Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 4, 1888, Page 13

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HIS ECCENTRICITIES OF MANNER Mow He Tooks, Lives and Acts— Shaping His Romances While Walking and Riding— Teacher and Preacher. Written for the Sunday B:e—Copyrighted. Last season the lion of London liter- ary salons was Rider Haggard. While the Pall Mall Gazette was daily print- ing several colurhns to prove to the world his plagiarism, he was being foted at dinner and high tea. There 18 a prevailing idea among the general public that the writer of “She,” “King Bolomon’s Mines,” and ‘‘Allan Quartermain” must be one of those mysterious creatures living in a state of artificial exaltation, and evolving those weird fancies from a_ chloral-heated imagination. To(realize the desperate fallacy of such a theory, one neceds to meet and observe a man who lends no external indications of importunate in- sight: not one of those nervous, fragile, unearthly entities, such a type as our Edgar Allan Poe vividlv furnishes forth. When I first met Mr, ard 1 was impressed with his simplicity of appear- ance, his lelt-ln\se,un aijrof speechless self-appreciation, Isaw in a throng of three hundred authors a tall, slender 5oun‘ man accepting the worship of & oity with scarcelya propulawr{lmllu. He impressod me as one who had be- come [amiliar with applauso rather than ayely. b g fvli:’figuro'ls interesting and entirel wanting ‘in eccentricity, but not, it is | selt. status Mr. Haggard is not at the apex— not one of those artists in the drama, weilders of the brush, spinners of verse who have sons at Eton, houses in fash- fonable quarters, villas on the Thames. a moor rich in grouse, and a river abounding in salmon on the other side of the Tweed. horses, carriages, visiting lists, find friends—whatever, in fact, lends distinction and financial respect- ability to life. When he deigns to reveal himself in a London drawing-room he is recog- nized and go'mte out as Rider Hag- ard; one who has become a personage y right of superior gifts and the im- portant place ke has suddenly leapt into among famous men of letters. Never, be it recorded to his honor, has he sug- gested the exclamation, “‘Who is that erratic person?’ He isa man without # porsonal fad; possessing & nature free from the taint of that pernigious speciés of grotesque advertising, so generally resorted to by genius in these days, when to wear the crown of eccentricity points the swiftest and surest method of pleasing the fancy and impressing the memory ol society. He has not appealed to the vision by culmivnfinq the Whistler lock of hair sprouting like a spilver feather amid dark tresses, nor has he sought to cre- ate asenpation by endeavoring to give some professional beauty the golden key to those cipher black-letter inscriptions of Amenartas. Aftey the fashion of Osoar Wilde, who made considerable reputation by teaching Mrs. Langtry Greek, before he founded the worship of the pining lily or the leonine herb. He neither {nvites nor does he cor- dially entertain discussion of his theo- ries and their successful results,yet is not invineibly silent on the subject of him- Nor is he one of those who, when once detaghed in conversation from his special subjects, his ‘methods, his su- perior vevelations, and himself, have nothing to say. He places a fair esti- mate upon himeelf, and his adorers pay homage mrdinli . Barely cordial to strangers, he cannot bé classed among those brilliant recon- all cities. That a Parlor Bed is almost indispensable. The objection to wardrobe and. cabi- net styles is, they occupy too much room. This Parlor Bed can be used equally as well dur- ing the day as at night, and is not ont of place in the most elegant parlor. ‘The greal advan- tage of the Haralson Bed is that it contains a receptacle for clothing, and has no ri ¢ or bar in the center of the bed. Prices range from $20 and upwards, according to upholstering and styles of covering. We are sole agents for the Haralson Bed. Come and gee them, To Those Who Desire We Will Sell on Installmefits. the scriptures, interpreting them in harmony with the teachings of Rabbi- nical