Exeter Advocate, 1901-8-22, Page 6)VOTES 4117,12 CalliMENTS,
The other day a magistrate Of
N(A York gave the opinion, perhaps
it, is more accurate to say the die -
um, that a )vomai has no right to
'go 4,brough• h er hus b po eke ts
We don't know that there is any
1,gt on the subject in, the Year
books. IVLost of woluelfs rights
have grown up since thou; and where
did the tyrant, man, wear his pockets
in earlier days? Is there anything
in Vroissart or anybody else to
show where 17:Award the, Black Prince
iii all his armor kept his change ancl
how he got =tit; it? Where did 0Qcl-
frey of Bouillon hide his latChkey?"
i$ tO tell us of pouch and gir-
dle. llobinhood knew where to find
the treasury of the gentlemen whom
he invited to contribute to the sup-
port of a poor man whose leech had
forbidden him to at anything but
venison, but did tho sheriff of Not-
tingham have anything that could
properly be callod a trousers pocket?
Did Blueheard or Henry VIII. in
all his glory and his plethora of
matrimonial ventures ever.„„havp 111
hose or doublet a pocket which.
could readily be desrribed as. a,
change: pocket. 'Ho, good my als
moiler,. fling me 0. l'OSO noble 1,0„.L
yon nierrY minstrel."0, we • have
read : historical novels and know
:their lovely lanzuage, but we defy
anybody to prove that any law of
the easement of wives in the pockets
of their husbands can be traced un-
til the origin and history of .the
pocket have been more fully ex-
plained.
Yeti unless human nature was
very backward, the women must
have exen:•,ised from iMmemorial
times the privilege, since grown in-
to a right, Of inspecting the hoards
or caches of their husbands, They
may not have looked for love let-
ters, writing schools being then nil -
common and the club or adze Lais
ing• the place of the complete letter
writer; but we may be sure -that
they abstracted acorns, thus laying
unconsciously but solidly the loan -
dation for the beneficent principle of
an allowance. Thiire were pockets
in the earth or tree or lake; it is no
paradox to say that pockets came
before clothes. And when the noble
Salvage made him a coat of the
skin of a goat, Woman was there to
share his toils; also his receipts. We
have no doubt
that Virginia
through Master
artistically as if
within the sound
that Pocahontas,
nonpareil, , *cent
Rolfe's pockets as
she had been bred
of the Bow Bells.
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"I am Sorry., if 1 said what was
displeasing te youi"said .Constantia
coloring highly.,
will tell you .one 'great :truth,
Constantia,”. Said Dundas,
shutting uP her fan With a.resound-
ing click. Yo:tt are toe pretty over
to say anything displeasing. Say
wimt you like, they will candone it."
"They ?" -
"Men ! Never think of anything
else. The rest don't count. , Get inen
oli your side; and !there y,M aro !
Now to proceed. We )ave had :Aly.
Stronge, Garret Barry, and Lord.
Varley, Any More ?"
"There is Mr. ,Petitherslon," said
Constantia. There was a faint liesi7
tation, a vague difference in hes tone
as she prohounced his name.. anti
Mrs. Dundas looked flxolly at her:
"Is he the favored ,one she. ask-
ed, leaning forward with a smiling
eagerness , and thus throwing an ad-
ditional touch. of _brightness into the
already bright picture She present7
ed.
,`.'.No," said Constantin., without
addition. to this• bold denial.. Never-
theless, the denial cost her a blush."
'No ? Withthat lovely Color • on
Your cheeks ? . Will you swear it has
net, beenborn for . him ? Do' you
know :Where .even good• girls.
go to when they tell a JIb ? There' 1
Don't eat my head, Off ; it was a
sirnple every -day question. after
And you mast pardon the 11 L still
go on believing that, if he is not.
the one, lie is at all events one of
them. Naughty girl l At your age
to have so many strings to your
bow 1" '
Constantia laughed.
