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VOLUME VII.
NEWARK, NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DELAWARE, APRIL 12, 1884.
NUMBER 17.
THEO. F. ARMSTRONG,
NOTARY PUBLIC
REAL ESTATE AGENT
NEWARK, DEL.
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I hear them stirring below;
Voices I love
And steps I know
Htlll passing
A ml I ask my heart, 8ball I uever
u will pass through that door?
ding clear,
in mine ear,
ami fro.
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I ask, Oh I 1 h It forever
That I have ceased tr
One of the group around the hearth,
>w or their mirth.
I from henceforth free
.all concern with the things of life.
Done with It« sorrow, and toil, anil strife?
forth in silence,
With blind and sealcd-up eye*«?
Shall they throw the windows
air
And gather mementos here and there,
As they think, with tears and sighs,
"This she was fond of—this she wore,
But she uever shall need them any more?"
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THK TtVO COUNTS.
Scene: A watering place on Grapnel
Beach. The lights from the great
"Governor House" stream down into
the water that comes swelling up, swell
ing up wi lii a short musical rhythm. All
back of the white-capped waves that
are roiling in is one dark gleam; but the
moon lifts her silver hern—a white line
streaks the water—the brilliant galaxy
of stars—but hold I I should speak of
other stars—the living beauties at the
"Governor House," ou Grapnel Beach.
The hotel was illuminated from top
to baie. Inside, all was festivity and
joyful hum. Nursery maids in platoons
were marching up the stairs with ba
bies' faces laying over their shoulders.
Babes and maids were almost tired out.
Musical instruments were being tuned
furiously. Now' a natural G would hop
out, anon a guttural flat somewhere
down in the vicinity of a trombone's
deepest bass, and then would come
squeaking a row of fine fiddle tones,
tho whole being suggestive of spirited
hops and small flirtations.
The "dear, delightful" men stood
about in groups, some pursuing the dig
uified employment of sucking tbeir
cane-tops, others admiring the respec
tive neckties of their neighbors and
their own, and all of iliem looking with
eager eyes over to the plr.ee where their
beauties were expected to meet them.
The dancing had fairly begun—all
was fun and frolic. The young baboons
— I beg pardon, I meant men—slipped
out l»e: ween tho dances to imbibe their
bi'undles and flavor precious breaths
with odoriferous tobacco, and the
young uimsliies—pardon again, I mean
ladies, flirted with the sentimental
Augustuses and the muct.struck Toms,
to their hearts' content.
Out upon the balcony with their arms
lovingly about each other's waist, stood
two young girls, or rather two clouds of
muslin, gauze and laces, with warlike
faces and flax-like hair on top.
"\\ here is John, Lettie?" asked one
of them, playing with the ltng ringlets
of her friend.
"Don't know, dear; haven't seen him
for an hour or more. Oh, Minnie! do
you think tlieie is really a live count
coining to Grapnel? Do you think so?"
' They say it is true," replied the
other; all the gills are dying to : ee him.
You know that plain little thing?"
"Certainly, dear."
"Well! dont you think she affected to
tare nothing about the rumor; positive
'she shouldn't care for all the counts,'
said—would think no more of a
count Ilian a good Yankee farmer, un
less he behaved as well. Did you ever
hear of such nonsense, dear?"
"Never! I'm mire I should die con
tented if 1 could promenade with a real
count, and as to walking with him;
Oh, Lettie, dearl wouldn't it be heav
enly?"
" Y es, indeed," said Lettie. "F
part 1 am determined he shall notice
. I do hope that forlorn John Gor
don won't follow me aboui every
where."
"John Gordon is rich, remember,
dear, and everybody is jealous of bis
attention to you. Besides, he's hand
some, and 1 do believe ho loves you."
"Oh, yes! there is no doubt but wliat
he loves me—but mercy I What is
John Gordon by the side of a count!
O, Minnie! I have such feelings some
times. I do believe I was born to be a
great personage, somewhere. I don't
like tins dull American life where one
has to notice everybody. How delight
ful it would be now to say on every side
'my lord.' Oh, isn't It noble; isn't it
grand?"
"Yes, dear; but isn't the dew fall
ing? Hadn't we better go in?"
»So they went in. And the trombones
groaned, the Addles s jueaked, the flutes
made charming music; and there was
a sound as if the great hotel was keep
ing time in a periodical shake, and even
the ocean was dancing.
"Well, Hallet, wasn't that talk de
lightful, now?"
