The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, September 24, 1884, Image 1
^ .Constancy.
I will be true. Mad stars forsake their
courses.
And, led by reckles meteor?, turn away
From paths appointed by the Eternal Forccs;
But my fixed heart shall never go astray.
Like those calm words, whose sun-directed
j& motion
p* Is undisiurbed by strife of wind cr sea.
So sbali my swcrveless and serene devotion
. Sweep on forever, loyal unto thee.
I will be true. The fickle tide divided
?r<M unrocf
tn v n ouvivc1^ ?? u***vw?
|&> May, to and fro, shift, always undecided.
Not so the tide of passion in my breast:
BHv- Like the grand surge of some resistless river
That hurries on, past mountain, vale and
| Tin to the main its waters to deliver.
So my full heart keeps cli its wealth for thee
I will be true. Light barks may. be belated
Or turned aside by every breeze at play,
"While sturdy ships, -well mannered and richly
freighted,
Witn broad sai.'s flying, anchor safe in bay.
Like pome firm rock, that, steadfast and un.
shaken.
k. Stands all unmoved, when ebbing billows
flee.
So would my heart stand, faithful, if forsaken,
I will bo true, though thou art false to me.
?Ella Wheeler.
v T ONLY A GARDENER.
V Au evening in early spring, grey and
clouded, a low-ceiied, plainly-furnished
apartment in an out-of-the-way
old house, and though the other rooms
are the perfection of neatness, this one
n - -J:??A
IS XU &1X tiiU CUdiillibJr Ui-LKL .j.LLiu\;ii n.1,11 y
cf art.
Two young; girl-students are resting
V aftor their day's work?resting, each
after hcis wn manner. To one, Gertrude
Tre lyan, the word implied
utter repos*>; she, therefore, leaned
back her regal-looking' head in a comfortable
old chair, as with half-closed,
eyes, the words dropped listlessly from
her coral lips. But to Esther Forbes,
rest was merely something less laborious,
and seated on the hearth-rug, by
the fitful glimmer of fire-light, she
* glanced over a daily paper, "to glean,"
as she said, "a little news for grandfather
at supper-time."
"Oh, Gertie!" she cried, "listen to
this: 'The Art Decorative Company is
offering thre- prizes?first, second, and
| third class?for the best design for
screen decorations. It is to be a
yearly competition.' How I should
like to compete for one of the prizes!"
And should not I? Let us commence
to-morrow." And so saying,
Gertrude sat upright in her chair, and
L opened wide her great dark eyes.
* * "How delightfal 'twould be," said
she, "to awake some morning and find
, oneself famous?to read in. a paragraph,
'Miss Gertrude Trevelyan has
obtained . the first prize and a gold j
medal for the most original design.7""
"I shall be content with tho second,"
^ replied Esthei; "for that fifty pounds !
is just what I shall want nest'sum-.
^ mer."
"And what do you want so much
money for, child?"
"Ah, Gertie? were I as rich as you, I,
too, might work for fame; but you remember
how my dear old grandfather
suffered from last summer's heat, and i
b yet refused to take from our little ingj
come the sum requisite for a two
months' sojourn by the sea. If I
' could-put this into his hand, and say,
Let us go, dear grandpa, like >vo
BL^ haTjpj^giigrims and enjoy Old Ocean's
B^W^^breezes,' oh, how proud I should be!"
W* The girls were not relatives, but
only neighbors, and the home of each
was in that pleasant art-suburb of Lonk
don that has grown up of recent years
. about that Cockney's paradise, HampI
stead Heath.
But as Mrs. Trevelyair disliked the
litter and untidiness of an artist's
room, Gertrude frequently came and
"worked," as she called it, in her
friend's studio.
Esther did not name her aspirations
to her grandfather, but she lay awake
moriTT ?j Irtnir lim-r t.ttinbincr nut th.it
proposed design. " '
The next morning, she found a note
from her friend?she would be absent
. for a few days, as her* mother had *
L made some engagements for them
both?and very glad was Esther to be
alone with her unrealized thoughts.
In the visions of the ni<rht. a sister
?rt, Poesy, had come to her aid. and
the subject, chosen was from Hood's
idyllic poem, '*The Plea ol the Midsummer
Fairies, " whete the little elve9
are entreating the nitv of remorseless
It lime.
She designed it rapidly, and ere
long the picture told its own story.
The old Mower could not be introduced?he
would have demanded too
mrtoh snare?hr.t one hand, nortionsof
his grey, colorless raiment, and his
scvtne, to which clun<r fresh grass,
were visible. And as Hood describes
it:
"A shady and sequestered scene.
Like those famed gardens ot Boccaccio?"
So the fairies were in hali-shadow
and in various attitudes?some kneeling
imploringly, some bowed down
with grief, others?"the loyal fays"?
surrounding their queen, as though to
protect her, while a few had, in despair,
cast themselves upon the ground
among the flowers.
One, that seomed to have stepped
out from thi? bosky leafage to plead
with "tv_<rdre'ad King of years," pointed
t<y? group of lilies in the picture's
t' n-nnrt foil ? r<ttr nf
moonlight?as, with their stems folded
in their large green leaves, those pale,
k pure lilies sf>od serene amid that desolation?and
symbolic of the lines Esther
had selected as her motto:
' "And she that purifies the light.
The virgin Lily, faithful to her -white,
"Whereon Eve vrept in Eden for her
shame."
"But I must have some real lilies!"
exclaimed Esther. "'Tis the most important
part of the picture."
And away she went to a liqrist's, the
most extensive in the entire* neighborhood,
and where she was well kiiown.
But he had not even one, and declared,
at that season, they could not
iJC* ^iUVUiCU.
"You might see some at Mr. Montcalm's
of Oakleigh House, Miss
Forbes," said Mrs. Jour dam, the florintih
isi?s wiie:~4i/or they have a Sue conW
servateiyrand^a first-class gardener attendsto
it. _ Ya^J& fiucMiim quite a
?entkin&n,~ah<?:Iie ~*ull ajow you to
f^Sm'seytht&^vpn hiie.''
Esther further learned that Mr. and
Mrs. Montcalm Sad lately returned
from the South of JPrance, and that the
ladv was so fond.of plants and flowers
-thathe spared no expense to gratify
her taste.
