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NO. 31
Brantford, had exhausted the bed of ore they ¿book lfrantford. It soon came to the ears of
bad been working for over forty years, aud Foljambe him&elf. He bad paid no attention
A youn*' girl walking by a stream
hud to bring tbo crude material some dis- to the popular comment on Lis purchases, but
In silent thought, a maid's day dream,
' tauee by rail and water. Il began to be a this was a different matter. He hunted up A
CYCLIST FINDS TOKIO SWELLS
Knelt down upon the glistening sand
J question whether it would not pay to build Bill Cowan and found him in our shop, where
And there wrote with her soft, white haud<
“gO ENGLISH, YOU KNOW.”
i
a
new
furnace
near
the
source
of
supply
and
ire
and
some
of
his
cronies
were
discussing
I
“I love thee!”
abandon the old one. Suddenly, however, a the thing at the time.
A youth lay in a great tree’s shade.
new oi*e bed was opened close at hand.
“Mark you, Co wan!” cried Foljambe, his
Just on tho border of the glade.
Tbo fo.ty-two acres of clayey hill on the eyes blazing with wrath, “you huvo been A Fashionable Mikado Rail Bereft of
And when the maid had gone away
Local Costume and Color—The Loudon
Peabody farm was found to cover a heavy talking too freely about me in connection
He wroto below, the seif same way:
deposit of limonite. As that ore generally with a young lady. If I learn of your wag
Drawl Transplanted to tho East— What
“I love thee!”
contains impurities only fitting it for “cold ging that long tongue of yours in the same
Amerlcau Legations Lack.
” iron, little attention was paid to it. But way again, or find you eavesdropping, 1’11
Years after, in a great arm chair,
I j | short
A woman sat with silver hair;
when the chemist of the company mude three give you a pounding, and you know that 1
Last December, when at Yokohama, tho
A manly form stood by her side,
separate analyses and discovered that the usua , can do it. Things
_ have got to a pretty pass famo of my bicycle tour around the world,
And said: “I love you still, my pride,”
phosphorus was replaced by nearly 3 percent, in this community when slander is set afoot just theu completed, attracted considerable
And soft the gray haired dame replied:
of manganese oxide, the thing took another because some sneak sees one bestow a caress notice in Tokio. A Jajianese gentleman
“i love thee!”
sha.ue. The company offered Foljambe a ) on a young lady whom ho is to marry within named Suyematau, occupying some high
•Donald R. McGregor in New York News.
handsome royalty, which be at once declined. f a month. And I’ll hold any other man who
He would sell outright or not at all. After meddles with my affaire to a strict» account.” official position at the capital, sent me down
Here was a settler. Becky Peabody to be his card together with an invitation to come
some chaffering and a rough survey of the
bed, they took all the farm but the widow’s I married by a Foljambe! Why, the Foljainbes up to a swell bull that was coming off on
i turned up their noses at tho country folk, and Monday evening. Expecting to see something
five acres, and paid $75,000.
If we may trusr. general opinion, it was a
“A fool for luck” was the general comment. took their wives from abroad. Gossip left of a compromise between the Geisha of
series of follies, beginning in boyhood and But the reputation of Foljambe for down the rosin and cotton, and took to the match. Japan and European danoes, I readily
continuing during life. Jumes Foljambe— right folly was at its height when it leaked But it was admiring, ana not offensive.
accepted the invitation. An hour’s ride
Tho wedding came off and was a great
“Fool Jim,” as the boys nicknamed him at out afterward that he had settled $35,750 on
by rail and ten minutes by jiurikisha
affair.
Miss
Elton
was
first
bridesmaid,
and
Mrs.
