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16 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, STORY OF DU MAURIER'S LIFE Author of "Trilby” Talks of His Ealy Trials and Later Successes, HIS PLEASANT HOME AND FAMILY INLONDON The Plot of #“Trilby,” Onee Offered to Henry James, Tarns Out to He the Fad of the Year—Now Engaged on X a New Novel. (Copyrighted 1895 8. 8. McClure.) ‘As 1 crossed Hampstead heath T passed a group of devout people, to whom, standing among them, a Salvation army girl, with an inspired face, was preaching with ardent fervor. 1 did not stay to listen to her, for George du Maurier had appointed me to meet him at his hotse at 3 on that Sunday after- noon. But as I went my way I heard the words: “Never you envy even those who seem. mokt to be envied in this world, for in Syan the happiest life * * *" and that was all, Du Maurier's house 1s In a quiet little street that leads from the open heath down to the township of Hampstead, a street of few houses and of high walls, with trees everywhere and an air of seclusion and quiet over all. As one enters the house one notices on the wall to the left, just after the thres- hold is crossed, the orignal of one of Du Maurler's drawings in Punch, a drawing con- cerning two “millionairesses,” with the text written beneath the picture in careful, al- most lithographic penmanship. “That was where 1 recelved my training in literature,” said Du Maurler. *So Anstey pointed out to me the other day when I told him how surprised 1 was at the success of my books, considering that 1 had never writ- ten before. ‘Never written!' he cried out. “Why, my dear Du Maurier, you have been writing all your life, and the best of writing practice at that. Those little dialogues of yours which week after week you have fitted 1o your drawings in Punch have prepared you admirably. It was precise writing, and gave you conciseness and repartee and appositive- ness, and the best qualities of the writer of fiction,” And,” added Du Maurier, “I be- lleve Anstey was quite right, now that I come to think of it.” DU MAURIER IN HIS STUDY. 1. was in his study that Du Maurier re- ceived me, a large room on the first floor, with a square bay window overlooking the quiet street on the right and a large window almost reaching to the celling, and looking in the direation of the hearth, facing the dcr. A luxurious room it was, with thick car- pets and inviting arm chairs, the walls cov- ered with stamped leather and hung with many of the master's drawings in quiet frames. In one corner a water color por- trait by Du Maurler of Canon Ainger, and from the same brush the picture of a lady with a violin on the wall to the left of the decorative fireplace, from over which, in the place of honor, another smaller model of the GEORGE DU MAURIER. armless Venus Jooks «down, To the right is a grand plano, and elsewhere other furniture of noticeable 'style, and curtains, screens and ornaments. A beautiful room, in fact, and within Jt is none of the litter of the man of letters or of the painter. ‘DU MAURIER'S FAMILY HISTORY. Tt was here that I first saw Du Maurler, a quiet man of no great stature, who at the first sight of him impresses one as a man Wwho has suffered greatly, haunted by some evil dream or disturbing apprehension. His welcome is genial and kindly, but he does not smile, even when he is saying a clever and smile-provoking thing. “My full name is George Louls Pamela Busson du Maurier, but we were of very small nchility, My name Pamela was glven to me in souvenir of the great friendship be- tween my father's sister and the duchess de Pamela, who was the wife of the Portuguese ambassador to France, - Our real family name is Busson, the du Maurier comes from the chateau le Maurier, built some time in the fifteenth century, and still standing in Anjou or Maine, but a brewery today. It belonged to our cousins, the Auberys, who wore the title du Maurier, and an’ Aubrey du Mavrier who distinguished himself in that century was Louis of that name, who was French ambassador to Holland, and was well liked of the great king. The Auberys and the Bussons marrled and intermarried, and I cannot quite say, without referring to family papers—at present at my bank—when the Bussons assumed the territorial name of du Maurler, but my grandfather’s name was Robert Mathurin Busson du Maurier, and his name s always followed in the papers which refer to him by the title ‘Gentil- tiomme Verrler, gentleman glassblower. For, until the revolution, glassblowing was & mohopoly of the ‘gentilhommes,’ that is to say, that no commoner might engage in m:- Industry, at that time considered an art, 4 PARENTAGE AND EARLY LIFE, “My father was a small renter, whose in- come was derlved from our glass works in Anjou, He was born in England, for his father had fled to England to escape the gulllotine when the revolution broke out, and they returned to France in 1815, My grandmother was a bourgeolse. Her name was Bruaire, and she descended from Jean Bart, the