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VOLUME XVII.—NO. 702.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNXN& S^aROH 7. 1891.
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THE WONDERFUL SOUTH.
Narrative of Her Unprecedented
Material Progress.
The Story that Continues to
Astound and Startle the
Modern Universe.
The conversion of the New York T.ib-
nne to a belief In the South's great fu
tore is so radical that it almost arouses
seme skepticism as to its gennineness.
For years the Tribune has been the bit
terest opponent of the South; it has vil
ifled and denounced without ceasing
the South and the people of the South.
It fcai been and is today the mouthpiece
and organ of the txtremo Scuth haters,
whtr.vtr found. The Manufacturers’
Record has laoored to bring about a
change of heart., and one of its stafl’lorg
since urged Its managers personally to
change i:s course and tell its readers
what the S >utu has accom; lbh< d Id le-
(Jgg-dii'tyr itself from the disasters of the
war, instead ol c ip.u presenting ev. iy-
thing Soul hern. This it bis now under
taken to Its zeal in it, r ew work is so
grrat that it lu difficult to bolievq in its
penult citss Itis trie that the ‘-vilest
sinner may return, 1 ’ and the Tribune s
conversion may not ba a cloak to cover
up future evil doings, but u til it has
demonstrated this, it wi i bs hard to
have failh in its good intemious. if it
should devote a page of its space a day
for the next fifty years to iree praise of
the South it would Dot more tbau atone
for its past work against this section. It
c alms that it is going to present the
resources and attractions of every South
ern Statu :o its readers, and if it wiil do
this honestly and fully, and net do it
simply to make money out of the section
which' it has so bitterly denounced ana
from whicn It has sought to keep out
side capital, the Manufacturers’ Record
will beiieve that there Is no harden'd
South baling sinner that ntay not in
time be converted to a belief in the won
der ui fuure of this sjctior. Speaking
of the South, the Tiibune sajt:
“The s rides that have been made in
this partef Ihe country during the last
decade are wonderful testimony to Ihe
courage and wisdom of Southerners
They nave ii died 1. arned too u-e of ad
versity Ihers was the hardest fate that
bad nefa en a clvliiz d people in recent
times, for not only were they impover
ishtd ai d enfii bit d. bat the system—
social, political aud co-nme.-ciai—upon
witch they had builaed their institu
tions Rnd from which thtir hRbits and
methods v ere drawn, had been de
a-.TO- ei^ They were not only obliged to
new methods of conducting tniim. They
baa n t merely to bigtn again at the b.i
ginning, but to discard tne wars and
forces tney had known for a century aud
to sub-itliute new ones In their places.
This was a tremei dons task, and the
mi ral n<r.ngth which accomplished itis
magnificent.”
It i« almost impossible to believe that
the Tribune ev> r puillshed such state
ments as these.—Manuf-ctunrs’ Re
cord.
All the Indications point to an unusual
year in railroad combination and exten
sion in the South, While Qouldand In
man, and their Essociate”, have been
talking of big things the small roads
have been reaching ont. Both of the
deals recently made in Baltimore will
have important resnits. The Richmond
and Danville system got a shorter line
to Florida when it paid f2 200,000 for the
Covington and Macon toad, a local line
that was recently built between two Or or
gta cities. Tne compeli’or in that sale
was tke Seaboard and Roanore party,
Who have been reaching out for a direct
route of their own to Florida. Although
their bid was the same as that or the
R chmopd at d Danville, th« y were de
feated, and at once b- gin to make other
ariangemen's They bate succeeded in
getting control of the Georgia Southern
and Florida rnsrt hv guaranteeing 6 p r
cent, upon {0 000,600 of the common
stock, ai d 7 per cant wher- the gross
earnings shall reach fl 000 000 a year.
—SS-r whp irtsde ti e deal were John
M. Robinson', of Baltimore, or- siceulof
th<- Scab n»rd and Roanoke system, ant
Willis B Sparks, of Macon, Ga , pres!
dent of the M.cin Conafruction com
f anv and of the Georgia Southern and
ini Ida.
The Seaboprd and Roanoke svstem is
known as the S aboard Air L’ne. It
controls six small roacs by whicn ii ge s
a line Loo. Portsmouth, Va.. to A lima,
Ga , a d stance or about 400 miles. It
gets Us northern connections through
the Baltimore Steam Packet Company
(the old Bay line) whose steamers run
D< tween Baltimore ami Old Point Com
fort and Norfolk and Portsmouth. Its
New York connections are through the
O.d Dominion SteamFhip Company, in
which It is a lane stockholder T ieOid
Dominion Company runs to Norfolk and
Portsmouth, Va.. ard puts on the Vir
ginia and North Car< 1 im coast a fleet < f
thirty six steamers, large ana small. By
acquiring the Georgia Southern and
Florida, the Seaboard aud Roanoke
pushes further south and reaches tbrnuh
the center cf Georgia to Palatka, Fla.
Its first work will be to hut Id a new road
from a point at or near Eiberton. Ga , on
the Gei rata, Carolina and Northern
road, whicn it. o* ns, to Macon, Ga. This
new line will give it the advantage
Which it expected to get through the
puicbas- or the Covington aud Macon
road. Thb S-.aboi rd ai d Roanoke pays
fer the new road, the bunaing of which
is a part of the contract mate with Pres
ident Sparks, of the Georgia Southern
and Florida.
AU this consolidation is an outgrowth
of the increasing value of Sooth ern bus
iness, both passenger and freight.
year. In ISTOthe Middle Northern States
showed 21 2 5 with a decline to 22 4 5 in
1S90. Th* Weste rn Sta‘es have remained
acont 16} Z dnriDg the past, ten years.
