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O54; 144D102191 CO,, lcw 'atl iII ii1tolo. &nail Ale, IIISTO.R.10 MISERS - Worth Thousands Tet living in ,thsoltite Want.—Curions Eccentriemes or Three !Miserable creatieres, Few people are able to realise to them - Solves the alaabsorlsing -passion for hoarding which engrosses, to the exclusion of all others, the heart of the Miser. Curiously enough, this craving for secreting wealth is a product of civilisation, which has grown up with society, and become more develop- ed as gold aud silver became emblems of wealth. The occupation and ambition of a miser's life is mot to accumulate for himself or his children or relations,but for the sante reason that a magpie steals a silver spoon, for the pleasure of hiding it. Daniel Dancer was one of the class of misers who boaaded money for tbe pleasure of secreting it. In this he but followed an hereditary -tendency, as his father rind grand- father had all done the same, It has been said that miserly iestincts as a, general rule are not inherited,but this cese wasundoubt- edly an exception ; for net only himself but his brothers and sister's were all of a miserly disposition. Be was born in the beginuing of the eighteenth century at Weald, a vil- lage near Harrow, and on the death of his father, Daniel, the eldest son, inherited a fair estate. He suffered great uneasiness at this time on account of a feeling of certain- ty which possessed him that his father had emscramem net= sums of money about the premises. His trouble was not occasioned so much by the idea that the money might not be discoverecl,but from the fear that his brothers might -find it and not give it to him. Ultimately, about two hundred pounds in gold and silver coins were discovered enclosed in two pewter dishes buried beneath a i,ate.post, and nothing more was ever found. Dancer spent the whole of his life in the house on Harrow Weald Common, and a dreary, wretehed blauk that life was. The house stood in about eighty acres of rich meadow -laud, with some fine oak -trees upon it; and there was also a small farm adjoining. The whole, if properly culti- vated, might at tha,t time have brought a nice little income. But cultivation is ex- pensive, so he preferred. to let everything giA to grass, The house was never repair - ea, and gradually fell into sad decay. The gates on the premises wore all oft their hinges, and the hedges were allowed to grow until they became useless. He then practised a rigid economy upon himself and son. He seldom weshed his hands and face, and when he did, dispensed with the lux- ury of either soap or towel. His tattered clothes, of which the original colors were unrecognisable, were held together by meams of a bayband wound round his body, his legs being encased in tt similar covering. A more forlorn or weetcheil looking object it would be impossible to imagine; and yet at this time he was in possession of property to the annual value of three thousand pounds. As he at this time lived alone, being too penurious to allow himself help of any kind, his dwelling offered a temptation to robbery that was not likely to be resisted, His well- known avarice was an excuse and seemed also a, palliation for the crime. On several occasions thieves broke intc, the house, and once or twice he was nearly hanged in the endeavor to extort from him ft confession where he had hidden his money. Atlength he seeurely nailed up all the doors and win- dows of orhis house, save one on the upper floor, which he entered by meet's of a ladder dragging it in after him like Robinson Cru. see. As no man is wholly bad, so this miserable miser had one good, quality. Lady Temp- est, his rea.rest teighbour, pitied the man, and had been kind to hien, visiting him when he was ill, and endeavouring to per- suade him to allow himself a few of thence- essaries of life, Not succeeding in getting him to abandon the sack in which be had slept for years, she actually presented him with a bed. In gratitude for her kindness, he made a will in her favour, and one day, when HE Tnoronr Int WAS DYING, he sent for h er, and gave hostile paper. Hav- ing thus yielded up all that was dear to him on earth, he soon sank, and died on Sep- tember 4, 1794, aged seventy-eight, and was buried in the church yard of his parish of Harrow. Apart from his besetting weak- ness—craze, call it what you will—he often exhibited strong common sense, and there is no doubt but for that, weakness he would have been a reputable citizen and a credit, to his family. John Elwes is a name which has become proverbial in the anuals of avarice. Born to great riches, he nevertheless developed a passion for accumulating wealth by denying himself common necessaries to such a degree as to make his name famous. The career of John Elwes presents in many respects a marked contraat to that of Dancer, and fur- nishes an example of the terrible Moon- slatency of man. His father's name was :Nige- 1 gott, a brewer of Southwark, who died when the boy was about ionr years old ; and it was to the principles instilled by his mother, and later, the advice and example of his uncle, that John Elwes probably owed the most marked traits in Ids character. Although her husband left her one hundred thousand pounds, it is said she starved herself to death. Her son was sent to Westmin- ster School, where he remained some years, and became a good classical scholar. He inherited about two hundred and