THE SKETCHER.

Otago Witness, Issue 3596, 13 February 1923, Page 59

THE SKETCHER.

LEWIS PASTEUR. GREAT SCIENTIST’S CENTENARY. It has been my proud privilege to see in tlie flesh two famous men —15rownin OJ the poet, and Louis Pasteur, the scientist.. He was born at Dole in December, 18vt'R; he died in September, 1895. His career was one steady rise from obscurity to fame, from humble beginnings to worldwide influence for the good of humanity, and as such should be specially stimula" - ing to young men. Nothing daunted him; he possessed n a high degree the virtues of courage, perseverance, and enthusiasm. He frequently met with bitter opposition and jealous carping, but he always emerged triumphant, for he never asserted what he could not prove, and never advanced a theory which he had not rigidly tested by experiment. Pasteur’s forefathers were tanners; and his father, after leaving the army (wneie he was jnade a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour), entered on the family business. The father was a man of remarkable character. His distinguished son afterwards said of him: “For many yea s I have been his first and almost his omy interest in life. I owe everything to him. When I was young he kept me out of bad company, made me acquire a habit of industry, and gave me the example of an upright and well-filled life. He was in distinction and character far above ins position as judged from a worldly point of view. He made no mistake about it; he knew that it is the man who dignifies the position, and not the position the man.” Thoughtful and Conscientious. —- As a boy Pasteur was only an average scholar, his only distinction being in drawing. But he was attentive, thoughtful, and conscientious, with a strong will, ana capable of enthusiasm. He attended the Colleges of Arbois and Besanconj md graduated in Science at the Ecole Normale in Paris. His first achievement was a discovery in crystallography. In 1849 he was appointed to the Chair of Chemistry in Strasbourg, and in the same year he married. His marriage was a happy one. Madame Pasteur knew her hsuband’s character thoroughly, and from the first made it her business to keep .him free of such material worries and cares as might distract him from his scientific investigations, and not onlv so, but she took a keen and intelligent interest in his researches and became his best collaborator. In 1854 Pasteur was made Professor and Dean of the f aculty of Science at Lille. The staple industry of Lille was the manufacture of alcohol from beetroot, and Pasteur was asked to advise as to the occasional failures in the processes, and also the causes of certain defects in making wine and beer. He made an exhaustive study of all kinds of fermentation, shed a new light on the life and growth of germs, and demolished for ever the absurd idea of spontaneous generation. After three years at Lille he returned to his beloved Ecole Normale as administrator of the school and director of science studies. Here he fitted up at his own expense two little attic rooms as a laboratory for himself and his assistants, and in these he began and parried out for years many of his famous experiments and investigations. He spent six years in an investigation into the disease of silk worms, and as the result propounded remedies whicn have been adopted in all countries where sericulture is carried on, and which saved immense sums of money to those who carried on the silk industry in France. Pioneer in Antiseptics.— Pasteur had a passion for facts. lie faithfully and reverently followed the light wherever it led, and never despised any new light however humble it seemed. To those who asked, “Of what use is it ? he was always readv to quote the ret iy of Franklin : “Of what use is a new-oo n baby?” You can never tell to what it will grow. And so steadily, slowly, but one might say inevitably and providentially Pasteur was led from his studv of ferments to that of germ life, and then from tile diseases of tlie lower animals (anthrax, swine-fever, chicken cholera, and so in) to the diseases of the human frame; and so it became his unexpected and great privilege to become a world-renowned benefactor of the human species. In the cultivation and use of vaccines for dilative purposes he became the great pioneer of antiseptic surgery, which nowa clays accomplishes such marvels. It was Joseph Lister, afterwards Lord Lister, who was one of the first to see and appreciate what Pasteur’s achievements meant; and on a certain occasion, when Pasteur was being publicly honoured, Lord Lister used these words . “There does not exist in the whole world an individual man to whom medical science owes more than to you. Your researches threw a powerful light on the dark places of surgery, and changed one treatment of wounds from an uncertain and often business to a certain and scientific beneficial art.” And with all this it must be remembered that Pasteur was no doctor, nor ever professed to be one: he was onlv a scientist who. by faithfully following the light, had been led to marvellously unexDected results and achievements. His success excited jealousy and opposition : but while ne bated controversy he did not avoid it when necessary, and he did not allow it to embitter him. —Honoured by the State.— In his fortieth year Pasteur had attained to such eminence that he was elected a member of the French Academy. In 1863, however, he suffered the penally of the too unremitting worker, being seized suddenly with apoplexy, which necessitated a rest for a year, and which

