Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 22, Number 9, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 August 1891 — Page 2

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THE OtO FAMILIAR FACES.

15*ave bad playmates, I have bad companion* Xc my day• of childhood, in my Joyful w-hgol All.^a^'are gone, the old familiar face*. ^, have been laughing, I have been carousing, JDrinklng 1 Me, sitting late, with my b«»m »redone, the old familiar faces. jUj I loved a krve once, fairest among women Clowjd are ber doore on me, I roust not nee All.^Uaro gone, the old familiar faces. 1 have a friend, a kinder friend ban «o man Like an ingrate I left my friend abrnptly, I^eft him to muic on the old familiar faces. Gbo#t-ltk© I paced around the haunts of my childhood, 2 Earth iieem'd a desert 1 waabouml to traverse, Seeking to find the old familiar faces.

Friend of my bosom, thongb more than a Wbj wert'ttiou not born In my father's So might vl talk of the old familiar faces. How-some they havo died, and some tlwy have left me, And some are taken from me all are «eAlJ^arTara gone, the old familiar faces. -HL'harles Lamb.

Town Talk.v

TBE WORK HOUSE.

There Is an excellent prospect for a •work house, in all that the term Implies, :in tills county before the snow flies.

Both the city and county authorities -seem to be heartily in favor of it. The county oomrolsslonersaroof the opinion that if they are to

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out from |900 to

*fl,00Q each month to feed the bums that "sthe latter should make some return for it, which can only bodone by work, and if put to work they will cease to patro'nrsijjte such a publlo Institution. As coutemplated at present tiro work house will be. ontirely separated from the jail.

When an arrest is made the prisoner will v'be commltted to jall'until trial and conviction, and upon the latter he must either pay, stay or go to the work house.

In the latter institution he must work

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bis board and legging or subsist on bread and water. If ihey don't like the ferules and regulations they need .not ®e*i 'Wn. After a trial none of them want

lone trial and do their best to avoid It ever alterwards. All tbey *re required *to do Is break uton&l'or thecitv-a nid*, ^easy job, but then raiey dpritlUte It. In ^Indianapolis the work sopopular

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tbe people, and so tbofbugbly detested by the bums that the.city wouldn't be without it If it cost twice as much. At l|the present rate of expense a work house at & cost of $100,000 would pay in this .oitylf it never contained an inmate,

a re so a he

can read character by penmanship. They -should try their hand on the marriage returns whioh are filed with the county 'clerk, where every style can'be found in ^profusion, from the graceful Spencerlan hand to the ragged scrawl which no persson can .read. One would think that in a matter of this kind some care would be •exercised in complying with the requirements of the law, but frequently the •contrary la the cage. If two or three of itho ministers are excepted, the returns made by the clergy of the county display a degree of lgnorritiee, oarolessness *nd bad penmanship which is anything but commendable. These returns area -portion of the county records,and .many of them might be artiolos of «r*at importance at sotno future time, but they: are sorawled off with lead pencil In an illegible hand, withf|t regard to rules of spelling and o^Osloually with a \change of names to vary the monotony.

The magistrate* of Harrison township are All good penman and make their re* turns in good ahape, but when itoomes to the outside townships they are neither a thing of beauty nor a joy at any time. Most of the clergy are no better, and make a display ©f Illiteracy which does not speak well for at least some members of the profession—or for the denomination represented by wsae. While it may not be possible to tell a minister's denomination by his marriage return, it is safe to say that many can be told as not belonging to certain denominations by that test. 8K TOILS NOT.

The other day while a tax agitator was holding forth to a crowd on the lolqlties of the tax law and the burdens Imposed by It on the hard working men of the state, hit better half suddenly loomed up around the corner and he immediately subsided and sneaked off in a different direction. It looked like it might be a c**e of "hen-pecked" husband, hut it wasn't* It appears that the wife has to do ail the work for the family. She attends to the farm, gathers the garden truck, end several day* each week may be seen going from house to house with fruits, vegetables and butter, while her 'Meer hubby" Is standing around on the corner* talking politics and "tafcin* suthin" with a friend. This to not a solitary wse, either. There an many each in and around this town. When yon tee a man with

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that of talking about St, you can generally make np your mind that there to something wrong with him. If the cross roods politician and the corner loafer could only be induced to work their imaginary trouble would soon disappear, ihey would have more money, and everybody would be better off. As a matter of self defense the legislature should enact a^law making It a misdemeanor for a man to live by the sweat of bis wife's brow and. his own jaw, and the fellow who holds forth so eloquently on the street corners should be made to pay a heavy tax to be applied to a fund for the support of broken down politicians. what NEXT?

