The Washington Bee Newspaper, October 5, 1895, Page 7

THE EIGHT-PAGE BEB. THE NEWSIEST AND BEST JOURNAL PUBLISHED. The Washington Bee is no doubt the newsiest and best journal published by an Afro-American in this country. The Bee contains more news than any two weeklies published anywhere in the United States. Here is what our exchanges say : ““BETTER LaTE THAN NEVER.” [From the Texas Freeman.] We are just a trifle late in saying so, but the Washington Bee has made me- chanical changes that improve its ap- pearance and reflect credit on the man- agement. i speak once. [From the Appeal.) The Washington Bee recently made considerable improvement in its ap- pearance and enlarged its size to a quarto. Since his late little unpleas- antness Chase seems to be ‘“‘ stronger than ever.” ing unless you know 1ke promises, keep 1 will be looked upon ses mean lost of con- you should promise only w you can do. vt count little things as yr it is the small things that h meaning and make life (From Newspaperdom.] The Washington (D. C.) Bre has been enlarged and substantially im- proved. The general tone and char- acter of the Bee sustain the place and name it has made for itself under the editorial management of William Cal- vin Chase. cious of her wearing ap- makes herself too con- [From the Fourth Estate.] Tue Bee BusteER THAN EVER. The Washington (D. C.) BEE has been enlarged and substantially im- proved. It is now an eight-page pa- per. The general tone and character of the Bee sustain the place and name it has made for itself under the edito- rial management of William Calvin Chase. hole secret of good manners to others as you would hould do unto you.” -unette looks well in hats trimmed with bright as vivid yellow, orange, or red. Any of these colors con- -fectively with the-dark hair and nd even enrich it. -What you want to know lows 5 e, you have chosen all right. vou will go far away. k, you will wish yourself back. will wish yourself dead [From the Southern Forge.] The Washington BEE comes to us this week in great shape. It hasanew head and twice the size. Brother Chase is going ahead. And if you bother the Bee you'll get ‘‘stinged.”’ you e out of town. Vour spirits will sink. —Don’t trim your green cloth vill produce a very indif If the colors were darker them together; as dark k blue harmonizes. vusewife should studiously her dining accomoda- and refreshing for her se daily vocations bring tact with the noisy world. uischold should be a place ts members would gladly om which they would be a place to receive new nd new courage. ry heart does as much good as and inno place will it do as good as in the household. [From the Alexandria Leader.] The Washington Ber has purchased an entire new outfit. The Bee will be issued as eight-page paper. May suc- cess attend the Bee. [From the Evening Star.] ENLARGED TO EiGHT Pac The Washington BEE appeared Sat- urday, enlarged and substantially im- proved, as an eight-page paper. It also presented many illustrated fea- tures, including portraits of Major Moore, Commissioner Ross and other Districtofficials and prominent citizens. The general tone and character of the Bee sustain the place and name it has made for itself under the editorial management of William Calvin Chase. The leading editorial Saturday pledges support to Gov. McKinley’s candidacy for President. ers is as any time of a girls life head ought to be perfectly omance it is duriug school arly courtships are destructive llasunhealthy, for it destroys the j ind. [From the Western Optic.] The Washington, D. C., BEE is out in a new dress of type, and h its improved make-up now ranks with the foremost Negro newspapers in Amer- ica. May the Bee improve each shin- ing hour. man who only “‘drops in’’ on his neighbors two or three aweek, should limit his call to minutes, or else he would be a wsilly it is to hear some girls I know nothing in the world ooking or housekeeping,”” and h an expression wise. It ws the smallness of their mind ries in ignorance. wdisappointed is the man who «sa bewitching looking girl who cts his comfort and well being. least, of the woes of the do- and the incompetency of old spring from wives who juaint themselves with the [From the Athens Clipper.] The last issue of the Washington