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REMEMBERED TUNE.-. that she was the widow of a banker, a Pretty Tales Devoid of Truth.- . Outrunning Death. clumsily and most moderately , and de- ¬ A Ttmc. . ' departmental- , bank.br ; v that she 'was lx> idon Philadelphia vote -his- own 'jtime simply to overseeing , limes. of a man seasick from worth $100,000 , and that the § 100 was The good people of Coventry , who "Think getting idleness and country1sports. . My hand went o'er the piano keya , riding on a locomotive engine , " said on a song thutyouH ngmy the face value of a note which the clerk to-day celebrate the festive .ceremony But a little farming illustration from And it cbancod Counselor Farley , who last week shot Hfe had paid a dozen times in interest. connected with, the name Lady Go- real English will best illustrate the dear, of down from Philadelphia to Atlantic City This is a sample. diva , ought be a Jittle disturbed by a- point Lhave.in.mind. Lingeringat an When we roamed through the country utill- - to a't rate of more than-u mile a min- ¬ into in. the old English inn , I talked of tno neigh-- bombshell'cast their midst the to reach the bedside of his dying Luxurious Travel. shape of a letter which wo publish , ute borhoou farming with my intelligent Or stood by the * cu when the moon was child. During the present century inventive mercilessly assailing their favorite tra- ¬ landlord. A couple of sturdy looking 'Seasickness' is , of course , not the clear , genius has been most actively employed dition. . of Lady Godiva " young men in hunting suits , riding The legend to apply to the disorder, but that In that other year. conceiving and developing plans and ¬ term whips in hand , came into the inn at 10- in has already received some severe treat- than any other name machinery to simplify and lighten the ; expresses it better o'clock in the morning t* guzzle bucr- 1 Torgot the words you were wont to ring, ment at the hands of Mr. Freeman can think of. My ride created labor of man and to give liim more of now Lineal Descendant of- that I awhile.. Landlord said they leased an- But the tune, is a Kwcet and tender one , and "A of wretchedness that a the comforts and luxuries of life , and ¬ the same feeling 80acre farm near by , on which were 40 And sad as the thought of autumn and Leofric and Godiva" selects the occa- ocean always gives in no country has such marked improve- ¬ of procession as an few hours on the sheep , 15 cows , and which spring sion tke Coventry mo of caused by ment in this direction been made as in opportunity for demolishing the story. , only instead its being grow more or less hay, wheat , etc-. one who dreams in the tender sun of a vessel it was brought on- To the United States. Patent has followed The good people of Coventry , by way the rolling .Thejj paid 8 an acre rent. Did done.- . and of a loco¬ That the Bweet time's patent with most marvelous rapidity , of keeping green the memory of their by the pitching tossing nothing themselves. Hired help at 15 motive- . until it would seem that , perfection benefactress , employ a' lady to ride shillings the week , and were always As I play , the old hopes , the old Borrows ."I received a telegram telling me of- must be reached at last, and in no one town attired flesh¬ ready to join the hounds , if there was a move , through their "in my child's- condition about two o'clock- channel have such marked and impor- ¬ ings. " Whether this attire is decent or meet anywhere near them. A hard And It PCCIILS almost that your voice 1 moment tant results been attained as in the ap- ¬ such as "would not be tolerated upon in the afternoon. Every after morning"'s work for them was a walk to hear , that seemed an hour. I realized how plication of steam and electricity to the English stage" is alien to the ques- ¬ the pasture , to see if the sheep were all And my spirit baa gone thin day to rove was , had been machinery , and to the economies of tion of historical accuracy , although a extreme the danger for I right. In theafternoon they might Down the inland way , by the far-off eca- one. life generally. lineal descendant of Lady Godiva may up several nights with the little take a glance at the growing wheat , Of that year.