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About Nebraska Staats-Anzeiger. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1880-1901 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1897)
1 LIYES WELL ONA SMALL SUM One WorkW Girl Eoives a Veilog Hoase hold Problem. O0ST8 HER $2 A 'A'EEK TO LIVE Jia N I r :mi In ,,, Coflh, Poes Hir (Iwu IlouMKc-epluir, und l'io-qui-ntly Eutvi'UiIua Her Frluda. 1rt who tmyi it im ine IndlvIJual meihoJs whlch nouSJ not mijwal ux-lher. üut ca ;-a glrl will hav. Und thee out lor hcruolf, "AI preaent. my frien.l and myself are geitln three raeal a day. wUh every- ilt, 1 hspe, gree !iü du- that not only ttoe atrao-pnere but rtrry ntinuu-st atmn in Um? mttnral o;.d I gov. rned by Li-r that (Jod doe not chuhRe afier He hai onee JUbl.hcd them. And yet veo tho evtivletlon t.ught nö; to lead u ta fatal ini. Man' , , um uprt-me; he u the archltcrt of bis own fort um; it i für hin to eunquer na.ure and turn her .Min I hl c-wn auvanuge. Min w.l! The hundreu of enreer- ; r, as well a the ihousand who have dlscovcred that there I no such, thltig In störe for them. m.iy be gial of u frw Sin from a orking glrl who came to New York sour year ago wlth not hing i depend upon except tiie ten dolhira a weck reh.el, was dignilted by ihe lume er "aali.ry." Tille young iroroan'a experlence hua been ,1t varied and the facta whioii ah ha gatherod with rcfer.-nce to ii-ap llvlng In a large clty apply Just as well as to Ilse In other eitle aa . that In which he rastded. "I have trl'd all varietle-i of llvlng slnce ''K1"- ereiln, wlth buttered toaat If I wnntel li, for my breakfaat nex! moinin. Tue 9-ct-nt parkage of oat raeal laitte I füll' a tnonth. at nlch ra.e U amutin eJ to baut one-thtrd of a cent per dar, an amount burdly w.,rih reckonina tn the " orwaaiaai. i arran..,, wit! a ; ,!,! we ..nt f,r ai-h i..r week. The ilalryman, who kept a rream and bun er , ,wo furniahed rooma caat us U. but w tor. a fsw block uway. to bring as i re olng- to try to furnUh thrt rooma eenta' worih of reun every mornlns. thut Winter which ar. , hi.i. 7 i. Z V crat-r. anu nwnea tor Wi a eek, Our pre.tnt er- alwan prav for .hat he mo: wann, and "'7 th J!? '" drad-a Sent , penaea for board and lodajla. ineludlng prayer wUl quicken hla aeiuea an.l lif. whl.h laated three daya. and M-rved i ea, and liw ... i.,. ,, to. , , airn!. ,.. fc .. . ..... ..... both of us, and 1 wager that noHody In et of Ood, but -t will gukken tu to per- York et a more wnoieaome table 1 eelve the opportunitles. by whloh we are i.n in w. ; .um Wh, ,, opi-e furnlsh our a.w.iy urrounded. t-roperly ln:erprf'l une we Kiiaü noi , nvy .inderbd; or a Oouli hl mültons or hla sin liouaea. Just try it for one month. and you will find baehflor houek ning that my experl enca haa proved li to he." VNN1K L.AURIK WOODS. 9Äod,)H & very w, II for loaat on the thlrd day. A half jwund of but ter laste-l a wek. ao that the cost per day way iaa than 2 eent Addlng up. th eot ot rream, B eent. br;i l IV, crn;a anJ hinter a eent and a half, and oat m a! a, of i -thlrd of eint. ine ;rcc of niy bn-akfaat was ab.vit (i 1-3 " at, I aoon fod t,,at I e uld muke my Itin -hcon upon hat waa lest fron, breik-sa-t by addlng a few cnta worth of egs. canm-d pea, frult, tea, or whatever I happencd to want. but my bin heon rare, , ! averaged tnorc than ' centa. "1 have tried thla wav of Ivlng a.'m-e , last January and I hav, found lt en ploaa- nnt ano bo eeonoml ?al that uofhlng wo i!d Induce ine lo put myself st the lueriy of a hn.trding hou.se I .ndlady agaln. "llere ia it Hat of thinga whieh 1 hav found I eould take rare of In my room. or by settlng tlum on the outer Window f Srrile II) trie fursery. I niTe lo New York," saya thls young womun. "I waa told hon I arrlved that It wouid he eheaper to llvo in Brook. yn; that all the mi n Wtlh f imille dld thelr leeplng In the clty bejond the brldge on that aecount. I thought lt btut. at Hrat, miTily to gt a room and not to engage Vannel peaa at !" eent. eanrted beana at 7 centa, apples ut varylng prlces, for apple sauee; potatoes, white and sweet, at low prlee. varylng front 6 centa a quart upwards; egg, the very best, varylng from r: to 28 centis a dozen: ootfoe at 17 ernte a haif-pound; tea at 25 centa a büjrd, as my work waa in New Vork and P'arter pound: augar at front ä to 7 centa I knew noiblng of my lioura. I ootalned room for J2.S0 per wepk, and soon en paged regulär board for ZI, making $6 50. I happened to be so ltuated