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Girls do the Courting—They Are Co- quettish and Make the Proposals— Wives Are Bartered Off. Cape Town Corr. of the Chicago Chronicle. A wedding in Zululand fs as great an event as in Gotham; greater, indeed, for the ceremonies last three days; a King’s wedding takes a month's time. It means finery and feasting, and though one may not associate the sentiment readily with a benighted country where “wool grows on men’s heads and hair on sheep's backs,” it means love. At least, sometimes. Not even barbarism and polygamy can prevent the growth of the strongest of human pas- sions. 2 They are quite fin de sicle, too, in Zulu- | land, for the girls, if they feel like it, pro- pose, The men are of robuster make than Americans, or else they have grown hard- ened through years of question popping, for if a dusky maid doesn’t suit a young chief he has the grit to refuse. That is not al- ways the end of a Zulu girl's wooing, though, as the story of a dark maid and a ecoquettish chief will show. He had heen displaying his agility in the dance. She did not know him, but she went to his kraal and pleaded for his affection. He pro- tested that he hadn't any to give her, but she wouldn't go away. He sent for her brother, who took her by the shoulders and marched her home. She came back, but the obdurate object of her courtsnip pounded her with a stick. Zulu gossips do not tell how she bore this affront or carried her point after it. But carry it she did. The necessary cows were paid her father and the two were married. Cows play an important part In Zulu weddings. The husband, in proportion to | his wealth, pays his father-in-law, not for his wife, but the right to retain in his own family the children he may have. Other- wise the children would belong to the fam- fly of his wife’s father. A Zulu girl is often a coquette, and avofds the importunities of her father, who, hankering for the cattle she will bring, chides her for not marrying. When | the gir] thinks her father is about to sug- | gest a husband for her she usually runs away to the kraal of her lover, and if he has cattle enough and ts of good family preparations for the wedding are made. Both partics must learn new songs and dances for the coming event. The bride | gets her stock of me: spoons, dishes, étc., ready for housekeeping. Her father’s | ift is a blanket end always an ox, which is looked upon as the ox of the amohlozi ancestral spirits. Its loss by death would be thought a token of the desertion of the protecting spirits of her father’s house, On her wedding day the bride, with a gay following, proceeds toward the bride- groom's kraal, which she will not enter until nignt, the whole company singing | and dancing as they go. The bridegroom's | arty looks on at first and then joins in | he revelrie: On the second day the groom contributes to the festivities by slaughtering a cow. The bride wanders about the kraal at night | and is supposed to be crying for her fa- | ther's home. She tries to run away, but | the girls prevent On the third and last day of the ceremonies the bride ap- pears bearing a spear in one hand and a dish of water in the other. Coming up, singing and d g, she throws theew ter over her h: d, sprinkling her broth- er and sister-t at the same time, as a symbol that from that time her sway is to prevail in her husband’s household. Then | she breaks the spear and makes a last pre- | tended attempt to escape. If she is not | stopped at the gate of the kraal by a young man appointed for the purpose, it is con- sidered a disgrace and the bridegroom must pay a cow to get her back. The marriage rites are now ended, al- | though at the close of nearly every wed- | ding the father of the bride takes a shield | and descants upon his daughter's charms and on all he had done for her, saying that | the number of cows lie has received is too | small, but that he hopes she will be well | treated, etc. He emphasizes his words by | jumping up ard violently kicking his ghield. Then the father of the bridegroom | appears with a shield and lauds the virtués | nd complains that he has paid | attle, that the girl is homely, too many | e. lending even morg spirit to his ges- | tures than the bride's father has | This mony is added, it is sald, In that the bride may not be too much } elated. | “A man's wives make his home « is a common saying among the Zulu they limit the number only as the number of thelr cows ts Imited. “If L have but one wife, who will cook for me when she il?” argues the Zulu. Nor may the poor wife complain. Should | she be k, and unable to attend to her | s EF to hear from her h 2" If she 1s not ean be take her chil- rtgage. The must work and have a | 1 life of it. | © practice of polys ini ed te diminishe bes, 1 men, who have plenty for women, marry yall An ugly but rich k e but selves with the — Judging by Results. From Puck, Maud—‘I thi Freparation on his n Mabel—“T 3 it is one of those spe cifics for the removal of superfluous h: ee AD prointed Man, From the Chicago Tribune, “T had a right to expe said C after the rain, looking sadly at and bedraggled trousers, “that m: woull behave better in the water tha: GUM ABOUT CHEWING A Peep Into the Mysteries of Its Manu- facture. After a Visit to a Place Where Gum is Made a Visitor Tells All About It. From the St. Louls Republle. The manufacture of chewing gum, which until the last few months was exclusively an American industry, is decidedly of more importance than the average and casual buyer of the little packages of glutinous substances imagines. There are twenty-five large chewing gum factories in the United States—to say noth- ing of the smaller ones—each employing no less than 300 people, the greater number being women, making the total of all en- gaged directly in the factories in this work 7,500. But these figures do not by xuny means cover the entire number of people in the United States that are engaged in this business, for, according to even a rough estimate, there are 25,000 or 35,000 people earning a livelihood in one way or another with their respective connections with the making, selling and advertising of chewing gum. Thoygh the manufacture of the chewing gum originated in America, and has re- mained a distinctively American industry for twenty years, its fame has spread abroad, and