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THE HATED RIVAL.
DC ? f Tndc
P board which caused
11 my heart to beat so
ll tumultuoualy bore
LV these words, very
simple in appear
$" ance:
"Lady Sartoris,
at home. Cold Har
bor, 21st December.
Dance, 9:30. R, S.
V. P."
And ray name, "Capt. Henry Perci-
- al." on the envelope.
, T One ball more or less mattered little,
but Dora was to be at this one, and you
understand now how happy I was.
.-1 had suet her at Lucerne, where she
ss spending the summer with her
- icther and sister. Unfortunately my
leave of absence expired sooa alter
making her acquaintance, aad I had to
.. coiwc fatJt WLondoa. Tit I r
t rare intPrvals. Christmas at the
TVoodrille, in May in London, i Jaly
- at the Henley regattas, and in Novesi
. ber at Brighton. But at all these meet-
lngs my happiness at seeing her was
spoiled by the shadow of a troublesome
.guest, another man, a rival, perhaps.
: About the middl of December, at
one of the expositions in London I
met her again. Her mother had just
recognized some traveling acquain
tance, and they were discussing a wa
fer color. Dora was alone, even "the
ether man" was absent. I learned that
tl: wcre to spend the holidays at Cold
', Harbor. "You know the Sartorises,"
she Eaid; "they will give a ball on
- New Year's eve. Will you be there?"
"Alas, I do not know Lady Sartoris."
I arswered dolefully. "But I will do
all in my power to be at that balL"
- The energy with which I said this
ecemed to move her. She bent over
her catalogue and a slight blush cov
ered her cLcek.
Don't miss it," she murmured, with
out raising her eyes. She could say no
more. Sirs. Thornton, having left her
frientte, joined us, and the unexpected
appearance of "the other man" com-
plete1 my confusion. I had the morti
fication of seeing him carry off Dora
from before my eyes.
"- The next day I began to hunt up
my friends. "Surely," I thought, "some
.of them know Lady Sartoris." But
whenever I made the inquiry I was an
'. swered in the negative.
At .last my little friend Tomlinson,
whom I met by chance on the top of
- an omuibu?. -answered differently.
"If I know them? Well, I rather
think so: Just heard from them this
morning apropos of their ball."
"TowlinscD, thank you!" I exclaimed
- with agitation, pressing his arm vio
lently. "What is the matter with you, Per
cy?" 'You can do me a great service, Tom
. licson!"
"All light for the service, but do
et&p5 squeezing my arm so; you hurt
, mi."
I" loosened my grip, but still holding
- hiia by the sleeve to prevent this pre
cious ifriend'i: escape.
Will you. can you, get me invited to
this ball?"
"Certainly, he answered. "Lord
r Sartoris and I are on the best of terms.
111 get you the invitation at once."
Ou, that sprig Tomlinson! Yet I
tl no thniight cf his conceit as I
ponied my blessings upon his head,
calling him the best fellow in the world
" siuJ iiy most faithful friend.
YOUR DRESS COAT, SIR.
At Piccadilly circus 1 left him to go
io my club, so elated that many no-
titt-d it. No -sicnder. for I decided that
at that ball 1 should lay at the feet of
Dora Thornton my heart and fortune.
At the thought of the latter offering
the image of Dora's mother confronted
me. and my heart almost failed, but
-fcefore that day was over a letter from
China arrived, announcing the death of
a relative whose sole heir I was, and
1-felt that fortune was indeed smiling
.en me and the way was now smooth.
I was informed by my valet, who
had it from Miss Dora's maid, that she
'would wear a pink gown a poculiar
shade, as the sample proved, and
which I tried in vain to match with
flowers so on the advice of an old
lady in Covent Garden I bought an
armful of white roses which I sent to
Hiss Thornton.
, , The longed-for night arrived. As in
a dream I was driven from the sta-
' tion to the house, shown into my room
and left to prepare for the balL The
rude awakening came when, while
looking complacently at myself in the
wirror I saw the distorted face of my
valet in the background.
"In heaven's name what is up!" 1
exclaimed.
"Your dress coat, sir."
"What of it?"
"It isn't here, sir."
"What!" I snatched the bag from
his hands and turned it out on the
fioor; everything tumbled out, but no
coat was there. I felt lost! What
could be done? My valet had slipped
out cf the room, and when I could lift
say head again I saw him coming in
with a coat on his arm.
"You fcuad it?"
