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nrU 1 kCiY xi crrvn a ai a TiruTcr rn tnrf 11 -t xjijli auiiin.1 jt.lajljlv uvjryjox x7U. LORIMER, THE "BLOND BOSS." ONLY LIVING EX-L0CKTENDER OF THE OLD MIDDLESEX CANAL. ffe Leader 0 JZZmois Republicans Has a Strange Political Career, i. 1 r-r- 1 out a nighly Successful One. Jonathan Clough, Now in His 90th Year, Resides in Guilford, Woburn, as He Knew It, in 1840 Stoddard Conducted Inns Near the Towpath Bell That Called the Boarders to Meals Kept by Bosworth Family.

broke down under long hours and the damp and unhealthful conditions of my employment. I was canning meat for Armour. Nearly every morning some one failed to appear because of a spree the night before. aQd I had to do two men's work. Fifteen hours a day caused me to collapse physically.

The uncle of the young lady who taught my Sunday school class was a city alderman. Through his kind offices I was made a conductor on a street railroad." "In 1884," I said, "you got Into politics by organizing a republican club in your mother's kitchen?" "During my service on the street railroad I became Infatuated with James G. Blaine, who, I was particular to Inform everybody, was the greatest man In the world. I talked Blaine to every passenger who would listen to what I said. Lumber merchants on the way to dinner would wait for my car just to hear my fervid panegyrics.

I could llnd no republican tickets when I went to the polls on election day to vote the first time for President I procured two tickets In the adjoining precinct, but gave them away to men with dinner pails In their hands. So I walked back and got a ballot for myself. I was on duly all night hauling the election crowds back and forth. At 12 o'clock 1 knew Blaine had been defeated. I took the news as a personal bereavement.

The figures may not have been accurate, but we heard that Cleveland had carried New York by 1146 votes. s- William Lorimer, Senator iu Congress and Master of the Republican Party in Illinois, Who Never Went to School a Day in His Life, Tells the Remarkable Story of His Personal Career. elgner, climbed into the tree and got It. I broke it in two and gave half to my sister. It was the only peach 1 had ever tasted.

I have been crasy lor peaches ever since. Castle garden, with Its crowd of men, women and children, loaded with bundles and bags, and the red peach In the Michigan orchard are my first clear memories of America." "Later your family moved to Ohio and settled on a farm in Holmes county?" "That is so. My father worked as a farm laborer In Michigan and at anything else that offered a living. He had a large family of small children, and It was hard, being a stranger in a new for him to get along. We moved to Ohio, where he took a hill farm in a community of Germans.

As I grew older I went with him to religious meetings, carrying his Bible and hymn book under my arm and trying to feel like a minister. I recollect that he preached to large congregations, and that he was earnest and vigorous both in gestures and language. His doctrinal points, ot course, 1 could neither remember nor comprehend. I only know that he preached goodness and that he lived the life of a consistent Christian. But we did not prosper in Ohio.

We moved to Illinois, and when i was 10 years old my father died in Chicago." "And you became a newsboy and a bootblack?" "When Jhe little money we had was spent, I began to think of getting some kind of work. There were six children ir. the family, and I was the eldest. A boy in the neighborhood sold Sunday newspapers. At his invitation, I went along with him one morning.

I bought 50 copies of the Chicago Tribune and sold them all in a walk toward home of several miles. My profits amounted to $1. That was the first money I ever earned. In a little while I obtained a newspaper route of my own. I would get out of bed at 3 o'clock In the morning and dsliver all of my papers before breakfast.

By and by I would keep right on downtown and blacken shoes until evening. From 110 a week I worked my business up until I had doubled my earnings. Meanwhile my mother and the children were living in comfort. As a Newsboy and Shoeblack in Chicago He Earned $3000 a Year, and Thua Supported His Mother and His Little Brothers and Sisters, His Experiences as a Sign Painter's Apprentice, an Agent for a Laundry and an Expert Workman in the Packing Houses of Armour and Others. MUUMV B1BBBM BSBBUKBV BBS TWt Inn upper Ipch canal boat Becomes an Organizer.