last year no less than $1,000,000 worth of different varieties of chewing gum was exported. Now chewing gum has been declared “not a patent medicine” on the other side of the Atlantic, and in future both England and Germany will make and sell at least a portion of the gum that is used in those countries. The habit of chewing gum has Become widespread in America within compara- tively the past few years. Until old Mr. Adams—the father and founder of the Adams Chewing Gum Company of New York~—twenty years or so ago discovered that a Mexican tree, closely allied to the India “rubber tree, was capable of pro- ducing a gum that was most satisfactory to chew, nothing in this line was known or thought of but spruce gum. This tree was first imported in 1867, with a view to its employment in India rubber manufacture, but since the making of chewing gum has become such an impor- tant and wealth-yielding industry it has an enormous value for that reason. The gum from this tree is called “chicle,"" and from it the greater part of all the chewing gum in America is made. The care and propa- gation of the gum-producing tree is now also an important matter. Most of these trees grow in Mexico, Tuxpan being one of the principal places where their cultivation is carried on extensively and from which district the greatest amount of “chicle” is obtained. ie It may afford a certain amount of com- fort, and certainly satisfaction, to those | addicted to the habit of chewing gum, and | who find pleasure in it, to know that in spite of the rather horrifying stories told of all the impure things that chewing gum contains, in reality it comprises but three ingredients: The chicle, or sap of the Mex- ican tree, sugar and flavoring extract. Chewing gum in its crude state appears something like great, rough stones. These lumps are of a light brownish color, and one can easily bite or break off pieces, which, when chewed, form the same sub: stanoe as the finished chewing gum, only minus the flavoring. This shows that it is not dependent upon anything but its own original quality to sustain it in its proper confistency. The making of the rough and lumpy gum into the neat little squares and strips that one can buy at almost every street corner or store is simple enough, as far as the main points are concerned, but in- teresting. First the chicle {s ground into powder and put into porcelain kettles, holding elghteen gallons each, and boiled for three hours over a slow fire of coke. Al the kettles used in the twenty-five factories before alluded to have a capacity of not less than eighteen gallons, and eighteen of such kettlefuls are turned out every day, thus making a daily output of 24 gallons apiece, or the total number of allons for the twenty-five factories not less than §,100. This amounts to almost 1,000,000 gallons a year, which, when re- duced to its marketable shape and size, forms an enormous amount of goods to handle, and it seems almost incredible that ready sale is found for it all, but such is the case. When the belling mass has reached the sugar and water, being mixed with the pre consistency, it is poured from the great kettles onto long, white marble slabs, where, before it cools, it is rolled into the desired final thickness by enormously heavy steel rollers, manipulated by steam. rp knives, also governed by steam or ether motive power, cut the flat sheet of gum into uniform squares, circles or strips, as the case may be be. After the gum is thoroughly eooled—it never wrapped until the day after it is ade—it {s turned over to a number of mung women, who, with deft fingers, put | on the little thin paper wrappers and nar- row little bright ribbons that tle into pack- ages the different fruit-flavored confections for chewing that the enterprising manu- facturer turns out. it requires men for the cooking and 2 preparing the gum, but women always employed to pack it. It is a cleanly and really dainty feminine pation. In the large factories a hundred or more irls may be seen seated at long tables, ed neatly, and even becomingly, and hen work is done in the evening their te aprons are almost as fresh as when vined in the morning, as there is nothing about the work to soil elther their clothes or ha A very munificent salary cannot i d_ through wrapping gum, though y as well as many another that 1s more laborious and gether unpleasant. A girl can earn at ‘apping from $4 to $0 a week, according fh otherw! are ore &re gene i. There are gener- men for as large a From Life. The Hushand—‘Would you forget me if I should die? The Wife—‘No; not entirely. you every time I made a fire.” I'd think of + ment. | wife 1 Purify And Enrich Your Blood By Taking YER’S Sarsaparilla. It was the Only Sarsaparilia Admitted At World’s Fair. AYER’S PILLS for the Liver. If TUE BABY IS CUTTING TEETH BE SURE snd use that oll and well-tried remedy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, for children teething. 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Some of the “virtuosi” interviewed saw in the question only an opportunity to say something clever and epigrammatic, and made no attempt to yeally answer it. Others wandered from the point by confusing execution with in- terpretation. Those who rightly under- stood the question as referring solely to mechanical difficulties and treated it »eri- ously in their replies were so far apart in thelr views that the discussion was prac- tically unresultant, and left the question but little nearcr settlement. The palri of difficulty was not definitely awarded, but there was so much in the discussion that will probably be of interest to students of plano musi2 that it has seemed worthy of review No fewer than sixteen compositions and groups of compositions are named by the French pianists as among those presenting the greatest technical difficulties to the performer. They are as follows: Beetho- yen’s sonatas, opera 57 and 106; Bach’s “Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue;" Brahme's Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Balackireff's “‘Islamey, Chopin's “Bal- lades,” first, third and fourth, and the finale of his sonata in B flat minor; Liszt's “Etudes” and twelfth “Rhapsody,” Schu- mann’s sonata in F sharp minor and his “Etudes Symphoniques,” St. Saens’ “‘Alle- gro Appassionata,” a sonata by Thalberg, and a sonata by Von