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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDA Y. OCTOBER 9-TWELVE PAGES,
SURPLUS GIRLS.
*Two Millions of Them Hard-
Pressed for Work.
3ns and supervisors of telegraphers 1 parents “could not ■think of permitting a A ROT IT MRS, RTOWE
from $500 to $1,000 a year. There {laughter of theirs to go out,” all depeo- JU u u # v " a '
lout 3,000 women telegraphers under dent on the wages o’, a brother, who is
ivilservice rules. thereby hindered from marrying. The a Pot-biot-in I ptter from Mm
HOW CAN A C1RL EARN A LIVING
In London—A Difficult Qneition and the
Bujaln Which i Ihhoiv*<l—rour
Hundred and Klghty Appli
cants for One Place.
Special Correspondence.;
London, Sept. 18.—Sitting in the office
of a “city” man in the Strand one morn
ing now a week ago, two waste paper bas
kets heaped with envelopes were brought
fron l rece-s and placed at my feet.
“Look at them 1” said the office’s propri
etor, wheeling about at his desk.
“I advertised three lines’ worth, for a
copying clerk to tidy up my papers, young
woman from 18 to 25 preferred. These are
the answers f got. Look at them 1
“Here are the autographs of 481 British
girls. Good fists they write, every one of
them, too. Over three hundred 6ay they
can correspond in French. One hundred
and fifty claim to be able to handle letters
in German. There are a lot of Italian
scholars among them. Moat of them pro
fess to keep books by single or double
entry, and there’s ayoung army of expert
typewriters and shorthand writers.. Two
dozen are used to preparing manuscript for
publication and there are fifty who can
correct proofs.
“And what wages do you suppose these
iromeii expect from me? Half of them
name soma running from seven shillings
to thirteen shillings a week. The others
range between fifteen shillings and a
pound. There are only half a dozen or so
who are bold enough to value their ser
vices at thirty shillings or upwards.
There are hordes of women looking for
work and ready to woik for any money
now-adays.
The secretary of lie society for promot
ing the employment of women, upon whom
I called recently, tells mo that of the up
per middle class in England, or rather oi
the educated middle class, it is estimated
that one woman in every two is unmarried.
The last census put in black and white the
fact that in England and Wales 37 per
cent, of tho women of marri geable age
were single and 11 per cent, were widows,
making 48 per cent, without the support
of husbands. In Scotland 55 per cent, of
tho women of marriageable age
were single or widows, and in
Ireland 59 per cent. Within the
last ten years theoverplus of women, owing
to emigration and other causes has in
creased rapidly. The number of mon re
maining single has also increased, and peo
ple whose familiarity with the subject can
not he doubted, tell me that the census
figures of 1891 will s l ow nearly 3,000,000
more w>men than men in the British Isles
and a percentage of marring?" consider
ably below that given. More than CO per
cent of adnlt Englishwomen, married and
nnmirried, aro working for dailv subsist
ence and their number multiply every
year. Every avenue of employment op;u
to women is choked, und there aro literally
multitudes of destitute women, “not of tbe
working class,” some of them competent,
others anxious to do nnything hut able to
matrons
earn
are about
the civilwervice
The women clerks in the general post-
office, like the telegraph girls, belong to
gentle folk. Not thtit <tlie service is for
mally limned to those of specified birth.
On the contrary, the .competition is as
open as for telegraph appointments, but
either because tbe places were originally
reserved exclusively for gentlemen or f r
some ot< er occult' reason, it is commonly
taken for grant) d that muili of the clerical
work in the savings hank department of
tbe postoffice is done by ladies, while the
telegraphic work i* performed bv girls of
a lower class. Girls who go in for the
civil service examinations for postoffice
places arc required to be
healthy, unmarried and between 18 and
20. They are examined rigidly in arith-
matic, more or less as to spelling and
handwriting, and somewhat in geography
and English history. They work six hours
a day and they earn $325 a year, the sala
ry being increased $15 a year fur faithful
services until it reaches $400, at which
point it may rest until a woman is gray
headed. many remaining in the work for
life. Outside of Sunday the maximum
salary is $350, though it is fair to say that
promotions t higher branches of the ser
vice are po-aible and that one or two
women in the London central postofiice
earn as much as $1,500 a year. The num
ber of women postofiice clerks is ahou 800,
the greater number being employed in
London.
