Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1892, Page 12

ON THE NORMAN COAST From St. Andresse to Trouville by Way of Honfleur. A FRENCH BATHING BEACH. francs, ‘LITTLE CHALETS. riage with one horse and a driver costs - a about After leaving Honfleur, stretching all the is cheap and all coun face Sear aos sor ee for OQ a day. For ‘The Chalets of the Prosperous People of | aie oneal ih all Havre—OMi and Interesting Honflear—A SummerGarden for Artists— Rustic Lunches on theCliff_The Gateties of Trouville. ‘Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. Sewrasn, Joly 3, 08. | OEE aR eeeoanenee There are three ways of getting to Trou- | fordy poplars are ville. The first is by direct rail from Paris. | of the ancient town of the second is direct by steamer from Havre | heavy Norman chapel dating and the third is by steamer from Havre across the mouth of the Seine to Honfleur and by a carriage drive of ten miles along the Norman coast. The latter route is naturally the most Pleasing. Havre itself is a large city and a great port. But, apart from the merry, balf-camping-out life below the cliffs at Sainte-Addresse, there is little of the seaside resort about it. The Hotel Frascati, on the beach, does what it can to at- tract guests. It has provided a casino and a theater, both attached to the house, and it makes the most of a smali stony beach. De- spite the comfort attainable at the Frascati, its patrons seem to be confined to travelers, largely Americans, waiting for the transatlantic boats, invalids and the overflow from Trouville. At Sninte-Addresse, one-half mile above Havre. the life is democratic and without care. le who summer here occupy the tiniest planted directly and open to the air, Each bas i ters—-Chalet des Rosiers,” “ . s0 on—while the most extravagant of the lot in it, design and decoration is happily labeled, "A Mon Idee.” Many of these cottagers live in Havre. and only occupy their seaside houses of Sunday or other holiday. Then « dinner is given and so many guests are crowded into the open front room that it is a matter of skill to seat one's self at the table which. leaves place for scarcely anything else. Here they will sit with their friends, their children and their little dogs and birds and sing, drink, talk and eat until the sun goes down crimson into the and From Sainte-Addresse to Trouville is a longer distance socially than it is geographically. The route by way of Honfleur is charming. Hon- fleur isan ancient seaport town, pict uely situated on the left bask and af the mouth of Sei large quantities of eggs, and fruit to England. It bor. But it was an important piace when Havre was gothing and when William the Conquerer with his fleet from thie hood to smooth and hard and in Norman vil for all The for more than of not more than eight feet. bathing wonderfully safe. cans read of the gayeties of Trouville it is im- portant to understand in what sense the word i used. It is not difficult to call up the picture of @ magnificent beach. lined with bathing machinesand bath houses. this beach or clinging to the ropesin the should be the distracting beauties of Paris re- vealed in the chicness of costumes not quite HONFLEUR LIGHT HOUSE. hind it isa mill pond of ice-cold with water TROUVILLE and might is notably Trouvill@ is an old town running down the side of a hill to # magnificent and smo6th beach of fine sand. It must have been the beach that recommended Trouville to the mansions. Besides these there are threo really great hotels, one casino, numerous bath houses and souvenir shope,one cafe concert anda couple of open-air restaurants on the beach. These comprise the Trouville of which one reads, and the rest of the town is like a dull t be twenty miles away the difference it would make. beach of Trouville is several m: = iles cae x sea, with « fall This makes the ‘When we Ameri- ily painted curt modest. Along the board walk—for there is a Jong | board walk—there should be cafe concerts and CHAPEL OF COTE DE GRACE. High on this cliff, and just outside Honfleur, —t little Bethlehem, with the infant Savior in the , carved to order come Chinese artificer ail remembrances of sailors when far from home. Around ANTIQUE MARFLEUR. Indeed, the situation is exquisite, and the More so toan American accustomed to New | Jersey sands, because of the height, the apple tree shade and the romantic Trou no encot village of £ ‘3 i if i HE restaurants and lights and music, with all the accessories of the grand boulevard transported bodily. Such # picture would be altogether quiet to dullness. The villa rietors lead-their own life, and when it is un- Sieteed Gas they come for rest and a quiet existonce en famille (such us every Frenchman aspires to, though he may never accomplish it,) ment need be expected from them for raree shows or cafe