As far as reliable statistics c in be ob
tain. d the South showe d appropriations
of JS 8S9.570 for educatianal purposes in
1S78, and an increase to fl6,806,668 in
18S8 almost double in ten years.
The con parison is one of which the
South may well be proud, and these
feels and figures shou d effectually si
lence those persons who through ignor
ance, envy or malice are eternally prat-
ing about the “ignorant and uneducated
South.”
Who would have clreamed twenty
years ago, when the total number of
spindles in the South was only 341,5S6 or
in 18S0, when the number was only 561,-
36 i, that in the last ten years they would
r.Rve increased four fold, aud stov over
2 COO 0C0 spil'dteii iu operation in 1S03I
Yet such ate the f cts, and a large
number of new plants are now being
erected aud will go into operation with
in a year— among t.em the largest cot
ton mill in tee South at Florence. Ala.
Tne coiton mills of the South have
nearly all been managed with r.:m> r*
ably good judgment and businees tact,
and with tneir great natural advantages
of location have been paying good divi
dends to their etorknolders when mills
in the East have heen shut down. Taere
are large mills in the South that never
market a dol'ar’s worth of their pio
ductions in this country, but have or
ders stanling years ahead for their to
tal product aud s'.ip every piece of tneir
good to China, India, Japan and other
countries.
The next ten years will witness a slili
more remarkable increase in the num
her of cotton mills of the South, because
her advantages of location at d profit
are too great to be longer ignored.
With tne cotton and iron productions
iu our hands at an advantage vvh ci
can lion be wrested from us, what may we
not expect for the “fulureof the Sjuiii?”
Tie deed by which the Seaboard and
Roanoke obtained control of tie South
ern Georgia sni Fiorida road yielaed to
the Macon Company an enormous piofic,
conside ring tb« money ioveslei.,
o he Macon Construction has a capital
off'OOOOO divided iuto fl'ty shares at
=10 000 ett' h, it built the Georgia South
era and Flor'da railroad, 2S5 miles, tak
ing ail the stocks and bouoe. It sold the
bonds, ai d from the proceeds built the
road at- 1=15 010 a mile. As the bonds
were sufficient to bu-ld and equip the
road, the Macon Co-ei ruction Company
l ad all the stock, 42 750 shares, and pi,-
000; 00 :hey made efi the bonds.
Tne Seaboard and Roanoke and the
Raleigh and G&stou rvilroid nought the
G or*.iaSju’hern and F orioa by eudors
lug tne bunds o' the tatter company ai 6
pe r cjnt, and they recelv: d 22 753 shares
or the Georgia Southern anil Florida to
saWin '- - C"-' 1 “l iJl^-tf. al4. l^tjj
guaranteed 6 p r coVt* on {2 0-,u iR. ) aViV
in the Georgia Southern and Fieri a.
The profits which Sparks and h.s cui
l-:apues in the Mat.on Construction Com
pe.ny divide is tue 2 11*0 000 pie’erred
stock at 6 per cent , equal to 400 p.rcent.
on each snare in the Construction Com
pany. aud each share tn the Construe
tion Company gets $40 000 in toe stock
of the Georgia, Toledo and Florida rail
road.
A FORME IN FAKING’
Many Hundred Per Cent. Profit
Made.
And Yet the Faker Can’t Help
Wanting All the Earth
for Nothing.
Harold D Moon, ciief engineer of the
Illinois S eel Company, one of the larg
eat corporations in this country, is
spending a few day s investigating Mid-
dlesborough’H mineral resources. in an
interview today he stated that in time
the furnec. s of the North and East must
shut down for the reason that Iron and
steel in this section of the country can
be made for leis money than the raw
material can be secured up North.
He is of the opinion that within the
next twelve months over thirty new fur
naces will be in course of construction in
in southeastern Kentucky end not the ast
ern Tennessee. His opinion that the
best grades of steel can be made from
the ores found hare will be most encour
aging news to ail Southern iron men and
manufacturers.
Hit lliin On the Weak tpot.
Not alone on her material prosperity
and marvelous industrial development
daring the past decade Is the Saul h to
be congratulated. Official statistics
show that her increase in educational
facilities has kept pace with every step
of progress within her borders. Riches
with ignorance is a curse, bat wealth
combined with wisdom and knowledge
is a blessing to any people. The better
classes of the South have always e joy
ed the best educational advantages mat
money could provide, hut it is a hope’ul
and enc. uraging sign that the Southern
Stales are cow provided in the most
literal n ailner for that portion of their
population which under the old regime
was unable to secure an education.
Nearly ail her cities and larger towns
can boast of as fine a system of public
schools as there is in ti e world, while
eve-iy district, village and hamlet has its
we 1-cohducted private ecboeli.
The negroes of the South possess ex
ceptional advantages aud have made
good progress. A large gain has been
made in tbe attendance of both white
axd colored as Indicated by official sta
tittles#
Tbs school enrollment of the South
Its increased from 6 3 in 1870 to 18 7 In
IM0. The Eastern States reported 22 per
Mtllniro and only M per cent, last
One eveniDg four or five drummers and
agents who i ad been working in Quincy,
Iti , to no purpose were discussing their
ill luck in me office of the hotel, when
one oosBivvt:
) here’s an old shad down here in ;a
hardware stare who makes me tired.
Tnls is about the fifteenth time I’ve
trifd for an order, and it’s no go.