fifty thousand pounds from his uncle, Sir Harry Elwes, who was himself as penurions as his nephew afterwards became ; and as his own fortune was of a similar amount, he was at this time a very rich man. For fifteen years before his uncle's death John Elwes was known in all the fashionable cireles of the metropolis, his lerge fortune introclucing him to the best sbeiety. His passion for play—a passion at that time rampant in se:day—was ouly exceeded by his avarice, and it was not until late in life that he en- tirely relinquished it. According to his own assertion, few played deeper or with more varying success. Be once sat playing for two days and a night with the Duke of Northumberland, to whom he lost several thousands. STRANGE INCONSISTENCY 1 that while struggling to save sixpence and shillings, he could Wins fritter away thousands of pounds. At this time he was his uncle's acknowledgecl heir, and used to visit bim frequently at his seat'in Suffolk. It is said that, fearful that his uncle would think him wantonly extravagant if he ap- peered before him in his ordinary dress, he bired a room in a cottage near, where he used to call and change his clothes for a very mean -looking quiet suit On the death of his uncle, Elwes assumed hie name aed removed to Suffolk, where he began to keep foxhounds. He had always been a bold and fearless rider, 'and at this time his hunters were considered the best in the country. This was the only time he was ever known to epend. money On .pleas- ure. Eyen then, everything was managed after the most frugal fashior. His hunts- man milkect the cows, prepared breakfast for himself and friend, then attended to the stables, donned his green coat and led the hounds ; and after a day's bunting re. freshed himself by rubbing down the horses, milking the COWS again, and so forth. And yet hia master often called hun an idle dog, and said he wautecl to be paid for doing nothing. - With the two large fortunes which he possessed, and the wretthed way ia which he lived, his whole expenses at this time not being more than three hundred pounds a year, ' RICHES POIIRED IN upon him in torrents. But as he never kept any accounts or trusted any one to keep them for him, relying on his memory for everything, .his affairs were in a frightful tangle, of which no one could find the thread but himself, and he lost it as he advanced in years. He was a prey to every person who had a want or a scheme that promised high interest, and in this way is said to home lost elle hundred and fifty thousand pounds. He sat for Berkshire, in which he had a large estate, in three parliaments; bat his parliamentary honours made no difference in his dress or his habits. He consented to stand for the constituency only upon eondi- tion that he should be returned free of expense. He dined once at the ordinary at Abingdon during his canvass, and so obtain. ed his eeatin parliament for the moderate sum of one shilling and sixpence, a record which has probably not yet been broken, Nevertheless, he was wont to deelare that the seat cost him m.fite as much As three contested elections, in consequence of the borrowing propensities of the other members —loans that were never repaid. Probably that, was one reason why he retired from parliament, as his constitueute had a high opinion of his integrity, arid would certainly have returned him at a small expense. As Elwes grew in years his parsimony increased. Re took to building largely in Loudon around Marylebone, and this en- tailed frequent visits to the metropolis. On these occasions it was his custom to mieupy any house of his own that might happen to be empty. In this manner he moved about from street to street, so that his own rela- tions never knew where to find. him. A couple of beds, the same number of chairs, a table, and an old woman, comprised all the furniture, and he moved them about at A minute's warning. Ile need to say that of all big mova,bles the old woman gavehizn , the most trouble. She was always taking I cold from the chillness at the large rooms, 1 coupled with insufficient firing. His son George having married, wesnatur- ally anxious that his father should make his home with him. One obstaele advanced by the old Mall Was the expense of the journey; this was overcome by the attorney employ- ed by his son offering to -Mee him to Berk- shire free of cost. Next, he stated that his last coat was so shabby, and he could not afford to buy another. This objection was likewise a veroome through the eanie agency , his son desiring Mr. Partis, the attorney, to buy one and make him a present of it He finally wezt to reside with his son on hi estate in Berkshire; but his memory was beginning to fail him, and he was con- tinually losing the small sum of money which he declared was all lae lied in the world. Awes about five pounds; and this he ased to hide, and being unable to find it, dealared that he had been robbed. At /oat, having become very feeble, and his memory quite gone, he died on the 26th of November, 17e8, leaving property to the amount of eight hundred thousand pounds. His two natural sons inherited half a mil- lion ; and the remainder, consisting of en- tailed estates, descended to the heir-at-- law. This man was one of the strangest con- tradictions. Ho was of the highest honour and in tegrity, and his word alone was always considered a sufficient security. Though consumed and his better nature distorted by THh: PASSION OF