"At home, In bed, I thought that I understood the cause of Blaine's defeat. Douuness there were precincts in the city of New York, like my own In Chicago, where the republican vote had not been cast. I talked my theory to every passenger who mourned with me over the result. Half a dozen young men showed partisan and patriotic Interest. The following year Chicago was to choose a mayor.

I regarded it as my duty to see that the republicans in my precinct, at least, were supplied with tickets. Nothing more was in my mind. I had never attended a primary meeting and was utterly ignorant concerning political management and methods. So we met in my mother's kitchen and took amateur measuz-es In used to call the. Engaged in a Real Estate Speculation When He Did Not Have a Cent and Made $12,000 in a Single Evening.

Says That Farm Land is the Best Investment in the Country. Gives a Report of His First Speech. the matter of supplying an adequate number of ballots. "1 talked later with young men in other precincts. Then I got into the neighboring wards.

Little by little I learned the game of politics and ex tended my acquaintance. Before long I was a member of the republican cen tral committee. After Harrison's defeat for President in 1892, I called a HON WILLIAM LORIMER, United States Senator from Uliaois. Why He Likes to Read the Novels of Charles Dickens. JONATHAN CLOUGH of Guilford, now In his 90th year la.

it is believed, the only living ex-locktender on the old Middlesex canal, an inland waterway that for half a century, 1802 to 1852, connected the waters of the Merrimac at Chelmsford with those of the Charles at Boston. Mr Clough was born in New Hampshire and went to Woburn, then a town of 2993 inhabitants, in 1840. Joshua Stoddard was superintendent of the group of three locks at Horn pond, tended one of them and conducted the company boarding house near the towpath. Under Stoddard's direction young Clough began his career as locktender. being assigned to the lower or stone lock.

He remained a year, and then, after a year's absence, returned and was placed In charge of the upper wooden lock. His associates were Mr Stoddard and a man named Sperry. Mr Clough held this position for three years, after which he was watchman for 10 or 12 years at a tannery in North Woburn. In 1861 he was appointed watchman at the Charlestown navy yard, and later was employed by the Boston Lowell railroad as freight brakeman. switchman and watchman-, during which time he lived In Charles- meeting of prominent party workers, at which I said that republicanism was By JAMES B.

MORROW. olo3huitjoddirrd Vho H-trf boardm? Louse cm the. oaul Met Good and Bad. "As a nawsboy I came Into contact with good people ministers, merchants and clerks. As a shoeblack I did business with gamblers and the worst men in the city.

I knew all the sneak thieves, highwaymen, burglars and pickpockets In Chicago, meeting them on the sidewalks, in doorways, gambling rooms and saloons, and polishing their shoes. Without vanity or excuse, I can say that I was as popular with one class of my customersas with the other. Burglars often urged me to meet them at certain places in the night. I never asked them any questions, nor did I ever meet them after my day's work was done. When I became older I realized that they probably wanted to push me through transoms and to teach fie to be a thief and robber." "And you came out of such temptations and associations decent and clean," I said; "without the vice of profanity, liquor or tobacco? How did you escape?" "I don't know.

My business in the streets, of course, taught me a great deal about the infirmities of human nature. At the age of 12, I dare say, I knew as much in some respects as does the average boy of 22. I remembered, too, that I was the head of the Lorimer family, and that the bread and butter of five brothers and sisters depended on my strict attention to business. I thought of my father and his preaching, and recollected what he had said about right living. And I saw, the struggles of my mother to keep her chlldren together.

Right here, let me say that my mother lived until two years ago, and that she came to Washington and saw me take the oath as a member of the house of doomed In Chicago unless we had an efficient organization. Opposition developed, on tfre ground that if we educated politicians they would ultimately displace us as party managers, but my suggestion was accepted. I went from precinct to precinct, and almost from house to house. That was seventeen years ago. Today Chicago has the most scientific organization ever known in all the history of American politl.

