Eugene Weekly Guard.
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EUGENE .................... OREGON.
A few touche« of nature smooth
many a wrinkled «kin.
An honest man’s the noblest work of
God. unless be doesn't belong to your
party.
England keeps on raising priucease«
for the German princes in spite of the
strained relations.
Time waits for no man, but man has
to wait at least an hour when u woman
tells him to wait just a second.
Wheu a girl begins to apeak of her
«elf as a bachelor maid It Is a sure
sign that she Las given up all hope.
The author of "Goo-Goo Eye« dead,
but the «Teator of "A Hot Time’’ has
not yet gone to the reward of which be
sang
One good turn deserves another, ev
ery place except on the vaudeville
stage. There the proportion is about
one to ten.
Good deal of talk in the air about ■
German American alliance. All of
which is as Interesting as a last year's
mare's nest.
The nuintier of first poems written
by Whittier Is now equalled only by
the numbe.- of oldest Vale graduates
who have recently dhd
The man who halves church just as
the collection plate starts around may
have been taken suddenly 111, but he
rarely gets credit for It.
No kissing ever occurs In Japan ex
cept between husband and wife, not
even between a mother and child.
What a shameful u<*gl«*ct of opport uni
ties.
Prince Henry was not born In a log
catiin, nor did he work lu a brickyard
in bls youth. He achieved his present
greatness without these '““«sters which
are so essetitial in the greatneM-
»proutlng business lu America.
Tlie panic lu the diamond market Is
growing worse Instead of better It 1«
now utmost Impossible to get No. 2
whites In carload lots; No. I blues can
be obtained only in bushel lots; and No.
1 straws are no longer quoted, except
by the peck.
A tire In a fireproof building In Cill
cago the other day revealed a quau
tlty of Intlaiumiibh* aals*et<«i. The tire
chief of Chicago lias observed that
much of tlie nsliwslo« in use In large
office structures is uot only not fire
proof, but highly combustible The
quick burning construction buildings
are wnrmut«*d to have It soon over
Willi.
Hawthorne wrote In Ills note book:
“No place ever took so strong ii hold of
my being us Home, uor ever seemed so
close to me mid so sliangely familiar
1 »I'm to know it better than my
birthplace, mid to Imre known It kmg
er." The words furnish on«* of many
reasons why the proposed statue of
Hawthorne In tin* Eternal City will I»-
a fitting nt 'inorlal.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor defines a gen
tieman as a college Mlucaled man. Mark
Twain dlsagrtsst and give*» bls defini
tion: "A kindly, court<-ous, unselfish
man. who thinks first, not of himself,
but of hts fellow man, that Is what a
gentleman la, uot one of these society
‘chappies,’ who lu r<villty Is one of tin*
most selfish men on earth.” As b<*
tween the two most persons will prefer
Mr. Oleuiens' detlultlou.
Blnce, by their own account, all the
European governments are the fervent
friends of the I lilted Blatt*«, w «■ shall
prolubly ucver tlml a better tint«* than
tlds to Inquire If this country has eti
eiulra also, and if so, what share of
blame rests ii | h > ii us for liavltig them.
It Is as true of nation* as of men, that
wise saying twelve centuries old,
which latwell rendered:
He who baa a thousand friends has uot «
friend to spare,
Ami be who lias one i-iivniy will meet
biiu everywhere.
The authorities of a Feuuaylvanla
towu. afflicted with a scourge of small
pox, act««! in the llgtu of experieace
when they orilertsl that all «legs and
eats found ruuulng |<si«e lu the streets
should be sltuk. It Is well known that
these suliuals <*arry cotuaghiti, as their
balr offers a congenial lodging place
for disease germs, I’areuta cannot be
too careful lu keeping pet cats and dogs
out of the «lek room of a scarlet fever
or diphtheria patient, and lu «owing
that their children do u*»t play with
pets which belong to families when-
there la or has recently boon contagious
dlaanao.
1
ITofessor Uooda|H*ed, of Chicago I’m
versify, writes to the Independent of a
small, dearly legible slip among aotue
Greek papyri which bate lately com*
Into hl« hands. It Is a boat ticket from
ancient Egypt, entitling the holder t<> a
ride u|««n th«* canal that pmux-d through
Kami«, the ui*«l*ni KAom t’shtin. In
the Fayfim. The ticket gives the po>-
setiger ■ asms, the pla.-e front which
he sailed, amt what la »up|«sv«sl to lie
tlie captain's acknowledgment that the
fan- was paid. The traveler was l*t«>
lemaeua son of I’aiioiuleu». ami laido-
ma. son of laldorua. was the pilot. The
last line of the dm-nment la "Even full.’’
the ’’even’' being Interpreted to mean
that the passenger ha-l settles! the
charges, ami the ‘‘full" that the tick«*!
bolder la
ng aa far as the tsstt mute
extends
We moderns would aay
“through" Instead of * «nil '* The ticket
Is assign«**! to the aeroixl «-entury. The
papyrus measures two am! a quarter
Indies by three xml a half lm*hes, am!
has l*een folded, or perhaps rotted an«!
crush««!, four tim*-a It Is too late to
wish l*tolenia<*us a good voyage or to
congratulate Isidoros on his rr*-*ir*l as
a faithful pilot, but the survival of |
their names haa a pathetic Interest am! I
Is a reminder that time haa an unex ,
pa« tad w ay of »paring w hat m ght ran
••nably be supposed doomed to destruc
tion or to oblivion.
