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SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPRISE
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The day set apart for the inauguration
of a new Governor came in cold, rainy
and thoroughly disagreeable. This may
recount in a large measure for the fact
(hat tiie crowd of out-of-town yisitors
was much smaller than hud been expected
by the managers of the occasion. Still
there was a fair crowd in attendance, and
the streets of the busy city of Atlanta
for a time took on a holiday appearance.
The procession formed on Whitehall
street, opposite Trinity church, about
10:30 and shortly after 11 o’clock moved
down Whitehall to Alabama, up Ala-
haina to Broad, up Broad to Marietta,
down Marietta to Pryor, thence up to
Peachtree to the intersection of Forest
avenue, where the infantry came to a
hilt. The Governor’s Horse Guard, com¬
manded by Captain John Milledge, pro¬
ceeded out Peachtree to the residence of
the late Walter 8. Gordon, corner of
Peachtree street and Ponce de Leon Cir-
ele, where they halted and saluted Gov.
Gordon as he entered a carriage drawn by
four horses, lion. W. C. Glenn, mem¬
ber of the House from Whitfield, aud
Senator James 8. James, of the Thirty-
sixth district, occupied seats in the car-
riage with Govcrtior Gordon. The pro-
cession then moved down Peachtree to
(he Arriving capitol. at Hie capitol, the infantry
formed on Marietta, opposite the build-
ing, and the Governor’s carriage, followed
by the Confederate veterans, in tommand
of Col. Lovick P. Thomas, the Govern-
ur's Horse Guard and the Hill City
Cadets of command, Rome, Captain Charles arrived Coth-
ran in who at 11
o'clock, moved up Marietta street to the
entrance,,
The streets were lined with people who
cheered lustily as the procession moved,
and Governer Gordon, ever anil anon,
rising acknowledgement. in his carriage and lifting bis lrnt
in
After the address Chief Justice Jack-
sun admini-tere 1 tbe usual oath of office.
Tiie President handed to the Governor
the great seal of tlic State, who in turn
entrusted it to the custody of the Secic-
tary of State.
President Davidson then proclaimed
the Hon. John B. Gordon Governor and
eommander-ia-chief of the army and
navy of the State of Georgia for the en-
suing two years.
When the ceremony was over quite a
number of distinguished personages
gathered around Governor Gordon and
expressed their congratulations. Con-
spicuous among these were ex-President
hand Haves, who shook him warmly by tbe
and complimented the inaugrnl ad-
dress.
solved, Immediately the joint session was dis-
and as soon as the Senate retired,
tl:e House adjourned.
On the outside, on Marietta street, be-
tween the capitol and the custom house,
n large crowd gathered to witness the
hist of the military display. But they
were dimmed to disappointment. The
vain had dispersed the military and driv-
(a tiie hand to its quarters. Still the
crowd waited until the carriage drawn
by four white horses, which had been
standing Governor, for some time waiting for the
the was driven rapidly away, aud
platoon of mounted police foil wed.
The occasion came to an end without
display, »d and nil went home in the rain
a with little ceremony.
The Governor’s Horse Guard scored a
grand success in the dining given by that
command to the local military and the
State troops who took part in tiie inau-
guil exorcises.
5 he dinner was given iu one of the
stores in the Brown block, on Wall
street, opposite tiie depot. The three
flours of tiie store were used, and long
tallies were placed in them. The seating
eapneity uri’d, of the three floors was six huu-
and while the feast was in progress
ev jL r y chair had an occupant.
' lie grand military ball tbe Kimball
house at
was one of the most brilliant af-
iursof the kind ever given in Atlanta. '
die Kimball, at ft o’clock, was in a
1 azc of light. Every floor of the arcade
™1 ''laminated. The; ball room never
0I mote beautiful.
10 guests, who began to arrive at
„ clock,
'■ | 0 were so numerous that they
md.' tilled all the ball room, but they
cd all tfie floors of the arcade and
■ many of the adjacent balls. The fCml-
onus nl the-soldiery added much to the
i 1 nancy of the also did the
ffiwt toilets scene, ns
if of the ladies. It
Hundreds as everybody was present,
of noted public men of Atlan-
I i | J,her mEles mixed with the throng
nn ' e I'tfl'tly whiled
f\ away the hours as if
rav e questions of state had ever
... ' e *cd them ,
again. or would ever vex them
J ht '".Vuhtble, n ' ilitar y feature and was not brilliant
LJ" U the few military or-
? S "hidi acted as an escort ol
or ,utraded attention and admiration.