- The next morning, armed with her
sketch-book -and - portable- color-box,
she'set^rtK but could' only ride a
portion of-tEeTd&tance, for the way lay
through lanes and roads leading to
various residences.
But at length Oakleigh House was
reached, and there the great gates so
appalled poor Esther that, but for the
hope of gaining that prize, she would
have retreated in dismay.
In a few days Gertrude again visited
the stadio, but this time to watch her
friend's progress only, having abandoned
her own attempt.
"It is exquisite: ' said sue, after a
careful surrey. "But you have not related
your interview, further than the
m
||
! door of the conservatory was opened?
i then von broke olf to show mo the
: picture."
I "I had to wait so long, and feared
] the gardener would never come, so I |
; found my way to the lilies alone. But, i
| Gertie, I have fallen in love with that j
j gardener! And as I don't know his j
name, I mentally call him 'Claude j
j Melnotte.'"
"In love with a gardener, child? I j
hope not! But pray sketch for me in
words this paragon of Adam's calling."
"He is probably between twenty-five
and thirty. Not exactly handsome, j
but a.good face, expressive of great in- j
telligence; a pleasant?indeed, meio- j
dious voice; and he lias certainly some j
artistic taste, for when apparently
wondering at my lily-craze, I described
the design, he then made a few
valuable suggestions. And he gave
me such a oasketful of ferns and i
llowers and greenery?sending it here
tome?that I hope he won't get into i
trouble with Mr. Montcalm for sd I
doing!"
"If vox; looked as you do now, Esth- j
er, with your v/aves of golden hair and j
1 rapt, brown eyes, like some peri that |
has lost her way, t&en I should not bo :
surprised if ho -feliPin love also. But j
only- a gardener! Ah, well! Of course, j
you will <ro no more to Oaklei?:h
House?"
"No, indeed, Gertie; but he asked !
permission to call and sec my picture j
before I sent it away."
. And one day hy did como, bringing
a magnificent bouquet, and this time !
j -"tc his name, which was Bernard. j
jusicr Forbes' picture was consider- j
ed very beautiful and highly poetic; i
but?ah, when does not a but, or an if, i
or some otfcer stumDiing-DiocK exist r?
it did not gain the first prize.
She was,, however, awarded the :
second, and that, with the sale of later j
artistic work, amply sufficed for tho !
accomplishment of her project?a trip j
to tho Isle of Wight with her grand- !
father, Captain Forbes, who, having j
been a sailor nearly all his life, was, in j
that truly maritime little spot just as j
happy as the summer- days were long, j
But before their departure, Bernard j
was unfortunately the cause of a sepa- j
ration between the two girls.
He had come again and again to the j
little out-of-the-way house in Hamp- !
stead, had avowed his love, had asked j
Esther Forbes to be - his wile, and j
nor? <v?inr>rl ht>r oraridfather's '
I ... J ?? ?"* o~ j.
consent to their marriage.
- "Mr. Bernard is not a common J
gardener." urged Esther to her friend, j
"He might have employment on the
..estate of some great nobleman; but I
believe the Montcalms like him greatly,
_and he does not wish to leave Oak"Ifris
not the money, but the position, j
that I think of," answered Miss j
Trevelyan, with a fine look of scorn
| upon her proud, handsome features.
"But I am not ambitious. Neither
| can I look very high. You know that
| my grandfather has little besides his
pension."
f "Yet, an officer in the navy always
holds a certain rank. However, have
your own way, and blame no one but I
yourself, if some of your friends are
less cordial than formerly."
"I consider Henry Bernard a most
honorable matf. He is kind-hearted,
he is highly intelligent, and he loves
I me, and Jfwpuld not give him up for
'every friend that I have. Therefore,
Miss Trevelyan, you are at liberty to
! set the others an example."
They did not meet 'again until one
day during the following winter, and
that chance meeting was in the wondrous
city of Rome, -?here so many,
whether bent on pleasure, novelty, or
study, and some from a yet higher
motive, find their way..
Gertrude Trevelyan with a party of
friends in one of the art galleries, when
a lady whose face appeared familiar
passed by.
Sho was richly dressed, and accompanied
by a gentleman.
"If that is the Esther Forbes of olden
days," she soliloquized, "then success to
gardening!" She
went toward her, saying, as she
held out a daintily-gloved little hand:
"WilLvou allow me io congratulate
you, Mrsl " * -
"I anr rejoiced to meet you, Gertie," ,
interrupted Esther, "and to present
you to my husband, Mr. Montcalm, i
Hgnry, this is Miss Trevelyan of whom j
you have frequently heard me speak." |
-"I will leave you for awhijc to talk
.over old times," said he, sifter expressing
his pleasure at the introduction.
"My breath is taken away!" gasped
.Gertrude, when they were alone together.
"Did the moonlight fairies bring
about this romance?"
"1 think they did," replied Esther,
laughing?"through the agoncy of the
lilies, and I will relate the story in Mr.
Montcalm's own words.
" 'On that eventful morning a [
message was brought to me that a |
young lady requested to see the hot- j
DOU5U, UI1U Wlib, SilU MViU, pciiuitivu iv
use the name of Jourdain, the florist.
Oar gardener liad gone to a sale of
shrubs, but as his return was delayed,
I went to explain matters, while collecting
a few early violets from their .
frames. You'?for this was addressed
to me?'evidently mistook my identity,
and "appearing rather embarrassed, I
thought it better to leave you uninformed.
Then. the shyness wore of?
melted away by the; enthusiasm with
which you described your proposed
sketch."
"I must omit all the sweet nonsense, '
Gertie, but Henry always says that 'I 1
arried away his heart that morning.
"I believe he once had a theory,
through some Youthful disaonointment. '
that ail womankind was self-interested, ,
and here was an opportunity to test the j
sincerity of "one, whom he alleges to
have singled out from the rest of .
the world."
"And this revelation took place be- !
fore your marriage?"
"Yes?for that he had always intend- \
ed?and it was uttered to me and to tho ]
waves during one lovely twilight hour, .
when, he had rushed down for a brief ,
visit to our little sea-girt home." \
"And Captain Forbes?what did he (
say?"