BEE presents a very pleasant appear- ance to the public. It has eight pages abounding in rich reading matter. Ed- itor Chase has lost none of his old time vigor in wielding the pen. The Clipper congratulates the Bee and hopes it and its editor may live many years to sting the enemies of the race. [From the Baltimore Standard.] The Washington BEE comes to us this week in an eight-page form, and much improved every way. Editor Chase is to be congratulated. [From the Chicago A. M. E. Record.] The Washington BEE came out last week, considerably improved. It is now a six-column quarto, and has the appearance of property stamped upon all of its departments. 1 woman who knows no n will soon develop into an 1 old wife and become un- by the husband, who t bewitching. that breaks his word bids ilse to him. happy thoughts, pleas- and amerry heart make ¢ look young and a happy pretty. in the line that one enjoys is ¢ with the the tide or sowing ie grain. STATE oF Onio, City oF TOLEDO, tss Lucas County. a Frank J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F.J. 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Many vessels were wrecked in the -ecent heavy gales on the great lakes. Ex-Police Justice Solon B. Smith, a »1ominent New York politician, is dead. Gen. Mahone, who suffered from a ‘ecent paralytic stroke, is somew hat mproved. Chief Justice Fuller ‘s visibly im- sroved in looks as a result of his va- vation in Maine. Formal orders placing Major Gene- -al Nelson A. Miles in command of the ‘Inited States Army will be issued. The anarchist: who carried a bomb ‘n- o the Rothschild’s bank in Paris has deen sentenced to prison for three years. Corbett, the pugilist has left for Tex- as, although the probability is that the egislature will pass a law prohibiting prize fighting. The baseball season ended on Mon- jay, and the Baltimore club is cham- sion of the National league for an- other year. John C. New, ex-President Harrison's alosest friend, reports that he favors Robert T. Lincoln as the Republican candidate for President. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage has formally accepted a call to the F:rs: Presbyterian chureh at Washington, and will preach his first sermon Oct, 27. Thomas A. Lynch, whem the New The new French torpedo boat Le- forban made thirty-one knots an how on her trial trip, the fastest time ever recorded for a steam vessel. The revenues of the Federal govern- ment for the present month are in ex- ress of expendjtures, and a surplus of two or three millions is probable. The town of Hudeya, in th2 province of Yemen, Turkey, has been overwhelm- d by a landslide from a mouniain near which killed a hundred persons. Robert Fair, a drunken insurance agent, killed his wife and himself at No. 201 East Thirty-fourth street, New York, dscause she was going to leave him. The Durrant trial at San Francisco s now in its tenth week, and will last probably three weeks lOnger. The de- fence continues its effort to prove an alibi. China has Yesponded to England's jemands by degrading Viceroy Lin, of the province of Scz-Chuen for his sym- pathy with the recent Chengtu mission outrages. A dispatch from Berlin 5 Prince von Hohenlohe is falling in public estimation and that eae pr that ie will probably staried York police locked up as a common in Bellevue Hospital and there is drunkard, died from a fractured skull, vidence of foul play. A meeting of different religious and sivie organizations in Boston passed resolutions of thanks to Gov. Culber- son, of Texas, for his splendid efforts .o prevent prize fighting. . Irishmen in Chicago have organized -he Irish National Alliance of the World, to effect the freedom of Ireland oy any means “cons‘stent with the laws and usages of civilized nations.” Lord Dunraven has ordered his yacht Valkyrie to winter in American waters. and she will go into winter quarters in Brooklyn. It is believed the Valiyrie will seek races In American waters nex: spring. A despatch recelved from St. Peters- ourg via Eudtkuhnen says that the tar ff of Russia railways on exports of Rus- z!an produce to America by way of Hamburg has been reduced thirty per “ent. The New York yacht club has rece!ved a definite challenge from Charles Rose, London. through the