THE CHARITY BALL
' 'Wtaj, Mr. Brovuii you at any*
'At| ia pay u a ctantj ball***
my 4nr Mt»# Enrkson. at
tftrtfctac M dumair Browning re
JltaM.
11* *JrI laughed and shook oat the
*«»da of It** misty pink d*n« its ekirt.
•ritfe its ntfln sad lac*.
1 has* lust one dance left a arhol*
***** a&tull it be for youT*" she said.
-If fom wnM .frmar |;ut m I ran t
•»» &nj thing bwt the waltz. 1 am
S04SS to ask you to estate with me to
that link alcove retreat over there.
• acre «« can tak aad wauh the fig
aiaa.”
For aacwer Mildred Erickson laid
her gloved lasers oa his arm aad
raised her brown eye* to his lar* as
tley walked away from the erwp of
•tkaeers aow forming tor the schot
The ' little alcove retreat' was at the
rad of the Urns ballroom, aad was
t«i eased with cut lowers aad ferns.
Mtidrwd threw her hose bouquet of
bridesmaid rmis, her fan aad her lam
handkerchief down faestde her aad took
up two-thirds of the dlras with her
fill skirts. Hr outline aaak bark lu*
wriewsiy la the siikea cushions at her
**de.
"f»«y one areas to he here to
eight.' she said.
n« Kvea L
“There I* **rtd- Jones aow. !a that
rale hiwe rhiloa. lad you know she
Is ta he married aezt week to Jack
Marshall T*
HU*-* Thu u only her sc md sea
soa. seat ItT*
*Ae«md* So only her first Mil* I
dred *s.d with a- .such -no »liras of .
ter pltinf white shoulders.
“Her lrst? You are mote sensible.
Mia* Ertriaua Why. this Is your tenth
•raaoa. Doc t you remesitx r. 1 was at
your comlas owt tear*
“Tee aad yew were old then—
)<d my as# aow ~ She puked up her
toatuet aad baud her fate in the
fresh, pink blossoms
“Aad you were la white, and carried
piak rose*, lust like those Mildred.'*
“But ne< so larse s bun* b “ and she
began pulling the k<* -rs out and tear*
las off the petals. Welle browning
watched her color c* me uai s«*.
“And 1 sent tletn
“Aad you seat them '
brow ning t tufted his posit‘on slight* |
»y.
“1 wonder what Marshall wants to
marry Out little Him Jote* for?** fee
nM.
'As the Is sot mm beir«-ss. lie prob
ably thinks be loves her. 1 Hope it
dor* sot non? j cm. Mr. Bros meg.**
“Me? Mwt at *11. I suppose you
fcsve often vas^rH why I've never
Mildreds rheek* m*".m*-J the bae
“I? Not et si'. Rather. I ihonld
wander if you did set married 1 uzi
mo Merit to yon single. you Laos.'*
* Asd I sboti-4 • wooer at it. too. 1
.m sonrs Tbejr are !*-« . :ful (!<■»•
inns, to be vdoirrd adored sad
i lira Herd but kept a distant* if a man
wants to retain bis ynt of aimd.
ira't yon think »o Mi** Hri> i «oa?"
“Can Mr Btonn.ag be wrjag~
' Thank jam Now suppose i had
married when I vai say A. Tea
years ago. I d bate a wif • bo sever
thought of me or my borne, but al
ways of ber osro personality and her
snriai engagement* My borne would
be no hntor at ail. bec ause 1 should
expert thins* uf her mbit a sbe, wroold
never do.**
Miss Erickson was trac-onst lousy
pilling the flower* to pieces and
watching Mr Brow max with studied
MMflf.
Bros a.ax continued- “As it is. I
have my bachelor flat is which | am
Kmc My aenraots. wtion bo one
‘ter interferes with 1 so and come
when I p>e*se. to the club, to the
tprra. to dinners, or to Europe. My
horses ar-d carriages are mine, and no
om ever complain* of them. My house
is solitude Itself salens 1 w lab to mak*
it noisy. Don't yon think 1 am a
"It really had never orrurred to me.
Mr. Brow nine. Mildred said. laughing
slightly.
"Of course yon do. for you've fol
lowed my « sample. and remained
single-“
"Bat not alone. Tb'-re is mamma
smd papa and Jo and the girls. Mr.
Browning O. I should not ears for
cn-fftnfly nor en>orment alone.**
“Ton mn not ao seiftsb **
“What —
“Mo. Mr. Browning. I am not so
smith And yon would be happier if
yos ••-re not.**
Browning looked at ber ia silent
T suppose I have given up a lot for
my ssHstiaim It ssigbt be nice to
bane a wife always waiting for me
and (wanning little aurprtaes for my
comfort and enjoyment, if sbe were
sweet and nk* and rharaung. like she
■aoUl be before f married ber. And
to always have aome one to take out
with me whenever I—or rather— she
eared In go. And to entertain my
to see great tall hoys and gentle girts
—my children -growing wp about me.
