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E THE B l IRancially to Be a Hero—Clifford, Who ried to Save Barnato, Won Wife and Wealth :<i fol- fefejicito.is Ippl have Hath stupen- |&7is gPfisueil in so freed from rash misrule; Forto HSs, and now in the jfipiro is ceded as the lorious arms. l y? Watts, the famous British '.'A introduced i.Uo London a MPKjII gSxTa in the monumell line which be adopted in some of our @®s. /He is now erecting in what is pnown as Postman’s park at \lder- 'gate, a cloister or pavilion of artistic design and imperishable materials, in which will be placed, from time to time, tablets commemorating deeds of heroism of people in the humbler walks of life. Postman’s park is a little breathing spot in the crowded section of the city, much frequented by work¬ ing folks, so that the examples will have an influence upon the moral cour¬ age of the lower classes. The London County Council and the Park Board have made appropriations of money, and the remainder of the cost, which is $60,000, will be met by private con¬ tributors. Mr. Watts is now search¬ ing the newspaper files to learn of brave deeds recorded in recent years. A typical case is that of Alice Ayres, a nursery maid who rescued three children from a burning house at the sacrifice of her own life. After four years of experimenting, W. W. Wentworth, of Karney, Texas, reports success in his effort to intro¬ duce the culture of Egyptian cotton in this country, and his notable triumph is affirmed by the Cotton Growers’ Journal, of Waco. It appears, further, that Mr. Wentworth’s crop was not a sTjbrajU cessiwnud -irire. unprofitable nor the product coddling. of ex- has grown fee Egyptian cotton by the acre, has gathered 1500 pounds from six acres, aq^ has nfafeeted it in Bos¬ ton at fourteen cents a pound, or about three times the price prevailing for ordinary cotton. Tha Egyptian cot¬ ton can be grown in Texas, Mr. Went¬ worth asserts, on ordinary cotton land, “from the Gulf to Bed River, and from the Sabine to the Rio Grande,” will produce as much per acre as the ordinary cotton, and is even superior to the cotton grown in Egypt. Papers in -other Southern States are quick to suggest that what can bo grown in Texas can be’ pro¬ duced elsewhere in the South, and it is probable that extensive experiments’ with the imported seed will soon be undertaken throughout the cotton¬ growing section. Farmers throughout Sweden com¬ plain bitterly of the increasing diffi¬ culty of obtaining servants. Nearly every servant who has any aggressive¬ ness at all tries to get employment in a city or emigrates to America. Those who, for one reason or another, re¬ main, ask wages which, a few years ago would have been regarded by the farmers as preposterous. The demand for higher wages is general, and may be due to the general prosperity, but the migration to the cities may have other causes. A girl working in a factory or as seamstress in a city knows that at the end of her working day she can go wherever she pleases and that she is free from drudgery eve.y Sunday. A city servant there may get a Sunday afternoon off once in a while, hut a farmer’s servant, male or female, has no fixed hours free from work. Servant girls who have been in the United States have pride in saying that in America they haYe certain hours of their own every week, and the advantage of this is duly appreciated by tbe listeners, who often for this reason alone are willing to try their luck abroad. The only Swedish approach to the systematic American plan of giving “days off” is . found in tbe “week of liberty,” just Tended. Servants in the country there a rule are hired by the year, and at ■^^nd of the year of service they get Hs freedom, beginning with Thus once iu a year '"“" JgfefW Hfe^^relatives days in which they 3 without M HE last act of Barney Barnato’s life was to make the fortune of a | young ship’s Diamond o'ffi- cer. The j^VTTX ' King who of* South had been Af- ■ v\ fcgjk )_W rica, bless- - the ruin and ' ing of so many /// | '-i* lives, probably did ' 1 1 ’ - n o - t contemplate this result of his suicide when he leaped from the saloon fleck of the roy- al mail steamer Scot on the way from Cape Town to Southampton. Out of 1,600 person on board the ship but one was willing to court destruction- Tor the chance of saving Barney Barnato, whom he barely knew. This was W. T. Clifford, fourth officer of the Scot, one of the bravest men and most pow¬ erful swimmers in the