Newspaper Page Text
THE WEEKLY.
CONYERS, GEORGIA.
The general opinion .in Europe
seem to bo that Cuba will this time
get away front .Spain.
Emigration from Great Britain to
the colonies of the South Pacific has
been checked i>v the announcement
that there is absolutely no employ¬
ment for tabor in these colonies. All
tiie Australia*, New Zealand and the
Cape tell the same story.
The total output of the clay indus¬
tries of the United States for 1894,
exclusive of pottery, was $05,000,000.
More than half the product was brick,
of which enough were made to layfca
pavement eleven feet wide entirely
around the earth. Ohio makes more
brick than any other stute.
The interdependence of the arts and
trades is considerable, Every large
architect’s office has to have a civil en¬
gineer or some one with engineering
ability to calculate strains. And now
a big firm of elevator builders has en¬
gaged a-staff architect for questions
of design and construction.
Now York is the first city to recog¬
nize the rights of citizens who ride
bicycles, and who use them in going
to and from business. A resolution
previously passed by the aldermen to
pave Church street from Chambers to
Day iu granite was reciuded, and one
substituted making asphalt the mate¬
rial. This is part of the bicycle path
that will he established between the
Battery and Central Park.
The New York Sun says:—Large
quantities of American carriage wood
stock are exported annually, and this
trade is steadily increasing. We send
to France, England, Ru8sia,Germany,
South Africa,Australia,and elsewhere,
and our exports to these countries, in¬
clude spokes, rims, hubs, completed
wheels, shafts and other parts, and
carriage lumber. Our mills here are
located in various parts of the country
in proximity to the forests whence the
supplies of wood are obtained.
A petition from tfio inhabitants of
tiie Londuu suburb, Shepherd’s Bush,
reveals an entirely new difficulty
which boomers have to contend, It
seems that Miss Brachlon invariably
put into her novels a very low, com¬
mon familioB, ami made them reside
at Shepherd’s Bush. Other novelists
followed her evil example, until now
a-duvH every KnglisU novelist puts his
low characters down as residents of
Shepherd’s Bush. The result is that
all the reputable people who could
move went dowu, aud fiction became
a fact. The laud and house-owners
of Shepherd’s Bush ask the County
Council to give the place another
name, so that their efforts to restore
its ancient respectability may not be
in vain.
Newport will have a summer rival
right at Now York’s door, aunounces
the World. The proposed cottage
settlement on the shores of Sheeps
lioud Bay 1ms not been abandoned, but
while speculation was rife as to the
magnificent intentions of those behind
that euterprize, a syndicate of wealthy
men have quietly bought up a park
property of 230 acres at Dobbs Ferry
on the Hudson at a cost of §1,000,000
and projected improvements to cost
$1,000,000, a §40,000 dock on the
river front now being actually in
course of instruction. Among the
members of the syndicate that has
planned this enterprise are General
Samuel Thomas, William Rockefeller,
John D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpont
Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt,Chaun
«ey M. Depew, J. G. MeComb aud
John D. Arehbohi. The grounds will
be laid out in the most sumptuous
manner. There is a white marble
building on the grounds formerly
owned by the Manhattan College, which
will be used for club purposes. A
large notel aud casino similar to that
at. Newport will be ready for oecu
pancy next Spring. This and other
improvements necessary will involve
an outlay of $1,000,000. Members of
this country will pay §150 yearlv dues,
They alone will be permitted te
purchase plots in the park upon which
to build, under certain 'restrictions a*
to style of architecture and cost of
construction.
The Hidden Lifer,
Deep down beneath the billows’ fingry sweep,
Beyond the fury of the raging sea,
There is a world of silent mystery.
There corai mountains lift their hoary heads,
And sea-shells lie in glowing amber beds,
And ail is wrapt in deep eternal sleep.
Deep down beneath the world’s distress and
pain, «
Beyond the fury of life’s ceaseless storm,
To noble souls there is eternal calm.
There fancy sits in bright illumed eaves
And hoards the treasures of the stormy
waves,
And quiet truth and beauty ever reign.
(Jeauesce Hawkes. in Lippincott.
BY CHANCE.
I don’t know exactly why Jack
called me “governor,” but I suppose
it was because I was some years older
than he was and because, when he was
a wee toddler, I had made him kites
and showed him how to spin tops, and
jierbaps because I used to help him
out of scrapes, either with his teacher
er some playmate too large for him to
‘lick. ” At all events, I got the name
and it lias stuck to me. What sur¬
prised me most, however, was to hear
it a few weeks ago, when I supposed
Jack was thousands of miles away. I
was strolling leisurely down an old
street in Dublin, looking about for
some old landmark of the “stamping
ground” of my childhood, How
things had changed! Yonder where
the little frame church had been was
a stately stone edifice; over the old
golf links had been built long rows of
stores and houses, but there—yes, it
must be—there was a house that had
not been changed
“Governor,” said a voice behind
me, “isn’t that the house where Alice
lived?”
