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'WOMEN'S FEET AND SHOES.
vew ported rem -chubby Feet Out or
I, nashion-The ming sum root-lenglish
notione-A pasaapointed Waite.
re, IRST of all, it hi
good thing to
rip know what you, do
aot want, If A
young woman ap-
plies; whoae hair la
untidy, who has a
dangled feather in
her hat, who
dross shrove stains
and lack of buttons,
reject her; she will
be caroled and
Slovenly.
lf yam% woman
comes arrayed in
&heap nnery, hold -
rem ing one dirty. kid
. glove, the mate of
1 4,1.4•
which she weans,
her unglovecl hand
, adorned with rings, a ftirney bit of lace
, serving the pima of a decant hat, reject her ;
that young women is lazy and impudent.
If she mild in a superior way and as-
, sures you Mist she oara do everything,
diernies her at once; the will do nothing
well.
If she tells yo a she has "lived in the best
of plated" and has "seven yeas' referent:al,
front Mrs. Maw, but that the lady lives in
the country now, she don't know execttly
where, she has been dismissed for dishon-
esty. Rejeot her.
• THE LATOH-KEY OIRE.
If she wants a latcla-key, asks for "any
evening you are not going out," says she
has " always been used to company, of
course," sand her. away. She will have
noisy company six nights in the week, will
• stay oub ail night at many a "ball," and
her moral character will probably disturb
your tender conscience.
If she is elderly and calls you "dear,"
speaks patronizingly, and assures you you
won't be bothered with anything when
she comes, dismiss her. She will not ac-
cept a suggestion from you ; while, if you
venture to hint that the meat was under-
done, she will give immediate notice.
If she makes a parade of being "willing
to learn," have nothing to do with her.
•You will find she needs to learn every-
thing. I have known suoh to be unable to
• hake potatoes.
Beware of the girl who asks questious.
A question or two concerning her work or
wages is, of course, perfectly proper. But
when she asks three questions for one of
yours, when she seeks to know your family
and private affairs, get rid of her at once.
That young woman does not know her
place.
THE emu L.
If a young woman should apply who is
dressed modestly and neatly, who speaks
• quietly and respectfully, who waits until
• you invite her to be seated, who gives
some aceeesible address when you ask for
reference, who claims to be able to do her
work well, but admits that she may not
know everything, who leaves her diy
out "and other privileges to your conveni-
ence, who answers all questions but asks
few or none, take her, though the asks high
wages. She will give you the peace of mind
you have longed for.
asiatons In Feet.
The chiropodist declares that nowadays,
like cooks and poets • and areal positions,
feet are made, not born, and that nob one
Ixtan or woman in a thousand can boat of
toes ankle, instep in the least like nature's
original design. But that may be became
people with roerfed feet rarely. if ever,
creme under his observation. The fad
remains that the ideal, or rather the fash-
ionable, foot does actually change from time
to time with bonnets and cloaks and gowns
and everything elm in this fickle world,
and that •which was considered cider
-
able by our grandparents would strike
HS WI even queerer than the cal -
ashes, pelerines and andante of their
bygone days. The artistic development of
shoemaking has something to do with it,
doube Never were there such fasoinati
ing things in the way of dippers and bode
as at the present time, and they ktave
been growing through gradual atageo to
this aPothesis as the foot adapted itself
by degrees to new lines, new moulds, bill,
• from the
,SITORT, FAT, ORITBRE MODEL
of 1800 has been evolved that which our
own age regarde as most chia-long,
(dewier, r in fact just tea reverter. This is
the foot which pervades the literature of
the hour. The introspective heroine of the
modern novel prides herself upon wearing
:No. 5s, double A. Itis easier to make a foot
• longer than shorter, and they are better off
than their sisters of a quarter of a century
•ago. The American foot in the present
era of development is the despair as well as
the admiration of ail the Europese shoe-
ernekers. In Germany, Italy and Switzerland
ft is next to flammable to have anything
made to fit an American foot. They do not
• fn the least underotand its requirements.
anew man they, when those they are
• accustomed to • clothing are its very
eantipodee, being large, fat and wide,
FLAT Or INSTEP,
aid greateat • difference of all, thiok of
hoe? Feet are by no means the often
enoint of German beauties -nor of the
•Malian/I, although toward the south they
grow timelier, that is, shorter. The Stelae
• women live anaong mountains, and find
daintinese in footgear out of bite question.
Theirs are hob -nailed boots, with soles an
',Mob thick, !serviceable, and the ugliest
•things imaginable.
Paris pretends,. among other lrosistsi to
turn one the prettied ahem in the world.
' The chief merit of the Paris oboe is its heel,
which is never olurasy and elways meat.