"Wasn't it rich, by George! the little
Is there a count coming?"
"Coining!—there's one here; been
here lluse two days, but the girls don't
know it. lie's a gentleman, too, and
mistake—that plain, grave man hi a
Muck suit—looks like an American cit
1
my
izen more than anything else; He's in
cog; w ants to study manuers here at our
great feeding places." ,
"Ah! so that is a count? Well, 1 must
say lie's a fine, sensible looking fellow
He's paid considerable attention tothat
Miss Jennie Phillips, whom Lettie Gro
vellen called that plain little thing. I
presume she meant by that, plain dres
sing, as she lias one of the sweetest faces
[ ever saw."
"Hallet, did you see those two foreign
fellows seated on the bench by one of
the lower doors, this evening?" asked
John Gordon.
"I think 1 take," cried Hallet, wit
"I'll put au X in,
a hearty laugh,
a V on that, for the sake of that fun.
, then, we shall find them
"Come
somewhere "
The organ grinders were in company.
They were Italians—brothers—with fine
eyes and full beards, long noses and
ragged clothes. They could talk just a
little English, and understood more.
When found they were closlug a bar
gain with one of the servants to play
for them in the great kitchen, but when
John Gordon called them aside and
made them a tempting offer, they, with
many grimaces and shrugs, pleaded an
engagement to the people below stairs.
"If you manage it well, I'll give you
fifteen dollars apiece, and you shall have
our tickets for the grand supper to
night."
"Ya'as," said the delighted foreign
, their eyes sparnling.
Hallet laid down the programme.
John Gordon went down * o secure their
organs, in case they should take a rov
er's fancy to their new broadcloth, and
to prepare their wardrobes.
The fellows dressed quickly. They
looked like gentlemen. As to the use
of lorgnettes, finger-rings and perfumed
handkerchiefs, they needed no instruc
tion, An intuitive grace made them
very conspicuous. John Gordon walked
toward Hallet with
"They beat us at our own game; they
are really handsome fellowsl"
"Let the lions loose," said Hallet;
"they have their cue," and accordingly
the lions walked down stairs with
exceedingly great swell. John Gordon
and Hallet watched them, and said to
each other, "it was capitally done."
Their incoming caused a sensation.
Decidedly they were the most distin
guished-looking men in the room.
Here and there, carelessly, Gordon
and Hallet let drop a hint. It made a
ripple—the ripple spread and broke into
a thousand lines. A whisper surged
from one end of the room to the other
—two counts! Two counts, live ones,
handsome, with an air distingue. Some
of the ladies did all but faint. Some of
them smiled quietly, quietly elevated
their glasses, and—wished the counts
would only smile on them. The counts
did smile; first here and then there.
Presently John Gordon and Hallet ap
peared. Ah, they were immensely de
lighted I What shaking of hands!
"They know them," whispered Let
tie Grovellen, with a smile of ecstacy.
"Now we shall be introduced."
So they were; so were the others; but
the two friends, Lettie and Minnie,
evidently made an impression. Actu
ally they were promenading around the
hall—each leaning on the
count 1 How modest and quiet they
tried to appear! How their hearts beat
and the blood surged to their «illy brains
with triumph I The poor little muslin
clouds with waxen faces atop.
"Will you walk on ze balcone,missV"
asked the elder, in worse English than
we can write.
"Oh, with pleasure, with delight 1"
exclaimed Lettie.
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of a
She wouid have given exactly the
same answer if he had asked her to go
te Kamschatka.
They walked out
there to the supreme envy of every lady
but a very few who had happened to be
born with common sense, an endowment
more rare than genius.
"I like you very muclie," said Let
tie's count. "I
rich in my own
countriel Tese diamongs coomo from
my eztate; zey very bootiful diamongs.
1 have so large houses and so large
gold 1—all so large as you never zee iu
zis coontriel"
Lettie's heart beat almost to suffoca
tion—the little fool!
"Efe I could only get one wife, so
han8oome az you, I should be i>erfectly
zublime!"
Lettie hung heavily upon his arm.
Meantime the other count was going
through the same farce in a perfect
agony of mutilated Saxon.
"Zspose I did azk you to be my one
leetle wife—you zay no?"
"I think I should not," replied Let
tie, in a voice as soft as a zephyr, "if
papa is willing, and 1 know he would
my
m
"Ah! I now be charming, zublime!"
"How delicate," thought Lettie. "He
does not even attempt to kiss me,though
he might as well as not."
Didn't her eyes shine brighter than
the count's diamonds when they re-en
ter^ the hall? Wasn't the bloom on
her face most brilliant? Couldn't
erybody see that she was as good as
married to the count? The same re
marks will apply to Miss Minnie.
They leaned so closely against the
splendid coat-sleeves of their foreign
attaches! They looked up into their
faces with such a bewitching confidence!
"Isn't it most timel" asked John
Gordon, with an appalling wink.
"I should think so," replied Ilallei,
as he felt for his watch—but the count
had it.
John Gordon and Hallet disappeared
with elongated faces that shortened as
they found themselves alone. Present
ly they entered the hall again, followed
by two stout servants, each bearing a
hand organ. Up they marched, to the
consternation of the company, directly
toward the two counts.
Confusion!
"Here's a shilling for you," said John
Gordon, roughly, to Lettie's escort;
give us 'Still, so gently.' Do your best,
now I"
With a bow and a grin the count
loosened a white arm from his own. and
doffing the green baize, he took the
■hilling, buckled on the hand organ and
set up a squeak.
For a moment, as the two fellows
ground away, bobbing and grinning,
there was a strange silence. The com
pany "took," and such a yell (not fash
ionable by any means) went up as was
uever heard from such a polite assembly
before.
Lettie stood a moment, red, mortified,
confoundedl So did Minnie. But pres
ently
and tbe oilier made her exit by some
more desirable means.
in
our
I
of
wit
fine
muslin cloud fainted away,
The real count enjoyed the lesson as
well as the rest. But let it be remarked,
en passant , that Lettie and Minnie were
types of more than two-thirds of the
fasliionablo belles at Grapnel, and that
the pretended counts were perhaps
more sensible, and certainly more hon
est. than the fops who laughed at them.
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An old custom of the Spanish court
requires that when a baby Is born in
the royal family it shall be officially
nounced that a "vigorous" infant liar
come into the world. The Queen of
Spain having become the mother
of a sickly child, which* lived
only two hours, the court journal
chronicled the birth and death in the
usual way: "Her Majesty was deliver
ed at 3 o'clock of a vigorous infant,
who died at 5." The Epoca of Madrid
lately reported that the Town Council
of Seville, having had an interview
with Alfonso XII, 'kissed the feet of
His Majesty and withdrew." It is not
supposed that the Councilors actually
went down on all fours and kissed the
King's boots, as if he were the Pope,
but etiquette demanded that they should
l>e said to have done so, because a
Town Council does not stand on the
same level of dignity as the the Cortes,
whoso members are supposed to kiss
hands when they take leave. Three
lelters B. S. P. (besu sus pies), which
mean, "I kiss your feet," are still used
by gentlemen in Spain when signing
letters addressed to ladies, and by sub
jects to their King. The letters B.S.M
(beso sus nianos), which are used by
men writing to men, and by ladies to
ladies, would seem to cavalier from a
gentleman to a lady, and downright im
pertinence from a subject to bis sover
eign.
One of the chief reasons of the Duke
d'Acosta's unpopularity during the
brief reign which he closed witli
a voluntary abdication was that he
would take no pains to study the com
plicated ettiquette of the Escurial, but
sought to introduce simple manuers in
a country where even beggars drape
themselves proudly in their tattered
mantles, and address one another as
"Senor Caballero." He one day told a
muleteer, with whom he stopped to
talk on a country road under a broiling
to put on his hat; forgetting that
by the fact of ordering a subject to
cover himself in royal presence he cre
ated him a grandee. Marshall Prim,
who was standing by, hastily knocked
the muleteer's head-dress out of his
hand, and set his foot upon it, at tho
same time offering the man some gold;
but the muleteer, who was mortally of
fended, spumed the money, and a few
days later, when Prim was assassinated,
a rumor was circulated that the morti
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of
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lied individual who had narrowly missed
becoming a grandee was accessory to
the crime. On another occasion King
Amadeo inconsiderately addressed a
groom of his iu the second person sing
ular
tu. Happily the man was an
Italian; for, as a Court Chamberlain
represented to His Majesty, a Spaniard
spoken to with this familiarity might
have claimed that the monarch had dubb
it
of
I
to
ed cousin—that is, had ennobled him.
Another thing that much-worried Ital
Frince had to learn was that a
Spanish King must not sign any letter
to a subject with any friendly or com
plimentary formula, but must simply
write Yo el rey , ("I, the King.")