NOVEL WRITERS’ PAY
needful ronsumptlon of food supplies;
wagons were left along the trail, and
the next comers helped themselves to
such parts as th<*y needed, or fancied
they needed. I knew of more than
one such thrifty party who picked up
and mended a broken wagon, only to
And, later on. that they bad encum
bered tbemsefvra with something that
they did not want. Queer-iooklug con
trivances for minlig. worn-out cloth
ing. and even valuable tools, were
plentifully scattered along the trail.
Everybody seetne«! ‘o be stripping for
the conflict with the rode force« of na
ture that was to com- when we reach
ed the heart of the mntinent. It was
our habit to to gathvr fuel from the
float«am and jetsam <f the plains: Dit
It often happened. In g»fte of this Zore-
tiioughL that the only fuel to be found
In an otherwise exrelknt camping
place would be a few Mndfuls of dry
grass, a cluster of d-ad weeds, or a
clump of the lll-sm-llhg grea»«t-wood.
-Century.
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It la a sinfully hard tbiug to hold an
American monthly magazine opeu. EASY TO PROVE THAT IT 18 NOT
GROWiNQ.
with one notable exception. Much of
the pleasure or profit that might be de
rived from reading a magazine article A Few of the Moat Popular Novel
is lust to the bolder of the tsxjk be ists Are Making Fortune», but the
cause of his Irritation-conscious usu Work Hardly Pays the Rank sud
ally. subconscious sometimes, present
File-home Authentic Figure».
always at being compelled to make a
physical effort at the same time as bls
Novel writing a« a trade has not
mental effort
When an old man la
shown any material financial Improve
reading a statistical magazine article
ment lu the last fifty years, says the
and is obliged to jam his mentor vio
Ixtndon Mall. The enormous Increase
lently apart to find out whether the
lu the number of readers baa been
first word on the next line is 230 or
counterbalanced by the extraordinary
230,000, his mental embrace of the
Increase lu the number of publications,
tact is loo»*-ned. When a girl, reading
aud also in the number of writers.
a love tale, haa to pull at the two cov
Thackeray, for example, received M
er« of the Issjk, with her knee stuck
guineas u part for the periodical issue
het w ee u th *m. to find out whether the
- of "Faulty Fair.” It appeared lu nine
father carted or consent«*d on hearing
teen numbers, oue of them being a
Harold's proposition, she Is lens ex
double part, so that altogether this Is
cited when she finds It out. It Is be
sue brought his l.laJU guineas. Nowa
cause her train of thought, which has
W alla« k Thought
days, though Mr. ipllKug received 15,-
te-cn highly «-motional. Is suddenly In
Aristocratic applaua. to say nothing
i « j O pounds for the serial rights of
terrupted by a material annoyance. In
"Kim,” few writers receive as much of the demonstration if royalty, would
each css«* the magazine is less satisfac
as Thackeray, although It must be re not be llk«My to be souproariou« as to
tory to the reader than It might have
membered thui his publisher held the drown the performers nevertheless the
been. Th«- nusou that the magazines
entire copyright for a certain short San Francisco Argoiaut's account of
nr«* so hard to keep opeu is Ixs-ause
the approval manif«st«*d at a play
numl>er of years.
they are tsiund with wire binding.
For "Esmond” Thackeray had 1.2UU given at Windsor Caitle In the earlier
Wire binding Is cheaper and quicker
Victoria
guineas, aud “The Newcomes” yielded days of the reign d Queen
than thread binding It Is also a g<x»d
trifle ex-
about zt.iXJO, while his editorial con- may seem to some persons a
deal less satisfactory to the reader.
motion with the Corubill 1» said to aggerated.
Mauy of th«- foreign magazines are
There had been a >eries of perform-
have been worth £4.000 a year-an In
tsiuud with thread. When opened they
manage-
come that will certainly compare with ances at Windsor wider the
stay open, and. after the American
luent of Charles Kejn. and It Is to be
that
of
the
editors
of
any
twentieth
monthlies, they seem a delight to hold.
presumed that the «-»medians felt the
< entury monthly publication.