spectacles. Because the French language has no word for “home” it must not be that the thing is itself unknown. Trouville homes—homes of the rich, where ultra-fashionable society may have its swing. but which is else S noisy popuiar resort. Not are bathing costumes modest, but the women’s | Hi g “t Cabinet. THE SUBS AT THE DESK. “Gone the House and Gone the Senate”— How the White House Looks—Sketches of Some of the Working Parties—Willits and His Flocks—Nettieton at the Treasury—The ‘Snarl With Great Britain end Canada. ‘en irrup- tion. NA WALL AT THE IN TRE EVENING Navy Dopartment is a the moon rises in quiet glory map of the earth giv- master, go blindly wandering up and down the sea to the peril of every “live” vessel Te a : adrift Upon that wIitts. ee Ere VAt\ scribbled chart their ‘Thellusson’s Great Scheme—Jeremy Ben- tham’s Mummy—Napoleon’s Spite. From the London Daily Telegraph. A remarkably curious will has just been pub- lished—so remarkable, indeed, that it might well be added to the already copious catalogue of eccentric documents of this nature. The testator wasa wine merchant of Bristol, who valued at little less than £16,000. He one-half of his prop- erty in trust to securean annuity of £150 to his wife during her widowhood, and directed that the other moiety should - be divided into as many shares as he had children, for whom, until they respectively attained the age of six- teen years, the trustees are to provide “plain food, simple clothing and bare necessaries,” with s sound practical education at a or boarding school. At the concl payment mode’ on thelr behalf, ox: ve on their , OX- suck'es may be requisite for teaching honest trade or handicraft, just as were the children of some workingman had only left behind him a certain sum to labyrinthine paths are traced round and round inloops and trianglesand double bow knots, and day by day, as news comes in from the cast- aways the vigilant. skipper in charge with a bit of colored ink gives each ttack a new angle or & wider sweep and s@ds word of the danger to the principal porte, UNCLE SAM'S DERELICT. Our ship of state is a sad derelict this month. Her aimless rudder wit with the tide and her blistered deck of asphaltum abandoned by guolters and siaggess choct upon oor Eomegease 8 and sf about upon our gen, the Potomac. She sprung a leak, another half billion dollars, this year, but the best men of both parties that she is very staunch and seaworthy, thatthe revenue pumps are in first-rate order and that, with a nt watch on the port quarter she will wi many such seasons. During the year she leaked two enor- mous debts that freer use of Father Holman’s oakum might have saved twenty-five millions of bonds and seventeen and a half mil- lions refunded to the states—a tremendous sum, sufficient to swamp an ordinary European craft. And now, during August, nobody is on deck but a few middies and cabin boys, too poor to desert the ship. GOING, GOING, GONE. as © promise distinction ands the trustees are autho to no expense in his training for such ion, and may even, if gy it de- sirable, trench on capital of share; but if any one child, owing to continued ill-health, should be i tated from his own pert of the in- his aintenance. | On at- taining of twenty-five years each son and daughter is to receive is’ or her share of the testator’s property, the payment of which, however, may be deferred, if mand it, for another two years. ‘This, perhaps, unprecedented will would not on the face of it appear to comprise any clauses contrary to public policy, such as those which parliament contemplated when in 1800 the so- called Thellusson act was passed, restraining testators from devising their property for pur- poses of accumulation for more than twenty-one years after their death. It will be remembered that Mr. Peter Isaac Thelluseon, a merchant of Swiss extraction, who had long carried on @ prosperous business in London. who died in 1797, left £100,000 to his widow and children and’ the residue of his is Hnshed are Holman’s economics: ‘Hushed are Reed's remar! Hushed Boutell ished OfNet Ends the Record’ Ends the river-harbor Job: Ends the agricultural question ther corn is in the Cobb ‘Whet! Northward flee ‘High or low each vassal truiges mar satire rs comiess Hibernian ‘iyrics Quaffs, perchance, ‘Drawn from Sa: Every morning. . aro ‘toga's well (On Bar Harbor's buckboard riding; Through the Thousand Islands paddling; sliding rat Cape Ms ‘operty, more than £600,000, he left to trus-] Ou the chilly shore at Sco Yoon, toacoumulate during the lives of his threo - the aud —- sons and the lives of their sons; then the es- tates directly to be purchased with th’ produce Seeking hille and rates and streamlets, of the accumulated funds were to be conveyed to the eldest lineal male descendant of his three song, with the