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him, and he is so good, so noble; it seems
such a shame not to be quite honest to him.
But I cannot be: I must Keep this miserable
secret for Hugh's sake, for yourn, for my
own. He mast never know, and General
Conray must never know. Only you and
me, Joan, and we must carry it to our
graves."
'I wonder if I shall see him there; after
I am dead?" said Joan in an awe struck
whisper.
"Don't think of such things; try to forget
them," answered Miriam.
"But I cannot, I see Robert constantly
before me; I dream of him; sometimes I fear
I mil talk of him in mr sleep."
"Oh! Joan."
"I've a kind of haunting dread of this.
Oh! if I did oh! Hiriam, if I did!"
Ton are nervous, my poor, poor Joan."
"Yes, I know, weak and nervous; and
sometimes Richard begins talking of
Robert, wondering over his terrible fate,
and I have to listen! Miriam, believe me,
I lead a miserable life!"
"And I" began Miriam; but at this
moment one of the hotel waiters rapped
at the room door, and the sisters started
apart.
"Sir James McKennon is below," said
the waiter, "and wisbes to see Miss Clyde,"
and he handed Sir James' card to Miriam
as he spoke.
"You can show him up," answered
Miriam, and once more the sisters looked at
each other and were stilL
CHAPTER XVI.
The Fiiist Doubt.
"Women, as we all know, have the char
acter of being much better actors in society
than men. They hide their worries, their
disappointments, their pains. They smile
over them, whereas men, as a rule, easily
let us see that something is amiss. There
fore, when Sir James, haDpy and smiling,
entered the sitting room, where Joan and
Miriam had just spoken such tragic words,
he did not perceive their shadow on the
lair faces of the two sisters.
He had not seen Mrs. Conray before, and
when Miriam introduced them he Mas
struck, as most people were, by the strong
likeness between them. True, Mrs. Conray
was more fragile-looking: but the features.
the eyes, the" height, were almost exactly
the same.
Sir James warmly held out his hand and
took Joan's when Miriam presented him.
"I am so pleased," he said, in that kind,
cordial manner of his, "to make your ac
quaintance, Mrs. Conray Miriam's sis
ter;" and he smiled at Miriam.
"I am very pleased," answered Joan.
"Anyone could tell you were sisters,"
"went on Sir James, still smiling.
"I am older thau Miriam," said Joan.
"Xot a great deal," smiled Miriam.
"You are both happily at that age when
years do not tell their tale," answered Sir
James. "But I am very pleased indeed to
know you, Mrs. Conray."
They talked a little while on ordinary
ubjects alter this, and then Joan rose in
.her usual languid way to leave the room.
'1 feel a little tired with the journey,
Miriam," she said, "and so I shall go and
lie down for an hour. I shall see you again
t dinner I suppose, Sir James?"
"I hope so," he answered brightly; and
then after he had opened the room door lor
Joan he returned to Miriam's side.
"Your sister is wonderfully like von," he
said, taking Miriam's hand in his own;
"but I am glad my darling looks a great
deal stronger than Mrs. Conray."
"1 think Joan looks ill too."
"She's a very pretty woman, awfully
pretty, but she looks delicate, and as she
said tired."
"She is easily tired."
"Poor little woman! And are you too
tired dear tw go out ior an hour with me?"
"Oh, no;" and so the betrothed pair went
out together, and Sir James bought many
pretty things, and ordered flowers, and
took stalls lor some favorite play. He was
rich, and he was happy, and nothing pleased
him so much as to spend his money in
pleasing Miriam. He never lreamt that
the cold shadow or fear lay always athwart
Miriam's heart; never though': that the
dark-eyed girl by his side hid aVay in her
oul a tragic and gloomy past. Who can
TrtireyethiBjjs? Vice docs aia rule lay
its ugly finger onlheiiufhan. tace,but"many
a darkstory and storm will pass and leave
no trace. When they returned to the hotel,
presently fair, stately, elegant, with shin
ing jewels round her white swan-like
throat, Joan Conray entered tfie room
dressed ior dinner and going to
the theater afterwards, what did she
look? A handsome young matron of
whom her old husband might well be
proud. There was a quiet dignity about
this woman who but a lew hours ago had
told her sister that her heart lay murdered
Jn her murdered lover's grave. Mrs. Clyde
felt that evening proud of her two daugh
ters, and yet an uneasy feeling lingered in
her mind regarding Miriam. But not for
Joan! This acute woman could not look
beneath the fair, serene, and pensive mask,
that General Conray's wile habitually
wore.
"Joan is very dignified-looking," she
said that evening, a little later, to her hus
band, and Colonel Clyde assented with a
smile.
"Your sister looks quite content with her
choice," also remarked General Couray'a
little later to his wife. "It's very well. I
suppose she has quite forgotten poor Robert
now?"
"I suppose so," answered Joan, a little
huskilv. and she turned away her head.
And so the next two days passed away
passed in buving presents and flowers, and,
the General and the Colonel found many of
their old military friends at their clubs,
and Colonel Loivrey came to dine with the
Clydes. and brought his offering for the
bride also. They all indeed seemed very
happy and content, though Miriam looked
somewhat pale, and the very day before her
marriage something occurred which con
siderably disturbed Mrs. Clyde.
This arose from Ford giving formal notice i
to quit Mrs. Clyde s service. ord had
been enjoying herself in town also, and bad
already ensnared the affections by a young,
good-looking German waiter at the hotel.
And now seeing that her young mistress was
sctually about to become Lady MacKennon.
of which Ford had had many doubts, she
applied to Miriam to become h'er maid, and
Miriam, lor reasons that we know ot, had
consented.
Ford then proudly had gone to Mrs. Clyde
with this information, and asked leave to
depart with the bride. And Mrs. Clyde,
who had engaged a maid lor Miriam, lelt
exceedingly annoyed.
"I must speak to my daughter abont this,
Ford," she said; "do you say Miss Miriam
has asked you to accompany her abroad?"
"Yes, Mrs. CI v de," replied Ford, de
murely. "I shall inquire into it," said Mrs. Clyde,
and on the first opportunity that she had
she spoke to Miriam very seriously on the
subject,
"Miriam, my dear, I wish to speak to you
about Ford," she said.
"Yes, mother," answered Miriam.
"She tell me you have asked her to go
with you to Paris."
"Yes, it was an old promise that when I
married she was to be my maid."
"My dear," began Mrs. Clyde, very
graely, and then the paused. "I do not
approve ot your choice, Miriam," she added.
"I do not think Ford is efficient enough to
be your maid in your luture position."
"lam accustomed to her, mother; I do
not care to have any new woman about me."