Royal Vi Yach: Club, for a race for ths A: ca t year. The ch. nge has been A dispatch from Shanghai to the Fall Kiang and four, more :hem on Saturday. Information has been received of the in Hardin county, Ky., near the e, of George Dav:s and Bob two noted desperate moons Davis for ten years has defied Fed- ral and State authorit ghining struck a chimney of the ate Headquariers Building on the eedmore rifle range at Queens, L. L., ng a thunder shower, and among her damage exploded a number of car- ridges, meli.ag the bulle:s. M. Lebon, the French minister ot commerce, announces that a contract aas been signed for laying a subma- cine cable between Brest and New York. and for a link between the French cable system and the Antilles. MilHonaitre John B. Manning, by vote ps will join of the G rning Committee, has been »xpelled un the New York Stock Ex- thange. «crious charges were made, al- eging that he had knowledge of the era- sure of indorsements on certain Union Pacific Railway bonds. The New York Stock Exchange has jJecided not to demand reports from the Sugar Trust “for the present.” Presi- ient Havemeyer, however, said that he iad no objection to the stock being aken off the list, and the matter is like- y to be heard from later. A dispatch from Shanghaj says that he Mohammedan insurgents in the Chi- vese provinces of Kan-Su and Shen- 3: signally defeated a force of imperial roops under the comman. of Generall uung. Four battalions of troops, the Uspateh says, surrendered ~> the rebels, Wm. Patche went into Thornton’s feer park near Varna, IIL, on Sunday. “he animals are known to be ferocious, .nd danger signs warn trespassers to seep out. Yesterday Patche’s torn and nangled body was fond dangling érm_ the hoins of a la deer. Life tad been extinct for hour: . : The federal officials at S tave learned .that the Br: ‘essels in the Behring sea are ca rms in open violation of ihe r fons adopted. The matter 3 ‘rought to the atteniion of the state complaints will be lodged hh government, The largest raft ever floated down the Aississippi river is now on the way to ix, Lot.s. It consists, with its load, of 7,000,000 feet of lumber, mostly pine. If carried by rail, this lum- er would make nearly 600 carloads, and lowing forty feet to the car, the train vould be over four and a »alf miles rancisco The case against the master of the chooner Antinette and seven Cubans tho were seized by the revenue cutter {cLane on the Florida Reef and brought > Key West, charged with violation of he neutrality laws, was heard today efore United States Commissioner Ot- and the prisoners were discharged r lack of evidence. near - Mall Gazette agys: “Great Britain at| Richflela’ Springs, N. Y., Oct. 1.=The epgth appears to be in earnest. She | Republican Senatorial Convention for aas now five warsh:ps on the Yang-Tse- | ihe Thirty-third district met at noon THE WASHINGTON BEE. . ~ The Good Government Club Conven- sion in New York nominated a county ticket of its own. ¥ The Voce Della Verita says the letters and telegrams of sympathy received by che pope on the occasion of the recent \talian fetes commemorative of the en- ty of King Victor Emmanuel into Rome vontained over a million signatures. The State Department in Washington 1as been advised of the payment in Lon- j ion of the Spanish draft for the Mora ! vlaim, and the égeposit of the net pro- + seeds to the cree:t of the Secretary of State in the New York sub-treasury. The draft called for the payment of $1,- £49,000 in gold. The tents of the Barnum & Bailey show were torn into shreds by a cyclone at Burlington, Iowa,. The animals, the fat woman, the giants and the living skeletons and the circus riders were all exposed to the storm. Hail broke the windows of Press Agent Hamilton's car and cut some of his advance notices. Loss $12,000; nobody hurt. Attorney General Harmon has taken steps to learn whether or not the beef trust can be reached by the Anti-Trust law. He has forwarded to United States District Attorney Black, in Chicago, all the evidence ‘supplied by Secretary of Agriculture Morton as to the operations of the trust, and instructed him to in- vestigate the matter and report the re- sult to the Deparment of Justice. The fiat has gone forth from police