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Nine tenths, of the ;; public-house
keepers of EnglaniT are stanch Tories
jand upholders of the House of Lords
The insurance statistics of England
show that in case of the deaths of hus-
ibaad . and wife, if the -wife dies first,
the husband survives nine years.
while if the husband is the first to die
the widow lives for eleven years longer.
, It is fall time that the United States
Government adopted a rational and
comprehensive forestry system, urges
the San Francisco Chronicle. - The
policy of reserving forest lands from
settlement or private ownership has at
last secured a firm plaoa in the laws.
The last administration reserved over
33,000,00 acres.' The present admin
istration has already added 4,500,000
acreasto this area, and the total in
forest . reservations is now not much
below 18,000 acres. .
, Concerning the wealth of the South
the Kansas. City Times says : "In cot
ton the South still recognizes its king,
and every year adds about $300,000,
000 to the country's wealth from that
. Bource. The timber supply . covers
207,000,000 acres, and is immediately
- availed, while in iron the fabulout
wealth of the mountain States of the
South is generally known. Of coal
the Southern States produced more in
1890 than the whole country combined
in 1870, while the phosphate beds of
Florida and South Carolina are worth
more than the entire gold output oi
California up to date. These are but
the leading sources of Sout hern wealth,
and improved, method will bring the
utilization of many elements which
are not1 now considered productive,
.but it is sufficient to prove that one
;-who casts his lot with that section will
not make a mistake." - . ,
A Federal judge has decided thai
the wife in China of a Chinaman law
fully in this country may entor the
United States. The case on which the
decision was rendered furnishes some
unique details of a Chinese marriage,
observes the New York Mail and Ex
press. Sam Yan, who lives in Oregon
and is registered according to the
Geary law, was betrothed in China
years ago. to. a little lump of yellow,
squalling heathenism, only two years
old. . He had never seen the infantile
prospective bride. But that made no
difference ; he took a record of his
vows, and her vows by proxy, on two
cards and brought them to America
with him. , Six months ago, when the
girl had reached the age of twelve
years, and was old enough to be mar
ried, Sam sewed the two cards together
and sent them to China. The legality
of the marriage was recognized in
China, and Sam's wife was forwarded
to him. Meanwhile he appealed to
Uncle Sam's court to permit his wife
to come in when she arrived. And
Uncle Sam has said that even a China
man may have his wife with him.
vThe industrial advancement of the
South since the war is one of the most
remarkable things in history, declares
the Atlanta - J o.urnal. It is ail the
more wonderful when .we remember
how the war drained the South of its
available wealth. This section had
literally to begin at ' the bottom in
1865. What it has accomplished since
that time is ample proof of the brains
and courage of its people." The Politi
cal Economist gives corns very inter
esting figures to show the difference
resources of the South now and thosi
in I8601. 'The following table gives the
relative , value of the manufactured
products of the South in 1860 ano
1892:
, " I860.- .. ' J892. , '
Alabama.'.'... $10,588,568 $50,219,24!
Arkansas..........' 2,880,573 27,740,79'
Florida.., 2,447,989 11,645,911
Georgia...... 16,925,564 72,800,591
Kentucky.......... 37.931,210 108,446,971
Louisiana........! 10,537,473 ; 63,926,89i
Mississippi . . . .' . ... 6,590,687 20,813,76
North Carolina . .. , 16,678.698 47,863,371
South Carolina.... 3,615,195 42,154,01!
Tennessee......... 17.937,225 79,576,12i
Texas. 6,577,202 51,2l,45
Virginia.....:...., 50,462;i24 .75,391,86(
.West Virginia 76,855,02.
Total.. .. ..193,422,522 729,788,93
The industrial prospects of the South
i are growing brighter, the J ourna
asserts, and the next few; yean
rill probably witness a material de
wopment jn this srction, even mor
fiiarkable than tfuat which has takei
'M in the last Awo decades.
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THE SHIP OF LOVE,
Gales that Wow the ships away
Over leagues of lonesome sen,
Search the dreary deep to-day
Waft Love's wandering ship to me I
- : But the winds feply V
''We roam the sky
And we trouble and toss the sea ; .
' And thy Love's ship sails t
Where the black night wails,
. And comes no more to Ibxe '."
Stars that light the seas afar,
, Where the, mists and, moaning be
Blend your beams in one great &tnr
Light Love's wandering ship to me I
But the stars reply "
' We light the sky, '
Far over the lonely sea ,
- And thy Love's ship dreams .
