The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 25, 1904, Page 46

46 - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY., SEPTEMBER 25. 1904. MO CHER'S HEART WON BY HEIR Own Child Died Gives Her Love to Son of Another! LEAVES HIM FORTUNE Romantic Tale Is Told of Palace, Where an Heir Was Born to Venetian Throne Sept. 24.—About thirty-five was confusion in the great VENICE, years ago a Giovannelli palace on the Grand Canal Venice, the Princess was thought to be dying. Through the magnificent Gothic windows was to be seen one of the fairest and gayest scenes on earth, the bright blue waters in the reflecting the palaces and churches, the gondoles floating by, while not a sound in where arkling sun, fairy-like was to be heard but the dip of the oars, the calls of the gondoliers and an occasional song. palace there was the £oun weeping, for the long and expected heir had been born e his eyes in death, and was thought, would soon son thing can save her,” said “if she comes to know that has not lived her case is but if you can give her an- it may save her life.” t to be done? The Prince hands, but suddenly he et and seizing his cloak t the pazace. An hour returned and in his arms was a month old. Princess Giovan- her did not notice of the child, and she recovered and babe and loved it as her knowing no difference, and giving him the name or Alberto. Two years later a domestic was an- ] 1 by her, and in revenge the child was not hers. a terrible e with her was his to his riedly ater he b nelli the v in weakness, z¢ nur own, d the dismiss r tha ensued Then husband 1s the boy 4 he she yours repli jot mine demanded. she cried, and ‘vou dared impose Princess Chigi! Take the and do not let me see ou again!” BECOMES RECONCILED. however, was large, and tead of leaving the city, p with his son in a little the building, and for husband and outraged wife wing of he never met Meanwhile Princess Gio- vannelli ate her heart oui in solitude, deprived by her pride of both husband and child, whom she had worshiped. One day, in passing to her gondola, she heard through an open door a little voice lisping, *“Where is mamma? This melted the ice and a moment af- ter she had the boy in her arms and was herself in those of her husband. He then told his sto The little Al- ber was really his son, born of a irl who died in childbirth, and it s only his desperation at his wife's dition which induced him to deceive The Principino, as he was called, was then formally adopted by both Prince and Princes confirmed by royal de- cree, but their efforts to induce King - Humbert to give him legally the title and name of Prince Giovannelli were ong and arduous, as the King was much opposed to giving titles in this ‘way. The Giovannelli and Chigi influ- ence at last proved potent, however, so the adopted boy is now legally Prince Giovannelli. | Years passed, Princess Giovannelli died and left Prince Alberto all her| considerable dot which came to her as a Princess of the house Chigi; then the old Prince also died and also left every- thing he possessed by will to his son, making him one of the richest of the rich young aristocrats of Italy. We must now go back 200 years. A ertain eccentric Prince Giovannelli in 702, feeling his end near and having a tastic worship for his own name, left a will and a codicil, the latter to be opened by the head of the cadet branch only when the chief branch of the house should be extinct. The codicil was de- posited in the archives of Venice. Prince after Prince married and had sons, and the old codicil was forgotten except by those whom it most con- cerned. In a distant and poor branch of the house, which was also prolific, the words “we will be happy when the codicil is opened” became a legend. | tremely popular with the Jews, { compose nearly half the population of | should go to the head of the cadet | branch, and if there were no Giovan- | | | St. Mark. LAWSUIT WILL BE BITTER. Alfonso in Naples executed a war dance and saw himself a millionaire. | while Prince Alberto had a vision of | himself, poor and friendless and earn- ling his own living. Alfonso was for | taking possession at once, but the law- | yers stepped in and there is to be one of the most bitter lawsuits ever con- tested in Italy. tion is a pretty one. Prince Alberto is still the legal holder of the Chigi money left by his adopted mother, which goes up into millions, while it is as yet undecided whether the codicil will hold against an abso- lutely legal document such as the late Prince’s will. If the codicil stands, can the pretender claim all the money that has come.to the Giovannellis through their marriage with rich women? If| he cannot, can Prince Giovannelli do| so through his father's will. and K‘ not he, who can? And after the law- vers have been paid will there be any- thing left for the victor! Meanwhile, while getting ready for the fight, Prince Giovannelli has become pale and ner- vous. No matter how rich a man may be, he resents being deprived of what he considers his own, and anyway his fighting instincts are aroused and he! intends to make it hot for everybody. Alfonso Giovannelli's dreams are very | rosy, but in waking hours he is much | depressed, and at times is inclined to curse the old codicil as his evil genius. “If I lose the case,” he says, “how am | 1 ever going to be content with thirty | doliars a month after all my