For a week the bankers of the state have "been making life a burden to the state board of tax commissioners in regard to furnishing a list of their depositors on the first April, together with the amount each had In the bank on that date. The banks refused, and by agreement a test case will be made up next week and taken to the highest conrt in the land. It is very probable that the banks will come out victorious. In connection with the case one of the Indianapolis papers raises a point which if well taken will knock the state' and private banks out of existence. It says that the national banks are subject only to United States law, and that the state canuot oompel them to shew list of their depositors as is demanded at present, but that all private banks and banks under the state law can be compelled to do so. If this is-good law no man who has money in feank whlch he does not want taxed will.leave it in a state or private bank, and In a very short time the national batiks would have all the deposits, and the other bauks would be coin pelted -either to ob tain charters as national banks or retire from business. The courts will hardly make such a ruling. If the national banks cannot be reached the courts will probably declare the clause in question unconstitutional, and that will be the end of it. At any rate 'the .final de cislon of the points involved is looked forward to with much inurest by all parties interested, and they constitute ^|l the taxpayers of the state.

NO BNOOTRAfljBJIQtoT^^k:

A short time ago an attemjwfrl&z to put the city in good sanitar

glean up feeverar refused, aaa^jOiBi-

plaints lievo ers, bftt the^w^ them Probably Ing like

fSedr ThoffeHce firmly b^ Ida oa^fes against the ofleudf•'were discharged. Now no eooouragement for duty in that direction. true, but there is nothperseverauce. That they have

not succeeded in two or three instances is no assurance that they will not sucoeed better next time. A little of this perseverance carried into the enforcement of all laws is a good thing. Take the Sam Brown case, for instance it was along time before he was caught, but he was finally landed, and the extent of his offending has been limited of late. Then there was the Frank Lee case. He had been watched for years, but the first case to stiok against him was found only last week. Or take the saloons. Perseverance made them all take out city lioense, and some more perseverance may in time make them all elose up on Sunday aud after eleven o'clock at night. There is nothing like perseverance, and it will surely have its reward. People admire pluck and if the polloe will only ,persevere in doing good work it-is only a question of a very short time until they will have ail the encouragement they want.

Fashions Fancies.

Velveteen bindings for dress skirts ace now preferred to braid. The newest thing in note paper la of a delicate heliotrope, with a silver rnonograai./v

Tucked guimpes for litue girls are again the rule, the tucks often being very small and fine.

A very handsome Venetian openwork embroidery in dark silks and bronzegold or copper mental cord will be used in the Autumn for trimming oloth cashmere and vigogne dreegee.

The rich, deep, Cleopatra colors will be in marked favor next season, the tawny golden browns, russets, the ohandron or copper dyes, and the djihlia and other dower, fruit and leaf shades also the superb dark, velvety reds and yellows of the nasturtium.

I^niers and puffii are no longer in the distance, but are actually present and in style—And the hoop!' Almost direct word cornea from Pari* that

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hair steel to now run in the edge of tit* bell skirt under its foot trimming. This skirt to so much gored that It leaves little or no fullness around the hips, makthe motion of walking or dancing undesirably and ungracefully apparent.

John Blair, of Blairsville, N. to reputed to be worth all the way bom to $100,000,000. He has never sold a share of etoek in any enterprise with which he has been Associated, and has money Invested in ecores of railsome of which he absolutely oon-

A Man's Observations.

