The Bryan Daily Eagle. (Bryan, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 76, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 27, 1897 Page: 3 of 4
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X STIIAXGE WOOING.
AM Casper Ath-
wold. I wai born
beautiful lut one
day a nurse drop-
ped wo from tier
arms down tlia
whule length of
the oak staircase.
There I no nerd to
tar more. Yet I
wsa a happy child.
Aa I grew up I
built inch rastlcg In the air aa other
routhi build and In my eaatla 1 be-
ran to ac Kate Normsn'a figure
Katlo'a dark-eyed crimson-cheeked
tare milling on me from visionary fire-
side there and hear her olre singing
billable In the tar-off future. Ww met
o(trn. She wai always kind and friend-
ly. I had fancied something more.
One day I went In the beat of the
afternoon to a shady spot by tho rlyer
side my own ground. 1 lay upon the
graas reading a bonk when behind the
glossy leaves of the plants which the
little ones railed "bread and butter
bushes" I heard th sparrow-like twit-
ter of atlrla vol ret.
"She'll have nlm" said one.
"Fancy aurh a bridegroom!" said the
other. "All hla money couldn't buy
me."
"Ho don't want you but Kate" said
the first.
"One must be at one's last prayer to
want stu b an admirer. No one could
like Casper Athwold."
"Of course not." stld the first; "but
then he's rich and Kat poor enough."
"You are right; r.o woman could love
him; but money will marry anybody."
There was a rustle a sound of feet
on the grata. The chlrplug volcea dlid
sy In the dials. ice.
t e
I fhut myself up In the oil bouse
among my books and shunned the
sight of facei and the sound of voices.
Il (he best thing that a man whom
no one could love could do.
80 the months wore away. Pome-
limes I had met her but I always look-
id another way and our pleasant greet-
ings bail com to an end. I had seen
a hurt flush on her face and taken no
heed of It. I bad even been discourteous-but
I loved her Just as 1
bad loved her all tiling.
One day I went to the oM lawyer
who bud had charr of our estate for
f rty years and bale him draw me
JP a will in whlrh I lift all that I po-
""d to Kate Norman with a letter
which ta!y her ban la were to unw.il
fnly her eyes to read alter 1 bad
ipme.
This was the lifer:
"Kate N'irman: You never cared for
me; you could not; cure I heard a
woman say r.o woman could; but I
loved you. Had I cherished ore faint
ray of hope I oull have striven to
win your heart; but I learned. In time
what folly it was; and. In pity for my-
self held aloof from you. As It la It
gives me some pleasure to think that
you will dwell under this roof. When
you read this Jou will pity not deride
the love of "Casper Atiiwold."
. This note lay unsealed and directed.
To be given to Kate Norman after
my death:" and the will was alsi
signed and sealed and 1 walked home.
-- 1 . :
1 WAS IN DANCE..
At tny door the elm shadows lay
(hi' k. and !: them stood a bent
crooket figure clothed In r.igs. a beg-
gar who began bis dolorous whine as
I came up:
"A Idle help. Just a J'f.le; I'm not
a strong man. sir; I can't work like
the same. Yer l-n't stror.g yerslf;
Til be kimwm' what that Is. A w ik--Iv
ould crater that would be thankful
for onythlng-a penny or an ould coat
or a sup or a bite yes. sir."
I to-l Mm a coin.
"Co." 1 said. "Don't l. !-r h-re."
Tim dan I mked at me curiously a
though he hrd expected more pity
from me. The coin had fall- n at his
U (. He atixwd and picked It up.
"YfS. It'll buy a bite." be s.ild. "Cool
lurk tn ye. It's not alwav I ate before
I lapV
I turned anl Icnki.l at the b. ggar.
lie Was n.!ir:ible also.
"Cc; In." I said "t il give vou
tctne r!o:hr: you need tVni sadly."
"It's i.oth'ng b'lt ne.lng wl:h me
i!r." said be. "The llks u ui caa't
work."
"Y.iu have hid an nrM. nt"
"Mr father threw ne nit o' a w'n-
dow for a i ke when bo was not a-
ter."
I 1 01k fron my wnrlro!e garments
J had worn a id bade hl:u put Ih' m on.
Afterward I gavi him fnol. I called
nn tenant lnno c;ic siw him e.r ie or
t save r vu'lf. He departed hle'Mnc
me. 1 uiid 1.1 111 out 01 aiht. I .if 'I
I burst cut In a lau. h.
"lie had beit go and offer ?ils hand t
Kale Norman." 1 said. "Th'-y would
make a wll-matrhed couple lwa he
look like me In my clothes I w under?
They tit him well."
Then I remembered going nut of the
door and down towards the water's
rdee. A boat lay three with the oaiS
In It. I stepped In and rowed up the
river. The tw:light 'a led. night came
on a dark moonless nlgliL I bad
dropped the oar and was drifting si a-
wsrd. lying at the bo'.tcra of the bant.
1 knew that I waa In danger but the
knowledge did not aTert me.