I obtained permission to go through the
rormsin which competitive examinations
for po.toflice vacancies were being held
three or four weeks ago. The time and
place of holding the examinations had
been advertised in the daily papers and
would be telegraphers, clerks and sorters—
this last a lower grade of service—were
promptly O' hand. There were not many
places to fill, less than fifty all told, but
the candidates reached nearly (100. One of
the civil service examiners told me that
there had been occasions when more than
2,000 women applied for 100 vacancies.
Near 300 of the girls were applicants for
sorters’ places, sorters receiving twelve
shillings a week wages and rising by pro
motion in time to twenty shillings.
Type-setting is a better trade for a
woman proportionately in Eogland than
in America. That is, it pays her better
relatively to wages in other trades. A
woman with nimhie fiDgers makes from £1
to 25 shillings a week, but before she comes
into receipt of any such income she must
serve an apprenticeship lasting from three
to four years. Printing homes require a
premium, sometimes large, some-
lipies small, before they take a
girl apprentice, who earns no wages for
the firet six months and very littls until
the expiration of her time. The length of
apprenticeahip tells very heavily against
families with little money but with sense
enough to wish to bring their daughters
up to a trade.
There is no business in which an Eng
lish girl can eDgage tho returns from which
vary so much as in the case of dress-mak
ing. A family of artisans, for instance,
who wish to make a dressmaker of a clever
girl in her teens, must first sive the money
for the apprenticeship premium, which at
no good house will he less than $150, and
is quite likely to be $250. This sum, paid
down in advance, covers the apprentice’s
board and lodging, nut is dodc the less
hard to raise for that; and insures her
living in the h use of her employer, where
she works much longer hours than if she
A Pathetic Letter from Mrs.
Stowe to Mrs. Beecher,
thereby — _
other is the sight of the same bisters, or
others like them, standing about in a labor
market, which they don’t understand and
in which nothing that they have been
a cier woman «r home.
■cd them, England must bring up her girl
went home at i.iglit. ll.essinakers'ap
do nothing well, looking eagerly-about prenlic.s serve three years. Sometimes
them for chances to make shillings or J they receive a small salary for the last
pci ce, without lifting their eyes to pounds, year; sometimes nothing for the entire
“What is the best opening for a girl of
fair education dependent on her own ex
ertions in London?” is a question which I
have put iu every quarter irom which an
intelligent answer might be expected.
“To teach under the London School
Board,” has been tho invariable reply.
The average wages of school teachers as
y-'ed in a previous letter, are $-100 per
Jearc.
"^Tpcwriting and stenograpiiy, which
employ such numbers of young women in
3few York, are only ’beginning to bo rec-
sgniztd as afiording openings for women
herd The first school for teaching type-
period. There is a fourth year’s proba
tion as improver, during which the earn
ings are very small. The full-fledged
fund, under ordinary circumstances,
earns about $150 a year with
hoard. Good houses sometimes pay $200.