But a wan must have a lot of nerve
to ask a woman to give herself to
■.** Mildreds Ups
in a
ber name, nil girliab
fe*t of—* Browning went
i
."b* regards It all as a pleasant '
rific-e, if she loves the mao, Mr.
Browning.”
“And if she loves the man will she
want to do all this if he asks her?"
“Men are positive and women nega
tive."
So you advise me to marry?"
‘ 1 advise all men to marry."
Then why are von single, Mil
dred?"
“I? O. I am a woman." And she
laughed softly.
Browning watched the gay sceue of
the ballroom in silence a moment
Then he said:
“Mildred, shall I tell you why I
never married?"
The girl buried her face again in
the roses.
“Yes/' she said.
"Because I never thotsgh? you would
have me. You were so bright and gay
aed ten years younger than I."
Mildred leaned toward him until he
felt her breath on his cheek. She
poke rapidly, for she saw Mr. Bixby
coming to claim a waltz.
Stull 1 tell you why 1 never mar
ried. Paul?"
“Yes."
“Because yoa never asked me."
' Mildred “
Browning sprang forward from th»
silken cushions and caught her hand.
Hut she withdrew it hurriedly, and
with her face all wreathed in smiles
caught up her flowers and fan and
lace b-.ndkerchief. and said, as slit
walked away:
“Come to me tomorrow afternoon
at S, Mr. Browning."
And a moment later Browning saw
her floating through the steps of the
waltz on the arm of George Bixby.—
Chicago Tribune.
THE ENGLISH TONGUE.
It I* >ot m ■ nltmtl la Trade a* la
Claimed.
Frank W. Mabin. l ulled States con
»ul in Reichenberg. Bohemia, has writ
<-« to the state department protesting
against the idea advanced by some
American trade papers that in intro
ducing American goods into Europe
the English language "is altogether
sufirlent." He says that is just the
opposite from the truth, and that every
American consul in Europe is strug
gling to convince his countrymen who
want to build up an export trade that
ther langstages must be used, and that
circulars printed in English and sent
to European business houses go into
the waste basket. He fautaiB that cir
< ulars must be in the language of the
• ountry to which they are sent, and
that if personal solicitation is used.
;he agent must speak fluently the lan
guage of the country in which he
labors. He says: "it is true that
knowledge of the English language is
xpreading, and it is possible that in a
generation or so it can be used success
fully m <3 ing business in any part o?
Europe. It is also true that some peo
p - :a every town of considerable size
have a smattering of English, but few
if these people will take the trouble
to read circulars printed in English,
it take* too much effort. They talk a
lit’Ie. but will not bother to puzzle out
• ‘ • te« i’ni■ al words in printed business
matter, and the waste basket is made
use of by them as well as by the people
who do not know a word of English.’'
PREACHER’S PRAYER USELESS.
iatoiksua Man U ou|- Not Forgive
«»«»• Who Oarii lltiu 91.30.
In one of the North end churches the
other evening, while revival services
were ;n progress a raw-boned man. a
little t worse for liquor, sat down on
! e ua k pew. A well-known evangel
;*T was a the midst of an eloquent ex
hortation. His gestures and modu
3 a ted » • appeared to possess a great
attra non for the inebriate, who
matched him very closely and seemed
to >e gradually working himself up to
m con* derable degree of excitement.
After a time the speaker proceeded to
discourse on the duty of cultivating a
forgiving spirit, and immediately a
cloud began to settle on the fellow s
<> r..-’ MU ■ Al last he shouted:
’ B it suppose a man owed you a dol
lar and a half and wouldn’t pay you?"
The evangelist listened to a rambling
story of the fellow's troubles. "Now*,
brother." said he, "we shall pray
a;»out this matter. Are you willing?”
For answer the fellow plumped down
on his knees. The congregation looked
on in amusement, while the evangelist,
kneeling bes;de him. offered up an
earnest prayer. "But. I^ord.” said the
preacher at last, “this man needs his
*>ou! • salvation more than he does that
dollar and a half." "No, no.” shouted
the feilow. springing up. "I want the
dollar and a half.”
Amlrrw ^i»n# tli® l)Urover#r.
