The Cook County herald. [volume], July 01, 1893, Image 1

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"T\ think I have a sister, Roj and
She is coming to-day," and fester
Laighton raised her clear, sofjeyes
to her lover's handsome face.
She wa^ hardly a pretty giij this
Hester Leigtiton, but she gave jpmise
of being more than pretty in je fu­
ture, for as yet she was barely seven­
teen, a shy, pale girl, whose ppcipal
•charm lay in her girlish innoceije and
tender eyes.
"When do you expect her?" Ely Bel
don said, "this unknown siste] Hes­
ter, for whom you are prepakk such
a welcome."
"To-day—any time. To thijk that
papa had a wife before ffiapma—a
wife who only lived one shorj year—
a little daughter before me, whose
face he never saw."
"'He cannot have been .gift! witli
very strong parental affectiol" Roy
said.
"Oh! you don't imderstam. •_• He
thought the baby died with itsmother.
it seems her sister lost a J), by, and
took papa's little one in its siad, and
kept the secret up till papa -^is dying
jand so-
N
"So you have a new sistr, when
you least expected it. It Waain sunny
Spain your father's romance-!—"
•.•'Oh,. Roy, there is some oni coining.
It is she, and it is only-kkulppss in me
to meet her."
faint tap
polling it
the new-
As she crossed the room, a
funded on the door, and
,She smiled a welcome to
comer.
4
she
As the stranger came foijward
threw back the veil that
face, and Hester almost staited at the
wondrous beauty her eyes rested upon.
"You are my sister?" Hester said,
putting her soft, white an is around
the stranger's neck,and layinj
girlish lips to the vivid crim
of the other's beautiful, srnil
"Welcome to Suncliffe, wei'coijie home."
laded her
her pure,
ion curves
jnu- mouth.
Then Roy came forward)and bent
with haughty grace over Inpz' slender
hand, while his -very soul seemed to
cirink in her beauty.
While they were standing there an­
other gentleman crossed the piazza,
and Hester flew to the window.
"Come in here, Deane. My sister has
come, and I want you to welcome her."
The next moment Deane Stanley was
welcoming the new-comer.
One, hour later Inez stood before the
mirror in the rooms allotted to her,
looljjing at her own beautiful face, her
thoughts reverting to Roy Belden and
his look of passionate admiration.
"And he is the promised husband of
that little dowdy pale-face ,, well"—
with a faint "laugh—"if ever he did
love her, which I rather doubt, I can
lure him from her, chain .. him to my
if Fate is' Idud, I will yel be mistress
of his stately home."
If he ever loved her? This was a
question Roy asked himself when he
thought of Hester, as the days rolled
on and he felt the power of Inez' mid­
night eyes and curving lips luring him
on to madness. He had no thought
at first of being false to Hester, but as
the summer passed, he felt the power
of Inez' siren loveliness, holding him
in a thrall he could not break. Not
that he tried very hard, for self-love
was a gift the gods had not deprived
him of, and so
"Red hps smiling, lured him on.
Bright eyes beaming, held his soul,
Till a languorous, dreamy spell
Bound his heart beyond control
Till faith, and truth, and honor gone.
Till conquering passion stood alone
Where love had smiled before."
Hester watched it all with a strange,
dull, aching pain at her tender heart
that slowly turned to wonder and con­
tempt. Was this her Bayard—her
knight without fear or reproach—this
wavering lover who had proved false
to his troth?
She struggled bravely against the
thought, and,, then—ah, then she could
doubt no longer after the fatal day
she stood beneath the drooping syrin
gas in the old-fashioned garden below
the western gable of the homestead.
She saw "them together, Inez and
Roy—saw him pleading for her love,
almost kneeling before her in the
passion of the moment, and then—nay,
she was not mad nor dreaming!—Roy
had taken Inez in his arms, kissing
the creamy palor of her face, the
curving crimson of her hps, and call­
ing her his darling, his beautiful one.