The young woman who leaves the house to
whicn she was articled at the end of her
term and works by the week •ut ide may
earn eight shillings, as I found one dress
maker with two children to support doing,
or she may arerago ton shillings, or with
gi/od patronage in a good neighborhood the
may make £1 a wick or mo-e. It all de-
peuds. These are the rank and file of the
writing to girls waa opened four years a*o.! business, the great mass of Immlon dress-
It is still the largest office employing j m*kers. Tho exceptional dressmaker, who
women of which I have been able to hear, is an artist and designer, who has such an
and it graduated nineteen pupils this past
twelve months, each pupil studying six
months. There are a lew girls employed
as typewriters in Liverpool and others
make a fairly good thing out of
copying manuscript for members
of the Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Bu-i ness men are beginning to employ girl
tvpewritcrs, or typists, as the English
jdiraw is, bnt all told there arc not as many
dozens who can count on regular work in
England as hundreds iu America. Good
typewriters, that is, women typewriters,
earn from $4 to (8 • week here. I have
beard talcs oi $10, but have not been able
to come upon any womsn earning such a
fabulous salary. It is paid, I think, ouly
to very rapid typists who are also short
hand writers and who have a knowledgeof
aonVinental languages in addition to Kn-
ffiak-
What i.i true of typewriting is even true
-of shorthand. It is spoken of as an em
ployment well suite il to women, but is done
almost altogether by men. Many women
team it, but comparatively few are in pay
ing practice
Tbe telephone girl in Lomlofl as in New
York is an institution. The United Tele
phone • Company employs hundreds of
women, and the eagerness with which ap
pointments are (ought, the long files of
names on the books in the main office, reg
istered iu hope of a vacancy, lift the veil,
when one considers that tbe salaries begin
at $ .75 per week and seldom lise above
$4, from an amount of aufiering hard to
realize. With all iheeagcruetsof par and
itowDcss ol promotion applications are con
sidered only from daughters of “gentle
men,” young persons whose parents belong
to trade being barred ont.
English distinctions is to grades of gen
tility in employment are hard to under
stand. 1 he telephone girl ranks above
the telegraph operator who usually learns
mart, but whose place is not hedged about
if caste provisos. Great numbers of
women are employed as telegraph oper
ators at the generel postofiice, London, in
Dublin, in Edinburgh, in Manchest r, Bir
mingham and a few otner large tow* .s.
Ttlegraph being a branch of the civil
service is entered by competitive examina.
education as to enter into tho art revival
of the day and originate dress ideas in har
mony with it, may become a foreman and
cam £200, like Vie college girls and socie
ty women who take up the business, may
become tho fashion and make a fortune.
Possibilities for them are not possibilities
for the average London girl brought up in
aJLw'on back street.
English women show considerable in
genuity in finding new occupations for
themselves under the new social condi
tions. I have found about half a dozen at
work os hair dressers for ladies and chil
dren, and as many as photographers, suc
ceeding especially with pictures of bab es
ami young children. The business of the
trained nurse is not yet overcrowded, hut
the number of applicants for training in
creases so fast that vacancies.in the I on-
don hospitals have been rare things for
two years. Trained nurses do not earn
more than one guinea to two guineas a
week, except in infectious cases and often
not that, a large proportion of them being
permanently attached to hospital Btaffs at
salaries of not over £30 a year, and sent
out to private cases by the hospital,
not receiving the wages themselves.
The woman masseuse has come
into existence here, and the demand for
her services increases. There are two or
three women chemists in London, and sev
eral are now studying in pharmaceutical
schools. Art branches of one sort and
another are, as in America, unreliable.
Women try wood carving, painting on
glass, staining vines itecnsstin*. chins, etc.,
but all these tilings are overstocked and
alTurd uo reliable income. There are some
women engravers, but not many. Women
are trying to raise fruit for sale aud can
ning, but the past summer has been so wet
as to discourage many who had embarked
in such schemes. Women with capital let
hackney coaches and go directly into trade
quite ys vigorously as in America.
The lack of training stands in woifien’e
way at every turn. The great middle class
is an immensely conservative class, and it
h -B hardly yet made up its mind that it iB
quite the proper thing for its daughters to
work.
| 4 When the need of Work comes upon
liona. The scale cf pay is$2.50 to begin them, as come it certainly does in this
with, rising to $3.50 wl en aide to take r*- | country where incomes are steadily con-
lpeasilile charge of an instiument and by ■ trading, where the family properly gees to
annual increment! to $6.76 per w.-ek, a t‘e Imy, and where the girl, being one of
maximum to lie reached with diligence 3,110,000 too many, very likely cannot
in seven or eight years. First-class wornjd n fry, they are iu tore straits, with no in-,
telegraphers, that’ i--, women who can take d atrial resource, crowdingtheoccupations ’
heavy wires on long lines, earn $7 a week, »inch are most easily learned,.and cutting ■
rising by annual increments to $&50. j one another’s throats by under-cutting j
There arc not many women fortunate j wages. There are too distressing spcctac'
to business. For my part, 1 think 1 shall
emigrate. Eliza I’ltnaii Heaton.