"1 don't fancy I have one real Mrs. Dundas gayly." "I expect you'll
string," She said. "Not one that turn nay hair.., gray before I've done
would not snap, were 1 to pull it a with you. I don't •Mincla the aCCUSa-
thought too tine." :
"Pouf 1" She snapped her long,
lovely "'jewelled fingers in the air.
''That ! for such a, fancy." Then.
with a gay little air. "Seriously, I
should be only too glad to believe
you. The county suggests.itself to
me as being dull, and if all these
young Men wereyour special pro-
perty . I would not be.uncousin
Ly for WOTC1S, but you Will :under-
stand that it is a hecessity. for • me
to amuse myself."„ .
"As how ?" .
_.,"1 -lave I not said ? The tyrant
man is the one thing that truly di-
verts Inc. Not this man or that -
0.133' man will do, provided he can
speak the Queen's Englxsh, anq
moves in the World in which I live.
I hold that it is quite possible to
knock a month's laughter out of the
very dullest of them.
you know/' she glanced up here, and
changed her toneto 0110 deeply con-
fidentittl, "it is an absurd—an al-
most incredible thing, but there
really are moments when I entirely
forget 1 ever was married 1"
"Do YOU forget Mr. Dundas too ?"
"Often, often 1" with airy com-
punction. "Terribly to be deplored,
i$n't it ? But now that I have
found you, ni3r Una, I feel sure that
I shall make an iminedMte depar-
ture towards the right path. You
will be of inestimable Valne to rim'.
You will jog my memory. you will
expose my sins. 1 shall presently be
a reformed creature—a new light.
You think honestly You will be able
to -undertake me ?"
'!I think you Can talk as much
11011501150 1101V aS you did in those
old days when I was a little child
and fondly believed your folly wis-
dom."
It was not a pretty speech, cer-
tainly ; but Miss Macdillicuddy was
the oldest of a family who were all
famous for saying just what they
thought just as they thought it, and
who seldom flinched from calling a
spade a spade, no matter what
might be the consequences.. Of each
other they expressed their opinions
—
favorable or otherwise (otherwise as
a rule)—with a noble openness and
am enjoying frankness not to be
surpassed. Life in such an atmos-
phere could not but produce a cer-
tain honesty, 'which generally means
when you COITle 10 10011.into it—that
is, when it is directed against one-
self—a decidedly objectionable free-
dom of la.nguage.
''What a. fearful speech 1" said
By prescription and age -long cus-
tom, a, married woman has obtained
the right to Search in her husband's
pockets. Economically, the custom
IS or has been justifiable. Woman
has had to take her own wherever
she could find it. Morally the cus-
tom is salutary. It shows a man the
necessity of wary walkng. It holds
a fellow to a standard, warns him
to be careful in his correspondence,
corrects his avarice or his prodigal-
ity. A woman begins, if we may ha-
zard a theory, by searching her
boy's pockets, sure to contain many
surprising and some noxious objects.
She hasto become a censor and
in-
apoctor of Masculine treasures. ,Then
in the'present day; when mos-C,.men
who are not sailors or soldiers have
lost the art of sewing, he is the
pocket maker, "the pocket .patther.
She makes the pockets. She keePs.
them in order. She has a .clear title
to toll, rent or whatever you. want
to . call ff; the woman's penny.
Without her the supercilious beast
wouldn't have any pockets, • She is
justiflod in. charging him a fee, a
slight' interest% on the endowinent of
all Ms worldly .goods. She has the
sight to garnish his pockets.
Besides, they are her pockets,
Without enlarging upoii the necessity
of a commou household funcl and of
a special privy purse for the wife,
it is enongh to say that :since for
inysterious reason, irito which Hea-
ven forfend that we should enter,
she has no pockets of her own, his
nrust be hers, She lias the right to
use tlieni.; to 'C011eCt Iler just. ,dues
from them. 11 110 doesn't like it, let
him stuff his ill-goti en gains into
saddlebags, and carry them: securely
liicked around with him or jingle his
loose change iilto a safe deposit
vault every day. nut see what
collies to .the niggard. Every day
Y011 read of some churl who tucks
away money in a mattress or an old
stove or a cracked coffee-pot, rate
flrida him out and punishes him,
Fire or the junkman or the ragman
gets, the dollars he grudged his wife.