I never should have known the
speaker had it not been for the epi¬
thet; it was Jack, careworn and gray
and looking thirty-five instead of
twenty-seven.
“Jack, old boy, what brings you
here? I thought you were in Amer¬
ica.”
“I have been in New Orleans for a
good many years; Helen used to like
the climate. But the company’s agent
here has left, and I must needs come
and take care of the business until
another man is appointed. Besides,
the president knew that I once lived
here, and thought it would be both a
change from my surroundings and a
pleasure to see the old place. But,
isn’t that Alice’s old home?”
“Yes,” suid I, “I am quite sure of
it; but yon ought to know best;wasn’t
she once a sweetheat. of yours?”
“Oil, don’t speak of that! You
pain me 1 It brings back such a flood
of sad recollections even to look upon
the old scenes. I don’t know that
you have heard, but I am a widower.”
“My poor fellow! I extend you
my most heartfelt sympathies. But
I didn’t know that you had ever mar¬
ried. However, wo have kept such
poor track of each other that I don’t
wonder at my ignorance. But can’t
yon tell me something of yourself?
Come, I’m ‘governor. > >>
your
1 1 Well, ‘governor,’” said he, with
a faint shadow of his old smile, “I
left for America nine years ago. I
went straight to Quebec aud lived
there three years. It was there that
I met her who became my wife. We
were married just six years ago last
month. Her health failed and we
went South. She grew worse, gave
birth to our first child and died.
That was a little over two years ago,
and as the child is iu good hands (my
sister-in-law’s) I consented to come
here.”
“But Jack, what made you go to
America? Why didn’t you say here?”
Well, it was the same old tale of the
young workingman not being fit to
marry his idol. As you said, Alice
was my sweetheart; she said so her¬
self, dear girl, but her brother Tom—
there was the difficulty. I called on
Alice very often and had asked her to
be my wife, though I was but nineteen.
Sho said ‘ Yes > hut Tom wouldn't hear
of ib 1 tried to brin & bim sro,iad b T
all manner of means, but he was res
Mute. He had never liked me and he
never hesitated to tell me so; in fact,
he took S reat pleasure in berating me
before me, as well as behind my back.
“One night-—I think it was Haiiow
een—a crowd of young fellows got
oa a l ftrk aud hi their sport took Tom’s
small donkey out oi its shed, and,
pushing it upon the roof of a wagon
' house, which sloped almost to the
ground, tied it there. Tom thought
I was the prime mover in the trick,
though I knew nothing of it, and ac¬
cordingly the next night, when I
called, promptly showed me the door,
with the injunction m»ver to set foot
inside it again.
“I saw Alice at times, but she
seemed somewhat changed. So, after
I hacl tried all in my power to
straighten things, I got angry about
it, and when I was offered a position
in Canada I was glad to leave. My
marriage was not spite work. I loved
Alice and always shall, but I knew I
could be happy with Helen, and then
she said she loved me.”
Just then we jmssed the house. It
was the same old place we both re¬
membered. The same trees and
bushes spread their branches about
lawn; in one corner of the yard stood
a large, old-fashioned bucket pump,
and on one of the boards of the side
fence was the rude weather-stained
carving:
“JACK HIGGINS, ALICE NEAL.”
Jack turned red, then white, as he
looked at the names and then glanced
at me.
“Do you suppose she lives there
now?” he asked.
“I’m sure I don’t know.” I replied,
“but let’s ask some one’.”
Several persons passed, but all
seemed in a hurry, so we went into a
store across the street and inquired.
Yes, Tom Neal and his sister lived
there. Did we know them? Indeed 1
No, his sister was not married; some
fellow off in America jilted her, so
they said.
“Well, Jack,” said I, after we came
out, “I’m not a matchmaker, but if,
as you say, you always have had warm
affection for Alice, why don’t you be¬
gin again? It isn’t too late.”
Jack blushed to the .roots of his
hair and said he should never go
there, after having been shown the
door. I tried to coax him, but it
would not do, yet all the time I could
see he wished to meet his old “flame”
once more.
Jack and I lived together at the
same hotel and daily I spoke to him of
going to call as a friend. At last the
day before he was to return to New
Orleans I got him down near Neal’s
home. We passed it six or eight
times, and I began to feel foolish at
promenading up and down the street.