TUE BABBIT PEST IN AOlIfUUA.
A Howard of 9100,000 OBsred by the Gov
ernment for Their Extermination.
Special Correspondence.
Nznw YoBY„8ept. 26.—“A pair of rab
bits will produce 2,000,000 rabbits in two
years in Australia,” is u statement that at
first seems incredulous, and when James
Watson of Victoria made it the other day
to a party of gentlemen they thought lie
was jesting. Yet it is as true as gospel.
Mr. Watson is one of the largiet ranch
owners in Victoria, Australia, having under
fence alone 30,000 acres. The problem of
how to exterminate rabbits is the greatest
question that confronts the people of Aus
tralia to-day, ns their entire prosperity
depends upon it. It is in hope that Yankee
ingenuity might bo able to solve this
important problem that Mr. Watson now
visits America.
"Yon can imagine what a terrible plague
the rabbits are,” said Mr. Watson, “when
the Australian government is now build
ing n fence of wire netting which, when
completed, will be 8,000 miles long and
which will divide New South Wales and
Queensland. The rabbits have uot yet
mode their appearance in Queensland and
the fence is to prevent them from getting
over there.
“We have tried hundreds of ways to get
rid of the rabbits but 60 far nothing has
been successful. We are only able to
check the increase. About the best means
of doing this is to scatter fruit with arsenic
over the ground, but this is a very expen
sive method. In this way I have killed
600 rabbits with ten bushels of sliced ap
pies. Then we used phosphate of oats, but
the trouble willi this ia that the phosphate
soon loses its effect. 1 think the best
method in use is the ordinary rat
trap, but all these methods are
very expensive. For instance,
costs the government of Victoria $125,000
a year to keep the rabbits down on the
crown (government) lands. The govern
ment pays ten cents a pair for all the
rabbits killed on their lands. A good
man cun make $40 per week killing rab
bits. These men use traps, and one man
can work 100 traps.
“A law has recently been passed that
compels the owner of lauds to keep the
rabbits down. If lie should fail to do this
he is fined $50 for the first offense, $100
for the second, and upon the third offense
the government employs men to attend to
tiie rabbits at the expense of the land
owner. In many instances owners are
compelled to give up their land as the
expense is so great. The owner of 10,000
acres .is obliged to employ 100 men for
killing rabbits alone. To give you a still
better idea of the damage these pests are
doing let me tell you that land that a few
years ago was worth }50 per acre is now
onlv worth $4.
“I have found a way by which I can
keep the rabbits down anu make money by
it; bill, of course every ranchman cannot
do this. I have started n rabbit canning
factory. We can (lie rabbits much the
saqie way that beef is canned here, anil our
principal market is in England. At pres
ent I am caiiftintr 509000 rabbits a year,
all of which are killed oil my rauch,' and
still this number docs not keep the pest
down, as the government required. I put
a rabbit and a half in a can. and at pres
ent 1 make 37 cents profit on a dozen cans.
They are retailed iu England at 12 cents
a pound, nntl considering the high price of
beef it would be supposed rabbits would
become (i favorite distt with # the poor of
England, yet tho _ rabbits are now only
purchased by (he higher class, who con
sider the rabbit a great dainty.
“How long have we been bothered with
the rabbit? About ten jean. Babbits
were brought to Australia about twenty
years ago from England for sporting
purposes,"
“fell me how fast the rabbits breed?"
“Apairof rabbits will usually produce
four does and two bucks. The does breed
when two months old and they have on an
average four titters a year. You can cal
culate from this and you will find that the
statement that a pair of rabbits will pro
dtice 2,000,000 iu two years is not so pre
posterous as it at first appears,
“I brought a man over from South
America just before I left and he firmly
believes that tho South American skunk
would get rid of the rabbits, Anyway the
Australian government offers a reward of
$109,000 for the best plan for their exter
mination.” Henry Walker.
in Light on the Kelatlons of n famous
Brother unit Mster— Interesting Her.
semi I Net cm Now Published for
tho first lime.