The right of visitation of a hus-s
band's pockets is iniportant to
juStice, 0.20.1 domestic economy.
It may be waived; but it is only
riuSpended, not lost.
Lady (engaging servant.)—Yes, I
think you'll suit. But have, you
a sweetheart? Servant—No, mum.
But .1 can soon get orinn
You see, I Mu not 'greedy. You
Shall have your choice; and I shall
not interfere. ; but; the, others: „must
be ireO game."' .
Miss Macdillicuddy grew -slowly
red.. She looked down. Tor the
moment she knew that she was look-
ing shy, and thip increased the ex-
treme anger and disgust she was
feeling. She knew, too, that Mrs.
Dundas was watching her with eyes
openly amused, and this did not
tend to decrease the indi,,enation.
She conquered herself sufficiently,
after a while, to be at last able to
speak.
"You mean," she said, still with
her eyes on the Carpet, "that you
would permit thein to-to—to pay
attentions to you ?"
There was a riehteous horror in
the girl's tone.... Mrs. Dundas, hear-
ing it, and seeing the girl's • pretty,
flushed, and angry face. fell .,baek
amongst ,:the cushions. She looked
what she was—unutterably amused;
"To put . it . sb broadly EllOWS
crudeness," she...said. "Time; how-
ever, the allpowerful,:- will .no • doubt
'teach you that—So 1111011 I shall spare
you My lecture, and refrain froin
you the .lesson. 'on the potit&
skipping required in decent society,.
that is on the; tip of my tongue.
-
Just now, if you were at a loss,
you might have said you failed :to
understand me, or something of that
sort.'"
"That is. a lesson," returned Con-
stantia "But I carniept benefit by
it,. I did understand You; thorough-
ly. ..Ypu meant you would find your
amusement in making.. a. man love
you, and .then . laughing ;at him.
thought one never did that" after
one was -Married."
• Mrs. Dundas broke into, laughter,
noiseless, but full of mirth" and• over-
flowing.. Yet- not a .sound eseaped
her.. It was a little Way, she hacl.:
There would bo. no sudden'declaring
of lien mirth—no nioyeMent Of the
body; no. click even of the never ab-
sent fan, and then 1l1 at 02100,,Whell
vou turned to her to know. why.',she
tion of 'talking only .nonsense:
,
Nowa-
days that is a charm, an accomplish -
Ment.. But that. remark about your
age ; that 'was., annihilating% Were
yOu only a child .when last II saw
.you ? Was I .quite groWn•un ? Am.
I so many years your senior ? Come
.let me face the. horrid. truth. YOUr
age,' Constantia ?"'
'`Eighteen.''
"And I am twenty-five . ! Quite
seven years between .us A cen-
tury, rather I Should be looking
fois MY' frist.,gray..hair. She rose,
and ran to a mirror: ldt. into the
wall of the little 'bijou apartment in
which. tea had been .served: 'It ran
froceiling to floor, and:reflected
her. beautiful,: tall, radiant figure and
lovely face,' as :though it loved them'.
"There is one comfort," she cried,
running her Arigers through her
criSp locks, -"red-haired folk seldom
grow gray until death is near. It
is hard to kill the obstinate:Crimson.
That. is the consolatiorf Nature offer-
ect 1.1.6-':ithen She ,dyed,is' this Unholy
color. Well" -she turned back
Constantia—'And so, when. last Wo.
were together, I. was as young' .as
YOU are. now."
"No ; very much older ."'
"I don't think so. For a country
maid; yOu Can hold -your own pretty
well. Confess, now, 11wasnot civil
Of you to remind me that I grow an
01(1 woman," she. .laughed merrily;
but I am magnardmous—I harbor no
uncharitable thoughts, .1.'forgive you
equally generons—you—and grant
me absolution for all the 'misdemean-
ors that hi your heart 'you are ini-
pating to inc.."
"You are wrong; 1 was not con -
(lemming you. Why should I con-
demn?"' asked Constantia, with a
slight contraction of her brows.
