaispi are says:
heartfelt sympathy thrills out to “Auld
Ayr.” Most Scotch people have seen the
commonplace, tliatch roofed little build
ing which draws visitors yearly to the
number of eighteen or twenty thousand.
Where Bsb Was Born.
Gilbert Barns has told ns that the
house in which his brother was born was
built by his father. “It consisted of a
kitchen in one end and a room in the oth
er, with a fireplace and chimney, and
there was a concealed bed in the kitchen,
with a small closet at tbe end, and, when
altogether c ist over Inside and outside
with lime, it had a neat and comfortable
appoarance.” The house that now stands
may be fairly taken to represent it. It
consists of the same “but” and “ben ”
Tho kitchen haB a very old-fashioned fire
place, a set-iD bed, a wee window of four
small panes, the old oight-day clock of
William .Burns, the griddle used by the
family in baking bannocks, the chair on
which
The mither wi' her needle and her shears,
Uar'd auid elaes look amalst as weel’s Ihe new.
There is another relic, but, of a different
kind—tne taole which stoed in the cot
tage when it was used as a pub tc house.
It is covered with names and initials j
Tne cottage was iet as a pub ic house
by the incorpoiation of Shoemakers of I
Ayr, into whose bands it had (alien. But j
a butler fats was iu store for it. In 1SS1 j
the trustees of Bures’ monument pur
chased It for $20 000, threw np the license
place of the old and on the front one
reads'-
This is the house though built anew.
Where Burns cam’ weary frae the plough
To iae a crack wi' Johnny Dow
Ou nlchts at e’en,
And whiles to lasie tne mountain dew
Wi 1 bonnie Jean.
Poosy Nancy’s lodging house, Nance
T1 mock’s ale house and Jamie Smith’s
shop were in the vicinity, but have been
removed. One relic remains, however,
and it is worth going many miles to see.
In an old fashioned two-story house in
Back Causeway Is the identical room to
which Burns brought his young wife
Near by Is Gavin Hamilton’s house,where
Burns was married.
A short walk aloDg tbe country road
and we reach Mosagiei. Like most or Pink of Dandies a.s He Appeared
Burns’ old homes, it has been rebuilt.
The world has provided Burns a better
fate, and ms fallings are written in water
and his virtues iu brass. Some o>.e has
said that it is a law of providence tbat
t::e earth stains which pollute tbe foun
tain of genius sball be deposited by tbe
stream In its courte, and that the living
waters shculd at length run clear. So
Burns is remembered by his best, for his
sturdy Independence, for his hatred of a
mean and creeping subserviency to the
titled aB “the man who first taught the
Scottish nation to stand erect,” and the
brother man of every member of the
human family
“It Is Impossible,” says Chambers, “to
contemplate the life of Burns without a
strong feeling of affectionate admira
tion and respect. His manly Integrity
of character—which as a peasant he
guarded with Jealous dignity—and bis
warm and true heart elevate him in our
conceptions almost asjmuch as the native
force and beauty or his poetry. Some
errors and frailties threw a shade on the
noble and aff.cting image, but its higher
lineaments were never destroyed.”
It was Burns’ misfortune to live in a
small soiled generation. Around him
were the narrow formalisms of an Icy,
iroi. rlbt ed, copper bottomed theology;
within him that warm, impulsive spr.t
WLlcii seeks to brtak through all bar
riers and embrace all creation In tne
arms of love. Ho knew a theology be
yond the ntrrow bounds c f CaiViuism; a
destiny of , man unkno wn to stony
hearted preachers. They preached hell
and damnation; Burns preached the gos-
pri oi lave.
it wouid be a mistake to call Burns a
saint, fur his own honest pen condemns
such |an unwise position. But ne was
a truly religious man. “Religion,” he
says In one of his letters, “has over been
to me not only my chief cependence,
but my dearest enjoyment. A inaihc
a? revs: ~ s -f-
character; an irreligious poet is a mon
ster,” And again: ‘ 1 am, I must con
fess, too frequently the sport of whim,
caprice and passion; but reverence to
God and integrity to my fellow men I
hope 1 shall ever preserve.” His religion
was unquestionable and if, as Guthrie
says, be had met an evangelist of the
right sort Instead of the humbug preach
ers and fret zing creeds of his day he
would never have started off the rails of
moral rectitude. But, foolish though he
was, be has preached many a nobie, ele
vating sermon at d will continue so to do
in undying pieces such as “Tne Cottar s
Saturday Night,” rich in high moral sen
timent—pieces that will
A MOST CHARMING STORY OF EARLY LOVE,
BY JOHN STRANGE WINTER.
