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"True," I replied dryly. "But you
were out of town well better late
than never." I finished with a shrug
of the shoulder.
"Was there no post or messenger to
send it by?" she questioned.
"I preferred to wait until I could see
you myself I wished to give it into
your own hands," I said.
"Do you suppose I would allow any
one to hold me to the few words
scrawled upon that slip of paper? You
must have strange ideas of women,
sir, if you think they value their hap
piness so lightly?" she asked.
I did not answer her. Instead, I
said:
"I give it up, that you may transfer
it to one more worthy of you."
"Indeed, sir more impertinence!"
he cried in a disdainful manner.
"Has someone also conferred upon
you the office to pick'aud choose my
suitors for me?" she asked, :erti
nently. "Lady Felton, be not so scornful."
I returned. "Since you are so loath
to take the paper, I'll tear it up and
so make an end of the miserable busi-
HCSS."
I made a motion to do so.
"Nay, do not" she stopped ne with
a gesture. "I would keep it as a me
mento of your magnanimity. Co you
give me to Cousin Raoul?"
With a light laugh the lady lowered
the screen from her face, and at the
same time dropped into her natural
voice. It was Rosemary Allyn!
With a bound I was at her side and
bad grasped her arm.
"What do you mean by this mas
auerading?" I demanded.
She gave otit a saucy laugh.
"Since you have given me to Cousin
Raoul you have no right to question
ne," she said.
"My God! Rosemary, do not trifle
with me." I cried. "What do you here?
Why, I only lett you a few moments
ago."
She nodded her blonde head.
"Yes," she affirmed; "I believe you
were to be with mo in twenty min
utes, and so jou are, thanks to me,
not you."
She made a moue at me. She was
adorable! but I was not to be deterred
from my determination by her beau
ty. "You will tell me what you are do
ing here, at once," I said, harshly.
"Once you deceived me by masquer
ading as a brother, and I shudder yet
when I think of what might have been
the consequences; now you would as
sume the character of Lady Felton
I win have no more play acting."
"Are you speaking to Lady Felton
or Rosemary Allyn?" she demurely
asked.
"God's blood!" I cried. "You shall
not trifle .with me so."
Rut she went on.
"If to Lady Felton, she must needs
order you from her presence. If to
Rosemary Allyn that is a different
thing."
It was like tow playing with fire
she had tempted me too much she
I fought for a time,
Was not to be reristi. I took her
Jn lay arms and be.it Lcr saucy head
lack while I kissed hr-r oil hair. brow.
yes, cheeks, an J m I? mouth, where
sy lips would foil: have lingered.
"Fie, sir!" ?h gurgled, struggling
is ray anus. "Yci- have crumpled my'
aew gown; 'tis bye just home from
Wanton's."
1 muttered something which con
demned Manton to the infernal re
gions, i flt a ripple of merriment
go through her form.
"You shall stay where you are until
you tell me what I wish to know." I
Mid. "The longer you delay the more
delishled 1 shall be."
"Release me aud I will tell you," she
pleaded.
-Pay loll first," 1 replied.
"Know, then, sir, what all the town
Knows, that I am called by baptism
.Rosemary Allyn, Lady or Felton," she
said.
Then In sheer astonishment 1 let
ber slip from my arms. Alas, the bit
cf paper which should pave the way
for a reconciliation between my
"Brother and myself was as nothing.
We both loved the same woman! I
wondered if Rosemary Allyn Lady
Felton would cut the Gordian knot
She saw my chagrin upon my face,
and said:
"Had you any curiosity concerning
Xady Felton? Indeed, it certainly is
lacking in you, sir. since you did not
want to see so famous a beauty, it
wonld have been no difficult thing to
'have found out what I have just told
-jro-a."
"I had none." I admitted. "Be my
flea that I was too absorbed in Mis
tress Allyn."
1 bowed low before her.
"Listen!" she whispered, and held
Ber hand up. "I thought so. It is my
father. I did not dream it was so
He. is comins here."
ran to the candles and snuffed
out and was back at my aide
wMhevt a sound.
"Mary." he called at the door, and
trtcd the haadte. Seeing it was dark
wftklft although 1 felt his cold gray
last penetrate the darkness of
corner where we stood like cal-
ipcMs, scarce breathing.
Them eooariag all women to penU-
ftJaa he stamMei into aaother room.
1 nre mm sushi, agro
with
It.
rev meat so." whispered. "I
let yon oat the mae door."
a candle from oae of the
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I looked at her inquiringly as we
stepped through an opening into a
back hall.
"You must know, sir," she ex
plained, "my father likes you not in
the position of suitor to his daugh
ter's hand he thinks to decide that
question to his own satisfaction in
giving me to my cousin Raoul Dwight
but," she added proudly, "he has not
taken in the reckoning the most im
portant person myself."
"Sweet Rosemary," I said, and
would have taken her to my arms
again.
