I -
nfPPfMW' wuupiLjgni !1PNPWfW"Wli
IS
obstinacy. My right hand, if it would
servo." "
.".Now we mustn't lsten. Here 8 an island
shouting across seas of misunderstanding
with a vengeance. But it's shouting truth,
I iancy," s-ud Torpenhow.
Thebabble continued. It all bore upon
Maisie. Sometimes Ilick lectured at length
on his craft, then he cursed himself for his
lolly in being enslaved. He pleaded to
Maisie for a kiss only one kiss before she
went away. He called to her to come back
from Vitrv-sur-Marnc, if she would; but
through all his ravines he bade heaven and
earth witness that the queen could do no
wrong. .
Torpenhow listened attentively and
learned everv detail of Dick's life that had
been hid Jen "from him. For three days Dick
raved through his past, and then slept a
natural sleep. "What a strain he has been
running under, poor chap!" said Torpen
how. "Dick, of all men, handing himself
over like a dogl And I was lecturing him
on arrogance! I ought to have knownthat
it was no use to judge a man. But I did it
What a demon that girl mu.t be! Dick s
given her his life confound him! and
she's given him one kiss, apparently."
"Torp," said Dick Ironi the bed, "go out
for a walk. You've been here too long. I'll
get up. Hi! This is annoying. I can't
dress myscll. Oh, it's too absurd."
Torpenhow helped him into his clothes
and led him to the big chair in the studio.
He satquictly waiting under strained nerves
lor the darkness to lift It did not lift that
day, or the next. Dick adventured on a
voyage around the walls. He hit his shins
against the stove, and this suggested to him
that it would be better to crawl on all-fours,
one hand in front of him. Torpenhow found
him on the floor.
"I'm trying to get the geography of my
new possessions," said he. "D'you remem
ber that nigger you gouged in the square?
Pitv jou didn't keep the odd eye. It would
have been useluL Any letters for me?
Give me all the ones jnlatgray envelopes
with a sort of crown thing outside. They are
of no importance."
Torpenhow pave him a letter with a black
31. on the envelope-flap. Dick put it into
his pocket. There was nothing in it that
Torpenhow might not have read, hut it be
longed to himself and to Maisie, who would
never belong to him.
"When she finds that I don't write, she'll
stop writing. It's better so. I couldn't
be any use to her now," Dick argued, and
the tempter suggested that he should make
known his condition. Every nerve in him
revolted. "I have fallen low enough al
ready. I'm not going to beg for pity. Be
side,' it would be cruel to her." rie strove
to put Maisie out of his thoughts: but the
blind have many opportunities for thinking,
and as thetides"of his strength came back
to him in the Ions einployless days of dead
darkness, Dick's soul was troubled to the
core. 'Another letter, ana anotner,
came from Maisie. Then, there was silence,
and Diet sat by the window with
the pulse of summer in the air, and
pictured her being won by another man,
stronger than himself. His imagination,
the keener fqr the dark background it
worked against, spared him no single de
tail that might send him raging up and
down tne studio, to stumble over the stove,
that seemed to be in four places at once.
"Worst of all, tobacco -would not taste in
the dark. The arrogance of the man had
disappeared, and lu its place was settled
despair that Torpenhowknew, and blind pas
sion that Dick confided to his pillow at
night The intervals between the par
oxysms were filled with intolerable wail
lug and the weight of intolerable darkness.
"Come out into the park." said Torpen
how. "You haven't stirred out since the
beginning of thing."
"What's the nse? There's no movement
in the dark; and, Lesidcs," he paused ir
lesolutely at the head of the stairs "some
thing will run over me."
"Not if I'm with you. Proceed gin
gerly." The roar of the streets filled Dick w.ith
nervous terror, and he clung to Torpen
how's arm. "Fancy having to feel for a
gutter with Tour loot," he said petulantly,
as he turned into the park. "Let's curse
God and die."
"Sentries are forbidden to pav unauthor
ized compliments. By Jove, there are the
guards!"
Dick's figure straightened. "Let's get
near "cm. Let's so in and look. Let's get
on the grass and run. I can smell the
tree."
"Mind the low railing. That's all right!"
Torpenhow kicked out a tuft of grass with
us heel. "Smell that" he said. "Isn't
good?" Dick snufled luxuriously "Xow
k up your leet and run." They ap
proacned as near to the regiment as was
possible. The clank of bayonets being un
fixed made Dick's nostrils quiver.
"Let's set nearer. They're in column,
aren't they?"
"Yes. How did you know?"
"Felt it Oh, my men! my beautiful
men!" He edged forward as though he
could see. "I could draw those chaps once.
"Who'll draw 'em now?"
"They'll move off in a minut". Dod'I
jump when the baud begins."
"Hull! I'm not a new ch?rger. It's the
silences that hurt. Nearer Torp! nearer!
Oh, my God, what wouldn't I give to see
'cm for a minute! one-half minute!"
He could hear the armed life almost with
in reach of him, could hear the slings
tighten across the bandsman's chest as he
heaed the big drum from the ground.
"Sticks crossed above his head," whis
pered Torpenhow.
"I know. I know! "Who should know if
I don't? H'sh!"
The drumsticks fell with a boom, and the
men snung lorward to tiie crash of the band.
Dick lelt the wind of the massed movement
in his f.ice, heard the maddening tramp of
leet and the friction of the pouches on the
belts. The big drum pounded out the tune.
It was a music hall retrain that made a per
fect quickstep:
Up must be a man of decent height '
He must be a man of weight.
He must come home on a Saturday night
In a thoroughly sober state;
Hf mtht know how to love me.
And Lc must know how to kiss:
And if he's enough to keep us both
I can't refuse linn bliss.
"What's the mattei?" said Torpenhow, as
he saw Dick's head fall when the last of the
regiment had departed.
"Nothing. I feel a little bitout-ofthe
running that's all. Torp. take me back.
Why did you bring me out?"
