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English Idlers Turn to Gypsy Life for Relief From Ennui of Sociefy
TITE OMATTA PTTXDAY BEE: JUNE SO, J 307.
fTTTIHR ypY waRms stand In tho
rr quiet Kngllsh flrifl. And h'ti
1 n I J"u have noticed thn sign dis
til'.' V played. "Hyelra Iee, Licensed
Ilswkor,'
you are
stnnlshed to
find thiit tho larly of the carsvjui 1 rrslly
a titled Kngllsh woman and wife of Lord
Arthur (Jrosvenor, brother to England
richest peer, tha duke of Westminister. And
your astonishment la not apt to lessen when
you lram that tha Grosvenors iro gypsying
through green rural England In a manner
to delight George Borrrrw, making a par
tlrular point of hawking basket and
clothespins anion- the astounded natives
and only mopping short at trading horses
In their determination to squeeze all tha
local color poaalbla out of the occupation.
Already tha Qrosvenors have been ac
cepted aa models by not ft few English
people continental. And In going a gypsy
ing In basket laden wagons or motor cara
the Kngllsh love for the open air la being
Indulged as never betbra.
It began In London. At least the real
Romany fever sprang up there and natur
ally enough, tmonf the1 women of the more
aristocratic circles. Bat It waa not alto
gether In a freakish aplrlt that the Grosve
nora started the vogue tor gypsying. They
are both fine ehota. both young and full of
the English love of the blue sky and for
both motor trlpa and camping tours had
become rathor old stories. The lde of com
bining; the advantages of both without the
duck in an and breakdowns of either occurred
to Lady Grosvenor when ahe waa driving
through the lanea near her husband's place
In one of the aouthern counties recently. As
ahe rounded a. turn was a gypsy encamp
ment. Roveral picturesque brigands were
sniffing the odor from pots and pans sizzling
on the Are. A crone sat in the shade of one
of the wagons shuffling her fortune telling
cards. That Lady Urowvcnnr stopped goes
without saying. And -when ahe reached
home there was such a making of plana as
had not occurred for a long time.
You had only to Jump over the fence of
Vsrmer T'ludden's field, near Appleford,
Ticrkrhlre. as did ee-wml Englishmen a
few weeks ngo. to se the result of Lady
Orosvenor's planning. There were the
two wagons, baskets gathered In clusters at
the aides; the clothespins atowed away
somewhere, too. At one side two piebald
nags cropped Fanner Pudden'a grass; on
the other three doge are dosing, heads on
paws. And In the center two pleasant
young Bngllshwotrvn and a very pink
young Englishman moving about, ap
parently cleaning up the breakfast things,
t-ord Arthur Grosvenor, with a large nap
kin tied around hla waist, has washed the
dishes, shd, moreover, has cooked the meal.
He seems aa proud of being a cook, and a
good one, aa ha would have been had hla
iorse won the Derby. And when the things
have been stowed away In the larger
wagon the lady of the caravan consents to
It on the driver's seat and tell about
(verythlng.
"Who Is 'Syelra Lee, Licensed Hawkerr "
Selections From the Story
A Slight Misunderstanding.
m TX trt.I. known Boston lawyer savs
V I that not long ago he waa
' I -tnnlaheA to see Ttrinted In a
JyJTtl newHpaper a glowing testimonial
"fr aa to the benflts to be derived
from using somebody's curequick. The of
fice of the concern was located near his
own, and ha dropped in while out for hla
lunch.
"Bee here, he remarked, somewhat force
fully, when in the preaence of the manager;
Tou have printed a testimonial allegedly
from me with regard to your confounded
stuff and I never took a drop of It In my
life. What do you mean by such pro
cedure?" "Is that soT" tha manager said, sooth
ingly. "Merely a slight misunderstanding,
I assure you, sir, for which I am very sorry.
You see, we understood that you had died
recently. Take this down, please," he added,
turning to a stenographer: "Memorandum;
change signature to sworn testimonial No.
ISiMfi." Harper's Weekly.
Wheace Kipling's Wit.
Rudyard Kipling undoubtedly got his wit
from his maternal grandfather, the Rev.
