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so carried away with fattery as to lose her
business faculty. She invested part of her
little pile in real estate, and made money.
She took "hyers" in wheat and made money.
She soon had an income of 81, 800 year
from her investments. "Mary!" said she to
friend who advised her to accept one Of
her lovers and settle down-"Mary! Why
should marry? Why should 1 tie myself
down and put up with mans whins?
intend to keep myself free and enjoy life for
while, anyhow"
When such girls marry it will be CO.
partnership based upon mutual love and
cemented by bond of friendship. Such
wives will not have to tremoingly ask their
husbands for a dollar for car tickets or
needles and thread. However things may
De In England, it seems plain that in this
country misunderstanding is not on the In
crease, II lteVer was in vogue. There are
sui plenty of girls, to be sure, who are
simply educated for marriage, and, failing
that, they are helplessly dependent upon
friends, but apart from the anglo-maniacs
and snobs, the idea OF Independence for
women is growing with all classes. With
this advance, marrying for a home becomes
more and more distasteful. Marriage, being
the natural order of things, will always
present its attractions, but with all the
come marriage of true minds, a union Of
kindred souls, partnership for love, and
home, and happiness.
THE M'ALLISTER FAILURES.
Fashion in society gives girl no object in
life but marriage, and if they do not sue
ceed they are, under the McAllister rules,
failures" Think of what stuff girl is
made of if she submits to be failure, or
sinks into a tract distributor because the
coming man" cometh notl Contemplate
what a simpleton she is who will marry
either an old fool or a young fool for his
money in such country as this, where she
can make fortune for herself if she has the
capacityl
while a true marriage is the aim Of
every sensible woman's hopes and DESIRES"
says Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "she must
never strive to secure a husband. She
should sit down and wait for his advances"
This advice will never achieve success in
any other enterprise. If you want anything
ask for it, seek it, pray for it, move heaven
and earth to get it. Ii a man wants to make
a fortune he has to strive and struggle and
save and sacrifice. Now, when a woman
sets her heart upon man why should she
not strive to get him if she so chooses? To
shut girl up to wait for coming man in
these days is a waste of time, sentimental
fol-de-rol. If a woman wants a husband a
man is fair game. That is mans philosophy
it will serve a woman as well.
BESSIE BRAMBLE.
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by the ghost OF the murdered Matilda Fitz-
walter, which makes its appearance every
three or four years. Matilda, the Fair,
was beautiful young lady beloved OF King
John, but she would have nothing to say to
him. Thereupon the wicked John banished
her father and imprisoned her in the White
Tower, where some ill-fate befell her, the
exact nature of which is not known.
WHERE THE PRINCES DIED.
At one time the Bloody Tower, where the
little sons of Edward vi. were murdered,
was said to have been haunted; but since it
has been renovated. and repaired the ap-
partitions have disappeared, probably object
ing to the smell of paint and soap and
water. The most interesting portion of the
Tower, st. Peters Chapel, has fortunately
not fallen a victim to the modern restorer,
and remains pretty much the same as it did
in the days when it was the scene of che ex-
ecution of the fair Anne Boleyn.
A curious old custom is still observed
when the gates are locked at night by the
Yeoman Porter, who is accompanied by a
military escort and to whom the sentry
cries: "Who comes there 2"
The Yeoman Porter answers: 1.-THE
keysp'
The sentry asks: :"W hose keys ?" and the
Yeoman Porter replies: "Queen Victoria's s
keys" the guard and the escort saluting the
keys and the Yeoman Porter mpleting the
ceremony, before taking the keys to the
Queens house, by saying IN an audible
voice: "God preserve Queen Victoria"
MACLEOD.
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AS BETWEEN YOUTH AND AGE.
Suggestive Illustrations Drawn From Glad
stone and Kipling.