admiral. “My mother was an Englishwoman and was married to my father at the British embassy at Paris, and I was born in Paris on March 6, 1534, in a little house In the Champs Elysees, 1t bore the number 80, It was afterward sold by my father, and has siice been pulled down. I often ook at the Bpot when 1 am in Paris and am walking through the Champs Elysees, and what I most regret at such times are'the pine trees which in my childhood used to be therc very different from the miserable stumpy Avenue of today. It Is a disillusion which comes upon me with equal force at each new visit, for I remember the trees, and the trees only. A HOUSEHOLD OF MANY REMOVALS, ‘We stayed three years in Belgium, and when I was 6 years old I went with my par- onts to London, where my father took a house which a year later was taken by Charles Dickens, 1 Devenshire terrace, Mary- lebone road. “‘We only stayed a year In Devonshire ter- race, for my father grew very poor. He Was a man of scientific tastes and lost his money in inventions which never came to anything. So we had to wander forth again, and this time went to Boulogne, and there we lived in a beautiful house at the top of the Grande Rue. I had sunny hours there and wag very happy. It is a part of my Iif which I shall describe In one of my books. *“Much of my childhood Is relatsd in ‘Peter Ibbetson.’ My favorite book was the ‘Swiss Foxlly Robinson,' and next ‘Robinson Cru- ‘#oe.' I used to devour these books, 1 was a late speaker. My parents must have thought me dumb. And one day I sur- prised them all by comiug out with a long It was: ‘Papa est alle chez lo our acheter de la viande pour Maman,' and so astonished everybody. . *We used to epeak ‘both French and Eng- ) &t home, and I was brought up in both ages. 14l 0 Boulogne we went to Yarls. I went to school at the of 13 to the Pen- Froussard, in the Avenue du Rois de .| am ashamed to soy that I did {nguish myself at school. 1 shall my school life In my new novel, ‘The AL the age of 17 1 weut up for my ‘bachot,’ my baccalaureate degree at the Sorbonne, and was plucked for my written Latin version. It js true that my nose be- gan to bleal during the examination, and that upset me, and, beside, the professor who was In charge of the room had got an idea into his head that I had smuggled a ‘crib’ In, and kept watching me so care- fully that I got nervous and flurried. My poor mother was very vexed with me for my failure, for we were very poor at that time and it was fmportant that I should do well. My father was then in England, and shortly after my discomfiture he wrote for me to Join him there. We had not infcrmed him of my failure, and I felt very miserable as I crossed, because 1 thought he would be very angry with me. He met me at the landing at London Bridge, and at the sight of my utterly woe-begone face guessed the truth and burst out Into a roar of laughter. I think that this roar of laughter gave me the greatest pleasure I ever experienced In all my _life. DU MAURIER A SCIENTIST. “My father then never reproached me for my faflure In the bachot examination, in- decd, never once alluded to it. He had made up his mind that I was intended for @ sclen- tist and determined to make me one. So he put me as a pupll at the Birkbeck chem- fcal laboratory of University college, where I studied chemiatry under Dr. Willlamson. I am afrald that I was a most unsatisfactory pupll, for I took no Interest at all in the work, and spent almost all my time in draw- ing caricatures. AMBITIOUS TO BE A MUSICIAN, “My ambition at that time to go in for music and singing, but my father objected very strongly in this wish of mine, and in- variably discouraged it. My father, I must tell you, possessed himself the sweetest, most beautiful volce that 1 have ever heard, and if he had taken up singing as a profession would most certainly have been the greatest singer of his time. ~Indeed, in his youth he had studied music for some time at the Paris Conservatolre, but his family objected to his following the profession, for they were legitimists and strong Catholics, and you know In what contempt the stage was held at the beginning of this century. We were all musical In our family—my father, my sister, the sister who married Clement Scott, a most gifted planiste, and then myself, I was at that time crazy about music and used to practice my volce wherever and whenever 1 could, even on the top of omnibuses. I re- member one night we were crossing Smith- field market together and I was talking to | my father about music. ‘I am sure that I could become a singer,’ I sald, ‘and if you like T will prove it to you. I have my tuning :\D:‘k in my pocket. Shall I show you my ‘‘Yes,’ sald my father, ‘I should like to hear your idea of an A." So I sang the note. My father laughed. ‘Do you call that, an A? Let me show you how to sing it.’ And then there rang out a note of music, low and sweet at the outset and swellng as it went till it u:‘lflmed to fill all Smithfleld with divine mel- ody. My poor father, I may add, as I am speak- ing of his musical powers, died—in my arms —as he was singing one of Count de Segur's drinking songs. He left this world almost with music on his 1ips. ADOPTS ART AS A PROFESSION. “My poor father died in 1856, and at the age of 22 1 returned to Paris and went to live with my mother in the Rue Paradis Poisonniere. We were very poor, and very dull and dismal it was. However, It was not long before I cntered upon what was the best time of my life. That is, when having decided to follow art as a profession, I en- tered Gleyre's studio to study drawing and painting. ~ Those were my joyous Quartier Latin days, spent In the charming society of Poynter, Whistler, Armstrong, Lamont and others. "I have described Gleyre's studio in ‘Trilby.’ For Gleyre I had a great admira- tion and at that time thought his ‘Illusions Perduc’ a veritable masterpiece, though I hardly think so now. My happy Quartier Latin life only lasted one year, for in 1857 we went to Antwerp, and here I worked at the Antwerp academy under De Keyser and Van Lerius. And it was on a day in Van Lerius' studlo that the great tragedy of my life occurred.’” THE LOSS OF ONE OF HIS EYES. The voice of Du Maurier, who till then had been chatting with animation, suddenly fell, and over the face came an Indefinable ex- pression of mingled terror and anger and sorrow. “I was drawing from a model, when sud- denly the girl's head seemed to me to dwin- dle to the size of a walnut. I clapped my hand over my left eye. Had I been mis- taken? I could see as wéll as ever. But when in its ‘turn I covered my right eve I learned what had happened. My left eye had failed me, it might be altogether lost. It was so sudden a blow that I was as thun- derstruck. Seeing my dismay, Van Lerius came up and asked me what might be the matter, and when I told him he sald that it was nothing, that he had had that himself and so on. And a doctor whom I anxiously consulted that same day comforted me and sald that the accident was a passing one. However, my eye grew worse and worse and the fear of total blindness beset me,con- stantly.” It was with a movement akin to a shudder that Du Maurier spoke those words, and my mind went back to what I had heard frum the girl preacher as I crossed the heath, as in the same low tones and with the same indefinable expression he con- tinued: ““That was the most tragic event of my life. It has polsoned all my existenc Du_ Maurler, as though to shake off a troubling obgession, rose from his chair and walked about the room, cigarette in hand. “In the spring of 1859 we heard of a great speclalist who lived in Dusseldorf, and we went to see him. He examined my eyes and he said that though the left eye was certainly lost, I had no reason to fear los- Ing the other, but that I must be very care- tul and not drink beer and not eat cheese and so on. It was comforting to know that 1 was not to be blind, but I have never qluue shaken off the terror of that apprehen- sion, MAKING HIS OWN WAY IN LIFE. “In the following year I felt that the time had come for me to earn my own living, and 80 one day I asked my mother to give me £10 to enable me to go to London, and told her that I should never ask her for any more money. She did not want to let me go, and as to never asking for money, nlhe begged me not to make any such resolu- tion, “My first lodging in London was In New- man street, where I shared rooms with Whistler. I afterward moved to rooms in Earl's terrace, in the house where Walter Pater died. I began contributing to Once a Weck and to Punch very soon after my arrival in London, and shcckingly bad my drawing was at that time. My first drawing in Punch appeared in June, 1860, and repre- sented Whistler and myself going Into a photographer's studio. 1 was married in 1863, and my wife and I never knew finan- clal ‘troubles. My only trouble has been my fear about my eyes. Apart from that I have Leen very happy. “‘Most of the jokes In Punch are of my own, but a good many are sent to me, which I twist and turn into form. Postlethwaite, Bunthorne, Mrs. Ponsonby Tomkyns, Sir Gorgeous Miglas, and the other characters assoc’ated with my drawings are all my own_creations. DU MAURIER'S INTERESTING FRIENDS. “I have made many interesting friends during my long life in London, and the lec- tures which I bave delivercd all over Eng- land contain many anecdotes about them. “Leech was, of course, one of my Intl- mates, my master, 1 may say, for to some extent my work was modelled on his, I spent the autumn of the year which pre- ceded the death of him at Whitby. He was not very funny, but was kind, amiable, and genlal, a delightful man, “I shall never forget the scene at his fu- neral. Dean Hole was officiating, and as the frst sod fell with a sounding thud on the coffin of cur dear dead friend, Millals, who was standing on the edge of the grave, burst out sobbing. It was a signal, for the moment after each man in that great con- course of mourners was sobbing alio. It was a memorable sight." OFFERED HENRY JAMES TRILBY PLOT, Then, golng on (o speak of bis literary work, Du Maurer sald: “Nobody more thap myselt was surprised at the great sucoess of my novels. 