Andrew J. Stone. mho has just re
rurned from the arc-tic. where he was
| sent by the American Academy of Nat
ural History made many valuable
and interesting discoveries during his
journey. He also found mistakes in
the present maps of the region. The
most important of his discoveries was
that of thre** hitherto unknown tribes
of Indians, living in the far north,
where no white man has ever pene
trated before. The members of the
newly found tribes are described as
j being the most advanced physically
! an^ Intellectually of any of the natives
of Alaska and the adjacent country.
During the winter of lfc&8-'b9 Mr. Stone
traveled more than 3.000 miles on
sledges drawn by dogs, and visited no
lens than twenty-eight different tribes,
speaking as many different dialects.
In the short arctic summer Mr. Stone
reports that the valley* fairly bloom
with Bowers. Close to the art-tic cir
cle he aaw finer red currants growing
out of door than ever be saw in the
United States.
onem Brakes Down.
According to tb* Army and Navy
Journal, the following navy officers
have been ordered away from Manila,
having broken down physically from
the effects of the climate: Lieut. Wal
ter S. Croaley. aide to Rear-Admiral
Watson; Naval Cadet Bec-kner. Car
penter Gill and Capt. H. C. Haines, of
the marine corps.
The heart where self has found no
place and raised no throne is slow to
recognize its ugly presence when It
looks upon iL—Charles Dickens.
MAN-EATING LIONS.
OBSTRUCT WORK ON A RAIL
ROAD IN AFRICA.
A*d Kill Nrarljr 100 Men, Injuring a
Good Many Others—Frightful Rav
ages of Wild lteasts In Africa and
India.
Obstructing the building of a rail
road is a rather unusual feat for lions,
yet that is what two of them did some
time ago in Central Africa, near Vic
toria Nyanza. The matter was re
ferred to by Lord Salisbury in one of
his addresses to the British house of
lords. These lions were man-eaters,
and for more than eight months they
terrorized 6,000 laborers engaged in the
work of construction. Scores of these
men they dragged off and devoured.
The greater part of the camp having
at length moved up the country be
yond the forging ground of the lions,
several hundred were left behind to
build bridges. Upon these the lions
made a still more sanguinary descent.
Night after night they would carry
away one and sometimes two men.
They attacked white engineers, doc
tors. soldiers and military officers, as
well as laborers from India, coolies and
African natives. On almost any night
and at any time of the night the men
were liable to be aroused by the
shrieks of their abducted comrades,
and to hear the cracking of their bones
and the tearing of their limbs a rod
or two away, while the lions growled
and quarreled over their prey. Sick
men in the hospital died from sheer
terror at these horrible sounds and the
horrible scenes they suggested. The
beasts were shot at in the darkness,
but seldom hit. For firearms, fire or
torches they cared nothing. One of
them leaped upon an officer, tore his
knapsack from his back, and then car
ried away and devoured a soldier near
by. Many became so terror-stricken
that they threw themselves on the
rails in front of a coastward train and
insisted on either being run over or
carried off on the train. Those who
stayed forsook .the tents and huts and
camped out on top of the water tanks,
on roofs and bridge girders, or in beds
lashed to the highest branches of the
trees. One night one of these broke,
letting its lodgers fall within a few
feet of the lions. But. being already
too occupied with devouring a victim,
the brutes gave no heed to this ■'wind
fall.” but let the intruders escape until
another meal.
During the eight months that these
lions lived upon these railroad men
they would be occasionally wounded
by a shot and obliged to retire from
active life, thus giving the camp inter
vals of quiet. But they killed and ate
in all nearly thirty natives of India,
twice as many African natives, be
sides injuring many others of various
nationalities.
It was impossible to poison them be
cause they confined their diet entirely
to human beings, to the neglect of
every kind of game, with which the
region abounds. The white men were
not numerous enough to hunt them
successfully and the Sepoys were too
unskilled with firearms. At length an
engineer of the line, who spent months
of his time pursuing them, worn out by
loss of sleep, sitting up in the moon
light and tracking them during the
day. succeeded in shooting them both
and putting an end to these man-eat
ers’ reign of terror. They were each
over nine feet long.
Both Africa and India are in many
parts under the dominion of the lion
and tiger. Against the lion of South
Africa the native has to be constantly
on his guard. The Arabs arrange their
tents in a circle, in the center of which
the herds are penned, and outside the
tents is a rude hedge. When they
hear the animal begin roaring, and he
can he heard plainly at a distance of
three miles, sometimes faintly nine
miles off, they kindle the heaps of
wood that have been piled up before
each tent so that the occupant may
hurl a lighted brand at him. But some
of the brutes have become so wonted
to the fire, the yelping of the dogs and
the cries of the people that they pay
no attention to them. He boldly leaps
within the inclosure. He drives men.
women and children into their tents,
silences the dogs and stampedes the
horses, sheep and dogs through the
hedge and across the desert.
