THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, - 1890.
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"Well, MacGillicuddy'sBreeks no. that
won't do; they don't wear such things in
the North. Any unpronounceable place
any kind of puddle or barren rock; to be
barn within sirbt of that means that you
own everything of honesty, and manliness,
and worth that's going yes, worth worth
is a sweet word manly worth it is the pre
rogative of persons who haTe secured the
greatest blessing on earth, that of being
born north of the Tweed. Now, why doesn't
eld George Bethune go away Dack there;
and wave his tartan plaid, and stamp, and
howl balderdash, and have monuments put
up to him as the White-haired Bard of
Glen-Toddy? That surelr would be better
than hawking bogus books about London
and getting subscriptions for things that
never appear; though he manages to do
pretty well. Oh, yes, he does pretty well,
one way and another. The cunning old
cockroach to take that girl around with
liim, and get her to make eyes at tradesmen,
so as to swindle them out of pounds of teal"
But at this a sudden flame seemed to go
through the young man's brain and un
happily he'had his stick quite close by. In
aninstant he was on his feet, his right band
grasping the cane, his left fixed in thecoat
collar of the luckless journalist, whose inert
bulk he was attempting to drag from the
chair.
"You vile hound!" Vincent said with set
teeth and his nostrils were dilated and his
eyes afire. '"I have allowed you to insult
an old man but now now you have gone
too far. Come out of that and I will break
every bone in your body 1"
Down come the stick; but by a fortunate
accident it causht on the back of the chair,
and the force of the blow sent it flying in
two.
"For God's sake stop!" the other cried
but in a terrified whisper and his face was
as white as death. "What are you doing!
are you man! I beg your pardon can I do
more? 1 beg yonr p"ardon for God's sake,
have a little common sense!"
Vincent looked at the man; more abject
cowardice he had never beheld than was
displayed in every trembling limb of his
huge carcases, in every lcature of the
blanched face. He flung him from him
in disdain.
"Yes," said Mr. Fox, with a desperate
, .-effort at composure, and he even tried to put
his coat collar to rights, though his fingers
were all shaking, and himself panting and
breathless. "You you may thank me for
for having saved you. If I had touched
that bell it I had called out you would
have been ruined ruined for life a pretty
story for to hear about his favorite pro-
tesre increase your chances of getting into
Parliament, wouldn't it? Can't you take a
bit of a joke? you're not a Scotchman!"
Vincent was still standing there, with
lowering brow.
"When you are busy with your jokes,"
said he, "I would advise you to keep any
friends of mine out oi them especially a
girl who has no one to defend her. But I
am glad I came here to-night. I begiu to
understand in whose foul mind arose those
distortions and misrepresentations and lies.
So it was to you George Morris came when
he wanted to know about Mr. Bethune and
his granddaughter" An excellent author
ity! And it was straight from you, I sup
pose, that George Morris went to my father
with his wonderfnl tale "
"One moment," said Courtnay Fox and
he appeared to speak with a little difficulty;
perhaps he still lelt the pressure of knuckles
at hir neck. "Sit down. I wish to explain.
Mind you, I could make this a bad night's
work for you, if I chose. But I don't, for
reasons that you would understand it you
were a little older and had to earn your own
living, as I have. It is mv interest to make
friends "
"Ami an elegant way you have of making
them," said Vincent, pcornlully.
" and I want to assure you that I
never said anything to George Morris about
Mr. Bethune that was notquite well known.
Nor had I the least idea that Morris was
going to your father: or that you had the
least interest or concern in the matter. As
for a bit of chaff about Scotland: who would
mind that? Many a time I've had it out
with Mr. Bethune himself in this very room;
and do you suppose he cared? his gran
diloquent patriotism soared far away above
my little Cockney jests. So I wish you to
perceive that there was no enmity in the
affair, no intention to do barm, and no mis
representation; and when you see that you
will see also that you have put yourself in
the wrong, and 1 hope you will have the
, grace to apologize."
It was a most creditable effort to escape
from a humiliating position with some sem
blance of dignity.
"Apologize lor what?" said Vincent,
staring.
"Why,for your monstrous and outrageous
conduct of this evening."
"I am to apologise?" said Vincent, with
his brows growing dark again. "You in
troduce into your scurrilous talk the name
of a young lady who is known to me you
speak of her inj the most insulting and
gratuitous fashion and and I am to
apologize! Yes, I do apologize; I apologize
lor having brought! such a tool of a stick
with me; I hope it will be a heavier one if I
near you make used such language again."
"Come, come, threats wili not serve," said
Mr. Fox but he was clearly cowed and
anxious to be civil. "I'll tell you what I
will do for yen if you wish to know where
Mr. Bethune is. I gather that he has dis
appeared from his usual quarters altogether,
or you would not have come to me for in
formation. "Well, when he begins to send
. in these articles on the Scotch ballads if
he means to send them in at all of which
1 am doubtful, for I've sen the way of too
many of those projects ot his; well, if he
sends them in, it will not be to this office,
but to the Edinburgh office. They are for
the Weelly; and it is made up there. Very
well; the moment one appears I will tele
graph down for his address, and let you
know."
"I thank you," said Vincent, with tormal
politeness; and with an equally formal
"good night" the young man took his leave.
Mr. Courtnay Fox instantly hid the broken
portions ol the cane (until he should have a
chance of burning them), and, ringing the
bell, called in a loud and manly voice for
the latest telegrams.
So Vincent was once more thrown hack on
himself and his own resources. He went
aown to Scotland, and made inquiries
union? the Edinburgh newspaper offices
without avail. He advertised in several of
the London dally journals; there was no
reply. He told the head waiter at the Res
taurant Mentavisti that if Mr. Bethune and
his granddaughter who were well known to
all in the place should make their appear
ance any evening, and if he, the head
waiter, could manage to send some one to
follow them home and ascertain their ad
dress, that would mean a couple of sover
eigns in his pocket; but the opportunity
never presented itselt. And meanwhile this
young man, taking no care of himself, and
lretting from morning till evening, and
often all the sleepless night through as
well, was gradually losing his color.'and
s becoming like the ghost of his own natural
self.