White as death, with a strange, dead
ly faintness stealing over her, Hester
turned away. She had loved Roy
Beldon, if not with a woman's deepest
love, with all a girl's shy, sweet ten­
derness, and she had trusted him en­
tirely—would have staked her veuy life
on his honor and truth.
She turned up the pathway again.
Suddenly' a strange darkness seemed
to envelop her, and dimly she saw
Deane Stanley coming toward her-
Deane Stanley who had been as a son
*o her father—a brother to herself
His face paled as he saw her.
"Hester! Child! What is it?"
She made him no answer, only held
•out her hands like a tired child, and
then, ere he could reach her swaying
form, she sunk white and senseless
at his feet.
He lifted her in his arms.
"My darling! My darling! Oh! the
coward, but his punishment will be
deep enough, or my name is not Deane
Stanley."
The strange deadly faintness was
only momentary, and coming to her­
self, Hester heard the passionate "dar­
ling" and felt the kisses that fell upon
her hands, and realizing with a feel­
ing of pain, a pain that yet thrilled her
strangely,, that not as friend or .brother
Deane Stanley loved her, but as man
loves the one "fair woman in all the
world for him.
With all her gentleness, Hester
Leightori was singularly proud, and
with smiling lips and cold, haughty
eyes she ,gave Roy Beldon his. freedom.
What if the pallor of her face was
ly calm and cool.
One evening some months later, they,
were all in the music room together,
Hester at the piano, her slender* fin­
gers running listlessly over the keys.
Inez, radiant in her Imperial beauty,
resting in a. low easy chair, with Roy
Beldon lingering at her side.
Deane Stanley 'had ^been abroad on
business, and he had just returned flhe
day beforehand now he stood leaning
idly against the piano, a peculiar ex­
pression in his eyes, as they rested on
Roy Beldon.
"Do you know, Roy, he said, "I
am more generous than I ever deemed
my self, for were I not, the story I
am going to tell, would be untold,
till after your wedding day."
Something in his voice had startled
them from their composure, and Inez'
beautiful face had grown strangely
pale.
Suddenly Deane went over to her
side.
"Confess the truth," he said, "and
mercy will be shown you—confess you
are not Inez Leighton, but the child
of her mother's sister! That the
changing of the children was a concoc­
tion of your own subtle brain—con­
fess that the true Inez died in her in­
fancy, and that you, having the proofs
of her birth in your possession, usurped
her place."
White as death Inez rose to her feet.
There was no need to confess the
truth was written on her face.
She turued to Roy with passionate,
questioning eyes, but it seemed the
glamor of her beauty had fallen from
him, as he realized the truth, and
he stepped back coldly.
"Is it true?" he said "answer. Is
She looked at him with scornful eyes,
then turned to Hester:
"What are you going to .do?" she
said.
"Nothing," Hester answered. "I will
give you time to leave—time to go back
to your own sunny land, before a
word is spoken. We only know your
sin—your own heart its temptation."
"Ycu are generous," Inez said, look­
ing at her with mocking eyes. "You
even forgive me for stealing your
love^'
Without another word she turned
and left the. room, and none there ever
looked at her beautiful face again.
Without glancing at Roy, Hester laid
her hand on Deane's arm.
"Come out to the garden," she said.
"I feel as if I were dying in here. Oh,
Deane, you proved your suspicions
true."
Next day a letter was placed iu Hes­
ter's hand.
"I dare not ask you to forgive, but
in the future you may look with less
scornful eyes upon? my madness, and
this hope I take abroad with me.
—Roy,".
Three years have passed—years in
.which, Hester has passed frftRJLIM}. nn
formed '-girl into a slender^ graceful"
woman, with a face whose beauty
would attract attention anywhere.
A polished woman of the wA-ld,
the acknowledged belle and beauty of
her set, she met Roy Beldon again.
If Roy had not loved her in,the past,
he certainly loved her now—the old
passionate glamor with which a siren
had enveloped hiin seemed a matter of
self-contempt but this was love, the
best, the purest love he was capable
of—and who can give more?
Deane Stanley watched it all with
grave, proud eyes, and smiled when
people spoke of them as lovers.