Suggestive Illustrations Drawn From Glad
stone and Kpling.
The Atlanta Constitutional -
The Boston Globe-thinks that with Kip
ling writing himself into fame at "a, and
Gladstone doing the work of statesman at
so, it would seem that our Limitations upon
youth and age are artificial and arbitrary.
Kipling has wisely decided that when a
man feels impelled to write he cannot be too
Young for the work. He should 60 ahead
and do his level best. Gladstone is equally
wise in deciding that it is unnecessary for
him to seek repose when he feels capable of
making his best efforts.
Both are right. There is no sense in
standing back until middle age, preparing
for a career, only to retire from it a few
wears later on account of cid age. Kipling
lives with older men. and Gladstone asso-
ciates with younger men. These two live in
the happy middle ground between youth
and age, and they cannot be measured by
the summers and winters that have passed
over their heads.
A brainy, healthy man can do his best
work in the sphere for which he is fitted
early in lie, and also when he is in his
eighties. Such a man, when he lives rightly,
is never too young and never too old, so far
as his intellectual faculties are concerned
The question to ask about man is not,
How old is he? but, What can he do?
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flashes plainly discernible for 80 miles.
The cupola revolves aud the lamp with it,
but the arc within does not, and Is always
broadside to one desired direction. the lens
pulley at its back facing the land, so that
the flashes can be seen in that direction at
will. The flash signals are arranged for the
letters of the alphabet, so that any desired
message can be sent, which is of great im-
portance in case of shipwreck or war The
arc is automatic. and does its own lighting
or extinguishment to the. minute. But the
great novelty and most valuable feature is
the windmill attachment, which generates
the electricity and the storage of the latter
to such ample amount that it would not run
short OF 5000 candle power even in a six
months claim.
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In LONDON'S TOWER
The Prince of Wales Will Ensconce
His Son Albert Victor.
BUCKINGHAM TOO NEAR GRANDMA.
Ghosts in the Ancient Fortress and Changes
Contemplated.
THE STEP WILL BE 4 POPULAR ONE
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH.

CORRESPONDENCE VI Iltk DisPATCB.1
LONDON, Dec. "A thrilling rumor has
lately been agitating east and west to the
effect that the disused and historic Tower of
London is to be converted once more into
royal palace of residence. and that no less
parsonage that Prince Albert Victor is to be
made its governor in place OF Lord N apier.
of Magdala.
1t is known that for some time past the
Prince of Wales has been looking about for
a suitable residence for his eldest son,
whose marriage with the Princess Helene Of
Orleans is likely to take place at no distant
date, provided that the Pope sees fit to
smooth away the religious difficulties which.
at the present moment, seem insurmounta-
BILE. There are only half a dozen palaces in
London suitable for a royal Prince to in
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gets bettertreatment from us than he would

gets bettertreatment from us than be would
receive in the North.
"He is neither starving nor tramping.
He can confidently look for, and actually
receives, more favors at the hands of the
men who once owned him than the poor
white laborer in the North can expect or get
from his. employers. I do not mean this
comparison in an invidious sense. He is
entitled to this consideration. and I feel that
where it is withheld by any Southern white
il is a violation of moral responsibility.
AS during slavery days there we're kind and
brutal masters, so in these times there are
those who probably do not treat the negro as
we'll as they should. But the free negro
has the same remedy of the Northern
laborer. The fact that man is free, how
ever. does not make him independent any
more in the South than in the North. When
people have to lean on each other they can't
be very far apart.
FREE LABOR THE CHEAPER.
SIT used to cost us just before the war
about $500 apiece for slaves and we had to
own four or five slaves to possess one able
bodied man. For less than the interest
upon this investment we can now hire an
abIe-bodied laborer and have no risk of loss
by sickness and death. So, you see, we are
benefited as we'll as the negro. But free
labor is in itself more valuable to the EN-
ployer. have owned slaves and now en-
ploy a large body Of negroes, and my ex-
perience is that of everybody else who has
operated slaves. There are children of my
former slaves working for us in South Caro-
lira to-day, and they are better men and
better workmen than we're their fathers be-
fore them. Yet my fathers old slave, Jack
Richards, who lies buried near my home, ran
and managed furnace for us Tor 90 years.
while other slaves were hammermen, pud-
dlers, rollingmill hands, machinists and
blacksmiths. Some OF them are at work
there vet.
"It is fact, sir, that if it were possible
to submit the question of slavery or anti
slavery to the former slaye-holding States
now, slavery wouldn't get the vote of a
corporal's guard of former owners. The
man who would have predicted this some
years ago 1 should have considered a fool or
insane" CHARLES T. MURRAY.
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AN ELECTRIC LIGHTHOUSE.

Invention of a New Zealander Which Utilizes
the Idle Winds.
Brooklyn Citizen.I
"Hannaford Electric and Automatic
Lighthouse" is the full title of an invention
which comes from New Zealand, and is
among the first fruits of English civilization
and scieuce in that far-of Australasian
land. Consul Connolly, at Auckland, has
sent to the State Department, at Washing
ton, sketch and description of it, with the
enthusiastic Endorsement of many placti-
cal engineers and electricians who have
examined 1t. Mr.. Hannaford claims
that this machine will send forth electric
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To Newspaper Workers.

Henry W. Sage. the great lumber mer-
chant, once said to reporter of the Sun: "I
am considered millionaire. He is ten
millionaire, be the way.] 1 don't know
what am worth, but do know that ii
could find so men who would work Tor me
with the enthusiasm, persistence and
sagacity with which you men work for the
Sun 1 would be worth ten times as much as
is 10 my credit to-day"
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A PREFERENCE FOR MUSCLE.
Football Cadets Are Those Chosen by Ad
miral Luce for Fighters.