"Beg pardon, sir. I got this from
Mr. Wiimof s servant; he aad brought
two for his master, and he begs yon to
accept this wit ais respectful coatpli
neats." From kirn, the hated rival! Bat was
.ft not better to accept this, hamlllatlng
m it was. than to miss seeing Dora?
The coat was a tight a, too, aad I
willingly have givea ap
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my eyes sought and found at the oth
er cad of the room a cloud of piak. I
was making my way toward the wear
er when a slight noise arrested me
rip aad suddenly my shoulders fell
more at ease and a coolness fell on
my back. I managed to keep close to
the wall, and succeeded after aa in
terminable space of time and many
dodges to reach the conservatory. It
was deserted, and I sat down behind
soaw palms, and felt considerably re
lieved to be alone and free to think a
way oat of the difficulty. While thus
occupied I thought I heard some soft
mormars aot unlike human voices, and
craning my neck I saw tnrough the
palm leaves at a' few steps from me a
cloud of pink, a man's arm around it,
a golden head on the man's shoulder,
and heard a long kiss which I felt I
must lBterrept.
The rage of a tiger seised me. Should
I spring forward aad strangle him? Of
aat am.?- aae-rmwwiri-after
all As noiselessly as possible I beat
my retreat.
A few weeks later I received a paper
addressed la the well-known handwrit
ing of the ex-Miss Dora. My head
swam as I opened it and saw the un
derlined notice: "Married at St. Mar
tin's church, , George Wilmot, sec
ond son, etc, and Lucy Thornton, of
Christ church vicarage, Woring, Sus
sex." Lucy! Not Dora! In an hour I was
at the Thorntons'. I found Dora busy
addressing a quantity of small paste
board boxes. .
"Dora," I said, entirely off my guard,
"were you at the Sartoris?"
"No, I was ill," she replied.
"And your sister "
"She was there. That was the night
which decided her fate." Her voice
trembled, her nervous fingers shook, as
she tried to tie the ribbons on the cov
er of the box she was holding. It may
be that which gave me courage. Two
months later I sent my esteemed brother-in-law
a copy of the Times, with a
large blue line under a marriage no
tice. You may guess the names.
LOST CASE BUT WON HER.
A Carolina Lover Spoils Ilia Glrl'v Daa
age Salt.
While some of the members of the
local bar were entertaining an attorney
from North Carolina he told me this
among a good many other professional
experiences, says the Detroit Free
Press. "Though our mountain people
are not educated, no Yankee can beat
them in a dicker or go after a dollar
with greater avidity. A rich young fel
low from our place went up among
them for a time to take on some health,
and while there paid more attention
than he really meant to one of the few
beauties that live there. She was a
creature of magnificent proportions,
naturally brilliant, and as relentless of
purpose as any moonshiner that ever
wentafter a revenue officer. She sought
to recover $10,000 damages for breach
of promise, and I had the young man's
case. On trial the girl made a star
witness. When I asked her point blank
if he had ever proposed to her she re
plied that he had not, in so many
words, but his every action, look, even
his tones, was a proposal. She admit
ted that she had not gone into a declina
because of his inconstancy, but graph
ically pictured months of agony, unre
quited loaging and wounded pride. It
looked bad for us. At this stage of the
case a lank six-footer from the mount
ains came to me and whispered that he
wanted to be called as my first witness.
He sternly declined to answer ques
tions till on the stand, but reckoned
that his word was good and that he
would pull the young fellow through.
All I ever asked him was his name and
you couldn't have stopped him with a
gun. lie was the girl's husband. He
had married her a week after the young
man left the mountains. He had con
sented to her bringing the suit in her
maiden name and saying nothing about
her being a wife. "But if it's so. he
roared, 'that she's been a-mournin' an
a-pinin' an a-dyin afteh this heah
dude critteh, J ask th' cowt foh a di
vo'ce.' The girl iushed into his arms.
She sobbed that she never loved an
other. The case was won for me, but
the young man never goes to the
mountains or makes any miscellaneous
bestowals of his affections."
PoatoSlce Xomrnelatarr.
The postoffice department has turned
West Ringe, N. H., into Westringe.
which leads'a contemporary to remark:
"Why not also Westnewton? And New
tonlowerfalls? And why not Eastcam
bridge? And Southboston? The post
office orthography is inconsistent- Else
where the desire to be consistent has
led the department into worse com
binations than either of these. There
was a Fawcett Gap in Virginia, which
was straightway corrected at Washing
ton to Fawcettgap. Well and good;
that looks distinguished. But it hap
pened that in North Carolina there was
a place called Roaring Gap; and Faw
cett Gap having become one word, the
department was at once forced to re
christen the other place 'Roaringgan,'
though the change brought these two
g's into such absurd proximity." Ex
change. Taktaje a Gooa" Look at Each Other.
Tryon took his long glass on shore
with him and found it useful for rccon
noitering the position and proceedings
of the enemy. He made the- acquaint
ance of a Russian officer who also re
joiced in a long glass (a species of ac
quaintance which was not at all un
common during the siege of Sebasto
pol). In the early morning, as soon
as it was light enough, they recon
noitered each other with their long
glasses, to see if anything new had
been doae during the night; then, as
sooa as they were satisfied, they
mounted their 'respective parapets,
waved each other a friendly recogni
tion, jumped down aad biased away.
War is a carious business. Life of
Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryoa.
la Portlaad. Mkfe lives a
aa who is doomed to total blindness
witMn the next six months or a year.
owing to aa IncaraMe disease, which.
w
le pkOosopay he has
anamsa-
1)0 NOT COMPLAIN
BECAUSE PROSPERITY HAS NOT
BEGUN BEFORE POSSIBLE.
The Kraaoa Why Basiaen Ma 3Tt BJe
Tlred Sfer R!rfJy iatcrvstiag ls
tcrrlew wllk feasta t'aliettt M the
CaupUXats Abaat gailaa CaMdltlaa
(Washington Corresaoadeace.)
Incredible as it may appear, there are
apparently some people ia the United
States who are impressed with the cry
which the Democrats are raising that
"the promised prosperity has aot
come." It seems dimcalt to naderataad
why anybody could expect ttte mtsiaoiB
improvement promised by legislation
to occur before the legislatioa is aad,
bat they erideatly do, jadgiac from
the reports reaching; here.
position on tae part of some persona to
join iathe complaint Which the Dem
ocrats are fostering by these meaaiaa
less and absurd statements.
"I can not think it true, however'
said Senator Cullom of Illinois, talk
ing on this subject, "that the people
as a class have any such thought. It
is to be expected of coarse that those
who are opposed to the Republican
party politically, especially those who
are willing to make any sort of trouble
for political effect, would 1ut afloat and
encourage suggestions of this sort. But
I can not believe that the thinking
people, who know that it Is impossible
to enact a tariff law in a single month,
or even in two or three months, are
making the complaint which the news
papers and politicians are charging
them with."
"You do not think Mt reasonable,
then, to expect prosperity and business
activity until some legislation is had?"
"Not to any considerable degree. Of
course the result of the election last
fall showed to the country that the
stability of our currency system is not
to be destroyed. But the same vote
which gave confidence to the business
public as regards further destruction
of our business conditions showed
them that a restoration of the pros
perity which existed under a protective
tariff could not be accomplished with
out legislation."
"By the term legislation, you refer
t course to the tariff bill."
"Yes. That is at least the first step
m legislation promised, and the first
step necessary to restore business ac
tivity." "The mere promise that-such legis
lation is to be had you do not con
sider sufficient to start the factories,
then?"
"No. On the contrary, in many
cases, the knowledge that such legis
lation is to be had reduces the amount
of work they are able to perform un
til the proposed law is actually upon
the statute books. In not a few cases
the effect will be felt still longer, for
wherever an importer sees that rates
of duty are likely to be increased on a
given class cf articles he is rushing
those articles into the country in en
ormous quantities. The result is that
the manufacturers are not only unable
to determine what they can do in
prices until they know what the new
tariff law Is to actually be when It is
placed upon the statute books, but
they also know that the country is be
ing flooded with an unusual quantity
cf goods at the lower rates."
"The result, then, upon the manu
facturer must be to reducchis business
activity rather than increase it for the
present?"
"Certainly. This has always beea
the effect to a greater or less extent of
tariff legislation. Everybody familiar
with the history of our former tariif
bills will remember that the mere fact
that changes were about to be made in
the tariff law was of itself sufficient to
compel a temporary suspension of man
ufacturing, or at least to so disarrange
prices and the possibility of making
contracts that business was to a great
extent suspended among that class of
citizens. This is especially true when
a tariff is to be changed from a lower
to a higher rate, for not only is
there uncertainty on the part of the
manufacturer as to what his prices
must be in the future, but there is a
certainty in his mind that the country
is being filled with cheap foreign goods
at the old tariff rates which will be
peddled out in competition with him
for many months."
"It Is a fact, then, is it, that very
large quantities of foreign goods are
now being brought in and are likely to
continue to compete with our own
manufacturers for many months yet?"