Once he stopped in front of the gate
and he put forth his hand to open it,
hut drew hack like a young schoolboy.
Then I told him I had had enough of
such fooling and that when we ap¬
proached again we have to go in. We
came up, I opened the gate and
pushed him forward up the steps.
“Heavens, ‘Governor,’” hegasjiecl,
“ring the bell for me !”
Tom Neal cam to the door and
greeted us warmly.
“Jack,” said he, “I owe you an
apology—have owed you one for
years. I found out who did that
work with the donkey and I’m sorry I
ever treated you as I did.”
We began to chat of old times, and
shortly Alice came down stairs. She
was the same girl we had known only
matured. I felt sure that she had
seen us before we entered, for she was
dressed in her lovliest. She met Jack
not quite like a sweetheart, but very
tenderly.
It did me good to tell them of Jack’s
diffidence and what a hard time I had
to get him to come. They were a lit¬
tle displeased that he had not come
before, and when we said something
about sailing, Alice exclaimed—
“Sailing! What! Are you going
back?”
“Yes,” returned Jack demurely, “I
start tomorrow.”
Alice hummed to herself a moment,
then going over to him and taking his
hands in her own, said :—
“Well, I don’t propose that you
shall go without me. I have loved
you and you me; you once asked me
to be your wife but we were separated.
I know yon are too bashful to ask
me again, so I ask you to be my hus¬
band.”
To say that we were surprised is
putting it mildly, but Jack turned to
rue and said:—
« * Governor you are a matchmaker,
after all.”—Chicago News.
In London there is a street collec¬
tion for one benevolent institution or
another on almost every Saturday in
the rear.
Antarctic Explorations?.
Cape Horn was rounded for the first
time in lfilfl by a Dutch expedition,
which had set out from Amsterdam in
the Hoorne (or Horn) and Eendracht,
(or Unity,) to find a new r western
route to the East Indies, and so to
evade the ordinance of the States
General prohibiting ail Dutch ships
not engaged in the service of the
Dutch East India Company from
passing by the Cape of Good Hope to
the eastward or through the Straits of
Magellan to the westward. The
Hoorne was burned at the entrance to
the Straits of Magellan, and some of
her timbers were found on the spot
half a century later by Sir John Nar
borough, whom Charles II. sent to
Patagonia for gold.
The other vessel pushed on,doubled
and named the Horn after the lost
ship (which had also received its name
from the place of that name in Hol¬
land, of which one of the principals
in the undertaking was a native,) dis¬
covered and named (after the Amster¬
dam merchant who conceived the
idea,) the Straits of La Maitre, and
finally reached the Pacific. Seventeen
years earlier another Dutchman,Dirck
Gerritz, in a vessel of only 150 tons
burden, which formed part of the
East India squadron of Simon of
Cordes, had been driven by bad
weather from the western entrance of
the Straits of Magellan as far south as
latitude sixty-two degrees, and dis¬
covered the islands now known as the
South Shetlauds. To him it was a
coast resembling that of Norway,
mountainous and covered with snow.
His statement was regarded as apoc¬
ryphal until Mr. William Blythe, in the
year 1819, rediscovered the islands
while on a voyage from Montevideo
to Valparaiso.
The Dutch navigator De Gonneville
was creadited with having, even before
Gerritz, discovered a Terra Australia
to the south of Africa, but we know
from Pigafetta, the biographer of
Magellan, that the phrase “Anarctic
Pole” was a very loose one, and was
taken to mean the southern hemi¬
sphere, which is a vastly different
matter. Moreover, De Gonneviile
brought home to France with him the
son of the sovereign of his new found
land, which is of itself sufficient to
prove that he did not penetrate far
south. But his stoi'y and the sight of
his dusky captive set the hearts of his
countrymen beating with wild hopes
for a century and a.half.—Macmillan’s
Magazine.
Precocious Roses.
A new race of roses has been intro¬
duced by some Paris growers. They
belong to the Polyantha group—that
i.s to say, they bear their flowers in
trusses. The new roses have advantage
over the others of being “perpetual,”
aud consequently they flower con¬
tinuously all through the summer.
This advantage they owe to their ori¬
gin, a natural cross (croisement natu¬
re!) observed in the Lyons gardens,
between the flowers of the first speci¬
mens introduced from Japan, and some
hybrid perpetual roses. By repeated
and careful selections a new race of
roses has been produced, which, like
annuals, germinate, flower and pro¬
duce seeds in less than a year.
