Bloomington Courier, Bloomington, Monroe County, 12 April 1895 — Page 3

UlClitiSf MAN IN AMERICA.

SOBCSTKINXJ ABOUT THIS DAIX4T X.IFJS OF JOHH X. EOCKEFELXiES. The Sfandard Oil 3Iagnato Is Unostentatious A Oreat Walker Kusiness Habits and Charltle3. WRITER i a the Detroit Tree Press claims that John D. Rockefeller, the Standard OiJ magnate, is now the rich est man in America. His fortune is estimated at $145,000,000. Mr. Rockefeller's day is a plain matter-of-fact one. He spends it much the same as the man working on a salary and with a family to snpport. There is no show or ostentation about what ha does. Few people in the financial or business world know him even by sight. Not one out of fifty ot the employes of the Standard Oil Company in its offices on lower Broadway, New York, have ever spoken a word to him. Many of them would not know him if they saw him. Mr. Rockefeller is methodical in everything. He gets up at 7 in the morning and breakfasts with his wife and two daughters, Aita and Edith, and his son, John D., Jr., at S o'clock. At 9 o'clock he starts for his downtown office. The Rockefeller home is on the south side of Fifty-fourth street, just west of Fifth avenue, and overlooks the park fronting St. Luke's Hospital on the opposite side of the street. The house is a big, substantial brown-stone affair of no particular kind of architecture. It is built on the lines of solid comfort, with a wide entrance in the middle and with large rooms opening on the central hall. The house has a miniature park around it, a very exceptional thing in that part of the city, where ground is worth in the neighborhood of 4000 a front foot. When Mr. Rockefeller leaves his house at 9 a. m., if the day is fine, he walks toward Fifth avenue. Vary o!ten he starts uptown in the direction of Central Park. Sometimes he is accompanied by one or both of his daughters and sometimes by bis son, young man of twenty-two years, who i3"mw learning the ropes of the n fl. company. - Mr. Rockefeller is a great believer in the efficienev of walking and all kinds of exercise as health givers, and he has taught all the members of his family to believe the same. After a three or four mile tramp in the park Mr. Etockefeller turns back to Fifth avenne and often walks down to Twenty-third street, where he take3 a Bros Id way car to his offices. Frequently he walks all the way down to thert office, a distance four and a half mifiea from his home. On these tramps t.ioe is sometimes accompanied by his ' son or by his brother, William Rockffefeller, who is also one of the Standard Oil princes. At times Mr. Rockefeller can walk the whole distance from his home to his office without meeting a single acquaintance. He has never figured in public life, has never taken any apparent interest in politics and has studiously avoided meeting people, thus making of himself the least known millionaire in the metropolis. His clothes have the appearance of the ready-made article, and in every way this modern Croesus looks the plain, ordinary business man. Arriving at the building of the Standard Oil Company, which overlooks the historic Bowling Green, Mr. Rockefeller goes at once to his suite of private offices. There he is met by his two private secretaries. One of these sect etaries attends to that part of his business relating to the Standard Oil Company, while the other attends to his personal business interests. Hundreds of letters addressed to the rich man are received every day, but he does not see one out of twenty of them. The secretaries, under secretaries, stenographers, typewriters and clerks take care of the others. It is the same with people who call with the intention of seeing the Oil King. Many of these callers have rehearsed in their minds what they would say and how they would act to favorably impress the millionaire only to be met by the polite but firm secretary, who in very few words turns the caller homeward a disappointed man. - The chiefs of the various departments make condensed reports for the daily perusal of Mr. Rockefeller, and the reading of these occupy nearly the entire morning. Few of these chiefs have ever had any verbal communication with Mr. Rockefeller, although many of them have been connected with the company for years. There are less than half a dozen men in the army of people employed by the concern who have access to Mr. Rockefeller's personal sanctum. These men include Henry M. Flagler, the representative of the Charles Pratt interest in the company ; William C. Whitney, as the representative of the Payne family; William Rockefeller, his brother, and one or two others. A large percentage of the callers are men and women, who, having read of the wide philanthropy of the man who endowed a single educational institution in Chicago with $2,600,000 think it will be an easy matter to induce him to turn some of the golden stream in their direction. But it is jest here that the personal private secretary of Mr. Rockefeller comes in. This gentleman devotes nearly all his time to the philanthropic work of his employer. How much money the latter gives away in a year can only be conjectured. His charities are conducted on the same retiring, unostentatious plan that characterizes his whole lite. No one outside of his secretary and himself knows what he gives away. As an example of the generosity and the desire to escape notoriety of Mr. Rockefeller a little incident which happened four years ago at Christmas time well illustrates. The Rockefel