"Certainly Anybody who will take
the trouble to examine the customs col
lections bow being made at New York
and other ports will see tht at a
glance. From the day congress met
and began coasideratioa of the tariff
bill the receipts from castoms increased
enormously, doubled, and sometimes
trebled. This means that the quanti
ty of dutiable goods being brought in
now and for many weeks past is more
than double the ordinary importations
far the same length of time. Ia addi
tion to this enormous quantities of
goods now on the free list, bat likely
to be transferred to the dutiable list,
are being brought in, but not'Indicated
in the increase in customs receipts. So
when you take these facts into consid
eration, any of as can with a moment's
thought, that the manufacturers can
not make contracts to go on with their
manufacturing enterprises until they
know what the new law is to be aad
that even whea they do know this they
will be hampered for many months by
the enormous quantities of fordga
goods which the importers of this coun
try and the manufacturers aad dealers
abroad have forced into the United
States, filling the bonded warehouses,
and cawing the opening of aew oaes
la every direction. The result is that
it will be months before manufactur
ers can resume the activity which ex
isted under the McKIaley law. Not
only must they be able to ax defaite
rates after they know what the aew
law is to be, but they must wait for
some proportion of the eaormoas flood
of f oreiga made goods bow rot lag ia
to disappear. While it was expected
that the retrospective claase of the Mil
woald ia time cheek these nwporta
tioas, it has aot yet doae so. heeaase
importers order their goods awatas
ahead, aad the act is ealy to apply to
-country ought to understand sad they
are iatelligeat; and if they will stop
to think a moment of these facta, I am
sure they will understand it-" 4
G. IL WILLIAMS.
Qantlaa af Sacwr Market.
Mr. Hnry Wallace of Des Moiaes.
Iowa, delivered aa able aad iastrac
tive address before ft beet sugar CM
ventidft at New Ulm last week. He
puts tae question to tie farmers i this
way: "Why grow 59 bushels of corn
to the acre aad sett it at 29 cents per
bushel, whet ybh can grow from 1 to
20 tons Of sugar beets to the aeft aad
sell it at from $4 to 5 per toa?"
Fifty bushels of corn at 29 cents
aggregates fl; ten toas of beets at R
aggregates $4 and tweaty toas of
beets at $5 Woald brkg 1M per acre
gross. If the possibilities of proit from
beet culture are even as good as the
lowest aggregate aaated, it would aot
farmers to tarn from cora aad wheat
growiag to sugar beet culture. All
the inducement they would aeed would
be the guarantee of a steady market
for the beets
Could a steady market be insured if
a large percentage of our farmers werf
to engage in beet culture? On this
head Mr. Wallace presents some facte
and figures that are very striking. He
says there is practically unlimited mar
ket in this country for sugar. Accord
ing to official statistics our people have
consumed during the past three years
an average of nearly 63 pounds of sugar
per head. To supply this demand we
have imported during the last four
years an average of I,6t2,6l3 tons oi
sugar, and to pay for this sugar re
quires about our total export of wheat
and flour combined. "We pay," says
Mr. Wallace, -from $76,000,000 to $126,
000,000 a year for our imported sugar
while our exports of wheat and flout
combined have been but about $95,000,
000. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
False Figarea to Helate Ffea If ri le.
A very careful and a thoroughly in
formed writer on finarea has thrown
down a gauntlet which Mr. Worthing
ton C Ford, chief of the bureau of sta
tistics in the treasury department dur
ing President Cleveland's term of of
fice, must pick up, or confess himself
to be discredited. Mr. Ford has stated
officially that the exports of American
manufactures for the calendar year
1S96 amounted to $256,962,505. and
thereupon the Democrats have assert
ed the Wilson tariff to be the most ben
eficial of measures, acting directly to
ward enlargement of our foreign
trade, and, of course, creating a de-
mand for home labor in the manufac
ture of the articles exported.
It may be said in passing that if the
free trade statement, "Tariff is a tax
added to the price of the thing upon
wh.'ch duty is paid," be true, then, the
"wages paid for the manufacture of ar
ticles of export must be lower than
those paid for articles manufactured
for home use." For such exports must
compete with the "untaxed manufac
tures" of foreign countries.
But the gentleman who, under the
signature of "Statistician," occupied
nearly two columns cf the Inter Ocean
of Wednesday, waives all special pjeas
and boldly' denies the accuracy of Mr.
Ford's figures, and in great detail sets
forth the name and value of every class
of manufacture! exports during 1896,
and finds them to be not 1256,962,505,
as officially set forth by Mr. Ford, but
$138,493,637. Inter Ccaan.