headquarters that all news stands and bootblacking stands on the sidewalks in the city of New York must be re- moved. <A delegation of bootblacks waited upon President Roosevelt of the police board. He referred them to Act- Ing Police Superintendent Conlin, who imparted the information that he had no discretion in the matter. There was the law in unmistakable characters, and he had received orders to enforce it. The grand jury of New York city has ordered indictments for manslaughter ‘n the second degree against the following men who are held responsible for the collapse of the Ireland building Aug 7, ! when fifteen men were killed: Thomas Murray, mason foreman; Thomas Wall er, superintendent; John Parker, con- tractor; Dennis L. Buckley, ex-inspector of the building department; Charles E, Beyrens, architect, and Edward J. Yondale, achitects assistants, Advices from Anttoch te that Ot- toman officials there have succeeded in exciting Mussulmen with a report of an impending massacre by Armenians. As a result of this, Mussulmen, ac- 2ompanied by police, raided an Armenian church and searched the building fu arms. The Armenians resistes @vd in the conflict which ensued ten of them | were Killed. A reign of terror preva a: Kemakh and Ersengen, owing to oppressions by the Turks. Many Ar- menians have been arrested. Se ee ANOTHER SPANISH WARSHIP LOST. Cruiser Cristobal Colon Wrecked on the Cuban Coast. Havana, Oct. 1—Another Spanish hip has been lost. The cruiser stocal Colon has been wrecked near e Antonio and, it is believed, wil! prove a total loss. The Cristobal Colon is a second class eruiser of about 1,200 displacment and 1,600 horse power. She is estimated to have had about 300 officers and men. The disaster occurred off Colorado Point, in the Gulf of Gauadina, south of the town of Mantua, in the province of ar del Rio, near Havana. The Christobal Colon appears to have encountered the severe weather off Cape Antinfo, and to have put into the Gulf of Guadiana for shelter. There she tried to ride out the fierce gale and neavy-seas; but was slowly driven towards Golorado Point, off which there is a dangerous reef, known as the Colo- rado reef. When the commander of the cruiser saW that he could not make head against the storm, he attempted to anchor, according to stories tol hére; but. the anchor would not hold and the cruiser was driven ashore, iS See OTSEGO-HERKIMER REPUBLICANS. Thirty-Third District Senatorial Conven- tion in Session at Richfield. to-cay in the village of Richfield Springs Meny prominent Republicans were pres- ent. The first to arrive this morning was the delegation from Oneonta. The Herkimer delegates arrived later. Otsego county will make a strong effort to secure the nomination for its candi- date, W. L. Brown, basing its claim upon .ts greater Republican vote. There is some obability of a spirited contest, as the Prescott followers from Herkimer are equally determined upon securing the nom- ination for their favorite. $$ o—____—_ OUNCES OF SILVER STOLEN. 35,000 One of the Thieves Arrested, and Part of the Booty Recovered. London, Sept. 27.—One of the princi- 7} theft of 35,000 ounces of sil- >ad been shipped by Vivian vansea, to Sharp & Williams, sf London, on Wednesday, has been ar- rested and a portion of the silver re- covered, The silver, which was in ingots, was ‘sien from the van while in transit “from the Midland depot to the office of rp & Williams. ————— New York Produce Market. York, Oct 2 (n>0n).—Flour—Receipts, 19.700 bls; sales, 2,800 pkgs; State and Western juiet. southern flour dull. Rye flour—Market steady. Wheat—Receipts, 113,000 bush: sales, 750.00. bush. Market opened weak «on lower cables und fereign selling. but rallied late: on re- ports of improved Li-erpool advices,” May. 70770 5-15c: December. 66 9-16@66 Kc. ly: rket quiet. Ccrn—Receipts, 101.100 bush; sales. 25.000 bus b Yacket fairly steady: some coverin; by loca- I Octo. er. 364e; Novem er December, 35%c. cetpis, 127,200 bush; t quiet but steady. Ma; Steady. Family, -10.00@; New sales, 15,00) GBC. Perk—Quiet. New m 8100071 , Lard—Dull. Prime mess s =! iu! Buiter — Recsipts, 7.16) 9 pags. 9 rirm S ° 1244@20'¢c: western dairy. 9 elgs iu do, 16} «© creamery 4 imitation do, N@16e. Market firm lg J4e; par sige: full skims. 