But the shining lighta of the profesaion in
=league with Felix, Worth and Dotted,
• whose clients go to them for shoes and elip-
pers to comsat:send_ with each and every
. gown, are very far from achieving the per -
Mob fib which can be found at home very
often in ready madeghost]'even for the
fastidioust and arietworatiofeet of the Four
Hundred.
seamier nmetesn NOTIONS.
On the street she never' wears anything
but the otouted ef calfakin' easy and sem
viceehle. For the hoese, andeapterially for
dinnenwhieh alWaye titan to the dignity of a
unction in it hardly with any preterit:done to
,reinreetability, the Met mart patent leather
end esititi enplane whioh sie conaiders airy
• and fairy.
A pretty Philenelphien welt over to bo
reedited to the Quote la year or Mina ago,
read as the had heard a good deal ithotit the
EnOlish Approbation of Arnerloau feete she
prepared to elayiher tens of thoiwande, and
equanderen her liublitenee la the moat
feliehing throw that the Quaker Clay ()cruel
procluee, which is saying a good deal. She
Made te round of visits in country hennas
and kept
HER VEET /OoroRig min ENaLIO,
so to speak, petting theta artlessly on
fenders, !ebbing them peep frona under the
fluttering lads on her skirta ire 4 way width
rendered their aroinstem positively bewitch-
ing. And yet, though the obeyed three
months in merry Euglend, not one eingle
aoul ever 'raid her a compliment or ap-
peered to have noticed her strongest point
the lease It was a hideous blow, and,
perhems, there was a little spits in the
reporto she brourild home that none of the
Roglish women knew how to be properly
shod, and that the Queen positively wore
white stockings and ankle Mee wizen she
held a drawing room.
PORTUGUESE CUSTOMS.
They Are Carlotta and Embarrassing to
IForeiuners.
I should hardly think Portugal a pleasant
plain for an American to live, in a business
sense, The lam of Portugal are rather
peculiar and emberraseing to one a00118.
tomer! to the freedom of an American corm
=ratty. Lends are held under a eyetern of
tithing whioh is old enough to deserve men-
tion, A large portion of the rented premime
compress but a few acres at meet, and often
bub a few feet. There are little plots of
ground for which the rent is but one hen per
antrum or one beshel or peak of wheat, one
good, a calf, a bushel of prunes, a cheese,
or any of innumerable predawn. Last year
a law was paned which permitted any
tenant who °coupled ground no mitred au
the aaseasoes office over $300 to purchase it
at ouch assessed valuation, and when the
amount is tendered to the owner he muot
actoepts lb.
Everybhing is taxed. One regulation
oonmele owners or tenants of property to
paint their home and whitewash their
stonewalle at given period'', but a regula-
tion not so capital requires then to take out
a license for such repairs and to pay a given
price for the privilege of doing what the law
compels them to do. Around Lisbon are
certain entrances, generally gate ways of
the old walls. All persons bringing
chickens, eggs, butter, or any other product
into the city for sale are stopped at the
gates and required to pay a tax proportioned
to the value of their articles. Al thedepots
all paesergers,on suburban as well as through
trains met have their bags and peekages
exaadned and pay for wares they are bring-
ing into the city.
THE LENGTH OF ENGAGEMENTS.
A. Wear is Not Too Long Ender any CIrcura-
stances.
The fashion which announoea an engage-
menb one week and ISMISS invitatiocts for
the wedding the next, says the Philadelphia
Times, is not alwaya the whet and best
plan after all, even though it has been
recognized by the leaders in the gay world
and is therefore followed by the hoed of
imitators ever ready. to follow in the foot-
steps of the favorites of fortune.
It may be old-fashioned to argue in favor
of ab least a twelvemonths' engagementmet
it is far more practical than the short time
that is now considered to be the correct
thing. How can a couple understand
each other's tastes and temper in a fort-
night or a month? What time Wive they
to study themselves and discover before it
is too late that they are nob suited to each
other and if the engagement were to end in
marriage dire unhappiness would be the
result
How can a woman accumulate all the
hundred and one little pretty things that
do so much toward making home lovely
and which need hours of hard work to pre-
pare, if she steps from the school room to
the altar with only a long enough interval
between to get her trousseau ready?
The short engagement is nob to be com-
mended, neither is its opposite, the long,
weary years of waiting, one whit better,
but the happy mean, the year of acquaint-
anceship, is aerbainly little enough time for
that blissfal period of happiness that is
never again duplicated.
No Lightweight.
They loved each other devoutly, notwith-
standing he weighed 120 pounds and she
netted 175 pounds.