1 never expected auyihing of the sort. 1 did not know that I could write, I had no idea that T had any experiences worth recording, The circumstances under which I came {o write are curious. I was walking one evening with Heary James up aud down the Hight street in Bayswater. James sald (hat be had great dificulty in finding plots for his stori ‘Plots," 1 ex- clamed. ‘T am full of plots,’ and I went on to tell him the plot of “Irilby.’ ‘But you ought to write that stery' sald James. ‘I can't write,! I said, 'l have never written, If you like the plct 50 wmuck you way take it Dut 1895 able annoyance. ODAY is the 10th—andwighteen days from now we move to the northeast corner of 16th and Douglas Streets. We dam’t move up there with any of the shoes now on hand.—We prefer to create a name for ourselves by giving you the greatest Shoe bargains in America at Cartwright’s ’Moval Sale o Fine Shoes It costs a big pile of money to move a stock of Shoes even that short distance, besides consider- We are knocking off the prices, allowing for annoyance and moving expense, so that you can get a good pair of shoes awful cheap of us tomorrow. Those fine hand-turned shoes, In common sense and oxford lasts, that are in sizes 214's to 4's only; we make a desperate effort to close them all out. Come carly, will not last long ....ou00 ceee e $1.95 tomorrow will buy shoes that you have never pald less than $4.00 for. They a made on the new Chicago, Philadelphin and opera lasts and are beauties . 25 misses’ enamel calf lace—a vel pretty shoe—our regular price, $2.50; to add more fuel to the hottest shoe sale ever recorded in this city, we will sell this shoe without recourse—made by P. Cox Shoe Co., Rochester, at. ... 45 pairs misses’ calf lace and button spring heel, made by P. Cox Shoe Co., Rochester; never was known to be sold for less than $2.50, except at this grand shoe 'moval sale. We will close the entire lot at.. 150 pairs child’s pebble goat heavy half double sole Cramer's shoes, that our selling price in sizes 814 to 10% was $1.50. At this priceless moving OS5c¢c 1.95 1.50 1.50 1.05 €0 pairs children’s and misses’ fine grain button shoes, made by P. Cox Shoe Co., and sold by us at $1.50 to $2.00. We will sell until gone—and they won't last long—all widths and sizes, 100 pairs child’s kid and straight goat button; the si and widths are not exactly regular, but they are Cramer’s goods, that sold from $1.50, $1 and $2.00. They will move at this moving sale at We have still quite a number of those §4.00, 0 and §6.00° welt shoes, in small sizes, that we are closing out at .. “ee Cesiiaiiaee G0 pairs of ladies’ patent leather vamp, cloth top button shoes, medium oper regular siz A very dr y shoe former price, $5.00. .. Those men's French calf full cork sole. bals, that we have always sold for §$6, are more than appreciated at Men’s patent leathers—on a fine French cnlf—the kind we always sold for §6.50 and more, Lennox toe, are now $1.10 85c¢ O5c¢ 2. 4., 3. they must get out. ... 120 pairs men* needle toe price, $6.00. the, id Ha We ¢ goat. ... an 114 pairs men's winter sole, painted tan; former price just fo make you happy them till they're gone 122 pairs men's Fren leather narrow toe, Pi widths and size Kol this month at. . We have a few dozen ar 50 00 60 We also have a num warm, fur trimmed merly sold at $1.50, them at half price Only a few of the Red enamel ~ shoes, wd toe; former 't move them, so " just to give you an ide prefer money to slioes, warm_nullifiers that v fur trimmed, but for all that they are warm and nice, that we u: for $2, but now they are - ealf tan shoes, double '$3.50 we'll sell ch ealf patent cadilly last, all rmer price $ how muel we we'll sell all $3.75 $1.00 75c¢c $1.25 pairs of ladies’ formerly sold ber of matron's slippers that for for we now sell Romeo slippers, od to sell . P. CARTWRIGHT & CO., 1415 Douglas St. Yet. Going to move to 16th and Douglas Street March 1st. Must sell all their shoes before they move. James would not take it. He sald It was too Valuable a present and that I must write the story myself. HOW HIS NOVELS WERE WRITTEN. “Well, on’ reaching home that night I set to work, and by the next morning I had written the first two numbers of ‘Peter Ib- betson.’ It ‘seemed to flow ‘from my pen without effort in a full stream. But I thought it must be poor stuff, and I deter- mined to look for an omen to learn whether any success would attend this new departure. So I walked out into the garden, and the very first thing that I saw was a large wheelbarrow, and that comforted me and re- assured me, for, as you will remember, there 15 a wheelbarrow in the first chapter of ‘Peter Ibbetson.” “Some time later I was dining with Os- good and he said: ‘I hear, Du Maurler, that you are writing stories,’ and asked me to let him see something. So ‘Peter Ibbetson’ was sent over to America and was accepted at once. “Then ‘Trilby’ followed, and the ‘boom’ came, & boom which surprised me Immensely, for I never book myself au serleux as a nov- elist. Indeed, this ‘boom’ rather distresses me when I reflect that Thackeray never had a ‘boom.’ " He works at irregular Intervals and in such moments as he can snatch from his Punch works. “For,” he says, I am taking more pains than ever over my drawing. And so saying he fetched an album, in which he showed me the elaborate preparation in the way of studies and sketches which was the preliminary to a cartoon which will ap- pear in a week or two in his paper. One figure, from a female model, had been drawn several times. There was here the Infinite capacity for taking pains. “My best time for writing 18 just after lunch, My writing is frequently interrupted, and I walk about the studlo and smoke and_ then back to the MS. once more. Afterward I revise, very care- fully now, for 1 am taking great pains with my new book. ‘The Martians' is to be a very long book, and I cannot say when it will be nished." MniSNCCIAN AT HIS BEST AFTER 40. Over. the fire in the comfortable room, whither we went to have tea at Mrs. Du Maurler's request, the conversation touched on many things. “Every book which is worth anything,” said Du Maurier, “has had its original life.” And again, “I think that the best years in a man's life are after he is 40. So Trollope used to say. Does Daudet say 50, too? A man at 40 has ceased to hunt the moon. I would add that in order to enjoy life atter 40 it 1s perhaps necessary to have achieved, before reachng that age, at least some success”” He spoke of the letters he had been recelving since the “'boom,” and sald that on an average he re- celved five letters a day from America of & flattering description, “Some of my corre- spondents, however, don’t glve a man his ‘due, " he remarked, with a shadow of a smile. The day on which he Is able to devote most time to writing is Thursday. “C'est mon grand jour.”” On Wednesdays he Is en- gaged with a model; a female model comes Friday. iV ‘characteristio of the man that he sbould work with such renewed application at his old craft, in spite of the fact that circumstances have thrown wide open to him the getes of & new career. He reminds one as to physique and in certaln manifestations of & Very nervous tem- perament of another giant worker, Whose name 1s Emile Zola. But he is altogether original and himself, a strong and striking individuality, a man altogether deserving of his past and present good fortune. ROBERT H. SHERARD, s NEW FADS IN JEWELRY, Rhinestones and garnets are introduced in the stock collars with stunning effect. Center pleces for the dinner table are now the most exquisite hand embroidery, Five o'clock tea china is so dainty and ex- quisite that one is apprehensive in using it. Latest des'gns in candle shades for dinner are impossible swallows and butterfiies. The court plaster patch on china or cheek has been revived by modern “grand dames.” Gentlemen forget that leather *“spats” origi- nated in England among ‘‘melud's’” grooms. Circulars should be sent out to make it known to all that draping plctures with scarfs are entirely out of date. It Is noted that many opera glasses in feminine Lands have a bow of bright-colored ribbon fastened to the top. Somehow or other people who expect slang and inelegant expression from the masculine- attired girl are not disappointed. Foot ball souvenlr spoons are the latest. The bowl is & foot ball, and the srticle is, per- haps, more ornamental than usaful, High combs, more or less Spanish, are ,woven in the back hair; also on side of the heid, or anywhere likely to be seen. POPULATION 0F THE WORLD What Mt isat: Presents.and What it Promises'to-Be, : A VALUABLE STATISTICAL COMPILATION The World's Gain Estimated at Five Mil- llons a Year—Effect on Contlnents and . Nations— Comparative Smallne: (Copyright, 1895, by John Holt Schooling.) The population of the world has been given by various statisticians as follows: In 1874, according to Behm and Wagner, 1,391,000,000. In 1878, according to Levasseur, 1,439,000,- 000. In 1883, according to Behm and Wagner, 1,434,000,000. In 1886, according to Levasseur, 1,483,000,~ 000. In 1891, according to Wagner and Supan, | 1,480,000,000. The last estimate may be regarded as suficiently trustworthy as a working basis; Messrs, Wagner and Supan have earned a just reputation for painstaking and thorough work, and, moreover, this estimate of the German savants has been established to more than one-half its bulk (i. e., to 57 per cent of the 1,480,000,000) upon the actual result of recent censuses. In dealing with this large population we have to deal with big figures and a good many of them. For example: Population. Asfa .. 126,954,000 Europe 179, Africa .. Amerlca In Ocea reglons . Australia . isiands’ and " Polar The WOrld..evresuense soreeeens Here {s another way to obtain a clear idea of how the world's population is split up. Thus, for every 1,000 persons in the world, there are: In Asia. In Europ?, In Africa. In America, In Oceanic Islands and Polar A regions . 