Etiquette is the code of rules by
which great people keep lesser ones in
proper respect. Prince Bismarck, when
a baby, was rebuked by his father for
speaking of the King as "Fritz."
"Learn to speak reverently of His Ma
jesty," said the old Squire of Varzin,
"and you will grow accustomed to
think of him with veneration." Young
Bismarck laid the advice to heart, and
to this day the great Chancellor always
lowers his tone and assumes a grave,
worshipful look when he alludes to the
Kaiser. If a message is brought to him
from the Emperor by word of mouth or
in writing, he stands up to receive it.
When a w'edding takes place at the
Prussian Court, it is the practice for
the State dignitaries to form a candle
procession—that is to say that minis
in their hands aud conduct the bride
and bridegroom round the ballroom,
where guests are assembled, and thence
into the throne room, where the pair do
homage to the sovereign. At the first
royal wedding which occurred after the
Chancellor had been promoted to the
dignity of Prince and Highness. Bis
marck failed to appear in the candle
procession, and the court gossips quick
ly concluded that he now thought him
self too great a man to take part in a
semi-menial ceremony. The truth was,
however, that the Chancellor had been
seized with a sudden attack of gout;
and at the next wedding he was careful
to silence all carpers bv carrying his
caudle bravely like other ministers,
Prince Gortschakoff was always
equally careful to observe the minute .t
points of etiquette in relation to tho
late Czar and the imperial family.
Lord Dufferin, asking him whether
the Emperor's cold was better, was
rather startled to hear him answer in a
reverent voice. "His Majesty has
deigned to feel a little better this
morning." The Duke de Morny said
of Gortschakoff that he seemed to purr
when he talked of any creature at
court, "even of the Grand Duchess Ol
ga's monkey." But possibly this im
perturbable obsequiousness is appreci
ated by the rulers of the earth, lor
Gortschakoff remained Prime Minister
throughout the whole of the Emperor's
reign.
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"Im," said Amy to the high school
girl, "tthe told the Htory, and of course
she got the cart before the horse."
"You mean," corrected Mildred, "tbut
she caused the vebioio to precede t the
quadruped."
Tiie LiiKlUh
. iilulit* Teinplar.
The reign of Henry HI.,
mich
occupied fifty-six years of the thirteenth
century, appears to have been the
culmination of the power and wealth
of the Templars. But their position
became invidious; their privileges en
croached on the rights of the Church
and the prerogatives of the sovereign
and feudal chiefs. It is not wonderful
v.
that, distinguished and enriched as the
Templars had been, their hearts should
have been lifted up with the pride
which goes before a fall. The Tem
plars won the "cream of the cream" of
European chivalry, and the esprit du
corps of the order inflamed the pride
which chivalry universally inspired.
Their pride, however, does not appear
to have shown itself in
a
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as
a
to
to
of
agnifleent
buildings; their preceptories, as far as
we can judge from the few remains of
them at Temple llnrst and elsewhere
were unostentatious. Iudeed, as they
were only transient occupants of their
houses, they were not likely to expend
much on their architecture or orna
ment. Of the history of the Templars
in Yorkshire, between the time of their
establishment and their dissolution,
scarcely any records remain. That
many of the Templars were stained
with the licentiousness of the age is by
no means improbable. In January,
1308, orders were given that the Tem
plars throughout England should be
arrested and their property sequestered.
The King had sent a writ to the Sheriff
of Yorkshire, Sir John de Creppinge,
commanding him to summon twenty
four discreet and faithful knights, to
be at York on the morrow of the Puri
fication, the day appointed for the
capture of the Templars. The Tem
plars, who had been brought together
from all the northern countries to York,
had undergone examination from April
27 to May 4, 1310. We are surprised
to find that they were only twenty-five
in number; most of their names indi
cate their Yorkshire origin. (See list
in Raine 's Fasti Ebor ., p. 372.) Among
them were the preceptor of llibstou,
William de Grafton; the preceptor of
Flaxllete, William de ia Fenne; the
preceptor of Newsome, Godfrey de
Arches, and two priests. William de
Grafton, of Rlbston, as appeal's from
his examination, had been thirty-two
j sais in the Order, having been admitt
ed in London by the Grand Master.
Being questioned on the subject of its
mputed heresies, he replied that lie be
lieved as other men believed; and as to
the abnegation of Christ, he declared
that he had uever heard of such things.
