Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1897, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1897-24 PAGES. EXILED FROM HOME oe South Africa as a Refuge for English Prodigal Sons. THE GRAVE OF LOST REPUTATIONS Young Men Who Sink Their Iden- tity in the Coloniat Troops. READY FOR ANYTHING ee ARE (Cepyright, 1897, by S. McClure Co.) ‘Written for The Evening S W HEN THE YOUNG Englishman goes wrong, he either runs away himself to South Africa, or his family meet in coun- efl and banish him there. Formerly Aus- tralia was the popu- lar resort of such ex- it has been consid- ered that the prodi- gal has a_ better chance to retrieve his reputation in the land of the Kaffir than in that of the Maori. For it must oe clearly compreherded, when one is a prod- lgal, a British prodigal, that one must not tome back with a few old husks and pen- {tential tears, but with something more obviously indicative of a changed disnosi- tion and a clean heart—a bank book, or Bharex in a goid mine, or diamonds galore; romething tangible, clear proof that a new reputation has been gained. The fatted calf will only be killed, rest assured, when a herd of beeves follows in the wake of the returning sinner. files, but of late years | ve life, and that is little to them. It fs to be supposed that 3,000 free lances like these, rough riders, sharpshooters, make up a‘force to be reckoned with. In their ranks, side by side, stirrup to stirrup, ride the son of an aristocrat and the son of the small farmer, the university man and the jailbird. Death levels all ranks; 50 docs the veldt. It is not well, when among them, to be too curious In conversation about a man’s antecedents. But occasionally a flash of bitterness, a burst of confidence, throws a gleam of light upcn the past of a trooper who interests you. Once; in the barracks of tht B. B. P. at Vryburg, in Bechuana- land, I lay on a bunk talking to a trooper, to whom I mentioned I was going home. | Home always means England out there. He was a stout-mustachioed man, but his lip qvivered and his eyes filled with tears. “I can never go home,” he said. He was the son of a baronet, and a Cam- bridge man. His closest friend was an il- literate man from London, who had worked his passage out to escape imprisonment. ‘There are thousands like that in the coun- try. They can uever go home, and the thought of it makes them reckless, and magnificently daring soldiers. The Kaflir las a certain contempt for a redcoat; the Beer jeers at him. Both the Kaffir and the Beer respect the dingy cerduroys of the B. B. P. and the B. 8. A. men. In 1892 and 183 there -were hard times at Johanresburg and all over South Afri- ca—very hard times, and an all-pervading peace. So quiet was everything that Mr. Rhedes, having occupied Mashonaland and signed a treaty with King Lobengula of the Matabeles, and having no trouble with Presidert Kruger, disbanded his troops in the conquered country and these swarmed down to the gold fields and to Kimberley. "They had money in their pockets, but, out of the scores I knew in those years, not ene of them thought of going home. They were under promise, as it were, to bury their reputaticns and the interment was not finished. A wilder lot, a more reckless, I never saw, even on the plains in Ameri- ca. They were very angry at being dis- banded, and at having no new territory shown them immediately to raid and to ravage. All the other frontier companies were full, and there was nothing for them to do. The money was soon spent, and then their kelplessness when out of ranks and in the cities became apparent. I doubt if there was a mechanic in the Ict. One can imagine how these fellows wou!d flock to the standard of Dr. Jameson or any other adventurer who would only lead them on a rousing raid and keep them from thinking of their past. The troopers I was chiefly mixed up with were gentlemen. I mean, of course, that UNIVERSITY MAN AND JAILBIRD. The exile departs under varied condi- ticns. He may possess a ten-pound note beyond his summer fare; he may possess a few hundred pounds; he may be guaran- teed a quarterly allowance on his promise to remain away from his respectable broth- ers and sisters. With the exception of the latter class, which is speedily wiped out by drink, the fate of the prodigals is al- most always the same. Nine times out of ten they drift further and further away from self-respectfulness, and never acquire that will-o'the-wisp they seek, a fortune. But the object sought by the old folks at home has at least been gained. In burying themselves on the veldt they have buried tke past, the shame. Therefore, South Africa has been called “the grave of lost reputations.” ‘The average prodigal thus banished is a peculiarly useless creature in a new land, because he is generally of respectable mid- dle class, frequently of aristocratic par- entage. He, or his friends at home, never realize how helpless he is until a week or two after his arrival, when he finds there ds no work for him which he can do. He is not a carpenter or bricklayer, or mason, or engineer. If he were—and how he wish- es he was—he would be worth $4 or % a day in Johannesburg or Pretoria or Bar- berton. He is reduced, as a rule, to very wad extremities, when he finds at last a career which is open to him. He has dis- covered that Cecil Rhodes has monovo- Hized the diamond Industry, and works the mines by convict labor—there he is not wanted. On the gold reef in the Transvaal he has no capital to invest, and there he is not wanted. But there fs an opening for hin: if he is of sound body, and can ride a bit and shoot a bit. He can enlist, and the prodigal, in umerable cases, gives up all hope of making a fortune and goes soldiering. There is the real cemetery ef the past—the colonial forces of South Africa. Hard-Riding Troopers. It ts real soldiering; there is always war or rumor of war. There are several com- mands to choose from when one has de- cided to join, and they are nearly all kept businly moving. There are the Cane mounted rifles, the Natal mounted police, the British South African Company's po- lice, the Bechuanaland border police and others. It has been stated in recent dis- patches that England can bring the Trans- veal to her bidding with 20,000 men. These forces are not inclusive of the African commands, which hardly seem to be taken inte consideration. As a matter of fact, al- though they are not great in numbers, cach member of these battalions ought to be worth two regular redcoats. They are in- ured to the climate, they know the coun- try, they understand something of the na- u and tney have had frequent skir- mishes wit the Kaffir tribes. In the Zulu war, some of the best work was done by irregulars of ihe country. Last year Cecil Rhodes pacified Rhodesia and’ raised the sieze of Buluwayo without calling for a le imperial soldier. The B. B. P. (Be- analand berder police) are constantly on the borders of President Kruger’s coun- try and mingling ev day with Boers. Such quickly moving trvops, knowing tne lay of the land, and backed up by volun- teers from the veldt of Mashonaland and Matabeleland—evcry one of whom is, by force of circumstances, an expert shot and cavalryman—could do more damage in less time to Boer and Kaffir than columns of heavily equipped and slowly moving sol- diers from England. They would fight as the insurgents do in Cuba, as the Ameri- cans did in the revolutionary war, facing the Boer with the Boer’s methods, not forming up to be shot down in platoons at another Majuba Hill. It is douvtt there is any need for anything like + to maintain British supremac: The object in sending out so many is probably to menace Germany, but, as a matter of fact, the Germans would be a good deal lost campaigning in such a coun- tury. They have had absolutely no experi- ence of wars where all Von Moltke's plots and deeply laid schemes would be useless. One does not fight by the code in Africa. One has not railroads to help mobilization. Five hundred men. such as Rhodes led in- to Matabelelgnd could render ineffective the whole 3,000 Germans who have lately been sent out to the German colony, while the English army in Burmah, Afghanistan, the Soudan, all over the shop, has been constantly drilled in savage and guerrilla warfare—the only kind of warfare that is likely to take place in the Transvaal, and at which the veteran of Sedan would be as useless as a lumpish recruit. Cut Of From Home Ties. Such an audecious raid as that of Dr. Jameson could not have peen made rave ‘Wjth the backing of a number of desp-rate adventurers, such as swarm all over South Africa—the English outcasts. They have cut away from home ties and the past forever, poor prodigals! Their only trust Hes in desperate remedies. They ready for anything. They have nothing? to lose, they were mostly men of education, some of excellent birth and breeding. Every man had his own secret, the one shame which had wrecked his life, but there were among them no criminals, in the technical mean- Ing of the word. When the full recognition of their position came to them, the fact that, as troopers, they were not wanted, that their money was spent, and that there was no employment for them, they buckled to in the most cheerily desperate way to tide over the hard times. None of them dreamed of writing home for assist- ance. They had, none of them, trades. The petty artifices of the swindler or the beggar were impossible to them. They were will- ing to annex a few hundred square miles of other people's country and be proud of the feat, but they would have been horri- fied at the idea of trespassing with evil intent on another man’s back yard. The shifts they made were pitifully amusing. I remember in those days the “Anglo- African laundering company,” and how I laughe1 to see a trooper, still in