^ ,i'"'crnor-clect
e 1 'lm and his escort reach
capitol at 12 o’clock.
Writ"!" 1'" , ’°'l’ ? re the 'I’m fair time (lie galleries
in 1 UIn er8- Many sex ladies being present
nn o 10 « ?° or of thc House. occupied
tW ™d daughters Among
ut
and The imposing doorkeeper voice announced in a Into
that the joint com
mitteo and the Governor-elect awaited
the pleasure of tho General Assembly.
The president ordered that they be ad¬
mitted. The party entered it; the fol
lowing General order:
Gordon, escorted I). Scnntoi
James, chairman of the Lcnute commit
tee.
Governor McDaniel, escorted by Mr.
Glenn, of Whitfield, chairman of the
House committee.
Ex-President Rutherford B. Haves, es¬
corted by Senator Butts.
Prof Francis Whalov, of Yule, ex-
Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut, es¬
ham. corted by lion. Morgan Bawls, of Piling,
officials, Following these were the Stale House
United States Senators Joseph
E. Brown and Alfred II. Colquitt, judges
of the Supreme Court, of the Superior
Court, and ex-judges of both courts.
Governor McDaniel and the Governor-
elect were seated to the right and left of
the President.
The ceremony was opened by nn elo¬
quent President prayer.
Davidson then said: “We
have assembled for the purpose of inau¬
gurating the Governor-elect of the State
of Georgia, the Hon. John B. Gordon,
of the county of DcKalb. I have the
pleasure and the honor of presenting tc
the General Assembly the Governor-elect,
Hon. John B. Gordon.”
General Gordon arose, and taking posi¬
tion just in front of the Speaker’s desk,
facing address. the audience, delivered the inau¬
gural
ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.
The Animal Jleport of tlie Chief c.f itse
Bureau.
Mr. Graves, chief of the National
bureau of engraving and printing, lias
made bis report of the operations of the
bureau during tiie last fiscal year. There
were finished and delivered during tiie
year $2(5,655,400 sheets of securities, in¬
cluding $4,077,218 of United Slates
notes, certificates, bonds and national
bank notes, amounting in value to bureau $5(13,-
500,890. The expenses of the
during the year were $703,208, or $201,-
087 less and than less than for the preceding since 1878. fiscal
year, any year salaries
Tlw amount expended for was
$3,433 the less charged than the appropriation, appropriation and
amount to the
for labor and expenses was $170,352 less
than tiie amount appropriated, making
the aggregate saving $182,785, which
will he returned to the treasury unused.
A largo share of the saving is due to a
decrease in the work fairly produced, down but at
least $125,000 may be set to
tiie credit of economies which have been
made in tbe management of the bureau.
The estimates for the expenses of tbe
bureau for the fiscal year 1888 are $9Q1,-
030. or $106,040 in excess of those for the
current fiscal year. The increase is due
to the increased quantity of engraving
: nd printing., which tbe various depart¬
ments and bureaus of the government es ¬
timate that they will require.
SOUTHERN RATES-
Aic rnsso ngrr Pnols I- ixiiur ihc Prices of
Tickets.
The Southern passenger association
and representatives of lines in the Chica¬
go and Ohio river pool, have finished the
winter tourist rates to points in the
south. A resolution was passed to con¬
tinue the regular excursion rates from
Chicago and points in the northwest to
Florida and the southern winter resorts.
The rate to Jacksonville from Chicago
will lie $25.40. Last year’s rate was
$30,35. Commissioner Slaughter, of the
Southern Passenger association, was au¬
thorized to designate what the rate to
the other southern points should be.
The question of making reduced rates
for petition a special of excursion southern to meet California the com¬
the lines
was discussed at some length, but it was
finally decided to defer this subject for
future consideration.
THE BALTIMORE AND O'llO EXPRESS.
rumored the Baltimore . ,
It i? that
Ohio express company lias at last' suc¬
ceeded in reaching into the southern ter¬
ritory by a contract made with the Qri'een
and Crescent route for (no transporta¬
tion of its ears over the entire line of that
system. The Baltimore anil Ohio pcojjlo
have for many years been making an-if-
fort to reach southern territory^ ftmt
failed until recently, The
the Adtims company with the Queen, ftiu.1
Crescent road expired November people 1st,
and the Baltimore and Ohio im¬
mediately made a hid for the franchise.