George B. MacTonald, a Weslejm clergy
man. In the days when young MaoDonald
was courting the lady whom he afterward
married, the father-in-law to be an aged
Mothodlst with extremely strict notions In
regard to . the proprieties was Injudicious
enough on one occasion to enter the parlor
Comfort Yoxa
SkinTortured
BABIES
A warm bith with Cuth
cura Soap and a singlo
anointing with Cuticura
Ointment, the great Skin
Cure, will afford instant re
lief, permit rest and sleep,
and point to a speedy cure
of the most distressing forms
cf eczemas, tetters, rashes,
itchings, irritations andcha
fings when m else fails.
OwnauM tbwlutalr Vara, aa4 Bar fee mm4
tt m im bur of ta
U4oa .'T Ctnar1aa s : Putt. I
F u U rift lu Wro a i haw. Oorf . aoie
'. l-kn 5JU'lsV w
she Is quoted as saying. "1 am that person.
You see that's part of the atmosphere.
One can't do this sort of thing without
doing it thoroughly. And so I Just had a
license taken out for me, and not with an
ordinary name, because that would have
spoiled the g py part of it. The name of
I-ee Is quite Romanesque, t got It from
George Borrow, and so I took that one.
Oh, yes, I am regularly licensed. You can
go Into the registry office and you will find
me down thera Just like any other gypsy,
'Syelra Lee, Licensed Hawker, Cheehlre,
Van No. 8.'
"The wagons? Indeed, they are. Both
proper gypsy wagons. I wouldn't have any
others got for me. And the baskets and
the palls hanging under the axles. And
the beda Inside and the horses and clothes
pins. They are all proper gypsy fashion,
every one. I had ft good deal of trouble
with them all, as you may Imagine. For
when I Inquired from real gypsies at least
they said they were real gypsies, and they
wero kings and queens and dukes and all
that, according to themselves one said
that this was proper and one aald that.
I soon saw that some of them must really
be deceiving me, so I read up a great deal
in George Borrow. And between Borrow
and the gypsies who could be believed for
some of them have such fine honest faces,
even If thoir reputations are awful why I
got together al these thing and they are
all authentic and true to the (Romany rye.
"Of course we do. We travel exactly
like gypsies. That Is as near like them aa
possible. When we started out we Just
let people take us for real gypsies. We
don't look altogether unlike them, do weT
So we were Just Syelra. Lee and her gypsy
band. But we had so much trouble In
finding places to encamp. We would drive
along Just like proper gypsies and when It
came sunset we'd pick out ft nice smooth
field. My husband would drop the fence
and In we would drive, never thinking of
course thnt the owner would have any ob
jections. But so often he would, lie
would come charging down the opposite
hillside, shouting and waving clubs, and
Ms dogs barking, and (.wear awfully, t
really pity the real gypsies, they must be
worn at so. And then he would order us
off. lie would threaten us with arrest
If we didn't obey.
"And, of course, with the supper' things
unpacked one doesn't want to break up
and go off Just because a farmer has a
wholly unaccountable prejudice. So the
only way out of It waa for ua to let him
Into thn secret and then It waa all right.
He couldn't understand how we came
to go a-gypsying, but we didn't mind about
that. And It really was a great relief,
both to my friend, my husband and myself.
For of course at first we dressed like real
gypsies. We do still, as much as we can.
"Yes, Indeed, we do. We sell the baskets
and clothesplna. That's part of the best fun
of It. Tou get awfully close to the people
when you do that. It's better than books.
without giving any warning of his approach.
The oonsequence was that he found the
sweethearts occupying a single chair.'
Deeply shocked by this spectacle, the man
solemnly said: "Mr. MaoDonald, when I
courted Mrs, Brown she sat on one side of
the room and I on the other." MacDonald'a
reply was: "That's what I should have
done if I had been courting Mrs. Brown."
Cleveland Leader.
Hard to Catch On.