A.VATtICE, such was his delicacy of feeling that he pro- fessed never to be able to ask a gentleman for money, and this rule he never violated. In consequence, several large sums which in his gambling days ho won from persons of rank were never paid. His manners were always gentlemanly and mild, even rudeness could not ruille them ; and on several oc- ca,sions he was known tn put himself to considerable trouble in order to do a service to persons from whom he could have had no hope of repayment. From all of which we may conclude that there was in him a natural kindness of heart, though choked by a rens; growth of noxious weeds. Of a totally different character was Thomas t:ooke, who was a contemporary of Elwes,and who attained some little celebrity by his riches and shameless meannesses. He was born at CIewer, near Windsor, in 1716. His father, an itinerant fiddler, cited when he was an infant, and lie was brought up by a grandmuther nt Swannington, near Nor- mech. As a boy he was employed at a factory in Norwich, afterwards becoming a porter to a drysalter. Through the iuterest of his master, be obtained an ap. pointment in the Excise, and arrived in London with eight shillings in his pocket. His early habits of parsimony continued. He ingratiated himself with a brewer, and took some trouble to learn the business; and wben this man died, he told the widow her only chance of carrying on thetrade was to Marry himself, as he was' better acquainted with it than any one else. To this she ulti- mately consented. He was now a rich man; butthe richer he became the more his avarice increased. He allowed scarcely any food in the house, nearly starved besides ill- treating his wife and she, poor soul, who had been used to a very different life with her former husband, soon died of a broken heart. One of his favc,rite methods of obtainine5 his daily food was by timely visits topersons he knew throwing out hints of baying just made his will, in which he had not forgotten these. Or he would be very particular in having the full names of the children written down, carefully be- stowing the paper in. his pocket -book. An- other method was to faAl down in the street in a simulated fit before a good house into which he would be taken and kindleAreat- ed. He never failed to call the next day, profuse ie his thanks for their kindness, representing that they had saved his life, for which s me day they would receive a substantial reward. Thus, by empty prom - lees made to all sorts of people, he was continually raising hopes for no other pur- pose than to trade On them to hi's own ad- vantage. * As the rich Mr. Cooke's friend- ship was worth cultivating, he was main- ually receivingpresents of geese, turkeys, hares, and wines, from people to whom • he had made these false promises. Notwith- standing his inordinate love of money, he was fond of amusement; he liked a good horse, and Went once a year to Epsom -races. These excursions, however, seldom cost him'anything, for he always managed to fasten himself upon other people. At length, through INFIBUITISS OR AGE, be found himself compelled to have medical advice, His plan than was to dress himself in rage, and apply to some physician as a pauper or unfortunate tradesman, relying; opon the doctor's kindriees to obtain his ad- vice. He did' this manytitnea, .ando nee ws.ti so troublesome to a doctot, that the lat- ter doused inquiriea to be made about him, Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorial and discovered who he was. Upon this he refused to see him again, and sent him hie whieh, however, was never paid. Thus did thie man, by the most paltry devices, delight in tricking every one with whom he was brought in contact. At length be be - mine extremely weak, and spent the remain- ing portion of his life in arranging his af., fairs with his so' er, altering and re -alter- ing his will many tunes. He died on the 26th of August 1811, in the eighty.sixth year of his age, nnpitied and nnlamented, leaving nearly one hundred aud thirty thousand poueds behind him. Of all the miserable and sordid men of whose life we have any record, his, surely, is the worst. Not one good action or one redeeming virtue can we place to his credit. THE CAWING CROW. Pursnivant or eprInn, the !moor «u rd 01 Departing Autumn. Notthe robin's impatient y elp nor yet &Win- ed to happy song, nor the song sps.rrows th rill nor the bluebird's serene melody, heralds the coming of Spring; but attends its van- guard. These blithe musicians acoompeny the soft air that bares the fields, enpurples the buds and fano the bloom of the first squirrel cups and sets he hyla's shrill chime a -ringing. Preceding these, while the fields are yet an unbroken whiteness and the coping of Use drifte maintain the fentasthe grace of their storm -built shapes, before it recognized waft of Spring is felt or the voice of a freed streanx is heard, comes that sable pursuivant the crow, fighting his way against the fierce North wind, tossed alow and aloft, buffeted. to this side and to that, yet staggering bravely onward and sounding his trumpet in the face of his raging antagonist, and far in edvaece of its banner proolaiming Spriug. It is the first audible promise ef the longed -for season, and it heartens us though there be weary days of waiting for its fulfill- ment, while the bold herald is beset by storm, and pinched with hunger as he holds his out -pest and gleans his scant rations ba