that 1 could walk most of the dlstance to nnd from my bualneas, and my rar fare coats only DU Cents a weck. My lalindry was also hout ' 50 eent?, making J7.5Ü for unavoldable ex-pc-nsee. "I aftfrwarda found, however. that I oould get both board and Iollg for $j i bonanxa whlch I dlscovered akter my rals of aalary to JI5 and I moved to u regul är bo.irdlng house. Her, I met a very agreeahle young lady, an art Student, and we dwelt togethar In the aame room in one boardmg houae or another for two yeara All thls tlme I was gettlng board and lodglng oftenafbly for (ö a weck, but butter at 12 rents a half pound. Lettu and cueumbe-rs In aeason make nice Eilads wlth vlnegar and o'.l dreaalng, which every gltl shold learn to make. "I fashloned a fort of amaleur refrlger ator from u siiuare tln box by making i partltlon of the thln wood hinter boxes, in whb h my bnttcr camo from the grocer. and lilling the compartment all around wlth sawdust, whlch I kept constantiy mowtencd, 1'hls kept my butter moder ately hard. I very soon poolcd iaauea wlth my ext dxr nelghbor, and found that by buylng thinga on shares wo lessened the waate of food and hence the expenae, and that in Ihis way we could obtala a muclt greatcr varlety than by buying separate ly. "We very frequently bought lamb chopü, 4t ,i s.! c l Ar W ' iM mA ä-H ej-! ' I üve ju.it acroaa the road from the Itel!, and though my houae ia ever ao mticti blgger and nlcer than thelra I go Dver there to ilay. lot and Iota of titm-a. My name 1s Marjor, and Elsie Bell calls me her couain when wo arc good fnenda. Then when shf geta mad alle tajls m wt Majotum' and ays I would be good in soup. New. Isn't that niean? "We do have heapa of fun together. for th, r are so many cblldren In their famlly tha: my mamma calla then, a chimeef bell and when they get coing or quarrelling on the lawn mamma ays, 'Dear me, how those bells are Jang.ing teday. They're all out of tune.' "We thrught that was very funny. ao I told Ma.-lan abzu: it. Sha never latighed one bit. You see Marlan I blgger than taa and ah li always calling Elale and me 'ilttle cblldren,' Las: win er Mrs. Bell took Berti and Marlan out of the nur 8cry, she gave them each a room to them selvea and slnce then. dear me, how st uik up Marlan has been. Elsie car, never make her listen when sho 1 in trouble and cmeUme poor E.."le has a heap to bear. "There are four chlldren lest in the ntirsery now, Elsie, Flossy, Harry and Allle. Elsie is !he blggoat and she tries awful hard to make the chlldren be good. LMSt month they got a new nurse. She was alwaya tylng her apron Ftrings and curllng her front halr. and poor Elsie bad to do lots for the chlldren. I know, Vause I htlped. Then they had a new cook and It was a dreadf j sha ms what bread sho sent to the nursery for supper, for Mrs. Bell only gives her chl'dren bread and milk for supper. 'Tlsn't very much, but Elsie says she ilon'n mind if lt's only gooa. "Well, the bread kept getting harder every nlght. Pirat Elsie prayed nlwut it UM it 09 secn, a Ilttle softer the next nlght, Then she complalncd to nnr.He und shasakl, Why, M'ss E'slo, I nev r though t you coum ue o Ulsugreeuble' When she compialned to Marlan she only turncd up nvi ose anu sam, tnat s llke chiidren always in troub"e.' "ElBie d dn't llke to go to her mamma, becaus Aunt Kille was vtatta ,,., and she gue?sed they didn't want to bo notnirei, so she up and lod Bertie. He Buiu: u acirus. y, u d he tcr strike "Well, It took Elsie two tlays to get up .ei -pe tu, buh icacn tnoso chlldren to maren procerly. In an even üne. At Inst o-e Icvely Sep e-nbr evening, whn mam ma Rnd Aunt Ellie wer rhütting qulatty toge'her. In wa k d four il tle whlt night gowned flgures. Each held In stretchei out palm a rough sllce of stalo bread E!sle headed the line. She walked up to hör mamma, and handed her th bread saylng: 'We've eated thls bread for a ine ora of ihe weathtr bureau samu latea th higher and more philo-ophtral coiiu mpla.ion of the divine omni in.-. 