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Author of "Barbara Heatl-evte'f Ti iat,'
-Juttnk't WhiHif-Thr Srunh -n
Bmil LyndhurtL"
chaiteb it. amithkb visitor at mkh-
1.1 MM.
Ths following two or three weeks pan
erf rapidly and pleasantly, but for two
serious drawbacks that hindered hit
thorough enjoyment, I should hav owued
myself perfectlr happy, but Mm. Mark
baui and Holf were perpetual thorni iu
my aide.
A cousciousnessnf bring disliked by any
buinau brln, however uncongenial to in,
ia aJwaya a disagreeable discovery. The
causa of Uie repelleut ai l ion of one mind
wa another may be aa interesting psycho
logical study, but iu practice it brings "
to a ladder and lower level. I knew Mr.
Markhaiu honestly disliked uie; hnt the
cause of auch marked disfavor utterly
banted me.
Most people fuuud her fascinating: she
waa Intellectual and re lined, mid had
many good qualities, but she was not ea
aentially womanly. Troubles and the
loss of her children had hardened her; ini
bittered by disappointment for her imir
riel life, short as it was, bad lieeu siniu
larly unhappy she bad cum back to her
father's house a cold, resentful woiiimii,
who masked unhapplueas under an air of
"uguid indifference, and whose strong
Clll aud concealed love of power governed
(lie whole household. "Adelaide man
ages lis all," Miss Chariton would say,
laughing: and I used to wonder if she
ever rebelled against her sister's dictates.
I knew the squire was like wax iu I he
hands of tils eldest daughter; he was one
of those ludoleut, jieace loving men who
are governed by their womankind; li'j
wife hail ruled hitn, and now his widowed
daughter held the reius. I think (lay
was like her father; she went on her oiru
way aud shut her eyes to anything dis
agreeable. It would never have dune for
me to quarrel openly with Airs. .Markham;
common seuse ami rcect for my mis
tress' sister kept me silent under great
11 provocation. I controlled my words, ami
J in some measure I controlled voice and
a outward manner, but my Inward autag-
ouism must have revealed itself now and
(lieu "j i"i'"'
My chief difficulty was to prevent her
spoiling Joyce. After the liit, she hud
become very fond of the child, and was
always sending Tor her to the rtruwlog
ruoiu, and loading her with toys and
aweetmeals. Mr. Morton's orders had
been very stringent about sweetmeats,
and again and again I was obliged to con
fiscate poor Joyce's goodies, as she called
them. I had extracted from her a promise
that she should eat nothing out of the
nursery, and nothing could induce t lie
child to disobey me.
"Nurse, aays I mustn't. Aunt Adda."
was her constant remark; and Mrs. .Mark
bam chose to consider herself aggrieved
at this childish obstinacy. She spoke to
me once about It with marked displeas
ure. "I have had childien of my own, aud 1
suppose I know what is good for them,"
she said, with a touch of scam iu hei
v voice: "yon have no right to eufforce such
ridiculous rules on Joyce." f
"I have Mrs. Morton's orders," I replied,
curtly. "Doctor Myrtle told me to lw
very careful of Joyce's diet; I can not
allow her to eat things I know will hurt
her;" and I continued to confiscate the
goodies.
But though I was firm in all that con
cerned the children's health, there were
many occasions on which I was obliged to
submit to Mrs. Markham s Interference.
Very often my plans for the day were
frustrated for no leuitlmate cause. I waa
disposed to think sometimes that she act
ed in this way just to vex me aud make
me lose my temper. If we were starting
for the beach, Judson would bring us
It message that her mistress would pn-fci
yiuy taking the children Into the orchard:
and sometimes on a hot afternoon, when
we were comfortably ensconced on the
bench under the apple Irees, Judson would
Inform us that Mrs. Mnrkhnin thought we
had better go down to the sea. Some
times 1 yielded to these demands, if
thought the children would not suffer by
them, but at other times I would tell J ml
son that the suu was too hot or the chll
dren too tired, aud that we had better re-'
main aa we were. If this was the case;
Mrs. Markham would sometimes coirfe
out herself and argue the matter, but
always stood my ground boldly, thmifeh 1
was perfectly aware that the afierjfron s
oust would convey a letter to I'rince Gate
4-oui plaining of my luipertiuenceu (lis
putlng her order.