wisdom. Wizar-like, he evolves unique and startling plots from the oc- cult emblems engraved on the cartouch of Theban soarabwi. Truly it may be eaid of him, all time his hour and all Ylwe his_workshov. Whether ho is walking, riding in ‘an omnibus, or waiting in an underground railway station, he seems oblivious of the external phases of life, and is ever busy with the looms and the yarns from which he weaves his fantastic fabrics. He carries a slender cane and switches aimlessly objects right and left, as though the motor forces were stimulated with an.energyin concurrence with his unbridled conceits. “‘She” is not a recent composition, as many suppose. But not until day before iel@erdny was lar taste in the least legree muneil t0 the relish of pabulum spiced with the secret forces which ani- mate the world. The dual personality, the interminable chain of retncarnatéd good and evil, the laws of reversion to type, and life the gifs of life are dyra- cepts as old as the eternal hills and as frosh as the dawn. 1 heard, in conversation, a lady object to ‘‘S8he” on the ground of vulgarity, and when I asked her to point to those offensive passages which had failed to send an extra thrill of warmth to my face, she explained that there was too much stress laid on the physical beauty of the divine Ayesha. at the descrip- tion of that dezzling loveliness of brow, throat, and thigh, strong in love and in immortal youth, which could have rev- olutionized society and changed the destiny of gencrations, was a vicious doctrine. 8till, again, I stood nigh when a wor- thy dowager remarked of the much-dis- ocussed and insufMviently-understood “Bhe.” ‘‘What a lawless im ation the man ssos; it is absurd!™ I wondered if neither one of these well meaning persons had caught a ray of that higher morality, those god-like truths which lie as an everlasting foun- dation for the emblematic eloquence of every chapter. just one year from the date of her premoni: tion, she died. The engineer on 8 Georgia railroad while running at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour, was lhrtbid by a noise made by some- thing on the pilot of his engine. On reaching the next stopping place he found cozily nonning on the pilot an old red-headed buz- zard which had been carried a-distance of ten miles. It was then taken off by the train foroe and let looso. It walked away as if nothing had happened. Horeis a story that comes from an Ala- bama town. Marion Merritt and his son-in- law each lost a cow. After searching sev- %:l days they found them dead in a fleld. eir heads were jammed w‘fmr between each other's horn o tightly that they could not be extricated, and the surface of the fleld wu‘ all h}m l:‘r)r, w{donuy by, D‘hr.ih dtu: rato struggles to get epart. During the ll’t.ru“la the hair of cach cow. had turnod @ra; y. A New Bradford, Mass,, citizen has a cat that goes sliding on theice. = After picking out a nice, smooth place the cat would go back and take 8 good tun and siide twenty feet or more. It would retutn to the starting point again and sgain and go through the me performanco. It would be a great boon i lgme of the cats in this neighborhood would devote more attention to tobogganing and less to operatic 8. ‘While some workmcll‘_wen making an ex- cavation at Pueblo, Col''recently, they camo upon 8 petrified suake,totally different from any known species found in that part of the country at present. It.was found eight feet from the surface. K'tom its appearance it would seem that the snwke had been caught ‘between two rocks by 'the tail ages ago, its peculiar position elogiipntly expressing its mo? Instead of posing, the body dried out so perfectli. that no taxidemist could hope to equal ngture's work, even the eyes being perfect. i Mrs. James, of Syraouse, Kas,, discovered her five-year-old boy tirring around in a basket of oid clothes thit had been placed in @ corner of the ed to be out of the way. Upon the child kgm up aud hastily leaving, . James concluded to see what he was about, and to hor horror discovered & nest of rauieen:k@lht; you” g ones and an glld one with eight rattlés, ' A scream brought v, James to sodneand he hastily dis- d of all