to some extent permanently crippled him. Five years later he was made a member of the Academy of Medicine, and in 1874

he was awarded by the State a pension of £SOO, which was afterwards increased to £IOOO. It was in 1877 that Pasteur began the study of the bacillus of anthrax, and he was successful in showing how the disease could be prevented, or its ravages lessened. He applied his methods also to swinefever and other diseases of animals, and then to puerperal and other human ail ments. His experiments in germ-cultuie taught him how to attenuate the virus of disease and how to use vaccines for curative inoculation or prevention against epidemics. His last study was the cure of rabies, that most dreaded scourge. In 1885 he gave to the world the result of his investigations, and in 1888 the Pasteur Institute was founded in Paris as a curecentre, and since then by Pasteur’s methods hundreds of lives have been saved from a horrible death by hydrophobia. In 1892 Pasteur's seventieth birthday was celebrated at the Sorbonne, when many distinguished men attended as delegates from all civilised countries to pay honour to the great French scientist. —A Great Benefactor. —- Pasteur is now looked upon as one who will take his place in history as one of the great benefactors of the human race. And it is a great satisfaction to all who study his career to find that he was a great man as well as a great sccientist. He was thoroughly disinterested in all his researches; so much so that he took steps at his own expense to prevent clever manufacturers from turning his discoveries to their own profit to the detriment of the public. He could have made an immense fortune for himself if he had so chosen, but he preferred to give freely to the world all he knew. He was also a true patriot and lover of his country. And, strange though it may seem, he was so tender-hearted and sensitive ta' suffering that it gave him nausea- to attend operations, and when he had to perform operations on animals or children it caused him great pain and distress, and he had a perfect horror of vivisection, although he had himself occasionally to practise it. And, finally, he was a reverent and religious man, who was faithful to the end to the Church in which he had been brought up, and w r ho never concealed his religious convictions. He profoundly reverenced human reason, but held that there were human intuitions which vv ere equally important, and which lead us to believe in individual responsibility and in the immortality of the soul. It is an insult to the heart of man to say with the materialists that death is extinction.” —A. S. in the Weekly Scotsman. SEA GYPSIES. HOW “THE SEA-DROWNED FOLK” LIVE. By Professor J. Arthur Thomson. Between Burma, With its peacocks and rubies, and the Malay Peninsula, with its Argus pheasants and pangolins, there lies off shore the Mergui Archipelago, and there the sea gypsies are at home, or as much at home as nomads can be. We have been so much interested in Mr W. or. White’s recent book, “The Sea Gypsies of Malaya” (Seeley, Service, 21s), that we must pass on a .ittle bit of the story. These quaint people live in boats made of palm trees, and they spend most of their time, night as well as day, on the sea. Over the boat there is a palm-leaf roof which can be rolled up when a squall comes; there are mats for sleeping on, but neither pillows nor blankets ; strange,t of all is the hearth, for the complete houseboajt, or kabang, has its fire. The sea gypsies are short folk, averaging perhaps sft 4in; they have a richbrown colour and dark, straight hair. According to Mr White, which means according to themselves, the sea gypsies are refugees from the mainland who found safety for a time on the islands, but were persecuted thence into the sea. Just as some land animals have been forced by stress of circumstances to become aquatic, so the sea gypsies have become rovers on the sea. Every man’s hand has been against them —they are a frightened people—and the cyclones have been hard on them too. Pathetically they call themselves “Mawken, ’ which means “the seadrowned folk.” —The Raison d’Etre of Bilge.— The chief drawback to the houseboat, after the slightness of its seaworthiness, is the smell. When the sea gypsies clean the fish for supper (they have two meals a day when things go well), they clean them into the boat. Or if they wash out a pot in which they have been cooking, they pour the washings inside, not outside. “The result is that the bilge of the boat is awash with an evil-smelling slush.” And this in the tropics! What can be the meaning of such slackness? It is not far to seek. There are lots @f sharks about, and if the refuse were thrown overboard they would soon get into the habit of following the craft about. What, then, would happen to the sea gypsies when they swim about to cool themselves, or when they dive for the pearl oyster? What would happen to the little children who dangle their feet into the water when the heat is overpowering? It has to be remembered that the Mawken have no buckets. —A Precarious Living.—The sea gypsies are self-sufficient to a degree that makes us ashamed. There are fish in the sea, crabs and molluscs on the shore, fruits and roots on the land. They have no tailor’s bills, and only a few have huts. But this means iving very near tlie margin of subsistence, and just as solangeese and other sea-birds often die when a storm lasts for several days and the fishes have retreated far down into the waters, so the sea gypsies suffer from hunger in stormy seasons. We cannot wonder that they have begun to get supplies of rice and the like from outside—by barter with Chinese and Malayan traders. In exchange for food and a little