Where no bright star beams,
And comes no more to thee !"
F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
DE, ' WILL'S" .PATIENT.
K. WALKER eat
alone in his office
at the Orthopedic
Hospital one dark,
stormy night. Out
side the wind and
, rain were having It
all their own way.
The gala swept
around the huge
building with mad shrieks, like a score
of fiends let loose to riot and rejoice in
the misery of suffering human souls.
The rain ' came down in . wild gusts,
dashing itself impudently , into the
faces of the few chance pedestrians,
and forcing those obliged to be abroad
to turn resolute faces homeward.
iWithin the hospital dead silence
reigned. The patients were supposed
to be disposed of for the night, and
lights were out, except in the wards
where the sufferers were so danger
ously ill that the watchers by their
bedsides sat waiting with patient out
ward composure for the approaching
end. : ,' .
Doctor Walker he was familiarly
known throughout the institution as
"Doctor . Will" sat pouring over a
huge volume upon the table before
him and striving to concentrate his
thoughts upon its contents. But he
appeared to be out of sorts; he seemed
restless and uneasy. , ,
' "I wonder what ails me to-night?"
he exclaimed half aloud, closing the
book at last, and pushing it aside with
a weary gesture. , "Somehow I cannot
study or find interest in my work.
mow, it i vrere line some of my
nervous patients I would say that I
feel as if something were going to hap
pen ! Bah ! what folly in a strong man
to allow his nerves to so completely
affect his whole life. One must exert
will power and
"Ah ! what is it? Did you speak to
me, Jvate :
For there at the half-open door of
the office Dr. Will's quick glance had
detected one of the night nurses a
pleasant -faced, kindly-looking woman,
who had been long attached to the
hospital. She stepped to the threshold
and threw open the door.
"Yes, doctor; I wanted to tell you
that there is a new patient in the re
ception room ; a young man ' who has
just been brought here in a cab. His
arm is broken, I think. The driver
says the young man hailed the cab
about an hour .ago, on Green street,
and said that he had broken his arm,
and wished to be taken to friends at
the other end of the city. The driver
drove him to the street and number
designated, but there was no one
there. The house wao quite ompty, (
and a policeman near said that the
family had gone to Europe. At that
the young man uttered a cry of disap
pointment, which the cab driver says
made his own heart ache ; and then he
reeled unsteadily and 1 nearly fell to
the ground. But the driver and the
policeman together placed him in the
cab, and he was brought here, as it j
happened to be only a few blocks
away."
By this time Dr. Will had followed
Kate into the reception room, where a
slight form in a neat gray suit lay up
on a sofa, quite unconscious. .
The doctor dispatched the nurse for
his surgical instruments and soon had j
removed the stranger's coat and rolled
up the sleeves of his snowy under
garments, soft and fine. The "face
upon the sofa pillow was delicate and
refined; ft faco with perfect features;
the long1, dark eyelashes swapping tH
miilO VLCGky VHX? PUi fry UDl A AXtltlX 1.1111'
iug feiiguuy, pnsueu away irom a
broad low brow. The intcrestins
JP
patient did not appear to be more
than seventeen. No trace of beard or
mustache darkened the soft, fair skin.
He looked as helpless ns a child lying
there before the keen, searching eyes
t the young physician. Something
a strange sensation which Dr. Will
did not stop to analyze moved, his
heart as he touched the round white
arm and prepared to examine the in
juries. -
"Compound fracture 1" he muttered,
concisely. "Come here, Kate ; you
will have to assist met" (
"Dear me 1" ejaculated the nurse,
bending over the slim, graceful form,
"he's as delicate as a girl. Look 1
See the blue voins in his arm. Poor
young chap, lie has to suffer yet be-,
fore thai arm will bo welL "
A little later, his injuries ' attended
to, the strange patient was placed in
bod. He had recovered consciousness
and opened a pair of great, dark, beau
tiful eyes to meet Doctor Will's sym
pathetic gaze.
"Where am I?" faltered the patient.
"In the Orthopaedic Hospital, air.
You have broken your arm, and were
brought here by a cab driver. You
nro perfectly safe here. Toll me xous
name and where shall I send for your
friends?"
"My name," a slight hesitation, "is
Halton-Parke Halton. My friends?
Ah I I have none ! I I wont to the
house of old friends they have gone
to Europe. I hivo not been here long.
I have no place to go to. Hut '1 have
money."