of them, —Questioning the child t was loarned that he had been caring for the snakos since warm weather. He could handle the young reptiles as he pleased and ‘the old snake never objected. George Mitchll, of Liberty, Mo., was out congregation, will, in the future, hold servi- ces on Sunday mprnings for the convegience of those who cannot attend the - regurlar ser- vices on Saturdays. The Adventists of Battle Croek, Mich., be- lieve that tho end of the world is near, and have digcardod mlagnelr 102/011-3'. At a re- cent meeting &3, was turned into the church in cash and $2,000in jewelry, to bede- voted to missionary purposes, The Baptists 6f Wales possess 701 -chapels, which provide nccommodations for 240,903 ms. The nwinber of communicant is iven at 75,443. There are in connection with the chapels 8,535 Sunday school teachers and bn.ugygchoum. The qrdained pastors num- er 367, i The Roman Catholic' church “has o' our country 154 hospitals, with- 80,000" inmates; 820 asyiums, with 40,000 inmates; cares for 20,000 orphans; has ‘124 Jesuit ayd other col- leges and institutions of high ‘grade,. with 19,000 students; has 577,000 students of all classes under instruction, and. its church buildings and other ed! 8 number us 4,000, with a geating vapacity of 3,000, Rev. George 0. Baraes, ‘the Kantucky evangelist, conspleuois among ‘his kind aé the one who ddes not make money by his calling, is in real financial straits, and ‘is be- ginnl:,lf to feel the bitterness that flows from l;o':m c:lan mn% (h;.is uat‘ ;tp%recl‘?tm. v}{u writes strong] is noglect by his people, and says h‘ft he were to die he -has no doubt A thousand-dollar monument: would be erected to his memory. Dr. McGlynn denies that he has -appealed to Rome for a rehearing of his case, though ho adniits that he has hopes in that direction. He says: “T have no quarrel ‘with the doc- trings or the sacraments of the Catholic church, but in the best intevest of the Catho- lic religion I make & clear distinction between these things and the 1{01“}(9! aud [(mlmu of churchmen, which policies and "politics may be not only blundering but criminal.” Frimidso Nshta i LDUCATIONAL. The University of Wisconsin has gradu- ated a larger number af women than any other co-educational institution. New York city educates about three hun- dred thousand - children -aunually, in 134 chool buildings, covering au-area of - thirty- five acres. President Holden of the OCalifornia state university, receivés a salgry of "$3,000—85, as ident, and $8,000 ws divector. of ‘the Lick observatory. ; John T. Allen, who. died . et ‘Galveston, | ulty. No, 2, has _become. insane from overwork, He had mastored twelve languages aud was consid- ered. the finest. Shakespearean scholar .in Canada, yet' his mental powers huve been completely wrecked by: the strain to- which he subjected them, o 5 Teéachers who b““fl enthusiasm to their work, who magnify their vocatton, ontering upon'it as & career and ot as & makeshift, would doubtless be more . tiumerous if a pub- Ke'sentiment could be aroused whioh would remove the school house from’ all influences whioh tend to eheapon or.degrada it. The college publicetion known as ' Univer- sity has made a list of the Unitod Statés sen- ators and congressmen who are college ten. There are 195 ous of 14)1‘ but o good many of the 195 are “‘duplicates,” This is, Senator Evarts, of New York, for instance, counts one for Yale and one for Haryard, where he was gradugted in the law school. These men reprosent 108 institutions. Rev, John H. Vincent, D, D., chancellor of thaChautanqus unlrcrnhy. has. engaged Dr. William R. r, of: Yale, to spend: six uque next summer; also Efiy of -John Hepkins un- W A, B?ML\', of Louis- ville, Ky., to be present in July. A long list of games of well-known speakers’ and teach- ers aro announced to bo present. The un- wversity has 600 corraspondence students, and the theological department 250. - More than 100,000 persons - are now: runuinx the Chau- tauqua readings and studl qs~mnkinf Chau- u_\nfla the largest. university in ‘the world. During the present term there are 26,945 Germnan students at - the German university. Of this number 5,701 ltug'{‘thoology. 5,769 law, 6,650 -medicine, and B, belong to the Pmio.op'hlul facalty; 1,644 students are foreign. The Vienna university has 238 fhe- ologians, 505 me atudents, sad 634.0f the Philogophical fac- In Graz there are 1,305 students, and. in Tnnshruck 888. Praguye bas 8,605 Cracow ,234, Lemberg 1,119, and Czerdowity 259 At Berne university ti are 637 students— B1 theologians; 158 iaw . studentss 257 medical students, and 141 physical science students. ‘At Zurich ‘there .are 70 female students, 40, being medical. ‘When. Vassar had a preparatory school under her own - management in the.coliege buildings there were many girls from sll over tho conntry who atten ‘the school for a yedr or two, -and’ thén léft to poso as Vassar college students and graduates. They ‘may not have intended any wrong, but some- how or other the people with whom' the; 2,500 law students, 1,505 medigal | " This bed s made with back, orcan be made also with roll piliow, at ssch end. Hassame number of spriugs as 3 No. 1 bed. 'flih also containe a recép‘- acle for bed clotothing, 0 606-608 N. 16th Street. girl of twenty-five. - Ho induced tho priest fo teust bjm for his & into considoration his neighbors say that he isan old lapatic, Vil J. K. Perriman, who 18 under arrcat at firand Rapids, Mich., for bigamy, put in @ - very noveldefense. . He says that bo is_sub-- i(‘cl to fits of aberation of the mindand that f ho ever married more than 6ne womah he has forgotten all about the matter. ‘Before the wedding day he vows and pro- tests that his dearest care will be har-happle ness and that there is no sacrifice too great: . r ‘him to make to sccure - her .comfort, Three months after they are married sha Has to tack the blankets to ' the side of ‘tha - bed to keep him from - rolling ‘ himself up in all the clothes. 7 On a recent night about fifty guests were assombled at the ‘home of Thowas Phufer; . of Philadelphia, to witness tho ms of his daughter Ida to Sherman Hufford, Thera’ - : ‘ad neyer becn any objection” to tle .mutch, and as both you future. was looked forward to. fow min. utes before thd corewmony was to ocoyr, Huf. ford in full dress entered the room in‘which 1ost of -the guests were and chatted -cheer- - ily with several.. Fiinally he .turned to the youngest sister of the to-be bride and said: “‘Well, May, our wedding causes ‘a_breeze, don't i7" The girl Taughingly replie - “Well, I'll maké ita whirlwind,” he said, and instaptly drawing out -a revolver, blew ot his brains, The blood flew in the Yace of the bride, who had just that moment: -wsvcd into the door. No theory can be found to acoount for the act. + The Mutual Life Insyrance company is the iraatest life company in the world. Moreover, m every Po ut of ex« wellence in'which each partioular com« petitar.takes prides,the Mutual shows a .satisfactory average. No com unx can = ndhiclrdwer‘l 0 otl Hyi e:ld’ 10 policy holders for along series of - years thar this compnn{. and the rates of promium charged’ the insured have been kept at minimum figures., The Mutual Lifo issues a liberal policy .. and offers the publi¢ the kind of insure . ance that there is g demand for. . Electrical Brevitics. Though little is being done in San . Francisco in the matter of electric.raile - wgys, neighbaring towns and’ cities are and taking everything. ~ people had monApy @ happy . - - came in contact got - the: idea that the ernda;-’ tion of the . Vassar aluymas - must be rathes limited if these slips of womanhood werg imens' This and other Teasons induced the trustees last year to abolish the pre) - tory school in’ the college, snd have thore valy the collega students in the academic, soientific and svecial courscs, teurs whose epigrams we are wont to associate with the names of Fox, Sheri- dan, and Dr. Johnson in London's sacial prevalence of those tints known as ::3"‘(’3% :he E:’," "fi‘g":l‘m}‘"i'l’g“cfii;‘z f:h:':‘d bA ::2::; hfi‘.n.fl::fr Et:fle::& fnrd is the nuecleus of an appreciative b ‘hy ingli { the d drab | few at dinner he is a cornucopia teem- WRY Dy S48 Minghng ot Sith (GUeper drn) ing with plums of curious anecdote 'h"lg’g.