6 persons In Australia 2 persons The WOrld....ooiveees 1,000 persons THE DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION, We see that more than one-half of the world's population live in Asia, and nearly one-quarter in Europe; that about one-ninth of the people live in Africa, and just under one-twelfth in America (North, Central and South combined), and that the aggregate populations of the Oceanic islands, Polar regions and Australla account for only seven persons out of every ‘1,000 people in tne world. It asked to guess at the distribution of the world's population mine people out of ten would probably place Asla first, Europe second, America third. But we see that Africa takes the third place instead of, it being occupied by America. This is mainly due to the north tropical zone of Africa, which i larger than the whole of the United States, contains 42,000,000 more people, and which is also more densely populated. To this population of the morth tropical zone of Africa 60,600,000 sare ‘contributed by the Soudan and Upper Gulnea only—a number which nearly equals the 63,000,000 of the United States of America enumerated at thelr census of 1890. Now let us compare the sizes of these continen ete,, whose populations we have briefly glanced at: 5 persons 213 hersons i persor s 82 persons Square Miles. 17,044,000 14,801,000 11,217,000 4,767,00) 2,672/000 2,464,000 62,815,000 REFERENCE TO Asla .. America Africa, Buropa Australia Oceanic Islands The world POPULATION find’ Polar regions WITH AREA. The following Agures help- us to appreciate the sizes of the aix divisions of the world, For every 1,000 kquare miies of land ares in the world there are: In Asla.... In America In Africa. Falia Oteantc Islands and Polar ‘re- slons The world Thus, nearly one third of the earth Is in . miles | miles | miles miies 5G. miles Asia, which also possesses more than one-half the population; more than one-quarter of the earth went to make America, and over one- fifth for Africa. Europe contains only one- fourteenth part of the world’s area, although she has nearly one-quarter of- the population, and_Australia_contains one-eighteenth part. The last division on our list takes the “shl- lings from the guineas,” being a twenty- oneth part of the world’s area. DENSITY OF POPULATION. Having now a fairly definite mental con- ception of the distribution of the world’s population and of its area, we may turn to the Interesting feature of density of population in various parts of the world In Europe is.... In Asia i In Africa is In America is In Oceanic isiands and Polar re- glons In Austraiia is 7 acres 13 acres 44 acres 78 acres In the world is..... This way of looking at the facts concerning density of population shows us that there is still ampe riom in th world for all of us, whe ever we may chance to be located. The over- crowding of which we hear so much disap- pears when we take an extended view of the facts, Which seem to invite us to spread our- selves out more than we do. THE FUTURE. Hera are the results of some calculations I have very carefully made as regards the future growth of the population of the world, and as to the year A. D., when our descend- ants will have so increased in number that there will then be only one acre for each per- son in the world, instead of the twenty-three acres mentioned above. As a preliminary I went Into all the avail- able facts upon which to compute the annual rate of increase in the world's population, and finally I determined that the rate of increase might be taken at 5 per 1,000 persons per annum; this means that for every 1,000,000 persons living in 1891 there were: In 1892 1,005,000 persons In 1893 010,025 persons In 1894 1,015,075 persons In 189%.... . ++1,020,150 persons ete, ete. And the results for the future population of the world worlk out thus: In 1891 there were 1,480,000,000 persons. In 1900 there will be 1,548,000,000 persons, In 1950 there will be 1,986,000,000 persons. In 2000 there will be 2,548,000,000 person: In 2030 there will be 2,060,000,000 persons. In 2100 there will be 4;197,000,000 persons. In 2200 there will be 6,910,000,000 persons. In 2300 there will be 11,379,000,000 persons, 2400 there will be 18,738,000,000 persons. 