Christmas came. Harlnnd Harris and
Vincent went down to pass the holidays with
Mrs. Ellison, at Brighton; and tor the same
purpose Lord Musselburgh returned to the
Bedford Hotel. The lour of them dined
together on Christmas evening. It was not
a very boisterous party, considering that the
pragmatical and pedantic voice ot the man
of ealth was heard discoursing on such
light and fanciful themes as the payment oi
returning officers' expenses, theequal.zation
of the death duties, and the establishment ot
state-assisted intermediate schools, but
Musselburgh threw in a little jest now and
again, to mitigate the ponderosity of the
harangue. Vincent was almost silent. Since
coming down from London, he had not said
a single word to any one of them about Mr.
.Bethune or his granddaughter; no doubt
they would have told "him that he had
- been betrayed. But Mrs. Ellison, sitting
there, and watching more than listening,
was concerned about the looks of her boy, as
she called him; and before she left the table,
she took np her glass, and said
'lam goiug to askrou two gentlemen to
drink a toast and it" is the health of the
coming member for Mendover. And I'm
going to ask him to pull himself together,
and show some good spirits; for there's noth
ing a constituency likes so much as a merry
and good-humored candidate."
It only he could get to see ilaisrie for
the briefest moment that he might
demand the reason of her sudden
flight! "Was it some overstrung sensi
tiveness of spirit? Did she fear that no
one would understand this carelessness
of her grandfather about money matters;
and that she might be suspected of com
plicity, of acquiescence, in certain doubtful
ways? AYas that the cause of her strange
sadness, her resignation, her hopelessness?
Was that why she had spoken of her "degra
dation" why she had declared she could
never be his wife why she had begged him
pheously to go away, and leave this bygone
friendship to be a memory and nothing
more? "Can you not understand, Vincent!"
she had said to him, in heart-breaking
accents, as though she could not bring her
self to the brutality of plainer speech.
"Well, he understood this at all events: that
in whatever circumstances Maisrie Bethune
may have been placed, no contamination
had touched her: white as the white moon
light out there was that pure soul: he had
read her eyes.
The next morning Lord Musselburgh was
out walking in the King's Boad with the lair
young widow who hoped soon to be re-transformed
into a wife.
"That friend of yours down at Mendover,"
said sire, "what is his name? Josford?
well, be seems an unconscionable time dy
ing. I wish he'd hurry up with his Chil
tern Hundreds and put an end to himself at
once. That is what is wanted for Vin the
novelty and excitement of finding himself
in the House ot Commons. Supposing Mr.
Gosford were to resign at once, how soon
could "Yin be returned? There's some pro
cedure, isn't there? the High Sheriff or
somebody, issues a writ, or something ?"
"I realiy cannot sav," her companion
answered blandly. "I belong to a sphere
in which such violent convulsions are un
known." "At all events. Parliament will meet about
the middle of February?" she demanded.
"I presume so," was the careless answer.
"There's nothing else to do then except
salmon-fishing and that's too cold."
"I wish the middle of February were here
now, and Vin 3nd all securely returned,"
said she. "I suppose that even in the case
of a small borough like Mendover, one's
constituents can keep one pretty busy?
They will watch how you vote, won't they?
and remonstrate when you go wrong; and
pass resolutions; and expect you to go down
and be cross-examined. Then there are
always public meetings to be addressed; and
petitions to be presented; and people want
ing admission to the Speaker's gal
lery "
"Why, really, Madge, there's a sort of
furious activity about you this morning,"
said he. "You quite take one's breath
away. I shouldn't be surprised to see you
on a platform yourself."
"It's all lorVin's sake I am so anxious,"
she exclaimed. "I can see how miserable
and sad the poor boy is though he bears it
so bravely never a word to one of us, lest
we should ask him if be believes in those
people now. I wonder if he can. I wonder
if he was so blinded that even now he will
shut his eyes to their true character?"
"They are quite gone away, then?" her
companion asked.
"Oh, yes," she made answer. "I hope so.
Indeed,! know they are. And on the whole
it was opportune, just as this election was
coming on; for now, if ever, Vin will have
a chance of throwing off an infatuation that
seemed likely to be his ruin, and o. begin
ning that career of which we all hope such
great things."
She claimed round, cautiously, and low
ered her voice.
"But, oh, my goodness, if ever he should
find out the means we took to persuade them
to go, there will be the very mischief to pay;
he will tear us to pieces! You know how
impetuous and prond he is; and then those J
people nave appealed to him in a curious
way their loneliness their poverty and
their Yes, I will admit it certain per
sonal qualities and characteristics. I don't
deny it; any more than I would deny that
the girl was extremely pretty, andtheold
.man picturesque; and even well-mannered
and dignified in his way. All the more
dangerous the pair of them. "Well,
now they are' gone, I breathe more freely.
While they were here no argument was of
any avail. Vin looked into the girl's ap
pealing face and everything was refuted.
And at all events we can say this to our own
conscience that we nave done them no
harm. We are not mediaeval tyrants; we
have not flung the venerable patriot and the
innocent maiden into a dungeon, to say
nothing of breaking their bones on a rack.
The venerable patriot and the innocent
maiden, I bave no donbt, consider them
selves remarkably well off. And that re
minds me tnat Harland Harris, although he
is of opinion that all property should be un
der social control "
"Not all property, my dear Madge," said
Lord Musselburgh, politely. "Or rather
he would say that all property should be
under social control except his property."
"I dare say that is the distinction. At all
events, it seems to me that he occasionally
finds it pretty convenient to have plenty ot
money at his own individual command.
Whv, for him to denounce the accumulation
of capital," she continued, with a pretty
scorn, "when no one makes more ostentatious
use ot the power of money! Is there a single
thing he denies himself one single thing
that is only possible to mm through ms be
ing a man of great wealth? Every luxury
vou can thins of! I shouldn't wonder a bit
if, when he dies, he leaves instructions to
have the electric light turned on into his
coffin, just in case he should wake up and
want to press the knob."
'Come, come, Madge," said Musselbnrgh.
"Be generous. A man cannot always prac
tice what he preaches, You must grant him
the privilege of sighing .or an ideal."
"Hailand Harris sighing for an ideal,"
said Mrs. Ellison, with something of femi
nine spite, "would make a capital subject
for an imaginative picture by "Watts if my
dear brother-in-law wern't rather stout, and
wore a black frock-coat."