From the sheep, too frightened to
flee, he selects his supper, and carries
it away to the mountains;. or. if the
mood suits, pursues the horses and
cattle. Of ihe.->e he will sometimes kill
three or four and suck their blood,
leaving their carcasses where he over
took them. The power of these black
African lions is enormous. The strong
est of them can clear an eight-foot
inclosure holding in their mouths a
j-year-oid norse. uirara, the lion
killer, declares that he has seen one of
them charge into the midst of COO
Arab horsemen on an open plain and
drive them back to their encampment,
the boldest of them, with their horses,
remaining prostrate along his path.
In India a man-eating tiger kills
more than a hundred people a year;
sometimes four or five, and even sev
en. persons at one*’. In some districts
300 or 400 human beings are annually
slain by tigers, and in lower Bengal
as many as <00 are killed. One tigress
has been known to close the public
roads, cause the desertion of 13 vil
lages and put over 250 square miles
of territory out of cultivation. They
become bold enough now and then to
penetrate a city, and are accorded its
freedom until they are shot.
Fronaorlatian of ’‘Automobile.**
Two wavs of pronouncing the word
“automobile" are defensible, accord
ing to current orthoepic authorities,
and two only, although at least five
have been suggested. As a noun the
word is not given in any dictionary.
It is in the Standard as an adjective,
pronuonced au-to-mo-bil. The noun,
of course, is only the adjective used
absolutely, to mean something that
is automobile or self-moving. The
commonest pronunciation is su-to-mc
beel. It is simply “auto,” self, and
“mobile,” movable. The Standard,
Webster and many other authorities
giv* mo-bll as the pronunciation of
“mobile,” and Worcester and some
others prefer mo-beel.— Inland Printer.
SAILING THE PACIFIC ALONE.
About 2,700 Miles Almost Without
Touching the Helm.
For several days now the Spray
sailed west on the parallel of 10 de
grees 25 south, as true as a hair. If
she deviated at all from that, through
day or night—and this may have hap
pened—she was back, strangely
enough, at noon, at the same latitude.
But the greatest science was in reck
oning the longitudes. My tin clock
and only timepiece had by this time
lost its minute hand, but after I boiled
her she told the hours, and that was
near enough on a long stretch. The
12th day of July, 1897, some hundred
mile* southwest of Christmas Island,
I saw anti-trade clouds flying up from
the southwest very high over the reg
ular winds, which weakened now for
a few days, while a swell heavier than
usual, set in also from the southwest.
A winter gale was going*on in the di
rection of the Cape of Good Hope. Ac
cordingly I steered higher to wind
ward. allowing twenty miles a day,
while this went on. for change of cur
rent; and it was not too much, for on
that course I made the Keeling Islands
right ahead. The first unmistakable
sign of land was a visit one morning
from a white tern that fluttered very
knowingly about the vessel and then
took itself westward with a business
like air in its wing. The tern is
called by the islanders the “pilot of
Keeling Cocos.’’ A little farther on I
came among a great number of birds
fishing, and fighting over whatever
they caught. Springing aloft. I saw
from halfway up the mast cocoanut
trees standing out of the water ahead.
I expected to see this, still it thrilled
me as an electric shock might have
done. I slid down the mast, tremb
ling under the strangest sensations;
and not able to resist the impulse I sat
on deck and gave way to my emotions.
To folk in a parlor on shore this may
seem weak indeed, but I am telling
the story of a voyage alone. I didn't
touch the helm, for with the current
and heave of the sea the sloop found
herself at the end of the run absolute
ly in the channel. You couldn’t have
beaten it in the navy. Then I trimmed
her sails by the wind, took the helm
and flogged her up the couple o? miles
or so abreast the harbor landing, where
I cast anchor at 3:30 p. m., July 17.
1897. twenty-three days from Thursday
Island. The distance run was 2.700
miles as the crow flies. It was a de
lightful sail. During those twenty
three days I had not spent altogether
more than three hours at the helm, in
cluding the time occupied in beating in
Keeling harbor. I just lashed the
helm and let her go; whether the wind
was abeam or dead aft it was all the
same She always sailed on her course.
Xo part of the voyage up to that point
taking it by and large, had been so
finished as this.—Century.
“Sicilian Vespers."