The Nilghai was angry with Torpenhow
that night Dick had been sent to bed
blind men are ever under the orders of those
who can see and since he had returned
irom the pam had fluently cursed Torpen
how because he was alive, and all the world
because it was alive and could see, while he
(Dick) was dead in the death of the blind,
who, at the best, are only burdens upon
their associates. Torpenhow frail said some
thing about a Mrs. Gummidge, and Dick
had retired in a black lury to handle and
renandle three unopened letters from Maisie.
The Nilghai, fat, burly and aggressive,
was in Torpenhow's rooms. Behind him sat
the Kencu, the Great War Eagle, and be
tween them lay a large map embellished
with black and white-beaded pins.
"I was wrong about the Balkans," said
the .Nilghai. -"But I'm not wrong about
this business. The whole of our work in the
Southern Soudan must be done over again.
The public doesn't care, of course, but the
Government does, and they are making
their arrangements quietly. You know
that as veil as I do."
'I remember how the people cursed us
wbeu our troops withdiew from Omdurman.
It was bonnd to crop up sooner or later.
But I can't go," said Torpenhow. He
pointed through the open donr; it was a hot
night "Can you blame me?"'
The Keneu purrd above his pipe like a
large and very happy cat.
"Dou't blame you'in the least It's nn
cohiinor.lv good of you, and ali the rest of
it, but every man even you, Torp must
consider bis work. I know it sounds brutal,
but Dick's nut of the race down gastados,
expended, finished, done for. He has a
little money of his own. He won't stirve,
and you can't pull out of your slide for his
sake. Think of your own reputation."
"Dick's was live times bigger than mine
and yours put together."
"That was because he signed bis name to
everything he did. It's all ended now.
You must
move out
hold yourself in readiness to
You can command vour own
prices, and vou do better work than any
three of us."
"Don't tell me how tempting it is. I'll
stav here to look after Dick for a while.
He's as cheerlul as a bear.with a sore head,
but I think he likes 10 have me about
him." ;
The Nilghai said something uncompli
mentary on soft-headed fools who throw
away their careers for other fools. Torpen
how'fiushed anerilv. The constant strain
of attendance on Dick had worn his nerves -)
thin.
"There remains a third fate," said the
Keneu, thoughtfully. "Consider this, and
be not larger lools than is necessary. Dick
is or rather was an able-bodied man of
moderate attractions and a certain amount
of audacity."
"Oho!" said the Nilghai, who remem
bered an affair at Cairo. "I begin to see.
Torp, I'm sorry."
Torpenhow nodded forgiveness. "You
were more sorry when he cut you out,
though. Go on, Keneu."
"I've olten thought when I've seen men
die out in the desert, that if the news could
be sent through the world, and the means of
transport were quick enough, there would
be one woman at least at each man's bed
side." "There would be some mightv quaint
revelations. Let us be grateiul things are
as they are," said the Nilghai.
"Let us ratherreverently consider whether
Torp's three-cornered ministrations are ex
actly what Dick needs just now. What do
you think yourself, Torn?"
"I know'they aren't But what can I do?"
"Lay the matter before the board. We
are all" Dick's mends here. You've been
most in bis life."
"But 1 picked it up when he was off his
head."
"The greater chance of its being true. I
thought we should arrive. "Whoisshe?"
Then Torpenhow told a tale in plain
words, as a special correspondent who knows
how to make a verbal precis should tell it.
The men listened without interruption.
"Is it possible that a man can come back
across the years to his calf-love?" said the
Keneu. "is it possible?"
"I give the facts. He says nothing about
it now, but he sits fumbling three letters
from her when he thinks I'm not looking.
What am I to do?"
"Speak to him," said the Nilghai.
"On. yes! "Write to her I don't know
her lull name, remember, and ask her to
accept him out of pity. I believe you once
told Dick -you were sorry for him, Nilghai.
You remember what happened, eh? Go
into the bedroom and suggest lull confes
sion and nn appeal to this Maisie girl, who
ever she is. I honestly believe he'd try to
kill you; and the blindness has made mm
rather muscular."
"Torpenhow's course is perfectly clear,"
said the Keneu. "He will go to Vitry-sur-Marne,
which is on the Bezieres-Landes
Railway single track from Tourgas. The
Prussians shelled it out in '70 becanse there
was a poplar on the top of a hill 1,800 yards
from the church spire. There's a squadron
of cavalry quartered there or ought to be.
"Where this studio Torp spoke about may be
I cannot tell. That is Torp's business. I
have given him his route. He will dispas
sionately explain the situation to the girl,
and she will come back to Dick, the more
especially because, to use Dick's words,
'fhere is nothing but her obstinacy
to keep thein apart' "
"And they have 420 a year between 'em.
Dick never lost his head for figures, even in
in his delirium. You haven't the shadow
of an excuse for not going, said the Kilghai.
Torpenhow looked very uncomfortable.
"But it's absurd and impossible. I can't
drag her back by the hair." "
"Our business the business for which we
draw our money is to do absurb and im
possible things generally with no reason
n hatever except to amuse the public. Here
wc have a reason. The rest doesn't matter.
I shall share these rooms with the Nilghai till
Torpenhov returns. There will be a batch
of unbridle! 'specials' coming to town in a
little while, and these- will serve as their
headquarters. Another reason for sending
Torpenhow away. Thus Provide. c helps
those who helps others, and" h r. the
Keneu abandoned his measured speech
"we can't have you tied by the leg to
Dick when the trouble begins. It's your
only chance of getting away; and Dick'will
be grateful."'
"He will worse lock! I can but go and
in . I can't conceive a woman in her senses
refusing Dick."
"Talk that out with the girl. I have
seen you wheedle an angry Madieh wom
an into giving you dates. This won't be a
tithe as difficult. You had better not be
here to-morrow afternoon, because the Kil
ghai and I will be in possession. It is an
order. Obey."
"Dick," said Torpenhow next morning,
"can I do anything for you?"
"No! Leave in e aloue. How often must
I remind you I'm blind?"
"Nothing that I cnuld go for to fetch, for
to carry, for to bring?"