"Nay, sir, do not make me blush,"
she said.
"Forgive me," I murmured, and I
followed her down the steps to the
door.
"When may I see you again?" I
asked. "I must see you soon. I have
much to tell you. I am calling at
Lady Dwight's to-morrow morning
can you not arrange it so as to be
there afterwards?" I insisted eagerly.
She thought she could be there,
and after kissing her hand respect
fully, I hurried the second time that
night from her presence.
CHAPTER XVI.
"To-Night,"
Although I had come out of Lady
Felton's house by the side entrance.
I went round to the front to summon
my servant. I asked him if any one
had entered
the house while he
waited there. He answered "Yes,"
and that the gentleman had ques
tioned him rather sharply as to his
business. He had told him that he
was only looking for a stray wayfarer
who might wish to hire him. Where
at my lord peremptorily ordered him
' off. He had retired from the house
but come back shortls. iou see he
was a fellow of discernment, and be-
J cause of that quality I gave him an
extra coin
As I walked with my linkman to
ward the Blue Boar I felt that I was
being followed. We had hardly
turned into Holborn before I was pos
itive of it A fellow brushed inso
lently past me and sought to catch
a glimpse of my face.
"Quentin Waters, you are my pris
oner," he said.
He put a whistle to. his lips and
blew it shrilly three times.
"Out of the way, sirrah," I cried,
and drew my sword; meantime Pat
rushed to assist me with his light
"Put it up, put it up." the fellow
bellowed. "I have a warrant for your
arrest signed by the King.'"
At these words Pat took to his long
legs and made strides down Holborn.
The shadow of the law was too much
for him, perhaps with cause. In his
case and also in mine discretion was
the better part of valor. I concluded
to follow his example. I had not
time; before I could fend the fellow
off for a few seconds to make the op
portunity, his men, those bull dogs
of law were about me. I fought for
a time, but against odds.
"I yield," I panted, seeing I must
but against odds.
te ccrconie in the end. t"pirvidc-J I
may piocrcd to the Blue Bos and ac
quaint my man with my declination."
The follows :.cv-jng thpy had me
would consent, to nothing. I was
hustled into a coat-:, carried to Lud
low, and there Licked 'n a putrid cell
a cell such as -vas used for crim
inals of the worst lyp?.
An ignominious euaing to a most
delightful day! An ending altogether
unaccountable to me. "A warrant
signed by the. King!" the constable
said and that -vas all he would say.
Put not your faith in Princes, for
when they promise most they do
least
I wondered how long it would take
Gil to find out where I was hidden.
I wondered for four days. The first
day I paced my cell in varying moods.
I damned that linkman up and down
the length and breadth of England,
that he had not waited long enough
to learn where they were taking me
so as to acquaint Gil with the fact.
I tried in every way possible to
bribe my jailor to send word to him.
or at least to find out who had been
instrumental in my arrest, and what
I had been arrested for. It was of no
avail. He would only say that he
had his orders; I would soon know.
The old hypocrite!
But what fretted me most was that
I could not keep my word fa. three
instances: to my lady, who would
look for me, and conjecture as to
what kept me from her; to the men
who would await my coming back
of Montague House how they would
jeer at my seeming cowardice: and to
myself, whom I had promised an in
terview with Lady Dwight I was
burning to be rid of my news. My
plans had been, after seeing Lady
Dwight to send Gil on to Long Haut
with the information to Lord Waters
of another son.
When the day in which I was to
see Rosemary and the others passed,
I calmed down. The following days
I passed quite tranquilly awaiting de
velopments, losing myself in dreams
of Rosemary, quite the most profitable
thiag I could do, although it seemed
sacrilege to bring my lady even in
thoagat into so vile a place as this
cell wherein I was confined. It was
daak and humid, while loathsome in
sects with legs as many as centipedes
crawled about In a corner a window
grated and barred hang, and through
this the light of day altered. I looked
toward Its faint beams, oa this the
fourth - day '(a .beam however small
and lean was preferable to the dark
comers of this hole) and saw glid
ing in like a fs'ry elfin a butterfly.
Poor winton thing! Life must indeed
have been monotonous that it should
fcrsare licht and joy, for darkness
and pain. As I watched it, too high
for me to reach, a .stone was hurled
through the grates in the window, and
hit the luckless flying Insect, that
twisted like a leaf in autumn down,
down, while the stone rebounded from
the wall of the cell to my Teet.
It 'had a paper tied about It, and I
hastened to pick it up, fearing my
jailor might have heard the noise and
come to see what it meant.- I hid
the paper and listened. All was still.
I held it up to the light and read.
"To-night." At last! Gil was en evi
dence. Now my brain kept tacking to
pleasanter things; how would Gil ac
complish his task? How wreck these
prison bars?
