Cap and Bells By CASPAR JOHNSON. Copyrighted, 1909, by Associated Literary Treaa. Ferrol's experience with women had .been limited. Had It been otherwise he would never have been beating up the coast in the teeth of a ris ing gale with night coming on and his sailing master casting an anxious eye, now aloft at the straining rigging, now to the eastern horizon, where tho dun gray cloud bank grew hourly more om inous. The big white yacht made heavy weather of It under her four reefs. She stuck her nose into every sea and sent the water flying over her wind ward rail In a manner that drenched every man on her deck. "Better put into Indian bay," the sailing master suggested. Ferrol, standing by the after rail, grunted something tlint the sailing master took for acquiescence, for he gave a terse order to the man at the wheel. The yacht came about with a rattle and banging that shook her from stem to stern and went careening shoreward. Ferrol watched the ragged blue black outline of the shore grow more pronounced as they neared It. Pres ently they were threading their way PKBBOI, TO KB IT OPEN AND HEAD. through the score of rocky little is lands behind which lay the quieter water of Inland bay. Although tho wind was screaming through the rigging and the great seas that rushed past them were flecked -with an angry white foam, he was loath to run for shelter. This combi nation of wild water and wilder wind suited his mood admirably. As far as be was concerned person ally, he was willing to take his chances of riding It out or sinking, it mattered but little one way or the other to him. Still, he had no right to sacrifice the sailing master and the men because a woman had made a fool of bim. He drew out a fresh cigar and lighted it from the stump of the one he had Just consumed. She had made a fool of him. There | was no doubt about that. She had led liim on and on—hltn, John Barrows Ferrol, the conservative, the man who had always vaunted that he was im mune from the wiles of woman, and then she had tossed him aside calmly like any toy that had lost Its novelty. He chewed his mustache nervously and swore under his breath. What sort of spell had she cust over bim? He ought to hate ber, yet In his in most heart he knew that even uow he loved her with all the intensity of his j nature. : The little Islands slipped past one by j one. The yacht ceased her wild plung ing and entered the quiet wate- of the bay sedately. A few sharp orders from the sailing master and the sails came, rattling down and the anchor was dropped with a clatter of cable. Before them the shore was dotted with twinkling lights that shone cheer fully through the murky gloom of the gray twilight. The rain was begin ning to fall In long, slanting lines. 1 Ferrol still stood by the rail, srnok- i Ing and absorbed in his own bitter thoughts. He would send her a message. He would not let her know how deeply he was hurt, but he would let her know that he understood now the whole Im port of their little affair. Ho turned to the sailing master, who was prepar ing togo below. "Order the gig lowered, Mr. Mc- Graw," he said tersely. "I'm going ashore." ( During that pull shoreward Ferrol was turning over In his mind the mes sage ho would send, and from some where In the archives of his memory came a quotation from Sir Launt&l that fitted his needs to a nicety. It set him smiling angrily as he sat >Q the stern sheets of tho gig, the tiller copes In either hand. He landed at the little pier and splashed throngh the mud and rain to 3ie nearest hotel. At the telegraph I lesk he filled out a blank: tflea Annette V. Morley, Hotel Jackaon. , Wanona Beach: r or a cap and bells our Uvea we pay. 1 -3ubblea we buy with a whole BOUI'B task- < lnff. i Then be went back to the yacht, imoked awhile, pacing the wet, dreary leek, and finally went below. He umbled onto a wide leather seat that an the length of the cabin and wen* < >vor it all again and again—their valks, their drives, their little quarrels, 1 he happiness that had been his until ' hat last bitter night—until at Inst. ' soothed by the monotonous of the rain, he fell Into a dozS He was awakened by a UaH from the darkness outside. The light was burn ing dimly. The brass chronometer above the chart locker showed that it was nearly midnight. He hurried to the deck and found a launch cbaflng alongside. "This the Alfrlda?" cried a voice In the launch. I "Yes. What is It?" ) "Mr. Ferrol aboard?" "I am Mr. Ferrol." "Telegram for you, sir," said a man. scrambling aboard and handing him a yellow envelope, which was addressed, "Mr. J. B. Ferrol, Yacht Alfrlda, In dian Bay." Ferrol tore It opeu and read "Better read