"No. Take those infernal creaking boots
of yours away."
"Poor chap!" said Torpenhow to himself.
"I must have been sitting on his nerves
lately. He wants a lighter stcn." Then.
'aloud, "Very well. Since vou're so inde
pendent, I'm going off for four or five davs.
Say goooby at least The housekeeper will
look after you, and Keneu has my rooms."
Dick's face lell. "You won't be longer
than a week at the outside? I know I'jn
touched in the temper, but I can't get on
without you."
"Can't you? You'll have fo do without
me in a little time, and you'll be glad I'm
gone."
To be continued next week
To Newspaper Workers.
Henry W. Sage, the great lumber mer
chant, once said to a reporter of the Sum "I
am considered a millionaire. He is a ten
millionaire, be the way. I don't know
what I am worth, but I do know that if 1
could find SO men who would work lor me
with the enthusiasm, persistence and
sagacity with which you men work for the
Sun I would be worth ten times as much as
is to my credit to-day."
A WOMAN OF ATTAINMENTS.
Something About the Lady Who lias Taken
the Degree of IX. D. at Dublin.
This lady who has just tnken the high
degree of LL.D. at Dublin-University) was
educated at the Methodist College, Belfast.
She was premier student of Ireland, and
double gold medalist at the national com-
Mitt F. A. Gran. LL. V.
petition examination under the Interme
diate Education Commission. She matricu
lated at the Boyal University of Ireland
with honors in modern languages. In 1888
she took the degree of B. A. in national
science, with honors in geology and physiol
ogy, and in 1889 she took thexegree of LL.
15. There is only one other woman holding
the distinguished degree of LL. D. Miss
Wail;ington, also of Belfast, ,and it is to
her influence and example that Miss Gray
attributes her determination to continue in
her scholaristic career, which has now been
rewarded with so high an honor as the de
gree of LL.D. '
fi
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BLESSINGS OF WAR
Gen. John h. Black, of South Carolina,
Says the South Owes tho North
a Debt of Gratitude
FOR KESIST1KG AT FOET SUMTER.
Proposition to Ee-Establisb. Slavery
Would be Overwhelmingly Defeated
hj the Voters of Dixie.
THE RESODECES BEING DETELOPED.
Talk Will the Eon if a Feasiylrult Ircn Iluter Who
Fought With the Qny.
iconnzsrosDEscE or the dispatch.
Kew Yoke, Dec, 13. "My dear sir, we
really owe the North a debt of gratitude for
the late war." ' "
The speaker was General John L. Black,
of South Carolina, a man ot huge frame that
bears half a doren scars irom Federal
bullets, of bushy iron gray hair and beard,
and keen eyes deeply set beneath heavily
fringed, overhanging brows. General
Black was a West Pointer living ou his
South Carolina plantation at the breaking
out of the war. He is a relative of the cele
brated Blacks, ot Pennsylvania, and his
father was born in Lancaster. He is now
largely interested iu the development of the
mineral resources of his State, and divides
his business time between the iron field near
Blacksburg, S. C, and New York and Bos
ton. Blackshurg is already styled "the
Iron City," and ore is now being shipped
from there to Boston, Ne York, Pittsburg,
Chicago and other large manufacturing
cities iu such quantities and oi such quality
as to challenge the attention ot producer
and consumer everywhere.
THE OLD SOUTH WAS DEAD.
"But for-the war we should have been
still buried in our own ignorance and self
conceit" he continued, "and our splendid
resources would probably have remained
unknown, at least undeveloped.
"Of course, as a Southerner, an owner of
slaves and a Confederate soldier who had
cast his fortunes with his native State and
rode into the battle of Gettysburg to lay
down his life, if necessary, for a principle,
I didn't always think as I now do," he
laughingly added; "but time brings many
changes, and the changes time has wrought
iu the South hve been for her betterment
and for the prosperity of her people.
"I am the son of a Pennsylvania iron
master, who built the first hl'ast furnace of
an v size iu nir section as far back as 1827 and
the first mill that ever rolled iron south of-
the Potomac in 1832, and these old plants
can be seeu there to-day. As well known
as the existence of this mineral belt was
years ago, it is but recently that capital has
sought investment there and began the
creation of facilities for the successlul work
ing ot the mines and getticg the ore to mar
ket "We can now leed a furnace with
Bessemer ore and limestone at a cost of less
than 5 per ton (of output per ton 2,268
pounds), and cuke can be bad at such rats
as would put the cost of Bessemer pig at
likely under 510, certainly under 12 per
ton, while we can produce iron to compete
with any section ot the Union, quality con
sidered." ritoji a commeecial standpoint.
"You think the results of the war stimu
lated industries of this nature in the
South?"
"Yes, sir. The war was a terrible thing,
as war always is. It brought mourning and
desolation to many a hearthstone North and
South, and to us it brought ruin and misery.
But while this is true it is nlso'true'that the
final result xf the strife was to make us one
great people. It not only doubled the re
sources ot the North, but it created resources
in the South which never existed, even in
the imagination, and extended those we nat
urally had to a point of which we had never
dreamed. As an ex-slaveholder who would
have died to retain that institution, I say
now in a commercial sense alone that the
abolition of slavery was the greatest benefit
the South ever received. This only as a
result, not as respects the right or wrong of
the motive or method by which the
result was produced. Aside from the
struggle itseit and Irom the bitter legislative
period of reconstruction davs and the politi
cal persecution which has spasmodically
visited us, we must nor grasp the grand re
sults which we are now enjoying and
acknowledge the inestimable benefits that
have accrued to" our peonle and section.
When I travel through. New England and
through other States of the North, I realize
the folly of an agricultural people attempt
ing to cope successfully with a manufactur
ing people."
"Does the new prosperity of the South ex
tend beyond the creation and increase of her
manufactures?"
EITECT ON AGRICULTURE.
"Most assuredly. For that matter you
cannot create and develop' nranu'actunng
and mining interests without stimulating
the agricultural interests, unjust and un
equal laws to the contrary notwithstanding.