I pushed the three-legged stool be
neath the window and stood upon it
I could just reach the window sill
with my finger tips. I drew myself
up and looked out, as I had done
many times before. I saw tops of
trees and far off a winding stream;
now all was hazy like a picture seen
through a smoked glass. I could see
a light bobbing here and there, and
imagine I heard the measured cadence
of the boatsmen's oars, as they fer
ried their fares across. I was not
high up in that old prison, else that
frail butterfly had not fluttered to
its death, or the stone been thrown.
(To be continued.)
CURED BY HARD WORK.
Young Woman's Desire- to Escape
Home Life More Than Satisfied.
A young woman came to me one
day and asked my Intercession in se
curing her an opening in newspaper
work. I happened to know that there
was no need of her seeking work, be
cause she had a home and an allow
ance. She was needed in the family
circle to assist her mother in her
manifold duties, which were not a
tenth part as hard and disappointing
as the work she wanted to do. I knew
ihat reasoning would do no good, and
was not at all sure that a vivid de
scription of the life and 'all it meant
would send her home contented with
her lot. But I decided to try it The
young woman was musical and fond
of reading she also had a large cir
cle of friends and many social duties.
I told her that all would have to be
offered up as sacrifices to hard work,
so exacting and wearying that there
was neither time nor inclination foi
the niceties of life, says a writer in
the Philadelphia Bulletin.
She was obstinate, as I somewhat
expected she would be. She secured
the coveted position and worked just
a month. She needed no more time
to convince her that her former life
was pretty nearly ideal, and had the
good sense to return to it There are
thousands like her in restlessness, but
few whose native good sense conquers
so easily.
An Unanswerable Argument.
This is the season of the year when
a great many people find it hard to
get up in the morning. But it prob
ably never occurs to them, as it did to
Gladstone's granddaughter, Miss Dor
othy Drew, when she was not more
than seven, that the Scriptures empha
size the vanity of early rising. Doro
thy positively refused to get up one
morning, and her grandfather had to
be called to overawe the rebel.
"Why don't you get up, Dorothy?"
he asked.
"Because the Bible doesn't approve
of early rising, grandfather," was the
unexpected reply.
"Really, Dorothy," said the astonish
ed statesman, "you must be mis
taken." "Oh, no. I'm not," she persisted;
"here it Is," and she turned up the
second verse of the 127th Psalm: "It
is in vain for you to rise up early."
The old parliamentarian had nothing
more to say. The argument floored
him.
Preaching to the Deaf.
He that hath ears, let him hear, and
he that is deaf can now hear by tele
phone, and has no excuse for staying
away from church. A clergyman in
Stratford. Conn., has a number of
deaf persons in his congregation. He
found that, curiously enough, they
could understand what was said to
them by telephone. So ho set up a
te'ophcn e apparatus on his pulpit
sk and ran wires to a pew near the
front of (he church. There sit the
deaf, holiiing receivers with a light
handle like that of a lorgnette. This
leaf pew. however, is not necessary.
Telephone connection will be made
between the pulpit and any pew. A
great boon to the really deaf, but rath
er vexatious, perhaps, to the persons
who are so deaf that they can hear
all the jokes at a theater perfectly
well, but cannot follow the sermon.
"With the Processiou," Everybody's
Magazine.
Auburn Hair and Intellect.
"Did you ever notice," asked an
observant woman, "how many intel
lectual people have auburn hair? At
the theater the other night I don't
remember noticirg a single reddish
head of hair among the hundreds of
uncovered heads spread out before
me. They were the well-coiffed heads
of the average nice woman. The
next night 1 attended a meeting of a
very learned society, at which there
were perhaps 200 or 300 of the brain
iest thinkers and educators around
town. And without turning my eyes I
picked out at least a dozen auburn
haired women in the few seats in
front of me. Now, that was more
than a coincidence. It argues some
thing for the possessor of auburn hair
I should think." Chicago Daily News
One By Senator Piatt.
Senator Piatt tells the following
about a real estate agent who desired
to get even with a man that had re
fused to buy a house and lot from him
after he had entered into negotiations-
"After relating the circumstances,
said the Senator, "the disappointec
agent showed me a handsome-looking
watch, saying he intended giving it to
the man.
"My man." said he, "is a com
muter and takes a certain train every
morning to business. Well, no mat
ter if he sets this watch every night,
it is so constructed that it will lose
about tea minutes before morning.
So, you see, time will bring in its re
venges for a while, at least"
Plans Cheap Incubatsr.
A poultry enthusiast proposes to
erect a number of incubators near sev
eral unused springs at Oleawood Hot
Springs, and to use running hot water
in place of lamps which asualy supply
the necessary heat. The projector of
the plan hopes to hatch pot from E.000
to S.000 eggs each month.
FUERTO PLATA. WHERE U. S. TOOK
CHARGE OF DOMINICAN CUSTOMS
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ROMANCE IN CONNECTION
W.TH SWEDISH DYNASTY
Although of peasant extraction Os
car II. of Sweden has for so man..