All his life he had loved Hester
Leighton, but what had he to offer
her? A loyal heart and willing hands
to the heiress of Suncliffe!
One evening he sought her—sought
her in the quiet stillness of the gloam­
ing.
"I have come to say good-bye for
awhile," he said "business calls me
away, and it may be years before I
return."
Was he mistaken, or did the sweet
face pale?
"We will miss you," she said.
"Who are we?" he said, perfectly
unconscious of his rudeness in the pas­
sion and pain of the moment.
"Well, it is rather egotistical to think
I could vouch for the feelings of oth­
ers. I meant society in general and
myself in particular, Deane."
He laughed bitterly.
"Well, Roy Beldon can console you
now, Hester."
She looked at him with questioning
eyes, and then a faint smile curved
her lips.
"It would take a great many Roy
Beldons to console me. Oh, Deane,
Deane!" breaking down suddenly, a
red flush sweeping her face.
"Hester, darling, do you mean
"I mean Roy Beldon asked me to be
his wife, and 1 simply answered 'No.'"
"If I asked you, Hester, my dar­
ling
Whether he asked her then or not
is only surmise, but one thing is sure,
the gloaming fell around a pair of
well contented lovers, and its shadows
hid the passionate kisses of the lover
who had won the purest, deepest love
of Hester Leighton's tender heart.
How It Seemed.
When old Mr. Sawyer of Scramtown
n^ade his first visit to the city he saw
and heard a great many new and
strange things, but he was always
wary in his comments.
1
One day his little granddaughter en­
ticed him into a restaurant, and lead­
ing him to a small table, proceeded
to order some -eclairs, a delicacy of
which she was extremely fond.
"I know you'll like them, grandpa,"
she said, coaxingly and the old gentle­
man bravely attacked the unfamiliar
object.
"Isn't it delicious, grandpa?" inquired
the little girl, seeing a strange expres­
sion come over her grandfather's face
as he :took his first mouthful.
"Well, I presume to say it may be,"
said Mr. Sawyer, in a non-committal
tone, "but doesn't it appear to you to
be '.lest a leetle inite under-baked in the
middle?"
INDUSTRY.
3fTBRESTIlVG MATTERS FOR
CURIOUS. &
Trolley, Storage, Battery or Uncler
Kroand Wires Which?'— Baking
Bricks by Electricity—Domes Made
a
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We eannot write as an expert on this]
electric railroad business in fact, we]
merely belong to the class of growlers]
(though we are not on the front seat)1
which makes its duty if not delight, to
find fault with the electric motor,. but
who do not seem to be •willing for one
moment to- stop and consider fairly
what a vast progress has been- made in
this kind of devices says a ^writer in)
World's Progress. We mu4t, if we
would fairly consider ah the difficul­
ties that, at the outset, beset ithis new
line of invention and development,'
duly estimate how new and untried the
field really was what a mountain ofs»
expense was called for, merely to ex&
periment.
That the electric motor of to-day will
be a great curiosity ten years from to­
day, no one doubts, yet, for. all that,
it stands to-day, howsoever considered,
as a wonder of success in practical op­
eration.
But no one can guess, even/tin what
line the final results is to be attained.
So far. as the grumbler can see, neither
is trolley, storage battery or under­
ground wires the best means or metl:
od. Then the motors,. up ta-date, ar|
too heavy, and the expense of the cu:
rent is too great. So far as, we ca:
see, there must be invented some
tor that will go outside of prese:
lines and combine in its structure a]
the elements of strong and easily co:
trolled power, but that shall be. co
paratively small in size, light a
cheap. We are wise enough, as
other grumblers are. to point out
most easy and rapid style some of tli
ends to be accomplished, buff'we du] 7
confess that we are not able tQ. go ars
further.
In the meantime, we' honor* the p: l
tientT untiring, intelligent toilers \yl 6
have been and "still are hard at wbi Is.
trying to solve the problem. We wo: 1
der, too, that capital', usually s0 field
is ready in such lpoundless sums,
Were, about to say, to help on tl je
work. This, of itself, is an argument
that capitalists see in the near futu
that the motor must be electric, aid
are willing to help on the work "for tl
large gain that its success fully w£ r
rants.