the next line." That was all, save the beading, "Hotel Jackson, Wanona Beach." He stood there for a moment frown ing in puzzled fashion. Then, like a flash, the text of that next line came to him, " 'Tls heaven alone that Is given away." "Any answer, sir?" asked the walt ' lug man. Ferrol seemed suddenly aware of his presence. "Eh? No. Hold on a minute, . though. Is there any train out of here before morning? I've got to get to Wanona Beach at once. One at 12.40, , you say? Walt just a minute till I have a word with Mr. McOraw. and then set me ashore, will you?" Ten minutes later the Pilling master stood by the rail the launch chugging shoreward through the dark ness. As ho started togo below again he saw the sheet of yellow telegraph paper lying on the deck. He picked it up and read it. "That next line, whatever It is, must be a corker," he chuckled as he went down the companlonway. THE MATTERHORN. Its Pointed Peak and the Wonderful View It Unfolda. There are very few Alpine peaks so pointed as the Matterliorn Some—as. for Instance, Mont Blanc—are merely large lumps of frozen snow, but the Mstterhorn Is quite pointed and thin, composed of a ridge formed by a per pendicular wall of rock on one side and a very steep rocky slope on the other, a slope which after going a few yards at an incline breaks off sharp Into a precipice. When on the top. therefore, one Is absolutely perched up between heaven and earth. Never before have I seen so much space around and below me. It Is wonderful. Immense, unreal. The panorama unfolded to the eyes is a su perb one, an inextricable mass of peaks—Rosa, the Breithorn, the Coin bin. Mont Blanc, the Jungfrau and others. There at our feet lies Zermatt. seemingly a tiny toy village, where we can imagine the tourists paying their franc to the telescope man to look at us. These good folk do not dream of the great difficulty we have in keep lng our feet because of the wind. Alas, it Is so cold and the position such a precarious one that about ten minutes after our arrival we are com pelled to turn our steps toward the descent, which on the Alps Is much more to be dreaded than the ascent- Wide World Magazine. Near, but Net Quite. Mrs. Fitznoodle had two "stars" at her great social gathering—Herr Schpuntz, the great, If unknown, pian ist from the fatherland, and Dr. Bump feller, the world famed, if fake, phre nologist "Listen." said Mrs. F. Just before the latter entered the room. "1 am go ing to let the professor feel Herr Pchpuntz's bumps. He Is a wonder. I iil wager anything he'll be able to tell that Ilerr Schpuntz is a musician." Excitement ran high. Dr. Bump feller entered and began playing a live finger exercise that would have done credit to Schpuntz himself on the mu sician's classic cranium. "Here," he began, "here—ahem!—ls a practical business man, a man of great common sense, with no nonsense about him. No wasteful arts for bim! No wonderlngs In the realms of fancy! No dreamer of— He caught the hostess' pleading eye. She was playing scales upon her lap. He winked a blissfully unconscious wink. But his breathless audience missed It! "Ah," he concluded, "this gentleman Uves by the skill of his hands. 1 should say that he Is one of the most expert tincwrltera In the kingdom!"— Surpriaed Her. A gentleman who had spent the greater portion of bis life In Canada relates an amusing experience which befell him. He had been on u hunting expedition for several days In the backwoods, roughing It rather severely, and on taking a seat in a railway train re turning homeward he looked as be grimed and weather beaten a trapper as ever brought his skins Into a set tlement. He happened to find a seat next to a young lady, evidently belonging to Boston, who, after taking stock of him for a few minutes, reninrked: "I >on*t yon find an utterly passlon ful sympathy with nature's mountains aud the dim aisles of the horizon touching forests, my good man?" "oh, yes," replied the apparent back woodsman, "and also I am frequently drawn Into an exaltation of rapt soul fulness and beatific incandescent In finity of abstract contiguity when my horse stumbles." "Indeed!" said the young lady, much surprised. "I had no Idea the lower classes felt like that."—Chicago Rec ord-llerald. Palace of Stone Reaembling Amber. The czar's new palace at Llvadla, In the Crimea. Russia, will be a wonder fully beautiful building. It will be built entirely of Balnklava stone, which when polished resembles pure amber, giving buildings ot which It Is constructed a falry-llke appearance. The palace will be completed In 1012. c Long Drawn Out. Judge—What is your name? Pris oner—J. J. j. ,|. John Jones. Judge— Wby do you have so many J's in your ] name? Prisoner—The preacher who i christened me stuttered, sir.