2 Receipts. 7.858 pkgs. Market firm nd Pennsylvania, 184,18: western: refining, fair. 3 test, 3 9-16. refinet ushed 25 1-16e: powdered, 4%@ ¢. granulated. 444@5 11-16c. Petroleaum—Market steady. Coffee--Market firm. Lead—Market firm; changed, $3.45@3 Hops— Market v State, common‘ choice, 1894 crop, v@7e: Pacific coast, 1894, 3! Raw. fru: 6 r ce bullion price, $3.15 a HORSESHOE LUCK. . “Am FE too old to think of a second mar- riage?” said Mrs. Blythe, looking wist- fully intothe glittering sheet of mirror that extended to the other side of the, room into ‘an indefinite perspective of onyx tables, stands of ferns, Japanese screens and India hangings. “Six and thirty—and why should one be compelled to give up all the sweetness of life at six and thirty? I’m sure I don’t look a day over thirty; and Algy Vane must be that at least!” Mrs. Blythe was a very pretty woman —not the bud, but the full-blown rose— a plump, dimpled, peachy-cheeked ma- tron, who knows exactly how to make the most of all her middle-aged advan- tages. She had married Major Mortlake Blythe at seventeen, and he had left her a widow at seven and twenty. “I shall never be such a fool as to; marry again!” said Mrs. Blythe. For the Major had by no means been perfection. He had left her just enough, by dint of strict economy, to live upon, especially ag her only child had been taken to “bring up” by a quiet Quaker couple, the Major’s relatives. And until now Mrs. Blythe had adhered resolutely to her decision. But Algernon Vane was* a royally handsome fellow, and the pretty widow wes but human, and she had acribbled “Rosamond Vane,” “Mrs. Algernon Vane,” over and over again in her blot- ting book, and she had treasured up a flower he had worn in his button-hole, and she had corresponded with him dur- ing the winter he had spent in Bermuda, writing sprightly and amusing letters, with a semi-tone of seriousness underly- ing all their sparkling gossip. “He likes me a little now,” said the widow, “and I’m determined he shall | like me a good deal more. I’m tired ot) this solitary life; I’m tired of counting | every penny half a dozen times before I spend it. Algy is independently rich, and he’s my beau ideal of a man. With him I do believe I could be quite, quite happy. He doesn’t know about Lydia; but of course that would be no objection. Uncle Joshua and Aunt Rebecca will keep her. Dear me, dear me! she must be growing to be a big girl now,” and Mrs. Blythe shuddered at the idea. At this moment the door flew open, and | in burst a tall, dusty, disheveled young girl, some half a head taller than Mrs. Blythe herself, with the white-capped maid following helplessly behind. “Please, ma’am,” said the maid, ‘she wouldn’t wait for me to take her card | “Mamma, I’m _ Lydia!” cried the breathless apparition. “Little Liddy, mamma—don’t you remember? Tell that hateful girl to go away! A card, indeed! Am I to send up cards to my own mother?” Mrs. Blythe stood appalled in the soft yellow light streaming through the China silk curtains. This fair-haired, sunburn- ed young giantess, with peony cheeks and the big-blue eyes, the ill-fitting gloves and faded cambric gown—could it be possible that this was the “little Lid- dy” of ten years ago? Oh, if Mr. Vane should see her! The girl looked around like one who views the enchantment-of @ fairy palace. “O mamma, how pretty you are!” said she, “and what a lovely room! Are you glad to see me, mamma, darling?” “My dearest child,’ gasped the widow, “what has brought you here?” Lydia clasped her hands; her counte- nance fell. “Mamma,” said she, m the most miserable creature in the world—and I | want a hundred dollars!” “Lydia! A hundred dollars!” “And you must let me have it!” vehe- ; mently went on Lydia. “I've killed Un- cle Joshua's prize colt! That is, I didn’t exactly do it myself, but I was riding ‘Pretty Jane’ around the meadow, just ; for practice, and I forgot and left the | bars down, and the train came along, and—oh! I never can look Uncle Joshua in the face again unless I have that hun- dred dollars to pay him. I shall be able to earn plenty for myself before long, mamma,” she added, breathlessly, “for I can ride better than the woman in pink tarlatan and spangles who jumped through