An American who has Just returned from
a tour of Europe was much impressed
with the average German's capacity for
understanding an intricate Joke. Indeed, he
thinks that In this respect the Teuton is
more obtuse than the Englishman. He told
a German friend the Mark Twain story
about tha man wbe lived all his life In
chronic fear of fresh air. The relatives of
this man, as is well known, decided after
his death to have his remains cremated,
and the climax of the story occurs when
the undertaker, opening the door of tha
oven to see whether incineration was com
plete was appaled to hear the corpae speak
out and request him to close the door and
shut off the draft. The American aprung
the Joke aa effectively as he could. But
never a smile waa hla reward. His German
. friend remained for several moments in
a perplexed study. Then he leaned over
to the American and aald: "But how could
that be? The man was deadl"
Just What Ua Wanted.
An old negro entered an Eighth avenue
drug store the other day and looked about
him doubtfully.
"Something you want, old man?" in
quired the clerk, stepping up.
"Tais, sah; yais, sah," was his reply, as
he scratched his chin; "but I disremembahs
exactly whut "
"Forgot what you came for?" broke In
the clerk.
"Dass des edzackly hit, sah; dass dea
hit!" exclaimed the old negro, his face
lighting up with relief. "Er nickul'g wuth,
sah."
The clerk stared for a moment, then
grinned understanding, and handed the old
negro his desired 6 cents' worth of "came
phor." New Tork Tlmea.
General Botha's honghtf laea.
An Interesting example of the thoughtful
nes and kindness which characterized the
actions of General Botha, the Boer leader,
came to light In London while he was
there. He learned that a famous military
chaplain, Mr. Colllna, was 111 In the Mill
bank Military hospital and every day sent
the sick man an exquisite bouquet. Mr.
Collins waa the military chaplain who from
Splon kop and Pleter hill reported man
fully the great humanity and fairness of
the Boers and their leaders In those san
guinary engagements of the Bouth AXrtcan
' war.
The Lost Walt.
Bill Nye, when a young man, once made
an engagement with a woman friend of his
to take her driving of a Sunday afternoon.
The appointed day came, but at the livery
atable all the horses were taken out save
one old, shaky, exceedingly bony horse.
Mr. Nye hired the nag and drove to his
friend's residence. The woman let him wait
nearly aa hour before she was ready and
then on viewing the disreputable outfit
flatly refused to aocompany Mr. Nye.
"Why." she eaclalmed. sneerlngly. "that
horse may die of age any moment."
"Madam," Mr. Nye replied, "when I ar
rived that horse was a prancing young
teed," Harper' Weekly.
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Jim Hill's Tcaener.
James J. Hill, the Great Northern mag
nate, ordinarily is an easy-going man. but
at times he displays a temper which la
nothing short of cyckinlo. On one occa
sion, angered beyond endurance by the bad
service of a telephone company, he tore Its
Instrument from the wall of his Bt. Paul
office, threw It out Into the back yard
and kicked tt to piece. On another occa
sion when, aooording to hla notion, things
were going all wrong tn tha Great Northern
offices, he made a "Journey of Improve
ment" that la (till remembered with a
ahudder. He went from department to de
partment, kicking open the doors as he
traveled and sending the unfortunate em
ployes, from the heads of bureau to Offlo
HI Hv
We were careful to find out the right prices
to ask for everything and we lose very little
on things. It takes such a long time to
sell anything if you hold out for tha real
price and the people are so obstinate and
yet so nice that we haven't the heart to
hold out against them. Tou can t Imagine
how novel and pleasant and Interesting
it all Is.
"Tha country is so beautiful, and in the
twilight there Is such a delicious loneliness
that seems to arise from tho fields and de
scend from the declining sun. Several other
people have taken example from us and aro
traveling around England Just like our
selves. I expect more will do so. There
is no other way of seething the real beauty
Teller's Pack
boys, in terrorized flight before him. One
door resisted because of a desk that stood
In front of it on the other side. He shat
tered the door into splinters and the desk
when he got through with it was a wreck.
The Kansas Inajalls.
Kansas' great senator, the late J. J. In
galls, left one son who gives promise of
figuring conspicuously In the affairs of his
state. Sheffield Ingalls was a member ef
the last Kansas legislature and took high
rank in that body among Ita ablest men.
