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THE NEWS IN BRIEF. With th Great Selections from Spriggs, the By S. E. To Addison Sprlgga a great thought i had come, "Prom thia tlmo forth," he said to himself, "I am going to make people glad. What nobler nil6slon can any man have? And what Is tho most ef fective method of giving Joy? It can be explained In two words: Give praise. Hereafter I shall give praise wherever I may bo. Tho groat trouble with most of us In this world lu that wo are slaves to formality. In future I shall not wait for an Introduction to n lady In order to tell her she la ador able. Why should I? It Is a waste of tlmo to do so, and pcopla who take Buch a course blind themselves to their opportunities." With Addison Spriggs to think was to act. He put on his hat and started out to lunchoon. in the elevator he turned to tho young man who was handling the lever and said: "Do you know "that your face re minds me of tho face of Napoleon? You have tho splendidly formed nose and tho square Jaw of the great Corsloan." "Quit your kiddln'," replied the ele vator man. Whero Spriggs ate the noon day meal, which cost him 25 cents, a young woman with dark eyes and three-quarters of a pound of hnlr which had grown upon somebody elso bent over him and sighed Bevoral weary sighs while she waited for his order. "Here," thought Spriggs, "Is a chance for me to gladden one whoso life Is a monotonous round of drudg ery." "Do you know," he asked, "that thero Is something about your face which re minds me of Aphrodite?" "Where does sho wait?" the lady In A Wolf of Intellect By Strickland W. Gil li Ian. A long, low howl, ending In a stac cato cough, echoed clear over seven sandhills and fell exhausted half way up the eighth. At the sound tho broom grnsB shuddered nnd the polled Angus cattle turnod palo. For that call was from Hobo, king of the Alkali Steer Garden, which ex tended over a few billion acres of al ternate bunch grass, desert, dogtowns and badlands, Interspersed thickly with magadne writers, nut where, all this time, was Hobo? Silting comfort ably on the very apex or a little hil lock, sharply silhouetted against an Im itation turquoise sky. but totally In visible. All who saw him thought be was a stone, though thero wasn't a stono within six niliM of there. Rut people are very accommodating, and will think many things to humor a "Suddenly He Stopped and Woofed." wrltor. if anybody had accused him of being a wolf, ho would havo given tho Btony stare and tho marblo heart until tho accuser would have begged pardon and acknowledged that Hobo was a more lupine lithograph. Having remained lnvlslblo as lo.ng as be could attract any attention by being so, and havlngglanced off several bullets directed against him while he was doing the granltcwaro Impersona tion, Hobo lifted up his real bristles, gave his tall permission to sag, and started off on a leisurely trot, not doing over a scant mllo and a half per minute. Suddenly ho stopped and woofed. Hobo was a swell woofer. He could outwoof any other wolf In America. Why had ho woofed? He had smolled the terrible man-smell. A Mormon Immigrant had camped thero some tlmo In tho seventies, and could still bo tracked easily. The aroma of tin footprints were distinctly visible J to tho naked noso of a common ani mal with a had cold, bo what must It have boon to Hobo, king of the Alkali Steor Garden, In the full flush of his manhood nnd perfect heulth? He was as keen a whlffer as he was a woofer, Yet by pointing his muzzle hither and yondor to tho four cardinal points, ho discovered that the man had gone on to Utah, afterward moved to Pora the Writings of the "Best Kjiotun Makers of Mirth. Joy Giver Kiser. quired, as sho began picking hor teeth with a pin. "You have studied (Jreek mythology, have you not?" "Nix. I started to learn shorthand once, but I give It up because It made my head ache." "Well, no matter," Spriggs gallantly declared; "you are very beautiful." "There, there," the waitress an swered, patting him on his bald spot; "Then the Floor-Walker Laid a Heavy Hand Upon Addison Spriggs." "get busy with your order. My feet hurts." After ho had finished his meal Spriggs had 20 minutes to spare, and he decided to step Into a department store for the purpose of purchasing a pair of gloves which he had neoded for tello and died there In '95, so ho con temptuously scratched a lot of 40 mule team washing powder over the placo where last the Immigrant stepped while climbing aboard his pralrlo yacht, and resumed his calm trot for about 35 more miles, at which distance ten minutes