Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1893, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D ©, SATURDAY, JUNE 10. 1893—-EIGHTEEN PAGES, | decided to take it at eay price this time and be brought with him a check for $50,000. He laid this down on the table and accepted the man's offer. Itcost him just 50,000 a week for waiting. At the rate he bought the land cost him just about 230 per acre. It is now worth LUCKY BALDWIN. A Visit to His Famous Ranch and a People Who Go to Sleep in Danger- ASLEEP ON DOTY. freight trains and the latter to passenger trains, but I doubt if even this will suffice. CAUSE OF THREE-FOURTHS OF THE WRECKS. “You know my duty as railroad physician generally takes me out with the wrecking crew A COLONIAL BANSHEE. WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY from £200 to $1,000 ond made and places me on the scene about as soon as any ee iaillions out of fa “Te? 40d he Ine ous Places. one outside of tho crew directly concerned 1, FERGUS HUME. Look at Its Wont teow sacovins Sci ada ed the wreck. In this manner I get an insight of 2 Baldwin has, Tam told, a great deal of nerve in business matters, He hangs on like a bull- dog and if he has a piece of property which he thinks will eventually pay,you can’t get it from him till you givehim his price. He has just been offered. I am told, a million eight hundred thousand dollars for’one of his ranches. This ; is the La Puente ranch and the price is an average of cbout $100 per acre. A Colo- rado syndicate is talking of buying it. IT CONTAINS 50,000 ACRES. —_—-_—_ How Lucky Baldwin Looke—Some Queer USAGE BREEDS Travel — The Liability One of the Great Dangers of Railroad ‘Trainmen to Fall Asleep While on Duty— An Opinion on the Subject From the matters the public kuow little about and, of course, form my own conclusions, Therefore when I venturo the opinion that three-fourths of the wrecks on the railroads of the entire country are caused by trainmen going to sleep while on duty you can judge whether my belief is based on any foundation or not. “Only last week, out ona road running into Pittsburg, an engineer went to sleep ion train and ran by stations which be should have stop] An official on Copyright, 1893, by the author. = HE AVERAGE PER- son does not credit the existence of ghosts. He prides himself on be- lieving nothing but his own eyes, and if these deceive him into be- SECURITY of Engineers and If it is not sold Baldwi Inside. the train knéw how to work the air brakes from holding a genuine ghost win will” spend the inside of the car and in two instances pullod he excuses their’ so do- Bpecial Corresvonden:s of The Evening Star. ee ee the train up sharp. This official left the train ing on the score of hal- Los aeaiee Fg trea NE OF THE Most | before the ferminas of tha rond wag resched of lucination. You eannot S PA Ss WORTH : . potion Cations of physieal phe | nOns would think tro. veriiage Deity cae convince the average lpr ins nomena is that inwhich | fcient for almost any engineer, but thia one Person that there is any- It contains more people whose avocation | trifled with fate once too often and tbe third thing beyond the actu- 50,000 acres. 4s the most dangerous go | warning came in the shape of @ crash into the | alities of this world. Certainly he professes a Every foot of it px Syl tosleep while on duty or | Tear end of a belated freight. When ho came | vague belief in immortality, but his conception almost as rich as valley of the Nile, and some of it produces « fair interest on $4,000 per acre. Irefer to the mag- nificent estate of “Lueky’ Baldwin, which lies about seven- teen miles from Los Angeles, and which takes in the cream of the San Gabriel valley. There is no land in the world so rich as this country about Los Angeles. Lying right under the shadow of the Sierra Madre mountains, it is so located that itcan be well irrigated, and from | five to twenty acres make afarm. Land about here selis for $200 and upward per acre, and | improved property planted with oranges often brings as much as $1,000 and upward. Ican give you no idea of the productiveness of the soil." Thave secn trees 150 feet igh which were less than a dozen years old, and you can | grow a forest hore in a decade. I drove yes- | terday through mile after mile of orange groves, lemon trees and orchards of English walnuts, and I saw oranges on trees which were only two years old and great crops being raised on trees between four and five years. pow all near-by city the other day ment was caused for a fe antics of a tinsmith, the roof of a very tall bu: - BALDWIN"S PRIVATE OFFICE. $25,000 in piping water over it, and will thus make it worth about 2400 per acre. When he built the Hote! Baldwin in San Francisco he could not purchase the ground he wanted. ‘The | result was that he leased it for twenty years and put buildings worth twomillions aud s half onit. He bas, I am told, recently bought the ground, paying three-quarters of a’ million for it, He makes here on his vineyard a great part of the wines used at his hotel. He has 300,000 gallonsof wine and 50,000 gallons of brandy in his vaults here on his ranch. This brandy is from three to twenty years old, and some of it is certainly very fine. It wkes one hundred tenants to manage the different parts of his farm, and he has more than four thousand head saitio on it nae stock ix largely made up of Devons and Durhams, and his dairy is sd to bea very profitable oue. He has a thousand hogs and 25,000 sheep, and his horses are known all the world over. and a large crowd soon coll becauso they had disturbed secure up there because he A local policeman talking recently said that in makin; seen men sitting asleep on post-prandial nap that way. SLEEPING UNDER DANOERO! There must be some sixth of We feel more and more con’ we see, as we do every day snoring, but seldom, if FORTUNES IN HORSES. Ispent some time during my visit to the ranch in the stables. There are no frills nor farbelows about this part of the land. Every- thing is plain and simple and no money is Wasted anywhere. Idon't think Mr. Baldwin wastes very much money except on his own Personal enjoyments, and he is certainiy not extravagant in the fitting out of his stables, There is no gilt-edged harness or b: wood | Stal's, and these horses, some of which are worth from $25,000 to $50,000 each, live in plaia box stalls about fifteen feet square. The mile Tace track on the farm isa fairly good one,and one advantage that his horses have is in being able to get green feed all the year round. I saw some of his famous horses. One of these was the Emperor of N i $79,000 during his racing season, and in anotl place I saw the home of Grinstead, one of the famous breeding stallions of California, and I watched a number of yearlings and two-year- olds which were worth all the way from $1,000 and upward. Lucky Baldwin manages ’ his bles as a business enterprise and he makes them pay. He pays little attention to his horses himself and drives but seldom. He has good trainers, however, and it seemed tu me that the horses were kindly treated and well cared for. ‘THE WONDERFUL IRRIGATION SYSTEM. This Baldwin ranch is