9 n n m iii gm ' niii ri I 'üen jaimn ilLuiüii1''' I !, I I t"v' -; 1 ! I ex I w4 t fJi iH j KimSfrfr- L, V. 1 Hffi' Aj BACHELOR GIRLS HOUSEKEEl'ING- AT TWO DOLLARS A WEEK wlng to a change of locatlon my car fare was more than tiiree tlme as much ns formerly, my luncheons averaged 23 centa a day, and I very frequently bought my dlnner In New York for tha reason 'hat at the end of the day I was too mach tatlgued to take the loug trip to Brooklyn without eatlng something beforehand. "Moreover, I discovered that I was run ning down physieally from the strain of the long tripa to and from businesa every day. Men stand tiiis better than women. They are not usually so flnely sträng, Young women, however. no matter how brave and independent they may appear, do Inatinctively rebel nt the noise and Jostleof the lnevltabl crowd which makes Ilse almost uncndurable for the young Sirls whose occupations lead them over the same Course, and when poaslble I be lleve it is best to live witniti walklug dls tance of one's business. "Just for an experlment I took a Ilttle room on the top lloor of a very nice lodg Ing house on a qulet Street wlthin tlve minutes wallt from my business. The room cost $3 a weck, but I found that I could get board for Sä. making $8 In all, a sum which waa actually kss than I had been paylng for board, lodginff and the car fare, and extra luncheons made nejes sary by llvlng nt a dlstance; and I also saved the money formerly paid for dlnner when I waa detalned late In New York, because I was near enough to my board lng plnoe to go homo for my dinner and come hack. "1 had waited too long. however, and Oio inevitable slek apell cam, To be III In a lodglng house, a stranger, wlth no one to take care of you U a sorrowful Sit uation, the pathoa of wV.ich no one ap .irecUtes so thoroughly as the victim. It was an 111 wind which brought with It the ui-ual good, for It taucht me the usc Of a gas stove and a brtakfast in my own room. It was my nelghbor next door, who had the gas stove, and who prepared my breakfasts while I was 111; but the Brat day 1 was ablc to bo out, I lnveslcd In a kras stove, an oatrneal saucepan, and a cesfee pot. "My gas stove coat 25 centa. the luhlng for which waa 18 Cent, my oatmeal dlsh with Its cover took another quarter, and my coffee pot waa 30 eent, th whoi amounting to S8 Cents. I also pur'hased n alumlr.um tahle epoor. and a k'rfe for 10 cents each, whlch raisei my blll for cooking Utensils to Jl .18. Then. wlth a package of oat mcal at 9 cents, a half pound of the best coffcf at 1? cents, n pound of sugar at 7 cents, a S-cent loaf of brf.td wlth a half pound of butter at 12 cents and 5 centa' worth of ero.im. I wem to b, d huppy at the prospect of gettlng one decent cup of coffee wlth real crean, In it und a nlce dlah of oat mal and J whlch we oooked on a round, tin p!eplate, and took our dinners at home, though wo made no speclal point of doing so while, we remained in the small rooma. "We were so well pleased wlth thls niethed of dolng thinga that we have now rented two rooms, a large one and a small one, furnishlng the larger with a f .kling bed and make a sort of recept'.on room of lt. The small ruom. wo use for a kitchen, and we have purchased a large gas stove wlth two burners, upon whic.i we now prepare all our meals. "Of course, one has to make a speclal arrangernent to usc a room for cooking purpoae, 1 paid 25 cents a week for the use of gas for my small stove In the top floor room, and no ob.Iection was rnised againat preparlng breakfosts and lunch eons, hüt the landlord didn't exactly smile on the dinners. "Girls who are coming from hörne to work In any large clty would do well to bring a couple of dish towils, knife. snrk. e id apoons. cup. saucer, plate, small coffee pot and a small granite saucepan for oat meal. "The Fmall gas stove, which Is not more than six Wehes In dtam.'ter, can easily be bought in a largo depp.rtment störe or in a harslware estahlishment that make a speciaity of gas ranges, It will be found fully large enough for cooking breukfasts and luncheons. and as It. together with a six-soot sancy tublng, only coats 43 cents, as above stated, lt !s worth having In one's rcom for emergencles, to heat water In a hurry, or sorne such case, whether used for regulär cooking or not. The tublng can always be ftttcd over any gas Jet, though for EO cents one can hav nother flxture added at on sldo, so ns to have llght at the same tlme that the cooking is helng done. "In any case It cost very Ilttle to make the experlment, and I should advise any glrl In any large clty to try taking break fast, at least. In her own room. Takes too much tlme? Nonsense! My breakfnst cook whilo I m dresslng. Besldes lt keeps p one's knowledge of cooking, if nothing more, and the fun which a glrl will get from having Ilttle luncheons In her rooBi, aftcf she has begun to earn enough to warrant them, will repay her for ai. th trouble. It is pleasant to .ave th