Suddenly a glare of red lltht flashed
ever my fare t hrsrd a heavy throb of
machinery then shrieking whittle
' end a steamer w s hard upen my little
tx-at.
After that I kn-w nothing until I
came to myself In n strange room. In a
strange hotel at Albany. The captain
of the steamer which had run my boat
(Iowa fancied that to hit account U;
mi)
-iv- . ) .i.tisii; I
the fever and d lliium which bad coiud
upon tun and hud we taken rare of.
It was two weeks since the day last In
my memory. I read that In the paper.
There also. I read this paragraph:
"The body found In the woods at
has been Identified by the garments
and tame personal peculiarity s as that
of Mr. Cusper Athwold a wealthy cltl-
sen who has been missing many dsys.
Ills funeral takes placs this morn-
ing" I dropped the paper In amnxement.
My own namethe record of my death.
Then I burst Into a bitter laugh. I
understood It. The beggar whom I bad
clothed bad died upon the road lit
It vat who was that day to be burled
under my name.
At first It seemed merely a cruel Joke.
Then the memory of my will and tha
letter written to Kate Norman flushed
upon me. I must reach home and prove
myself a living man before It was too
late.
Weak as I was I nrcse and dressed
myself and giving my uddress to the
landlord left the hole for the depot;
but I reached It only In time to find
the train g'ine. Another bour or so
must pass. They were ages to me.
She would not read that letter while I
lived.
At last I was off fairly on my way.
In the dark of the evening I alighted
at the depot and hurrl 'd homeward.
There 1 should find my servants and
probably the lawyer who would find It
hla duty to secure everything for tho
future heiress.
They would not. I hoped read the
will so soon et It waa customary. If
this hat bein done how should I act?
How speak? Only a little spare lay
between the depot and my home. The
railroad encroachments bad been my
mother's greatest troubles In the last
years of her life. Now this fact en-
abled me. Ill aa I waa to reach the
house without delay. It was dark
snd I met no one.
In a monien' I knew why. They ha I
SMembled In the parlor to hear my will
read-for through (he Venetian shut-
ters lung bars of light fell acrooa the
porch; and looking In unnwn mys-lf
I saw Kate Norman wliha letter In her
hand glide through (he opp-islte door.
The will had been rea l. IL fore I
rou 1 1 Interpose she would have read
the lett-r also.
What should I do? return as I had
enme? change my name? dwell
where no one knew me? It s-emed
that this were better than to return to
the gaping towns folk's nine days'
win l' r. Worst of all to ni-i t Kate.
I turtle I from the window an l hur-
ried awjy-lnit I was still weak very
wisk. end soon mr s'r ngth give way.
II was J 1st ns I r- a i.e (he rhun hyat
The ro.id was bare with no res'.lng-
place upon It. but wlth'.n the ga's the
soft grass tempted me an l (he willow
bundles teemed to Hod a welcome.
I cast mytelt down In (he long grass.
The rrlike:s chirped all stou( me. A
bird somewhere gie a shr.ik now and
then.
I felt my blood on fire; I coul J no
stop thinking: I could not give tired
nature her way. 1 was weary and
worn beyond all des-rlptlen.
I b-ard the church dock strike nine
tt startled me to think sn hour bad
flown when the same clock stru. k ten.
I lifted up my head to listen and saw
a figure gllJIng up the path a wom-
an's f cure.
II can.e strnlgM on and rait Itself
nn the grave by which I sat (he grave
beneath whlih the b-R.ir lay whom
(hey had taken for ni)self iat Itself
upon II. suMiing wildly.
The shadows bid me. I gi;-d un-
seen upm (lie ni'nirt.er. Who vas It?
pome one who bad mistaken (he spot
no d.)UM. She lifted up her head.
In the moonllKht I mv her face. It
waa Kate. Had pity brought her
(here? Could pity make a woman
weep s i? I drew nearer. She si-uke
It was my tame she uttered.
"Oh Cas;.. r." she cried "shall I nev-
er hear your dear vnl. e? Can I never
tell you how I loved you? Oh. Capr
Casper!"
Silence w'.th the cricket's chirp
smldft It sn I the bird's scream dawn
broke upon my soul. Th-n I s' md be-
side her holding her cbe and f ist.
"I'o not fear d ) not tremble" I cried.
"It Is a ll leg' Casper who conns U
you snl nn gln(. Oh. Kate-Kate
ym gave lender word to (he clay you
thought mine will you bleu mc with
them living?"
She hid her face In my bosom and
would not look up w..uld only cling
to 11 e with her f: whlu bands and
Sob.
Ar. 1 there we stood aim' together
nllt the graies t contmt tt star. 1
there her b ind In mine her cheek up-
r.:i my bosom until the ble.s d even-
Itir-tln'.e b r.Kthened I'ndf Into eternity
Put at last the told me Hit th.it cf
ail men I was to her tlie best; and
ttl-eu I wondirlug'y asked her how I
111 dare dream that this could be
she made .-'i!.v the woman's auer
"Il- i.ii se ; I- ve y.ni."
