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tHE aOWERS COLLfeOtlOi - ' / r ' shv VOLUME XVII.—NO. 702. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNXN& S^aROH 7. 1891. PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE, ^————a^—mm m ■gagggggB 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