the Winter-desolAted land, Re finds some friendliness in nature even now. Though her forces email him with relentless fury, she gives him the shelter of her evergreen tents in windleas depths of woodland ; bares for him therea, rood of sword or atubble whereon to and some crumb of comfort leaves for him ungather- ed apples on the naked boughs, and on the unpraned tangles of vines wild grapes— poor raieins of the frost—the remnants of autumnal feasts of the robins and part- ridges. Thankful now for such meagre fare and eager for the fullness of disgusting repasts, in the bounty of other seasons he becomes an epicure whom only the choicest, food will satisfy. He has the pick of the fattest grubs, iie makes stealthy levies on the earliest, rob- ins' mats, and from soine lofty lookout or aerial scout watches the farmer plant the corn and %waits its sprouting into the dainty tidbits, a fondness for whose sweetness is hie overmastering weakness. For this he braves the terrible searecow and the dread mystery of the cornfield's lined boundary, for this risks life and forfeits the good name that his bettor deeds might give him. If be would not be tempt- ed from grubs and carrion, what a worthy bird be might be accomited. In what good if humble repute might he live, bow lament- ed die. 0, appetite 1 thou base belly-denned demon, for what sins of birds and men art thou accountable I. In the Springtide days he turns aside from theft and rObery to the softer game of love, whereunto you hear the harsh voice attuned in cluttering notes, and, }main wooed his mate, the pair begin house -build- ing and keeping. is the rudest and clumsiest of all bird arehiteeture that has become the centre of their cares, such a juinhle of sticks and twigs as chance might pile on its forked founda- tions, but woe betide the ha wk who ventures near, or owl who dares to sound his hollow trumpet in the secret. precincts. At the first alarm signal, as suddenly and mysteriously as Robin Hood's merry men appeared at winding of his born, the black clansmen rally from every quarter of the greenwoocl to assail the intruder and force him to ignominious retreat. When at last the darlings having clad their uncouth nakedness with full sable rai- ment, are abroad in the world, they, with unwary foolhardiziessandincessantquerulous cries of hunger or alarm, are still &constant sourae of anxiety to parents and kindred. But inthe late Summer when the young- sters have come to raonths of discretion and the elders are freed from the bondage of their care, a long holiday begins for all the tribe. The young corn has long since ceased to tempt them and the persecution of man has abated. The shorn meadows and the close - cropped pastures swarm with grass.hoppers, field and forest offer their abundant fruis s. Careless and uncared for, what happy lives they lead, sauntering on sagging wing, through the sunshine from chosen field to chosen wood, and at niehtfall encamping in the fragrant tents of the pines. At last the gray banners or Autumn sig- nal departure and the gathered clans file away in stuggling columns, flecking the blue sky with pulsating dots of blackness, the green earth with wavering shadows. Sad- ly we watch the ietreat of the sable cohorts whose desertion leaves our Northern homes to the desolation of Winter. --EForest and Stream. A Prodigy of Memory. Professor Henkle, few years ago, in one of his articles in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy., makes mention of a remarkable character whom he met at Salem, Mass., in 186S, Daniel McCarney by name. McCar- ney was 51 years of age at the time bat proved to the satisfaction of Professor Henkle that he could remember where had been, the state of the weather, eta, for each day and hour since he was 9 years old, dates covering a period of forty-two years! These remarkable feats of memory were proveu and verified by weather records and newspaper files kept in the city; and of the hundreds of tests resorted to to try his pow - ere, he never failed to prove himself a mnemonic ereak of the most freakish kind. This prodigy of memory worked at the Salem Republican office and, naturally, one would Wilk him able to furnish the brains for half a dozen papers, but he couldn't—in fact, he was of no use whatever, except to turn the big press twice a week! Why lie Loved Rio Sunday -School Best Sunday -school Teacher (to small boy in her class) " Well, Johnny, which do you like best, your Sunday -school or your reg- ulaSrniclaalyi -school "My Sunday- "11S°uGniclanlyt-ismoh'ool Teacher (smiling approv- ingly) : And why do you love your Sun. day -school best, Johnny ?" Small Boy: "Because it dont keep but one day in th' week, mum," ENGLAND AND AMERICA. A Flea for an Alliance Between the Two Nations—The United States befit It Naval and Military Vower. In a few years' time the population of the United States will reach a hundred millions of English-speaking people, nearer to us ill sentiment and institutions than any other nation ean ever be, occupying a geo- graphical position of supreme advantage, sharing with us a frontier line some 4,000 miles long and an increasing trade maw- inously greater than that interchanged by any two other States of the world. While European countries stagger under a heavy load of debt, the United States find their treasury balantes almost an inconvenience. In manufacturing power, in all that proves no.tional vigor, the inheritors of our old colonies