"It was some time before he could j j
grasp the entire facts, being so much 3
less poetic than practical" .
"But oh, Esther!?now about the !
other Mrs. Montcalm?" j
"She is Henry's mother, and the j,
very kindest and dearest old lady. She | <
also has had her little romance;" for as ! j
Miss Bernard (my husband's second j 3
name'i she ?-a./e ud the lover of her ! <
youth to comply with her father's de- ]
sire, and though a good and loyal 1
wife, was never a very happy one, and
henceforth resolved net to control the
choice of her son."
'Have you had time to conclude 1
your chat?" asked Mr. Montcalm, on 1
returning to them.
Not quite," was his wife's reply. 1
4'But Miss Trevelyan will pass the re- :
mairider of the day with us."
"No, Esther," said Gertrude; ''you
have generously overlooked my once
unkind comments. but cannot have for- |
given them."
"They arc both forgiven and forgot- i
ten, dear. Ami now, Gertrude," she I
whispered, U-nry's cousin, Jack ;
Ellery, is to dine with us. He admires j
brunettes utovy all others, and I can j
find some scarlet blossoms to wreathe.]
in your dark hair. And as Jack, like I
yourself, is an amateur artist, scorning j
lucre but craving fame, you can enter. I
into a partnership to design something i*
ior next cuaipeuuoa, suu uiuu?wuu |
knows? for strange happenings sur
round us unexpectedly."
And :is Gertrude was whirling along I
in her friend's carriage, away out 10 j
their Roman villa, within her own j
mind she pariiaih- repeated her friend's i
words:
"Truly, strange, very strange hap- j
penings do come to us?sometimes!"
? ?
The Coroner's Verdict.
The Memphis Avuianckc says Tcnnesseeans
are in the habi: of coming to
their death by the fallowing causes,
according.to the written verdicts of
Tennessee coroners' juries:
"She come to her death by strangla- j
tion in testimony we have sit our jhandes
and seal the day above wroten." j
"Paul Burns came to his death by a j
mule runninir away with a wagon and j
being thrown therefrom."
"By taking with his oun hands an j
overdose of morphine."
"From causes itnkuown to the jury i
and having no medical attendance." i
"Said infant child camo to his death
from premature birth."
"Came to his death from national
causes."
"Said child aged 1 day old came to j
her death from spasms, said child having
been found by the witness e in a
trunk under suspioious circumstances."
"The joueres on thare ouatho do say
that he comes to his death by old age,
as tha could not see enny else the matter."
"Come to his death from the following
causes, to wit: from somo suddent
cause to the jurors unknoun."
"The said deceased being an orphan,
father and mother both being dead."
"From an overdose of gin adminis- !
tered by his own hand."
"Being run over by two coal cars ,
whUe detached from the engine." . ,
"Come to his death by tender of No.
7 jumping the track on which he was .
riding, either jumping or falling, off
and engine running over him, wliic' '
was an accident and no fault of the (
engineer of said engine."
"She come to her death by lighten
striken her.""From
heart deseize."
"Came to his death in the following 1
manner, to wit: He was born dead. '
"From the hands of some unknown 1
person, or persons, tc the jury un- .
known, and afterwards placed on the ,
track and got run over by the income- 1
ing train." !
"Congestion of the brain and appli- !
cote fitze." .
"The body was so mangle and mu- .
tilate that tua could not tell firmytkig (
about it but tha think it was put in the
sisterne by some unkown person." (
"Calded on hir left side by kittley
of hot water burning over on hir left ;
side and causing hir death."
"From the effect of injuries receive
by her close accidental taking fire."
"From exposier."
Carios ia "Westminster Abbey.. ,
In Westminster abbey there is a cer- *
tain well-worn stone, which, without a
doubt, was used for the coronation of
the Kings of Scotland, and has been
during centuries taken but once from \
the abbey. This solitary occasion was
the installation of Cromwell at West- ;
minster hall. The Scots have made ]
many efforts to. recover their relic, to ]
which they attach very great impor- *
ance.
The coronation chair, as it is called,
is also the subject of a curious legend.
It is said to bo the actual stone on ]
which Jacob laid his head at Bethel. (
and from Palestine it is reputed to have
been removed to Egypt, thence to '
Spain, and. finally to the hill of Tara, '
in Ireland, where it was used for the J
coronation of the Irish Kings. From
Ireland it was carried to Scotland, by
Fergus, the Irish King, who subdued (
the northern country. All these matters,
historical and legendary, were at* .
one. time only set forth in the Latin 1
label but in the year 1851, for the con- 1
venience of visitors to the great exhibition,
the head guide rendered in the
common tongue a sort of sub-edited
inscription wnicn gave the authentic i
history as regards Scotland, and con- i
eluded with the legend as to Ireland, 1
but omitted all references to Jacob's 1
pillow as being profane. > ' i
For thirty years and more the stone, i
on this authority, passed as "the coro- <
nation chair of the Kings of Scotland j
and Ireland," but the other day, notic- 1
LUl^ tiiilL IUV UtUeXT MUC U1 LU.KJ >Y v
dirty and grimy, the same guide turn- 1
ed it over and wrote on the other side 1
the fact that the stone had been used 1
at the crowning of the Kings of Scot- 1
land, but judiciously left out the legend 1
conceiving Ireland, for the verger <
since 1851 has acquired considerable (
antiquarian knowledge, and can no i
longer subscribe to the belief he once :
held. Indeed, the stone never was in (
Palestine, and Professor Ramsey, who c
bas examined it as a geolo^is^ pro- t
uounces that none of its kind is found \
there, and that the chair is of true i
Scotch limestone.?London Cor. Pkilaietphia
Press.
The Desire to Tan.
The Emperor of Germany, so the *
story goes, was in his very youthful 1
days much exercised as to the means ?
by which to tan his fresh pink face, the 1
pride of his mother and lady friends. c
Eis remedy was to rub his countenance c
with bacon rind, and thus anointed to 1
lay on the sunny lawn. Whether his ?
