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Tabloid Tales
Short Stories About George Van
derbilt Governor RoIIirv S Wood
ruff Jesse R Grant Frank A
Vandrrlip Judge Peter S Grosscup
and William R Willcox J
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KORGE W
VANDERBILT
is not Iackintr
in Hplcndid homes
in which to onjoy
himself and enter
tain his large reti
nue of friends Be
sides Ills elegant
residences in New
York and North
Carolina and a sum
mer home at Bar
Harbor Me he now
has a Washington
house He
georok w VANDER ed a handsome rcsi
ijilt dunce at the nation
al capital recently In order that he and
Ids clever wife might have opportunity
to entertain the prominent figures in
public life at Washington diplomats
from abroad and others who form the
leaders of society at the capital When
Mr Vanderbilt wants a thing he wants
It very much and Is willing to pay for
it lie wanted a log cabin and six
acres of land owned by a negro named
Collins which adjoined the Asheville
N C estate called Biltmore created
at great expense by Mr Vanderbilt
The negro was shrewd and would not
sell for a long time Finally Mr Van
derbilt got the cabin and patch of
land by paying 75000
The Biltmore estate comprises over
100000 acres of land and there is a
mountain in the tract nearly 0000 feet
high Mr Vanderbilt spends much of
his time supervising his farm lie is
generous with his fortune lie gave
the land which forms the site of Teach
ers college of Columbia university and
presented the American Fine Arts so
ciety of New York the room iu its
building known as the Vanderbilt gal
lery He gave the city of New York
the Thirteenth street branch of the
Free Public library At Biltmore he
instituted an experimental forestry
service and school placing at Its head
Gifford PInchot now chief forester of
the United States Biltmore Is said to
have cost him originally about 10000
000 the sum of 8000000 having been
expended for land and the balance for
the magnificent mansion in the center
of the estate Mr Vanderbilt was the
first American to take out a 1000
00C life Insurance policy paying a pre
mium of 35000 a year He is lavish
in expending money for the benefit of
the people upon and near his great
North Carolina estate and among other
things has built a church and a young
mens institute for their use In Bilt
more village
Governor Rollin S Woodruff of Con
necticut who narrowly escaped losing
his life in a railway accident not long
ago was talking of his experience and
in this connection mentioned European
railroads
What amuses me about those lines
he said is the very slight degree of
difference between the first second and
third class carriages I vow that if a
carriages rank were
not printed on the
door you would not
know what it was
I am aware of but
one case of a real
distinction between
first second and
third classes A
friend of mine was
touring Yorkshire
last summer An
omnibus ran be
tween two Yorkshire
townsj and there
were of course first
second and third
class seats in it Yet
they were all quite alike
My friend sitting in his first class
place thought he had been done until a
long steep hill appeared The driver
halting at the foot of this hill turned
his head and shouted
First cass passengers keep their
seats Second class please dismount
and walk Third class get out and
push
Two sons of the late General Ulysses
S Grant reside in New York Major
General Frederick D Grant who is
commander of the department of the
east and lives on Governors island and
Jesse R Grant youngest son of the
former president The latter is forty
eight years old and despite his la
mented fathers prominence in the Re
publican party is a Democrat and
takes an interest In the politics of that
party in New York city and state He -
was of school age when his father was
in the White House and entered Cor
nell university just as the general
left that mansion He did not finish
JESSE B GRANT
BOLLIX S WOOD
BUFF
his Cornell course
because at the end
of his junior year
he had the oppor
tunity to travel with
his father and
deemed that he
could learn more by
accompanying his
distinguished parent
than by staying at
college In 1SS0 he
married Miss Eliza
beth Chapman of
California and his
career has been
largely associated with the Golden
State and the mining industry of the
Pacific coast He has made quite a
fortune from mines in Alaska and In
Mexico
i Mr Grant was recently telling some
reminiscences of life at the White
House in his fathers time I was a
boy then said Mr Grant but I re
incnber many things AVe lived there
as any other quiet minded folk might
have lived In their own home There
were a lot of servants to be sure most
of them colored and some funny times
mother had with them I recall the
first night we dined there When we
