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THE OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE.
Preservation of the
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f OLD Is th abaence of heat. On
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I 1 Dhvslca haa been hnllt nna nf tha
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moat extenalve induatrlea of tha
city. In one of the chief cold etoraga
warehouaea In Omaha goods valued be
tween $600,000 and $1,000,000 are constantly
on band. Some of thla'atock la kept for
alz monthe; other products more frail and
perlahable only pause for a few hours.
Each article la kept at that exact degree
of temperature which exprrlunce has
taught la best for It, Meats are for a time
exposed to a wintry climate of 8 degreea
above aero. Egga are preserved with the
mercury at 21, while beer only needs the
thermometer at 46.
Where there la cold on a warm summer
day one looks for tee. Ita only semblance,
however, la the tiny crystala of frost that
cling to the pipea lining tha wall. These
crystala once hid from sight under the
Incognito of moisture In the air. The flight
of the heat, literally aucked from the sur
rounding ether, left the crystals sur
prised and stiffened In the eight of men.
For the cold cornea about, not through any
poaltlve presence such as snow or Ice, but
owing to tha vanishment of Its eternal ad
versary, heat. The principle of liquefaction
of gases with their surrender and subse
quent absorption of latent heat la here
revealed as told and accepted in the achool
books.
Hw It la Accomplished.
One plant where Omaha's perishable
freight la mostly stored Is a (70,000 ex
emplification of the truth which the care
less schoolboy scans as ft. faraway and
obscure phenomenon. Each rod and casting
of the Intricate machinery Is chosen with
exaggerated care as to Its worthlneaa, aa
a breakdown might bring to ruin thousands
of dollars' worth of goods. Engines, boil
ers, pumps and pressure tanks make up aa
Curious ond Romantic Capers ot Cupid
Aatl-Marrlase Man Capitulates.
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IT took a pretty girl to "bust" the
only trusty In the world that de
fled President Roosevelt, reports
the Chicago Inter Ocean.
When Archie C. Tlsdulle, banker
and president of the "bachelors' trust,"
led Miss M. Loretta Cantwell, one of the
social leaders of the West Side, Chicago,
to the altar last week, her victory over the
trust was complete.
Tisdelle was president of the "bachelors'
trust," an organization of prominent young
men of the West Side, professed enemies
of Dan Cupid.
Tisdelle organized the society seven years
ago, and made a provision in the con
stitution that the penalty for a member
marrying should be the payment of )500
Into the Club treasury.
He was obliged to fulfill the agreement
which he has Imposed with much satisfac
tion upon eighteen former bachelors.
It was through one of these victims that
Tlsdelle'a marriage resulted.
Claude Owen, former secretary of the or
ganization. Invited the banker to a "small
supper" at his house a few months after
hia marriage.
At the table Tisdelle waa seated next to
Miss Cantwell, daughter of Thomas A.
Cantwell, 733 West Adams street. The
young woman is a graduate of the Yonkers
school on the Hudson and of Northwestern
university. She la both vivacious and
i pretty. Owen knew this and Tisdelle soon
recognized the fact.
The rest was merely a matter of a few
months.
Since the trust loses Its president, Dr. R.
J. Cruise, , 1660 Jackson boulevard, who is
treasurer, will act as head until a special
election is held.
Mr. Tisdelle does not regret the fact that
his heart has been captured.
"I never paid out money with a lighter
heart than that S500." he said.
With the banker's marriage fee the club
will give a dinner to Its present members
and tha me robe re who have been dishonor
ably discharged.
Reaalted by Telephone.
One of Cupld'a queereat pranka waa In re
uniting Carroll A. Dunn of Parkeraburg,
Pa., to Mfta Lillian Mae Teager of Wav-
erly, Md. The were married at Pottstown,
Md., They were sweethearts some years
ago, but drifted apart and did see or hear
from one another for some years. All this
time, however, Cupid was only waiting a
chance. The opportunity came a few
1 months ago at Boyertown, Pa., when both
were talking over the telephone to eaoh
other, but not Intentionally. In some way
lines got crossed and the voices of the
former lovers were the only ones left on
the wire. Several "hellos" passed between
them, and then each wanted to know who
waa at the other end of the line. They
found out, and this was the beginning of
the courtship. A place of meeting was
arranged and developments folowed rap
Idly and the date waa aet.