Weber. Of these com- positions only four have more than one vote, and none has more than two. Only ne composition has the undivided support of its adherents. This is Balackireff's “Fantaisie Orientale Russe,” “Islamey,” which both Louis Diemer and Francis Plante declare to be pre-eminently the most difficult to execute of all music yet writ- ten for the piano. Mme. Roger-Miclos and Marmontel, the oldest of the professors of the Paris’ Conservatoire, pronounce for Liszt's “‘Rhapsodie, No. 12,"" among others; Raval Pugno and Mme. Roger-Miclos name the Beethoven sonata in B flat, opus 106, end these two pianists are also agreed as to the extraordinary difficulty of Schu- mann’s sonata in F sharp minor. “Islamey,” then, must be pronounced the winner in Le Figaro’s competition. This composition is not yet very generally known among American pianists. Of the three other more familiar works named as peculiarly difficult, American pianists gen- erally will be inclined to rank the Beetho- yen sonata “fur Hammerklavier,” opus 106, as tho severest test of virtuosity. The other Beetheven sonata that figures in the lst of the sixteen most ditficult composi- tions, opus 57, the famillar “Sonata Ap- passionata,” is in the repertoire of about every professional pianist. Opus 106 is very seldom played in public. As practical proof of its difficulty it may be mentioned that Von Bulow once publicly broke down tn it while playing it from memory, some years go, at Chickering Hall. The break-down Was covered up, the audience being given to understard that something had gone wrong with the instrument. The tuner tn attendance was sent on the stage with in- structions to spend fifteen or twenty min- utes in ostensibly putting the piano to rights, while Ven Bulow, out of earshot of the audience, utilized the time thus gained by furiously practicing, on an upright piano, the passage that had baffled him. As for the difficulty of the Liszt “Rhap- sodie,” it may be remarked that this per- pect pianist, than whom no composer ever knew better the capabilities and the lim{- tations of technique, wrote always ‘for the hand,” and presented no problems of exe- cution out of the range of’ virtuosity. Classing one of his compositions as pre- eminent for technical difficulties is, there- fore, rather the reverse of a compliment to this composer. The proverb in regard to those who ask questions that the wisest cannot answer may be not improperly borne in mind while considering problems of execution that the most skilled pianist cannot fully solve, presented in musical compositions intended to be played upon the piano by mortal hands. The epigrammatic answers of some of the Parisian pianists to Le Figaro’s ques- tions, though they have next to no rele- vance, are sufficiently amusing and sugges- tive to be worth quoting. C. de Beriot holds that, since pianists are not provided, as they should be, with five thumbs on each hand, and are forced to struggle all their lives against the inequality of their fingers, as to strength and length, and especially :gainst the weakness of the fourth finger, the technical feat that pian- ists find the most difficult of all is playing the simple scale, as it should be played, with absolute evenness. Delaborde’s opin- jon, which, paradoxical as it is, will be shared by many a timid player at the mo- ment he takes his seat on the piano stool before his audience, ts; “For*me the most difficult of piano pieces {s whatever piece I happen to be playing, while I am playing it.” Andrew Gresse believes that the com- position most difficult of all to play with entire correctness is any composition that one finds himself obliged to play in the Presence of its composer. Composers much in the habit of hearing thelr compositions played will probably, if they are quite frank, fully indorse M. Gresse’s view. And even the most skilled of pianists will own that sometimes, bowing himself off the stage amid storms of applause for his “per- fect execution” of some monumental work of Bach, Beethoven or Schumann, he has had much reason to rejoice in his heart that the composer could not Possibly have heard his playing, being dead. “Les morts Be) reclement bas!” as M. Andrew Gresse ———+e+—_____ Juvenile Modesty. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean, It happened at Harbor Springs a few days ago. A young man from Chicago was stop- ping there with his wife, and the wife had wandered down to the shore of the harbor to enjoy the evening breeze. The short pier jutting out into the harbor looked in- viting, and she went.on it unmindful of sev- eral small urchins wM® were hovering about the dockhouse at the end of the plier. A few minutes later her husband came ta in her, but was intercepted by one of *he urchins. ‘Say, mister, is that your girl?” asked the he is my wife,” replied the young man. “Well, tell her to go home, ’cause we boys want to go in swimmin’,” said the young- ster, and, thinking that would settle the matter, they retired to the dockhouse to ur dress. The young man promptly informed the the request, but she was enjoying herself, and was not anxious to leave. She leughed and called to a new afrival at the dockhouse: “Tell the boys,” she said, “to run out and jump into the water, if they wish to. I won't look.” The little fellow hurried back to the dock- house with the message, and there was an in:mediate council of war. At its conclusi he. returned to the end of the pier and s “Please, ma’am, the boys say they dasn’t risk it.” 3 ST. ANDREW’S HOST Preparations for the Brotherhood Gathering at Louisville. WASHINGTON DELEGATES 10 G0 Contest Among Cities for the 1896 Convention. THE PROGRAM ARRANGED The selection of the city of Louisville as the plece for holding the tenth general con- vention of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew will, from present indications, prove to have been wise. From the west especially large delegations are expected, while the eastern states are being relied upon to fur- nish their usual large quota. It is the gen- eral custom to hold the convention in the first part of October of each year, but this year, for some reason or other, the latter part of September was chosen as the most convenient time. The convention begins Wednesday,- the 25th of this month, with the customary “quiet day” exercises, and will end the following Sunday