perhaps the best irri- gated piece of property in the United States. The geological survey sent photographers out here last year to make pictures of some of its systems. A network of pipe runs throughout the whole estate and the water is stored in great reservoirs down in the valley, rather than being dammed up in the canyons on the moun- tains. Much of the water ix carried in cement- lined ditches and in other places is conveyed from one part of the country to the other in great pipes of cement. These pipes are made on the ranch and there are miles upon miles of them. Seattered over the estate are artesian wells, from which flow perpetually streams of water ay large around as the body of a man, and there scems to be no lack of irrigation facilities. Some of the most beautiful water worke of the ranch are about the homeand there is a lake of | eight acres which winds in and out through the vegetation of the trop I have seen a num- ber of botanical gardens in different parts of the world, but there are few more beautiful than the grounds about this home of Lucky Baldwin. It is one of the prettiest places in the world, and every tree and shrub connected with it has been planted by his direction. He took this vast estate when it was practically a desert and he has made it a land flowers, trees and of fruit-bearing orchards. Whatever may be his record ina social way, and as to his business dealings, he is entitled to great credit for w he bas done for this part of the state of Cali- fornia, His work has. of course, been a selfish one, but he has opened up these thousands of acres to settlement and his money has done what a number of small fortunes could not have done. liquor fall off. the hard Belgian blocks the their eyes and doze. falls asleep will alone suffer occur. whose lapse of consciousness keeping and an accident to fold suffering and sorrow. ‘This will railroad engineers. give you some idea of this vast estate of Lucky Baldwin. The soil is as rich as guano and as black as your hat. It will pro- duce anything under the sun and 50,000 acres of it belong to this one man. Five acres of land in this region will support a family well, and this estate ought to support 10,000 familica. Still it belongs to but one mau. What kind of aman ishe? Imet him yesterday. He was seated surrounded by fountains and flowers under the trees which shate the beautiful | ground surrounding his cottage. A lean, straight, *hin-faced old man with silky white | hair, standing out from under a waite straw hat, and the keenest of hazel eyes looking out from under eyebrows of gray. His florid face Was smooth shaven with the exception of the | per lip. upon which a silvery mustache grew. | Ha tooked more like a seedy unsuccessful busi- ness man whose best days have gone by rather than a prosperous millionaire, and I have seen | his type here and there over the world in club | rooms and at the head of charitable associa- tions, holding places which have been given them for what they have done in the past. Lucky Baldwin, ia short, looked entirely different from the man I expected to see. He | is not extraordinary in any of his features, but | behind his plain face, I am told, exists one of the brightest business brains in the country. And his little beadlike eyes can see further into big speculation for # profitable investment | than those of any other man in California. He came to California comparatively poor and began life in San Francisco as the keeper of a livery stable. From the keeping of horses he went to the selling of groceries, and I understand that Le got alot of stock in different mines in the settlement of his bills. He carefully filed the | certificates of this stock away and awaited | developments. He has always been fond of the | theater, and he got the idea that he might make ® fortune by going over to Japan and bringing by? nap? It is safe to ray known fact that a majority road calamities are brought physical weaknes#, that one of the fastest runs of the eastern divisions was the way. to take ont a special train time to secure sleep at th last run, ax to being careful two reasons he had Pride made him accept the Wher he mounted his eng one. Hardly a mile out | asleep. record-breaking run he bad The subject of engineers cently by an Evexixo Stan rank and file of trammen. first upon a scene of wreck property and life, and from Sal knowledge can quickly fails him a confession from or iden. He talked right to XO CHANCE FOR BEGGARS. Thave written many letters abont rich men, and I am told that thousands of begging letters are always received by the millionaires after such publications. When I published a talk with the ‘millionaire W. W. Corcoran of Wach- ington shortly before his death his mail came in by the bushel from this country and Europe, and nearly all the letters asked for meney. i would say just here that it will be useless for such people to write to Mr. Baldwin. He is too careful and conservative a business man to give money indiscriminately, and as far aa I can | learn he has never been ‘noted for his charities, He has not yet announced any intention of whe w sleepmg at their post. To understand the situation it credible that a man can slee; perilous position. E. 3. (LUCKY) BaLpwrs. ‘& Japanese troop back to the United States, He did so, but befof he left he gathered up his mining stocks and put them away in one of the | hanks He was gone several months. When he returned he found that the Comstock lode had | = pevs diveorered and thet the mining stock that | “oumding » great university i e Ameri ‘sq | ¥yers who support the claimants who spri Soe ese ten sheny gees, 9 | ies cmb After a rain, on the death of | I don't know how his Japanese show turned | California millionaire. Lucky win, in gut, bat Tam fold tat he took it about | cb seems. to have, been more fortunate, in fac unsusps “It is not a pleasant pictui build up in his mind's eye, engineer taking a comfor frantic flagman is waving ously as track abe: ers and caunot be expected the throttle as well. in the most dangerous going to sleep in church, there is no safer place on earth, and it seems when we see the dan- gerous by some people to do their dozing in. Ina He had fallen asleep on eaves. He was nodding away at a lively rate below. ‘Two policemen stole up and carefully awakened him.and he became furiously mad swinging nenr the top of a four-story house,and when he spoke to them xbout it later they said it was nothing unusual; that they often took a man that protects him during sleep; that en- ables him to wake upat a certain hour, &o. Central market or 7th street wharves, teamsters sitting asicep on their wagons, nodding and Especially on warm days can you see dozens of teamsters adoze on their moving wagons, and. it is the general belief among those who’ have watched and circulated among these people that only those who are under the influence of ‘The more the wagon shakes or the louder the noise crented by the wheels on In all these circumstances the individual who A class with whom this article deals,and est physical phenomena when the circumstances are considered, have the lives of others in their Havé you ever noticed