alreasly surpass any State except our own, and their full development has yet to come. The amount of British capital invested in that development defies esti- mate, and the inwoven interests of the kindred races have already reached a com- plexity which baffles the imagination. Money seeks investment in Amorioa. as readily as if it were a portion of the empire, and no other markets act and react upon our own in the same degree. The mere exit- tence of a state of war, apart from its actual operations, would inflicts a deadly blow to the wh‘le fabric of British commerce. The thing should be inconceivable. As Lord Overstone said of the ocoupation of London by a foreign army, "it must aever be," The common sense of the many instinctive- ly recognises this, without, however, fully realizing the utter dieaster whieh such it. war would entail ; but the tacit recognition fails to reach the mind of the Foreign Offtee, or to trace its impress upon the eatiouel policy. Meanwhile, the trund of the sol- dier, dazzled by the multitudinous glitter of GerMan, French or Russian bayonets, is incapable of seeing either the paramount value of is friendly America, or the enor- mous potentiality for inflicting injury upon this eountry which exists beyond the At- lantic. Three thousand miles Across the °aeon Mobilisation in the European aenee is wholly auperfluous, and the United States could without difficulty create, equip mid timbale armies of any required !strength, while they must already be ranked among great naval powers. Moreover, it alone is rapidly coming OM` the aspeet of their foreign relations. " Why," asked Washington in his farewell address, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of 1?,urope, entangle our peace And prosperity in the toile of European ambition, rivalship, interest or caprice?" "Because it is inevitable," is the answer which political and commercial evolution has dictated. The expansion of Great Britain and of Russia was not more inevitable than thattheUnitedStateuu should take a leading place among the nations. Commercial entanglement has already grown up, with one European power at least, afid the construction of a powerful seagoing navy is but one et siveral slime of what must come. Could no be brought Lc realise the dozninaut position which the United States has already attained we should he less inclined to resent occasional manifesta- tions of a sentiment which, in the case of Germany or France, would be esteemed as no mere arrogance. There is only one power which could seriously injure Great Britain in war, or whose alliance would give a real guarantee of peace. There is only one power whose material presperity is intimately bound up with our own, and to those external inter - eats a British allizince would mean absolute security. If Locd Rosebery is able to in- spire the Foreign office with a conception of the United States existing and, to be, an important step in laying the foundation of the national policy of the future will have been taken. --.[London, Eng., Speaker, For Over Fifty Years. Mao. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING STRIP 111IS bion used by millions of mothers for thoir children while toothins. If disturbed at night and broken of your rest by it sick child suffering and prying -with pain of cutting teeth send at once and get a bottle of "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" for children teething. It will relieve thepoorlitile sufferer immediately, Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistake about it. 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There is a legend concerning the death of Solomon alluded to in the Koran, the Tal- mud, Solomon, "Patriarchs and Prophets," and many other old and curious books both vulgar and semi-sa.cred, which is as follows : Solomon employed the genii in building the temple, but, perceiving that his end was near at hand, prayed God that his death might be concealed from the work- ers until tbe great building was completed. * * * Therefore he made himself a staff front a tree and leaning upen Ids staff, with his head bowed in adoration, he died in the temple. His soul was taken so gently from him. that Ms body remained standing for one whole year; those who saw him thought that he was absorbed in prayer and dare not approach him. Still the genii worked night and dayuntil the temple was completed, thinking that they were watched in every- detail by tbe master whose eyes had many weeks before been closed in death. But, during all this time, little white ants had been gnawing at the staff, and whet tbe temple was at last finished, the staff crumbled under his weight and. the body fell to the floor. Mehemet alludes to this curious legend in the Koran. See Sure, chapter xxxiv: When He ((lod) had decreed that Solomon should die, noth- ing discovered death unto them (the genii) except the creepings things of the earth, which gnawed the staff, and when She body tell down the genii plainly perceived that if they had known that which is (was) secret they would not have continued in vile pan- ishment." It is estimated that there are now 150,- 000,000 copies of the Bible in circulation. 90131.1 W ABOUT The Washing T R It will save you much trdifele It will bring you comfort and ease. It will save your clothes and hands It does not require washing powder°. It will wash in either hard or tic& water 1. 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