TT-rtrn ??n AArtcrfnl ^ AO C ? ?
record, but American ladies might as *
well try this remedy for a tender skin
rather than the more violent one of
taking long rides or drives in the full
ylare of the sun without either trimmed
hat, veil, or sunshade. They, too,
tike the Ernp'eror, want the face to tan,
aot to give-it a more mannerly appearmce,
but as a preventative for freckles,
is a tanned skin is said not to "freckle,"
as does the delicate pink andsvhite
complexion. Of The two evils j
Ajnerican belles choose the least; but
[or all that the reign of the parasol is
not likelf to be at an end. Most ladies
shrink equally from both tan and
freckles, and for them the sunshade is
;he only hope.?Pall Mall Gazette.
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A town in Connecticut Las a lot ^
containing five graves, one in the j
center and the others near by at t
the four points of the compass. The s
center grave bears the brief in- c
scription, "Oar husband," L wife," s
"My II. wife," "My IIL wife," "My
IV. wife."
I
Messages of tiove tjr Hate.
"Do-I know anything of the language
of postage stamps?" said a well
known stationery dealer yesterday. "I
don't know of any book on the subject,
if that is-what you mean, but I have
heard the signification of some of the
ways of placing them on envelopas.
For instance, if the writer is a gentleman
who wishes to express love for a
fair damsel he inclines the label toward
the left, which method is repeated by
tho lady if she is favorable to his suit.
If, on the contrary, she wishes to give
iiim the cold shoulder she inclines her
label to the right. . A stamp in a perpendicular
posture signifies simple admiration;
wiien the bust stands on its
head it means thai the only sentiment
evoked by the suppliant, is ridicule. If
the stamp lies on its face it indicates
that the writer is dying for love; it it is
lying on its back then the writer has
got over his attack of heart disease. A
label may be placed wrong way up
with an inclination to the left that tells
a story of. hopeless attachment, while
should it be leaning towards the right
hand corner it is a sign that the affection
is unrequited."
t*A va onrr ofV*or ci/ryicP"
"Yes, such as sticking the label in
odd places on the envelope, , in; wrong
corners, using two or even three
stamps, making kisses . around them,
near them or in propinquity to them.
These have various meanings and mayall
bo included in the" language, of postage
stamps."
"Did you ever know of any one using
this mode,of communication?"
"If you promise not to give me awayI
will tell you of a postage stamp correspondence
in which I myself once was
a principal participant"
"My honor as a gentleman."
"That's good enough. Well, it's
about ten years ago. I hope you won't
be -shocked to hear that this correspondence'grew
out of my being a regular
attendant at church?"
"Not at all. That makes it all the
more'interesting."
"I suppose it does, so many similar
correspondences have arisen from a
like cause. I have for years been a
member of St. Peter's Episcopal
church, at Third and Pine streets. ;
One Sunday, ten years ago, I was des
perately struck with tie appearance
of a young lady who sat in a pew on
the opposite side of the aisle to me.
Never mind the details?after some in- !
tjuiries I found out who she was but
could not obtain an introduction."
"What did you do?"
"I got from a friend of mine some information
about the postage stamp language
and the language of flowers.
Every Sunday morning I managed to
ret to church in time to place a small
bouquet of flowers in her pew, together
with an empty envelope with the stamp
affixed in a certain way. After awhile
she discovered who her unknown admirer
was. What is more she learned i
the stamp language and in return she
would leave an envelope* stamped in i
the pew for me. This silent courtahip-^
continued for nearly eight months, ]
when, one lucky day, I found an ao
quaintonce who knew the family. I <
need not tell you that I soon became i
acquainted, too. To make along story
short, the lady is now my wife." ]
'Indeed! That is certainly a happy
and fitting ending to so romantic a
jourtship." * .1
"There are one or two other things, j
jrou might say about the sticking on of
stamps if you are going to publish :
this/ .
'Such as "
"Well, I fancy some of the stampers 'i
it the postoffice would feel obliged to
pou if you would recommend foolish
foung people who are anxious to ap- :
pear eccentric, not to put their stamps
in any corner but the upper right-hand
dug. It will lift a weight of sin off the
stamper's shoulders."
"But how about the language?"
"Easily arranged. If a square place
5 penciled off on the right-hand tipper.
;orner of the envelope the stamp can bo
ifELxed in- an}' manner that may be
;hosen. By the by, there is one curious
sign in the stamp language you might
mention."
"What is that?"
"Pasting the stamp on with the mnjilage
upward." i
"What on earth does that mean?" i
.. "That the sticker on is a confounded j
diot, and most probably drunk. Good ;
norning."?Philadelphia Times. <
Something Yet to be Invented. '
A scientific gentleman in this city, \
speaking recently to a Graphic repre- ^
sentative, said: "I believe that before
Long an instrument will be invented
jvhich will do away with the stenographers
in our courts and offices. They
ivers badly scared when Edison invent- ,
2d his phonograph, which would faithcully
record the sounds of the human j
roice as well us those of musical in- j
struments. That idea only needs to 1
Sft to nrodrmn a manhinA
;hat will answer* all the purposes of
iie modern short-hand writer, and in ?
"act be a more faithful recorder of all .
;hat takes place within its range, (
sounds such as laughs, sighs, moans ,
5tc., that a stenographer cannot write* ,
t; being alike susceptible to. Another ;
idvance in this line would be a mashine
which would automatically write
rat these recorded sounds', as on a ;
ype-writer, and thus every man could (
)e his own amanuensis. Inventors are '
iow looking into this matter.?New
York Graphic.
Admiral Hewitt in Atoyssirvia.
The special correspondent of the <
London Daily News, who accompanied <
Admiral Hewitt on his mission Abys- <
iinia, writing from Adowa, gives an
nteresting account of the experiences
>f the mission so far. He says: "The
>ther day we witnessed a wedding, and
ve had followed the wedding party
iome distance, having resolved to pre- j
tent the husband with, a present of dol- '
ars. He received them with much (
jlcasure, but when thanking us, a (
nounted soldier rode up, -snatched j
hem from his hand, and threw the'm '
it the head of our interpreter. This 1
vas one of many insults we had re- 5
:eived from the troops of the governor.
Since the day of our arrival he and his
)fiicials have been moat discourteous.