absence of tha hearty approval shown
’
Pickwick
”
brought
Charles
Dickens
In view of tha wrecking of the City
In the regular theater for one even
Havings Bazik of Detroit by It« vice £2.500 and a share In the copyright Ing. when the queen s»nt an equerry
prewldeut, F'. C. Andrew«, who, by after live years "Nicholas Nickleby” to Mr. Kean to know If the actors
means of falsified statement«, appro- was worth £4.500, and “Barnaby would like anything, meaning refresh
print«*d about $1,000,01)0 of the bank’« Ridge” £3,000 for the copyright till six ments, the actor replied:
fund« to ills own use, the advice given months after publication. It is luter
“Say to her majesty that we should
to young men by William J. Onahan, esting lu view of the 300,000 copies be grateful for a little applause when
president of the Home Saving« Bank sold of “The Master Christian,” the the s[>ectators are pleased.”
of Chicago, aa to the best mean» of ac KMk.tMJO of "The Eternal City,” the 500,-
Back went the equerry »nd conveyed
quiring a competency or wealth be- OOO of "Richard Carvel,” aud the 80,- the message. At the enl of the act
corn«*« I hi II i Interesting and timely. Gue 000 of “Tlie History of Sir Richard there was a slight sugges lon of hand
of Andrew«’ frequently expressed max Calmady,” to note that the original clapping and exceedingly gentle foot
Inis was tliat it was idle to expect to sale of "Great Expectations" was 3U,- tapping. James Wallack "ho knew
get rich merely by Having a portion of 00«i copied
nothing of the message sent to the
In four years George Eliot received queen, hearing the mild demonstration,
one*« salary, and that it was only
but
"Romo-
through daring sjM«<ulatlve venture« £1,000 from "Adam Bede.”
pricked up his ear« and intuired:
that large fortunes were amassed Mr. ! la” brought her £7.000, from the Corn
“What Is that?"
Onahan holds, on the contrary, that hill, and "Middlemarch’' was, on the
"That, my dear Wallack,” Kean re-
whole,
even
more
profitable,
the
Amer
thrift, honesty and steadfaatneaa of
plied, ”1« applause."
pur|Hs«o are now, hs they always have ican edition alone being worth £1,200
I
“Bless me!" exclaimed Wallack.
been and always will l«e, the only safe to the author «ma Charles Reade re thought It was somebody «helling
and absolutely sound foundation stones ceived £30 for “Peg Woffington,” but peas."
uis>ii which to build a bank account, that was at the beginning of his ca
No Breach of Diaclpline.
and that while riches may soiuetluies reer, and "Griffith Gaunt, or Jealousy”
The Colonel was entertaining some of
Is* acquired by other means, the attained to £1,500. Anthony Trollope,
cham-es that a departure from correct a st«*ady and persistent writer, made his friends with storltuv of army life,
prlm-lples will lie followed by «llsaster from hl« books a gross sum of £70,000, and the talk turned to the inflexibility
rather than su<-<*<*s» are so overwhelm or some £2,000 a year. “The Claver of orders. That reminded the Colonel of
Ingly great that the few exception« ings” brought £2,800, “The Small Tim Murphy's case.
Murphy had enllst«*d In the cavalry
serie only to emphasise the general House at Alllngton” £3,000, and “Can
service, although he had nev«*r been on
rule. The fate of Andrews himself 11 ! You Forgive Her?" £3,525.
lustrâtes the truth of this clearly. Mr
Charles Kingsley sold "Alton Locke” a horse In his life. He was taken out
Onahan is exceedingly well qualified to I for £150 to Messrs. Chapman and Hall, for drill with other raw recruits under
diacusa the subject of money getting In a sum certainly less than a twentieth command of a sergeant, and, as luck
all Its phases. Nome time previous to of the tluanctal return his daughter, would have it, secured one of the worst
b<*eoinlng pr«*«l<h*nt of the Home Sav Mrs. St. I.eger Harrison (Lucas Malet), buckers in Uie whole troop.
“Now, my men,” said the sergeant In
ings Bank he held the office of Comp : will receive for her latest novel. In
troller of the city of Chicago, and for 1855 Messrs. Routledge gave Bulwer addressing them, “no one Is allowed to
iminy years bus been <*onnected In one Lytton £20,000 for a ten years’ copy dismount without orders from a su
way or another with large financial In 1 right of the cheap edition of hla nov perior offlc«*r. Remeinlier that."
Tim was no sooner in the saddle than
terests. Tin* advice h«* gives to young els, and at the end of that period they
incii and boys la by no mean« new. It 1 paid £5.000 for another |>erlod of five he was hurletl bead over h«*els through
lias been r«*p<-iiti*<i time and «gain by years, and mad«* a contract on the the air, nnd came down «<> hard that tlie
uien of experience and authority, but same terms at the end of the n«*cond breath was almost knocked out of him.
"Murohv!” shoute«!
for all ttial there are many imtsou », p«*ll«M.
vi hen lie discoverol the man spread out
young nnd old. who s«-«-iii to think that
Going back to the beginning of last
tlie uictliods by which tlie large for «■entury It Is Interesting to remember mi the ground, "you dlsmouuted!"