New Musical Instrument..
The manufacturers of musical instlii
ments as well as othersjlmve^tw^-esj 1$.,
been endeavoring to free the tone
the piano from its disagreeable meti j|
litf harshness: The aim -hasr: -been'
produce, a mellow "singing" quality,
possessing as much as possible the
flexibility and sustained character of
the human voice. A thoroughly sat­
isfactory solution of this problem has
not been reached as yet, but great
efforts are constantly being made to­
ward its^ accomplishment. Prof. M. de
Blaminck of Paris has made a great
step in the right direction. He has
conceived the idea to construct an in­
strument which would combine the
special features of a string instrument,
considered as leading, with that of
the accompanying piano. Under the
Domes Made of Paper.
The dome of the rjtgr Observatory
now in course of erection at Greenwich
will be made of p&f>ier-maehe. Tliija.
roof, including, the steel framework
will be over twenty tons in weighj"~
yet the whole will be. so constructed
that it can be revolved-' almost"
'by* the.
pressure of the fingefe'The Palais de-'*
eter, 116ft. high St. Sophia, Constan­
tinople, 115ft. diameter, 201ft. high
St. Maria delle Fure, ^Florence, 139ft.
diameter, 310ft. high St. Peter's,
Rome, 139ft. diamter, 330ft. high
St. Paul's, London, 112ft. diameter,
215ft. high St. Genevieve, Paris, 67ft.
diameter, 190ft. high. The oldest of
these is the Pantheon, which was con­
structed during the reign of the Em­
peror Augustus—London Tit-Bits.
Baking Bricks toy Electricity.
piano a violoncello or a violin is at- title page of an ancient work on mili-
piano. The left hand of the piano
controls the keys, while the right ,^aris
guides the bow of the string instru­
ment. An ingenious mechanism causes
the mellow clearness of the tone pro­
duced upon the string instrument to
keep up with the established pitch of
the piano and imparts a great purity
and sweetness to the tone of the lat­
ter. It is also easy to produce the
so-called tremolo as well as sustained
organ tones on this new piano, which
is something that is impossible to ob­
tain from the ordinary pianos now in
use. When the violoncello-piano em­
braces five octaves it is said to be capa­
ble of taking the place of every
stringed instrument.' It has met with
the strong approval of leading musi­
cians, and great things are expected
from this startling innovation in the
piano world
Justice of Brussels, "recently completedj i011^ woodcuts. It is supposed to rep
which cost upwards of two million* present warfare in the middle ages.
wards of two million^
sterling—thq jSnest in Europe—is star
mounted by. an immense dome made
of papier-maeta^.'weighing sixteen tons.
The largest, ilbines yet
have been of jfoh.. That 6ft
Exhibition at Vienna wasT
width and the Albert Meffy
in London, an oval in shape,
219ft. by 185ft. in diameter.
JttSiructed
Lfle* Great
3£ft. in
Jii Man
'esiiures
The Wg-
est existing domes are: The Pantheon
at Rome, 142ft. diameter, 143£t. high
Baths of Caracalla, Rome, 112ft. diam-
A Milwaukee man has invented a
machine for baking bricks by electric­
ity. The machine is a simple contriv­
ance, consisting of a table covered
with iron bricks molds, to which the
electric current is applied. The table
is 14x8 feet and holds 1,000 molds,
which are joined together like a lot
of "pigeon holes." Each mold is the
size of a brick which has been pressed
but not baked, and each has a looser
cover so fitted as to follow the brick
as it shrinks. The bricks are taken
from the presses and placed in the
molds, the covers adjusted and the cur­
rent turned on. The iron sides of the
molds form the "resistance" and the
bricks are virtually inclosed by walls
of fire. When the bricks have shrunk
to the right size, the sinking covers
of the molds automatically turn off the
current, the baking is done and the
bricks are dumped. When bricks are
burned by the ordinary process, three
days are taken for the baking. By his
process he claims that he can bake
them in three and a half hours. It is
claimed at the same time that the
bricks are baked harder and better
than by the present process.