Then Cupid Jumped over to Baltimore
and to ahow that he keepa up with the
times he used a phonograph to help a
couple to get married In secret. The groom
was George N. Vetre, Jr. and the bride was
Miss Llxsle D Shields. They had known
each other for Just ten weeks. They both
came from Virginia, Vetre being a grad
uate or the V. N. I , and while both were
working In Baltimore they met In a board
ing house. After ten weeks they decided to
je to Towson and be married. They
wanted to fool the others In the boarding
house so they decided to run away. The
phonograph was started, and while the
others were listening they went out and
when finally, after an hour of the amuse
ment, some one put in another phonograph
record the machine startled the company
by saying: "Mr. Vetre and Miss De Shields
have gone to get married."
Frank E. Campbel lof. New Tork went up
Into the Catskilla to spend his vacation.
Cupid lust him up In the mountains, where
he wandered for hours. Mlsa Margaret
Kluts, a beautiful girl of the hills, found
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expensive an outfit aa any known to tna
chantca. Aa an additional precaution each
piece of machinery is duplicated, so that
there may be no possible chanca of a
riae In temperature through accident. There
are two sets of engines and boilers, ' a
double system of piping through the cham
bers and all la In readiness to turn tha
wheels on one set when the other for any
reason ceases to act. One set Is run one
day and the other the next in order that
each may be ready beyond any doubt to
respond to the call of a moment. Thus
135,000 worth of machinery Is constantly
lying idle.
Cairb Is I'noraalna;.
The care exercised In keeping the tern
perature absolutely unvaried In each
chamber is ceaseless, day and night. Tha
machinery must keep moving twenty-four
hours a day and every two hours an at
tendant takes the temperature In each
chamber. This record Is preserved and
properly endorsed so that It may be pro
duced as a bit of legal testimony at any
time In the future.
The storage companies do not guarantee
to keep goods from spoiling. They simply
undertake to keep them surtQunded by a
certain temperature every hour in the
day. Any deterioration aside from this
feature Is the owner's misfortune. If ha
protesta that due dlllgenoe was not exer
cised then tha warehouseman produces his
sworn statement of temperatures.
Storage Has Its Seasons.
Each season brings to the cold storage
warehouse its own peculiar class of goods.
The whole Industry Is founded on the
theory that there Is a flush and scant period
for each commodity Just at present.
Provident hands are storing thousands of
dozens of eggs in no other packing than
simple cardboard partitions. The surround-
the city man and guided him to his hotel.
Before he would consent to be shown to the
hotel he asked permission to call, and
soon she discovered that she had saved a
man and lost a heart. They were married
and live In Brooklyn.
Voting- ConTeMWeddlags.
There was a double wedding at the Little
Church Around the Corner. New Tork City,
August 9. Miss Martha T. Wlckerham of
Peebles, O., was married to John J. Blair,
a banker of the same town, and Miss
Amelia Enadlnger of Cynthlana, Ky.. be
came the wife of Sidney Fielding Sprake,
the most prosperous miller of Cynthlana,
relates the New Tork Sun. The tlev. Dr.
Houghton, rector of the church, tied both
knots, and then the two couples and' the
witnesses went over to the Gilsey house
for luncheon. Last evening Mr. and Mrs.
Blair and Mr. and Mrs. Sprake started for
Niagara Falls on their honeymoon.
The wedding followed a trip to Europe
which Miss Wlckerham and Miss Enadlnger
took at the expense of the Commercial
Tribune of Cincinnati. E. O. Eshelby, pub
lisher of that paper, arranged a voting con
test In Ohio and the border counties of
Kentucky to determine the most popular
young woman In each county. The suc
cessful candidate In each county was to
make a five weeks' tour of Europe. Some
thing like half a hundred young women ar
rived here about six weeks ago In charge
of Mr. Eshelby and sailed on the Caledonia.
Among them were Miss Wlckerham, who
was the victor In the counties of Adams,
Clermont and Brown, Ohio, and Miss Ena
dlnger, who won out ln the Kentucky
county of which Cynthlana Is the garden
spot Just after the contest began Mr.
Sprake was presented to Miss Enadlnger,
and the same thing happened to Mr. Blair
over In Ohio. Each proposed and each got
a proyjslonal yes. The condition named by
each young woman was that if ahe were the
successful contestant she would marry her
suitor on her return from the European
trip, at the Little Church Around the Cor
ner, In little old New York. The condition
Imposed was readily accepted, and there
after Miss Enadlnger In Kentucky and Mlsa
Wlckerham In Ohio had a cinch.