If tant true, piece Ibis of scoop news will for prove fruit gvowcmi»- an impor¬
this section. It will give the.gfowers
competitive rates for the It;,asportation
of produce, and will especially enhance
the value of the strawberry extensive. interests that
have recently grown so
A CONFEDERATE! MONtJMRNT AT GET.
tv sut: iso.
The first confederate monument ever
erected on the battlefield of Gettysburg, It
Pa., has been put in position. is of
Richmond granite, and marks the posi¬
tion of the Second Maryland Infantry,
formerly the First Maryland battalion,
which was stationed at. the foot of Culp’s
hill, on the confederate left, and which
also participated in the short hut bloody
charge made on the federal troops
stationed on Culp’s hill, on the evening
of July 2. 18C3. The monument will bo
dedicated November 19th.
AN A It VI flIANHI.i l),
Columbus Spearman, a son of John
Spearman, of Buchanan, Georgia, had
his arm badly mangled with a gin last
week. He was pushing back the motes
with his hand, when the gin caught his
shirt, drawing ins arm into the gin.
AN ILLICIT STILL UNCOVERED.
A dispatch from Buchaunnn,Ga., says
the revenue officers made a raid in the
first district in this county capturing who a
still and Dr. Ab Charles’s son, was
running it. A negro who was assisting
in running the still, wade his escape.
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER IS, 1886.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
NEWSY ITEMS G ATHERED
UP IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA.
For neighborhood somo days, recently, the woods
the of Sparta were on fire,
A reorganization of tlie Savannah,
Dublin and Western Railroad Company
took place at Savannah on Monday.
V fire ft t Columbus destroyed the
insured.
Large forest ires have been raging _
through tho woods around. Milledgeville
fierr two or three days. The smoke and
blazes can be distinctly seen from the
city. There is a big loss in wood,fences,
etc. The tires are about five miles from
the town.
Miss Bertha Courtney was arrested at
Columbus, charged with aiding and
abetting the prisoners in escaping from
jail on Tuesday. She is a sister of Wil
liam Courtney, one of the escapes, and
the jailer believes she furnished him
with a saw.
The attendance at the .... Albany academy ,
continues to increase, audit has been
found necessary to employ another teach- ;
er. Professor 8. P. Orr, of Athens, is
the gentleman selected for the place, and
lie will arrive to lake charge of his duties
in a few weeks.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgiarafitoed has made an important
change in (he schedule of its passenger
trains. Train No. 11, arriving at Atlan¬
ta at 11:55 p. m., and heretofore stop¬
ping at Atlanta, lias begun to run
through to Brunswick, making close
connections at Jcsup with the Savannah,
Florida and Western for Jacksonville.
Mapiev s gin house and , nbout , , tcnba.es , ,,
of cotton, mid near five thousand bushels
of cotton seed burned near the line of
Baldwin and Putnam counties on Monday
night. I he gin house and fixtures were
very fine ami the loss v\ ill reach near
three thousand dollars, no insurance.
Supposed house incendiary.. burned This this is the second
gin in county this
season.
On Wednesday, first dirt on the Rome
and Carrolton road was broken. The
road will be finished by the first of next
June. Mr. Williamson, president of the
Borne and Carrolton railroad, has tele¬
graphed have from bpet New York that arrange¬
ments v p »de for the extension
of the mad fr:m Cedartown to Carrol¬
ton, anil work will be commenced at
once. of ThclniiHlingofthe.se importance two roads
are great to Home, and
the people arc greatly- rejoiced.
NORTH CAROLINA.
A colored fair is in progress at Hal
oigh.
The in independents have tiie balance of
power the legislature.
TENNESSEE.
William Coffman, a prominent mer¬
chant of ■Knoxville, committed suicide .
Tuesffity morning by cutting his throat.
He had a,paralytic stroke six niontiis ago,
a id for two mouths had been demented.
A week ago he attempted to jump from
the Tennessee river bridge, eighty' feet
high, lint was rescued before making the
leap. Last Friday lie walked into tiie
river, but was caught before lie got be
yon.l his depth.
ALABAMA.
Mr. Jake V. Kersey, the supply agent
of the Louisville and Nashville railroad at
Birmingham, made a fatal mistake last
morphine Sunday night, which by taking an overdose of
caused liis death.
Captain prominent William H. Gardner, of Mo¬
bile, a merchant and insurance
man, (bed suddenly of heart disease on
N Ovefnber 8th. lie was for five years
president of tbe cotton exchange, and in
1883 was elected president of the nation¬
al cotton exchange of America.
