The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-09-13


Il suppose we go to the mill firsty'
said Mr.. Jameson.
'sNo," answered his uncle; sbusiness
first and pleasure after. Well look at
the house, and then, If we have time,
we'll look at the mill. /"
$50 be it," said Mr.. Jameson; and
they drove on, out of the suburbs of
Coldburgh, away among gentle smiling
scenery. They passed the home Of the
manager Of the Oxhaugh mill, and. Ike
other people, looked at it.
"That's pretty cottage said Sarah,
"with its jessamine and its apron gar
den"
Yes. Surely good, innocent. tasteful
people live there. said James.
tHallo, my ladr' cried Mr.. WRIGHT to
a boy on the road. swho lives in that
house2'
mr.. Bertram. SIR
@And who or what is Mr.. Bertrand"
ssThe manager O the mill, SIR
"And who are your
The boy looked without wering.
'What do you dor
81 whites work in the mill and whites
run errands.D
'And how much are you fined every
week for being behind the hour at your
work.
.sNaething, sir-Tm never Rhint."
"And have you good masters'
'Mr. Thamson, do you mean?-he's on
the continent the now
"No-Mr. Bertram; is he good mas
ter?'
"My father says better man never
walked the streets o. Oxhaugh."
"All right; there's penny for you. !"
said Mr.. Wright. tossing the copper to
the boy.
"Are there any streets in Oxhaugh?"
asked Sarah.
'sThey must have what are called
streets by the Inhabitants" james an
wered.
"And no better man walks on them
than Mr.. Bertrarn," said Sarah. 81 feel
curious to see him."
st is good sign Of man when peo-
pie under him speak well of him."
And they drove on, nothing telling
them that they had or ever would have
any personal interest in the managers
house or its inmates.
Will BArtram and his sister wei
standing outside their garden by th
waterside. talking and laughing for a
few minutes. and they saw the wagon
cite pass along the road with no sense Of
affinity or even curiosity; many car
riages passed every day, and that was
simply one OF them. VIII went rapidly
across the narrow foot bridge that took
him the shortest road to the mill, and
Katie spent the forenoon about the gar
den. After dispatching that meal and
~ Eng her mother comfortably settled
Tor a rest, she set off to walk a mile or
two to see friend. She had not been
gone quarter of an hour when boy
came from the mill Nhe same
who had given Mr.. Bertram such a
high character) with a note, which
said: Dear Katie-Some people have
been seeing the MILL | must bring
them in. Could you get something
for them to eat?-there are four. w. B."
But Katie was gone beyond recall. Mrs
Bertram read the note, and got some
thing ready for the strangers to eat.
The strangers were the Wrights and
their relative. They had been to The
Hawthorne, which had exceeded their
expectations as dwelling place, and the
owner seeing his proposed tenants mum
Der but three, with no children, was not
difficult to deal with; the right of fishing
was eliminated without word, and Mr..
Wright got the rent screwed down near
~ to his satisfaction: SO that they were
all in good spirits when they came back
to the mill
"And you are the manager. are your"
said Mr.. Wright to Will Bertram.
Eyes, and shall be very happy to
show you through the works.
You seem to manage well; you have
a good going concern here. How much,
now. may you turn out week.
.sOh. well, an ordinary machine turns
out about four miles day."
miles Of paperr' exclaimed Miss
Wright. "What in the world do they
do with it alI?"
Write love letters on it, Sarah said
her father, laughing at his own joke.
Newspapers use immense quantities, >
said Will; .swe send it all over the world
for newspapers"
Il dare say paper and printing must
have been invented together, !" Sarah said.
NO. answered Mr.. Bertram, paper
was invented first"
Who invented it?" asked Sarah.
THE wasps were the tirst papermak-
ers. and then the Chinese: it was not
made 10 Britain till 1868, but it had been
made on the continent long before that. 2
Az" said Mr. Wright, a should not
haze thought We would have let shepl