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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04
THE HISTORY OF STEEL PENS.

THE HISTORY OF STEEL PENS.
A Roman metal pen is said to have
been found at Aosta, not mere stylus,
but a bronze pen slit, and there is some
evidence of pen or reed OF bronze nearly
as early as the invention of printing in the
fifteenth century. A hundred years ago
some steel pens were made in Birming-
ham by Mr.. Harrison for DIR. Priestly,
and some of these passed into the hands
of Sir Joseph Mason in his early days
with Mr.. Harrison, but all seem to be
lost. The first pen of metal of definite
date, beyond all question, is one in
Dutch patent book of 17I7. At about
the same time polite ode of Pope re-
fers to steel and gold pen," but these
were evidently luxuries only, and it was
not until about fifty or sixty years ago
that metallic pens became more generally
in use. 1t was about 1929 or 1924 that
the great revolution came by which pens
we're made by cheaper process = the
hand screw press, which pierced the pens
from sheet steel. Previously pens had
been made from steel rolled into tube
fashion, and the joint formed the slit;
but these required considerable labor TO
shape them into pen form. The use of
the screw press belonged to the period of
John Mitchell, Joseph elliott and Josiah
Mason; but by careful review of the
facts it seems to be clear that John
Mitchell has the best claim to be con-
sidered as the original introducer of the
press made pens. Skinner, of Sheffield,
was apparently one of the first to cheaper
steel pens, but his productions we're soon
surpassed when the screw press was in
troduced.- Birmingham Post.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04
Raisin Curing in California.

Grape growing for the raisin market
Golden State" Every year the area de-
voted to grapes and raisin curing has in
creased, aud it is by no means improba-
BILE that there will be an abundant sup
ply in a few years from this source to
meet all the wants of eastern customers.
The consumption of raisins in the United
States IS estimated at 120000000 pounds.
or 100000 boxes. In 1885 the yield in
Southern California was 475,000 boxes.
This year, owing 60 the increased acre.
age, the crop will be $4,000 boxes more
than last year. Statistics show that the
yield has steadily grown from 10000 box
es in 1881 to 100000 boxes in 1885, The
fruit also is of better quality and flavor
this year than ever before, and will con-
sequently command good prices. The
grapes grown for raisin curing are the
Morocco, the Muscat of Alexandria and
the Sultana, the Muscat considered the
besD being cultivated greatly in excess of
other varieties. 1t takes one ton of
grapes to make about thirty boxes Of
raisine, and the vines OF fairly good
vineyard will produce, according to their
age, from ten to twenty pounds per vine.
Chicago dried fruit merchants sell
great many boxes of California raisins
every year, and they are fast suppressed
ing the imported article for general
household uses.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04
s;arm, ston1e aud Garden.

o tired heart,
God knows!
Not you nor 1,
Who reach our hands for gifts
That wise love must deny.
We nder where we fain would do our best
Until aweary; then we cry, "Do Thou the
rest"-
And in His hands the tangled thread we
place
Of our poor, blind weaving, with shamed
face.
All trust of ours He sacredly will keep,
So, tired heart-God knows-go thou to
work or sleep!
Hannah CoddinQton
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04

morning, with firm, quick stepe, you may
safely traverse the Neva, still ice covered,
at noon, your return is barred by clear;
swelling stream, whose whilon bonds
have turned 10 dancing liquid fascets,
from which the sun laughs back its light
and it's triumph. True the ice is not yet
wholly gone, but it meets the eye hence
forth purely as a spectacle,-th offering
not of river, but of lake. This new ice is
the product of more northern waters, the
snowy blocks and bergs of Ladoga, gilt
tering debris of an unequal combat that
every spring renews. For some days
after the breakup along the Neva, in
the interval between the beginning OF
open and that of safe navigation, the
river channel is tbronged with broken
strata, cleft blocks, truncated pillars.
shivered columns; with spires and spears
and shafts; nay, with all shapeful and
shapeless masses, that half undergo and
half escape degelation in the annual re-
turn of heat to the far north. Slowly the
rank and file Of the shining host glide
past, driving back to shelter q fleet OF
venturesome ferry boats, battering the
bridge piers with dangerous force and
frequency, scraping the quays with 30
norous attrition, and emitting through
out the duration OF their passage
strange, rustling, crunching sound. By
day striking, by night solemn and weird,
this scene passes in its turn, and for six
months the Neva presents the aspect
which L have described in the opening
paragraph Edmund Noble in Decene-
Der Atlantic
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04
A Word to Ambitious HouseEsep asi;:..-'