“1 did.”
tune« of «ollie year« ago were built up that while Scott received large sums
“Did you have orders?"
have become antlquat««! ami «re no for the Waverley Novels, Jane Austen
“I did.”
longer applicable. Thin certainly Is a «•artied during her lifetime less than
“From beadquarters. I suppose?"
mistake
£700 In all for the work of her pen.
with
a sneer.
Macauley was one of tin* first nil
"No. from hlndquartera."
liar«! to Matriculate.
thors to receive payment ón the royal
"Take him to the guardhouse!” order
Mr. I’l-lxolo, lodgekeeper at Glran! ty system, that being his arrangement
College, prides bliiiH«-ir on hl« Intimate with Messrs. Longmans for lila Ills eil the sergeant
knowledge of the regulations of th«« tory, anti George Eliot also hud a «1 mi
Silenced.
Institution. Th«« other day a bright- lar arrangement with Blin k woods for
Those who make light of religion nnd
looking young hoodlum of some 7 years some at least of her novels.
morality seem sometimes, by the very
of ago, carrying a teh-scope bag and
An author now r«*celves as a rule energy of their nttack. to Is- getting th«*
with a cigarette jauntily poised in bl« from 10 per cent In the case of an un bent of It. but now and again they find
mouth, entered the lodge.
known writer to 25 per cent In tin themselves worsfed by tin* ready wit
"Bay, I want to come to this school,” case of an established favorite on tin*
of som«> quiet listener, who turns th«*
said the visitor.
gross retail price of Ills book, 11«* also, tables upon them. Such was the case
"You can't come here If you «moke of course, receives larg«* sums for tin- with the French «Indents of whom l‘e-
that thing.' answered I’elxoto.
serial rights. As a matter of fact, lu ter launbard tells an amusing story In
“Well, I'll -throw it away.” was the th«* case of mauy writers the receipts
the Church Times.
ready reply.
from the serial rights often exceed the
An omnibus full of I’arlsl.-in students
"la your father living?" usked the royaltie« on the complete l«s>k. Ap was making Its way nlong the Rue de
lodg«-keeper.
proximately It may, therefore, l>e con Rivoli when a priest In his robes of
‘“Course he 1«.’’ «aid the t>oy.
eluded that In the <•«»♦• of a novelist office jolm*d the party. The students
“We don’t admit pupil« whose fatli like Miss Marie Corelli, with an enor hailed the newcomer with delight, and
ers an* uot dead, only orphans.”
mous anti constant public, one book, began at once to tell nil the objection
"G«*e!” was th«* response. “Then to although «lie never serializes it, will able stories they could recall. The
get In I've got to kill the old man. bring nt least £2t*,4Mk) In nil. a figure priest spoke not a word till be rose to
Dat'a tough!” Philadelphia Times.
which Is also probably reached by get out. Then he said, politely:
“Au revolr, messieurs.”
many of the l«ooks of Mr. Kipling aud
Too Early.
The French “au revolr” means liter
Hall
Caine.
In-
On«* raw February morning tn
\\ lien on«* reads the statement that a ally. “till we see each again.” One of
■tructor In the University of Michigan
wax calling the roll of an eight o'clock sm «-essfnl liook is selling nt tin* rate th«- students evidently liad this In mind
of between 1,1MW and 2.<MN> a week, It when he replied.
elusa In English.
“I m.” be said. “We don’t want to
is safe to assume that the author Is
’’Mr Hobbin».'* said he.
receiving between £100 mid £150 a m«*et you again, old dismal I”
There
no answer.
“But. au revolr.” repeat«! the cure;
“Mr. Robbins,” In a slightly louder week for It. and so on. Of cnirw
“we are sure to meet again. I am the
only
apply
to
at
the
most
these
figure«
voice.
half a dozen novelists. Another tw«-u- chaplain of the Mazas prison.”
Still no reply.
ly. however, wlll receive from £4<n> to
“Ah,’’ said th«* Instructor, with
A H*-o<ch Sahara.
quiet smile, “come to thluk of It, It la £500 for tin* serial rights of their
The fact is not generally known that
l*ooks.
and
make
on
an
average
half
rather early for robins."
there Is In the north of Scotland, a
This Is Current Literature'« an«-«- ns much more by their royalties. It miniature Sahara, some 20 square
dot«* of the l«te Mo««-» t'o|t Tyler, who may «Iso be safely reckoned that out miles In extent. From Nairn to the
later lH*eauM> professor of history at side th«* ranks of th«* first thirty writ River Findhorn there Is a great ex
Cornell, and It shows hint In the pleas er« novel writing nowadays hardly panse of shifting sandhills, known as
Ing light of a man who could be boy pays Chicago Rw-onl Herald.
the Cuiblu Sands, which show all the
Ishly gay at a gray nm! cheerless hour
great peculiarities of a great desert.
OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA
no small feat. If one stop« to consider
au<l which successfully resist all at
an Instructor’s provocations to morn Xlrlpplns for the Conflict with Forces tempts at cultivation. Three centuries
of Nature.
lug dulluess.
ago the place was a smiling garden
Our last glimpse of civilization was with several farms and a village, all
A Ke«rnt«vr Mt-mwry.