She was irritated, offended; she
herself was hardly conscious why.
Sonic inner _ sense of delicacy was
hurt by the other's whole air. She
looked at li-er cousin with wide eyes,
in which lay surprise and distrust;
her beautiful cousin lying back
amongst, the velvet cushiOns, in the
lounging position that she had learn-
ed was so well suited to her. Donna
as a girl had been a favorite with
her, Donna as a woman is strangely
distasteful. Yet withal, there is
something about her—some marvel-
lous charm that attracts her even as
it rePels.
"Why, indeed?" replied Mrs. Dun-
das artlessly. "I say what a game
little gown you've got on! Where
did you got it from? 'White?
Worth?"
Mr..Dundas ,elitered the rooni. He
WEIS 0, large man, tall and well built;
51 leaSt -twenty years' his wife's sen-
ior. ITe might not take a first prize
where beauty was in question, but
certainly he would be highly com-
mended. His 00 WaS gritv?, 1735
hair slightly grizzled. His Mouth
was firm, and perhaps tt trifle stern
when in repose. There was, indeed,
a touch of severity about the whole
raan that an1pressed one, and sug-
gested at the first glance that he
would be an 111150(0 character with
whom to play fast and loose. Ile
looked vigorous, strong to endure,
and silent. He was in all respects
such a contrast to the graceful, easy,
smiling creature who was his wife,
that one could not fail 110 'remark
upon it.
Ile came up the room with a long,
steady stride to Constantia, 'and
shook hands warmly with her. He
liked her: one could see that.
.And then his eyes sought his wife;
and then it was 0101(2'110 all the
world, had it been present, and cer-
tainly to Constantia, where his
whole heart and soul lay. Such a
wonderful brightening of the cold
eyes! Such a softening of the firm
lips!
Mrs. Dundas moved a little as he
came towards her, and changed the
expression of her lips. She leant
now across the tiny table at her side
and held Out 10 hill). a welcoming
hand, with the pretty pink palm up -
w .`rINe
ciTs. were juSt talking about you,"
she said, and an enchanting smile;
"wondering what kept you, and now
long you could keep away." There
Was ahnost exquisite reproach in the
last words. "Tired, Jo?"
This ‘`,.)o" was a little pet name
m.
she had for hiJohn he had been
christened, an appellation . thmt ex-
actlIV suited hinn and "John ,Ander-
son my Jo" she used to call him in
those first days, when he had been
intoxicated by the knowledge (deli-
cately conveyed to him by her) that
he was more to her than any other
man on earth. Thrice blessed know-
ledge!
This playful cognomen had natur-
ally dwindled by degrees into the
more easy "Jo," It delighted him.
The simple word, falling from her
lips, could, even at Ms gravest mo-
ments, win a smile from him. I -le
now held her hand for a second or
so in warm, fond, clasp, and then
dropped it. Ile could not kiss it,
Constantia being present; but he felt,
in letting it go without the caress,
as if he had sustained a loss.
"Tired'? No," he said With his
calm smile. "Would nine' or ten
man
miles tire ny limworthy to be so
called? 1 assure you, Miss MaeGilli-
cuddy, this little WOMall," laying his
band softly on his wife's arm, "re-
gards me in the light of a puny boy,
and deems me :tired' if I wander
from her sight for an hour or two."
Miss MacGillicuddy is so struck by
the difference in his wife'S expres.sion
since his appearance, and so lost in
an eadeavor to reconcile her allu-
sions to hip. when absent with her
manner to him when present; that
she fails to make him any reply.
"Tea?" said Mrs. Dundas sweetly,
looking up 'at 'him.
"I think so—yes." He spoke as
one whose thoughts are elsewhere,
and then brightened. "I knew there
was" something," he said ''SOMe-
thing 1 wanted' to tell you. As I
came through the lime walk, I,saw
a carriage with the Varley liveries
driving down the avenue.''