Old chan wilt, a big uoie cm him? quer
ied one of tbe others.
Yes.
Ordered mo out doo; s confonnd him.
And he told me, said a t- lrd, that
be never bought of art agent, trusted a
si ranger, or got eaug. t on any man’s
game.
That’s old B ! «nk to a dot, put in
the landlord. He’s as sharp as he is
stingy.
Considerable more was said in the
satria strain, but by and by a man who
had registered fromCuieag > put iu:
Boys, it’s ad in nnderstaodirg human
nature. Bet you {50 even up than I cm
get {10 out of him In fifteen minims,
and mat without value received or sign
ing my name to a paper.
His money was cov. r, d instantly, and
m xt mornlDg lie took one of the crowd
down to the store, Introduced himself,
and s lid:
Mr B.ank, the Governor of this State
gave me your name as a prominent res
ideal of th s neighborhood Our house
is publishing c mnty ‘ ist-orieaof Illinois.
Evtry sub-criber at {25 has a full-paged
portrait, and two paged of reading mat
ter. 1 shall take ouly five in this city,
arid you being the most prominent res
ident I have called upon you first.
Well, sir, in jus L . twelve minutes he
bad old Blank’s older for a book, and {10
paid down as a guaraty that be wou.d
take it. He hid hit him in bis weak
spot, and our money fell iuto bis pocket
with a thud which could be heard dear
across the hotel office.
Please Tara Over.
I think about the most amusing letter
I eve r received, said Cheancey M. De
pew the oth-.rday to a N<-w York Con
tinent man, was one I found on my desk
in tbe Grand Central one mornlDg. It
was directed to me personally. The
paper was heavy linen note, and the
handwriting evidently that of a well-
educated man. When 1 opened it I
found it began to tbe Hon. Coauncey M.
D»pe», and after my name, were the
initials of all the coll' ge degrees I ever
heard of and many 1 never saw before.
Ties It went on somewhat like this:
dear and Most Honored Sir; I have
read of your after dinner speeches, and
while it has never been my good fortune
to listen to your e’i querce, 1 have de
lighted in such publiei ei reports of your
utterances as I have been able to secure.
So much have they impressed me that
1 have but one great wish. It is to listen
to tt e spee ch you
Here I reached the end of the page.
Th<ere were t wo dinners on my list at the
time, affd I supposed tbe writer wanted
to find out from me how he could bear
the speeches at one of them. 1 turned
tne page ov« r fall of a charitable wish to
accede to his re quest and road:
would make after a dinner In your
railway restaurant at PomghkeepsUI
The other evening a man stood in a
car;iage soiling packages by the blaze of
a huge paraffine lamp. Ha wore a frock
ccat, a Bhlny silk hat, clean linen, a be
nevoleni smile and half a dozen budges
I’ve been faking for twelve years, he
confided to a reporter alter he had re
plant d prizs packages with {45 and
thrust it into his inside pcciet.
I've traveled the ountry from Maine
to California, he continued, and 1 know
every city, town and tillage where
there’s a collar. I either get a permit or
a license at each place, and so I’m
known lo all the mayors aud chiefs of
police from Florida to Oregon. I’m 40
years old, and have been a street man
just half my life.
No, it doesn't mat er what a fakir has
to sell, he’ll sell it if he only knows now.
It s tee gift or the gab, a solid front,
nerve and judgment, teat succ.eda and
the goods nave nothing to do with it.
To 1 e succtssiul yon must be grammati
cal, newsy and brief. Ii a man will ouly
wall, until 1 got througu talking I’ll have
his quaru r. If he gees nemo he misses
my urei zy conversation, and nis wife
gets tbe money; mine does when I go
homo, i know.
lo prohibition States I adv cate free
license, and iu Chicago high lie-use for
saloons. Ii 1 air.k-j a towu w .ere tin re
has recently been an elo.mrut I tell
teem an elopement story, ana get ’em
iaugUlDg. If it 8 a piou.-i towu i look
aest r ; tell bobs’-, pathetic siorius, and
stea.thily wink at the policeman, who
usually goes away aud chokeB. If the
town is Democratic I tala D -mooncy, or
if lit puhlicau I advocate tae principles
of the g. o. p and Uud to the Democratic
corner.
Some audiences I have to wcrkwtlha
carriage at,d pair a id witr a colored
driver. Au hour la >r, in the same town,
I am sellihg to a different crowd, mount
ed on a soap box, with a suit .elt eat, a
blue flannel su rc and overalls. I Holt
tne same goods to botn crowds, but out-
of the carriage I get a quarter ai.d oil
tbesiapb.x 1 o. I. g:t a dime. How
ever, 1 clear as much money ia au hour
from one crowd as ir >in another, as the
ttuif I sell does riot cost mo over three
cehis a ui if 1 sell ICO Coxes at 10 cents,
an i 50 a*. 25,1 have uohe we 1 even alter
[laying for ,he carriage,, whica cosn , tay
t. -1 handle al most
6v<-t>tiring,‘out, iu.CidfuTB ijiy’voetu
I was oiiuo lu a town witu a big stock
of jewelry and could not work it ufi\ 1
tnooght ii I only had some medicine to
sell I might pay tne rotel bill. I went
out silrmishtog aud iouud a saw mill
where they cut up a good deal or ma
bog my aud some cbo >y. I got a paper
bag’ul of the dark saw dust ana eoaked
it all nigut at the hotel. We had a beau
tiful medicine next day, aud my wife
bottled It wUlle X went to the printer's
and had some labile struck elf.