lers are great church-going people and are extremely earnest followers of the beliefs of the Baptist church. They aro the main support of Dr. MoArthur's Baptist church in West Fiftyseventh street. Some years ago Dr. McArthnr had a mission scheme in view which would cost a considerable sum to put in operation on the lines mapped out. He mentioned the matter to Mr. Rockefeller in the hope that it would draw a goodly subscription from the millioaaire. Mr. Rockefeller had the project investigated, and it seemed feasible, as an agency for ao complishing much good. He said nothing more about the matter until the arrival of Christmas Day. Then he called at the parsonage of the church. After wishing Dr. Mac Arthur the customary compliments of the season, he broached the subject of the mission. Tie said that he was satisfied as to its utility, and was prepared to make a subscription if the pastor would promise not to say one word about it to any one. The promise was given, and Mr. Rockefeller placed in the hands of Dr. Mac-Arthur a check for $100,000. The promise wis kept, but it became necessary in time lor the officers f the church to know of the donation. Then some of the wives of the officers heard of it. It was not a great while before many of tho ptople iu the church knew oC the Oil Kind's gigantic subscription, but it was month! before the outside world got wind of it, and then only a few papers made any mention of the $100,000 gift. Mr. Rockefeller is not an iudiscrim- ' inate philanthropist. All of his charities tend in the direction of religion or education. In consequence not one out of fifty of the callers at his office have their wishes gratified. Mr. Rockefeller always lunches iu his office, and spends hi3 afternoon until 4 o'clock going over reports and dictating instructions. At . 4 orclock he starts uptown, usually walking all the way home. If the weather is stormy he goes home in his brougham, which invariably meets him on inclement days. He dines plainly at 6 o'clock, and seldom goes out in the evening unless it is to attend some important ehurch meeting. He goes very little into society and is very rarely seen at the theatie or opera. Mrs. Rockefeller and the two daughters care as little for society and the pleasure oc the play a? Mr. Rockefeller. Most of their time is spent at home. Thu8 the wealthiest individval family in the land leads the quietest and most prosaic of lives.

130,000 Lost Children, Francis George, the Liverpool bellman, is to retire from the service of the city, after a public career extending over a period of sixty yeais. He was originally a member of the old dock police force. It is said that at one time the office of bellman was worth to the person who held it about $2500 per annum. In addition to making public proclamations, it was part of the bellman's duty on all civic occasions to walk before the Mayor of Liverpool, with a portion of the regalia. It was Mr. George's distinction in thai capacity during his long period of office to walk before fifty-three Mayors. In these later days the office of bellman has become practically a sinecure. The duties which he had to discharge have become obsolete, and other means cf announcement have superseded that of the bellman. Up to the present, however, to the bellman's house in Greek street are taken lost and strayed children who may be found wandering about unoared for in the streets of Liverpool. During his long tenure of office, Mr. George has received from police officers at the bellman's house the custody of no fewer than 130,000 stray children, whom he restored to their parents. Latterly this was the old bellman's chief emolument, each parent paying twelve cents for the recovery of the lost children, and $125 a year was granted to Mr. George from the corporation. Chicago Times. A Singular Tiger Tale. A singular tiger tale comes from a village in Java, where the tigers had been committing havoc for some time. One day two contraband opium smugglers, while passing through the forest, saw two tigers following them. They were armed only with knives, and so they ran as fast as they could, but the tigers, as may be supposed, rapidiy gained on them. When almost overtaken they spied a tiger trap, a sort of box-like affair, and both gladly rushed in, carrying their burdens with them. The trap shut down very closely, but that pleased them mightily, as they could hear the tigers scratching and snarling on the outside. The night passed in'this way, and at dawn of day the tigers scampered off and the smugglers essayed to do likewise, but all their efforts were unavailing. They were in a trap, sure enough. In a few hours the settlers came to have a look at the trap, and rejoiced, to see it closed, thinking a tiger had been caught. Their joy was redoubled, however, when the prize proved to be the unlucky smugglers with a valuable load of opium, and the unlucky fellows were marched off to jail in triumph. Atlanta Constitution, The Japanese Reveille. In an English manufacturing town one is awakened early in the morning by an unearthly racket, made by thousands of hob-nailed shoes clattering on the paved street. In Japan a somewhat similar sound is made by the wooden clogs worn by men, women and children. They serve the purpose of rubbers or overshoes, lifting the feet out of the mud and dust. In a public place like a railroad station, the noise is nearly deafening, New York Recorder.