with a fare- well meeting at 9 o'clock in the evening. The Local Delegates. In this city preparations have been start- ed for some time and are now about com- pleted. A committee, headed by Mr. John F. Paret as chairman, has been at work, in co-operation with the Louisville transpor- tation committee, trying to secure favora- ble rates on the railroads for the Washing- ton delegates, and now it is about assured that the round trip to Louisville may be had for one and one-third of the regular rate. An effort is also being made to effect an arrangement by which the local people can travel in a_ special car together with the delegates from the local council cf Alexandria, this being the first convention of the latter council as a council separate from Washington. Although one or (wo chapters have not attended to the matter of delegates as yet, it is expected that nearly every one of the twenty-five chap- ters in this city will be represented by one delegate and in some cases more than one member. Every chapter of the broth- erhood in good standing fs entitled to be represented .by one delegate for each ten members and by one delegate-at-large. It is understood, however, that all brother- hood men, whether elected as delegates cr not, are invited to attend and avail them- selves of the privileges of the convention. In accordance with what is now an estab- lished custom, delegates to the convention will provide for thelr own entertainment. The Louisville hotel committee has made arrangements with the leading hotels to accommodate the delegates at reduced rates. The Galt House is to be the head- quarters of the visitors. For those who do not wish to go to the hotels boarding house accommodations have been secured at rates below the ordinary. After the Next Convention. The canvass to determine which city is to have the honor of holding the next year’s convention has already commenced. The brotherhcod men of Pittsburg are planning to have the convention of 1846 held in their city. At the meeting of the local assembly, held July 19, an afternoon devotional meeting. conducted by Bishop Whitehead, was followed by addresses on the “Benefits to Be Secured From Holding a National Convention in Pittsburg,” and a general discussion on the best methods of going to work to secure the convention. Buffalo, too, is in the field, and it will not be the fault of her churchmen if in 1896 the brotherhood does not meet on the shores of Lake Erie. Although at Wash- ington Buffalo was obliged to yield to the claims of Louisville, the Buffalo visitors are coming to Louisville full of determina- tion, and hoping for better fortune this year. Their invitation is ready, and is backed by the invitation of the Church- men’s Club and the resolution of the state ccnvention of the brotherhood in New York. It Is rumored that New York city is also getting quietly into line, and that the preliminary invitation for the conyven- tion of 1896, which was presented in this city last year, will be presented again with inereased urgency. Altogether, indications point to a lively and good-natured contest for the honor of entertaining the Brother- hood of St. Andrew in 1896, The Program at Louisville. Some changes may possibly be announced in the program of the convention before it meets in Louisville in September, Lut the following will probably be carried out very nearly intact: Wednesday, the 25th, will be observed as quiet day, in preparation for the conven- tion in the Church of the Advent. This service will be conducted by Rev. J. O. S. Huntington, O. H. C. The next day, at 10 o’clock in the morning, the opening service will take place in Christ Church Cathedral. Right Rey. Thomas U. Dudley, D. D., bish- op of Kentucky, will deliver the charge to the brotherhood. At 12 o'clock the dele- gates are to meet in a hall selected for the occasion for the purposes of organiza- tion and the hearing of addresses of wel- come. Luncheon is allowed at 1, and then at half-past 2 will be held a business ses- sion, mm which will come the report of the council and. committee reports. Then at 4 o'clock follows a general conference, with Mr. Edmund Billings of Boston as the chairman. The general subject for this will be “The Brotherhood of Man,” which will be divided into the following topics, handled by the following speakers: “His Motive,” Henry A. Fuller, Wilkesbarre, Pa.; “His Work,” Robert H. Gardner, { Chestnut Hill, Mass.; “His Life,” Wiillam C. Sturgis, New Haven, Conn. After this will come fifteen-minute addresses, fol- lowed by a general discussion. At 8 p.m., in Christ Church Cathedral, there is to be a devotional meeting for brotherhood men, in preparation for the corporate celebra- tion of the holy communion. This will be conducted by the Right Rey. William F. Nichols, D. D., bishop of California. Fri- day, the 26th, will be opened by a corpo- rate celebration of the holy communioa, Rev. Bishop Nichols being the celebrant. After the business session, at 10 a.m., there will be a general conference on the sub- ject of “Bible Class Work,” under the fol- lowing topic: ‘How to Study the Bible,” Robert BE. Speer, New York; “Sample Bible Class,” led by James L. Houghteling of Chicago, and “General Discussions of Bible Class Methods.” At 1 o’clock will come luncheon, and then in the afternoon an open parliament on ‘What to Do, and How to Do It,” John W. Wood, chairman. The parliament will also provide room for a gegeral discussion on brotherhood work and methods in three-minute talks from the floor, In the sectional confer- ence at 4 o'clock on Friday _ afternoon, Thomas P. Dean of Bostoi Mas: will talk about “Traveling Men;” HE. P. Gulli- ver, Cambridge, Mass., “College Men;” Rev. G. A. Carstensen, Indianapolis, Ind., “Parochial Missions;” and James K. Bake- well, Allegheny, Pa., “Rescue Missions.” At 8 o'clock in the evening there will be a public meeting in the hall on the sub- ject, “An Ideal Parish.” On this general topic Rev. Percy S. Grant of New York will talk about “Free Pews and an Open Church;” Rev. James S, Stone, D. D., Chi- cago, “The Prayer Bool third topic, “A Christian Vestry; Silas MeBee of Lincoin- ton, North Carolina, “A Fearless Priest;” Right Rev. John Hazen White, D. D., bishop of Indiang,“A- Loyal Congregation;” and Right Rev. Dariel S. Tuttle, D. D., bishop of Missourl, “Of the Catholic