The Alabama legislature .organized on
the 10th inst„ when an excellent message
- from-O’Neil was read.
The synod of the Alabama presbytery
is in session ftt Talladega.
A boiler exploded at the I’ratt mines
Wednesday, killing a Mr. Sanford.
The Alabama national bank of Bir¬
mingham, lias increased its capital to
A?500,0()0. .
The hb'ily of Matilda Gradger, of Brad
lev county, Twin., was taken from Mill
creek, near Dalton, ou Wednesday. Foul
play is suspected. »
FLORIDA.
Thu American shipping and industrial
league is in session at Pensacola.
AN ENCOURAGING REPORT.
Tbe AtlantaMissiMiioA ainl Aslaniii- Knil-
road.
The committee on the Atlanta Missis
sippi and Atlantic railroad has applied
for a charter and is engaged yet in at¬
taining reliable information necessary to
determine the probable cost of the road.
The most expensive portion of tiie road
leading east from Atlanta, extending as
far as Efttonton, Georgia, was surveyed
last summer by a competent engineer
and the cost determined. There arc re¬
ports Washington on tile in the war made department at
of surveys some years
ago by the United “States government
furnishing reliable estimates of the most
expensive portion efi the route leading
toward tho Mississippi
ORTON IN JAIL.
Tlic Claimant In Trouble.
Arthur Orton, whose claims to the
Yicliborne estate in England gained his board¬ him
notoriety, has been arrested at
ing house in . Brooklyn, N. Y., upon
com plaint of tiie pension department at
" Ortoifis
charged with having person- alleged
nted one Charles Curtis, who is
to have served in the 106th New York
Volunteers and with endeavoring to
draw the presumable peusion of the al-
j, ., c( |
Orton illocked up in bail; Raymond rtreet
jail jo default of $2,500
!,ATI0NAL ,A ” clR CUIfl ™
A (onllnrlInn Of Iiaj-Ktakl fllilllmis In.
cvltnbli.
that it j s stated opinion on given authority by in Washington
the the attorucy-
general as to the unavailability of the of
called three per cent bonds as a basis
national bank circulation will make no
change in < hc attitude of ! h u trea T y do '
pnrtment, because this opinion . only
con-
tirmed tho rule heretofore followed,
Bunks have shown considerable diligence
in acting under this rule, and in eonsc-
quence of it they have withdrawn from
*??&xsr$ E srffiasjssu'sa .mtss
of the first if 10,000,000 call. At the
same rate herea'ter, it is expected fairly that
withdrawal, will keep pace very
future calls,
Against the $40,000,000 three per cent
bonds withdrawn, there have only been
about $8,000,000 of other bonds bonds deposit deposit¬
ed, so that the total on to
secure national hank circulation have
been reduced by about $31,000,000,
which contracts the circulation by about
$28,000,000. If these proportions are
preserved throughout the changes vesult-
ing from future calls of three pci cent
bonds, there may be further contraction
of about $58,000,000 by the time these
bonds are withdrawn. It is said at the
treasury that this contraction in the vot-
ume ofnational bank circulation will not
be fc[t in tlic channel* of trade, because
the national hank notes withdrawn from
circulation will be replaced by disburse¬
ments from surrender the treasury; bonds anti and in addition, reduce
banks that
their circulation receive money for ten
per cent of the bonds redeemed, and five
per cent of the circulation and half surrendered,
making fourteen of the bonds. a On per tho cent 12th up¬
on the face
of August the total amount of three per
cent bonds held by the banks, as a basis
for circulation, was a little more than
$103,000,000, so that when these bonds
are all paid their payment will put into
c i rcu q R tion fourteen and a half million
( q 0 p ars m0 re than the amount of currency
then outstanding on these bonds. The
redeni ption of national bank notes is a
j y g ] ow process. The last report of
, ^ treasurer showed that lie was holding
*. ( .q qqq 000 lawful money for the re-
0 f outstanding bank circula-
an( j 0 f course a more rapid surren
j er 0 f circulation larger will be the
amount required people to be choose held in the send treas¬ tho
ury until the to
notes in and take lawful money instead.
THE NATIONAL CUAIOSITIES.
The Smithsonian Institute Want# an Addi¬
tion to Its Accommodations.