THE ATLANTA SHOW.

IT WILL CERTAINLY E2 NO SMALL. AFFAIR. Hip Fair Southern City Is Already Taking 0:1 Airs .Similar to Those Kxhihitcd in Ciiicaj.ro Prior to t he World's Fair. (Atlanta Correspondence.) HE SITE SElected for the Atlanta exposition is a natural amphitheater inclosing about 189 acres, two miles or so from the center of the city and in the direction that the wealthy folk are following in choosing their building sites. Peachtree street is the fashionable thoroughfare, and for a mile or more is lined on either side with fine houses. Some of them are set in the midst of handsome grounds, which is no idle thing in this southern country, where the soil does not encourage landscape gardening and the hot summer sun bursts out on the grass roots. The governor's mansion occupies a sightly corner and is a spacious structure of brick; but the hotels and shops and boarding houses are treading closely on .its heels and its most noteworthy neighbors now are the Capitol club and an old-fashioned frame structure with a portico of long slim pillars, in which Grn. Sherman resided when he visited this city in 1SG4. It is a boarding house now. The finest house on the street was designed by a young native architect, who was elected to make the plans for the exposition art gallery and is regarded as an architectural genius. It is built of a pinkish-gray stone, and is exceedingly effective in its tasteful sim-

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plicity. The house belongs to Mr. S. M. Inman, who may be termed the first citizen of Atlanta, and buys and sells more cotton, I believe, than any man in the world. Peachtree street is decorated by a trolley, which turns off at the right after the fine houses are passed, and heads down a broad highway to Piedmont park. It is the only means of reaching the exposition grounds at present, but I am told there will be half a dozen street car lines to the gates before September, and the Southern railway, whose tracks pass the grounds, expect to furnish all the transportation needed for a 5-cent fare. Piedmont park was an old fair ground and race track, and there was an exposition there also in 1888, which Mr. Kimball managed, and which President Cleveland opened with some ceremony. It is a pit, or a pocket, in the hills, but the steep bluffs are being shoveled away and graded down by a lot of convicts, who wear flannel suits of wide black and white etripes, and have their legs chained together so that they cannot run away. With every gang of laborers is a dissipatedlooking guard, carrying a rifle as an inducement for them to behave themselves. The bottom of the amphitheater is being excavated for a lake of thirty acres, winding around among the buildings in serpentine fashion. It 'will be covered with electric launches and gondolasthe same as in Chicago during the fair. There are to be eleven great buildings to shelter the classified exhibit, and although none of them will compare in size with the Chicago structures, they would have been considered very large four years ago. The manufactures building is 216 by 370 feet, and the transportation building 12G by 413, and the art gallery 100 by 245. The women have a building to themselves 100 by 220 feet, and the negroes likewise 100 by 300 feet in size. The designs of most of them are artistic, and several are intended to be permanent, I believe. It CHARLES A. COLLIER. Is intended to be a $2,000,000 exposition, and the money is all local capital, the greater part being contributed by citizens. The cash capital is $600,000, of which the municipal government appropriated $75,000; the citizens subscribed $225,000; $300,000 was raised by the sale of bonds, and the county contributes $100,000 in the shape of convict labor for the improvement of the grounds. The legislature of Georgia appropriated the munificent sum of $17,500, which is deducted from the direct tax collect ed by the federal government during the

war and refunded by an act of congress a year or so since. The money refunded was in excess of the claims of those who paid it thirty years ago, and the balance is to be expended in securing a:i exhibit to illustrate the resources of the siate. liut this meager contribution is not duo to parsimony alone. The constitution of Georgia Fpeclfies the objects for which revenues raised by taxation may be expended, ar.d expositions do not appear in the ltet. That is the reason, they explain, why Georgia was not represented at the Columbian exposition. A bill was Introduced in the legislature for a state building and exhibit, and a committee sent to Chicago returned with a favorable report, but the oppsition invoked the constitution, and the point of order was sutained. There was plenty of time to report a constitutional amendment for the Atlanta exposition, but it would probably have been rejected at the polls, for there is considerable jealousy concerning Atlanta enterprise among the rival cities of the state, and the rural population is not very broadminded. The Midway plaisance is to toe repeated here with many additions and improvements. Hagenbeck is coming with his animal show; there is to be a Cairo village, Chinese and Japanese villages, a Mexican village, a Guatemala village and several other ethnographical exhibits that were not seen at Chicago. The amusement features are to be more extensive, also than they were with us, with plenty of music and motion and merriment. Edmund A. Felder, who was an assistant in the department of admissions at Chicago, has charge of the concessions, which are to be managed upon a somewhat different plan. Those which are not easily regulated and upon which the percentages would be difficult to collect, are to be sold outright at auction, with a minimum price and a space rental for the number of square feet occupied, while the percentage plan is to be applied only to such as charge an admission fee. The soda water fountains are charged $1,030 each, and the