Meanwhile, Vincent returned to London,
and renewed his solitary search; it was the
only thing he felt fit Tor; ail other employ
ments had no meaning for him. were impos
sible. But. as day by day passed, lie became
more and more convinced that they must
have'left London; he knew their familiar
baunts so well, and their habits, that he was
certain be must have encountered them
somewhere if they were still within the
great citv. And here was the New Year
drawing nigh, when friends far separated j
TO REVOLUTIONIZE
J-a'xarjjrarji
The stockholders o the Mount" Carmel Aeronautic Navigation Company, chartered
with a capital or 520,000,000, met recently at theGrand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, and'elected
the following directors, all being men of wealth and influence: George "W. Sinks, Presi
dent of the Desbler Bank, oi'polumbus, O.; J. S. Morton, President of the Ohio Sunday
Creek Coal Company; E. L. Chamberlain, President of the Ohio Buggy Company, Colum
bus, O.; O. C. Hawkes, of the J. & O. C.
Birimngham, England; James A. Pugh and "W. C. Dewey, of the importing firm of
Dewey & Pugh, of Chicago; J. C. L. Pugh. a leading attorney or Columbus. O.; Frank
Smith, Vice President of the Phoenix Fnrntture Company, of Grand Rapids, Mich.; C. J.
Sherer, ot Chicago; E. J. Pennington, President of the Mount Carmel (Ill.)-Pulley
Work', and Richard H. Butler, of Mount Carmel, 111.; Alexander S.haw,
of Elmira, N. Y., and H. Van Allen, of New York City. At
the time when the news of the proposed air-ship first became known
the attention of the entire country was drawn to it and the facts that aluminium and elec
tricity the two things which Edison said would solve the problem were to be used, gave
an air of reality to the project The only objection raised was that the names of no well
known men were made public in connection with the company. Thursday's election has
answered that objection. At the former meeting it was emphatically announced that not
a dollar's worth of stock was or would be offered for sale. Prominent Eastern capitalists
sent Jerome Carty, a Philadelphia attorney, to investigate the matter in Chicago. At the
meeting at the Grand Pacific be made au offer for a large share of stock, but was refused.
The only capital interested in the undertaking is owned by the company itselt, with the
exception of that furnished by an Englitb syndicate, which was represented at the meeting
by O. C. Hawkes, of Birmingham. Fourteen acres Tor the erection of the plant at Mount
Carmel have already been purchased and work on the first building, which is to be 800 feet
square, will commence at once. The firstship, however, is being erected in St Louis as
the inventors do not wish to delay until the completion of their own plant.
recalled themselves to each other's memory,
with hopes and good wishes for the coming
time.
But'a startling surprise was at hand.
About 1:30 o'clock on the last night of the
old year a note was brought upstairs to him
by a servant His face grew suddenly pale
when he saw the handwriting, which he in
stantlv recognized.
"Who brought this?" he said, breath
lessly. "A man, sir."
"Is he waiting?"
"No, sir; he said there was no answer."
"What sort of man?" asked Vincent, with
the same rapidity and not yet daring to
open the letter.
"A a common sort of man, sir."
"Very well you needn't wait."
The moment that the servant had re
tired Vincent tore open the envelope; and
the first thing that he noticed, with a sud
den sinking of the heart, was that there
was no address at the head of the letter. It
ran thus the handwriting being a little
tremulous here and there:
"Deab Vincent When you receive this
we shall be far away; but I bave arranged
that you shall get it just before the New
Year, and it brings my heartfelt wishes for
your happiness, as v?elt as the goodby that
I cannot say to you personally now. What
I foresaw has come to pass; and it will be
better for all of us, I think; though it is not
with a very light heart that I write these
few lines to you. Sometimes I wish that we
had never met each other; and then again I
should never bave known all your kindness
to me and to my grandfather, which will
always be something to look back upon;
and also the companionship we had for a
time, which was so pleasant you would
understand how pleasant to me if you had
known what had gone before., and what is
now likely to come after. But do not think
I repine; more has been done for me than
ever I can repay; and as I am the only one
to whom my grandfather can look now for
help and sympathy, I should be ungrateful
indeed if I grudged it.
"Forgive me, dear friend, if I speak so
much of myself; my thoughts -are far more
often concerned abont you than with any
thing that can happen to me. And I know
that this step we are taking, though it may
pain you for a little while, will be salutary
in the end. You have a great future betore
you; your friends expect much of you; you
owe'it to yourself not to disappoint them.
And alter a little while, you will be able to
go back to the places where we used to go,
and there will be nothing but friendly
recollections of pleasant evenings, and I am
sure nothing need ever come between us (as
you feared) I mean in the way of having
kind thoughts of each other, always and
always; and when you marry no one will
more heartily wish you every happiness and
blessing than I shall. This is to be my last
letter to yon; I have promised. I wish
I could make it convey to vou
all I think; but you will understand, dear
Vincent, that there is more in it than ap
pears in these stifl and cold words. And an
other kindness I must beg of you, dear
friend, before saying goodby and farewell
it is this: Would you try to forget a little
of what I said to you that morning or the
pier? If you thought there was anything
I said was a little more than a girl should
have confessed, wonld you try to forget it,
dear Vincent? I was rather miserable 1
foresaw we should have to say goodby to
each other, when you would not see it, for
you were always so lull of courage and con
fidence; and perhaps I told you more than I
should have done and you will try to for
get that. I don't want you to forget it all,
dear Vincent; only what you think was said
too trankly or hurriedly at such a
moment.
"And now, dearest friend, this is goodby;
and it is goodby forever,-'as between you and
me. I will pray for yonr happiness always.
"MAISRIE
"P. S. There was one thing I said toyou
that you promised you would not forget.
"M."
It was barely 11 o'clock. He went down
into the hall, whipped on overcoat and hat,
and the next moment was striding away
toward Mayfair; he judged, and judged
rightly, that a boon companion and a poet
was not likely to be carl r abed on such a
night. When he reached the lodging house
in the little thoroughfare ofi Park street, he
could bear singing going forward in the
subterranean kitchen; nay, he could make
out the raucous chorus
Says Wolseley, says he.
To Arabi,
You can fight other chaps, but you can't fight
me.
He rapped at the door; the landlady's
daughter answered the snmmons; she
showed him into a room, and then wpnt.be
Iow for her father. Presently Mr. Hobson
appeared quite creditably sober, consider
ing the occasion.
"Did you bring a note down to me to
night, Hobson?" was the young man's first
question.
"I did, sir."
His heart leapt up joyously; his swift sur
mise had been correct.
"And has Miss Bethune been here re
cently?" he asked with great eagerness.