2516 there will be 33,418,000,000 persons. In 2617 thera will be 33,586,000,000 persons. These figures show us, for example, that in A. D. 2030 the 1891 population will have doubled itself and will have taken 139 years to do it in. The population of the United Kingdom has doubled Itself in eighty years; and the population of England and Wales in fifty-seven years; but we should be quite wide of the mark if we applied our own rate of annual fncrease to the population of the world—for our rate cf increase is above the average. In France, for example, the Increase of population is very elow; in fact, but for the attractions it offers foreigners as a residence its population would of late years have shown a falling off, because, while the births de- crease, the deaths increase. POPULATION AND ACRES. T may also point out that the above figures show us that between A. D. 2513 and A, D. 2517—621 years later than this present year, 1895—there will be In the world as many people as there are acres, there being 43,- 482,000 acres of land, a number, which, ns we see, falls between the last Lo numbers in the above column, DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION, For eyery 1,000 persons ‘n Burope are: In Buropean Russia.. In the German empire. In Austria-Hunga In France.. In Great Britain and Trciand in Ttaly. In Spain. In Belglum. In other parts of n re 262 persons 139 persons 116 persons 107 persons 106 p>rsons 81 persons 48 persons 17 persons 121 persons Europ: 5o 00 persons The eight countries named are those which contaln the largest populations. Turkey, without Bulgarla, bas fewcr people than Delglum, and, moreover, Lielgiuia 1 a very irdustrious and worthy little countzy, and more entitied to a place than Turkey; so Turkey may be included in other parts of Europe. As there are 640 acres in a square mile, we see that the inhabitants of have each of them, upon the average, very little wore than one acre of space. Belgium is exsentially @ mABufacturiag country—it simply has not the room for extensive agri- cultural industries. In every available hole and corner the Belgians busy themselves with agriculture—and although _agriculture is carried on with much industry, the Bel- glang are largely dependent upon foreign supplies for thefr food. THE POPULATION OF ASIA. After Europe comes Asia In point of in- terest—old Asia, older even than Europe in its quaint manners and fashions of men and things. But how incomparable with western Europe is Asla of the ninetecnth century! Asia is for the main part (China), hopelessly conservative, and we have had a recent il lustration ¥f how modern progress may enable a little nation like the Japanese em- pire to get the better of an old nation nearly nine times as populous. The Chinaman shows to us the abuse of conservatism in the east as plainly as we have seen the abuse of liberal- ism in the west. ‘We see the distribution of Asia’s population rather significantly in the following figures. For every thousand persons in Asia there are: In China proper. In Britieh India. In the Japanesa2 empire. In the East Indian isian In French India. In Corea In Siam . In British In Persia . In Russian "Rarkestan . In Siberia . In Afghanista In Crylon In Arabla In other parts of Asia. Asia ©eveee L, 000 persons British India is the only division of Asia that as regards population comes anywhere near China, and these two divisions combined absorb more than three-quarters of the whole of Asia’s pedple, The quality of the Japan- eso stands out In favorable contrast with the quality of the Chinese when we note that there are in Asla 424 Chinamen for every forty-elght Japs. THE WORLD'S POPULATION IN BULK. And now let us see what a really insignifi- cant body is this population of the world. For example, every living person could be contained in a square common less than twenty-two miles each way; each person of the 1,480,000,000 could have a square yard to stand on; and A. A. Chase or some other expert cyclist could be left outside with his mackine and ride round tho square contain- ing the world's population in about three and one-half hours for the elghty-seven and one- half miles of the boundary femce. Or the 1,480,000,000 persons could each occupy a square yard of standing room in Bedford- shire and then fill up only two-thirds of that county, They could be tucked away down in Radnorshire-by a little squeezing, and Icave all the rest of the world empty. Even the Isle of Man would hold nearly one-half of the world’s population at one person to the square yard, A fact like this serves to illustrate tho really trifiing Impogtance ‘of the world's population enmasse, and, Incidentally, the utter insignificance of the individuals who compose it. J. HOYT SCHOOLING, F. R. 8. §. e IMPIETT Rev, Mr. Bedell, who used to preach Methodist doctrine in Calhioun county, says the Atlanta Constitution, was what s called “a fack of all trades.”” While he was living at Newton it {s related of him that a young runaway couple seeking to get marrled came to the ferry at that place and called for the ferryman, when Bedell responded to their call and put them across the river. While doing 5o the young man ingured for a blacksmith, as he wanted some repairg made on his buggy. Bedell replied: “I am a blacksmith and will repair it.” The young man next inquired for a hotel op at. Bedell replied: ome with me; I keep the hotel and will entertain you." The next inquiry was for the clerk of the court of ordinary In order to procure a mar- riage Lcense. Bedell answered “T am the clerk and can issue you a li- cense.'" Ho finally Inquired for a minister (o per- form the marriage ceremony. The