—London ! Answers. PLANS OF CHILD CONFERENCE. Effort to Provide a Central Source ot Information. NATIONAL SOCIETY ORGANIZED Worker* In Different but Allied Fields Will Be Brought Together at Big Meeting In Worceater, Maae.—Or ganization and Increaaad Efficiency Demanded. The second general meeting of the Na tional Child Couferenco Kor Research and Welfure Is being planned for the last days of June and early July. This meeting will be at Worcester. Mass., where the conference came Into existence nearly a year ago. Leaders In various forms of effort for the bet terment of Juvenile citizens will ad dress the sessions. The conference will last Ave days. This organization aims to be a central clearing house for Information and for definite action for the welfare of children in all depart ments. Instead of taking some one phase of child nature, such as garden ing or playgrounds or health, the con ference regards the coming citizen as a unit and attends to the unit's needs ill their relation to one another and to the community. Speaking on this peculiarity of the organization, Henry S. Curtis, the sec retary, said that thirty-three child helping organizations were represent ed at the first meeting In July, 1009. "It Is expected that there will be a still more general representation this year," he added. "At these meetings matters of general Interest are dis cussed and methods that might apply to different fields are considered. It Is the purpose of the conference to bring the different organizations closer together, so that there may be less wasted and misguided effort. "We all know the results of organi zation hi the commercial world and the increased business eilit-loncy that fol lows. We want to secure some such results for philanthropic movements. We want to make it easy far various kinds of social workers in different but allied fields to become acquainted with each other, with each other's troubles and methods, and to provide them with a central source of lnforma tlon aud assistance when needed. Plan For Centralization. "Further, this centralizing Idea Is going to offer the general public an easy way to keep In touch with prog ress la the whole field, la these busy days not many men or women have time to look into the work of hun dreds of organizations scattered all over tho United States. But when we get a central clearing bouse—call It a 'philanthropy trust' If you Ilk*— then any iiersou can find out with not much trouble what is being done in any glv en line of effort." Another benefit aimed at In this unity of purpose Is ilia bringing together of the scientific studentF aud the prac tical workers The theorists and the field workers have not always ad vanced in step. The conference In tends to assist each class to under stand the other and thus benefit the general purpose for which both are striving by different but equally Im portant methods. The Child Conference has Its eyes fixed on Washington and wants some day to secure a federal children's bureau. Resolutions have already been adopted favoring bills fore congress for that purpose. "The time lias come, in this opinion ot this ((inference," a last year's resolu tiou rati, "when all eAorta for the amelioration of ihe conditions ol child hood of a charitable and philanthropic nature should be based upon uud so far as practicable guided by the re sults of scientific child study, and ouiy thus may the various lines tie given a wore scientific and workers a more professional character." In other words, this organization In tends to kill off a lot of haphazard work that has been going on with tho avowed purpose of helping cblldreo and substitute work that Is more in telllgently directed and more bene ficial to those who do It.to those who are the subjects and likewise to those who support It by money or personal Interest. A National Organization. Dr. G. Stanley Hall. president of Clark university, who Is also presi dent of the Child Conference, approves this sort of conservation of organized energy. There is "a crying need to correlate" tile societies of the country, says he. "We could present an Inter esting list of overlapping and lack of co-ordination. Rome committee of a general scope which would not be local or connected with any one Institution and which could also comprise and make contact with and have every one of the child welfare societies rep resented on It—that is the thing that we chiefly desire." To get at its work the Child Confer ence has established a national organ lzatlon, which will meet In Worcester, Mass., June 28 to July 2, Inclusive. It