Eic-h bottle wasthe SIZ) of your little
finger,and cost 30 cents a gross, tbe la
beis c ml 50 c-nts aud tne raw-dust, noth
ing. I soul {9 worth at noun at 25 cents
a bottle, ann that night 1 look iu {37 in
cold cash. People who felt all kiuos ef
things at noun had goue home, taken
eo me, felt better and recommend
ed it. Set?
Tne first street man I ever b»w was
‘Dr.’ McBride, the original ‘king of
pain,’ who resided in Chicago np to tbe
lime of hie death. He made many thoa-
sands of dollars, and at one tl • e ne
showed me bts bank boi k witu {40.060 to
his c edit, but be died pent ileus
Gardner, the original street soap man,
became wealtny, and old man Clara, the
piuueer street iuceslrucllbis pyn man,
m still selling on tbe street at uis age of
76. Cnar ton, tbe impreEBion-pap-:r man,
became a minister, aud is now pastor ef
a New England church. By the way.
Cl irk, th-> pou man, recovered heavy
damages for Injuries received in me
Ashlaoula disaster In O to, ana n j >>8
tue distinction of homing a lif«Easa
over the road'>n which ne was irjured.
As he is now 76, it would be lnterusiiug
to know how ol-r he might nave become
if he nad not received toose ii jarles.
Every lawyer aud broker oo wu town
will rjinsmocr Biuith, ihe razor strop
man, who was recently burled with Ms-
sonic honors. PreECoit, the n an who
handled galanfca root, iesettledia Mai e
iu good circumstances, but ulitioag.-i 70
years of age, tue old nomadic -pint
comes over nim at times and lio lignts
tis big lamps and talks at.country cross
roads as glib y as ever. Bigio w, tha
street man, who sold parent medicines
for years, is now connected witu a very
large pa'ent medicine house iu New
Haven. Th-> original glatscutter man
was C. H Thompson, now in the tu
rn ance business in Boston.
Old mauDiw, wao made a specialty
of novelties, is still oa the road wilt a
big Cheap Joint notion wagon ia M*-t
sachusetis, and M rrvin the raeor psbte
in».n, is prtcr,icing medicine in Bjst.m
King still sells blacking in summer
anu juggles with paper at the dime
museums la winter
As for myself, I commtnced on bird
whistles in the street. Taey cost me $3 a
tnousaud; is i made them myself, aud 1
whistled like Mrj. Shaw, so 1 readily
sold one for a quartet, although now you
may buy them auy where for 1 cent eacn.
After tuat 1 sold cheap Jewelry—tix
plt-ct-s for a quarter, including br. och,
ear-rings, finger rings and a scarf pin.
Twenty cents profit on each salt! Lar.t r
1 sold ste 1 pens, buying ten gross lo s
and carrv ng with me s-anpiesof pens in
their ciif jent stages of manu'.cture.
Af er that 1 sola 25 cent packages of
stationery. Toese packages contained
s x sheets of note paper, six envelopes,
three Faber steamboat pencils, one of
which nad a rubDer top; six pens ( irssr),
a nickel penholder, a p or of cuff buttons,
one collar button, two finger rings, one
gilt chain, one Key-r<ng, bix magic par
tor trlcka on pasteboard, a box of black
ing, a bottle of ink, and a bottle of mu
cilage, with a brush Oa this 25 cent
package 1 rt aiiz-d nine cents profit and
sold the boxes as flit as 1 cou d
hand out the goods and make the
change.
Nntwi'hstanding the fact that X often
chared {20 a day, Uwanted to sell some
thing that was ail profit. One day in
Sarnia Isa w a fakir in a Carriage who
talked to ihe people about tbe anatomy
of tne bauds and feet, and offered nis
salve and liniment as a cure for every
ailment, from a compound fracture of
the ankle to corns and cbil'hialus..
From a carriage I sell at 25 cents from
a dry goods box or iluur barrel at 10
cents, in good weather I travel with a
gypsy wagon. My wife dresi ea a Slonx
princess and plays the cornet when hot
pisylng a parlor o gan. In order to get
my audience interested I take a common
newspaper, and while folding and teer-
ing It into Jacob's ladders, I give them •
biaiory of paper, showing how it is mads
and teilirg now useful it is, from wrap
ping a rt d herring to bearing tbe death
warrant of a criminal, the will of a da-
eaaaed person, tbe check of tbo million
aire, ora marriage certificate. Then 1
fifth page.]
f EN. J. B. GORDON, U S. 8E -a t OG FROM GA. FOR THE NEXT SIX YEABS.
FOOLISHLY NAMED FLOWERS.
The Florists' Craze for Naming Pian's
After Society People. ,
THE SEA'S SALTNESS,
Some Singular and Interesting Beliefs
About the Salt Sea.
n,ng u. —
The flower-dealerf’,
device to popclar zA, yj.ix
floweis, nctably ‘esti*
Edmund Collii
consideiable txotnt, ( oat
adapting a name dticriptive rhl jne
torm, color, or quaiity oftJ;e flowJf |i?:ey
name it after some well-known nl .sty
persi n, man or woman. So far T they
have middled little with roses, lilies,
and orchids, though one of the two most
popular roses of tbe 89ason btara the
name of a lady—di cress of Portsmouth
Toe etat* lv American Beauty is another
great p< pnlar favorite.
But let us look at the chrrsanthe
mums. They have tech so overchristen
ed, I suppose, b.ciuse they ar.< in such
general use for bouquets, boutonnieres,
etc., and a prominent social person ilk
ing moat tnis or that kind presently
fluds his name given to bis favorite bios
som. I shall take a few out of a list of a
hundred or more. Now every one who
»ees much of Mr. Elliott F. Shepard
knots ttiat a “button-hole” is a strong
point with him in personal appearance.
His favorite is a Japanese chrysanltie
mum, and one of these flowers now
bears his name all over toe U ited
States. It is a very largo flower, with
broad, rib lou like petals and a oeau'tful
lemon color. The “Mrs. Cornelian Van
derbilt’’ is also a Japanese. Tne fl nrer
is very large and composed of a number
of long petals of rose madder The“Mrs.
DeWiit, smith” is an incurved Japanese,
large flawers, ‘ very double,” tite oaier
petals a beautiful soft rose, changing to
white toward the center. The ‘ Ciara
Kit men” is a rfen lavender roee in color,
spacing to ptivery rose, with a white
cent* r. The flower is large, of open Bur
taee and o vtry fine textu-e.
Tt-en com s the “Harry E Widener”—
a bright lemon without, shadmgs. The
flower Is large,on st ff, stout it-ms, hold
the fl .wei erect witnout supp r a; petals
crisp and st ff, hut not coarse. The
-Mrs Wiuthn p Sirgeanfc” is a hri Rant
straw color, incurved, carrying i>s flow
ers on long, stiff stems It is probably
toe largest tn this line of color and may
be c&l e i a grand flower. Miss Minnie
Wanamaker has also a passionf or chrys
anthemums and tbe flower gtverf ner
name is a fine creamy white; ine urved
forming a perftc. hall and qette di-tinct
fr» m any white chrysanthemum In coiti
vatlon. Tne 4 President Harrison” is the
most distinct chrysanthemum for its
color, which |S Ealwou-red outside and
d ep red imile. The floweri Rre very
aoob e, ot immense size tnd is a very
strong and free fl iwerer. The piesident
wears it pretty constantly in the lapel of
his coat and as soon as it b generally
known that toe fl iwer can be bought by
asklh<r fi I the “Pre ident” there will he
a insurer it. The "Belie Hickey” is a
Chinese chrysanthemum; it is large, in
curved, and pearly white.
The “Mrs. .rving Clark” is pearly
whti on the margin, shed ng t ■ rt-ep
rise in the cen ter, which Is; • utlfallj
w honed, re flexed, v. r r large, and dis
tinct Tee • Mrs. Levi P. Morton” is a
bright pink ard unique in appearance
T.;e “William H. L-hcoln” is a magmfi
cent golden yellow, vith straight, fla -
snr- adtng Tne ‘ Pf'«ces« or
W,:les” Is a tall, blush, rose-tinted flow
er verv fire acd'tkti, and comes in lnid-
s. ason The ‘ Mrs. G. W. Childs” has
the outside petals white, dark rose ia
side and shape like the • Comte de G^r
many.” Tne “Som Sloan’ 1 is a very
large ai d fine flower, pale biush, and
flomy incurved. It lasts a long time.
The queen of ebryeantbemnms, »r coarse.
... ..as.. ilnkanfi Tf arftt) T* The
There are hundreds of queer rryths
and traditions given to accaunt for the
fact that tne sea is suit.
The Other
A MOST CHARMING STORY OF EARLY LOVE
by John strange winter.
CHAPTER XXV.
’ Verily, money iu every habita’ion investeth
men with dignity and comeliness. I is itie
tongue for him who would b-* eloquent, and the
weapon for him who would light.'’
Major Dennis was buried the follow
lug day. A pood many people attended
the fun. ral, Including Mejrr Poit nger.
who gave evidences of wishing to be on
exceedingly intimate terms with the
new Lord ltoistrevor; and thvro was
present also a golden-haired lady op
striking appearance, who cried quietly
behind a thick crepe veil during the
whole of the impresBiye service.
Then they went back to the Fiats and
in the presence or Lord Fro: lnngbam
and those who had been invited to at
tend the funeral, the dead man s wi.l
was read.
It was a very simple one. Ho left evory
thing or which he dl'.d posstsstd to his
wife, with the i xceptlon of a certain
diamond cross which he wiehea to pass
as an heirloom with the Frothlngham
title.
Then there came a tery odd statement,
perhaps the oddest ever put down as
any man's last will and testament.
“1 believe”—it said—“from various
causes, that I shall not live till I am tiity
yei ra old. And as my wife wcu.tl then
bo bat a young woman, and is not a so
man wel. calculated to live a lonely life,
and also has been an txcetdingiy good
wire to me iu evtry way, I wish It to be
clearly aLd ci .tinctly urntrsteo t by all
whom It aa7 concern that it Is my ex
press wish that, after my ceath, she
should please herself in the matter of
marrying again. If shecliOJSiS to marry
again, it is with my lull approval anu
Coll Bdlitra*’
Wr en the lawyer came to an end there
was a ctail silence whicn ieHUd far some
miuu’.es. Tnen Lord Frothlngham
spoke:
• ll.d you zna rc that will, Mr.—Mr —? ’
“HerV -y,” said the man ol law, uroa. e-
ly. -Yis my Rud, 1 did.”
is the “Mis Alpbeus Hardy. 1
flowers are of per’cct shape, pure White,
incurved, Japanese.
mainland by a narrow neck cr isthmus.
When it beoame known to the Holy One
that bis people had sinned, he went to
the garden for the purpose of driving
them out and across the narrow neck of
land into the patch of thorn and bram
bles on the other sice. Anticipating
what would be the consequences of their
heinous crime, they bad prepared to
leave thtir beautiful garden, and had
actually gone so far as to send the chil
dren aud tbe goats across iuto tbs
thicket.