His home is at Atchison, where he began
the practice of law not long ago. He Is
already slated for congress, although the
district In which he lives has only re
cently elected as Its representative the son
of another famous Kansasan In tha person
of young "Dan" Anthony. Senator Ingalls'
other son, Ralph, is practicing law In Kan
sas City, Mo. The widow and daughter
live in the old family homestead at Atchi
son. Man Who Dldu't Want Office.
The office seekers were the most persist
ent and unreasonable. An experience that
a friend of mine Mr. F. J. Whipple of
New Tork had with the president will
show how Mr. Lincoln felt about them.
Mr. Whipple called at the White house
one day. As he was a little early he had
to wait In the hall opposite the presldent'a
office. He had not been there long when
Mr. Lincoln came in from the private part ,
of the house. Whipple rose, saying: '
"This is Mr. Linooln, I believe."
"Yes. And what can I do for you?"
"Nothing, sir. You have not an office I
would accept." ,
Mr. Lincoln slapped him on tho shoulder.
"Is It possible? Come Into my office. I
want to look at you. It is a curiosity to
see a man who doe not want an office.
You might as well try to dip the Potomac
dry as to satisfy them all."
They had a few minutes' more conver
sation, while the president Idly made some
lines on a paper. A few days later I was
In the room with the president, when a
prominent senator called upon him. See
ing a pencil sketch on the desk, the visitor
asked what it was.
"It is the portrait of the one man who
does not want an office." Mr. Lincoln re
plied. W. H. Cook In Harper's.
Not Hla Daelu.
A new story is told of the famous Rich
ard Brlnsley Sheridan that, one day when
coming back from shooting, with an empty
bag, and seeing a number of ducks in a
pond, while near by a man waa leaning
on a fence watching him, Bherldan asked:
"What will you take for a shot at the
ducks?"
Well." said the msn thoughtfully, "III
take half a sovereign."
"Done," said Sheridan, and he fired into
the middle of the flock, killing a dozen or
more.
"I'm afraid you made a bad bargain,"
said Sheridan, laughtug.
T don't know about that," the man re
plied. "They're not my ducks."
A
Vnexpecte Contente.
There Is a state senator in one of our
western state whose burly appearance
might possibly lead one to mistake him
for a laboring man, but who Is as sensitive
as a woman to all unpleasant circum
stances. He happened one night to be standing on
the sidewalk outside of an undertaking es
tablishment, conversing with a .friend on
some important political matter. One of
the employe of the shop approached them
and aald, "Say, will you give m a lift
with a casket?" The senator ahuddered
and aald hesitatingly, Is there Is there'
anything In Itf
"Sure," came the hearty reply; "there's
a couple of good drink In It." Llppln.
cotf Magaalne.
Hew V1 for St, O.'s.
Raymond Hitchcock, the comedian, who
I now oo a starring tour through tha
wast, waa recently Invited a the guest
of honor to tha Country club, about five
mile outald of Ban rranclsoo, after the
performance. Aa Mr. Hltohoook knew
from previous experience that a cabman
would ask a fortune to carry him out to
the club, he looked up Ahe address of a
physician near the theater, and after the
close of the show h went around and
IF
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fF mi J w .
rang the bell. The doctor opened the door
personally, and Hitchcock aald:
"Doctor, you're wanted Immediately out
near the Country club. Can you come right
away?"
"Certainly, air. Just step Inside a mo
ment while I "phone for my auto. We'll be
there In a Jiffy."
It was a good five miles to the Country
club. Just beyond stood a cluster of subur
ban homes.
"The yellow house on the left there,"
said Hitchcock, as he got out of the ma
chine. "By the way, I forgot to ask you
the amount of your fee."
"Four dollars," said the doctor.
The comedian peeled off four one-dollar
bills and passed them to the doctor.
"That will be all, thank you, doctor.
None of these pirate hackmen would take
me out here for less than fifteen. "Har
per's Weekly.
Me Had lOnongb.
When the Norwegian novelist BJornson
was In this country he was on one oc
casion the guest of a popular club at din
ner. A man with a wide reputation as a bril
liant talker and speech maker told an ex
ceedingly funny story, at which the Nor
wegian laughed heartily.
The man told a second story, and BJorn-.
son smiled.
Then came the third story, and the nove
list sat unmoved, even gloomy.