Church.” Saturday, the 28th, will be ushered in by holy communion in the morning at 7 o'clock. At 10 o'clock there will be a busi- ness session, followed an hour later with a “Question Box.” At 0, Rev. J. Philip Du Moulin, D. C. L., canon of St. James’ Cathedral, Toronto, is to deliver an ad- dress on ‘he Mother Church of the En- glish Speaking People.” After an inter- mission for luncheon the final business session is to take place at 2:30 in the af- ternoon, followed an hour later by the last general conference of the convention. The general subject of this will be “The Self- Denial Week, and How to Keep It,” under the heads of “The Brotherhoode Mission- aries,’ “Our Duty to Them,” and “The Brotherhood of St. Andrew in Foreign Missions,” by Robert E. Speer of New York. At 4 o’clock there will be a sectional conference as follows: “Brotherhood Houses,” Joseph R. Barroll of Chicago; “Employers,” W. R._ Stirling, Chicago; “Lay, Reading,” John E. Mitchell, Mobile, and “Chapter Officers.” In the evening of the same day in the hall selected there will be a meeting devoted to the discussion of “Social Reform,” at which addresses will be made by Right Rev. Henry C. Pot- ter, D. D., bishep of New York, Henry Lloyd, Boston, Massachusetts, Rev. Cam- eron Mann, D. D., Kansas Ci Mo., and James L. Houghteling of Chicago. The Closing Day. The last day of the convention being Sunday there will be holy communion at 7 in the morning and the usual Sunday morning services in the churches of Louis- ville, though the pulpits will all be oc- cupied by visiting clergymen. In the af- terncon a large mass. meeting will take place, the subject being “Christian Unity,” on which addresses will be delivered by Bishop Potter, Rev. Dr. William R. Hunt- ington and Rev. Charles A. Briggs, D. D., all of New York. The final service will oc- cur in the cathedral at 7:30, and at this service the anniversary sermon will be de- livered_by Right Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, 8. T. D., assistant bishop of ‘Tennessee. An hour and a half later Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle will lead the farewell meeting and the delegates will then leave for their homes, most of them going Sunday evening. ——._—_ THE DIVER AND THE SHARK. A Dinner of Gold Coin Settled the Savage Fish. From the Buffalo Express. “I suppose,” quoth James T. Gaulin of Winchester, Mass., who was sitting on the hetel veranda, “that I had the honor of killing the most valuable fish that ever swam the seas. I did it single-handed, too. I aver that this fish was worth more at the time of its death than the finest sperm whale that was ever harpooned, although we should reslly leave whales out of the question when speaking of fish. It was thirty years ago, and I was young and foolish enough to be a deep sea diver. Our diving schooner and crew had been sent to Cuba to try to recover some stuff from a Spanish boat that had foundered off the coast of Cuba, just where I don’t now recol- lect. It was quite a long trip for us, and as the employment of a diving outfit was an expensive thing in those days, the boys knew that there must be something pretty valuable in the hold of the wreck. I was quite close to our skipper, and he told me that there were several boxes of gold coin in the wreck. On our arrival at the port near where the wreck lay in thirty feet of water, the agent of the owners of the sunk- en schooner told us something more sur- prising. It was that the gold had not been stowed in boxes in the cabin, as was usual, but for some reason had been bagged and Placed In the hold, being billed as copper washers. This was probably a scheme tu avoid any chance of the spirit of cup!dity arising in the crew, for the treasure was very great. “As the confidential man, I was selected to go down first, and find the money bags, attach lines to them, and have them taken out before the other divers should proceed with the work of taking out the other freight that the water had not harmed. I was soon in the hold, and was surprised to find that the bags were only a little dis- tance from the hole in the side that had caused the schooner to founder. I had been told that there would be twelve bags, but I could lay my hands on but eleven of them. Finally I spied a torn bag lying near the hole in the hull, and on picking it up dis- covered that it contained a few gold coins. I decided that the heavy triple sacking had been torn cper some way or other when the schooner sank. I fastened lines about the eleven bags that were intact and had them hoisted, afterward going up for air, for our apparatus was not very good. The Gold Had Disappeared. “In a few minutes I returned to the hold to search for the scattered coins. Very few of them were in sight. It occurred to me that they might have been washed out- side the boat, judging from the position of the wreck, and the fact that the hole was far down toward the ship’s bottom. I was about to crawl out the hole, when I re- membered that it might hazard the air ripe, so I was pulled up and let down again over the vessel's side. I was disappointed not to find any indication of the gold near the hole in the schooner, but set to work digging resolutely in the sand. I had gone but a foot down when I struck the gold pieces all in a lump. I picked out a great handful and turned the light on them, for I was a lover of gold then, even though it aid not belong to me. “Just then I saw something that made the rubber helmet raise from my head. It was @ man-eating shark. I hadn’t thought of one in co long that I had neglected to bring my knife. It was rushing at me. The stupid creature never stopped to con- sider that with a rubber and lead dressing a diver makes a poor lunch. I was kneel- ing beside the gold. At the shark's on- slaught, I naturally hung to the handful of gold as though to use it as.a weapon. He turned on his side, opening his horrible mouth. A feeling of grim humor had come over me. The cruel gold bugs had sent me down here to be devoured, after saving thousands of dollars for them. I would be @ spendthrift at the last. So with all my force I flung the heavy handful of coin into the yawning mouth. The Coin His Only Weapon. “The shark must have thought it was a part of me, for he snapped his jaws over the golden morsel, as though I could not hear. I am satisfied that he broke some teeth. He