The distribution of the Templars
among tho monasteries soon afterwards
took place. John de Uopperton, for
merly a Templar, appears as enjoying
free maintenance from the preeeptory
at Ribston, near Wetherby, then held
by the Hospitallers. Among the charges
on their revenues in 1338 are the annual
wages, six marks each, of twelve Tem
plars, among whom aro several York
shiremen. The records of the Exche
quer contain numerous documents re
lating to the property of the Templars
in this country.
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I have attended parties of both sects
of Mormons, says a correspondent. The
Mormon party was chiefly distinguish
able for the abundance of its pretty
young girls, and the rather large pro
portion of elderly and gray-headed
escorts, while the scarcity of middle
aged women and the small proportion
of young men seemed conf%icuous.
The appearance of a blooming little
beauty, scarcely into her teens,
whirling through a passionate waltz in
the close embrace of a fiery-eyed old
grandtather, in whom the fires had no
right to lurk, struck mo as singularly
unpoeticul. A friend has likened it to
the appearance of a snow-storm
sunny July day. It is one of the fam
ous "beauties of polygamy," this blend
ing of winter ana summer.
The girls have grown accustomed to
it and generally accept their aged part
ners gracefully. The old fellows them
selves seem never to grow rusty. They
maudlinly in love at 80
did at 18, and their watery eyes gloat
the soft complexions of their fair
companions with all the appreciation
of a connoisseur in the art of "mashing, "
and their exalted position in the ranks
of the faithful serves ofttimes to make
them dangerous rivals of any youthful
Adonis who may venture to enter the
lists against them. At the Gentile
party which I attended, a masquerade,
I was much amused by the character as
suined by one of the male maskers, aid
ed by a lmlf-dozen feminine companions.
He impersonated an old rustic Mormon
and the girls figured as bis six wives ol
six different degrees of age, from 13 up
to 50, and of six different styles ol
beauty—a blue-eyed school girl, an
couth Geiman peasant clod, a sparkling
brunette of petite form, a buxom boot
tish Highland lassie, a strong-minded
strong-featured, vinegary-browed dame
of 40, and a gray-haired matron.
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Chutes over dams for log and lumber
driving, and slides down mountains and
hillsides for tbe same purpose, are com
mon, but such appliances for ruuning
grain from mountain tops are a novelty
that Washington Territory has intro
duced among the utilities of industry.
They are employed on Snake river. The
hills on either side are
precipitous that a wagen
possibility, but tin* great w heat country
demanded that the grain should be
brought to tho river banks as expediti
ously and economically
therefore, pipe* were laid up the face of
the mountain, and grain is now sent
down m bulk to tbe warehouse, where
it is again sacked; the price paid is $2.60
per ton for merely bringing it from the
top of the hill to the boats; tbe pipes
are of wood and are fully half a mile m
length.
rugged and
ia an im
I ii i.s si I, le ,
tial Evidence.
"Facts are stubborn things,
like stubborn persons, they require to
be judiciously bandied, or they will
make trouble
Yet
Scientists and jurists
know from experience that an isolated
fact is often misleading. It may appear
to supply the missing link in a chain of
circumstantial evidence, even when It
does not belong there at all.
It Is the knowledge of the misleading
tendency of unrelated facts which makes
our courts insist that each separate
fact of a case shall be prove'and then
that they shall be welded together.
The following story, told by Colonel
Ramsey in his 'Recollections' illustrates
the serious error which may lurk in an
apparent but really isolated fact.
An old clergman, one of toe first
mismatists of Great Britain, was on his
way to the British Museum to examine
its collection of coins. On his way there
in some obscure street be bought a coin
which lie pocketed with eagerness.
On his arrival at the museum he found
that the usual guardian of the com*
was absent from his post. But one of
the superior officials, knowning the cler
gyman well by name as a distinguished
numismatist, volunteered to show the
collection to him, and asked what he
v. ould particularly like to see.
He at once said the coin of the Saxon
King Offa. "I thought as much,'
swered the official, smiling. "Of course
you are aware that it is priceless, for It
is the only one known to exist. "
The clergyman made no reply to this
assertion and the collection was brought.
After looking attentively at this coin
and others, the clergy»» an was asked
by the official to help him to put them
back. He aided him and was going,
when the official, missing the precious
King Offa, said:
"Holloa! Will you come back, sir?
Kiug Offa has disappeared."
After most diligent search it was not
to be found, whereupon the official
waxed wann, and said: "Sir, either
you or I must have it, and I propose
that a tiiird person be called and
pockets searched."