"But, my dear, consider Ford is not a
steady young woman and then she might
talk ol what had better never be mentioned
in your husband's household."
Miriam's pale lace flushed.
"I understand what you mean mother,"
she said, "but you need not be alraid."
"I am not afraid ot yon, do not mistake;
but I am afraid of her idle tongue. Far
better to hae someone with you who has
only known you in your matronhood."
"I have promised Ford."
"Rut you can easily get out of such a
promise. I have engaged a maid for you;
take my advice, Miriam, and accept "this
stranger and not Ford."
Mrs. Clyde spoke urgently, but Miriam
was quietly determined.
"It is settled; mother, with Ford," she
said, "aud it will b: no Inconvenience to
you, I bone, as you hnve engaged another
maid. When you spone ot it the other day
I thought this other maid would do for
lou."
"1 wish you may not regret this, Miriam,"
replied Mrs. Clyle, warningly. "I do not
like Ford; I do not trust her; take care you
do not trust her too much." '
But Miriam' knew, as her mother said
this, that she bad already been forced to
trust Ford "too much." She knew, too,
to a certain extent, she would be obliged to
go on trnstine her. And therclore she was
forced to disregard her mother's warning,
and Mrs. Clyde left the room with that
strange uneasiness in her heart about her
daughter's future which had lately troubled
her so much, considerably augmented.
But the marriage morning dawned and
the sun was shining and everything seemed
to look promising and prosperous for the
bride. It was a quiet wedding, but the
stalwart, good looking bridegroom seemed
so completely happy, and the bride so fair,
that every one who looked on them ought to
have been satisfied. That Sir James was
there there could be no doubt, and that
shadow of hidden fear was not visible in
Miriam's face. Yet as she entered the
church in her trailing white garments, lean
ing on her lather's arm, she did lor a moment
glance quickly round. But the dark, hand
some face, that perhaps she dreaded to see,
was not there. Only a few spectators at
tracted by the carriages outside, only the
eaucr lover waiting lor her within. And
nothing interrupted the ceremony. There
in the presence of her nearest friends her
father and mother, and her sister and her
husband Miriam Clyde promised to be
James MacKennou's wife, "ami forsaking
all other, keep truly unto him."
And Joan Conrav heard these solemn
words, and gave a little shudder, knowing
how she had kept her troth. And the
grey-haired General, whose wife she was,
looked at her with softened eyes, remem
bering the day when they too had taken
thesevows, and when his young wife had
been given to him "to love and cherish."
And in his way for he was naturally a re
served and somewhat stern man General
Conray had truly loved his wife. She, to
do her justice, had never fathomed the
depth and strength of his feelings toward
her. She had married him against her
girlish vt ill, and she had always thought of
him as an old man, aud her heart had ever
been cold to him. But she respected and
feared him. She dreaded above all things
that he should ever suspect that dark se
cret and its tragic end that had blighted her
life She gave him no cause lor suspicion
now; she lived indeed as it were above it,
and the General was proud of her beauty
and her stainless name.
But presently it was all over, and Lady
MacKennon passed down the aisle on her
husband's arm, and the small party re
turned to the hotel tor the wedding break
fast., Here they were joined by Colonel
Lowrcy and two other old comrades of
Colonel Clyde's. All the men of th party
belonged to the service and had grown gray
in it, except the b.-idezroom. And Sir
James' spirits were absolutely boyish dur
ing the meal which followed. He was
elated beyond measure as it were, for had
he not won his heart's desire? He was in
the morning of his life, but these gray
haired soldiers around him smiled a little
grimly perhaps as they watched his exuber
ant content They knew if he did not that
shipwreck may come on the life voyage as
the storm strikes the bravest vessels on the
sex !None of us indeed here need to be too
full ot jov. Troubles lurk everywhere, and
let us be thankful it they pass our door.
Thankful but no: elated, neither by success,
nor wealth, nor beauty, for all these things,
if they come, may pass auay.
Nevertheless, Colonel Lowrey, when he
rose to propose the health of the bride aud
bridegroom, sp'oke only of the roseate
things ot earth. He was an old bachelor,
kindly but frosty, and had known Colonel
Clyde's children in their long clothes. He
also liked Sir James; liked his ingenious
and open devotion to his young wife.
"It is like a glimpse into the past," he
told them, "and makes old soldiers like the
rest of us," and he looked smilingly round,
"recall the time when we, too, "did not
think of our wine, nor our dinners, nor our
easy chairs, but of bright eyes and rosy
lips, like our gallant bridegroom is doing
now. Aud certainly Sir James MacKennon
has some excuse lor losing his head, and I
only wish I was young enough once more to
lose mine! But no such luck. I admire a
pretty face still, but I look upon it very
oalmly and soberly, probably from the fact
that no pretty face ever looks at me; or if
by any chance a pair of bright eyes w ere to
rest on my furrowed visage, they would
rest very calmly and soberly, too. I
have let my time for good things
slip past, but Sir James has
taken time by the forelock. Here is this
lucky young man married to a lovely young
girl, in the very bloom of her womanhood,
and so no wonrfer he looks delighted. As
for the bride, she was a sweet little babv
not so many years ago, my friends, and iii
those days I once had the'privilege of kiss
ing her, which I must honestly say she re
sented so deeply that she screamed lor an
hour afterward. I know I'never attempted
to take such a liberty again, and ever after
at the sight of me she hid her lace on her
ayah's shoulder. But I must not go on
with these tender recollections. You all
(know what she is to mc; the daughter of an
old and valued iriend, and I should not
have been at all pleased if I had not liked
her husband. But I do like him, and so I
now propose the health and happiness and
long life, and every blessing to them, of
Sir James and Lady MacKennon. If all
the good things come to them that I wish,
their cup will be full Indeed."
Colonel Lowrey having ended his speech,
which was received with much cheering and
good humor, sat down, and Sir James
presently rose to reply to it
"Colonel Lowrey, ladies and gentlemen,"
he said, smilingly, "Colonel Lowrcy has
just told you I look very much delighted.
I do not know what I look, but I know
what I feel. I feel perfectly happy, and
very proud of myself; 'for have I not won
the sweetest and loveliest bride that I
think a man ever did win? And she was
not very easy to win either; so it's no
wonder I am a little bit off tny head.
Therefore I won't trespass any further on
your time, as I cannot be expected to talk
very sensibly to-day, but I thank you most
heartily'in the name of my voung wife and
myseltforall the kind things you have
said of us, and I can only add that I hone
my wife may some day soon have the
pleasure of seeing you all in her new home
at Kintore." "
These simple kindly words were naturally
very well received, and indeed the whole
entertainment passed off in the pleasantest
and most joyous fashion. Then the young
pair started on their journey, and before
they left Miriam had a word to whisper in
her sister's ear.