Don't overwork! With strong, healthy
men striking all over the country for
"eight hours" do you never reflect that
you, too, should have some time for recre-
alton? We know that work seems wait
ing you at every turn, that, anxious to ex-
eel, you spare yourself no fatigue, and
worn out and weary frequently sit down
to the darning basket at nine or ten
o'clock at night. There is much to be
done and what is done is best done thor
oughly, but wherever possible curtail
your labor. Make life as easy and pleas
ant for yourself as possible. Have all
labor saving apparatus obtainable, and
as the shades Of night draw on apace,
cast off the burdensof the day and rest
Helen StdRndrd.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04

There seems to have besn a little
confusion in many minds as to the eccle-
siasticai standing of the Able List,
whose title sounded SO priestly, while
his presence at the theateI looked SO lay.
The facts are simply these, according to
Roman Catholic paper: Liszt wished
and hoped to be a priest, and went to
Pope Plus TX. to ask his advice as to
studying for ordination as quickly as
might be. His Holiness, who saw with
keen eye that music had kept, and at
Liszt's age would probably keep, a larger
part of his heart than priest could we'll
give it, persuaded him very gently out of
his intention. You see, my son, the
world will not let you alone. 1t will have
you at it's parties, and you will have to
play. The ladies will be about you and
you will play-play duets, perhaps. 1t is
not altogether what 1 wish for a priest.
And then, the parties will be late, and
midnight will come unawares, and there
will be supper, and you will be very tired
and hungry; and yet the Holy Mass in
in the morningl No; your gift of music
comes from Almighty God, and is very
pleasing to him; and you can not do the
two things. But yOu shall be an eccle-
siastic. You shall have canon's orders
and the name of Able" And in effect
his Holiness gave the pianist the most
minor of minor orders-those Of the sing
ers in the Sistine Chapel, which are
shared, by the way, even by the men
who do the sweeping there. M. List,
therefore, was nothing at all like priest,
but he had in the Vatican a kind of
sanctuary away from the world, which
pressed too closely on his later years.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04
SUNLIGHT ALL THE WAY.

"Good-by, Jennie; the road is long,
And the moor is hard to cross;
But well you know there is danger
In the boys and marshy moss.
So keep in the footpath, Jennie,
Let nothing tempt yol o stray,
Then you'll get safely over it,
For there's sunlight all the way"
The child went off with blessing
And a kiss of mother-love;
The daisies were down at her feet,
And the lark was singing above.
On, on the narrow fOotpath-
Nothing could tempt her to stray;
So the moor was passed at nightfalI,
And she'd sunlight all the way.
And /, who followed the maiden,
Kept thinking, as | went,
Over the perilous moor of life,
What unwary feet are bsnt.
If they could only keep in the footpath,
And not in the marshes stray,
Then they would reach the end of life
Ere the night could shroud The day.
-HgrDer'S Weekly
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04

In Japan wealthy owners of cats
have high respect for them even when
they are dead In Yedo, at a cats funer-
al, the coffin was covered with white
silk pail.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-12-04

safety. Oub u1illJ HoFcI bAOuBGb Vi bueSeJ
as glorying in her perfect immunity from
sea-sickness,s she rOamed the great steamer
fore and aft, making friends with passen.
gers and crew, and asking questions
which often made the latter scratch their
heads in perplexity.
They were about week out, and far
from either shore, the fog had lifted, and
brilliant morning sun lighted the broad,
comparatively smooth expanse of sea.
The Captain, glass in hand, was slowly
scanning the horizon, and Milly, close by,
with no lens but those of her keen young
eyes, scanned it with equal dignity and
care. About southwest his glass came to
a sudden standstill; then he took it from
his eyes and was eagerly rubbing the
lenses, when the watch suddenly sang
out, "Sail ho!"
"Where away?" cried the Captain, re-
adjusting his glass.
ITO leeward," came the prompt reply,
and in moment the two were consulting
in eager tones.
Soon after the steady plunging of the
engines grew slower, then almost ceased;
boat was lowered, gentlemen passen-
gers began to climb to elevated places
and gaze through their own glasses, and
she heard one say:
"Yes, it's an open boat; evidently a
small one, too. See, they are going to
the rescue. 1t is we'll the fog lifted when
it did or we would never have sighted
them IN the world"
The excitement increased, for every in
eideut becomes an event in the monotony
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-16
loaN D0uGALL & CO.-Whereas JOhn