Mrs. Dundas started perceptibly,
and in so doing shook his hand from
her shoulder. She glanced at the
mirror near her, and involuntarily
lifted her hand to Smooth her al-
ready beautifully arranged hair. This
is, however, a trick common alike to
all women, good and bad. Con-
stantin., therefore, thought nothing
of that; but she did: notice the start
and the change of color that accom-
panied it.
"Why didn't you say so sooner?"
said Mrs. Dundas almost sharply,
with a quick glance at her husband.
She was evidently shaken it little out
of her usual idle complacence. He
had 110 time to reply, however, be-
fore the footman threw open the
door and announced "Lady Varley.''
TO be Continued.
Constantia colored.
"How likely it is," she Said, with
a reproachful glance, "that I 5130111(117e able to order a gown from White
---or Worth!"
"No?' l'm 'often stupid," smiled
Mrs, nlaundas, penitently. "pa to
look at it! And do you mean to tell
me you have a woman in thist-be-
Inightecl Villa,ge equal to that cos-
youhadnot answered your last question,
` would find her in a very
agony of Laughter. She did not pur-
posely suppress it. it. was only, as
I have said, one of her little ways,
and she had many. Strange as it
was,'there was something in it catch-
ing too. Something, that if •voli
were in the 'Mood of it, would take
you, and compel you to join in with
her in her silent merry -making. ,If
you were not in the mood, however,
it was indescribably armoy,ing.
JuSt now C'onstaiiiia, was aot in
the mood.
"Yes ?" she Said with distinct
and, sCOrnfill interrogation in the
innocent monosyllable. She gcv.ed at
ber Cousin steadily, with Somber
eyes, and pulled herself together in
what She meant to appear a very
penitent manlier, But it was still
abominably full of enjoyment of an
Janne? If so, it's a shame; she has
evidently a soul above the buttons
Lo be procured here, and should get
a. helping hand to a higher sphere!'
"Should she? I'm the woman. I
made the gown yon so affect to adsl`
mire myself," said Constantin, not,—
I regret to say—without a blush of
shame. This betrayed a poverty of
Mind, for Which she was even more
ashamed afterwards.
','No really?' ' qu esti oned Mrs.
Dundas. wish I were. clever ,like
thtila It's "about the most desirable
turn -out I've seen this many a day,
and it fits you like a glove,"
Her tone was very kind and appre-
ciative . indeed, it was true. 'rho
girl's dress of simple eotton looked
charming, and suited her lissome fig-
ure and ,debonnaire face to perfec-
tion. '
''Mr. Dundas is always raving
enraging kind.about the suFeriority of sitriple ole -
"Von alb , propriety itself," she
gance over the more florid tastes,"
said "A Very tna. It would be Mrs . Dundas went on, in her soft
iinpossible to say how much I ad-
mire you-e,and do not desire to
aotite yo I peit WU ]ast with
yon—or perhaps I should rather hope
it won't. 'Be virtueus and you'll
be happy, but you won't have FL
good time.' You know the new
cofivbook• text ? 'When one is mar -
inotiotone. "Between ,you and me
and the wall, he is a trifle Close, and
keeps a regular Jiidas' eye upon the
money -hags. If he could See you in
that gown I should not hearthe end
of it until the gown itself 1VCi5 in the
If, my dear Cora, he
Ali! Talk of
vied,' WAS that your teisi.t, ? the--.2,bt,t1 angel', here he comies.;"
BISMARCIVS DUEL,
Had Not Killed His
Antagonist,
That .131sumrck even in youth
deserved the characterizing adjective
which hal subsequently to the dis-
tinguishing term "the Iron Chan-
cellor," is mailifested by a passage
from "The Love Letters of Bis-
Marck," in which he speaks of his
famous duel with Vincke 1852.
Bismarck was the offending party,
and the vindictiveness he confesses
to does not enhance admiration for
his charar. etelie writes :
Vineke wished to defer the matter
for forty-eight hours, which I grant-
ed. Oil the 25t17, at o'clock in the
morning. we rode to Tegel, to a
charming spot in the woods, by the
seashore ; it 21.0.5 beautiful weather,
and the birds sang so gaily in the
sunshine that, in we entered the
wood, all sad thoughts left me ;
only the thought of Johanna I had
to drive from rue by force, so as not
to be affected by it.