"Hew, John, you go your way and I'll, go mine. Sere are our possessions: take what you desire and let me have the rest." These were the words spoken by a wife, the other day, and they are words that ought to have snnk into that man's soul like hot iron. But did they? No. His heart had left the fireside of this once happy home, and gone out in the world after a strange love. The woman who bad been to him a wife, tender and true as perfect love, bad been cast out as something he had wearied of, and henceforth their paths were to diverge. It mattered uot that she was looe and helpless it mattered not that all her sweet young life had budded and blossomed and faded for this man the time had come when he could cooly turn his back upon and desert her. She had borne with faithlessness as long as virtue could, and at last the hour came. "You go your way, John, and I'll go mine," she said and he, without a word of regret,. turned and went. Ah, yes. This is the way that reputations are blasted. This is the way that leads to heart-ache and misery. It isn't anew way—God's pity. It is the same old way—crooked, devious, and ever ending where degradation waits. "You go your way and I'll go mine," they say,-those, hearts that grow estranged,—and then they go out to follow down the trail that leads to ruin. Better so, perhaps. There is no cure for such.

Now aiad again a fervent petition for the fool-killer is put up, together with a reminder to him that he in neglecting his business. But thi», after ail, may^ due, not to the fool- killer's neglect. Jiut to the failure of the petitioners tog|ecognizo him when he does come. The world is often blind to its benefactor^ and falls to see them or spurns them'wtym are doing the most good. Tht rut^» is the fool-killer assumes so many disguises that it takes a sharp eye to keep|tra&t of him. t''

To-day you €ay sedi hiin^ pistol in hand, putting a bulletin^the head^of some youth who sees nSthtpg in, life,' orth having becausef ii coquettish^ less girl fires him with jealousy by jig with some other youth jor^ jBvupible on o^redj)fhftvliiichiDalarou 9

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which apparently holds the pistol Is t^ie foolish youth's, but you may be sure it. is the4fool-killer in disguise. To-mor-row he will push some silly girl into th water or give her poisoii because of like disappointment, or even because she has been refused a ne^ .bonnet forbidden going to a picnic^

Again, the feol-killer may be seen bringing to an end the worthless cnciatence of some fool who spends his|lifei beating his wife, oursiug his children, and doing nothiiig or earning nothlhi' to make their home even tolerable by day or night. It may be the wretch's own hand that seems to do the deed, but the fool-killer should have the credit for it.

If the doctors be correct, tight lacing is a cunning invention of the foolkiller for getting in his work at his leisure, as are late suppers and all night dancing week after week. It Is the foolkiller who is at the head of the gambling houses, and after the money and reputation of the fools enticed there are all gone he takes them out and dispatches them with powder or laudanum, or the river or charcoal gas. It is the fool-killer that tempts the lighting of fires with kerosene oil that tempts to the swimming of the Niagara ripids and tells the man in the wagon that by whipping up his horse he can cipas the track before the whistling train gets there.

It to the fool-killer who gets in what the base ball men call a "double play," when he sets two angiy farmers, one with an ax, the other with a shot-gun, disputing about a "line fence," or fills up two others with liquer, arms them with rifles and sets them gunning for one another, generally in some Southern town. It to the fool-killer that sets thieves, burglars and highwaymen to falling out with one another, and settling the trouble with knives And revolvers. It to the fool-killer that tempts weak men to drink liquor every day, so that, according to the life insurance companies' returns, three out of ten at least will die early of kidney, liver, bead or Itrng disease, or by accident or suicide. It to the fool-killer that persuades men to smoke constantly to lire licentious lives to eat too much to live too tost and even to work too hard.

So it will be seen that the fool-killer to not the careless and indolent person that he to too often said to be. People should beware of calling upon him. He may come when they don't really want to eee him. Like the old man in the fable who cried for death, they will aa anxiously aak him to postpone his ytoit to a more convenient season as they begged the pleasure of his company.

Nearly every man one meets with to going te do something "to-morrow." He to

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TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22,1891

fool yee-

terday bnthe to going to be wtoe morrow." To-day he to rioting In drunkenness, but &hdm»it®w he will be earnest* indnatrioas.

To-day he stabs to the heart the best and perhaps only friend he has on earth but to-morrow he will give one more promise and ooont the wound as healed. O t&at men will so wreck their opportunities! O that men so lightly consider love, honor and respect—bar teri ng all for a cup of poison—losing all for the gutter's dregs and inevitable disgrace. For snch men there is no "to-morrow." It is to-day or never. It is pride againlfe weakness,' self-respect against and the battle is always on, "To-morrow, aad to-morrow, and to-mcui«»v,\ Creep* In this petty pace from day to To the last syllable of recotded time, Aud ail our yesterdays have lighted foofe&a The w^»y to dusty.4eath." '«&

No, no ther§*'is no to-itnorrbwi^^To-rrforrow beckons and allures us with a wan tell hand,. but*fl is a hand that we can nfever clasp It is a false support, a h]^$i£-jfcvet-reached, pij^miae never fulfilled. Itis to-d&y, brother, or not at ailV To-day you have friends, position, hope to^morrow you may be dead to all exceptjtiopelfas tears and unavailing regret. In fuH vlew o^ the past, and while yet trustful of th^.fcltui«, 'put a check on folly and resolve'fo stand erect. Do it to-day, and do it within yourself. Do it, we say#iand then your morrow will have dawned. Do it, an^ife will hold for yon the pleasures ofTiope anci the joyousness of a rich fulfillment.

People and Things,

'pia v' ANew Orleans man keeps^ lizzard pn his tabie'to guard ^alnble papers.

GeneralNeal Maine's unentombed Hannibal,Is in favor of the whippingpost* t,

Herreshoff, Who"designed the Gloriana, has a blind brother who can model boats 4

as well as he. 'Prince Albert' coming bal^i to his rear

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shows signs of ft hjwill reaah down

fr is about to pu title of uitofleotfengl

QeperalBoul book Wder thi ^l^and little republic1 old|on|||

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with poems which he will bring to this, oountry and insist upon?reading them iu public.

Leopmd II., King of the Belgians, prides himself on being a workingman. He riBes at 0 o'clock and does two fours' wjr^ bel$ro breakfast.

Dr. Brlggs is hard at work on his defense against the oharge of heresy and expeots to be at his post again next month prepared to make the fur fly.

Billiard balls are now made of condensed milk, but they are not the sort Jay Gould plays with when he is pocketing everything in a game of railroad P°ol-

The charge is gravely made against Boston and New York that they are "Idiotically Anglomaniacal." It Is Kate Field who lets fall this slab of commonsense comment.

Ex-Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle are summering in Boston, and say that the Common is not a bad place to rusticate upon if vacant seats under a shade tree can be got and the statues, are not looked at.

If it be .true that Mr. Blaine's book, "Twenty If ears in Congress," has netted him $450,000, it is pretty certain that it has been worth twice as much as the salary he received while in Congress.

Chicago shoes are sent all over this continent. At Little Rock, Ark., Mrs. Lucille Morgan found a snake comfortably ©oiled away in her slipper. Possibly the snake was from Chicago as well.

A California tramp has turned out to be a gilt-edged German nobleman, and is now Count Ballertrom. This is reversing the usual order of things, in which the gilt-edged Count generally turns out to be a no-account barber.

General Butler didn't get mad when he read the report of hto own death in the papers. He merely said that he would never leave the United States a poor and unprotected orphan until he was obliged to, and he didn't feel any such obligation just now*

If Sir William Gordon Cumming does not sue for slander the men who are alleging that he charges that nearly everybody was drunk at Tranby Croft on the occasion whenjhto conduct became public property, it will be becanse, In losing caste, he has lost all sense of the obligation of a gentleman.

Oonnt Mnrairef^ who has come down in history as the "Hangman of Poland," an even worse sobriquet than tiutt of "Carotid -cutting OasUereagh," has to have a monotnent erected to hist at Wilna by the Rassten Government, and the Poles are boiling over with indignation at the Insult to their nationality implied in the proposal. The indignation seems a little far-fetched- Sorely If the Russian® don't object to having the effigies of Oatbarins sad Paul constantly before their eyes th« Pttles need not bor* row tremble beoanss of the honor done to creators of just suoh

Notes and Comments.