I have told you frankly how rgot into public matters. Let me add that I had no thought whatever of making politics my business." "Did you continue to be a street railroad conductor?" "No; I had learned enough about signs to paint a house. I became, therefore, a contractor, taking small jobs only and doing the work myself." town. He recalls that his railroadj ried Miss Almira Coburn. May 1819.

The late Mrs Fred W. Bosworth was his daughter, and Mrs Helen V. Kmcrson and Mrs J. Augusta Garland are sister. Mr Stoddard as landlord catered for both the boatmen and the traveling public.

Mr Clough is authority for the statement that landlord Stoddard set wora was periormea uner tne administrations of Supts Joe Robinson and Charles Merritt. Mr Clough is brimful of canal reminiscences, and delights to talk of the eood table, and clearly remembers him of T. Chandler Parker, 46 Arlington rood. In building the canal, a work In which Col Loamml Baldwin of Woburn was the supervising engineer, It was found that at Horn pond the long and sharp descent presented the gravest engineering problem of the entire route, and to meet this It was necessary to construct a group of three double looks. The upper one was of wood and located opposite present Sturgls st, the central one, also of wood, was opposite thn Hudson residence on Arlington rosL and the third or lower Iock.

a qultn pretentious structure of stone, was opposite pri-Hcmt Hurt non st. The sketch of the first Inn and upp-r lock was made by the late Marshall M. Tldd, the celebrated waterworks and sewerage engineer, who as a young man tended the locks In Mr Stoddard' absence and ufterward succeeded him. Incidents of that time wherf passenger standing at the door of the boarding and freight transportation was confined shovel took a seat by the door I would point and say. 'See that gentleman In a plug hat? He's the alderman of the seventh ward.

One he was a street oar conductor like "Your father." I said, "was a Presbyterian minister?" "Yes; a preacher who nearly always gave his services to those who could not or did not pay him a cent of salary. He made a living by the work of his hands. Having the Scotch conviction that it was his duty to preach, he went about and held meetings both in Manchester, Eng. where I was born, and In the United States." "Why did he emigrate to America?" "He was a rugged advocate of human liberty. Had he lived in this country In the days of William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips he would have been an abolitionist.

Wanting to breathe free air, he came to this country, bringing his family with him in the steerage." "What is your earliest recollection of the United States?" "On the way over I was terribly seasick. Passengers told me, in the way of a joke, that my father and mother would be admitted to the country because they were not ill, but that I would be sent back to England. Altogether I was very miserable and unhappy. Teasing children I was 5 years old may be fine sport for men and women, but It is rather hard on the victims. So I landed at Castle Garden with a great fear in my heart.

After I was elected to congress I visited Castle Garden, and It was exactly as I had always remembered it. We went directly to Michigan, after landing In New York, but I have no distinct recollection of the journey on the railroad. low, his smile honest, and his manner natural. If he is dogmatic, he does not show it. Obviously, his strength Is not In noise.

"In a word." I asked, when we were In the full swing of the interview, "how can success be achieved in politics?" "It mav sound hackneyed to say that one must be industrious," was the reply, "but ceaseless, tireless. Intelligent and enthusiastic diligence is absolutely necessary. Then one must keep his word. Theoretically, truthfulness is a common human quality; practically, it is a rare virtue in politics. Men utter preachments concerning it and practice something else.

In the excitement of a campaign, with defeat not only possible, but probable, managers and candidates, grasping at every straw, are likely to enter into bargains which later may cause great embarrassment or may require a serious sacrifice of personal interest. "A campaign promise, however, must be as good as a check on a bank. The man who makes a pledge that he hopes or expects to escape and the man who gives a check when there is no deposit to his credit are cheap and vulgar swindlers. So then, after each election, every obligation must be met, no matter what may be the cost. Again, when a man does another a favor, it should bo returned at the earliest possible moment.