means to prepare a cup of eocoa for a frir-nd who drops in of an evening, and fer thls lt Is not a bad paln to keep a can of Condensed milk on band though In general I should rather reoommend fresa milk, If the wcather Is cool enough to ktca it. "Ast, r having tried ki plng house In thls delightful Independent, bachelor-glrl faahion, one soon makes dlscoverics of new r,xds, and new me.hodi of using the convenl nces at band. Doubtlcss every week, and we won't not eat such missa He stuff any more.' The procession bowco thelr curly tumbled beads ar.d laid th.Ir hard bie.id In thelr mamma's lap. "Mamma caugh; up two litt.e strikers. Aunt Elsie plcked up the other two, and Elsie told me they all had a lovely t:mo. Elsl 's mamma scolded the cook and or dered bot blseuits at ence.' They played games tili the biseuits came In ad but tery and crlsp; they wer ever so good, but Allle had to fall asleep and nearly choke hlmself with a bit of crust. "Wh n they went to the nursery they satd the Lord's prayer together, and El sie sighed big wh ?n they camc to the llne 'Give us thls day our dally bread,' She ;old me she was 'frald maybe th Lord wouldn't iike strikers, though It dld s era aa if that was th only way." ELVIRA FLOYD FROEMCKE. Montreal, Canada. BOiiKKT BKOM SISQ. A Gllupe ol the Toot Wlieu lle na Tn, , i i I ng. To reeet Robert Browning even for a nioment's greetlng would have been a plraauie, wrtu-s jas. W. .roiig, in tne IndepL-ndeni. bu: to tic hla trave.ing com l aiüon. to tviiv with bim by the hour, and hiar h m ulk of l,ls aoul'a ldal. K:..i bstl, Barrett lirownlng, in the tuosi in tense worda of an unrtving devotion, was an experienee never to be forgotten. In September. 187, 1 chancd to be on a steamer at Colico, near the north end of laku Tomo. where passengers commg by diligcnce over the Splug, n pass take the boat for mere souther.y poInts on elther s.de of that moat charming of all Italian iakea. Tha: day the sole pasac-n-gers by dibgtncc wer a gen.len.an and lady. who barely arrlved In Urne to take our lutle vetsel betöre she turned again sollthward. He was of inedium hin:. not alender. but broad-shouldered and muscular, an Eng.ishman manifcstly, but surcly not of the typlcal unsjclal and xclualv pattern but qukk in ober vatlon, energetie in movement, and ve hement In words. His dress waa like that of bui.neai man. a well-to-do ban ker or merchant, not ahowy. but in eood taste and, for a traveler, faultlessly neat. Hl halr and beavy. füll board were near ly whl.e and with such a tendency to curl as to be almost bushy. In appeaianc and bearing he was evldently a courteous and cuitured gcntleman, without the shghtest Suggestion of the poel. He was .vmin paie or pens.vc, nor aia nis ey nuve a dreamy, far-away look;" but be seemed a brlsk man of affairs, ready instantiy tor a heany dinner, a humor ous Story, a poiitic.il dlscusslon, or any proposl Ion of bus.ness which might be presented. Hl lady companion was quite an like htmself, appea.ing decldediy younger. rather sllght in form, very qulet In manner, gentl In speech, with soft brown halr, and ez es which seemed t see much more than her tongueexpre-sed Jter devotion to hin, waa unctasing, though undbtl uslve. There was Ilttle or no personal resembiance, yt she ap Pc red more Uka a aia. er than n whe. and It seemed quite natural that her uni form address should be "Brother," or Robert." QOO C o oco o-oo oc Telephone 270. öooooo-oooooo-oo ;-ooo o-o-oooo-rvo-o V "ijjy . m zmw.m.m.m VWtf v "VA WV VW SOUTH FLEVENTH ST. $ o 60000-0 c o co ao oo wrAfas-i Wo Ha? i Proccss of Lftanderiog; GOLORED 3HIRT3 AND 3HIRT WÄI3T3I That now enables us, for the first time, to Gaar&fitee not to futlo the most delieate colors. Clarkson I 6 1 1 TT -ii4j ULXX dry Co. DRANK DP THE COW. An Incldont In thu l.lleosa (Hldod Y'oiiiik Womun (Chicago Record.) One of the Mother Goose inetdents in the extiavagansa, "Jack and thu l.ean atalk," at the Columbia theatre Is the sale of Jjck's cow for a ha.sul of bean. Thls saie is no more extraordinary inuu one that is reportcd from a suburban re sort. Th mllilonaira't daughter was lest In Charge of th beauilful summer home, Imintdiately she lijvltcd all the brlsk young men of the, summer settlement to come and dine wlth her. The servants were directed to prepare an elaborate dinner, After the invltations were out the young womun found that she had no l.quid refreshmen.s to offer her guests. There was some tahle ciaret, to be sure, but her soul