.cars been the most Imposing and majestic-looking
figure among the sover
eigns of the Old World that the news
of his having been forced by illness
:nd old age to surrender his scepter
o his eldest son and to step down
"rom the throne as incapable of iul
iilling any longer the onerous duties
of rulership will be received with a
feeling of regret even in this country,
.v'here popular sentiment is so aveise
o monarchical forms of government
Oscar was until a few months ago
a superb specimen of manhood, tower
.ng head and shoulders over every
Mher king and emperor in Europe
vith the exception of Leorold of Bel
gium, while his wonderfully varied
?ifts and talents, his unusual culture
.nd his singularly sunny disposition
m parted to his manner an extraordi
nary charm and fascination that made
themselves felt jto all those who had
the privilege of 'approaching him.
Indeed, for those who believe in the
advantages of blue blcod and of an
cient lineage it was difficult to realize
'hat this grand-looking prince, so tru
!y kingly in appearance and et with
1 so simple and so democratic in his
ways, was the grandson of a Pyre
nean peasant and the great-grandson
"n the distaSf side of a Marseilles
shopkeeper.
The Swedish Dynasty.
There are few stories more roman
tic than that of the present Swedish
dynasty. Gustavus IV., the last mon
arch but one of the Hcuse of Vasa.
was brought to the throne at the
early age of 14 by the assassination
of his father in that very palace at
Stockholm where Oscar a ftfw days
ago turned over the reins of govern
ment to his eldest son.
Gustavus IV. proved a most unsat
isfactory ruler, and in 1809 was de
posed by means of a military pronun
ciamento, forced to sign his abdica
tion after a most dramatic hand-to-hand
struggle with General Alder
kreutz and the officers implicated in
the conspiracy and was then ban
ished, along with his consort and his
children, his uncle taking his place
on the throne as Charles XIII. The
latter being childless and an admit er
of France and of Napoleon, selected
the French Field Marshal Eernadotte,
who had been l:crn as a peasant near
Pau and who had risen from the
ranks, to become his heir, induced the j the crew from the captain down, be
national Diet at Stockholm to ratity trined t'0 "South Car-o-li-na." The
his choice and established him In trie j v.a ..Caroiina" is pleasing to the ear.
Swedish capital as Crown Prince. , aR(1 is !n its American application,
Bernadotte, who took the name of : of hlstoric significance. The early col
Charles John, soon made himself the i onv was named from the Latin in non
real ruler of the kingdom, asscciat- or'Char-es n. who made the original
ing himself heartily with his adopted qrant to the eight lords proprietors,
land, and in 1813, when Napoleon's ' Tn jees It is therefore, particularly
star began to wane, joined the powers j (Hstisteful to South Carolinans to hear
which were striving to crush the em- , their state referred to as "South Ca'-li-peror.
His service in bringing about pa and themselVes as "South Ca'lee
the latter s overthrow caused the nians .. such corruptions of the two
congress oi Vienna to leave him tin-
disturbed in the place which he had i
attained at Stockholm, and in 1S18.
on the death of Charles XIII., the last
of the Vasa line of kings, he ascended
the throne under the title of Charles
XIV.. his wife, Desiree, daughter of
the Marseilles stockbroker Clary and
grand-child of a Marseilles shopkeep
er, becoming Queen of Sweden and
Norway.
Napoleon Jilted Her.
Queen Desiree. it may be added,
n-as at one time betrothed to the first ,
Emperor Napoleon, who jilted her. j
Her grandson. King Oscar, is the au- j
thority for this assertion, and it will ;
be fonnd likewise in the novel which
he published some years ago under !
the pen name of "O. Frederick" and I
entitled "A Romance of the Times of
Napoleon and of Bernadotte."
Desiree was, according to her
grandson. King Oscar, almost heart
broken when Napoleon abandoned her
for Josephine de Beauharnais, and
never forgave him. For. after indig
nantly refusing Gen. Junot and Du
phot, as well as several other suit
ors supported and sponsored bv the
emperor, she finally accepted Berna-
dotte. not because she loved him, but I
because in her eyes he was the only
Curious Receipt for Pew Rent.
Mrs. Frank Bingham of Bristol, N. j
H.. has a printed receipt. Oct. 20. j
1S27. for the sale of "One pew situat-
ed in the Congregational meeting
house in said Bristol, on the floor of '
the same, and numbered 13. at $G. by .
two several notes of hand of even
date herewith; one drawn payable-to
the town of Bristol for $4 on demand, ,
with the interest annually; the other
drawn payable to the treasurer of the ,
First Congregational society m Bris-
toi. cr oraer. ior $., m iuui munins,
and interest." j
German Railroads.
A report by the Prussian minister
of railways states that the interest of
the capital invested in railroads in
Germany has increased from 4.9 to 7.3
per cent sines 1890. The report also
sajs that the highest speed attained
with new locomotives in 1904 was
eighty-two miles an hour, but that
this speed could not be kept up for
any length of time. The minister
further recommends that the speed
on state lines should not exceed sixty-eight
miles an hour.