swam back a little and then rushed at me again. I had no weapon but the gold, so again I flung into the hideous maw enough to buy me a home in New England. I saw him snap and swallow it. Again and again was attack repeated, and as often did I hurl gold into the shark's throat. Pretty soon he became dizzy, as it were, for the gold ‘had unbalanced him, settling in the forward part of his body. Then he writhed in agony, and I had to keep dodging his flurry. Then, with one terrible shudder, he sank to the bottom, weighted down by the gold. I tiled a line about him and then gave the signal to be pulled up. Then I helped hoist the shark. We cut him open. Gentlemen, you must take the word of an ex-diver that there was $45,000 in him. Gold had killed him.” Silence smeared itself all over the ver- anda. The pale moon slid behind a cloud. The amphitheater organ slowly wove a weird chunk of melody. The chimes began to ring. “Those were great days,”’ said Mr. Gaulin, sadly. —_—_—_+e2+—_____ WANTED TO BORROW HIM AWHILE. Queer Request Two Women Made of a Philadelphian. From the Philadelphia Record. A genial Philadelphian, who for obvious reasons does rot care to have tis name printed on this occasion, secured a parlor car seat on an express train for Reading a few days ago, and as he was about to pass through the gates was surprised to hear himself accosted in feminine tones with the somewhat startling question: “Please, mister, could I borrow you for awhile?” Looking around, he found two buxom wo- men, who hastily and hesitatingly explain- ed that they were riding on a pass made out in the name of a gentleman and his wife, and, as the gentleman was not pres- ent, they wanted the genial-looking citizen to place his bought ticket at the disposal of one lady and take the other one under fis wing, while he personated the absent owner of the pass. “Which is my wife?” he inquired with an inward qualm, lest his own absent better half should ever hear the story. “sYou can take your choice, sir,” said the lady in search of an escort, and he prom) ly did so by taking the arm of the youngest fair one under his own and leading her in- to the car. The couple rroved to be right jolly traveling companicns, and the citi- zen’s only regret in the transaction was due to a fear that the story might leak out and get home ahead of him. But it didn’t. ———___+e+__ Kept House in a Chimney. Parl Letter to the London Telegraph. A curious case of desertion is just re- ported from a regiment quartered in a provincial town. About two months ago one of the soldiers disappeared, and no clue to his whereabouts having been ob- tained, it was presumed that he had left the country. As some of the men were inspecting the barrack’s roof yesterday they perceived a few wraps in a chimney, an farther examipation revealed to view their missing comrade,in a state of squalor and reduced almost to a skeleton. He said that as he had no taste for military life he had resolved to desert, but that, not daring to leave the barracks, he had in- stalled himself in the chimney, going down to the court yard at night in search of food among the refuse piled up in a corner. The man has beet removed to the military hos- pital in a Very precarious condition. AMONG THE TOILERS Proposed Organization of a Branch of the American Federation. SEVERAL UNIONS MAY GO IN A Movement Said to Have Been in Progress for Some Time. MEETINGS HELD LAST NIGHT There are in Washingten several large and influential organizations of laboring men that are not attached to either the Federation of Labor in the District or Dis- trict Assembly, No. 66, Knights of Labor. These ere as follow: Columbia Typo- graphical Union, No. 101, whose magnifi- cent numbers and the high standard of efficiency te which it has been brought under President George A. Tracy, entitle it to the first place in the list; Columbia Musical Union, Piate Printers’ Union, I. T. P. U., Pilots’ Association, Granite Cutters and Saddle and Harness Makers. A move- ment is understood to be in progress for the furmation of these and such other so- cieties of organized labor as may be dis- posed to unite with them into a branch of the American Federation of Labor. The project has been quietly discussed for several weeks among some of the labor leaders here. One of the prominent labor leaders of the District in speaking of the matter last night to a Star reporter, said: “TI believe in the unification of labor, lo- cally, nationally and internationaily. I be- lieve that ig all the labor bodies of this country were allied in one grand national body the organized labor of the country would be In a position to accomplish more along the lines of geneial advancement in twelve months than can be accomplished now in many years. Everyone who has given any attention to labor organizations knows that if moral and financial support in the event of disturbed trade relations, is confined to a contracted local field, much less can be accomplished than when a lo- cal movement is reinforced by the approval and substantial sympathy of workers re- gardiless of state lines or craft. “Recognizing this fact, trade union or- ganizations were allied in a national or- ganization of the craft. This was an ad- vance logically toward the institution of the American Federation. grand concen- tration of the trade union forces of all the country, with, I believe, the exception of Washington. “Here the union organizations, though composing quite largcly our Federation of Laber, must depend wholly upon local sup- port to accomplish any of the ends for which the federation is maintained. D. A., No. 66, K. of L., is under the aegis of a natioval body—our federation is only local. “Concluding from the primary principle of organization, and believing that the greatest power is in the largest union; when we understand that labor is organized for a common purpese, and that the inter- ests of all are mutual, I cannot understand why they should be factious, arrayed under different banz.ers and marching under dif- ferent leadership. “I believe in concentration, In a grand al- liance so perfect and harmonious as that an injury inflicted upon a single member of the smallest organization in the most re- mote section of our country will be resented by every organization under a common standard. This will be accomplished some time in the