My mistress' letters were my-thlel com
fort, and they generally cajhe ou me
morning aflr one of these djsnutes. She
would write to me so affeaflunately, mul
tell me how she missed uaf as well as the
children, and though yftie never allmled
openly to what bad occurred, there was
always a little sentence of- half-veiled
meaning that set my mind at rest.
".My sister Gay tells uie that the chll
dreu are gettlug so brown aud strong
with the aea Jr," she wrote once, "aud
that dear llttla Jovce has Quite a nice
color. Thank you so much for your cease
less care of them: you know I trust you
Implicitly. Merle, and 1 have no fear that
you will disappoint me; your good sense
will carry you safely through auy mtie
difficulty that mar arise. rite to me as,
often aa you can; your letters are so nice.
I am very busy and Terr tired, tor mm
ball haa entailed so much work and ms,
but your letter seem to rest me." "
Kolfwasalsoa serious impediment to
my enjoyment. Kver sluce I had helped
him with his kite, be had attached him
elf to me. and Insisted on joining us in
all our walk, and In spending the greater
Hart of his dav with us. I waa toierauiy
certain la my own mind that this childish
infatuation exc ted Mrs. Marknam s jeai
Mir. Until we had arrived she had been
Holf'e sole companion; he had accom
panied her In her drive, harusseu uer
from morning to night with his ceaseless
demands for amusements, and had been
the aaetwUv draailMl torment of all tli
Visitor to Marahlanda. except Mr. Ha
try, who waa rather good to him.
His precocity, hi love t practical Joj
ad hi rough impertinence, made
feud with tbe whole household; t
at
rer-
vaaU disliked him, and werelwayi
hrlngtac complaint of Master Hsflf. 1 be-
, wii i asuoa waa loitu in
hot thonabe had had charge of him from
f Uhr.
I Was Rolf bega a to desert the draw
I last-no for the nursery, Mrs. Markham
f nssd all her effort to coax him back to
W ltd, but ih might w.iliiavs sous-
eu Iu the witH Uolf played with Joyce'
on (he beacJi; he raced her tip and duwa j
the little hill' k iii I hi- r hard, or hunt
ed with her for wild fluwri'4 in the laues
that surrounded Marshlands. Whea the i
children were asleep, he invaded my quiet
with requests to mend his broken toys or
join him iu some game. 1 grew quite ex
pert iu rigging his new boat, aud dreed
toy soldiers sad sailors by the dozen.
Sometimes I was inclined to rebel at such
wanle of time, but I remembered that
Itolf had no playfellows; it was better for
him to be playing spillikins or go-bang j
with me iu the nursery thau louugiuj '
IUtlej-ly about the drawing-room, listen-1
iug to grown up people's talk; a child's!
natural life was better for its health.
.oiks L bentou told uie more than once
that people who came to the house thought
liolf no much improved. Certainly he
was not so pale aud fretful alter a long
morning spent on the beach iu wading
knee-deep to sail his boat or digging saud
wells which Joyce tilled out of herbuckat.
When he grew too rough or boisterous 1
always called Joyce away, and with Hau
nah and myself to look, after them uu
liarm could come to the children.
I grew rather foud of Rolf after a time,
aud his company would not have been irk
some to me, but for his tiresome habit of
repeating the speeches he had heard iu
the drawing-room. He always checked
himself when he reineinliered, or when I
held tip my linger, but the half sentence
would linger iu my memory.
Hut this was not the wort. I soon
fuuud out that anything I tuld him fuuud
its way into the drnwlug room; In fact,
Itolf was au luveterate chatterbox. With
all his good Intentions, he could nut hold
his tongue, and mischief was often the
result.
It was my habit to tench the children
litlle lesHons under the guUe of a story,
sometimes true, sometimes a mere Inven
tion. Kolf called them "Kenny's anec
dotes." but 1 had neer discovered an
unci dole iiboul crossuexs.