Peabody
—
that
is,
the
interest
during
school—and the epithet clung to him—did, in
the gentleman she married with afterwards, through the level streets of Tokio brought me
life
to
her,
and
the
principal
to
her
(laughter
popular judgment, the most silly things, and afterward. No words sufficed to express the a Mr. Leamington, was Foljambe’s best man. to the Rokumi Kwan, a swell European like
yet prospen?d. At school he was noted for
There was a reception at tho house—the club house, where all the high toned hops of
liis folly as well us for pluck and coolness. If wonder, contempt and disgust at this act of young couple took no tour, but remained at Tokio take place. The Rokumi Kwan stood
folly.
a big boy maltreated a little one, instead of
Old Figgs died about this time, and Foljambe place—and I, of the few Brantford in the middle of a large flower garden, a flood
minding his own business, as a sensible boy
folk invited, was there. So was David Pea
should, Fool Jim would take it up and thrash Oalchieze offered me a share in the business body, of course. Ho was got up in a suit of of light streamed through the windows and
I if I could put in $5,(XX). I had saved a little
the bully.
fine broadcloth, and his shoes shone like a the strains of a European orchestra greeted
When that wretched little Dick Greene, the over half of that by pinching and screwing japanned waiter. Every one knew this the ear. The jiurikisha coolie halted beneath
but
I
was
puzzled
about
the
rest.
Foljambe
son of old Gorney Greene, a sort of odd job found it out, and gave me the money on my raiment came from the bridegroom. Oh, of tho big portico and a fluuky in swallow
man about town, broke his leg by a fall from
coat, patent leather highlowa and
Some folk may think this folly on bis course! There were a number of costly and tailed
a cherry tree, Fool Jim used to go around note.
elegant presents displayed. But these came, white cotton gloves promptly advanced and
part,
but
I
did
not.
Neither
did
he,
for
t
and cheer up the little brat, and spend I ms
with the exception of an odd looking Japanese requested my cord. There was nothing Jap
pocket money, of which he bad plenty, for have paid it back long since.
cabinet, given by the Widow Peabody, from anese about this individual but his face and
When
the
Widow
Peabody
got
her
money
Dick’s 1 enefit. All the leading big boys of
the Foljambe friends and connections. Un< le shape. The delightful deference and more
the school thought him a fool, but no one she sent Rebecca off to boarding school, as i David examined them.
than French politeness that had charmed me
she
could
well
afford
to,
and
there
the
girl
re
dared tell him so. for, though be was not
“Becky,” he said, loud enough to attract from lieginning to end of my 800 mile ride
quarrelsome, he was quick to resent an in mained for four years, barring visits home at attention, “the Peabodys don’t seem to shine through Japan had been supplanted by the
sult, and was a tough customer in a rough I vacation. When she came back to stay slit’ in the way of making gifts to the bride. formal stiffnres of an English “person.” Plac
had grown into a handsome, self possessed
and tumble fight.
Your Uncle David ’ll have to put in his ing my card and that of Mr. Ruyematsu on
Foljambe left school for an academy where young woman, and she wat quite admired by mite.” Then he drew a bulky package from the proffered salver, I requested the imita
the
young
fellows
around.
In
addition
to
they prepared boys for college, and went
his capacious breast pocket, which it fitted so tion English footman to seek out the latter
afterward to college. I left it at the same good looks and good manner*, she would have tightly that he withdrew it with difficulty.
gentleman and hand him my card. While
a
nice
sum
in
hard
cash
in
time
—
a
good
time to become under salesman and general
“Oh, thunk you, Uncle David,” said th> he departed on his errand I loitered in the en
thing
to
add
to
a
young
man
’
s
family
re
drudge in the grocery shop of Figgs & Oal-
trance. Several other flunkies, all in the
bride. “Anything from you”----
phieze. I lost sight of him then, except at sources. But she was of a domestic turn
conventional swallow tails and snowy gloves,
“Open it, child.”
stayed
at
home
with
her
mother
and
rarely
Vacations, until be was graduated, and had
The newly made Mrs. Foljambe undid the stood around and speculated among them
come home. His father, a confirmed invalid, went abroad. No suitor seemed to meet cord and removed the wrapping. It was a selves upon (he fact that my boots were only
favor
in
her
eyes,
though
she
had
several.
was very rich, and made a great fuss over
plain unpatent calf, and my black diagonal
During Rel»ecca’s absence at school Fol Russia leather covered casket, with the lettere | coat of other shape than theirs, and the
him. when he returned, and was very proud
R. P. F. on it. When she opened it she gave
of the fact that Jim was at the head of his jambe had been going along quietly, and a cry of delight.
servants wore so startlingly English, you
class. There was no nonsense about Jim, I people bad ceased to talk of him; but shortl)
“They are old mine stones,” said Uncle know, that I was prepared at once for
must say. He remembered all bis old school after her return he broke out again.