benefit of survivalehip. Peter Thelluseon’s will led to protracted and costly litigation, which was not concluded until 1859, when the long-pending ques- tions were decided on an appeal to the house of lords, but it was stated, when their lordships’ decision was given, that, ow- to the immense sums nt in legal costs, the value of the estate did not very greatly exceed the sum to which it had amounted sixty-two years previously. This colossal iainmocks spoony, Where mosquitoes ply their italets. And the very lakes are loony; hant this minute vir tieecsnspoeen ead yne the Honse and gone the Senat Gone the boss and all his hands, ‘And I'm off myself! THE MAN AT THE OAR. Officially, I say, the ship of state is a cast- avay. Foster, of the State Department, the very newest ember of the cabinet, is the only man left on deck to pipe to quarters in an emergency. Noble, tusk, Foster, ist, Elkins, pro-| general of the Jesuits did at scheme for accumulating wealth beyond the dreams of avarice may or may not have been . but, curious to relate, Peter Thellus- son's idea was made use of by Eugene Sue in his romance of “The Wandering Jew.” A normally large sum of money was supposed to have been accumulating at compound interest for upward of two centuries, and the mainspring of the plot wasa conspiracy on the part of the Jesuits to get hold of thls tremendous peeulium. Th succeed in clutching the precious packet of securities rej resenting thir untold’ treasure, but be wee unaware of the contents of the parcel, which was accidentally burned, and the untold treasure ‘vanished into the mnfinities. ‘The most curious and perhaps the most spite- fal will on record is that of Queen Austrigilda, consort of King Gontram, who by her nuneu- Miller, Tracy, Wan all away on business, and their business didn’t take them south. Gen. Noble seems to be headed for St. Louis, whose midsummer mercury is always in a state of ebullition, but he is booked for a lecture or two and a speech or two anda visit or two else- | where, and he will, I believe, take long and | comfortable detour among the and Wolverines, and stay just as little as possible in the city of the exasperated thermometer. In | his absence Judge Chandler is at the oar; posi- tive, direct, unambiguous, vigilant, untiring, and yet, 1am bound to add, apparently cool as acucumber. Those who have -@_ him tall have an impression that he is a republican; in fact, that if he had a ditch that he wanted well dug he would prefer to have republicans to dig it, but that he would know as quick ne lightning it it wasn't skillfully dug and send to the inefi * tive or verbal testament enjoined her hus- | (i, - Band to slayand bury in the came grave with | “ient# the yellow bounce, herself the two physicians who had attended to HEADQUARTERS. her majesty during her last illness. Scarcely less vindictive was the will of the selfish hus- band, who forbade his wife to marry a second time,’ concluding with the threat, “If she dis- obeys me I will come again, if Ican.” Quite at the opposite pole of sentiment was the direc- tion of the woman, who predeceased her husband, to her executors to seek out some nice, good, pretty girl who would make an affectionate second wife to her spouse. Eccentricity and nothing else distinguishes the will proved in 1724 of Henry Trigg of Stonage, in the county of Hertford, grocer, who directed that his body should be committed to the west end of his hovel, to be decently laid there upon a floor erected by his executors; and only sixty years ago, it is said, the bones of Mr. still remained unburied in the rafters at the west end of his hovel aforesaid. te as bizarre was made in the phic Jeremy Bentham, who enjoined his executors to embalm his corpse and dress it in the clothes which he was accustomed to wear in his lifetime, in order that he might form the text of a lecture to be delivered an- anatomy in Windmill street, Haymarket. the occasion of one of the lectures on Jeramy Bentham's mummy the venerable philosopher's The White House isin the semi-dismantled condition that always denotes the absence of the President and his family. Even Halford, the assistant magistrate, is away a good many of these scorching days and O. L. Pruden is in command—the man whose admonitory voice in- stantly stills the noisy House,even if Jerry Simpson is on his feet, when he delivers to that body an armfal of bills that the President has signed. Pruden knows how to keep house. He isnotyro. The top of his head is mature and he has a great deal of other special training and experience. Col. Ernst, superintendent of pub- lie buildings and grounds, has vanished, too, but a few improvements are slowly proceeding, and the pittance which Congress doled out, ‘20,000, will be spent in decorating the central corridor of the Executive Mansion, in laying a