"It waa a very goo'd story," chlded the
novelist's mentor. "Why didn't you laugh?"
"I am 40 years old," said BJornson,
firmly, "and two stories are enough."
Cleveland Leader.
Slandering the Fishermen.
"We fishermen," said Havelock Morton,
California's famous fly caster, "are continu
ally being accused of Intemperance. The
accusation Is false. No Intemperate man
could ever cast a fly. Yet yesterday a
friend of mine had the effrontery to say to
me:
" Tou fisherman! You fisherman!"
" 'What's the matter now?" I asked, scorn
fully. "With a chuckle he declared that, out
walking in the country, he had met an
angler beside a brook and had said to the
man:
"How can you tell the good places from
the bad when you come to a stream?"
" 'By the bottles,' the man answered.
'Wherever the most empty bottles are scat
tered la the bust place." "
St
Front Scotch to Irish.
The Hon. Jamea A. Kirkwood, probable
democratic nominee for governor of the
new atate of Oklahoma, had a hard time
of It when he Drat came to this country
from Scotland in adjusting his speech to
his new surroundings. His ancestors have
lived in the land of the heather for many
generations. Nevertheless, he speaks with
a fine Irish brogue. When he came to the
United States his Scotch burr subjected
him to a good deal of raillery, so he pro
ceeded to get rid of It aa soon aa possible.
At that time he was living with an Irish
family, not long over, and he Imitated ttfelr
style of speech o carefully that his Scotch
burr, after a season, was supplanted by
as excellent a quality of Irish as can be
heard In the Emerald Isle. But there are
proud Scotchmen In Oklahoma and Indian
Territory, who, although democrats, resent
their countryman's change of language,
and are opposing his political ambition ac
cordingly, ao that the candidate Is having
a new kind of trouble for American politics.
Editorial Par ta tho Old Days.
According to an account of the czar's in
come, published In St. Petersburg, hla
majesty receives from the state a civil Hat
amounting to 1.000,000 a year. The csarlna
and the dowager empress are each In re
ceipt of 2.000 annually, while the heir
apparent get 15.000 a year. Each of the
otl)er children of the csar get 1,000 a
year. In the tbne of Alexander I. much ec
clesiastical property was seised and made
crown property, the Income of which goes
now to the czar. It amount to J. 000.000 a
year. The caar ha still another aouroe of
Income from the so-called cabinet prop
erty, which Includes a territory aa large aa
the whole of FTanca. most of tt la Siberia,
in which are gold, silver, platinum, cop
per and Iron mine, which produce a steady
Income of about S.O0O,0uO a year. Besides
this the czar possesses a large amount of
personal property gathered by ancestors.
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Late Gossip About Prominent Personages
The Sooth's Last Pnel.
I I houn, president of the Ban Fran-
a I , , T) .. 1 1 ... n ....... r. n n . . In
connection with graft investiga
tions recalls the duel he fought
with John D. Williamson about twenty
years ago, which probably was the last
encounter of Ita kind In the south. Wil
liamson was a Rome (Ga.) man. relates
the Washington Herald, and the meeting
between him and Calhoun, who at that time
was an official o fthe Piedmont Air line, oc
curred on the Rome and Decatur railway,
now a branch of the Southern, somewhere
between Rome and Gadsden. Williamson
was president of the old Chattanooga,
Rome and Columbus then, and, according
to the recollection of a writer In the Rome
Tribune, it waa be who precipated the
trouble by charging Calhoun with lying.
Calhoun challenged and Williamson ac
cepted, naming "Jack" King, a Rome
banker, as hla second. Calhoun's second
was Henry Jackson, an Atlanta attorney.
The weapona chosen were revolvers. Wil
liamson went to Rome the day of the duel
in his private car, said to have been the
finest In the south. Two employes and a
surgeon. In addition to the second, com
pleted the party. Calhoun, his second, and
another surgeon also went to the dueling
ground In a private car, and the two special
trains were left standing on the track while
shots were exchanged. Williamson won
the toss. The two seconds engaged In a
quarrol, according to the Tribune writer,
and for a time It seemed as If another con
flict was Inevitable, but. finally, matters
were smoothed over and the principal pro
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Prices
Lower
Than
Elsewhere
of tha country and still live simply and
pleasantly as you do ao, you see we do all
our own cooking. My husband la an
excellent cook and aeema to really like It.