David, quietly. “Don’t drop that scrap of sundry modifications in what I had
mates, and put on no airs. He would come I One day an old man in a dusty suit and paper. 1 don’t want you to be running to l>eeu expecting t> see at the ball.
Jnto our shop at all times and talk with me boots that had been blackened a week Itefore, your husband for pocket money, and yoji’d I was scarcely prepared, however, for the ex
when I was not. busy, and, as he would be and who carried a small gripsack, got out at better invest the amount of that check for treme English lines of behavior and deport
very rich in time, old Figgs, though he did Brantford station and inquired if the Widow ; youreelf, as he advises you.”
ment adopted by everybody present. Mr.
)¿eep his i>eople’.s noses close to the grindstone, Peabody lived at the old farm yet. Wo soon ! This was a surprise. Few had seen such a Ruyematsu, whom 1 had been picturing as
learned
that
he
was
the
long
lost
David
Pea
|
pever grumbled at it.
set—a necklace, bracelets, ear rings and pin, coming out to me, with the profuse polite
Not that Jim was an idler. He took a vast body, who had come back after all thes | mède up of the finest brilliants, some of them ness of his countrymen in general whom I
years,
apparently
as
poor
as
a
church
mouse,
off bis sickly father’s hands in managing
quite large. They must Lave cost enor had met, turned up in the shape of a young
urge plantation. No little job that was, and doubtless with intent to sponge on tin I [ mously. Where did Uncle David got the man about 25. The only difference in his aj»-
Widow
Peabody.
He
was
not
so
very
old
1
either. Foljambe place embraced over 1,900
pearance from the flunkies was a button hole
I money?
acres, and with the exception of 100 acres of either, but looked like a man whom hard I 1 I found out before any one else. I was bouquet, and diamond studs, except that he
poodland, and about 300 of pasture and luck and a hot climate bad dried up and down iu New York to purchase tea, and allowed his thick, black hair to fall a la
neglige about his eyes.
meadow, was closelv cultivated. There was wrinkled.
To our surprise he was made welcome by Carleton, of the jobbing firm with which 1
n fine herd of Jersey cattle, then coming
“Er—aw, Mr. Stevens, the er, er, bee-see-
did
business,
said
to
me:
*nto vogue, and over forty blooded horses, the widow and Rebecca, and took up hif
clistf* Mr. Ruyematsu said in the finest,
“
David
Pealxxly
is
rusticating
at
Brant
abode there. He was a queer specimen.
tiesides others for plow and wagon.
drawl ever heard outside of London. “Er—
ford, ain’t he?”
For four years there was nothing worthy of After the dust of travel had been brushed off
“Old Uncle David?” Lsaid. “Yes, he is a aw, cam ap.” Mi\Ruyematsu’« manner quite
be
was
clean
enough,
but
his
clothes
wero
of
note, except that I got to lie head salesman and
sort of hanger on to his sister-in-law. She nonplused me for the moment. For the last,
month I bad been knocking «bout among his
a sort of general manager in our concern, ordinary material and well worn. It was feeds him, I fancy.”
evident
that
he
was
poor,
but
he
didn
’
t
seem
which, considering my age, was a big lift for
“Feeds him? What do you mean? David countrymen and had found every one of them
to
mind
it
He
walked
about
and
held
him
me. Blit old Foljambe died at this time, and
Peabody could feed a dozen sistere-in-luw aud profusely polite and deferential. Instead of
bowing bis bead nearly to the floor, as I had
as Jana^s was motherless and an only son he self up as though he owned one-half the | not feel it.”
succeeded to the property. Then began the town and meant to buy the other. He was
“Well,” I said, “I recently began to suspect expert^!, Mr. Ruyematsu merely advanced
languidly, as though it were rather of a Imre
follies of this son, which made talk for the i ready with his tongue, too, and if any one be was rather well off.”
said a disagreeable or impertinent thing coulu
country around for veal’s.
to have to come down theso beastly stairs,
“
Rather
well
off!