'Violates Confidence.
Herr Barkmeyer, who occupied a
confidential post in the Germania
shipbuilding yard ,at Kiel, has been
sentenced to a year's imprisonment
for selling secret plans of submarines
constructed by his firm to rival Ger
man yards. He was in receipt of a
salary of $1,550 a year. He sold him
self for $2,750.
Bernhardt Going to Pretoria.
Sarah Bernhardt Is to make a South
African tour next May.
man capable of contending with Na
irolecn. The match, as might have
been expected under th circum
stances, did not turn out happily.
Bernadotte, on becoming crown
prince and subsequently king of Swe
den, lost his head so completely that,
forgetful of the fact that he himself
was a peasant from the Pyrenees, he
reproached his charming wife with
the lowliness of her birth, declaring
that he had been guilty of a terrible
mesalliance and that if he had ocly
waited he might have had any prin
cess of the blood in Europe for the
asking this, too, in spite of the fact
that he had stood as a soldier on duty
on what Is now the Place de la Con
corde at Paris on the occasion of the
execution of King Louis XVI and that
he had taken part in the shout of
"Mort anx Tyrans" which greeted the
exhibition of the severed head of
their monarch to the multitude
words which, along with a Phrygian
cap. wore found tattooed on his right
arm after his death.
Inherited Josephine's Eyes.
Queen Desiree. whose sister Julia
married King Joseph Eonaparte of
Spain and lived with him for a time
at Bordentown, N. J., survived her
husband for many years and died
shortly before the Franco-German
war, universally beloved in Sweden,
and. strangely enough, without ever
having revisited her native land since
tlfe overthrow of the great Napoleon.
It is by an irony of fate that Queen
Desiree's only son, Oscar I. should
have fallen in love with Josephine de
Leuchtenberg, daughter of Eugene de
Beauharnais, who was the only son
of the Empress Josephine, for whose
sake she had been jilted by Napoleon.
In spite of his mother's opposition
Oscar I insisted upon marrying Jo
sephine of Leuchtenberg. and in this
way the present king of Sweden, Os
car II, finds himself a grandson of
Desiree Clary and a great-grandson
of Empress Josephine, whose singu
larly beautiful and expressive eyes he
alone of all her descendants is said to
have inherited. "Ex-Attache" in
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Improving the Vernacular.
It is hoped that one of the first
things dore aboard the new battle
ship South Carolina when it is com
pleted will be to organize a class in
tho nrrmnnr'ntion of its name. Let
,i-r,i-,if oi-o tntnllv inpvniisahle. Let the
. nf th4 -South Car-o-li-na" be
trained in the proper pronunciation of
4 " V. .w
the name, and perhaps in time north
erners who come in contact with the
men of the ship will catch the habit.
But. for heaven's sake, do hot "have a
"South Ca'lina" in the United States
navy. Columbia. S. C, State.
1 The Decline cf Chivalry.
1 rhivrlrv irrew ii) in Europe as a
peculiar "institution pfter the fall ot
tl,e Roman empire and it flourished
through the middle ages. Its decay
Sgt ta when Cervantes in his famous
..l)on Quivote" made it the object of
,;is delicious and satirical ridicule,
i nn after the institution of chivalry
,;r,eared its spirit survived in
!iiineared its spirit survived in re
spect and courtesy to women, and
this has been considered one of the
highest manifestations of manhood,
la the past few decades it has fallen
more and more into disuse because
the conventional social barriers be
tween the sexes are being rapidly
leveled and the women are claiming
for their sex political, social and
moral equality with men, and thus the
rM nrdsr rhnmrps and tho new sHnl
relations are growing, up between the
sexes.
Born to Die in Bed.
An Italian of the name of Robarto
was rainting SOrae of the iron work
of the bridge that spans the great
gorge at Victoria falls, Africa the
other day. The plank on which he
was standing tilted and preciptated
him down the side of the gorge He
struck the rock three times, turning a
half somersault on each occasion and
eventually landed among the founda
tions a hundred feet below. Beyond
three scalp wounds and a severe shak-
mg and bruising he was
worse for his adventure.
none the
Hauled from Snowdrift by Engine.
"Curly" Edwards, an Ontario &
Western railroad fireman, who weighs
235 pounds, got stuck in a snowdrift
while on his way to the roun.ihn.,Co
way to the roundhouse
at Middletown. Several men were un
able to extricate him from the snow.
As a last resort an engine was run
to the scene. A large rope was at
tached to "Curly." A full head of
steam was applied, and, with a
mighty effort the engine hauled him
from the drift and over a 50-foot bank
of snow. New York World.
To Teach Irish Language.
A school for teaching Irish, under
the patronage of the archbishop of
Tuam, will be started in Connaught,
at Tourmakeady, on the western
shores of Lough Mask, as soon as
$1,000 more has been raised to pay for
the building.