British mer¬ chant marine. His heroic effort prov¬ ed futile, but it pays to be a hero for all that, since young Clifford has just won for his bride Miss Gertrude Rod¬ ney, a beautiful South African heir¬ ess, who witnessed her lover’s gallant action and used it to win over an ob¬ stinate father. Mrs. Barnato, morever, has settled a handsome annuity on Clifford, and his i if" m % VjM m 1 V Mm, 1 i W §3 As -/t wm ft W- T. CLIFFORD. bank account Is swelled to good- pro¬ portions by several testimonials of £500 each, the gifts of citizens All ’South and Africa two steamship has been comp|^H grealffJ^B courtship, terested in and the the outcome happy of Cliffc^H of it, which is to take place in Elizabeth, Cape Colony, and it will the occasion for a town and general rejoicing among admirers of the brave young Clifford. SENTIMENT AND SPITE. Great Britain’s War In the Soudan— ’ Beneficial Results. The battle of Atbara was a severe engagement, says the National Review. On that occasion the Angio-Egyptian force’was 16,000 and there were 545 casualties. It was, of course, to be ex¬ pected that on these figures the senti¬ mentalist would look in with hi3 pious exclamation of a “battue.” There was, however, no alternative but to kill just as many dervishes as chose to fight us, and—there was never a race that so richly deserved killing. They had been the scourge of the Sudan for fourteen years. It may be laid down as an axiom that the greater the number of the enemy killed and the fewer upon the victor’s side the more brilliant is the victory. War means killing the enemy, we can’t get out of that. It is very dreadful, and all humane people declare the fact, but the history of the world shows that it is a means of prog¬ ress and civilization. It may be truly said that of al’ the wars Great Britain has embarked in during her loilg his¬ tory none has been more certain of a beneficent result than the one we have just brought to a conclusion in the Sudan. We can afford, therefore, to disregard the selfish sentimentalist who espouses no cause, but, like the lotus eater, exclaims: "What pleasure can we have to war with evil? Is there any peace in ever climbing up the climbing wave?” We can equally afford to de¬ spise the venom of the French journal¬ ist which found expression in quoting a "shopkeeper in the Strand” as a typi- 1 Briton who said to him: “There not enough men killed in this battle at Omduman. I should have preferred the slaughter of more than three-fourths of the dervish army with heavier loss on our side; for a great battle pleases us only when there has been a great butchery.” Such is the stuff provided by one of the grands journeaux of Paris for its readers. To Remove Line* of Age. When the fine lines begin to show under the eyes procure a small pack¬ age of fullers’ earth and mix it with an equal quantity of wheat flo- kTake a little of this and mix it into “paste with clear water, Spread It beneath the eyes and let it remain an hour, then moisten it and gently wipe it off. For wrinkles on other parts of the face make a paste of white wfyX and oil of sweet almonds, and appjj It as hot as can he borne, using a I le stick tor the purpose, thatJ applied to the line and nojgR RUSSIAN KEELY CURE. Inventor Coming to New York—His Staff IVomlerful in composition. Keeiy, of Keely cure fame, has a Russian rival, ope Michael Georgevitch Alaverdoff, who, according to his own account, having tackled successfully the Demon Rum in the empire of the czar, is now in London preparing to save the drunkards of England. After ho has accomplished his mission in England he will probably come over here- and try his hand at New York. M. Alaverdoff declares in his mani¬ festo that he has discovered a wonder¬ ful herb which, when administered to the victim, will cure him .completely, “even though he has drunk every day for more than fifty years from five to twenty bottles of alcoholic drinks.” One would think that the condition of a man who had “drunk every day for more than fifty years from five to twen¬ ty bottles of different alcoholic drinks” would be such that the herb to cure him would have to be plucked on the further shore of the River Styx; but Alaverdoff is from Russia, and the Russians have long been noted for powers of bibation of the Gargantuan order. When this wonderful Russian arrived in London the Daily Chronicle sent a reporter to interview him. As there was no man on the staff who spoke Russian, they chose one who had