"No, no, sir," said Hobson, shaking his
head. "That was giv me when they was
going away, and says she, 'Hobson, says
she, 'I can trust you; and there's never a
word to be said about this letter not to no
one whatever; and the night afore New
Year's Day you'll take it down yourself
and leave it for Mr. Harris.' Which I did,
sir; though not waitin', as I thonght there
wasn't a answer; and ope there's nothing
wrong, sir-"
Vinceut was standing in the middle of the
room not listening.
"You have heard or seen nothing, then, of
Mr. Bethune or of Miss Bethune, since they
lelt?" he asked absently.
"Nothing, sir honly thatl took notice of
some advertisements, sir, in the papers "
"I know about those," said Vincent
So once more, as on many and many a
recent occasion, his swiftly-blossoming hopes
had been suddenly blighted; and there was
nothing for him "but to wander idly and
pensively away back to Grosvenor Place.
But the New Year had something else in
store for him beside that. He was returned,
unopposed, lor the borough of Mendover.
And abont the first thing that his constitu
ents heard, after the election, was that their
new member proposed to pay a visit to the
United States and Canada, and that at pres
ent no date.had been fixed for his return.
To be Continued Xext Sunday.
METHODS OF TRAVEL.
Hawkcs Glass Manufacturing Company, of
THEY MADE HISTORY.
Intellectual Giants of the Indian
Kace of Pioneer Days.-
THE WONDERFUL TANACHARISON
Who Conferred With Washington Within
Pittsburg's Gates.
THREE SONS WHO AIjIj BECAilE GKEAT
rWBlTTZN TOB TDK DISPATCHT.l
LD ANDY POE.
the famous borderer,
once said: "I've
lout oats and bar and
painter, and every
other .wild varrqint
of the woods, but
Injuns beats them
all ! Yes, Injuns
beats them all."
Poe was not the
first nor the only one
to voice this senti
ment His was Mit
the opinion of a na
tive not used to the
prowess ot any others
of the human kind. But there have been
men who. having faced the deadly assegais
of the Southern African, the wonderful
boomerangs of the Australians, the death
dealing spears of the desert Arabs, the
strange but only too effective sumpitans, or
"blow guns," of the fierce Dyafcs of Borneo,
and in fact the weapons and fighting strength
of most people on the entire globe, have also
met our own native Indians in combat, and
one and all agree that the latter had no
equals among the savage race3 of the past as
warriors.
PRODUCED BEHAEKABLE MEN.
Combining with native fierceness a tact
and shrewdness remarkable, the Indian was
a difficult subject for either soldier or states
man to handle. No further proof is neces
sary to uphold this assertion than that the
Indian question small as their numbers are
to-day is every bit as important as any our
statesmen have" to solve.
It is absolutely certain that the red race
of this country has produced more remark
able men than any savage race the world
has ever known, and it is safe to sav that
under different conditions their influence
would be lelt on the progress of civilization
for many centuries to come. The King
Phillips, Tecumsehs, Pontiacs. Osceolas
and Tanacharisons were not ordinary men.
Their diplomacy in matters of state was ot
the highest order; their military campaigns
were such as only natural born leaders plan,
and their lack of success was in the main
caused by the influences brought to bear
upon their followers by unscrupulous oppo
nents, who absolved themselves from all the
common roles of war in their dealings with
these people on the principle that their bar
barous condition denied them any rights.
BATTLES IMPORTANT TO PITTSBURG.
The early history of Pittsburg would not
be comnlete without some relerence to many
of the Indian leaders who became famous
by their endeavors to prevent the encroach
ments of the whites. The conspiracies of
Pontiac, Tecutnseh or the Prophet, and the
results of the battles ot Fallen Timbers,
Tippecanoe and the Thames were all as im
portant events to Pittsburg in their day as
was that memorable struggle at Gettysburg
nearly ur quite a century later.
When Washington was dispatched on his
celebrated mission to the French by Gov
ernor Dinwiddie in 1753, he first conferred
with the leading sachems of the Six Natione,
among whom was one Tanacharison, the
half King, who, it may be said, gave the
future father of our country some of his
earliest and best points in statecraft. Of
this man Tanacharison, one writer, and
an authority at that, has even gone so far as
nccunis'ft.
to s.iy that in character he resembled Wash
ington very much and might have equaled
him in many ways had the conditions been
different.
"WASHINGTON AND TANACHARISON.
It is worthy of note that the conference
between Washington and the Half King
took place hardly a dozen miles from thin
city 137 years ago'ou the 25th of the present
month. "Washington was but 21 years of
age at the time, and the battle of Braddock's
Field and Yorktnwn had not been longbt,
but the remarkable qualities which made
him famous afterward had already been
noted, and his visit to the French in many
ways added to his reputation, as its results
as embodied in his "journal" were copied
bv nearlv everv newspaper of the time.
His companion, the Half King, became 1
thereafter bis steadfast friend. Tanachari
son accompanied him the following year on
his expedition to dislodge the French from
the disputed territory on the Ohio, and ap
peared to be a sort oi general counsellor in
all the operations of the young American
leader, tantil after the surrender of Fnrt
Necessity at the Great Meadows. The
friendly intercourse would nooubt have
been renewed thererfter, bnt Tanacharison
died at Harrisbarg in October of that year.
But little is known of this chieftain's early
history.
TECUMSEH AND HIS BROTHERS.
It is bnt seldom that three children born
at one birth live. Still more rare is it, in
tact it is doubtful if it ever did occur in a
previous case, that the three became famous
in after life. However, such would be the
history of Tecutnseh (some authorities spell
itTecumthn), the famous Shawnee, and hi3
brothers Elfcswatawa the Prophet, and
Kumskaka. The remarkable event took
place at old Piqua, near Springfield, O.,
about the year 1770.
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count of these men, in fact any first olass
'biographical dictionary will'furmsa that in-
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formation, but certain it is that no greater
man among his own people ever held sway
than Tecumseb.
In many respects he differed from any of
his race. He was not fond of display. He
was at all times dignified and austere in his
manners; indeed, it was these two qualities,
it is claimed, that gave him such control
over his followers. Of his abilities as a
statesman it mav be said that in all his deal
ings with the United States Government,
none but the ablest diplomats were per
mitted to meet him.
A BED MAN'S ORATORY.
As an orator he was almost matchless.