Professor Spencer T. Baird, of Wash¬
ington, D. C., director of the Smitlison-
' iau institute, aud ex-officio head of the
national museum, in liis annual estimates
for the museum, asks congress to appro¬
priate $250,000 with which to begin the
construction of a new building to flank
the Smithsonian building on the west, as
the present building flanks it on the east.
’ The new structure is held to be an im¬
mediate and pressing necessity, in view
of the lack of room for exhibits already
Oil hand. The materials prepared and other for
display are packed in cases, jars and
receptacles in cellars, crypts garrets,
and a small village of unsightly wooden
structures erected from time to time for
special purposes is packed with rich ma-
terials which remain untouched. Proba¬
bly a hundred tons of exhibits inherited
from the centennial exposition, compris¬ and
ing artistic bronzes, tiles, porcelains handiwork
a thousand varieties of typical
of foreign countries, remain in the orig¬
inal boxes in which they were shipped
from Philadelphia ten years ego. Were
tiie new building ready for occupancy taken
to-day, its entire space would be
up at once with selected objects already
prepared sufficient for display, it is and said current fill acces- good
sions are to a
sized museum every year.
SOUTH CAROLINA STATE FAIR.
Tho Elglilermli Annual Exhibition l>c(ini
Next Tuesday.
The eighteenth annual exhibition of
the South Carolina agricultural and me¬
chanical society lias began at Columbia,
S. C. The fair gives promise of excep¬
tional excellence, both in variety and ex¬
tensiveness. The indications are thatthe
display he of field and garden attractive. products The will
entries particularly of live full and A
stock are numerous.
peculiar feature of this year’s fair is the
absence from the grounds of all sorts of
gambling games and all descriptions of
catch penny devices. This rule, which
is rigidly forced, bears hard on the
fakers.
LONE TO CANADA.
J. W. Allen and Thomas H. McLain,
auditor respectively and general cashier ticket agents Toledo, and
of the
Columbus and Southern reilway, whose
general offices are in Toledo, Ohio, ha , e
skipped to Canada, their accounts being
short something less than a thousand
dollars. Both arc young men.
ll!S«i WINNIE 11 ETCII NN MOVIE. (
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Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of Jeffer¬
son Davis, in company with General Jos¬
eph It. Anderson and wife, of Richmond,
Va., have returned from their recent trip
cast.
PKEPARINU FOR WORK,
The Augusta factories have voluntarily
reduced tiie hours of labor from sixty-
eight to sixty-five hours per week and
all mills begin work Monday, G'ommit-
teemau Wright, who compromised off debts the
differences, is engaged in paying He will
incurred during the lockout.
pay out about $25,000 knights. for groceries and
supplies for the
no one hurt.
An accident < ecurreil on the Mobile
and Girard railroad at Guerryton on Sun-
day, by which two < ars were completely
wrecked and several others slightly dam-
aged. It freight was caused by several carsoi
an extra train becoming detached
and running into that part of the train
«» Xo 8ne * as bu H.
_____ Consolation#
Because dark clouds have crossed the sky $ >>
Shall tho sun refuse to shine#
Bocauso tho morning lias been wet
May evening not be Hue?
Sometimes the night has rayless been—
Shall s ar.Vforget to glistonI
Although tlie winter has been drear,
To summer birds we listen.
My life has sometimes rnyjoss (>eeu, l
Enshrouded sorry grief; .
May never times a^maging. hand
Bring softly sweet robot.
Allhough m.v s.ml bo o\eiwlHinu.
—w .........
Ah, yes, God showers tho selfish soul
YfJth sorrows bitter rain;
-pho purest heights are often rem tmd
Through suffering an l pain;
Ami deepest griefs in love were meant
To purify and strengthen;
Tho souls that opens toward God
Grows as life's siadows lengthen.
—//•/•• t M. IViiisloio.
“ BLUE MONDAY.”
If ever a blue Monday dawned upon
the terrestrial ball, it was this thirteenth
day of September, 18—.
The equinoctial had come before it s
time, with a rush of angry rain borne on
the wings of n morning wind ; the kitch¬
en chimney smoked rant oroudy, and tho
scuttle leaked a steady “drip, drip, drip!"
directly over the roses and tulips of the
best-room carpet.
“A regular spell of weather,” said Mr.
Crayfish, chuckling, as he shaved him¬
self, with one of the children p’aying
horse with his suspenders, and tho other
packing different-sized marbles into the
toe of his slipper.
But Mr. Crayfish, as his wife scornful¬
ly remarked, would chuckle at anything.