dreams. . Before, I was only discontented at times, now it will be my daily food. Be- sides 1 am poorer than before, as my whole salary now goes in sops to clerks | and messengers. But if I win—!" And so he alternates between hope and despair. { The whole country is extraordinarily | interested in the case; pity for Prince Giovannelli, who stands to lose so much, rubbing elbows with the hope that so pretty a fairy tale may come | true for the poor telegraph clerk. — e | IMPORTANT CONCESSIONS ! TO JEWS ARE EXPECTED | i | | Russia’s New Minister of the Interior | Promises Extensive Reforms. VILNA, Russia, Sept. 24—The unveil- | ng of the monument to Catherine the | Great to-day in the square facing the | Governor’s palace was particularly in- teresting because it was the occasion of the last public appearance of Prince Sviatopolk-Mirsky, former Governor eneral of Vilna and present Minister of the Interior, who will leave for St. Petersburg to-morrow. He was received everywhere during the day with the ut- most enthusiasm by Jews and Chris- tians alike. In fact, the Prince is ex- who Vilna. In conversation to-day _the Prince was quoted as saying that he firmly | intended as Minister of the Interior to act in the spirit of the Czar's man- ifesto of 1904, and in effect said he was a resolute opponent of forcible re- pression and intended to devote spe- cial attention to education. It is con- fidently expected that important con- cessions to the Jews will be announced shortly. ————— FRESNO MURDERER GIVEN ! LIFE SENTENCE BY COURT Man Who Killed His Consort and Her | Son Convicted by Jury Second Time. FRESNO, Sept. 24.—Theodore Dennis, ' was to-day found guilty of murder in the first degree and his penalty fixed 2t imprisonment for life. The jury in the case returned a verdict after being out over night. Dennis shot and killed Mrs. Jennie Rice, a woman he had been living with as his wife, and her son, George Rice. He was tried for the murder of George Rice and was found guilty of man- slaughter and was given a ten-year sentence. His trial for the murder of the woman ended to-day. | VESCVIUS IS GRADUALLY { BECOMING MORE ACTIVE Discharge of a Great Stream of Lava Threatens to Cause Wide ! Destruction. NAPLES, Sept. 2¢—Vesuvius is grad- | ually becoming more active. The crust around the crater has broken away and produces magnificent flurries of red-hot ashes and sparks, which rise occasion- ally in immense columns to a height of 700 feet. | The eruption to-night was the most spectacular seen in the last ten years. | A great stream of lava was discharged, threatening wide destruction. The spec- tacle was watched by thousands of awe-stricken persons. | —_——— DEATH HOVERS OVER CHILD VICTIM OF MOTORMAN | Littde Girl Run Down by Careless Driver of Electric Car Ex- pected to Die. | LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24.—Elizabeth Sima, vears old, is dying at the nellis forthcoming, to the Basilica of | And, in fact, the ques- | In the beginning ! | story. | foodstuffs, OPENS THE TESTAM T. Sisters’ Hospital from effects of in- In June, 1504 c clerk Proabrtay: 4 04, @ poor telegraph clerk, | juries sustained yésterday afternoon, ;;nso < iovannelli, was sitting in his | when she was struck by a Long Beach l;nddm_seh.:r) ng to thu}k how he | ejectric car at Twentieth street while e H““:,;i‘;‘:‘i:‘.f ©of $30 a month | one foot was firmly held between the moment & bright little felloe of 1 2t | ralls of the track. Her left foot was so v ellow of 7 years | badly bruised by the wheels of the car b ounded into the room, singing at the | that it was amputated last night. Her top of his voice in a kind of refrain, | skull is fractured, many of her teeth | “How happy we shall be when the cod. | Were knocked out and her face terribly | icil is opened, when the codicii is lacerated. | opened.” His father gazed at him for . - ” NT | a moment, and then with a whoop l)O.\fl!\l(_)N GOVERNMENT : | sprang out of his chair and fled from SEIZES AMERICAN SHIP | the house, shouting, ““That is it; that is | Hr i | #t1” The history of Prince Glovannelli | 125, Vessel and Two Large Scows on | was well known to him, and the boy's OIS Vst Taby Sintasci words iliuminated the fact that the mo.| . . Fishing Laws. | ment had come 10 open the ancient tes-| YANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 24.—The | tement. His lawyer said that there AMmerican steamer Alert of Bellingham might not be anything to benefit him, | 2Pd 1W0 scoWS, one of them loaded but it was worth while reading it with salmon, and $1000 worth of nets, | Lawyers and emissaries weré sent to! were seized at Oyster Creek, Vancou- Prince Alberto, who had never heard ver Island, by the Ruth, a Dominion of the codicil, who scoffed at the idea | Government fisheries protection steam- of any such document and looked upon | er. The authorities claim that the ! it all as a conspiracy to get money, Americqxn boat was poaching on fish- from him, but the Naples lawyers were C7€8 125 miles from the American ot 10 be stopped, and, having an idea | P0URdAT: FORTUNE SMILES UPON of the date of the ,desired document, | soon found it, musty and vellow with WAITRESS IN THE SOUTH z2ge, covered with the dust of centu- | come. Miss O'Donnell is said to be en- gaged to a San Diego young man —e———— SLAV CHIEF LACKS DECISION. | | Corvespondent Accuses General Kuro- | patkin of Vaccillation. LONDON, Sept. 24.