One day I found ni)Belf being severely
lectured by Mrs. .Maikh.'iin for teaching
her eon the doctrine of works. "As
though we should be saved by our works,
lliHS Kenton!" she finished, virtuously.
t was loo much imwled to answer; I
hud no notion what xhe meant, until I
remembered that I had Induced I'olt to
part with some of his pocket money to rc
liee a pour blind man whom we found
silting by the way-side. Itolf hud been
sorry fur the man, and still more for the
gaunt, mierahle-lookiug woman by bis
side; but when we had goue on our way,
followed by voluble Irish blessings, Itolf
had rather feeliugly lamented his six
pence, and I had told lilin a little story in
culcating the beauty of alms giving, which
had Impressed him considerably, and he
had retailed a garbled version of it to his
mother heme her rebuke to me. I for
get what my dclense was, only I remem
ber I repudiated indignantly any such doc
trine; but this sort of misunderstanding
was coustniitly arising. If ouly Kolf
would have held his tongue!
Hut these were mere surface troubles,
and I ofteu managed to forget that there
was such a person as Mrs. Mnrkham Iu
the world: ami. in spite of a few trifling
drawbacks, 1 look back UMu this summer
as one of the happiest in my life.
I was young aud healthy, and I perfect
ly reveled In the country sights aud sounds
with which I was surrounded. I hardly
knew which I enjoyed moat the long de
licious mornings on the beach, when I sut
under the break water taking care of
Itegglc, or the afternoons in the orchard,
with the brown bees humming round the
hives and the children playing with Fid
gets ou the grass, while the old white pouy
looked over the fence at us, and the sheep
nibbled at our side. I used to send Han
nah home fur au hour or two while 1
watched over the chlldreu; it was hard for
her to lie so near home aud not enjoy
Molly's cunipnnyaud those summer af
ternoons were lazy times for all of us.
I think Miss Cherilou added largely to
mv hniiiiluess. I had never had a friend
siuce my school-days, aud It was refresh
ing to me to come In contact with this
bright young creature. I was a little too
urave for my age, aud I felt she did me
good.
I soon found she resembled my mistress
In (Jiie thing; she was very unselfish, nod
thought more of other people's pleasures
thau her own. She uhed to say herself
that It was only a sublime sort of sellisli
ess that she liked to see everyone huppy
ound her. "A gloomy face hinders all
enjoyment," was her constant lemark.
Hut. 1 never knew anyone who excelled
more !u little kindly acts. She would
bring me fruit or flowers almost dally;
and wheu she found I was fond of read
ing she selected books for uie she thought
I should like.
When Mrs. Markham did not use the
carriage a very rare occasion, as she had
almost a monopoly of it she would take
us for long country drives, aud sue wouki
pontrlve all sorts of little surprises for us.
Once wheu we relumed from a saunter
in the lanes, we found our tea table laid
in the orchard, and Miss Cherlton presltl
lug. In a gay little lint trimmed with corn
flowers aud poppies. There was a basnet
of flowers In the center of a lable, and a
heap of red and yellow fruit. We had
quite a little feast that evening aud all
the time we were sitting there, there Ve
broods of chickens running over the grass,
that Gav had enticed Into the orchard to
please the children, and gray rabbits, and
au old lame duck that was ner pensioner,
and weut by the nume of Cackles.
i "Oh. auntie, do have another feast,"
I' Joyce would say to her almost daily; but
Miss Cher ton could not always oe won
us; visitors were very plentiful at Marsh
lands, and Gay's company was muett
courted by the young people of Xethertou
and Orton-ou-Sea.
I knew Mr. Ilawtry was a constant visi
tor, for we often met him In our walks;
and it seemed to me that his face waa al
ways set in the direction of Marshlands.
When Kolf km with n he was nerer
allowed to pass without notice, and then
be would stop aud speak to tbe children,
rsiecially to Joyce, who soon got over her
shvneas with film.