Is planned to have local conferences In various centers throughout the Gnited States which will attend to unifying local organizations and Interests for local purposes A start has already been made in this direction A local conference haß been organized lb Worcester. Treaiure Trunk. Wllliatn Siegfried of Yonkers, N. Y., heir to the Radenbach estate at Bern vllle, near Reading. Pa., while examin ing the old farmhouse the other day discovered a cheat containing SO,OOO In cash. The greater part of the money was In coin. There were boxes filled with quarters and halves, and other boxes contained gold pieces ranging from $1 to S2O. Besides, there wero piles of twenty dollar bills. It was nevef suspected that there was money ; In the house, and it is thought there j may be more hidden about the farm. HIS REVENGE, A Man Was First Ruined, Then Made Rich In a Peculiar Way. By WILLARD BLAKEMAN. ICopyrlght, 1910, by American Press Asso ciation.] John Emsley aud Peter Fogg were two young men in the wool business in LoudoD. Emsley was a fine, open hearted man, who preferred to do business on generous principles, while Fogg was a shaver. Emsley, being of a speculative turn of mind, took risks, lost aud got him self Involved financially. Ue had done Ills partner many favors, indeed. Fogg was indebted to him for all he waa. Emsley therefore looked to Fogg to help him out. lie owed Fogg a thou sand pounds, but looked to hlin not ouly to give him time on the amount, but lend him money to tide him over with his other creditors. Fogg not ouly declined to lend, but forced Ems ley Into bankruptcy on his owu claim. A week after Emsley hud been ruined there was a change In* the wool mar ket that would have made him rich. Emsley went to Australia, where he endeavored to recoup, but luck was against him, and nothing that he touched brought him money. He sank lower aud lower in worldly goods till at last, being discouraged and having a fancy for the water, he turned fisher man. He never forgot Fogg's Ingratitude, constantly brooding over the many substantial favors he had done Fogg and the fact that when the turning point of his own life came and n little assistance was needed the man he had made unmade him. lie lived in a cab in by himself on oue of the points that inclose Sydney harbor. He would be out all day on the water and while waiting for fish to take his hook would think how delightful it would be could he be revenged on Fogg—not that he ever seriously considered such revenge as possible; It was a sort of monomania with him. One uigbt after going to sleepy his mind given over to these desires for revenge, he dreamed that be waa out on the bay and was pulling In a large fish. He bad much trouble landing it, but when be did so and cut it open he found within lta belly an enormous i diamond. He was familiar with the LOOKING UP PROM HIS DESK, UK SAW BIS OLD PAIITXEH. slie of the famous diamonds of the world and knew that this one of his dream was worth a great fortune. "I will sell it,"he said, "goto Lon don and use it to revenge myself on Fogg." lie awoke with the disappointment usual to persons who have had delight ful dreams that have turned out to be J dreams only. Going out on the water I us usual during the day. a shark swal- j lowed the bait ou one of his lines. Ho I killed the shark and was about to cut I his line that the fish might drift away wheu he remembered bis dream. Yielding to an Impulse, be towed the shark ashore and cut him open. In bis stomach be found a London newspa per. Taking it luto his cabin, he dried it and that night before going to bed opened its sheets to read the news from borne. Uu the first page he saw In large letters the words: "War declared between France and Germany." There was tben no cable to Austra lia, and this shark had brought the news faster than the steamer carrying the mall that would doubtless soon arrive. Where had the shark swal lowed the paper? That the shark It self only knew. Possibly It had been thrown overboard from a ship that had received it at a port where it had been seut by rail. It did not require a long time for Kinsley to see in this news that he alone possessed the diamond of bis dream. When the next steamer arrlv ed with It the price of wool would take an enormous Jump. Emsley weut to a wealthy wool dealer whom be knew and told him the story of the shark, withholding the news found In the paper, but asserting Its impor tance. "When the next steamer arrives," be said, "tbe price of wool will un dergo au important change for. tbe bet ter or worse. Agree to buy or sell as I direct and pay me 78 per cent of your profits and 1 will produce my newspaper." