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wo Bits of Nebraska’s Pastoral Scenery REST IN SHADE AND STREAM WHERE CATTLE FEED ON LUSH GRASSES- Photo by a Staff Artis Episodes and Incidents in the Lives of Noted People Photo by a Staff Artist. CROISET of the French institute he stood shaking hands with a procession it safely and profitably. The great capi- where a stranger can meet him being at a him. The tramp slyly suggested: “Pardon, tells of a savant, his countryman, of people who filed by, exchanging pleas- talist accepted the charge in the right spirit vegetarian restaurant w here he takes his your majesty, bt if you look in your purse who was on his way home with antries with old friends and making new and put the humorist onto sundry and di meals. He has been a vegetarian all his you will probably find one.” King Chris- the mummy of an ancient Egyp- acquaintances. My eyes chanced to fall vers good things, also not neglecting to let life and declare that the time \vl‘l come tian laughed at the novel mode of asking tian king Intercepted by a on the senator's feet, and to save my life him out at the right time, a formality too when Europeans will look on beef-eating for alms and gave the man a couple of customs house officer on the German fron- I couldn’'t remove them from the Buckeye often omitted in Wall street The Twain With the same horror that we do on can- crowns. tier, the professor tried to explain the extremities. What attracted my attention account was nursed from a small beginning nibalism. One day he came to a friend ¢ iy nature of his baggage. This was a matter first was the fact that they were very small into formidable proportions and today pale and agitated My wife is deceiving Keep working x‘unl you will keep alive, of considerable difficulty, but in the end feet and very neatly shod. Senator Hanna stands a gratifying monument to the oil M¢ he exclaimed, and when his friend fs the "‘!""" of Senator Pettus, who car the officer took a practical view of the situ- is a heavy, stockily built man, and one King's unselfish regard for a friend To _lfml‘“l at him in astonishment he added |I.'.w. his hl.,\uura with surprising ease. One ation, for he said, quite gravely “Well, patu ly associates such people with big, such a degree is Mr. Rogers interested in I have surprised her \\]Il’]'|. she was boil morning flll'n.'vllfl\‘ he was found hard at let it pay as salt junk broad feet. I should . Senator Hanna the temporal welfare of the famous author !0% my spinach in bouillon work at 7 o'clock, sleeves rolled up, chew e wears a No. T shoe; possibly it is a No. and lecturer, and so determined is he that 8 ing tobacco and grinding out letters. To Alfred A the poct laureate, Is 67. g Tt wasn't the size of the shos that held no financial misfortune shall again over- Railroad men tell many storles illustrat- ‘he Burprised remark of a friend he sald He was educated at Stonyhurst and St. .o gaze however. It was the fact that, take him, that he exercises a close pers nal ing the shrewdness of Willlam Bllss of I rise every morning at 6§ unless Mary's college, Oscott, from which latter g0 (hat half hour of handshaking and supervision over receipts and disbursements. Boston, who was president of the Boston ,'."”“' been “""'_”l' late the night before school he took his degree at London. He oo ation they never moved so much as He is bent on making the sunset of the & Albany railroad before it was taken over The secret of living long I8 to work hard was called to the bar and practiced tll ,-pocag hrv.'\'llh.