—The Standard’s | correspondent, under date of September {17, comments on General Kuropatkin's ! vaccillation. He says that at one timc ! the Russians outnumbered the Japa- ! nese, and that they have now lost their .only chance of assuming the offensive before the release of the Japanese troops before Port Arthur. Other correspondents confirm the re- ports that the Japanese are suffering | because of the inclemency of the weath- | ter 2nd a lack of tents. The Morning Post believes it is im- possible precisely to place the large | Japanese force that is endeavoring to| turn General Kuropatkin's left, becausei Ta Pass (that is, “Great Pass”) is a term applied to numerous ridges and | passes in Manchuria. The paper, how- | ever, supposes that its immediate ob-] ject may be the coal mines of Fushan, which must be south of the Hun River, because the prejudices of the people of Mukden are strongly against mining on the north bank of that river for fear of disturbing the sleeping dragon that is supposed to inhabit the mountains eastward from Mukden toward Kirin. | —— e i SHERII'F JAILS MEXICANS 1 SUSPECTED OF MURDER | Imprisons Two Men Accused of Caus- ing Death of Southern Pacific Brakemazn. BAKERSFIELD, Sept. 24—Two Mex- | icans suspected of having murdered Jrakeman James Hemphill of the Scuthern Pacific near Caliente on Wed- | nesday night, have been lodged in jail here by Sheriff Kelly. They have so far declined to make any statement as to their guilt or innocence. It is now thought that Hemphill at- | tempted to prevent a crime and was murdered to keep him from telling the | As a result of the murder most | of the trainmen are going out on their | runs armed. i ————— | ASTERN LAWYER FOU DEAD IN RAILROAD YARDS | ney Are Discovered Alongside Tracks at Brastow. SAN BERNARDINO, Sept. 24 — A man supposed to be Attorney Anthony! R. Stookey of Warsaw, Indiana, was killed in the railroad yards at Bar- stow early yesterday morning. The | mangled body was found lying along- side the tracks at daybreak. ] Pinned in a coat pocket was a type- | written paper certifying that Anthony | R. Stookey had been admitted to prac- tice law in the Circuit Court at Kos- ciusko, Indiana, January 24, 1900. —_———— Runaway Youths Get Tired. N JOSE, Sept. 24.—Three runaway | boys from San Francisco were captured ' at Madrone. They are Charles Mundegl of 26 Circle avenue, Whitford Whiting of 196 West Mission street and Hugh Cavanaugh of 131 Valencia street. The lads range in age from 11 to 13 years. They left San Francisco on Wednesday | with the desire to see the world. After | getting as far as Salinas they decided to return to their homes and were on | the way there when arrested. —_———— Supplies Reach Port Arthur. TSINGTAU, Sept. -24.—Russians here say that several supply ships have ar- | rived at Port Arthur recently with’ ammunition and medicines. | ———————— . Tribe of Primitive Indians. i The Alabama Indians in the Creek Nation are so primitive in their ways that they attract attention where In- | dians are no uncommon sight. They ! are living and practicing customs of the Indians of 100 years ago. They still speak their own dialect, being the only | one of the forty-nine different trites composing the Creek Nation that does | this. None of them can speak English. They live in pole huts daubed with red clay. » The Alabama tribe has affiliated with the Snake Indians, and is still more backward in accepting association with | the white man. For a long time they refused to be enrolled on the loyal Creek rolls, but of late many of them | have been persuaded to come forward | and enroll. The prophet is the big man of the tribe. When a horse is stolen he is supposed to be able to find it, or if Indians become sick he is expected to make them well. If a drought -over- | takes the land he is expected to make it rain. He brews or makes all the med- | fcine for his tribe. Pottery making, { which is a lost art with the Creek In- dians to-day, was possessed by the members of this tribe until a few years | ago. The last survivor of the old school in the making of pottery was an old | woman who died a few years ago.— | Kansas City Journal. | —_—— Summer Resort Widow. “The widow,” said 1. W. Reed of Nashville, “furnishes the most delight- | ful study to the observer of the tricks and manners of human beings. “One summer,” he continued in a ruminating manner, “I was spending some time at White Sulphur Springs, ! Va.—I only tell this as an illustration | of the acumen and intelligence of the | | genus widow—and one afternoon a | handsome young woman and her little | six-year-old son sat near me on the ve- ! randa. The little fellow trotted up to ! me and 1 patted him on the head. | ‘What’s your name?' he asked. “I told him. *‘Is you married?’ he lisped. o, I'm not, 1 replied. Then the child paused a moment and turning to his mother said: * ‘Mamma, what else did you tell me to ask him?" "—Louisville Herald. —_———— Breeding Wild Ducks. A new feature in Scotland this yvear that promises well for the future Aug- ust sport there is the breeding of wild ducks. A driven wild duck presents as difficult a shot to the crack =un- ner as a driven grouse and the birds can be more certainly driven over the guns from a hill loch than from the low lying lakes in the English coun- ties, where that branch of sport has hitherto been most successfully intro- duced and followed. And one great recommendation in its favor, which should lead to its wider adoption in grouse counties, is that the sport can begin earlier in the holiday month of August than grouse shooting com- mences on the surrounding moors.