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A WOMAN1S STORY
CHAPTER XXIV, dosva, shag 1 that seemed designed only for
the accommodation of iniliionaires.
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GLOOMY It1SiRosrEOT. She was going to the theatre in all her
Pedro Perez and his beautiful wife start- glory of jewels -diamond .Stars in her hair,
a neolt ice of ain&sltones, each gem worth
e4 for Madrid upon tho evening after their a rosiere's dower, diamond serpents in.
nu rriage, They traveled with all the pore- a single, double, and trebleooils, winding up
her slim round arm. She wore a simple
evening toilet of some black gauzy mecerial,
but the Chantilly face upon her gown was
only emceed in value to the gems on her
neck. When a btaaitiful young woman
marries age and ugliness she can at least
assert the claims of beauty by spending her
husband's money royally.
The theatre was the Ambigu, where a
new comedy of `:ardon's had just made a
hit, and where all Paris was crowding
nightly. Dolores was indignant when she
uhusband had
found that the box that her u
secured for was ouly a small one on the pit
tier, where neither her beauty nor her, dta?
inouds could be adequately seen. He had
his old fancy for these shadowy little boxes,
where it pleased hint to hide his enchantress
from the vulgar eye ; but in spite of these
jealous precautions, Mme. Perez was al-
ready knows and talked about as la belle
aux diatttants.
While Perez and his wife were laughing
at Sardou's biting wit, Mine. Quijada was
winning Louise Marcet'shalf francs by her
astute and studied play. Louise took no
iutereat in the game -indeed hated all
games of card -and only played as a part
of her dutyin that house where she was
the shadoof everybody else's sunshine.
They had played nearly an hour and a
half when the elder woman threw down
the cards with an impatient sigh, instead
of dealing them.
" We have played long enough for to-
night, Louise ; I am tired of winning such
miserable stakes. How ghastly the silence
of this house is ! Nothing but the tiok,
tick, tick of the clock on the mantel -piece,
and the crackling of the logsnow and then.
You may get me a finger of fine champagne.
I feel very low to•night. This house is
killing me."
"You ought to be much easier in your
mind now that your daughter has been
placed in an honorable position -.now that
your conscience is at peace upon her ac-
count," said Louise, gravely.
"My conscience 1 Don't, preach to me
about conscience. I have done with all.
superstitious bugbears. I finished with
them before I left Marseilles. I have never
entered a church since my marriage. I
was overdosed with religion in my girlhood.
I married a clever man, who soon taught
Trion he. The house stood at some dis- me to laugh at the old fables."
P "And were you happier, do you think,
tante from the road, and was ooecealed by for abandoning the old pathways ?" asked
a screen of acacias and outer ornamental Louise, geavel-y, arranging the cards, with
trees and shrubs. her eyelids cast down, as if she hardly
liked to meet her aunt's eyes while she
epoke of sacred things.
"Happier 1 Happy -happier -happiest 1
Those idle words, child. I don't believe in
the existence of happiness."
"Oh, you are wrong, aunt ! There are
moments, hours, days in this life perfectly
and beautifully happy -days to which one
looks back afterward as to a dream of
heaven -days to which one looks forward
after death, hoping that God will give us
back that lost happiness in heaven. Those
brief days are balanced by long years of
misery; but they have been -they have
been. There is nobody on this earth who
has not once been happy. The word is not
an idle invention."
"Well, I suppose I was in.my time -
happy that Easter night when Jules Del-
mont followed me home from the church
door, and talked to me, while my mother
walked on ahea'l with my elder sister, your
mother, little suspecting that I had an
admirer making love to me under cover of
the darkness. Are you ever going to get
me that mouthful of cognac T"
"Yes, yes, aunt; but indeed you would
be.better withofit it,"
"How dare you dictate to me ! I am
sick and faint with thinking of my wretched
past. Get me some cognac this instant 1"
foie wealth can give. Dolores had he _ r
mother and her maid. se duenna and
attendant They went to thebest hotel in
Madrid where, at the intig ation of his
wife and mother-in-law, Peres engaged the
handsc.mest suite of rooms upon the first
floor.