”
exclaimed
Carleton.
The first exhibition was in the matter of repay it with interest. Foljambe took a great T’hat’s tho best joke out. David Peabody don’t you know, and drawled out an invita
the Peabody mortgage. There had b^en two 1 notion to him and told me that the old man well off! Is it possible you don’t know how tion to com'» up. I didn’t know under the cir
Peabody brothers, Nathan and David; but i was keen and had wonderfully practical bus rich ho is? But ho hardly knows himself. cumstances whether I had lietter accept his
David, the younger one, on his father’s death | iness ideas for one who bad not profited by He has been for over eighteen years tho prin invitation to “cam ap” or not. I pointed out
had taken $1,000 in cash for bis share, and : his precepts, a thing I have observed to be cipal stockholder in a great Mexican miue. to him that I had on neither swallow tailed
gone off to Mexico to seek his fortune. He ' not uncommon. A man can pick up more It is an English company, and ho is tho only coat, white gloves, nor p .tent leather shoes.
was not heard of afterward, and was believed valuable hints from the unsuccessful around American in it. But he owns two-th rds of “Er—aw. nevah mind, er, oatn ap,” replied
to be dead. Nathan stayed on tho old place. ! him than he can from sharp business men. it. Why, it is one of the most successful Mr. Ruyematsu. So, following his guidance,
Ho was a shiftless man, and though be mar i So the two grew quite intimate, and almost mines in the country. Well off! Why, he is wo entered an ante chanilier, whore a number
tied Ben Merrit’s daughter, who was a tidy | any fine evening they might be seen in com away up iu the millions, and it keeps pour of young and middle aged representatives of
“New Japan” were lounging about smoking
housewife and a prudent woman, he could fab together on the widow’s front porch, witl. ing in.”
cigarettes. Mr. Ruyematsu introduced me to
not get along. The farm was pretty well the widow and Rebecca seated near, inter
Of
course
this
was
too
good
to
keep.
Brant
ested listeners to their chat.
worn out and he did not improve it nt all.
ford had the benefit of it, and, except nn oc r Count This, Viscount That and Mr. So and 8o,
The crops grow less and less, and Nathan ! This was in August, 1860. The whole casional dash at the rosin and cotton, David’s a» “er—aw, Mr. Stevens, the er bee^ see-cl 1st."
grew a crop of debt. To wipe that out he ' country was in a state of excitement. It was great wealth was the subject for discussion Many of these gentlemen could talk English
Quite fluently; some of them had lieen edu
borrowed another $1,000 on bond and mort known that reconciliation between the war and comment.
gage from the same party who held the first ring Democratic factions was impossible and
The civil war bad come and was going ob , cated in America; some in England. One or
that
Lincoln
would
be
elected.
The
question
mortgage to raise David’s money. Things
and Foljambe and his follies faded before it. two of them had been on diplomatic service
grew woi’se, and at last the interest remained was, would there l>e war? Foljambe suddenly At last, in 1862, Foljambe’s cotton began to in Europe. All were as thoroughly English as
put
the
plantation
in
charge
of
old
Uncle
Unpaid for two years and proceedings were
be moved. It had risen in price exceedingly, Mr. Suyematsu himself. Some even sur-
taken to foreclose the mortgage. Nathan j David and went off south. He visited Vir and Brantford found that there bad been passed Mr. Ruyematsu in the ; perfect ion of
ginia,
North
Carolina
and
Georgia,
and
wa>
took sick over it and died. The doctor said i
method in the madness. But therein, though their drawl, and put him rather in the shade
it was typhoid fever, but every one thought | gone about two months. When ho came buck it bad risen too, remained undisturbed. At by regarding me through the medium of a
it was the trouble and that Nathan had given i I nsk d him: ‘‘Does the south really mean length, I think it was in August, 1803, 800 big round eyeglass. Some of (he gentle
up the ghost because he could not face his | fight, Mr. Foljamlief’
barrels of the rosin were shipped to Boston. men towards the other end of the room
difficulties. At all events, lie died, leaving | “It really does,” he replied, sadly. “I don’t The next day 150 went to Philade 1 phia, and a contented themselves by adjusting their
his widow with one child, a girl of 14. She : think they’ll be able to keep it up more than 100 went to Baltimore. The next day 800 eyeglasses and surveying me across the
was very pretty—the image of her father— • a year or so, unless England interfere, for we were sent to New York. And so it continued length of tho room. Every one of
and all the l’eabodys were fine looking peo have the most money and the most men; but to move, sometimes in smaller, sometimes in these Tokio exquisites bad mastered the art
it will be fierce while it lasts. It is going to
pie; but she had her mother's ways.