We are raising more cotton and of a better
quality, and get a better price for it than
ever betore in this history of the South; and
the same mav be said of grain and garden
products. Now, he land was there betore
so was the climate, and so were the veins of
coal and iron ore that underlie the whole.
It is the development of these resources that
has brough prosperity a development prjcu
cally impossible under the conditions of the
South beiore the war.
"You would be surprised, if you were fa
miliar with those conditions, to note the
improved state of farm lands. The mate
rial prosperity of the South is still chiefly
in her agricultural resources. But im
proved labor ree labor tne rehabilitation
of exhausted lands by systematic fertiliza
tion, have not only greatly increased the
average yield per acre, but have doubled
the value of the land itself. The immense
phosphate beds, nature's storehouse, have
contributed to this. .But they also were
there beiore. The great underlying motive
power is the strong self-reliance wrought
out of sore adversity and stimulated by
necessity the relief from tho incubus of
slavery. Our people have simply cast tra
ditional sentiment aside and gone to work,
every fellow for himself.
"We are not politically or socially per
fected, and never will be. The growlers
and kickers are not all dead yet and never
will be. The drawbacks of old politic.il
hucksters and unconscionable demagogues
sfflict us the same as they da you in the
North. But we are on the .right road, are
making good time and will get there, as the
saying goes, with all of our leet. "We
would get there more quickly and satis
factorily if there were no politicians to nag
and goad us at every step.
STATUS OF THE NEGEO.
"The negro? He is doing well, and, like
the rest of us, will dobetterif heisletalone.
The negro is as necessary to us as we are to
him. That expresses the whole situation.
He is doing his duty to himself and his fam
ily is earning an honest living and creating
homes and laying up material wealth for
himself and his children. In helping him
to do this we help ourselves. He is in the
full enjovment of hi) liberty, and. as a rule,
he makes good use of it This is quite as
much as anybody can truthiullyjjay of the
white laboring class in the North. I hear
very frequently ud North that the negro
with us is down-trodden aud oppressed, and
all that sort of thing, but if such is the case
be is ignorant of it, and on the whole rather
likes it, for e never near any such thing
from him at home. As a laborer he has no
equal for patient industry and stubborn en
durance. It is to our best interests to give
him a chance to nrosner. fonnd a home and
J become rooted to thevsoil; and he natural!
-THE PITTSBTJE.& ''DISPATCH,
gets bctterrtreatment from us than be would
receive in the North.
"He is neither atarving nor tramping.
He can confidently look for, and actually
receives, more favors ajt the hands, of the
men who once, owned him than the poor
white laborer in the North can expect or get
from his employers. I do not mean this
comparison in an invidious sense. He is
entitled to this consideration, andlfcel that
where it is withheld by any Southern white
it is a violation of a moral responsibility.
As during slavery days thero were kind and
brutal masters, so in these times there are
those whoprobably do not treat the negro as
well as they should. But the free negro
has the same remedy of the Northern
laborer. The fact that a man is free, how
ever, does not make him independent any
more in the South than iu the North. "When
people have to lean on each other they can't
be very far apart
FREE LABOR Till? CHEAPER.
"It used to cost us just before the war
about 5800 apiece for slaves and we had to
own four or five slaves to possess one able
bodied man. For less than the interest
upou this investment wo can now hire an
able-bodied laborer and have no risk of loss
bv sickness and death. So, you see, we are
benefited as well as the negro. But free
labor is in itself more valuable to the em
ployer. I have owned slaves and now em
ploy a large body of negroes, and my ex
perience is that of everybody else, who has
operated slaves. There dre children of my
former slaves working forus in South Caro
lina to-dar, and they are better men and
better workmen than'were their fathers be
fore them. Yet my father's old slave, Jack
Richards, who lies buried near my home, ran
and managed a furnace for us tor 20 years,
while other slaves were hammermen, pud
ftlnn rollingmill hands, machinists and
'blacksmiths. Some of them are at work
there vet.
"It is a fact, sir, that if it were possible
to submit the .question of slavery or anli
slavery to the former slave-holding States
now, slavery wouldn't get the vote of a
corporal's guard of former owners. Tho
man who would have predicted this some
years ago I should have considered a fool rr
insane." Charles T. Murray.
SOME HINTS JOE PBESENTS.
This Beads Like a Talry Tale Pointed With
a Practical Horat
Munsey's Weekly.
It is the 23th of December.
Dick Harduppe tries to look jolly, but
his "Merry Christmas" has a hollow sound,
and bis anxious lace looks more worn than
ever, as he gives his wife the gold bracelet
w hich he has pinched himself six months to
buv.
Her bright looks and happy smile grate'
upon him, somehow, and he really feels re
lieved when she doesn't band him a present
in return, for he's been wondering how he
could pay for it and also buy the winter's
coal.
He is crowing almost cheerful when a sli
of paper, familiar in shape and color, catches
his eye by his plate.
He defers looking at it as long as possi
ble, and thinks a little hardly of Milly for
not having kept it till next day.
At last he glances at it, and with an inar
ticulate word, falls from his chair in a dead
faint
It is a receipted bill, for coal enough to
last them the whole winter.
But joy is seldom "the fell destroyer,"
and he is soon revived.
Milly's bright eyes have a hint of tears in
tbcm, as she tells how she earned the money
by a long siege of scribbling at stories,
poems and jokes, on the ever fruitful if
sonicwhat-frayed.at-the-edgesiftopic of bills
coming in on January 1 lor the husband's
Christmas present
Who says now that it doesn't pay to tell
the truth sometimes?
DBAWBACXS OF THE CEEDIT SYSTEM.
Keasons
Why Farmers Should Avoid Ac
counts and How to So It
An exchauge speaks of the comparative
merits, from the merchant's, standpoint, of
the cash and credit systems of dealing. It
says: "Merchants know that the average
man will buy more goods if he has an ac
count than if he pays cash. There is some
thing about the bare fact of paying out
hard-earned dollars that makes one pause
and consider whether the purchase is a nec
essary one." There io another point, too,
worth considering from the buyer's stand
point a purchaser will not scrutinize the
price so closely when buying on credit as
when paying cash, and so often pays much
more for an article.
