5 Next week the first instalment of “The White Company,” a serial story by Sir A. Conan Doyle, will appear in the Magazine Section of the’ Centre’ Democrat. nire femocrat, Part 2. r——— MAGAZINE SECTION. The BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY JUNE 7, 1906, Farm Notes, Chorce Fiction, Current Topics. —————————— - GIBSON GIRL WEDDED. MRS. NANNIE SHAW, SISTER<IN- LAW OF ARTIST, BRIDE OF WALDORF ASTOR, ne of the Five Virginia Beauties.~-A Oe Horse Woman and Fond of Exercise.—~Five Million Dollar Eng- lish Estate a Wedding Present. A “Gibson Girl” is the talk of all England, for she has married a young man of that country who is heir to an estate of more than $400,000,000. The bride is none other than Mrs. Waldorf Astor, and a sister-in-law of Charles Dana Gibson, the celebrated Amertean artist. i Mrs. Astor is one of five sisters, all natives of Virginia and belonging to a family numbered among the F.F.V's,, standing high in the aristocracy of the South, She was a Miss Nannie Lang- horne and later the¢ wife of Bobby Shaw, from whom she was divorced. All of the Langhorne sisters are re- markable beauties, paying particular attention to every detail of face and figure. A Virginia lady who knew them in their girlhood days stated that their rules of living were something like this: “Breakfast early and exercise | briskly for an hour or two. Have a luncheon and exercise again, this time riding. Luncheon again and then a long, vigorous tramp or a cross country ride to hounds, just for the pleasure of it, then a hearty supper, then a long walk In the southern twilight, and then bed.” SPLENDID WOMAN RIDER. With a strong horse beneath her, and the pack in full ery, Nannie Langhorne riding to hounds was a sight for men and gods. In the days of her girlhood, at the Deep Run, in Virginia, she was Diana stirruped, and it is no stretching of facts when one avows that men came from far afield just to see her, with her pink cheeks aglow and her fale hair loos- to Ses mond, given by Mr. Astor to his daughter-in-law, which later on Is to be reset and worn an her presentation at eourt, This historic gem belonged to Charles the Bold, the Duke of Bur- gundy, and fetched $100,000 at the sale of the Demidoff collection In 1865. It was secured by Mr. Astor some years ago from a millionaire parsee, Sir €. Jeejeebhay, for $170,000, Mr. Astor also gave one of the finest tiaras in London, (which cost more than $100,000), as well as the title deeds to Cliveden mansion and estates, with the many treasures he bas added thereto, including a magnificent suite of old Chipperne furniture, and some wonderful French china, originally from Versailles, and once the property of Empress Eugenie, The value of this latter gift probably, exceeds $5, O00, 000, It is understood @that the young people plan go. .make thelr home at Cliveden, In 1803 Mr. Astor purchased WARSHIPS NOT WANTED. “FIGHTING BOB” EVAN'S SHIPS ORDERED TO LEAVE NEW YORK HARBOR. United States Battleships and Cruisers Obstructions to Naviga- tion—Thousands of Gallons of Oll Released by Fouled Anchor. New York City In its hurry and rush of business did not seem to stop for patriotic reasons to enjoy the sight of a dozen United States warships an- chored in her harbor. The American fleet riding majestically at anchor in the North River, attracting the at- tention of thousands of sightseers, wus requested to “move on” The stalwart ©Qattleships and armored cruisers with their great length anl in command of no less a personage than — Yo CLIVEDEN MANSION ON THE BANKS OF THE THAMES. ened to the breeze, pound the sod in| 2 madcap abandon for the brush. Nothing daunted this young Virginian in the way of ditch or fence, hill or hollow, and at 16 she was famed as the most intrepid and brilliant horse- woman in her native State, Two things won for Mrs. Langhorne Shaw the heir of Willlam Waldorf Astor: the beauty of her being, when on horseback, and her bubbling Ir repressible Americanism. Young As | the beautiful country house from the Duke of Westminster and paid $1.