To wait until you are asked to liquidate such a debt of honor really discounts the payment about 50 percent. A hair-trigger memory Is one of the indispensable assets of polities." "When you were a street railroad conductor in Chicago," I asked, "what would you have thought had it been suggested that some day you might be a member of the senate?" Washington. RED-HE A DFTD BOOTBLACK. LX an immigrant child of the steer-J. a.

age. who never went to school a day in his life, now a tall, wi man, with dark auburn hair, a short blond mustache and and candid blue eyes, has become tbo acknowledged and autocratic ister of the republican party In the state of Illinois. Not long since he took the oath of office as a senator of the United States. "We have a famous democratic alderman in Chicago," William Lorimer Said to me, "who is known far and wide as although his name is Kenna. About the second Sun-day after I began to make my living in the streets several big boys robbed ir.e my newspapers.

I was 10 years old, the loss was very serious and I raised my voice in lamentation. Michael Kenna. older than myself, bootblack and newsboy, kindly but roughly asked about my trouble. I told him. 'Wait rite he called as he ran around the corner.

"In five minutes he brought my papers back. I have never forgotten Michael Kenna. and I have never fought him. People have wondered why I do not oppose him when he runs for office. He came to me not long ago.

He is as much of a Turk as he was when he was a kid. he said with his old-time brogue, "I hear you may be a candidate for senator. When you are let me know and the member of the legislature from my district will vote for "I sent no word to Michael Kenna, but I got the vote he promised." house ringing the mealtime bell to summon the hungry patrons of his hostelry. The historic bell, without a flaw, is still treasured as an Interesting relic by the Bosworth family at their home, 12 Burlington st. The third of these boarding houses built by the company, and the second conducted by Mr Stoddard, Is In a renovated and enlarged form, the residence to the slow methods of the unwieldy barge.

Joshua Stoddard, who for years was superintendent of the Horn pond locks, and landlord of two of the three boarding houses and Inrm established there at various times by the canal company, was born at Hingham, May 26, 1793, and died in Woburn Aug 15, 1873. He mar- A FIVE-MILLION-DOLLAR BROOK. Makes Money on Land. "And presently you attempted a speculation In real estate?" "I purchased 20 acres of land from William Pitt Kellogg, who had been governor of Louisiana. A young man whom I knew had $3000.

I hadn't a cent. We bought the land for $60,000, paying $3000 as earnest money and giving three notes for the balance. I sold the land In one evening and divided $24,000 with my partner. Afterward, I bought 320 acres and was deep in debt when Grover Cleveland swept the country In 1892. I began to trade and sll right after the election, getting a brickyard, which I have owned and operated ever since.

At the coming of the panic of 1893 I was enabled, therefore, to protect my remaining real estate interests. "You were nominated for congress in 1894?" I said. "I didn't care to be a candidate at that time," Senator Lorimer answered. "I was 33 years of age. While I hoped to be a member of congress, I had planned to wait until I was 50 years old.

But the district was 17.000 democratic and the huge majority frightened every man who was fit for the place. I tried for a long time to get a candidate. 'Hun yourself," said 'Doc' Jamleson, our national committeeman. 'If vou wait until you are 50 you may be dead and buried "I took Jamieson's advice. The stockyards were located in the district and I had worked with nearly all of the men who were then In positions of influence.

I was elected and served 12 years In the house of representatives." out the fires of the locomotives. The brook then ran on the westerly side of the tracks at Boylston station and halfway between thnt point and Hoggs bridge was a culvert through which the waters passed to the east side of the railroad, down through Roxbury, and out through what 1b now the Back Bay fens to the Charles river. After this experience the railroad company raised its roadbed and although threatened with danger at intervals afterward, traffic was never again entirely Interrupted. Of the many thousands of dollars paid by the city of Boston, the Boston belting company has received over First Taste of Peaches. "My second most vivid memory of America concerns the peach orchard of my uncle.

One peach remained of the harvested crop, and my cousin, showirg me the honors of a relative and a for- Quiet and Unassumirfg. The customary positiveness and amusing vanity ot the self-made man are not notireable either in William Lorimer's conversation or demeanor. His voice is Higher in Social Grade. "Harry Hildreth, an alderman, used to ride on my car," Senator Lorimer answered. "I felt honored when he gave me his fare.