Mother aavs Mr. Hawtry conies to ee
Aunt Gay," Kolf remarked ouce, when he
was out of hearing; "she told grandpapa
so one day, and asked him if It would not
be a good thing; aud grandpapa laughed
...a nodded: voti know his way. What
did mother meanf"
"No doubt she meant that Mr. Hawtry
was a kind friend," I returned, evasively.
Unm is one to silence a precocious child?
uut ..f course It, was easy lo understand
Mrs. Markham'i hint.
I wondered sometimes if Mr. Hawtry
were a favored suitor. He and Mi
Cherlton certainly seemed on the bet of
term; she always seemed giao to see mm,
but her manner was rery frank with him.
1 took it Into my head that Gay bad
more than one admirer. I deduced tule
inference Irom a slight occurrence that
took place one day.
I ws ob the teriace with the children j
one uiorniog when a youog clergyman in
a soft felt hat came up the avenue. I
kuew him at ouce as tbe boyish-faced cur
ate at Xethertou Church, who had read
tbe service the last two Sundays. I had
liked his voice and uiauuer, they were so
reverent, but I remembered that I thought
him very young. He was a tall, broad
shouldered youug man, aud though not
exactly handsome, had I bright, pleasant
looking face.
Itolf hailrd him at ouce as au old ac-
quaiutance. "Halloo, Mr. Kossiter; it is
no nse your guing ou fo the house; mother
is not well, and cannot see you, aud Aunt
Cat is with the bees."
.Mr. Kossiter seemed a little confused at
this. He stoied aud regarded Kolf with
some perplexity.
"I am sorry Mrs. Markham is not well,
but perhaps I can see Mr. Cheriton "
"Oh. grandpapa has goue loOrtou: there
Is only me at borne; you see. Miss Kenton
dues not count. If you want Aunt (jay 1
will show you the way to the kitchen
gardeu." Ami as Mr. Kossiter accepted
this offer with alacrity, they weut o(T to
gether. We were going dowu to the beach that
moruiug, aud I was only wnitiug for Han
nah to get the perambulator ready, but as
a quarter of an hour elapsed and Kolf did
not make his appearauce, Joyce and 1
went in search of him.
I found him standing by the bee hive.
talking to Mls Cherilou aud Mr. Kossi
ter. They all looked very happy, aud Mr.
Kossiter was laughing at something tbe
boy had said: such a ringing, boyish laugh
it was.
When I called Kolf they all looked
rouud, aud Miss Cherlton came forward
to sjieak to me. I thought she looked a
Utile uncomfortable, and I never saw her
Kith such a color.
Are you going down to the beach? I
wish I could come too, it is such a lovely
morning, but Mr. Kossiter wants me to
go to the schools; Miss 1'arsons. the school
mistress, Is 111, aud they need help. It is
so tiresome," speaking with a pettish,
spoiled-chlld air, turning to the young
clergyman; "Miss Parsons always does
get 111 at inconvenient tiuies.
"I know you would not fail us If It were
ever so Inconvenient, " answered Mr. Kos
siter, looking full at her he had such nice
clear eyes; "you are far too kind to desert
us in such a strait."
Kul she made no answer to this, and
weut back to the liee hive. and aftera mo
ment's Irresolution Mr. Kossiter followed
her.
"Do you like Mr. Kossiter?" asked Rolf,
In his blunt way, as we walked down the
avenue. "I do, awfully; he is such a
brick. He plays cricket with me some
times, and he has promised to teach me to
swim, ouly mother won t let hlni, in spite
of all grandpapa says about my being
brought up like a girl. Grandpapa means
me to learn to swim and ride, only mother
Is so frightened ever since the black pony
threw me. I am to have a quieter one
next year."
"Have you known Mr. Kossiter long?"
I asked, carelessly.
"Oh, pretty long. Mother can't bear
him coining so ofteu to the honae; she
says he is so awkward, and then he 1
poor. Mother doesn't like poor people;
she always says It Is their own fault; that
they might get on better. Do you know.