- 200,000 for it. Cliveden Is situated In | the heart of the boating and plenicing region of the Upper Thames, OFFENDED THE POPULACE. | After acquiring it, Astor had an | opportunity to show himself more ex clusive thang the Duke of Westminster, That poteutate and all previous owners tor, when he beheld her In her glory jof the estate had allowed the common 3 || Iii i MRS. WALDORF ASTOR. One of the Five Origioal Gibson Girls caught his breath just as Bobby Shaw, her divorced husband, had done sev eral years ago In Old Virginia. And this was not strange always breathing In the compressed alr of his father's house, timid, re tiring and studious by nature, had not much opportunity for young girls’ society, and almost never that of American girls. To him Mrs, Nannle Shaw was a revelation. For seven months he wooed her, and at the end of that time he was three-fourths American and fourfourths In love, Glowing, he followed her across the Atlantle, It Is only fair to young Astor to say that he has never been so aggressively British aa his father, who spurns al most everything American, or his younger brother, John Jacob, who Is an out-and-out Englishman, EXCLUSIVE WEDDING BERVICE. The wedding, which occurred at London In May, was a very quiet af. falr, only 17 Invitations being sent out for the ceremony. The bride made the loveliest picture, standing, as It appeared, in a bed of llies and roses near the chancel. A work of art, In- deed, was her wedding gown, for It was made of the most expensive silk obtainable, adorned with rare old lace, Among the many wedding presents, the most notable was the Bancy dia Waldorf Astor, | i beople to plenie and to walk through (that part of the property lying along the river. The American millionaire threw them out and threatened them with the utmost rigors of the law. | Now that he has settled the estate on {his “son, the Inhabitants of Coukham {and Maldenhead on the Thames {surrounding hamlets—are delighted, {for they belleve that young Astor will iat once give orders for the cancel lation of the many strict orders against trespassing made by his father—orders which turned all the riverside folk in- to bitter enemies of the American millionaire, Great walls surmounted with broken glass to protect the Astor vegetable garden spoll lovely views from the public road, and anybody daring to pienie In the Cliveden woods, as In the olden days, Is at once threatened by a keeper with Imprisonment, It Is believed that young Mr. Astor, who Is very popular with rowing men. will abolish these feudal and dis tasteful regulations, ——— An Expert Opinion. “Will aleoho! dissolve sugar?” “It will,” replied Oalde Soaque; "It will dissolve gold, brick houses, and horses, and happiness, and love, Aud everything else worth having.” [ could not Rear Admiral “Fighting Bob” Evans were found to be in the way. Dis- patches from the metropolis say that the supervisor of the harbor of New York called on Admiral Evans and served a formal notice on him that the ships were taking up too much room in the-tiver, and were seriously interfering with navigation. was admitted on the asual channel taken by steamers, they anchor further account of the water, There Is probably no place In the world where the great white and buff ships of the American navy show off to better advantage than in the North River. The dozen warriors strung a long at anchor at Intervals of about #00 yards stretching from the foot of Riverside Drive at 72nd Street to Grant's Tomb at 125th Street and yond, When Prince Louls of Batten inshore on shallowness of the burg had his British armored flyers in | the New York port they were given berths In the North River and only a few weeks ago the Paul Jones French fleet was In the stream. The New York people could not be inhospitable to these fl ets on account of the Inter national aspects of things, but when the American ships arrived, waiting their turn to go to the repalr docks, they were ordered to move away and give the tug boats and scows engaged in the Hudson River trade a chance to pass, During the short stay of the fleet In | New York the battleship Illinois in dragging at anchor suddenly ripped open a Standard oll pipe line laid a eross the bed of the river. This line It seems was not chorted and no one in authority seemed to know just how or when It got there, but nevertheless the Standard Oll Company had been pumping thousands of gallons Into New York City through It every day for years. When the Illinois fouled the pipe line the officers on board the ship could not Imagine what the anchor had taken hold of until the surface of | the river became a shining mass, bright with the hues of petroleum Before the pipe line could be repaired more than 85,000 gallons of good While it | United States | vessels that they were well out in the | says Crawford was in good health and good spirits, While Mr, Crawford was in Beirut American missionaries attempted to dissuade bim from entering on the trip, and pointed out to him the great danger of the undertaking. He was firm in his resolve, however, and left on January 9th. Before departing the skater left his itinerary with Dr. Williams, an Amer- ican dentist, whose guest he was tem. porarily. Crawford's intention