moderate taste for vodka as being the host qualified man available. Through an interpreter Alaverdoff said to the reporter that his prescription consisted of 36 per cent spirits of wine and 64 per cent of distilled water. As these numbers made 100 per cent the report¬ er asked where the curative parts came in, and, undisturbed, the Russian re¬ plied, “6 per cent of acid of lemon and my herb.” When the reporter pro¬ tested that there was not room, Alaver¬ doff smiled blandly and said: “Ah, that is my secret.” Then two glasses of the medicine, diluted copiously with most excellent whisky, being poured out, the reporter and the “doctor” pro¬ ceeded to test the discoifery, and had a most sociable time. So far the reporter has not noticed any improvement in his Russion or any diminution of his moderate taste for vodka. Alaverdoff says he has cured over 3,000 inebriates in Russia, and if he can do the things with “jags” that he does with mathe¬ matics, there does not seem to he any V.1 to. ills K< ■ rhn^l WlWB a li ■3i ficulfiH _ :i:i> i '■ ives M The I ii-i' mi^H r/'B| I the the world.'fflj fnt-om^B An to satisfy represent^] aqM not ery’s “spendi^H Last means. yiw ed in the Gram™ pect in the gre| mining district. 1 _ paid the rich wi kVa £ A m (/ l\i w MRS. EMERY. $10,000, and she has recently refused to sell her interest in the mine for $ 100 , 000 . Queer: Place for Rlectric Shock. When a Bar Harbor well digger com¬ plained that he received electric shocks while descending a well in. that fash¬ ionable resort, his fellow-workmen laughed at him. But when a dog fas¬ tened to a platform, was lowered to the surface of the water he howled piteously for an instant and was dead when hauled to the surface. Flsbeti That Solid N<*stg. There is a fish found In Hudson b: which absolutely builds a nest, ’m it does by picking pebbles mM mouth and placinjj a in a rJB way on a select^ & the bHj of the b b deep. EL Charles H. Summers Pioneer Gavg^H Expert^ the the Telephone 1 HALLES 4 H. SUM¬ i MERS, the cele¬ brated . electrician, who died in Chica¬ go* the other day, was born in Flem¬ ing county, Ken¬ tucky, of parents who had emigrated from Virginia, It I was an old Virginia family. In his younger days he was a good horseman and an excellent pistol shot, and though he possessed a mild character and gentle disposition, he was abso¬ lutely without fear. When very young he studied telegraphy and began the practice of it at a time when telegraph lines were strung along turnpikes and highways and not along railways. In¬ deed, there were hut few railroads in the west at the tjlme he commenced with telegraphy. His first engagement was with the old Pittsburg, Cincinnati and Louisville line, and he remained with this line, receiving from time to time many promotions, till it was final¬ ly consolidated with the Western Union Telegraph company. Then he visited different points in the northern coun¬ try, working at short engagements in many different places. . In 1859, while working at Indianapolis, he accepted a good position oij Indiana railroad lines with headquarters at Indianapolis. In that position he continued till 1867, when he was made superintendent of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and La¬ fayette railroad lines, with his own headquarters at Cincinnati. In 1864, when the civil war was in progress, he had frequent occasion to go to the union front and set up or re¬ pair or take down telegraph plants. On one of these occasions he ventured too near to the confederate lines and was taken as a prisoner of war, but not being a belligerent in the true sense he was soon let go. eai comnW woffilp It much hraS pressed invent® ujIh| s»nt cM «nt office an inventor,^ been the mil iginator of ward dev^J evid ingly ep§§ |H pn and that it ! which enables ed. Hence it Mr. Summers since become I and ocean telq Mr. Summe the first ineax plant in the J early in the 1 first Bell telel Chicago Bell’s father-] by Gj sets of to lnstrj Mr. is taken frej ed. A line (now Fort SI town was mil telephoning o| from Mr. Sun There are il these early exl ment with “talldl w| magic conspicuous I offices in thel corner of streets, Chi<® ; idan, then ment of the* Mr. SummenJ yl singing and if a riot wal found that over] it | created wooden box d traveling trill question the'I But he was I tioning anj/ 1 might do, i'orl of the electril A£tl joking. t(J used often that box coni got Mr. SunJ “Old Rosin tl of his occasi(■ His offices bfl cral curiositiB