At this monent the rightful guardian
of the coins appeared. The clergyman,
however, stoutly opposed exhibiting
bis pockets. In the meantime the new
comer turned all the coins out, and dis
covered the missing coin underneath
another It had stuck to it, some glutin
ous matter being on it.
Great were the rejoicings and profuse
the apologies on the part of the official,
who however, expressed his astonish
ment at the unwillingness of the clergy
man to show his pocket.
"This was the reason," he replied,
putting his hand in and taking out
another coin of King Offa. "You will
not now wonder at my objection.
"The dreadful thought flashed across
me that if this w'aa discovered—it being
believed, and I having tacitly admitted,
that there w'asno other coin in existence
of King Offa—nothing could save me.
"I picked it up by mere accident in
an obscure street, which I should never
be able to trace again. Being a stranger
In London, you will allow, sir, that I
had strong reason for declining to be
searched."
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lows In the Coal JKegtons.
While no organized relief societies
exist among the colliers, there Is a gen
eral system in vogue which does its
work well aüd promptly. Every print
ing office in this region is visited weekly
by persons wanting raffle tickets. Those
tickets cost $1 a 100, and are headed,
"Raffle for a Cooking Stove," or clock,
bureau, quilt, table or some other arti
cle of domestic use. It is announced
that the raffle is for the benefit of a
widow or an injured miner, and will be
held at a place designated, on the "night
after pay day. " The price of the tickets
is generally 50 cents. The raffle is in
charge of a committee whose name« ap
pear on the ticket. Take the case of a
woman, for instance, lately made a
widow. She has been left penniless,
as miners' widows usually are. Every
body understands this, and the 100
tickets aro promptly disposed of among
the miners, who pay for them on pay
day. On that day the widow gets $50
cash. The night or the raffle comes,
and, probably, one-fifth of the ticket
holders assemble, A fiddler, a keg of
beer, and a little "hard shtuff" form
the elements of the entertainment.
The young lads join in a dance with
the lasses, the old men sup and smoke
their pipes, and the old women recount
the virtues of the decased miner.
About midnight the raffle begins. The
names of the ticket purchasers are put
into a hat and well shaken. Whoever
secures the prize at once turns it over
to the beneficiary. The company breaks
up, happy over the good time they have
had, and the kind deed they have done.
That $50 goes a long way in keeping
the shadows from the little house. It
will sometimes pay a whole year's rent,
and it only requires one or two more
raffles to keep the widow's poor larder
stocked, for it must be understood that
potatoes, cabbage and meal form tbe
staple articles of diet in these humble
homes,
A year is a long time for a comely
and thrifty woman to remain a widow
at the mines, no matter how many
children she may have. Jim is killed
to-day, and possibly before the summer
ends, Jack, who was Jim's best friend,
insists upon marrying Jim's widow.
Jim's babies become his. And if you
go below the surface you will find the
foundation of Jack's action to be pure
charity. It is a matter of record that
when the terrible Avondale disaster oc
curred so many widows and helpless
ones were left that the matter of caring
for the former speedily was discussed.
It was quickly settled by propositions
of marriage, and within a very short
time after the calamity the household
ss
[of every victim was protected. This
same spirit exists in every mining com
munity to-day, and is a shield against
much distress, Attempts have been
made from time to time to organize
mutual benefit associations among the
miners, but invariably the schemes have
come to grief, usually through the cu
pidity of the managers. The miners'
unions that have been formed to relieve
distressed miners, and the widows and
orphans of miners, have all been wrecked
in the shoals of politics. An association
of the kind was organized by Charles
Parrish, at the time president of the
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre coal company
and a large owner of the collieries. It
was in the flush times of several years
ago. His system involved the payment
of 50 cents a month by each employe
Into a general fund. Every miner in
jured in his work drew out a stated sum
for his support during his illness. Every
widow got a fixed sum, as did every or
phan up to a certain age. Thousands
of miners were enrolled in this organiz
ation. Not only were the men taxed,
but the company itself contributed
something. For a long time things
went on swimmingly. The fund in
creased a great deal more readily than
demands were made upon it until the
sum of $00,000 was in the treasury.
This accumulation worried the men,
who imagined that something woulu
happen to the money. Agitation
fanned the fears of the doubting into a
blaze of suspicion, until finally, against
the earnest petitions of Mr. Parrish,
and hosts of well-informed miners, the
demand for the distribution of the fund
among the contributors became so ob
stinate that the trustees turned the
money over to the claimants. Since
then no other effective system has been
adopted.
