THE TELEPHONE-REGISTER
Mrs. General Custer.
THE COMING WAK.
Polite and Untruthful.
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I occasionally meet on the street, J Belgium to Be the Battle-Ground
It is possible that there is such a
of France and Germany.
thing as being too polite; at least,
6, 1890 writes a correspondent to the De­
troit Free Pre»». Mrs. Custer, wife of The Brussels correspondents of one may err in the direction of a j
that great cavalry leader, who has 1 the Paris Matin has just had an in­ too obsequious courtesy. It is said '
Drift of Population to Cities.
often been called the Marion of the i teresting interview with Major H. that a royal personage once asked a !
civil
war. She spends most of her Girard,
i
the officer of the engineer courtier what time it was, and the
There are 350 cities in the Unit­
time
in
New
Y
’
ork.
earning
her
i
corps in the Belgian army who re­ man replied with a low reverence '
ed States, great and small, and by
i
the estimate about 16,000.000 peo­ living by writing for the newspa- cently
resigned his commission in and with bated breath:
i
to be free to write his some­
“Whatever time your Majesty
ple are living in these cities, or pers. I recall her when she was a order
something more than one-fourth the beautiful young girl, known to what startling pamphlet, La Bel­ pleases.”
.
et al Guerre Proehaine.
Doubtless the King would have
population of the entire country. every one as Libby Bacon. She gique
“The collision between France been better pleased with a less flat­
The proportion of urban population was the daughter of Judge Bacon,
.
Germany,” said lie, “may be tering and jnore definite answer.
is constantly increasing. There of Monroe, Mich., and long before ■ and
she
was
of
age
was
one
of
the
most
:
retarded, but it is none the less in­ There is a tradition in a certain :
•re various causes for this centra­
i
The possibility7 of a house that one of its guests was so
lization in cities. In the first place, popular girls in the Wolverine evitable.
the number of occupations has state. The name of Custer is still peaceful retrocession of Alsace- polite that none of her preferences
greatly increased of late years. reverred by the old soldiers, especi­ Lorraine by Germany is too absurd could be ascertained, and the fol­
lowing incident is always quoted in
Half a century ago nearly all the ally those who live in Michigan, for discussion.”
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After stating that the interest of illustration of her phenomenal cour­
manufacturing was done in the j where he is looked upon as the real
country. Water-power was thought' hero of the late war. Mrs. Custer Belgium in the present situation tesy:
to be an indispensable condition for is almost as much admired as her was too become the ally of which­ “Now. Kitty, said her hostess
economical work. The cotton-mill illustrious husband was. After she ever one of the belligerents would one morning, “we can either ride or
was on the banks of a river or married the General she was nearly offer the best terms, he declared drive this morning, which would
brook. The paper-mill sought the always bj’ his side. For two years that the Belgian fortresses were you prefer?”
“Thank you : that will be charm­
same advantages. Villages and she virtually sat in Washington worthless, and that the intrenched
even flourishing towns were built with her valise in hand, waiting to camp at Antwerp could not hold ing,” was the non-committal reply,
up because there was an available go to the front. She was always out for forty-eight hours. “The and, as her hostess afterwards de­
water-power. Lowell established tfie first woman in camp after a first cannon shot will be sufficient clared, “wild horses could not havel,
its great cotton-mills on the banks battle, and would have been de­ to dispel all the illusions of the drawn from her a further avowal.” |
Such careful courtesy is often j
of the Merrimac river. Hundreds lighted to follow her gallant hus­ Belgian people. It is well known
of small manufactories were on the band in his impetuous onsets upon that our army, deprived as it is of exceedingly amusing, and when j
banks of small streams. They are the enemy. She never seemed to the indispensable elements for rap­ used by’ an Irishman one can fancy i
there to-day. But the water-power know what fear was, and many id mobilization, could not lie ready that it would be provocative of
for nearly all the great mills has times put herself in great peril. to fight until long after the country smiles. An Irish sailor once called
been superseded by steam. The She was in Richmond two days be­ could be invaded, occupied and the captain of his vessel from a cof­
new mills in many instances are fore her husband reached there, traversed. Our resisting force con­ fee-house with the flattering state­
not at all dependent upon water as and almost before the guns ceased sists, at the maximum, of 120,000 ment :
“An’t plaze yer Honor, the tide
a motor. The cotton-mill, for in­ to reverberate about the Confeder­ men, including the militia. To
stance, must be warmed by steam ate capital. Just after the surren­ hold Antwerp with the develop­ is waiting for ye!”
Surely’ the Captain might have I
in order to get the best results. der, when her husband came up ment given to the fortifications of
These great mills will maintain from Nottaway Courthouse to take that place, we will need at least thought himself more than the'
their sites on the banks of streams her to headquarters, he remarked 80,000 men, without counting the equal of King Canute, whq found
The distribution of
where water was once the main de­ “that it looked prettv bad for a garrisons needed at Liege, Nemur by actual experiment, that he was
the premiums offered
pendence for power. But small General to be beaten into Richmond and other places. What then unequal to control the sea.
will take place on the
manufacturing interests drift to the by his wife after he had been trying would remain for us to offer battle
Perhaps the advice of a certain ; Fourth of July. 1890.
city, because steam and water are for four years to get there first.”
with at any given point? And will dear old lady applies to etiquette as j in this city. This
Of course, Custer, like all other we even be able to dispose of that well as to other affairs of life.
comparatively cheap, and the
gives the lucky sub­
market is there. Every large es­ soldiers, died poor, and his wife 120,000 men? That is very doubt­ ‘Speak the truth always,” she was , scriber time enough
tablishment in the country has and family are practically without ful ; for at the moment of the dec­ wont to say, “but speak it gently.” j to use his binder dur­
either a warehouse or an agency in resources, except the pitiful pension laration of war, which will be
ing the coming har­
Tlie Gloves Dirt It.
New York, Boston, or some other of $50 a month that the govern­ sprung upon us in short order, how
vest.
large city. The principal sales arc ment has granted. Mrs. Custer will our militia men have time or
Two well-dressed and respectable
made there. The raw material is has a great many relics of the war, possibility to rejoin their corps be­ men called upon the proprietor of a
bought there. The banking busi­ left by her husband and given to fore being captured by the invad­ gymnasium the other day’ and one !
ness is largely done there. But not her by different officers of the army. ers?”
of them remarked:
Only has steam increased the num­ Besides possessing the first flag of
“Wc have a dispute. \Vc think !
“But,” remarked the correspond­
ber of occupations in the city, but truce the Confederates brought into ent, “could not France and . Ger­ the best way to settle it is with the
electricity has been introduced and the Union lines, she has the flag of many come to blows without the gloves. Can we engage your room !
is working wonders. Both steam truce carried by her husband into necessity of fixing on Belgium for for half an hour?”
and electricity are sold as regularly the Confederate lines. She also their battle-ground?”
“You can.”
in the city as are drygoods and has much valuable data about the
“And 1 want to see fair play,”
“It is impossible.” replied Major
provisions. If there were not in­ cavalry arm of our service that lias Girard, “that the military chiefs of said the second. “I’m going to
creased means of living in cities, never yet been given to the public. both countries have not fully stud­ give that man the worst licking he
population would not drift there in It is really a pity that a fair his­ ied the matter; and, from a strat- ever got.”
such great numbers, People must tory of this branch of the service getic point of view, either of the
“And if I don’t punch your head
earn the means of subsistence, has not yet been written, or serious­ belligerents that should neglect to off then 1 hoped to be called a
There are thousands of operatives ly contemplated. 1 was pleased to ' take possession of the whole or a woman!” replied the other.
earning a living in cities where learn that she is getting a good in­ part of Belgian territory’ must com­ They were sent to separate
hundreds of the same class could come from her books and other promise by that omission the result rooms to prepare, the gloves were
not a quarter of a century ago. writings.
of ulterior operations. My profound made ready, and, after considerable
Steam and electricity have greatly
Execution in China.
conviction is that the concentration hesitation on the part of both, they
enlarged the industrial field.