Harby G. Fouler.
HOW DRUM MEL DRESSED.
utterly help,ess to even walk tc a car- j and tur '-ed inuio a cofi’ee house,
riage. j —
Tne dying man, usually tractable and :
gentle, .vas persistent in refusing to be j
resigned, “if I could hear Emma Ab I
bott sing ‘The Last Rose of Summer’ I
would be ready to die,” he remarked to !
Mrs. M. A. Hotaling, a friend of the fam j
iiy, as she sat at his bedside.
Mrs. Hotaling fives at the Baldwin
Hotel, tne temporary home of the prlma
denna. It was not a difficult task to con
vey the information o. Boost’s passionate
longing to Miss Abbott, and Mrs. Hotal
ing accomplished it through a third per
son.
In the midst of a violent downpour tbe I
lady was surprised by a call from Ab
bott. Tne prlma donna was so cloaked
and hooded that Mrs. Hotaling Jid not
recognize her at first, but the fair visitor
soon stated hertr:and.
“Now, Mrs. Hotaling,” she said, at the
conclusion of her recital of what she had
heard, “I want you to take me to your
young friend, if my si aging will give
nlm one moment’s pleasure or forget! ul-
ness, 1 don t think I can spend the aiter-
noon to bett.r advantage.”
•‘But the weather? it Is raining,” began
M's. Hotaling, pleased, but surprised.
* Never mind the ram; it won t hurt me
a bit, and I have set my heart on this.
Will you accompany mt?”
Mrs. Hotaling needed no urging, and
in a few znomeuts the errand of mercy
had begun.
Tf e introduction was almost too much
for the invalid. Joy came near killing
in this instance. 1c was several min
utes before he recovered sufficiently to
even attempt to express his gratitude,
and then his visitor refused to listen.
“Save your strength, my friend; you
have but little left, and use it in making
yonr peace for the life to come.”
The strange interview was between the
two alone, ana it laBted for nearly an
hour. Then Boost’s friends were sum
moned for the song.
There was no stage, no costuming, and
all the properties but one were lacking.
In her left hand the actress held a blush
rose, and with the notes tho petals fell
to the floor, one by one.
Boost lay on his pillar as one en
tranced, breathless lest a note of the la
vorite lo which ho had been so long eon
slant soouid escape him.
His were the only dry eyes in the room, i
It is doubifu! if more pathos ever eu- I
tered into any comp sition that Miss
Abbott 6ver attempted.
At the end Boost dropped back utterly
exhausted. Tne strain was too much,
and for a few moments it was f rnred
that the excitement had killed him. He
rallied sufficiently later on to say good-
by and express his thanks, and in the
evening he penciled a request that the
leaves of the rose be preserved and sent
to his mother in Detroit.
Not less familiar Is the ro-: 11 ss ruin of
Ailoway Kirk. Burns left Alloway when
he was seven years old, but he never for
got the scenes of hts early life, and in
after years he lifted Alloway Kirk a: d
the Brig o’ Doou into immoitaiity by bis
“Tam o' Sranter.” And ic is Daon tbat
he endeared io Scot’irh hearts by his
song, “Ye Banks and Braes.”
Begiuiiiiis lie Liatile of Life.
Mount Ollphant is close by, lying
among tte “heiebts and Lowes” three
miles south of Ayr. It was here that
Burns began the battle of life; here he
received tho last of bis education; here
he started to work on the farm. But,
most important of all, here It was where
he developed the hardy, independent
feeling of manhood that in afier years
expressed itself in his great song of de
mocracy. William Burns was poor, but
he was proud, and be took the farm of
Mount Oiiphant, that he might be able
to keep hU family about him and not be
under t'C necessity of sending them out
to service. And it was such sturdy inde
pendence that taught Robert Burns to
sing:
What tho’ on hamely fare we dine,
Wear boddiu a ray and a’ that;
Lie fules their bilks and knaves tlieir wine
A mart’s a man for a’ that!
For a’ that, and a’ tbat
Their tinsel show, and a' that;
The honest man, though e'er sae poor
Is king o’ men lor a' that. ‘
Lochlea and Tarbolton.