larger quantities, until by the latter part of of appearing insufferably bored with things
Everybody pitied the widow, for it was disturb values very much, as well as domestic November, every barrel was gone. I took up in general, and only to be mildly awakened
relations.
”
by a ball or something very novel. Rome
well understood that the farm would bring
The first thing Foljambe did on coming The Price Current and ran over the file for were undoubtedly men of brains and energy,
no more than the debt and law expenses;
the quotations on navul stores. To my sur
home
was
to
build
a
number
of
long
wooden
in fact, that the mortgagee would be obliged
prise the price bad varied from August to but they were now in society and their con
to buy it in. With the exception of one spot, sheds, some of them inclosed; and be kept the Novein tier from twenty-five to forty four versation consisted of the merest common-
the farm was a worn out sandy loam, over carpenters going day aud night. The whole dollars per barrel. And then it went down place remarks. “Er—aw M. Rtevens has been
run with sedge grass, the sign of sterility. neighborhood was aroused. Was he going below the flret figure. Foljambe bad stocked round the-er-aw world,” one would remark.
“Y-a-a s, er-aw, long journey,” would lie the
The exception was a hill, covering al>out into sheep raising on a large scale, or what the market.
drawling reply. Mr. Suyernatsu got off a
forty-two acres, apparently composed of a crowning folly was Fool Jim at now? I was
There
was
little
talk
about
Fo!jambe*8
fol
tough, gravelly clay, unfit for even brick ! his only partisan Every one said be was lies after that in Brantford. On the con mild joke on Count B-----. The count, with
making, and incapable of cultivation. To I n ) | going stark, staring mad. But the excitement trary, tiie Brantford people admired the out deigning to remove his eye glass or smile
sure, the five acres around the house, which grew to a hubbub when there carie carload shrewdness of “Fool Jim,” and that name at the witticism, explained to me, “Er-he,
was at one end of the place, had been used as ¡ after carload, by the railway, of barrels of dropped. Well they might admire him. He er-aw joked.” Several army officers were
a vegetable garden, and that was in a little Í rosin «nd bales of cotton—the former stored rnd Uncle David lictween them have built up t’loro in g iy regimentals. These seemed less
better order. It was a sorry piece of property. ‘ under the open and the latter in the inclosed the placa, which has doubled in population dudish and more inclined for intelligent con
8o when sale day came, and I happened to be sheds. The cotton did not excite so much and is thriving in ever}’ way. As for Fol- versation, but they bad not learned well their
over at the country town, I dropped into the I astonishment, but the rosin! Snch an amount janibe himself, he is very quiet for a man w part. They had not yet acquired proficiency
court house where the sheriff was to sell. I of it! Some one had the curiosity to nose immensely rich. Beyond a year’s visit to in concealing their brains and in appearing
found only a half dozen persons, and one of i around and count the number of barrels piled Europe, and two or three months’ travel indolently indifferent to things in general, al
these was Foljambe and another was Phipps, in one of the long and high sheds. Ten thou every year to some part of the country, be though some of them had mastered the drawl
sand of them! And there wero five more such
who held the mortgage.
stays principally on the Foljambe place, and the eye glass to perfection.
But why do people imitate the Britisher at
The sbei iff, taking that every one knew the sheds, and jammed fuJL Sixty thousand where ho has enlarged the old mansion and
place, which had been w ith the ppabodys for barrels of rosin! And no end of cotton bales! devotes himself to bis family. Rebecca Fol all? The Jape are popularly understood to
over 100 years, asked for a bid. The amount What would he do with it? What could he jambe is ns handsome, I think, as ever, though regard America with more favor than any
other country. As they will imitate some
against the property, including the legal do with it?