The term “dwarf” is justified by
the height, which in adult plants is
only about twenty inches. The flow¬
ers are single, semi-double or double,
in almost equal proportions, and pre
sent almost all variations of color ob¬
served in cultivated roses. Flowering
commences in the first year and even
a few months after sowing. --Garden¬
er's Chronicle,
An Imposing Mansion.
Lowther Castle, where Lord Lons¬
dale has been entertaining the Ger¬
man Kaiser, is one of the most impos¬
ing mansions in Great Britain. Its
great terrace, nearly a mite in length,
is carried along the brink of a steep
cliff, and its park is filled with forest
trees of immense size. This park is
famous throughout Europe, and has
been likened to the great park of the
Emperor of China at Gehoi—“the
paradise of 10,000 trees.” A British
ambassador to China, after wandering
through the Emperor’s magnificent
preserve and enjoying a “prospect as
sublime as his eyes had ever beheld,"
wrote home that if any place could be
said to be anything like it that place
■<uist be the Lowther Castle Park.—
New York World.
FEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Every child must learn to walk br
using its own legs.
Oak trees cannot be grown under
green-house glass.
The man who lives on the rock n ever
has to lose any sleep in bad weather
The heart is larger than the world
because the whole world can not fill jf’
Those who have, no money are not
always rich, and those who have it are
seldom rich.
It is better to wear a clean dress of
homespun, than a purple robe filled
with smallpox.
Parents often destoy their children
because they haven’t the wisdom to
know what is best for them.
It is likely that, more sin and suffer¬
ing has been caused by the overin.
diligence of parents than by the hatred
of enemies.
By doing too much for our children
we often render them incapable of
doing anything for themselves.—
Ram’s Horn.
The way to be a true disciple is not
to make a specialty of looking for feet
to wash, but to do in kindness and
love whatever needs doing.
Gilded Gold.
“It takes Chicago to reach the limit
of refined elegance. I mean elegance
as Chicago knows it. Here’s an illus¬
tration of it on my watch chain, and
I value it as much as a wild Western¬
ism as I do for its personal associa¬
tions. ” The speaker held gold
up a
coin about the size of a five-dollar
gold piece, fastened to his watch chain
by a small eye. It bore the stamp of
the South African Republic and was
gliteringly bright. “A friend of mine
who has traveled much in Africa,
brought home a dozen of these to give
to his friends aB souvenirs,’’continued.
“The coins were of a rather deep red
hut; originally, and just an pure gold
as is practicable for continual use.
My friend laid occasion to go to Chic¬
ago on his return from Africa and
found himself compelled to pass a
fortnight there before coming back to
civilization. He took the coins to a
prominent Chicago jeweler with orders
to affix on each an eye. ‘All right,
sir, said the jeweler ; ‘we’ll fix ’em up
in good style. ’ A few days later my
friend stopped in for the coins. They
were returned to him, fixed as he had
ordered them and a little more. ‘I
thought they looked ft bit dull and
wouldn’t be the worse for brightening
up a bit,’ explained the jeweler.
‘You! find they look more natty now.’
And they did, for h,e had gilded every
one.”—Boston Gazette,
Voracious Pike.
A little school of large suckers, or
mullets, emerged from the outer
depths and swam peacefully along the
bottom, feeding as they went on such
slugs and snails as lay in their way,
when this same pike darted out from
cover, and closing his jaws upon the
head of the leading fish—which was
probably eighteen inches long
about three pounds in weight, at¬
tempted to regain his hidiug-pl Mft
while three-fourths of the body of the
struggling captive still protruded fro®
his mouth. He was not, however, to
bear off the prize so easilys for, even ■
as he strained to gulp it dowu, an- fl
other and much larger pike shot into ■
the arena, and seizing it crosswise, in
the middle, savagely tried to wrench
it from the hold of; the lawwfnl miner.
The latter, even if he would, conW H
not relax the grip of his backward-■
pointing teeth so long as there w®*
strain in front, and the enraged coin
batants tugged and tore with fnrioMj
jerks until, finally, they actually
arated the unfortunate sucker
two parts and each of the water-tig ® 11
retired with his portion. Outing.
Acute Kleptomania. said ® ;
“When I in India,” 1
was
who had traveled, “the nat’- re
man uni 1
sheets from *
thieves stole the
me while I slept, and I never
it.” North-]
“Yes, and when I was in the
west during the boom,” said the
admit that Am e ^
who will never j ^
be outdone, “I had to sleep in
can
room where there were fear stoM
estate agents, and one of them wiH
porous plaster from my back
awakening me.”— Indianapolis jouq
fifth