In (he moonl sht. on that happy
nliiM. we wen: for:h fro.-n the old
graxevard Into the world of lite ban 1
In hand as we hive R'Uio t 'g -thcr tver
since London Sun.
A Correction.
"This." said (he profr-Mor of onat-
I ot.iy. as be chiMtcd a himmn Jaw-
b. tie "i tho liifiilnr maxillary."
"I lg your p.itdon. profe.s.ir" sail
one of the tuari b d Mud- iiU -l-ng didn't.
I understand you to say the skeleton
V"i have befote us belonged to a fc-
mule?" I till."
"In that r:fC then (here Is no Infer-
ior maxillary." Washington Time.
A slneere t nn.Kisltlnn.
"I don't think IVnntr I a sincere
writer." remarked one young man.
"You think be doesn't mean what ho
S4l?"
"Yes."
"Well. I know letter than thnt. 1
saw something (hat he wrote the other
tiny and I'm sine he meant every word
of lu It was a request for a loan of
i." Washington Star.
r.sesprratlngly ln.lrttnlt.
"If that Isn't aggravating!"
"What's the matter?"
"I Jut got a letter from my hrotbrr
In which be says lie I going to marry
a blue gr&aa widow. I don't know
whether he U engaged (6 a Kenturky
woman cr a freak." Cincinnati
di'tVer
WOIJXDEJ) HKAJ.Tb.
WOMEN RECOVEFl CIO DAM-
AGES FROM FICKLE MEN.
Mitrv Ahnont t.lvlngaioii I lainlnf Afer-
wanla lirfenilaiil In a Slimier hall
lleenvereil the l-jtrgeal erillet oil Iter-
urU -Oilier Mueea-Mlul Haul.
ri -ji 1TY thousand dol-
T lura for a woman's
. JT lJ heart!"
The above state-
ment appeared as
the headline for a
'.Si 11 ' -J x"rT n
' J York newspaper
" p the other day.
It referred to the
Judgment which
Frederick U Col-
well a broker bad obtained against
Ir. Charles A. Tinker for (he alienation
of Mrs. Colwell's affections. The sum
Is a fortune In Itself and seems at the
first glance to be out of all propor-
tion to the customary allowance In
ruch ca-es.
According tn the record of the New
York courts the five costliest heart In
(tint city were adjuded to bo as fol-
lows: Mary Alaiont Llvlnsston Hom-
ing VZ.W)
"ather Jaroln fjO.uoo
I'lnra Campbell 45.Mif)
ilate Yunkrr lo.i'Oj
Matilda (Ireenfleld lu.ooo
Tliesn five verdict were returned In
tult for damage for breach of prom-
je of marriage.
Mr. Fleming whose trial fur the
murder of her mother was one of the
most sensational criminal case ever
londucted In New York enjoy the dn-
tluctlon of p'jaoxlng the curliest
heart. Judged by (hi standard of any
woman In that city. Mr. Fleming re-
ceived a verdict of ITj.ooO. rtefore a
retrial could be had. an Appellate Court
having t aside the Jury award a
rigorous siwrch was made Into her pwt.i
What the revelations were reader of
the details of the late murder trial will
recall. This award while It
stand at the top. had a string lie J (0
It Mr. Fleming was glad to settle for
112. (.
Ks'her Jacob lecurel a Ju lsrr.ent of
I". ."' (.a!:i t Henry 11. Sire on March
11'4. It was ti.e third trial of her
rse. On the f.r: oi caslua she niei the
tl'ark of a mistrial on aerount of the
Illness of a Juror who was stc.-ken at
time when the ca.le was J i-t draw-
Ir.g to a cln"e and on a ee.nnd trial
the Jury bro-irht In a vordirt of Kj.oji.
The defetnlant obtained a new trial.
On the third trial the defendant wai
without pretense of defense and the
Jury awarded l.er the sum of $ji.iA'U.
While .Mrs. Fleming holds the rec
ord fur (latrine awarded by a Jury In
a breach of promise eue. Miss Clara
Campbell of Ircnton Ohio actually
recovered (he isrsret um (hua far
awarded fur rich a ciuse. She ob-
tslne.i a verdict for IIji) .'gainst
Charles Ari a kle of Lr.Mikl and
af:er the defendant had exhaa. i the
remedies that are open to a litigant
who has money to give lawyers she
got the money.
Charles Arburkle was an oil broker
and a member of the famous firm of
corTee rcastere and pa ker. He was
r.fty flve year old. stiff and formal In
n. .inner.
When Arburkle met Mls Campbell
a far back as 1M. her father was a
re.-ute-I mri.onalr... John Camplwll'i
fortune was swept away and then Ar-
b.nHe's love grew coll. tie brike the
encasement and she sued for ll'io.oi)
for briach of pr'nile f marriage. The
cas cauie up In Part IV. of die Su-
preme Court silting In Brooklyn In
January .OS.