was to strike out over the hard road to Bag dad, which is about 600 miles from Beirut. Thence he intends going] southeast 300 miles to Bassorah, at] the mouth of the Euphrates and near | the Persian coast. He was undecided whether he would travel by land or sea over the 1,200 miles to Belooch- istan. His plans Included many excursions through Beloochistan, a journey across the Gulf to India, and a year or more in that country, He purposes to accomplish all this on money he may earn along the way. — at NEW RAIL AUTOMOBILES. Each Machine Runs Independently by Its Own Motor. The eraze of autoists to build pal ace touring cars for pleasure trips has caused railroad corporations to dabble in the novelty of motor vehicle transportation. of the unique cars that patents have been applied for are certainly freak products, ~ A car that resembles a huge steel battering ram has been completed at the shops of the Union rond, at Omaha, Neb steel structure especially design for ind run own gasolene motor, over standard gauge rails. On trial trip it de veloped a speed of forty miles an hour climbing, It is sald, a grade of 20 p« cent RACED THE STEAM CARS. It was given its first long-distance trial on April 14th, when it left Omaha as the second section of train No. 1, Some climbing grades by its SHERLOCK HOLMES, CREATION OF MOST WONDERFUL AND PUZZLING OF DETECTIVE CHARACTERS. Sketch of Discouragements of Conan Doyle to Break into the Field of Literature—Manuscript, Regularly Returned. The author of “The White Come pany,” “Bir Nigel,” “Study in Scarlet” and other Sherlock Holmes stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-—was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Mar 22, 18GH. He comes of an artistic family, and Is the grandson of John Doyle, the famous politica carleaturist, Whose plctorial sketches appeared for more than thirty wears under the initials of “H. B.,”* without disclosure of the artist's RE FCT Cha CONAN DOYLE. known as the Overland Limited {| The motor car gained on No, 1 to such extent that at Fremont, 46 miles from Omaha, the motor car was held on the block six minutes, Owing to a heavy wind and meeting trains from this time on, No. 1's schedule was not maintained; however, the total time of the motor car from Omaha to] Grand Island, 153.6 miles, was | hours and 12 minutes, with amounting tc 4 minutes on account of orders, meeting trains, ete. The adtual running time for the 10530 miles was 4 hours 32 minutes, or 34 miles per hour. There was no delay whatever ‘on account of the motor car, and the machinery was In almost con stant motion from Omaha to Grand Island. Oa the return trip April 15 the actual running time was 4 hours 10 minutes, or 363 miles per hour. From Elkhorn to South Omaha, =a distance of 24.3 miles was covered in 35 minutes, or 42 miles per hour | A maximum speed of 03 miles per | hour was attained on this trip Rallroad officials witnessing machine's trial trip expressed much gratification. Some of the officials RO even so far as to predict that the gasolene motor will nitimately revo | lutionize Interurban railroad trans- | portation. SCHEME OF VENTILATION. This machine has several new ar rangements, the most conspicuous of which Is the ventilation of the cars. | The windows are round, similar to port holes on steamships, and are alr, water and dust proof. The cars have yentrance ln the middle Instead of at the end. | The new method of ventilation falr | 1y well avoids the close and sometimes | foul atmospheric conditions so often | encountered In electric and other trans | portation cars, sufficiently so as fo predict complete success In this di rection. The vibration and noise of the engine were largely eliminated and mechanism of the car worked { splendidly on this trial run. The cars will accommodate sixty passengers each, with comfort. They have every modern convenience, and the delays | | cocity for telling stories AUTOMOBILE CAR OF UNION PACIFIC BR. R. CO. Standard oll went skimming down the Hudson Into the ocean, There appears to be no way In which the oll company ean collect for fhe petroleum thus wasted, as there Is no official chart showing the location of the line In the river bed, ~ i — Traversing Rassin on Roller Skates A caravan which recently arrived at Beirut from Bagdad reported hav Ing passed near the city of Unah about [00 miles east from there, an Ameriean named Arthur Crawford, who left that port early last mesth with the intention of woding through Asia Minor and India on in struments which he ealled road skates, The leader of the caravan fe will be devoted especially to touring parties throughout the West. The