'? 'Don't trouble yourself, Mr. Hal
ton. You are all right here. ; The
wards are full, and I have had you
placed in a private room." '
"Thank you! I am able to pay for
it. You will get me well as soon as
possible, Dr. ?" with a slight in
terrogation, . ' , ,
"lam Dr. William Walker, of' this
hospital. I shall do all in my power
for you. ' It is nothing dangerous, my
dear sir : only you must have rest.
Sow, I will give you a sleeping potion,
and hope to find you better in the
morning.";
rarke Halton drank the sleeping
draught, and almost immediately fell
asleep.
Dr. Will sat watching the pale, beau
tiful face upon the pillow before him
with an odd sensation struggling un
der his left vest pocket. -
"What-a spiritnelle face for a man
or a boy, rather !" he exclaimed. "I
declare I was never so interested in a
patient before in mv life !"
The next morning Parke Halton was
much better, and as the days went by
grew rapidly stronger.
Dr. Will spent more tim e in the r oc m
of his interesting patient than he had
ever been known to do before. There
seemed some subtle attraction between
the two, and as time passed it grew
and strengthened.
At last Parke was fully recovered,
and in a few days would be discharged
from the hospital.
One night Kate, the nurse, was
startled by the sound of faint sobbing
and stifled weeping, which seemed to
come from the end of the long corri
dor, near the sleeping-room of Dr.
Will. She hastened softly to the spot,
determined to know what was the mat
ter. This is what she saw :
Parke Halton on his knees at the
door of the doctor's room, weeping
bitterly. .
- Directly, the young man rose to his
feet and entered the room, " for ' the
physician's door was never locked, but
always ready for a hasty summons in
the night.
' In speechless amazement Kate no
ticed the young patient steal softly to
the bedside, and, stooping, press a
kiss upon the brow of the sleeping
physician ; then, weeping bitterly,
steal away once more.
; Out in the corridor the nurse sud
denly confronted the young man.
Halton fell back with a stifled cry.
"Explain yourself, sir," began the
nurse. "Your conduct is rather un
uhual.' ''Come to my room," he said, in a
hurried whisper, "and I will tall you
all. 1 have a confession to make 1" ;
. The next morning, when Dr. Will
awoke from his slumbers, he found
upon his bed a small locket containing
the pictured face of a girl. It was the
exact counterpart of Parke Jtalton.
When he left his room he was net by
Kate, trho annonnced that the young
man was gone. She had found his bad
empty that morning and a sum of
money sufficient to more than , cover
his expenses at the hospital lying up
on the table. But whatever the secret
confided to Kate she kept it inviolate.
Dr. Will's face clouded and a troubled
look crept into his eyos. After that
he became very quiet and taciturn,
and altogether a changed man. .
One day he received a summons to
an uptown mansion, v Its owner lay
dying, stricken down by a wift and
sudden disease. Arrived at his bed
sidei Dr. Will saw at once that it was
too late to save him his hours" were
numbered.
"I have something to tell yon," the
dying man said, feebly. "See that no
one is near. Wait, I wish'to send for
my ward, Leoline Lea."
: A message was depatched, and in a
few moments a young girl entered the
room. At sight of her, the blood re
ceded from Dr. Will's heart, and he
felt as though he was going to faint.
For it was the face in the locket, which
Dr. Will even then wore over his
heart, and the fao-simile of Parke Hal
ton. Stifling aa exclamation, the girl
sank into a seat. The dying man be
gan:. . ; "
"I was guardiftn over Leoline Lea's
property. She was very rich; but I
.have squandered her estate ' X urn dy
ing now. I loved he r and I deter
mined to make her my wife ; thus I
need never render au account of the
r.aeted fortune. I persecuted her for
a year to gain her, consent. She would
soon be twenty-one and out of mv
power, and then I would be forced to
give an account of her squandered
fortune. I was half wild lest I should
be discovered and punished. I did all
in my power to force her into mar
riage with me. She hated me, de
spised me, scorned ma.
"At last, tired of her deance, 1
locked her in her room upstairs in this
house and decided to starve her into
obedience to my wishes. . .
"To my consternation the girl es"
caned from her prison. She knotted
the blankets together and made
rope, by which she managed to effect
her escape.
"3he was gone several weeks. I was
half distracted over her absence, for
she was as ignorant of the world as a
little child. Ilntl bqo net been, she
.
would have known that the law gives
no guardian the right to deprive hii
ward of her liberty.