“I am sure I don’t know what is to
become of me!” said she, sorrowfully.
“With Bridget gone, and the lange out
of order, aud this terrible rain, and not
a washerwoman to he had for love or
money! And your Aunt Pamela writing
that she is coming here to sp:n(l the win¬
ter, and my report not yet written for
tho Woman’s Elevation Society, aud
Mrs. Ponsonby sending word that she
shall expect me to give an aesthetic tea,
or a literary breakfast, in honor of young
Lord Ernest Elberon, now that he is
here gathering material for his book on
‘Woman’s Upward Progress. y 7?
“Hang progress!’’ said Mr. Crayfish,
emptying the marbles out of his slipper
toe.
“Yes, that’s just like you, Leander,”
said Mrs. Crayfish, fretfully. “If you
had your way, you would tread us all
under foot, like inferior beings.”
“In the meantime,” said Crayfish, “I’d
like my breakfast.”
Aud his wife went slowly and despond¬
ently down stairs, wondering how she
should get word to the plumber about
the range.
But the milkman,opportunely present¬
ing himself, volunteered to leave an order
at tho pi umber's shop.
“I must get something done on the re¬
port to-day,” she pondered, as she sliced
up potatoes for frying. “Mrs. Edge-
worth, from Chicago, is to be at to¬
morrow's meeting, and— Oil, dear!” as
the knife slipped, inflicting a sharp little
gash on her finger. “I knew there was
destined to be a blue Monday when the
decorated lamp-shade cracked, all of
itself, before daylight this morning!”
And Mrs. Crayfish, forgetting all about
her “Elevation” and “Aims,” burst into
tears, as auy milk-maid might have
done.
The range obstinately declined to cook;
the chimney poured clouds of smoke
down into Mrs. Crayfish’s face; and tho
family breakfasted upon yesterday’s oat¬
meal, with a little milk.
“Is this {esthetic?" said-Mr. Crayfish;
“or is it literary?”
“Leandcr, how can you?” sobbed his
wife.
“I’ll stop myself anil jog that
plumber’s memory,” said Mr. Crayfish,
good humoredly. “Don’t fret, Carry!
It will be all right.”
“I wish you would not call inc Carry,
when my name is Carolina!” said Mrs.
Crayfish.
Just at noon the door-bell rang.
“Who is it?” shrieked Mrs. Crayfish
to tho little Crayfishes,who were stretch¬
ing their necks out of-the front Window.
“It’s a young man, with a black
leather bag, mn!” shouted back the
youthful scions of the race.
“That everlasting pumber J” said Mrs.
Crayfish.
"I’ll teach him!'’
And with her kitchen apron swallow¬
ing her in its sombre folds, and her hair
all bristling in porcupine papers, Mrs.
Crayfish hurried to tbe door.
“Do I address Mrs. Leander Cray-
fish ?” began the young man.
“I should rather think you did !” said |
Mrs. Crayfish, tartly, “And if this is
the way you intend to transact business,
I want nothing more to do with you!”
“I am very sorroy, ma’am, but—”
“I -dare say!” curtly interrupted
Mrs. Crayfish. “But I don’t want to
listen to any excuses. Be so very good,
if you please, as to come down stairs ut
once and get to work, without further
loss of time.”
And she led the way down to the
kitchen, talking volubly as she went.
But before she could explain the man-
jfold shortcomings of the delinquent
rfthge, tho door-hall sounded for the
second time, loud and long, and Mrs.
Crayfish was obliged to hurry tip stairs
once more.
This tiiuo it was an old lady,stout and
red-faced, with pulls of gray hair on
cither side of her face, and her portly
figure shrouded in a waterproof cloik.
“Aunt Pamela, as true as I live f”cried
Mrs. Crayfish, who never had met her
husband’s aunt. “I declare if you are
n >t just in time! My cook has gone an 1
itiv washerwoman .h.'csn't.comi', and Ido
believe that Provideflce 1ms sent you to
Ill). If you don’t mind I’ll give you a
cup of tea and set you ritgli to work
picking tho chickens for dinner. Ye*, I
know the house looks forlorn,” us tho
lady glanced dubiously around, “but it's
blue Monday and everything is in a tan¬
gle. This is my room; yours is all drip¬
ping, from the leaky roof. My bed isn't
made, and the dear children’s clothes are
all over the lloor; but you’ll excuse all
deficiencies, Aunt Pamela, until 'beamier
comes back. Good gracious!‘If there
isn’t tho bell again! I do believe it a
bewitched to-day! But you will t ike olT
your things, and presently I’ll bring you
up one of my big gingham aprons, and
tell you what is to bo done first.”