Who has not beard of Lochlea and Tar
bolton? Familiar as they are, however,
there is little of the former place to in
Tne house in which Burns lived was one
story, with a thatch roof and a small
ga tret, where the poet slept and wrote
many of his poems. A two story, elate-
rooftd, comfortable looking bouse stands
In its place. The old home has gone,
but MoBsgiel will be forever associated
with Burns’ best work. It was there he
wrote: “Tbe T« Doers.” “The Vision,”
“Hsllowe’n,” “The Cottar's Saturday
Night,” “The Two Epistles to Davie,”
and “Three to Lapraik,” “The I ines to a
Mouse,” “To a Daisy,” “A (dress to the
Unco Gnid,” “Adoress to the Dell,”
“Scotch Drink,” “Man Was Mace to .
Mourn.” “The Jolly B- ggara,” and “The
Holy Fair.”
Two miles from Mauchline is the spot J
where Burns took fareweil of Highland I
Mary, so pathetically described to “Mary 1
in Heaven.” It was there that Burns
to Contemporaries.
The dress of Brummei has been par
ticulariy described. It was he who in
troduced the starched white neck cloth.
He is said to have invented the trouser
which opened at the bottom of the leg
and was closed by buttons or loops. His
linen was fine and he used no perfume.
Lord Byron, who saw him often, said
that there was nothing reini-rkab.a in
his style of dress except a certain exqui
site propriety. The poet Crabbe, cer
tainly no bad judge of character, saw
him at Bel voir when he was in hi- prime
and spoke of ‘the manly and ever cigai-
fi.d expression of his eeuntsnanee.”
“Tne impression 1 britevo was general
CHAPTER XV.
Of all t! e numerous ills that hurt our peace,
That press the s tul, or wring the mind with an
guish,
Beyond comparison, the worst are those
Which to our folly or our guilt we owe.
“Moore,” said the Major—“I want to
get down here. Do you mind driving the
cart round for me?”
‘ Not a bit, Sir,” answered Moore
promptly.
So the Major got down and the other
took the reins and drove off Major
Dennis tarned eagerly to Trevor, who
was watting with an impassive face to
hear what wonid come next.
“Who is it, Trevor? Anyone yon
know?” the Major asked.
“No, Sir—1 have never spoken to the
lady,” the other answered, then added—
“I know her by sight. She is not an
English woman.”
“And she—is it Valerie?” he gasped
oat.
“Yes, Sir, I believe it is,” Trevor an.
swered. He felt an unutterable and
merciless contempt for his superior, nor
did he believe for a moment that this
Madtmoiselle Valerie neither was nor
ever had been anything to him. For
Dennis’s own sake be Bure that Jack
Trevor would not have lifted a finger to
stop the most scandalous scene in the
world. He bad acted as he had done
entireiv for Ethel, for Ethel only, wholly
and solely becau-ie she always shrank
with such horror from tho very idea of a
scandal and a scene, and because he felt
toat with her a prisoner in her bedroom
as sic was, the situation was one wnich
might become a dangerous one at any
moment.”
“Ai.d Ethel ? ’
“I was sitting with her, Sir, when the—
the lady camt; and I whispered „o her to
get into her bedroom aLd lock the door-
I believe she is there yet.”
“And that woman in tne drawing
room? ’ the Major cried.
“I left her there,” returned Trevor in a
hard, wooden voice.
“Then s to must be got away. She
must be turned out of the camp,” Major
“Hadn’t you better see her, Sir, and
get it over? ’
“Not for the world.”
‘ She may want nothing very impor
tant—a mere trifle,” Trevor urged.
‘ More likely sne’s got an infernal ma
chine or a bottle of vitriol to throw in
my face,” retorted the other sharply.
“However, I’ll go round and give orders
myself.”
He strode away, leaving Trevor stand
ing looking after him; then he suddenly
bethought himself that he would like to
see the end of it all, and forthwith set
ofl in the direction of the Major’s quar
ters as quickly as was possible without
breaking into a run.
Maj ir Dennis had disappeared by the
time that Trevor got within sight of his
quarters, so tbat he did not hear the sab
sequent altercation between the strauge
lady and the soldier servant, Judge.
That stolid person, after having re
ceived bis orders from his master, went
quietly into the tiny drawing room and
tnus addressed himself to the lady.
“If you please, Mum, Maj rr Dennis
bids mu say that he is notable to see you
toe ay.”
“I will wait," said the lady, without
moving.
“Major Dennis wiil not be home to
night, Mam,” Judge added.