mastic pavement in the basement and in reno- vating the old cockade which Jackson set up on the roof in one of his patriotic moments. THE 6OXS OF MARS. During the absence of Secretary Elkins at Deer Park Gen. L. A. Grant, assistant secre- tary, takes care of the army. He is not likely to get overheated or to become sick from any intemperance during this canicular period, for head fell off and. to irremediable , | his temperament is phlegmatic. He right * an artificial ‘head was modeled ia | along and makes haste by not hurrying.” ike wax by Washington, he never slops over. Like U, 8. Grant, he never phlogisticates, The gray hirsute sideboards which frame his healthy cheeks are a type of the Englith discretion and solidity of his method. He might have beon a major general now if he had accepted the com- mission of lieutenant colonel in the Margaret Gilles, the distinguished pene vk rey But the mummy with the waxen head has long since faded out of the pub- lic ken. Peter the Great is said to have made a will in co his hei: li been disputed, is sh: great war by the soldier who made his patro- | ‘itt sishply. pple ok on | cane weipeand. sf teas om pose T | ceaee, bere, I paid bagels yes! we ee , after wri tury by August von Kotzebue. Of the genuine- | should ever have got higher than colon ,” said Li peti ane Serger ipa. ried — ‘s Sogd perfectly flat es son, eee, otis Feat Seal pk Seabee ab | Deere Ces Jere” gee aka im, Aa feefty cents. Der rules of | dry I remove it, and it looks then ee the ere WHERE TREY KEEP THE MONEY. “T don't care anything about the rules| Pon very decently ironed. the testamentary injunction of Queen Austri-| During the absence of Secretary Foster Gen. | of the shop. You've taken my glass and I want | for the yurpose, it aap hee Ris "The exile of Nettleton until now presided over the Treasury | it the busy. He of one enext. The ith his when Napoleon III came to the throne, | tallness, his vigorous face and his blus eyes and and Cantillon was his abominable {chin beard, but I maintain the legacy. ‘prossed by Mark that view ex, y Twain ticular friend of Jim Smiley’: is much handsomer than . He superintends the thule and attorneys throughout ail the states, ‘Written for The Evening Star by Olive Thorne Miller, PERSON THROUGH THE i uid Her husband and children are obvious enough, and" “Mother, where's this?” and “Mother, won't you do that?” are painfally common their ‘The listener cannot ~ is umay be, jon of every ‘a hand in every ‘THE POOR MOTHER. When discovered she generally proves to be & worn, tired-looking person, dressed very he | plainly—podtly, if tho family income is slender—with hair drawn straight back, and | iepapichanayrasereteiapomentarey] iv, q t cravate, hunting ’uj books, lending a hand | here and a pe igre) crap mane of | her family is in order and equipped for the day, and when she has closed the door behind fhe inst one she pegoeeds to devote her day to wor for them reparing for re- turn; not one thought for, herelf, not one | moment for rest or. recreation, not one plan | for personal pleasures or improvement doce she Tam aware that this sort of a character is lauded in many good books as on, the | ideal toward which all mothers should struggle but I venture to differ with the good books on this point, because I have seen how it works. HER MISTAKE. The motives of the unselfish mother are above reproach. She aims to give her family her whole self—body amd soul—and she does, wonder what manner of “ who is supposed to know the one’s belongings and to one’s duties. Dr. Edwin Willits is another member of the summer cabinet, One fact almost as exasper- ating as the weather is the circumstance that his with the realms of Ceres, Fiora, Pan and Jupi- ter Pluvins. Already there are signs of the coming of the Grand Army of yublic tember. The white lot is % cae Ti smell of new pine; odorous with pine and clam- orous with hammers and a-buzz with saws, and animated with swarming mechanics erecting over these acres around the monument a tem- but not her best self. ‘The service she renders Ree eet isto their lomer mature, to their physical want for the needs o! rit, for the cultivation = Se ee of mind aud heart, sho ‘utterly incapacitates From the Chicago Tribune. When a woman with nomore than twenty- ‘The other day a man who was passing through the Possum Ridge country came across on old,” gray-haired native who was sitting ons log at © lonely, wooded point in the road. The native was plainly in distress, for he sat with his head bowed upon his hands, and his whole air was four hours to her day is the one’s possessions, the faults of idleness, or carelessness, the willing servant of the whiole household, how can she to body. we refreshed, her mind enlightened and abreast of the time, in order to perform these higher uses? As the training of mind and heart is more important army bestowed upon him at the close of the | one of the deepest defection. The stranger was interested and even touched by the old man’s appearance, and brought his horse to a halt at once while he accosted the old fellow. “Unele, good morning to you.” “Mornin’ to you, stranger,” the native replied, lifting his head a little. “Uncle,” the stranger continued, “it appears to me that you are in trouble,”” * “Reckon them 'pearances hain’t deceivin’ of you none, mister.” “Then you are in trouble, my friend?” “low Lair. I'm into it up to my eyes an’ than the physical comfort of a child, so is it more imperatively a mother’s duty to prepare hereelf and keep fit for that work. HER DUTY. Not that physical comfort should be ne- glected, but it should always occupy sub- ordinate place. For instance, a mother should rovide suitable garments and conveniences for Keeping them, but she should not put them on to child big enoagh toverve itself, norhunt them up when carelessly mislaid. If necessity com- pels her to make her children’s clothes she should not spend hours and days over ruffles and fur- belows, because Mra. A——, with twice her in- “Indeed! How is that?” come, dresses her daughter in ruffles and fur- “Wal, you see, ther wuz a preacher feller | belows. If obliged to do her own cooking she come up to hold meetin’s, an” he preached | should not waist her energies concocting pud- whole passel o’ sarments, an’ they wuz all “bout them two places folks goto when they die, you know.” “Yes, I understand.@ “Wal, he sorter blazed out a road to both o° them places so’s we could see jest how we hed to travel to git thar, an’ when i tuck an’ sized up my doin's ou yearth it ‘peared a right smart eI wuz travelin’ the downhill path.” “ ‘Wal,’ thinks I, ‘that won't do,’ so I aimed to head ‘round, but I wa'n’t sartain how to do that, 80 I went tothe preacher an’ axed him, ‘lowin’ he could fetch me to the right way.”” “And he told you to repent and live a Chris- tian life.” “Yas, be did. Said I must confess my sins own up I wuz sorry fer ‘em, an’ all that.” ell, that is not hard to do.” “No, it hain't, but it ‘pears lack that hafn't all thar is to bit. From whut I could gether from the preacher's words jt seems that bein’ ins shain't enough. "Pears lack dings and pies because her family like t) and are used to having them. Something far more important than fine dress or elaborate | cooking demands a mother's freshest powers: it | is wisest for her to economize her labors for | their physical welfare, that she may have more | to spend on the molding of character. ‘THE EFFECT ON THE CHILDREN, In other ways also the unselfishness of mother affects her family. For one thing, it makes them helpless. Children who have always been waited upon are really to be pitied when forced to live without their life-long | servant. They do not know how to help them- selves; the daughters cannot keep a room in order; the sons can never find their “things.” ‘Then, again, although they may love her after a fashion, as one loves a useful being of a lower order of ‘intelligence, children cannot respect their mother—as they should—as their superior in mental and spiritual development. In these days especially, when our young folk have ad~ vantages so much better than fell to the lot of | 's the way I figured hit out, an’ that’s jest whar I stuck. I don’t mind nothin’ "bout ownin’ up to my sins an’ repentin’ of ‘em, but when it comes to givin’ ‘em up an’ not sinnin’ no more hit ‘pears lack hit's b'arin’ down on a body mouty blamed hard, an’ I don’t jes’ see how I kin do it an’ live.” “Oh, you wonld have no trouble on that score, my friend. You have never committed any great sin, I'am sure, and if you were to give up all your evil ways you would lose nothing in a worldly point of view.” “Wal, in the fast place, I “low you're mouty igh correct, but, in the next place, I'm afeerd |: you're way’ off.’ I reckon I hain't sinned much, shore enough. *Pears lack from what the preacher says my wast sin is steclin’ sheep.” “But did you steal sheep?” “Wal, I reckon you mout say Idid. *Courso I don’t want to jes’ come out fiat footed. an’ say I did, stranger, but I'm willin’ to own up that I've eat a heap o’ muttog that wa'n’t rightly mine an’ I've killed a many sheep that other folks had a better right to.” “Well, well, I'm very sorry to hear that, my dear sir. Stili, if you repent of your ways, the Lord will forgive you.” “Yas, that's what the preacher said. But as Iwus sayin’ "while ago, repentin’ hain't goin’ todo no good, ‘pears lack, 'les'n a feller quits off an’ lives different. That’s jes’ whar { got stuck in the mire, an’ no way I look I can't see no way out. I'd liketo jinein with the preacher an’ all them folks an’ go ‘long with ‘em to glory, but it's awful hard to think "bout settlin’ down to eatin’ old bacon an’ corn bread when the woods is full of good fat mutton. I've worried over hit a good bit, stranger, ‘cause I want to 0 to glory when I die, but I'm blamed if I Eein't steered I hain’t goin’ to make it. Them sheep, I reckon, is goin’ to standin my way.” the earnest effort of every mother at least to keep up with her children in intellectual | growth, that she may the more easily guide their moral and spiritual life. Furthermore, unselfishness cultivates tyrants. There is no despot like the child who has elways been waited upon, and none who will be more actions from his friends, his assumptions of superiority, his domineering over bis house. hold, will turn him into a domestic autocrat of the most unbearable sort. THE MAKING OF A SELFISH CHILD. Selfishness, utter selfishness, is, however, the most flouriehing crop from the mother's unsel- fishness. That any one’s wants can be so im- portant as his own_never enters the head of a child so trained. That any one’s comfort is to be considered, that any one has rights that he must respect, are all finsuspected facts in his theory of life. That everything should go on y—his clothes be always in order and in place, the dinners always perfect, the service always up to mark—is no more, in his estima- tion, than that the sun shall shine or the leaves come out in the spring. It has always been so in his experience—ergo—it must still be so; if not the woman at the helm is in fault. So the devoted, self-abnegating mother becomes a bugaboo in her son's household and “My mother did so” the shibboleth before which it quakes. RESPECT DUE TO THE MOTHER. A wise thought for herself, a careful preser- vation of her best powers of mind and body, is « mother's duty for the sake of the souls she | has to train. - No less imperative is it, for their | sakes, also, that she understands her position and maintains the dignity of it. ‘To give up soo her needed rest that her ‘young and vigorous daughter may have some pleasure sl set Got the Best of the Glazier. her heart on, though a strong temptation to a From the Chicago News. mother, isin every way unwise: to take any chair because her son is occupying the easiest is unjust to him, depriving him of his training in courtesy to superior age, to woman, and | above all to his mother. her daughter may shins worse, cultivating the regard of her mother. Res} pensable ¥ where shall it be acquired if not in the study of their own mother in their childhood? Ironing Al Fresco. There is just now a triumphant little lady on Dearborn avenue near Chicago avenue, and only ablock away is a glazier who* is suffering the horrors of defeat. In tho Dearborn avenue honse were two broken window panes. One of these was en- tirely destroyed and the other had only a smal corner broken off. ‘The glazier - was sent for to them. om the lady had two small pictures in need of glass and the big pane was just the thing. She would have it cut to fit them and would be 0 much mos But when she had paid the workman ie of glass was gone. She sent the domestic over for it, but the glazier refused to give it up. “It vhas der rules r shop.” he explained, Then the To wear prints that satins is, if possible, s selfishness and dis- ‘or ittle woman went over. <~ ironed? Oh, ve clean wet handkerchie®, while it is walked up to the counter, yw pane and started out “*Pélice! home —— — aees work- man, rushing out on the sidewalk. usband laid the glass not at hand or at any time when handkerchiefs run short: If one has a bad cold such e echeme may save a great deal of discomfort.” . itua- and the ive told the hus- it AM aicecict ed the tion was explained {acral ph cr ginal band to take his ni} E t Is E ; I ; | are formulating | ing challenge to the ‘athletes of | States. Experts are already busy figuring on between the persons most directly interested in their parents, it is a struggle, but it should be | 46 disagreeable to live with all his years. His ex- | f AGAINST THE BRITISH. LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONY. ‘A Good Guide te Go By in the Event of an | The Great Melp It Has Proved to Be in All ‘International Match. Business. From the Plectrical Farinerr ‘From the New Sun. The all-abeocbing athletic" topic has deen} A surprising feature of long-distance tele farnished by the announcement, exclusively | phony is the remarkable amount of business Published in Friday morning's Swn,"that the | that can be crowded intoa very short conver- English & eweep- | sation. Tho fact that the commauication ob- the United | tained is in actual conversation at-first hand the possible outcome of such a contest. Some | the matter under discussion is what renders the G0 00 far as to assert that America would prac- | telephone so far superior to the telegraph for tically witt everything, while