THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[Jory = 1857. 
e rain very rarely a wg ge angh 
PE 
he 
the sun show itself in a brightening sky, than 
able for a neighbourhood not naturally 
pet by or = cultivation of Roses 
vour- | 
aes 
z 
eas 
s, | Collie 
a Ppi engg yo Des Pawg emery | of neat | 
i gait eget oe 
—The icul- 
E First oa for the season took te oti in the 
Tem] A a Ee ct at 
Pears. 
art of a considerable t zis: was 
t | collections of ve Vegetables were shown, and some lS 
Rhubarb. 
— 
Notices of of sok, 
pi of co 
purpose. a reception, and kindly And | 
such were oe attributes of the great Gorge e ‘Stephon; ba 
and 
pr lam , of w. it may be trul aia that aimin, versary, or Victory, story, 
n EME si t. useful to his fellow mad | This circumstance is related in istration Stephen. 
Se o diMovties deterred o time dismayed him, no- | son’s personal pluck and e; and it was theron 
| success intoxicated him. ‘At the end ig! a s Dog ne, | characteristic of the man. He was no p and 
-| begun in poved, an and for many a year passed in an | very reverse of quarrelsome. But he wou ne 
almost coagele with iifficulties, vies down by the bully of the colliery, and he fi . 
triumphant tine ess a had rowned all his works, and | There his pugilism pai t era hands, 
i when hero-worshippers had placed him on one of the | ewes ued good friends. In ct 
highest pinga, fa fame, he retained k e me simple m was often as our tried, th a different, 
t | manners and e demeanour that distingui shed wa cot he did not fail to exhibit t but resolute 
Geor zgo ‘Stenson the Brakesman of Killingworth | courage in contending with prast ane be the railw. 
world, as he had thus early s 
a es’s narrative is worthy his great subject. 
There are ie biographies the style i A oe is 50 en- 
tively free from all that a critic pont t to. Plain 
y de tail of railway 
tely acqua inted with the history 
the universal framew 
apoge the narrator abi shows ‘him K master 
his subject—not less alive to the bearing of t o little 
incidents in the early serk of thie struggling hero than to 
hire 
agian skill mat enterprise; its aos pursui 
ngaged t 
doon in the world” m, 
| Newent Tyne, on the 9th of Fane, 1 Tis in the 
tered, cla; 
steam-engines fi stalks, | terminus in Wanichestet 
From “gem cma he ually am ry rank of | We know the rest. On the bine of August, ngt 1888 
plonghboy at 4d. a day, stone picker at 6d., till at last | career of unsurpassed energy a ee ee 
hed the p horse-driver with 8d. a day. | in all the wealth and honour that enoeet “at his 
me of the old people still remember him as a “grit | was t close. On that “tat j 
-] laddie,” full of fan and tricks. His next |h near Chesterfield, in the sixty-seventit yo 
step was to me ant an in the piti died the great Geo henson. His the Leeds 
the first practical move towards engine- a few months his piei shall 
br = = adk- wl s heart. He was now 15, ee Institute, e y Mr. T 
and bony, wit mean physical power. close this : 
ere “At lifting nay y wagi off the groun iad roc CÈ. iacha een d h rowed wit with "onoas th the architect $ a 
;} his feet,—by m bar of n passed t through | railwa; y system, e constru ctor of Som in,’ Be, 
: the bar ae m h has kees as `; fulcrum ye" pear works of h = rele ‘he s bem a rer 
then ia ape the apo =~ ms pase A hem sheer up, | said, “butasa humble m echanic. He seas alt that. 
was very s On one occasion, than the meanest pos there ; 
they ee he lifted as Bess a stones weight in | had been enabled to mplish im the o 
this way—a striking ; indication of his strength of bone | had been thro severance. He sa 
d | and vigour of muscle, ea se aggro 82 28 
is wages reached ree core when, to use 
sown words, he ‘tought himself “a made 
£ man for 
ri 3” and then, g 18 years nth at to read, 
ier | although he had jon hn leisure moments that.he could 
call his own, “But ut the busiest man vie find them if 
momen a ree ar eke 
account, he will prove Mien Ui be the 
pool “gold-dnst of time, as You TAT so beautifully 
and now he learned arithmetic. 
wn, 
pluck and Ae qme 
n by 
to m ake him 
| killed, The village 
good | the esa ‘of the place, 
‘avourite—all wished t 
for t 
w rounds, George’s wiry muscles and 
miners’ practised strength enabled him sorely to punish ii i 
ate 
ventions that are ambk ges changing general terms 
ork of o pola 
a miner’s safety lamp ce he a 
the immeasurable importance of the results growing out | ments in locomotives, improved rails and chairs, ry 
f his matured incotiois and triumphant The | springs, experiments in friction and gravity, and 
volume is a biographical the construction of a railway at Hetton Colliery. 
George Stephenson was T e son of reepentahia, è care- The success of this operation soon led to ks gor 
a hardworking labourers, earning about 12s eek, | of a rail from Stockton to gton, and as 
n the words of a e “they had little ti come | an almost ne cessary consequence to that, of a a 
he | and go upon—they were honest = ae iron iverpool to x pole 
In the village near | Smiles’s pages will be found a most int teresting 
nts occupied, unplas y-| had to encounter, proprietors 
Booted, skp Het overhead, he came into | their own ruin in his success, from engineers whe ky 
peria a is early days were passed as those of chil- | nounced the plan Berarekin Chatmoss t pn 
dren fn in such circumstances gaiii are. Playing, birds- | able under any circumstances to bear the weig ‘n ag 
go ds, minding the other children, | iron road and its pre a from gentlemen learned in 0 
carrying his father’s dinner—such were his occupations | law as“ ere most. absurd se 
y. Schooli had none, “the family was too | that: ever entered into nthe ead of man 
r, and fo , to admit of that.” At eight | and Pte honourable and A honourable gentlemen 
years of age he was promoted to herd a neighbour’s cows | who had no scruple about preferring priya 
to look after the gates on a way ; for which he | ri sa ng In spite of all t 
was rewarded with 2d. a day. Then it was that the lad’s | Stephenson — ? es 
gineering tastes began to show themselves. Having | having forced ifs s way ‘and upset the a Martie 
little to do he amused himself with ring | “ Rocket” pm arete P safely 
whistles out of Reeds, aes woren and clay | abysses of Chat: and coded tol trium 
pi 
o erly 
| which 
Inaw 
men i 
erseverance was not as back 
It ha oid ‘hat ‘Stephane 
great 
driven eeN Ison, a colliery bul z and Inuloes 
Black Call 
nicer Goons rge Steplien n oc whak 
n. challenge Everybody said ae he would be 
ers—the 
m George wasan 
hat he ye ae beat Nels te 
AE 
him he did. e days 
oa Fs eres day of battle, Nelson went oe ot wi 
g hims elf fresh 
uch were the preparatio the gad 
Patiti for that. future contest i in Bare out = 
nden 
he came with such transce 
Of his furth 
i in 
í slow degrees mec and 
“ ineering skill became manif shoe- 
ing, pump curing, and engine wi orking, e 
pe the Emea thee of a locomotive, tar the invention 
d 
narrative 
of the enormous difficulties which, George rge Stephens 
but Kman, and pregnant ‘with life and instruction" P 
Of his horticultural pursuits, for be be me 
in his way, We may, ARS a ee 
sre 
The Potato Disease: Statement to the 
surat Soak ciety of ate he 