Kenny, Mr. Kossiter has only two little
rooms at Mrs. Saunders', you know that
low house looking on the corn-fields; quite
poky little rooms they are, because mother
and I went there. Mother asked him It
he did not find it dreadfully dull at N'eth
erton, and he laughed and said, 'Oh, dear.
no;' he had never been more comfortable:
the people at Xethertou were so kind and
hospitable: and though mother does not
like him, he comes just as often s though
she did." Add I soon verified Rolf
words: Mr. Kossiter came very often to
Marshlands.
(To be Continued.)
Iron Flans Ihttiiageil.
Milwaukee, Wis., April 12. The
Northwestern malleable iron company's
plant, which occupies an area of two
and a half acrea, und employs 22.') men,
was damaged to the extend of $45,000
at 3 o'clock this morning. The plant
was valued at tffO.OOO, on which there
Vat $.'10,000 insurance.-
Tendered His Resignation.
H.N' Fkancisco, April li The Chron
icle tomorrow will state that Senator
Leiland Stanford will tender his seeigna-
tion as president of the '-Southern Pacific
company at the meeting of the directors
this week on account of his health.
Stanford states that C. Huntington
will be elected to succeed him.
'Iski-s a Mx ifsr'H Usm,
Hoston, Mass., April l'i Barnum
Buily have taken a six year' lease of
Oakland Garden, and will locale their
menngerie and apart of their circus per
manently here. They were recently de
nied a permit to establish themselves
permanent!) in New York city; hence
their movement toward the Hub.
Women Triumph.
CoNoonn, X. II., April 12. Iu the elec
tions yesterday for members of the board
of education the women were esisscinlly
active and their ticket, headed by Mrs.
Mary II. Wood worth, triumphed by a
majority of alwut 1,(XK) in a total of
1,(300 votes.
Tok Hack all Ms Old
Chicaoo, lix., April 14. The 'cigar
makers settled one of their grievances
yesterday, when the l'lurnix cigar com
pany took back all its old men, about
sixty in number , find agreed here
after to employ none but union men.
From Kalln; Holnfna.
Aurora, III., April 14. Thirty ease
of trichinosis have been reported to the
health authorities in this city. The
disease started in the family of August
Dittman. Six of the oases reported re
sulted from eating bologna sausage.
The Hale Itsed.
Bkri.in, April 12. Major Liebert.pre
viovi to his departure for Zanzibar, was
charged "y Kmperor William to use all
means in his power to induce Em in
Pasha to enter the se'vice of Germany
It is announced that May 0 has been
rlxnd as the date for assembling the new
reichatng.
The? Ktr Season.
Tbe two great festivals of the year,
Christmas and Jaater, are natural, M
well as ecclesiastical; and while, in each
case, tbe minds of young and old are en
grossed with the great events which all
Christendom celebrates, it is not im
proper to think also of the change. in
the season which each festival marks.
At Christmas time our great and good
friend, the bun, afle-r growing cold to
ward us for six months, as if departing
from our system, just aa he seems about
to tt rn his back ujon us forever, pauses,
relents, and looks smilingly toward us
once more. As far back as history goes
men have taken this season for rest and
good cheer, using the fruits of the com
pleted harvest to welcome the promise
of the next-
Christmas ia no "movable feast." It
grows out of the nature of things. The
chuugeleas Sun sugosta, invites, aud
sanctions it.
Kaster is still more obviously na'.ural,
for then the Sun baa covered a large
part of its power to benefit us, and the
fields sre tinged with the hues of spring
Winter is death; Spring is resurrection.
The word Kaster speaks to us of the
time when the undent Germuns styled
their fancied goddess of the spring Os
lara, or Kostra, to whom tbe month of
April waa dedicated, l'roiu her the
month was called, as near as our letters
will form the word Kutrr-immih. Her
festival coincided very nearly with the
Christian faster, und dually was merged
in it.
Tbe lovely feast needs no effort of the
imagination to justify it. The grateful
warmth, the brillant sunshine, the sing
ing of the birds, the hum ot the insects,
the emerald-green ot the grass, the
swelling of the buds, the opening flowers,
the labors of the farm ond garden are
resumed, all that we see and all that we
hear attune the heart to joy. The time
has never been when this glorious and
universal resurrection of natural life
has not brought rapture to the long
suffering sons and daughters of men.