Special Correspondence.
New York, Sept. 20.—It was shortly
after the death of Professor Stowe that the
twin daughters detected a change in their
mother, the famous author of “Uncle
Tom’s Cabin” anti the foremost literary
woman of her country. With the greatest
reluctance they admitted to themselves and
to others that she was no longer the in
domitable individuality she had been. At
times her intellectual powers would assert
themselves, but very rapidly she traveled
she Beemed less natural than previously.
It was a blow to her which sue felt te-
s-h*. ~bd.„ zrsjMSJfcfAaiSSs;
written her a hearty indorsement of her was he unjl'stly COIWICTxi
project, and in her note had told her that
ail the material for such a book was at „ ‘ ,y Kx.Convict in.
hand andht her disposal. .. .Itre Court atBsnorMSoMLnu.
Withholding Mrs. Stowe’s letter, which Trom the New York Press,
would have announced to all the world A poor young fellow, a prisoner con-
the condition of the venerable lady, Mrs. y lct ™ mainly b< cause he hau once been
McCray published a card explaining that lnn j nt e of the penitentiary, delivered yL
her propo ed book whs a sketch of Mrs. afternoon before Judge Marline^ in
Stowe’s liter ry life and not a completed the conr-t of genera! fessions, the most
biography. After ihat Mrs. Stowe contin- , *! lctlc *P eefb ever heard within
ueu to give Mrs. McCray all the assistance ■ e v ‘ a "Wiliam McQuade was the
she asked, and the good feeling between n ? rae V* a young man responded
the famous author and tho young writer when Judge Mar me aakad him if he hid
was never interrupted. The natural con-
elusion of those who knew tbe facts was
that Mrs. 8towc bad seen, very likely, an
announcement of Mrs. McCray’s book, und
remcmtiering that she had appointed her
son to be her biographer, she wrote a note
to the edi or of tbe paper, contradicting
the statement she had read. It was the
act of a mind subject to tramitions, and,
at times, to total eclip e.
When Mrs. Stowe herself was aware of
her condition aud in he rational moments
spoke of it and approved all that her chil
dren had done a. d were doing lor her
Comfort. AlP r the death of Mr. Beecher
more childlike and docile.
She seemed to be ever getting and then
forgetting the beatings and ths way of
the receding route leading out of this
Democrats Cannot Get Eels.
Special Dispatch to the Boston Herald.
New York, Sept. 24.—Joseph H.
Hickey, the sporting man, has$8,0001ockcd
up in the safe of the St. James Hotel,
which 1b awaitiug the call of some repub
lican. Mr. Rickey wants to bet that
amount against $7,000 that Cleveland will
be elected. He is also ready to bet $300
to $1,000 from one to ten times that New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indi
ana will all go democratic this fall.
JerejSPangbtrn, Jr., to-day bet $100even
with Thomas l'atton that Gov. Hill will
|x>li more voles in this state than Presi
dent Cleveland.
Hamilton s isston of Philadelphia has
wagered $7,500 to $10,000 on Harrison.
The C evelaud and Thurman spirit was
very pronounced on the produce exchange
to-dav. For a number of years the betting
interest has been insignificant, but to-day
the Cleveland meu paraded around, thrust
ing oners ut $tuu to t«0 in the faces of the
Harrison contingent. No bets were re
corded. Tbe Cleveland menaaid that “the
Harri-on fellows did not have the sand” to
take them up. ,
and the relations between them bad been
nf a most affectionate character from his
early days. She was liis favorite sister, and
he revered her as a rare woman anil a
writer of great p' wer and genius. When
her daughter told her the contents of ihe
telegram announcing his death she re-
! eeiv d the news with sad composure,
I shed tears and til n talked of him
and his life work with surprising chetr-
fuiness. A lew of her neighbors
11BOHIKR AND SISTEB,
world. For many months the real Harriet
Beecher Stowe has manifested but slightly
in the frail little body which is scarcely
larger than that of a girl of ten years. Her
daughters, Eliza and Harriet, and her only
son, Rev. Charles Stowe, cnnqituted her
fami y, and they wisely decided when there
could be no longer a doubt of her loss of
mental grasp, to make kttowo their moth
er’s condition to their friends and ne gh-
bors. For a year and more Hartford peo
ple have been accustomed to see her in Her
daily walk—taken iu mill or sunshine—
pass her frieuds unheeded by anil stop and
greet a total stranger with a proffered hand
and a smile. All had come to understand
the true state of tbe case, and even little
children would hasten to sic her safely
over a street crossing, realizing in their
intuitive wav that the familiar personality
wasnotdoniinateil as ofyore by the resolute
energy and wonderful mentality of Harriet
Beecher Stowe.