For three hours all the furniture in the
roora except one chair might have been
removed, and they would not have
mimed it.
"Henry," she murmured, her arms about
his neck, do you love me?"
"More than all the world," he anewered
sine erely.
"And do you love me the same whatever
my mode maybe ?"
"Just the same, dearest."
"Bub not this evening, Henry!"
"Why not this eveniog 1" he asked re-
proachfully.
"Because I have such a oold, and I am so
dull and heavy."
"Why, deeresn you are not "—
" Stop, Henry," she cooed as she pub her
soft hand over his mouth. " Don'b you
really think I am dell and heavy this
evening ?"
Henry twisted about just a trifle.
"Well, dearesb "-he hesitated-" if I -
if I may say so, you are nob at all dell; but,
dearest, yon -you are just a -just a litble
tiny bit heavy," and he shifted one foot
slightly to bhe northwest.
The Secret or Soda]. Success.
Women are learning to talk, and the
woman who can talk best is the most
thoroughly popular woman. Thera are
various ways of talking and learning is not
required in ordinary conversation. Some of
the most brilliant men are hopeless bores at
a dinner table. The art of oonveraation is
to be thoroughly brighb, quick, adroit,
turning eerily in any given direction, an
adept at listening -for hail of conversation
ehoirld, be listening --witty without labor
CAUGHT A MAIL ROBBER.
OharleS Ford, Oar rerelnan, Oanglit Afrot
Otealing $20,000,
MB MO POCKETFUL.
USTICE bas oven,
taken another Marto.
greyer, CharlesFord,
of Port Huron, on
a weinknown,trusted
and prosperous man,
occupies a cell In the
county jail, a self-
confessed thief and
robber. He is about
45 yeaa of age and
was a member of the
last City Council at
Fort Gration During the put two yowl
hie chief busined seems to have beesto
rob the mail. He is foreman of a gang of
roma who inspect and reinter ors in transib
ab the tunnel
For the pad two years hundreds, seers
bhe dovetail, of oompleinto were made to
the postal authorities that letters and re-
mittance were lost between Port Huron
and edema cities, Naturally the mail
clerks were fiat suspected, but after a close
watch had been kept over them for some
time by several detectives it was found that
the clerks were honest. The authorities at
Washington were puzzled. Finally Chief
Inspector Stewed, of Chicago, personally
took hold of the matter. He was assisted
by District Inspector Lamoreaux, of Battle
Creek.
HOW HE WAS OAT7GHT.
They turned their attention to the trans-
fer men, as all others had been olooely
watched for a long time. Lad Saturday
afternoon, when the mail arrived from
Canada, Ford and his crew were to
Moped the oars. • All employees left
the mail train as Ford was • the
only one to enter it, and his honesty had
never been questioned. Inspector Stewart
stationed himself M a convenient plaoe and
watched. Directly Ford came in. He at ono
went to the pito of meal deka, unsealed
them, filled au inside coat pocket with let-
ters, and re -sidled the eaoks. Then he
left. Alter he had gone a shorb distances
Stewart platted him under arrest.
The Inspector brought his prisoner to the
postoffioe here, where he was exert:deed. On
his person
338 LETTERS WERE POUND.
The Weide pooled of his coat had been torn
out and the whole lining of his coat formed
a convenient receptacle for a large number
of letters. Ford also had $500. This is
thought to be the result of a former rob-
bery. A memoranda in hia pockets show
that he has stolen at least $20,000 in
the past Iwo years, but 11 is doubt-
ful whether he kept a record of
everything. Two visite were paid to his
offioe yesterday by officers. Both times
large quantities of jewelry, rings, cuff bet.
tone, dry goods, handkerchiefs, ties, eto.,
were found, all of which shows that his
• thieving operations extended over consider-
able time. A large quantity of postage
sterape was also recovered.
Ford's friends have always trusted him
implioitly, and hie word was considered as
good as a bond. He has a pretby home on
Walnut street, a wife and three children.
The oldest, a daughter of 18 years, visited
him shorbly after the arrest, and an affec-
tionate meeting took peon,
OWNS I7P TO THE ORIME.i
The prisoner was taken before 1Jaited
States Commissioner Harris and admitted
his guilt. He was held to the September
terra of the grand jury in $6,000 bonds, in
default; of which he was sent to jail,
The case is one of the most difficult that
ever came under the observation of the
pedal authorities. Aa Ford was an em-
ployee of the Grand Trunk, and had no
connection with the mail service, he was
not compectecl, yintil a score of able &tee-
tives had closely followed every mail clerk
and messenger. Detectives who have done
splendid work on other oases found it im-
possible to do anything with this one, and
it was nob until Chief Inspector Stewed
arrived that the matter of watching the
transfer crew was suggested.