- . was locomotive , other These patent forces plant and har-- be-pardoned for referring even to the There nothing but the turnips , etc. In New England , two Dis-¬ its neat vestrpur grain , jgrind our flour , weave subject of decorum with some and I sat in with the engineer. young farmers running a farm of eighty As a bird that finds warmth. patches were sent ahead ordering all When the winds are over strong, pur cloh', make' our clothes and light Our correspondent goes through the acres would do about ml the work them ¬ regular trains to run for sidings and re- ¬ With quivering wings and panting breast, and warm' our houses. They carry our agonizing process of showing in detail selves. I have only time to hint at the persons and our goods over land and main until the engine passed. We clumsiness of methods Even PO to-day this feong , that the procession which is to take English farming sea, and our thoughts from one end of were about a minnto getting out of the , as often , of Which your dear lips used to Hing , place to-day has no origin in fact , but and machinery though the earth to the other with incredible only in the fertile brains of chroniclers. built-up part of Camden. Then we course not always exhibited. I have From the days long left behind flow ; no rate of speed could bo rapidity , and by thus annihilating time The earliest chronicles , he says , are but stopped by the roadside and looked Enters now and folds its wing too fast for me. As we wildly rushed fiulfill the promise of Puck to- silent about fabulous ; with astomsh'nieut and amusement at remembering the ride"ai\d it' in- In the still mind. "put a girdle round about makes its first appearance in quite a along we enveloped ourselves the sight of three horses dragging a ' cloud of was so thick the earth in forty minutes. " different form from which it has a dust that at heavy iron plow , one man driving , an- ¬ Washington Shylooks.O- . that times eould not see half a dozen Genius having thus demonstrated its assumed in later times. The populace that I other man holding plows moving at a- or.. Philadelphia Record. whistle screamed ability to contrive means to carry us of Coventry , so far from being notified yards ahead. The a snail's pace , turning the furrows in a Driving out to the Soldiers' Home it- note of warning almost every second. safely at a speed of forty to sixty miles to keep house , as Mr. Tennyson sings field where a New England farmer the evening you cannot fail to notice a Indeed , it seemed to my excited mind an hour, now supplements the feat by and tradition now relates , were assem- ¬ would have done the same work alone last horse driven by a fine-looking col-¬ that was all one wild shriek , extend- ¬ the invention of cars that combine bled to view the spectacle : so that the it with a single stout horse holding plow , ored man. Ho has' the neatest light ¬ Delaware to sea. within themselves not only all the com- "low churl , compact of chankless ing from the the After and driving with reins over his neck.- . turnout on the road. Ho is tall , broad- we gone a few miles the engine be- ¬ forts and conveniences of a beautiful earth , " who paid for his treachery by had So it was all round two or three shouldered , soldierly. He has bushy to pitch and toss , and as the speed home , but the luxurious appointments the loss of his eyesight , must be gan men to do a single man's work , and gray whiskersandbo wears goldboweds- more vie ¬ of a magnificent palace as well. Sit¬ accounted mythical. increased the motion became teams of horses out of proportion to th pectacles. . Strangers'take him for the Now we seemed to drop into a ting-rooms , drawing-rooms , reading- But even "these early version ? , it lent. labor required of them. Haytian or Hawaiian minister. Ho is- gulf, then to rear into the air, and again , i rooms , smoking-rooms , dining-rooms , seems , are fabulous. Our correspond- ¬ * neither. . He is a banker , with the most as quick as , to be in the act of libraries , lavatories , bed-chambers , and , ; ¬ thought Missing profitable customers in the United ent admits a Lady Godiva but he disal- The Link Outdone. in fact, every possible convenience and lows a Coventry in those days.- There leaping into a creek. The trees and Jacksonville ( Flo. ) Times. States. He loans them money which like a , , necessity of life "are now become a mat-¬ was no town which Lady Godiva could fields and houses were long black Perhaps the greatest living curiosities lie is almost certain to get back, and streak. to feel faint ter of course while traveling at a speed have ridden , of anything pertaining te- waving I began now in existence in this country will they pay him 15 , 25 , yes , 30 per cent, a dizzy , and if it had not been for the which , in one day, takes us as far as a town , save , perhaps- , the cluster of and pass through this city on their way to month lor it. Think of 360 per cent , a ¬ full ten days' weary ride in the fastest houses which may have grown up rushing wind I fear I must have swoon- Cincinnati