Holm DOUGALL 4 IO.-W hertas JUuH
- Dougall of NewNork city and Anthony NJ tochrane
Of New City. FOR more than hve years prior 70 I'm
AUGUST l-sG carried bus IN the city oi New" ioN
"a General conarfners uneer by the firm name OF Joh
ouga ~ o. and had and has it, principal pace VI
uncss iu the CITY County and state OF New OK ana
Whereas about years prior hereto James duncan
pougAll became q partner in said nrin anu s
hcrras the John Dougali died ana me ''
The surviving partners bein- dcsiTors " Goa l
ness ana the use OF JOhn DOusaA - Oo'
aforesaid. --,o.o ,r,.e Of
aoIe ami James duncan Dousti4 "lo-
MACE Of abode IS Flushing Long Island y 90 crItLY
tbaf we are the persons formerly dealing under sad hn
name as partners Of said John DOug and as AFORESAID
and mar "a. intend 10 said business ana the use Vi
and 10 deal un er said OF John DOugal x Co.
Dated Sew York. Isl october, ls-5. =, ,o,,ua.~r
J. d. DOUGALl-
State Of View York city and County OF Ne~-York as;
on fs st av 1856 before me personally
Anthonv N ,ochrane AM Douesil bot, 70
me known he the PEE sons eescrlsu IN
foregoing instrument scNeiay
l e'r0' ~ ~ $500 WILLIAM BAKER,
- D. Notary Public (2IOl, y. Y co.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-16
T FHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.

PASSENGER TRAINS leave foot Of Cortlandt or Des-
" ~ a M for Catasauqna and intermediate points -
a m for Geneva Lyons Elnira Rochester buu1o anu
fhe West and principal local points CHAIR car " "A
barre. ,ogn+s chair car
,oTnnEhannock Connection 10 Reading and KARLSRUHE.
$40 D. N Pttston and principal nIeruie11Ao Po''
Chair car I Plttston- ,... zot..s Corractio,
peading nd Harrisburg. Chair car 10 C0pldy
~ m for Geneva Lyons Elnlra Hochestet huD"'O' ~H
The West. Pullman sleeper 70 Lyons
.. 20 N m for Iaurys and intermediate points . D..
trains leaving at IN. m. and $40 p m CONNECT iot
eli nosnrs In NahanOy and HazletOn coal Regions
a. F' SUNDAY TRAINS.
ga m for Mauch Chunk. Hazleton ana "'eilo'l''
points -, 49,, ,,,o-,,a a,a IA roints
NJ for Geneva Lyons Emra. Rochester BuNaio anu
The West. Pullman sleeper 70 Lyons
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-16
ERIE RAILWAY. now known as the NEW.