Tired of. the 1'opaliat Combination.
The Topeka Democrat is a newspa
per of unimpeachable Democratic reg
ularity.which put its brains in its pock
et and faithfully supported Bryan in
the campaign of 1896. This is what
it has to say about the matter now:
Fusion is dead in Kansas. A united
Democracy and no further fusion with
the selfish and arrogant People's par
ty. The supreme duty of the hour for
Democrats in Kansas is to cut loose
from the festering corpse of the Peo
ple's party. The ranting Populists,
with full power to act, have tried their
hand at state government. Does any
sensible man want them back again?
We should profit by experience. The
Democratic party did not win in the
late presidential campaign because it
took too heavy a load at Chicago in
its platform. Capital is proverbially
timid. The business interests of the
country took alarm at the revolution
ary platform. It was a clear case of
"biting off more than they could chaw."
The result should serve as a warning.
The Populist party is doomed. It will
never command the confidence of the
pecple. If the Democratic national con
vention in 1900 shall repeat the blun
der of 1896, in laying down a platform
to catch Populist votes, we believe it
will meet with even a greater disaster
at the polls than it did last November.
Protcctioa DM far Iadaatrica,
In 1870 the total amount of capital
invested in manufactures in the Unit
ed States was $2,118,208,769. ' In 1890
it was $6,524,475,306. In 1870 the num
ber of persons employed in our manu
facturing industries was 1,939,000. In
1890 it was 4,712,622. In 1870 the wages
paid to employes of this description
amounted to $775,584,343. In 1890 the
wages paid were $283,216,529. In 1870
the value of the products of American
factories was $4,232,325,442. In 1890 it
had increased to $9,372,437,283. These
are merely a few of the salient features,
in the progress of the nation under
twenty years of continuous protection.
Here was prosperity which lasted aa
era of widespread industrial develop
ment, of increasing employment and of
rising wages without precedent ia the
history of human affairs.
' Keal Dcaaacratie Gaiaa.
Mayor-elect Harrison of Chicago,
spoils.the beautiful theory which. Dem
ocratic shnekers were- spreading 1
broadcast that the municipal elections
were a hopeful sign of restoration for
the Democracy. He admits that the
success was purely upon the question
of municipal reform aad that aatioaal
questions did cot eater iato the cam
paign. Iavestigation of the conditions
attending Democratic success in other
cities show that this was the cose gen
erally. Ia aot a single oae of the
municipal elections did aatioaal issues
eat any agure, while ia the state elec
tion of Rkode Island, where aatioaal
SKETCHES.
WHbJiTavTMhK FOR THE
- VETERANS; "
,ta aafc aw a
ttJ was the Sight:
yet. a wilder
Jcht
aaUBBBBBT r-!Z.-ZZ,nZ.
la am fcaaom there
waged a tcreer
map
' Taast the flcht oa
the wrathful
,--
The few that am ilertl aeifi chef
They knew, by his glazed aad unearth
That Mfe had nearly perish'd.
They knew-by his awful and kingly
look.
By the order hastily spoken.
That he dreasa'd of days whea the na
tions shook, . .
And the nations' hosts were broken.
0
He dream'd that the Frenchman's
sword still slew,
And tHumph'd the Frenchman s
"eagle"
And the struggling Austrian fled anew,
Like the hare before the beagle.
The bearded Russian he scourged
again. . .
The Prussian's camp was routed.
And again, on the hills of haughty
His mighty armies shouted.
Oter Egypt's sands, over Alpine snows.
At the pyramids, at the mountain.
Where the wave of the lovely Danube
flows,
' And by the Italian fountain.
On the snowy cliffs, where mountain
streams Dash by the .Swltzer's dwelling.
He led again. In his dying dreams.
His hosts, the broad earth quelling.
Again Marengo's field was won.
And Jena's bloody battle;
Again the world was overrun.
Made pale at his cannons' rattle.
He died at the close of that darksome
day,
A day that shall live in story;
In the rocky land they placed his clay.
"And left him alone with his glory."
Gea. Sherasaa aa a Match-Maker.
Among some unpublished letters by
Gen. Sherman in "McClure's" is a cor
respondence which he had with a young
lady who, while a school girl, got into
correspondence with an officer of the
regular army. Although this was sim
ply friendly, her father put an end to
it Seme time later, the young lady,
desirous to know whether her corre
spondent was a victim of the Custer
massacre, addressed a letter to Gen.