It was agreed before the duel began
that the conditions should be chang-
ed, and that there should be but one
shot apiece, instead of four Thea it
was proposed that the whole thing
should be declared off if I would say
I was sorry for my remark.
As could not truthfully do this,
we took our positions, fired, and
both missed. God forgive the grave
Sin that 1 dia not at chice recognize'
Ifis mercy, but I cannot deny it ;
when I 1001(0(1 through the smoke
Sonny He
ONE ADMIRING CONST'IVENT.
That no man is a hero to his valet
is a truism that has come down
through a, long line of French cynics;
but Lord Ripon, ex -Viceroy of India,
had occasion to demonstrate that he
at least was appreciated by a faith-
ful retainer. .
Soon after his retui•n from Calcut-
ta, and when the critiCisms of his
administration , were particularly
fierce, 1..,oxd Ripon was met .,by
member of the Liberal party, who
said to him, enthusiastically:
congratulate you on your cour-
age and public spirit in pursuing so
large minded and liberal a p013e37
the East.
Lord Ripon smiled, as he replied:
-Itis good of you to 'say- such kind
things of me; but to. tell you the
truth, I don't believe there was any
one in India who really approved of
my policy exeept my old Scotch gius
dealer.
• ,
'STRANGE RAILWAYS.'
The World's strangest railways are
to be found principally hi India,
Anleriea, Switzerland and Ireland':
The Loup at "Agony Point," on the
l)arieeling, Railway, „, India,' '" is
thought to he the'sharpeat „carye in
the world ; while Mount Rigi, in
Switzerland, has no fetver than three
railways to its summit. When tile
Jungfrau Railway is conipleted it
will be the most remarkable 0110 lfl
the world. ItS highest station will
be 13,668 feet abowe sea -level, and
the --cost of this line will be about
$2,000,000. Of the American rail -
Ways the strangest is, the Cripple
Creek, where the great timber tres-
tle over which the train lias to pass
in crossing El cha'sm, is so carved
that, the line is made to tip inward-
ly, foul the, sensation is terrible to
the traveller on a fast. train ; while
in Ireland there is a, curious single
line railway at Listowel.
IlritiSh mines give ,,ratv... material
Worth 480,000,000 a. year.
and saw my adversary standing erect
a feeling of disa,ppointment prevent-
ed me from participatirig in the gen-
eral rejoicing. The modification of
the challenge annoyed me, and I
would have gadly continued the
combat. But as I was not the in-
sulted party I could say nothing;; it
was till over, and all shook hands.
TIT -BITS.
He --I always used to over-estimate
my abilities. She—Well, never mind,
your friends never did.
Ramn. falls most frequently all over
the world between 3 and 8 o'clock in
the morning
•
55 per cent. of all criminals in
prison are between the ages of 21
and 10.
12 per cent. of the British army
are 5 ft. 10 in. or over M height.
The Italian has only 4 per cent.
The average amount of time which
a man loses yearly by illness is ten
clays.
The French army has 29,000 offi-
cers, the Italian 14,000, and the
Spanish 23,000.
Charing Cross bridge is the longest
of London bridges, being 3.,365 ft.
Southwark bridge is only 800 ft.
long, and Hammersmith 480 ft.
s,
Of. GreatsBritain's total trade 91
per cent. is English, a nearly $ per
Cont. Scotch, and a very little over
1 per cent. Irish.
British house property grows in
value at the rate of 60 millions a
year. The average rent of a Britisil
house. is £21. '` • '
In 1812 only 400 English people
were assessed at -£.5,000 a year and
'upwards. This s number h as n ow
grown to 4,000.
The Banks of England, Ireland, and
Scotland have Royal charters; but
only the first two len(1 money to the
Government.
-The largest cemetery in the world
is at Rockwood, in. Australia. It
covers 2,000 acres, of which only
200 have been used so far.