All tbe records of our race attest it; all
the organized religious have sanctioned
it.
Gentle spring has a journey to per
form every year that requires more than
the three months alio led to her in the
calendar. She has to move on from the
equator to the pole, and climb every
mountain in her pathway. At the pres
ent moment, when we are at the open
ing of our spring, the beautiful season
is over in Florida. Strawberries and
roses hive passed, And the men in the
sugar-fields do not doubt that summer
has come.
The spring is sweeping on northward,
but Arcti' i navigators wintering where
General Greely and his men soent two
years, are record'tMr zero temperature all
this month. They found April very
cold. Vet the snow-birds and the owls
returned to them, sure sign of advanc
ing - spring, and, though during the
whole month of May the mercury only
once rose above the freezing point, and
the ice about them was fifty-four inches
thick, yet ou the 2d of June the first
flower bloomed, and two days later
came Hocks of ducks and geese.
Even at the equator, though Spring
comes in such guise thut strangers do
not know her, still the native heart is
gladdened by her approuch. The rains
diminish; the sky is clearer, the all
suffusing moisture is lew oppressive.
"We roast six months,'' said Mucsulay
in Calcutta, "and then wb stew six
months." After stewing for half n year,
the people of India find relief and
delight in a heat that is dry, and ia a
sky thut is brilliant though burning.
Thus, whatever mortals live and strive,
spring is the season of gladness. Youth's
Co in pun ion.
Startling:, but I'orou'cn.
Tbe recent decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States virtually
over-ruling what are widely known as
the "Grange Decisions" is the most
startling and significant event in our
current history. The decision was ren
dered in a Minnesota case where the
commissioners hud Jixcd the rate to be
charged by certain railroads in the state
The action of the board was final and
authorized by law. The court held the
law unconstitutional as depriving the
companies of the right lo control their
own property; in fact depriving them
of their property without due process
of law. Justice Bradley, in his dissent
ing opinion Hied, clearly contends that
the decision in effect reverses the Grange
cases, and he is manifestly right. There
las been a steady movement in this di
rection by the corjwaUons ever since
the Grange decisions were rendered,
The court has Wn securely packed for
this purpose, and we are not surprised
at this decision. "The Hon. David Dav
is, while a member of the Senate and
who was on the supreme liench for
twenty years, called the writer's atten
tion to what was going on in this mat
ter, and we have watched it ever aince
with keenest interest. We are approach
ing another era akin to the epoch in
which the Dred. Scott decision was
rendered. We shall give further att'jn
tion to this startling decision. Iowa
Tribune.
Adorer (after a rebuke by the old
lady) "1 didn't kiss you. 1 only pre
tended I was going to. Why tlid you
call to your mother '!"
Sweet Girl (repentently) "I I
didn't know she waa In the house."
j m wssrJsi ,
THE TRUANTS.
Jlun'ii " I hid ma
i calling mo ; she's go
I didn t hurry from
ini to hVk m- VmiKe
the dru.'icist's with this medicine. Jimmy.
you can lake my gum till i get laick ; I've
got to suuull like I was being hull-killed, or
h'II lick me ; ma can't hurt any, V-aii.su
she's sick niOKt of the time."
J limit i" Let's sue that medicine. That s
the same Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
that cured my mom. Why, she couldn't
siiMiik the buby, and now the other day
she shook ip so he doesn't drink anv more.
In about two weeks you'll get lielted so
you'll wish you'd been born good."
fleose rememlr, tnat nr. rierces ra
vorite Proserin ion is the onlv oositive
cure for tbe numerous diseases that de
stroy a woman's influence in her family.
SICK HEADACHE,
Billon Headache, Dizziness, Constipation, ludlge.
tion, Billons Attacks, and all derangements of the stomach and
bowels, are promptly relieved and permanently cured by the use of
DR. PIERCE'S PELLETS.
Purely Vegetable and Perfectly Harmless.
As IilVEIl PITiTi, Vnequaled i
ONE PELLET A DOSE!