FORD INTERVIEWED.
When seen by a reporter at the jail
yeaterday Chas. Ford, the mail robber,
nearly broke down, and it took a big effort
for him to keep the tears back. "Thay
forted $500 in moneyon me, which belonged
m ,
to
e," he said. 'I always keep Iota
of money with me, because I used to do
a commission business in exchanging
American and Cananien money. They
claim to have toned a memoranda to the
acnouut of $20,000 among my papers. I'd
like to know where they got 11. I never
kept any ouch memoranda at all."
Mr. Ford's wife and One child were at the
jail yesterday to nee him, and City Attorney
P. H. Phillips was retained as counsel.
He is trying to secure the necessary $6,003
bail. Yesterday morning early, when ib
was known among the railroad boys that
Ford had been arrested, they flocked In
crowds about police headquartere and the
jail, anxious to receive a denial of the
°Wages from Ford's own lips, but the
prisoner ma non -committal. He was
brought before United States Comminioner
E. W. Harris again this morning. The
'United States diatriob abtorney is at-
tending to the ease.
A Millionaire Irebriked.
The Prince of Wales not long ago was one
of a large house party at a place in the
Englieh midlands, his hod being a very
well known peer. After dinner the royal
guesb, the heat and the other msle visitors
repaired to the billiard room. On a table
at the side were two or three boxes of
°Igen, and the prince was helping himself
to one, when an ambitious millionaire ap-
proached him, and taking from his pocket
a cigar ode held it out to the prince, say-
ing:
"1 think, sir, you will find these better."
Mr. --, if a man's dinner is good
=ugh for mo, his cigars are good enough
or me. •
Tho• millionaire was unexpectedly called
way to town next morning on bainneen
and oceaolonally epigrammatic. It le often f
supposed that otupid, dense mon dielike
women the roved of thernselvo, but tbis a
Is only when the is earcastio and repels
°there Metaled of drawing out their mental
joiees. The dull Man lineally miming
without limit the goodeuithred, clever a
woman, who ahem off her monad paces,
and bids him silently try to imitate then. s
witioueht ite wits Scared.
Pape -What is your mamma doing?
Little Daughter-Knittiog.
Paps (eurprised)-E13, ? Knittieg ?
What?
Little Daughter -I don't know ; but you
needn't be snared. It lan't her brows.
Where tho Sadnesa Wood
Amy frame Tenorvoioe (at the piano) --
I'm Saddest When I Sing.
H, E. Sufferatticli (in savage coif-coin.
ntinion)-131amed 0 I don't think the;
audience le in a position to cliapute that.
A Camden miniater who Waa given a
match sealed be an etavelope or a wedding
fee made light of the imporatioe.
• Four Wise Saws.
We watch the winds front east to wed
rad our hopes are anewered from the south.
If there 19 anywhere a stray gleam of am -
nine or love a little 'child will fiod it.
The religieus improvitlent trust in Provi-
dence and the unreligioust improvident Mad
to chance.
The manifestation of life, whether in the
discovery of a nest of fledgelings in a soli-
tary place or the E1 o fb, warm touch of a lidie
child, 19 a pleassure to the demo and a joy
to the oda.
A Growling Habit.
She (on the train) -When we Were on our
wedding tour three months ago you ball by
my side nuking the whole joheney, bat note
the Moments we are itated,You Want to rush
off 86 the litnokiag Oar,
lie-Vileit-etnethe emokleg habit grows
aa one grows older,
3. D. Porter, TT, S. Minister, welcomed
at "iftriparateo,
LAMM irate $E rOG xcwompor wA
Wieen Wages Are ramatatrally Adyeantedt
the Etalatenoing trgassesi soor‘,
The lemming numbers and Improvi,K
organization of tracleunione Is diecuseed in
the Enoineering Maga,sine by Mr- LaWrOiloo
Irvvello who t]nd u the ability displayed in
the formation of such societies proof of the
capaeiby of the Ante -Saxon race for all
general purposes of self-government. The
title of his paper, however, "Tho Weak
Pointe ire Trade -Unionism," indicate( that
he finds grounds for oritioiert
Attempta ripen the part of labor organ-
izations to permanently rognmte wages are,
in the majority of ogee, dye the writer,
injurious be the best interests ot the
workers themselves and to the well-being of
the community, Whether a man chooses
to work eiglat belies a day or ten is a matter
entirely underhis own control ; but whether
his earnings shall he $3 or $5 a day
is outoide ins influence, and beyond
that of any combination of vvornern, he-
ONURe it depends upon circumstances which
cannot be regulated by individuate, either
alone or in a bode, When attempts are
made to secure high'ee wageo than are pro -
dewed by the natural prams of supply and
demand, with the addition of the skill of
the worker'the outoorae ie in some in -
dances utter failure, and in others a
ouppooed exceed which, when examined,
ahem that other workers have been
deprived of a portion of the reasonable
earnings to whioh they were justly entitled.