On March 15. 1S3. Kate Yunkr
wt'.ked out of (he old New York city
cmirt ro.im on the arm of her attorney
snd smiled triumphantly upon Peter
Ileckman. a well-to-do grocer whose
fhsicaoi .a l Just been punished by
a Jury to the extent of It'i.i' -J.
Ho wa a proai-erous H.msien street
businrrs man who tho.ight that he
was In luxe and found mk before the
ilsy set fur the marriage that be had
mi le a nil ! eke.
Matilda Crienfleld ob'ained Judg-
ment ng.ilnst Charles J. Welshman la
l'.'J for I'n'.iHio r breaih of pruu:se.
He paid only alter confinement la
Ludlow.
The trial of a suit brnucht by IJertha
lioblnson of ("j North Clark :rei
( hl. aiM ag.nst I n 1 1 Wli sienlierger
dealer In seo-.d-hand Jewelry of Sew
Yc.k to rcoer .".'. datiagea for
I'STiir.u jaimh.;
aliefed breach of promise of marriage
w.is begun je cn'.ly before Justice Cc.g-
t rl. h and a Jury In the supre-ne uurt.
The Robinson wotiin says that In
January. 1!'I she and the defendant
envere.l Into an agreement lo marry
snd the day for the wedding was Bxel
'or May L". 34. She alleges that she
expended In preparlug for the
wedding and purchasing her trous-
seau. IWore the day fixed for the
marriage was rrfched the plaintiff
allege Wlcasrnbcrgcr refused to mar-
ry her and ha continued to decline to
wed her although she haa since re-
n alneel single for his sake. Wlesscn-
hergrr does not deny that he promised
(. marry (he woman. He admits that
they became engaged but says that
fraud waa practiced upon hlrn by the
phintlff. He say that she assured
him that her family occupied a high
sivlal position In Chicago. Wlcwsenbcr.
ger says that subsequently he learned
that such was not the rase and that
her parents were r.ot living together
lie also alleges that tlie plaintiff s falh-
f . J. V c. Xj
iC -x:i
'V '
4 v
ur u a d-stkard and a traml.ler and
that her uncle Abraham Robinson
after being ln.llote-t f)r arson commit-
ted suicide. The Jury returned a ver-
dict awarding LVriha Itubltuun Jl.ViO
dumaires.
farmer's HIiiKklug lt-wih
Elijah Coleman a respectable 0-.en
county Ky. farmer went to Lusby
Mills tho other day. He had not re-
turned borne next morning ar. 1 (be
family Instituted a anarch lis was
'ouinl dead In a barn about a tulle
rrom town. Ill mV and ears had been
eaten off by tho tJ-g- and bis bwly
otherwise badly mantled. He could
scarcely be Identified but for the color
of his clothing. He was seen at Lusbys
Mills very much under the Influence of
liquor and It Is supiiosed he stsggered
on his way home. Coming to the barn
It Is supposed he fell In a stupor and
was killed by the bogs. 'Fqulre M. 0.
Waldrop held an Inquest over the body
of Coleman. The Jury returned a ver-
dict that he came to his death from
Injuries received by bog and other
dumb brute whllo drunk. Coleman
had recently been married a second
time to a young woman.
ttiiirwn's Oil J Itrllglieas Usui.
Mary It-hon a long-time and well-
known resident of Terre Haute Ind.
ha been taken to J ill violent!)- Insane
endliig a formal Inquiry a (0 her con-
dition. She became Insane at a result
of religious excitement. She fought
desperately when two policemen took
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MATILDA CltKLNTSELD.
her from her residence and si the Jail
when a physician entered her cell she
knocked him down. Many of her
friends railed at the Jail to see ber
and. while she recognire 1 them and
thanked thera she Insisted that they
must repent lo lie saved. Turning (o
the running hydrant In the cell she
said: "See (here Is the blood of the
Iord Jesus Christ; ser how It gushes
from his bleeding aide. His blood will
save us ail and I am going to be saved
now. I will drink and be an angel."
Thereupon she placed her lips to the
running water.
Rabl.lt Thai 114 Moras.
J. C. Kutledge while hunting near
Elk City brought down a rabbit whlrh
upon examination proved to be a freak
of nature having a pair of well-developed
horns says a Wichita special
to Dally Facta The animal did not
differ In any re'pect from the ordinary
"olion tall" except that right at the
bae of the ears there cropped out two
weil defii.e 1 hum a little ever two
Inches In length and alut an Inch In
I circumference. They were ecmpose 1 of
! a hard auhstanre of about the conslst-
j ency of a horse's hoof and there I no
reason to d uht that they had been
there from birth. The monstrosity la
bring mounted by a taxidermist.
l-otrtv Mule Hint wtary.
Near this Ullage lives John Leonard
says a Morion. Pa. special (o the Dally
Truth. Several year ago bis little
daughter wa feeding young robins In
a nes:. The mother bird grew tame
and would cat from the child's hand.