sausage and coffee pavilions the same. The popcorn and peanut venders must pay at least $500 each; the confectioner stands the same; souvenir spoons, $300 for each stand; hot waffles and griddle cakes the same; canes and chewing gum, $250 each, and others in proportion. There is a small board of directors, who meet daily, and the authority of Mr. Collier, the director-general, is almost unlimited. The committee on finance control expenditures and audit their own bills. Mr. Collier is a bank president and a young man of great force and executive ability, and is assisted by the leading business men of Atlanta, Authority is more centralized than it was in the Chicago organisation, and there is not nearly as much circumlocution or red tape. Each branch is under the control of an individual, who has final power and can give prompt decisions to questions as they come to him without reference to committees or arguments or wire-pulling, and each is responsible to the board of directors for the proper conduct of his department. The department of publicity and promotion is in charge of W. G. Cocper, an experienced newspaper man, who understands his business and is allowed much latitude. There will be few official foreign exhibits. Brazil, Mexico and the Argentine Republic will make fine displays, and several other American republics have signified their intention to attend; and there will be large commercial exhibits by manufacturers and merchants from at least five of the European nations England, Germany, Prance, Austria and Italy. The temperance question has just begun to bother the directors. When the officers of the Woman's Christian Temperance union discovered that a certain brewery had offered $100,000 for the exclusive privilege of selling beer upon the grounds from now until everything is packed up and shipped away, and that the management was about to give such a concession, they came in with a tremendous protest, and are now circulating petitions from house to house through the city asking that the sale of beer and all wines and liquors be absolutely prohibited by the municipal authorities if not by the directors. The temperance sentiment in Georgia is very strong, and the women threaten to boycott the exposition if beer is sold. There is to be a theatre, with daily matinees and performances each evening, and a music hall or auditorium, where concerts and lectures are to be given. A lot of " Sherman's bummers'' were camped in Piedmont park for several months, and from the bluffs that surround it the city of Atlanta was shelled. There are a lot of trendies still remaining within the exposition grounds which the Yanks threw up for their protection, and some old soldiers with enterprise and sentiment might make a lot of money by building a .shed over them and charging an admission fee. Most of them are already being plowed up and leveled off by the landscape gardener, and they will all I o effaced by the next fortnight unl :;; somebody steps in to prevent them. 1 do not know of anything that would appeal more strongly to the old soldiers that are coming here from the south than the sandy beds they slept in while they were marching through Georgia And there will be a great deal o that sort of patronage. The Chattanooga and Chickamauga battlefield parks are going to be dedicated Sept. 19, and thousands of the veterans of the armies of the Tennessee, the Cumberland and the Ohio are coming to witness the ceremonies. Many will' go on to Atlanta.

Ilimtinsr Pythons in Natal. The colony of Natal, South Africa, abounds in boa-constrictors and pythons. While they do not attack men, th'?y are especially destructive of cattle, Bheep and oxen, and for this reason parties are formed by hunters and natives to burn the bush and forest in order to exterminate the pests. Some of the soldiers at Pietermaritzburg were recently informed by a party of neighboring Zulus of the whereabouts of a huge python that had been destroying their oxen. The soldiers, with 200 natives, started off to capture the snake, and, having located it, the forest was fired for a mile roundabout, an enormous pit having been previously dug in toward the centre of the inclosed space. What with the burning brush and thes shouts of the Kaffirs, they soon drove the reptile toward the pit, where, closing in upon him, they forced him into it. The python proved to be of enormous size, being thirty-two feet long and forty-one inches in circumference. It appeared to be quite stupid or dazed, having just eaten a young ox that had been led into the enclosure. An enormous cage, with iron bars half way down the front, having been constructed, the snake was got out of the pit and taken to Maritzburgin the cage. Here it is kept on exhibition at the barrack!?, and it is fed twice a week two Kaffir goats at each meal. It will not eat anything that has been already killed for it, preferring to kill its food itself. The goats are thrust through a small door at the end of the cage alive, when, fixing its great eyes upon them, the snake suddenly lunges forward and crushes them in its powerful folds. After covering them with a thick slime almost an inch deep before swallowing them, it flattens them out by squeezing them and then swalIoavs them almost at a gnlp. After this the python goes to sleep, and does not awaken until it is time to feed again. Chicago Times.