• Whenever unionism suctreeds in keeping
up a higher rate of wages than natural
laws produee, the community of (mummers
pays the differeuce, and is therefore the
sufferer by the proem. To the unbiased
observer this syatem will very closely re -
(Amble that of an import tariff; which
ambits one clad -the manufacturers -art
the expense of the rest of the population.
Ineevery me in which labor below a cer-
tain rate of remuneration is prohibited by
any device the rate is kept above what it
would otherwise be by a simple system of
protection. Let as imagine a cume in whioh
the workers in some factory combine to
secure higher pay than before and the menu-
fenturer, through the pressure of contrada,
or for other reams, eventually consents.
The lammed wages do not come out of his
profits, but out of the pockets of thee° who
purchase his goods, became he will in the
end recoup himself by raising the price of
what he sells; whether he does so at once
or not is quite immaterial. Eventually the
purehasere are indirectly taxed for this ad-
dition to the earnings of the operatives in
some one establishment,
The chief process by which general prose
parity can be produced is by making the
necessities of life as cheap as possible, and
by bringbag various comforts within this
reach of everybody; yet members of trade
orgatairatioxe frequently combine to raise
their own wages and to make what they
produce dearer to other worker. Could
the laborers in all industries follow their
example, all necessities would be dearer
than they are, the coat of their production
having been increased ; this would mean a
lessened demand, followed, of mune, by a
smaller output and a diminished employ-
ment of labor.
Wages are only worth what they can
be exchanged for; how much their value
is coneists, nob in the amount of gold er
silver'but in film quantity of necessities
that they will purchase. If, then, by'
a general system of unionism in overy trade
wages were increased -say 5 per cent. -&n
addition to prices would renew and no
general advantage would be effected.
The struggles between capital and labor
are nob what they appear at fiat eight;
they are conflicts between two scabious of
workers, and the second section very
frequently constitutes the whole community
of consumers. Unionists appear to think
that men are producers only and that the
higher prices are the richer everybody will
be. We are all conaniners es well as pro-
ducers, and, when oheap production is
interfered with by artificsial meanie all of us
suffer.
Monads from the Cellar.
" This cellar is awfully damp," did the
Rat -trap "I'm Dina I'll oath malaria."
" ff you don't catch malaria any better
then you catch rats, you needret be afraid,"
said the Kindling Wood.
"You seem to have a cold," said the
Milk Pail to the Refrigerator.
" Yes ; my ohese, ' said the Refriger-
ator, with a smile.
" I hate being locked up hero in this dull
place," said the Furnace.
" Oh, I don't think Ws 80 bad," said the
Fire.
" It's easy enough for you to talk," raid
the Ranee°. "Fires can go out, but Faun
nada can't."
"Row did you happen to see all these
thinga you tell us about 7" asked the Coal -
bin of the Saw.
"The same way I eavr everything else,"
did the Saw; "with my teeth. '
"1 hear you called on the Refrigerator
yesterday," said the Wood -box to the Pail.
Were you received pleasantly ?"
"$o. The Refrigerator treated me vrith
great coldness," raid the Pail.
" This house is beautiful upstart'," said
the Furnace to the Poker. "The fines are
going up there all the time, and they told
me all about it."
"Ob, please atop poking me," said the
Furnace Fire to the Poker. "'on tickle."
"1 hear you are quite a sportsman? said
the Snow - Shovel to the Coal.
Ihne yffoldiffharlill TUAlffilf
A. Cape TOWliaterehant Milne About a ram
Awe), Countrn
" The Triseutenel la ,no Of the mod ream
Velloite oeuntrite en the face of the earth
mid fullest ef pottaibilitlea for the future,"
This isa pretty bold assertion, buel, D.
Oartanight, a Wealthy Cape Town ma-
p‘44a r/ andt tvoilitvtue got ghoeo dWm°or inc13:41 rtairoluswfaesr Phisrfl'
faith in ehe fueure of the Swarth African
°Would.
" Telco iihe geld fields ensue around
Joilattnesberg," deid he, "The monthly
output ranger front 115,000 to 117,000
ounces e value of considerably over
$2,000:0K In 1887 there were not; a
deem Wanes in the whole place. NOW there
is•a population of Over 80,000, growing
every week,
"The permomenoy of the place is also
well assured. The °Mahal survey has dis-
closed, four distend gold reefs mulling from
the town of Heidelberg to Johennesberg,
dieter/co of 40 znlloar Prom 20 to 30 miler
of these reefs home been exposed already,
and the return from the ore is magnificent.