revolted at any thlng but Champagne Champagne hegin nlng with the lish and contlnulng until desert. Slie sent for a young man whom sho was pnvileged to address as "Ed" and tried to borrow enough money to pur chase the win. He threw up hls hands. "I was In a poker gamo last night." he sa.d. "I haven't enough money to buy a plnU" "Well, I must hav that Champagne!" "Can't you buy it on credlt?" "I could if I wer in town." "Haven't you anything at band that you can pawn or sei!?" "Why, I wouldn't pawn anything l have it! The cow! W 11 seil the cow. I know the butchcr want to buy her. You take her over tln re. und get all you can for her. Don't be afrald. l'll Hx it wah papa. ' A few minu'.cs later :i young man in butterlly ciothes was lead lag the cow away toward the bus.ness street of the town. 11 re turned in an hour wlth eight quart bottles of Champagne. The Com pany at dinner drank the cow. It Is hardly necessary to repeat what the gay young w.man's falber sald when he learned about lt. D'O'J PW BJOHN WALKER IIAKRINGION. The glrl iiad never been to Lake George before, and It was har.ll her fault that she I, reltievabiy injuied her social standitig before she had been at Horieon Ferry two nours. Orace Wrlght was an aciress who hai en tcred the theatrlcal professkm as a chorus glrl. Iie had now reached the rank of an ingenue in one of the popu lär tiieatres. Evtrybody at Hoilcon Ferry gocs to the landlng to inqulre for mail atnl to see what manner of people are golng up the lake. The morning and even ing steamer arrivala are tiie two Inci dentü of the day, and John Treadwell was as curlous as tht rest of the Ilttle colony which dwelt on Ihe jjuint of land which jurs out into tiie. uppor lake. He was holdlraj a flating, red parasol over the head of his riebest aunt, when he saw Grace Wright hastening over the gang-plank. Before he could bcat a itreat the glrl bad n,ldcd to hihi, and he was eompelled to aeknowledge her salutation wlth a perfunctory dlp of his hat. The next moment the glrl had given her baggage to a porter. thereby pro- V'Iaiming her inten tlon of beconiing a. guest ot ttonoon berry s one hotel. I did not know, sald Miss Jeminialy Pettlngill, slster o John Trea Iwell's mother, recently deceased, "that you had any acqualntance among the hotel people." 'Well," replled thr- young man, n, rv- ously twisting his mustaene, "a fellow who is a reporter on a New York ncivs paper, as T am, is bound to raset a few persons who are not eligible to the hamlet et at Horieon F, try." "I trtlSt, nephew, saicl Miss Lettin- gil!, "that you will remember that lt. is decidedly improper to mingle yout business and social acquaintances. She Is rather handsome, too. Has her mother with her. Evldently makis some pretenge to respectability." contrary. Si e bad money enough for two. Ho saw bis oppoitunlty au 1 availed hlmself of lt. They were en gagtd. Grace Wilght saw hlm once or twlce aftcr his rtae in tortur.e. lt was very easy for hlm to teil her that he could find na time lo eall upon her, for men who are under the beek and all of a t'ity edikor have Ilttle time when they may eall thelr own. She saw hlm for the flrst time In month at the landing at Horieon Ferry. The prlncipal oceupallon of the so called "aoclety" element at Hoilcon Landimr conaüted in making lif? uucn Ifurable to the majotity ot thos, who came there. There were three dlBtlOCt esiates tne hotel sei, the Justin et, and the Hamlet sei, Anybody who ha i iliher owned or rented a cottage for three yearr in Succession, was entitled to the rank of "Hamleteer." He had the rlght to snub anoody who camo wlthin slght of the Ilttle cluster of cot tages at the end of the point. There was also an overgrown country stirm house, not far from the Hamlet, kept by the venerable Mrs. Justin. A few, and only a few. of those who stopped at Justin's were reeogn'z- d by the Harn leteers. Those who stopped at the hotel were consideretl beneath social recog nition. They belongcd to a dass which Dever came to Horieon Ferry for more than one year. After the strickest sect of the Harn ):'tee.s was Miss Jemlmah Pettlngill, a cottager, lt was her iiride that in all the ten years she ha 1 b,en coming :o Lake George no hotel guest had ever darkened her threshho. I. Hy rlght of seniorlty, she was the social law giver of Horieon Ferry; and Grace Wright had not been at the hotel more than three days before he was ohliged to assert her authorlty. One of the Harn- leteers, who had once en the youn