Football Cadets Are Those Chosen by Ad-
miral Luce for Fighters.
Admiral Luce declared at West Point a
week ago, says the New York Times, that
the cadets composing the football teams of
Annapolis and West Point were his choice
for officers when going into action. The
Admiral inquired concerning the relative
standing OF the members of the two teams,
and In almost the same breath added:
Never mind where they stand; those are the
men want in time of action.
''An officer cannot be too athletic. He
cannot possess TOO much muscle and cour-
age, and prefer these qualities even to the
risk of little brilliancy In study. Of
course would like to haye officers who
graduated No. in their classes and we're at
the same time athletes, but such officers are
rare, very rare exceptions. The best fight
ing materisl-and that Is what we want. not
experts-are the muscular fellows who lust
manage to get through. They finish their
course without having overtaxed their
brains..'' ~ ss
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petition examination under the 1nterme-
diate Education Commission. She matricu-
lated at the Royal University of Ireland
with honors in modern languages. In 1888
she took the degree of B. A. in national
science, with honors in geology and physiol-
ogy, and in 1889 she took the degree Of IL.
B. There is only one other woman holding
the distinguished degree of LII. D.-Miss
Washington, also OF Belfast, and it is to
her influence and example that Miss Gray
attributes her determination to continue in
her scholaristic career. which has now been
rewarded with so high an honor as the de-
gree OF LII. D.
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TO HAVE HIS OWN WAY.

TO HAVE HIS OWN WAY.
This latter, however, is disliked by the
Prince of Wales on account of the number
of distinguished foreign royal personages
who are always lodged there. His eldest
son shares mis- feeling in the matter and
would preer residence in which he were
lord and master and not lodger or visitor
of his august grandmother, as would be the
case if he were allotted apartments in Buck
ingham Palace. He might at any time be
called upon by Queen Victoria to entertain
the Shah of all the Persians or the King of
Honolulu, and Albert Victor being fas-
tidious young man, great on the convention
alities, does not care to run the risk of sit
ting at the same table with black monarch
who eats in the primitive way employed by
savages.
The idea of once more utilizing the Tower
as royal palace is said to have originated
with the Prince OF Wales and the sugges-
tion Immediately found favor with Prince
Albert Victor who, with an astuteness with
which the young gentleman is not usually
credited, pointed out to his father what an
enormous amount of popularity would be
gained by such STEP
A POPULAR LOCALITY.
In this argument the young Prince is per-
| fectly right. RThe tower is situated in the
Minories, one of the poorest parts of indus
trial East London; and should Prince AL
bert Victor elect to take up his dwelling
there he will undoubtedly obtain for him
self fine supply OF loyalty and enthusiasm
which will come in userully in the future il
Socialism goes ahead at its present rate.
Every coster. Bill Sykes and factory girl in
East London would Immediately cultivate a
feeling of intense and passionate loyalty for
roupo PRINCE liviuO ammo them
Not that it is at all likely that our future
king would 60 Summing on the strict @. T.,
or that, like the old sultans ofthe Arabian
Nights" he would 90 about the city lncog-
nito after dusk, mingling with his prospec-
tive subjects and listening to their grew
ances with a view of redressing them on the
| day he ascended the throne So far Prince
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art, and requires plenty of space in which to
gyrate about comfortably.

A PROCESSION ON THE THAMES.
Should the young Prince decide on tax
ing up his residence there we may look
forward to the event being sigualized by
grand water procession, which will recall
the glories OF Elizabeth's reign, when all
the oarges gaily draped with scarlet sailed
up Father Thames to the sound of sweet
music and minstrels.
No intelligence has as vet reached the
authorities at the Tower as to the proposed
change, but one of the warders or beef-eaters
as they are called, told me that it is very
likely some alterations will shortly be seen
there. Apropos of the White Tower it is
not generally known that it is still haunted
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additional wing to provide for future contin-
gencies built at theside of the Governors
apartments. The splendid banqueting hall
would want renovating so far as the ceiling
and walls are concerned, and it would also
serve the purpose OF fine ballroom, which
would be particularly acceptable to Prince
Albert Victor, who is fond of dancing, but
who has not yet completely mastered the
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A WOMAN OF ATTAINMENTs,

Something About the Lady Who Has Taken
the Degree of LII. d. at Dublin.
This lady who has just taken the high
degree of LID. at Dublin University. was
educated at the Methodist College, Belfast.
She was premier student of ireland, and
double gold medalist at the national COM
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ITS SUITABILITY AS A PALACE.

But apart from this tactical move on the
part of the Prince of Wales the Tower
would really make far more significant
residence than the majority o: the palaces,
most of which are small. ill-built, i'll
drained, Marlborough House being espe-
cially bad in this respect. Of course the
building would have to be thoroughly over
hauled. as it has not been occupied by roy
atty since the days of gay Charles H., but
to work upon it, which would be another
popular move.
The hideous building of the military store
department would be done away with and an
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Beduchdmp TotDer.