His dread of ridiculer his jealous doubts
end suspicions, prom's' ed him to hide the
treasure that heh ad won for himself ; but
some natural pride intervened, and he
could not refrain from showing himself in
the fashionable drives and promenadea with
his lovely young wife by his side. Gradual-
ly it became known to all the financial
world of Madrid that the beautiful girl who
went about with Pedro Perez was actually
his wife, and visits of ceremony and con-
gratulation became frequent in the amber
satin salon an premier.
Mme. Perez accepted the situation'with
perfect equanimity, and showed to better
wife es a than as a beautiful bird
in a gilded cage, If she was not entirely
happy she was at least better contented with
herself and her life than she had been in the
1 aeSt. Guillaume. So far 'from repenting his
marriage, Perez grew daily more devoted
to his wife and more anxious to gratify
her: He submitted to all Mme. Quijada's
exactions, and, allowed himself to bo led
by the nose by his mother-in-law as well
as by his wife, and in this placable dispos-
ition he returned to Paris, where he at
once occupied himself with the task of
selecting a home that should be worthy of
a millionaire's young and lovely wife.
After looking at a good many houses,
Perez finally decided upon' ono in the some-
what solitary Avenue Reiffschossen, which
had been built for a famous actress during
the palmy days of the empire ---the avenue
being known as the Avenue Hortense -and
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Dolores and her mother both admired the
house, and both complained of its surround-
ings. The neighborhood was a desert. -It
was on the wrong side of the Bois'for fashion
and beauty. Like all bargains the property
was hardly worth hewing.
For onee in a way, Perez was firm in
citpus itu en so his wife's with. He would
1 .,. Coat e,oriseand no other.
- it you would rather go on living in the
Rue St. Guillaume," he said , "I won't inter-
fere.'
" T really detest the Rue St. Guillaume,"
replied Dolores, petulantly; so the Italian
villa in the Avenue de Reiffschossen was
bought, and Dolores was allowed to furnish
the new house after her own fancy, and
Without any consideration to cost. Only
in one matter did her husband exercise
his authority, and that was in the choice
of the household. All the servants were
engaged by him at an office in Paris ; but
he allowed Louise Marcet to assist ltitn in
his choice, and to be present during the
uegotiations. • •
The installation in the Villa Perez took
place very quietly, though both mother
and daughter had suggested a ball, or at
least an evening party, iu honor of la pen-
daison de la cremaillere. Perez reminded
We are so vain as to tot the highest value
upon these things to which nature has
assigned the lowest place. -Seneca,
them that they scarcely knew half a dozen Louise left the room and returned with a
people in Paris, and asked where their tiny carafe and Titania's Venetian goblet.
Shedid all she could to discourage her
aunt's growing propensity for alcohol, but
she was only a dependent. She might re-
monstrate, but she was compelled to obey.
"He was arrested at a low dancing place,
among men and women of the vilest char-
acter --men who were like bad women,
women who were like vicious men," pursued
Mme. Quijada, helping herself to the cognac
with a tremulous hand.
"Why dwell upon those by -gone troubles?
I know all the sad story."
"Oh, I have had a dreadful life, Louise.
1 have been surrounded by criminals,"
cried Mme Quijada, after two or threelittle
glasses.
"Don't talk of it, aunt," repeated her.
niece, with a sudden vehemence. "You
ought to be wiser than to talk to me of
the past, knowing how much I have suffer-
ed -knowing that I shall never cease to
suffer from that memory, that the very
presence of that man in the room stifles me,
I cannot -breathe when he is near me. I
feel as if I must fall upon him and kill him
as he killed-'
" Hush, hush I" cried her aunt, looking
apprehensively toward the door. " You
are right. We ought never to talk of the
past. It is dangerous, dangerous in every
way. heaven be praised 1 we have not
heard of your brother for six months. We
may never hear of him again."