later, ho smelled Iron and again the deadly man-smell. Amid the man-scents he detected some horse-scents, so he knew It was not a magazlne-wrlter-about anlmals, who was endeavoring to ensnare him. He became once more wary and in visible. This time lie was a pile of rusty tomato tins until he had thought It all out. The trap, he found, was six or seven miles away, at the fur thest, so he must have a care ah, Hobo have a care! The lives of such as you are beset with pitfalls! Approaching by a circuitous route, swift as a ball-bearing sunbeam and silent as a pinch of jeweler's cotton dropping In a vat of bran-mash. Hobo went, guided by his unerring whlffer, to the buried trap. It had been burled without disturbing In the least the surface of the ground, nnd bailed with Fruitless By Thomas L. Masson. Cupid come In softly and sat down quietly. Depositing his quiver on the floor within easy reach he looked at her curiously. No, he hadn't made a mistake. She was certainly a wonderfully pretty girl. "I hope," he said, "that I am not Intruding?" "Certainly not," she replied. "I beg that you will make yourself at home. You will find a cigarette on tho tab aret." "Thanks; I don't smoke." There was a considerable silence. She wns busy before the mirror In putting on her hair. She had lovely hair of her own, but In accordance with the modern custom, she was re inforcing It with foreign material. Cu pid was plainly embarrassed. "I was In hopes," he Bald at last, "that yon might be Interested In foiuo of my wares. I havo a nice line." "Of what?" "Oh, of thrills, of ecstasies, of htart burnings." "Indeed. I am sorry that to-day" "Well, then, possibly some other day, when you have more time. Could n't I make an appointment with you?" She turned slowly. She was polite, but firm. "My time Is extremely limited. I am going out to n bridge party now, and I am already late. You see 1 am on the rush" "Wouldn't It pay you to give up a little leisure to romance?" "Romance! Dear me, how Imperti nent you are. Don't you know that that has gone out?" 'Hut" "Really, you must excuse me. My time Is so valuable, that l am obliged to consider every moment. Yon see I play f:olf, motor, travel, rend the latest trash, and keep up my bridge game - several weeks. The glove counter was presided over by a lady whose first ob ject In life seemed to be to permit, the world to know that she had splen did teeth. "What size do you wear?" she asked. "1 don't know," said Spriggs, smil ing at l.er in a kindly way. "Can you take my measure?" He seated himself and rested an el bow on the counter. The lady picked out a pair of gloves and began trying them on him. "Yr.u have the most beautiful teeth I have ever seen," Mr. Spriggs de clared. "These won't do," the lady com plained. "Your knuckles are too big." In a moment she returned wlUi a larger p&lr. Whllo she was endeavor ing to get the good rl:;ht hand of Ad dison Spriggs encased in dog hkm he smiled very kindly upon her and said: "1 wish I might come here every day to buy gloves. Your dimples make mo glad." She looked at the floor-walker who stood behind Mr. Spriggs. "May I tell you," Spriggs added, "that you are tbo most beautiful crea ture It has ever been my pleasure to behold?" Then the floor-walker laid a heavy hand upon Addison Spriggs, and a mo ment later women were fainting whllo strong men were assisting In the de plorable business of flinging into the street one who had recently decided to become a Joy-giver. When Spriggs attempted to explain the matter to two policemen who took charge of hint, one of them placed his nose near tho mouth of the altruist and sniffed several times, after which he turned to his fellow officer, shook his head, and said a little sadly: "Batty. Thnt's all." (Copyright, l'JCfl, by W. G. Chapman.) llmburger cheese, as a further dis guise. Hut in spite of all these precau tions, Hobo's stealthy cunning and the guardian angel of the wild things told him of danger's presence. He treating HO miles or so he found a bit of sagebrush, split It with his sharp teeth, fastened It on his nose so ho could endure the awful man smell, nnd coolly returned to the cou lee where the snare was. There, aft er a further reconnaissance, he ascer tained that the trapper was a tall man with a slight front stoop but no veranda or pergola, a cast In his left eye and a strawberry mark on his right shoulder blade. Having learned which, Hobo die; down 15 feet to where his grandfather had told him of the burial of a mammoth's bones that he and his pack hail picked and Interred, selected a rib, touched off the steel 1rap