Morgan Not Ostentatious.
Ten big charitable institutions In
New York city were built by J. Pier
pont Morgan, but none bears bis
came.
THE HCRRCRS OF WAR.
Chicago Journal Calls Slaughter Blot
en Civilization.
History records no greater battle
than that fought between Japan and
Russia in and around Mukden. The
estimates place the number oi dead at
not less than a hundred thousand
souls.
The figure is so great that it beg
gars the imagination. Both sides have
-.'laced the very flower of their peo
ple in the field, men in the full prime
of life.
The proportion of officers, men on
whom the state had expended its
utmost resources to fit them for their
trade of death, have died with those
ihey led. And a hundred thousand
iave gone down, "in one ted burial
blent."
The figure represents the elective
r.ale population ot a city of taree
iuarters of a million people. Imagine
-he dismay that would burst from h
orror-stricken world if within a few
Jays thai number were to die in such
' city, in Chicago, for example, it
.vould mean the total destruction of
three out of the every eight men ol
military age within its limits.
Yet. since it is war. there are no
expressions of horror and affright ar
such a loss. It is taken quite as a
matter of course.
Had a Russian or a Japanese city
been so stricken in times of peace,
there would be great mass meetings
everywhere to express sympathy with
.he afilicted and tens of thousands oi
iollars in money and supplies would
oe raised by popular subscription in
order to express the world's practical
sense of loss.
Is the world no older and wiser
for all its centuries of Christianity?
Is there no sense of human interest
and proportion that can put an effect
ive end to this infernal slaughter?
Chicago Journal.
GOVERNOR TO BE SENATOR.
James B. Frazier Chosen to Succeed
the Late Gen. W. B. Bate.
Gov. James B. Frazier was nomi
nated by acclamation in joint demo
cratic caucus for Democratic senator
from Tennessee to succeed the late
Gen. W. B. Bate. Kobert L. Taylor
and Benton McMillan refused to go
into the caucus. The nomination is
equivalent to an election.
Mr. Frazier lias served two months
of his second term as governor of
G?x:zy.J5Bzz&z&
Tennessee. He was born in Tennes
see forty-nine years ago and is a law
yer. His great-grandfather was a
member of the first constitutional con
vention of Tennessee in 179G. His
father was appointed judge of the
criminal court at Nashville by Andrew
Johnson, and was impeached by the
Brownlow legislature. He was, how
ever, restored to his civil rights by
the constitutional convention ot 1S70,
and elected to his old position.
The Stomachless Man.
The stomach proper has ceased to
be a serious problem to the surgeon.
He can invade and explore it with im
punity. He can even, if circumstances
demand, relieve "the owner of it entire
ly, and so arrange the loose ends that
the functions of nutrition are success-
fully maintained. To be sure, the pa-1
tient can never thereafter derive
much pleasure from his meals; he
must restrict himself to a rigid diet
but for all the other affairs of life Iip
may be as competent as before. Then
are to-day several stomachless men
who are earning their daily predigest
ed ration in occupations varying from
clerk to expressman. McCIure's.
Censure for Modern Critics.
Literary criticism was a bugbear tc
Prof. Fraser when he occupied a chaii
in Johns Hopkins universit;. He
studiously aoided reading book re
views and had no patience with the
spirit in which many of them were
written. "Modern criticism," said he
when asked to explain his aversion
"seems to me to consist largely in
measuring the wisdom and learning
of others by the critic's own ignor
ance. Why, one celebrated critic laid
down a rule that no author can suc
ceed in describing what he has not ex
perienced. He overlooks the fact that
Dante had net been in hell nor Milton
in paradise."
University Endowment.
The Leland Stanford. Jr.. university
has the greatest endowment of them
all. Its productive funds amount to
$20,000,000 par alue. Girard college
comes next with $17 715,000; then
Harvard with $16,755,000. and Coium
bia with $15,847,000. All others are in
seven figures instead of eight. And
the Stanford endowment is the gift oi
a single individual or estate, instead
of an accumulation of gifts, as in the
cases of the other colleges and uni
versities. excepting only Girard.
Boston Herald.
Millionaire Offers Large Gift.
Sir William C. MacDonald, the mil
Iionaire tobacco manufacturer of Mon
treal, has offered the Protestant com
mittee of the council of public instruc
tion of that city a proposition to en
dow an agricultural training college
and a college tor the training ol
school teachers in the sum of from
$2,000,000 to $4,000,000. Sir William
has selected Prof. Robertson, the mac
who developed the Canadian dairj
business, aa the director of the
scheme.
Prince to Receive No Presents.
The prince of Wales, on his comins
visit to India, is to give no presents
and receive none. When his father
was prince of Wales and visited India
he gave presents worth $200,000 and
received presents worth $2,500,000.
Jesse Pomeroy Seeks Freedom.