“No ma-.ter—I’U wail till he do3B
come.”
“Begging your pardon. Mum, but you
cm t wait here,” said Judge, with de
lightful civility.
“On! yes I shall ”
“Begging your pardon, Mum, but I’ve
got my orders and I can’t let yon wait
here,” he repeated.
“Indeed! And how can you prevent
it ?•’
“I have but to step up to the guard-
room to have a file or men down here iu
two minutes,” answered Judge with
great urbanity—“and tmough I’d be sorry
d ishing with surprise when Eho saw
Trevor there. (
“Trevor tells me he ODly came to the
gates and warned me that he might save
you annoyance. So perhaps you will
thank him for yourself.”
Mrs. Dennis went with outstretched
hands to Trevor. “Jack, yon were very
good.” she said, earnestly. “Thank you
so much—30 much.”
She knew as well what his eyes meant
as if he had spoken in plain words, ills
looks said—“Tnis man is not true to you,
and he ili uses yon, yon carry the marks
of his violence on your body at this mo
ment! Why do you not set yourself free
from him? You have the power, why do
you not use it?” She cast a piteous look
back at him as if to say—“Do not put
such an idea into my mind—don’t tempt
me!”
“Trevor,” said the M»jor at that mo
ment, “you re a good sort. I’ll never
forget the good turn you've done me to
day. Remember, whether its a fit or a
yacht, you’ll always be welcome in It—
isn’t that so, Ethel?”
“Always,” said Ethel, faintly; and In
that one word, Trevor’s short lived
hopes of happiness in the near future,
died. For somehow in those few mo
meats he realized that Ethel would
never willingly go in for a .divorce
against her husband. It was a tempta
tion to her, just as his first proposal that
they should go away together, had been.
But she had been brought up with a
horror of anything approaching to a
public scandal, and even in the face of
overwhelming temptation, the shrink
ing from the very fact of divorce clung
to her still. So in the language of a look
ho gathered that, in spite of her love
draggirg always at her heart-strings,
she wouid, unless M->jor Dennis became
more violent and his infidelities more
spparerri, carry the burden of her sor
row to the very e d.
After this tne Dennises were soon gone
and their plsca in the Fifteenth knew
them no more. There was a sale of the
furniture and fittings of their hat, which
as It was really the one apportioned to
tue commanding officer, was an unasn-
ally good one. A ad then, as the Colonel
was still living outside, the next senior
married officer came into possession of
it. This happened to be Captain Strat
ton, and Mrs. Stratton was very gleeful
over the change.
' , Ron’l In w mosh Trevor.”
she remarked on the day that her thing!
were removed—“because Mrs. Dennis
was such a great friend of yours; but un
til yon have had to put yourself and your
wife, to say notulng of two babies, into a
box with four compartments, you will
never be able to realiz i tbe luxury and
comfort of having six rooms all a trifle
larger than those you have left. And
you’ll come and help me to gat settled,
won’t you?”
What could Trevor say? Well, exactly
what he did, that he would be charmed-
delighted—and all the rest. And every
day for a whole week, he gave all his
spare time to making himself usefal and
little Mrs. Stratton's quarters habitable,
nailing up pictures and fans and brack
ets and pots iu the sweet little room
which was hallowed to him by the mem ■
ory of his dear love's presence. Well,
well, the best days In life come to an end
sooner or later, and perhaps it was as
well for him that the commanding offi
cer’s quarters in Chertsey Camp had
come under the rule of a new mistress.
CHAPTER XVI.
“The world is a net: the more we - ir the
mine we are entangled.'’.
There is in that part of London which
writes 8. W. on its letters, and is consid.
ered a distinctly fashionable locality, a
huge pile of buildings w.iich is known as
“Tne Fiats.” It is sometning more than
a mere building in which you may find
suites of rooms each aolf-sontained, with
Us own front door, and which you may
make as much your castle as the most
English Englishman could wish, i-'or a;
“The Fiats” they take you in and, be.
yond paying a certain sum cf money, you
have no more trouble than you had when
Bllislaud ana Its Associations.
ESIisland, too. is associated with some
of ihe poet’s best work, and some of his
greatest sufferings. The far n house re
mains much the same as ‘twas in Bums’
day. On one of the window pants may
society of his day, anu during the period rose from her scat on
trom isoo to 1S:G ie was a welcome pres st-tite.
enco in most of the great houses in Lon
don.