3e pointedly delayed calling; on the
Admiral, and when he condescended
,o do so was so drunk and stupid that
10 had to bo supported by his interpreter
on his road home. He forbade
he people in the district and towns to
iring us supplies. InA..wa there are
10 shops or hostelries of any descripion,
the people getting their goods
rom a market held once a week,
["edge and beer are brewed, corn con? J
-erted into flour, and all coooking pre- <
>ared in each household. Unless, i
herefore, these people are allowed to j
ell or give hospitality, the travelers' i
:hance of escape from starvation is a t
mall one. t
It was xennyson wno mTentea me j.
leadline "Sweet Girl Graduate."
IXXNTDON'S GREAT TAJLOB.
fs-'. - .-J
Recollections of the Man Who Pot
Disraeli on the Road to Fame.
. *1 remember Henry Poole very well,"
said a gentleman to a Philadelphia
Times reporter. "He was a fine, tall,
handsome man* over six feet in height,
with bnshy blonde whiskers. He
measured forty-two inches around the
chest / There was jd$> mistaking the
man when yon Saw him; he walked the
sLreots as if London were his own; private
property. Henry* Poole. was the
second son of the old tailor of/that
name. He was educated at Cambridge
and graduated with * : bachelor of . arts
degree. He might never;-have taken
to the tailoring business, but-Ms brother
died and then Henry thought he saw
his way to make a bfe thing, of it. Xou
seo^V large cohneetaon lie baS'among
his college friends helped him. He
was ajn&an who always dressed with
great taste, and not only expected but
insisted on all his employes dressing
well, too. When Henry Poole took the
business in hand first there were not
more than a hundred men employed;
In ten years there were nearer a thousand."
"Is there any truth in the story of
*o u) ~
"Oh, yes. Disraeli was in very poor
circumstances when, ho firs't obtained
the clerkship in the home office. Poole,
who'fras always in and ont of every |
place "where young men congregated,
saw! him, took a fancy to him, and believed
there was something great in
him He took Disraeli out with lym
one- evening to dinner and proposed
that he should supply him with clothes
suitable to the position in society that
Disraeli -ought to hold- The future
prime minister jumped at the offer, and
there is little doubt that-he.also received,
pecuniary assistance from the
shrewd and gqnerous tailor."
'4Di^ he he not assist the late Emperor
of the French in the same way?"
"Yes; but there was a reason for
that, .you know."
"Oh; yes. You refer to the story of
Pnrvl?Tc wife "
*- VVfW ^ ? **V. . I
No, no; there is not a word of.
truth -in that It was Miss Howard.
She was a cousin of Poole's. Her
mother kept a very fashionable little
hotel pm Dover street, Piccadilly, just
behind the White Horse cellars. She
was created Duchess de Beauverne by
Napoleon on his marriage t? the present
Empress, on condition that she left
France. He also settled a very good
income on her. Poole did not marry
until late in life. His wife was a lady
with whom he had fallen in love while
quite a young man at college."
He was very strict, was he not, in
business?"
I should think he was, indeed. He
never allowed anything to go out of
his sl*>p that had not been tried on and
fitted over and over again. He would
employ a man and keep him in his employ
for the simple reason that he was
of tie same and. -LaiM-os?a I
have known a man to- eifc
for a couple of hours on a saddleblock,
only having the crease in a pair
af riding breeches rectified. He reduced
tailoring to a science."
"Did he do any cutting or measuring
himself?"
"No, sir! There is a story told of
Lord Hardcastle meeting Poole on the
chain pier at Brighton. He stopped
him and said: 'Look here, Poole, 1 got
this coat of you and see how badly it
fits.' Poole took a bit of chalk out of
his.'waistcoat pocket and'marked his
Lordship's coat all over and said: 'Take
that coat to my cutter, my lord, and he
will make the necessary alterations.'"
"He was very extravagant in his habits,
was he not?"
"Very. He had a house at Brighton,
another in Burlington street, near his
store, which was a'perfiect mine of art,
and on the Thames, at Hammersmith,
he had a regular palace. His champaign
luncheons cost him a fortune.
He nad one of the finest hunting studs
in Great Britain. He never cared
what he paid for a horse, and although
he was such a big man lie was a magnificent
'cross country rider."
' He did not die rich, did he?"
"No, he was worth about ?25,000
when he died, and the result of the sale
of his houses and horses barely settled.
the claims of his creditors. He was
generous to a fault. He could never
pass a beggar, and many a half-soversign.he's
given away to people who,
perhaps, didn't deserve his charity.
&e was the bes.t of employers . and he
kept men with him for years, but there
svas never the least mistake about who
tvas master on his premises."
Thought the Minister was Joking.
"My boy, what are you doing with
that cigar in'your mouth? Throw the
filthy thing away," said a clerical-lookins:
man to a bootblack who stood near
the Globe hotel puffing a cigar. The
urchin looked up :it the man with an
injured air, then shaking his head said:
"Nawyer don't Fm onto that trick.That's
what the kids tells me when I'm
lush and smokin' a two-fer, so they
:an pick it up. But when a lad can't
take a smoke without an old chap like
pou wantin' him to throw it away, then
there's a case for pity."
Beaching into his pocket, the benevoient
boy brought forth three cents, saying,
as "he held them out to the abashed
yentleman: :
"Here, take them coppers and buy
Mie for yerself, but don't ask me
igain."
The dozen or more' men and boys
cvho had collectcd around the pair
shouted derisively as the minister turned
and walked away .?Syracuse, Her
Mottoes For the Frieze. - |
A newly-married modern Athenian
has taken a suite of rooms in a Back
Bay apartment hotel, and his bride,
being in the sewingless condition incilent
to having a complete trousseau,iesired
to embroider a frieze with a
motto to go about the reception-room.
She accordingly asked a bachelor
xiend for a quotation from Shakspeare,
ind thought him mighty witty when he
proposed "Suites to the sweet" The
sentence was brief, however, to go all
ihe way round, so the professor was
isked to lengthen it. Unluckily, he
lad in the meantime opened a note
:ontaining a bill for rent for a flat he
lad vainly tried to sublet, and he somevhat
disconcerted the fair questioner
jy growling out: "Oh, put the rest of
ne way round'Jbiats to tno nai: ?
Boston Advertiser.