1' Farming, tnanufacturiug, trading are
all stimulated and promoteu by the populm
tion, which inoreeses by leaps and bounde.
The city le a very pretty one and no
stranger contented; could well be offered than
that of Kimberley, the diamond fields in
Cape Colony, in its commencement, and
jobannesbmg.
• "The olenate la magnificent and by ne
means tropical, for you must recollect
Johannesherg is 6,000 feet above the level
of the sea. It is connected by a railwanr
peening through the Orange Free State, with
Cape Town. Another line is aloo projected
by a Netherland oompany, which will place
Johannesberg in direct csommunicaticea with
the flea coast -with Zanzibar, in feet.
"01 course, farming has been an Import-
ant industry ever since the founding of the
Tranavaal. All sorts of careale grow abund-
antly, and as for the retook farms; they are
an unfailing source of wealth. Lu feet, take
ib all round., the Tranarrael is the moat pre-
mising country imaginable and th,e one like-
liest to carry out her promises.
" A•, large fruit trade has opened with
England, for we Grumpy rather a unique
postion In being able to place the fined
grapes, peaahea, apricots, melons and apples
upon their markets in the months of January
and February.
"21e value of the exports from the four
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I have often, %;393 nos. P. ifughes,11 re"
Rooted a story (which, eltirough true totem
vety letter, ha o always excited an. Me
credulous smile venom; my Anaerioan and
Engliah friends) winch illuetrates the very
eliglatmlue which an afghan plaeets upon
humeri life, Op one °peados:3 among my
guests was an Afghan chieftain from Kumar?
with a large retinue of servants. As my
Mktg' WaSp I invited the chief and hut
party to aa evening entertaloment in my
librery. I showed hint re Magni lantern ;
magnet. I sent shooks of galvaniem
explained to him the movemento of the
through his stalwert frame; I illustrated,
And explained the method of the telegraph,
Irce chieftain and hie servants were all
deeply interested. When the entertain.,
meat was ever, the chief dismissed his sort
vents and eoughb privet interview with
me tax my study. Drawing his chair near
to mine, in a confidential mood, he did
"Sir, it is very evident that you aro *
man of science, an alchemist and a medicine
man of high attainraents. Man I inquire it
win take effect about a week or ten days,
You have a pairson whioh, if administered,
afterwarda?"
replied, "I have no suole poison, bat
may I, ask for what purpeee yen wanb it!"
Drawing his chair still °loser to mine, he,
la a low whisper, said, "I want to take the
life of my enemy,"
ngm m
I oprafrom ohair with indignationi
and exolattned.: 'It is very evident than
you do nob understand the worlr and office
of a Christian minister. I am nob here ter
take life, bye to save it,"
"Don't gel angry, Padre Sahib," he said,
placing his hand gently u.pon my shoulder.
"If you will only sit down quietly and
listen patiently to my story, I will tell your
the eircumatanees under which I want;
that Mahlon; and then, after all, you wilt
see thab I am not the villain you take me
for.
"Ian!, open to aonviction," I said; "pro,.
ceed with your story."
He then related as follows : " Senn dine,
ago a mortal feud existed between myself
and the chief of a rival tribe. For many
yeara this man sought my lits; but he
never found me alone, nor could he stemma
unguarded sand unarmed. But one suramees
night, ethent we were all Bleeping in our
bests in the open court facing my home
diairiond fielda at Kimberley exceed yearly this man, orepb stealthily to my cob, and:
$20,000,000, and that of ostraoh featthere, in raising his dagger, plunged it violently
which a slight dimirmtion has been observed, through the quire under which he thought I
$5,000,000." was Bleeping. Its so happeeed , that I was
not sleeping in my cot that night, but my
A syatemAllinEliPmlia:11:11D—the Le:7r :It y• its car. The villein's knife had...pierced the heart oef
beloved child, a little child of 10 years, wax.
• vied Endargretuad. my faverite.onnd seugut revenge.
pursued the man over hill and dale, by
An underg,reund trolley aystem, the in- night and by day, bub I could nob
vention of Malone Wheless of Tennessee, le catch him. But one evening, when I
being tested on a three-quarber mile section was ja my chamber alone, he came to nue
iu Wattaingten. Briefly described, the road unarmed, and, casting his turban at my
is laid with 40 -pound I rails, yokes of 180 feet, begged that I would spare his life.