"Forget what I have told you about
Hugh," she said; "let it always be a secret
between us."
"Yes," answered Joan, and she clasped
Miriam's hand tightly, and for a moment
the two stood looking at each other with
steadfast eves. Then came all the excite
ment of leave-taking, and finally the car
riage disappeared that bore the bride and
bridegroom away. It was all over, and
Mrs. Clyde breathed a little sigh ot .relief.
Then a curious dullness fell upon the'com
pany. The men lit their cigars, aud pre
sently went out having arranged to dine
with Colonel Low ray at his club. Only
Joan and Mrs. Clyde remained of the party,
and almost ior the first time since she had
joined them in town Mrs. Clyde had an op
portunity of speaking in private to her
eldest daughter.
The two ladies were sitting together by
the fire, as the early winter gloaming gath
ered round them, and presently after some
desultory consideration Mrs. Clyde said:
"Joan, Miriam is married now, and there
fore it does not matter much, but still there
is something I should like to ask you about
that unfortunate young man, Robert Con
ray7"to whom she was first encaged."
Joan started, and her lips began to
quiver, but she did not speak.
"Do you really think they ever
were engaged?" continued Mrs. Clyde.
"Miriam said so at the inquest, I know,
but she had never hinted such a thing in
her letters to me; and that other admirer of
hers, Mr. Ferrars was there not tome suspicions"
THE
"Ob, mother, don't speak of that dread
ful time!" orlod Joan, starting to her feet
"What good does it do now? Miriam is
married. It is bast not to -speak of these
things any more."
"Mv dear Joan, do not excite yourself;
but I have a reason for asking these ques
tions. Of course, you will nover hint or
breathe what I am going to tell you to a
living soul. But an extraordinary thing
happened just before we left Kewborough-on-the-Sea
for Miriam's marriage. There
was a dreadful storm one night, and we
were all disturbed by it Miriam had gone
to bed some time before, I supposed, but. to
my astonishment, when I opened my be J
room door I mtt her dreuched with rain and
half fainting.' It was a terrible shock to
me; she must have been out for some pur
pose; to meet someone on such a night, and
who could it be? Hone ot the young men
down there I believe; and I have sometimes
fancied could it have been this Ferrars that
she thus met in secret? He disappeared,
did he not, after young Conray's murder?"
"I know nothing; can tell you nothing,"
answered Joan, desperately.
"But, my dear, there is no harm in you
and me discussing it? General Conray dis
approved of this F-rrars, did he not, as a
lover for Miriam?"
"Yex, he was poor and in debt, they said,
and Richard did not like it"
"So he wrote to us at the time of his
nephew's unfortunate death. It was never
quite known, was it, whether Robert Conrav
was murdered, or had committed suicide?"
Joan visibly shuddered.
"I see it agitates you, my dear, talking
about it," said Mrs. Clyde, calmly; "and it
certainly was a dreadful thing to happen in
your own grounds. Perhaps Miriam might
have quarreled with him or refused him,
and he may have shot himself in a moment
of desperation, for no doubt she is very at
tractive to men; or it may have been this
Mr. Ferrars. At all events we ought to be
very thankful she is married, and of course
Sir James knows nothing of this unfortunate
affair, and he is, no doubt, very much at
tached to her."
"Yps; may she e happy," said Joan,
briefly, aud then she left the room, and her
mother thought after she was gone that her
manner was very strange. -
"Joan is so odd at times," reflected Mrs.
Clyde, "yet she and her old General seem to
get on very well; I wonder if she knows
more about Miriam than I do; at all events
she does not mean to telD"
Therefore Mrs. Clyde determined to ask
her no further questions. The mother and
daughter had tea together and then dinner,
but Mrs. Clyde said nothing more "about
Miriam's former lovers. They talked of
Sir James, and ot the DowagerLady Mac
Kennon, and wondered how Miriam would
like her new people and her new home."
"She is a nzoud old-fashioned dame, to
judge by her letters I should say," said
Mrs. Clyde, "and very devoted to her onlv
son. But I do not wonder at that; Sir
James to mr mind is simply perfect"
"He seems to have a very good heart,"
answered Joan.
"And is quite clever enough for a hus
band," smiled Mrs. Clyde; "either re
markably handsome men, or remarkably
clever ones, seldom make good husbands.
They are too much flattered, and they can
not live without it, but Sir James is quite
good looking enough, ahd has quite brains
enough to satisfy any reasonable woman."
They talked in this fashion a little while
longer, and then Joan said she was tired
and would go to bed. But her mother sat
up until her husband and General Conray
returned. They had enjoyed their evening,
and, after having dined with General Low
rey, the three old comrades had gone to see
some new play, and sat discussing it over
their cigars and whisky-and-sodas, and de
scribing it to Mrs. Clyde.
"Joan was tired and went to bed early,"
Mrs. Clyde told General Conrav. t
"The excitement of the wedding tried her,
I suppose," answered the General; "and
Joan very soou gets tired now. I don't
kuow how it is; I must try not to disturb
her when I go up stairs, as I dare say she is
fast asleep."
"Sne looked very pretty to-dav," said
Mrs. Clyde.
"She is always pretty," replied the Gen
eral; and presently, when he went upstairs
and as noiselessly as possible entered the
room, he thought he had never seen Joan
look so fair.
The room was lit a soft, warm, subdued
light filled it and, with her head resting
on the pillows, Joan lay asleep. Her dark
hair was unbound, and one white arm, bare
to the elbow, rested lightly outside the
down coverlet She was a lovely picture,
with lips slightly apart, and her dark lashe3
resting on her round, smooth cheeks. Her
husband stole nearer, and almost beld his
breath, so afraid w as be to awake the fair
woman that he loved. He slood watching
her; watching her breathing softly, and the
curves of her white throat Then pres
entlv she stirred slightly, and murmured a
word in her sleep. The General the gray
haired old man bent his head down and
listened tenderly.
"Robert," he heard in plaintive accents;
"Robert!" And he started and drew back.
The slight noise that he made awoke her,
and she opened her dark eyes languidly and
looked at her husband.
"Were you dreaming, Joan?" he asked.
"I don't know; I think so," she answered,
still looking at him.
"JTou were talking in your sleep; you
mentioned poor Robert's name," continued
the General.
Then suddenly a red wave rnshed to the
fair face, dying it crimson from the white
brow to the white throat, and a great look
of fear stole into her eyes.
"I was dreaming of Miriam," she
faltered; "have you been long here?"