There is a club of pretty girls in
Boston who have sworn never to wear
sye-glasses or spectacles before they
ire married. It appears that the ayerige
Boston girl reads and studies sa
nueh that very many of the deasgafl
ures are near-sighted. Glassy?
herefore, been greatly in voffljffl
rirl with glasses
therefore the
/ M
He Meant Well, But Pulled the Wrong
Strap.
. The man was almond-eyed, his cot- :
ton tunic was of a spotless white and
his long pigtail was carefully coiled np
under his wide straw hat as he got into
an Eighth avenue horse car at Fourteenth
street, New York, and sat down
in the further corner with a big basket
of clean clothes between his feet
Then; as ho thought of how much nearer
the profits on that particular "wash"
would oring him to the time when he
could go back to China and- buy a palmm
ftn thn Ho n Ire nf tha Vfl.n(T.+ao.
av/v vu miv v*
Kiang, his yellow face wag wreathed
with placid smiles.
At Twenty-third- street a lady entered
the car whose.handsome costame
and more than handsome face at once
attracted the attention of he* fellow
passengers.. 3?>peeiall;fdi<ftlt?
dian'ortlie'clotnes basket gaze at her
with undisguised admiration, and he
kept on gazing until, at Forty-second
street, she half rose from her seat and
tried to catch the eye of the conductor.
But tjie conductor was calculating how
many fares he could manage 'to avoid
registering that afternoon, and was,
therefore, more than usually blind to
all around him. But her admirer in
. the further end was equal to the occasion.
Springing to his feet,, he seized
the strap which communicated with the
clock-like fare register above his head.
"Me stopla car fol you, ladee!" cried
he, and straightway he began to pull
the strap so fast that it sent the registering
hand around the face of the dial
at the rate of ten revolutions a minute.
Before the conductor could catch his
breath and look into the car seventeen
extra fares had been registered. > The
driver made no sign of slowing up, so
the laundryman put on more steam and
pulled the strap as if he were ringing a
tire bell, while he smiled and waved his
hand encouragingly at the lady, who
stared at him for a moment and then
sinking back into her seat burst into
laughter.
The conductor also stared at him,
but only for one brief instant Then,
as he saw the hand in. the register going
around the dial as if a Corliss engine
was running it, he gave an inarticulate
howl and dashed into the car.
"Yc son of a rat-atein' hathen," he
yelled, as he grasped the Chinaman by
the bacK hair, "I'll tache ye to ring up
twintv-sivin fares that I'll hev ter oav i
for out of me own pocket!"
A confused combination of white
tunic, pigtail, wicker basket and conductor
swept toward the back platform
like a small cyclone. Then the Chinaman
found himself sitting on a dust
heap in the street with the basket jammed
down over his head, the clean
clothes strewn arcrtmd him on the dirty
cobblestones and the conductor dancing
a war dance on the^ rear platform
as he shook his fist at him over the back
rail.
The crowd which gathered around
the fallen one extricated his head from
the basket,, but he sat on the dust heap,
"gaZQTL :it-ine~~wrec? aTouua
wept.
"Clean clo no <*lood?alle same, bad
t ii i . i i ? a.:
as Deno wasneer ne saia, as ne xranucally
tore his pigtail and refused to be
comforted. Just then the lady who
had hastened to get out of the car came
back to him, and after helping him to
gather up" his soiled and rumpled linen
into the broken basket, put a two-dollar
bill and a card into his hand.
"If you will come to that address-tomorrow
I will give you all my laundry
as long as I am in the city," she said,
and left him with an angelic smile.
The card bore the name of a leading
lady at a theater not far from Union
Square.?N. Y. Herald.
Fatigue of the Eye.
Persons speak of their eyes being
fatigued, he said, meaning thereby that
the seeing portion of the brain is fatigued,
but in that they are mistaken.
oo men. say xneir Drains are urea.
Brains seldom become tired. The retina
of the eye, which is a part of the
brain, and an offshoot from it, hardly
ever is tired. -The fatigue is in the inn"!*
and outer muscles attached to the
e} \d in the muscle of accomodation.
The eye ball, resting in a bed of
fat, has attached to it six muscles for
turning it in any desired direction, and
the musclc' attached to the side nearest
the nose and one at the outer angle of
the eye should, in every normal eye, be
balanced. They arc used in converging
the eye on the objcct to be viewed,
and the inner muscles are used the
more when the object is the nearer.
The muscle of accommodation is one
which surrounds the lens of the eye.
When it is wanted to gaze at objects
near at hand this muscle relaxes and
allows tbe lens to tmc^en, increasing i
its refractive power at the same time [
that.the muscles on the inner or nasal
side of the eye contract and direct the
eyes to the point gazed at. It .is in
these muscles that the fatigue is felt,
and one finds relief in closing the eyes
or in gazing at objects at a distance.
The chief source of fatigue is in the
lack of balance in the two sets of inner
and outer muscles of accommodation.
It may be set'down that there is something
wrong when the eye becomes fatigued.
The defective eye, as it gives
out sooner, is really safer from severe
strains. The usual indication of strain
is a redness of the rim of the eyelid,
betokening a congested state of the inner
surface, accompanied with some
pain. When it is shown that the eye is
not equal to the work required of it,
the proper remedy is not rest, for that
is fatal to its strength, but the use of
glasses of sufficient power to render
unnecessary so much effort in accom-'
modatincr the eve to vision. It is not i
good sense to waste time resting the
eye, and that practice dees not
strengthen it
Eyes begin to age at about the tenth
or twelfth year of life, when they have
reached their full development. At the
age of 45 or 50 years the lenses cease
to thicken, when the pressure is removed,
and their presbaoepia, or old
si^ht, begins. When a child is compelled
to use or require the use of
glasses there is .little reason to hope
that it will outgrow the need, but the
person will use these glasses as a basis,
adding other glasses as he reaches the
age when old sight begins, or using the i
thicker glasses. Mr. Seely, however, j
mentioned one case he had observed |
where a child had outgrown .the need i
of glasses, but in the meantime ho had [
grown from a small and puny child to '
a large and well-developed man.