23 per cent. of England's popula-
tion are men capable of bearing
arms, 22 per cent. of Ireland's, 24
of Germany's, (111(1 27 of France's. .
This is an imposition! Your sign
says, Boots repaired while you wait,
and here I've been over two hours!
Well, Isn't that waiting?
The paper money of the first French
Republic became :more depreciated
than that of any other country ever
did. A pair of boots cost $1,500 in
paper, and a pouncl of butter $150.
The largest nest in the world is
built by the mould bird, a sort of
Australian fowl. It makes 11101111C15'
sometimes 150 ft. incircumference,
in which it buries its eggs 5 It. deep.
In Russia there are only 740 neWs-
papers, one to every 1'70,000 people.
Of these 580 are in Russian, 69 Pol-
ish, 41 German, 9 French, 5 Armen-
ian, 2 Hebrew.
Miss Fuzzle—I wish to break my,
engagement with Mr. Siipple, but I
don't know how to do it without
driving the poor fellow to suicide,
Little Brother—Why don't you let
him see you in curl papers, just once.
He—Do you still feel angry with
Me? She—I despise you! I abhor
you. I hate you! He—Then per-
haps you'd better break your en-
gagement to accompany me to the
theatre. She—Oh! I don't hate you
so much as that. .
The quarrel between the newly-wed
couple was working:9 into a regular
row, when he said: When you begin
to WI( noasense I hold My tongue!
But it•was too bad for her to say:
If were guided by the same rule --
with regard to ,you --I should never
speak at all! Then...the battle began
again. a
WHERE DIVERS CHLEFRQX
HAIL PROM VILLAGE
THE MOIT'FFi OF THE
THAMES.
Cornish Miners May bo Found
Scattered All Over the World.
AT
At the mouth of the Thames,
near Southend-on-Sea, England,
there is a little village nestled an=
der a bluff, looking dead to the
world,
It is Leigh, where the divers 00010
from. Over eight -tenths of all the
divers in the world, serving all na-
tions, hail from ;this village, and
though it Only holds 2,100 people
now, 900: more go out to dive in
all the seas of the earth, coming
back to Leigh to die, and the world
pays $600,000 per annum for them,.
It is because there are no
DivErts LIKE THE GENUINE
Leigh article that all navies are pro-
vided with them as well as most,
merchant companies, and they draw
good pay—as much as $40 a week
in some remote parts. It is largely
the lungs of the Leigh men. that,
qualify them, and the fact that the
profession has gone down among
them from father tEl son.
In diving families, whose uniform,
is the rubber suit and copper hel-
met, the men are able to stand six-
ty per cent. more of this. trying
work than' "outsiders" from other
parts, for the drums of their oars
are impervious te the painful effects
that attack the beginner, and thc.
blood does not press on their brains
while diving. They and their sons.,
control the diving wages of the. .
world, and all, Countries; from. the .
States to Japan, employ them.
While one is inspecting the piles of :
Southend Pier, a hundred of his,
brethren are five fathoms deep in
foreign' seas, earning princely pay.
There is a parish in Cornwall—
Redruth—round which you might cy-
cle in the time it takes to make a,
'bigarette, and it supplies all five. ,
continents with miners, which they
cannot do without: On the last re-
turns, seventy-two per \eent. of the '
world's underground miners were
Cornishmen, nearly all 'froni Red-
ruth, with the rest from Dodmin,
and in all they totalled 17,000, not
counting the ones working in Brit--
ain, and drawing an estimated wage -
bill from the nations of well over
$15,000,000 A YEAR..
There is no miner who can COMpalse
with the Cornishman, for mining is.
in his blood; and at present there are
1,500 of them in West Africa, 5,000>
at the Cape, 6,000 in Australia,
which country owes a third of its,
prosperity to the Redruth miner ;
4,000 „in the. States, where Uncle.
Sam, smart as he is, cannot run his
mines without the liedruth man ;
and the rest in Russia, South Am-
erica, and. India: lf it pleased Red-
ruth's sons to come out on strike,
all over -the world to -morrow, two-
thirds of • the Stock Exchange mar-
kets would be. on thbir beam -ends' ;
and even Cecil Rhodes feels the pow-
er of this little parish, for native.
miners are 110 good unless stiffened
with Cornishinen.