"So," said the General; but a strange,
cold feeling crept into his heart as he spoke.
The first dawn of a miserable doubt
To be continued next week.
SHAKES IN THE CEHETEEY.
They Stole Uin Sexton's Chickens bat IVere
Quickly Killed.
For several weeks past Superintendent
Elliott, of North Cedar Hill Cemetery,
above Frankford, has been missing his
young chickens to an alarming extent Sev
eral days of watching turnished no clew,
says the Philadelphia Xorth American, until
yesterday Elliott fastened a hen with a
brood of young chicks to a stake midway
between a morass and his barn, and then
took up a position to await developments.
Elliott had waited but a short time when
by the frantic actions of the tethered hen he
knew that she was in trouble, and, armed
with a pitchfork, he rushed to where the
hen was fluttering high in the air.
Two immense water snakes, each with a
voung chicken in its toils, met his gaze and
knowing that they were not venomous Elli
ott, with a lew well-directed blows, killed
both.
Elliott measured the varmints and found
one four feet long and the other three feet
and nine inrhes in length. Elliott hung his
trophies across a line, where they were
viewed by visitors to the cemetery yester
day. How to Grow Lilac Trees.
Lilac trees are a nuisance in any yard
where space is an object, for the sprouts
spread so abominably that in a few years
the whole yard niil be covered with little
bushes. It the sprouts are kept down the
bush may be developed into a tree of 20
feet or Inore in height, but such constant
watchfulness is necessary to prevent the
plant from sprouting at the root that few
people take the trouble to look niter it,
and in the end let it grow as it pleases.
A New Way to Prepare Tea.
There are two ways of preparing tea in
Cashmere. The first ie to put the tea in a
pot with cold water and boil it for half an
hour, when more cold water is added, after
which it is boiled for another halt hour.
Milk is then added and it is ready for drink
ing. The secdnd is to place the tea in a pot
with a little soda and water, and boil it for
half an hour as before. Milk, salt and but
ter are then added, alter which it is boiled
for another half hour, when it is ready.
IF your complaint is want ot appetite,
try Angostura Bitters before meals.
PJTTSBTJR DISPATCH,
OFF TO THE ORIENT
Eli Perkins Takes a Ran to the Land
of Universal Contrari.es.
MET BY A SWARM OP SAMPANS.
ETerjlodjr Jamped Into Jinrikshas and
'fold tbo lien Jo.3t to Bun.
INSIDE OP TUE POLL-BABX HOUSES
COKRESPONOENCE OP TOT DISPATCH.
Yokohama, June 13.
HE Japan party of
which I am a member
consists of Mr. and
Mrs. Marsh, a wealthy
r-JVmI cotton DroKer irom
Atlanta, Prot: Lee, of
Yale College, and my
wife and daughter.
"We had all come over
the Canadian pacific
and rendezvoused at
Vancouver. We are
about the first of the
great American army
which is now- swarm
ing over the Canadian
Pacific short route to
Japan.
The trip aronnd Lake Superior to Fort
William, that hunter's paradise where they
sell spotted trout for 2 cents a ponnd, has
been often described. So have the gold and
silver mines between Fort William and
C vllf to
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ONE OP THE
Rat Portage, where saw mills saw up
enough Minnesota lumber from the Lake
of the Woods to supply all Manitoba. It
is not generally known that there is no
Canadian lumber between Sudbury and
the Rocky Mountains. It is all rocks,
roaring streams and dwarfed birch trees.
Winnipeg is still the metropolis of the
Manitoba country, and always will be.
Her only rivals are Duluth and Minne
apolis. Land Worth Nothing an Acre.
From Winnipeg west to the Rocky
Mountains are the Manitoba wheat plains
700 miles long aud 400 miles wide.
"What's this land worth?" I asked at
Brandon.
"O $5, 53, 52, and millions of acres for
nothing."
"Raise anything besides wheat?'.'
"Yes, barley, oats, potatoes but corn is
doubtful. Coal do you say? Oceans of it
at Battlelord and Edmonton and south to
ward McLeod and over at Banff Anthra
cite, sparkling anthracite and mountains of
it!"
Over at Whitewood Baron Brabant and a
French colony are raising 4,000 acres of
chicorv.
I will not speak of the picturesque In
dians that crowded around the depots sell
ing poluhed buffalo horns, nor of beautiful
Banff where you can pick strawberries
while looking on everlasting glaciers, nor
of the dashing, foaming Eraser with its
salmon, rock, mountain peaks and glaciers,
but hurry on to the beautiful Empress of
China waiting to land us in ten days in
Yokohama. Her staterooms are twice the
size of the Atlantic steamers and 150 pas
sengers make a load. In the hold were 50
returning Chinese and 5,000 barrels of flour,
1,000 bales of white cotton cloth for China,
and a cargo of cotton lor the Japanese cot
ton mills. Speaking of this cotton Mr.
Marsh, our Atlanta cotton broker, said:
Ion Trico of Cotton a lilrsilng.
"The low price of cotton in the South is
knocking out India anil China. They can't
raise C cent cotton in India. They will
have to stop, and America will have the
field. Low cotton in the South is a bless
ing in disguise. Mark what I say!"
The Empress of India brought more
American cotton to Japan. It came bv
Suez, so American cotton and cottou cloth
encircles the world east nnd west.
As we passed the Aleutian Islands the
cold winds came down irom the Bering Sea.
There are plenty of spouting whales but
never an iceberg. They always float out
the other way into the Atlantic. Farther
south ve see" Yezzo, where lived the Ainos,
the aboriginal Japanese. The Ainos came
from Asia. They look exactly like the Es
quimaux and our Alaska Indians. A Jap
anese junk conld sail from Yezzo through
the Aleutian Islands to Alaska and see
land almost all the war. There is a volcano
ou Yezzo aud 20 more in active operation or
smoking in Japan. They make Japan
hideous and teautiful. Sailing up Yeddo
bay to Yokohama we see on our right Vries
Island, a smoking volcano, and on our lelt
the famous Fujiyama with its snow covered
peak. It is ice nnd fire nature's antith
eses, and so we fiud everything in Japan.
Climate 1.1k e That or San Francisco.
"John," I said to our Chinese cabin boy,
as we saw the snowy peak of sacred Fuji
through the volcanic smoke of "Vries, "how
is the weather in Yokohama?"
"Yokohama no muchce hot, no mnehec
cold alle same Flancisco, juste lite," said
John.
"How do you like the Japanese?"
"Me nolikee. He alle same Chinaman
lonce, New Japee lie half Flenchman no
goodee."
As we anchor a half mile from Yokohama
(there are no docks in Yokohama, Shanghai
or Hongkong) the Empress is surrounded
by Japanese junks and a swarm of sampans.