Sherman on the subject, to which he
replied. She then wrote to the general,
telling him of the nature of the corre
spondence. In a few days General
Sherman answered as follows:
Headquarters Army of the United
States, Washington, D. C, May 17, 1879.
Miss . My Dear Young Lady: Tour
letter of the 11th convinces me
that you are a good girl, with a pure
heart and soul---one of the most pre
cious things on earth and that you
should nurse a tender passion, unseen,
unkm wn to its object, Is not right. You
may confide in me, because I am not
only a father and grandfather, but
stand in the relation of father to the
whole army.
Lieut. Is unmarried, of a good
military record, excellent habits and
respected by his army associates. I do
not recall him personally to memory,
but cne of his brother officers was here
this morning, of wltom I inquired, with
out hi? dreaming of my reason. He is
at Fort -, CaL, a lonely place,
where he must dream cf just such a
girl as I pappose you to be. He must
be about years old a little too
old for you but still with a good long
life yet before him; and if in your
dreams you think of him, and are will
ing to renew your old acquaintance,
tell me so in the purest confidence of
a child, and I can let him know, with
out in the least compromising your
maiden delicacy, that he ought now
that you are no longer a girl, but a
woman, capable and qualified to judge
of her own heart and interests, and
that he is at liberty to seek of your
father the right to renew a correspond
ence which was broken off most prop
erly by him. In my judgment this may
be done, and It may release two worthy
souls from a thraldom which neither
can break without the meditation of a
prudent friend.
To me you caa write with absolute
confidence. Truly yours, W. T. Sher
man. To this the young lady replied five
days later, -namely, oa May 22d. in a
letter which is no longer preserved, and
thereupon General Sherman wrote ber
again, as follows:
Headquarters Army of the United
States, Washington, D. C, May 26, 1879.
Miss :
My Dear Young Lady: Yours of the
22d is received, aad I will write to
, without in the remotest degree
compromising your dignity or maiden
modesty. Your feelings are pure and
natural, and you need have no uneasi
ness at alL Let me know all the facts,
and I will be the friend of alL Tell me
your age, and, if possible, send me pho
tograph; so that oa hearing from
I may advise you.
It is not fair that he should be alone
away cut in the mountains of Califor
nia wLen a pure young girl Is treasur
ing tto mcBKJij of his former kind
ness, if net sighing for some response
t the appeal of a loving heart. It is
not riht there should be some con
clusion. "That sweet hope that lies
buried to human eyes" must have some
realizrtioa or be suppressed. With you
lmay be the love of a vision, and who
knows bat he too is sighing for the
object of his youthful dream? I can
not bear the thought of such a girl
adorirj at the shrine of a photograph
wfcen the living staa is within easy
reach. Should his answer to my letter
be what r expect, I shall insist upon his
applying; by letter to your father for
the privilege of coming to you, when
you mast do the rest. Of course you
are pssajsaately fa love with him now.
I thiak year father knows as much,
only he cannot reveal the secret to the
object. I caa aad willr aot as strong
as I state it here, hat enough to learn
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should meet, and each be the Jadaw ef
the other. If indifferent or offish. Ban
kth the thought as a schoolgirl's dream,
aad choose your partner out of the
maay clever fellows that must be with
IS &e reach of your acquaintance. I
sometimes htaga at the many conS
deacea of this ieri wika reach me of
tcially. Traly. ett. W. rV Sherman.
Lieut married somebody else,
aad the general notes la a later letter
that his faircoueupdiauat "took things
philosophkally." .
Raa. Graat'a Caifaraa.
Geaerai Herat Porter describes the
advance oa Petetsbttra In the April
iastalmeat Ui article M taw Cen
tury ca "Campafeaias WMk. Graat."
Geaerai Porter says.concernlos Grat'
attitude towards dress:
The weathe? had become so warm
that the aaneial'aaat ssget of the
place or: OVWeivT
they had beea weariaf. The summer
clothing had arrived, aad f uow
tried on. The general's blouse, like
the others, was of plain alateriaL sin
gle breasted, and had four rtgdhttkra
brass buttons in front. It was substan
tially the coat of a private soldier, with
nothing to indicate the ranV of an of
fice? except the three gold atars of a
lieutenant general on the shoulder
straps. He wore at this time a turn
down white linen collar and a small,
black "butterfly" cravat, which was
hioked on to his front collar button.