“Sicilian \ espers'1 is the name given
to the massacre of the French in Sicily
on ths day after Easter (March 30),
1-82. the signal for the commence
ment of which was to be the first
stroke of the vesper bell. Charles of
Anjou, the brother of Louis IX. of
France, had deprived the Hohen
staufen dynasty of Naples and Sicily,
and parceled out these kingdoms into
domains for his French followers; but
his cruelty toward the adherents of
the dispossessed race, his tyranny, op
pressive taxation, and the brutality of
his followers, excited among the vin
dictive Sicilians the deadliest animos
ity. On the evening of Easter Monday
the inhabitants of- Palermo sprang to
arms, and turning on their oppressors
put to the sword, every man. woman
and child of them, not sparing even
those Italians and Sicilians who had
married Frenchmen. This example
was followed, after a brief interval, by
Messina and the other t»>wns. and the
massacre soon became general over
the island; the French were hunted
like wild beasts, and dragged even
f"om the churches, where they vainly
thought themselves safe. More than
8.000 of them were slain by the Paler
mitan* alone. The 600th anniversary
of the Sicilian Vespers was celebrated
with much enthusiasm in Palermo in
1SS2.
Ant Enemies.
All ants that are not from the same
nest seem to be deadly enemies, but
while an ant will do what he can to
put to death a stranger he does not
seem to take a corresponding delight
in aiding his friends, as is shown by
the following experiment: A scientist,
in order to test the affection of ants
belonging to the same nest, took six
of them and imprisoned them in a
small bottle, covering it with a piece
of coarse muslin. Their fellows paid
no attention to the prisoners, but
when the experiment was repeated,
substituting, however, six ants of a
rivai tribe, their enemies swarmed
around the bottle, and after some
thing like a week through persistent
effort they succeeded in eating their
way through the muslin. Two ants
were found dead, evidently proving
that they had been put to death,
while the others probably escaped.
Hnjnkot schtsc-hlua.
The state Besjukovschtsehlna. in
Russia, is piobably the only place in
the world that is run entirely by
women. This state is made up of seven
villages, eath presided over by a
mayoress, the whole under the super
intendence of a lady named Saschka,
who acts as president. There are
women magistrates, women preachers,
women policemen—in fact, every ca
pacity in the state is filled by women.
The roads are made by women, and
women sell milk and deliver letters.
If you want to bring an action against
your neighbor in this state you go to a
woman lawyer; and if there is any
thing in your house to be stolen,
then a burglar of the weaker sex steals
it. No place of any importance is
filled by a man.
Mr* tar Ions Disappearance Solved.
The mystery concerning the where
abouts of General White, fugitive
quartermaster general of Michigan
state troops has been solved, by the
receiving of a letter at Grand Rapids
from him. written in Cape Town,
South Africa. General White saya
he is sorry he did not remain in
Michigan and fight his troubles out
THE SPENDTHRIFTS
PRODIGALS WHOSE AMBITION
WAS TO SPEND MONEY.
And Who Squandered Trlncety For
tunes in a Short Time—Max Lebaudy
and New York’s "Kins or the
Dade*.”
Never has there been a time since
newspapers were invented that the
struggle for wealth furnished more
news than now. Yet there is a great
dearth of talk concerning prodigals.
At this time the world has no big
spendthrift of the class of Howell Os
born, the New York dude; Max Le
baudy, the French sugar refiner's son,
and Ernest Benzon, better known as
“Jubilee Juggins." These three men
were unique in their extravagances.
Benzon was the son of a German junk
man in London, who died when Ben
«on was a boy. leaving his fortune to
be divided equally between his son and
his adopted daughter. Young Benzon
wras 18 before he was told of his fa
ther's riches. From his infancy every
penny allowed him had been doled out
with the utmost penuriousness, his
clothing was poor and mean, his edu
cation was anything but that which
would fit him to manage a big prop
erty, and such acquaintances as he was
allowed to make were of the wrong
sort. Naturally he lost his head on
discovering the truth, which had been
kept from him so that the fortune
might grow. Within a week after he
learned the situation the youngster
spread the news widely. Not only did
his credit become limitless, but the
money lenders fairly sought him out
to press loans upon him. Before he
was 21 Benzon had succeeded in run
ning 1165.000 in debt. The entire prop
erty to be divided between him and
his foster sister amounted to $2,500,
000. Of his share $25,000 was in ready
cash. Most young chaps, even of ex
travagant ideas, would have made that
much loose money do for a while, but
within twenty-four hours after he was
21 Benzon drew out $250,000 wherewith
to pay the debts of his minority and
meet the expenses of a trip to Austra
lia. whither he started with as little
delay as possible. He then left in ne
gotiable securities almost a million
dollars. In two years he was dead
broke. Benzon's fads were gambling
and fine clothing. He rarely wore the
same suit twice, and as he never gave
away any of his apparel, his collec
tion of trousers, coats, waistcoats,
cravats and other personal belonging?
was immense. Benzon’s father had the
wisdom of leaving a trust fund for his
son. and upon the income from this
the spendthrift has since worried
along. Lebaudy's case was different.
Lebaudy, the father, began poor, but
speedily became rich in the sugar
business, his career being so similar
to that of a certain great American re
finer that he has been spoken of fre
quently as the French Havemeyer. Old
Lebaudy deliberately taught his son to
be a profligate, to take for his motto
the significant saying, “Youth comes
but once.” Mme. Lebaudy did not ap
prove of this, and there are stories of
bitter quarrels in the family over the
path taken by the son while the father
was alive. The father paid all the
son's bills cheerfully, and even when
lying prostrate from paralysis just
prior to his death urged Max not to
pay any heed to his mother’s protests.
On the old man's death Max came into
a fortune of $5,000,000.
Mme. Lebaudy was grieved at her
son's course while his father was
alive. Later she was horror-stricken,
for almost before the sound of the
clods falling on the old man’s coffin
died away the young man redoubled
his expenditures, rushing into every
conceivable sort of excess that was un
paralleled even in Paris. Being a
Frenchman. Lebaudy’s gallantries were
notorious, but he spent his money in
i every imaginable direction. Paris
dressmakers got millions of francs;
entertainers of the sort characteristic
of Paris got other millions, and still
other millions were scattered in the
gayest towns in Italy and Switzerland.
Like Benzon. in two years Lebaudy got
rid of all his money save a trust fund
of which he couid spend the income
only. After that he had to serve in
the army, and while in military serv
ice he died of consumption. Lebaudy
was the victim of Parisian blackmail
ers. and hundreds of thousands of
francs were "wrung from him.
Howell Osborn for years was known
as the “King of the Dudes” after Berry
Wall stepped down and out. and cut a
wide swath. The elder Osborn left a
large fortune. Howell managed to
scatter $2,000,000. Young Osborn spent
money in wads before his father’s
death. After that his income was from
$25,000 to $35,000 a year till his moth
ers death, when ne came into the
residue of the family health, on con
dition that he should not marry an
actress or a singer. By reason of good
credit and a knack he had of taking a
lucky flyer “on the street” once in a
while, however, Howell managed to
put a good deal more than his income
into circulation every year. He cleared
up $60,000 at one clip in an operation
in St. Paul, and lucky strikes in other
stocks were not unusual. He bought a
seat on the stock exchange, and for a
time attended to business regularly.
While living in Paris, after giving up
his stock exchange seat, he plunged
heavily at the races and on the cloth,
as Lebaudy and Benzon did. but, un
like them, he won so heavily as to be
one of the famous men on the conti
nent that year. Osborn never threw
money away without a purpose, nor
was he blackmailed. Once he swore to
these annual expenses* Clothes, $3.
000; clubs, $2,500; cabs. $3,000; the
aters. suppers, etc.. $3,000; charities,
$2000; steam yacht $10,000; doctors
and dentists. $500. He died four years
ago. and New York has not seen his
like since.
Frlc»*.
“He says he never took a penny for
his vote,” said the practical politician.
“He says true,” answered Senator
Sorghum. “I've known times to be
hard, but I never saw the day when
votes were selling for a cent apiece In
his neighborhood.**—Washington Star.
PRISONERS OF STATE
In England Are Treated with If nob
Consider* t ion.
In 1849. when the state of Maharaja
Dhuleep Singh was finally annexed to
the Indian empire, that potentate was
requested to take up his residence in
England—the inducement to a ready
compliance being given by the prom
ise of a yearly income of $240,000. with
nothing at all as an alternative. Dhu
leep Singh wisely acquiesced, purchas
ing the fine estate of Brandon in Nor
folk. upon which he resided for many
years as a wealthy English country
gentleman. Though during this pe
riod the maharajah frequently ex
pressed the desire to revisit his na
tive country, professing the utmost
royalty to the empress-queen, yet he
was never permitted to travel east of
the isthmus of Suez. In this case the
bond seems to have descended upon
the heads of his children. For while
his sons have entered the British
army, and one of them. Prince Victor,
recently married the daughter of the
earl of Coventry, yet they have never
been allowed to set eyes on the land
over which their ancestors ruled. Ap
proaching Calcutta on the left bank
of the Hujli river at Garden Beach, the
visitor will have pointed out the fine
palace of the late Wajid All. king of
Oudh. There from 1856 until a recent
date this prince was held in semi-cap
tivity upon an annual allowance of
$600,000, the only proviso as to his
freedom of action being that he should
not leave the vicinity of Calcutta. The
king of Oudh, true to those prodigal
instincts which brought about his
downfall, not only managed to ex
pend this large sum, but in the keep
ing of snake mounds, menageries and
other costiv forms of amusement dear
to the oriental mind, was obliged to
draw frequently upon the imperial
treasury for further amounts. The
leniency with which he was thus treat
ed was probably due to the fact that
he offered no armed opposition to his
own deposition. Blazing with jewels
and seated in a smart equipage, with
servants in royal liveries, the king of
Oudh was often a conspicuous figure
;n the Calcutta park, where the society
of the Indian capital takes an outing
after the heat of the day is passed.