When the Holy One appeared on the
scene the first pair started to run, but
the wo nan looked back. For this the
man cm s id ber and for such a crime
was almost immediately turned into a
huge block ofsalt (Compare with Get e-
sls xix , 26). The woman, more forgiv
ing than Ler husband, stooped to pick
up the shapeless mass of salt, when im
mediately the narrow neck of laDd be
gan to cr&ck and break. As she touched
what hao once been her companion sn«,
tio, was turned to salt just as tbe neck
or land sank and the waters rushed
through.
From that day to this, the Arabs say,
ail ihe waters or the ocean have rushen
through that narrow channel at least
once a year, constantly wearirg away
the salt of what w.s once our fi st, par
ents, yet the bulk of the two salty ob
jects Is not diminished in the least.
The Pythagoreans believed that the
ret was made salty bv the tears of Kro
uus, father o Z ius. Tne Hebrew expla
nation is simswbat similar, thrush
more poetic. They believed that the
saltness was caused by the tears of fallen
angels.—St. Louis Kepnb.lc.
How to Have Pretty Hands
A lady should have beautifully white
hands. If the tkin be naturally white
Very little care is required to preserve it.
A good soap, aided by a pinch or two of
cracked oatmeal, may bo used for a
thorough cleansing twice adsy; aud if
need ul to Btiil further cleanse them,
warui water—not hot—will do the neces
ssry work. Once a week they should be
rubbed front and back between the fin
gers, and all over with a slice of lemon.
It these exquisitely white hands are
inclined to cnap, camphor ice may be
applied at night, and vvnlte Rlcves w< rn
to n crc-ass the softehiDg effect. Tee
best camphor ice is a home made prep
ariitioi of pure waits wax melted and
stirred to the cjnslstancy of cream witu
the addition of several crops of spiritse>f
Camphor. Hales should always be cut
in ime palms of the gloves to allow ven
tilation. Fer distress! gly red hands,
tqual parts of glycerine, kmc n juice and
rose water may be applied nightly an
der gloves. Dal y applications of lemon
juice are eure to produce a whitening
effect. Tight sleeves aud snog y ttitmg
flu.er rings are a frequent source of red
hards, and tbe only remedy for this is
to remove the irritating cause. Smooth
white hands may b.^ difficult to acquire,
but they are certainly within the reach
or all who care for them sufficiently to
make the effort required to s. cure them.
Plenty of Sleep For Women.
Business Ia Buaineas.
Buffalo Courier: A lithographing e«
tabiishment in Buffalo recently received
from a Western customer a circular note
announcing the death of the bead of the
firm. It was given to the elerk with in
sanctions to write a letter of condolence
in reply, end this is wbat he supplied:
We aie greatly pained to learn of the
loss suetalped by jcurflrm and ex'emi
to y< n eur heartiest sympathy. We no
tice that the circular you s< ud ne an
nor neir g Mr s dt atr. is lithographed
by Chicago patties. We regret th*t yon
did rot see it in your way to let ns
figure on this job. The next time there
Is a bereavement in yonr bouse we shall
be glad to quote yon on lithograph eir
cnlnrs. and are confident that we can
give son better work at lees tost than
anybody *!*• b> the business. Trusting
we may soon have an opportunity . of
It is a known fact among physicians,
nurses and those generally interested in
the restoration of health that the per
centage of women among the mid lie
and upper classes who retire early is
alarmingly small. The term “alarming
ly” is need advisedly, because the grow
ing tendency to keep late hoars cheats
Nature out of her just does and compe. s
ber to retaliate in a mant.tr that ofien
threat, ns Dot ouly health, but life, most
seriously. There are few women so con
stituted but that the wear and tear of
cai y life consumes to a great extent
thsir vita tty, whica can only ba re
stored by means of perfect repose.
E pccialiy are long, nnoroken hoars
of test Decessary for wives and mothers,
all of whom are giving of their strength
unreservedly and getting little physical
ly in return save that watch is derived
from sleep. The growing tendency of
the age toward physical culture training
1b not well sustained in tbe late hours so
universally kept by many of the moat
enthnsia»tie advocates of that move
meat. Those who earnestly desire to
nse the moat effective maana at hand for
the preservation of health and beauty
shomld not Call to keep early hoaA
•‘Ana lu.nliOkB possession has it b./en
afjt-TCWfsVi-i-l ’i i- I ,
•H has ueeti in ruy pcssesslon, ali d
mineomy, it has not b.en out or
private posieauiou for an hour.”
•-i see” And tuea the old lord got.ip
and went across me room to Ethel, who
w as sitting specd-Rns betide ner mother.
Ha aa!C, “my dear Mrs. Dennis, 1 oounIu-
tr that poor Gueuio has made a very ju-t
and generous will. X suppose it lo ns
great a surprise to you is to an of us?”
“X never knew a word ol it,” she an
swered. “I uid not even know Vnat
Cosmo had made a will.” «
“It was maae within a week of my
marriage,” tue old lord said grim y
>. & .... uit.i.nnr.h it is not a will to lurtuti
Damage, too u.u j.
-•And attnongh it is not a will to lurmt;
my interests, 1 am bound to say that
Cosmo, poor fellow, was quite wituin his
rlgnts lu making it. Ana now X will
wisa you gooa-oye. You have my beat
wlsnea lor tne luiuic my dear. 1 hope
you will Boon Ue able to shuke i ff tne
effects of poor Cosmo s dread ul enu.”