his muli- tary breeches, burning a hole in a dress shirt in a brave attempt to iron it. There was also the “Mashonaland restaurant, all meals one shilling, eat as much as you please and come again.” There were five partners in the concern, and they found it impossible to turn a hungry man away be- cause he had not the luck to have a shil- ling. As there were innumerable poor and hungry men in Johannesburg in the hard times, and they all “passed a word” to each other, the restaurant was not a suc- cess. One man made some money by rid- ing out to native kraals and bringing in gangs of raw Kaffirs to work in the gold mines. That is a legitimate business, done on commission, but his success was phe- nomenal, until he was nearly murdered by “I Can Never Go Home.” an outraged gang of Kaffirs,when it turned out that he had been driving them into town in front of loaded revolver. In those days—hand to- mouth days for all of us—was established also the Johannesburg Chronicle. It consisted of one emall sheet, containing a lurid tale of the Rand, and the story began somewhat thus: Upon a dark and thunderous night a solitary man might have been seen wend- ing his way homeward along Commissioner street. He was clad in a long dark water- proof cloak, which he had bought at the well-known shop of Messrs. Aaron Gluckenstein, who furnish, etc.” About twenty advertisements were work- ed in thus in the course of the sensational yarn, and the Chronicle was distributed gratis. Fifty dollars resulted from that venture, but the paper never progressed further than vol. 1, No. 1. A Hard Life. Thanks to thay, gentle climate, sleeping out was no very great hardship when things were so bad that we could not pay the exorbitant price charged in Johanncs- burg for a bed. On the Pretoria road, not far from the Rand, were some rocky hills, and in the crannies and of the eee our 3 often si ar ce far into the morning, talliag over of green hedges and cricket fields and trout brooks and the old folks and the sisters at home, never, "The tees iae wen one again. The dreaming was all right but the awakening was coe - paragraph in the Owners’ Association waa going @ number of skilled Cornish min: with their families, to settle on the reef. Joe pondered over that, and talked about it to some miners of his acquaintance. He dis- covered that such action on the part of the “bosses” would hurt the pockets of the miners and constitute a grievance. He argued that an independent bachelor miner could make his own terms, but a man with a family would have to take what wag2s were offered him. He worked himself and others into the belief that the owners were contemplating a big cut in wages. Up to that time there had been no union among the miners. They had been perfectly con- tented. But Joe turned out to be a born agitator. He called a meeting in Market Square and mounted a table. I don’t be- leve he knew the difference between a spade and a shovel himself, and his hands were the long, slim, steely ones of the man who had never known manual labor, but his opening words —‘Fellow workmen”— were quite impressive. He formed his union, and was appointed secretary at $30 @ week, and grew gray quickly, inventing grievances to lay before the weekly meet- ings and keep the members up to the sub- ecribing pitch. The jolly old brotherly, reckless, hopeless outcasts!’ Their daily’ prayer was that “old Lobengula” would run amuck, and place them in a saddle again. He has since then, and been wiped out, and Dr. Jameson has led the exiles on his foray, and now there are stirring times out there, and I have no doubt my old chums are as happy as they ever can be, pulling at the leash and yelping to be loosed at somebody's throat. And when, some day, an official letter is handed in at the country house, or the farm, or the manse in England, statin; that Dick, or Harry, cr Charlie, has die in action, perhaps accounts will be squared at last, and a tear dropped on the grave of @ lost reputation. P. ¥. BLACK. SSS HOW TO ADVERTISE. Star stating that the Mine to bring out The Experience of Some Mercha: May Help Others. From the Indianapolis Journal. A stranger, representing himself as a railroad man, came to Grand Rapids, Mich., recently, and, taking up the idea of time-table advertising, secured several hun- dred dollars from large business houses and then left town. The merchants of the Place had been taken in so often on fake advertising schemes that this was the last straw, and the Business Men’s Association has formally decided to advertise hereaf- ter only in the newspapers. It usually takes a series of experiences of this kind to teach the average business tan the folly of indiscriminate advertising. For some occult reason he is apt to be im. pressed with the notion that an “ad.” in a time table, on a map, on a theater pro- gram, on the cover of an almanac, on the fly leaves of a school catalogue, or any one of