The sampan is a clumsy little cedar boat
manned by a halt naked man and boy. It is
a water cab that carries a pasenger auy
where for 10 cents.' The half naked Japs on
the sampans throw their rope ladders up to
the steerage passengers, who fasten them
on the edge of the ship, then climb down
them into the sampan. The Japanese scull
these boats with an oar which -wags in the
water like a fish's tail. .
The Naked Laborers of Japan.
We were somewhat shocked and
astonished at first at the nakedness ot the
Japanese kago carriers and jinriksha
runners. Many of my kodat pictures
taken the first day of arrival, show men
and bovs with no clothing but a breech
cldtb, and women working in the tea houses
stripped to their waists. As the poor
things worked for 4 to 8 cents for a day of
15 hours I could understand how they
could not spend much money for unneces
sary clothes. The boys who row the
SUNDAY, JULT 17.
sampans on Yeddo Bay are a naked as
angels.
The passengers could hardlv wait for the
Empress', launch to land at Yokohama be
fore they jumped into the dozens ot jinrik
sha', two wheeled Japanese baby carriages
which surrounded the landing, and told the
runners to run.
"Where?" asked the runners, as they
stood with bare legs and naked breasts be
tween the shafts of their baby carriages.
"Anywhere, go it!" exclaimed almost
everyone, and soon BO coolies were chasing
pell niell all over Yokohama. Some started
ior Tokio, the capiat), 16 miles from Yoko
hama, some for the Yoshiwara, where acres
of frail beauties are to be seen in a section
given up to them, sitting publicly painted
aud decorated, on street balconies, and some
went to curio shops.
In the Heart ot the Town.
Onr jinriksha men tore off like a college
football team, passed. Louis Eppioger's
Grand Hotel, the main hotel of the city,
aud landed us in the center of the old native
town. What a change. The houses are all
built of raw wood, a story and a halt high,
and thatched witlj brownterrecotta. Not a
glass window nor ahimney on the street.
The outside window is ot lattice work and
the inside window has thin paper panes for
light Both slide, and when open the
whole interior of the house and its inmates
are in view. The floor is covered with
cheap rush mats, six feet by three and an
inch thick. The whole structure is a minia
ture doll's house. The ceilings seem to
touch your head, and when you walk the
whole house shakes and totters as if you
were walking on a rustic bridge. There is
no paint aud no paper in the house. No
stove, fireplace, chairs, tables or seats of
any kind.
I could build the average Japanese house
in New York for from J250 to 51,000 and
furnish it for 550. The bed is a padded
blanket laid on the floor and the pillow is a
piece of wood with a few folds of paper on
it This is the house of 99 out ot 100 ot the
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JINBIKSHAS.
people of Japan. The only things in it is a
screen or two, one vase and a flower pot and
plant. They have snow and ice in Yokoha
ma and Tokio, but the only fire used is the
little square box about a loot square, called
a hibachi, in which is an earthen bowl con
taining a teacup full of burning charcoal.
This is in in every house in Japan and is
used to warm one's hands, light a pipe or
make a cup of tea. It is placed before
every guest in shop or residence as soon as
he arrives. Eli Pekkins.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN STAIE&
The Gallant Young Explorer Was Born In
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Captain Stairs, the gallant young ex
plorer and Stanley's well-known lieutenant,
met death at Chinde, near the mouth of the
Zambesi river, says rail Mall Budget, from
which the picture is taken. Captain Stairs
was in command of the expedition which
started in May last year for Central Africa
in the interests of the Katanga Com
pany of Brussels Katanga being
the district lying between Lakes
Victoria Nyanza and Albert Nyanza
The Late Captain Stairs.
and it would appear that he died while
the expedition was on its return to Zanzi
bar. The sturdy explorer was a Canadian,
having seen the light at Halifax, Nova
Scotia. He was still nnder 30 years of age.
Fifteen vears ago he studied at Kingston,
the Sandhurst ot Canada, ultimately gradu
ating there with honors. He then 'went to
New Zealand as Government Railway En
gineer, and eventually came to England to
take up a commission in the Royal Engi
neers. As soon as Mr. Stanley saw Lieu
tenant Stairs, the latter's fate was fixed.
His gallant work in connection with the
Emin Pasha Relief Expedition is still fresh
in the public mind. On his return, many
presentations and honors of various kinds
were showered upon him among other
things he was appointed Adjutant q the
Royal Engineers at Aldershot It is little
more than a year since Captain Stairs sailed
from the Albert dock ou the expedition
which has had so melancholy a termination.
Battled With a Bat
New York Sun.l
A little girl, with an abundant head of
hair, was playing at Greenwich and West
Ho uslon streets last evening, when a bat
swooped down and fastened its claws in the
little girl's.hair. She screamed and her
brother ran to her assistance. He killed
the creature with a baseball bat It meas
ured 11 incliei across the wings Irom tip to
tip. So vicious was the clutch upon the
girl's hair that several strands bad to be
cut to release its hold, even after it was
dead. The girl's hair is cut short now.
How to Bold Pen.
The cramping of the hand from constant
use ot a pen can always be prevented by en
laiging the holder. Some men prefer to
wrap string around the wood, but the best
holder is made by getting a bit of rubber
tubing at the nearest rubber store and run
ning the handle of the pen through it. It
enlarges the holder to the requisite size and
f famishes a soft, easy grasp, which cannot
possibly distress the muscles by any amount
of use.
To kill fleas on animals use Bugine, with
an atomizer, and 10 minutes after wash aui
xnal with soap and water. It never falls.
j
1892.
SHARING OF PROFITS.
The Manager of the Bourne Cotton
Mills -Declares It's a Success.
BEST 'WAY TO AVOID STRIKES.
Owners of Other Mills Who Scoffed Are Now
Filled With Wonder.
IMPORTANT TO PITTSBDEG JUST NOW
The cotton manufactories at Fall River,
Mass., are the largest in the world. Of
these the Bourne mills are among the most
prosperous. George P. Cbace is its mana
ger and profit sharing is the basis of its
prosperity. Manager Chaee was asked to
write for The Dispatch an article on
profit sharing. He responded as follows:
Self interest is the first law of business.
Neither creditors, competitors nor custom
ers have much respect for the man who does
not look out for number one.