man of many occupations was agaln equal to the emergency,-and informed the would-be bride- roor B am a minister and will perform the cere- mony for you!" 424 persons 837 persors 337 parsons 48 persons 28 persons 13 persons 11 persons 9 persons 9 persons 9 persons b persons § persons 4 persons 3 persons 52 persons The Worcester (Mass.) Gazette tells a story of the Rev. Dr. Bancroft, father of George Bancroft, the historlan, and once pastor of the First Unitarian church of Worcester. A carpenter was comussioned o make (wo tablets on which the ten commandments were to be paiuted. The carpenter made the tabl of knotty boards, perhaps not realizing thelr use. When Dr. Bancroft directed the painter not to let the knots show, the man, who was a waggish character of the day, palnted the ten commandments and carefully left spaces where the nots ought to stand. ‘Dr. Bancroft had a sense of humor, and it is belleved he laughed, or perhaps smiled, and then told the painter he had misundérstood him and had better restore the nots. The “sermonette” s a recent fad in pulpit circles, says the Chicago Tribune. Evening services are supposed to be rendered more at- tractive by the advertisement that ‘‘ser- monettes” instead of fermons will be preached. In a little social coterie the other night the new term was discussed, “Do tell me,” said a clever girl, “what & sermonette is. “Why,” answered the-man-who-always- knows-it-all, “it Is a small sermon,” “0, I see,” commented the girl, “and it is the ingenicus device of some ‘preacherette,’ I suppos Heardso—Do you think it hurts a church member to go to the theater? Saldso—That depends on the individual; some wouldn't be hurt even by amateur theatricals, Mrs. Youngsport—What a fine delivery the new minister has. Mr. Youngsport—Yes, he ought to have. He was crack pitcher on the university ball team for three years. ES. CONNUBIALL Priscilla (Just arrived)—Are there any men here? Phyllis—Oh, there are a few apolo- gles for men. Briscilla—Well, it an apology is offered to me, I shall accept it. Married Man—Why don’t you get marrled, Miss Perkins? You are getting to look like a “back number’—you will soon be an old mald. Miss: Perkins—If 1 were as easy to please as your wife was I would have been married long ago. : King Alexander of Servia wants to marry the Princess Sibylle of Hesse, but old Mr. and Mrs, Hesse, or whatever thelr name i wish to wait two years to see If the King 1s & smart enough Alex to keep his throne. Mr. apd Mrs, Hesse know their business, Judge Otls of the St. Paul district court has rendered a declsion that a man is legally responsible for the damages done by his wife's unruly tongue. Under this decislon a well known St. Paul citizen has been held Yiablo for 5,000 for gossip traced back o hs wite. Mrs, B—I can't sec what's your objection to young Mr. Goodly. Everybody speaks well of "him. Miss B (pathetically)—Mamma, surely you wouldn’t wish me to marry a man that I would never have a right to scold. Editor's Wife—Who wroto this beautiful article on “How to Manage a Wife?' Editor ~Young Jones. . Editor's Wife—Why, I Qidn't know he was married, Editor—He i Mr. Moneybags (to married daughter)—Of course every one says that Jack married you for money. Daughler—Why, father, that's ridiculous. I haven't any money—it all went to pay Jack's debts, Judgo Pryor of the New York court of common pleas, commenting upon the unusual number of divorce cases which are constantly coming before the court now, said that the marriage ritual should be changed in this tate 50 as to read, “‘husband and wife until death or divorce do us part.” There have been two veritable hombshells oxploded fn New York socicty recently in the shape of clerical matrimonial engagements, That of Rev.Henry Mottet of Holy Communion to Miss Gallup, niece of Mrs, Sylvanus Reed, absolutely paralyzed soclety. ~ Holy Com- munion was Mrs, John Jacob Astor, sr.'s, church, and is attended by many fashion ables. 'None of the clergymen who have hitherto occupled its pulpit were married. It being thus without precedent for the re tor to take unto himself a wife, there has been a great fuss and splutter. Rev. Dr. Walpole Warren of Holy Trinity 15 ahout to wed a beautiful bloude widow, a Mrs. Browns ing, daughter of Henry C. Kuhuhardt. This is the clergyman about whom the question of contract labor wa It 18 not clear that were regularly employed before 1753, when tradition tells us that Benjamin Franklin, the new postmaster general, employed them in Philadelphia, and possibly in New York, The earliest evidence I have Is of 1742, when the Philadelphia postmaster advertised that his “boy” had run awey, aod that patron must call for their lotters at the postoffie The Postal Journal of Hugh Finlay, a stores house of sound f(uformation, tells us that | Boston had no letter carricr in 1773, Of | New York, he says that “zoun after the are ;rlwl of a mall the letters are quickly d livered by @ runner,” which means messend ger or letter carrler. the letter carriers