A Late Improvement in Metal
Working.
One of the latest mechanical' im­
provements in metal working is a sys­
tem of rolls for wrapping narrpw
plates of steel into a bar, which is
much stronger than a solid piece of
the same size. The reason assigned
for this additional degree of strength,
remarks the Boston Journal of Com­
merce, is the simple fact that, if the
outside layer of metal' is broken the
inner layers are intact and will re­
sist further strain, while in the case
of a piece of solid steel the rupture
of the skin is fatal. The seams in
these wrapped bars are said to be
scarcely apparent to the naked eye,
only appearing when the metal is bent
over and twisted off, which, of course,
requires a great amount of force. The
advantage of using these wrapped bars
under certain conditions will be better
understood and appreciated when it
is considered that steel frequently
bears a stronger resemblance to a re­
fined, ductile cast, iron than to a fibrous
wrought iron, and partakes so largely
of the character of cast iron that a
small scratch, on its surface may cause
s^SC®^S!il5ftrtf^hi€rpiece"is^sotid-an3
exposed to vibratory strains.
Rapid Growth of Malleable Iron.
The rapid increase in the capacity
of malleable iron foundries through
extensions of old plants, and the build­
ing of a number of new ones, and
is attributed mainly to the expansion
of the business of agricultural imple­
ment manufacturers, who are heavy
purchasers of malleable castings. But
the consumption of malleables has also
increased in many other directions,
and large establishments are to be
found that do not to any considerable
extent depend upon the agricultural
trade. The growth of the manufacture
of small wares, in almost infinite vari­
ety, is proceeding at a rapid rate, and
for, many of these malleable castings
are demanded. Makers of coke pig
iron are attacking with considerable
success this last stronghold of charcoal
iron, which has hitherto been deemed
indispensable for malleable castings.
Special qualities of coke pig iron are
being made for this purpose, and it is
asserted that the percentage of coko
iron used has not reached its limit.
Not Like Modern War.
The following cut is taken from the
tary
science by Valturius, printed in
111
1512, or over 380 years ago.
4Lr.
JCt is reproduced in the "Caxton Head"
catalogue, published in London, con
gaining a variety of copies of'old-fash-
Strength'd# the Niagarii FiUlSi-
One hundred million'' tons of Water
pour over Niagara Falls every hour
This is said to represent 161000,000'
horse-power. Some idea of- thife- enor­
mous amount of water maty be tad by
understanding that all the coal pro-
duced in the world* would not make
enough of steam to- pump.' a' stream
of equal size.
BEMABKABLE PEOGBESS.
WONDBEFITL IMPROVEMENTS IK
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.
Che Exhibits at the Transportation
Building' at the World's Fair Are
of Unusual Interest—Comparison
Between the United States, and
Foreign Countries.
Jackson Park, Special Correspond­
ence—There are branches of industry
and mechanical skill in which America
is, of course, expected to excel all for­
eign nations, such as in heavier ma­
chinery and in labor-saving machinery,
in leather goods and in manufactures
in wool, and in electrical, lightning
and motive power.
The great stretch of territory from
Maine to California and from Lake
Superior to the Gulf of Mexico, with
its moving tide of population, has also
forced another branch of mechanical
industry into great and rapid develop­
ment upon this continent. The United
States with 170,000 miles of railroad,
more than that of all the rest of the
world, had of necessity to develop the
cheapest and most effective means of
transportation for passengers and
heavy commodities in order to com­
pete with small nations in the mar­
kets of the world. Ten years ago the
railroads of the United States carried
nine times as much freight as the
whole merchant marine of Great
Britain.