The future may possibly have in store
some modified realization of the dreams of
Plato or Moore or Bellamy, when gold will
be despised, "money" and "property" be
come obsolete and business transacted only
by the Government; when everybody wilW
be fed and clothed by the State somewhat
after the fashion that soldiers or convicts or
paupers are now, and the wicked love of
wealth, the follies of fashion and
desire for position and indulgence
will all be banished, and everybody
will be good, since there no longer will
be opportunity or necessity to be selfish and
bad. Utopia is such a foggy dreamland,
however, and so far off, that its pleasing
mirage may be pictured to suit one's fancy,
while the cold fact to-day remains at the
best but thinly disguised that the real
basis of a successful business is self
interest "
Self interest may be wise and otherwise.
Selfishness is a short-sighted folly which
defeats its own aim, but a wise self interest
looks beyond the present moment's advan
tage. A Simple Example Cited.
A stingy drayman who half starves his
horse and hopes by blows to force the stint
of work from his thin-ribbed beast may
think he is shrewd, whereas a few more
handfuls of grain a day would soon give
him a sleek and spirited animal with a will
ing strength for larger tasks. Besides, the
energy wasted in beatings and curses could
be saved for 'better nse, and valuable time
lost through frequent halts could be gained;
but more than all, the truckman himself,
relieved of his irritation, would become a
kinder master and a worthier citizen,
taking pride.in his glossy steed, now be
come a noble, eager draught horse. A few
oats did it.
Is there not a fit parallel in the treatment
of human beings? The employer who pays
"starvation wages" and expects to get the
measure of work by sweating and grinding,
who is bothered by frequent shilts, poor
production and occasional strikes is as short
sighted as this poor teamster, and perhaps
more so, inasmuch as the capabilities aud
sensibility of human beings are greater than
those of dumb creatures. It pays as a mat
ter of business to trust human nature and
expect large returns for your confidence
good faith and fidelity are the rule, for
treachery and fraud are more conspicuous
only -because they, form the exception.
The Basis or Profit Sharing.
The passenger to Jericho who fell among
thieves will doubly repay his Samaritan
benefactor when he is restored to strength,
while the Levite and the priest who left
him to die lost a chance for a good invest
ment, whether ior this world or the next.
The principle of profit sharing relies upon
the natural appreciation of a good turn.
Starvation wages, viewed from the em
ployer's standpoint, are any rate or system
of wages that hinders a workman from db"
ing the full measure of work or injures the
quality of it eThere seems to be no end to
the development of skill, and it is difficult
to estimate the diflerer.ee in value between
an eager and a reluctant workman, between
one who works for your interest and one
who works against it, and whose chief en
deavor is to do only just enough to secure
his pay. Profit sharing proposes to supply
the impulse to advance the whole interest,
both ot employer and employe. It would
seem to offer the safest practicable solution
of the labor problem short of socialism. It
keeps the affairs of business in the hands of
men who have brains and gumption, pre
serves the incentive ot self interest intact
and proffers to employes an appreciable
share, which may be increased as it is de
served, in the results.
No Communism About It.
Profit sharing does not smack of com
munism. Because the teamster was wise to
give his horse a few more oats it does not
lollow that he need be a fool and turn the
animal loose to help himself at the grain
bin. Profit sharing should be managed
judiciously. It is adapted to every form of
business and deserves a fair trial. In adopt
ing it the tame care that is exercised in
purchasing a gevernment bond should be
used; no more is necessary. It is not a lot
tery, nor will it turn out a bonanza. If the
cash return is equal to the amount dis
bursed it is not a laiiure, for are not good
will and co-operation worth the extra
trouble? On the average it will do better
than that
Profit sharing pays. No sensible person
would hope to recommend it to business
men if it did not pay. Of course it pays. It
pays the employer, it certainly pays the
employe, it helps to pay the creditor, it pays
the community and it pays the customer.
It gives the customer better quality. It U
an advantage to the community in develop
ingmore thrifty citizejis and better reputa
tion. A gentleman who travels considerably
assured the writer a few days ago that
nothing had done so much to redeem the
reputation of a certain city, which one way
and another had acquired a bard name
throughout the country, as an experiment
in profit sharing. Profit sharing teaches
employes thrift They learn that care, in
terest, skill, attention mean profits, and be
ginning to save and contrive for their em
ployer, they come to lay up ior themselves.
When once a person begins to be lore
handed he is a more desirable citizen. The
complaint that a workingman has no
chance is set aside in the principle of profit
sharing.
It Ends the Strike Forever.
Profit sharing is the lubricant that saves
friction. When a orkingman is given a
fair chance and believes that his employer
means to allow him a lair show he is not
iorever thinking about strikes; he is attend
ing to business. This sentiment is not all
on one side. When an employer has taken
his help into partnership he thinks more
highly of them. He can win more by a
word .of encouragement and appreciation
then than he could accomplish beiore by
harsh talk and rough usage. It fs a pleasure
to do business under a successful system of
profit sharing.
There are many sides to the argument for
profit sharing. Space permits oulv one to
be presented here, sell-interest The reader
is referred to Mr. Gilman's book, "Profit
Sharing Between Employer and Employe"
(pp. 460. II 75), for "a comprehensive
study of this interesting cflort to reconcile
the antagonism ot employer aud employe"
in ull its social aud economic relations.
The proof of any scheme, however, is not so
much in argument as in experiment Mr.
Oilman suggests (p. 094) that the manu
facture ot cotton aud woolen goods offers
"a comparatively unpromising field for this
new system."
Tin Kxperlmont Mr. Chnc Know?.
The directors of a New England cotton
mill, nevertheless, decided three years ago
to try it A storm of criticism and ridicule
followed the announcement, competing cor
porations fearing it would prove subversive
and disastrous to existing methods. But
these directors had not acted hastily. The
subject was carefully discussed more than a
year. A very simple plan was finally
adopted which avoided the objectionable
feature of exposing the books and accounts.
The employes should share with the
stockholders.
A sum not less than 6 per cent of thedivi-
cenus to De paia during the next sixmontns
should be divided among the employes at
the end of that period in proportion to the
amount of wages earned. It is estimated
that this would give each employe a sum
equal to the interest upon the full amount ot
his wages if placed for six months in a sav
ings bank. Everyone, whether man, woman
or child, was given the chance to share upon
the single comfition of faithfnl and continu
ous service for six months. The plan was
explained to the oveneers aud others, and a
circular letter was distributed to all. It
was favorably received ana the scheme went
into operation July 1, 1889.
A fenccesa When Business Is Good.
It was a most hazardous time to inaugur
ate such an experiment Profits were large
aud subsequent events have proved that it
was the culmination of the cycle of pros
perity. A cool critic remarked at the time:
"Profit sharing may be well enough when
business is good, but what will be done
when there are no profits to share?" There
are about 40 competing cotton corporations
clustered in the same town with a combined
capital of about $22,000,000. The average
rate of dividends in 1889 was reported to be
within two points of 10 per cent In 1891
it averaged considerably less than 5 per
cent, and eight or-ten of the corporations
paid no dividend't all. The wave of pros
perity crested in 1889 and was followed by
a very low tide'in 1891.