— London Country Gentleman. ——————— New Irish Potato. The French National Society of Ag- riculture has recently had its atten- tion called to a new potato, which some French journals say will not only play an important role in agri- | | vies. They carried the information to | you Woman Emplo, San | ¢ulture, but will supplant the Irish po- the Prince, who was incredulous. butl ;f,‘n Hotel llllk:lls'e:lu.:.o tato. The technical name of the npew seeing is believing, so he was obliged From Aunt. > vegetable is solanum commersonii, 1o consent to be present at the open- ing. which took place-with great wol- |t DIEGO, Sept. 24—Katherine but it is now beginning to be called the Uruguay Irish potato, as it comes from the banks of the Mercedes River | of a friend of his, a lawyer, who came ! man ensconced in an armchair, BITS OF WIT OF BURGLARS Some House Breakers Proved Themselves Quite Good Scholars When in Straits ONE LEFT HIS CARD And Afterward Took a Few Mementoes of His Visit. Tale: of Poetic Marauder 1t is quite a mistake to imagine that the burglar who has a weakness for paying us surprise wisits at unconven- tional hours is necessarily the coarse, bullet-headed, low-type man so com- monly pictured. He may be and often is a man of gentlemanly exterior and of education, who would seem much more in his element in one’s drawing- room than climbing through a kitchen window. That he can be polite, if satirical, has been proved over and over again by the messages he leaves behind for the benefit of his unseen host, many of which are treasured at New Scotland Yard. it is not long since one of tliese noc- turnal gentlemen, who had paid an un- expected call on a well known author, left behind him this message on the | library table: Dear Sir—It is a matter of regret with me that your taste in wines is not as good as your taste in books. If it had been 1 should have spent a still more delightful time under your hos- pitable roof. The writer of this message, who was arrested a few weeks later, proved to | be a university graduate, who, in his | Mangled Remains of Indiana Attor- | honest days, had himself written more than one promising volume. LEAVES VISITING CARD. Another gentlemanly burglar, who had apparently spent an agreeable hour in a certain house in a West End square, left a visiting card behind with the letters “P. P. C.” penciled in the corner, and on the back were these lines: I am sorry not to have had the pleas- ure of saying good-by in person. As some little compensation for my disap- pointment I am venturing to take a few mementoes of my too brief stay in your home. A burglar who paid a recent visit to the house of a Yorkshire Squire was evidently none too pleased with the fare that had been unconsciously pro- vided for him, for before retiring he penned this note: Dear Sir—One good turn deserves an- other. Take my tip and—change your cook. Yours faithfully, ALGERNON FITSIMMONS SIKES. But all burglars are by no means ! courteous to their hosts, as a certain gentleman in the Midlands can testi- fy. This gentleman, who is a doctor, had unfortunately provided nothing for his uninvited guest but a soli- tary bottle of inferior claret. In the morning this bottle was found among his drugs with a label attached, on which was this message: Dear Sir—As this bottle had evidently strayed from your surgery I have re- placed it. Give it to your patients and it'll make your fortune. In a mistaken moment I drank a tablespoonful. Iam now going to arrange with an under- taker. BURGLAR TURNS POET. Douglas Jerrold used to tell the story down one morning to find his house stripped of everything that was valu- able and portable. To add insult to injury, the burglar had left this fare- well message behind him: A lawyer's thief, so some folk say, But oh! how wronged is he! He steals his client’s purse, ’tis true, But hands it on to me. i But all messages are not addressed | by any means to the master of the | house, for a certain lady, known to the writer, not long ago received this hint from a gentleman of the jimmy: Dear Madam—I hope next time I honor you with a visit you will try to| persuade the old gentleman not to snore so loudly. I find his vocal efforts very disturbing in the practice of my profession. i ONE READ HORACE. | There are even burglars with classi- | cal tastes, astonishing as the statement | may seem, as was proved not so long ago, when J. G. Henson, a Manchester gentleman, fancying he heard a noise | in the house, stole quietly .downstairs, | and, opening his library door, toundbn' ab- sorbed in the Odes of Horace. “1 was so amazed,” said Mr. Henson, “at what I saw, that instead of calling for assistance and giving him into cus- | self on a truck, and, drawing the lady [ upon her lap tenderly stroked her hair and exclaimed: “My God, my baby! see you, honey.” To her the fine lady was only the little girl, whom she had tenderly nursed in sickness and in health and on whom she had lavished all the love of her simple heart.