The only partisan he bad, as I have said, more plump than she used to l>e. They ap- western state of society, why don’t they aff««t
costs, was $3,3<S4. Phipps put that in as a
r'ar
to
be
as
fond
of
each
other
as
ever,
and
the purely American? The renron is not
bid, but remark«! that he didn’t want it at was myself, and I picked up a dozen quarrels
dare say that they are.
any pnee. and any one advancing on that about it. Some one asked old Peabody about it.
One day, when be dropped into the shop, 1 very far to seek. Through a ride door Mr.
“
Uncle
David,
is
Fool
Jim
gawn
to
set
up
might have it
happened to say something complimentary to Ruyematsu led tho way into one end ot the
ball room. Iloro about 100 couples were
“That leaves nothing for the widow,” ob- a cotton factory an’ a ship yard? Mebbe bis foresight. He laugher!.
he
’
ll
sen
’
bis
ships
down
by
the
railroad."
served Foljambe.
“Coffey," he said, “most of my wurmwes gracefully threading tho measures of waltz,
“
Sonny,"
said
David,
“
park
your
hrad
In
polka,
square and round dances—all Euro-
“Su[>pose you bid more, then, on her ac-
ice. James Foljambe knows more in one were unexpected. I had, it is ti ne, a suspi- |iean. Every Japanese lady on the floor was
count," said Phipps.
rion
amounting
almost
to
a
certainty
that
minute than you’re likely to know in a year."
“I shall," replied Fl jambe; “*3,500."
was a l>ed of iron ore on the Tealxxly dressed in fnil ball room costume. Only one
In the midst of this clamor came a bit of there
“Is that your bid, Mr. Foljambef inquired
farm,
but I bought it solely to give thè widow or two onlookers nt tho end of the room were
gossip not too pleasant. There was venom in
the sheriff.
a
lift,
for Nathan Peabody had petted me in nativo costume, and th«y looked lonesome
it. Bill Cowan, who was always nosing
“That is my bid, Mr.”
when
a
boy, and was always ready, poor fel and chagrined, as though painfully impressed
So the farm was knocked down to him. about, and kept bis eyes open and his tongue low, to leave his farm work to join me in with a sense of being behind the times.
When we were coming away Foljambe said busy, came into the shop one day to get a hunting, or fishing, or nutting, or anything Every native gentleman present was arrayed
plug of chewing toljacco.
to me:
The fact that I w » m almost certain, in tho conventional swallowtails. A dozen
“Tell you what. Oalchieze," he said, ad else.
“Coffey, you go past the Peabody farm on
however,
made me divide the profits with or do foreign ladies and gentlemen were pre
your way home. I wish you'd stop and tell dressing my partner, “I guess they’ll call Fool ’ the widow as a matter of equity. 1 never sent, dancing among the gay throng, with no
Mrs. Peabody that the place has brought Jim, ‘villain Jim,’ afore long."
suspected Uncle David*» wealth; but the cot distinction save their own personality. Some
“What do you moan, you scampf* I de ton and rosin purchase wfj a matter of cal of tho foreign gentleman were six fe*t tall or
over *l,J?00 more than the debt, and *he must
take out letters of a/iministration. And tell manded angrily.
culation, particularly the rosin. It was then more. Tho Japanese Indies averaged pro
“Scamp your*e|f, an* see how you like it," i drug in the market. It had accumulated in ljstly four feet eight. They looked like mere
her for me not to think of moving. Si e can
be
retorted.
“
Whatdo
I
mean?
Hl
tell
you,
have the bouse and the carden iron nd It free
large bills wherever they made turpentine. children, and tlieir tall portners had to bardie
of rent. Sne’s a shifty woman, and with that nn* I ain’t afraid to. I was erossin* by ; It could l*e bad almost for the taking away. them nlmot like dolls when waltzing. It
Widow
Peabody
’
s
last
night,
and
what
does
■
«tart she’ll g*t along."
I knew that war would come, bui I never was Gulliver and the Liliputians.