If a man with a pick or a of 1872, the city undertook to alter, deepen and widen the brook. That statute, among other things, provided that It should not be construed to "authorlzo any Interference with tli estate owned by a corporation on thi hunks, or with Its rights In said brooK as to the use and purity of Its waters." The corporation recovered iuusd by the setting back of watr.r upon Its premises and for a scarcity of water In consequence of change In the brook. Before the widening and deepening of the stream, small culverts undor numerous streets above the belth.g works acted us dams In holding buck thn water in wot seasons, but when thes culverts were enlarged the water flnwtj in excess through the brook and, ss the outlet had not been enlarged so as to lermit the water to escape Into the it backed up and seriously Interfered with the operations of the belting company. It Is this obstruction that Is now be- THE city of Boston has expended more than on Stony brook, and the end is not yet. Important and expensive improvements are now being made In Koxbury and at points toward the outlet of the stream, and when these are completed there Is reason to believe that former elements of damages to property will have been eliminated.

The greatest change made la the building of a conduit from Charlesgate west to a point below the Charles river dam at Leverett st, to carry the water directly Into the river instead of emptying Into the Charles river nasln. as It formerly did before that Improvement to beautify Boston was undertaken. The conduit follows the new esplanade along the banks of the river and has been completed at a large cost. A gatehouse has been built at Charlesgate west and In case of emergency, when the flow of water Is too great to be provided for under ordinary conditions, it will be turned into the basin and thus Set Good Example. "During my life on the streets," Senator Lorimer continued, "she never lectured me.

She didn't warn me to avoid this or shun that. When she talked she was always impersonal. She IdUI down wholesome prinicpies of conduct without mentioning any one's nary In the rearing of my own eight children I have followed the same method. I don't preach to them, but try to influence them in the way I was influenced. If a person whom we all know does wrong I make him the subject of a sermon in one sentence.

'Poor I may say. 'will suffer all his or, 'I don't understand why Jones should have done it, because he has very respectable parents." "And yet as a little chap in the streets to return to my early experiences. I don't know that I had any thought-out policy of Individual action. I just went about my work and kept out of mischief. When there was a chance to do wrong, I let It go by, but I was no missionary among my companions.

I did not preach, but stuck to my tasks and took my money home to mother." "But when did you go to school?" "I was never at school a day in my life. When we lived in the county, I was scarcely more than an infant. After we moved to Chicago, it was a battle to live. My mother taught me the alphabet and I would take a school book along when I delivered my papers and study It as I walked from one street lamp to another. At the age of 15 I was earning $10o0 a year.

My mother thought I was too old for the streets and thai I ought to get Into a settled occupation. WHERE HAWTHORNE SPENT HIS HONEYMOON. $400,000 for damages. That plant, which was established many years ago, owns 96,110 square feet of land, on which i there sre five mills and other smaller buildings. The line of Stony brook was originally selected because of the 1 purity of he water, which w.is -spt -daily adapted to the requirements of manufacturing rubber, there being 1 --4- -L kl First Speech a Short One.

"You have made several natable speeches In congress," I said. "Tell me about the first time you attempted to address an audience?" "In 1892 I was a candidate for clerk of the courts I stopped at a political meeting. 'Billy' Mason had just finished one of his characteristic speeches, which had been fine and funny. I was called. 'I am no speechmaker," I said.

After I am elected clerk of the superior court, I want all of you to come to my office, put your feet on my desk and smoke my That is a verbatim report of my first political speech." "Now, I suppose you could talk for an hour?" "I can talk for six weeks. However, I never attempt to speak on any subject that I do not thoroughly comprehend." "You have a large library. What do you read?" 'I have been compelled to read history, as you will understand, uickeiu and Victor Hugo are my favorite authors. I liked Dickens before I realized that he described the very life I have lived myself poverty, hunger" "Hunger?" I repeated. "Yes.

We were burned down in 1S7 during the second big fire in Chicago. The only thing we saved was a wash tub. All the money we had was in a trunk. The l'ollowing winter the whole family suffered more than I care to think about." "What are your recreations?" "Baseball, when I am away from home. But yachting Is my greatest pleasure.