With a banker In one state and a iloh
miller In the other supporting them both
young women won In a walk. They became
acquainted on shipboard and It wasn't long
before the learned that there was a mutual
bond of sympathy between them.
When the European end of the trip waa
over Miss Wlckerham and Miss Enadlnger
continued their travels up the Rhine and
ever the Alps and returned to New Tork
on the Columbia, which arrived on Sunday.
Mr, Sprake and Mr. Blair, not knowing
each other from the side of a house, were
on the pier to meet the ship. So were
seven young women who had been mem
bers of the Eahelby party and who had
tarried In New York to await rhe arrival
of Miss Wlckerham and Miss Enadlnger.
The girls knew all about what was going
to happen and spotted the miller from Cyn
thlana and the banker from Peebles.
When the girl from Ohio and the girl
from Kentucky tripped down the gang
plank there were Introductions aU around
and the Cynthlana miller and the Peebles
banker were properly flabbergasted. Then
the whole crowd went up to the Gilsey
house, where the stopped over night, and
the details of the weddings were arranged.
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Dancing Mad.
Alleging that hia wife. Mabel Eloora Mao
Colloch, la dancing mad and cannot resist
the temptation of tripping the light fantae
tlo regardlesa of domestic conditions, James
B. MacColloch, a Lake Shore railway at
tache, residing at Elkhart, Ind., filed suit
for divorce. He says she cannot control her
Inclination for dancing. In his complaint
he alleges that she Is such an Inveterate
dancer that when he waa Injured in a rail
way collision and confined to his bod wlto
four fractured ribs, she refused to nursa
him, but Instead went to dances. 'He also
says she danced so much she neglected her
household duties, leaving him without
proper attention and meala
City's Food Supply Against Heat
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A Story of Lamont.
XT lWPinPWT In tha x roar nf th
L I late Daniel S. Lamont as aecre-
s turv rf war nrmv nfflnarB Bra
fond of recalling. It happened in
1835.
Senator Harris of Tennessee was In Sec
retary Lamont's office, when Paymaster
General Stanton entered and began his ex
planation of the financial condition of the
service, referring particularly to the lack
of funda for the month of June. Secretary
Lamont asked what amount would e nec
essary to pay off all the June salaries.
"Oh. something like $50,000." replied Gen
eral Stanton.
"If you could borrow that amount," said
the secretary, "would It be sufficient?"
"You get me the money, Mr. Secretary,
and I'll make the payment all right," said
the paymaster. '
"Well, I'm thinking about advancing It
myself," replied Mr. Lamont.
There was a gasp of astonishment from
General Stanton and Senator Harris.
"I mean It," continued the secretary.
"The army ought to be paid, and the sooner
they get It the better."
"I can only say, Mr. Secretary," said
General Stanton, "that If you find me the
money, I shall make arrangements to pay
off the officers and men who did not receive
their salaries for the month of June." .
Mr. Hay's Sense of Bamor,
An eastern Insurance man tells this: "I
was taking lunch about year ago In the
Pennsylvania station at Jersey City and
Go Bathing but Don't
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If not frightened? Before the
civil war I made a trip up the
livers of northern Maine and em-
Those Penobeoot Indiana owned all the
Islands In the rivers and living by fishing,
hunting and lumbering were mostly upon
the water. They told me that If their
children fell Into the river before learning
to swim they would paddle about until
pulled out and not sink and drown like
white people. A few years ago my wife
and I were down on the shore of our home
pond with two of our children and a Collie
puppy. For the amusement of the children
we tossed the dog Into the water to let
them see hlra swim out. Turning to gq to '
the house we failed to notice that our baby
boy Eddie, In reaching for a flower upon
the edge of the pond, had lost his balanoe
and fallen Into deep water. Our little girl
saw, and with frantlo efforts made us look.
To our surprise he was not frightened or
making an outcry, but dog-faahlon paddling
for the ahore. We pulled him out and after
a bit we aaked him what he waa doing. As '
well aa he was able to talk he told us he
was swimming out the same as the puppy
had done. Our boys are all expert swim
mers now, and Eddie, why he Is a genuine
aquatic professor with a swimming hobble.
He has taught the other boya to swim and
declares that the easiest way to learn Is
at first to paddle tn the water dog-fashion
until one learns to sustain themselves, be
foie attempting the more artistic frog mo
tions. The loss of life each summer from
drowning Is fearful and In most cases It
occurs with help at hand to save life If
they had means of Immediately locating
the body. We have felt so much
concern for our children while playing in
the pond that we have devised a pull-me-out
life preserver which we cause them to
wear. We take a small cotton clothesline
cord about twenty feet long and this we at
tach to the child's waist in a manner It
cannot a lip, fastened to the other end of
the cord la a light piece of board that will
float. Now If anyone with thla attachment
aocldentaely steps Into deep water and dis
appears from sight the float Immediately
locates tha parson, they can be pulled out.