Farmers, above all people, should avoid
1 store accounts, as a single crop failure is
name to mane sucu a dent become very
burdensome. If ready money is not
obtainable the store account can often be
avoided by growing something which can
be exchanged through the season for such
things as must be bought A little space
and time devoted to fruit or vegetables,
chickens, bees, etc., will often prove of
much more value than the mere amount of
money derived from the sale of the products,
by enabling one to avoid a debt These
things may be exchanged at the store each
week, in small quantities, answering the
same purpose as cash. A "one crup"
farmer is almost always in debt for three
fourths of the year. By a little attention to
small matters of this sort he would be in a
much more independent position, and
cventually.find more profit in his work.
AS BETWEEN YOUTH AND AOE.
Suggestive Illustrations Brawn From Glad
stone and Kipling.
The Atlanta Constitution.!
The Boston G'oðinks that with Kip
ling writing himself into fame at 21, and
Gladstone doing the work of a statesman at
80, it would seem that our limitations upou
youth and age are artificial and arbitrary.
Kipling has wisely decided that when a
man feels impelled to write he cannot be too
young for the work. He should go ahead
and do his level best Gladstone is equally
wise in deciding that it is unnecessary for
him to seek repose when he feels capable of
making his best efforts.
Both lire right. There is no sense in
standing- back until middle age, preparing
lor a career, only to retire from it a few
years later on account of rid age. Kipling
lives with older men, and Gladstone asso
ciates with younger men. These two live in
the happy middle ground between youth
and age, and thej cannot be measured by
the summers and winters that have passed
over their heads.
A brainy, healthy man can do his best
work in the sphere for which he is fitted
early in life, and also when he is in bis
eighties. Such a man, when he lives rightly,
is never too young and never too old, so far
as his intellectual faculties are concerned.
The question to ask about a man is not,
How old is he? but Wnal can he do?
A PEETEEENCE FOB MUSCLE. .
Football Cadets Are Those Chosen by Ad
miral Luce for Fighters.
Admiral Luce declared at "West Point a
week ago, says the New York Times, that
the cadets composing the football teams of
Annapolis and West Point were his choice
for officers when going into action. The
Admiral Inquired concerning the relative
standing ot the members of the two team,
and in almost the same breath added:
"Never mind where they stand; those are the
men I want in time of action.
"An officer cannot be too athletic. He
cannot possess too much mnscle and cour
age, and I prefer these qualities even to the
risk of' a little brilliancy in study. Of
course I would like to have officers who
graduated No. 1 in their" classes aud were at
the same time athletes, but such officers are
rare, very rare exceptions. The best fight
ing material and that is what we want, not
experts are the muscular fellows who just
manage to get through. They finish their
course without having overtaxed thiir
brains': w v " r ,
SUNDAY, - ' DECEMBER 14,
IN LONDON TOWER
The Prince of AYalqs Will Ensjoncp
His Son Albert Victor.
BUCKINGHAM TOO HEAR GRANDMA.
Gfcosts in the Ancient Fortress and Changes
Contemplated.
THE STEP WILL BE A-POPDLAB ONE
rCOnBESrOSDZHCB OT THE DISri.TCH.1
London, Dec 4. A thrilling rumor has
lately been agitating east and west to the
effect that the disused md historic Tower of
London is to be converted once more into a
royal palace of residence, and that no less a
personage that Prince Albert Victor is to be
made its governor in place of Lord Napier,
of Magdala.
It is known that for some time past the
Prince of Wales Jias been looking about for
a suitable residence .for his eldest son,
whose marriage with the Princess Helene of
Orleans is likely to take place at no distant
date, provided that the Pope sees fit to
smooth away the religious difficulties which,
at tm present moment, seem insurmounta
ble, t There are only half a dozen palaces in
London suitable for a royal Prince to in-
St. Peter't Chapel Place of Execution.
habit, and of there are only unoccupied St.
James' Palace, which, it is probable, ,the
Duke of Connaught will eventually be
given, and Buckingham Palace.
TO HAVE HIS OTTN WAT.
This latter, however, is disliked by the
Prince of "Wales on account of the number
of distinguished foreign .royal personages
who,. are always lodged there. His eldest
son shares his leeling iR the matter aud
would pre er a residence in which he were
lord and master and not a lodger or visitor
of his august grandmother, as would be the
case if he were allotted apartments in Buck
ingham Palace. He might at any time be
called upon bv Queen "Victoria to' entertain
the Shah of all the Persians or the King of
Honolulu, and Albert Victor being a fas
tidious young man, great on the convention
alities, does not care to run the risk of sit
ting at the same table with a black monarch
who eats in the primitive way employed by
savages. . .
The idea of once more utilizing the Tower
as a royal palace is saicP to have originated
with the Prince of "Wales and the sugges
tion immediately found favor with Prince
Albert Victor who, with an astuteness with
which the young gentleman is not usually
credited, pointed out to his father what an
enormous amount of popularity would be
gained by such a step.'
a rortrEAn locality.
In this argument the young Prince is per
fectly right. Tbe tower is situated in the
iMinories, one of the poorest parts of indus
trial Bast London; and should Prince Al
bert Victor elect to take up his dwelling
there he will undoubtedly obtain for him
self a fine supply of loyalty and enthusiasm
which will come in useiully in the future if
Socialism goes ahead at its present rate.
Every coster. Bill Sykes and factory girl in
East London would, immediately cultivate a
feeling of intense and passionate loyalty for
the young Prince living among them.
Not that it is at all likely that our future
king would go slumming on the strict Q. T.,
or that, like the old sultans of-the "Arabian
Nights," he would go about the city incog
nito after dusk, mingling with his prospec
tive subjects and listening to their griev
ances with a view of redressing them nn the
day he ascended the throne. So far Prince
Beauchamp Tower.