It Is not much trouble, of course, for we
Jive so simply. He has the smaller cart.
1 and a young woman friend have the
larger one. We have no servants with us;
It would spoil half the fun. But wo do
everything together. I go camping In the
fields every night about sunset, get up and
Hill on th road again JngRlng aKnn t ho
beautiful lanes by sunrise again. There
really couldn't be anything more enjoyahlo
than being a Romany queen."
So much for the gypsying in wagons and
with the accompanying details of the pic
turesque wanderer's life.
It is confined as yet to England almost
wholly, although was it not R. L. Steven
son, who went gypsying In France ever
, so many years ago with a patient donkey
and Its pack, sleeping under the stars and
amid the pines of the Cevennes? But when
you come to gypsying In motor cars that Is
another matter.
Tho motor cara most In favor are thos
equipped for the accommodation of people
all of the twenty-four hours. These Is in
particular the car of a well known Amer
ican diplomat, who ha caught the fever
for the open air and for the wanderer's
life from his English friends.
He has a car containing ell beds. Turned
down In the daytime, they occupy little
room and help to support the table, which
can easily be thrown up In the center of
the car, which In turn Is liberally covered
r
ceeded. On the word being given, Wil
liamson emptied his weapon without hit
ting his adversary. "I have five bullets
here, with any one of which I can take
your life," Bald Calhoun. "Fire, sir; I aiu
ready to receive thorn," waa tha reply.
Thereupon Calhoun fired all five shot Into
the air. intimately tha two shook hands
and repaired to Williamson' car and by
the time they reached Rome Were fast
friends again.
Taft'a Ancestry.
"It is perhaps not generally known,"
writes Moncure T. Conway in "Emerson
at Home and Abroad," "that Secretary
William H. Taft is a kinsman of Ralph
Wsldo Emerson, Wendell Phillips and
Phillips Brooks.
Thomas Emerson emigrated from Eng
land to America In 1635. It may have been
from York, where a Ralph Emerson waa
knighted by Henry VIII (15S5), or from
Durham, where the mathematician of that
name lived, whose heraldlo arms were the
same aa those of the knight. The Hon
from this coat-of-arms are still traceable
upon the tomb of Nathaniel (eon cf
Thomas) Emerson at Ipawlch, Mass.
Thomas became a farmer and baker at
Ipswich. He wa thrifty and made money.
His will, dated May 81, 1463, distributes a
large property among his family. He give
to his "loving wife," Elizabeth, the annual
rent of his farm and six head of cattle,
and if she shall marry again she is to have
f annually (a considerable sum In that
time and place), also "the little feather
bed and one bolster and two pairs of sheets
and two cows," and half the fruit of the
Rssd This List
of Frs. Gifts
On a bill of (5.00.
a very pretty par
lor lamp.
On a bill of 17.50.
a very handsome
rug.
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$10 Extension R IK
Tables, this week. J
$3.00 Parlor Ta- 1 iQ
bles, this week ,'B
?1.25 Dining Room 7Qa
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Couches, thla week.,''w
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Ingrain Carpet, all wool
75o grade, iKs
special
Dining Room Ruga, room
mi
Brussels Ruga, room site
$10 values, 14 tn
speolal U-aU
Nottingham Ice Cur
tains, good width, $1 50
value, special TO.
per pair 'a"
FRilE All carpet are
made and laid free.
Curtain Poles and
Trimming free with ail
Dace Curtains.
Special Inducement to
the newly married, or
those furnishing their
home complete.
4.90
LOOK TO THI BB9 AT9 OOX.B ROSS
UWiN
with stesmlng and appetising dishes ootv
cocted over elei-trlc cookera by the propri
etor and bis chauffeur, who both take
pride In a reputation for being excellent
rooks.