Efforts have been made from time to
time to induce the miners to abandon a
custom that prevails among them.
Whenever a man is killed in a mine
while at work, every man in the colliery
stops work. Frequently 1,500 em
ployes turn out and remain out for two
days. There appears to lie a deep su
perstition that prompts this peculiar
exhibition of respect for the dead.
Tea Fames.
Tea parties as a formal moal are only
given in the country, as the late dinner
takes their place. But "5-o'clock teas"
—a repast served between luncheon and
8 o'clock dinner, in the city, are all
the rage, and have become a favorite
mode of entertaining one's friends,
both in England and the United States.
They are more informal meals than
Inncheons, because the tea equipage is
placed in the library or reception room
or back parlor, and one of the young
ladies of the house serves "the bever
age that cheers and not inebriates,"
while the lady of the house reoeives
her guests, and gentlemen pass the
cups, bat a servant is always in attend
ance.
It is, however, made the occasion of
displaying rare ohina; and the hostess
takes special pains to procure very
highly flavored Pekoe-orange tea, and
to have her silver tea kettle boiled upon
the table and the tea made there.
Rare flowers are also exhibited and
rare tea gowns are worn by the ladies,
and everything is made as "extremely
esthetical and rarely poetioal" as the
hostess oan arrange affairs.
The highly flavored cupful of tea,
with thin waters, sandwiches and cakes
of several kinds, furnish all the refresh
ments, and ladies wear tho same hats
and dresses as at reception or lnnoh
parties. But frequently music and
dancing are introduced as parts of the
entertainment, and the guests remain
longer than at luncheon parties.
At "the dansant." which is usually
inscribed upon the cards of invitation,
a suitable dress for dancing should be
worn, with or without a hat, as the
wearer prefers. But the dress should
not be as elaborate as a ball dress.
A "high tea" is, to some extout, in
place of a dinner, aud suvory cold
meats, salads, preserves, oysters, cakes
and ices of all descriptions can be
served. And the gneats remain until a
late hour, and cards, danciug aud
musio are en regle for their amuse
ment.
The tea table is orten decorated with
baskets or dishes of flowers, and small
bouqnets are laid at each plate, and sev
eral oourses are seryed, with white
grapes and a oordial glass of noyeau for
the last oourse.
A beautiful device for ornamenting a
lunch,dinner or tea table is a mirror with
large glass globules around the outer
edge, and a glass basket of similar de
sign, filled with fraits and flowers, is
placed in the centre of it, aud around
it are grouped low cup-shaped glasses,
each holding a rare orchid
quisite rosebud, with a few ferns, and
after the repast the flowers are givenjto
the guests. If is said that tho time
wi 1 soou come when we Americans will
think leas of entertaining our friends
with every delicacy of our country aud
all the climes of the earth, and will
derive mo repleaaureiu intellectual
versation, mingled with charming music
and the exhibition of rare sets of en
gravings, with which to interest our
gnests. In short, miud will predomi
nate over the sensuai appetites, and
brains will assert their rule over stomach.
A "big feed" involves a great outlay of
money and time—and of what gain is
it? Not the least; but rather much in
jury is the result, and the sooner we
learn this lesson the butter it will be
for ourselves.
I
An Old Soldier.
William J. Palmer, of Battle Creek,
Mich., now eighty-four, was a British
soldier
tended the burial of Napoleon on that
island, May 8, 1821. And singularly
enough, within 100 miles of him at
Detroit, Francis Martin, at that time
with his uncle commanding a ship off
St Helena, also attended the funeral.
But several people in this country were
in Paris, December 15, 1840 when the
Emperor found his final rest beneath
the dome of the Iu valides.
duty at St. Helena and at
Life is made up not of great sacri
fices and duties, but of little thiugs. in
which smilef and kindness and small
obligations given habitually are what
win and preserve the heart and secure
comfort.
•Tay Gould at Play.
Mr. Jay Gould declared to Ills near
friends his intention to retire from
his active business life on the completion
of his steam yacht Atlanta, built fur
his projected tour around the world.