a host of occasional and ephemeral pub- lications, is sure to be profitable, and it 1s some time before he is convinced that the reverse is the case. He discovers after a while that people du not read such things closely enough to heed the advertisement, that so much printed matter comes into nearly every household that it is a nuisance and is cast aside with little more than a glance. Circulars, pamphlets, programs, trade lists from‘ here, there and everywhere crowd the mails and are given so little at- tention by the majority of their recipients that the main contents, to say nothing of the “‘ac’s” on the cover, are apt to be over- looked. Even when the latter is read its chance of being heeded is small, for the pamphlet containing it goes speedily into the waste basket and is seen no more. With the newspaper advertisement it is dif- ferent. A single issue of a daily or weekly paper is as ephemeral as a trade circular; when it is a day old its usefulness is ended, but there is the difference in its brief life that while it lasts it is read. If the adver- tisements are not noted in that particular issue ancther comes next day, and present- ly the reader is accustomed to seeing cer- tain business announcements, and half un- conciously he becomes familiar with the names of the merchants and the character of their wares. When the time comes that he wishes to know more he does not turn to the stray pamphlet, but to the newspaper, which is sure to be at hand and where he knows that he can find what he_ wants. Every merchant has the wish and the right to make the most of his advertising, and some can only learn by experience with fake schemes, as the Grand Rapids brethren have done, that the newspaper is the best medium, but it is an expensive method, and a little study and observation should prevent needless outlay. —_—-+ee —__ WHEN HOGS ARE RIPE. Information Obtained by Jerry Rusk From a Western Farmer. From the Atlanta Constitution. : Governor Rusk happened once to drive over the state of Wisconsin, looking at the farms. He was particularly struck witn one farm, on which he found everything in first-class order, and riding up to the house, inquired the name of the owner, when a tall German came out and gave his name as Theodore Louis. “What do you regard es the greatest wealth-producing agency in agriculture?” the governor asked him. “The hog,” was the sententious reply. Upon what do you base this statement?” e lifts more mortgages than anything else. The conversation which ensued developed the fact that Louis had once been what is: called an all-wheat farmer, and kept con- stantly sinking into debt. He decided that something had to be done quickly, or there would be very little left for Louis, so he decided to try the hog. The first year he made a little money, the second year he made more, and then he became thoroughly interested. The result was that he became recognized as a great authority on hogs. His neighbors took up his example, and Mortgages began to be lifted, until finally’ there was not one on record against that community. “How long would you keep a hog?” asked Governor Rusk. “I would not keep him—I would kill him.” “When?” “When he is ripe.” “When is he ripe?” “When he is fat.” “Wouldn't it pay to keep the hog for two or three years?” “I tried that once,” said Loufs. “I took a hog in the fall and weighed him, and I took my corn and weighed it. When spring came the corn was all gone and the hog weighed about what he did in the fall. That made me say next year that I would kill my hogs in the fall and save my corn.” “How much does it cost to keep a hog through the winter?” “Three dollars.” ‘yg “How many hogs winter in Minnesota?” “One million. I have Just looked at the auditor's report.” “Do you mean to say that we lose $3,- 000,000 a year in wintering our hogs?” “Yes, that's what you do. If you kill them all in the fall you will have left in your cribs $3,000,000 worth of corn to gell.”” Fatal Leisure. From the Boston Advertiser, A clergyman, elderly but not old, who has served an important parish during a long period of years to the entire satisfaction of his parishioners, decides, not without sin- cere and tearful remonstrance from them, to retire from the pulpit and spend his de- clining years in well-earned rest and undis- turbed contemplation. His health is vigor- ous, his mind clear, his heart happy. But within a few weeks of his retirement he is dead. by all circumstances that could promise a sunset of Hfe But within a little while, it be a MOVING HEAVY BUILDINGS. LIKE TOY BUILDINGS How Great Structures Are Moved From Place to Place. LIFTED FROM THEIR FOUNDATIONS They Can Be Transported for Long Distances. WEIGHT IS NO OBSTACLE oy Written for ‘The Brening Sipe.’ » pers? ARE CER- in men working quietly\ in various Rarts §f the United States who could, if they chose to do it, ffove the pyramids, pickup the Egyptian obelis! or lift a modern. skyscraper rom ifs caisson bed nd carry. it across e street. There are ‘got many such men, et few, if any, pon- derous objects exist in the* world which they will not attempt to move intact for a consideration. In the directory these men are called house movers, but they are en- titled to a designation of far greater dig- nity, for some of. their achievements are numbered among the great engineering feats of the world. Within the past few months the house movers have experienced an unwonted activity. Some really credit- able and in some cases stupendous feats have been performed. The moving of Lov- ering Hall at Johns Hopkins University was one of these feats, the moving of an upper New York house 16 blocks along the public highway was another, and the very recent moving and resetting of a tall smoke stack at Manhanset was a third. One of these house movers declares that there is no building, however heavy, how- ever bulky, which cannot be lifted from its foundations and conveyed any . distance. ‘This means, of course, without any damage to the building itself; that the very orna- ments on the mantelpieces, the bric-a-brac in the cabinets, will in no way be disturbed, that the window glass will not be even cracked, that the home life of a family oc- cupying the moving house will be undis- turbed. Such is absolutely the fact. It is not necessary for the occupants of the building to temporarily change their quar- ters; to take the castors off the bedsteads, nor to pack up all the perishable articles in the house. It is on record that an old tall clock which was in a house that was moved in Westchester county, N. Y., never stop- ped running all during the progress of re- moval. On the other hand, there seems to be no limit to the mover'’s capabilitics as far as weight is concerned. The Brighton Beach Hotel, which was placed on 150 flat cars and moved- 600 feet, weighed 5,000 tons. The weight of the recently moved railroad station at Mott Haven, N. Y., is 1,700 tons. This building was composed en- trely of brick and stone and the weight is very unequally distributed, a central tower alone weighing 500 tons. To be frank,these feats take all the wonderment out of the raising of the pyramids and obelisks, inas- much as the most primitive tools are used by the engineers, One house mover put the case very graphically when he said, “I think the recent moving of that smoke stack at Manhanset was a far more won- derful feat than the raising or moving of an obelisk. The obelisk, you know, is in one solid piece, and all you have to do is to keep it balanced, but the -smoke stack is built of thousands of bricks held together by cement which might break apart under the least strain. The difference should be apparent to everybody.” — Greatest Feat om Record, Undoubtedly the greatest feat of house moving ever performed ‘was the moving of Brighton Beach Hoy) is huge car- avansary, opened at C@ney Pland in 1878, originally stood 600 feet .Yack from the water. It cost in the aggregate $200,000 and weighed nearly 5,000 tons, But while it seemed to be well_out of the ocean's grasp, it was not long resthe encroach- ing action of the wavbs brought it to the water’s edge. The bang stand, which origi- nally occupied 4 posit on dry land in front of the hotel, had tp be removed. Fin- ally the hotel itself -pl&ged .on. spiles, but this*was only a tempo! precaution, and the water ate its way fat up under the hotel. Then-it became rent that the hotel must be moved back Or it would be washed away. It was domething of a task to find a practical man who would even agree to the fact that it could be moved. B. C. Miller, who performed the feat, was an engineer with biases of is own. He proposed to the ratiread company which owned the hotel, to raise it up from its spiles, run flat cars beneath it, and draw it 600 feet up the Ev was told to gs it Must amount to that, or the loss of the hotel. During the potpelest ie worked, and though of it could move except in conjunction with the whole. Moving a Hotel. The great problem was the uniform ap- Plication of motive power to all points of contact with the hotel. It was accom- plished by an elaborate system of falls and sheave blqcks. The rope, weighing in the aggregate about two tons, formed, with the thirty-four sheave blocks, twelve six- fold purchases, the main block of each pur- chase being attached to the car, while the opposite block was fastened by powerful chain slings to the track on which the car rested and about 100 feet distant from the building. Six locomotives, ready to do the pulling, stood on two tracks and coupled together. After passing the blocks last re- ferred to, the ropes, twelve in number, converged in two sets of six each to each of the tracks on which stood a line of three locomotives. Thus, six ropes were hitched to each of the two locomotives standing nearest to the hotel. The scientific feature