[
In other countries the criminal of the French and German armies were brought face to face with the
Another reason for this strong knows beforehand the day of his . will l>e effected on German terri- gloves on. They stood for a min­
drift toward cities is that in most death,-and has time to prepare for . tory. For that concentration the ute or two, and one finally made a
instances the educational advan­ his fate. But in China all is differ­ . Germans have five lines of railway, move and slipped. The other one
tages are better, or at ¡east are ent. Had the Hebrew prophets i capable of throwing in ten days jumped clean out of the ring at
thought to be better in the town lived in that country, they would 500,OCX) men between Aerschot and this, and the first no sooner recov­
than in the country. Parents seek certainly have chosen an execution ! Huy, at the rate of 10,000 a day for ered himself than he jumped clean
good schools for their children.
as the emblem of sudden destruc­ . each line. Twenty-four hours after out of the ring.
The real advantages over the coun­ tion. At Pekin the vermilion pen- . declaration of war, which will prob­ The gymnasium man tried to!
try may be overestimated. But
j cil marks the death warrant, which ably’ be in the evening, the German coax them back, but they would’nt
the ungraded school in the country is immediately handed to a courier, cavalry will be able to occupy Has­ have it that way, but got together,
Farmers take ad­
which is hardly open more than
I who instantly mounts a horse and sell, Saint-Trond, Tirelemont, Mac- shook hands, and the first said:
vantage
of this
.half the year does not meet all the
I rides off’ to his destination. The strecht, etc. The French concen­ “Jim, 1 apologize for calling you chance to secure the
educational needs. The result is
i posts supply fresh horses, and he tration can be effected in the same a liar.”
that those cities which have the j goes onward, sleeping and eating in lapse of time on the line between
“And I apologize for calling you best paper in the
county and a McCor­
best schools are constantly making ! his saddle, never halting by day or Alost and Maubeuge, and also a thief,” added the second.
Deering
large drafts on the population of night, in sunshine or rain. After twenty-four hours after the declara­
And they went out together to be mick or
Binder.
The
lucky
the country. Young men who have
i riding 700 miles he reaches Soo- tion of war the French cavalry can friends forever.
person
can
have
his
---------------- -------------------------
no taste for rural pursuits will al­
Chow and delivers the warrant to occupy Alost, Termonde, Ath, etc.
choice.
If
he
wants
ways prefer the town to the coun­
Ismail
Pasha.
the governor. Three messengers You sec, then, that except the mili­
the McCormick bind­
try. It has always been so. It
i arc immediately dispatched, one to tia of Malines and Brussels all the
One
of
the
most
remarkable
facts
er complete, it is his
doesnot materially change the as­ 1 the district magistrate who presides rest in the whole region between
of
contemporary
history
’
is
the
curi
­
to
hitch his horses to
pect of the case that many of them at the execution and who repairs at the Meuse ami the Escaut will be
ous
manner
in
which
Ismail
Pasha
and
take home.
make a mistake. There are always
! once to the place, a second to the unable to move. Ina word, after a has been quickly permitted to drop
enough instances of success to in-, i camp.for an escort, and the third to careful study I have become con­
spire the hope that what has been ! the jail. The victims are bound, vinced that Belgium is completely out of sight and memory. Most
! people imagine that the ex-Khedive ;
accomplished bv the few will lx- ac-!
dragged before the image of the at the mercy of coming events.’’— i is dead, so little curiosity’ is evinced
complished by the many. Cities
j Lord of Hades, which is in the pri­ New York Su.i.
I as to the whereabouts of a man to
are constantly drawing upon the I
son, and pay their respects. They
whom the Turkish government has
British
Investments.
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best population of the country. The | ■ are then placed in cages, carried on
granted
the enormous sum of £1,-
men who have furnished the most I coolies’ backs and at a rough trot
Under the heading “British < 'on-
000.000
per
annum, A few years
conspicuous examples of success, i the cortege sets out for the execu­ quest of America.’’ Armory B.
ago
Ismail
Pasha
was perpetually
according to the published biogra­
tion grounds. The nerve and blade Lydston, of London, describes the to the front, now in Paris, at the
phies, were once country boys. The of one executioneer is never trusted difference
between
forwarding
instances of failure from the same in Soo-Chow to take off more than schemes in this country and Eng­ Grand hotel, or at Vichy drinking I
source are rarely noted. But there three or four heads. If there is a land. “It is hard.” he says, “for the water. He passed the winter
is good ground for the theory that i greater number of criminals assist- one who has never lived in Eng­ in the greatest magnificence at
the cities are depleting the country.1 j ants are employed. There arc gen- land to understand how difficult it Rome or Naples and the summer!