His son, Mr. George J. Gould, a young
man of 23, is to take bis place as a spec
ulator, and Mr. Gould himself will lead
a private life. Mr. Gould's fortune is
carefully estimated in round numbers at
$100,000,000 of which $20,000,000 is m
stock of the Western Union Telegraph
Company and $20,000,000 in the stock
of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
pany. In real estate he has never put
much money, considering the size of
his fortune. His investment in this
kind of property altogether amounts to
about $5,000,000. The remainder of
his wealth is in securities, mainly in the
shape of the bonds of different railroad
companies. But one large deal in spec
ulative parlance remains to be consum
mated previous to his retirement, and
that is, from the accounts given, the
proposed alliance between his South
western system of railroads and the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
system and other tributary roads. Ex
cept in bis specialties, those in bis con
tidence say, he bas not dealt actively in
stocks for two years. 1 he last time he
stepped in to make his might felt in the
market was when he and Mr. William
II. Vanderbilt engaged in the somewhat
"pegging" operation to prevent a gen
eral and disastrous break in the whole
list. The "boys," as Cornelius and
William K. Vanderbilt are called, have
taken their father's place in the market,
and Mr. Gould's contemplated retire
ment will be even more complete than
that of William H. Vanderbilt, for
Gould's has been a life of speculation.
Mr. Gould expected to leave on his
Southwestern trip with Russell Sage
and A. L. Hopkins. He was at his
house recently when waited upon to
learn about his retirement, but was oc
cupied with a party of friends. Mr.
Washington E. Connor, who has long
been his business manager, and who Is
head of the firm in which he is special
partner, said that Mr. Gould's affairs
were in such a shape that they could be
closed up in twenty-four hours. Mr.
Gould was a thoroughly domesticated
man. Nothing afforded him so much
pleasure as to be with his family. His
children, six in number, of which bis
son George was the oldest, w T ere grow
ing up, and the attention be would de
vote to them would occupy his mind.
Mr. Connor paid a high tribute to the
whom Mr. Gould bad chosen to suc
ceed him. He said he frequently took
charge of the workings of the stock.
He selected his own brokers and sent
out his own orders. He enjoyed specu
lation, and, what was more, was suc
cessful. When told of the belief in
some quarters that Mr. Gould would
not start on a trip around the world at
all Mr. Connor laughed at the skepti
cism. He said that Mr. Gould might
not go as soon as he had first intended,
but that would be because his yacht
would not be ready. He would prob
ably cruise about New York for a time,
and might start across the ocean any
time from August to October. When
Mr. Gould was asked about two months
ago about his prospective tour and if he
going to retire permanently irom
business, be said: "I am going to try a
little play. I did not have an opportu
nity when I was young, and I must do
tuy playing later in life. If I like it I
may keep it up. Mr. Gould is 47 year
f age.
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Tod ns; Man.
There are more young American men
in the penitentiaries in this country
learning trades than there are outside
of them. The principal cause of this is
that we are educating our young men
for gentlemen—trying to make lawyers,
preachers, doctors and clerks out of
material that nature intended for black
smiths, carpenters, sailors and other
honest "hewers of wood and drawers of
water." It is a mistake, and a big one,
to teach the boys and girls to believe
that to labor is disgraceful, aud to do
nothing for a living is more becoming
the society in which they expect to
move and have a respect. Hang such
society! It is rotten to the core to-day,
and there are many men's sons and
daughters who are now being educated
to play the parts of "leading lady" and
"walking gentleman" in the great
drama of life who will light out for a
poor-house or a penitentiary before they
have played their parts and the curtain
drops. Go to work I
American Method,
The peremptory American method of
making telephone calls—"Hellol"
"Hello?" "Give me 12991"etc.—would
never do in the polished Castillian
tongue. Courtesy of intercourse must
be preserved even between Invisible
communicants, and the unseemiug vex
atiousness and petulance which the tel
ephone seems to provoke in Saxon moods
is iuÄr allowed to obtain utterance
here. The regular response from the
central office to a telephone call is
"Mandeusted!" which is equivalent to
"At your command!" Then prelimin
aries are gone through, something as
follows: "Good morning, senorita; how
do you do?" "Very well, I thank you;
what service may I render you?" "Will
you kindly do me the favor of enabling
me to speak with Don So-and-So, No.
777?" "With much pleasure!" etc.,
etc., and when the connection is male,
the usual polite introductoriw are gone
through before proceeding to tl»e busi
ness in hand.
(Jzkoeb Drops. —*Oue-half cap ol
batter,
sugar,
ing teaspoonful of soda. Ginger and
salt to taste. Drop in tins aud bake in
qnick oven,
cap of molasses, one oup of
oup of cold water, one heap-