and Louisville next Tuesday. year ! No wonder he drives a blooded cat) . stage line of fifty years ago. It is not around the abbey completed in 1042 by ed in that terrible The engineer About two years ago Mr. Charles Lewis , horse and fattens on all the delicacies was perfectly cool. He afterward de- ¬ miraculous ; trained -minds , trained her devoted husband , Earl L'eofric. ot the Lewis Bros. ' "Bloody Kmfo of all the seasons. There are dozens of- ' never before had ho gone at- hands brain , brawn, money have beautiful virtuous Godiva en- ¬ clared that Combination Company , " in passing * of The and a- nen the same sort in Washington. so a rate of speed for so great ¬ done it ; it is simply marvelous ; and a dowed this abbey .with all her wealth , high through the state , discovered , about fif- Most of them are white. But some of the . him of feeling of- plain statement of the crude facts is in such wise she fairly "denuded distance. I told niy teen miles below St. Augustine , a fam- ¬ most successful are black , or nearly so. that ' , more wonderful tlfcin the most fascina- ¬ sickness. . 'Yes , he said 'I have heard ily of white persons , consisting of John Starting in with a small capital , seldom herself of all her personal property. " ting fairy tale eve'r written.- . these last words are to be taken as of old railroad men tell how passengers McDonald , his wife and five children. more th'au a few thousand dollars , they If , We have been led into this train of indicating the origin of the modern tale had been made seasick by fast riding Two of the children he found to be half soon become rich. Their customers are never saw it before. ' When we * thought by reading in the Chicago of Lady Godiva and the "grim Earl , " but I human and half alligator. lit at once the department clerks , among whose struck the meadows and got a whiff of Tribune a notice of'the opening of anew her husband, a number of instances I contracted with the parent * to give him thousands there are daily some that ¬ up a bit , but felt line of railroad', the Chicago and Atlan- suggest themselves in which metaphor salt air I braced I the management of th children , and must have money at any cost. They queer and unsteady on my legs , even tic, which in connection with , the old has of agreed to pay them $ 2Z per month to would sell their blood drop by drop- . been the parent myth. Leaving and well known Erie,' constitutes a now aside familiar examples" drawn from after we reached the station and I had care for tin-in until such time as he saw .It is to pay for a horse , to meet the de-- j = alighted. felt as if I had just come in route from Chicago to New York. , we I ! lit to lake tlirin away. A fe.w weeks tnands of a needy relative , or to satisfy classical mythology may recall the was This now line to use metaphor was story of the yacht-owning peer who was on a rough sea voyage. But I in ago Mr. Lewi-s ivlunnl to the state for some persecuting creditor. The sleek , of my- not incubated , but came forth "full reported to have been so enraged with time. I once'more saw the light the purpose of taking the children north , well-fed , quiet-voiced , smooth-tongued eyes , fast, indeed , but fledged and with a plumage that sur- ¬ a presumptuous aspirant to the hand- - child's fading and on Wedne-ihiy rirnvcil in this city broker , or banker as he is called here, with life , in every- passes all competitors. Accepting the of his pretty daughter that he threw still instinct and that to arrange lor their transportation , lie is always just at hand. It is the easiest fact in its efforts for business it must be thing else was forgotten. ", will go to St. Auguntine Monday after thing in the world to get the needed him out of his yacht ; a report which prepared to compete with old and well proved to be a development of the per-¬ the children : : ml arrive in this city with him. formali- ¬ The Blue Grass country.H- . moneyfrom There are few established lines , gave an bVder to them perhaps on Tuesday morning and ties and no delays. A note binding the it fectly true statement that he "threw arper's Magazine. the Pullman company to build solid him over. " all events , will remain here about five hours before borrower to repay the loanwithinterest- At the legend The blue grass country i = iv.iehed by trains of cars which should surpass any- ¬ to pon- ¬ leaving for Louisville. Mr. Lewis does 10 , 15 does not appear able stand the traversing central Virginia and Ken- ¬ at 5, or per cent a month is thing of the kind ihat had ever been not intend to exhibit them hero except .signed. No collateral or real estate derous criticism of