cloth (unluckily more than a little opium too), they hand over the shells that furnish mother-of-pearl, the dried sea-cucum-bers or bech-de-mer, the bark of certain trees, and the curious edible birds’ nests which the sea-swifts make of the consolidated juice of their salivary glands. To get the mother-of-pearl oysters (with an ocasional pearl of great price) they

have to dive; to get the nests for the Chinaman’s soup they have to climb the cliffs or be lowered down the face. And after all their labour they get in most cases only a quarter, or even a tenth, of the right value of their goods. And then there’s the dope as part payment. In speaking of their meals—say "of fish and pa-paw fruit—we should ha-ve mentioned that the Mawken eat with Adam’s forks, as our forefathers did as late as Tudor days. On a tramping holiday does one not sometimes relapse to this “savagery”? If there is a cool stream beside our wayside table it is easy and not unseemly to do without a fork. But we draw" the line at dispensing with a knife ! —A Dwindling Race. — The sea gypsies correspond to a dwindling species among animals—perhaps there are not more than 5000 of them altogether, but this is because their fellow-men have made their simple life too difficult. The death-rate is high. But they are fertile folk, monogamous, and wholesome. It is obvious that there cannot be many secrets on board the houseboat, and there is certainly no pruriency. “Mawken youths and maidens grow up with a nice modesty and an entire absence of that dangerous curiosity which comes of being kept in a state of blameworthy ignorance, stupidly confused in the past with child-like innocence.” If their boat is dirty, their lives are clean! And they have filial piety too, taking care of the grandparents, not tumbling them overboard for the sharks to devour, as is the manner of some hardpressed islanders, like the Nicobarese. —A Race too Good to Lose.— The sea gypsies are healthy people, apart from malaria and skin disease and invasions of smallpox and cholera. The malaria is intelligible enough, since in their natural ignorance they take no precautions against the mosquito that carries the germ of the disease; the skin affections are partly due to the dirty boat; the smallpox and cholera are apt to be very deadly, for it is the instinct of a simple nomadic people to flee together from mysterious death. Mr White did not find a single instance of a Mawken with a cold, a cough, or phthisis, though such things may possibly occur; nor did he come across any blind or deaf or dumb. Where there is recouse to medical treatment, as in some cases of fever, it is nearer to psycho-therapeutics than to physiology ! Many of the sea gypsies die a more or less violent death. Sharks may attack the divers in spite of all their wariness, and a sea-eagle may strike the eyes of a cliff-climbcr who is after the nests of thT- sea-swift. The fact seems to be that the Mawken attribute both the accidental deaths and the disease deaths to the same cause- the agency of evil spirits. They appear to be convinced that the spirit" of man is liberated by the death cf the body, and that it may be mischievous as well as kindly when the partnership is dissolved. It is interesting to find these simple people grasping the idea that death is a gateway to another kind of life, and the belief has the practical corollary that they have no fear. The sea gypsies have, so to speak, almost instinctively accepted death, which is ever around them ; in any case, they face it with equanimity. —The 'Women.— The women are pre-eminently mothers, but they prepare the palm-leaf ribbons and plait them into mats; they fillet and dry the surplus fish; they cut" the papaw fruit into strips, clean out the. seeds, and dry the slices in the sun; they also dry sliced bananas and the whole of the small lady’s-fingers variety; they used to make cooking utensils, but this art has decayed since the gypsies discovered that iron pots, obtained by barter, are much better suited than crockery for the bouncing and bumping of the houseboats. Under the pressure of the struggle for existence, the Mawken women seem to be beginning to forget how to dance and the men how to play an accompaniment. There is indescribable nathos in what they said to Mr White : “These are days of sadness. Mawken people seldom dance and play now. We do not make musical instruments as in the long ago.” But when the day’s journey is over the men still enjoy a frolic in the sea and the children on the sands. Till within recent times the sea gypsies had no conception of God, nor name for a Creator. They have nothing in the nature of worship. They also dispense with intoxicants ; and the introduction of onium, like smallpox, is quite modern. They are clean livers and light eaters, and gifts of strange meats like tinned salmon they dispose of quietly but firmly—into the sea. —Will they Die Out?— The picture Mr White gives us of the sea gvpsies is on the whole a pleasant one, for the people have been successful against fearful odds. They have sought out a hazardous niche of opportunity and made it their own. They are strong and wholesome, and, if strangers would leave them alone, they have succeeded in the great task of happiness. They are good fellows, these '■ea-drowned folk. The question is: Will they last ? They know their archipelago and the resources of iis hundreds of beautiful islands: they are peaceful and plastic ; why should they die out? They correspond, indeed, to a small and much persecuted species of animal, forced into a very difficult environment, where the chances of death are many. But man is not restricted to the tactics of Wild Nature, and it seems that understanding and sympathy, hand in hand, might still save the sea gypsies and the good qualities they embody. They live on the waters that wash an Earthly Paradise. “It would be a delightful spot in which to make an experiment in develop-