"Ah, I always dread him most after an
interval of absence. He will reappear as
as he reappeared before -or, if not, we
shall read of some crime that has been con-
mitted in some foreign city, and we shall
know that it is his work. He has neither
heart nor conscience. Can I ever forgetdo
you think,how he killed the man I idolized
-the hest and most generous of men? Can
I ever forgeb how he used my name -name
for evermore hateful to me -as a lure to
draw that good, brave man to his death?
And yet he, dares come into a room where
I am -he dares to offer me his hand, red
with the stain of murder."
"You have no right to fix that crime
upon your brother ?" Nime,Quijada exclaim-
ed, angrily, "There is nothing to identify
him with the murder, absolutely nothing;'
" I have the right of my own conviction.
I know as well that it was his hand that
struck the blow as if I had been stand ing by
when the murder was done. What I want
toout is the identity of the murderer's
find d rs
accomplice -before God and man as guilty
as the murderer himself. Who was the
who met Robert. Hate
middleaeK d woman
rell in the street and asked him to go to
Antoinette Morel's deathbed ? Who was
h used that lure ? h
the woman who d Who was.
h w
ch woman who changed
Cho elderly 'ren w w t ch n ed
the English bank -notes on the Riviera?
.'Can you answer me. those questions, aunt,
,
you whose bread 1 have eaten -the bitter
bread of dependence -and whose slave I
have been ever since my illness left me
unable to grapple with the outside
world? 1 hove been afraid to live anywhere
the glitter and splendor of the shop win- else -afraid to be among other people, lest
guests were to come from if they were to
give a party.
" Madame Perez has only to hold up her
finger in order to fill her salon," replied
Mm. Quijada, with dignity, " or, in other
words, you have but to nay to one of the
beat -known Parisians at your club, ' My
wife is goiug to give a party, and I want
you to send out two or three hundred cards
of invitation on her part,' and the thing is
done. We shall give music, supper, and
wines that people will talk of for a week ;
and after that everybodyin Paris will want
to come to the Villa Perez."
" A very excellent way of squandering
money and courting discomfort " answered
Perez, tartly. "I bought this house for
my wife and myself, not for all Parka;"
'I foresee that we shall be as dismal
here -as we wero in the Rue St. Guillaume,"
sighed Mme Quijada, who did not forego a
mother-in-law's privilege of saying disa-
greeable things.
Nothing had been heard of Leon since
his disappearance, and his aunt's most
esrnest desire wasthat she should never
see his face or hear hisname again. There
were episodes in her life which she wanted
to forget, now that she had attained to
that respectability with which wealth can
cover the most doubtful antecedents as
with -a royal mantle. It was in search of
oblivion that she filled and refilled the
little Venetian goblet after dejeuner or
dinner ; and there were times when she
felt that all the Chartreuse the good monks
ever distilled would hardly be strong
enough to drown certain haunting memor-
ies.
Perez Peru noted his worthy mother-in-
law's indulgence in the pleasures of the
table, and remarked upon'this weakness to
his wife.
"If you .don't look after your mother,
she'll take to drinking," ho said one even,
ing, as they drove to a boulevard theatre,
leaving Mme. Quijada sitting opposite
Louise at the little card -table, with flushed
cheek and glittering eye.
"Bah, if she has just une •,n:ate now and
then it caa't matter;" replied Dolores, care-
lessly. "Her dinkier is the only thing that
amuses her. Yon won't let es give patties,
or know any amusing people. Sou, have
banished even the poor old Duturclues.
They were dull, but they were alive, and
they were better company than hairs and
tables,"
"You are very ungrateful, Dolores,"
' s look. I
with a itspu
Perez
anew. e
n
have refused you :lathing, except to change
my manner or life. I have alwaYe loved
solitude and bated g
t , ed strap a faces. I
should
at osaessed
not be a millionaire if I had n
P
thepowerof solf'concentration, of living
my oWn
t e n h t s.