the more con- | very many purposes. Question and answer are servative men think that victory would rest | exchanged immediately without the annoying with the | delays incident to telegraphic dispatches, Although an international contest has never Propositions can be made and commentet on, taken between ewosen tims of both coun- modified or rejected. in a manner quite impos- tries ecare interesting | of Besring om to cies” he date | sible by telegraph; in fact all the advantages of nish ble particulars Tecord books fur- of peerious form. The *,Persenel pretty fair indications of relative merit. iene ore it juentl: however, formance dotiein's y. Numerous tuetances could be given of the number of business questions that can that © per | he di in @ single talk over the wires may Giv® NO | within the minimum time of five minutes inner. For | Probably the Gest on record ix that where one in Mew York and one in Boston, discussed and settled four entirely dix # tinct affairs in one minute and a half, Two of the matters dealt with involved large sums of Fase Rareanets “Fh is interesting, since money, but the men were able to lay their Petree Sonepat =p ie cantar | heads tc . figuratively speaking, 0 well, tried fori. al ly two occasions ‘they | although literally they were #o far apart, that Bradley wes not | it took them bat a few seconds yn each case to critics ch red then ek in, Sttide on what should be done. It ean readily sprinting re bes we wen ate ea be tmagined Dow many telegrams would hove - 4 to do the same ount of busi- quire to ail their fancy paints him to preven | B&e® requires oe mp fs he Americans from scoring a succession of — victories in the runs up to and including the s half mile. Beyond this point the real strength of England in the athletic field becomes rent. In runners fixed, and alt mile and four-mi orate from age at any moment, & powerful reserve. it of Great Britain are jandred-vard run—C. A. Bradley, Had- osrour ndredeandsforty-yard *C. D yan y ran—*C. Dick- inson, Dublin, 50 2-5 se¢onds. -yard run—W. J. tes. « London A.C., 4 minutes 19 1-5 seconds, Four-mile ran—J. Kibblewhite, Essex Bea- gles, 19 minutes 50 $-5 seconds. Ps +Ten-mile ran—W. H. Morton, Salford Har- | f." riers, 52 minutes 33 4-5 One-hundred-and-twenty-vard hurdles G. Bulger, Dublin, 16 seconds, Seven-mile walk—H. Curtis, Highgate Har- seconds, Tiers, 55 minutes ‘W. H. Smith, Birch- ~and Englic iy F may deteri- isalways em instance, tied that his draf p in the interior of the state had lowed to go to protest, and in ord his interests be was on th ® journey that would have kept him awa his office for three d advised hum to telephone to the bank that beld his draft, | He did The bank informed him of the state of affairs and recomm | lawver in the town to take tl n had an interview by telephone with the lawyer nd gave him instructions to proceed, and the same afternoon the lawyer reported that be had out an attachment and that the draft would ully covered. over the affair might have been an l expense was for three and two with Ver, ax against an absenc om town of two or three days end traveling expenses ranting to £40 or $50. tual been al- to protect Two-mile field Harriers, 11 minutes 23 1-5 seconds. intigh Jamp—A. Watkinson, Hull, 5 feet 835 no'menns the long-distance: Broad jump—*D. D. Bulger, Dublin, 21 feet | 1 itting the shot—*W. J. M. Barry, Cork, 42 feet 1034 inches. Hammer throwing—*W. J. M. 183 feet $ inches. toll? "eult—Wateon and Dickenson, « tie, 11 eet 1 thousand fold. T Barry, Cork, | their head offices in. N | other cities ‘in the | cally indispensab between the chief. the periodical j the and the manager +This race was run in 1891. The race for this place all their | of the factory or branch o year has not yet taken place. All the other | affairs go thoroughly in tox 4 is: | adapted the service 10 re nandred-yard ran—L. H. Cary, M.A. C., | out it for a six were the Cost twice what d tadercenarro 5 3 L a|* is brokers and lawyers form x. ree -twent gee oe * | another large class of patrons, bu! it was among C., 22 4-5 secor the manufac that the long-distance tele- phone first “caught on,” and they have steadily availed themselves of it from the time of ite es tablishment ar a mercial means of commu- needs would be with- 41-5 seconds. . P. Conneff, M.A. C., 4:min- | Five-mile run—T. P. Conneff, M. A. C., 27 minutes 38 2-5 seconds. / Ten-mile ran—E. C. Carter, minutes 24 seconds, | One-hundred-and-twenty-yard hurdles—A. F, | From the Lewiston Journ Copeland. M. A. C.. 16 sec It's the custom nowadays to speak of the ie-mile walk—T. Shearman, M. A. C., 6| English sparrow as if he were the « minutes 56 4-5 seconds, z | relsome member of the flock, while all Three-mile walk—C. L. Nicoll, M. A. C., 23) of the feathered songsters dwelt in peace and paresis chemenmie 4 