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The Herald, 1912-07-12, Page 98t• ?P: Bet: ,nes lie irettge tit.. .444 TIIE UNY4ISHED WISH` { Tale of a Illogic RLing�1 . "erneeneseleselettleseleoesteseletely `A ploughmen, paused ;in his work oxie day:.to, rest.. As he sat on the bonnie of his plough he fell a: -think- ing.' The "world: had ° not been going well.•with him. of late, and :he could riot help feeling down -hearted. Just 'then he saw an old woman, looking at him over the hedge,. "Good morningi" she said. "If you are wise you will take my .ad- ;Vice.,, "And what is your advice?" he 'tusked. "Leave your .plough and walk straight on for two days. At the end of that time you will find your- self in the middle of a forest, and in trent; of you there will be a tree towering high above the others. Cut it down, and your fortune will be made," With these words the old woman hobbled down the road, leaving the ploughman wondering.. He unharnessed his horses, drove them home, and said good-bye to Ms wife; and then, taking his axe, started out. At the end of two days he came to the tree, and set to work to cut it down. As it crashed to the 'ground a .nest containing two eggs fell from its topmost branches. -The ,shell of the eggs was smashed, and out - of one. came a. young eagle, while from the other rolled a small gold ring. The eagle rapidly became larger and larger, till it was of full size, -then flapping its wings, it flew up. "I thank you, honest man, for giving me my freedom," he called out. "In token of my gratitude take the ring—it is a wishing-ring— if you wish anything as you turn it round on your finger your wish will be fulfilled. But remember this—tire ring contains but one wish, so think well before you use, The man put the ring `on his fin-. ,ffer, and set out on his hemeward" journey,.:'' Night was coming' on when he ,entered a town; Almost the first. person be saw was a gold- smith .standing at the de$r of she' •$9. he °Vuant up to hien .'w td ser ill was agreed, For a Year the man and lite wife worked hard. Harvest•came, and the crops • were splendid. At the end of the year they were able to buy a Mee farm, andstill had some money left,. "There," said the man, "we have the land, and we- still have our wish.'" • • "Well;" said hist wife; "we;, could do•, very well with a 'horse,^and 'a, cow.,, "They are , not, worth wi.ihing for," said he; "we can get them as we got the land:" land;" ' So tice .•went en working steadily and spending wiser for ' anothe p g y year.. At:the end' of that time they. bought both': a horse and a . cow, Husband and wife were greatly pleased with their good , fortune, for, said they, "We have got the things we wanted, and we still have our wish." As time .went on everything pros- pered with the worthy couple. They worked hard, and were happy. In- deed, the husband would probably have forgotten all about the ring had not his wife ,constantly asked him to wish for something. "Let us work while we are young,her,.:. husband would an- swer. "Life. is still before us, and who can say how badly we may need our wish some day." So the years passed away. Every season saw the bounds of the farm increase and the granaries grow fuller. All day long the farmer was about in the fields, while his wife looked after the house andthe dairy. Sometimes, as they sat alone of an evening, she would remind him of the unused wishing -ring, and would talk of the things she would like to have for the house, But he always replied that there was still plenty •ef time for that. The man and his wife grew old and grey. Then came a day when they both died—and the wishing- ring ishinbring had not been used. It was still on his finger as he had worn it for forty years. One of his sons was going to take it off, but the eldest said— "Do not disturb it, there has been some secret in connection with it. Perhaps our mother gave it to him, fox 1 have often seen her look long- ingly at it.' Thus the old 'man was buried with ring;' which Wms euppos•ed.to be shin -ring, but which, -as we Ilitsugh, it itieught u re good fort ine Chari,all the, wishing p rar have: give; an r ith a erne i, "It is of very little seine Staid, e, . The p1oesil Limaxt' la" gleed. "Ah, Mr. ,.l,dsnii ,"_ he %said, "you have made a mistake this time. My ring,is worth more than all you have in your shop; it's .a wishing -ring, and will give the any- thing I care to wish for." • .