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Idon,
don't mean
to be
ungrateful,"
Dolores
answered,with a deep sigh , and then she
turned her head away from her husband,
and studied thoP asain y eirriagee, the
flaueurs upon the broadasphalt pavement,
EZE1TER TIMES
in some moment of dark thought I should
botray nay brother. Re it' of my awn.
bleed, and I have sworn to myself never to
give hint up to justice."
"Give him up I; cried her aunt, couteeep-
tuouely. "Why, you have not one shred of
proof against him, There is nothing but
your own, brain-tiok fauoies toconnect
your brother with that Englishman's death,
You are toquee, child, about Reber, Hat-
rell, Your poor brain has never got over
the fever that your sick fancies brought
uPQn you, and one ought to. be patient with
you, and let y,oe taik any nonsense you
like. Luckily for your brother the police
are not influenced by hysterical women,
They want foots, hard Poets ; and there is.
not one fact to conneobyour brother,Claude
Leon Morel, with the orime in Denmark
Street."
"Or you with the mysterious accom-
plice," said. Louise. "Perhaps not. Yet
if you were unconcerned inthat foul crime,
why did you both change your names with.
in a month of the murder? Why was I
made to change my name from morel to
Merest, and to assume my second baptis-
mal name in place of my first•?"
"Your brother had made himself notor-
ious during the Commune.'' He was not
included in the amnesty ; and he could not
return to France in his' own name. He
was supposed to have been ahot with the
others at Satory. ' His resurrection would
have been dangerous."
" Say that the false name meant noth-
ing ; but how do you account for the sud-
den change froth poverty to wealth'? You
and I were living in an attic in a wretched,
dirt street iu one of the sha bi
est quar-
ters of that great wilderness of brick where
we had taken refuge after the troubles
here. One day you disappeared without
tolling me whore you wore going, leaving
me just a line to say you were going away
upon business and might be absentfor
some time. You leftmepenniless, except
for the pittance, 1 was able to earn, by
working for a Jewish tailoring house-
cruel work, which wore my, fingers to the
bone. You had been gone a week when I
heardsome women in the court where I
lived talking of a murder. • I could just
understand enough English then to know
what they were talking about, but I listen-
ed heedlessly enough until I heard the name
of Hatrell-not pronounced as I pronounc-
ed it, yet a great horror came over me at
the thought that it might be the same
name. It was not he who was murdered, I
told myself; I was an idiot to be so disturb-
ed by fear. And yet I could not com-
mand myself or keep calm whilel questioned
the women. They couldn't tell me who
the murdered man was -only that his
name was Hatrell. They said if I wanted
to know more I had better buy a news-
paper. I rushed out into the street like a
mad woman, and it seemed to me as if I
should never find, a shop where they sold
newspapers, though there were hundreds of
shops in the long busy street, At last I
found a tobacconist's where there were a
lot of papers stuck in a rack agaiutit the
door -way.. I took three of them, hap.
hazels', and gave the shopkeeper the last
threepence I had in thee world -the pence
that were to have bought food for that day.
I hurried back to my garret as Last as my
feet would carry me. I thought more than
once that I should fall down in the street,
for my knees seemed to give way under
mt. I would not trust myself to look at
the papers till I was safe in my own hole,
like a wounded animal ; and then I bolted
my door and sat down upon the bare
boards and unfoldedone of the newepap-
era."
" Why go over all this ground, Louise?
A little while ago you reproached me for
dwelling on the past ; and now you are
harping upon old sores. You have told me
the story often enough."
"Iwill talk of these things. You have
kept me long enough in miserable silence
and submission. I have been your drudge
-Lot because I feared you, or valued the
home you have given me -but because I
care nothing for my life, and would as soon
be a slave as an empress. But there are
times when the memory of the past is too
strong for me. 'I want you to know what
I suffered while I was alone in that garret.
The room comes back to me in my dreams
sometimes with a hideous reality, and 1
fancy I am sitting there in the hot summer
afternoon, stitching, stitching in hopeless
monotony, as if I were a human machine.
I roust talk of that hideous past. It is • in
my mind always; it is a part of me."