—Louisville Cou- rier-Journal. e et m— Increase of the Ovster. As the Chesapeake oyster crop has grown annually less, the general de- mand has grown annually greater.K The oyster appetite prevails from the | Alleghanies to the Rockies, and the | great interior has in the past looked to the Chesapeake Bay to meet the demand for the savory mollusk. But in recent years this general demand hLas been supplied largely from the bayous and estuaries of the gulf coast. The inlets from the Long Island | Sound and those that indent the coast | of New Jersey are also producing an | output of high-grade oysters that is; increasing ‘constantly from a careful | and intelligent system of artificial cul- ture. Many of these Northern beds are supplied with young oysters from the Lower Chesapeake, especially from Virginia waters. Original propagation has been adopted in many of the Northern waters where the natural supply had become almost extinct. Notwithstanding the fact that the oys- ter product has been increased vastly | in other sections by artificial breed- ing, the present price of the oyster is double that which prevailed a genera- tion back. It is to be feared that the oyster may in time become a high- priced dainty instead of a general article of diet.—Baltimore American. —e———— An Error in Diagnosis. Stories of railroad accidents were be- ing told in Tuxedo. Spencer Trask, banker and author, of New York, said: | “In a certain railway collision one of | the victims lay for a long time on his back across the ties. Finally two men | picked him up, carried him to the sta- tion and placed him on the floor. | “ ‘He'll lie easier here,’ they said, 'till the doctor comes.” i “The doctor came a little later. ““This poor chap is done for, I'm | afraid,’ he said, glancing at the pros- | trate victim. “‘Then he knelt down, lifted one of the man’'s closed eyellds, and peered into a dull, blank, unseeing, lifeless I'se so glad to i I eye. *“‘Yes, he's dead all right, take him away,’ said the doctor. ‘‘But the pale lips of the injured man | moved slightly and a feeble volce mur- mured: “‘That was my glass eye, you fool.” "' —)———————— Golf Raises Price of Rubber. Until about ten years ago the subm: rine cable companies used practically the whole world's supply of gutta per- cha, for the reason that, unlike rubber, | it is not affected by salt water. But| when the game of golf became the fad | in Europe, England and the United | States it was found that gutta percha | is the only satisfactory material out of | which to make the balls, and the de-| mand for it increased to so great an extent that the production nearly doubled. The ships from Singapore, Straits Settlement, now bring enormous car- | goes of it, and although twice as much ! is imported by England as was import- ed ten years ago, the price has ad- vanced about 100 per cent. This, the cable companies say, is due solely to the manufacture of golf balls.—Phila- delphia Record. —————— A Railroader’s Rise. | John M. Egan, the new president of the Armour-Swift Company, is a rail- road manager of long and profitable ex- | perience, who will be specially remem- | bered for the conspicuous part that he had in the Chicago strike of 1894. At that time it was stated by one of the presidents of the twenty-three roads, in whose behalf Mr. Egan acted, that he was chosen to conduct the ne- gotiations ‘“‘because he was a fighter.” In 1896 he became vice president and general manager of the Central of Georgia and president of the Ocean Steamship Company. In 1900 he became president of both corporations, relgn-i literacy should be nothing but a mem= ory.—Birmingham (Ala.) News. —————— Green Diamond Found. Considerable interest, writes a corre- spondent, has been aroused in Johan- nesburg by the discovery on a mining property at Klerksdorp of a green dia- mond of about three-quarters carat. The gem had slipped into a crevice in the iron plates of the crushing mill and was found during the dismantling of named Preussen, which made the trip from Germany to Iquique, Chile, in fifty-seven days. The Preussen is the largest sailing vessel afloat. Country’s Cotton Crop. I On December 3, 1903, the Depart- | ment of Agriculture estimated 9,962 039 bales as the country's cotton crop | —an estimate remarkable both for the | wild speculation which it excited and for the fact that it came within 24,000 bales of Daniel J. Sully’s _estimate. the mill to make room for a new stamp | Sully and the Government were both | ulants, even !of the extra day. with the greatest force to those Gov- | | French Budget Commission was by the fact that the one day will add to ! battery. In 1893 over seventy similarly colored diamonds were found upon the same property. They had all slipped between the dies and escaped destruction. It is conjectured that many other green stones were crushed out of existence. For the first time since that date the Klerksdorp Gold and Diamond Com- pany propose to resume operations on this particular ground, which contains both gold and diamonds and the pros- pects of unearthing more of these green gems are being eagerly watched from the Rand.—Philadelphia Record. ———— The Cardinal Changed Doctors. A correspondent of the London Chronicle tells of an incident he wit- nessed in the theater of the Crystal Palace, where Cardinal Manning was addressing an immense meeting of members of the League of the Cross, a temperance organization, which was very near to his heart. “I will fess to vou,” he said, with that mix- ture in his manner of the playful and the vaternal which his Irish children loved, “that I do not practice what I preach. myself, because my doctor won't let me be one.” At once a voice came from the topmost gallery, ‘“Change Yyour doctor!” “Thank you for the hint, my friend,” promptly said the Cardi- nal; “I will.” What is more, he did, with the result that he was a teeto- taller ever afterward, refusing all stim- in his last illness.