Population is continually drawn toI ! erally from 50 to 100 executions is to carry’ forward schemes or pro­ season at various fashionable water­
centers where there are supposed to per annum in Soo-Chow, where all jects in that country. The law ing places, of which Homburg and
be the greatest advantages. But j ! the criminals of the province of Ki­ places all sorts of obstructions up­ Vichy were the favorites. Ismail
there are outgoing currents as well. ang-Soo. with a population of 21,- on all money transactions which is now living a prisoner in one of
Thousands who have tried life in 000,000 are executed. They are are in any degree out of the ordin­ the most splendid palaces on the
cities have gone to the country and mostly pirates.— North China Her­ ary buy and sell. You have to pay Bosporous. Tie enjoys his revenues i
and every luxury money can pro-1
are better satisfied with the latter, ald.
I the government a big fee before you
cure,
but with the outer world he
by reason of that urban experience.
can float the stock of a foreign
may
’
not.
and, what is more, hecan-
Two
young
and
pretty
women
Three-fourths of the entire popula-'
country on the London market. In!
entered
a
Broadway,
New
York,
!
not
communicate.
If he were buried
tion of the country are outside of
the case of the Minneapolis mill !
the limits of incorporated cities. It car, each carrying in her arms a deal, the company had to pay out1 in a vault or dungeon his seclusion
is a rural population, rather than! little parcel in the most tenderly $600,000 in fees of various sorts ! could not be greater; for beyond the
an urban one. It is not at alien-! and motherly fashion. So solici- before the stock was sold. '__ | ladies of his harem and his atten-
gaged in agriculture. But as long wcrc they over their respective par­ conservative London capitalist is I dents, the ex-Khedive sees or hears
as there are vast areas to be occu­ cels that a lullaby seemed almost! content with less than 3 per cent i no human face or voice. One day
pied, mines to be opened, rivers to bursting from their lips. They interest. He will not invest in any’ j he will be found dead, and be sure
be navigated, forests and quarries I were not nurse girls, so they must company which is advertised to pay | there will be no inquest.
to be converted into building ma­ be mothers, although it was appar­ over 6 per cent. A London bank
Barber—“Your hair is sadly in J
terial and dwellings erected, roads i ent that they were young mothers will not pay interest on deposits,
need
of a shampoo, sir.” Tailor, |
and bridges to lie constructed, i and very handsome ones withal, j however large. Under these cir­
(in
the
chair)—“Yes. and your i
Half
a
dozen
men
jumped
up
to
of
­
there is no danger that cities will!
cumstances the progressive busi­
clothes
are
decidedly seedy, but 11
fer
them
scats.
The
girls
giggled
i
absorb the life of the whole coun­
ness man must look outside of
don
’
t
nag
you
about it.’’
as
they
sat
down
—
and
no
wonder,
;
try.—■'•on Franc ¡»co Bulletin.
England for profitable investments.
for the bundles they carried in such; Formerly, his first thought was of
“Customer—“I sav, Uncle, how
Customer—“Eggs forty cents a a motherly fashion had been deftly i the colonics, but now he turns to
long
have you had these new-laid
dozen! That’s awful dear.” Gro­ improvised under a sudden inspira­ America.’’
eggs
in
stock?’’ Rastus—“I dunno
♦ •
cer—“Awful dear! Humph! I’d tion to represent babies. There
ezaetlv.
Boss, You see. I’g only
like to see you lay eggs at forty was little of them except a crook of Since her recent attack of sciatica
been
wu
’
kin
’ heah a month.”
the
arm
and
a
lace
handkerchief
to!
Queen
Victoria
has
been
obliged
to
cents a dozen.”
cover a suppositious babe, but' give up wine for whisky and water.
enough to deceive a poor, trustful.
Forepaugh said as he was about I man. The giggle was general, for! It is an interesting fact that she Children Cry for
departing: “Please notice that I’ll the girls had obtained seats on a; drinks Irish whisky in preference
to Scotch.
get there ahead of P. T. Barnum.’’ new and original plan.
Pitcher’s Castoria.
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