There is. extant an account of an American
spv who surreptitiously overheard Teccm
sen's harangue to his warriors the night be
fore the battle of the Thames. At the finish
the toss of a cap would have made a rene
gade of the scout, buthappily circumstances
prevailed that prevented this action, and the
spy returnedto camp with information that
led to the utter defeat of the Indians and
British in the battle of the following day
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Tecumseh's Brother, the Piophtt,
and the death ot the noted warrior who was
the leading spirit of the opposing forces.
Speaking of him as a soldier, au Amer
ican military man said: "He was an excel
lent judge of position, and not only knew
but could point out the localities of the
whole country throngh which he passed,"
and English writers say there were few
officers of his time in the United States
service who was better able to command in
the field. American writers qualify this by
adding, in his peculiar mode of warfare,"
but admit thatTecumseh must have been
better skilled in military tactics than most,
if not all, of his countrymen, whether pre
decessors or cotemporaries.
THE GREATEST EMPEROR.
In one of the European gazettes, published
in 1765, the following appears: "The Indians
on the lakes are generally at peace with one
another, having a wide extended and fruit
ful country in their possession. They are
formed into a sort of empire, and the Em
peror is elected from the eldest tribe, which
is the Ottawawas, some of whom inhabit
near our fort at Detroit, but are mostly
further westward, toward the Mississippi.
Ponteack (Pontiac) is their present King or
Emperor, who has certainly the largest em
pire and greatest authority of any Indian
Chiet that has appeared on the continent
since our acquaintance with it. He puts on
an air of majesty and princely grandeur,
and is greatly honored and revered by bis
subjects."
This was the man who offered to grant the
English favor if they would look upon him
King Phillip.
as a sovereign, who reduced 10 of the 13
iorts erected in the West within 15 days.
This was the result of the famous "Pontiac'g
Plot," and the man who could conceive and
execute such a design was not a mere savage
as we generally accept the term.
OTHER GREAT NAMES.
What a host of memorable incidents in
the early history of this country are
awakened by mention of the name of King
Phillip, Sachem of the Wampanoags; what
pathos, mixed with admiration for the man,
is found in the story of the closing scenes in
the life of Osceola, the Seminole!
Everyone of these great red man have left
an indelible stamp on the bistory of this
country, and no record will be complete
without extended and definite reference to
them.
It is needless to argue that the condition
and character of the Indian of the present
dav proves that the intellectual state of the
Indian ot our early history is overdrawn. I
know that many writers repeatedly draw at
tention to this tact, but might they not just
as well argue that the condition ot those
true descendants of the ancient Egyptians,
the Copts of the present day, effectually ex
plodes Egypt's claim to greatness in the
past? "W. G. Kaufmann.
EIGHTS OF BOYS' EABS.
If Boxing Costs S30, FuttirtgThem to a Tune
Ought to Bring S25.
Toronto Mall.J .
A Montreal teacher was recently fined for
boxing a boy's ears. This was right. The
ear is a sensitive organ, and is as easily in
jured as the eve. The other day a dir
cussion was in progress in Hamilton on the
subject of the punishment of recalcitrant
Sunday school scholars.
One speaker said that when a boy de
veloped a streak of naughtiness a certain
teacher took him kindly but firmly by the
ear and marched him up and'down the
room singing, "Oh, Happy Band of Pil
grims." If boxing the ears calls for" a
penalty of 550 and costs in Montreal, pull
ing the cars to a hymn tune should be
worth at least $25 and costs.
THE POET POE'S COTTAGE.
It is a Modest WWte Structure Now an
Object of Curiosity.
NearTordhnm, N. Y., is the cottage once
occupied by Edgar Allan Poe, the author of
"The Baven," "Fall of the House of Usher,"
"Hans Pfall," "The Gold Bug," and other
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Edgar Poe'j Cottage.
famous stories and poems. The quaint,
white, story-and-a-balf cottage is daily
visited by many admirers of the dead poet,
whose happiest days were spent beneath its
thatched roof.
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TOO LATE !
When I was young, and saw the kings of men
Poise that great lance that none bat they
could wield,
I said, "Forbear awhile, my soul, and when
Thy strength is full, thou too Shalt win the
field."
But when tub awaited day
Arrived, a stranger gray
Laid hand upon my arm, and said. "Too late!
Vain now thy spear and shield I"
When I was yonng, I lifted np mine eyes,
And saw anstere philosophy achieve
The victories that teach men to be wise.
Then said I to my soul, "Erelong, believe,
Thou too sbalt wisdom knowf"
But while I watted, Iol
That hoary figure came, and said, "Too late!
Folly hath no reprieve."
When I was younc. I saw a maiden sweet.
Whose smiling eyes made sunshine in my
urease
"Build tbou a temple without stain, and meet.
O soul." quoth Vto house this virgin guest."
Bat when at last I sought
The maid, that graybeard caught
Mine eve. and frowning, said, "Laggard! too
late!
Pass on, by love nnblest!"
When I wasj-onng. God's face upon me shone;
Whereat I veiled mine eyes, and whispered.
"Soul,
ltwasadreaml God dwells in heaven alone."
But when to heaven I came (having paid
death's toll).
The voice said, "Know, in Me
Love, Power, and Wisdom be:
I am the Lord, and tbou hast learned too late
God only is man's Roal!"
Julia Hawthorne in Harper?.
"Won Half a Million. "The oddest
betting I ever heard of," said one oil
broker to another in the Hoffman Honse,
the other day, says the New York ITorW,
"was between Henry Harlev, who first
conceived the idea of a tidewater pipe
line from the oil regions, and the oil oper
ators who used to make their headquarters
early in the seventies in Harley's offices.
The gambling spirit pervaded the whole
business in those days. Henry Harley and
his Brunswick crowd nsed to get together
about 10 iu,tne morning, and Henry often
opened the ball by offering to buy or sell
500,000 barrels of oil at a given figure at a
certain hour that day. He might gain or
lose as much as $100,000 on one of these
offers, and that sort of gambling seemed to
satisfy nim. He fought shy ot side issues.
But not so the gang.
"Nigger up or nigger down" the avenue
was their favorite gambling game. It was
their own invention. Two of them would
sit at a side window and the other three at a
window fronting on Fifth avenue. The two
on the side would bet each other $10, $20,
$50 or $100 a clip, as they felt inclined, that
the first colored person passing would go up
or down the avenue. The three in front
would be judges and referee. Day after day
and week alter week tbe gang taxed their
ingenuity to get Harley into their game.
"Phillips not one of the brothers, but
an oil man also bad lost $15,000 to "Weston
one morning in an oil deal betore Harley
got to the office. Phillips felt a little sharp
set, and he bet "Weston $500 more that he
would get Harley into the 'nigger np or
nigger down' game before night Weston
took the wager.
"On his way down town Harley, who was
a pretty close observer, had read in his
morning paper that the. colored people of
New York were going to celebrate Emanci
pation Day that day by a grand parade,
which would form in Union Square and
march to Central Park. He attached no
particular importance at the time to the an
nouncement, but when he got to his office
and Phillips began badgering him to bet
'nigger np, nigger down' at $20 a head his
eyes flashed and, to the astonishment of all
the oil men within hearing, and the gang in
particular, he broke out with:
" 'I've stood this thing long enough now,
and I'm tired of it I'll bet you an even
hundred each tbat more negroes go up than
down to-day.'
"So the judges and the referee went to
their windows and Harley went about his
business as if nothing out of the way had
happened or could happen.
"By 11 o'clock 870 colored people men,
women and children had gone down Fifth
avenue in plain sight of the judges and not
a single one had gone up. Phillips natu
rally felt a little 'sot up' since he was $87,
000 to the good, and he ordered in a basket
of wine Harley kept up an imperturbable
front He was secretly astonished, inasmuch
as the matter had gone just tbe opposite of
what he believed he bad a right to expect
they would go. It didn't occur to him that
the 870 people were going down to where the
parade was to form.
"At 1 o'clook he returned. He had hardly
got nis head inside the "door when a wild
barbaric strain was heard pealing up tbe
avenue, and in a moment a gorgeous sable
drum-major broke into view, at the head of
a splendid negro band. Every neck was
craned out to see what had broken loose, bnt
Harley, who felt that his time was coming
at last, kept his own -counsel. Before 5
o'clock that day 6,000 colored people had
marched passed the office windows in the
Brunswick Hotel and Harley was $513,000
ahead of the game of Inigcer up or nigger
down.' I don't believe it was played much
there after that. Harley accepted a diuner
to the gang in lieu of his stakes."
Taking Cold What do we mean when
we say we have taken cold? asks a writer in
the St, Louis Magazine. In a literal sense,
we have done no such thing; and a modern
writer has suggested that what it called
"catching cold," would be better expressed
by tbe phrase, catchingheat. What actually
takes place, is something as follows: We
expose some part of tbe body to a draft; the
surface becomes chilled, and the circulation,
to some extent, is arrested; tbe blood and
other fluids are sent in another direction.
What should have been thrown out through
the surface, is turned in on the mucous
membrane; and as these parts become con
gested, sneezing takes place; there is an
abnormal quantity of fluids thrown upon tbe
mucous surfaces, and the system makes an
'effort to get rid of it
This "taking cold" may be caused by sit
ting for a few moments m a strong current
of cool air; it may be the back of the neck
that is exposed; or it might be some other
part of the body. Holding the bands in
verv cold water for a considerable length of
of time will often cause one to take cold.
Or sitting with cold feet will do the same
thing, especially if the general circulation
is feeble. Clothing one part of the body too
much, and another part too little, will 11 e
nuently give one a cold. Anything that
arrests the free circnlation of blood and
sends It in on the mucous surface may
produce this effect.
The most freauent causes of all, perhaps,
of taking cold, is the one stated, that of
"catching heat" Sitting for hours in a
room where the temperature is 80 or up
ward, and than going out into a colder at
mosphere, frequently produces a cold; this
is particularly the case, where the air is not
only hot but impure. In fact, we think the
impurity has more to do with it than the
heat; and tbe two combined will rarely fail
to cause an influenza or a sore throat; some
times a full-fledged pnenmonia. By expos
ing one's self to hot, foul" air, the whole
skin is for the time debilitated, and on
reaching a cooler atmosphere the blood is
driven from the curface, and congestion of
the mucous membranes will almost certainly
follow; either there is "cold on the lungs,"
or a sore throat, or there is an attack of
acute catarrh.
HIGHEST EAILROAD DT THE "WORLD.
The year 1892 will, it is hoped, witness the
completion of one of the most interesting
events in civil engineering, as well as the
most successful triumph of science over
nature witnessed in recent years, says the
Newcastle, Eng., CArontcfe. After having
been in process of formation for 19 years the
Trans-Andean railway is at length nearing
completion, and the expectation is that in"
two years trains will be able to pass for the
first time across the continent of South
America from the Atlantic to the Pacific
The line is only 871 miles long from
Buenos Ayres to Valparaiso and the time
spent in its construction may give some idea
of the natural difficulties which have bad to
be surmounted. There are now 640 miles of
it finished at the Buenos Ayres end, and 82
at theTalpsraiso side, while of the remain
ing 149 miles about one-third in practically
finished. The passage of tbe Andes is ef
fected at Cumbre Pass, which is 13,045 feet
above the sea. The railroad, however, does
not reach the summit of the pass, but pierces
the mountain by means of a tunnel upward
of three miles long, at an elevation of 10,450
feet above tbe sea. It is thus the highest
railway in the world, and in many respects
the most remarkable. Tbe St. Gothard
Bailroad is only 3,783 feet high, and that on
the Kigi 5,753 feet The grades are, -of
course, very steep, and for a considerable
distance the rise is more than 422 feet to the
mile, or 1 foot in every 12. On this por
tion of the line a rack rail similar to those
on the Hartz and other mountain railroads
is employed. The opening of this railway
across the Andes will do awav with a great
deal of the navigation around Cape Horn,
which has been the only means of commerce
between the East and West Coasts of South
America, and will have an important in
fluence on the development of the commerce
and industry of that wealthy and fertile
region of the world.
Fruit Tree tor the South. The My
rica rubra, an evergreen truit-bearing tree,
indigenous to Japan, has lately attracted
the aention of botanists, who are loud in
their commendations of its commercial
value. The foliage resembles the magnolias,
being of firm leathery texture, and the tree
attains a heightof 40 feet to 50 feet, and the
stem a girth of 2 to 3 feet. The fruit blos
som appears in early spring, and tbe fruit
ripens in July. It "resembles a firm black
berry, an inch long by three-fourths of an
inch in riinmeter, and contains a sincle seed
stone of light weight. There are two varie
ties of this fruit, one a dark red, almost
black, and the other a light rose, superior in
flavor to the dark. The fruit is highly
flavored, vinous and sweet, delicions as a
dessert, and makes a fine preserve. The
jnice extracted from it in. its fresh state
makes a refreshing beverage; allowed to fer
ment it makes afine wine, orset with alcohol
a brandy is obtained.