—New York Tribune. — e Cost of Leap Year. The fact that this is veap year car- ries with it an effect apt to be over- looked, which is that the annual ex- penses of governing the nations will be considerably increased by the inclusion This comes home ernments which have the largest ar- mies to feed and provide for. The the expenses of the War Office for 1904 a sum of nearly 800,000 franes, which will be expended in rations for the men and forage for the horses. When all the various state departments are sepa- rately considered the total sum runs into several millions of francs.—Detroit Free Press. — Kaiser Shows Vindictiveness. The marriage of Count Herbert Bis- marck and Countess Hoyos took place at Vienna and it was on this occasion that the Kaiser took a step which has been described as “one of the falsest steps of his life—a step equivalent to the malevolent boycotting of the Bis- marcks.” By order of his Majesty Count Caprivi, the new Chancellor, wrote to Prince Reuss, German Em- | bassador at Vienna: “Should the Prince (ex-Chancellor) or his family make any approach to you, pray con- fine yourself to conventional forms of courtesy. This order is also to be ob- served by the staff of the embassy. I may add that his Majesty will take no notice of the wedding.”—Chicago Chronicle. ———— The Only Woman Admiral. Queen Olga of Greece is the only woman admiral in the world, having ' been appointed to that honor in the Russian navy by the late Czar. She is devoted to life on the sea. On a recent inspection she made such a thorough examination of the battle- ship as to amaze ihe naval experts of her country and win their admiration. She is the eldest daughter of a Rus- sian Grand Duke, the niece of the late Czar, and since her marriage to King George has done much to unite the interests of Russia and Greece. She con- | I am not a total abstainer | met | { Court gave judgment for thé plaintiff ing last winter.—New York Commer- is the founder, friend and patroness of cial. | the Seamen’s Home and on certain ST S LS R days of each month visits the old sail- Railroad Fined for Throwing Eggs. | ors and talks to them of life at sea.— Chicago Chronicle. Because certain railway employes' Bt de oo LS RRAR A joined with other unmannerly persons Reunion of Seven Brothers. in throwing bad eggs at an unpopular | The World’s Fair has served to bring political candidate, who was awaiting about a reunion of seven brothers who a train at Shelby, N. C., the Superior last met in 1872 and for thirty-two years have been scattered in various parts of the country. They are Knowles brothers, namely: J. Knowles, 61 years old, of Bartleville, Ind.; S. S. Knowles, 64 yvears old, of Santiago, Cal.; M. S. Knowles, 60 years old, of Linden, Okla.: T. S. Knowles, | 54 years old, of Los Angeles, Cal.; B. should pay for their malodorous |y Yy owles of Greenview, 111, and E. amusement, instead of their imper-! 4’ Knowles, 53 years old, of Green- sonal and innocent employer, but the , view, Ill. The seven brothers held a liabilities of railway companies are ' reunion at Petersbure. IlL, in 187 many and peculiar.—Express Gazette. | They scattered, and not until a fe e On the Inside. “Well, Maria, as near as I can figure it out, this summer campaign will cost | us $35,000 outside of the automobile and the yacht. Still, both the girls! seem to be on the disengaged list as far as I can see. Do you think it pays?” “It certainly does, John. Why, last’ season we were just lumped into the list of ‘and others’ who were at the re- against the railway company for $4500 damages, and the Supereme Court of the State has just affirmed that de- cision. Strict justice would seem to say that the individual egg throwers | Their father was Asa Knowles of Gib- : son County, Indiana.—Chicago Chron- icle. ———— Properties of Sommnoform. At a recent medical exhibition in London 2 new anestletic, called som- noform, was shown. It is a liquid whose “‘boiling point” is 2 degrees be- low zero. The moment it comes in The exhibitor broke a glass capsule of the | J.| days ago did they see one another. | contact with the air it becomes a gas. | wrong, for the movement into sicht. | reported at this week's close for Sep- | tember 1 to date, foots up 9.973,406 | bales. Furthermore, there remain six weeks before the twelvemonth's total can be ascertained. At this weel movement of 45,328 bales, there would | be added, in that period. 277,000 bales, | making a total of 10,250.000. It may | be more, or it may be less. ‘ The bearing of these preliminary { figures or the year's consumption is remarkzble. Last November Thomas ison estimated 70.877,000 bales of American cotton as the season’s prob- able requirement of the spinners. | Since the world's supply of American “olton last September was only o trifle over 440,000 bales, as against some 900,000 bales to-day, it would | seem that spinners’ requirements have been reduced, by the excessive prices, | no less than 1,181,000 bales. The pro- |'cess has not been pleasant. but it has | been a striking proof of the defensive | power which consumers of staples | have against corner manipulators.— | New York Evening Post. —_———— Prima Facie Evidence. A Philadelphia lawyer was rebuffed the other day by a witness whom he was cross-examining. He was counsel for the contestants in a will case who were endeavoring to show that the tes- tator was of unsound mind. One of the dead man’s intimate friends was summoned to testify for the plaintiff. It was he who was being examined by Mr. Shields. “Did not the old man talk to him- self when he was alone?” interrogated the lawyer. “I do not know,” replied the witness. “What!” exclaimed the attorney, you do not know and yet you claim to be an intimate friend of his! How can you explain your ignorance of the fact that the deceased talked to himself when he was alone?” “Because,” replied the man undis- turbed, “I was never with him when he was alone.” —_—————— Hypnotism Extraordinary. An extraordinary story of the im- | position of one will upon another was | told before the psychological section of | the British Medical Association at Ox- ford recently. Dr. Eldridge-Green said | that he was talking with a patient on | the subject of hypnotism. The patient, a lady of more than average force of character, said she defied any man to send her to sleep and make her do as he wished. “I told her it was not necessary to send her to sleep,” said the doctor, “and added, ‘You will wake at 5 o'clock to-morrow morning and will send me a postcard despite your own wishes to say no." I got that post- | card. It was somewhat to this effect: ‘I have been trying not write to you, but I did wake at . Rhodes Scholars at Oxford. The only Rhodes scholars at Ox= ford so far are the colonials and Ger= mans. The Americans will go there | next year. The colonials are said to | be a bit rough, without the Eton pel- ish, but a year has done wonders with them. BEut the great successes among the Rhodes scholars are Germans. “I believe,” said an observant don, “that the most capable man in the college is a German who came here with a Rhodes scholarship. He is also, I should say, the most popular man in | the college,” continued the observant don. “I think England and Germany will understand each other better if we get a few more like him.” » —e——— Novelty in Flats. A novelty in flat building has recent- ly been introduced in this city and it is by no means certain that it will | prove popular. Some of the newer ele- | vator houses are supplied only with a service stairway. The tenants are | expected to use the elevator on all ec- casions. This new way of putting up houses has the advantage of making the elevator service more than usually effective. But there are persons with |a prejudice in favor of a staircase which they can get at, whatever there | may be in the rest of the house. The new scheme economizes both space and money, but the builders are not sure | that it will ever become a fixture in | New York's method of flat construc- tion—New York Globe. ——————— Naming the O'Brien Baby. There is a new baby in the O'Brien family up in Harlem. Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien were discussing a name for { him. | “I see,” said Mrs. O'Brien, “that the | Roosevelts are using Roosevelt as a | middle name. The O’'Briens are just as good as the Dutch. Let's call the baby | James O’Brien O’'Brien.” “Just as good!"” cried O'Brien. “The Irish are three times as good as the sorts, while this year four city papers have actually used the names of my- self and the girls as ‘among those pres- ent were.” I tell you, John, we are close somnoform to illustrate its character. | As soon as the glass was chipped there | was a rush of what looked like steam, and seven pence worth of somnoform | was loose in Queen’'s Hall trying to | Dutch. We'll call the boy O'Brien ©O’Brien O’Brien. —_———————— Definition of a Vagrant. tody, as I suppose I ought to have ! to society’s heart, and that $55,000 will done, I entered into conversation with | be well invested.—N. Y. Commercial. | hi “He told me that he was literally | starving and that, as he saw my li-| brary window open, he couldn’t resist ' the temptation of getting into the house | to see if he could find anything to eat. | On turning up the gas he saw my; Horace lying cpen on the table and he yielded to the temptation to revive old memories of his Rugby and Oxford days. T found him a most clever and entertaining fellow and his story was so pitiful that I gave him a good meal and sent him away with a sovereign in i his pocket. A few months later he re- turned the sovereign and wrote to tell me that he had found his feet again, | having got a good appointment as mas- ter in a school.”