of this arrangement was the calculation of the strain and stretch on every rope, the gain of the tackle, the direction in which power should be applied and the difference in resistance between the cars that would be hauled by nearly straight ropes and those that would be hauled by ropes more or less transverse in their course. The total weight to be moved was 11,- 204,000 pounds, divided into 8,000,000 pounds of hotel, 2,600,000 pounds of cars, 600,000 Founds of beams, and 4,000 pounds of rope. Altogether, something of a load. However, all the calculations proved to be correct. At the given signal, the hawsers tightened and the engineers attempted to ward. For a moment the wheels on the tracks, the ropes and pulleys “sang” and—the big hotel started off on its rail- read trip. It moved about as fast as the second hand of a watch, or, as one specta- tor graphically put it, “at the rate of a mile in two weeks,” but it moved. When six feet had been accomplished, men went into the building and examined it. It had not been strained in the least; not even a pane of glass was cracked. It was then moved forward 24 feet; and later in the day 25 feet more. In the course of three days the whole distance, 505 feet, was accom- plished. As the building is 460 feet long, 210 feet wide and is covered with towers, which make the distribution of the weight very unequal, the feat can be said to have been truly gigantic, and worthy to rank among the great engineering feats of the world. The moving ccst $25,000. How a House is Raised. The process of raising a house is inter- esting. If it is a frame house, the chim- neys. are given special attention. Two holes are cut through the base of each chimney, and beams are pushed through and allowed to extend all the way across the house and in such a position that the cellar ceiling joists will cross them. Enough beains are put through in this manner to thoroughly support the joists. Then two heavy timbers are crossed under the beams so as to catch up the ends. Under these again more timbers are crossed, and the latter again are made to rest on long, straight timbers, which are to be used for tracks; all this if the bouse is at the proper level. If not, jackscrews must be employed to raise or lower it. The screws generally rest on platforms, which are made by tak- ing short lengths of timbers and piling them in pairs crosswise on one another un- til the desired height is reached. Two tim- bers are then set close together and a hole in them is fitted to the end of the screw. The other end of the screw bears up against the joists of the building. Thus, if the bearing of the screw is not great enough, it is only necessary to add more cross timbers underneath. Now, to raise the bu‘lding. Screws will lift, say,ten tens esch, and will be placed at distances of five feet apart all around the building. Each screw carries a slow thread, and has two holes in it near the top, crossing each oth- er. Into these are to be inserted the crow- bars which turn the scre When all is ready men station themselves at every oth- er screw, and, inserting their crowbars, give the screw a quarter turn. Each man then passes on to the screw next ahead of him and gives that a quarter turn. They keep on doing this, working around and around the building and: raising or lowering it gradually until it is on the required level. The timbers are then inserted as explamed above, and the house made ready to move forward. Floating a House. The lubricant generally used by house movers is common soap. It contains the best kind of grease for the purpose. The wooden tracks are thoroughly rubbed with it, and, as it squeezes its way into the girders, resting on the tracks, and does not easily. evaporate, it makes a very slippery path. In moving frame houses a single horse is used to pull it along, not as he would pull a wagon exactly, but by means of a windlass. As has been pointed out, the girders which support the house aro not even chained together; the weight of the building holds them sufficiently rigid. To one of them a pulley with several sheaves is attached. Another pulley is at- tached to the track fifty feet or more ahead of the house, and through these a rope extends to a windlass. The horse simply winds up the rope, and the house being on runners, becomes for a time a floating or wandering piling One house mover in upper New York state to move a house across a lake, but with disastrous results. The lake was over, and the design was to take ad ciently strong to the structure in a 5 i. £ $ i g 2 Z course of transit. All went well until the middie of the lake was reached. Then The stones of the great piles could easily be, and probably were, conveyed along in the very manner in which houses are now Moved. If the ancients had no jackscrews to Hft up the great weights, they could have accomplished their pi by means of the simplest kind- of Inclined planes