Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-21
MANAGING SERVANTS.


l A HumorIst's Experience With What are Termed ssHeIp.'
 l [R. J. Burdett in Brooklyn Eagle.l
 It doesn't lie in some people to get along with servants. They have no fact, no knack of managing. There is a great deal in | managing servant in such way that the l minion isn't aware of it. But some people don't know how to do this, and consequently
 a servant that is 8 jewel in my well regulated | household is utterly useless in my neighbor's service.
 Now, not long ago had occasion to part 1 with colored man. didn't want to cast l him out upon the cold world, because fear ed that if the world got too cold he would come back to me. So I unloaded him osten- sibly to groom a horse occasionally and mow l the lawn once or twice year. I soon learn ed that he was running an African dormitory | and poker layout in my stable, and the general appearance of my premises finally brought me letters from American Mission ary union, asking permission to establis one | of their Congo out stations between my barn and the kitchen. This, as much as anything else, induced me to part with Albert He shipped with | me under the nom de plume of Albert Will son, but noticed that some of the natives, called him Lame Jack" and he requested me. in writing lis letter of recommendation, to call him Thompson Easley: By and by Norton, you sent me-did you ever have any trouble with him. He won do one thing" :" "Oh, we'll" I sad, he tried that on me, too, when he first came, but 1 settled that in short order' 'How did you manages"
 asked my neighbor. "Well," I told him, ''I quit telling him to do anything"
 And do you know my neighbor was real
 angry with me and abused me and said I
 was fool and had deceived him. You see
 he had no tact. That very night Albert
 landed on my coast again. He confded ts
 me that his real name was James Sinclair,
 and he brought with him his brother, whom
 he introduced as Walter Taylor. They took
 up their old quarters in the barn and board
 ed with me for week before I was able to
 secure them places in the county workhouse.
 They both left me with sincere regret and
 Albert said in parting that any time I want
 ed him to come back letter addressed to
 Charles Martin would reach him. Albert
 was saddle-colored pagan, but he was the
 richest man in names 1 ever worked for.
 American Enterprise on the Congo.
 It is not generally known that American
 interests are represented among the four or
 five trading stations that are now established
 on the upper Congo. MT. Sanford, formerly
 our minister in Belgium, is at the head of
 the enterprise. Another member of this
 trading firm is Lieutenant Taunt, formerly
 of our navy. It is this gentleman who over
 year ago travelled up the Congo about thir-
 teen hundred miles to Stanley Falls and who
 brought back so favorable 8 report of the resources and prospects of trade of the up per river. Lieutenant Taunt, who is the Congo agent of the enterprise, has estab- 1ished his station at Kinshassa, a few miles above Leopardville, on Stanley Pool. He is 80 confident that the venture will be profita- ble that he has declined to receive any sala- ry, preferring little larger share of the prof
 it's to any stated income A steam vessel which is now building in England for Lieu tenant Taunt will soon be shipped to the Congo. He expects to send the steamer long Journeys up the river and it's tributaries to exchange trade goods for ivory, palm ker- nels and other products. This trade cannot be very profitable until there is railroad around the Livingstone cataracts. The Con go State has, however, made it possible for traders on the upper river to do some busi- ness even under existing inconveniences. Under the direction of Lieutenant Valcke it has organized a transportation service along the cataracts. This service, now in opera ton, is already producing excellent results. The traders are no longer obliged with great difficulty to recruit their own parties. The Congo State also finds that the service, by re- ducing the difficulties of communication and improving the relations between the upper and lower Congo, is having favorable effect upon the development of the country.