- They stayed where there Twain life rosy and smooth. In this by the New York Central and who now I notice that all of my friends who got 1861, when he published his second book, (ore planted, firm and immovable. The Wworld's goods Samuel L. Clemens was never one of the directors of the latter road. He rich and then retired are dead. I never “The Season; a Satire,” and embarked on g o0 (o pun) stamped the man as being So well fixed as now. was once called before the railroad com- &€t rich and I never get tired. The m(:nt a literary career. He has P"M“h"': many apsolutely destitute of nerves—a model of sl mittee of the Massachusetts legislature to deadly disease I Ian 18 to quit work.’ volumes of rse, three novels and many ShiaE . & N g testify on traffic matters, reports the w 4 - ik poet laureate aund since then he has pub- {lfGRiFate the oharacter ot IhE ian than bassador, though democ .'.n'u- 1!1 ,n"l?”!“” was serving his first term undertook to ex- which Senator Jones was defeated In the lished “England’s Darling” and “The Con- 4 oo0teo ot | will wager that not one man ",' iner <""‘»| f"_”'! "f American ways, was a ., in6 him, preliminary fight for the senate, Governor version of Winckelmann,” and more re- ;16000 could b thiough that halt hour's lfl'lll”{"“lh 'SIII'H“I fflr f“.rm on state oc “1 want you to tell me how much it costs Jeff Davis was on the stump against Mr. cently a miscellaneous volume of verse “x'mljm““ without shuming casions \‘\ hen he was made an ambassa- ¢, payl a freight car from Boston to Spring- Jones. At one meeting the governor called bl i uisy dor ‘lw claimed the right to sit nn-v the feld.” said the member attention to the expenditures of a senate Society in Newport is all in a flutter over On s o ation 1“.\];||.w the' Loulaville president on all social functions \\'hn-hvhv- “I don't know,"” replied Mr. Bliss committee of which Jones was a member, the fact that representatives of three ro¥al .. ior yournal, Colonel Wintersmith mot and the chief niagifrate attended Vice “You don’'t know?" Said he: "1 notice ladies and gentlemen, families are due to visit that seaside re General Custer x;nd a party of friends The l’rl'.\'l.hhfll‘ Hobart demurred and President “That was the answer 1 gave." in the list of miscellancous expenses of the sort within a month. They are Grand Duke . o0, had a watch of curious mechanism McKinley decided in his favor on (he “What are you, anyway’? committee in its published report of last Boris of Russia, closely related to the czar 2 e s 2 s ground-—which doubtless appealed strongly “President."” month an hich he had been showi to his friend item of $12 for castor oil—for and fourth in line of succession to the im- % p e he haf 89N BHOWING s friends ¢4 1,0rd Pauncefote—that the vice president “Of what?" last year. changes to both g o 5 A Q. o s castor ofl, T say. What in the world they perial throne; the crown prince of Siam L‘."l"‘ “1’!:-‘r::-x”[llhll':[x):vlor\:1'11'111“;0'4;";‘11&'1:1‘ l.}:nk:\j-lnc': occupied the same position toward a pres! “The Boston & Albany railroad need so much castor oll for no one knows and Prince Chem of China Duke Boris 5 d (h:-n d;."“ i‘l lm-‘k Vith the l'fln‘l'uk dent that the heir apparent did toward a “Well, sir,” began the legislator, in ris- Why, that is enough castor oil to move is coming by way of San Francisco, the Illlnl N fdatsd Ko “:“u' e watak th ‘(h.- monarch ing voice, vou are William Bliss, prest- the previous question in the senate of the others are expected to sail from England I“nln«l\ it '1;; nM‘r«lmI i —— dent of the Boston & Albany, and vou don't United States.” immediately after the coronation. It i3 “"Ym I‘ understand You are afraid I Dr. Hepworth, who died a few days ago, know what it costs to haul freight from . o possible that all three may graciously shed ”Ii'h""_v_“m“w' ‘” e ‘M;d”] ‘(‘41] el was a .;n.'zu her ‘ln Boston at the time of Boston to Springfield, who in the name of An '\:n‘mvl- of the |N|l|n.