Like Emets n, she has been permitted to
endear herself to the world about ber,
through whsit we perhaps mistakenly call
sad a llliction.
One day Inat spring, shortly after tbs
blizzard, and while the snow lay deep on
Forest street, Mrs. Stowe was seen in an
animated controversy with an Italian
street vender, who was. crying his wares
and on the alert for p is’ tble i customers.
She motiomd him to the sidewalk and
scolded him fur exposing himself to tho
weather without warmer clothing. The
poor fellow distractedly pointed out every
article in his collection, keeping up his
jargon aud gcsliculatiug wildly. Mrs.
Stowe regarded him with passive indiffer
ence until he grew violently excited,
whereupon she drew a tiny purse out of
her muff, took from it a piece of silver,
and, with a merry twinkle in her eye,
handed it to him, saying: “You’ll under
stand that 1” She laughed softly to her
self as the walked oo her way, and very
much reminded a frieuil, who observed the
incident, of Mr. Beecher. Slie > has ever
resembl'd him in her appreciation of the
ludicrous and her unfailing good nature.
Having the rare good fortune to spend
a morning with her when her miud was
unusually clear, I asked a question which
I had long desired to have answered and
to which she gave me an interesting reply.
I said: "Mrs. Stowe, was ‘Uncle Tom’s
Cabin’ tbe first story you ever wrote?”
“No." she answered, "‘fbe New England
Tale’ was the first story I ever wrote, and
I Mill think it one of the best in the ‘May
flower.’ Jt ia the first one in the collec
tion. It was written primarily for a lit-
eray circle—the ‘Semi- olon,’ which had
it‘ weekly se.-aions at the house of my
uncle, 8. E. Foote. That was written
many years before my marriage and while
I was living in Cincinnati. It was pub
lished by Judge Hale in his monthly mag
azine.” * .
Having my attention called to the many
on- raviogs and photographs taken of her
in' the years of her fame, I asked her
which one she considered the most chara:-
leristic. She said those takec in her
younger yenrs she did not care for, but
that Tlii re was one m*de a whileagowhieh
showed her after tbe fight. She smiled as
she said this, and added:
,u young women all want to keep
HRS STOWE’S HOME AT HARTFORD
came in later and found her at the piano
singing hymns with an expression of ex
alted happiness on her face. Site expressed
regret that lie had hastened before her, bnt
said tjjey would all be together toon. Later
in tiie day she went to her desk and wrote
the following lett.r to Mrs. Beecher in
Brooklyn:
46 orest Street, Hartford, Conn.,
March 9, 1887 —My Dear, PrecionsSister:
Dearer and more piecious now in your
sorrow than ever before. But let us re
joice for him tha> he has gained the crown.
He always longed for heaven, and now he
has gained it. He has gone to (bat saintly
mother whom he never knew on earth but
always longed for—to that brave, noble
father whom he loved so mneh—to his
brother George and to the dear ones who
have preceded him out of his own house
hold.
f have been playing and singing the
hymn—
"Many are the friends who aro waitiug to-day
Happy on the golden strand;
Many are ihe vnlcea calling Ua away
To Join their Joyous band."
Dear sister, I fear I cannot come down
as mv Elvira has been for some days sick
of what threatens to be a run of fever. I
must not leave her. I hope my Hattii,
who is in Brooklyn, will see and hear all
anil come and tell me.