womun In a minor Sliakespearian r! WKATHKK PRBOICTIOWä. THE E1RST N UM 11 ER OF THE AT LANTIC MONTHLY. Ten of the fourteeu authors who made t prlncipal contrlbutions to the flrst iiumber of the Atlantic were Motlev, Longfellow, Charles Eliot Norton, Em erson, Holmes, Wbltlltr, Mrs. Stowe, J. T. Trowbrldge, Lowell. and Bark Ood win. Whittier and Lmcfeilow each con- tr.buted a poem, Lowell his sonnet "The Maple," the verses in "The orlgin of didaetie poerty" and editorial pages of prose Emerson gave, besides the essay "Illuslons, four short powms of whlch two were "Days" and "Brahma," Mrs. Stowe and Mr. Trowbrldge each contr buted a short story ; and, as If thls list were not sufslclent to make an editor of to-day envicus, there was the tirst Instal- ment of ' The Autocrat at the Break- fast-table," All the artlcle were un- slgned, and it Is no wonder that everv one asked hlmself and his nelghbor who the Autocrat mtfiht be wlth bis casy-go-Ing introduct.on, "I was just going to say when I was lnterrupted; for there could not have been or.e reader In a thou sand who recalled that in the extinet New Ejigtind magnzlnes tor 1831 nnd ls:!2. there were two papers of an Autocra: at th breaktast table by a young Student of medieln, and the wliimslcaiity of gotng on uflcr an Interruption of twenty-ftve years would hr.ve puf.stled even the know- Ing ones of a genera in whlch had not yet learned an autocrat's hahit of tbought. - . . ... . ..'r'" ' 1 - ' .. . tfjm --gmw . t (. . : lrU .' . . lt.- -- -. f .' 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Myer; lt was in the summer of 1871, and a severe drouth pre.alled In a certaln section of th country; prayers for rain were offered up In churche, but no lain eame; none was In slght on the weather m.ips, and there was no reason why I should prediet any at least so far as the regulär Operation of the lawa of naturc was concerncd: and so for several weelts th dally papers pubhshed side by side the prayers for rain and the ofllcial prediction of "no ra.n" until nnally the murniurs of serious gtumble were board, chnrglng the weather bureau with In Ncielity, sacrilege. materiaiism and athe Ism. li became a serious questlon whether it was not our duiy to omit en tlrely tha "no rain" prediction un.il we should be ab! lo announce that rain was coming. Of course, eventually, rain did come In connectlon wlth tho ordlnary movements of storms on tho northwest Pacific coast, and 1; was properiy pre dicted In the dally "probablliiies." Thls 11t .le Incldont Ia one of many that show how imeortant a place the weather bu reau has oecupied as an educator, The people, wlth very few exeeptions, hav long slumbered In the heiles that the weather is too complex u matter to be understood by man, and that It ia per fectly poaslble and proper for the Creator to oecasionally stlr thinga up contrary to the regulär Course of nature as estab lished by Hlm. But now that my feilow cltlzens have, on numberleas occasions. reaiized that we know something, though not yet all, about the atmosphere, they CRUiCLTY to aericans in AERICA. Tho current numebr of one of th well known magazines has a long nrticle about the cruelly of the whites In Asrica to As rleans. The race is indeed a dark one, but it has long been known that Caucas laus llvlng in the dark eontinent are not overly nice to the original oecupanu, There seems to bo only one way for the blaek to live at all alongsid the whites and that Ia to brlbe the officiala. In the Erench Congo whlte men offen go to the BatlV viilages. and tako all the goats, ducks nnd chickens, simply because cne man owes them a few Shillings. Some tlmcs even the villagos are hurned. A casc of thls kind was reported to the gov ernment. and Investlgatloa was made, The offender was taken to Gaboo and imprisoned. The chief Judga of the eoio ny came with the prisoner to Ny anza for the trial, and on the way there continually compialned about his small salary and the hard tlme. The bint was taken. The a, cused t rader was set free, and at least 1,000 frances found their way Into the purse of the oflleiatlng judge. In the French Congo almost any white rai- cai or petty tyrant can buy protoetion for money. IH3 LAST CHANCE. (Washington Post.) He was n broken-down gambler, a relic of a bygone era. After watching the men who wer at work wlth axei for soma tlme, he went up to one and Inquircd: "Aren't those cedar logs over there?" "Yoa,w "Are you golng to cut into them pretty soon?" "Not 1 1 11 tomorrow." "111 be around." "You can't carry any of the wood away," "I don't wish to. I merely wanted the translont satlsfaetlon of handling a few red Chips once more," yf - j-7Lv-ts: v . ,' f.y- " tsaf- 3m y fl- DKAGGEU THE PROSTRATE FORM INTO THE EQ-VT". "Aunt Jemlmah," sald the younrj man, "the young w ein, an Is a member of Mr. Payson's Company. She is a glrl of Sterling charactei . She has been on the stage almost from chtldhood." Fron, that day John Trea d well had no peace of mind at Lake George. He was at Horieon landing prlnclpally be cause his nunt had told hlm to come. and ineidentally because llie family of his flaneee. Agnes Bhelton, had a cot tage th, re. He tbought rather guilüly of the evenlngi when he had called on Grace Wright, and or the talks they had hnd upon literature a.id the upilft In g of the stage from Its present sor rowful plight. They had read the same beok, and had spult many an after noon at the plcture gallerles. That was in the days when he was strugRling for bare existenee upon a paper whose prlncipal stock In krade conslsked of niggardly pay to its reporter. He wasulad In those days when tho weekly payday arrived, and brought with lt the blessed assurance that he might have breast of veal, wlth green peas for at least one dlnner of the week. Then somebody discovered that he could will, and he found hlmself upon a paper where his weekly npaee bills ran above the three figure tik, and he was halied by that proudes. of Park Row tilles. "a good man." Then he feil into the good grac.es of his auut Jemimah. That meant receptions and afternoon teas. and an introduetio Into one of the "smart" sets of New York, That is how he met Agne Shel ton. She tbought that his Ilse was "so Interesting" and "so fasolnatlng;" and he. who had almost sorgotten the days when he was a drudge anel a pack horse, neveit told her anything to the , lnsisted upon invlting the glrl to give an open alr readin. mere was a brief. sharp struKgle, and the prozeck was ahandoned. Graoe Wright and her mother were permitted to go their own way, They did not seem even b ue aware of the fact that they oad been social ly ostraclsed. They cared not elther for Hamleteer, the Justin yet, er the guests at the hotel. A young dry goods clerk, who was spendlng a week's va cation at the Ferry, s;niled upon the young woman, but reeeived a look whlch was a Slberian Winter. Grace Wright spent her days in rowlng h r mother aboul among the Island of the lake. There Is an amiable tradlt! n that In Ibis budy of watet there are tiiree huntlred and slivty-Iive Islands, one for every day In the year, 1 1, leap year, so the story goes. an addttional Island appears, whlch is again lost to view on the last day of December. There were Islands enough for every- budy, and the mother und dauzhter managed to teer eiear of the aristec raey of Horieon Ferry , John Treadwell saw the two oeca sionally and greeted them by touciilng the rim of his hat. It is the unwiitten law, at Horieon Ferry, that a Hamlet etr must be greeted by removmg the hat and descrlblmr wlth It a conslder able arc; one the Justin set may bo greeted by ralsing the hat; and a guest of the hotel is tu be Ignored and snub. bed. Treadweli's saiute was a feeble compromlse. "You needn't trouble yourself to speak to me any longer," said the glrl to hlm one day. "I thlnk that 1 can adapt myself to the present Situation. 'I suppose that lf I had gone ta Jus tin's vnojnlght have tnated nie with or llnaiy civütty." In her heart, she sald; I can hardiy blau,,- hiui. He ha a eareer befoie Im. lf 1 bad lovcd hlm l,ss, 1 would have marrlcd hlm he he asked me two years ago. There was one day In the calendar when all dili'erence f social stand, n were sorgotten. That was Dove Rock Day. On that day the great rock wbleh rose liorn the inlddle of the ba.y near Hor.eon Ferry was plled high will, drift wood; Il was th funeral pyre uf tiie seasot, which was gone, fl'he malet ial so, the eontlagratlon was gathered from the Island and from the wooded rhore. The Hamleteer, tho boarders at Justins, and the guests at tho hotel all Joined In transpot ting the supplies for the last speetacle of tho decllning year. John Treadwell that year was master of Ceremonie, Uirecting the movements bf too navy of transpurts. whlch all day long was busy eonveyin logs and paeking boxes to the rock. In the cen tre of the pile were trunks of giant trees, placed on end and he 1,1 in place by emailer logs. In tne centre