The development of this stupendous
internal commerce at the expense of
our foreign trade and shipbuilding in­
dustries was quite enough for the en­
ergy of our people to undertake at one
time. In. forty years it has reduced
the practical business of transportation
almost to a science, and has separated
it into two branches, that of carrying
the heaviest loads at the least expense
and that of carrying passengers at the
greatest rate of speed and at the least
expense. Engines are now constructed
which almost every day haul a hun­
dred loaded cars. The greatest tri­
umph in speed for a- passenger train
was registered the other day, when a
special train now regular traversed the
distance between Chicago and New
York over the Michigan Central road
980 miles in twenty hours, a sustained
average .speed, including all' delays of
49 miles per hour. During this trip the
speed of upwards of 80 miles per hour
was made. This makes an era in the
history ®f rapid transit, and places the
United States ahead in the matter of
passenger transportation as it has been
in the transportation of heavy goods
and freight. There is no better .way
of seeing or understanding the wonder­
ful changes and advances which have
been made in transportation during the
last fifty years. There is probably
more to be learned. of the industrial
history of the United States in the
transportation building upon the
world's fair grounds than in any other
of the great structures. Nearly all the
railroad exhibits are taken up in the
historical order, and consequently fur­
nish material for the student no less
than of thought to the casual ob­
server. Taking the railroad exhibit as
a whole, -it is a very imposing one, and
causes all displays from foreign na­
tions of a similar character to dwindle
into insignificance. There are cars de­
signed for every imaginable purpose in
way of freight from carrying
the
chickens, cattle, horses and hogs" up
to carrying the United States mails.
There are heavy freight engines of all
kinds—ten wheelers, one of which ex­
hibited by the Baldwin locomotive
works weighs 207 tons, large drive
wheelers, gray hounds for passenger
traffic and many others.
There are many examples of com­
pound engines and engines designed
for turning short curves upon mountain
roads. The Pullmans make a very fine
exhibit of passenger coaches and a
model of the works at Pullman nearly
fifty square feet. The Northern Pacific
Railroad company has a train consist­
ing of an engifEe and three observation
coaches filled with cereal, game and
mineral products of the country
through Which they pass.
The English display is also a striking
one. It embraces an engine with first,
second and third class coaches. The
engine is built with seven-foot drive
wheels, yet experts say that it will not
"make as good time as many American
eugings constructed with only six-foot
drive wheels.
regulation compartment style highly
finished within and without. No ex­
pense seems to have been spared in
the upholstery business. The compart­
ments are narrow^ and exclusive with­
out the ordinary accommodations of
the poorest American road. They are
excellent, however, for a class of peo­
ple who do not care to associate with
the common herd or even apparently
with equals.
The coaches are of tfi*
The French exhibit amounts to* com­
paratively nothing. The English* have
taken great pains to display the scenery
by means of photographs along their
lines of road and in this way are en­
abled to advertise their routes and at
the same time make a very creditable
exhibit as a competitive display.
In the matter of railway develop­
ment, however, perhaps we have an un­
fair advantage over the foreigners on
acount of the great incentive of our
magnificent diftances and the wonder
ful growth of our internal conimerce,
but there is another branch with which
we compete with all the foreign nations
upon an equal and common ground.
I refer to the various vehicles of herse
locomotion. The American display of
carriages covers a vast area of tne
north end of the transportation build
fog, and for variety, excellence and
novelty excels anything in the opinion
of veteran carriage men which has erer
been made in the line of a vehicle dls-
play. From the lightest toy boy pony candle was extinguished by other
cart up to the heavy lumber and di ay means than burning itself out—Lon
wagonfr everything imaginable in the don Spectator
line of road carriages and wagons are-'
here upon display. The Americans
have also exhibited a wonderful orig­
inality and taste in many of the new
designs presented. They have not -only
excelled all of the foreigners in origi­
nality of design, but in interior and
exterior decoration of carriages and
in the fineness of woodworkaaanship,
but also in-taste in making the display
and in variety and number of speci­
mens exhibited. It presents in its
fullest conception the glory of Ameri­
can originality and workmanship and
perhaps moye than any other exhib£|
appeals to the pride of the America!