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waa seated on a stool at the. lunch counter.
when the Congressional limited came In,
and among other passengers was Secretary
Hay. Rushing Into the lunch counter he
seated himself next to me and ordered a
sandwich and a cup of coffee. On the other
side 'of the secretary was a typical Ameri
can, who had not the slightest Idea that
his neighbor on the left was the American
premier. Mr. Hay's face was a study of
amusement when he waa suddenly Jabbed In
the ribs by the elbow of this man, who at
the same time addressed the secretary after
this fashion: 'Say. sport, ferry over the
confectionery, will ye?' The Interesting
part of It was that John Hay passed the
sugar." t
It Worked Both Ways.
When some of the newspapers were print
ing funny stories about William Loeb,
private secretary to President .Roosevelt,
during the last campaign, alleging that he
was the "champion blametaker In Amer
ica," because he was always so willing to
ansume responsibility for anything that
went wrong at the White House,, Mr., Loeb
laughed with the very men who wrote the
yarns.
But one day his patience was taxed, re
lates Success. The president's traln had
been delayed seven hours between Phila
delphia and Now York while he was going
to Oyster Bay. The next morning one of
the New York dailies had these flaming
headlines: "President's Train Water-bound
Loeb Not to Blame."
"See here," said the secretary next morn
wrung out and allowed to try It again until
they can paddle their own canoe.
For public places the float and cord can
be aa light and artistic aa the balance of
the bathing suit. People ehould learn to
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ing at Oyster Way, "that's going too far.'
"Very well," said the reporter who had
written the story, "I'll correct it tomorrow
and say you were to blame."
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A Pessimistic Admiral.
The Russian naval commander. Admiral
Rojestvensky, has always been looked upon
by his friends as one of the most pessi
mistic men In the navy. His morbid feel
ings were exhibited in some verse written
by him in the album of an English girl, at
her request. He sei. ted the well known
little French poem, "I.a Vie est Breve,"
and wrote this paragraph of It:
I.a vie est bete,
Un peu do fete,
Tn peu d ennui.
El puis bonne nult.
"Life Is stupid. A little gayety, a little
weariness, and then good night."
Taken Titil7 Word.
During a visit In a Massachusetts town
Jacob A. Rlls was asked by a guunt, fun
ereal sort of a chap what he should say by
way of introducing him to the assemblage.
"Oh," replied Mr. Rlls, In a spirit of levity,
"say anything you like. Say I am the
most distinguished mun In the country.
They generally do." Whereupon his serious
minded friend marched upon the stage and
calmly announced that he did not know this
man Rlls, whom he was charged to intro
duce, and had never heard of him, "He
tells," he went on with never a wink, "that
he -is the most distinguished citizen In the
country. You can Judge for yourselves
when you have heard him."
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swim as a measure of safety. With the
aid of this simple Inexpensive devise they
need not drown themselvea while learning,
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BOMB OF THE STUFF THAT IS STORED.
tag air Is kept at exactly SI degrees and
the fruit comes forth more or less fresh
after months of confinement. Freakish
hens who lay now with alacrity, but are
miserly with their favors In January, will
find their eggs stored up against that day.
Cows likewise may meet their produce dis
guised as butter and cheese months after
they supposed the foaming pall had ful
filled Its mission.
Fancy Unn In Storage.
A custom which the warehouseman does
rot encourage In spite of profits Involved
la the cold storage of furs. A freezing
temperature provides beyond all doubt
against the ravages of the moth, but the
houses do not boom this end of the trade.
"When a burglar can carry away 150,000
worth of goods In one wagonload," said one
proprietor, "the risk Is a little too great
for the facilities we have for protection.
The goods we ordinarily handle may, be no
less valuable In bulk, but their very bulk
protects them. It would be a difficult mat
ter, for example, to ateal 600 carloads of
apcles." '
Probably the most fragile wares that go
In cold storage are Easter lilies, which are
preserved for a considerable period before
the end of Lent. Fruit trees are also kept
for months at a time In order that they
may not send forth sprouts before the ap
pointed time.