She walked to and fro in silence for a few
minutes, and then went on recalling her
misery, step by step.
"The first newspaper that I opened was
full of the Denmark Street murder -and
the Denmark Street murder was the murder
of Robert batrelh I could read English
much better than I, could speak it, and
there was not a word of the witnesses that
escaped me. I saw my own name, and un-
derstuod that it was the name of his poor
Antoinette which had lured him to the
shambles in which he was to be killed. And
then I knew that the murderer was my
brother -my brother, whose face I had not
seen since the first few weeks after we
came to London. I knew that the pretend-
ed watch -maker in Denmark Street was my
brother, and that the woman who asked
Robert Hatrell to go to the death -bed of a
girl called Antoinette must be you, and
ouly you. And I knew that because
Robert Hatrell had once beers kind to me,
and loved me a little, perhaps, in spite of
the difference in our stations, because of
those few happy days of my girlhood, he
had been trapped and murdered. It was
not till afterward that I read about the
changing of the notes on the Riviera but,
when I did, I knew that the gray-haired
French woman was you. I knew your
shifty tricks well enough in the past
to know that you would have no difficulty
in disguising yourself and aping the man-
ner of a woman of quality. That was
months afterward,when I was able to leave
the French Hospital, where I was carried
raving mad with brain fever after starving
in my garret for nearly a week, trying to
work from day -break till dark, and spend-
ing sleepless nights of agony. But for the
eefuge that bleated institution afforded me
I must ha a died of hunger in my garret,
or been to ned out-of-doors to die in the
street. My landlord was a cab -driver, and
he had the humanity to put me into his
cab, burned up with fever and delirious as
I was, and drive me to the hospital, where
he told them my story."'
"I sentou moneyas soon us I had set-
tled at Madrid, whee I went in the hope
of getting helpfroman old friend."
"Yes, your letter telling me to go to
Madrid, and enclosing the money for the
had gone to the
aterl
journey,arrived #
ghost'
hospital, The litter was me when I
recovered my senses, and when I was able to
travel! set out for Spain. In Madrid I found
carters
youestablishod in vete? ' different
Y
tour old
Merles. Y
to our garret fn the M
friend has been very .generous to you. You
who had been nearly starvingLondon
fu
wore able to make a very good figure in
Madrid, able to send your dMyghter to a
convent -school, you. who ,were living on
bread and water before Robert Hatrell
WAS murdered. Do you suppose I
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castors
ever, doubted whera your money carne
from T I knew from, the beginning that
tt wasthe prlee of blood. You palled
me mad whets I" refused to eat or drink
with you whileyour peoeperity lasted."
You laughed at me because 1 preferred a
orust of bread in triy garret to your dainty
fare. When your money was gone and
you were again reduced' to poverty my
mind was easier ;:I a itld better hear to live
with you.; and then I grew fond of Dolores
.,-she at least watt inotheat of all evil -and
so I learued to beer the burden of my life,"
You are a fool»' mattered Mine, Qei-
jada, hastily'{ tq have heard •all this
rodoneeetado of yonra so often} that I never
think ib worth my while to argue with
you. Just give me your arm and help mo
to my mem before Dolores and her husband
come home from the theater. These
rheumatic knees of mine will hardly parry
foe a stair3 without assistance. YQU, are
a fool, Louise. .You
miht be a milliner's
drudge, toiling amonga lot of other drudges
ab this day, if it were not for your cousin.
Dolores end me."
"•I might have been lying at the bottom
of the Seine long ago if it were not for
Dolores," answered Louise, gloomily.
4' Fier love has been the only bond that
held me to lite:"
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France's new President is the only head
of a Repu'blic who uses a monocle. There
seems at first sight something incompatible
between the foppery of a single eyeglass
and democracy. Yet it would be a great
mistake to imagine that monoolea find much
favor among royalty. There is but one
crowned head in the Old World who affects
this form of artificial aid' to his vision.
That is King William of Wurtemburg.