our correspondent , tucky along the line of the picturesque constructed before , .and if wo may be- ¬ who his perhaps to a few friends and acquaint¬ security is required. is all over in a breaks historical butterfly upon Chesapeake & Ohio railway, unless , in- ¬ It lieve the Tribune , the order was faith- ¬ wheel tb.3 true spirit of a Niebuhr ances. moment, and the relieved clerk, paying the in deed , one prefers the swift and iolid fully executed. Livy , or a Bentley demolishing These children are now nine years of his due , flaying Pennsylvania route to Cincinnati , and the importunate creditor turns Think of it , ye smokers who while age and have never been to exceed tun to his work with a lighter heart. At the Epistles of Phalaris. drops down to it from the north. On away hours with the fragrant- weed The pretty tale of Godiva , we fear, miles from their home , and conse- ¬ the .end of the month he pays the ¬ this particular journey , at any rate , it inter while traveling ! On this line you have must be added to the list of those which quently have never been placed on ex-¬ This is very difficult ; was reached past the battlefields and est. not and so cars finished in cherry and niaple , inlaid to hibition. . Their bodies , arms and heads several months may slip by. Now the have fallen victims the modern spirit springs of Virginia, and up and down with woods of darker hue ; the panels, of skepticism and critical investigation. from the hips up are perfectly formed , note is due , he cannot Well , the long slopes of the Blue Kidge and bui pay it. between windows of purest plate-glass, One by one the romantic chapters of while from the hips down they present can renew it , and he does. Pres-¬ gorges of the Greeiibrier and Kanuwha , he being richly embossed leather , and in , to the identical appearance of an alligator , ently he wants more money. He can history those which used enchain in the wilder Alleghenies. Jt is found this room , fit for an emperor's palace, childish fancy , and form the landmarks having a perfectly formed tail about have on the same terms. he takes * to be a little cluster of peculiarly favored it If are twenty luxuriously upholstered of childish knowledge , are being lost to- five feet in length , together with the it he is in a tangle , and nothing short counties in the center of tlie state. easy-chairs , with ' tables to match in us forever, except as by-words of cred-¬ Marked out on the .map , it is like the hind feet and le.jrof the 'gator. They of a superhuman effort will extricate style and finish , and at one end of the ignorance. Once - crawl around on their humis and feet , him before the leeches have sucked his ulous they werelong kernel , of which Kentucky is the nut ; room a refreshment buffet connected established beliefs which no one " converse intelligently , and aeeiu to un- veins dry. The change that comes over orjike one of those "pockets' of pre- ¬ with each seat by an electric annuncia- ¬ dreamed of assailing ; they were en-- metals upon by miners joy life very much. They live p.-irt of- of - cious happened - the manner the banker as the cu- tor, thus allowing a passenger to order the time in the water , which they en- ¬ and deeper shnned in the pages of Mangnall and in their researches. The soil is of a s4ener gets deeper in the coffee and light refreshment without To those , joy very much , using their tails while fea-- revered accordingly. persons rich fertility , the surface charmingly *nire is one of the most interesting leaving his seat. be they of Coventry or any other swimming , the same as the alligator, - tures in this terrible little drama. But undulating. Poverty seems abolished.- . The day coaches are marvels of ele-¬ place , who bewail an assault upon :t On every hand are evidences of thrift to propel their bodies. They are the path downward is so well greased to ease , to- , and wellde- ¬ gance , inviting one recline at favorite legend , the only consolation corresponding with the genial bounty of- healthy good-looking -at. the mouth that hundreds, with full veloped children , and outeide of their while the Pullman palace sleeping be offered is that , in Homeric phrase , nature. . A leading crop in times past -3cnowledge of what has come to others coaches combine withiutlieniselves the many and better traditions have died love for the water their general mode slide in every year. They say that the has been hemp , and land that will grow luxurious drawing-room by day and the ere this one. The kings of Home per-¬ hemp will grow anything. This is of living: is the same as that of other colored bankers , who prey chiefly upon . elegant bed chamber by night. ished , time ago -'pen of- human laeings- women in a long by the being more and more withdrawn in the colored men and the What money could do nay, more ! Niebuhr, ana they have been killed over , find much easier to- favor of stockr.iising5 exclusively , but .A Hide.