Hi r chis” c-edontial was his charming
manner; and cuarot of manner—such as
really captivates and holds regard—is
ALLOV.AY KiltK
terest an admirer of Burns. The'only
thing noticeable in the way of relics is
the top stone of a doorway, bearing tbe
words: “The Lintel of the Poet’s Baro.”
Tarbolton is seven miles bom Ayr, and
be seen, in Burns’ well-known hand j possessed except by an amiable
writing: j being. Such undoubtedly was Brummei,
An honest man's the noblest work o£ God. ) according to Wi.liam Winter in tne New
; iorR Trioune.
On second thought the poet scored the j And ho was not only amiable but hon-
word man and characteri-ticiily
wornan. T“ere, too, be wrote “Mary in
Heaven.” “O' a tbe Airis,” and “Taoi o’
Shanter”—‘ a poem wnich does not con
tain a single superfluous word or a weak
line.”
It is said that one windy October night
V
I Best-
BURNS’ COTTAGE, ALLOWAY,
orabie. He never betrayed a confidence,
and when in the depth oi destitution, to
which he ultimately sank, although
liboral offers of money were male to him
for gossiping and scandalous recoilec
tious and relics of his fashionable days
and acquaintances, he wouid not seek
profit iu that way, and he would not sail
his private papers.
A Great Dude’s Wit.
Many characteristic anecdotes of Bruin-
! mel are told by Captain Jesse, in reply
to a nobleman who had accused him of
at Ellisland the anniversary cf Mary
Campbell’s death came round. Burns
could not sleep. He was t hough tful and
restless, and going out into the barn he
lay down on some straw. When he re
turned he sat down and wrote that sa
cred poem, “Mary in Heaven.
Falling of the Shadows.
The end i« at hand. We go to the Woe
Vermel Dumfries, where stands a house
with the inscripllo’ : “Robert Burns,
tbe national poet,. lived in this house
refth Mm family in mminer to Dumfries
Sim EfiisCff in 1791 ” Front there he
removed to Mill Brae, now called Burns
ntrpfit and tbt>re ho died. It wag th^r",
as CirJ\le fully 8»ys» ‘bat ‘‘Too
mild gate of death was opene d to him,
and lie p-ri'd. net softiy but speedily,
into that still country where the hail
storms and fire-showers do not reach,
and the heaviest laden wayfarer at
leneth lays down his load.
1 8t Michael's chuic! yard is close by.
Opening the door of the mausoleum one
sees Burns’ grave. A large marble slab
facea tbe door and presents tbe inscrip
tion: “In memory of Robert Borns,
leading Lis son into disreputable courses
at gaming, he said: “Really, I did my
beat for tne young man. I once gave him
my arm all the way from Waite’s to
Walter's ”
To a lady at dinner who observed that
he did not eat vegetables, and inquired
wnether he never aie any, he replied:
“Yes, madam, I once aie a pea.”
On being asked, in an unseasonable
summer, whether ne had ever seen such
a one, he answered:
“Yes, last winter.”
When some one inquire! how he hap
pened to catch a cold, Lis reply wa;:
“I left my carriage yesterday evening,
on my way to town iroin the Pavilien,
and the infidel of a landlord put me into
a room wltn a damp stranger.”
“Robinson,” be said to his valet, wish
ing to snub a bore wi.o was botheriug
him with copious enthusiasm about tn«
English lakes, “which of the lakes do I
admire?”
“ Windermere, sir,”rejoined tho valet.
“Ao, yes,” Brummei added, “Winder-
mere—-o it is—Windermere. Come to
Brighton,” ne cried, “wa’ll tat currant
tart and i.ve in cbii- .z and salt water.”
sweep or year laundress—they i?
in, in fact, and “do” for you tope:
in every way.
If you are a very sociable pc-rsc
may make many acquaintances
the three or four hundred p :op!
liva under ths same roof wua y
you may live there for years and
spsak to a sirgie soui from year’s
year's end. You can give a din
though Judge would have promptly j {ort y People with as little trouble
knocked down and thrashed almost to a I cin as ^ OQe to c
jelly ar.y man that he saw ill using a wo
man, yet he had no compunction wbat
ever, In her case, of conveying his mas
Well,” she said, “I have heard a great!
deal abont the chivalry of your English I
soldiers, and when I come to visit an j
English effijer, I am turned out of his
house.”