It is difficult -to determine the exact in
fluence of a new experiment, lor nobody
knows what would have happened if some
other course had been pursued. Too much
must not be claimed ior profit sharing
from the result in this case, which is still
only an experiment. The directors1 act
upon it every six months. This they have
done already seven times. They make no
promises beyond that time. Whatever may
happen in the futnre it is assured that none
of the evils predicted three years ago have
yet come to pass. Nothing has occurred
to disturb the relations of any other corpor
ation with its employes on account of this
experiment Thus tar the experiment has
been successful beyond expectation.
During the lowest ebb the profit-sharing
corporation paid its stockholders regularly ,
12 per cent per annum besides distributing
to its employes semi-annually over 3 per
cent upon their wages. Nothing succeeds
like success.
Ton Front Sharrrs Laugh lAst
It may be worth noting perhaps that the
loudest denunciation and sharpest ridicule
three years ago came from some of the man
agers who happened to pay no dividends in
1891. Rira bien qui rira le dernier. While
it would be absurd to say that this extraor
dinary disparity was entirely due to profit
sharing, it must be allowed that a generous
policy in business counts for something,and
the interested co-operation of 500 employes
can scarcely be thought an insignificant
factor in the success of any concern.
Profit sharing deserves a" fair trial. The
ory and experience so far favor it A wise
self-interest will carefully consider it
Labor and capital should pull together with
united interest in mutual success. Profit
sharing affords the opportunity.
"The help get all the profits now," says
a dissatisfied stockholder. This remark was
often heard during 1891. The stingy truck
man exclaims, "What! give that horse more
oats lie eats up all my profits now."
Never mind, try it Give him a few
more just a few. Let him feel his oats
and see if it does not pay. Employes are
called help; give them a personal interest
in the success of the business and see if
they do not become helpers.
Geokge A. Chace.
FaliRiveb, Mass., July 12.
CONGREGATIONAL FACTS.
Statistics in the New Trar Book, Just Oat
A Very Light Showing in the Vicinity
of Pittsburg XJio Cha.-ch TThlch dives
Most.
The Congregational Year Book for
1892, just out, is one of the moit complete
volumes of church statistical reports ever
issued. Henry A. Hazen, of Auburndale,
Mass., who has edited the Year Book for a
long time, has this season furnished a
volume of over 400 pages, which comes
nearer the ideal than anything heretofore
published in this country.
Congregationalism has never bad a strong
foothold in Western Pennsylvania, this re
gion having been pre-empted at an early
day by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. Some
of "the strong Presbyterian churches of this
city are made up ot a large New England
Congregational element, but Pittsbnrg has
not a Congregational society, with the ex
ception of two that are Welsh. Allegheny
and Braddock have each an English Con
gregational Church.
But while the church of Cromwell and
Plymouth Rock has but a weak following
in this section the Year Book reveals th:
fact that it is one of the great religioift
powers of the land. Congregationalists
contribute more per head for the world's
evauerelization than any church of the land.
The total number of churches is now 4,985,
an increase of 1C8 over last year; church
membership, 525,097, an increase of 18,265
over last year; Sunday school membership,
625,975, an increase of 12.256 over last
year; benevolent contributions, ?2,448,875,
an increase of 15178,714; home expenditures
of the churches so far as reported, J6.791,
607. an increase of $700,386.
Chicago is now the American center, of
Congregationalism, there being 44 churches
of this order in that city. Boston, with its
suburbs reports 37 churches. Brooklyn
stands third in the list, with 21 and Cleve
land is next with 16. The largest member
ship reported by a single church is
Plymouth, Brooklyn, over which Lyman
Abbott presides. The membership ot this
church is 1,793. Another Brooklyn church,
of which Dr. Meredith is pastor reports a
membership of 1,719. The latter church re
ports a Sunday school membership of 3,260,
which is the largest reported by any Sun
day school of the denomination. Broadway
Tabernacle Church, of "which Dr. William
Taylor is pastor, reports the largest con
tributions. This church has in the year
past contributed for missionary and other
benevolent causes $41,882, and tor home ex
penses ?35,979, a total ot $78,861.
Acute Krrvnas frustration.
One of the most dangerous and common
forms ot acute nervous prostration is known
as sunstroke. The prostration caused by
overheating the body does not always result
in sunstroke, but more commonly in niitder
forms of depression, such as nervous bead
ache, dizziness, faintness, sleeplessness,
palpitation, mental confusion, abundant,
clear urine, creeping rigors, flashes of heat,
and shortness of breath at the least exer
tion. All of the above-named symptoms of
acute prostration are more prevalent during
the months of June and July than at any
other season of the year. Even people who
have the most vigorous health are liable to
attacks of prostration during the hot waves
of early summer. t
The only tale course to take is to keep
the blood purr, digestion good and sleep
regular. No remedy equals in all respects
Pe-ru-na for these purposes. A dose ot Pe
ruana before each meal duiing the hot sea
son is a safeguard of priceless yalne. Espe
pecially those.whoare in the least subject
to nervous prostration should not neglect
to provide themselves with Pe-ru-na, the
greatest of all nerve and brain restoratives
known to the medical world. Complete
directions for .use on each bottle. For
treatise on nervous prostration and diseases
of the nervous system send for a copy ot The
Family Physician No. 1. Sent tree by The
Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Company,
Columbus, O.
Excursion Tilths l!ctnr-sqm u. O.3. R.
To Atlantic Cltr, via Washington, Baltimore
and l'hllailolphia. on Thursday, July 28, 1392.
Kate $10 the round trip; tickets good for 12
days irom day of salo and good to stop on at
Washington City leturninir. Trains with
Fulliunu parlor and sleeping cars will leave
fi. & O. depot, Flttdbuivrat8 jl. m. and 9:20
p.m.
BATHS IN THE LIGHT.
Therapeutic Valae of Exposure to
the fiajs of Electric Lamps.
TAKING THE GOLD FE0U THE SEA.
Conveniencs of the Current 1711611 Applied
. to a Easiness Office.
THE LATEST METHOD OP TAKKIXG
"i
rwaimx ron THB DisrATcn.l
The actual therapeutic value of the newly
invented electric; light bath has yet to be
determined. This bath is given in a cabinet
which incloses the body, exposing only the
head. The lamps are distributed around
the body of the patient in grouns of 14, a
a separate switch controlling each group.