ment, in accord with the now known principles of evolution, and the sympathetic understanding of a primitive people which has resulted from the Science of Anthropology.”—John o’ London’s Weekly. FILMING THE AURORA BOREALIS. For the first time the Aurora Borealis, those wonderful fairy lights of the Arctic, have been filmed and a valuable series oi photograpng secured, as well as much important scientific data regarding their nature, form, altitude, and so* forth. Indeed, it can now be claimed that the riddle of the Northern Lights has been solved, and the individual who has accomplished this interesting feat is Professor Carl Stoermer, a famous Norwegian scientist. In recognition of his services the French Academy of Science 'have awarded him the Jansen Medal. In all, Professor Stoermer has spent 20 years in his strange quest. It has en tailed many expeditions into tlie Arctic regions, where he has had to remain for the greater part of the long winter, ever on the watch for these elusive lights. Furthermore, he has had to devise special sensitive photographic plates, delicate timing uevices ana other costly apparatus to enable him to catch and record the move ments of these wonderful and beautiful bands of coloured lights. Lapland was the place selected, and at Bossekcp, and also at Store Korsnes, some fifteen iifiles distant, observation stations were established. Furthermore, they were placed in telephone communication with one another, so that one station could check the work of the other. Thus the observers at both stations were enabled to take a photograph of the same light simultaneously. By means of a. signal, plates would be exposed upon the same phenomena at both places for exactly the same length of time. By means of such photographs it was possible to determine the form, altitude and position in space of the Aurora Borealis, while tlie cinematograph recorded its rapid transformation. Often the Aurora appears as a great arch, with flickering curtains of many coloured lights hanging like shining gossamer in the sky, with ever-changing form and ever-changing colour, while shafts of light shoot from the top of the arch far up into the sky. Sometimes there is no distinct arch, but moving bands or cur tains of light appear in many forms, which dance and shimmer and change with such and beauty that it is an ever new delight to watch them. These coloured lights play on the white snow, tinting it with lovely hues, till the whole scene is like fairyland. Those races, therefore, which live in these far northern latitudes have in this spectacle some compensation for the drab existence amid t’ . snowy and icy solitudes. As to the nature of the Aurora Borealis.Professor Stoermer declares that they consist of cathodic rays, which are analogous to radium or to Roentgen rays. They are composed of electric narticles emitted by the sun at a speed of many thousand miles per second, and so small that several millions, placed side by side, would not cover an inch ! It is the magnetism of the earth which draws these electrical rays to the dark regions of our planet, hence they are onlv to be witnessed near tlie Arctic and Antarctic regions. Contrary to general belief/ neither the number nor the density' of the Aurora increases as one gets nearer the Poles. I he zone of maximum frequency is about 70 degrees of latitude. It includes the north of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Iceland, the South of Greenland, the North of Canada, and the peninsula of Alaska. Neither do these wonderful Arctic lights occur high up in the heavens. According to the calculations made by Professor Stoermer, the large majority of Aurora are to be observed from sixty to seventy two miles above the gound. True,- they frequently extend a considerable distance. The rays of one, photographed on March 22, 1920, reached a length of three hundred miles. Harold J. Shepstone, F.R.G.S., in. The Graphic. HAWKERS, PEDLARS, AND OTHER ITINERANTS. Possibly there were never more door-to-door merchants than there are just now. They are largely, however, vitcims of the times, and while unfortunately there are numerous genuine disabled soldiers and out-of-work eases, there are certain cute individuals of nimble wits and histrionic ability who impose upon the housewives’ good nature. —The Old Pedlar.— The übiquitous Ford van (which enables each town to cater successfully for the surrounding district), “mail order.” and railway facilities, have rendered the oldtime professional pedlar almost extinct, except in remote country areas. Yet one can still see occasionally the typical, decent, old chap with japanned-tin, or wooden box,, eloquent of age and use, siting from his shoulder by a leather strap; his back bowed by the constant carrying of a weight so slung; a good stout stick: a knowing eye, and a tongue ready with the latest sensation culled from the morning news-bills —ves, there he goes, the last of his line, while his neighbours sleep on and smoke rises languidly from early kitchen fires. “Something hot” before starting, a pipe o’ baccy, a well-filled box of small wares, and the open road—these are all he asks. Hi' never offers his goods to an unlikely pedestrian, hut his chat is always worth “a fill,” and his weather forecast as reliable as that of any observatory. Some years ago there was a retired hawker in Edinburgh whose accumulated wealth amounted to several thousands. He was unable, to write his name ; but his grandson (if he had one) —such are the times we live in—would scorn the old caravan and vearn for a portmanteau and a railway ticket. —Characters of the Road.— In . a small Border town of grateful memory, over a mile from a railway