Albert Victor has not shown himself pos
sessed of any burning philanthropy or
ardentdesire to better the welfare of his
fellow men; but he, or at any rate his father,
has a good deal of tact aud savoir fairc, and
the Prince of Wales is perfectly well aware
than even a semblance of London citizen
ship on the part of his heir would go a long
way towerd creating content and pleasure in
the minds of the mass of uneducated Lon
doners. its suitability as a palace.
But apart from this tactical move on the
part of the Prince of "Wales, the''Tower
would really make a far more significant
residence than the majority of the palaces,
most of which are small, ill-built, ill
drained, Marlborough House being espe
cially bad in this respect Of course the
building would have to be thoroughly over
hauled, as it has not been occupied by roy
alty since the days of gay Charles II., but a
whole army of the unemployed might be set
to work upon it, which would be another
popular move.
The hideous building of the military store
department would be done away with and an
additional wing to provide for future contin
gencies built at the,side of the Governor's
apartmeuts. The splendid banqueting hall
would want renovating so far as the ceiling
and walls are concerned, and it would also
'serve the purpose ot a fine ballroom, which
would be particularly acceptable to Prince
AlWt Victor, whd is fond of dancing, but
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gyrate about comfortably.
A PROCESSION ON MB THAMES.
Should the young Prince decide on tak
ing up his residence there we mar look
forward to the event being signalized by a
grand water procession, which will recall
the glories of Elizabeth's reign, when all
the barges gaily draped with scarlet sailed
up Ruber Thames to the sound of sweet
music and minstrels.
No intelligence has as yet reached the
authorities at the Tower as to tho proposed
change, but one of the warders or bcef-eatcrs
as they are called, told me that it is very
likely some alterations will shortly be seen
there. Apropos of the "White Tower it is
not generally known that it is still haunted
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The Utood Tower.
by the ghost of the murdered Matilda Fitz
walter, which makes its appearance every
three or four years. Matilda, the Fair,
was a beautiful young lady beloved of King
John, hut she would have nothing to say to
him. Thereupon the wicked John banished
her father and imprisoned her in the White
Tower, where some ill-fate befell her, the
exact nature of which is not known.
WHERE THE PRINCES DIED".
At one time the Bloody Tower, where the
little sons of Edward VI. were murdered,
was said to have been haunted; but since it
has been renovated and repaired the ap
parition's have disappeared, probably object
ing to the smell of paint and soap and
water. The most interesting portion of the
Tower, St. Peter's Chapel, has fortunately
not fallen a victim to the modern restorer,
and remains pretty much the same as it did
in the days when it was the scene of the ex
ecution of the fair Anne Boleyn.
A curious old custom is still observed
when the gates are locked at night by the
Yeoman Porter, who is accompanied by a
military escort, and to whom the sentry
cries: "Who comes there?"
The Yeoman Porter answers: "The
keys I"
The sentry asks: "Whose keys?" and the
Yeoman Porter replies: "Queen Victoria's
keys," the guard and the escort saluting the
keys and the Yeoman Porter completing the.
ceremony, before taking the keys to thej
yueen a house, oy saying in an audioie
voice : "God preserve Queen Victoria."
MacLeod.
0YSTEE JUICE IN THE EYE,
A Curious Disease Which Is Contracted byl
the Oyster Shuckers.
"The oyster-shucker's eye disease," says
the Philadelphia Telegram, is (he title
given by the professional staff of the Pres.
byterian Eye and Ear Hospital, in Balti
more, to a fertile source of trouble affecting
a large number of patients at this season of
the year. It is believed that the peculiar
kind of ulceration of the eyeball which M
known by this title, is caused by the juWe
of the oyster touching the cornea of an ef e
which has previously been slightly injured.
The doctors at the institution say thevepn
tell exactly when the oyster season is at
hand by the apnearance of patients with
this complaint within 21 hours alter (he
opening of the packing establishments, and
they claim that this complaint disappears
promptly with the close of the oyster season.
The shuckers come to the institution com-"
plainingthatthey had had their eyes huoy
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ing ipse,
:k, a bin,
caused by an aorasion Irom anytnin
such as a nail. chiD.of marble or rock.
or even a clean shell. A mere look at tie
ulcerated cornea suffices to determine that
the patient is an oyster shucser. i
The disease yields easily to treatment, and
very frequently the patient is so far re
lieved ot pain as to be able to return to his
work within 24 hours. What is called the
sterilizing treatment is applied to the suffer
ers. It consists or applying cocainejto the
eye until all sensibility has been lot, and
then carclully touching the ulcer ton the
cornea with a' platinum wire heated to
whiteness by a galvanic current I
AN ElUOBATIOH SYNDICATE.
Itoscate English Flans for Settlers and Lands
in Tills Country.
It is rumored on very excellent authority,
says the Fall 'Mall Budget, that 'a move
ment is on foot lor the purpose of" forming
an emigration syndicate, which will buy
land in the Western and Southern States of
America, and advance money to intending
settlers for the purpose of establishing a
large number of the most distressed people
in the States mentioned.
If our information be correct, it is not the
intention of the promoters (and there are
many good names among them) to pauperize
the people by presenting them either with
passage money or land, butthe transaction
will be a purelv business one a moderate
interest being charged for the loan and so
certain is the surety of repayment that not
the.slightcst difficulty is apprehended as to
the" raising of the necessary cabital.
It is said that the sum of 10 is sufficient
in mt fnr thn nnlfif. mssnnmnnnpv nnri
railway fare of tach adult passenger right
to the spot or his ucstipatton m such a State
as Texas, and once there the promoters of
the proposed association are confident of
their ability in a short time to turn the most
poverty-stricken Irish peasant into a thriv
ing; prosperous farmer, the owner of his
land in perpetuity, and the founder, may
be, of one ot the first families, in the Amer
ican Bepublic.
A FAMHIAE BHIT OFrPOWEB.