• The goldsmith felt "annoyed, and asked to see it again, "Well, my good :man,'" he said, "never mind about the sing. I daresay you are a long way from home, and in want of some supper and a bed for the night. tCeen.e in and spend the night in my house." The man gladly accepted the of- fer, and was soon sound asleep. In the middle :of the night the gold- smith took the ring •from his finger and put another just like it in its place without disturbing him in the' least. Next morning the countryman event en his way, all unconscious of the trick that had been played en him When he had gone the gold- smith closed the shutters of the shop and bolted the door; then, turning the ring on his Finger., he !said, "I wish for a hundred thou- sand sovereigns." Searceiy had the sound of Ms voice died away than there fell about him a shower of ,hard, bright golden sovereign's.. • They struck him on the head, on the shoulders, on the .. arms. They covered the. floor. Presently the floor gave way beneath the weight, and the gold- smith and his gold fell into the cel- lar beneath. Next morning when the goldsmith did. not open his shop as usual the neighbors forced open the door and found him buried beneath the pile. Meanwhile the :countryman reach- ed his }some and told his wife of the ring. "Now, good wife," said he, "here is the ring; our good fortune is made. Of course we must consider the matter well; then, when we, have made up our.ntinds as to what, is best we can express some very big with as I turn the ring en niy linger." "Suppose," said . the woman, "we were to wish for niee farm; the land we have now lb so email as to be almost useless.,, "' "Yes," ;said the .husband; "but, 'on the other 'hand, if we work hard and spend little for a year or two we might Ree able to buy as much •as We want, Then we could get some- thing eilie with the wish -ring." l'hli►rING,TRIM'' T ie-Ceroanut-Peeler' Does Toe Much Per 3l tit. The history of civilization proves that man needs the spur of n.eees- sity to keep him up to his work., it is not good for him to have life made too easy. That is why Mr. Lowe, the author of "A Naturalist on Desert Islands," calls the cocoa- nut -palm "a demoralizing tree." It does too much for man without re-. quiring anything in return. If it; needed the constant care that has to be ,given to some of •our delicate fruit trees, it would be a greater blessing to the human race. The cocoanut -palm is exactly the thing that some of our "unemploy- ables" are looking for. You need only summon energy enough to plant a ;sufficient .number of young;, trees, and ftirne does the rest, All that thestree asks of you is to wait` patiently for some seven years, un til it becomes full grown. Then it; will produce on the average a barn^ dred nuts a year—not •.all at once,, which might be inconvenient, but in four or five 'harvests at intervals through the year. And this it con- siderately goes on doing for sixty, seventy or eighty years, and .you'. need never lift a finger to help it. The tree, in fact, simply encour- ages you to be lazy, and if you have any energy left in you after living in its eonapany for any length of time, the climate in, which the palm; flourishes will soon take it out of. yon. it OLD RESORTS OF LONOON 1Ci#.MOUS lffESTAURANTS OT' THE LONG .AGO. 1'asltionable Ones Are of Modern Origin—Some of tete Old Resorts. - Curiously `•thiough,-the fashionable ,.restaurants of London are' for the most part of comparatively modern origin. Their interest and fasoina- tion—for they have undeniably, a -spell all their own—is a totally def- (event .thing from the old-world; charm of the historic coffee-houses," taverns, anti ordinaries which. and among London's places .ef pilgrim- age. Few cities can show 'pore bxil-� liant gatherings " of rank and. wealth, fame ,and fashion than those which throng the sumptuous dining -rooms of the Carlton, the. Ritz and the Savoy during the Lop-; don season. Restaurant parties are becoming more and more frequent with the ;rowing tendency among fashionable folk to keep up smallei establishments and entertain lens a home, and it is not wonderful that the proprietors of the great res- taurants nave to be somewhat care- -Cul about their patrons. Some of these resorts—notably the Carlton] —do not admit diners �ezeept in cos rent dress, a restriction which has. been the subject of vigorous disens sion from time to time. Gunter's, famed for i and their newrive and o ices, n ter a. e , from. America, Fuller's, may ,he mentioned among those who cater more especially for • the lighter forms of refreshment. RESORTS OF OLD LONDON:' W h a tree like that, the South. Sea islanders never had a chance. Why should they either work or worry when a few of these trees will provide them with everything they can possibly require—fiber to make mats ; shell to burn as.fuel or to use as water -vessels, cups or ladles;; leaves to use as thatch for' the