Ijisi spring a windstorm blew down
the tree and killed the young robins.
The mother bird was seemingly In-
consolable until one day It brought a
crumb of cake and lit on the hand of
three-year-old Lula. The child ate (he
cake and every day since (he robin
has brought food to the little girl.
Cake la 1. ft where the bin! can get It
easily and as yet nothing haa been
brought In that could be delrterluus to
the child.
Invention r the Spirits
A suc.'rful test has N-eu made of
a complicated fence-making machine
for which (he pa'entees John Shimmer
and son of Anderson lad. claim ab-
mlutely no credit but slat that (heir
bodies and brains simply carried out
plans given to them by spirits snd that
the work as It progressed was directed
by the spirit. They have Iwen at work
a year but have a wonderful piece of
machinery which will lll ely revolution-
lr. (he manufacture of wire fence be-
cause of the rapidity that Is possible.
They are both ardent spiritualists and
are well known to snvmher of the In-
diana As-oclatlon and quite well known
In Michigan.
An l.lanil tit I hala.
The riigilsh I .laud id Tl.a:n-t (form-
ing a part of the county of Kent I Is
alti.o ( wholly composed of rhslk. The
island I ten nillis In l.-ng'h a'mut
five 111 breath and !.:s More t iuilk ex-
posed on Its surface than any oilier
pot of eii.ial area on the gloi.c. Hrltb.h
geologists e-y th.it there are not bss
than t;.ii-Hi ihhVO si tors of chalk "in
skht" on Thailet nnd that It would
lake 10 000 to n and .Vo-Hi horses and
r.rts ;o Oi 0 years (o move It providing
It were dug up ready (o bo carrlid
away. St. Iiuls Republic.
IMfTerent l.leas.
A man's Idea of a g.wd time Is to
have much lo rat. mure to drink and
share with everybody; while a wom-
an's Idea of a good time Is to have a
sup of this and a bite of that together
with a new gown that no one can du-
plicate and everybody envtow. Adams
Mass. Freeman.
Tnarhmg.
Cholly "C.umv appeabs to be awful
ly huht. diMicherknow. because Mis
Gotccnia nivhely gave him the tip of
her finger on bid ling him good-by
befohe leaving fob Kurops'.' Jack
"Why that's all right. That Is what I
would call a touching farewell." I'p.
to-Pate
-. .-.-'... -- J
FAMOUS E03IAX INN.
ENTERTAINED CUESTS OF THE
GREATEST DISTINCTION.
Adventures of Montaigne In Rnmr Ills
Apartments Whil Then Went to
Me the Heads of St. I'aul aud
Bl. I'.l.r.
HE reglmer of tit
Albergo d-dl' Onto.
If that once famous
Rear hotel aver
hail a reaiiktsir
f"''-- O wuld not only bo
of enormous alue
ft J
.'
collection of
5v
autographs hut of
1aV.-.V'v-J great help to
the
literary pilgrim tn
Roma to-day. says
Laurence JIutton la Harper's Maga-
tlne. The Inn stood for centuries on
the same spot in the Via dell' Orso;
tt waa always In the hotel buslnou.
central commanding fashionable and
comfortable as the advertisements
would say. and tn the height of lis
glory and prosperity It entertained
guests of the greatest distinction In all
the walks of life and from all parts
of the globe. Montaigne slept under Its
roof and It Is even claimed for It thai
Dante made It his home when be came
If he ever did come as the am-
bassador of Florence to the pope of
Rome at the beglunlng of the four-
teenth century; although this I mere
conjecture. Th building condemned
lo demolition still stood. In Its shabby
old age frequsnted by peasants when
I last saw It but It was entirely unno-
ticed by the hundreds of thouaand of
tourists who paasd It on tbetr way to
and from St. Peter's. Its massive
valuta and fine old columns were once
the delight of the arlli.ts. And Lord
Herbert of Cherbury mention It fond-
ly In more than one of his letters.
Montaigne kept a Journal of his ad-
venture In and his Impressions of
Rome during his stay here In the
winter of liso-dl. . He regretted that
nothing was left of ancient Rome but
the sky above It and the outline of It
form but he wj delighted with Its
climate and Its society and he con-
fessed that he never breathed air more
temperate or better suited to bis con-
stitution. TIJs latter. It may be re-
marked could not have been written
j truthfully during many of the winter
uMMiiua oi me last iew years.
Montaigne arrived In Rome on the
Sth of November l0 and went to
the Ibar. where be staved that day and
the next but on the 21 of December
be hired apartments at the house of a
Spaniard opposite the Church of St.