Explanation of the Origin and Meaning of
the Term Ilorso Power.
When men first begin to become familiar
with the methods of measuring mechanical
power they often speculate on- where the
breed of horses is to be found that cau keep
at work raising 33,000 pounds one foot per
minute, or the. equivalent,which is more
familiar to some mechanics; of raising 330
pounds 100 feet per minute. Since 33,000
pounds raised one foot per minute is called
one horse power, it Is natural that people
should think the engineers who established
that unit of measurement based it on what
horses could really do.
But the horse that can do this work does
not exist The horse power unit was estab
lished by James Wattf about a century ago,
and the "figures were fixed in a curious way.
"Watt found that the average horse of his
district could raise 22,000 pounds one foot
per minute. This, then, was an actual horse
power.
At that time Watt was employed in the
manufacture of engines, and customers were
so hard to find that ill kinds of artificial in
ducements were necessary to induce power
Users to buy steam wiginesL As a method of
encouraging them.lWatt offeied to sell en
gines reckoning 33,000 footpouuds to a horse
power. And thus he was the means of giv
ing" a false nnit to one of the most important
measurements in the world, .
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Girl TiYlio Wants a Husband and
iMowrito Wait for Him
IS FOWilSH IN THIS DAI AND AGE.
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Mothers Do the Hustling; in'
Igljud bnt Not Here.
AMERICfN WOMEN AUB 1XDEPEKDENT
frwiirrTES roB the dispatch.
NovJs. and especially English novels.
are fun of the abuses of match-making Dy
managing mothers. Thee are represented
as forming plans of campaign as soon as
tneir daughters leave school to get them
eligibly married. Schemes for bringing the
girls and -well-tO'do men together are con
stantly in order, because these mothers have
an abiding f.th iu the truth of the old saw
that "proximity is the soul of love."
The old theory that marriages are made in
heaven, aud tdat neither men nor women
can escape their destiny, avails but little
in practice, as judged by the match-makers
who are portrayed in the books. Hence the
"daughter shows," or debutante's balls, or
"society auctions" for the promotion
of marriage. Amateur theatricals are
brought into play, tennis parties
serve good purpose, little dances to which
only eligible men are invited are among the
most prominent maneuvers, but the clever
cbaperone has her head lull of cunning de
vices to further her plan of making a match
between a young woman who must be dis
posed of and a man of means and position.
But, as appears, this sort of marriageable
men is growing scarce and shy. They have
to be drummed up and hunted out Poor
men are not wanted and rich ones have no
great desire to marry. But since marriage
is the proper thing;, it is evident to the
match-makers that men should not shirk
their solemn duty, but be made by hook or
crook to take their share iu the responsibili
ties of matrimony.
HOW i. WOMAN CHANGES.
These daughters in English society are
represented as modest, sensitive, shrinking
little souls, who always do what "mamma"
thinks best, but what seems strange to the
reader is that these wild-violet and lily-of-the-valley
girls are of the same variety that
in course of time develops, as did their
mothers before them, into these cunning
chaperones and son-in-law hunting mothers.
Eligible men seem to be very scarce in En
glish society, or else they are getting too
smart to be caught in the snares set for
flipm lif tiiA wav nf tpmniinf pntprfjtinmpntjl
j and flattering attentions. The talk about
marriage irighteus them. They shrink
from exchanging their freedom for the
monotonous round of matrimony. They are
afraid of the blanks in the lottery. They
are most especially shy, it would appear,
when the prospective mother-in-law is too
prominent
To excuse themselves they dilate upon the
extravagance of women. They insist that
every girl wants to live "in style," at least
nothing less than that to which she has been
accustomed. They urge that it is not their
business to marry until their "fate" impos
sible to resist appears. But the British
matron thinks that good husbands are a ne
cessity for nice English girls, and those who
know'the indomitable courage, the untiring
persistence, 'the eternal vigilance of the
managing mother, as she appears in En
glish society, knows that she will have her
way in the end. The old epitaph still
stands without an answer.
Where is the man who his the power and skill
To stem the torrent of a woman's will ?
For if she will, she will you may depend on't;
And if she won't she won't and there's an end
on't
SKILLFUL-IIT THE CHASE.
The great art of match-making in Eng
land has grown so difficult, says an English
writer, that it has developed vastly increased
skill in tble chase for husbands. In days
gone by the man secured his bride by cap
ture of purchase. The marriage ceremony
of primitive days, as pictured, is a would-be
husband aided by what the schoolboy calls
"a gang of toughs" tearing a young girl
away from her friends by main force, re
gardless of what she thought of it
In these highways of advanced civiliza
tion, if we? are to accept English novels as
pictures from life, it is the poor man who is
dragged into matrimony. Not savagely and
rudely, as was the fate of the young girl in
the days of barbarism, but by sheer force of
linesse oy tne maicnuiaiter who mares mm
believe he is about to become the happiest
mau alive when he walks up to the chancel
in resplendent attiie and marries the girl
expresslvcut out for him by heaven. Of
course, the novels usually end at this point
The illusion is kept up to the last that mir
riages in England are made for love, but
the chaperonein the background who frowns
upon younger sons, ana promptly cuts an
the liomeo and Juliet scenes off short unless
Ilomeo has a suitable income, thinks more
or the establishment than she does of love,
and takes the measure of a man's attentions
with the closest calculation.
SOMETIMES THET FALL IN LOVE.
English girls, closely guarded as they
are, however, do occasionally fall in love
with poverty-stricken younger sons and in
eligible, men, much to the amazement and
distress of their friends. To find the free
dom for which they yearn, they even elope
with them, and usually come to grief. "The
average of old fools and young fools is
steadily kept up" we are told, notwith
standing the diffusion of useful knowledge.
Afterthe houeyinoon is over and the supply
of cash runs short, and the bride finds out
the difference between living in obscurity
and shabbiness, struggling with the finan
cial problems of anJuadequate income and
the comforts of her old home, she then
realize') her folly to the fullest Iq the books
it is customary lor a rich old uncle or aunt
or somebody to die and relieve them from
the stern necessities of poverty by a will
giving them a fortune, bnt in real life they
most often have to reconcile themselves to
the dismalitics of their position and pay the
price of their blind folly.