A categorical list of all the articles kept
In storage for preservation may be given
as follows: Butter, eggs, poultry, fresh
meat, cider, apples, nuts, peaches, pears,
plums, celery, oysters, dried fruit, oranges,
lemons cabbages, fresh fish and onions.
Most of these products are kept In sep
arate chambers separated by heavy airtight
doors. One Omaha establishment Is pro
vided with thirty-three huge rooms, with a
large addition nearlng completion. There
are four floors, two of them under ground,
Tersely Told Tales
Effect of Friction.
N Insurance adjuster was sent to a
Massachusetts town to adjust a
loss on a building that had been
burned.
"How did the fire start?" asked
a friend who met htm on his homeward
trip.
"I couldn't say, certainly, and nobody
seemed able to tell," said the adjuster,
"but It struck me that It was the result of
friction." '
"What do you mean by that?" asked his
friend.
"Well." said the Insurance man, "fric
tion sometimes comes from rubbing a 110,
OH policy on a K.OOO house." Boston Her
ald. Willing to Merry Anybody.
This is given by the Boston Herald aa
the favorite story of a noted actress: A
. colored "gemman," name unknown, but
called "Culpepper Pete," who, being en
amored of some dusky maiden, and not
having the courage to "pop" face to face,
called up the house where she worked
and asked her over the telephone. When
he got the proper party on the line he
asked: "Is dat Miss Johnslng?" "Ya-as."
"Well, Miss Johnslng. I've got a most Im
portant question to ask you." "Ya-as."
"Will you marry me?" "Ya-as. Who la
It, please?"
Tears Over Stuart Itobson'n Check.
"My father was a personal friend of
Stuart Robson, the veteran comedian, now
dead, and was fond of telling anecdotes
of the man whom he considered the great
est actor on the American stage," said
Louis O. Hammel to the Milwaukee Sen
tinel. "According to one of them, Rob
son once sent a check for 1100 as a wed
ding present to a friend who was to en
ter the hymeneal state. His theatrical en
gagements precluded his personal attend
ance at the ceremony, to whloh be tent
his daughter as a repraaantatlve of the
family.
"My father waa convaralng with Robaon
whan the daughter came home from tha
wedding, about which Robaon asked many
questions.
" 'When your friend aaw your check,'
aid the daughter, he waa ao overcome with
emotion that he cried.'
" 'So ha cried, did her aald Robson.
'How long did he weep?'
" 'Oh, about a minute,' aald the girl.
" "Only a minute,' ahouted the comedian,
with that curious aqueak In hia voice that
made him famoua in the character of
Bertie the Lamb, 'why, I cried half an
hour after I algned the thing.' "
Why the Treatment Failed.
"I tell yoh." aald a negro bootblack In
a West Side barber shop yesterday as he
rubbed a customer's shoes, "woman Is a
peculiar thing. Yoh gotta know Jest how
to handle huh or yoh goln' to git the
worst of it. Lots uf times she'll get
'zasperated at yoh en then yoh gotta talk
to huh that's the way to mastah huh. She
won't stand fo' no beat In' er nothin' like
that. Talk to huh. That's the way I
handle ma wife."
Another negro working next to him
looked up. "Wha did yoh git that black
eye yoh got?" he asked.
"Well, ma wife done It. but "
"Why didn't yoh talk to huh?" asked
the other with a sneer.
"How could 1?" came from the first.
"She had me by the throat an' had ma
wind shet off." Ksnsas City Times.
Want of Appreciation.
"Blast all those people who write to
point out errors in the papers," a reporter
said.
Ha frowned, sipped hia atrawberry sun
dae, and went on:
"I waa put In a new department last
week. They gave me a column of 'Items
of Interest' to compile. I did my best
with 'Items of Interest.' It seemed to me
that I made It as attractive and striking
a column as the paper contained. And
what was the result r
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the thick walls and devious possaRes belngf
remindful of a medieval fortress. As tha
visitor passes the rotund form of a cldor
burrel In a subterranean vault ho uncon
sciously looks to see whether a drunken
archer or well fed monk may not be loll
ing near the spigot. The ammonia colls
and the Arctic halo about them bring on
to a chilling realization, however, that h
can hope to mingle In no such hlstorlo
pastime.
High Wedding Record
More couples were married at the New
Tork city hall last week than during any
similar period in many years, sixty-two
weddings being the remarkable recorxl.