future, after labor has put aside the evils of jealousy, strife, contention, in- tolerance, and concludes to devote its ef- forts to the advantement of men by a steadfast devotion to that which is true, Just and liberal. ‘ “If this can be accomplished by a larger alliance than now exists with the organiza- tions of this District I shall be gratified. I am convinced that national affiliation would not weaken us locally, while it is very probable that we would be very much stronger than we are.” Progress of the Movement. Another prominent labor leader said: “The movement concerning which you have asked me, viz., the proposed organization in the District of Columbia of a branch of the American Federation of Labor, be- gan to take shape about ten weeks ago, and it was intended that the newspapers should not learn anything about the matter for some time yet, but, as a matter of course, and as might have “been expected, The Star has learned what is going on in that direction. The movement is really formidable, and once the nucleus is formed the branch will be almost certain to receive accessions from many quarters. “In order to get a charter from the American Federation of Labor it will be TLecessary for seven organizations to unite in making application, I know of at least ten or eleven that can be depended upon to do this. As a matter of fact, the Ameri- can Federation of Labor is already repre- sented in Washington, there being one or more unions affiliated with it, though they are also represented in the Federation of the District. “These men feel that the time has come for those who are desirous of grasping the broader possibilities which are open to as- sociations having a nationa] and interna- tional connection to make a move in that direction, and they think the outiook very peed = “There is today in the American Fed<ra- tion of Labor a membership of 800,000, and its branches are to be found in every sec- tion of the United States and Canada. ‘There is no desire on the part of those who are participating in the movement to do anything to cripple or interfere with the operations of the Federation of the Dis- trict, but there fs certainly an earnest wish to have it affiliate with the national aud internaticnal federation.” A Local Complicaticn. Mention was made by another well- known leader of the report as published in yesterday's Star, that when the delegates from the Steamfitters’ Association pre- sented their credentials entitling them to admission as members of the body at the meeting Tuesday night of the Federation they were met with a protest from the delegates from the Plumbers’ Assoclation, and the latter succeeded in having the cre- dentials of the former referred to their own organization for discussion and report. The ground of objection was stated to be that under the terms of their charter the members of the Plumbers’ Association have the right ‘to work as steam fitters, while the members of the latter organization are said to be working more hours and for less pay than the plumbers are willing to ac- cept for the same class of work. “The particular job referred to where this state of affairs exists is said to be Heurich’s brewery, where a number of union steam fitters are at work, and at this time everything is moving along smoothly. ® the Feacra- “The contract ¢ommittee tion,” said the labor leader referred to to The Star reporter, “has secured from the owners of That brewery a contract agree- ing that he will not employ any steam fitters there except those who are recog- nized by the Federation of Labor and D. A. b6, K. of L. Now, by refusing admission to the Federation of Labor, and the dele- gates from the steam fitters and the plumbers will almost certainly recommend that this course be taken, the steam fitters at work at Heurich’s as well as all those belonging to their union will be outlawed and can no longer keep their employment there. This is apt to lead up_to a great deal of trouble, for the steam fitters are members of the Building Trades Council, which is composed of some ten or twelve influential organizations, and the singular spectacle will be presented of an associa- tion, which is in excelient standing in one leading body of organized labor, being out- lawed and its members deprived of the means of earning a livelihood on account of the jealousies felt and power exerted by those who are engaged in an almost simi- lar_ occupation. “I know for a fact that if the Federation shall reject the delegates from the steam fitters the latter will be advised by some of the most conservative members of the Federation of the District to immediately join in the movement to organize a branch of the American Federation of Labor h and to do so as a matter of selfprotection. The Horseshoers. The Horseshoers’ Union at their meet- ing last night passed a vote of thanks to atout every one who had assisted them in making their part of the Labor day parade @ success, and they then voted to place ———— the Eckington «nd Soldiers’ Home rail- ay and its branches on The unfair list. They also placed a fine of $2 on any mem- ber whe shall ride on the cars of the lat- ter read, The Laundry Workers. The laundry workers, at last night's meeting, discussed a report that the Pearl laundries are cutting rates, and deter- mired to make a full investigation of the subject. They also passed a resolution re- questing the Federation of Labor and D. A., 66, K. of L., to assist titem in the mat- ter. Miss Maggie Ryan and Mr. Fritz Hermann were elected delegates to the District Assembly in order to complete the number to which the local is entitled. The Machinists. Columbia Lodge of Machinists at their meeting last night accepted an invitation to attend the lecture to be given Sunday next by Rev. A. Kent on “The Incarceration of Eugene V. Debs.” Several new members Were initiated end several applications for membership were received. The Eccentric Eariacers, The Eccentric Association of Engineers at their meeting last’ night instructed a committee to call today on the District Commissioners nd protest against Joseph Culley, janitor of the High School, being allowed to draw two salaries—one from the District and the other from the Eckingtop and Soldiers’ Home Railway Company. _ THE NEW CHILD. Fostered and Pampered Into Vain and Ambitious Prigs. From Good Words, The priggishness of