—Tit-Bits. —————————— Greeting Her Old “Mammy.” A beautiful young lady, a member of one of the richest and most aristo- cratic families of Henderson, Ky., mar- ried a few vears ago and went with her husband to New York City to live. The affection between her and her “old | black mammy” was very tender, and the separation was hard to bear. After | e e Electric Road for Mont Blane. An electric railroad is to be built up Mont Blanc, on the plans of M. Baliot, an engineer of great ability. The cog wheel system used on the Jungfrau road will be employed, and the railroad, which will start from a point 3260 feet above the sea level, will terminate only 810 feet below the summit of the mountain. The tour-! ist will be 14,970 feet above the sea when he steps out of the cars. In mak- ing the ascent of the 11,710 feet from the starting vpoint the road will tra- verse nearly eleven miles, to lower the grades as much as possible and ob- tain the most favorable conditions for construction. —_—————— Suggestions for Good Roads. Suggestions to the effect that the number of miles of good roads in the | various States of the Union would be hapdsomely enlarged in a few years' were convicts put to work upon the improvements of the highways are re- | newed now and then, both in the North | and the South, the East and the West. ' There may be sufficient and convine- ing reasons why this would be an un- wise policy, but these reasons are not | the young wife had settled in the East as yet familiar to everybody. she determined to have “mammy" come on to visit her, and sent the money for her ticket. Imagine the surprise of the prim New | causes of Southern white —_—————————— ‘Want More and Better Schools. It profits nothing to trace the illiteracy. | be said to wear eyeglasses.—New York Yorkers when they saw an old colored | The remedy for the evil is to be ap- emnity in the presence of the repre- =entatives of the rival Giovannellis and the city authorities. The contents were indecd dramatic. They set forth that when the chief branch should be ex- dnct all the posscssions of the house O'Donnell, for several years a waitress at the Hotel del Coronado, has fallen heir to $150,000. She has gone East to take possession of her inheritance. Miss O'Donnell is the daughter of John J. O'Donnell of New York City. It is from his sister that the fortune has in Uruguay. The yield is said to be enormous and it appears to be im- mune from any disease. This potato is cultivated like the common vege- lable of this name, or, at least, has been so cultivated in the trials made in France since 1901.—Exchange, woman coming through the station gate suddenly pounced upon by an ele- gantly dressed lady. who threw her arms about the old woman's neck and kissed her time and again. Dropping her bundles, the old woman seated her- plied at once, ess of how the disease was contracted. The remedy is more schools and better schools and more teachers and better paid teachers. A great educational revival t to be held in every Southern e until the blight of Southern il- asphyxiate the cxhibitors. Its great virtue, from a medical point of view, is that breathing stops before the heart | when it is administered.—New York Tribune. ——e—e—————— The Snake’s Glassy Eye. Snakes may almost be said to have glass eyes, inasmuch as their eyes never close. They are without lids and each is covered with a transparent scale much resembling glass. When the reptile casts its outer skin, the eye scales come off with t'e rest of the| transparent envelope out of which the snake slips. This ~lassy eye scale is so tough that it effectually protects the true eve from the twigs, sharp grass and other obstructions which the snake | encounters it its travels, yet it is| transparent enough to allow the most perfect vision. Thus, if the snake has not a ~'ass eye, it mav. at anv rate, Tribune. ———————— Not Hurt By Beef Strike. Paterson, N. J., has brought to view at various times no' small number of eccentric versons. The latest freak "H that community makes his breakfast of a cucumber, his luncheon of a carrot, a_ turnip or a raw potato, and eats a few nuts for supper. This devotee of a pe- culiar dietary declares that he is not in the least ruffled Ly the rumors of the indefinite closing of stockyards, of packing-houses and of meat markets. He never touches flesh or fish, wears “But I ain’t no vagrant,” protested the unbarbered hobo, who was lined up in front of the police magistrate. “Do you know what a vagrant is?" asked the man behind the bar of jus- tice. dunno,” replied the prisoner. “What do youse call a vagrant?” “A vagrant,” answered the Judge, “is a gentleman who is out of work.” “Den, yer Honor, I'm guilty,” said the victim of circumstances. “I thought a vagrant wus a guy wot wus lookin’ fer a job.”"—Chicago News. it SR S Pyrotechnical Birds. In Nagasaki, Japan, there is a fire- works maker who manufactures pyro- technic birds of great size that, when exploded, sail in a life-like manner through the air and perform many movements exactly like those of liv- ing birds. The secret of making these wonderful things has been in the pos- session of the eldest child of the fam- ily each generation for mere than four hundred year$.—N. Y. Globe. —_——— Short History of a War. It is said that a prize was once of- fered for the shortest history of the causes and results of the Mexican war. The winner produced the fol- lowing treatise: Chapter T. Cause of the Mexican War, Texas. Chapter IT. y Regults of the Mexican War, very little clothing and sleeps out of doors except when rain is falling. He looks strong and well and asserts that he never féels an ache or a pain. The possibilities of human perversity are unaccountable.—New York Tribune. —_———————— Great Sailing Record. A new record for sailing vessels has been established by the new yessel . Texas. —New York World. Visitor (to particular friend. who has had several new dresses laid on the bed to choose from)—I do wish you would tell me the name of the woman you Sowns like these that T Sant to set %4 of.—Punch. g