who has been in the habit of seei^rj I
our countrymen excelled in matters
decorative finish and decoration of al
kinds when they come into competl
tion with the foreigners. The onl:
country which wiil at all bear any com
parison in exhibit with that of th
United States is France. The 1
est competition was expected to couii
from Great Britain, in tandems an
tally-hos, but they have present^:
nothing original in design or novel an'
attractive in finish. The American dis­
play has many new ^desiirns in hunting
carts, family carnages, tally-hos, tan­
dems, omnibuses, in all kinds of
wagons chaises, hacks, hansoms,
sleighs, etc. American carriage makers
are jubilant over general results, and
feel that thoy will have no competition
from foreign nations to speak of, ex­
cept, perhaps, a few designs in talley
hos and some silver and gold-mounted
harness. The most noticeable differ­
ence in the construction of carriages
between American and foreign makes
is the lightness and beauty of con­
struction characteristic of all work of
the kind turned out in this country.
For instance, all light family carriages
have the width of feloe reduced to
fifteenth-sixteenths of an inch, while
the foreign make cannot get below an
inch and a quarter and more often
an inch and a half. The spokes are
also equally light and graceful in the
American make, and the hubs are par­
ticularly graceful in outline and finish
as compared with all foreign makes.
The exterior finish of American vehi­
cles is superior to anything which I
have.seen in foreign makes, and even
in the upholstery where I expected to
see the Americans suffer by comparison
they are able to equal and often sur­
pass the best French workmanship. Of
course, much of the American superi­
ority of workmanship is due to the su­
perior excellence of American wood
for fine work, but this cannot account
for the finish nor the originality of de­
sign. I had a talk the other day with
one of the leading New York carriage
makers, who informed me that it ap­
peared to him that Americans could
have-no competition now in the for­
eign markets if they really would take
hold of the matter and push the sale
of their carriages in foreign countries.
He said that he had about
come. gojiclysion to send
the inimitable American 'Trummer^"?
right into the stronghold of the enemy
in the European countries and endeavor
to sell American makes of vehicles
in competition with the best of them.
He pointed out to me a hunting cart,
so beautifully painted, that it looked as
if it had been sheathed in white satin
and said: "I do not think you can
find a carriage finished equal to that
anywhere in the world, and I consider
it only an average specimen of Ameri­
can hand work. The American people
are the stimulators of such work as
that, because they are remarkably fine
judges of good workmanship, and will
patronize no other. It has stimulated
us to do our best, and you see the re­
sults." The excellence of the workman­
ship seems not to be confined to any
locality of this country but to the ex­
hibits of all states from Minnesota to
the Atlantic and southward to Ten­
nessee.
In contrast with this exhibit in the
transportation building, however, we
must put the remarkably fine displays
of the great British shipbuilders in the
line of models. The Cramps of Phila­
delphia have furnished models of all
the great vessels Bunt for the' AmerL-„
can navy in the model warship Rfichi
gan, on the lake, hence they do not
come into direct contrast with the
British models in the transportation
building. The model of the British
armored battle ship "Victoria" has
nothing to compare with it in the
American display. The United States,
however, furnishes the great show of
the transportation building and far,
oyertops all competitors.—Ralph Mci
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1
A SMART YOUNG POACHER.
How a Cunning Lad Managed
Catch Rabbits Galore. ,.^1
On a property where the rabbit shoot
ing was strictly preserved, upon the
southern coast of England, a boy was
once caught With two dead rabbits in
his possession, and nothing else that
would account for their decease. A
search of his pockets revealed nothing
but two live crabs of small dimensions,
the end of a candle and a box of
matches. Under promise of release the
urchin was persuaded to disclose his
method of procedure.
First he selected a likely burrow and
then he stripped off his clothes, put
ting his coat over one hole, his trousers-"^
over another and his shirt over the
third. He lit the candle and dropped*
a little of the grease upon a crab's jf
back and stuck the lighted candle
thereon and then put the crab at an
unoccupied. opening. Straightway the
frightened torch-bearer fied sideway^
into the darkness and explored the inJ
nermost depths, while the boy, expect­
ant as a terrier, awaited events out­
side. Presently a rabbit bolted intoNthftr.
coat and boy, rabbit and coat all rolled'
over together, the boy rising from the
fray with the rabbit in his clutehes.
What happened to the crab the .history
did not relate. Let us hope that the