"On her twenty-first birthday, how
ever, she reappeared and demanded
the restitution of her fortune. But
she" would give no account of her
whereabouts during her absence from
my house until, to-day, when she de
clared that she had found refuge in
the Orthopaedic Hospital. I have sent
for you to corroborate her story. Dr.
Walker, have you ever met my ward
before?" '
Dr. Will's blue eyes met the fright
ened craze of Leoline 's dark ones;
they drooped. How could he answer
that question. She arose to her feet.
"Yes, Dr. Walker has met me be
fore. I am Park Halton." Her face
was ghastly white now, and she trem
bled perceptibly, "I was very ignor
ant of the world's ways, as my guard
ian acknowledges a friendless orphan
or I would long ago have appealed
to the law for protection from his
persecutions. In the wardrobe of the
room where I was imprisoned I found
a suit of men's clothing ; I managed
to alter them so that I could wear
them; and knotting blankets and
sheets together, finally escaped from
the window, breaking my arm in my
flight. I had, hoped to find refuge
until my twenty-first birthday with
some acquaintances at the farther end
of the city, but when I reached the
house it was closed and the family
gone abroad.
"I was in terrible pain with my
broken arm, and that, with the disap,-
Tointmnt. overcame me. and I fainted
and was taken to the hospital. You
know the rest, doctor. Can you ever
forgive my unwomanly conduct?"
Dr. Will took both little hands in
his own and lad her from the room. . ;
"I know this," he said in. a low,
tender tone, "that I love you as man
nsver loved woman before."
Her eyes drooped from before his
passionate gaze. .
'.'"I have loved you ever since my
eyes first opened from that swoon in
the hospital," she faltered, "and it
uenrlv drove mo distracted to re3ct
You cannot
love or respect me?"
' Bat there was no doubt of the love
which filled his heart, and with true
love respect comes always.
And that was the way in which my
friend Walker found his wife. Tid
Bits. . , - ; " ' . . ':
CURIOUS FACTS.
A British peer cannot resign hia
peerage.
Italic type was first made by Aldus
about 1476.
China's national hymn is so long
that people take half a day to listen to
it. V v ' .- .
At a masquerade in a New York sub
urb recently a man who appeared as
Father Time carried a lawa mower in
stead of a scythe.
The Third United States Cavalry
rode 18,000 miles last year on the bor
der, one company, Troop O, accom
plished eighty-five miles in one day.
A gray fox on a West Chester, Penn.,
farm is on terms of friendship with a
lot of young beagle dogs and frequent,
ly sleeps in the same pen with them.
An exceedingly rare anima), a black
faced, black-eared caribou, was re
cently shot at Andover, Me. This
caribou was unusually large, with big,
branching horns.
"The Bachelors' Ready Marriage
Club," an organization, designed for
the purpose of providing the necessary
funds for any member who desires to
be married, is in process of formation
in New York.
The monument to the memory of
King Henry the First of England
ought to be a yard stick. His arm
was just thirty-six inches long, and
that is, where the English and Ameri
can yard got its standard of length.
John Thacker, of Waterford, Va,, be
ing accidently at Cincinnati, bought
at a sale of unclaimed baggage a trunk
in which he found property which
proved to be that of a relative who had
been missing for years, and the inci
dent has led to the reunion of a long
separated family. , .
"Hear, hear," is perhaps the most
familiar interjection heard during de
bates in the Houe of Commons, but
how few members know the origin of
the phrase. It will be a surprise to
many to know that the earliest instance
of its use is to be found in Samuel xx.,
16 : "Then cried a wise woman out of
the city, "Hear, Hear."
Tombstone, Arizona, owes its name
to an attempted witticism. When
Schiefferlin, the discoverer of the
mines in that locality, was starting on
his most successful prospecting tour he
told a friend he was "going to discover
a mine this time sure." The friend re
plied : "You'll discover a tombstone."
In recollection of the re joiner Schief
ferin named the mineB he found the
Tombstone.
A German newspaper states that
the original sketch of the letter of Na
poleon I. which he wrote in 1815 to
the Prince Regent, demanding per
mission to make his home in England,
is to-day in the hands of a resident of
Strasburg. It is entirely in the Em
peror's own hand, full of erasures and
alterations, and belongs to a descend
ant of the courier of General Gour
gaud, who made 1 the clean copy of it
for transmission.