|¥'|4n in which the light of their royal ccuntenance on “,:h X ."h (; -kl\‘. . Lincoln's assassinatien by John Wilkes heaven does know?" the late ('I‘HL'.IA‘:«A;HHIII Amas Cummings was Newport at the same time, hence the tre ALEFSILILR, (GUIOKE) Booth At once a hue and cry arose against “No one that T know, unlees it is a mem- held in New York was given two members mendous flutter there - hrpere. Stagd 3 Fdwin Booth, and Mr. Hepworth, with voice ber of the Massachusetts legislature who Is of the congressional delegation which went N Mark Twain has grown wise in his ¢ld and pen, denounced any such acclaim, stat- &erving his first term.’ over from Washington to attend his funeral “1 was fascinated by Senator Hanna's age. He has become financially very streng ing on his personal knowledge that Edwin Another member continued the examina- A cabman demanded $3 for a very short feet the other evening,” says a writer in again and has not only recovered his lost Booth was a loyal man, an excellent citizen tion drive and the congressmen thought it was the New Yorker. ‘I was one of a group fortune, but added thereto until he can cor- and an ardent admirer of Lincoln, for whom — too much., They appealed to a policeman, consisting of S2nator Hanna, Postmaster rectly he described as a ‘“‘rich man.' For he had voted twice. These utterances and The latest story about King Christian of Who said that when people came to New General Payne and ‘‘Dick" Kerens of Mis- this happy condition he owes thanks to his writings more than anything else perhaps Denmark is that he was taking an early York for a good time they must expect to souri. We were sitting in the little space friend and ardent admirer, Henry H. gtemmed the tide of unreasoning denuncia- morning walk recently when a ragged tel- bay for it. “But we didn't come for a good in front of the cashier's quarters at the Rogers the Rockefeller understudy and tion. low approached with every respect and !ime,'' sald one of the visitors. “We came sValdorf-Astoria Presently a gentleman Standard Oil and copper multi-millionaire PR’ TS, sald: “May I ask your majesty for your here to help bury our old friend Amos Cum and a lady stopped to speak to the Ohio He began several years- ago makiug Mr. The famous French geographer, Elisee portrait as a memento? The king was ™Mings.” “What! Amos Cummings,’” sald the senator and introduce a friend Others Rogers the custodian of his surplus cash, Reclus, who is now in his 73d year, lives at pleased at this appearance of ioyalty, but ©¢fficer. “Say, cabby, you take a dollar and followed, and for a half an hour or longer with a prayer that the multi should invest Bruseels in great seclusion, the only place regretted that he had not a portrait with Kct away quick as you know how." New Story of Queen Alexandra Soft ERE is a brand new story of her things for special occasion. What made —3 crown to Alexandra and a second hus- riage. She has told me often how ",,,4.1\‘ majesty, Alexandra, soon to be matters worse was I myself had a luncheon hand to Mary, who had for years been a you were her friend. Do you think she crowned queen and empress. It on hand—we were in fact just sitting down widow and thought to be inconsolable. But possibly be happy with a man so unlike h arness was told with quiet glee by the to the table when the royal message my mind did not linger on her very long first choice? other actor in it to various and vl‘“i"'h""' me. 1 ‘“'.T" -‘*‘.il\ 1 U”"“"" fl‘” colors MYy CONCerns—our concerns indeed, were “And that was, I found out, absolute You can make your har. sundry American friends. The other actor s I read, but luckily nobody noticed. In- go much more immediate and living. T had truth. For at least half an hour we ness us soft &8 & glove i e wife of a famous ship owner and stantly T sent word to my maid to get 5 fair general idea of how such private goggiped, talking over our friend's affairs | and ns tough as wire by Is the 3 : ‘he other clothes ready, then went enter- g = Sosals using EUREKA Har. head of a firm of ship builders. Thus she ner " 0! "*‘5 ready, then “'"l on enter- gaydiences went off, but was hazy as 10 with the most bourgeoise interest After Ill(-uu Oil. You can has been for years the heart and soul of fmrnyu, my ;:\‘n.s(,s as best 1 'm K‘?I(. .lhrnugh \\lnvht r I should kneel or merely curtsy ward—well, her majesty said kind things L (“‘"',J“:‘.