Hjertberg,N.J.A. | harmony. But there's many a deaily battle : i waged in the tree tops in which no immigrant C., 11 minutes 34 3-5 secon! ei igh Jump—A. Nickerson, N. ¥. A. C., 5 foot | from over the sea has « bill. ‘The biue birds — E . lows have been carr 43g eae AP—C. 6. Raber, Bt. Louis, 22 S00t | wartare over a martin house, and the outery up “Putting the shot—G. R. Gray, N. ¥. A.C.,| there followed by the expulsion of one bird feet 5% inches, x ee oe ¥s th ¢wo or three of his enemies in close pur- Hammer throwing—J. 8. Mitchell, N. ¥. A. neal. C.. 136 feet 1 inch. : Pole vault—Theodore Lute, Detroit, 10 feet ™ blossom, the gin humming birds’ hov throwing fifty-six-poand weight—J. 8. | one of the bright Mitchell, 8 Y.4-C., ly ‘These see - IN THE AIR. jes Grappling in the Blas, x feet 3's inches, I; itors were but th figures by no means represent the best form of the winners, as any close student of | ethic coed Ooo an fellow-laborera. The pair div glance. There are several events, too, which vary from the English pro- SPout equally between gath a oud gram, and these differences would require nice | ¢b* 7 wee yest the intrnder on their presery could he get for their attenti He'd fly off to a ne adjustment in compiling an equable list of in- | ternational events. x j The Americans who have already won cham-| pionships on British soil are: . x One hundred yards—1888, Fred. Westing, We"? turned like a flash f light he wa M. A. C., 10 1-5 seconds; 1891, L. H. Cary, M. | 8€4in. trving to get his bill into a flower bef A 5 "~reg . ed one of his rivals saw him. But it was two Ptr hy tthe rane yarde—1885, L. E. | #e8inst one, and be must have often gone hun- Myers, M. A. 522-5 ‘seconds; 1891, M. Rem- Li Aied bed or ise ; d up his supper che where, Sometimes the results of the battles are more tragic. The home of a pair of c * who bad planned to spend a long and happy sum nm 4 minutes 31 8-5 seconds. the suburbs of Lewiston has been broken up Four-mile ran—1887, E. C. Carter, N.Y. A. C., | #1 only one now remains, and that one too sud 21 minutes 10 seconds.” tosing, Its m © morning lying ile walk—1884, W. H. Meck, West |Underarose bush, with a fatal wound m 54 minutes 27 seconds: 1888, *C, W. “ile, made by a kingbird’s sharp b V. Clarke, M. A. C., 57 minutes 8 2-5 seconds, Ne ee a ‘Running broad jamp—18s8, A. A. Jordan, but he was past all remed N.Y. A. C.,21 fest 103g inches; 1891, tM. W. | bis enemy did survive bi Ford, M. A. C., 20 feet 4 inches. two tater som 1888, 1. P. Conneff, M. A. C.. vill we feet 154 inches. Putting the sixteen-pound shot—1888, G. R. Gray, N. Y. A. C., 48 feet 7 inches. Throwing the hammer—1691. J. Queck: berner, M. A.'C., 129 feet 103, inches. Ten-mile run—1887, E. C. Carter, N. C., 55 minutes 9 seconds. *These were $Ford tied with Nor do these 1 c D. D, Bulger, valor to combate with their own kind. In am tied with G. W. Rowdon, England. they will ggfack even a more for- ‘The best performances credited to amateurs | Miduble Let any one who doubte thie of England and America, in events included in Yt takea siesta under 9 tree i] ne fv robins. How th | will scold and occasionally ew forlorn hope of frightening off the unweleome | visitor. They have been known to at and put this dreaded foe of though, perhaps, they are this enemy as are the Bwallows. this the other day was moved to go to the res cue of the family cat, which started up from lish) F. J. K. Crome, 1 minute 642-5 seconds,» | ® nap on the doormen to snarl and «pit at come One-mile run—American, T. P. Couneff, 4 unseon eneray, ui iret suppowed to be a dog. <r i. G. George, | Pity changed to blame as the feline paw was re yee ae ™ raised to strike at what was then «. Te American, Owen, jr., 94-5 seconds; English, Yharton, 10 seconds. Four-hundred-and-forty-yard run — Ameri- can, L. E. Myers, 483{ seconds; English, H. C. L. Tindall, 483¢ seconds, ight-hundred-and-eighty-yard_run—Ameri. can, W. C. Doltm,"1 minute 8434 seconds: Eng: John From the Detroit Free Press. They were crooning under the great onk tree with the moonlight shimmering through the ves. “If I should tell you I loved you, Ethel, what would you say?” he whispered tenderly. “{ don't know, Harry,” she murmured. “If [sbould say you were more to me than ‘all the world — what?” “I don't know, Harry,” and she came no clover to him, notwithstanding there was un- | oceny between them, “If Lshould ask you to be my wife, what?” He attempted to take herhand in his, but she thwarted him. “I don't know, Harry,” she answered as be- fore. Her conduct vexed him. Was the girl de- ceiving him? Or was bo Grneiving bimest? “What do yor know, Ethel?” be asked in « the matter now?” sacked the sheriff. | tone of sarcastic doubt. Sept eee before lam taken, to rose from the rustic bench on which “I know this much, Mr. Montmorenei,” she thel —