The average number of mailages at tha
city hall annually Is about 2,0m). of courso,
a large number of the couples have been
persons of foreign birth or parentage, but
not a few persons In moderately high social
life have wedded at the city hall. Among
these were the nephew of President Roose
velt, the French secretary of Jay Gould,
and no end of actor folk, and even a few
with foreign titles.
More Italians are marled at the bureau
than persons of any other nationality, and
the Frenoh are second. No line is drawn
even as to color. The negroes furnish the
moet fun. Now and then the brldogroom
will borrow enough money to get uptown.
There Is no fee required of any one for
the uniting process. The ceremony Is per
formed after the usual church order.
The chief reason of the number of Ital
ians and Frenoh being married at the bu
reau is that they, seemingly more than
others, look forward to the time when they
will return to their fatherland. Their de
sire Is to get the civil certificate, .have It
duly authenticated by the consul here,
and send it across the sea for registry.
Many want to send It for reasons Involv
ing property In their native country.
Both Grim and Gay
He made a gesture expressive of bitter-
ness and sorrow.
"Did any of the editors compliment met
No. Did any of the reporters? No. The
only response that my column evoked was
a letter from a Conshohocken Josher. I r
had written that during the summer months
a baby died of cholera Infantum every
three minutes, and this letter quoted my
paragraph and added:
" 'Please give me this baby's address sa
If It Is still dying I want to take my wife
down to watch It for an hour or two.' "
Philadelphia Bulletin.
rlnehed to the Limit.
Lieutenant Governor Bruce of New York
says a small headstone in a cemetery In
the western part of the state Is pointed
out to visitors as one of the sights over
the grave of a widower who, while not
lacking In love for the departed one, was
penurious to a degree. He ordered a small
stone because U was cheap and told the
mason to engrave on It this Inscription:
"Sarah HacketL Aged Ninety Yearn.
Lord, She Was Thine." The sn'mecutter
said there was too much Inscription for
so small a sui face, but was told to go
ahead and "squeeze It on somehow." Here
la the Inscription aa "squeezed:" "Sarah
Hackett. Aged 90. Lord, She Waa Thin."
Trained for the Job,
In hia lecture on "The Model Husband,"
William Cumbuck of Indiana, who died the
other day, used to tell a story of a speech
made by an Indlanlan accepting the nom
ination for the lieutenant governorship, "I
congratulate you, gentlemen," said he,
"upon the wisdom of your choice. I am
unusually qualified for the office of lieu
tenant governor. For thirty years I have
held that ofliua unchallenged In my own
household."
A Doable Hardship.
The following anecdote la told of a prom
nent Baptiat minister, celebrated for bis
caustic wit:
He waa speaking once at a dinner given
to commemorate an important event In the
history of New England, his text being
"The Pilgrim Fatheis. I have always,"
he said, "felt the deepest sympathy for the
Pilgrim fathers, who suffered such extra
ordinary hardships in establishing a foot
hold In this country. But, sorry as I have
felt for tho Pilgrim fathers, I have flt
still sorrier for the Pilgrim mothers; for
not only were they obliged to endure the
same hardships, but tltey had also endured
the Pilgrim fathers." Harper's Weekly.
A Long Ttmfor Increase.
Hon. Francis Bayllss, a historian of note,
on returning from meeting one Thanks
giving duy met Nicholas Tllllnghast, one
of the most humorous and eloquent of the
members of the Bristol county bar. In the
alttlng room at Atwood'a hotel.
In the course of the conversation whloh
ensued Mr. Jlayllss said to Mr. Tllllng
hast: "I have deposited a 10-cent piece In
the contribution box, to be placed on Inter
est until I reach heaven."
TIMnghast replied: "Ah, yes! That will
amount to a large sum." Boston Herald.
Another Man Money Mad.
John Skelton Williams of Richmond. Va.,
one of the furemost bankers and railway
organizers of the south, says of Thomas
Fortune Ryan, the new heud of the Equi
table: "I have known Mr. Ryan six years
and tn that time have been associated with
him In enterprises In which we were mu
tually Interested und opposed to Mm la
struggles for tho control of properties. It
was dlrli'-ult for ine to understand that a
man could be capable of violating pledges
and promises, deliberately and sulemnly
given, and afterward of looking mc calmly
In the face, expressing frlcndxhlp and ap
parently not ut all ush tnied or embarrassed
not even angered when bluntly told my
opinion of hl.s conduct. Mr. Ryan has the
tendencies which, if his Urns had been cast
In a humble and contracted sphere, prob
ably would have made him a kleptomaniac
Ula atrongeat Impulse la te acquire monegr."