the New Child, though often irritating, is a less serious thing. Most children have had it more or jess, and they outgrow it in time; in the New Child it is rampant. It is unduly fostered and encouraged, we regret to say,” by the everlasting “children’s pages” and “children’s competitions” that every jour- nal now pours forth. Life, from the New Child's point of view, seems to be one long competition. Ali this fosters their vanity, their love of praise, their ambition. Their letters are published week by week, their Pictured presentments are given to an admiring public. What, from the New ce point of view, can be more delight- ‘ul? That cynic, old Sam Johnson; would have said of this, with his accustomed stern- — seed or’ “Madam, you lay the foundations of endless mischief; you mal boys and girls hate each other.” * = But the competitions go on iustily; every week there are more of them. When we read the terribly stilted and dull effusions poured out in the “children’s pages” by the New Child, one is, indeed, tempzed to ask, “What becomes of all the clever Ittle children?” Cleverness is here conspicuous by its absence. How disagreeable and how dull the childish letter can become when stilted with arrogance and bounded hy con- ventionality may be seen on reference to the many “children’s pages’ of the day. This is the kind of thing published us a prize letter: “I feel I must write and tell you all absat our school prize giving.. It was quite an important affair, for the vicar officiated, and the Countess of Save away the prizes. I am quite a little maiden, only eleven last Mey; and dear mother had warn- ed me not to expect anything. But I had worked hard, and I received the first form prize—which' was pretty good, dear 4 was it not? The girl who expected the prize has, alas! not forgiven me for carry- ing it-away from her, which surely, dear ., Shows a jealous spirit; for in this world's battle we must all give and take, must we not? “ Now for the next: “From ——, aged thirteen. “I am writing to tell you and your little readers what a happy day I spent at C— Castle last summer. To commence with, there were my father, mother and I (my dear parents say they are never happy un- less I am with them). Well, dear * we lunched at the inn, explored the storied glades, conjured up the dramatic scenes that had taken place within those ancient walls. Oh! too, too loyely were the green lawns and vistas seen through ancient avenues! The glorious in sank through billowy purple clouds, and can it have been fancy, dear , that I seemed to hear the angels’ choir behind them? ‘I hope, dear , that you will esteem this Iittle letter worthy of a place in your Children's Page. I have tried 20 bert aah this Is the third time, too. Mother says if you don’t she won’t let me subscribe to your “page” any more, for it’s not fair to put everybedy else’s letters in and not mine. I inclose you my. photograph for publication, but my friends say that it does not do me justice. e {aged thirteen).” . What good did the outpouring do these children?—or rather, what harm! Both girls would be the better for a good dose of the old regime. _ Both will, perhaps, when a little older, assail that much-enduring tribe, the editors of magazines, with effusions such as the followirg, which was sent the other day to an editor by a little girl of fifteen: “Dear Mr. Editor: I have written a novel in three volumes, and if you will take great care of it and not let it get dirty you may read it. As it is a sychological (sic) novel and I have taken great pains with it, I think you ought to pay me something large for it—perhaps £5. I want a new frack, andthe money would be nice. I have tried before to write, but the world is dread- fully unkind to me, and, indeed, I have sometimes suspected that there spiracy against me. But I thought, Mr. Editor, that you would be fair. My life has been of no use up to now, and I am fifteen; s0, dear Mr. Editor, please write soon to jour little friend, a —_+«+—____ GETTING "ROUND. The Great Debate Was Verging Into Strange Pa From the Cleveland Piain-Dcaler. “As I was saying," remarked the great financial debater, “the crime of '73—" “Hold!” cried hig distinguished antagon- ist, “we haven’t reached that point yet. We are now considering the coinage of 1798—" “The thunder and blazes we are! You haven't answered my question yet, re- garding the French monetary system of the fifteenth century—" “I'm coming to that—but that necessi- tates going back a little. It will be re- po a as that the Spanish dollar of “But that was only a resuscitation of the English scheme of the ninth cen- te “What? Is it possible you are so dumb as that? The English scheme of the ninth century was stolen from the Egyptians, and in 304 A. D. wag—”" “Aha! You have lain yourself wide cpen at last! The very scheme you are talking about is in direct contravention of your wild theories. It will be remembered that this scheme of metal exchange was in- vented by William a'Plunkett, who was in charge of the finances of one of the car- lier Pharaohs—" “Aha! Right there is another point. The making of the golden calf might be suffi- cient to stamp the ancients as gold mono- metallists, but it must be borne in mind that 1,500 years before William a’Plunkett is known to history—" “Oh, you're getting on to that same old gag again—” “What gag, pray?” the first financial discussion—” ‘ever mind, I can prove that when Jos- eph went down to Egypt to buy corn he orly followed—” - “You're the most unreasonable man to try to argue with since Abel's day—” “Abel!” “Yes, If you are up on financial history at all, you know what was the real cause of Cain and Abel failing out—” “Real estate!” ‘Shades of Hamilton! They fell out over a discussion on finance—” - ’s ridiculous?” "s fact!” It's preposterou: It's indisputable— “Why, you're the biggest fool I ever met—" “Am, am I? Well, if I wasn't up any better on finance than you are, I'd go and scak my head in a horse track—” “You villain! If I was as big an idiot as you are, 1’ \—" Stenographer—“Gentlemen, you were dis- cussing the act of 1873; shall we go on with it—” Both—“Yes, yes! Just walt! getting around to it!” We were ——— The Folding Bed. From Puck. Salesman—“You see, that Is the way ft looks when it ts closed.” Customer—“I see; you can’t tell whether there is any one inside of it or not.”