I build a yacht nearly every season for the races on the lakes, and my sons have become good sailors. I own a farm of 6u0 acres In Michigan, and when I can afford It I shall buy r.ore land, especially in Oregon. In my judgment land Is the safest and best investment In the United States." (CoDTilght, lOuU, ty JuBics B. Alorruw.) GATEHOUSE AT CHARLESGATE WEST. Gets Laundry Job.

"So I went to a sign painter tfl learn his trade. I soon discovered, however, that it would be a year or two before I could be of any help to my family. You see, I simply had to make enough money to support my brothers and sisters. Besides, sign painting didn't Suit me. I quit my prospective trade and got a place as solicitor for a laundry.

Necessity compelled me to Jjustle and to be rather brazen. I actually went Into houses and walked off with the wash, doing It with a smile, of course, and a pleasant word. I was a success and was soon making $12 a week in commissions. "About that time the teacher of my Sunday school class became interested In my welfare. I was 15, and she was two years older, but she wore her hair In a coil, her dresses were long, and she had been graduated from high school.

I looked upon myself as a boy, notwithstanding my many experiences, and upon her as a capable and educated woman. Seeing that I was woefully Ignorant, but was trying to learn, she gave me books and assigned me to lessons, i went to her home every Monday evening for two years, where she heard my recitations. That was the only systematic teaching I ever had during my boyhood." Senator Lorimer went no further into the history of his teaeher. but I happen to know that her husband, a newspaper man and a lawyer, has fared well in Chicago politics because of the help given to the once red-headed shoeblack and laundry solocltor. "Then you went into a packing house," I said.

"What was the nature of your work?" Hourt Are Too Long. "The packing industry promised steudy and lucrative employment, and my mother advised me to learn the found a tlace with Wilson THE OLD MANSE. avoid difficulties that heretofore have proved expensive to Boston. Stony brook was Inherited by Boston from the annexation of West Roxhury, In )873. It Is the natural outllow of Muddy pond, which Is situated In the park reservation, near the Deo ham line.

During the greater part of the year It is, an insignificant stream, but In times of heavy rainfall it has the appearance and velocity of a mighty river. For generations the brook, like the Mississippi river, ran "unvexed to the sea" and nothing seriously impeded its course, even in times of great freshets. When It overflowed Its boundaries the surplus water spread Itself over 690 acres of vacant land and while West Roxbury was a town no serious trouble ever arosa. But with the growth of population and the consequent encroachment on the boundaries of the brook, both for manufacturing purposes and residences, grave difficulties presented themselves which have not yet been entirely overcome, although the channel for Its entire distance of about nine miles has been widened and deepened. Many years ago traffic on the old Ronton A Providence railroad was lied very summer hundreds of literary visit with veneration the old jtoar.se in Concord, the celebrated house 'nieh Emerson lived and wrote, and here Hawthorne spent the first years married life.

These visitors know full well as-Watlona of this literary shrine with works of those two great authors. ot many are familiar with the de-'ightful little heart story of Haw-jWite'8 first years there with the wife had won in a rare courtship, which 4tffi.Jence and her Illness prolonged 'ears The story of her almost gcni0U8 recovery during that court-'P frtm 30 years of Invalidism, Is an mporui.t feature of the story of their Ha'thorne and Sophia Pea body were those days no pollution of the stream. The company acquired rights intedHt-lng those of the city of Boston, and Its claim to undisturbed possession has been determined by the supreme court of Massachusetts In various suits that have arisen. The company st one of ths trlslr proved conclusively that In the original state of the brook and before Its surroundings had beerf modified by human agencies the variations of the flow wore not so great as ot present. The rough condition of the land, covered with trees and bushes, retarded the flow of surface water, thus lessening the rate at which the water reached the brook, and more of the ruin soaked Into the grounds, to tie contributed mow to tl.e stream during drouths.