- . departments it tastes, coupled with ¬ Thrilling What educated and over again since the great his the tall stacks of hemp , in shape like $leed their victims than do their white skilled hands could do with! the costly torian's time. Homer has not exactly A party on the Rocky Mountain di-¬ rivals. The colored men feel flattered Zulu wigwams , still plentifully dot the woods of the tropics and the temperate forfeited all claim to an individual ex-¬ landscape. vision of the Northern Pacific railroad by the graceful way in which they are zones and ravishing tapestries a few days ago had a thrilling adventure with the istence under the attacks of Wolf and One drops into horse talk immediate-¬ roped in. Borrowing is made so easy of all Europe , have which they would not care to repeat. and upholstcrings his followers , but he has been sadly ly on alighting from the train at Lex- ¬ that they seem to be complimented in to tribute to this royal They were on an open car which was been made pay compromised.Esop has not escaped-- ington , and does not emerge from it the very operation. Then they care , still on an exceedingly steep ' road , to enable it to give us while for it is now the fashion to maintain standing little about the troubles of the future if' again till he takes his departure. It is Suddenly one of the traveling , a home simply perfect in that there never was such person , but the one subject always in order. Each grade. gentlemen they are satisfied in the present , They every detail. he only afforded a convenient saw that a train of cars was dashing , 3 per- that successive proprietor , as he tucks you would as lieve pay 30 per cent as com- ¬ down upon them at frightful speed. It Travel used 'to be the epitome of name under which to group the into his , will with him cent , a month, .if they can have the wagon if you go consisted of an engine weighing 80,000 weariness and discomfort ; a journey posers of ancient fable1 in general , Turn is- Of course bank- ¬ and.if. you will go with there money they want. the meant although , by a curious piece of irony, pounds and eight cars heavily laden higher rates. The bank-- of a thousand miles nightmares no limit to the courtesy ho will show ers prefer the before starting and sickness at its close. Sir George Cronewall Lewis , one of with iron. There wad no time to get , some of tho- colored ones at least, you declares that now , after having off , to still crs Now , the same journey over such a the greatest of historical skeptics , edi- ¬ the party the car and remain justify-their exactions by claiming that seen animals more jor less well in their almost death. With great road as this Chicago and Atlantic is ted a spurious collection of lEsopic , was certain they themselves have to pay exorbitant way he proposes to show you a HORSE. presence of mind one of the gentlemen looked forward to as a holiday, as a fables , palmed off on the world by an many kinds of- -rates for the money they loan again. Fortunately there are loosened the brake of the car, which at rest , as an educator , for eye and mind impudent modern Greek , as if JEsop perfection. . He may have the best * course they claim as welt that they once began run down the hill. 0 and nerve are to oe impressed with were a genuine personage, and these , one to It risks of never again seeing horse or colt of a certain age the , ladiea- run great is not restful and enjoy- ¬ fables were the genuine production of- was now a race for life and the money they loan. This has not nothing that which has made the best single heat, or were almost wild with the journey is ended -32sop. . To come to-more modern times , of the party true. Clerks are held to the pay- able ; and when the fourth heat , or quarter of a mile , or been one is loth to leave the charming rooms the current storyj of Joan of Arc has average the best fright. Soon the freight train caught ment of their just debts with rreat- at all distances.or up with the car, but the velocity of both where everything has been conducive to been a dozen times refuted and as often stallion , or brood-mare , the one -strictness by their superiors. Their ort being almost the same little damage joyous ease.