Apart from, its extreme iruitfulness the
tree is ornamental and useful, the bark being
employed in Japan for dyeing a pleasant
fawn color, and the timber for the mast ele
gant cabinet ware having a finer mottled
grain than the bird's-eye maple. The tree
is perfectly hardy in all latitudes where the
thermometer does not fall below 15 above
zero, and would succeed admirably in part
of Australia, California, Texas, " Mexico,
and the Southern States of the Union. It is
easily propagated, but has never previously
been cultivated bv the Japanese. From the
interest which its discovery has evoked,
however, the probability is that its distribu
tion will in a short while be widely extended
beyond the limits of Japan.
Penny Postage. Postmaster J. B.
Harlow, of St Louis, in speaking of 1-cent
postage in the Globe-Democrat, says: "It
will reduce to the minimum the sale of
postal cards, which are a nuisance to handle,
inasmuch as they stick together and get into
unsealed envelopes and cause considerable
trouble. Unsealed circular letters, which
are now so numerous, will cease. These are
also troublesome to handle, as oftentimes
smaller letters get into the unsealed enve
lopes, and in many instances canse delay.
Then, in a given tim'e, from 10 to 20 per cent
more sealed letters can be bandied than
postal cards or circular letters. One-cent
postage would be the same as the present
postage on fourth-class matter or merchand
ize, and would wipe that entirely out of ex
istance. It would give an opportunity to
persons sending presents to seal the package
and inclose a note, which is oftentimes very
desirable, and at the present rate. The
volume of first-class matter would grow
enormously, but with it would come addi
tional postage, as more packages now car
ried by oticr systems"of delivery would be
sent by mail a: the cheap rate," as there is
nojimit to first-class matter as to weight
In other words, it would take the place of
the parcel post, such as is in use in foreign
countries. It would be the cheapest rate in
the world. Another point First-class mat
ter is returnable without additional postage,
and by the public taking advantage of-the
plan of attaching a card or request on the
envelope to return if not delivered, tbe
amount of dead matter would be greatly re
duced." Dregs of the Mint. A hundred big,
blue barrels, old whisky barrels, were rolled
out of the United States Mint in Philadel
phia a few days ago, and afterward carted
away. These barrels had been taken from
the dark, subterraneau recesses under the
mint by a large force of brawny laborers who
found it no light work to handle them be
cause of their weight
Tbe contents of the barrels consisted of
well packed dirt dirt in the sense of an old
scientific definition, "dirt is matter mis
placed." This dirt was the refuse of the
daily sweepings and periodical gatherings
by processes of the dust and fine particles of
bullion from tbe several departments of the
institution. They were detached by
abrasion from the masses of precious metals
while undergoing the changes of form from
that of bars or pigs as cast in the distant
mines to the beautiful shiny pieces of coin
money.
The average weight of a barrel of this re
fuse is about a quarter of a ton, and the
money value of all the barrels was more
than $5,000. The stuff thus taken away was
the accumulation of less than three months'
time, and evidences the care exercised by
tbe mint authorities in saving the tiny flakes
of bright metal along with atom-like bits
that float about in the warm atmosphere of
the workshops.
Hiring Out Bibles. There is a firm
in New York tbat hires out Bibles. There
is a popular Impression that every family
possesses a Bible, a dictionary and a copy
of Shakespeare. This impression, like
many popular impressions, seems to be an
erroneous one. Tbe Bibles thus hired out
are expensive ones, and suitable to hand
over to a fashionable clergyman or a bishop,
if a church digni'.-iry so high as a bishop is
favoring the family in question with a call
or visit Such an inteiesting religious epi
sode in tbe life of a fashionable family as
the anpearanfie of a bishop is usually un
known in advance, and the Bible is secured
in proper time. The leaves between tbe Old
and New Testaments are of course perfectly
blank, and if a representative ot the church
should chance to turn to them he would find
that his iashiouabla friends were alarmingly
destitute of geneological records. Such a
discovery would strike the family discovered
with more horror than it would anyone else.
They seem willing, however, to take the
chances. Men who hire out the Bibles de
mand a deposit in every case, and charges
$2 a night.
Watches for the Blind Several
attemps have been made to provde watches
for the blind. Of course, repeaters fill the
bill best, but they come too high for general
use, and are, of course, seldom purchased.
Many years ago a watch was invented with
a movable dial; that is, the dial revolved
and there were no hands. The dial had
raised figures, and by counting from these
to raised signs on the case for the different
quarters the time could be approximate'd,
though not very closely. Now an improve
ment on this has been patented. The hours
are designated by little knobs, which sink
in as the minute hand approaches, or as it
would approach it there were one. By pass
ing the finger over the knobs the depressed
one can be found, and it is. quite easy to
count back to 12 and calculate the minutes.
A Chinese Pain Killer. Accodingr
to Dr. Lambutb, of the Soochow Hospital,
says the Edinburgh Dispatch, the Chinese
have discovered a "pain-killer" not gener
ally known in the medical profession. The
Chinaman holds curious views on doctoring,
and he prefers the physician to experiment
on himself with his mediciues, but he is as
anxious as other people to avoid pain when
he can. Dr. Lambutb. tells us that "the
native fortifies himself against this physical
suffering in an odd way. He places a frog
in a jar of flour, and irritates it by means ot
prodding. The unhappy creature when un
der torture exudes a liquid which, w
mixed with tbe flour, forms a paste. Thi
dissolved in water, and the water 1
then the property of killing pain. If,
example,a wounded limb is immersed in t
liquid for some minutes all feeling of pa.
disappears, even though tbe flesh be cut
the bone."
Milk Sickness. Dr. Kummel, ,c.
Findlay, O., reported to the Berlin Con
gress some very strange facts, to which the
widest publicity should be given, says
medical writer in the New York Herald.
the central part of the United States.tl
exists n disease known by the name ot"
sickness" and which only appear in cer
tain localities and principallyin spots
where the ground has been recently cleared.