A Forced Apology. At an entertainment once, where Lady Randolph Churchill was playing on the piano, a tall youth was observed paying a lanquicl and rather insolent attention to the music, standing close enough to the performer to have his comment easily overheard by her. "Lord Randy" was close at hand, too, and presently heard the vapid youth remark: ".Deuced fine music, you know, but it lacks weal soul it lacks weal soul." To the critic's astonishment a muscular young man, with a big mustache, whom he had not noticed before, whispered in his ear: "For a shilling I'd wallop the life out of you !" He hastened to withdraw, but without discovering the identity of the author of the menace. The next day, to his delight, he received an invitation to the Churchills' home, which he accepted with avidity, On entering the house he was met by his threatening neighbor of the night before, who, he once 'discerned, must be Lord Eandolph. He proceeded no farther than the entrance hall, for Churchill beckoned to the drawingroom, and oat floated Lady Churchill. "This fellow has come to apologize to you for his remarks of last night," hissed Lord Randolph, 'Now," to the stranger, "down on your knees!" Down went the dandy, lisping out the most abject plea for forgiveness. Then he was turned over to a footman to be put ignominiously out of the door, while the host followed his retreating figure with a roar of derisive laughter. Kate Field's Washington. Hotels in East India. A hotel iu India is in some respect8 quite unlike a hotel anywhere else in the world. Every guest has a servant of his or her own. The hotel has some servants, but the guests do not depend upon them at all. My servant takes care of iny room, brings me my tea and toast when I arise, prepares my bath, ana waits upon me at table. He also keeps my clothes clean and my boots blacked, sees to my laundry, gets me a carriage when I want one, and does my errands. When traveling he will attend to the tickets and the luggage and make my simple bed on the oars, for India is a country of magnificent distances, involving considerable night travel. There are no regular sleeping cars like ours, but the seats are long enough for the passengers to stretch out on and wide enough to make a reasonable couch, which the traveler provides with his own thin mattress, pillow and wraps. The number of servants in a great hotel is confusing first. In a long corridor you see one before each door. They usually Bleep there, wrapped in a sheet or blanket and curled up on the floor. Scientific American. A New Way oi Catchiu? Babbits. In some parts of Australia the tank trap is growing greatly in favor for the extermination of rabbits. It consists of a tank containing water at the bottom, into which the rabbits jump, laud from which they are unable afterwards to escape. It, however, is successful on a large scale only during the dry months of the year. A couple of stations using seven of them recently captured 23,000 rabbits in one week, and it is calcnltated that they can destroy 80,000 a month regularly. Now York . Recorder. m,i A rrollflc Novelist. M. Jules Verne invariably produces two completed novels a year. Ho is also always in advance of his work ; in fact, he is now writing a story which properly belongs to his working year 1897. All M. Verne's work is iitono in the morninsr. Ho sets up at 5, and by 11 o'clock hia actual writing, proof-correcting and so on art over for the day, and "each evening ho is generally sound asleep by S half-past 8 o'clock. M New York Journal.

HIS BEAR STORY.