cars will be run either separately or In trains. In the latter case one ear ean easily be fitted up as a combination observation dining ear. Later on equipments for transforming the cars into palace sleepers will be lostalled. A President Believes in Exercise. President Roosevelt once rather shocked a mothers’ mating by an nouncing that a boy who wouldn't fight Was not worth hig salt. “He is either A coward or conktitutionally weak. 1 have taught my boys to take thelr own part. I do not know which I should the more punish my hove for, cruelty or flinching. Doth are abominable,” identity, 18 of in their das ntly purchased British Museum four sons, artists. His elds the fatl inother son came by hi Doyle through his signature of a with a little bird I rehed uv which may yet be seen on the cover design of Punch, Conan Doyle's education began England, where already year he exhibited a these 80 that wore they were who st son or of the was Richard nickname was f ’ % of pon it in wonderful pre. fut even at the early age of six the future novelist and creator of Sherlock Holmes was anticipated In a story of terrible ad venture, written in a bold hand on foolscap paper, four words to the line nied with original HHustrations w and nace Oompa and-ink “There n and a tiger In It,” he says of this infantile effort: “1 forget which was the but it didn't m ——— pen- as n her “ in his tenth atter much, for they became | blended Into one about the time when the tiger met the man. I was a realist in the age of the romanticists, I described at some length, both yerb- ally and pictorially, the untimely end of that wayfaring man. But when the tiger had absorbed him, I found my- self slightly embarrassed as to how my story was to go on. ‘It is very easy to get people Into scrapes and very hard to get them out again,’ was my sage comment on the difficulty; and I have often had cause to repeat this precocious aphorism of my child. hood. Upon this occasion the situa- tion was beyond me, and my book, | lilke my man, was engulfed in my | tiger.” | At Stonyhurst, and also at Feld- { kirch, In Germany, Doyle's literary inclination wad shown In the editors | ship of school magazines, In 1876 he { returned to Edinburgh and took up the study of medicine at the univers- ity there, where he remained until he obtained his diploma, five years later, In 1880 Dr. Doyle left the university to make a seven-months' trip to the Arctic seas as unqualified surgeon on board a whaler. There was very little demand for surgery aboard the Hope, and he has described his chief occu- pation during the voyage as being em. ployed in keeping the captain In cut tobacco, working In the boats after fish, and teaching the crew to box. He utilized his experience later in his story, “The Captain of the Polester.” | Two later, In 1882, after a | four-months’ voyage to the west coast of Africa, he settled down as a med- ical practitioner at Southsea, in Eng- land, where he remained until 18060, Those were arduous and trying years, in which he car to regard the calls had adopted as ions in the real work of his found that the writing of was a very slender prop upon hich to lean for a livelihood. “Fifty ittle cylinders of manuscript,” be ys, “did send out during eight years, which described a regular orbit among publishers, and usually came like paper boomerangs, to the ce that they had started from.” All this time he was writing aneny- { mously, and during the ten years of |! literary apprenticeship, he states | 1 ! | | VOears ne he profession he rm W nN hat, In spite of unceasing and untir- ng literary effort, he never in any one Year earned fifty pounds by his pen. Then, in 1887, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual a story from his pen called “A Study in Scarlet” It is a nificant point in the author's career, for In this story Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance. It was | published later in a book form, and | went forth as his first novel, and me {| mediately began to attract attention. Under these favoring circumstances he undertook the writing of “Micah Clarke.” It was completed after a year's reading and five months’ writ- and represented the most am- bitious and hopeful work the author had yet accomplished. But It came back to him from one publishing house after another, until be began to des- pair of its acceptance. “I remember,” he says, “smoking over my dog-eared | manuscript when jt returned for a whiff of country air, and wondering Continued on soond page, colame twa. Ny { INE, JUST PUBLISHED A POPULAR EDITION OF ‘THE COMING PEOPLE’ BY CHARLES F. 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