house, or as mates, screens and baskets ? Why should they •go afield when they cat use the wood of the trunk or the midrib of the leaf in making the walls of their dwellings°; when they can make rope out of the. fibrous tissue of the young stem; when they can get oil enough to: swim in from the flesh of the .nut self, and soap from the oil raked with the ashes from the burned' husks ; when -they can eat the tint not .only in its ripe state, but in its young .and unripe 'state, and in its old and overripe state; and when indeed they can make the tree do almost anything but talk? The celebrated diners' resorts :a1:' older London would, in themselves' fill a volume, and 'space will only' allow here of a brief a000uzit of the moist important. First and fore-' most eomes the "Cheshire Chees.eJ° famous as:the resort of Dr. John-` son and Oliver Goldsmith. ' The present building is now about tweet and -a -half centuries oid, and its traditions and quaint atxtmospiiei are respected •carefully* in its fu"- nishing .and .appointments. On'. Ieft of the principal entr s Fleet ;Street is -the genuine ing-room, with its plains homely seats against the �spinxtie•-haelted • . userss sp iinitled ,sewers' trait -of Dr.` Seen' oe, Joshua Rep -wide, loo frons its plate above the Tar corner where the great m wont to sit. Below the portrait. is the in tion : '"The favorite seat oaf Dr. Johnson. Born tett Septemb 2 1709. Died lath 'December, 1.784,' concluding with the following gate, tation Bore the lexicographer's own 'own conversation : '"No, sir? There, is nothing which has yet been con trived by man, by which so much happiness has been produced as by a good tavern." The ;ceremony of cutting the cheese at the famous hostelry has been performed by dist' ti.nguished visitors on various occa- sions, ,amongst others by a baby ele- phant, whose sagacity was the rage of London a few years ago. HAUNTS OF CELEBRITIES. Of more recent• 1i'terary oelebri is the "Cock," whose room "hi over roaring Temple Bar;" Tennyson's favorite London dine place, amid' the Old boxes, larded with the .s Of thirty thousand dinners, of which' he sings in "Will 'Weee er KOatts in his "Lines on .the . Mein Maid Tavern" Wave ye tippled drink more fine Than mine hest's Canary wine? Or are fruits et Pare,dise ,sweeter than those dainty pies Ot venison f 0' generous food! ;Dressed as •though bold Robin.. Hoed Would, with his maid Maria*, Sup and bouse with horn and can. OEORGIAN COFFEE -ROUSES; The most famous of the eigh- teenth century coffee-houses es a ni eting place of the wits and men etter�s of the' day was "Will's," t„Cove'nt Garden, of which Mae- r give' a vivid description, but like "Button's,"' its 'great riv- as passed away, and only mem- remain of the "Wit's room.," Dryden was the central fig, 1 the "witty .:and, pleaisant dis- se'' to which Mr. Pepys alludes ie "Diary.” Another vanished e -house of interesting assooia �s,is the Chapter. in Paul's ,Alley, hits memories of Goldsini h anti • son n Chatterton,who wrote a ` a another : "1 rrs. its familiar t i the Chapter Coffee-house, and W. all the geniuses there ;" most ereesting of ,all, perhaps, its. two tile', countrified lady visitors from ,f e Yorkshire on their visit to Lon - ion. And while the subject of the 'Id. London coffee-houses is upper- most, reference may be made to the Eget ,that the national institution known .,ass "Lloyd's was in the first place an establishment of this k•. 3 l u d, to which s i brokers d hp an marine insurance agents were wont to repair, together with more liter- ary men like Addison and Steele. N0 COTTAGES, CAN'T MARDI', • Complaint of Lack of Homes in Rural England. There is a lack of cottages and homes for laborers in many 'of the rural districts, more particularly in the counties of Essex and Somerset, , England. At Dulverton, Somerset, many eottages have been condemned by' the medical officer of health. They are overcrowded and inmates ares forced even to sleep on the landing. Neither the district council nor e land owners are preparing to 'Id, partly for the reason that; the Olt land taxes have greatly in- reald • the . risk of any -develop- ' ` The result ' i,s that many end those l d Esse., there• ,are parishes where has been married fox i,fteen and more In the of a sanall holding district of shire some ;couples were ,re- for•ced to the worlthouse solely -fpr want pf a cottage acoom-, ' iodation•. Every year the situation is get- ting worse. It does not pay to build' and. the thousands of pretty old cot-' tages built before the days of agri- cultural depression are falling into ruins. - , proof's Lyrical 1Vionologu•ee:"' poet's son in his 'biography