Jesse Pomeroy, who used to tor
ture children to death in Massachu
setts years ago, and who was sen
tenced to prison for life, has applied
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MIRACULOUS ESCAPES ON
MANCHURIAN BATTLEFIELDS
The story of the soldier who, struck
by a bullet jet escaped from death
owing to the interposition of a prayer-
book in his breast pocket, is as old as
the hills. The present gigantic strug
gle in Manchuria yields several even
stranger and better authenticated in
cidents of escape from death by a nar
row margin.
The Odessa News reports the case.
of soldier at the battle of Taschis
chao. whose life was saved through his
comrade's practical joking "A hum
orous sapper had smeared his shovel
with tar, and was about to plaster the
face of a man named Tsibuilin, who
was dozing in the trench, when a shell
unexpectedly fell on the parapet and
exploded.
"The sapper and every man with
in ten yard's radius was killed by
splinters. Eut Tsibuilin survived. His
face was somewhat flattened and
blackened by the shovel, the front of
UvHch was scratched and scored
y
splinters. Had it not been for the
shovel his face would have been cut
to pieces."
Another Russian escaped death
through boastfully proving that he did
not fear it. A Lithuanian was contin
ually popping up his had and shoul
ders, with the words. "I'm not afnid
of bullets." Tired of this, the soldier
next him jeered. "I'd like to see you
showing your whole body." The Li
thuanian took the challenge, sprang on
the edge of the trench and leaped
about three feet in the air. Before
he descended two bullets whizzed un
derneath his feet, and lodged in the
earth behind. Had he been in his
usual position they would have gone
through his chest.
A pewter spoon saved the life of
Sergeant Pristavkin at the battle of
the Shaho. Pristavkin was dining on
buckwheat, gruel, and had the spoon
at his lips, when it was struck by a
spent bullet, which glanced aside and
went half way through the head of a
man some way behind. Pristavkin was
afterward nicknamed "Sergeant Lozh
ka" or "Sergeant Spoon."
Foppishness was the cause of Artil
leryman Znvodski's salvation. Zavod
ski was the greatest fop in tho bat
tery. He trimmed his nails, waxed his
moustache, and shaved himself under
fire. While the other men were eating
their dinner during the retreat from
Liao Yang. Zavodski removed his big
boots, and cleaned them carefully.
While he was putting a finishing
touch on the second of them, a bullet
from a Japanese sharpshooter pene
trated the sole, tearing out the big
nails, and fell harmlessly into the toe.
Had it not been tor the boot the bullet
would have gone straight through his
heart.
Gortseff, a discontented and nervous
soldier, escaped death through his des
perate attempt to commit suicide.
While the enemy.'s shells and bullets
were falling like hail, he hopped
vboiit. exposing himself, and altogeth
er behaving K queerly that his com
rades thought him mad.
Sn-idPnly. amid a hail of bursting
shells, he unscrewed his bayonet, put
the muzzle of his rifle to his throat.
and fired. The shot went harmlessly
over his shoulder. When the rille was
examined, it appeared that he had had
a double escape from death. The wood
on one side of the stock was torn
clean off by a shell fragment which
was found at his feet. It was this
which diverted the bullet he had in
tended for his throat.
A Japanese soldier escaped bayonet
ting by his knowledge of Russian.
During the assault on Nanshan hill
he, with a dozen comrades, succeeded
in reaching the Russian trenches.
All the attackers were slaughtered
save the Jap student. Two men, with
ferocious cries of "Tchort!" (the
devil), attacked him. He calmly par-
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repeated their own cry "Tchort!"
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Russell Sage's Joke.
Maybe Russell Sage was not aware
of it, but he made a funny remark the
other day. He went into a barber
shop and the boss, frciing honored at
a visit from such a noted man. opened
a new and fine cake of soap. As
he prepared to lather the millionaire's
face he said "This is a very fine
grade of soap, Mr. Sage, a mixture of t
cream and cocoa oil, with a dash of
alcohol. Quoth the old gentleman:
"Alcohol, eh? Well, remember I am
a temperance man, so don't put too
much of it in my mouth."
Left-Handed Compliment.
A certain laborer once asked a coun
try clergyman to write a letter for
him to a duke, from whom he wished
to obtain aid.
"But jou ought to go yourself and
gee his grace," said the clergyman
"I would, sir," was the nervous
answer, "but, you see. I don't like to
speak to the duke. He may be too
proud to listen to the likes of me. I
can talk to you well enough, sir;
there's nothing of the gentleman about
you." London Tidbits.
Inebriates' Homes Are Useless.
Mr. Justice Wills, in bis charge to
the grand jury at the Liverpool as
sizes, alluded to inebriates' homes,
remarking that all the information he
and his brother judges had been able
to gather was that they were perfect
ly useless as useless a piece of senti
mental legislation as ever was passed.
Motor Buses for London.