“";:;I';‘““‘:“:: various noble charities connected with Eng he first courses. I knew to a fraction of & and kiss hands. of us, my husband and myself, and ordinarily would, land’s merchant marine. She is further ““"“""_h““" long ‘“ would take to dress “The pulace authorities coached me the egpecially kind ones of our hospital project credited with having influenced her husband ;‘f"' drive from my own home to Bucking- jegst bit. A lady-in-waiting met me, took But that was wholly incidental—she had in affalrs of international importance, 28M palace. T knew "'“"_ ”f“t while the me ypstairs and along passages and at gent for me to talk over Mary's marriage Altogether she is as near to being a per- queen h"r"'”' "ll'"'\"r very "”“':““” It jast left me to myself after telling me that Which goes to prove how well Kipling | R e e haan T :\'1:;11‘1“,::(':1).»",‘)} l..A'”l-vanr ‘.','I‘.‘.l ':",,,',"‘,YI“,',‘..‘; nr:'\l the queen, though quite deaf, hated of all xnew womenkind when he wrote "arnes‘ 0“ warm heart and a charming soclal tact ... "¢ mind hx‘nv‘h’i’uu .uu:m;n v‘h-‘ ‘elock things to have voices ralsed in speaking to The Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady can make one in the home of hereditary . 5" U o Loty 1 left my sister to DT I must speak rather slowly and very Are sisters—under their skins mnkes o poor 100king har- distinctions, the British isles ke il e s o ot distinctly—her own quick intelligence ! v:’-ux II:A:“ new, ‘Mu:lu of e o oron, ©XPlain my going and ,vas soon rolling would do the rest. As to deportment, 1 \ Feast of l{c'l\'()“ ]lrw“. h |m}~' h::fll‘uxlunl,‘u.. Opo of the latest charities I8 & &T88) to.see the quesn must follow her indications—stand or sit, or i Lde ol staud the w‘;:n.hvr.u Wil “Of course I thought of many things on retire, at what I judged to be her will (‘hicago Record-Herald i | s at a 8014 everywhere the way, lNI' chiefly of the hospital. I* Byt she would make it easy for me—this Juncheon the other day,” said a North Sid« I cans—all sizes, \ must be that which had caused the queen | was assured—she made everything easy woman, “where the hostess was a graduate s 4 \ to send for me. Then foolishly I let my zg far as court etiquette permitted of Smith college, three of vh: guests .S Wado b STANDARD ol Co. Y mind stray to a schoolmate, one Mary Z., «Before I had time to get nervous a were graduates of Wellesley, two went e oS - who it happens had been a girl friend of |, ey whisked me into the presence. There through Vassar, two had been Bryn Mawr the queen ln‘(hv days when King Christlan 004 (he queen, looking very sweet and girls and the other women present were * found herself abruptly ‘“‘commanded “r“;;wzl.”;r:\ki:]r.gd “"4, lx;]x]]‘. ::"ll.\;‘ Hmr:“f]":ml’;;;:l?:; unroyal, smiling, holding out her hand and graduates of Northwestern, the Unlver- USSEE within the brief space of ;" 200 a vm: Ahv Ry ey oy e murmuring my name. After our formal- sity of Chicago and Wells, respectively.” = e o . 4 . informal greeting she led me to a chair a ‘““Well,” one of her hearers said, ‘it mus: 2 to pupils of a girls’ school. Mary had told little at one side and sat down herself in have been very interesting How I wish 1 F ’I"(l:nr:“:"-\l‘l:n‘ntrlllv:\ ']": |hl'|T :L‘x‘)’\l:‘:l v:l:.rl(:’rl;‘nmn another almost touching it And then she could have been there What did you talk IXTURES ew als a e al gathe . ot absolutely at Freldensborg the two nearly always mfh '\flm. with & yet more engaging H"“h‘v “h‘“”' = GAS & E LECTRIC . . od . ' ot this ‘‘I am so glad you have come. I want to Let me see. Oh, yes. About how harl W' PHONE 503 [o) S St ’.I!u h::l“t‘;rr:flz;iryll} Al ek this talk with you over Mary Z—'s second mar- it is to keep help."” J MAHA