In proportion as the surface of the water sheds hud been modified to meet the needs of population, the rate at which the watc. flowed into the water courses had increased. Although Boston paid the company nearly as direct damages to the plant, caused by the overflow of the stream at various times, the city at a later stage was obliged to again respond In damages for depriving the Company ot water, to which it found by the courts to be entitled. This condition arose when, under the statute ing remedied and no further litigation Is expected. On Feb 10, 1886, Stony brook made a record that no one would care to se repeated.

In less than 24 hours there was an unprecedented rainfall of five and eighty-six one-hundredths Inches, to which was added two Inches of melted Ice and snow. As a result. 191 dwellings and buildings were flooded In West Roxbury and 1437 buildings In Roxbury. occupied by 3000 families, were affected. A large part of Koxbury had the appearance of a great lake, and access to the second story windows of houses was had by means of boats.

It was some time before the water subsided, and hardxhlps and suffering among the tenants followed. The Boston belting company on account of this flood received additional compensation and tfuiidreda of other claims had to be liquidated by the city. No other city In the United Statea has a Stony brook running for miles through a thickly Inhabited district, and If in the future Boston, by absorbing more territory, should encounter a similar stream, the experience of Stony tiiuok would probably eerve to make Immediate changes ai by a comparatively small outlay of money at the beginning save millions that delay might oust BATHHOUSES FOR MINERS. universal power from this novel phasls of his life. It seems as if there were no side of action to which he Is not equal at home among the stars, and for my sike patient and effective over a cooking stov-i.

"Our breakfast was late, because we concluded to have only breakfast and dinner. After breakfast I put the beloved study into very nice order, after establishing him in it, proceeded to make ail smooth below. "When I had come to an end of my labors, my dear lord Insisted upon my sitting with him, so I 4. it by him and sewed, while he wrote, with now and then a little discourse, and this was very enchanting. "At about 1 we walked to the village, after 3 we dined.

The washing of dishes took place In the mornings, so we had our beautiful long evenings from 4 o'clock to 10. Ai sunset he would go out for exercise on his wood pile. We had no visitors, except a moment's call from Mrs In the accompanying picture of the Old Manse the upper window with the white curtains was Hawthorne's stud. charming glimpse of the felicity of their life together in that venerable house. She wrote: Ws had a most enchanting time during Mary, the cook's, holiday sojourn in Boston.

We remained In our bower undisturbed by mortal creature. Mr Hawthorne took the new phasls of housekeeper, and, with that marvelous power of adaptation to circumstances that he possesses, made everything go easily and well. He rose betimes in the mornings, and kindled fires In the kitchen and breakfast room, and by the time 1 cione down, the teakettle the potatoes were baked and rice cooked, and my lord sat with a book, superintending. Just Imagine that superb head peeping at the rice or examining the potatoes with the air and p.rt of a monarch! And the engellc-o rlso on his face, lifting him clean out of culinary scenes into the arc of the gods. It was a magnificent comedy to watch him, fco ready and willing do tilings to save me effort, and at the same tim so superior to it all, and heroical In aspect unconsonant to what was about him, I have a new sense of hi One of the great coal mining companies at Dunfermline, Scot, Is providing bathing accommodations of a good and convenient sort for the use of Its employes on leaving the pit on the completion of their shift.

Only 250 of the 1500 miners have indicated their acceptance of this new departure by agreeing to make use of the baths, although the charge is to be only two cents a week for the privilege. It may bo tht they fear that their wives and children would fall to recognise ilium 'on- theR, her home. They began their ihouseif, ing In the old manse. Their I ere slender, and they lived ft Co, canners of meat, and familiarized myself with every department cooking, capping, processing, inspecting, and so on. In a short time I was making 125 to $35 a week.

But Wilson business began to drag, and I thought it pru dent to go into the regular packing houses. I worked everywhere except on the killing floor. At the age ol su 1 I Wrninlv. but their batmlness Was l-rettie One of I Mrs Hawthorne's letters to up tor nearly 24 hours In consequence nt tht waters of the brook overflowing vttothr. written a little more than the roadbed to such a degree aa to put after their ablutions.

er their marriage, and before ot hr that child, gives a cm.