Pounds each and 40*Pnund slob rails. Tile The sight of my enemy, who was in our
conduit, midway between the rails, is 16 country esteemed a warrior of renown,
isinlhIeoilesedewePirebyon17ininsuclatd we. and
inThadise f forgave him. Bub," he continued, heaving
pleading at my feet, touched my heart, and
wire is cub in 200 kat lengths and curio a a deep, heavy sigh, "'an Afghan never for-
oenurerpettoionulforwsheeontiotnh.e oar 16comppa°vrinigeelinvegr derfal thing, and felt those strange shooks
gives. And when I flaW you do those won -
cable is laid parallel to the trolley wire, of lightning pass through the nerves! and
Without going into details, the oar is fitted emews of my body, I thought to rape%
with two orrlinery 20hersepower motors, this mart fa a man of science and if he
Med saloPtilicornontetroatailltlaeYewmhrtoirBsPerietathaintghethrtrOullgeby in tha food of my enemy when I.
°mild give me a poison whicsh'I could put
°able.
box containing
In each 200-foat seetriectirroisznaagun ireozsawnidathas-
owrhicten.11 daywos :fitderwaradk,eso tehifaetet1 neaver owoenalkd
entertain hire as my guest, and
stheevecraralottlIs
senteernathseecar°tIonviatsetloizraegothemagneteba6terof the murderer of my beloved child, and yeli.
be suspected, then I could take the life a
and lifts an iron armature and connects the keep my word. and pass ao a mon of honor
trolley and the feed cables, and thus snare among my own people."
plies power to the motors, while the main This story is perfectly true, and it inns -
line current cute out the local batttery. On
trates that strange contradiction of char -
reaching the next notion the current fe adore that admixture of base treaohet7 and
again eutomatically switched on and isi
an great personal bravery, which, corn -
impulsive sense of honor with low meanness
at hl seo ccaurt teoffp of roohme tahaerreraerieseeintesetio.antlWy hreen
bhaaed, fame that strange complexity of the
cil si3a btaliet:a8 rvalataiwtakheer: Ydgi r awd hill.own aydbuthnilehiPseaficarm: ItliteptIrpmlresilentitsei°Elinogflisahlirul°er°14cisenwell asthe
Afghan character which is utterly beyond
reversing mita. The octet for a smgle olden= mrameneryi
track is said to be $30,000 per mile.
GOETHE ONCE COVED BEL
The Thirteen Superstition. •
-.-.
The thirteen superstition is said to have Death 01 51 Woman Whom the Great Gee
wed.
originated in the time 'of King Arthur. man Wished to
le, one:o the picturesque castles of Bo-
fWenehoeunstRheougnododTaBbIttishhe kreineigueofteoudndlaederlinthe, henna died recently a woman who once re.
the enchanter, to arrange the sesta. Merlin fused Goethen hand in marriage, and was
arranged one sot of seats to represent the
immortalized by the great poet in one of his
apostles, 12 were for the faithful adherents moat beautiful poems, " Marienbadar
of Jesus Christ and the thirteenth for the wimuroegemneess mrik
a von Levetzon was born he
flatter nudes. The first were never emu -
Leipzig, and was the daughter of Goethe's
pied save by the knights distinguished for
their achievements. Mho thirteenth oseat friend. lb was in Marienbad that the poste
was never occupied but once. The story
then 73 years old, but still so handsome and,
goes that a haughty and insolent Saracen oommancling thab people ignorent of his
krtight sat down upon it mad was isnmecli-
name and fame stopped to gaze after him,
ately swallowed up bythe earth. Ever after
met the beautiful daughter of his friend.
it was known as the "perilous seat," and At first he caned her his daughter, and
brave as the celebrated knights of the then his beloved niectei as they walked to -
Round Table are said to have been not one gether, and he wrote numerous verses ba
chair, and the superstition against it still
had the courage to sit on the thirteenth
tong promenades he read to her his poeme,
bar honor. .And in the evening after the
survives.
explaining
she sang or read to him from his favorite
their beauties, or listened while,
Sheep as Beasts of Barden.
novelist; Sir Walter Scott.
Sheep are nob commonly regarded as.
Is noflasrhgeeepPaOatrr°yf tem honor. Afber he had bidden her fame.
hub for reasons she never told she declined -
Finally he asked her to become his wife,
filboeirBiBliawn°yefarntbkittlerdsdiihritte'hbiosleitnneoditiee Purchased wen he completed his feenous elegy which,
by the sale of their own wool. The meun- will preserve forever the fame of hia leak
Min petits along the foothills of the Hiram -
lapse love.
are so precipitous that the sheep,
131rika never married. Possibly this first
lover made other men's attentions and gifts
seem Man fa comparison. She lived alone
in the oldie of Triblitz, beloved by her
neighbors and the poor, among whom she
openb mot of her later years in loving
serviom and soon after her 90th birthday she
died.