Those successful experiments at producing rain in Texas are not conclusive. Let them be tried in Kentucky, where the conditions bearing on water are different.

The late warm weather has suggested that men should look out for a national summer dress for the future. The chances are that a good many men will be uncomfortable In the future, even without dress.,

Partfell te preparing an ^ddrew, for use at home apd abroad, on.the home rule question^ As concerns this ociuntry -whatevei may haye been l».tween.Tiim &Ad ^'%^e ^^tsToow'-^o-t^een. tnem is the ocean, ^ho .jCrnsas Alliance farmers have been &sked to contribute a cent apiece te the* campaign fund. That. state has produced, freaks in politics, but itwiil be th^trangest of all if they cafe vrin election victories by just tossing *a pimny.

There is a surplus of 40,000,000 gallons of whisky on hand in Ketucky,and tkis is said to oause the Kentucky distillers muoh anxiety. If such a thing as a sur plus of whisky in Kentucky can be pos sible, then it te high time for the governor of North Carolina to propound his famous question tor tjtie South Caroling

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A Michigan business man advertises by sending &' dollar note* up in^ a paper balloon every evening, the money becoming the property of the findesri^We know a good many Terre Haute, business men who are oontinually sending dollar bills up in balloons, l« Attempting to

advertise

the Wrong way. It is

an almost ^universal Complaint, and legitlmatoriewspa^ adwn^jag-^the Only infallible

A young girl at Bridgeport, Cono., is in a precarious ctfjalt#n} as the result 0f£jMjhra6tical joker^ holding her head, er^pler wiile bathiog. This young *v uestionrib o^|y' gepus ^as^i"

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tooo to Newr^^rk—over.^2,800

miles—in four days, sijaro^hfRirs a' fifty minutes, by being attach

sively to the fastest trains on four roads. This perfortnau seem so remarkable in the face" oJLthe wonderful ocean records. Which Iftve recently been made. In fact, if* the builders of locomotives don't look to their laurels the day will riot be far distant when water navigation will bo swifter than land looomotion.

Edison seems to stop at nothing, and if his health does not fail him within ten years, ho will die tho wealthiest man in America. He is at present expending a great deal of energy in his magnetic ore separating workB at Ogden, N. J., which have been a complete success. When Edison showed the Iron and steel men of the country the pure magnetic oxide in fine powder produced by his process they pooh-poohed It. It is good ore, they said, but never can be worked, as it will blow out the furnaces and produce plenty of dust, but no iron. They don't say so now. At Ogden his new company has $60,0C0,000 worth of workable rock in sight, and he is tearing tho mountain wherever there is twenty per cent of iron in the rock and getting it all out. The inventor continues to work sixteen to eighteen hoars daily and says that sleep is a habit which can be got rid of in large degrees

The history of almost all tho South American republics for a year or more past to a good reminder of what we owe to the Louisiana purchase. But for the acquisition of the great Mississippi and Gulf region the system of government by gold lace, side arms, plunder and revolution might beJn full blast now at our gates—unless, it 1s probable, the conquest of Louisiana and Florida had been rendered an absolute necessity. What Celmaas, what Balmaoedas, indeed what Toussants, might not have arisen in those sub-tropical climes it to impossible to say. As for the South American States, the deepest respect for the Monroe doctrine can hardly prevent us from acknowledging that they would do better if swallowed whole by Germany or England than, as at present( left to their own devices. And if looking into the far future Mr. Bl*ine means hto reciprocity scheme for the stretching out of a hsnd which may ultimately close and grasp—why, that would be better yet.

There to talk now of sending Blair to HaytL This to

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evidently ttw W"1 to do something with Blair, sad CblnA will not receive him. He to quite capable of any duties required of the minister to Haytl, and to, in toot, a much abler man than has ever represented the United States in that XAther absurd republic. As itisdesirable at this time to put our relations with Haytl on

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Twenty-stcond Year

ing vacancy offers a good opportunity to provide for Blair to the possible advantage of the country. For"the mission to China the president is said to have selected Senator Squire, of Washington. The record of this statesman has not yet been examined. It will be a rare good fortune if a politician from the northern Pacific const has got to be a Senator? without saying- anything obnoxious tCL, the Chinese.