Down she bustled to the door for the
third time. A grimy-faced personage
stood there in an attitude of utter indif-
fcrence.
“Who are you} ” said Mrs. Crayfish.
“Plummer’s man, mum. Mr. Crayfish,
he-”
“But why didn’t you come when the
other young man did?” irritably de¬
manded tho lady.
“Ain’t no other young man, mum.”
"Yes, there is, toot” said Mrs. Cray-
fish. “And lie’s at work down in the
kitchen now.”
“Well, if you’ve got some one to work
on the job, you don’t want inc,” said the
independent citizen, shouldering bis bag
of tools.
“Yes, I do,” said Mrs. Crayfish, “I
want all tiie plumbers I can get. Make
haste down stairs and expedite tiie other
nuin all you can. Why, Mrs. Ponson¬
by,” as a smiling matron skipped out of
a coupe and hurried up the stops, “it
can’t be possible that this is you!”
Mrs. Ponsonby, the president of
“The Social Circle for the Elevation of
Women,” shook the rain-drops from her
bonnet-plume and smiled graciously.
“I am so sorry to take you by sur¬
prise, dear!” said she.
“Oh, not at all I” interjected Mrs.
Crayfish.
“But Mr. Ponsouby’s mother is very
ill,” added the president of tho Social
Circle for the Elevation of Women; “so
of course 1 could not receive company.
And I knew you would be so glad to
welcome Lord Earnest Elberon, ami to
answer Mrs. Edgeworth’s inquiries on the
subject of French Amelioration.”
“Eh?” said Mrs. Crayfish.
“Where are they ?” asked Mrs. Pon¬
sonby, looking around her,
“Where are who ?" gasped Mrs. Cray-
fish,
"Lord Ernest, to-be sure!” said Mrs.
Ponsonby, ‘ ‘and Mrs. Edgeworth 1”
Mrs. Crayfish gave a little shriek of
dismay as tho full truth broke in upon
her mind. She seized Mrs. Ponsonby’?
arm, as a drowning woman might grasp
at a straw.
“I will tell you where they are!” said
she, with tho stony calmness of despair.
“I pushed Lord Ernest down stairs be¬
fore me, and set him to pulling the kitch¬
en range to pieces. And Mrs. Edge-
worth is at this moment sitting up stairs
in probably tbe dirtiest and most untidy
bed-room in Philadelphia.”
It was some time before Mrs. Ponsonby
could be brought to quite understand tlic
position of affairs. But when she did,
she was even more perturbed than Mrs.
Crayfish had been.
“Let us go up stairs—I mean down
stairs—at once!” she cried, “Oh, how
could any one possibly have made such a
blunder ? Oh, what will Lord Ernest
think? And what sort of account of us
will Mrs. E lgeworth put into her hus¬
band’s Chicago newspaper ?”
Lord Ernest Elberon, sitting on the
edge of the wash-trays, was meditatively
watching the operations of the plumber,
when they came down.
“lie wanted to fight me at first,” ob-
served the sprig of English aristocracy,
“But lie was tl uite peaceable when Icon-
viuccd him that I did not come from an
opposition establishment; and really he
seems quite an ingenious sort of fellow,
Anl there is more complicition in one of
those baking and roasting concerns than
I had any idea of. Pray, ladies, make
no apologies. It was the most natural
mistake iu tlic wcrld. Aud 1 assure you
I regard it as a capital joke. ”
Mrs. Edgeworth of Chicago, however,
W!1S no t S o placable.
They found her sitting in the middle
of Mrs. Crayfish’s rather disorganized
bedroom, with a face like that of the
Sphinx; and nothing but au introduc¬
tion to Lord Ernest Elberon pacified her
in the least degree.
Mrs. Pon8onby carried off the whole
party, Mrs. Crayfish included, in her
coupe, to lunch at Damorettc’s.
And when the luckless housekeeper
reached home again, the plumber was
gone, Aunt Pamela had arrived, and bail
“straightened up” everything, a good
dinner smoked on the board, and Mr.
VOL. IL NO. 8.
Crayfiih welcomed her with a broad
•mile.
“It’s all right, Carry," he said. “Blue
Monday has com: to an end ut last!”