was a potket lllled wlth llght klmlling wood, covered wlth pltch and lar, Thls was the Mine from whieh was to aseend a tongue of Harne, Hamlet and holel vlewed Dove Rock with prlde when the work of the bonllre hull,lrs was done. The nlght waa falllng wlien from the point a fiotllla of boats wept towards tho rock. There was a cianking uf rowlock chains, and the oars rattled agalnst cedar sheathed hulls. Craft which for week had been dodgin each other, were nioorea side by side. The low beatlug of the oars kept Ihe half moon of boats freun dtlfllng tu ward the ruck. A slngie boat shot out from the Bwinging gri'up and grated upon the edge uf Dove Rock, A uleam of llght hone from beneath the sh'Iter of a cap; then the Marne from a tore i flared l.lgh in the alr. John Treadwell. his, face Ulumlned by the Jet of Are above his he ad, turneei to the crescent of boats and bowed, Hc hurled tiie torch into the centre of the giant kinder-box, aud turnd to go. Hut his lock eaught upon a root and he lurcoed forward . In trying to ave hlmself, he half turned, then feil upon the rock. Frum X top of tiie pile of tlmbers burst a biintling flood of llght. Heneath It glare, those who sat in the half lune of boats could see that a thin slream ot biood was triokling from the right lern ple of the man wno lay etretchud upon the rock. The pile of tlmbers began to Bettle. A blistering heat -unpelled the specta tors to pull back fron, the nest of Harnes. A pine lug rolled from the side of tho volcano of wood and f II, snap ping and snarling, wlthin six Inehes of Treadwell feet, "Why doesn't somebody pull out to the rock?" yelled a volce far back In the semi-circle. "Why don't you elo it yourseUf?" came the response in half a dozen keys. A llght shallop shot out from the landing near the hotel. Some one, closely wrapped in a cloak, dtagged the prostratc form Into the boat and sluwly rowed out of tiie zone of bltstcrlDB heat. "It seems stränge to me," remarked the dramatic critic of the Daily Hai binger to the nlght editor of the Morn ing Hainbnw. who had joined hlm at a late supper in a restaurant, "that news paper tuen have such a piedilection for marrying actresses. I suppose that we ball be bearing of Treadwell's seeking a divorce sometime wlthin the next six months. He was married thls even ing to Grace Wright. who used to be at Payson's." SS5 "Well," snid the nlght editor, "from what I know about it that divorce won't come very soon. She saved bis Ute at Lake George last Kummer." Copyright, 1S97. ItWaMOn Folev- Itont. (Cliicago Record.) A young fcilow with a dlsmal soll of lummer ciothes and a faded sweater was leaning agalnst t, cornc-r buiiding when the pol.cein.il, strollesl along and sald, giving bis club a litilc ttlrtmg motien; "Come on- get away.' "Why gei away?" rT'ifflSWffio "Never you mind. That man don t need anyone to hold up bis huildln' for hin,. Step llvely, or l'll buunee the stick oft o' you." "Well, I wnsn't dein nottin . "Y're sin boy. Y're a llne, Indus- trlous boy." fljrtf , Tiie "boy" grumbled and edged six feet around tne corner, leaning agalnst the south wall Instcad of the east wall. The policeman passet on. In ten minutes the pcUeeman sa untere,! back. A man came out of the corner stor and sald; "That feüow didn't go away." "Where is ho?" ! "Rlght there by the Window. When you spoke to bim he Just stepped around the corner," "Well, he's In Twcnty-sixth strect now, and that's off my bcat. Speak to Folty when be comes along." SOMETHING ABOUT TRUSTS. (American Eeonomlst.) Under protecUon, when business thrivea and conlidence relgns, men do not walt long to compete wlth, ar.d break down, a trust wliich Charge xorb.tant prlee. Under free trade, whe business Is para lyzed and conlidence blasted. men do not put thelr money Into new ente.-priaes. and consequently those who are already es:ablished In any business hav thinga all their own way w.th what business is lest to them, They have no fear of com peting rivals tn kill thelr trade when tue demand Is llght. The oo.ton tle trust aeted on thls knowledge, nnd the ro sult was $1,36 per budle for lies whlch they are will ng to seil today for 70 centa per bündle. It Is tlme for the sie t raders to drop their cry that a protective larllt fester trust; not because the facts are agalnst them that Is never any reason for a free trader to drop a Charge but because the facts are gettlng too well known to let the lie go longer uadetecte, by the people a large. V , ' f d ) Q D 0