came out from the dining room father
found a soldier pacing up and down
the hall He asked him what he was
doing there and the soldier said he
was on duty To fathers questions lie
said there were other soldiers on guard
duty in other parts of the White House
Father Immediately had them all re
moved
Frank A Vanderllp the New York
banker and former assistant secretary
of the treasury who predicts a period
of recession In trade has reached his
present high station In the world of
finance at the com
paratively youthful
age of forty two
lie has wonderful
executive capacity
A newspaper man
who dropped In to
interview him at
the National City
bank in New York
of which he is the
head wrote While
Mr Vanderlip was
answering my ques
tions he did consid
erable talking Into
the twenty one tele
PETEB S GBOSSCUP
phones on the two i RANK a vander
LIP
lloors of the bank
He gave many directions and much
advice In the street below men and
boys were running about like mad
ants The bellowing of curb brokers
swept around the comer and joined
the noise of trucks and several steam
riveters at work on a high building
Strangers also were waiting their turn
iu the reception room Through all
the din and distraction Mr Vanderllp
kept the light of good humor and pa
tience in his face and the mellowness
of a June morning in his voice lie is
six feet and more has deep strong
shoulders long stout legs gray eyes
and hair that is white many years
ahead of schedule The mustache griz
zled when it ought to be brown Is
trimmed to the stubbiness of a shoe
brush
Judge Peter S Grosscup whose plan
regarding government supervision of
great corporations has occasioned much
discussion has given deep study to the
character and operations of modern
corporations and to the problem of
bringing them under the real control
of the people His idea is that if the
government exercises Its powers so as
to give the public assurance that the
corporations are being conducted as
they ought to be the people at large
will become their proprietors instead
of leaving their ownership to the com
paratively few This is what has been
termed the peopleization of the cor
porations
Judge Grosscups decisions as a
judge have won him a high rank as an
interpreter of the
law He is fifty five
years old and was
appointed to the
United States circuit
court of appeals by
President McKinley
in 1S99 He takes
an optimistic view
of affairs At a din
ner one time he re
marked
As the world ma
tures it improves just as we improve
as we mature A man of mature mind
is an Improvement on a child He is
In every way better He is more gen
erous more courageous and more kind
I have no sympathy with those who
laud childhood and the virtues of chil
dren I hold that children are only a
little removed from savages and when
I hear them lauded I think of a boy
I used to know This boys brother lay
111 with a fever a bad fever so that it
was feared he might succumb
To the well youngster the nurse said
one morning
What will you do if your brother
dies
The child calmly answered
Til have his Noahs ark wont I
A great deal is expected from the
public utilities commissions appointed
by Governor Hughes to supervise the
great public service corporations of
New York state The public utilities
act gives extensive powers to the com
missioners and is regarded as a long
step forward in the direction of public
control of the quasipublic corporations
especially those organized to operate
within municipal lines The act creat
ed one commission having a jurisdic
tion in New York state outside of New
lork city and an
other to supervise
the extensive semi
public corporations
operating the vari
ous public services
of New York city
The chairman of
this commission is
William R Will
cox who at the
time of his ap
pointment was
postmaster of New
WILLIAM B WILL
COX
York His term in that office has been
noted for the changes introduced in the
way of more effective and businesslike
administration He hits given much
study to sociological questions and as
a park commissioner under Mayor Low
was influential In the establishment
and equipment of public playgrounds
He was born on a farm near Smyrna
N Y forty three years ago graduated
from Rochester university taught
school graduated from the Columbia
law school and for some years after
ward practiced law In New York
THE BLIND OF CAIRO
To Bo Found Everywhere In the Shops
and on the Streets
The first thing that impresses the
stranger In Cairo is the number of
blind men women and children to be
found -everywhere In the shops and on
the streets Ophthalmia Is very preva
lent throughout Egypt Because of su
perstition concerning the evil eye
the native mothers of the middle or
the lower class do not wash the eyes
of their babies at all Watching tho
flies buzzing unheeded around and