while out in the coun- try and in the vicinity of a railroad with what awe-inspiring swiftness a passenger train dashes Would you pick out the little oilcloth-cov- ered sent in the eab of the locomotive as a «pot where a human being would be likely to take a A fireman told the writer some years back engineer who slept soundly fully one-bait of The engineer had been called upon His reputation was of the best, both speedy, and for on selected belief in the superiority of his will power. make as good a run as possible clear in front, ‘This last injunction was a bad pitch dark—the engineer began to nod, and for the remainder of the run the fireman knew from the gait of the train whether his companion was | € awake or asleep. When the trainslackened up he was awake; when it ran the fastest he was Nota hiteh occurred to mar the har- mony of that engincer’s graceful nod, nod, nod, as the engine struck a curve or grade, and at the end of the run the officials enme forward from their car and congratulated him upon the A RAILROAD PHYSICIAN TALKS, duty was broached toa railroad physician re- be said at this point that a physician employed | by a railroad knows more of the true inward- | ness of railroad life than any one outside the to the original cause thereof. very frequently fills in a dimly conceived belief “have been a close student of this question of slesping on duty by engineers, and know of L speak. ‘Three-fourths of the railroad recks of the country aro caused by engineers engine, the warmth of the boiler upon’ the dy, and the entting the wind upon the d especially the eyes, quickly luil an ting man into unconsclousnces, over the road at a terrific rate of speed, of an able snooz signal that a train is blocking the ‘The firemen have all they can at- tend. to now to keep up stcam in the huge boil- “When yon read of an engine coming into a to after the third warning there was little sloep left in his body, likewise was there little life, as he was with great dificulty dug out of the debris. His train had run ahead of schedule time while he was sleeping and the trainmen ahend had not expected him so soon, PECULIAR CASE OF SLEEPING ON DUTY. “Let me tell you of the most peculiar case of sleeping on duty that has ever como under my observation. A big wreckage of cara resulted therefrom: no lives were lost, and the excuse made public was a foggy night and slippery rails. “The scene was on one of the roads run- ning north from Washington and the timo not a thousand years ago. 1 went out, as neual, with the wrecking-crew and thus learned the true details from the trainmen. “A north-bound freight was making good time over the road on the night in question, wheu the cylinder head of the locomotive blew out. The rod on the one side struck the ground and rebounding swung around and sinashed the cab up rather badly. It fortunately grazed the engineer's head, taking off his cap in its descent. Had he been awake be would have been leaning forward watching the machinery and track ahead and as a consequence becn killed instantly, Instead, he was reclinin; against the rear partition of his little cabin, with head to one side, indulging in pleasant dreams that had a rude awakening. “When be finally brought his train to a stand- still he blew the engine whitle for the flagman to go back and protect the train, and that worthy rushed back with his lanterns to wartr the train following. After going back about an eighth of a mile he stopped, out of breath, and veated himself alongside the track ona pie of ties. Unconsciously ho placed the | exception to this rule. She, however, made us9 famps on the right side of his body facing the | ofa ship in lieu of an egg shell, and complained expected train. The 5 ay was a loncly one; | bitterly of having been forced to take such a ho was dead tired from his run and want of | voyage in the interostsof hor profession. Tt had sleep and the expected train didn’t putin an | a good deal to do with hatred and revenge Sppearance, Asa consequence he dropped off | sho was Irish, you ace. As the interview “was to not without interest I hereby set forth a care- fal report of the same for tho benetit of the Paychical Society. Unless Bridget was a hur her remarks throw some light on the mys- teries of the spiritual world, and those desiring further information had better apply to the nearest ghost raiser. I don't want@osee her again, One such interview is enough for me. Queenstown was the scene of this remarkable adventure. Tam not referring tothe Irish is so shadowy that he never faces it with any dograe of confidence. He classes such credulity in the category of “things we are not meant to understand,” which hazy remark to his mind Accounts for ail matters in the way of religion. ‘Take away this respectable theological view of the supernatural and he scoffs at the idea of a phantom world. Tam anaverage person, a gross, fleshly, stolid, Gisbelioving St. ‘Thomas ‘of the present genera with the fitness of 8, should subscribe to the conf creed above set forth. I don't. Cer.ainls ¥as once as materialistic as the average person could desire, but since I saw and conversed with a bona fide specter I have modified my views regarding psychology. She was #0 con- vineing that she left me no ‘option but to be- lieve. “There was no getting round her in- sistance. It was a female ghost of the Banshee type, d I met her under the most prosaic circum: stances. Priding herself on the verity of her ghostly being she needed neither moated grange hor bine lights to compass her appearance, in fact sho somewhat scornfully dispensed with such old-time accessories, and simply convinced me by a short conversation that she was what she pretended to be. ‘The most skeptical would have attested her authenticity on oath, as I do now, and I was the most skeptical of persous— once. Her name was Bridget. She was an Irish emigrant. I was always under the impression that ghosts, like fairies, could not cross run- ning water savo in an egg shell, but as I met Bridget in New Zealand #he must’ have beon an tions, Talk about the more secure places chosen the greatest excite- w minutes by the ilding at the very jected on the street his rest. He felt was used to it, about this matter 1g his rounds he had & painters’ scaffold US CIRCUMSTANCES. or seventh sense in vinced of this when down around the ever, falling off. ly_the expected train swung around a curve away down the track and came on with the speed of the wind. ‘The engineer up on the box, thinking everything clear, was lolling forward on the big reverse lever, bis head on his arm and tight asleep. His’ fireman was back in the tender shoveling in coal and at- tending strictly to his own business. “When within a dozen yards of the sleeping flagman the train’s noise ‘awoke him, and with a mighty shout he sprang to his fect, At that instant he was hardly two yards from the sleep- ing engineer and his voice struck the latter's ears like the clang of a bell. “The train must have been running near the seventy-miles-an-hour clip, for, work as he would, the engineer couldn't break the tremen- dous momentum of his train, and his engine dashed into the rear end of the