Far different was the fate of the poor
old Bahadur Shah, last of the Great
Moguls. After the fall of Delhi, :n
1857, he was tried for high treason and
sent as a state prisoner to Rangoon.
There, in a small hut. the only lineal
descendant of Shah Jehan and Au
rangzeb passed the remainder of his
days, unnoticed and upon a mere pit
tance. As, however, both his sons
were slaughtered and a less culpable
rebel leader. Tantia Topi, was exe
cuted. he may have thought himself
fortunate to escape with his life. Near
Colombo, in Ceylon. England still
holds in light durance Arabi Pasha
and his colleagues of the Egyptian re
bellion of 1882. While Arabi has not
ceased to bemoan his fate and useless
ly implore the British government for
permission to return to Egypt, yet.
considering the nature of his ofTense,
and that he was sentenced to death,
his lot cannot be considered burden
some. Provided with an income suffi
cient for his wants, a pleasant resi
dence. permission accorded him to re
ceive visitors, and a considerable
measure of freedom within the dis
trict, he would undoubtedly had Deen
worse off had his successful enemies
been of his own race and religion.
For several years Cetawayo. king of
the Zulus, was held an unresigned
prisoner at Ghowe. near the scene ol
the present military operations in Na
tal. where he died before the promise
of restoration to his throne was car
ried into effect.
NO LONGER A “MAVERICK”
A Girl't Kxplanatlon of the Baptismal
Service.
Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, giving
his experiences as a missionary, tells
of the baptism of a little daughter of
a big cattle owner in Indian territory:
"In our baptismal service we sign those
who are baptized with the sign of the
cross,’' he explains, "and when the lit
tle girl returned to school after the
baptism the children pressed her with
hard questions, desiring to know what
that man with the 'nightgown' on had
done, and if she were now any differ
ent from what she had been before.
She tried to tell them that she had
been made 'a member of Christ, the
child of God. and an inheritor of the
kingdom of heaven.' but did not suc
ceed in expressing the situation very
well, and they pressed her for a clearer
explanation. Finally, when she had
exhausted every other effort, she
turned on them, her eyes dashing
through her tears. ‘Well,’ she said,
lapsing into the vernacular. *1 will tel',
you. I was a little “maverick” before
and the man put Jesus' brand on my
forehead, and when He sees me run
ning wild on the prairie He will know
that I am his little girl.’ ”—Indies’
Home Journal.
Interested In Oatrnnie of H»r
The Australians and the New Zea
landers have a very substantial as well
as a sentimental interest in the out
come of the war. Mr. Justice Williams
of the Supreme court of New Zealand
pointed it out in these terms in the
course of a recent speech; “You know
there are two ways from Europe to
these colonies. There is the way by a
ditch called the Suez canal, which a
few pounds of dynamite could block at
any moment, and there is the way by
the Cape of Good Hope. Conceive to
yourselves the half-way house to these
colonies in the possession, of a hostile
power. That is the immediate issue.”
SwaraM of CrMItor*.
The duke of Veragua has swarms of
creditors in France, chiefly in connec
tion with the collapse of a company
which he formed some ten years age
for the purpose of acclimatizing bull
fights on the banks of the Seine, his
idea being to create a new market for
his hulls, which he breeds for the ex
press purpose of figuring in the arena.
The duke is in quite as had financial
rtdor in Paris as he Is in Madrid, where
he was bankrupted a short time before
coming to this country as the guest of
the United States government.
Soma people look too much upon
their religion as a varnish on life in
stead of a Are within it—Or Storra.
the young wife.
f,aek of K*p«rl«nc* Tb»t €•»«• !fo1
on* Trjrlnc MhUk**.