Second sight, or the apparent rccov- j
ery of strength of vision, which is !
sometimes seen in tho aged, the lec- j
turer explained as a change, an elon- I
gauwt in nzo snopu ox?cxrc?uj osobj u j
which the person became near-sighted,
accompanied by a change in the lens ;
caused by the appearance of a cataract, j
Dr. W. W. Seely. j
^^^fact that persons
^^norc susceptible
Bfc^o all kinds
Akeomatism. '
French and English. Detectives. .
' ^ 1
Xzi England we have a curious but
very erroneous idea that if a policeman
wears a suit of plain clothes instead of
his regular uniform, he is fnlly able to
find out all about any crime that has
ever been committed.' A greater' mistake
was never made. Not only to the
"dangerous classes," but to almost everj^.Londoner.
who is anything of an observer
regarding his fellow men, ,4plain
clothes" officers, as our detectives are |
| called, are"aettially as well known as !
' if th<*y wore the helmet and bine tunic,
and black leather waist teit of the regular
policeman. .It is qnite otherwise
in France. A French^ detective has
nothing whatever to do with serving
summonses or warrants. He never arrests
a criminal,' but he points out to
-She-^egular police where criminals can
be found. -. It is only on very rare occasions
that he appears as a witness
against a prisoner, and when he does
so he assumes for the future a dress
and general appearance quite unlike
what he has hiiberto borne. A French
detective who cannot disguise himself
in such a manner that his oldest friend
would not be able to recognize him is
not deemed wort!' his salary. He takes
the greatest professional pride in this
art. In a word the French detectives
are the spies sent out by the army of
law and order to tind out all about the
enemy that is constantly waging war
against life and property. In England
we have no similar set of men, and
what are the consequcnccs? Who, that
unless a murderer, burglar, or other
offender, is either taken red-handed, or
leaves behind him some very plain
marks as to who he is. or where he may
be found, crime with us is, as a rule,
undetected. Sooner or later, notwithstanding
our national.prejudice.against
all that is secret and underhand, we
must adont a svstem for- the detection
of crime on the plan that is found to
work so well in France, and the sooner
wc do so the better, unless we want to
make England, and London in particular,
more than even it is now the happy
hunting ground of all the scoundrels in
Europe. All Frenchmen who have visited
our country s'av that our ordinary
police are the best in the world; that
the manner in which they preserve order
in the streets is' above praise; and
they are right. Nor can a word be-said
against the character, the integrity or
the intentions of our detectives. But
the system on which they are trained is
essentially bad. They are the wrong
men in the wrong place?the square
pegs in the round holes.?Chamber's
Journal.
"What is an Insect?
The authors are divided as to what
constitutes an insect, but, with few
exceptions, it is now agreed that an
insect is a living creature having six
legs, generally having wings, three
distinct parts of the body, the head, the
thorax and the abdomen, breathing
il... ? ftprnl nnni"1 * ' wt < hn gtdpg?*
the body, and having four different
stages of existence?the egg, the larvae,
the pupa and the imago or perfect insect
Generally insects in one stage of their
existence live on very different food
from that which supports them in another,
and this fact shows a very
wonderful instinct or intelligence in
the parent insect in knowing where the
eggs are to be deposited- A mistake
is never made. The eggs sometimes
hatch in a few hours, sometimes in a
few days or weeKs ana occasionally
not for years, but they are always deposited
under conditions favorable to
their development, no matter when
this may be. It is also' to be observed
that the eggs of insects which are not
to hatch tal next spring are never
fastened to the leaves or other perishable
parts of trees, but to the bark,
and usually secured by a sort of glue
that will commonly resist rain and
moisture. The larvje is so called from
a Latin word meaning mask, sineo in
this state the insect is so unlike its
perfect form that it may be said to-bemasked.
The larvsS of the insects are
seldom distinguished from other
worms, but after passing a certain
time in this stage the grub spins a*
cocoon for itself of silk and enters its
third condition, the pupa, from -a Latin
word meaning an infant roiled in
bandages after the manner of the Romans
or also called chrysalis from the
Greek word for gold, as some of them
have gold-like mafkings. Insects are
classed in seven orders. The first
is the hymenoptcra,. comprising the
wasps, ants and others which manifest
a high order of intelligence. The
coleoptcra comprise those insects which
have a shield on their wings, and also
many of the most injurious insects
known, such as boers. The lepidoptera
number all the butterflies and moths in
their . list, while the bemiptera or halfwinged.
include such as the chinchbug,
the bed-bug and a number of others
equally objectionable. The diptcra
have but two wings, such as the house
fly; the orlhopterahave straight wings,
as locusts, crickets, and the Neuroatcra,
or nerve-winged, arc whose wings are
so interwoven with strong fibers as
to present the appearance of bony interlacing.?St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
She Removed the Pieces.
' The ixalted marquis av Smith,"
says Miss Bridget Magee, "who is sojournin'
in this mathropolis in blissful
ignorance that he is heir to a toitle an'.
vast istatcs, was tillin' me av an advinture
av the koind. Sed he: 'Oh, Miss
Magee,. I wint uptown on "Wednesday
in the car, an' it was full, an11 had to
sthand up fur about fourteen blocks.
Thin somebody got out, an' jist as I
was preparin' to take the vacant place,
which was besoide a lady, what d'yez
think she did? Why, she deliberately
picked up her parasol an' put it acrost
the sate. What d'yez think I did?'
Why poloitely raquisted her to ramove
it, I "suppose?' I obsarved. 'Will,
there's where yez make ycrmishtake,'
he replied. 'I deliberately sot down on
it, an' it was she who impolitely raquisted
mc to move to racovcr the
paces.' "?N. 0. Mascot.
A Mistake Rarely Made.
Young Lawyer (much elated)?Mr. Coke,
congratulate me. You know I
told you 1 had a case. Well, sir, I've
won it. Yes, sir, actually won my first
case.
Coke (au old lawyer)?You're exens- j
liuic uiiuui iu<* v;ii^uuidLaiiv;ud9 uuo wiuu
a little experience you may yet do honor
to the profession.
Young lawyer?Excusable under the
circumstances! I don't understand
j-our meaning, Mr. Coke.
Coke?Don't understand? Listen:
If you had beenga lawyer of experience j
vou would have lost that case; then you !
would advise your client to appeal, and
if skillfully managed it might have
been made to last for years, or at least
as long as he had any money. But you
bavc won, and that's the end of it
Let it be a lesson to you in the future. *
?Boston Transcript.
About 40,000,000 pennies were'isoine-S in
the United States last year.
Colorado contributes 100,000 "?eohs tc
the country's resources this year.
Of the 2')l applicants for admission
to Harvard, forty-nine are ladies.
is said to be wortlf about $2,8QO^OO&The
births in Spain during 1883 iraia-herflri
4JiS <"WYV n.nrl the deaths' 41/fcGOG: "*- ;
ported to be cutting her fpurtfc"*set of
Can'&daexported last yearflSOS.Si*
worth of -batter and $6,451,.876 worth Sam
Coilyur, the noted pugilisVis
now iiviiig in the vicinity of Hampton, ^
Virginia.
The worsted industry of England
employs 2,225,820 spindles; in France,
2,765,000.
Alexander II. Stephens'library, which
cost 'him $20,000, has beeen sacrificed ^
for $800.
The census of 1880 shows 6.632.000
colored people in tiie former slave
states. . v
It is estimated that the yield of ap- .
pies in western New ' York wiil be 4,000,000
barrels.
An old well in Staten Island is said - rjjjfjS
to be running dry of water-and taking
a turn at'oil giving. The
"Osborne" flat-house in New
York city, wbich is almost completed, ?
is fifteen stories high.
?
Rev. Dennis Osborne, a native missionary
from , India, says his people
have 333,000,000 gods.
The Capo Cod canal dredger is the
largest in the world. Ii takes out 600
cubic yards an hour. "The
razor of Daniel O'Connell" is
labeled for sale in a shop window near ' .."7?
the Seven Dials, London.
Samuel Noble, of Anniston, Ala., has
given $20,000 toward founding a free
high school at that place.
It is estimated that upward, of 500,000,000
tons of canned goods are annually
packed in this country.
A Stuttgart doctor says that corpulent
persons may become thin by sleeping
on and wearing animal wooL
Thirty vessels have been wrecked
and sank off Norwalk and Bridgewater
on the Connecticut shoals since 1882.
Eddie Bunnell, living near Courtland,
Sacramento county, CaLt aged
six years and three months, weighs
107 pounds.
uiiroeanng strata exist in tne neign- ?
borhood oi Sibi, Southern Afghanistan,
and the ?overmnent will begin boring
next winter.
A Walla Walla, W. T., man claims
to have picked over 8,000 pounds of
strawberries from less than two acres
of vines this season.
?A-n- rrcrron nrjvh n "beHSVeOliat the
science depends nrtrcu ,ujwa?pir?*^^
raphy esihnates that it would take ten
years to photograph the heavens.
A womr.a lias recently-patented a.
fire escape. What wo must need in J2|
this leap year of our Lord is a man
escape. Will some woman patent one?
General George H. Thomas' widow
will make Washington her permanent
home in the future, and has already
b'jgun the crcction of a handsome residence
there. .
A hundred-ton cannon that was being
fired for the first time recently at
Gibraltar split or burst at the muzzle
in consequence of the shot not being / * * i
rammed home.
An old duck shooter calculates that
oroad bills liy at tnc rate ol tmrty-nve
to 110 miles an hour .and other varieties
from forty-live prjBfty to eighty and
100 miles" ['ur hour. There
arc S30 colicges and universities
in the United States, of which only
twenty four have more than 2o0 stu- - a*.
dents," an i only seventeen have more
than twemy teachers.
There are nine octogenarians in tho
British house of commons; tho oldest
being eighty-three. One member, Col.
Nortn, who"is eighty, has a son who
sits in the house of peers as ,Lord
North.
It has been observed that Miss Hurst
the Georgia "magnetic girl," before
U /\m Ainn V* e\ TA J nil w o CP AO
UCL JJU f> CiO iiaUlbUUXLy
her hands through her bangs. Perhaps
her strength, like Samson's, lies in her
hair. ;/ ' '
The study of the Irish language is
becoming popular among many Irishmen
in this country. In most of the
large cities there are classes organized
for the purpose. The Philadelphia
classes, for instance, number fifty
pupils.
In order to prevent haystacks being
destroyed by fire, farmers in the far
west scatter a few handfuls of common
salt between each layer. It is claimed
that the salt, by absorbing the hu
midity of the hay, prevents its fermentation
rind consequent heating. ' .' 1',
The mortality of the whole globe has
been computed by a continental publication
at the following figures: Sixtyseven
per minute, 97,700 per diem and
35,639,835 per annum; whereas the
births are 36,792,000 per annum, 100,000
per diem and 70 per minute.
A mysterious and terrible creature
known as the "willipus wallipus" has
made its appearance near Clarksville,
Tenn. A number of citizens have seen
it, and they say it is bullet-proof and v;"'~
belches fire. The "moonshiners" must
be doing a good business in that part
of the country.
Robert Shumate, of Nelson, Ky., sot -.
a "gar fly1'in his ear while fishing. , ,
He knocked it out right away, but not
until after it had deposited a lot of
eggs. After suffering several days
with earache, he called a doctor, who
removed nine screw worms from his
ear, and there are more to come.
A collection of Oriental idols, numbering
about 12,000, and a libraiy of
12,000 volumes, principally in Chinese ? - 5
and Japanese, have been presented to
the city of Paris by M. Emile Guimet,
of Lyons. The'owner it is said, had
refused an offer of $600,000 for the col
lection, for which the municipal council
will provide a suitable building.
The Alps contain two peaks above
15,000 fecr, six or seven above 14,000
feet, and in all about thirty which are
called first-class peaks. The Himalayas,
on the other hand, or rather the
limited part of them with which we
are familiar, contain peaks from 29,000
feet downward. More than 1,100 have
been measured exceeding 20,000 feet,
and it is computed that at least 2,000
exceed this height.
Charles Reade's London publisher
says that once the novelist, asthev were
traveling together, pointed to a" piece . ~
of water in the distance, and said*
"That's where Christie Johnston
caught the herrings." He regarded
this incident of his own invention as
reality, so sincere was he in his work.