The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-26

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inc calling out to ask who was there
she heard ~retreating footsteps. Hal
awake and wholly under the in
huence Of the thought that n Of hel
servants or some member of the fam.
lily was in the parlor, she jumped out
OF bed, and without a moments hest
tatlon started in pursuit, intent only
on learning what was the matter. In
the hall sho came face to face with q
strange man, and even then she was
not wide awake enough to be AFRAID.
The thought that the stranger was a
burglar did not come to her until she
had asked, in an anxious way, what
was the matter.
The burglar, who, it was afterwards
discovered, had made preparations to
carry off the silver and certain other
articles which he had collected, was-so
confused that he made a single ex-
cla1nation, stepped to the front door,
opened 1t and walked quickly away.
he sad afterward that the idea OF a
small, delicate faced woman following
him up closely made him shiver, and
when she spoke to him with the com
monplace manner of one asking his
welfare, his senses deserted him and
there was nothing for him to do butte
get out."-Chicdgo Inter ocean.
Whittier and Mrs. Langtry.
While the land BOOM was alive
in Southern California, the boomers
sought the aid of noted people in adj
vertising their town sites by giving
their cities the names of well-known
personages. Mr.. Gladstone, Mrs.
Langtry, Nine. Modjeska and John
q. Whittier had their names given to
several which have survived the de-
cline and fall of the boom dynasty of
real estate dealers. AT Tacoma, in
Washington, one of the principal
streets was named Whittier, and an
adjacent one Langtry. A friend of the
poets sent a newspaper clipping stat
ing these facts to him, and received in
reply the following
DEAR FRtEND-I thank thee for the slip which
states that my name has been given to a street
in the addition to your beautiful city. AS to the
~incongruity of the association, l can stand it If
Mrs. Langtfy can. She may have as much objec-
ton to a Quaker as l have to an actress.-Sdn
francisco Afg0nuut.
A Woman Who Drove a Horse Car.
The Detroit Free Press tells a story
of a woman who drove a horse a
Everybody knows that a woman can
delay q horse car-much better than a
man, in fact-but few ever saw a
feminine driver. This story shows
that such a thing has BEEN
The passengers on q west end street
a were treated to a novel exhibition
of a woman's skill last night, when a
fne-looking, robust woman passed
rapidly through the car, and engaged
the driver in conversation for q mo-
ment. Then they saw her take the
reins, and, with one hand on the
brakes, drove the horses for over a
mile, conducting the whole business
with skill, dignity and efficiency, adj
justing the brakes at switches, stop
ping the a forpassengers, urging the
horses to greater speed, or restraining
them, and fulfilling all the duties of a
competent driver. Then handing the
reins back to the lover, brother or
friend, to whom they belonged, she
unfastened the chain, stepped outside,
fastened it, and swung herself off with
a CHEEKY ''Good-nightn amid the muir
murs of admiration from the surprised
passengers.
A Woman Who Shoes Horses.
Perhaps the last business in which
you would expect to find a woman is
blacksmithing, and yet Miss Bole, the
pretty girl blacksmith who is said to
be making quite a pile of money in
San Francisco, CAL, has already a
rival in Alice Wilder, a tall and not
unattractive brunette, who makes very
creditable horseshoes in a little shop
under an elm tree in the suburbs of
Brooklyn. Miss Wilder is tw~enty-six
years old, probably, and has dark,
Oriental looking eyes and short, curly
dark hair. Her form is slender, but
well knit, and she has been accustomed
to help her father in the smithy in
preference to doing household duties
ever since she was a child. One secret
of the attraction which the occupation
has for her is her love for horses, the
most FESTIVE brute submitting quietly
to her control. Miss Wilder wears a
short gown of dark serge about her
work, with a rather coquettishly
shaped leather apron and two or three
knots of scarlet ribbon. 1t is surpris-
ing what a number of horses at once
seem to need shoeing when her figure
is noticed against the light of the forge
fires. She has become her fathers
partner rather than assistant, and says
She means to continue in the bust
ness. -NeaO York Star.