i At First There Seemed to 13 an 231 j nient of ImproSmkllity in It. ! He approached the editor's desk with fear and trembling. He had an interro- ' gallon point in his face and a newspa- ! per in his hand, and the editor greeted i hiin-pleasantly. "I come in," he said, after the greeting, "to ast you about an item I seen in the paper about some feller in Floridy ' shootin' a painter with a thirty-two cal- : Ibre pistol, and I want to know if it's so.' "Of course, if you saw it in the papery it's so," replied the editor with confidence, "but what had the painter done?" "Dinged ef I know. Jist wuz, I reckon. That's enough to kill a painter fer." "He must have been a very poor artj 1st," said the editor. The visitor looked seven ways for Sunday. "I reckon we ain't talkin' about the same thing," he said. "Don't you mean a painter who Is an artist, or professes to be?" inquired the editor. "In course not," responded the visitor. "I mean one o them varmints that scratches and screeches." "Oh, ah," said the editor; "I see. You mean a panther?" "Some calls it that, and some calls it painter. It ain't no better, whatsomever you call it. But that ain't what I come in to see about. Ef it's so, as you say it is, I'm here to say that that ain't so much uv a story as mine is. I shot a! grizzly bar once with a twenty-two calibre pistol." "Oh, now," laughed the editor, "you don't want me to believe you killed a grizzly bear with a twenty-two calibre pistol, do you?" "Who said I kiUed It?" asked the visitor, bridling up. "That's jlst where my story gits interestin'. I didn't kill it, and about three minutes after my friends heerd my shot and yell and come up with guns, they didn't know whether it wuz a bag uv rags er me that the grizzly wuz throwin' up and ketchin and playin' ball with. I hain't lived in the fer west sense," he concluded, "and you kin bet yer paste-pot I don't want to, nuther." STEVENSON'9 WHIMS. Friends Teased Him Unmercifully for His Many Peculiarities. We saw most of Louis Stevenson in winter, when studies and rough weather held him in Edinburgh, says a writer in the "Chap Book." In summer he was off to the country, abroad, or yachting on the west coast, for in his post-humorous song he truly says: "Merry of soul he sailed on a day Over the sea to Skye." As a talker by the writer's fireside in these unknown-to-fame days, we give him the crown for being the king of speakers. His reading, his thoughts thereon, his plans, he described with a graphic and nimble tongue, accompanied by the queer flourishing gesticulations and the "speaking gestures" of his thin sensitive hands. We teased him unmercifully for his peculiarities in dress and manner. It did not become a youth of his years, we held, to affect a bizarre style, and he held he lived in a free country, and could exercise hia own taste at will. Nothing annoyed him more than to affirm his shabby clothes, his long cloak, which he wore instead of an orthodox great coat, were eccentricities of genius. He certainly liked to be noticed, for he was full of the self-absorbed conceit of youth. If he was not the central figure, ha took what he called Stevensonian ways of attracting notice to himself. Ho would spring up full of novel notions he had to expound (and his brain teemed with them), or he vowed he could not speak trammeled by a coat, and asked leave to talk in his shirt sleeves. For all these mannerisms he had to stand a good deal of chuff, which ho never resented, though he vehemently defended himself or fell squashed for a brief space in a limp mass into a veritable back seat. EGGED ON BY THE KAISER. Why Dueling Is Prevalent In the German Army. Germany is full of people who believe that militarism is responsible for every evil from souring the milk to enlarging the emperor's head, and their arguments are taken generally with several grains of salt. However, as regards dueling, they seem to have a fairly strong case. They have shown that the spread of dueling has followed the growth of standing armies; that it is most prevalent in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Russia, the five great military powers, while in England, and even in hot-blooded Spain, it has fallen into disrepute. That since the armies began to grow, in 1871, the annual number of duels in Europe has increased from about 700 to 1,830 or 1,400; and that, with every man trained to be a soldier and to cling to the army traditions of swords or pistols for two, the challenges and meetings will multiply so fast that only burglars, tramps and saloon brawlers will be left to give the criminal courts an excuse for existence. That a German officer who declines to fight when insulted will be forced out of the army at once is known to all. That the emperor thinks this encouragement to break the law against dueling just and necessary is known to all who know him. That the war minister has declared repeatedly that the courts are not able to protect a soldier's honor has been published fifty times in the last week. Under these circumstances, which are duplicated in Russia, Austria, France and Italy, the laws enacted by the five big military powers against dueling are useless. Where Are the (Sraudwothers? I often wonder what has become of the type of white-haired, white-capped, sweet-faced dames, whom we treasure in our memory as either our own or some other favored mortal's grandmother. Search for her as you will, she Is not to bo found. The grandmother of to-day is a dressy, middle-aged party, who would prefer that her children's children call her "aunty" than give her the rightful appellation that implies a greater weight of years. The ardent love for the little folks has not diminished. The active, stylish woman of 50 is quite as wrapped-up in the toddlers who lisp "grandma" as was her more picturesque prototype. Are these youthful grandmothers due to the fact that girls are marrying earlier? Whatever the cause we cannot help feeling sorry for the children who will never possess memories of such grandmother as marked the old time.