Every foreigner present is English, except
I folt that Foljambe’» conduct was through I see but Jim Foljambe with his arm around | dreamed that rosin would go beyond |5 or
an impulse of generosity which be cou.d well Becky Pealxxiy’s waist, an’ she a-lean in’ up *6. I buiit the sh*ds at Brantford, because ono, and he is a Russian. W uere are the
afford. But the general verdict was that he to him like a sick kitten to a hot brick. ‘ that wri cheaper than storing it in New American diplomats? Why arc they not
bore? For the simple reason that the Ameri
was a fool. Had he bid a hundred over Stands to reason he’s foolin’ the girl. E vary York, and that’s all the foresight I had.”
Phipps, nr even two hundred, it might have l»ndy knows he’s sweet on Miss Elton, an*
“You must have made a good thing out of can diplomat, properly speaking, does not
pa«sed, tmt tn throw away—absolutely throw she’s got dollars to Reky Peabody’s dimes. it, anyhow,” I rejoined. “It is not my busi exist in Japan or any other country.
The American representatives abroad, ebb
away—*1.2fiO! When ti>ey beard afterward You don’t suppose Foljambe means anything ness, and I don’t ask, but you must have
ing and flowing on the tide of presidential
that lie had given the widow a life aetata in but foolin’ Becky, do you? That’s why br netted a good round sum.”
tiw bouse ami garden it waa generally agre«»d was so liberal with his money to the wxiiw.
“Oh, I don’t ini nd telling you," said be, “I elections, cannot afford to spend their time
that he should have a guardian over him to It's well enough for you to stan’ up for him. have figured it up. On the cotton and foein in cultivating the good graces of the natives.
an* we know why, but fax is fax."
save bis property.
together, 1 netted just *3,700,010. But ! Before they have made a gcod beginning
A ih I off went Cowan, with hie Vbareo. In am not so rich as David P«*sbody by some they find themselves included in the category
Talk died out, bnwavtr, to be revivad agali
triumph. Il did not stop there. The new» million»
by another astounding act of folly.
T hew as Duns English U The of “rascals to be ’turned out.’"—TbomM
bteTsna in New York WoikL
The E jioouü » Uoh
<Wik_£rotr spread^a’id a ^>a>r» of virtuoue Udijpatfor
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Beautiful Women in Wall Street.
Curiously enough, it is in Wall street that
one is eertaiu to see the most stylish und
beuutiful womeu who are now to be met with
in the streets. They drive down the four
streets that inclose the brokers’ offices and the
Stock Exchange in delightful little victorias,
lolling ou the cushions as lightly as if their
bodies were really the mere clouds of gauze
that their drapery makes them seem like. A
liveried man drives each wagon and a gaudy
parasol shielda^each haughty beauty. Always,
as each lightly balanced victoria approaches
Trinity church, at the head of Wall street,
the teams are reined up until their pace is the
very next thing to a standstill, and one sees
the brokers lifting their bats on either side of
the street. Here and there a victoria is seen
to stop as a young speculator in white flannels
stejw into the street to greet the fair lounger
on the cushions. Yet you cannot help but
notice thut such sights are infrequent and ex
cite a great deal of comment from the on
lookers, just as you also are sure to noth?«
that most of the polite men who lift their bats
do so very hurriedly, with apparent awkward
ness ami without looking fairly at tho car
riages. Their manner is exactly what you
would look for in a man who expects to be
guyed for his behavior if the people around,
him chanced to see what he was at.
The truth is that those who bow to these
daily apparitions of lieauty are very awk
wardly placed, for “the street” is greatly dis
turbed over the victorias, and their occupants
know it so well that many do not halt until
they are at least a couple of blocks away,
where the more timid brokers, having seen
the slow moving carriages pass their doors,
have gone hastily, by back alleys aud short
cuts, to meet them out of sight from Wall
street For these women are adventuresses
roiuing down to speculate with their lightly
gotten incomes, ami their daily presence in
such great nunil^i-s as now come there has
scandalized t he mo-e circumspect operators
on ’Change.—Julian Ralph’s Letter.
An Engineer on Steam Whlstlen.