Within the year London will have
motor cmBlbuses. The drivers j for
are being trained now.
SIGNATURE
MAKES PAPER MONEY GOOD
:tr n.s signature vill apt-ear on
every p'eec ot rapcr money issued by
the United Ststes.
The office of treasurer or the United
St-.tes is a most responsible ore. yet
it is doubtful if one man out of a hun
dred met on the streets could tell you
the name of the man who holds it.
The treasurer is accountable for the
custody of every dollar of the govern
I ment's funds. Every bank note issued
has the guarantee of the government -behind
it. as coin or bonds ,are de
posited to secure it. Hence, before a
bank rote is legal it must bear the
signature of the treasurer.
The Russians were so much aston
ished by hearing the familiar word,
that they dropped their bayonets, and
took him prisoner Instead of butcher
ing him.
An act of dishonesty was the cause
of Sapper Rozanofl's narrow escape.
On the morning of tho battle round
"Kuropatkin's Eye." flat, half-pound
tins of tobacco were given to each
noncommissioned officer for distribu
tion among the men. But before it
was portioned out. one tin disap
peared. All the soldiers denied having
taken it.
When night closed the fighting, a
sapper, named Rozanoff. handed the
tin to the sergeant. In the top was a
narrow slit, which examination proved
to go through tho tobacco, but not
through the bottom. Rozanofl's tunic
had a similar slit, just above tho ab
domen. He admitted having stolen
the tobacco. He had hidden it next
his shirt. In the hand-to-hand fighting
a Japanese soldier had driven at him
fiercely with the bayonet.
The steel had gone clean through
the lid and tobacco, but the force em
ployed was not sufficient to send it
through the bottom. Rozanofl's con
science was struck by his miraculous '
escape, and he had decided to confess
the theft and make restitution.
LONG TERMS OF SERVICE.
Remarkable Faithfulness Shown
Austrian Servant.
by
In celebration of the emperor of
Austria's birthday a short time ago
twenty purses, each containing the
equivalent of $75. were offered for
competition among domestic servants
in respectable situations. Tbe quali
fications of the winners showed some
truly remarkable perfnds of service.
One of the winners a valet had
been in the service of one man for
forty-seven years. A maid servant
of nearly 80 years of age had served
about thirty-nine years in an orphan
age, where she was still in active
employment when she received the
award. Another woman, aged 71
j ears, had entered the service of a
family as scullery maid and was still
with the same family, after forty
three years' service. All of the win
ners had been in their situations more
than thirty years.
Husband Takes Wife's Name.
Permission to take his wife's maid
en name as part of his own has been
granted to Rev. George Franklin Hop
kins in the equity court. Washington.
The reason given is that his wife, who
was well known in various fields of
work before her marriage, desires
to continue the use of her maiden
name. She was Dr. Saleni Arm
stiong. who achieved more or less
celebrity in the missionary field and
wrote a number of books. After her
marriage to Dr. Hopkins she found
her work hampered by the necessity
of appearing under a mnv name. Ac
cordingly, hhe and her husband ap
plied to the court for permission to
change their names to Armstroiig
Hopkins. Vireless Telegraphy In the Home.
William J. Hammer, the electrical
cng-neer. has found a novel use for the
wireless telegraph. In his New York
home he is employing it to call tho
servants. On his dining-room table
is a dainty transmitter and pole con
nected under the table. Down in the
kitche-i is another polo, with trans
mitter and receiver, connected with
an electric bell. The transmitters are
no bigger than paper weights. When
Mr. Hammer wants the maid lie terids
a wireless current through the walls
of the room. The electrical waves
are caught by the pole in the kitchen
ai d the bell rings. A system of sig
nals permits him to call for anj thing
he desires.
Cheating the Government.
People who are honorable in their
private dealings with other individu
als sometimes fail to treat corpora
tions or the government with the
same, honesty. How many persons
traveling from foreign countries smug
gle in goods on which, under the law.
duty should lie paid? Cheating the
customs is not a serious sin in the
category of a largo number of trav
elers and merchants. This failure to
live up to the spirit of the law is ap
parent in other countries as well as
our own. Boston Herald.
Collecting Monuments.
Collecting monuments is the queer
est hobby we have yet heard of. It
is the specialty of a Pennsylvania
millionaire Quaker. For forty years
he has spent time and money hunting
for tombstones, pedestals, head-pieces,
broken columns, gravestones, and
monuments erected to commemorate
Biblical events and American history.
He has them erected in a cemetery
plot reserved for the purpose, and
spends much of his leisure admiring
his collection.
Smoking and Growth.
As an Instance of how smoking
stunts the growth, it is noted that
the Russian giant now on exhibition
in London is nine feet six and one
quarter inches in height and smokes
two hundred cigarettes a day.
Water Famine in Hawaii.
Drought in the Hawaiian islands Is
causing serious loss to the sugar
planters, in some aisrricts water
household purposes i being sold
v the gallon-
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