With warmest love, your ever devoted
slaler, IIatti B. Stowe.
Her children had influenced her to
think that she could not leave home, hut
her condition was such that they did not
care to take the risks of having her excited
by the funeral scenes or of exposing her to
the gaze of strangers. During the past
fow months she has seemed ever ready to
depart, anil has stood on .the outer portals
of earth-life, peering, with the innocent
curiosity of a child, into tho shadowy out
lines of that country front whence no one
has come back to tell us of iu charm or iU
desolation. Laura C. Holloway.
TIIE AMERICAN BAND.
The Significance or Iu Shape und Ounlltles
Thereby Indicated.
From the Chicago American.
There is a distinctively American hand,
just as dis'inctive ns those of the Ethio
pian, tho Chinaman, the German, or the
Hindoo. In hia curious w' rk, "La Science
de la Main,” D’Arpentigny quotes tbe
strange description of “La Yankee,” con
tained iu Michel Chevalier's “Lettres sur
1’Amerique du Nord," of which a transla
tion was published in Boston in 1839,
and concludes: “In a nation such as tbis
there cannot exist any but hands which
are rpatulate and fingers which’ are
square.” Ho was partly right and parily
wrong. The American tvpe of hand lias
significance: Tbe site of tbe hand indi
cates a capacity for synthesis combined
with analysis, a capacity to seize the
meaning of an entire subject, and analyze
its details with equal rapidity; the palm
gives rensuality anil love of pleasure, the
consistency gives great mental activity and
love of exe.cise when other people are
taking it; in a word, a love of the display
of physical energy, which we do not our
selves practice The thumb denotes an
equal amount of will power and common
sense, neither overriding the other. The
fingers again show a love of pleasure and
luxury,-c imbined with intense order, reg
ularity and Arrangement, and a spirit of
impulsive calculation (if I maybe allowed
tbe paradox), a tendency to act promptly
on an impulse and analyze the cause and
effects of one’s actiuDs afterward, so- as to
make one’s action, however haaty, inure to
one’s own good. Dominating the entire
• — j—, character is a keen intuition, and a good'
young, but there is a value in scars after c.hici.m, by the
ail. When Toil get to ee a veteran >ou i ni . M i.Li. r , • • • • ■ '■
anything U> say why he should not be
pnyed of his liberty for the greater
of his life. He had been arresud. tried
and convicted on a charge of “boldine »„ »
with two others, a Christopher street LL
on the night of Aog. 24 last. Tears wellM
in his Lirge blue eyes as he told the store
of his life. ur ?
It was the old tale. A boy who knew
no mother s care growing up surrounded
by temptanons-a young man with no
trade to follow and too much idle time
upon his hands. He had come only r .
rentiy, he said, from the penitentiary after
the expiration of a three, years’ sentence
W hen he came out lie found his former
friends col<V and indifferent—they would
not associate with one who bore the brand
of a criminal upon his character. Thor
oughly ashamed of himself, he had re.
solved to lead a new life, and was pursuire
bis resolution faithfully when he had been
arrested.
“I am wholly innocent,” he said "of
the charge which I have been found guilty
I ask you, judge, for tbe mercy that the
jury wouldn’t give me. Don’t sentence
to-dnv. Make inquiries and you will see I
have told the truth. I ask you to do this
for God’s sake. It will kill me to go to
prison for something I did not do.”
Here ihe voice of Iho prisoner became
choked and he sarik back in a sea . Judge
Marline turned away and wiped a tear
from his cbeek. He deferred sentence for
a fortnight to allow an application to be
imnde for a new trial.
. Martin Lather’s Wedding Ring.
From the New Haven News. Sept. '!•.
An ancient weddu g ring, whicb, it is
said, was presented by Martin Luther to
his bride some 300 years ago, is on exhibi
tion in Middletown. On one side of the
ring is represented the crucifixion of
Chrisl-ea scourge, three nails and sp ar; z
small ruby in the centre representing a
drop of blood. On the other side is a col
umn, a ladder, a rope, cap of a Roman sol
dier, a hammer, z sword of jastice and
three dice.