upon these blind children a stranger
hastens to buy a fly whisk These are
for sale everywhere and are quite at
tractive with their ornaments of fancy
beads and palm leaf fiber Blind beg
gars greet one at every corner Even
In the high class Egyptian families
there are many blind The lower
classes of Egyptians are given much
to hasheesh that is the lower classes
In the large cities and although it is
against the law to sell it one will have
the hasheesh places pointed out and
the men Avho smoke the drug are seen
everjwhere They are distinguished
by the peculiar appearance of their
eyes which become red swollen and
baggy underneath and by the peculiar
color of the skin which resembles
somewhat the skin of a Chinese opium
smoker narriet Quimby in Leslies
Weekly
A LOST CONTRACT
The Little Thing That May Sometimes
Prevent a Sale
A pen once lost mo an order I had
just worked up the executive of a
large concern into a desire to buy I
had my contract form lying on his
desk with my finger on the dotted line
no reached over toward his pen rack
took off a pen and plunged it into the
Ink well He turned to me with a frown
on his face the well was empty
I was ready with a fountain pen
The pen was uncapped I handed It to
him He started to write The ink
would not flow I took It and shook it
Again he made the attempt with no
result
I will get one he said So he
stepped into the other room Evidently
some one stopped him with a question
for ho did not come back for three
minutes Then he stood at his desk
Ho looked down at the contract
I believe I had better think thia
matter over again ho said And alii
the talk I put up could not budge him
I had lost a sale because my fountain
pen was empty Now one of my regu
lar morning duties week in and week
out just as regular as my shave and
my checking over of calls to bo made
and the making out of my expense ac i
count is filling my fountain pen
James N Bowen In System
A Great Polyglot
Solomon Caesar Malan habitually
conversed with his children in Latin i
but on his deathbed when Solomon1
his son began to recite a psalm in the
familiar Vulgate of hl3 youth the dy
ing man scholar to the last muttered
Non ita non ita Hebraice so the
son repeated it In Hebrew
He could for that matter just as
well have said It In Coptic or Chinese
for to him all tongues came naturally
At eighteen he could write In thirteen
languages oriental and European and
among his published works we find
translations from the Arabic Persian
Syriac Ethiopic Hebrew Coptic Ar
menian Georgian Mongol Chinese
Korean Japanese Greek Russian
Welsh and Gothic He is said to have
learned to speak Armenian fluently inl
a fortnight and he preached in Geor
gian to a Georgian congregation in the
Cathedral of Kutais London Saturday
Review
A Patient Dog
My brother has two dogs one a large
mastiff the other a tiny Spitz which
he can hold in the hollow of his hand
Don the big dog had been taught to
lie down and face his food but not to
touch untH the command Eat had
been given him His mistress in a hur
ry to leave for a days shopping gave
Don his breakfast one day but forgot
the permission to eat and when she
returned late that night the faithful
dog lay with his paws on the plate of
food but not a particle had been touch
ed Chicago Tribune
Blunt Dr Dougal
Dr Dougal of Keith who was made
an honorary member of the Aberdeen
society in 1795 had a reputation for
bluntness A talkative woman went to
him one day and said to him Doctor
what Is the matter with my tongue1
Just needin a rest he replied short
ly On another day a patient went to
him and complained I have a deal to
suffer with my eyes doctor where 1
upon he answered Better suffer with
them than without
The Inundation
If you please sir said a verger to
a churchwarden in a village the new
rector is to be Inundated next Tuesday
week and I have come to ask you
whether you will be able to be
ent Certainly replied the church j
warden who was something of a hu
morist and I hope there will be an1
overflowing congregation London
Answers
His Change of Front
My view on coeducation he said
firmly Is that it should be forbidden
It Is deleterious to mental develop
ment It leads to
John said his wife entering unex
pectedly are you telling Mr Smith of
the dear old days when we were col
lege classmates
Y yes said John Philadelphia
Ledger
A prudent haste Is wisdoms leisure
Italian Proverb
it
STEPHEN GIRARD
The Eccentric Millionaire Was a Man
of Many Moods
To get a subscription from Stephen
Girard founder of GIrard college in
Philadelphia was not an easy matter
It required tact and the right introduc
tion and many failed while few suc
ceeded It is told by the author of The
French Blood In America that Samuel
Coates a genial Quaker was one of
the few men who knew how to ap