“Grand Island City.” a village of six of which were overwhe!tn«*d In a sln-
Actual conversation overheard at he or eight house«, on the 1‘latte. In what gl« night by a great atom of sand.
matinee perf-wniance of "As You Like is now Hall County. Nebraska. This The remains of the buildings can still
It” st tli«* Theater Re|«nbll«* lu New wits on the Uth of June, and a few <x-caslonally be s«*en when the sami
York :
days before we had passed through Co shifts, and many old don>«*stic articles
Bln* M ho Is that playing the part of lumbus. another paper city. Columbus have b«-en plck«*d np. Some tragic
the banished Duke!
boasted an Inu. a blacksmith shop aud stories are till current in the locality
He That’s Barton Hill, one of the a trading post. The passage of the of the wonderful escape of the Inhale
veteran« of the prof«*«»lon.
l-oup at that pla«e was accomplished Itants from the blinding sand-drift on
She !» he very old!
by means of a rope ferry, for which that terrible night.
He Well er I don’t know Rut he
service the ferryman, before landing
Nix Historical Age«.
« rested that part New York New«.
us on a sand bar near the farther bank
Kc-lexlsstleal authorities divide the
of
the
stream,
exacted
a
fee
of
a
dol
The “t'aniiy <’r«se."
history of man Into six ng»*« (D Front
According to a Loudon |*ap**r, ths lar and a half for each tram; the cat Aiknm to Noah. (2> from Noah to Abra
“candy erase" Is th«- l«t«*»t fashionable tie were swum across The tide of ham. (3) from Abraham to David: <4
ltup«>rti«U>>ii from America "Ko the« travel was so great that we wen* from David to the Baylonish captivity,
ter party." it i> • announ*»«! “worthy of obliged to wait all «lay for our turn to i”*) from the captivity of Judah to the
the name, can exist for half an hour cross 1 sake«! the proprietor of the birth of Christ; (fit from the birth of
without the comfort of th appearance terry If be had bad any touch of th- < hr «1 to the en«! of the wocl I
California fever With a twinkle of
of chocolates and sugared al iuon«!a.”
Weight of the Water.
hla eye he surveyed his ferry an«! hi«
farlo*®
<>ntetrry.
Water sufficient to cover one acre
smithy, and said: “Wai. I allow
Munte Carlo han a npevial criuetrry yere la Callforay enough for nre “
one inch de«>p will weigh 101 ton«.
for tfainbliuu rh-ttrnn a ho commit nul
Our trail after leaving the last net
ltee que»tiou of sex never app
rhìe
Sin*'® WHO oirr 2»000 graven tleiuenla. was strewn with lame ami
so gigantic to a man as when I» start:
have beta lu< there.
abandoned cattle at.«! the di«*«rd<-*l
out in search of a servant flirt
material of those who bad preceded
ua. As large «romp»nice passed on. they
I found their burdens lightened bv the
continued, in a tone, doubtie-»
to be placatory, “and you wj|| j *
well.”
“I take it to be my duty, Mr g».
hanlt,” I repli«*d ,“to concern nq»,
with whatever affects the welfare Of tL*
people; and, to my mind, the .itoa,ij
condition of the valley, and—’’
u
by J. MACLAREN COBBAN.
“Oh,—d—d sentimental non-enw-..
he exclaime«i. "The valley is |lere f
us to make money out of the best w >v J'
cun.
attention (often to little purpose) that
“It is, of course, of no eon«equM
CHArlTK II—Continued.
clergymen are expected t.- fliv o then, that 1 don’t agree with you," ,.
Mid I;
I weezin the morning and discovered can hardly be conceived by th- m
“but as t - what I shall think or •»»0#
e ■
there or any other matters, I can 4 cer.
how t*6 »‘range tints of the water were hold cure« in the s*zuth.
7’«^. The p nd was fed by a run- i. a grand pnx-es.ion round the pansh tainlv take no orders from
i0”, tit.
which flow J at the bottom Of the of scholars and their friend»
You must excuse me saving it. »«
in
their
new
finery
-
‘
•
’’
"'I'an'e.
.tank on one side of the lane called by
“Very well.” He sat a moiIlent ,
silence, fingering liis glass; he see^
the name of Lacroix. This lane,
■* flaunting banners and a blatant
alreaily learned, had been in other days bond, and heeded by their clergyman- not to have expected this conelu,10n
the private carriage drive of the firs The procession halts at fixed |«>int«. Then be rose ami said, as if he WeJ
l^croix (before a steinhardt had been forms into mas« and sing.« hymns, e< quite unconscious of having treated m«
heard of) from his tine mansion to his bv the brass band, while the banners with rudeness. "Wo had better ioin
take up positions to display their hide the ladies.”
dve works and his model farm.
niansion, with iU noble rookery, had ous devices and pictures. For another
“If you will excuse me.” ««id I, “j
long ago become the prey of the omniv «lav a short excursion in wagons, with think I must say gissl night.”