IRE RAILWAY, now known as the NEW
IL YORK. LAKE ERIE AND WESTERN RAILROAD.
Through trains leave 23ds and Chambersst stations at same
hour local trans leave 23st Station fifteen minutes
ga m-Daiiv except sundays Day Express, BUFFET Draw
ing room Coaches to Binghamton. Elnr@ tornellsvle
Buffalo Sleeping Coaches HOnelsville u Cincinnati $50
G. m.-Daily. Chicago and st Lous Limited" solid
Pullman train OF Day and Buffet Sleeping Coaches %
Meadvi'e Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago and ct Louis
Noextra charge for fast time n..,....-
6pm.-Dav Niagara and ontario Limited n Rochester.
Buffalo suspension Bridge nd Toronto The only Pullman
coach Icute between New-York and Toronto. .
m.-Daiy. Chicago EXPRESS Pullman and Dav Sleeping
Coaches 10 BnghsntOn, Elmra Buffalo, Niagara Falls Gin
cinnat and Chicago - -. ooo - oo
a. NJ 1900 noon l.45 800 $50 4:40 5:10 $50 800 $40
ESQ 1l5 I4b, $50 lt 70 J. m l2to hl lGnt Sunuals
f4h s30 lo2Ca LAB AIS. $3.50, 7'45. $780, lO;aOp
Paterson z'i5 S;45 72o 100 $3.50 lo2oa 1900 200 noon
7:45 600 $50 1890 1900 midnight sundays 545
$50, 1920 a. H. las AIS ESQ., 7;45 $780, 1O;SOR H.
Nexs1S sno Isrsen via Newsrk sso SEQ $50 1899 o0
500 1000 IN. and lzOO midnight daily except sunday
SUNDAYS s:l5 n m. 30. 500 500 D. m M o IN r m
sqnsTn 4'l $50 ~ s s m m and ID Zoo midnight
Sundays 5:45 $50 l02OA las Alb $780, 500 4O'SJ
Warwick 900 1920 a. H. 4:30 p m SUNDAYS 40 4 m
Monticello eOOL m- $50 D m ooo Am IA 40
NewDurg and Cornwall $50 300 NJ $50 45O o'5O an
6.OJ n m sundays > Ga m. and 900 ?. ~,
Montgomery Rondout and Kingston 4;i5 0:OOA H. SS0
srsni sInq b5Smofe 500 a. No. ssOp except suniay%
Goshen i 81 5s5 $50 600 1920 $3.50, 500 Id 69(
500 a IN Sundays. o45 s'JO 4O;-O IL H. oVO' o'0'
aildSIeoWn AS 545 1850 600 1920 m $780, 49, SO
s.3O n m The $500 a. m. stops al MaIn-sI only -
PORT Jervis 4:45 7.5O 900 1920 H. $50 4S9 oo S'pp
Tickets or ma apartments IN Drawing Room the
Sleeping Coaches obtained and orders for The
Ss Iai III s57 Brosaway ISL Wesist n. y. Nos 53l
Tuiton.si. Brooklyn al the Companys pepotS .-ox
Express from the West arrive Ii NeW-i OH al go
JOHN " ABBOTT Genl Passr Agent, Newton
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-16
6ieambcats nmo Railroads.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
On and after NOVEMBER 10. lssa
GREAT TRUNK LINE


GREAT TRUNK LINE
AM UNITED STATES MAIL ROUTE
Trains via Desbrosses ana Conrandt stree
HsTssnrs Pi,issnrs and tho West with Pullman Palace
s sa5s Se Of Por Dmns Smoking and sleep
Sas, a. Lex HAVEN svsTS m CORY and Erie
p connecting at CORY for rtusTile Petroleum
$50 5g g sn 9Sd l5 ng9E
Exprsss Of Pullman Palace Cars daily except sunday
1S "a aTys wssnon M snS se $40 ob "a ar
Lac 4se yea and M and md 1912 is nigh. Sunday elS
Eor Atlsr1e CITY. except sunaay pm ~ s....,. ,n,,
Long Branch Pay ED Jun ton and intermediate stations
VIA Railway and AmhOy, r. m II noon. $40, bCO
pm On sunday 9'4O m and p do not stop at
fsr Pen Norfolk via York Phnsselpnls AID
Boats o. ooSTn AmSex connect with all through trains
Ctv anordng speedy and direct transfer for
gTa,Ss Gyrass from Pittsburs 71o. 100 1890 700
and s m e, Prom 0 so o and o s sns
ST M G saaaaT. 20 $50 a. m go e2o and osS
Tins $50 see $50 $50 20 10 $50 sc
S eco 2 ;a $50 Go o s 1879 o ?o III s s5d iiSC
a. m. 500. 600 100 900. GAS and lO35p. III
FOR PHILADELPHIA
Exprss Train, leave New York via DesOrosses and Court
go go $50 40 Washington Limited and Il Chicago
j. IN. and 1915 night Accommodation, ITO m. and
sS ESQ., 8 g. : aad NJ ma and az 9l IS night Limited
Trans leaving Ney forS ay eRcept S1nay Al az . am
Sundays connect at Trenton for Camden
f lgaos sS' 5C1s s7ess s,op
1l15a Limited Express 1l4 and 4:j0 p. MI l2:f9
345 g. s:35 7i2. SCI and $50 D. On SUNDAY, 1901
800 4o5 40 $40 $50 94O m l249. 4;5O Linited)
Leave Philadelphia via Camden 900 daily except sun
day.
Ticket $40 ass and aft Broadway Aston Houss
and foot pesbrosses and courtlanit No COurtst-
and BROOKLYN station foot OF FultOnst Brooklyn
Station Jersey CITY Emgrant ticket Office No Battery
Place and Castle Garden.
York Transfer Company Will call Tor and cheek
baggage from hotels and residences
CHAS. f. PUGH. J. n. WOOD.
General Manager. Pass'r Agent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-16