Agret-nbie Occupation i'orWomcn
An agreeable and much sought after
occupation for women is that of a clerk
in a music store. The hours are no
longer than in the niajority of stores,
the duties are less exacting, there is a
chance to sit down in idle moments and
the pay is from 10 to 12 a week.
With all these advantages it is no won
der that the owners of music stores are
overrun with applicants. Nevertheless
it is said to be no easy task to secure a
competent clerk, although the knowl
edge of mnsic required is not very
extensive.
The clerk must not only be a good
saleswoman, but she is expected to be
able to jilay off hand every piece of
music kept on the shelves. This is not
so difficult tut would appear, for those
who purchase classical music are always
good musicians, and know the charac
ter of the piece they are ordering.
Only the dabblers in music insist on
having a piece tried for them before
they purchase, and these amateurs
seldom affect anything more pretentious
than a popular song or dance composi
tion. "Kvery music dealer has a plan of his
own to test the ability of an applicant,"
said a well known music man, "but I
haven't yet found one that is entirely
trustworthy. Often when I think that
I have secured a treasure in a clerk, I
lind I have leen mistaken, and much of
my time is taken up in trying applicants.
The plan generally adopted is to make
the test with a catch piece of music.
For a long time 1 made use of an old
overture, in the execution of which it
w as necessary to cross the hands. This
was more effective than you would
imagine, for an applicant, rendered
nervous from the knowledge that I was
watching her every movement, would
lieeome rattled the moment she reaches
the critical measure if she were not a
good reader. Hut after using thfs piece
for sometime it became worn out in
the service.
"One day I gave a woman a trial.
She got along all right until it whs nec
essary for her to cross her hands, and
then she made as bad a botch of it as
could be imagined. She went out seem
ingly much pained at her failure. A
week later I tried another. She dashed
the piece off like a professional, and I
hired her on the spot. IWfore the day
was over I found that shs was utterly
incompetent. I uuestioned her and
learned that she was the sister of the
other young woman. It was a pre
arranged little scheme. The first came
to find out w hat piece was used for test
ing purposes, while the other, after prac
ticing it until she was perfect, was to
secure the place. Hut I didn't get
caught that way again." New York
Evening Sun.
1669
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The beet sugar industry has received
a great boom in Nebraska. Three years
experience has shown that beet can be
grown in that state containing from 12
to 22 per cent of sucrose or actual su
gar. After two year' investigation a
beet suirar factorv has been located at
Grand Island, Hall county, with a cap
ital of a million dollars. The factory
will not only produce raw sugar, but
will include a first-class refinery, a school
for the instruction of farmers in the cul
tivation of beet, and an experimental
stat ion, a French and also a Herman ex
pert having already been engaged. The
company has secured 5,000 acres of good
beet land, and an associat ion of local
public-spirited business men has guar
anteed to grow 3,000 acres of beet for
three years under the supervision of the
factory superintendent, for which I hey
are to be paid 93 a ton for beets con
taining 12 per cent sucrose, w ith an ad
ditional payment of 55c. for each per
cent of sucrose in excess of this amount.
The factory buildings are being ramtlj
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ft. and four stories high. The machin
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and the whole enterprise is in charge 01
competent experts as well as ample cap
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tons of beets daily, producing 85 tons
of sugar per day. The working season
will be about (5 days, consuming 45,000
tons of beets, the product of 5,000 acres,
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of beets grown by the farmer. The
farmers' beet sugar factory at Alvarauo,
Cal.. which has been running several
years, is now quite prosperous. Spreck:
el's California beet sugar works are aiso
doing well. These are the only two
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sugar-making failed in New York and
Massachusetts.
Xinatv three thousand Englkhmen,
57,000 Irishmen and 17,000 Scotelimen
emigrated to the United States in WS;
22000 Enalish. 2.000 Irish and 3,U
Scotch went to Canada; 23,000 English,
2,000 Irish and 2,000 Scotch went t
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went 24,000 English, 2,000 Irish and 1,000 ,
Scotcii. The totals for the year show
164,000 English emigrants, IM.OOO Irish
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