with it and trotted to the far corner of the range, 02 miles distant as the crow files. After romping awhile with his cubs, for exercise, Hobo became a lump of turf and slept soundly until the fall ing night struck hint In the small of the back and startled him to vigi lance. Thus ended a quiet, unevent ful day in the life of Ilobo, king of the Alkali Steer Garden. (Copyright, VMt), ly W. i. Chnpinnn.) If I didn't, you know, I would lose so much as to bankrupt papa and ro ninnce of nny sort Is something that I couldn't consider. Hut" She swept by him on her way to tho door. "You might step Into the next room. There Is someone in there who might be Interested." Cupid was desperate. He had been making calls all day, always with tho "She Swept by Him on Her Way to the Door." same result. No one wanted to look at his w.rcH. All wen- too busy. "Thank you," he Kuld, eagerly. "1 Mil go In there, p.y the way. who Is till person?" And she smiled bar k over her shoul der, as she Lurried down the stair. "Pear old grundmumtin. She still cherishes her Illusions, you know." t ''! rlKlil. !:".. I.y V. C. CliKi'in.iti.) Although the Indisposition f the pope continues tho attending phy sK ians maintain that bis holiness will be iiitircly recovered In a few days. Ii i-; now understood thai Hoar-Admiral Spcrry will tile bis application for relief from the command of the Atlantic battleship fleet with the next administration. While sitting hi a pew at the Hible class exercises of a Philadelphia cburib Samuel M. Hurnctt, a wealthy retired carpet manufacturer, died of loan disease. The Russian government has sent a lele-rani to the Servian government counseling Servia to renounce all ter ritorial claims ami n: the decision of t he powers. Hayes and Doianilo will meet foi their third tace over the Marathon dis tance on March 15, in Madison Squui' Garden, New York. Hayes believes he can turn the tables on his rival. Mrs. John Carter Itrown of Provl dtiue. said to be one of the richest widows in America, died at. her sum mer residence on Itellevuo avenue in Newport. It. I., after a long Illness. Ilecauso she was forbidden by her father to associate with a boy with whom she had fallen in love, 15-year-old Klcanor Pink of Philadelphia coin tnlited suicide by drinking poison. Blanche Walsh, the actress, who has been eonlined in a hospital in Kansas Ciiy more than a mouth, suffering from a severe attack of stomach trou ble, has left the hospital and will go to New York next week. The annual report of the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company for the year, l'.liis, shows a decrease In gross earn ings compared with the proceeding vonr. of $."i.4 10, 722. and a decrease in net earnings of $7,4:;r,2'J". Judge John K. Richard:-, United States circuit court of appeals, died at his home in Cincinnati, ()., of Kright's disease, agi d 5" years. He was solicitor general or the I'nited States under President McKinley from 1X11" to P.w:!. Jules Cambon. the French ambassa dor to G.-i many, conferred upon llerr von Schoeii. the German foreign min ister, the grand cross of tin? Region of Honor, as an Indication of France's ,;atisfactioii over the Franco-Gorman agreement on Morocco. A $5ii,mimi monument in memory of President .lames A. Garfield Is pro posed in a hill introduced by Repre sentative Langley of Kentucky. The iiiensines provides that the monument diall lie erected on or near I lie Middle Creek lmttlolleld in Floyd county, .'xentucky. Jean Mattis, the waller who last Christinas attacked President Fall ieres of Franco and tried to pull his oeard. was tried and convicted and H'liteiiced to four years' Imprisonment, the imprisonment to he followed by live years' han'slinient from the boun daries of Paris. Icwans In Chicago have started a movement to augment the fund piling up for the erection of u substantial monument to the late William It. Alli son, former ncstnr of the I'nited States senate. The legislature and congress has also made an appropria tion for a suliable memorial to b" erected In Washington. PILLSBURY PLANS APPROVED. English Debenture Holders in Favor of Reorganization of Company. London, Mar. 2. At u meeting held here yesterday of the debenture hold i of the Pillsbury-Washhurn Flour Mills Company of Minneapolis, the plan of reorganization was approved. I'ho reorganization Is to be carried out liroiigh the medium of an operating :ompany to Ik- formed ai Minneapolis. I'ho reorganization proposal was iirroed to by I he Kngllsh shareholders if the company last December. Flood Danger l& Over. Cincinnati. March 1. So far as this Mty is concerned, the flood conditions experienced for the last week are over, :he singe of the river at seven o'clock last ntghi being 515 and gradually re ceding at the rate of one-tenth of a foot tin hour. THE MARKETS. Ni'W York. Mar. I.IVK HTICK Stei rs 'i u 7 Ileus 7 ir. li 7 si p 4 mi 'n i; I'l.uri: - Wmt.T Siniltilus.. Ti ft i lll'.AT-.Mav I lii-.i 1 .1'ilv t l.'Vi; 1 u!:N- July 7.'V'i li K-.N... WYmIi-mi M n I ;l T l i :ii-1 i . ani.-t Ii fi C'iiiS L'j il iii:i:.sk it '(, l'IIICA(K). tr !l r. fin I- t .Hi )-. IWTT1.K-Finn v Steers ... Mi illiMii In (I, ii.. I St. i is. j:. !i '.i ; in fn 5 75 I'liitn 1 1 1 I 'mii y :! 41 'n 5 il "111 !! 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Still ki H uinl I n .Ins. ., I '"IK llllil lrfr S II" Mi- lli'lW sin:i:i' Wi-uins Gossip oi Washington What Is Gointf On ut the Nutional Capital. Clerk Weds Prince WASHINGTON. -From government Clerk to orlncess Is the etninire made by Miss (Jeorgle Jeffrey, former ly a clerk in the olllce of the auditor of the post olllce department. She Is now the wife of Prince Alfred Ahrenhelin-liagarin, adjutant to his Im perial majesty, the czar. The wedding took place In ('anion. China. The prince and princess are now traveling in the far east, but will ultimately go to St. Petersburg, where they will make their home. The romance which culminated in the marriage of the American tlrl nnd the Russian nobleman had Us Incep tion on an ocean steamer bound for tho far east. Miss Jeffrey, who wns re garded as one of the best clerks in the post oflloe depaitnienl, wns transferred ut her own request from that depart ment to the Philippine service. She left Washington early in Octo Capital Is Cordial TIIK Countess I.ulse Alexandra von nernstorlV. only daughter of the German ambassador ami Connless von HernstorlT, has found the national cap ital of her mother's nutlve land much to her liking. Kver since the arrival in Washington or the kaiser's new rep resentative and his family, they have been entertained constantly. To all af fairs given for Hie younger set the "liltle countess," as she Is frequently called, has been Invited. Countess Alexandra was born and educated abroad, and is making her first visit to this country. Sho speaks the language with only a tdlght accent, for her mother, who has lived in for eign countries ever hIiico she was 15 years old, has never dropped the Kug llsh tongue, but has spoken It to her daughter nnd son, I ho latter now a student In Germany. A year ago the daughter of the Von HouseComrnitteeClerkCourtsinDemand v. -! i .3 c i n !. n TI1KRK is no abler servant of tho I'nited States In the capitol build ing than James C. Courts, the diminu tive clerk of the house committee on appropriations. Without him the great committee would be often at. sen. It would be almost an utter Impos sibility for Chairman Tawney or any other head of that great committee to carry in Ids mind the vast details of the appropriation bills which it brings Into the house, carrying amounts vary ing from a few to more than $iuu,0i)il. 090. Some member of the house wants to know about some Item In every bill and frequently the whole house wants to know about a good many of them. Chairman Tawney can answer offhand as many questions as any other chairman who ever stood In his shoes, but It is Courts who, when he sits down, is almost hidden by the desk in front of Mm, but is the ready prompter when the chairman's mem ory fails. Pel ween Tawney and Courts practically no time of the house Is wasted In getting necessary informa tion for all coiners Secretary Satterlee's Zest for Duty HKItltKRT LIVINGSTON SATTKK I.F.F., son of the late Plshop Sat terlee and son -In-law of ,1. Plerpont Morgan, recently appointed to slic ed d T. II. Newberry as assistant sec retary of the navy, was one of the board of visitors at the Naval acad emy last Juno and entered Into his duties with n .est and Interest that was particularly pleasing to the acid emy staff. II" Insisted upon seeing everything there was to be seen, ute in fhe mess hall, went out in the launches and watched the drills. At last h" decided that be must slop in a midshipman's bed; ho he was assigned to a room on one of the decks. Now at the very time the board of visitors was at the academy the West Point-Annapolis baseball game was on and the West Point team were to be given a rousing seudoff when they took their departure, which wus flxed in Travel Romance ber hound for Manila, hut stopped In Denver to visit friends before leaving the country. While visiting In Denver she became acquainted with friends of her hostess