“1 should think it might,” said Mrs.
Crayfish, hysterically. “With an Eng¬
lish lord in my kitchen, a Chicago re¬
former in my bedroom, anil nobody
knows what else! I declare, I'm sick of
tin: Sod ty for the Elevation of Woman,
ami everything that belongs to it!"—<
II len Forrest Graves.
Surgery for l’iano Players.
“Surgery for piano-forte players,” ns
recommended by one of tho ledding
piano-forte teachers’ of this city) and
now being rushed at in San Francisco to
a degree that will at least make this au
interesting spot for tho rest of the mu¬
sical world to watch, in seeing how such
a large average of tho Venturesome come
out. The clever physician, with hi?
knife made expressly for the purpose,
and his cocaine, admits he knows little
about piano-forte playing, but is told
that the results of the operation are sat¬
isfactory. There then follows something
about liability to “loss of grip," etc.
During the halcyon era of piano art,
when Liszt was electrifying Europe, and
Mendelssohn and Chopin vying with
each other in tho production of composi¬
tions embodying the utmost d:tistic per¬
fection ; and when gigantic Beethoven
was astonishing Vienna with a succession
of his sonatas—why was there no kniv-
ingthen? Surgeons were skilful fifty
years ago, and knew as much of tho
mechanism of t lie hand us to-day. There
were enthusiasts in those days who
would have gone to the bottom of this
method and as readily yielded themselves
up to a trial of it, and yet we do not
read of any ham-strung artists coining to
the float. Yes, there was one who tried
a royal road to pcrtection. Poor Robert
Schumann essayed seme expediting
method on his third finger, and ran him¬
self hopelessly and disastrously out ol
the field of executants. He has stood as
a warning monument from those days art
to mechanical contrivances and all sort?
of e xtraneous dodges, and it would 1st
well for every intending victim to thi
knife method to first read through hij
“Advice to Young Musicians.”— San
Francisco Chronicle.
Diamond Mines,
Many geologists of Australasia cherish
tiie faith that diamond mines will yet bo
#
added to the sources of wealth of that
developing land of surprises. Accident¬
ally discovered by a travelling trader not
quite twenty years ago, the South Afri¬
can mines, which are five hundred miles
from the coast, and at an elevation of
four thousand feet above the sea, are,
however, at present unrivalled in their
size ami value. The romantic hardships
which toughened and roughened tho
early digger? have largely disappeared
before the railway communication which
brings the fields within a thirty hours’
journey of the coast. The business i4
now transacted on scientific principles
and a regular system. There have been,
as might be expected, alternations of
profit and loss, but the returns of the
four principal mines show that in tho
three years and a third previous to tho
c-nd of 1885, there was a total production
of more than eight and a half millions
sterling. A Kimberley diamond was re¬
cently shown in London valued at £100,-
000. It weighed more than 400 carats
in the rough. The finest diamond in
quality ever found in South Africa was
the “Porter Rhodes,” discovered in the
centre of Kimberley mi ne in 1880. It is
a pure white octahedron, valued at £00,-
000 .—London Standard.
The Manufacture of Hairpins.
For years the English and French con¬
trolled the manufacture of hairpins, and
it is only within the last twenty years
that tiie goods have been produced in
this country to any extent. The machin¬
ery used is of a delicate and intricate
character, as tbe prices at which pins
are sold necessitates the most rapid and
cheapest process, which can only bo se¬
cured by automatic machines. The wire
is made expressly for the purpose, and
put up iu large coils, which are placed
ou reels, aud the end of the wire is
placed in a clamp, which carries it to
the machine while straightening it; from
there it runs in another machine, which
cu ts, bends, and, by a delicate and iu-
stautaneous process, sharpens the points,
Running at full speed, these machines
will turn out 120 hairpins every minute.
To economize it is necessary to keep
them working night and day. The dilii-
cult part of the work is the enamelling,
which is done by dipping in a preparation
am i baking in an oven. Here is where
the most constant and careful attention
is required, as the pin must be perfectly
sjuooth aud tho enamel have a perfect
polish. The slightest particles of dust
cause imperfections and roughness, which
is objectionable.
In tlic Railroad Train.
A gentleman carrying a very heavy
satchel finally succeeds in getting it into
the rack. A lady seated directly beneath
manifests lively fear.
“Oh, monsieur, supposing it should
fall?”
“Rorssure yourself, madarae, there is
nothing iu it that can break,”— French
Fan,