Sixty 16 candle power lamps of 110 volts
are used in the batb. The sides of the in
terior of the cabinet are backed by polished
nickel to give reflective power. It is un
derstood that in testing the bath the tem
perature of the patient rose in 10 minutes
to 148. Vapor is used in conjunction
with the light and heat of the lamps, and
the effect is said to he most satisfactory, in
that the patient becomes buoyant and ex
hilerated instead of depressed, as is fre
quently the case after the vapor bath alone.
There is one result from the taking of this
electric light bath about which there is not
the least uncertainty. -It regularly tans
the skin, and the so-called "sun-bnrning"
is caused almost entirely by the ultra-violet
rays, known also a3 the actinic or photo
graphic rays of thu spectrum, "Sun
burned," therefore, is hardly a correct ex
pression, since it implies that the phenom
enon in question is an affect of heat. The
action of the heat rays of the spectrum,
however, differs essentially from that of
the actinic. The former give rise to.a sud
den and qnickly subsiding inflammation,
while the effect of the latter is delayed for
some time, and then lasts several days, fol
lowed by a detachment of the cuticle and a
discoloration which may continue for
weeks and possibly months. The electric
light, by reason of its abounding in ultra
violet rays, exerts a powerful influence in
this direction, even at a uistance where heat
radiation is absolutely imperceptible.
T.innlnr Dy Electricity.
Tanning by electricity is now systematic
ally carried ou in Paris. The process con
sists in the employment of electricity in
connection with rotating drums, which
place the skins in direct contact with the
tanning liquors. By this combined action
of electricity and rotation a continual re
newal of the surfaces is brought about, and
the tanning process is greatly expedited.
Ox, cow and steer hides are tanned by this
process in 96 hours, horse and heavy
calf skins in 72 hours, and 'medidm and
light skins in 48 hours. The importance
of this Innovation in hide enrinz will he ap
parent when Is Is considered that the elec
tric method accomplishes in 96 hours what
would require from 17 to U months by tan
ning in a vat, and irom Ave to six months
by the process of asitation. The favorite
theory is that the skins act liko accumula
tor plates: that is, they constitute, as it
wcro, enormous poiout electrodes upon
which the eases nre liberated, and which
are susceptible of absorbing the gases aris
ing from thn electrolysis which takes place.
At the same time the well known phenomena
of osmose take place; the capilarity or the
cells or the skins is modified or interrupted;
the cells nre emptied of the liquors which
they contain, and these liquors are replaced
by the tanning liquors, which brnuzht into
contact with tne interior of the skins at In
numerable points, produce a transformation
of the hide with remarkable rapidity. The
operation is characterized by the absence of
both noise and bad odors, and electrically
tanned leather Is said to be folly equal la
quality to that obtained by the old method.
Electricity In Warfare.
A clever piece of wort was recently dona
by the telegraph battalion of an Engllsa
regiment in the course of some night ex
periments. An extensive cable was rapidly
laid over the roughest possible ground, and
that, too, without the slightest assistance
from searolilishts.and the lieutenant general
was thus enabled not only to find a lost
brigade, but to control the simultaneous ad
vance and attack oftbrce separated brigades
on an earthwork at midnight. The tele
graph. In tact, rendered a most difficult and
doubtful operation comparatively ensy and
certain. With large scale maps, a balloon
and Increased observing staff, it Is likely to
be made a must important aid to the strat
egist and the tactician.
Taking Trsasare From the Sea.
A scientist of Christiana proposes to Im
mortalize himself by proving the feasibility
of reclaiming the (.old and silver in sea
water by electrolytic action. He suggests
that a channel about CO meters wide should
be selected for experiment. The place
should be well sheltered from sea and wind,
and there shonla bo a current of about four
meters per minute. Across this channel 60
nl.ites of galvanized iron, each 2 meters by
3 meters, should be fixed at an angle or SO
degrees with the stream, anu an electric
current be sent thronzh the series to precip
itate the precious metals. Heir Mun9ter, to
whom the credit of this conception la due,
has hit on a very fascinating Idea.
A Diving Hell Condnlt.
The principle adopted in a new form of
conduit Is that of the diving bell, the con
ductor being within a series of diving bells
which open into the conduit. The diving
bells effectively prevent water or mud from
rising to the wire nnd causing grounds, and
the wire between them is suitably insulated.
EIrctrlcIty in a Jlolern Office.
Electricity has not only marvelously In
creased the comforts of the modern house,
bat Is now slowly but surely becoming a
pervadinz Influence In the modern office.
This 13 well shown by a glance at tho office
of the business manager of a "ew 1'orle
electrical newspaper. Over his desk hiing
convenient aud adjustable incandescent
lights. At one side of tho desk stands a
Uttlo fan motor, ran by small storage bat
teries,' and behind him at a short distance Is
another fan of larger size, so that he can
in an Instant place nimseir In the focus of
any description of airwave that the weather
may demand, from a zephyr to a small
gale.- Close to his hand on the
trout of the desk is a uiinature switchboard
and "buzzer" box and a portable upright
telephone. With this he bus Instantaneous
communication with eiht different depart
ments ol the office nnd can give instruction
or receive Information on any point by the
mere insertion of a ping in the board. Be
hind the chair of the manager is a phono
graph run by storage battery. He is ono of
those who had patience and intelllcence
enough to learn how to got out of tho In
strument Just what It was intended for. He
is of opinion that there is no real difficulty
about it, bnt even it there weru. It would re
pay tenlold any pains spent on It. On a
scorching summer's day, when people are
being parboiled In the street below, he will
turn on his fans, and often dictate as many
as a hundred letters in a morning on the In
strument. He is almost as fresh at the
finish as lie was when he began. The
cylinders are sent to tne typewriter, and in
the afternoon the letters are on his deslc for
signature. The whole outfit Is inexpensive,
and there is no reason hy it should not be
the rule and not the exception.
An Offnr to Bo Acc-oted.
For Monday only we offer yon the finest
erodes ol ligns underwear, regular selling
price $1 00, Jor 41 cents. Also 47 cases o blaclc
fur hats at 93 cents, worth S3 00 and $3 00. If
you are lnteiested call at Sailer's, corner
Smlthfleld and Diamond.
If you have children you will be inter
ested' in the experience of Mr. John Cook,
of Pilot, "Vermilion county, IlL He says:
"Two years ago two of my family, a young
man and a girl, had very severe and danger
ous attacks of bloody flux. The doctor here
was unable, after a week's time, to check or
relitve either cae. I threw the doctor
overboard,and began using Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrheal Bemedy. Im
provement was seen very soou and my chil
dren arose in a few days from what I feartd
would Jbe their death-bed. It is a grand,
good medicine" xawxhsu