The .successful voyage of an Atlantic
steamer with steam generated from
petroleum refuse is, to the Washing
ton Star, an interesting event. Coal
oil, in some of its forms, has for years
been used as fuel for small craft, but
this experiment with a large steamer
is entirely new.; No great economy is
apparent in the use of this substituts
for coal, however, for in the case noted
the steamer consumed twenty tons of
the liquid fuel per day, which is two
thirds of the weight required in coaL
Says the famous Washington cor
respondent, Bene Bache: A Justice
of the Supreme Court gets $10,000 u
yga?. The Chief Justice receives
$10,500. The salaries are not .. suffi-J
ciest to maintain the dignity suitable
to such positions. They do not com
pare favorably with the emoluments
of judges of high courts in England.
Yet, for tho sake of the honor, many a
great lawyer has boon glad to saerifico
ten times the income car&cd iu prac
tice at ibs liv .
upon my false position,
iryiE LA.DY TS HER WAME,
Litila lady Is her name
She has no desire for fame, . ,1
She Is neither rich nor roud ; '
Should you meet her in a crow J J
You'd perhaps but catch the sight
OI brown eyes more softly bright
Than the water of a brook
In some sweet last summer's nook.
8be's as delicate and shy
As some brown bird that would fly
When you near it ; and her feet
Hardly seem to touch the sieet. ,
My two bands would span her waist
In its bodice loosely laced 5
My one arm would lift with ease
That small burden should It pleass
Her .to call me to her aid.
But she never seemed afraid.
Blie's as tendrr as a dream, "
She's as fleeting as a gleam
Of the February sun
When the clouds athwart it run.
Pure at heart and mild as dove.
She's the only one I'd love.
She's my only dear of dears .
She's my hope through all the years.
r' ' la n k A il.l
is sne youui, i u
Matters not her heart's of gold
Toils she somewhere in the to wn. j
Busy hands and eyes cast down- ;
Is she child or woman nay, '
More than this I've not to say :
She has never dreamed of fame
Little lady is her name !
. . Cecil Charles.
Y
FUN.
Very often you can snow man uy
by simply turning him down. Hart
ford (Conn.) Journal; r , r
Turn about is fair play as the fellow
said when he reversed his cuffs. Hart
ford (Conn.) Journal.
The blessing iu disguise should
greet us with a wink, if it expects to
be recognized. Truth. . ,
When a,' man approves of anything
his wife does, he mumbles his appro
bation. Atchison Globe.
Adam was the first mau to discover
the value there was in'a spare rib.
Hartford (Conn.) Journal. ..
Some people could trace their ances
try back to Adam if they only knew
his last name. -Atchison Globe.
An American's idea of chivalry is to
protect a woman against every man
except himself. Atchis on Globe.
A Western poultry fancier has alien
uronTiiflr Virfiprl whih has laid
an egg every day for over a year. Lay
onMacDuff! Life.
Ltrentors of flying machines should
not :'orgetthe value of dynamite. That
will nake almost anything fly. Hart
ford (Conn.) Journal.
He (raptuously)" You accept me?
Then it's a bargain. She (calmly)
"Certainly. I shouldn't consider it il
it wasn't." Detroit Tribune. . , j
If a woman says something discredit
able of herself in the presence of her
husband, and he doesn't deny it, in
three days ehe will say that he said it.
Atchison Globe.
Bras&ey "Most people take life
very seriously." Fender "Well, I
confess I can't imagine a man becom
ing a murderer with levity. Takinp
life is a serious matter." Puck.
Widow -'Sir, I want to collect the
life insurance upon " niy , husband'
policy. " Manager L. L Company
"Is he dead?" Widow--"No, but he
has moved to Philadelpnia. Mana
ger "Step up to the next window and
get your check, .madam." Town
Topics. .
Donald (after th party) "May I
call on you occasionally, Miss Lester ?
We seem as old friends. Have I not
seen you somewhere before?" Miss
Lester (cuttingly) "Yes, you saw
me hanging onto the strap in the car
one day last week while you were sit
ting down." Vogue.
Man of Fashion (reading in a news
paper that a village schoolmaster . had
shot himself because he could not pay
a debt of fifty marks) "Ridiculous!
Why if I were to shoot myself for
every fifty marks that I owe, I should
be kept at it all the year round T
Fliegend Blaetter. j . :,
Mrs. Myra Bradwell, who died in
Chicago, the other ' day, was the first
woman in this country , who sought ad
mission to the bar,'. She also founded
and edited the Chicago Legal News ,
a law pnriodical 4 of high standing.
When she started the paper her Iiur
bad was a judge. After his term ex
piled he became his wife's assistant
editor. He did good work in this ca
pacity, but Mrs. Bradwell always i.
rnained the centreing force.
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