“d 8 dull, blue eyo which | mf Tello Pare reports of personal ex- !':,: i {'):e ":n;e;?:‘ ":mw"::?:::? perience gained in those bizarre coun- His forehe i8 square and | tries where he hastraveled and laid the strong, his %N firm 4! his chin | 8roundwork of his romances. Tesistive, and his eyes full of clear, He himself is as different from Sir d‘eop.‘ o?ncuntr‘uh;o‘lorc An unomo- g‘i‘l‘l:::lsm%lgbun Br&;‘v‘lnlnz.ar s’lf&ml' ona) ace. mplyin, o am n, a8 8 worl ors %lghur. unherorl g:oosh a face ?:m‘elf; from the poignant paragraphs of those .1M|king in of-tronz pigment, but rich in :di,filor- I P&ve;ll:lpod- l‘h mh r;ot o‘nlfitn uissance modeling. In stature | facile scribe—he is a priest of mighty el s ek pompotr | Avmirice, ALy b eion 15 .-il:'gz.mfiv:“ M:;t b ~°.in.v,f?,g .l;,‘;-iun';. il- i;\ lmrx;ntulrfi Wh“r!i::d‘l'm Bnrns-.hlmes ire expressin . 8 in_art, s WOl 8 an evapgelism and glflhfigy. Ld fi'{, :&:X:l:;:::;efl which it is given mnl{ to & select minor- low, measured and melodious. 1ty of initiated votaries of Oriental lore to understand aright. There is a subtle symbolism in every romance hg submits to the public. How many of its readers I ask, have penetrated the rare gospol 80 deftly wrought out in *‘She?” He has been particularly fortunate in not hlflns those domestic embarrass- ments which handicap the most exag- rated genfus in man or woman, While r. Haggard's productions may appear inspirational and visionary to the super- ficial reader, in reality they are the re- sult of painstaking labor and studious research. From early boyhood he pos- sessed intuitive ken of eastern knowl- odie and the ourrent circumstances in which he soon found himself placed fa- cilitated his studies of medizval dia- lects and the vust and secret traditions of Arabia. He is a profound student of true, wanting in a certain kind of dis- tinction that is almost plainness. He is & blonde type of man, with & Ye gods! and these are they whe read and sit in judgment on Rider angnrd. Ex’Ly. active in this matter. The Daff rail- - way in Loe A‘n%o.lel i3 giving complete satisfaction. ' Ban Jose'is alse ) ng up, and representatives of an Eastern oouapa.ny have just ‘petitidned ‘the Oake 1apd city council for a franchise to lay rails and conductors through the strects of the garden spat scross the bay. “Rerlin will soan be the most brilliant. l{ illuminated city in Europe. The electric light is being fitted -all llonr the Unter den Linden, and the. Leivai- ger strasse, which is upward of o mtle in length, is already illuminated throughiout by electricity, whioh ig to be introduced into all the priuncipal streets and squares. A low estimate puts the number of persons supported by all the l(t of cmfi;oymen turnished by electr] m at 6,000,000. Toxas, Jhnuaty %, boqueathed bis fotbume— $150,000—+t0 the city of Gslveston ‘for the cstablisiment of an Tndustrial school, Mrs. M..'F. Townsoud, of Canton, XlL, has, becn appointed to the chair of wmodern languages i the Ohio, uiliversity, from which position Mrs. Ebert recently: resigned. One year ago the vilue of the Methodist colleges and seminaries in. southern Cali- fornia was $1,400,000. At present their total value is $3,650,000, making an increase in one year of $5,250,000, A school teacher, in Franklin sounty, Kan- | jiog sas, insisted that his pupils _skould come to o school with their hands and faces washed, ‘Two youths in Newark, ‘N, J.. -played & and the outraged parents rose in their indig- gnme of whisky poker for tho hand of an un- nation and ‘‘fired” him. ecided maiden. Sheé married . the looser. The scholarships established by Cornell Lili Lehmann, the German {Mml donna, university four vears ago are now, for the | ivas married to Paul Kallsh, the tenor im- Arst time, all filied. There ave thus thirty- | mediately afterhis arrival in New York last six students receiving the benefit of these | Friday. scholarships which amount to $200 & year Edmund Szezepankiewickz and Fannie each in money. Kuzinska were married in Philadelphia the One of Denver's public spirited citizens | other day. Mr. and Mrs. Piedalphabet have proposes to erect and equip & first class ob- | our sympathy. servatory for the Colorado university, Dr, George Holmes, a jockay, cloped with Miss Howe, formerly first assistant in the obser- | Mary Morris, of Itausas City, and creatod a vatory of Cincinnati, is preparing plans for | sensation until it was dlscovered that the building. 