station, each itinerant “character” was seen and remembered. Dickens, after all, was no cariacaturist; he was rather a literary “character impressionist.” To prove this one need onlv recall some actual memories of the genuine Border pedlar. Of the ladies of the profession tnere was •Auld Kallen” (Helen), tvpica! of the best. She had her “ain wee bit room” in a town by Tweedside, but her busines at times carried her far afield. Short J lth , bl . ack , bonnet, serviceable boots, decent shawl, and check apron, K„r eU . sometimes kilted and T l r a S % y Stnped P et ticoat, she was Borders gU n e a oll th< - south eastern < ( ' ‘he had a ready tongue, but genuine value assured her a livelihood acrioii." 1611 age restrict6d her sphere of There were others of her sex who also carried considerable baskets of underwear and household linen, with pins and snail nr iP* a ran tee a purchase, however a girlish eye ° b ° Dny rlbbo ” to tem P fc —Chapman and Chap-Books.— I have heard tales of the ehanmon da Th f qUa ;, nt old “chap-books,” of the da.vs before the railways were extender)® WaS books Though ash® eve K Tt S a " d r I USe hea P s > he had a of “bulk«” aU a C n t r h Sa L e i° r a cheap lot wonderful ' collection® wa"l shoiT-h?! P |° P i Ulal ' s P ec *ality. He character Like 6 othefa andable old of books” he ;= th d £ r eater “men remembered in hisVmiC _ —“Cuddy Jock.”— h ram pedlar to hawker sr &!s;: an C e-fnd a i eS wp 0f th . em “I 1 ° f m - v acquaint--was “CufiX T° n i y .. a b °- v ' vhen he d ied tall lank, i‘i d?c k > or John loung a tall, iankv old gipsy, whose right to the Of age, and he was reckoned a not unworthy townsman. un charg^ 5 i' me j t hou gh he never stabled a charge,, he d,d a bit in horse-dealing tohsti of e 'th a t rS T- re ’ indeed > the capi v f he h - awkm K fraternity. One vvoHhv, a man ,n a fairly large way was once being chaffed about his large profits Jnm man ’ n °, : he retorted cannily; “the profits are no’ big. As a matter o’ fact e lose on every transaction; but it’s our urnover that enables us to live 1 ” The horse-dealers and gypsies, by the vvav usuaHy include in their entourage a few Hn^e° oklnS d ° SS ’ albeit ° f doubtful ~^ be High Art of Salesmanship.— usSllv t0 of ring CaraV 1 a " merchants were anH course, hawkers of baskets, lugs, and linoleum— some of them obvirea iv fron }, the South - They were always enhlL , a ’V a PP r °Pri*te descriptive brn«f t " tle - lgh art of salesmanship. A brother of mine once suggested the possible purchase of a rugior his studio Bring me that North Polean bear skin Enerv, came the ready response from the presiding female genius’ \ There was also a rather’ superior onelegged Jew who for years appeared to do well with a travelling “sixpence-havpennv bazaar, ladies—all sixpence-havpennv o' As a boy I admired his digital dextenty m rolling a cigarette. Tinkers and Scissor-grinders. The travelling tinker or tinsmith was o ‘ . .etiiiug oi a bloated character, otten, indeed, a clever enough craftsman oi megu.ar habits (to put "it mildly) though Borrow’s “Flaming Tinman” was tor pugnacity surely an exceptional character Also of lower grade than the genuine pcnlar was the auctioneer of quack medicines, “mend-alls,” and so on. I mbrella-menders were usually suspect, being addicted to just that amount of work which sufficed for temporary liquid nourishment. With the tinkers they often shared the indignity of poor bedraggled wive,3 ‘and perhaps bairns. Of itinerant mechanics, the scissor-grinders were usually the most respectable. There was old Ned—“ Ned the cutler,” bv the way—who could cap the tallest yarn as he worked lus foot-board and the sparks flew from his grindstone. No trout that ever skimmed the Tweed was bigger than the “catches” of his imagination. —Packmen and Camouflaged Mendicants.— Passing by the rag-and-bone and rabbitskin merchants, Hebrew “jewellers,” and dealers in slippers and lace curtains', picturesque and persistent “onion-men,” there was the packman proper, with his “pack” or bundle of woollen goods or odd lengths of tweed from Gala or Hawick. One packman—they were a decent lot of fellows—described his wares quaintly as “stripped men’s shirts and black weemun s stocking.” These men, like their more prosperous confreres who now travel in state with samples and order book, often , did business through sheer personality. Studs, tape, notepaper, pencils, braces, bootlaces—these were the usual stock-in-trade of the pedlar with his well-worn box. He who dealt in bootlaces alone was, of course, always recognised as a mendicant “trading” under the cloak of a respectable calling. These latter days are bad for many worthy folk ; but when there were no wars or rumours there of I have seen cases of gaunt men, stricken in health, carrying only a poor .'.rile chocolate box containing a few trifles—obviously hard cases devoid of any capital, and trtuy grateful for the familiar parinikin of ho;