Een her own countrymen had forgotten,
apparently, that she bad played so impor-
tanb tt part in 1143 life of their greatest poet.
" Never handled a gun in my Hie," said more earefooted than larger beasts, a,re
the mem 1 preferred es burden -careen. The load for
each ebeep is from sixteen to bwerrim
pounds. The sheep are driven from village'
to villege with the wool still growing, and
in each town the farmer shears as much
mime as he can eell there, and loads the
sheep with the grain which he receives in
exchange. After his whole flock has been
sheared he turns it towards home, each
rtheep hawing on its back is small bag cone
Mining the purchased grata.
"Why, I'm certain I overberad ,sorne-
body saying that he'd seen the Coal chute,"
said the Snow Shovel.-Hcreper's Young
People.
A Little Carra Answer.
The King of Prude, while visiting a
village, was welcomed by the school
children. After their speaker had made a
speech for them the King thanked them.
Then, taking an orange from a phase, he
asked: "To what kingdom • doe° this
belong ?" "The vegetable kingdom, sire,"
replied a little girl The King took a gold
coax from hie pocket, and holding it up,
asked: "And to what kingdom doe this
belong ?" "o the mineral kingdom," mid
the girl. "And to what kingdom do I
belong, then?" asked the 11Ing. The little
girl mimed deeply ; for ohe did not like to
say the "animal kingdom" as he thought
she would, lest His Majesty should be
offended. Just then le flashed into her
mind that -Goa made man in his ONVII
image," and looking up with brightening
eye, she said, "To Gorier Kingdom, sire!"
The King was moved. A tear stood in hiti
eye. He placed hie hatta on the child's
head and did, moat devoutly, "God grant
that I may be accounted worthy of that)
Kingdom." Thus did the Mole of a child
move the heart of a King.
Japanese gardens are the most fairylike
of plead. You atte in them tiny trees and
flowering platter ponds, bridge% summer
hotatme rodent --here dwarf pines 6 or 8
inohea'high, but 1.Q5 years old; there others;
1 foots high, but 500 yeers old, in the gar.
don of Yedjugin-.within the temple growths
-there are many peony plants, moistly old,
bab one is 100 mimes old, and is 8 feet Inge
-quite a tree.
Ideal reelection Itself.
" Nee whet you might call a p,erfed
men rho trona does anything wrong.'
" indeed, in tint ease he must be. How
del he manage to acquire such redeem
tiou 79
He never did anything."
Our Verne.
Dootor-Your mother ahould take you
out see tbte city if she desires to see you
robust. Did you ever euramer on a beta!
Little Girl -No, sir; but 1 springed and
failed 012 a farm.
nount.
Bay -Paper, sir?
Citizen -Urn -yes, I will take a paper.
Roy -Ali right, sir. Which one?
Citixen-Utn, lot mew Pee. Which One le
effeting
is house and lob or a grand piano
this morning,
Getting poem to Med Neck.
A. farmer of erionceettiro B6 t t neat; 4 bed-
stead whore poste and sides .are made of
grenite. Tide le getting down to bed -rock
A suudi troy aeye if time fri Made of days
rildri,eghts, it, Must he siTimat like a dant* laidhatiainen fietkm--the simmerlf
gi*P
tuzlic7"31,fiernewleat Sweepeng.
In a hardware store in Washington,D.
the alsaprnan, enter serving mm asked.:
" What countryman are you '19 44 1 ant et
Scotsman." "1 knew you werenib an
American.," "By nay aceente 1 aupneur
"No, MI6 because you always say, If you
please' and Thank you.' An Amerieen
says, i I want this' and 'That will do.
When I went over to the other side I
too learned to say, If you pled° ' and
Thank 'oil'; but when 1 O&M& back I
soon Wei its taken out of me. They aid to
me, Now, took you here, young fellow,
don't yen try to give ea any more of your
---- &ire." He Was somewhat evreeping isa
his striatum:es on his Countryman, as the
more cultured Anserican is penetiliouely
A. rarrot 100 Tears Old.
A perrot which WWI gray with age and
hart lege Ire voice was handed into the
Brooklyn office of bhe Sooiety for the Pre-
vention of °malty to Animals the other
day. The old Salmi who gave It up amid it
had been in his family for more than 56
years, ittct WAS known to be More than 100
years old. It lead outlived its alleged Me -
'Wader arid the eoeleber took obargo of 11
tor him,
OngagEcntOta