The general. When he put on the blou32
did not take the paiml t see whether
it fitted him or to notice how" :l looked,
but thought only of the comfort it
afforded, and said, "Well, this is a re
lief," and then added: "I have never
taken as much satisfaction as some
people in iriaking frequent changes in
my outer clothlflgi I like to put on
a-suit of clothes wheri I get up in the
morning, and wear it until I go to bed,
unless I hate t make a change in my
dress to meet company.- I have beea
in the habit of getting one coat at a
time, putting it on and wearing it ev
ery day as long as it looked respect
able, Instead of using a best and a
second best t know that is not the
right way to manage, but a comfort
able coat seems like an old friend, an J
I don't like to change it"
The general had also received a pair
of light, neatly fitting calfskin boots,
to which he seemed to take a fancy;
thereafter he wore them most of the
time in place of his heavy top boots,
putting on the latter only when he rods
out in wet weather.
Wrecked oa Port fisher.
Technical training in any profession
is a good and necessary thing, but it
must be supplemented by careful and
constant practice in order to eliminate
the chances of danger, especially on
board ship. In 1863 the United States
frigate B. was cruising off the Virgin
ian coast under the command of Capt.
H. Capt H. had under his charge a
number of young and enthusiastic mid
shipmen, graduates of the naval col
lege of Annapolis.
It was his custom to have them
take the position of the ship at noon
each day, when he took hia
own observations. Very often It hap
pens that their calculations did not
tally with his, but this only made him
the more anxious to exercise them in
so necessary a mathematical problem.
One day he was sitting in his cabin
as usual at noon, after he had com
pleted his calculations, and waiting
for his "middies' to bring in theirs.
The first came in almost immediately.
visibly elated at having finished his
task so soon and, as he believed, so
correctly.
The captain tock one look at the fig
ures, and then leaped from bis seat so
quickly that the astonished midship
man stsrted back in alarm. Almost ex
ploding with laughter, the old captain
curved bis hands before his mouth and
hurried to the companionway.
"Clear away the boats!" he roared.
"Clear away the boats! We're wrecked
hard and fast around -on top of Fort
Fisher!"
There was a howl of laughter from on
deck, and the erratic young man
grasped his papers and rushed past the
captain and out of the cabin without
waiting for ceremony.
Graat to Backaer.
The April "Century" contains a num
ber of articles relating to the career
of the great commander. Mr. John R.
Procter contributes "A Blue and Gray
Friendship," describing the relations
between Grant and Buckner. The lat
ter visited Grant at Mount McGregor
and as General Grant could not then
speak he wrote a message to his friend
and former adversary. This is repro
duced in fac simile for the first time.
The message was as follows r
"I have witnessed since my sick
ness just what I have wished to see
ever since the war: harmony and good
feeling between the sections. I have
always contended that if there had
been nobody left but the soldiers we
would have had peace in a year. Jubal
Early and Hill are the only two that
I know of who do not seem to be satis
fied on the southern side. We have
some on ours who failed to accomplish
as much as they wished, or who did
not get warmed up to the fight until
it was all over, who have not had quite
full satisfaction. The great majority
too, of those who did not go into the
war have long since grown tired of the
long controversy. We may now well
look forward to a perpetual peace at
home, and a national strength that will
secure us against any foreign complica
tion. I believe myself that the war was
worth all It cost us, fearful as that
was. Since it was over I have visited
every state in Europe and a number in
the East I know, as I did not before,
the value of our inheritance."
Laajr. Kaa bjral
A very strange accident that befell
a mouse is thus reported by the Albany
Express: A wheelman hung his bi
cycle from the ceiling of his cellar, aot
far from a swinging shelf on which food
was kept. A mouse jumped front the
wall to the tire of the front
wheel, evidently hoping thereby to
reach the shelf. The wheel started and
the mouse naturally ran towards the
highest part of it It was able to stay
oa the top of the tire, but coaldn't get
enough of a foothold to jump to the
walL When found aext mornings
was very mack exhaaetedr though
running. Tae cyclometer showed
twaatjr-mcat
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BBjiorm coaca waaca
ELBCnUCAI. TRAVEL.