Luela della Tints where he was pro-
vided with three handsome bedrooms
a dining room a close. tahle and
kitchen for 20 crowns a month the
landlord Including in that sum a cook
snd fire for the kitchen. He had an
ludlence with the pope aw the elocu-
tion of Catena a famous robber and
-aplaln of banditti which he railed "a
spectacle" and he found the winter
nearly as rold as that cf Gascon y. Ills
irrount of one of the many sights he
saw is worth quoting In full: "On
Kastcr eve." he said. "I went to see
at Su John Latcran. the heads of St
Paul and St. Peter which are exhibited
there on that d&y. The heads are en-
tire with the hair flesh color and
heard as If they still live I. St. Teter
I has a long face with a brilliant com-
1 pinion approaching the sanguine
kith a gray picked Uart snd a papal
mitre on his head. St. Psul is of dsrk
Iromplexlon. with a troader and fuller
j face a large head anj a thick tray
beard."
Ols.Wtnae la Tarkl.a ryes.
Puring the antl-Turklh crusade.
1ST6-7. the fellow Ing pen portrait of
Mr. Gladstone was printed and dis-
tributed In thousands throujhiut the
land of Islam: "Glads:onr's nickname.
li:ye of Gold." Is derived from bis
rovetousnrs of gold. He Is middle
site) ba a yellow complexion wears
a half beard and I thl k haired. 11
Is the son of a pig-dealer and lives
only for gold. Only his forehod Is
open which Is a sign of his mischie-
vous turn of mind. Owing to this same
reason the fore side cf his head Is
bald to (he extent (hat those who look
M him from afar take him to be scalped.
His nose Is prominent and aquiline
his mouth Is very ui'y like the word
(hat fall from It; and when he shuts
It his two front teeth fall one di-clme-tre
beyond the upper Up" Such wa
(he Bettering account of himself Mr.
Gladstone read lo some vUilor to
HawarJen In 1STT.
Amienl Tmil.
j An explorer recently found In Egypt
a bror.se bowl and a s. rl s of Iron tools
; of forms quite unlike any known In
llgypt. and they are though! to belong
to an Assyrian armorer about 6r.o R. c.
Thce tools comprising three saws
made for pulling nut pushing one
rap. one file several thisiis and fer-
rules a scoop-e.lg.sl dill two center
bits and others are ef the greutest
value In the history of tools as show-
Ing several forms of an earli'-r date
than was thought possible. Thry are
probably of Assvrlau or'..n.
A I reaa.
Dime Museum Proprietor "What Is
your line?" Applicant f .r Kngnge-
nient "I am a lightning calculator.
and " "Can't use yc.i! Lightning
calculators are so common that they
have c.i.sed to have auy attraction
whatever for tlie public." "lint 1 am
able to In.v.atitly tell how many davs
Ihcre are In afe particular ri nth with-
out repeating the doggm I. 'Thirty days
hath Septciiilwr' and so on. I "
"Name your price my d ar fellow!
Namo your price!" Truth.
W hat She I'refrrrrel
'Spell firment and give Its defini-
tion." requested the school teacher.
"F-e-r-m-e-n-t. ferment to work." re-
sponded the diminutive maiden. "Now
place It In A smtence so tbst I c:ay be
sure you laJcratand Its meaning" aald
the teacher. "In the summer I would
rather play oct of dior (han ferment
In the rhool houke" returned the email
scholar with such decided frankness
and unconscious humor that the teach-
er found It hard to reprei a smile.
Philadelphia Time.
In Italy there are more theater In
proportion to the population than In
aay other cointry.
FASHION AND FURNITURE.
Good Tasle loo Oflsn erHlcd la
Garnishing tha lloasa
"Fashion la responsible for any
amount of bad furniture" write Hairi-
er! tie U. Johnson lu Woman' Home
Companion. "For the wealthy It t
Marie Antoinette and other period fur-
niture or Turkish Japanese and other
ornate eastern styles none of which Is
adapted to our habits and surround-
ings. I jiat year It waa m'tal bed-
ateads; now they are tabooed and wood
reign. Today It I prima vera and
curly birch; alx month from now It
may be black walnut and cherry again.
Some faahlon are bizarre and ugly
many more artistic and altogether
charming; for Instance brass bed-
steads are showy and daxzllng and ir.n
one too suggestive of public Institu-
tions where cleanliness Is the main
consideration. Wood bedtel are more
plnaalng to the eye and give a chamber
a coxier appenranre. In short given
free reign fashion Is a tyrant here ai
elsewhere; made subservient to good
taste and Judgment It Is a most help-
ful and profitable servant and to no
one more surely than the woman wtth
refined taste who must economise.
The lite and use of a room must de-
termine the kind and amount of furni-
ture to be put into It. Furniture should
be beautiful In Its. If. and beautiful a
considered In connection with every-
thing else In the room. A plee of
fi'jMture good In design material and
workmanship Is always beautiful when
appropriately ured. Let use be the
first consl b-ratlon. Make no purchase
hastily. Have a definite Idea of what
Is both suitable and good; of the needs
of the room and the sum you can af-
ford lo expend. Prefer hard wood an!
good workmanship every time to chep
decorations. If you must economize
closely .t fashion be neither the first
second nor third consideration. The
style and air niort conductive to the
beauty and comfort cf roea li of no
sr. all degree dependent upm the ar-
ra igement of Its furniture. Any num-
ber of suggestions but few explicit dl-
rc'Jons for producing the delred re-
sults can be given for while certain
rule must be adhered to (ucces I far
les dependent upon technical knowl-
edge than upon the artistic sense and
cleverness of the woman Wfco produces
thetn."