proach the eccentric millionaire
He was a manager of the Pennsyl
vania hospital and called on Girard for
the purpose of raising money for the
support of that institution
Well how much do you want
Coates asked Girard in his usual
brusque tones
Just what thee pleases to give Ste
phen replied the Quaker Girard
wrote out a check for 2000 and hand
ing it to Mr Coates was surprised tc
see that gentleman pocket it without
looking at the amount
What You dont look to see how
much I give you cried Girard incred
ulously
Beggars must not be choosers Ste
phen replied the Quaker
Give me back my check and I will
change it said Girard after a mo
ments pause
A bird in the hand is ivorth two in
the bush thee knows Stephen mildly
replied the Quaker Without another
word Girard sat down and wrote him
out a second check for 5000
His farm on the outskirts of Phila
delphia was one of the best in tho
country and while living in town ho
often drove out before breakfast to see
that all was going well He was very
exacting with his hired hands and never
trusted the management of his farm to
any one else but ran it himself as he
did all his affairs Arriving one morn
ing a little earlier than usual he was
greatly annoyed at not finding his man
at work on a fence that he was build
ing The mans wife noticing Girard
approaching the house hurriedly awoke
her husband and sent him to his duties
by way of the back door After visit
ing the house Girard returned to the
fence and seeing the man at his post
reprimanded him for being late
Id been here sir but went back for
a spade said the workman
No you hadnt I went and put my
hand in your bed and found it warm
replied Girard and he discharged the
man on the spot
CONVERSATION DONTS
Dont say You was but You
were
Dont say He dont but He
doesnt
Dont say Not as I know but Not
that I know
Dont say He is older than me but
He Is older than I
Dont say Between you and I but
Between you and me
Dont say She is some better but
She is somewhat better
Dont say This is the finest of any
but This is finer than any
Dont say Where are you stop
ping but Where are you staying
Dont say I dislike her worse than
ever but I dislike her more than
ever
Dont say I was raised in New Eng
land but I was reared in New Eng
land
Dont say I rarely ever go any
where but I rarely if ever go any
where
Don say Either of the three will
do but Any of the three will do
St Louis Republic
The Careful Scot
While enjoying a pleasant smoke in
a railway carriage a Scotchman was
asked by his fellow passenger a
Welshman if he could oblige him with
a match and after some consideration
reluctantly complied with the modest
request Placing the match upon the
window ledge the Welshman produced
an empty pipe and gripping it be
tween his teeth gazed mournfully at
his companion This having no effect
he made an ostentatious and fruitless
tour of his pockets Dear dear how
unlucky I am he exclaimed at length
Ive left my tobacco at home Verra
unfortunate agreed the Scotchman
and stretching out a hand for the
match he added with evident relief
An now yell no require this vestie
Glasgow Times
Americans Greatest of Travelers
Americans are rightfully called the
greatest travelers in the world They
all seem imbued with the spirit of
Columbus and when we think of that
venturer across strange waters in
search of he knew not what we can
scarcely associate him with any other
country as a native than ours It is
a noticeable fact that in every resort
of prominence in England and on the
continent there are to be seen among
the tourists during the season at least
two Americans to every one represent
ative of any other country and in the
African cities Americans are even
more in predominance over travelers
of other nationalities Leslies Weekly
Reassuring
Now be careful how you drive
cabby and go slowly over the stones
for I hate to be shaken And mind
you pull up at the right house and
look out for those dreadful railway
vans
Never fear sir Ill do my best And
which orspital would you wish to be
taken to sir in case of an accident
London Tit Bits
Indefinable Perfection
Since the beginning of time the Ira 1
man brain has never succeeded In de j
fining with the necessary exactitude i
what really constitutes a perfect wo
man Outlook
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When housework is torture
When night brings no rest nor sleep
When urinary disorder sets in
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Mrs Mellissa A Love of 211 Hen
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Last winter I had an attack of the
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the back I had felt this trouble com
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as I got up and stirred around My
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