Albert Victor has not shown himself pos
sessed of any burning philanthropy or
ardent desire to better the welfare Of his
fellow men; but he, or at any rate his father,
has good deal of tact and savoir faire, and
the Prince of Wales is perfectly well aware
than even a semblance of London citizen
ship on the part of his heir would so long
way uowerd creating content and pleasure in
dnnerS.
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habit, and of there are only unoccupied st.
James Palace, which, it is probable, the
Duke of Connaught will eventually be
given, and Buckingham Palace.
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HERE'S AN AMERICAN GIRL.

Another girl in Minnesota who was a
teacher earned salary of $500 a year, and
from this soon saved complete little bank
deposit. She spent vacation in Spokane
Falls, where, beaux being numerous, she
was beset with attentions, But she was not
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-26
Natural Inequality of Mon.

Thus men are certainly not born free
and equal in natural qualities; when they
are born the predicates ''free" and
equal" in the political sense are not ap-
plicable to them, and as they develop,
year by year, the differences in the politi-
cal potentialities with which they really
are born become more and more obvious
ly converted into actual differences-the
inequality of political faculty shows it.
self to be necessary consequence of the
inequality of natural faculty.
1t Is probably true that the earliest men
were nomads. But among body of
naked, wandering savages, though there
may be no verbally recognized distinc-
tions of rank or Office, superior strength
and cunning confer authority of more
valid kind than that secured by act of
parliament; there may be no property in
things, but the witless man will be pow
erty stricken in ideas, the clever man
will be capitalist in that same COM
modify, which in the long run buys all
other commodities; one will miss oppor.
tunities, the others will make them; and
proclaim human equality as loudly as
you like, Witless will serve his brother.
So long as men are men and society is
society, human equality will be a dream;
and the assumption that it does exist is
as untrue in fact as it sets the mark of
impracticability on every theory of what
ought to be which starts from it.--Pro-
fessor Huxley in Popular Science.
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An Elephants Cunning.

The following story is told by DR..
Romanes: IAN elephant was chained
to a tree in the compound. The driver
made an oven at a short distance, in
which he put his rice cakes to bake;
then covered them with stones and
grass and went away. When he was
gone, the elephant with his trunk un-
fastened the chain round his foot,
went to the oven and uncovered it,
took out and ate the cakes, recovered
the oven with the stones and grass as
before, and went back to his place. He
could not fasten the chain round his
own foot, so he twisted it round and
round it, in order to look the same,
and when the driver returned the ele
plant was standing with his back to
the oven. The driver went to his
cakes, discovered the theft, and, look
ing round, caught the elephants eye
as he looked back over his shoulder
out of the corner of it. Instantly he
detected the culprit. and condign
punishment followed. The whole oc-
ourrence was witnessed from the win
dows by the family.
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The Automatic Opera Glass.

The opera glass industry seems to be
great one just now, as almost every thea
tire has adopted one or another of the
schemes through which man can OBJ
tain an opera glass by the slot method
In 1888 an opera glass supply company
set the ball rolling by putting 400
glasses in the Academy of Music in New
York city. Within few weeks innumer-
able other companies put up all sorts of
fixtures and glasses. Just now the origi-
nal company has 10000 glasses, costing
e14 each, in American theatres, and by
August, 1890, they will have 100, 900 slot
machines in operation in all of the lead
Ing theatres in the country. In order to
protect their device they have commenced
suit against number of companies, and
they have secured already eighteen pat
ents, covering every possible manner by
which a glass can be automatically rent
ed in theatre. The glass is as necessary
rs the theatre programme. The growth
Of the scheme has been wonderful with
In the past year.-Chicago Herald.
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A Wax Figure Of an Emperor Beheaded.
There are men employed at the Eden
Musee whose business it is to comb the
hair Of the wax figures. keep their faces
and necks clean, and brush their clothes.
This is supposed to be done out of BUSH
ness hours, but occasionally some of the
helpers get caught. One of these things
which some people call funny coin
cident happened the very day that Bis
marck resigned. The young man who
had charge Of the crowned head wax
department, without any knowledge of
what was going on in Germany, went
among the crowned wax heads with
brush and comb.
The heads of these figures are fastened
on in such way that they can be easily
removed. 1t was therefore funny Co
incident that on the day the young Ger
man emperor accepted the resignation
of the old Iron Chancellor the young
hair brusher of the Musee took off the
head of the young emperor to comb and
brush the hair. It was still funnier
when he forgot to put it back and sew
eral visitors saw the figure standing be-
fore them beheaded.-Chicagc Tribune.