the hoops at the circus. When , the old gipsy told my fortune last year, at the county fair, she said a horseshoe would bring me luck some day; and I knew, of course, what she meant. So I’ve been practicing riding ever since, whenever I could get away from Aunt Beck and Uncle Joshua, and——” “Mrs. Dappleton Ames is in the draw- ing room, ma’am,” said the wh._2-carpped maid, appearing with an oxydized silver card-receiver in her hand. And Mrs. Blythe checked her daugh- ter’s confidences at once. “Lydia,” cried she, “I’m surprised at you! A great girl like yo. scuffing and romping around the country! Go back to Shady Plains by the very next train, and try to behave more like a lady. Why, you must be fourteen at least!” “Seventeen, mamma,” confessed the culprit. “But aren’t you going to give me the hundred dollars?” | “I hav’ not got a hundred cents!” im- | patiently cried Mrs. Blythe. ‘And if I had I wouldn’t give it to you, you naughty, ill-behaved, romping— Yes, Matilda, tell Mrs. Dappleton Ames that I shall be down directly, and bring some tea and buns for—for Miss Blythe before the next train goes.” But before Mrs. Dappleton Ames had finished her call, and Mrs. Blythe came back, the bird had flown. Lydia, deeply wounded and recentful, had promptly re- turned to Shady Plains. “That old gipsy must have been a humbug, after all,” thought the despair- ing girl. “Oh, what shall I say to Uncle Joshua? Why was mamma so cold and cruel to me? Oh, dear, I am very un- happy!” c “Shady Plains!” shouted the conductor. And as Lydia crept sorrowfully out of the train, something bright, like a fallen drop of dew, scintillated on the floor at her feet. She stooped to pick it up. It was a diamond scarfpin in the shape of a horseshoe. “Squire Carhart’s company must have dropped it,” said Lydia to herself. “Oh, how it sparkles! If it were only mine! For I’m sure it must be worth more than a hundred dollars.” 4 She glanced furtively at a tall, broad- shouldered young fellow who had been seated in the train a few seats beyond her. “He never looked. around,” thought Lydia. “I’m glad of it, for he must have known that I had been crying. But I must give this back to him.” With a light, swift step, she hastened to overtake Squire Carhart’s city guest. “Please, is this yours?” said she, hold- ing up the glittering half-circle. “I found it on the car floor close ta where you were sitting.” i He started and raised his hat. +) - | our confidence?” ‘so suddenly. “It-is Mr.- Wotten’s niece, tsn’t itt?" said he, “Miss Lydis? Yes, it is ming, | and I'm a thousand times obliged to you. | I must have fastened iz in very careless- ly. And I value i very highly, too; it was a gift from my father.” “Is it worth a great deal of money?” asked Lydia, timidly lifting her sea-blue eyes to his face. “About a hundred dollars, I suppose."* “I wish it was mine,” said Lydie, with a long sigh, as if she were thinking aloud. Why, it isn’t a lady’s orna- “Yours. ment.” “Oh, not the pin!” Lydia hastened to explain, “but the money—the hundred dollars. Good-by! Here is the carriage waiting from Carhart Court.” “Will you let me drive you as far as Wotton farm?” asked the stranger, cours teously. And tired Lydia willingly consented. ‘ The upshot was that when she entered her uncle's presence she gave him a bank bill representing the Price of the ee ens “Where did thee get this mo child?” solemnly asked Uncle Joahua, “I—I borrowed it,” confessed Lydia. “Don’t ask me any more questions, un- cle. I'll pay it back if I have to pick blackberries at four cents a quart all summer.” } “I hope thee will give up this hoyden- ish business of scampering about on horseback, Lydia, after this,” severely spoke Aunt Rebecca. “But, aunt, the old fortune-teller told me that my fortune would one day be made by a——” Lydia st8pped abruptly as she remem- bered how the diamond horseshoe had glittered on the floor at her feet that day, Her color rose, her heart beat. x “Thee must remember, Lydia,” admon- ished Aunt Rebecca, “that all diviners and fortune-tellers are snares of Satan.” ri Aunt Rebecca,” murmured the girl. But from that day an inscrutable cane came over the character of her Le The pleasant summer sunshine had faded out of the land. The Saratoga hotels were