- . reasserted. The historical career of which has done some of these'things at -creditors can have their money at any- was done , and at last all reached the A thousand miles from Lake Michi-¬ William Tell is indeed melancholy , for private if not public trials. Each one time byappealinsr to the head of the he has been found out by the critics , in-¬ bottom of the" decline in safety. these brokers' gan to New York Bay from the fresh has , at any rate , the colt which is going .department. Hitherto to salted sea in thirty hours , and no stead of a patriot peasant , to have been loans have been held to be just debts, the to be the great horse of the world. Shorthand to be Superseded. necessity to set your foot upon the an innkeeper, and a horse dealer ; but This is an amiable vanity easily par-¬ .and their payment has been enforced of Is , appears , ground eat, drink , sleep all while perlups these critics may be suspected doned , and the enthusiasm is rather The act shorthand it 4> appeals to the superior y threatened wheels are revolving be-¬ of Austrian leanings. The romantic to be superseded by one of the queerest officers of the various departments , oven the paper catching. A man's stock is greatly to neath you at a rate of speed that would attachment of the Princess Pocahontas his standing this section inventions on record. The revolution when no such appeals are contemplated. credit and in effected by means of a machine in the same time have carried Julius to Captain John Smith is demonstrated while he lives , when he dies is is to be , and , But recently Secretary Folger Acting Cajsar end to other of the by recent historians to be indebted for called a "glossograpb , " which consist * Com- ¬ from one the printed prominently among the li of Secretary of the Interior Joslyn , ¬ levers , u sort of , land it took him so many years to con ¬ much of its romance to the imagina- his virtues. of six forming caps missioner of Pensions Dudley and other tion of Captain Smith himself. What * each communicating with a tracing peii-- officials have frowned upon such usuri- - quer. - i need is there to allude to the story of Clumsy Farming England.- . cil. . The use to be made of the "rnosso- ous contracts , and have done all that in is curious. While the Impregnated. Asphalt. the Vengeur.orto the abundant parallels ¬ graph" rather bank- ¬ Bricks With A correspondent of the Boston Com- they could to defeat them. The of that tale which are found in the an- ¬ orator or lecturer is holding forth , the ex-¬ temper-¬ mercial Bulletin thinks that English ers have to resort to some very odd Bricks impregnated at a high nals of everr country, and which have reporter is to repeat the words of the ¬ is decidedly He pedients to get their money. The other ature with asphalt are being success- been found not proof farming shiftier. speaker with his tongue in the cage. pavement.- . altogether against says : day a ladylike woman , dressed in rusty fully used in Berlin for street investigation ? Even the ten Thus the quickest conversation , seine , air and water the critical But let the times and seasons be ever black and having a mournful manner By driving out the commandments themselves , thanks to London journals tell us , may be taken commissioner bricks wiU take up 15 or 20" per cent , of so good in England her tenant fanners dropped in on the deputy the enterprise of M. Shapira , are await- ¬ down with ease. The ludicrous porous ¬ will successfully compete with our -of pensions. She said she was a poor bitumen , and the , brittle mate- verdict of No not which this new invention assumes ing the the learned. own farmers , unless they adopt a style widow, and that one of his clerks owed rial becomes durable and elastic under wonder that a poor liftle local'tradition be an. obstacle to its adoption. her There were- tears in her pressure. The bricks are then put end- ¬ ef farming different from that which I 100. should have shown itself unable to kisses :i and voice and want in her eyes. The dep- ¬ ways on beton bed and with hot tar. often observed there. The farmer may- When a young man girl withstand the penetrating fire of mod- ¬ he- pavement a- be the leaser of but a small farm , and calls it heaven , it shows plainly that uty commissioner had the clerk up and The has been laid down in ern critical artillery. obliged him to pay the $100 : The part of a thoroughfare where neither __ yet leave the work entirely in the hands doesn't know any more about heaven widow dried her tears. Subsequently granite nor compressed asphalt had Conversation on a journey is equal te- of the slow , dull hands I have else- ¬ than a gosling knows about Beethoven's- the hasty deputy commissioner learned hitherto withstood the wear. a conveyance. [Tamul. where described , who do everything sonatas. .