composed of girders. The rolling tree trunk proposition was also advanced as plausible. Following the lne of balance, the obdelisks could have been set in position from huge truss ways, composed of gird- ers. The ancients may have understood the ue of cantilevers. The stack recently moved at Manhanset weighed 100 tons. It was eighty-five feet high, and it was co: veyed a distance of 950 feet—quite a feac compared with obelisk moving. This is the opinion of a house mover who has achieved a@ wonderful contempt for great weighis. But, as no skyscraper has ever been moved, and as he probably never will be invited to move one, his opinion will have to be accepted for what it is worth. SS Employes as Stockholders. From Engineering. A scheme which has been in operation for twenty years in Whitworth’s gun- making establishment, at Manchester, has now been extended to Elswick, with a slight change in the return, and an official announcement is made as follow: Deposits of not less than 1s, and not more than {1 of the depositor's weekly wages will be received from persons in the employ of the company each week. Those employes who are paid quarterly will be allowed to deposit up to £2 weekly. each individual the amount of such de- posits shall not exceed £200 in the case of employes receiving weekly wages, and £4100 in the case-of employes receiving quarterly wages. Interest will be allowed on such deposits at the fixed rate of 4 per cent per annum, payable half-yearly, and, in addi- tion, a bonus will be paid, on the declara- tion of the company’s dividend, at the rate, per annum, of half the difference between the fixed rate of 4 per cent and the divi- dend. Sums that have been deposited with the company for a less period than three months prior to June 30 next preceding the declaration of the annual dividend will 1 be entitled to the bonus. Sums that ha’ been deposited for a period longer than three months, but less than twelve months, prior to June 30 in any year, will receive a proportionate amount of the bonus. The bonus will be credited to each depositor, should he so desire it, and will be added to the principal due to him, as and from the date of payment. Deposits withdrawn will be entitled to interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum, from June 30 last preced- ing, up to the date of repayment of the de- posit. But no interest or bonus will be allowed pn sums of less than 10s., or in respect of any period being a fraction of a calendar month. Arrangements for easy withdrawals are made. ———--+0+ Beautiful Hands. Shapely and But are often cast in an humble mold, And are brown #s brown cun be. Useful hands that are ready to take one; ng to reap and glean Till the reaper’s work is done. Lifting the burdens we find so hard gh life's loag day; e dend leaves sorrow’ drops From out the tangled way. Gentle hands. between whose paltas ‘The weary fece may he: Beantif that softly tell For sorrow “the reason why.” B Bands whose touch remains for years; Dear hands though fo ° Whispers, Warm, human hands, So close within u Though clasped, so cold, Still speaks in love's io Telling the tired heart the song it sang in years gone by— Beautiful nands arc alweys found Where the heaviest ducles lie. —EMILY 8. WEED. ————_++____ Bravery and Trousers. From the New York Tribune. A Paris woman petitions the authorities to allow women to wear trousers, so that in case of another fire their chances of escape may be equal to those of the men. Many wearers of trouscrs at that calami- tous fete are under the grave impeachment of having conducted themselves there like Savages and monsters, making their own escape by trampling and striking down the terrified and helpless women around them. If the garment produces effects like this in times of panic on the sons of France, what might it not do to the daughters? The petitioner should cling to her petticoats and learn ways to make them incombusti- ble, which is easy enough if she sets about it in the right way. Besides the imme- diate reproach which its Paris wearers have brought upon it, the assumption of the other garment involves much greater and more varied responsibilities than she imagines. It is also ridiculously ugly in the comparison, and that consideration ought to dispose of the question once for all, shutting off further debate upon it. Sn ae One Chance of Effecting a Cure. From the Boston Traveller. A nervous young lady called a physician for a slight ailment, but one which she magnified, in her own estimation, into a serious one. “Run,” said the doctor to a servant, giv- ing him a prescription, “‘to the nearest drug store and bring back the medicine as quick- ly as you can.” “Is there much danger?” young lady, in alarm. “Yes,” said the doctor, “if your servant is not quick it will be useless.” “Oh, doctor, shall I die?” gasped the patient. “There is no danger of that,” said the doctor, ‘but you may get well before Joha returns.” ee The Emergency Met. From the Boston Traveler. * “But, my dear sir, you positively must follow my directions. You must take a cold. bath every morning.” “Why, doctor, that’s just what I am doing!’ “Oh—er—well, then, you must stop it!” replied the Disease makes a man just as —— if he were tied with ropes. leary itude makes his muscles useless—siug- poco impure blood fills his in with useless clogging matter. Ef- fort is distasteful and brings scant results. ‘The trouble usually starts with the di tion. Too much brain work takes n: iM i For 15 DR. McCOY GIVES FOR THE SUMMER | The Uniform $3Rate Orig. inal in His Practice, Though Imitated By Others, And Extends It So That It Applies to All Patients and All Diseases. The period during which Doctor MeCoy treated Catarth free in emphasis of the series of lessons instructing the people regarding this disease ie herewith closed. At no season coull the pub tion of these articles be more appropria: the beginning of the summer, which is th time for the treatment of this disease, and ing bis custom Doctor MeCey avnouvess that dur- ing the entire summer until the Ist of September —all e treated at the uniform rate of $3 a mo Mdicines Incypded, The $3 rate, which wax given last summer by Doctor McCoy, has beea given by him many times for the special purpose of Hts to be treated during the fay for the sum- but te all dle ems for dincanes Catarch, mer applies not only ecses, Its especial aj of a Catarrhal nata- those diveases that at passages; that attack tion; that attack the ear tubes, noises and Deafness; chat Tubes and Lung Tubes, by weather of fall, wiaver al hey Hprove fn the warm weather mc at rah times there 1s little change in the temperature; Tirs. Margaret A. Seward, 814 L st. s.e. Cured of deafness. the damp spells that produce colds are absent, and the high winds loade dust that trritate the breathing tracts are absent. If winter even the Doctor's skill is often taxed 1 ‘ature offers obsticle afte: yy undoes all the good he form in a week. In sw tor. One month of sum is Worth two months of the mo treatment. If all who suffer from Catarrh, ‘atarrh were wise enough to devote a little of the summer to treatment there would soon be few cases of Ca- tarrh to treat, cases of Deafness would become rare, bead noives a curiosity and chrot and consumption would be reduced to am Doctor McCoy departs from lis usual custom tn this instance only by amaking the $3 rai diseases. It applies not only to Summer Treat- ment for Catarrh, but it applics wo No matter what your trouble may be the services of a phyxiciaa you are w Famous Phystclin's skill, bis medi services at this unlform rate during the summer senson--that is, until Septem er 1. Mrs. Seward Was Almost Totally Deaf. rd, S14 L ot, years. Both cam e “I could not bear the ordiaary noises of the strects—the clatter of the bores’ hoofs, or the rumble of the wagons and cars. I could pever tell whe2 a car was approaching me unless I saw it. 1 was troubled constantly with roaring poises in my head, like the rumble of machinery that @isturbed me #o I could not slee “My hearing returned suddenly, While eltting in the Kitchen one day, suddenly the sound of the clock ticking came to my cars. From that time on the improvement was st until my bearing was fully restored. The disagreeable nvises that troubled me s0 have ceased, and I bear everything plainly and distinctly.” Mrs. Emma D. Duvall, 907 E s' the daugtter of Mrs. Bey ward, in speakiag of ber mother's case, sald: “Mother was very, very Geaf, indeed! Not only was she feaf, but ber general health was bad. Her hearing has been restored, and her health greatly Smproved.”” Almost Totally Deaf—Can Now Hear a Pin Drop. ; Vogelsberger, 2018 7th st. m.w., employed at William Hahn & Co.’s xhoc house, 980 Seventh st. nw.—“I was so deaf when I went te Doctors McCoy and Cowden that I could not bear people speaking across the table, Now I cam stand in the front recom and have my wife speak to me from the kitchen and hear every-word sbe dietinctly. ~ “I had been deaf in the left ear for ten years. My hearing grew gradually worse, until at last my left ear became absolutely stone deaf, and to add to my discomfort, I was troubled coustantly with borzing noises in my head. “My right ear became affected later, end it was sapldly becoming as deaf as the left. “Now I can hear distinctly with either car. can bear my watch ticking and the clocks at home strike even when standing in the yard, and J cam hear a pin drop.” Years. F. E. Sherwood, Howard House, cor. 6th and Pa. ave. n.w.: “My left ear was, so deaf that I could not hear clock tick with it. My right ear was becoming quite deaf, also. My hearing returned to me sud- denly. Now I hear perfectly with either ear.” DOCTOR McCOY’S BOOK FREE TO ALL. CONSULTATION FREE. McCoy System of Medicine, DR. McCOY’S NATIONAL PRACTICH, A. ‘OMce Hears, 2 to item, 1 Spm,