It attacks horses, cattle, sheep and goats,
and these animals are especially liable to it
when they graze early in the morning or
late in the evening. Their head droops and
they stop eating; then appear symptoms of
agitation and trembling and finally the ani
mal falls to thegroundand expires.
This disease also affects man. It is pro
duced bv using milk, butter or meat coming
from a diseased animal. The symptoms are
great prostration, digestive disorders and
nausea, followed by violent vomitine and
constipation. The breath of these sick per
sons has a peculiar odor; there is intense
thirst, but no fever; the pulse is normal,
the skin is dry and there is great oppression;
the tongue is moist at tbe beginning, but
later on it becomes coated with white.
These patients are frequently highly
agitated and- apprehensive; and at other
times they have a stunned appearance.
The excretion of the kidneys is lessened,
transparent and without sediment; its spe
cific weight is diminished. The skin of the
abdomen is retracted; the peristaltic move
ments seem to bo entirely abolished. The
patient is perfectly conscious. "When the
disease has lasted a certain time the sub
stance vomited has the appearance of coffee
grounds." Finally the patients fall into a
state of prostratfon and die quietly in a
comatote condition. The disease sometimes
ends favorably, in which case the symptoms
disappear little bv little. The convalescence
is tedious and relapses are freqnent The
mild form runs its course in five or ten days,
the serious form in 15 or 20 days.
There can be no donbt that" this is an in
fectious disease. As lor its treatment, the
writer recommends that the stomach be
washed with tepid water, that anti-emetics
be given, with whisky, capsicum and hypo- '
dermic injections of inorphine. It is well,
furthermore, to stimulate the secretory func
tions of the stomach, and the peristaltic
movements of the intestines.
Pebique Tobacco. Perique tobacco,
although it3 strength and fragrancehave de
voted lovers all over the country, is pe
culiarly a Louisiana product. Strictly
speaking, it belongs exclusively to Grand
Point Eidge, and is grown on 600 or 700
acres of high land in St James' Parish.
Attempts bave been made to plant the seed
elsewhere, and while the seed works out to
destiny and blossoms into full-grown plant,
the connoisseur detects the absence of the
aroma which is precious to the taste.
B. Beanvais, who is agent for most of the
Perique growers, was seen by a New York
Times correspondent with reference to the
matter. "The Perique crop is a failure,"
said he briefly. "The Nita crevasse kept
the ridge covered with 12 feet of water
for almost the entire season. The ridge lies
four miles back of the river, and the levee
in front stood firm, but the ridge succumbed
to crevasse water in the rear. The crop of
1890 is therefore entirely lost, and the plant
ers barely succeeded in saving the seed by
transplanting some of it on or near the levee
where the yards and gardens were not en
tirely covered with water. There are abont
29 families engaged exclusively in Perique
culture, and they will suffer next year when
they have no tobacco to seed."
The scarcity of Perique Is already becom
ing noticeable, and 20,000 pounds will cover
all the Perique now in factories unsold.
The annual crop is 90,000 to 140,000 pounds.
Largest Monolithic Monument.
The largest monolithic monument ever made
in this country came from granite quarries
of Missouri. It was the monument of the.
late Thomas Allen, and is erected at Pitts
field, Mass. It consists of a single obelisk
of granite 40 feet highland weighing more
than 40 tons. The block was cut from the
hillside by the "feathering process;" that is
by drilling holes along the line of the de
sired clelt and drivingsmall wedges into the
holes until the split is secured. When first
taken out the mass weighed over a hundred
tons, but in the course of trimming and pol
ishing was rednced more than half, and
even then the transportation of so lengthy
and heavy an object was a matter of seriou s
difficulty.
Two freight cars, with 16 wheels each,
were built especially for tbe purpose of con
veying it to the East, and every precaution
was taken against accident. At De Soto
one of the wheels broke, and the monument
was delayed nntil another wheel was sent
down and fitted on. That was the only de
lay. Notice was sent ahead of the giant
block, and every bridge strenthened before
the special train conveying it was allowed
to pass. It safely reached its destination,
and is now as much a monument to the
State of Missouri as to the noble man whose
tomb it guards.
A Tricky Skye Terrier An English,
man tells of a fun-loving Skye terrier that
he once had. He used to be very fond of
catching flies upon the window panes, and
if ridiculed when unsuccessful was evidently
much annoyed. On one occasion, in order
to see what he would do, I purposely
laughed immoderately every time he failed.
It so happened tbat he did so several times
In snecession, partly, I believe, in conse
quence of my laughing, and eventually ha
became so distressed that he positively pre
tended to catch the fly, going through ail the
anpropriate actions with bis lips and tongue
and alterward rubbing the ground with his
neck, as if to kill tbe victim. He then
looked up a; me with a triumphant air of
success. So well was the whole process sim
ulated thatl should have been quite de
ceived had I not seen that the fly was still
upon the window. Accordingly I drew his
attention to. this fact, as well as to the ab
sence of anything unon the floor, and when
he saw that his hypocrisy had been detected
he slunk away under some furniture, evi
dently very much ashamed of himself.
The Best Champagne. The cham
pagne district is a territory in the heart of
France, about 180 by 150 miles in extent.
It is composed of bills dnd valleys, the soil
of which is excellently adapted to thi culti
vation of the vine, and there, too, the treat
ment of wine has acquired perfection. Old
processes, simple but effective, have been
handed down in families for hundreds of
years. Originally learned from the monks,
who, during tbe middle ages, made a
specialty of the mannlacture of wine, they
'have become family secrets. To these old
methods have been added all the improve
ments suggested by modern chemistry. The
reason of a process has become known, and
frequently more effective ways have, by ac
cident or design, been discovered. In addi
tion, the capital of many ol the wine
growers is sufficient to enable them to delay
the maturing of the wine until the finest
results are obtained, and consequently when
their wine is put unon the market there is
a guarauteo of its quality.
Changeable Shoes. In some parts of
Europe it is quite usual to wear shoes tbat
are neith'er lelts nor rights, but which are
worn indiscriminatelv, or. better still, alter
nately. To our way of thinking it must be
uncomfortable to wear a shoe on tbe right
foot one clay and the left the next, but it is
said this is largely owing to habit, and that
carefully made "neutral" shoes can be worn
comfortably as suggested. The advantage
is, of course, in the increased life of thev
shoe. Nearly every one wears bis shoes on, -one
side, and if be can even up things '
little the cobbler's aid is not required nearly"!?, -so
soon. .'