North, and South Shields, on the.
Tyne, turn out marine engineers for.
the entire earth, with only orie
two Scotch parishes to rival them.
The rest of, the world's engineers.
make a. poor show alongside them in.
numbers; and of 11,000 now at sea,
11,000 Shields men are rolling in.
engine rooms on the wild waters,
and running navies for foreign -
States.
The American Navy's engine -rooms
are full of them, and the only trust-
worthy thing in the Portuguese
Fleet is
TIIE ''GEORDIE" ENGINEERING
TIIEN 'I'IlE COURT LA 3-1
Counsel --I insist. on, 'an answer' to
ray que:suara. ya21 have not taw 2310, cannot equal ,the Perthshire breed,
all the Conversation.. n't and counts 40.0 of Ahem against
0.
know casaytairea that pass,2d roil of 150, .or thereaboUtS, 'of .the
you and Mai Jones on the occasion Texan -bred 81.1ePh°rd,
to which you refer.
Rehieta,rit Witness—I've told you
staff. These 11,000 ''Shielders"
draw from the world outside :Britain
at least $15,500,000, including jun-
iors, their incomes averaging $1,-
250 a year, and running from $500
to $5,000 per annum, counting' the '
assistants.
leforeign ' States like Siam
will pay anything for "Geor-
dies"; but they get their best berths
in the South' American: Republics,
where -the nondescript fleets and en-
gine -rooms absolutely depend 'on
them to keep in "steaming order,"
and the revolutions and lights that
are always taking place, practically ,
depend, at sea, upon the Wen from
ghields. A ' • G eor die' ' man can do
anything with any kind of engines,
and is absolutely trustworthy.
There doesn't seem to be any rea-
son why the world at large should
not supply itself with shepherds,
but it cannot; and a Couple of ranges ---.
of purple hills in „Scotland produce
four-fifths .of the entire globe's sup-
ply, when it comes to dealing with
big quantities Of sheep. Rannoch
Moor and the °Oils,' in Perthshire,
rear a race of shepherds that . no
°thee brand can compete' with, eith-
er for dogs or men, and, naturally,
THERE ARE HUNDREDS MORE
Perth shepherds out of the district
than
sitnrailti a. has 700 at present, and
their „sons mad grandsons, and tho,„ •
whole mighty NVOolsandsmuttprs , in-
dustry of that continent has grown
mainly from 11110 51(111 of the Rannoch
shePlierd:a fsl'exas, though she thinks
a great deal of her own ,shepherds,
everything of any consequeace.
You have told me that ) ou said to
him: JoneS, this case will get into
court some day. Now I want to
know what he said in reply.
1Ve11, he said, Brown there isn't
anything in this . business that, -I'm
fishtailed of, arid if any SnOopin', lit-
tle yee-hawin' four -by -six gimlet-
eyed lawyer, with half a pound of
brains and sixteen pounds 01 jaw,
ever wants to know what, L'Ve been
talking to you about you can tell
him the whole story.
Only two fish can tlirn,their.head...s
indefsinfleritly 'of ,their. bodies. 'I'iles9"
are the gurpike turd Uie seaborse.
Spain's splendid inerino flocks arc
almost entirely "bossed" by "San-
dy" of the Ochils; find every Perth
shepherd on the face of the globe
has at least three of, his wonderful
dogs witi Ibm, mostly the bobtail
sheepdog, but eften' the collie, and,
though other parts may show better -
looking dogs, none can equal ,theso
for skill and training. 'Ihe Perth
shepherd abroad draws from $l.5 to
$30 per .'iveeli; and, as near as cafl..
be estimated, there are 2,500 of him
outside, besides some 8,000 of his
dogs. ,
The average weight oi an English
boy ,of ten is. 67 lbs.; ot a Inen of
thirty,,. i5 lbs.; ,of takfri'.uf
162 lbs. '