water and a little tea. and sugar. “Hake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth to save a half penny/' wrote the gentle (Elia. There were Border housewives who had many callers, few of whom went away empty-handed.—Tom Elliot.

LAMP BURNS IN VAIN FOR 32 YEARS.

RICH MAN’S SIGNAL OF FORGIVENESS.

A ow that Mrs Jennie Walters Delano has passed away, in her seventy-first year, at her home in New York, the question arises (says the special correspondent) whether a light which lias been burning’ night and aay for 32 years ♦ver the great bronze door of the long unoccupied mansion of the Walters family in Baltimore wall be extinguished. This is what high society in New York and Philadelphia is wondering. The question especially interests the people of Baltimore, every inhabitant of which city is familiar with the legend of the lamp. -Urs Delano was the daughter of the late multimillionaire, William T. Walters, who was known in every capital of Europe, and especially in London, as an assiduous art collector. the palace in which she was born adjoins, and is connected with a magnificent art gallery. This her father had established, and he bequeathed it, with all his 'vast fortune, to his only son, Henry. For when Jennie Walters, a high-spirited young woman, fell in love with Warren De,ano, Mr Walters disapproved, and when, in defiance of his wishes, she left iiome to be married, her father, so the story runs, vo-wed that she should never cross the threshold again. She never did. Yet she would have been welcomed back wna open arms, friends of the family said, hor Jennie had been his favourite, on whom he had lavished most of his affection, uww w ®ver this might have been, stern old William Walters appears to have relented, though his pride proved stronger than his gi’icf he was noted for his eccentricity as wed as for his culture—and the iainp destined never since to go out appeared in the vestibule j'ust inside of and over me door of bronze a few years after the wedding. It was the sign of his forgiveness that ? e woUid not put into words, and no one has lived in the mansion since his death 18 years ago. • 9,“ e I vel ’ s i°‘ n the story of the lamp is that her father willed that it should never po allowed to go out as long as Jennie lived; another that it should never be extinguished as long as any member of the Waiters family remained alive. Mr Warren Delano, who defied Mr Walers.,f(l carried off his daughter, became wealthy on his own account, being interested m many collieries. But it was understood when Mr Walters died that tlenry Walters made over to his sister half father 1 ’ 116 bec)Ueathed to Mm by their venr 1 ' , with a tra £ ic death two years ago. While he was driving a dogcart near the railway station at Barrytowri, New hnri’ IO A a i a °° untr y estate, his horse, becoming frightened at an approaching express train, bolted on to the line and driver horse, and vehicle were struck and ground to pieces.