’
orous sp«-culative builder; the model tea or milk and buns, an«l games are
“Eh?” He lookeil at me in
farm bail disappeared, ail but the farm arranged for the benefit especially o’ surprise. “Oh, you should talk to th»
house which, squeezed into a «oruW the younger scholars; ami for a thir l women a little while at any rate. Bul
corner of the spreading village, was now day a long railway excursion for the just as you please.”
let out in tenements; a Steinhardt now others. All these arrangements I ha-l
The invitation was exasperatingly
reigned in the Lacriox dye work« and, to undertake (some of them much unconcerned, but, thinking this w>l
in his scorn of the past, was in the against the grain. I confess; for I pre but his habituaally churlish Teutonic
habit of “tipping” bis aniline refuse fer to go through the parish as through way, and that if I did not ap; ear in th»
down among the tree root« of the cher- life, unaccompanied by instruments o draw ing room the ladies might be dis-
ishwi avenue, narrowing more and brans)—to undertake alone, along with tressed, I accompanied him. Both ol
more the already constrict«! channel o all the duties more properly parochial the ladies glance«! at me rather curi
the little stream, ami poisoning and and clerical; for the rector was still too ously; probably I showed signs of di».
discoloring the once clear flow of water ill to attend to anything.
1 composure. Soon Mr. Steiuhardt with,
neighborhood. This it
in the whole neighborhood,
For three weeks or so, therefore, I drew to his study and his pipe.
was which washed color into the pond had no time to rumintae upon extrane
“You've lieen having word« with
and gave it its varying tints.
ous matters, and no time to spen«l at Emmanuel, Mr. Unwin,” said Mr».
I stooii thus in some doubt and great Timperley Hall. But I then made an Steiuhardt, almost as soon as her hus
indignation—doubt whether Miss I-a- acquaintance that considerably influ band was gone. “It's all about that
croix’s dream might not after all be enced the later events of my story—Mr. i dreadful lei-ture affair, I suppose. H«
capable of as simple an explanation as Freeman, the minister of a quaint lit : thinks you’ve gone against him in it,
I had found for the tints of the pond, ) tle Dissenting Chapel in the village. and Emmanuel can’t bear to be gon»
and indignation at what I saw around We encountereil first on the day of the against.” (The good lady always pro
me. I had never before ventured into procession in the Lacroix lane.
He nounced her husband’s name with »
Lacroix lane; I now passed under its was marching along from the opposite lofty sense of its scriptural prestige.)
wretched dying trees, along the brink direction to us at the head of his mod
“I do not see” said 1, still rather
of its cinder mud, ploughed a foot deep est and silent troop; the lane was nar sore, “that Mr. Steiuhardt should ex-
into ruts by lumbering coal carts and | row ; he halted, took off his hat, and pect to have his own way evervwher»
wagons, and fancied it metamorphoseil smiled (while I could do no less in re and in everything, any more than an
back into the private, shady, well-kept turn), and he anil his jieople (some of other man.”
avenue of the first Lacroix.
I had 1 them with reluctance, I have no doubt)
“Mr. Steinhardt,” said Miss Lacroix,
walked almost the whole length of the stood aside to let our noisier and more "is now alone in his authority, nos
lane when I met Mr. Birley, Mrs. imposing procession pass.
That was that father is gone, and he is by hii
Steinhardt’s brother “Jim.”
our introduction. M hen the \\ hitsun nature what you would sav a desk
•Ah, there you are,” he called cheer tide matters were all disused of, he oil, yes, dear Mrs. Steiuhardt, he is—i(
ily, when he espied me, “I was just called on me one evening to ask me to any one is not obedient to him he is
coming to look you up and take you be chairman at a lecture he was about not nice at all. He said hard, rude,
round a bit; there's not much *biz’ do to deliver in the lit’le public hall of the cruel things to vou, Mr. Unwin—in-
village on some point of the land ques de«*d, yes,” said she in answer to my
ing, and so I’ve taken a holiday.”
After greeting I gave venf to the in tion. I was somewhat taken aback by look of surprise, “I know be did; I felt
dignation of which I was full. Me re- j his request, and I suppose I showed him saying them all the time—and be
that I was.
sides, I saw him saying them with his
turned along the lane.
“Y’ou are surprised, I daresay, Mr. eyes all dinner time. But you must
“Well,” said be, laying his hand on
Unwin,” said he, with a little con not trouble about his words; they come
my shoulder, “it’s not nice of course,”
strained laugh (he was a bright, genial from his nature, which he cannot help,
—standing ami surveying the lane.
little man, with a big, red beard). “I I suppose.”