But it was only wasting breath to talk
about ehiva'ry to a stolid block of a 30I-
dlcr servant, who had got his orders and
would csrrv them out at any ejst. Mad j
emoiseliu Valerie did not reaiizy that
who
day and dice quietly with you
o’clock—you can go away for si
ever, m uer ease, ox vox.,e,x.x B .xx, or a year and you needn’t ttou!
ter’s message to her in ail its plain truth anything under lock an
never
ad to
at of
e as you
W-.dues-
at eight
: mouths
ie to pat
he mas-
tad uncompromising ugliness. S ie went
out of the hut therefore without further
ado, and Trevor from a distance saw her
go off in tbe direction of the town.
“Beaten again,” site muttered as she
passed tbe great gates. “I suppose that’s
\^hy he cnooses to live iu that miserable
little wooden cabin—he knows he can
always escape In among bis great brutes
of soldiers. Bat ! I never thoueut I could
be bellied by a great fool like Dennis.”
When tie stranger had fairly gone,
Maj.>r Dennis sent Judge across to Mr.
Trevor's quarters to ask him to come
over before ho went to mess. And when
he was dressed T.’evor did so and found
the Msj >r alone in the little drawing-
room
‘‘Trevor, my dear fellow,” said the
Major with boisterous heartiness, “ T
ement, does all that for you : or you
msy let your suite and have a few gui
neas a week to help to pay yoarexpeuaet
while you are visiting among your
friends aud relations or enlarging your
mind by foretgn travel.
Then you need not trouble yourself to
keep horses and carriages unless you
like—tne management will pruvi ie you
with anything of that kind tnatyou may
happen to r; quire, and you have out to
order tho open or the eloeo carriage, as
you may think most fit. Well, It Is a
charming arrangement, and were I a
free agent In such matters—which I need
hardly say I am not—that portion of
mankind which enjoys the doubtful
privilege of uay acquaintance, would, be
fore many weeks nave gone over my
head, see me comfortably established oil
In 1795 a treaty was made with Spain by
whtc i tue Mlsri sipDl R’vertroubles were
ended. Tnat same year J ohn J ay con
cluded a treaty with England, which,
though advantageous iu the main, was
not satisfactory to most of our people,
for It did not provide against tue Im
pressment of our sailors by British
ships. •
thank you'enough for haring ^"can %^ ao Z™
spared me from walking in unawares on L.ats. l can imagine no .ire so easy,
that woman this afternoon—I'm awfully
obiigtd to you.” ^ _
“Don’t speak of it sir,” said Jack, a
little stiffly. “I wished to save Mrs. Den
nis any annoyance—that was ali.”
“Then she shall thank you herself.
Stay—there’s one thing I want to say I
know what you must think of this mys
terious lady who is paying me such at
tention jnst now ’’ , ......
‘‘I have no right to think about it at all,
sir,” putla J-iek,‘ri idly.
“Bat I wish you to do so,’ r j lined tbe
Major—“because you could—trom a sur
face knowledge—only havo one opinion
on tbe eubj :et. But I give you my word
of honor tbat she was never anything but
a bitter enemy—never.”
no household so pleased to manage, or
with so few domestic worries to fret
one’s sonl.
Well, the Dennises, after being in
rooms in Jermyn Street for several
weeks, all at once bethought them of
“The Flats,” and determined to go and
see whether there were an; suites of
rooms to be let.
“If yon remember,” said the Major as
they drove along—“Etniiy Hardeastle
was there for six months at least—she
swears by the place—saids e never lock
ed a thing np or even bolted her door at
night. I believe it would be the very
place,”
However, when they got there they did
net find a single large sixsd Euite cf
“She does seem bister enough,” said i r, oms vacant. There were two very
Jack, relaxing, a^d yet in a very scorn
xut tone.
“By Jove, yes,” said the M .jor, “and
’pon my word, it she follows mo up aud
makes my life a burden to mt) iu Lon
don as she has done here, I shall have to
buy a yacht as tue only sa e way cf get
ting rid of aer—” then he went to the
door of the bedroom and called, “Ethel,
Ethel, I want you a minute.”
‘ Yea,” aha answered, and came out,
small ones, each with a good sitting-
room, a good bedroom, a smail maids
room, kitchen and bath room, in reality
suites only Intended for one person,
O/er these Mrs. Donnis shook ner head—
“ vVe must have more room than that,”
she said decidedly.
“Would you like to take a Tarnished
suite for six months?” asked the young
man—manager—clerk—or whatever he
waa—who took them round, “Then you