closed; gay Newport was de- serted. And Mrs. Blythe, sitting in the yellow light of her jonquil silk curtains, was smiling over a card which Matilda had just brought in. “Dear Algy!” she murmured. he would come!” She glided into the white-and-gold drawing room, all gracious cordiality. “You recreant cavalier!” she smiled. ve half a mind to scold you, and se “Do I deserve that title?” Mr. Vane asked. “For you are the first person to whom I have told the great happiness of my life. Oh, I see you don’t understand me! Come from behind the draperies, Lydia, and help me to explain matters to your mother.” And Lydia, blue-eyed and fair-tressed, came. “We are married, mamma,” said / Lydia, “Algy and I. And we sail for Europe in the Comandra, at noon. Won't you kiss me, mamma, and wish me joy?” Mrs. Blythe kissed Lydia—and Algy, too—eand wished them joy. But this was the severest ordeal to which she had ever been put. A mother- in-law instead of a bride! This was hardly what she had looked forward to. But even in that trring moment she noticed the glittering pin which fastened Lydia’s lace bonnet-strings—a quaint de- vice of tiny diamonds—and remembered what the girl had once said about a for- tune-teHer and a horseshoe. “Mamma didn’t look quite pleased, Algy,” said the bride, when they were back in the carriage, driving to the steamer’s wharf. “Do you suppose she is vexed because we didi’ take her into “I knew “I dare say,” remarked Mr. Vane, “that no mothér likes to lose her child east of all, darling, so sweet a treasure as you.” And neither of the two suspected what a poisoned dagger was that day rankling in the breast of Mrs. Rosamond Blythe. He Knew His Mothes. Mrs. Wilson tells a story about Car- lyle and Thackeray, which has been told before, but which may be new to some resders. Several artists at the Royal Academy dinner, sitting in the neighbor- hood of these great men, were expressing their enthusiasm about Titian. “Hix glorious coloring is a fact about Titian,” said one. “And his glorious drawing is another fact about Titian,” cried a sec- ond. So they went on till Carlyle, who had been Iistening in silence to their rhapsodies, interrupted them by saying, with a slow deliberation which had its own impressive emphasis: “And here I sit, a m-1 made in the image of God, who kn vs nothing about Titian and cares nothing about Titian; and that’s another fact about Titian. Thackeray was sipping claret at the moment. He paused, and bowed courte- ously to Carlyle. “Pardon me,” he said, “that is not a fact about Titian. But it is a fact—and a lamentable fact—about Thomas Carlyle.’”” ° “Wooden Defenses, Life Was very insecure in mediaeval times. It was usual for people to sleep on a bed which was surrounded by sides of board, with strong posts at the four corners. These sides contained sliding doors, which could be fastened inside. When men retired to rest they took a weapon with them. If attacked in the night, they were aroused by the nolse made by the crashing in of their wooden defences, and were able to defend them- selves. When the law became strong enough to protect human life, the sides of the bedstead were gradually dispensed with, but the four posts remained. The box-like bedstead still survives in the rural parts of Scotland, and is almost necessary where the earthen floors and imperfect ceilings cause much damp. Emily Branto in “Wuthering Heights,” describes one of these, bedsteads in the old mansion as forming a “little closet.” Training a Locomotive. Locomotives that are intended for ex- press trains are put through a course of preliminary ‘training, that thelr power and speed may be thoroughly tested. When an engine is taken out of the shop it is run for two or three weeks on one of the local branches, to train it, 30 to speak, for fast running. By this means all the bearings and journals con- nected with the running gear become set- tled to their work; for should anything about the new machinery not work har- monjously, there is ample time to adjust the defect. Usually the new engine proves troublesome on account of its pro- pensity to make fast time, and at almost every station the train is found to be a little ahead of schedule time, and must ,; wait for from ten seconds to a minute. >