A Child Shall t4 Them.
A touching Incident 1 t.iJ hy Ehen
E. P.exford In the New York Observer:
There was a quarrtd In the household.
The father and mother had spoken
bitter words to esch other. The sun of
home was under a clout. Little Ruth
went about with a sad look on her face.
It grieved her to see the angry scowl on
her father's fare and to hear the hart
sound In her mother's voice. Hy and
by she went out. She went Into the
arbor and knelt down and prayed.
"Dear Cod." she said. " we've got
trouble. Papa and mamma are angry
There' something wrong In their
hearts. Won't you pints make U
right? It hurts me so (o bear them say
such bad things because I love them.
1 know they love esch other but I
guiss they forget It. sometime. Dear
GoJ please make thcru re'neaiber all
the time."
The little girl's father overheard her
prayer. He went to hla wife and
said:
"Forgive mef T was to blame for
what happened thlj morning."
"No. John" she cried. Ihe hard took
going out of her face. "I was wrong.
I knew It. bat 1 wouldn't own It. For-
give mel"
I "Ilo;h of us were to blame perhaps."
he sal 1. and then they kl.sscd each ola
er. Just as Ruth came Into the room.
"O papa O mamma! you've mad 1
up" she cried with a radiant face.
"I'm so g'ad so glad! I prayed you
would and I think my prayer must
have been heard."
"Yes. dear." said the father "your
prayer waa beard and answered."
Tosnasy's Wxitrnea
"Now. Thuma." said the teacher
"write me a sentence In which the
words pine and butternut are used."
And Thomas wrcte: "The fellow f.-lt
almighty tough when him his best girl
rut; first he thought he'd pine away
and then he thought he'd butternut"
Detroit Journal.
tassels an the firaat lkea.
There are more American vessels on
the great lakes than on the o-ean. anJ
tliilr combined tonnage Is greater.
VARIETIES.
A mine la Idaho last week shipped
nut three bars of bullion talueel at -sell.
The Zulus of Africa contributed $1.-
(KHi last year for the support of their
native churches..
Military physiclar In India prescribe
opium a a harmless tonic for soldier
tn fatiguing marches.
I'urlng the recent holidays every
single girl over eighteen In the town of
Urooksiown. Ky.. wa married.
The Mormons are said to employ 2-
S.Hi missionaries which I about one
10 every 1i0 member of their chur-Y
Over tm thousand acre of timber
have b. en removed from (he forest t f
Uoyne Valley. Mi. h.. la the lat evea
year.
Ib-njamln Constant I to palat the
ceiling and M M. L. O. Mcrson am!
Flameng the grand stalrvase of the ne
Paris Opera C0.nh1.1e.
The Introduction of barbed-wir
t.n.ing l diminishing fox-hunting In
England. Many farnou buii nmea are
giung up (heir pack.
On Ihe return of the Japanese rcjl-
meni from the Chlnei war the favor-
ite tune of the military bands was
"Marching Thro' Georgia."
Toklo has adopted tha arch sy.atem
for the two miles of elevated raliroaJ
which It has been decllel to bullJ
there at a cost of 2.V0 (K0.
lWlin claim to hate a more exten-
sive telephone si stem than any other
city tn the world. It has J.'.soj na-
tions atid 4"ii.(H'0 dally users.
The t niteel States ha a .reater va-
riety of venomous flies (haa any other
country. Several thousand species
havt been put upon the gjverament
11 L
"Why do you thluk so much more of
your father than you did before you
were married?" "IWause I had ntver
lived with any other man up to that
tlm." Detroit Fre ftiK
A COOD EXAr.trtr
lne T.wrj Year What Home Men Ii.x.t
Do In a l.iretlma.
"I believe" remarked the hotel c' i'
to a group of listeners according t
the Washington Star "that the in - J
patriotic men we have In th ti.i'- l
8lates are tha traveling salesmen."
"And why they?" Inquired a meii.U r
of congres.
"Uecause (hey know the country bet-
ter than any other clas and see p l i
all lu sections and are among the
classes who maintain It and make It
possible for the rest of us to live wi'-'j
great deal more ease than w muU
otherwl. Now there's one who went
out of (be office Jut aa the gentleman
from New York came In. Tht man
trartls for a Boston hou and hi l r-
rltory extend from Main to Southern
California and be make the trip every
year atopplng usually In the big cities
but taking many of the other In on hi
way.