NORTHERN RAILROAD OF NEW-JERSEY,
IN trains Chamberss Station for TnglewOod
Tenafy Closer spark Nvack $50. 100 $50 eS0ant
II 80 a M lbs 800 40 $50 $40 $780, 500 1890
D H. 1900 midnight Sundays 1870 $50 400 and 500
M For Manuel Spring Valley Monsev and Tallmans $3.50
930 $50 a NJ $50 62O p n Sundays $50 500 p.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-16

NEW. HAVEN. Steamers Leave IeeH rs.ll
- VI rive In time for early trains nortn ana east
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-16

V'HE CENTRAL NATIONAL BANh Vr
THE CITY OF NEW-YORK-NEw-l o IA p p0S
lBSUTho annual election for directors OF thls ~
De held at the Ranking house 800 Broadwy on Auesy'
EDWARD sKlLLIN. Casheer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-16
r.11. RIVER LINE-FARES REDUCED

II Boston % Newport ~. fall River, = Erst-eIass
limited tick Corresponding reinction - vi E.s.erU
aS,na~srs PIIGRIM and BRISTOL leave New-fOrk on
I,ernsie DAYS sundays included at 43O m nom Pier
% r foot Of MurraysI Connection VIA Annex poa' o"
Srooklyn and Jersey City AT D. M. ~-,cur,u DrSr
O[G " ATER ROUTE FULL NlSH . ht-oi.
moTning trains Boston, short ran rue ne 50 min
utes an eaeh steamer s & fcss
oIces al Tue oAA0e 'H 100 GEORGE L. COMMON,
BORDEN LOWELL. Agents Geni Fass Ageh~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-16
anriion Sales.

MORTGAGE sALF-.John e. Lyst, auc-
WI tioneer viii sell this day 10 m No 2OeO Second
ave-. the furnitures and nxiures Of a saloon .,.
LOUIS LEUBUsCHEk, Attorney ior hortsageo.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-16
>,Rw.yORK CENTRAL AND HUDSON

IN LIVER RAILROA D.-COmmencing November IA 1885
throngh trains will leave Grand Central Depot =.
m Rochester Express through draWlngrooh cars "
Albany Troy Montreal and syracuse - ..,,r a.
s51 a m Limited" with dining car sIopp'rrs
ausDy Itca syracuse Rochester. Buffalo, Niagara fais
rSs eyeiand and Toledo arriving at Chicago S;oO d III
IoSo a No. Chicago Express drawingroom cars 10 canaan
a an M Western NewYork and Northern Express
with room cars with drawing
room al a. ccoln modation 10 Albany and Troy ~
chicago and 81 Louls III press win 9tespans
Co.. S,sgara Rails Bunalo, CINCINNATI Ioieoo Detoi+ ILL
80 an5 I0us Dlning-caT New OH 20
$50 d H., Montreal Express VIII sioeP-"e ~ -
.nd n a uburu road also 10 Montreal ,..o. -too ~,
enu ~ a ~ soecsl Sleeper arrives Rochester 10 a H.
1Io az a M and Cleveland 1913 p IN mex oobos
Express with sieep1g-v AZ.
Falls, Cleveland, 1OiolO
CHICAGO seeping-cars Clayton anu OgaehsOuis u' -
cept Saturday r..ss nth sIeeping-cars TO Albany
80 ;rrnv Connects with the morning Trans Ioi VA' ~
az Except saturday nlghtI
AtS 10 ON sale Grand Central Depo1 40. 80
Depot lzotI-sI anu
escott's Offices. PARK pnlCe tne-A
III and S42 and oz W est ~ "a
CyyE s3S ashng AMI 1SO ultoh sts- DiO'~J" IL W
ifh-st williamsburg -,,r, and sleeping be
procured al any OF the IcAee oine0' -
t2S IA ashin gtOn-st, BROOK yn .-o,o -asaaanca
e9 " al fOra and checked IRON IesuonSo
rs,ns run daily All others d4ly efoeR' Jay
,5bose trains stop Harlem llzotasT am 1FN6RICK
j. M TOCCb1f General Passenger Agent
Anew HAVEN. Steamers Leave i s1cs, sup
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-16
Gurtion Sales Of Real estate.