“There is something almost human about a
steam whistle,”said a will known engineer to
a reporter. “When you cross the river to
night pay particular attention to their various
sounds, ami see if I’m not right. You will hear
the *look-out-for-me-I’m a-big fellow’ whistle
of the steamers that run up the sound, and
tho little steam launch, hugging the «lock as it
dances over the water, will give answer in its
‘don’t-forget-me-I’ni-a-sti'anier-too* style. As
you ride in the cars on a rainy day the loco
motive whistle seems to say, ’I’m sorry it
rains!’ The short, sharp screech indicates
clearly that something is wrong ahead.
Whistles that announce low or high water in
the boiler have a threatening sound that
makes the engineer jump to his feet. Steam
whistles at times sound mournful ami at
other times gay. You can hear angry whis
tles and good Matured whistles. To the un-»
employed meebanio the 7 o’clock whistle in
the factory has a despondent wail, and the
thrifty workman lays aside his tools with a
light heart when 12 (»’clock blows. The sound
of many steam whistles adds greatly to the
effect of a public demonstration or celebra
tion. The ooarse whistle, with afrogin lta
throat, can lie heard onco in a while; am! tho
jolly whistle, which seems to say, ‘I’m as
happy as a clam!’ is ever with us. A disabb d
boiler gets sympathy from its whistle, and a
cracked whistle tells you to use it gently, for
it isn’t strong. I have made a study of steam
whistles, and—ami, well I tell you they’re al
most human."—“R. W. S." in The Safety
Valve.
J
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A New In.trumnnt for Ocnll.ti.
Dr. Georgo Bull, of New York, baa ma.l.
an optometer, which enables an oculist to
tell what kind of glassea are required for far
sighted. The instrument has i>een presented
to the French Academy of Medicine by Dr.
Javal, of Paris. It 1ms met with conaiderabl.
favor ami will 1»extensively used. Tho sub
ject is compelled to look through a small leua
ami a|»erture, and from this leads a graduated
scale, on which flgnrea are marked. When
the instrument Is held before the eye«, the
figures appear elongated and irregular, but
oil lrx.king through the aperture, with tha
optometer bald as ono would hold a telescope,
they resolve themselves into «mall .lommoes.
These dominoes are placed in such a manner
that tbo farthest one seen indicates the de
gree of far or near sightedness. The number
of dominoes seen indicates tho focusing
power of the eye Examined. Tliero is a curi
ous feature about the optometer, and that is
that the age of a subject can bo told by tha
numier of dominoes seen. As age advances,
tho focusing power of the eye diminishes
Tho lalmratory of Sorbonne lias taken bold of
Dr. Bull’s instrument, ami appropriated •
largo sum of money to perfect it.—Demorest’s
Monthly.
lie Wanted a Change.
Mi. Frank R. Stockton at onetime suffered
much pain in hi» eyes and was forbidden to
read. The first day that the doctor grant«!
him half an hour with a hook his friends were
curious to know what book lie would select.
“Give me some ail vertlseinente,’’ lie demanded;
and explained, as a shout was raised: “Yes, I
am pining for advertisements. My wife has
reaiI everything else aloud to me; but I hadn’t
tho heart to ask her to read advei tisements.”
For severnl days he devoted the whole of that
precious hslf hour to advertisements.—The
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DYSPEPSIA
Up to a fcw weeks ago T considered
myself the champion Dyspeptic of
America. During the years that I
have been afflicted I have tried
almost everything claimed to b. a
specific Ibr Iiyspejmia in the hope of
finding something that would afford
permanent relict I had about made
np my mind to abandon all medl-
•Ines when I noticed an endorsement
of Nimmons Diver IU-*tilator by a
rromtnent Georgian, s Jurist whom
knew, and concluded to try Its
effects In my case. I bave need but
two battles, and am satisfied that I
bave struck the right thing at last.
1 felt Its beneficial effect« almoat im
mediately. Unlike all other prepara
tions of a similar kind, no special
Instructions are required as to what
one shall or shall not eat. Thia fact
alone ought an commend 1* to all
troubled with Dyspepsia.
J. N. HOLMTB,
Vineland. N. J.
CONSTIPATION
To <te«nre » Re<nlar Habai of B mijt
wlthnat rhan<inf tha Diet er Dle-
or*anlsln< the Aysteaie take
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