The King looks very much like the Prince
of Wales. His beard is of the same reddish -
blond sprinkled with gray. The hair is of
the same hue and very thin on the top of
the head, and the King's waist is almost
identical with Wales's. The principal
difference lies in the wearing of a monocle.
Notwithstanding all that has been said to
the contrary, the Prince of Wales had
always abstained from that.
Although no other -crowned head uses
single eyeglasses, there are several royal
and imperial princes who do, notably the
young
PtrKE OF ORLEANS,
son of the late Comte de Paris, His eye-
sight is excellent, and he merely carries it
for the sake of pose. The late Prince Na-
poleon, surnamed "Pion -Pion," also stuck
an eyeglass in his ocular= So dad the
Czar's grand uncle, the Grand Duke Con-
stantine, who had a queer trick of giving
an almost imperceptible twitch at the
elastic cord to which it hung, which sent
the glass'flyingupward to his eye without
any perceptible movement of his hands.
He used to delight in performing this little
trick when buttonholed by a bore. It shut
them up to see the unaccountable jump of
the glass and the calmness with which the
Grand Duke caught and held it in his eye.
. Of prominent statesmen and magnates
in Europe, the two who are the greatest
adopts in the use of the monocle are Count
Kainoky, Austrian Minister of Foreign
Affaira, and Joseph Chamberlain, the leader
of the Unionist party in the House of Com-
mons. Mr. Chamberlain wears his glass
attached to an elastio cord, whereas Count
Kalnoky dispenses ' with either cord or
ribbon altogether. It seems to stick fast
in his eye, and he has been known to hold
i:, there when he was
THROWN FROM HIs HORSE
in the hunting field.
Several . of the reigning monarchs wear
spectacles -Queen Victoria, the Kine of
Denmark, the Queen Regent of Holland
and also the young King of Service, whose
sight is very defective. The Queen Regent
of Spain and the. Archduchess Marie
Therese, future Empress of Austria, are
short-sighted, and use double eyeglasses.
King Leopold of Belgium invariably has
his pince-nez stuck on the bridge of his
exceedingly long and prominent nose when
he reads. So does the Emperor of Austria
and the King or Sweden.
There is only one Judge of the High
Court of Justice in England who ventures
to dispense justice with a monocle stuck
in his eye. It is the Right Hon. Sir
Robert Romer, and it must be admitted
that the glass thus worn is hardly in keeping
with the voluminous, fullbottomed wig and
ermine -lined scarlet robes of the British
judge. It is said that when he looks
through it at arwitness the latter no longer
dares to lie,buthe has to tell the full truth.
The monocle is also stated to be of great
ase to the judge in connection with itis
dealings with the jury, for without going
to the trouble of a remark, which might
furnish counsel with a ground for an appli-
cation for a new trial, merely by the way
tbat he lets it drop from his eye he conveys
to the jury his opinion as to the truth of
the statement" of a witness, or as to the
value of any particular argument by the
lawyer pleading before him.
An Unfair Inference.
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THE AMERICAN MARINE,
IT HAS BEEN LITERALLY SWEPT
FROM THE OCEAN.
Not a Bushel or Grain Carried to A.merl-
can Rotioms Last Year—The New York
Took 600 Bushels Of Peas—The British
Flag lllenopollzed the Grain Trade,and
Steam Has Driven Bails From the
Traffic.
The American merchant flag has been
swept from the seas by the British lion.
During the year 1894 not a bushel of grain
was carried across the Atlantic in a steam
or sailing vessel under the United States
flag. Of the millions of bushels of cereals
grown in the United States,but 600 bushels
of peas were exported last year under the
American flag, and even that consignment
was parried in an English -built steamer,
which had been granted an American regis-
ter -the Ainerican liner New York. That
particular shipment of 600 bushels compris-
ed the small surplus which could not be
stowed away in the' already overstocked
hold of an English craft. The American
hip took the leavings.
This condition of the American merchant
marine, so far as the export grain and cer-
eal trade is concerned, is only too forcibly
illustrated in the statistics which have just
been compilea by Capt. William E. Fer-
guson, of the New York Produce Exchange.