“But it’s not for you or me to mend it;
“What things, to be sure, you do
though I’m joint guardian with ’Man 1 will explain why I ask you'.’—because,
I understand, you, like myself, ,come say, Louise!” exclaimed Mrs. Stein-
uel of Paul’s girl” (he meant Miss La- j
croix), “I’ve nothing to do with the from the south, where pure streams, bardt. “and what eyes you have got!
property, and 'Manuel, you see, can’t and clear skies, and healthy trees may My word!”
bear to s;>eiid the brass, and doesn’t be seen, but especially because I be
(To be continued)
care a—well, a button—for Paul’s fam- | lieve you are the only man in the
ily history. Poor Paul! he was a good neighborhood who holds somethig like
chap. I suppose the name Lacroix is the same opinions as I do; my friend,
THERE WAS A DISTINCTION.
done for, and it has been what you Mr. Birley, has told me of the talks he
learneil fellows would call historical.’’ has had w ith you about the way our
Lancashire friends treat nature.”
Both Were Soldiers of High Rink, but ii
I asked what he meant. He stopped
“Y’our friend, Mr. Birley,” I ex
Different Armies.
and pointed up the lane, away from claimed.
Dr.
Edward
King, the venerated and
Timperley.
“Yes,” said he, with a comical twin
"You mightn’t believe it,” said he, kle in his eye, “Mr. Birley and I meet saintly bishop of Lincoln, in England,
“but if you follow this lane right out to not on theological, but on simply is now much advanced in years and
Recently he ha«
the end you’ll get to the Bastille.” human common ground, anil lie is tlie somewhat infirm.
(■rim near uni gentleman called it friend of everyone who knows his good been visiting Bournemouth for his
health, and T. P. O'Connor, in his ”.M.
"Bastile.”)
heart.”
I looked at him: I failed to com pre
I began to like my visitor, I agreed A. P.,” tells the following story of the
hen-1.
to act as his chairman, and we then venerable prelate's visit to that rea.’ide
resort: After resting for some time one
“Y’ou don’t mean,” I said, “the settled down to talk.
famous French Bastille?—the fortress
On the evening of the lecture I took afternoon on a seat on the “Parade’’
prison of Paris?”
my place on the platform in a consid the bishop desireil to move, but, owing
"That’s it,” said he. "Y’ou’ve read, erable flutter of nervousness. There to his age and infirmity, found some
I suppose, in your history books of the was a large attendance of work folk, difficulty in rising. A kind hearted
taking of the Bastille, and the man with a fair sprinkling of well-to-do peo little girl of the town noticed hie
that was governor at that time, De ple from the neighborhood, brought to trouble and ran up, saying: “Oh, let
I-acroix; —that’s the family, The poor gether, I suppose, as much by curiosity me help you.”
The good bishop beamrd upon the
old fellow was killed in the street«, I to see two parsons of conflicting creeds
believe.”
together as by interest in the subject child with one of his sweetest smilee,
Thus he went on, with much fullness of the lecture. I observed on a back and the smile of the bishop is very
of irrelevant detail. I gathered these seat Mrs. Steinhardt and Frank, Miss sweet, indeed. “Y’ou are a dear little
feats of consequence which 1 here set Lacroix and our friend, Mr. Birley. maiden,” he said, “but I do not think
down:—At the time of the great emi Steinhardt himself was not there. On you are strong enough.”
gration of French nobility to this coun rising I was astonished to find myself
“Why, bless you, sir,” was the re
try, a tnemlier of the De Ijicroix family greeted w ith rounds of applause, and ply, “I’ve often hepled up daddy when
found bis way to faincashire with one on explaining in a few words how I he was a sight worse drunk than yon
or two dependents, a packet of jewels, came to be where I was, I was cheered are.”
and some scientific learning, and with with such hearty vociferation, that I
O'Connor says the truth of this story
out his aristocratic prefix "de.”
He concluded I had become, without know is vouched for by a canon of Ely, so it
prospected about a little, and at length ing it, a popular personage. I accepted must lie true.
invests«! the money he got for his jew the explantion Mr. Freeman gave me
A story of General Sir Charles Tucker
els in the Turkey red and Indigo dve afterward:—“It was a brave and risky is not quite so good, but it is well au
works of Timperley.
He prospered. thing to do, you know, to appear with thenticated. The general was on his
He was one of the first to apply chem me; and these Lancashire folk above way out to India, when he found that
ical science to the manufacture of dyes. all things admire a bit of pluck against there was another General Tucker on
He made a large f«>rtune, and became odds. ”
board the ship—General Booth-Tucker
the great man of the neighborhood.
of the Salvation Army. As the P. 4 0-
He ha«l, however, a family of four sons
boat came alongside to land passenger«
CHAPTER IV.
who gave him great trouble.
They
at Port Said and the gangway was
This
adventure
with
Mr.
Freeman
i
almost ruined their father and quite
crowded a woman was overhearil to say
broke his heart before their several ha«l results that I ha<l not fi.rescen; but to her companion: “My dear, there
courses of extravagance and debauchery 1 that I might have guessed had I con are two General Tuckers aboard, I hear.
came to an end.