freight with terrific force. The engineer and his fireman jumped and saved themselves, as did also the age master and express messenger. The passengers were badly shaken up and terrified, ut none seriously hurt. A STRANGE COMBINATION. “That was a strange sleeping combination, wasn’t it? The first engineer's life was saved through sleep, The flagman’s life was not en- dangered by sleep, but the second engineer came within a hair's breadth of losing his life through this weakness. Had he been awake he certainly could have seen the red limp a long distances up the track and averted the run-in. The officials of the road gave it out that fog and slippery rails caused the accideut, but 1 observed a month later that both the flagman and engineer were no longer on the company's pay roll.” Vhat remedy would you suggest for this inquired the reporte:. “Persuade the trainmen to join church. A unique remedy, but @ good one. Hammer it into one of the engincer’s mind that he will be held accountable for his carelessness by his Creator, and that there is no such thing as luck, and he will make one of the best men m the business, Iam acquainted with several Chris- tian engineers, und they are exceptionally trust- worthy employes, ——— Impulsive Adventure. ati Enquire oung miss has never been known to take a dare, Close to her home is a veneer- ing factory, and the other day there was a sign bung out fora “Boy Wanted.” {t happened that the young lady had several of her friends visiting her that day, and from the front win- dow they could read the sign. “Tina, yon dare not goand apply for that place,” said one of the young ladies present. “Who says I daren't?” responded Tina, Without further ado | she rigged herself ont in a suit belonging to her brother. Fixing her hair ina manner that it could not be told, she sallied forth. Her move- ments could be watched from the house and the scene that following was a most laughabie one, ‘Tina walked boldly into the factory. The clerk approached her and she said that she wanted to apply for that job. ‘The clerk looked at the tighter they close uld an accident 8 is one of the great- them means mani- This class is the town of that name, but indicate thereby the protty little sanatorium on jew Zealand. Lake Wakitipu in It 1s amusing how very mixed ical ideas become in the colonies. town, the name whereof smacks of Cork, and see from the top of an Antopodean Ben’ Lo- mond the range of the Southern Alps, which have nothing to do with Switzerland. ' Tt is a trifle confusing at first. but when one gets used to the oddity of the thing itis handy to ave spots so widely apart within hailing distance. It is only in Otago that you can go from Queens- town to Ben Lomond in ten minutes. I was staying in Queenstown for the benefit of my health. Something to do with the lungs, I believe, but it is so long ago that 1 quite forgot the exact disease from which I then suffered. Besides it is not material to this story. It mus have been my Inngs, however, because the doc- tor made me climb ‘the lofty’ peak of Ben Lo- mond daily for the benefit of them. There I ‘Was accustomod to sit for hours among the ice and snow, watehing the Earnslaw glacier flash- ing like mirror in the sunlight, and the snowy range of the Southern Alps standing like fairy iucowork against the clear blue of the ky. When not climbing I wandered about Queens- town and employed my spare time in dodging the goats. ere were @ great many goats about the place, as the unfinished condition of the town rather favored their existeuce. You walked down the main street and in two minutes found yourself among the hills—and goats. You surveyed a palatial hotel of the most approved “‘grand” type and turned round to behold a Koat-populated section Raping be- tween a red brick chapel and a corrugated iron store. Or you could arrive in five minutes at the outskirts of tho town, where the goats bounded among the white pebbles and sparse grass, Sometimes in such a piace you met a man, more often a goat, I preferred the former myself, as he sometimes invited me to have a drink, whereas the goats were ali distinctly hos- file. They are the’ most distrustful animals I now. Incommon with other visitors, I put up at Farmer's Hotel, where I was exceedingly com- fortable. Every evening the steamer from Kingston arrived with fresh cargoes of tourists in search of health and scenery. They found both at Queenstown, which is the most antic and salnbrious place Lam acquainted with. A trifle wild and lonely, but one must expect that sort of thing ina virgin solitude. I prefer it myself to an overcrowded play ground like Switzerland. At Queenstown there is no prom- enade, no bend. no theater, no casino, no bathing. For this latter the waters of the lake are too cold, owing to its being fed by glaciers. When T wan ¢ lo rail about through this ever mide on one accomplished by an before he had had @ conclusion of his respon bility and a ‘ine he was told to id that all was on the ran—it was made. sleeping while on reporter. It may fe is among the and ruin of railroad his technical medi- form an opinion as When this skill a dying employe the point and said: one that does not seems almost in- | p while im such a} ; | 5 si 2s - . the principal amusemen sor Bevihg rs catenin h op Fee ive cat ent etc HOW manek will|| wore riding, driving, climbing and visiting the less than $4. week.” The firm would not pay | Ccmetery. I did re ubout anticipating my funeral myself, but many people went there, and told me they enjoyed it greatly. It was so restful. I did not contradict that statement. Sometimes we drove to Arrowtown and saw the pack horses in long lines climb the track lending to the Macetown reefs. ‘The sight put mind of Ali Baba and the this much and Tina walked out, highly insulted to think that her services wero ‘not worth more than 4a week. re for a traveler to as he is whisked In leago, From the Indianapolis Journal. “Tbelieve I have got the grip,” said the guest. “You get right out of here!” shonted the pro- prietor of the great Columbian Fake House. “First thing you know you will be sneezi and down will’come this “hotel before I have had time to get the money buck that I have put while a his lantern vigor- Leaving Arrowtown there was some excitement in re- gaining Queenstown by the Shotover bridge. It Was a narrow structure with shallow sides Which sprang across a tremendous abyss in the depths of which swirled a rapid stream. ‘The to keep wateh on = | money making thai city with a dead body or part of a vehicle on the | " approach was down nn incline and for the mo- feeney cet of Was Ha tags woh ase | Doon ‘smarried evened tines aunt a he’ been | crcatnher: toa ses misty Genin Ones ten tee | into se amy are eek tir lapet ened wotoe Hy salnvestings Gils. Semen eet MOMGT | satzad up in te o three divorce suite. His | sanineer c6. that leeeeation bee oan sleeping. - would hit the bull's eve of the bridge or go Sale te eee fo | Present wife 1s, I am told, both beautiful and | Other excuses will be advanced, but the trae A Dastardly Revenge, olllie chum! -"Oar gobs wen ateseaa now said to be worth from fifteen to| Present wile 1s, ‘ds most of her time | one is slcep. Au engineer becomes sohardened | From Pack. Pirdnier ane Mainice So ee twenty million dollars. He owns thee ace | accomplished, and she epends most o| one is sleep. at the Baldwin residence in San Francisco. | As for Lucky Baldwin, he lives part of the | tims at home, a part at the hotel, and now and | then spends ‘some time here. ‘He is a hard worker and aman of not many amusements. He is said to be fond of playing poker with a four-bit or fifty-cent ante and in one of his | books advertising his hotel he published an in- terior showing himself seated with a party of friends at a card table. Fuaxk G. Canrexten. ——_+e-____ The Relic Fiend. From World's Fair Puck. ranches in Southern California, a hotel at Lake Tahoe, the Baldwin theater and hotel in San Francisco and two or three valuable gold | mines. One of his gold mines that he has held | for years has just been reopened. Lucky Baldwin was paying no attention to it until he found the other day that some outsiders bad gotten in and were opening it up on their own ace ‘They had taken out $15,000 worth of ore before he discovered them. And he now Proposes to work this with the most improved qachinery for all it is worth. LUCKY BALDWIN AS A LANDLORD. Lucky Baldwin is said to know how to run a hotel. I cannot speak from personal experi- ence, as Ihave never stopped at any of his houses. Ho runs the thing as a monopoly, and he don’t propose to be tleeced by anybody. Not long ago he found he was paying $2,000 per month for gas. He put in his own gas works and now sells enough gas to give him his own light free and to bring him in $500 per month in addition. It wus the «ame with electricity and about the same with his water. He was getting his water from the water company and ‘one month a bill was brought in for a thousand dollars water rent. He paid the bill but at once ‘again put down artesian wells. These cost him only $1,500, and he saved just a thousand dol- lars per month in that way. At his ranch here he makes all the butter used at his hotel, and his dairies turn out 2,000 pounds a week of what they call “Giltedged butter.” All the vege- tubles used at his hotel come from his farms, and be manages everything on business princi- ples. well into the distance, he within the eab, blow his wi seo quite a distance ahead. quite considerable. | ous than others, and also ¢ai know this to a keen nicet; seatter-brained or reckless length, with no sidings, freight business is slick. ing perfectly and the farm: curs that the people begin t curred with all the modern forward. twice as bad compared with ice. “What a chance to get a chip off that magnifi- cent statue!” ii ere help out. HOW BALDWIN BOGUT A RANCH. firemen here help Theard today the story of Baldwin's pur- shase of one of his ranches. It belonged to a olesale grocer in Los Angeles, and Baldwin xious to get hold of it. He came to the grocer and asked him bis price. Tho grocer Feplied that he could have it for $175,000. Baldwin said that this was .oo much and ‘that he could not give more than $150,000. i You can't have it,” said the grocer, and Bald- win went uway. He waited a few days and bearing nothing further, he then became anxious and sent around word that he would give $175,000 forit. ~The priceis now3200,000. gas thereply. “The land is growing more vaiu- able and is bound to rise right along.” Baldwin hemmed and hawed at this. He said he would ¢ pay $200,000 and he went away. A few daye later he came around and said he woena it at $200,000. Wi! pon the man sai tax itice had again risen, and that tie price Ses now $225,000. Baldwin, however, had forty-minute snooze. A the fireman reaches into fireman takes his turn, He down grade, he also sleeps operators and train centennial said therein. the world’s fair is. increase The men are bound to be the case of the engineers, More successful than he intended. to his continual danger that he sees no rirk. Instead of pecring out through the gloom with cap well down over the eyes, #0 that he can see beli and—and—take the chances. I have ridden in the cab of an engine very frequently at night and by the glare of the headlight was able to like a wall directly in front of the engine, but it is only an optical delusion, as the distance is SLEEPING IX THR CAB. | “Certain parts of the road ure more danger- selves accordingly. For instance, only the most inside the limits of a city, freighe yard or track crossing. But, on the other hand, there are stretches of road, say for ten m bed, and the engineer knows the heavy grade several miles ahead will jar him awake, and he lapses into the land of nod. hears of these cases;it isonly when adisaster oc- prevent it, and the wrong excuse is usually put “In the freight service this sleeping evil is The speed is not so great. and, of course, more time is required to climb grades, all is working weil and settles himself for a At the crest of the hill vigorous push awakens the sleeper. on his side of the engine, and, while going the engincer at the bottom of the grad “I noticed the article in Tue 5 some weeks back in regard to slee} Railroading of that y reached its present great proportions by 50 per cent, and the danger of sleeping on duty during engines more thin ten hours out of the twenty- four, look out for direful resul: “The roads all over the country are advanc- Jing their firemen to the engineer's position on ful driver and heid his team well together, else Tam afraid { wonld not now be writing’ this story. J never repeated the experiment. It is a mistake tempting Providence twice. I conscientiously saw ail there was to be seen in company with Nora and Michael. ‘These two young scions of the Maguire family were staying at Farmer's with their ancestral Ban- shee. Idon’t think the landlord knew of this addition to his list of gnests, though Bridget did her best to let him’ know she was on the vemises. She howled, whercon he called the innocent house dog bad names. I am afraid Bridget resented the mistake as a slur on her ‘vocal abilities, Nora told me all about horself and Michael. They had left Ireland some five years back and taken up their abode in Syanoy on account of the brother's health. He, poor fellow, was far gone in consumption, and even the tropical climate of Australia could do but little for his disease. Indeed, so much worse did he become that Nora was advised to try the curative effect of New Zealand air, and for this reason the young couple were sta: at Queenstown. When I arrived on the scene they had already been there for somo weeks, but Michael did not seem to benefit much by the change. On the contrary, he daily grew weaker and looked more like a shadow than a man. One day I found her seated by his side in front of the hotel. warin sunshine and Nora was dividing her at- tention between a book and the invalid. sho saw me, however, she softly arose from her sent and jomed me in my walk. “Do will keep his head histle ant ring the ‘The darkness seema fer. Tho engineers y and govern them- will take chances sin nor crossing, and The engine is work- ers have all gone to ‘The public never 0 wonder how it oc- i Maer ie ae | Maen Sens (angrily)—“You'r aw liah! | That's what you are.” Madison Squeers (holding umbrella)—“Oh, you nasty, vulguh eweature! I ailow no fellah to call me such an outwageous name without | the passenger serv- | 10 call mo wach an D think he looks better today, Mr. ‘The Durham‘"’ she asked, anxiously. ‘The engineer sees that Oh, I replied, trying to comfort tho poor girl. “Iseo a decided improvement. If anything can cure him it will be this air.” “Iam afraid the disease has gone too far,” she answered with a sigh. “Poor boy—to think of his coming ail these miles only to find 8 grave.” “Don't think of such a thing, Miss Maguire.” “I cannot help thinking, Mr. Durham. Since mre have been here twice have I heard the Ban- e@."* the cab and with a Then the crawls into the cab, and is awakened by en generally during the “The what?” and indorse everything “The Banshee! Did you not hear 1t wailing r had not last night?” “I certainly heard a dog howling at the moon.” in the same ratio. overworked, and, in if they are on their ‘as no dog,” said Nora, mysteriously; “16 was our Banshee. My dear Miss Maguire, how ean you believe 'h rubbish,” Iremonstrated in a vexed tone. “There ate no such things as ghosts.” “80 many people think, but I know there are ghosts,” Madison like that? Now perwiah!” Squeers—There, now! How do you Sql He had fallen’ asleep in the | t! When | “Have you everseen one?” “No! But I have heard the Banshee ery.” tr ; —— ~ young lady. Yournerves are out of order with over anxiety. Consult a doc “ at once.” ly nerves are not out of order,” she re- et oe ly. “I gmin perfect health and oroughiy in earnest. ,youadmit your- self that you hoard the Bala] ” i “T heard a howling, Miss Maguire. How can you be so superstitious, This is the nine. feenth century. Ghosts went out when gas came in. I took no end of trouble to convince that girl I promised to lend her a copy of Aber- crombie’s Intellectual Powers, where she would find that ghosts are all humbug. I narrated several instances which had come under my notice of supposititious specters which had been thoroughly explained away. A logical person would have been convinced by my arguments, But she was a woman, and therefore not logical, All my talk was on this account so much waste of breath. “Every old woman in Ireland knows the Maguire Banshee,” she said,triumphantly. “For generations the death of one of our family has Leen predicted by its wailing. My father was killed in the hunting field, and I heard it my- self crying around the house on the previous night.” When my mother died the Banahes wailed three times, and——" “I don't believe a word of it," I interrupted emphatically, “not one word. | The Celtic na- ture is excitable and prone to superstition. ‘The howling of a dog, the whistling of the wind, the shrieking of a hinge would account for your Banshee. Iamaman of sense, Miss Maguire; Tiaugh at the idea of such’ folly. Nothing would convince me of the existence of At that moment I swear I felt a cold breath blowing against my check. The afternoon was warm and sunny with little or no wind, but for ee moment the unexpected chill struck me hhat is the matter, Mr. Durham?" asked ora, alarmed atthe expression of my face, ‘are you I replied nervously, “but really “Ill! no!” you know ha! ha! I believe your are infecting me with you superstition. “I felt acold breath on my face, “It's——" “Now don’t say the Bansheo, Miss Maguire, because Tcan’t and won't believe such non. sense. My liver is'probably out of order, and our conversation about specters is apt to tell on the nerves. Let us talk of other things. Your family, for instance!” ‘There is not much to talk about there.” said Nora smiling at what she evidently considered « weak explanation. “My family at one time were rich and numerous, “Now we are the only two left, and I don’t think Job was poorer than we are! “Your estates! “Were all sold long ago. My father ran through all that remained of the property, and when he was killed we had nothing but a tum- bled down castle and a few acres of barren bog. We sold this and with the money came out to Syduey. There through the influence of an old friend Michzel obtained a good government ap- pointment. ‘Then his health gave way and we were advised to come on bere.” “And what do you intend to do when you go back?” I asked, revolving several philanthropic schemes in my mind, “Idon’t know! It is questionable if we do go back. I feel certain that Michael will die bere, and then I shall be left aloue here with but a few shillings.” “Tut! tut! you must not talk like this,” said I, blowing ose to conceal some natural emotion evoked by her story. “The colonial heart is kind! the colonial band is open. As to your brother, Hope for the best.” “Mr. Durham!” said the girl solemnly, “twice have I heard the Banshee cry—the third time will be fatal.” = It was no use arguing against such ob- stinacy, so Theld my tongue, merely remark- ing that hoped the Banshee wouldn't wail. Then as it was growing chilly Nora took her brother inside and left me to my own refiec- tions, They were anything hut pleasant, for I felt certain that this foolish belief in the Banshee would aid in killing Michael as surely as wonld his disease, To think of sucha superstition being prevalent nowadays. Here was a well-educated young Indy living among sensible people, yet she believed in such rubbish aa ghosta.” ‘It has been proved over and over again that there are no such things. A heavy meal, a tired body, a fanciful mind and lo “a ghost is created. Dyspepsia and hallucination are the parents of all goblins, which exist but in the imagination of their victims. People who see ghosts should write novels and thus work off their superfluous imagination, No wonder we need school boards, when sensible men can tolerate such humbug. Logic and arithmetic will cure such morbidity No student of the exact sciences ever saw Rhost, The breath of cold air! Well, I own that puzzled me, but it might be ascribed to the nerves, The caure I am convinced wasinternal, notexternal. It wasn stil, sunny dav, yet 1 felt a sensation of cold air on my’ left cheek. Nerves or liver! only! I am inclined to put it down to the latter, knowing how I suffer from that organ. A liver will makes man believe anything. Perhaps my ghostly interview was the ‘result of a disordered liver, but no— Bridget was too convincing. You can’t explain away actualities, and though Bridgot wasn't actly an actuality, I certainly can't explain her away. After that eminently unsatisfactory conver- sation with Miss Maguire I took a sbarp walk to shake the cobwebs out of my brain. Ghost talk does engender cobwebs in man’s brain, und if you leave them there nobody knows what will bappen—but I think Colney Hateh has a 204 deal to do with the future. “Not caring to tend in that direction I walked those ghostly figments out of my memory and sat on a hill- top admiring the scenery. “The sun was setting and the white 8 were Very rosy with bis light. It was very beautiful, but very chilly, So not anxious to trouble my lungs with in- flammation I returned to the hotel and dinner. After the meal I went up to my room to put on warmer clothes, and there took place that remarkable visitation of which I speak. The bed room was quite dark when I entered, and place of lighting the candle I stood at the dow staring at the wonderful white world without, A stream of moonbeams lay across the floor, and beyond the distant peak flashed the moon herseli.glimmering like a ghost. ‘The comparison put me in mind of Nora's absurd Baueheo story, and the memory made me laugh. To my surprise the laugh was re- peated in a thin starved echo. Iturned round at the sound and sawa woman standing near the door. Tam a modest young man aud the intrusion annoyed me. “Madame,” T said in a dignified tone, have mistaken the room. ter?” “By the Heavens! what a voice. It was.as thin as a Whistle. And then she alluded toan entrance by the keyhole. I began to feel alarmed and pijred my hand across my eyes to vanish the allucination, “you How did you ‘en- “Liver!” said I, seeing the figure still there. “Divil_ a bit.” retorted the Indy, who seemed acloudy sort of person. “I'm ‘the Maguire Banshee.” Idon't like practical jokes, and thinking Nora was playing one on me ventured to re tmoustrate. Before F could say a word the fig- ure glided or rather floated into the stream of moonlight which lay across the door. Then I saw it was no joke—it wasno liver—it wasa ghost. A merciful baidness prevented my hair stand- ing on end, but my flesh creeped, and I shook as though I had the ague. This apparation up- set all my preconceived ideas, and reduced me toasort of moral pulp. I felt a cowardly in- clination to run away The Banshee was be- ‘tween me and the door, and as the window was twenty feet from the ground Icould hardly Jeave that way without becoming a ghost my- self. I was therefore compelled to remain, | and didn’t like the idea, | shee in an irritable tone, ‘is it insultin’ me | ye're afther doin’?” I pushed forward a seat in great trepidation, | and she settled on it. Tean’t say she sat down, | for she didn’t, but simply subsided thereon |like weloud on a mountain to | beams of the moon shone full on her The cold face, and ht did not tend to steady my nerves, I don’t want to see another face like t _ It wasa gray haggard countenance framed in wild elf locks of tangled red hair. Her mouth was all drawn to one side, and in her exes dwelt alook of horror. Round her neck hung a fragment of rough rope, and from shoulder to heeis streamod a cloudy white robe. The whole appearance of this being was vague | and indistinct, the face being the only portion I could sce with any degree of clearness. Sit- ting there in the chilly light, with her filmy Gress undulating round her thin form. and her leful eyes glaring from amid her tangled red she was a fearsome object to belold. I hivered and shook and turned away my eyes, ut sometbing—I knew not what—ever com- Pelled me to look at her again. I don't think she was a lady Banshee. Her language was too free, and her manners left much to be desired. "Still she behaved in a Very affable manner for her, and succeeded to 4 certain extent in dispelling my fear, though I ses anything but comfortable during the in- terview.’ She spoke throughout in a hoarse, | broken voicc, alternating with a shrill whistling sound. Constant howling had evidently in- jared her vocal organs, you don't believe in my existence,” she | said, eying me in » malevolent manner. T began to protest, but she ent with a whistling sniff and shifted her’ to the other side of her face. an lucination, ye brutal Saxon?” reson! out her arm, which stretched elongated itself like a marine telescope, and without mov- ing from her seat clutched me by the wrist ith chilly fingers, 80 cold was her touch that voluntarily shrieked it burnt like fire, and I im with pain. “Whist! ve spalj her arm again, me _reputashun ered in a jintleman's “In thai gested, “Divil a bit,” she rej “OF've a mi wuffe slay ible for a sick man to get sleep “Wud ye have me the Banshee, wail worse luck. An’ guire ull slape days, nivir fear.” Will he die?” as to slapin’, Mick v" twice an’ ut'll be the third toime It's not wastin’ me breath Oi am.” ‘Who are you?” ‘Oi'm Bridget.” I laughed at the unsuitability of the name, whereupon the Banshee looked at mo “what's the matter wid the name!” “It's like a servant “An’ why not. “But how did you become a Banshec?” “Och whitra! whirra! willaloo' rocking herself to aud fro, av’ Ulster an’ didn't Kiny bekaze Oi'd nivir give up Taddy Donovan.” “Did he want to marry you himself?” “How shuld Oi know! Maybe he didn’t care about Taddy liftin’ thim K ““Dy’ see this rope, sorr,”” the fragment, “whin Oi died only twonow. Whin Mick goes be wan, Whin she dies me juty ‘ull for iver.” “But you can’t kill them.” “Av’ coorse not, but I can warn thim of their forroms. Oi've croid at their wakes for the last four bundher year in Ould Ireland.” “Why did you come out here?” thim like the divil. Where they go, she ‘80 Oi had to imigrate wid the to thim.”” “You don't like the colonies! “Divila bit. Oi've not meta single ghost of ruins int an’ hathens like yoursilf don't belave any uence here. There's no us. you go back to Ireland?” “How shud Oi know? Whin Nora goer back O7'll go back, but where she 1s iam. Mick's dyin’ so Oi'm only reckinin’ on Nora. Maybe though. ‘added the Baushee. she'll die, too, 5 don’t ve offer me a sate?” said the Ban-| A, comfortably, “and thin I can return tome short mouth Nora “No deceit. av ye plase. Didn't ve say Oi was “You may be now for all I know,” I replied, fer if caso you had better away,” I sug- ‘xious to rid myself of this nightmare. d tS convarse wid ye ‘bout thisa hhy can't you leave them alone? It's im- while you round the house like an insane hurricane.”* 2 io alapin’ Mick Mae sound enough wan av’ these coorse he'll die. Haven't Oi criedth this night. ‘asn't Oi that same, sor. Four bundher years ago Oi sarved King Patsey Maguire av’ Ulster, the ancister av’ the prisint | °F she moaned, “wasn't Oi the pride me ‘erry cows. An’ as big aed to be tuk, he hanged me, bad luck “:Did that hanging turn you into a Banshee.” .” sbe said touchin; ‘there'll only be ended thim two came. Whin a Banshee's attached to wan family she bas to hould on to bad cess to in “If you find things so unpleasant why don’t | Foon. By her own showing sho until #he died, #0 as Nora | stay in Australia, I presume would 3 ( have to romain,” ‘From what T'beard wong not likely to die for some time, so I must be very has no ghostly friends,no round tower. and ae Fet no reason for wailing, #0 altogether she mut be ina bad way. consolation she must have. She is only Banshee in the colonies. "Sone omer ———+-—_____ CATS MAY HAVE CROLERA, “| They Suffer From Diphtheria and Consump, tion, Says Miss Devide. From the New York World. War has been declared against eats. ‘That ia, tramp and avenue catsand the ugly and sick yowlers that have no homes. Thohealth board has been asked to rid the city of the plague. Miss Devide, « young and buxom woman with eaempeied brown eyes and a persuasive voice remarkable gift of speech, called upon health board Friday in relation to the A iy. said Miss Devide to Dr. Wokorts hae | superintondent. “They lurk in’the dent ee The society which has termination includes eleven spinsters, and a couple of are donating liberally. “Thave kidnaped and killed.” she terday, over 2,000 cate pedigree, increase is awful. ep? “We go out in pairs or -.”" she contin« ued, “generally at ‘night, bout the bok fined with ‘ilcoth” Rerwaen lined wi oth. Pro ; of catmeat and a bottle of ready for business, and make of tenement house q residential i 2F gas an empty one, When sauirming, wriggling and ex and tramp cats I spray a few form from an atomizer in: an aperture for the ‘i fi ! j i "ERA tes eee sec op ~What round tower! am fighti: "s for health, “County Down, no less. Me family sate, | have lots “of yand good commagetions Once ‘twas "8, now ‘tis mine, | Women back of it to on our crusade, but Oi sit on it in the cove av’ the evenin’ an’ | We want the co of the board of howi.” health, of the mayor and of the police.” “Iviry wan to his juty,” Banshee THE NEW HANDSHAKE, indiferentiy, “tis mine tohowl, an’ howl Ido.” = “Yes! I've heard you!” With Some to “ht ba ow RS, wenmoaad the Miseries of contimptuous 2 gerne ners ou lock Lane ‘From the Detroit Free Press. want nane a’ t plans, Rexplot aga “*Yes! you look it!” “An’ so'd you if in the gee a rale live “You're hardly alive. However, for to nd no colony either.” rains an’ family sacrats ‘ull come, but not in your toime.” “I'm not sorry! I don’t like ghosts!” “Maybe ye don’t belave in thim,” said the “tomorrow ye'll say Oi've Banshee, tauntingly; bin dramin’.” + v “It's not iy!” “Oi'd lik to lave some token a ‘me visit,” she went on in a meditative tone; “couldn't 1 wrist?” back. per- lave five black finger marks on “No, you." I “Or turn she suasively. “Even you couldn't do that. I'm bald!” “Ab thin! I'll lave the mark of a gory band on your cranium. “I'm sure you won't What's the matter?” Banshee had suddenly shot up as she said, shrilly. “Oi hear his For the high as the roof. live anyhow. “Let the wailin’ soon.” ‘But —' “Whist, Oi tell ye! whist. Oi'm goin’. not Banshees ye'll scoff at agin Oi'm thinkin’ She herself through the room ina shrank terrified In the white shadow cold” white amit against the wall. I could see the glare of her like two danger signals. floated ont through the and I any further proof that they her. She Me true for ali that. When I had sueceeded in pulling myself to- gether—no easy task—I hurried at once to met at the door by Michael's bed room, but was Nora, who fold me he was to alarm her by a description of the visit, held my open air. Lighting smoke would soothe and down in front of the hotel. In a minutes young American who was sta there joined me, him a mulsance, vet eased with compan; it was a bright m. “4 the distance arose the mountains. The iron around glittered like frosted and here and there on the sul flake of moonfire, All was fuland absolutely still. Sud @ long, low wail which through the air and died mountains, a second, cl Un ‘stopped short in my walk. audible. “A dog howlin’,” she said nivir wailed so iligantly before. “Is he dead?” I asked breathlessly. “Asa door nail,” replied the Banshee, and vanished. “Is who dead?” asked the American, think- that young Irish Another cry, but this time the utterance of a human throat. I hastened toward the hotel and arrived at the door to meet Nora on tho ing I had spoken to bim, fellow I—Hark, what is that!” threshold. “Did you hear it?” herscif into my arms. “Yes, I heard it!” “I told you the third time, Micbsel is dead.” After that she fumted clean away, which tion caused me but little surprise. I'was pretty near collapsing myself, oo ee eh se Poor Michael was duly buried in the litde the shadow of the mighty bul. Tatiended the funeral, did my best to comiort Nora, and in the end supplied her with money cemetery under your bullyin’ av’ you Oi'm four bundher year I feted play med ree ir. It's sorry Oiam that I let ye Bansheo.” I apologize r hurting your feelings. I'm not accustomed ertain Banshees, yybe that’s true. No Saxon has a Ban- Vait a few hundred years, sorr. Ye want first. Thin the ghosts cowld sweat is on his brow an’ the rattle is in his throat—it's not jong hell I must wail—en’ wail ‘Whirro?’ ” man die in peace,” I urged, ” thim Maguires, Sorra a bit. The fog gradually ‘open window and the ‘Then I heard a whistle outside, in curing certainly succeeded my skepticism regarding ghost, 1 don't want | Codlish. fou who read this story don’t believe it either. Bat it's and went out into the cigar, for I thought 0 tay orves, I strolled up ving and though asa rule I found Yet on this occasion I was not it it and far in ae far among the Then iy followed by athird. I knew what that triple cry meant and T guess,” said the young relessly. I heard a wistling sniff near me and turnod to see the Banshee glaring at tho young man. Tc him she was invisible and ber specch in- angrily, “an’ I she gasped, throwing | | i eft EEE if pi i H iif ; i | j i Hi f i i i ft °F i &, & f Fi Flr cag Uf il i! : f H He i [ H ult BH i I i r g i | é ae it fl F AG i gE i ¢ f sf gs ee g i H iH i i i &. : a) i EF iff i i E i i ig i HF Ee Bs ir li | prattle; one of the ‘Turkish sconded; the Tyrolean song be bas been hard set to get s|abape. But Knox won't own his life. This 1s the way be the ubiquitous newspaper man: “We had to fire several of our truly. For instance, one Turkish ealcitrant and had to ladies did not behave not permit that. Of course that our pee remain throughout the entire season. ‘This is how one of the young French told the story of her departure from the gress of beauty: “M'sier know bo est tres gentil. do noGugs vhich wo angaire. to stay m ze place vair no one I is not permettre for to—vat you avec des hommes. It is necesssire ze hommes. Je vious de Paris, zat from de grand metropole do France. ve young gentilzommes flirt avee ladies. But no here. M'sier le Comte til he come tuto ze place ze oder dey and make zoeyesatme. He one pla ami of maine, and he say good-day aud he ask me to ze Sate, but ze maungaires make Zo objection and so ww HH iff ea HH iF fl ‘The Sensation of Falling. From the Londen Defi entered even into the description of bis mis- fortunes. In the autobiographical chapter from which we quoted the other day in our commenis on Mr. Patchet! Martin's book there isan account of his fll over a precipice—for- tunately ending in water, Tho fall, he tel's us, ras to be 120 feet, but, he adds: “On this Icam on, for iny experience bas proved ) Worst possible way of measuring » tall down it.” People, be says, described in such situations as having whole life pass before them, as losing h, as dead before they reach the nese things happened tome. time relting over and over im Iremember hoping that I should be ed ontright, and then the relief of finding to rotura to her Sydney friends. I prewame | Med emtricht, and t the Banshee went with her, but of this am = . — not certam. Sometimes I heard from Nora in Model the months which followed her brother's death, newbies When T was at Te Aroha im the North Island | Pfom last Christmas she wrote and told me that she was married and had settled for good in Syd- ney. This otter vot me thinking about the Ban- “Th and qui “Ob, yer: sho doesn't evon Gisiurh the @uc® when Cicaning up a room.” vervant you have now seems very nies