Aside from the gradual disappearance of
lie American flag from the seas, the tables"
compiled by Mr. Ferguson show the disap-
pearance of sailing vessels of any nationali-
ty from the grain -carrying trade. Steam
has now entirely superseded sail, as may be
seen by the accompanying table. In 1881
sailing vessels carried 19,020,583 bushels of
grain and cereals to Europe, but in the year
1894 nota bushel of grain was exported in a
sailing craft.
In 1891 the unequal struggle with steam-
ships was evidenced when, out of 1,238
vessels which carried cargoes of grain from
this port
only fifteen were saihn w
vessels,ssels,
There were shipped from New 'lode
during 1894 33,384,952 bushels of American
grain1which went to feed
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and c0rt,a9
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Lnrope s hungry rnillious. Included in
this total export are buckwheat, corn, rye,
oats, barley and peas, many of which
at es for the first
s statistics cereal appear in the ststi
r
time.. There wore 24,085,167 bushels tui
wheat,. 8,959,969 bushels of .Orn, 20,625
'bushelsI of rye, 1,060 tushe1s ofoats, 3 2.,23 7
bushels of barley, 17,3,067 buahols of brick•
wheat,6,185 bushels of flaxseed and 115,662
bushels of peas.
Tim lion's sharp of these, 33,384,952
bushels, was parried in British s vessels,
,
which made 494 trips across the Atlantic,
carrying 21,007,461 bushels. The remainder
of the export trade was divided between
Belgian, German, Dutch, Danish, French,
Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
vessels.
Not a bushel of the trade fell to the lot
of a Norwegian craft. Russia was Irepre•
sented by the steamer Ceres, which made a
single trip, carrying 42,970 bushels of
wheat. Portuguese vessels made twenty-
two trips, carrying 1,530,196 bushels ,
Dutch vessels made eighty.three trips,
carrying 3,272,307 bushels, and sharing
first honors with John Bull's craft. Ger-
man ships made ninety-five tripe and
carried 2,678,221 bushels of grain to the
Emperor's domains. Vessels displaying the
British flag carried more than two-thirds of
the entire exportation, or 10,000,000 'more
bushels than all the other vessels of the
world combined. Uncle Sam's flag was
not seen on a single grain carrier.
In 1892 of the 1,238 ship loads sent
abroad only twenty-five were carried under
the American flag. There were thea four
American steamers left in the grain carry-
ing trade. They were the passenger steam-
ers of the old American line, which sailed
from Philadelphia uuder the control of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. Not even these
craft now enjoy the exclusive privilege of
flying the Stara and Stripes. They have
been driven out of the business.
The following comparative table shows a
largo falling off in the grain exports of le
year, and the steady decline of the the, of
sailing vessels in' the trade. As against.
171,427 bushels carried on sailing vessels in
1893, not a bushel was carried last year.
The shipments of American grain to
Europe;
Steam Sail Total
Year. Bushels. Bushels. Bushels.
1881.....53,225,728 19,020,583 72,276,312
1882 39,878;449 6,284,289 46,162,739
1883. ... 44,206,009 4,252,926 48,457,945
1884 42;951,799 2,431,988 46,393,787
1885..., 44,221,791 2,881,473 42,103,260
1886 49,471,575 2,761,798 52,503,373
1887, 50,761,570 1,092,921 52,254,487
1888 24,737,805 442,559 25,159,964
1889 37,140,599 765,670 37,906,269•
1890 44,098,556 494,023 44,592,559
1891, —67,883,201 600,701 68,483, 905•
1892 73,607 144 213,362 73,820,506
189355 597,229 171,427 55,768,726
1894 3%384,952 -- 33,584,952,
The futur
e of Sailing craft, not only
in
the grain but in other trades, is discussed
with interest on the exchanges and maritime
circles.
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nint ere
stns beauty
everywhere.
Ha7litt.
Power exercised with violence has seldom
Been of long duration,
but
temper and
moderation generally producepermanence
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in
all things, -Soweto.
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