WliYl YOUR LIVES
?®i lYrrm
XVm wHI have SICK HEADACHES, PAINS
> >f TUF. SIDE. DYSPEPSIA, POOF. Al’PE-
- IXil, inel ll&tloso anil unable to get: hrouph
/anr dally work orsoolal cidoymentn, Iazs
will ho c, harden to yon.
.■mTOca3XiE3B3aA. | PEiMaaa
©STOHUS#
C71U euro you, drive tho POISON out of
your nyfitem, and make you strong and well*
They cost only 25 cents a box and may save
your life. Can bo bad at any Drug btoro*
AS-Eo war oof Coukte&txits made In St. Louifc.~£l
bvBrypolTsh TEETH,
Perfumes the Breath. Ask for ft.
FLEMING BROS,, - Pittsburgh, Pa,
all. When von get to oe a veteran long-poimtd or conic tips, with the short,
will agree with me in this—see if you do j rou ® d r . lu
The Iiliftograph to which *he re'erred .
bears her antograpl anil .-now. her famil- ; From ihe IU nbrl ge Democrat,
nears in. run - I , „ r;lw a colored m -n and hit wife and
Nut In l*u)ttlc«.
• t .... *i!» *» c raw a cuiuicu iii'ii aim iiib wile anu
“inX mental condition of Mrs 8,owe child am to town one day last week The
,, ob. found the explanation of tbe con- "if- ; nd ‘" t e b "J’ * ire
troversv that waa raised la t a,.ring over f ‘ buggy drawn by a fine
her bbigraphy. Mrs. Slowe published a h'-r-L The bu.banTVaa mounted on two
card in a tlartfon paper to the efiect tint I
the report it. eireulith.n regarding an an- F 00 ’* »»■.>*• »ms colored man ia well-to-
thorized “Life" of herself incorrect; M »■^*2* ***»»**
A liefo-de-Wali Turtle.
E. M. C. in Greensboro Sun.
Frank Aycock, an old colored man of
thia place, says daring slavery when he
belonged to his master, Mr. Seaborn
Aycock of Mississippi, bis young master
set out some fish hooks one day, and the
next day on going to the hooks he found
ope he could not null ont. He called
three or four negro men from a field near
by to aid him in getting tbe hook ouL
After a hard time they finally succeeded,
aud were astonished to find strung to it a
turtle. He said it took two of the best 1 an
mules they had and a wagon to carry him geu» j , ,
to the house. After he waa cleaned hia Mrs. MiCray hastened to see Mrs. Stowe^
wife, as wash-tubs were scarce down there, ; who*# home is near ber own, anil received
took his shell for that ourpose, and Frame her mini hospiUblegreeting. Mrs. Stowe |
says it made a splendid one. would not i ■ ak of her card; seemed not to
tint ber son was to write her biography
and r.c one else. This care! waa widely
piiblUhedBind earned much pain to Mrs.
Mi: ray ol Hartford, who had been en-
nnj for some time upon the “Literary
Life” of Mrs. Stowe. The fact had been
! by her publishers, and the press
lly hml noted the announcement.
to do with nigger-republican politics, and
mn»-qiirn,l. he sleeps at night and puts in
the hours of tln*day at work on his farm.
There are many more of the same sort in
this county. Colo ed “politicians” should
stick a piu here.
A Sore Throat or Cough,
reo-Kbi. rea.li lUj iig.ire il.i.uv’i il.r-j both very common in Englamd: One U SW*
halt a dozen who rise zbuve it, anu as that ol a family ol spinster listers whose ehlal Trcches" gire liibtani relief.
know the fdi-cl she bad produced by it, |
ami was utterly oblivions of the fact that
rjnly been assisting Mrs. Me
■Lou cabins, lacking ele
gance, were yet comfortable
homes. Health and happi
ness were found in them. The
best of tbe simple remedies
ised are given to the world in
■Varaer’e l.og Cabin remedies
made by Warner of Safe Cure
fame. Regulate the rrgula-
atcrial but had previously tor with Warner’s Log Cabin Sar.aparilla.
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