The Prince of Wales has com® in fori so muclsi&bjurgution of late, especi^lly"^ from the |eee and democratic sAm«^c«n, that if is only fair t& givo him, 4*18 due, He took tfis part in tiv^rewihli^ £f£-na»I tional pntftlcal joke played iby' one-jo&l-

ma£t1a Qf Mr. New %6rsey priatgljf rebuked by the SeUo man who jestingly gave him a' letter ot intr«fduotiou to fehe /|ieirtfi the English throne, beginning- "tfcar Bd," but tbe^ presenUtion of t)iis missive to the prince*, turned* the, joke into a disgraceful impertinence. Tho prince very properly^ jeeturned the letter with' the simpl«||^| statement thskt Its writer ytaa unknown^ to him. But he then went on to mik^| gentleman of Mr. tchiff by courteous! sayiuft that he should be very meet him^When presented by the Ami

governor of .oan ^intetert. It is almost a pity I Mr, Sohiff had nbt the coumge audi nlty cf his own to rise to the coi

FeminitemS.

Mrs. Hetty Green has lost ilawsuit,^ and her lawyer has climed upon the rbof until' tlie jitorm la 6ver^|

Jn FranOo women are employed in ^xelgb^ and railroad offices making out selling tickets, ..,

Mr6.k Elizabeth Stuart t'helptfVardW oonfesaas that* she Is thinking of another novel,

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~,flPhe Th#osophi6al S^otclty is to dlfjide^ Madame Blava^y^kshes 'aqdrfcory them in j«adi^s, Jibmtehand'Ne^ Yorkif'fi

A statue of ^harlot%s Cushmanin ti character of Lady^'MiMsbeth will

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AmerHUa wompm honoredgjby Jfee iue the Cro^Klndis .The fulfil whicS the Princess oi Wales Is raislngjfor Mrs. Greenwood already amounts to $T,5G0, and more* 'money is expected.

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Itis noteworthy that Mrs, Hopkins- ''"1 Searle doesn't seem to have wasted more attention' or money upon adopted son, Timothy, than she upon charity.

There is a good deal of talk abqut "woman'sdress" and "reform in dress,"sj» but the fact remains that women never dressed more neatly and more sensibly^ than they do to-day.

Some women are eloquent and sbine are loquacious, but Mrs. Elloquent Lo-* qua, of Chicago, seems to combine thes^lf characteristics. She is a Universalis^ preacher and is said to be a .yery able one.

Miss Cruzon of the Toronto Unlversi^ ty has been acting as assistant public analyst since her graduation in 1880, and at the same time pursuing her studies at the Toronto Women's Medical College.

Mrs. Loqua, who preaches it Chicago, believes that the time is coming when man will be frozen out of the pulpit and women be the only ministers. If that time ever comes donation parties will have to be run on different ban is.

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Miss Frances E. Willard cays "In spite of all that can be said in praise of any educational institution under beftyen 1 firmly believe that 'mothering' to the best and tne most liberal of all edu-? cations. Keep your ..dear girls at heme!" 0'

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Mrs. Potter Palmer has not only organized a Ladies' World's Fair Commit tee in Paris but intends to form a si mi tor committee in London. This com mitteehas been promised assistance the Princess Christian of Schleswig Hototien.

Mim Rachel Gurney wlll bring her. husband, Lord Cudley,a fortune of |250,000, but this will not make her hand some mother-in law a bit better pi at having to become the Dowager Conn toss Dudley. jjg|

Hopes of the j^Sbvery of the ex-Em press Oarlotte are fading away. Her., mental troubles seem to be developing into

violent maaia. On a recent occasion she committed an assault upon Queen Maria, of Belgium, which placed that lady under oaxe of her doctors.

The News that the Crown Princess Sophia had joined the Greek Church made her brother, the Emperor Will" torn, so mad that he gave vent to expressions that wouldn't have sounded^ well in any church, and wonld have been Greek to people unAcqualntod with tho cariosities of enrslng.