It is oaly proper aa
that the
greatest rallroad-baaWiag
take the lead ia electrical tractiamyaml
with, coadkieaa aarivaled fo respari
meat aad practical deaKmatratioa we
weald he unworthy the distinction, coa
f erred upon an by straggling aaceatara
if we did aot taats la oar rawatetieav
says the ChaaUuqiMa. Ia coal ail hi
w eam lines, cahle aad horse ear
roads tela elaetric railways tae
tion of ebtaJaias the power treat
aad abundant awnta la
The aaceesa of the Niagara peopte
pens ap a leM heretofore existing
merely ia spallation, and ft has had
tag swast f athaetetiag others te erte-
iaal iavwaKmaliBS aad
point of oraaalsiaK to convert tae pav
er of the Mieuour!, Mississippi aad
other rivers iato electrical energy. It
aat beea estimated that the tides of
the North aad East rivers exert
power many times greater than weald
be required to light the whole metro
politan district and to supply heat for
the buildings and turn the wheels of
all the railroads and factories. Tae
question of collecting and storing the
power seems to be the only debatable
part of the subject, and this is being
seriously considered by inventors and
scientists. A tidal water plant has
been established at Bower's Cove, nca
Providence, B, L, where experimeats
are now being made to convert the
energy of the tides into electricity. It
is anticipated by the promoters of the
enterprise that power, light and heat
can be supplied to all mills, tractuju
companies and private houses ia Rhode
Island at less than one-half the present
cost. It may be many years before wa
shall succeed in harnessing the tides
along the two great oceans that wash,
our shores, but they are sources of such
an endless amount of power that the
world will not be satisfied until they
are controlled or their utility proved
futile. The conversion of the energy
exerted by the currents of our great
rivers into useful power is limited only
by the question of initial expense ia
establishing the plant "
BICYCLE BUILT FOR TWO.
Oae of Theai Was a Greea Farrat hat
It Kaaw How to Ride.
Pedestrians stared, horses reared up
on their hind legs with fright and
wheelmen turned their head3 and
risked their necks in an effort to sea
when the latest bicycle girl rode down
Broad street yesterday, says the Phila
delphia Record. She was a "girl" in
the sense that she was single, but she
had evideatly been so for nearly flfty
years. Her costume was a marvel of
antiquity, but it was not her own per
sonality nor her bloomers which at
tracted the most attention. On the
handle-bar In front of ber a green pax
rot was perched. The bird's feather
were ruffled by -the wind and Polly
seemed to be enjoying the ride im
mensely, for she chattered and
squawked and flapped her wings at a
great rate. There was a string tied
to the frame of the wheel and at tba
other end of the line a small dog was
securely tied. The little animal chased
along as best he could, barking enthu
siastically. The big reserve policeman
at Broad and Chestnut streets mo
tioned to the rider to stop.
"You're on the wrong side of the
street," said he. "Don't do it again or
you'll be fined."
The lady was inclined to be pugna
cious. She complained that she would
cot have been molested if her husband
had been with her.
"Well, why don't you bring him
along?" said the reserve.
The lady blushed and replied, quite
pathetically:
"I have none."
"Well, run along, little girl," said the
zooJ-heartcd policeman. "Leap year
Triil be here in seven years."
So she remounted her wheel and rode
off.
Greea Snow.
Three places, at least, are known
where green snow is found. One of
these places is near Mcunt Uecla, Ice
land; another, fourteen miles eact of
he mccth of the Obi; and the third
near Quito, South America.
FOR WOMEN'S HEADS.
M2ny cf the picture hatu arc early
ictorian ia shape. One, precisely like
.fcess seen in Morland'a pictures, is
ery distinguished in cffect.tclEg mad'
jf yellow straw, with drooping blick
lumes and black ribbon lied in a baw
v-Ith end3 failing over the brim.
A morning toque in tac new had
A biue. Htmw is puckered up as it i
.vera stuX and has no trimming but a
ccette of deeper blue velvet and a li?h.
iht cf light pale grcca cilk which
tics in a flat .fan clnpci aigrette of
jlack poppies with green stamen.
An outing hat cf dcrk Hue, straw is
trimmed with blue rlbbou, which sbowL
is green lining whea it is cade into
j. smart bew, and with little beaches of
ieep blue forget-me-nots, with darS
rcen leaves dotted here and tliere to
break the outlines of the crovrn. A
little pink tcque, all rufflings of silk
and accordion plaited straw, has a
spray, which Icoks as if It were just
picked, of white roses.
More racdern in style, but equally
picturesque, is a pale satiny green
straw with lace veil twisted around
and caught up in front with a paste
buckle, while on one side is the fash
ionable "market bunch" of pink roses.
An exquisite fete hat is white chip
with a crown of white silk, elaborately
quilled .and a huge and beautiful bou
quet on one side, one-half of which is
composed of white roses, while the
other half is faintly pink.
The prophecies which were heard
last season that this year's millinery
would lack towers have all been falsi
fled .and artificial posies are more nu
merous aad beautifal than ever. A
model hat from Loadoa is made of
pliant piak straw illed.with black chif
fon at tae edge aad trimmed with soft
alBckoa-
elongated.
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