who were also bound for the east ami who had taken passage on the steamer which was to carry her to Manila. Miss Jeffrey learned that they were to make several side trips and so she obtained an extension of leave from the Philippines and decided to join the parly of tourists. Whether the prince was a member of this party or whether Miss Jeffrey met him after the ship passed through the Golden Gate has not been mailt known. At any rale, he was u passen ger on the Hteamer, nnd the acipialnt ancn which formed then resulted In 11 pretty little love affair. The prince con tinued with the party through their travels In China and Japan and the love story progressed in the most sat isfactory way. While lit Hong Chow the party went for an outing. The funny little native, rig In which Miss Jeffrey wns riding collided with a carriage. MIhs Jeffrey was thrown to the ground nnd Injured painfully, but not seriously. It was not long altur this that the niurrlagt look place. to Little Countess Hernstorffs made her debut In society t Cuiro, Kgypl, where her father was his count ry'B representative, up to u few months ago. She feels ns If she were making a second debut, since com ing to Washington, for she has taken part In all the affairs given for Miss Kthel Roosevelt, as well as In many of the official functions. Since the dismantling of the German embassy by the Harmless von Stern burg, who recently sailed for Kurope , with her mother to spend the rest of the winter on the nivlern, tho house' has been placed in the hands of dec orator and furnishers, and the ambus sailor nnd his family have been obliged! to live at one of the hotels. The em bassy is expected to be ready for oc cupancy In April. The Countess von l!ernstot ff and her daughter wish to know all about the city In which they live, and they are seen frequently on pleasant mornings, guidebook In hand, learning about historic houses and places. They have, strayed already outside the foreign and' olllclal circles to meet people of Inter est, and It Is confidently expected that the German embassy will be thorough ly cosmopolitan and democratic during: the present. Incumbent's regime. When congress recently voted $800, 000 for the relief of th Italian earth quake, victims, nn unusual scene was enacted in the house. A misunder standing had arisen between the presi dent and congress as to the amount of the relief and the bill prepared by the house committee on appropriations did not. lit with the president's mes- 1 sage by $:!00,000. Courts was sum moned by a general alarm und re sponded readily, pen In hand. A con ference was held at the speaker's ta ble lasting about two minutes, und those two minutes brought $:!0l),000i more relief to the sufferers of Italy. Courts ami his pen fixed the bill and Courts later rushed the bill to the en grossing committee and had it in the senate in record time. When congratulated by memhors and civilians alike later, Courts mere ly smiled. When, however, some one ventured to suggest that It was an in spiring sight to see congress act so generously and so quickly. Courts re plied: "I once knew a congressman who made a speech In Fanetill hall, lioston, and bragged about the passage of a pension bill carrying over 1 100. 000,000 in forty minutes. Finally he swelled up in his patriotism and ex claimed: 'Can you heal thai?' somi' body in the hack row replied: 'Lord, 1 hope not.' There Is such a thing as being too quick on the trigger." for very early In the morning of the night that Mr. Satterlee played at be ing a midshipman and slept In Pan croft, or "ltankrnpt." hall as the mid dles facetiously call It, apropos or their c mule penniless state. "All out" wns called promptly and those who 1 did not turn out quickly enough to suit the middy officers were uncere moniously dumped out on the' floor, mattress mi l all. The olllcer of one of the decks rushing hurriedly arouml at the last moment to see that all hail obeyed his summons came to a room whose occupant bad not stirred, but with bis bead burled In the pillow was soundly sleeping. Here, you, get up." called out Mr. Midshipman, and meet ing with no response,' said, "Oh, you wont, won't you?" With that he rushed toward the bed and taking: hold of the mattress was about to Jerk It down on the floor, when a sleepy voice said, "What's the mat ter?" and a sleepy face, wearing a full heard, enieiged from the bed clothes. It was Mr. Satteileo of the honorable board of visitors who bad been so un ceremoniously aroused, and when this fact dawned upon the brain of Iho en terprising midshipman he beat A hasty retreat.