The diplomat and his parties do not al
ways depend upon the car for food and
shelter, but in little tours arounj Farta
they find nothing so delightful as to speod
the nt:ht In the car Hfter dluner at one of
the tuns and after breakfast the next morn
ing on a roadside in the heart of a wood
gn on their way rejoicing down through
the Loire country or back to Farls or on to,
the Vosgea, tn the east of France. '
With these more palatial automobiles,
containing In many cases two compart
nunis, so that women can be entertained,
Europe will be overrun, according to many
predictions, this summer. Tours In which
no root will be trusted but the roof of tha
whlzxtng car will be made by many Amer
icans who would never think of going a
gypsying tn their own country. But perhaps
they may bring the fever back with them.
The genteel gypsy and the motor car
gypsy does not exist here as yet exoept in
Isolated Instances, although the habit of
going on camping trips and oanoe trip
and cruises on salt and fresh water la wall
enough known.
Tet there are people in some parts of 0
country who do go gypsying even now, X
young man who has a lot of fun running
big stock farm In the central part of New
Tork state spent his honeymoon in a novel
way a few year ago.
Hla bride was fond of the out-of-doors
like himself, so they packed the requlnrba
equipment Into a light covered farm wagoa
and spent their honeymoon driving througts
the i hills and valleys of the wine-growing;
country of New Tork. cooking for them
selves, sleeping In the woods under tha
stars or In Uie wagon under the oanrae
canopy, according to wind and westhec
and having no end of good fun and a de
lightful honeymoon tn so doing.
And even a partial aketoh of what Amer
ican gypsying there is would be Incom
plete, without some reference to a whlte
bearded old fellow who a year ago started
on a preaching tour through the middle
west from New York, He and hla old wife)
blessed their chlldrpn. packed up their farm
wagon, took a good cargo of Bibles, tract
and potsto peelers and started out.
The old fellow preached the gospel la
every small town they went through, sell
ing the potato peelers to make a living, for
it did not seem right to btm to collect
money from the people who listened to hla
discourses. He used to say he dldnt know
which he loved beat, his children, his wife,
his Bible or the open road.
Tt needed no assurance from him to b
lieve that he did love the last. And lucky
are the people somewhere out tn the weet
who are listening to hie Itinerant preaching
of the gospel and to his gauial philosophy
of life and of the wide, blue sky.
orchard. The loving wife is alao appointed,
sole executrix, while Lieutenant Governor
Symonds and General Danlson are to bet
overseer of the estate. HI eon, John,
who married the lieutenant governor'
daughter, went to Harvard college afte
hi marriage and there graduated in 166C,
having earned the money te pay for hla)
own education. He became a minister itj
Gloucester, Mass., and from him descended
the anti-slavery orator, Wendell PhlWpai
the moat eloquent American clergyman.
Phillips Hrooas, ana txou. jupnuiw
(father of the secretary), sometime attor
ney general of the United State and
American minister at Vienna.
$
Millionaire a Oroo.e Fiend.
John W. Gates Is an ardent devote of
modern croquet. One of his latest portrait
show him on the lawn of hi country
place about to make a stroke for the post.
A croquet mallet Is grasped In his right
hand and he addresses the ball with aa
expression that seems to ay, "Bet you a
million I make it." From the crown of hla
anowy Panama to the soles of his white
canvas shoes every line of his figure be
tokens concentration on the shot. Gate i
not yet ao corpulent that he needs a serlee)
of mirrors to see his shoes. Perhaps ha
plays croquet to avert that unhappy state.
Anyway, when in the country he put la
hour every day tn utter abandonment to
the seductions of that game, undeterred by
the fact that John D. Rockefeller and An
drew Carnegie think golf la the only sport
under the oanopy. Mrs. George W. Guthrie
has done much to popularise the game
among the matrons of bar set.
FREE PRESENTS TO ALL
These presents
On a bill of S&0. a
punch set.
On a bill of 175.
are absolutely free,
no extra cost to
an elegant Morrt
you whatever.
On a bill of $10. a
pretty center table.
On a. bill of 125. a
chair.
On a bill of 1100,
a r 1 o h , elegant
uphol t e r ed
couch.
handsome rocker.
Big sal this, week. Nov
to buy that refrigerator,
tng to have a big sale
Refrigerator
other ask $12.00
our price.
Is the tiro
W are go-
thl week.
7.10
3 Rooms
Furnished
Complete
for
J
59.50
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