"He haa been doing tt for years un-
til he know the people of the country
In every itafe and I have yet to bear
him ay a bitter thing or a foollih or.o
about ecion peculiarity or differ-
ence. He I too hroad for that thai
Is to say he I too patriotic Then
again he come to Waahlngton one a
year lmply to spend two or three daja
here so that he msy feel the sense of
government by contact with It. to walk
about the treet 0f the capital of th-
nation to look at the magnificent
building of government ownemhlp tt
atand In the glorlou beauty of tht
grandest bulMirig cn enrth to sit for a
time In the hall of l.glslatlon. and to
experience fr a brief aeaaon some of
the material result of hi citizenship
of the proudest republic the ua ver
hone upon.
There j ronni of .ppijj f lT
Ihe clerk preenttlon of the case.
"Pon t do It. gentlemen." he sa'.
waving R off. "Those are cot mr
words but the words of tht traveling
man. He I the troade.i-mlnded cltl-
"a. the flrmet patriot and the quar-
et man I know and If It were po!h!
Jo have a nation of hi kind It would
be possible to make cn nation of tha
whole world. He ha been In Wash-
ington fjr tar day and when ho
leave tomorrow he will lake with b!m
more than loo books containing pic-
ture of the city and It great build-
ings which he will distribute among
'.he children of the nun he meet a a
buslnes way and who will never b
able (o get to Washington to wander
amid It beaut! and learn here among
It marble wall and pillars the all-Important
leons that Ihey teach snd
which every American should learn. I
preume he ba distributed thousand
of these pictures and has been a well-
spring of patriotic sentiment to hun-
dred of young men and women lu ev-
ery state of the union. Who can say
as much for hlmselfr And even the
congressman could not amwer la tha
affirmative.
nasals and t htaa.
The treaty between Russia and Chin
about which there were various ru-
mors and denials six months sgo has
been published and show Russia to
hsva obtained very valuable cowe.
s.ons In return for her friendly cf-
Oces. Sh I. to be allowed to extend
ber great Siberian railr-ad throush
Manchuria to Klrln; to connect Vladi-
vostok with Port Arthur; to maintain
a many troop In Manchuria a h
may And nece.sary to protes t br sta-
tions; and to fortify Port Arthur ant
u. 11 10 rase or war a a base of opera-
tion. Moreover. Russian officer are
to reorganize the Chi
concession. ela;lcal!y Interpreted. Will
give Russia virtual control of Man-
v....i. anu m i.iau-Tong peniusula
and win enormo-isir .a.. t...
er and prestige In Asia
TOLD OF FAMOUS MEN.
Wllllara Morrla and Anal. Ward-
Tiffany win be seen la Ulaneya new
Flay "The Electrician."
Rostcn 1 to have a new Chlnere
theater and for (he first time Ch!ne
actres.e win 1 !a lD4 jlllb
It Is announced that Chtrle Coghlaa
will play a leading part In the dra-
matization of Marion Crawford's "Dr.
Claudius."
Ada Lee R.i-om' "A Eawery dri-
ll so suixeul that It I rumored that
a second company his burn orBaa;zcJ
to play It.
Thomas Ualley Aldrlch has written 1
poe'.lc play on Judith and llolofemes
and 01; Nethenole will do It la Lon-
don rext seaoa.
It Is said that Fanny Davenport whs
gives up Surdou's play after this sea-
son may hand over "Fedora" lo her
brother. E.lgir L.
"Within next year" say Mas-arjril.
"1 hop to have finished 'Vrstilis' aa
cpera on a Roman su! Jc t. In four act
oa which I have been working for fl
yrars."
This Is Mis Ethel P.arrym .re' third
sea..n upon the !age. Sh; t.i al-
way been In her uncle' (Joha IVewl
company. Her mother wa tie bril-
liant Georgie Drew.
I should cell "Pnder th Red Kobe"
a cap.tal play. There U no rva..a ex-
cept the fjet that It I a good why
It should not hav a long rua la New
York. Ton Tcpl-
Victor H.rW-rt uJ Harry R Smlla
are said lo hav hea d "Th liohemiaa
Girl" for (he first tilt when they vU'.t-
t I the Poster !an recently to consilt
about their rew open.
Charles Frohman lis se-ured tho
Amcrloaa right of Vlctorlcn Sardou
new play "Spiritism" whl.h Is to be
produced this month at the Ucl.iIs-
sanee Theater In Pari.
Charles Frohuiaa aud Francl Hod
son lturnett have failed to com to aa
agreement concerning the actress who
shall play the leading part In the dram
atlialion of Mr liuraeit's novel "A
Lady of Quality."
Richard Wagnor as a atudent wa
extremely egotistic. H uusully said
"It la" or "It I not." Instead of "I
think" or "I believe." Ona of his
phrases wss : "Richard Wagner aay
so; that la sufficient." Another con-
clusive phrase was: "You think; I
know."
Voltaire and Plron wtre enemies. To
their embarrassment they met one dcy
at the country house of a friend. Pmu
got up early went to Voltaire's j m-
ana wrote upon n th word "Rogue"
At breakfast Voltaire smilingly n;d t
tim: "I thank you for ho!ng your
Interest In my we'.f.u leaving yyjt
card at try d.wir tM --
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