E.nel had risen to her foet • You are
veiy kind, Lera Frotulngham,” sue said,
"very kino. X wish ’ and then she
began to cry again, aud with her hand-
knehief heid to her eyes, she rusha out
of the room. . ,
Toe old lord’s departure was the signal
for all the company asscmuled to go also,
and ve:y soon Mis. Morunnut, wno hid
taken upon herself tue duty of hostess,
was left to herseif aua her own dignity.
Tntn Ehe betook btrself to the nine
boudoir where sue found Ethel alohe.
•1 waut to Sheas to y ou, Lui6',” silo
said, In her most oignitied accents. *T
(Oil ^Lll tL>Lti IxO *V iLt) tuLcr&l ia
over aud sucu a very betismciory will
hm been lead, it is most uuaitviaaoie fur
>ou to remain in towu—Lo remain here
at ail. You uadmuor beitur come down
to the Chile With me.”
But Ethel suooit her head. ‘On, no, X
wuu.du t go to B ankiiau p:ou lor luo
world, not for the world.’'
••And Why not? ’
“O-l they wouid ask so many ques-
tloua and staie at ms so dreudiuily. lie
sides, there la Etnl ag eat oeal to do lu
LrndonanC—a. d—I.don't want to go
away just uow.”
“Wmi I am not able to stay with you
any loii>>er,’ said Mrs. Moruaunt with
decision! “I should nave thought that
you would be glad to get away Item the
place where your husband was mur
dl “£So’x shall bt; but I don’t want to jun
away,” E»hel cried.
• Aul wen, as you please—I daresay you
know much better man l wuat is good
for you. Atl the you: g people do, uow-
a-dajS. Only 1 aus, go h inio tomorrow
morning—it is impotslole lor me to leave
vour lather aione auy longer,” wnlch re
mem berms as Ethel did that her mother
was then marlng preparations (or a two
mouths’ stay at Monte Carlo during the
early part of the year, was au excuse
which would r.ot ho.d water.
• Besides,” Mrs. Mordaunt went on in
her most b and tones, “that joueg man,
Loro Rosstrevor, took upon himself to
insult me In a really disgraceful way the
oihtr d ty—yesterday, old yes, to be sure,
yesterday— and I nave no intention wnat
ever of quarreling with him over it, for I
daresay ms head is pretty well turned by
his new dignities and by this drealiui
occurrence. Rut at th© same time, I
cannot lower myself by nm lining here
to meet him at present. By and by X
shall make a point or forgetting it, and
I think, if yoa had any regard for your
motmr s position—after the devoted
mother that I have oeen to you too—you
would be only too giad to mark your
disapproval of his conduct by not re
calving him just at present.”
For a moment Ethel was positively
unable to speak; then, with her tongue
fairly cleaving to the roof of her mouth,
with her heart thumping like a steam-
engine, she spoke out her mind to Mrs.
Mordaunt for the first time in her life.
“Listen to me, mother,” she tala, speak
ing out bravely in spite of the tell tale
quaver ia ber voice; **I see that I mast
apeak to you very plainly. Before I was
married you controlled my life, my body,
nav. my very soul, with a r. d of iron;
and yon sold me jnst as you pleased, as
if I had been a pappy or an old gown
that you had grown tired of. We l.tnat’e
over and done now and can never be un
done; but after this I will arrange my
own life, If you please. If I go light, It
will be my own bu3ines?; it i go wrong,
then you reed rot blame jour.-.elf for it.
From today I take tbe responsibility of
my life upon myself, if yon please,
mother.”
“And this,” oried Mrs. Mordaunt, in
dignantly, “is all the thanks yon give me
for being the means of making y -u yonr
own mlatreaa free and unfettered at
twenty three with a Cortona ef eavaa
thousand a year, your very ows i»
woat you like c ici.I”
Theyuurig widow made a -esIareofT
weariness and di.-gu-it. “O 1 mother,,
cau t you nnrierstiiua? Won’t j >ti see.
ttmt I would give my seven :hou.>nDC3 ss
year over anu over again, if 1 Usd tlisir;
to buy back my lost youth, my kat
nerve, my I appy childhood, before yosi
had btguo your wor- of prepare lea for
tbe marrle.go market X wts each a
happy child, but 1 was so crusbiil an<S.
crammed as a g‘rl,ar.d lam such a wretetk-
id woman today—such a wretched wi>
man ”
Mrs. Mordant rose from her chair “I
cousid; r, Atm I,’ she said si veroly. ‘ that-
you »re a thoroughly ungrateful daugh
ter. For the fi.st time in ir y life i reah-
:ze wnat it is to agree with K Lg Leah
And mark my words—ycur ingratiiiuus;
will come home to you. However I ana
uot go.ng to quarrel aoout it. I shall ge-
homo tomorrow morning, ecd vtli nay
time for a. pirture comes we will cb&»©
these heroics, if yoa please, i havato go
to Bond street; you will not go trat to
day t”
• N.j, I shall not go out. 1 he toccgt-
ain is at your disposal, if you eat it to
use it,’ Eihei ar steered.
“Thank you, Etc el, I will have it. Y
grtaily ois.ike cabs, as you knew, per
imps you will he kind enough to uttkT
it?”
•T wiil,” said Ethel, who, now Ibwi th-i'
battle w-B ovtr and she wan mistJesa o.C
hcrsel! f r over, began to feel faint agalm
and to have a choking in her th:oat, to
Rei t. at sue would ho tlixnklul to feuds,
he re elf alone.