Maneuvering mothers who expend their
capacity ot brain, and genius io planning
to secure husbandv for their daughters are
not numerous in this country, though they
may be found in fashionable society.
American girls are not held under such
strict guardianship as are their British sis
ters. As a rule they may be said to manage
their own bargains, and their mothers as
well. They hold themselves too high to em
ploy trickery and false pretenses
TO ENSNAUE UNWARY BACHELOES.
Marriageable men are not so scarce iu this
country, that the time of women need be ex
pended in the endeavor to find a chance to
perform their mission in life, or to secure a
permanent place ,within their sphere, by
virtue of a husband. Mothers keep mostly
in the background. They no more chase
husbands for their daughters than they do'
rainbows,
"Mother is everlastingly warning me
against getting married," said a bright girl
the other day. "She has a perfect horror of
men coming around paying attentions. She
tells me my life will be happier and brighter
outside of marriage, which brings, at the
best, much of sorrow and care. I tell her
not to be alarmed that the man I shall
marry, if he ever comes along, will have to
be pretty close up to the top notch. And if
he should chance, to fall below, no power on
earth could compel me to live with him. I
am independent I can make my own liv
ing and will call no man master. I have
no sort of use for the sort of love or duty
which sternly tells a woman to 'Lie down on
the floor and let your husband trample on
you if he will.' No door-mat business for
nic.
HEBE'S JIN AMEBICAN GIKL.
Another girl in Minnesota who was a
teacher earned a salary of S900 a vear. and
from this soon saved a complete little bank
deposit She spent a vacation in Spokane
The1
rui'j UtUe Liver rnu.pallh beanx bein nnmerous. she
I was beset with attentions. Bnt she was not
so carried away with flattery as to lose her
business faculty. She invested-part of her
utile pile in real estate, ana maae money.
She look "flyers" in wheat and made money.
She soon had an income of $1,800 a year
from her investments. "Maryl" said she to
a friend who advised her to accept one of
her lovers and settle down "Mary! Why
should I marry? Why should I tie myself
down and put up with a man's whins? I
intend to keep mvself free and enjoy life lor
a while, anyhow."
When such girls many it will be a co
partnership based upon mutual love and
cemented by a bond' of friendship. Such
wives will not have to trembingly ask their
husbands for a dollar for car" tickets or
needles and thread. However things may
be in England, it seems plain that in this
country husband-hunting is not on the in
crease, if it ever was in vogue. There are
still plenty of girls, to be sure, who are
simply educated for marriage, and, failing
that, they are helplessly dependent upou
friends, but apart from the anglo-maniacs
and snobs, the idea of independence for
women is growing with all classes. "With
this advance, marrying for a home becomes
mor and more distasteful. Marriage, being
the natural order of things, will always
present its attractions, but with all the"
sordid accompaniments removed it will be
come a marriage of true minds, a union of
kindred souls, a partnership for lore, and
home, and happiness.
THE Sl'ALLISTEB FAILURES.
Fashion in society gives a girl no object in
life but marriage, and if they do not suc
ceed they are, under the McAllister rules,
"failures." Think of what stuff a girl is
made of if she submits to be a failure, or
sinks into a tract distributor beeause the
"coming man" cometh nott Contemplate
what a simpleton she is who will marry
either au old fool or a young fool for his
money in such a country as this, where she
can make a fortune for herself if she has the
capacity!
"While a true marriage is the aim of
every sensible woman's hopes and desires,"
says Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "she must
never strive to secure a husband. She
shonld sit down and wait for his advances."
This advice will never achieve success in
any other enterprise. If you want anything
ask for it, seek it, pray for it, move heaven
and earth to get it If a man wants to make
a fortune he has to strive and struggle and
save and sacrifice. Now, when a woman
sets her heart upon a man why shonld she
not strive to get him if she so chooses? To
shut a girl up to wait for a coming man in
these days is a waste of time, a sentimental
fol-de-rol. If a woman wants a husband a
man is fair game. That is man's philosophy
it will serve a woman as well.
Bessie Bbamble.
AN ELECIBIC LIGHTHOUSE,
Invention of a NewZealanderWhlch Utilizes
the Idle Winds.
Brooklyn Citizen. I
"Hannaford Electric and Automatic
Lighthouse" is the full title of an invention
which comes front New Zealand, and is
among the first frnits of English civilization
and science in that far-off Australasian
land. Consul Connolly, at Auckland, has
sent to the State Department, at Washing
ton, a sketch and description of it, with the
enthusiastic indorsement of many piacti
cal engineers and electricians who have
examined it Mr. Hanna'ord claims
that this machine will send forth electric
The Automatic Lighthouse.
flashes plainly discernible tor 30 miles.
The cupola revolves and the lamp with it,
butthe arc within does not, and is always
broadside to one desired direction, the lens
pulley at its back facing the land, so that
the flashes can be seen in that direction at
will. The flash signals are arranged for the
letters of the alphabet, so that any desired
message can be sent, which is of great im
portance in case of shipwreck or war. The
arc is automatic, and does its own lighting
or extinguishment to the.minute. But the
great noveitv and most valuable feature is
the windmill attachment, which generates
the electricity and the storage of the 'latter
to such ample amount that it would not run
short ot 15,000 candle power even in a six
months' claim.
Planta Beatrice,
IT WILL DO,
Produces, a Beautiful Complexion,
Whitens a Sallow Skin,
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Prevents Sunburn and Tan
To Travelers it is Indispensable.
Keeps tbo Skin Perfect in Any Climate.
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Will refine a Coarse, Rough. Porous Skin. A
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that disagreeable Redness with which so many
are afflicted.
FLESH WORM PASTE, per jar 1169
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Rankin's Pharmacy, corner Pennavenae
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Markell Brothers, Central Drug Store,
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