The eldest, Paul’s sidered sufficiently the situation in Can you point me out which is which!"
father, drew up just in time, married which I had placed myrn-lf—result- This was said in the hearing of the bluff
and settled down to the business; which at the time caused me some general, who was standing right in
another broke his neck in a steeple anxiety, yet which, in the end, proved front of them.
Mr. Stein
chase; the third died of delirium trem much to my advantage.
Turning sharplv around and point
ens, or worse and the fourth still ex hardt, of course, heard of it, an«l took
ing
to the other Tucker, he said:
isted, for he could scarcely be sai«i to an early op|««rtunity of calling me t<*
“Madam, that is the Salvation Tucker;
live: he was the tongue and limb-tied task w ith characteristic German—I may Í
paralytic, known as old Jaques, who in peihaps say, Bismarckian — brusquería. ¡ I. in contradistinction, am known a*
habited the little octagonal house near I had l»*en a«k«l to dine at Timperley i the Damnation ’Tucker.”—New York
Press.
the pond, which lia-l been the lodge of Hail. He said little during dinner. I
his father's model farm.
Paul had but 1 found his eye on me several times. ¡
Would Acctpt Mr«. Davis’ Offer
wished him to make his house his Whan the ladies withdrew from the!
home, but he instated on settling down table, he sent Frank after them. Then
The Mobile (Ala.) Register ««IvisM
he opened upon me at once.
there.
the legislature of Mississippi to «crept
This sad an<l fateful story lay heavy
“ What the deuce, Mr. Unw in, is this Mrs. Davis’ offet and buy Beauvoir«
on my mind and heart for the rest of you’ve been doing with that a.«s, Free Jefferson Davis’ late home. The houtt
the day. In the evening I took down man'"’
an«l ground« have, it is «aid, been ne
the first volume of Carlyle's French
I stared in sperehless «urprise— less glected »nd ill-kept, only a custolixn
Revolution, and read with new interest at the actual question than at its dic residing upon the premises and gather
the wonderful ;<assogea in which he de- tatorial tone.
His complexion was ing what fees he can from chance vie
■eribee the taking of the Bastille by the usually very ruddy; it now became a I tors.
mob, and the part which the old offii-er curmns purplish red. even to his ,-ves
of the fortress played in its hopeless ■nd hia bald crown, a» if be ha«l been
Z««t for Sewing.
defence.
*li|*|*«l in a vat of his choicest live
Englishwomen
have taken np ths
Alter that I sat d«*wn and wrote to «
’Yon mustn’t do that kind of thing
renews» “
pair of London friends, asking them to you know you’ll «poü vour cham-o« in "charity sewing clnba” with renew*
«8 (if
of
make certain inquiries concerning Mr. the church; ,nd. nw.rw than that I zest since the return of the Doche«s
ork from her tour of the Brit>*h c«e
Lacroix.
can t have you ami him disturbing ¿v
aork|«eople, ami setting them against 1-nial possess ions. The Ophir hr -igbt
CHAPTER HL
‘ ',v anything to him. but hon e an astoni-liing number of fr- - k«.
V’Jt «ír ’’’OU1Ca,‘ tl,aVe il
« flannel pettn-oat- and w raps that the
1 had in all this abundant food for
future queen had taken the time ti cut
rumination during the next two <>r
I <i*>n t know,” I answered, “what and make during her trip, assisted
three week*. Fut I he«i little time for right y»« have. Mr. htembar.it, to talk her ladies in waiting.
rumination an«i no time at all for visits to me in this fashion ’’
to Tipmerley Hall until Whitsuntide
I wa* angry. He moved al*out the
Ptcul.ritv of a Fsmiiv
A m past.
Whitsuotide is the great gla«.e. ,Bli ,f^.nter, near
«•*
Mr«. Susan Holloway, a resides* o*
festival in the Izincashire cal en«lar.
What right’ Yo0r ,alarT
Then mills and pits are idle for a out of
p,,ket.
(.an.t I >v 4 icinnati, ha« three brother« and t’1’
sisters, and «11 of them have six fle«**
week, and the work p«**>ple have a spell
on ea« h hand. Mr«. Hoilowav ha« :t>rt
of serious enjoyment, and wearing of
rh“' .
’* "*• • ffiatter between given birth to a baby girl win b” *
new simmer clothing, for which nv n
you and the rector, sir ”
has been saved from Christmastide * vnu‘th^T,‘\’B"11 w*"‘ V» tell similar redundancy. Mr«. Holi »•?*
mother and grandmother were •!•'
earlier. Some go on jaunt« to the re«-
■ide for the w«ek ->r f**r a «lay W two; ou that I must be master in this vil- orated in the same wav, as is her broth-
Mwiuii
To
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up
°*
cr • infant son.
but the re* reations and dissin • : i - I
'*‘h n*-hetween me .nd the
the multitwie are tbooa cnnm-cted with
‘
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