Mrs M r Jaunt bad scarcely been .goat.'
ten minutes, when Judge shewed laLursi
Rjsstrevor, who loiti ner tuat no cad.
been up five or tlx floors paying a visit,
to s me other cccupans ol the bwufi-
isgs.
"Lid they say anything about
she askid eagtriy. "i assure you. Jack.
I quite oread to meet any one. i don’t,
think any one has Bent to ask alter insi-.
ail i he week ”
‘ But Mrs. Scott told me she had sent
down twice,” he answered "i daresay
Judge did. not, thins: of botesring yum
wit., all tbe cards ana eo on. hii:), »sy
don't ycu ass him about it? ’
Ev-ntualiy the raiigiho LieR and BRkeiL
Juoge .-hat |catds or enq ir;, h*a been,
lei and w -o/had asked for her.
' • i .1 orii.p mum,' s..lodge
solemnly and going away, returned in a
minute w i, h a largo blue and white bowt
t. r e parts full ef visiting cards.
“Not ail these,’ Eai.ei t i c aimed.
“Yes mum, and madume, the lady
with tne white iiair"
‘•Madame Wolenski. Oh! did ah©
send? ’
“She did, mug—came or sent evsyy
day, and was veiy kind and considerate,,
I wanted her lo con e m tut day, sae>
Bfctmed so anxious to hear bow you were,
but abe wouldn’t. She said tf yon wc-alfi:
send up when you tbit inclined toseis
any o.fo she would come down auy iiaito
and see you.”
“That was kind of her; wasn’t tnafc
kind Jack? That will do, Jadge; thantc
you.’
Thereupon Judge disappeared, anci
Ethel turned over the e-ards in the bowl.,
whi.e her visitor wandered about lhs>
room with bis hands in his pockets,
* Ethel.” he said at last, “I'm gainer
down to Norfolk in the morning,”
‘For very long?” she asued.
“No; only a few days. By-the by, tow
long is your mother going to stay ?”
“8he is going home tomorrow,” iihei
answered britfly.
“Ob, r al y; you're not going with hsi-j
I suppose? ’
• No, I would not go to BlankbamjAaa
for anything just now. Besides,! cent
want to leave London till tl a e: qolry iis
settleo; indeed, tf I did they wouiu prob
ably stno for me buck again—and—anti—
it - oaldti’t loos well.”
Toae awful doubt flashed into Ross--
tie .■» r s mind again. Good H.&vens,.
eo I d it b p ‘SElb.e that she was calcu
lating on ii e- ch-uees of the- e.2 o- of Let
,nmir to the general puoiic?
-You are tetter, Ethcfl ’ he remarked
abi uotiy.
b e io-'ked up ia surprise at the hardi
to. c ’Y.s, i am te.fer, Jack,” she
gala—"at least I’m better in the daytime
in; at night—oi ! ” acd she broke
eif, shucdtricg as if tne recollection of
toe p iat f©w nignts was too awful for
wor.is lo express.
!. am i.out-d to ssy : l.at pi or Ja-k shiv
ered a;so, but. h- went on talkii g partly
because ne thought which would xwist,
itse f ii to his mind wan so unwelcome,
and so uupalat »ble that ha felt that, ht>
must do anything to iry to oreak the
spell which seemed to nave come ovtr
him.
"How Is it f.fcatMrs. Mordtunt is going:
beck so soon? ’ hu asked. ‘By the eye.,
is tl e iu? 1 suppete aie won t tpeak to.
me ir st e sees n e ”
• Well, you did offend her,” Mrs Den
nis rep.i d. "Mother has just to d me
that she cmnot remain to meet you un-
ill a little time has gone ny. She doesn't
mean to quarrel with you though.”'
“No, I daresay not,” said Jackin adr^r
t0 Et’hfl looked up Rgsii ! Sfco scarcely
si emed tom do. seanii this new JoCi, this*
cynical, hard, uusympstlie Ic J ex, and
if tae trutii be told, sie did mucsk
like bitn. .... ...
“Jack.” she said Euddsnly, getting Ep
from ter chair ana going cioso to bins
as he stood leaning against the er»d oC
the cuimoey shelt—Ls anything vroui*-
iing you? ’
•*My ce ir girl, a great deal is troubling
me,” he answered vaguely.
"But have I cone anything to vex.
yon? ’ wistfully.
••To vtx me—no.” touched by fcsrtonm
“Because, yon know,” sue sain, “11 i
have seemed to be not tbe same, nm
must not think anything of it, Jacx! Ba-
raeinter bow much has happened to uq«s
during the past week—the terrib o shoot
I hate had. I don’t think,” she said,
with another shiver, “that i quite knew
what 1 was doing or saying .or several
days—bnt that is past now or partly so,,
and i am mysel. again. At least, X ana
tolerably rational, aud if I said or did
anything to effond when I was ‘out of
my mind,' 1 hope you won’t visit it om
me, Jack.”
The • fleet cf this was to make him be
lieve more than ever that she bad done
that to which the fir ger of suspicion
pointed—bnt n spite ot it, bis love for
ner was stronger than ever at toat mo
ment.
‘•Ethel,” he cried, catching her hands
In bis and boloing them hard sgatcah
Lis Leart—‘who am I that I soouid set
myself up as yonr jodgtT You know all
that 1 feel ter yoa tnd—ana—yon know
if you are tbe same Ethel or not, and as
for offending me—”
“1 don’t think I quite follow yoa
Jack,” she said with a patient wit if ni
nes*.
Hoi
le dropped bar hand instantly—* I
, fit to talk to yon Jnst now,” hot