FORECLOSURE SALE.-Valuable dwelling
house AMI factory property NO. A. Vest SSt' |
investment terms. &C, apply to LEWIS HURST Tx
ecutOr. I32 Nassau ST., \. \.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-16
TEXAS AND PACIFIC.

The undersigned acting committee Of the income ana
land grant bon holders Texas and Pacific Railway Com
pny having been requested by many holders of the scrip
heretofore ue on said represent their INTEREST,"
hereby announce that the CENTRAL Trust COMPANY
will deposits scrip until December - looo
under an agreement copies which and OF circular dated
December 1856 be had at the office Of said Trust CON
pany.
SIMEON J. DRAKE. CHARLES J. CANDA'
CHRISTOPHER MEYER, WILLIAM STRAUSS
VI r u.rr Committee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-16
IYDIANL RLOOMlNGTON& WESTERN

FIRsTs. SECONDS AND EASTERN. DIVISION BONDS
asserting plan Of reorganization mus. DC uepoa
With The Central Trust Company (Or which Engraved Ger
nrates are realty To- 1851 After
mat date be received except on payment Of
an n penalty shall be imposed by the Committee only
honas actually deposited are participate in the
posed purchase property. INCOME BONDS must lie
deposited on or before March l. 1887.
Holders Of required to pay to The Central Trust
cor,nanv THREE AND ONE.HALF PER CENT Of the
ar Va ne NJ their holdings ana tine before
March ?. 1897.
Application has made hist The Trust Companys Ger
tiacates on the New York Stock Exchange
Il. l.. OLC0TT,
j. l.. FARWELL, purchasing
L. -. FRENCH, -
DUMONr CLARKE, COMMITTED.
J. Il. MAXWELL,
I'D. CAMPBELL, Secretary.
llJ BROADWAY. y. Y.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-02-25

These being her ladyship's personal merits
impartial history must acknowledge, on the
list of her defects a total want of tact and
taste in her attire. The lapse of time since
Lord Lydiard death had left her at liberty
to dress as she pleased. She arranged her
short, clumsy figure in cOlors that were far
too bright for a woman of her age. Her
dresses, badly chosen as to their hueS were
perhaps NOT badly made, DuJ were certainty
badly worn. Morally, as well as physically,
1t must be said OF Lady Lydiard that her out
ward side was her worst side. The anomalies
OF her dress were matched by the anomalies of
her character. There were moments when
she felt and spoke as became lady of rank,
and there We're other moments when she felt
and spoke as might have become the cook in
the kitchen. Beneath these superficial incon-
sistencies the great heart, the essentially true
and generous nature of the woman, only
waited the sufficient occasion to assert them
selves In the trivial intercourse of society
she was open to ridicule OF every side of her.
But when serious emergency tried the metal
of which she was really made, the people who
were loudest in laughing at her stood aghast,
and wondered what had become of the famil-
lar companion of their everyday lives.
Her ladyship's promenade had lasted but
little while when a man in black clothing
presented himself noiselessly at the great
door which opened on the staircase. Lady
Lydiard signed to him impatiently to enter
the room.
Il have been expecting you for some time,
Moody she said. ''You look tired. Take "a
chair"
The man in black bowed respectfully, and
took his seat.