For lack of experience many trying
mistakes are made by l^ yoang house
keeper which would gladly be correct
ed « only some kimlly friend wonld
come to the rescue. Take a young girl
fresh from the schoolroom and from
home where there have been servants
enough to do all that is necessary
about the housework, or else from
home where the work of the house has
all been done by mother, and put into
her inexperienced hands the care an
entire charge of a house, what eise
can be expected but that serious m s
takes will be made and many bitter
tears shed in consequence of her want
of knowledge. Ninety-nine out o
every hundred young girls that marry
are totally ignorant of the necessary
care that will fall upon them. If tbe
other one girl from the hundred has
been fortunate enough to have a far
seeing mother, who has taught her
daughter to look carefully after a
household, she should rise up and bless
her thoughtful mother for her wisdom,
.‘cfore a girl becomes a wife .she
lould at leest be able to oversee the
.ork that is done in her home, give
.reasonable directions to the servants,
and in time of need she should be able
to make good bread, roast and broil
meats, know how to make good soups,
i few simple desserts, and, above all,
mow how to make good coffee. From.
his simple beginning she may, by care
and watchfulness, become a good man
ager of the household stores, even If
the necessity of doing the cooking
never happens to fall upon her. L
have heard mothers say, "Oh! the
cares of life will fail soon enough upoa
her; let her have a free foot while she
can, and when she marries she will
soon learn.” In consequence of this
mistaken kindness her daughters have
everything to learn when the cares of
a home fall upon them, and in conse
quence of their lack of knowledge
many bitter tears are shed, dollars are
wasted by her mistakes, and in a large
majority of cases an unhappy home
and wretched surroundings are the re
sult. Her daughters are left to grow
up in the same way. and, in conse
quence of their mother’s ignorance,
matters go from bad to worse. There
are many, of course, who have too
much pride to allow matters to go on
in this way, and to these great credit
should be given, for they have a hard
fight, and will deserve the victory
when it has been won. Every mother
should teach her daughter the rudi'
ments of housekeeping.
BEATS HE* WHITE SISTERS.
Indian Malden Who lias Received 2,000
Applications for Her Hand.
In answer to advertisements insert
ed in eastern papers a short time
since, no less than 2,000 direct appli
cations have been made by white men
of all classes and stations for the hand
of an unknown Indian maiden whose
wealth is not known. The white maid
en who has a dozen suitors at her feet
is indeed a popular belle but this sim
ple Indian girl has all her pale-faced
sisters distanced. The Indian girl
lives in Kansas and her mail address
is Wichita. She has reached a mar
riageable age and she is looking for
some good man to share her life and
her fortune—for she has a fortune, or,
as she calls it, an estate. She does not
want to marry an Indian: nor, evi
dently. has she found anyone in that
part of Kansas who strikes her fancy
exactly. She seeks as a husband some
city raised man. who knows a bit
about business, from which it may be
judged that this Indian maiden is in
clined to be thrifty. She has an idea
that eastern men are of the brainy
sort and accordingly inserted her mar
riage notice in New York and Massa
chusetts papers. Replies began to flow
upon her after the first day and she
has a great variety to select from. She
is in no hurry, however, and the white
brave who secures her hand must meet
many requirements.
ORIENTAL QUEUES.
Chinamen Were Made to Wear Them
In the FI rut Place.
The following gives ine origin of the
queue. The early Chinese allowed the
hair to grow all over the head. They
did not cut it, but wore it bound upon
the top of the head, secured by one or
more long wooden pins. In 1627, how
ever. the Manchus issued an order that
all Chinese under them should adopt
their style of hairdressing as a sign of
faithfulness, on penalty of death. The
fashion thus begun by compulsion is
now followed from choice. As no man
can safely undertake to shave the top
of his own head, a barber is required
daily. Those who cannot afford to
have one come to the house go into
the street and sit on the box of the
strolling barber to have face and head
shaved, ears cleaned, eyes swabbed out
and queue braided. Whiskers are sel
dom worn, except by some of the man
darins of high rank, even by the very
few who can raise them. A mustache
is not considered proper for a man
under forty.
A l.tngnUt le Hebrew.
The Hon. S. M. Moses, who has been
recently appointed a member of the
legislative council of Bombay, is very
closely associated with one of the best
known families in modern Judaism.
His mother was a daughter of the fa
mous of Sassoon and his father was a
brother of the late Lady Sassoon, wifo
of his uncle. Sir Albert. His wife was
also a granddaughter of Sir Albert.
He was the first Jew to hold the presi
dency of the great Bank of Bombay.
Mr. Moses is possessed by the pride of
-ace and religion. He is said to be
one of the best linguists in Bombay,
and has even accompisshed Chinese.
A Rabbit Crate la California.
There is a rabbit craze in southern
l alifornla. The people around Los
Angeles have taken to breeding Bel
gian hares, and it is expected that bie
fortunes will be made. Rabbit is to be
canned and its juicy meat otherwise
disposed of; its pelt is to be made into
sealskin sacques. its fur into hats and
other things are to be done with It.
Thre are 600 “rabbitries’* around Los
Angeles already and over 60,000 high
grade rabbits.
A cucumber farm of 1,100 acres Is
the latest Lawrence (Kas.) project.