tells; low "aperfect dinner i his n is estima icati was a beefsteak, a potato, a cur of cheese, a pint of Nati and of c...,� wards .a pipe (never a ci e,r ," And homany memories lin about the '"Mermaid" 'Tavern Cheapside, the haunt once of Johnson, Beaumont and Flete and, wording to some author& of Shakespeare and Sir 'Walter'; leigh ! Its good cheer, as well its literary past, is immprtalized'. roost :;hive at e• •-tansalu a,i'y ,ins w mo esir•e o, cot: neighbor- edere erkshire WISE SAYINGS. All effort for the amelioration of; the material conditions of the peo- ple ;must begin by elevating the moral tone. The confliot of many minds from sea by sides is the essential condition of intellectual progress. The progress of civilization de - ponds on the extension of the sense of duty which each man owes to so- ciety nt large. The probable result of Socialism would be the adoption of very se- vere means for supposing those who did not contribute their share of work. k :Duty cannot be neglected without' dare's to those who practice as well s those who suffer the neglect. The incapacity sof men to under- feed each other is one of the prin opal causesof their ill -temper to arils •each. other. Once merited, make the best of There is consolation in the tied inevitable. h:e best -of every man's work is ave and beyond himself, and is complished in the struggle to at - in a lofty ideal. HE In JN)It IT. `HERE COMES THE BRIM' LATEST .NOVELTIES, IN WED. DINO GREETINGS. Effective Displays in Some Recent Marriages in Old. Eag- land* The wedding of a sweep at Maes- teg, Glanaorgansbire, the other day created quite a sensation, At the invitation of the bridegroom, ell leis friends of the brush attended the ceren7ony in raiment ''looted"—if not suited—to the occasion, ,say s tendon Answers. Each appeared in his •soot -he - grimed workaday attire, with black- ened face to match., and carrying the round sweeping -brush used in. his work of chimney -cleaning. The blackness of this implement was in- tensified by a white ribbon with which it was adorned. The policeman's baton was much in evidence at the wedding of a member of the Force at St. Margar- ets -on -Thames a day or two later. As the "happy pair" left the church, a squad of the bridegroom's comrades of the "A" Division of the' Metropolitan Police assembled in line on each side of the footway. With raised batons they formed a novel archway, beneath which the couple and their "entourage" walked from the sacred edifice. This was quite a unique guard of honor. KNIGHTS OF THE CLEAVER. A much' more effective display was made at the wedding of a Notting- hamshire woodman. He happened to be very popular with his fellow - workmen, who attended the cere- mony in a body, each armed with his axe, specially polished for the occa- sion. Lined up on each side of the churchyard path, with their shining axes held aloft, back to back, they constituted quite a glittering areh- way for the wedding -party as the ,y - emerged from. the church. It proved a delightful surprise for the newly -wedded pair. The part played by butchers' boys at a wedding of one of their number at Reigate on o.ne occasion was quite worthy of the days of chivalry., At= the conclusion sof the ',cereimony t'hey strewed' their .a1ai�:ons 01) the, path foe-; .,11e neYs-1� nlart•ied 'couzil,� o walk ,ever. The drivel of the welling equip- age was a stalwart knight of- the meat -block; while two others, with shinbones dangling from their sides, ,admirably filled the role of footmen. THE FIREMAN'S MARRIAGE. There was a very interesting nov- elty .at the wedding .of Mr• Thomas C ulee, chairman of the Midland District National Fireman's Union, and Miss Emma Finney, at Hales- owen Church. More than two bunched uniform- ed firemen from all parts of the country attended as a guard of hon- or. With their axes they formed a pictureeeete ;arcade down th•e lisle of idle &lurch, beneath'which the smiling bride and groom walked out to the waiting carriages. Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, was the scene of a wedding aT which there was a very novel guard of honor. The contraeting parties were Miss Ida Hamilton, daughter of Lord and Lady Claud. Hamilton, and Mr. Hugh Flower. The aisle of the ohurch was lined by uniformed guards and porters of the Great Eastern Railway. As she beamed upon them, the bride looked exceedingly eharaning in her white satin array. WHY IT WENT SWIMMINGLY. The crossing -sweeper has nota be- come an. alrn'ost unknown quantity; in London, hut a few years ago he flourished there,.and loved and; married like other people. At one such marriage there was quite a gathering of the fraternity, 'who all attended with brand-new brooms, decorated with gaily -colored rib- bons, They lined up en eae`h side of the footpath, arid, raising their brooms as the wedding -party emerged from. the 'church formed quite a novel archway fore the bride- groom and his bride. With their gaudy -hued ribbons, the brooms made quite a striking Show. There were some +quite unique de- corations at a wedding in a Black - butte church. The chancel was set out as a rustic arbor, and profusely decorated with roses. Arranged on either side were floral arches, while miniature. fountains played over ponds, in which sported live gold- fish, It was the first :time that the tinny element had been introdttoed et a wedding oercntony. Small wonder that everything went off so "swim- mingly.' FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE NEWS BY 14LAICE FR031 IRE- LAND'S S$A,ItIrS. happenings lit the Em raft IsI�A'd- Interest to Irish- men. The Clontarf baths on the 'Dubs lin coast were recently opened,. About 700 young r ,e'n. and. women of the Dublin branch of the Irish Drapers' AssocietiVn inaugurated the Saturday weekly half holiday by a trip to Graystones, The ,15th Fees Ceoil, or 'great Irish Musical Festival, was recent ly held in Dublin. Varves Clerhin, who recently re- signed his position es schoolmaster in Monaghan union has been grant- ed a pension of $235 per year. John Garvey received from the ,congested district% an offer for pur- chase of his Rossduane estate, Kil- meena. Ho at once wrote aenepting the offer, so that the transfer of the estate will he proceeded with The Limerick Urban Connell is arranging for the eonstrnetion of sixty-six new houses for workmen at a cost of $80,900, An' old -age pensioner named Michael Hanrahan, residing at :the Corrnrnarket, Wexford, was acci- dentally drowned in a well in the yard of his premises. The Commissioners are engaged in valuing the Bernard estate at Castlehaekett, Galway, which will be divided among the tenants. The death has occurred at Gas- tlequarter House, Inch, of Mr. W. Fitzgerald Fleming, who had been for a long time identified with the BDtt, and is a member of oneurt of is'flerice oldest families in the County Donegal. The Balyconnell distriet, Cavan, has assumed a recent addition of 49 cottages erected by the Rural Coun- cil, The houses are entirely of brick—one storey each, with a kit- chen, three rooms and scullery; end half -acre plots. ' Alderman O'Shea has been elect- ed Lord Mayor of Cork, in succes- sion to ?Aderman Simcox, who re- signed the office owing to en. at#solr on him in a Cork paper. Fire in the house of an old woman getting outcoor relief in rr+'lan4 shoivpd ;she had piono hidden all over t_he dwelling -$4.80 an..sily rr $:;05 'in, ,j id, aptl _,; '.9 is .04)prelx -Brandies of notes w.rre hurried. , Bei ii about 3 lbs. of melted silver wa found, THE MAGYAIR DICE, Allied to Turks •oat One Side and to Finns on the Other, The Magyars, or Hungarians, are distinct from all the other peoples of Europe, the Finns alone excep- ed. Their ancestors many centur- ies ago swept down from the pla- teaus of the Ural Mountains upon the rich prairies of Hungary, and, by the very force of their inherent wait aarmc, aSiswee11 :81 y asheiYmr. ilIra&tepdr the former barberie inhabitants, and ever since, amid the vioissitudes el almost constant wars and even fre- quent defeats by many enemies, have maintained their individuality and, for the most part, 'then• undis- puted supremacy, in southeastern - Europe. In race and language they are allied to the Turks on one side, and to the Finns, another branch of the same family tree, on the other. Yet, though related to the 'Turks, they were the most consistent and, successful enemies of Mohamme- danism in all Europe, Ie. Tact, Hen gary, for eenturies, was the buffo's state between 'Christian Europe and Mohammedan Asia, and Imlay a hard-fought War did her people wage, aliost single -banded, to re- pel the tide of islernishe which of- ten threatened til submerge all Eu- ropa. T1tUPi EIOlJQATI.ON. The formationof habits is the true education. The cultivation of the h� ;; it of detesting all that is low and 'Mean, the habit of admiring sincerely the good and the beauti- ful, an undeviating attachttten't to truth and justice, and the sineere effort to bring our conduct into an - cord with these ideals constitute the rigid discipline of the moral philo- sophy, so beautiful that "without it no tonditxoe of life is tolerable, and with it node 'wretched, sordid and tnean.,, JOHNNY'S E1 R0R. "3ohnny, why don't you down ?", 'tI druther stand up, ma'am," "What's the matter ?" "Pa was ,puttin.' up a stovepipe this morning and I laughed."