3 Holmes' father was a millionaire. The Gammon School of Thoology, which is | ~ 1t is stated that Gencral John M. Palmer, a part of Clark universityy, at Atlanta, Ga., | ex-governor of Tllinofs, and Mrs. Hanuah M. has just recoived a gift of $180,000 from Rev. E. H. Gammon, of Batavia, Ill, through ‘whose efforts mainly it was established. It has fifty-six students. Rev. G. L. Tood, of the Auburn, N. Y. theological seminary; who was recently mar, ried at Antrim, N. H, to Miss Alice A- Gould, will soon sail for South America. having aceepted the presidency of the Boliv, ian Institute La Paz, in Bolivia. Kentucky University at Lexington, is in trouble over the theatre question. The fac- ulty threaten to suspend every student who attends a play, and 100 students announce that they will leave the institution if they are to be interfered with in that way. Prbf. Swift, of Plateau academy,Montreal, uirrel-hunting & short time when he 'fl‘zmwmd @ squirrel in a tree a little ways on. He hastened to the tree and was closely scrutinizing the top branches of the oak, ‘where he seen . the game, at the same thwe walking slowly backward with his nifle to quickly throw to his shoulder, when lo! the weapon went off accidentally. This surprised him greatly, but he was much more astonished to see tho squirrel drop but dead, it having fun down the trunk of the tree be- low where he saw it first, by chance getting in range of the rifie, just as it accidentally fired-at the right moment. ————— RELIGI0US. S BINGULARITIES. ‘W. D. Porter, of Jeflerson, Wis., has dis- covered a two-story meadow-lark's nest with 8 brood {n each flat. In the window of a Bowery jeweller is dis- played a section of an elm tree about a foot square, shaped by some process of mature into the form of a perfect human ear. There 18 a man in Gmrfi. who had & white hen. Recontly she became molting and every white feather that dropped out was replaced by a black one, and now she is clad in deep black from bill to tail. A Garden City (Kas.) manis the proud possessor of & jet black rabbit which has in- stead of an ordinary nose a protuberance shaped like an elephant's trunk, which it uses ‘sometimes to convey food into .its mouth, A Greene county, Mo., says thata Iooal stock dealer- who ' was._ start] told his wife that he would be home on the following Wednesday. A shepherd dog be- longing to the man heard the conversation and at the appointed day was at the depot to meet his master, The Enwr{rlw of Palestine, 111, says that William Corbin pickea up in the street in that place a relic of the Mount Vernon cy- clong in the shape of an excuse blank used in the Mount Vernon public schools. Palestine is nearly one hundred miles northeast from Mount Vernon, and in the path in which the cyclone traveled. Duting a religious revival at Waverly, O., Lizrie Long went into & trance, On coming out of it, she told her friends that one year *from that night she would die in child bed. She was then single and not even engaged to be married, but within & few weeks she married & Mr. Lon;. A few days ago sho gave birth to achild, and four _days later, — CONNUBIALITIES, Four girls{u one family at Atlanta, Ga., have one after the other eloped to got mar- ure A determined effort will be made in the Episcopal churches during Lent to secure the million-dollar fund for missions. M. Spurgeon’s resignation (when he had resolutely declined to withdraw) has been ac- cepted by the Baptist union, of London. Rev. J. B, Thomas, D. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y. has recently been olected successor of the late Dr. Heman Lincoln, at the Newton ‘Theological seminary. Bishop Bedeil, whe has been in poor health for a year or more, is about to retire from active service in the Ohio diocese of the Episcopal church. Chicago only has three clergymen who have been settled therc twenmty years or more: Dr. E. C. Goodwin, who has just_en- tered the brief list; Bishop Cheney and Rev. Dr. Locke. . There are no protestant missionaries n Belochistan, Afghanistan, in the French ons of Auam and Tonquin, or in Si- and the adjoining countries under Russian rule. - A ramarkable reviyal has just taken place in the Wmmrmmt’a Ohio, university, Recita- tions were suspended for two days, and %0 gm- cent of the students are professing ‘hristians, The instancesof electrical phenomens accompanying the opening fury of the storm and when at its height are nymer- ous. At tho residence of John MeChes- ney, west of Fargo, Dak., sparks flow from a steam pipe in such’ volumes that precautions were taken to protect the woodwork from fire, Another family had baked potatoes for dinner Thurs- day, and found each potaso a small dy- namo, which emitted three-tined flames a8 they were taken from the oven. The ordinary guarantee of life fop Edison’s incandesceat olectric lamps i8 600 hours, but one lamp in the To- ronto Globe has just ,onn out after & most extraordinary life. It was put 1n about the end of Novembed, 1884, when the Edison system was installed in the office. - It has continued bupning ever since on the average five and a quarter hours every day,six drys a week, maks ing a total of 5,292 hours. ) {mssen through a great drawing- room in a mood complete absorption and complete abstraction, looking over &ho hends of people. When he is intro- uced to an hitherto unknown admirer Kimball will be married April 1. Mrs. Kim- nd there is at all times a ghlaxy of ball is fifty years old and General Palmer is in his seventy-second year. A woll-known o0ld Philadelphia gossip was counting on her_fingers the other day sumo of the fashionable people whose marriages were the result of runaway matches, and in not,“ulngle instance had they turned out well. Fair Matron—Won't youlet your wife take a chance in this lottery! Husband—Oh, no; she never draws lllythln% worth having. #‘Well, you know, marriage is a lottery, sir,’’ “Yes—er—that is—well, put her name down.” Rafael Luna, of Guanajuato, Mex., al- though ninety-nine yeais old, has mmrried a umbler satellites waiting to join the volvin%olmla end catch a glint from s splendor—with a vegue manner of well-bred ennui he listens to the ful- some and over-full allusions to his 8. hen he is in Londen he lives quietly bachelor artlessness; a figure at re- oeptions, banquets, and lawn fetes, yot ver making his presence in great rongs too cheap. He belongs most pre- eminently to that easy and briiliant world, from a social point of view, known as Upper Bohemia, In social e ——————— SAGRIFIGE SALE of PIANOS and ORGANS for One Week Commencing Monday, we offer the following Pianos and Organs at pricks never before quoted, to make room for spring stock now on the way SQUARE PIANOS. - UPRIGHT PIANOS. - ORGANS. ia rosewood case, with i KIMBALL ORGAN, 8 stops, walnut case, stool and book......... VA ...8 40 PEERLESS PIANO, ebony case, 7 octaves,stool and plush scarf ..........8125 00 o . Lo K * HALL & SON PIANO, tricord, full agrafie, rosawood case, stool and plush BASTERN COTTAGE ORGAN,'Y sops, walint Suse, iecie -sise bl st BCAPL. 00esniasens sasensnsnnsssnssnsensvbonavansooverasssssaassssnsasesss 160 00 ook ...0niione 1 A48 gy . geperses y “ KIMBALL ORGAN, style 80, 8 stops, music holder, high top, stoel & book. ¢8 00 B ?.23",‘?,}’,‘;::‘;";0’,‘,;” taves, fall By, oversrung sadfull agrafte, PALACE ORGAN, 0 stops, 2 knee swells, toll case, very e .. .» 58 3 - y a KIMBALL ORGAN, 8 stops, 2 knee swells, warranted .. 58 fi}figfifik g}:;}g' :o:‘eme be::::' usiron KIMBALL ORGAN, style 201, waluut case, used very little, elegaut case, X 0 EMERSON PIANO, stool and scart, Peed h J o " For Cash or Easy Payments For Cash or Monthly Payments | For Cash or Monthly Instaimenis Every instrument fully warranted and guaranteed to be worth fully double the price set opposite and cheaper by 50 per cent than other dealers will sell them at. This sale is for this week only, and we have what we advertise. A HOSPE, Jr, 1513 DOUGLAS STREET Rev. Leon Harrison, rabbi of the Temple Israel, in Brookiyn, with the approval of his com) CHICK! 0 : EMERSON PIANO, in fine order, carved legs, 4 round corners, ivory ey stool and scart..... S RO R ) 37 e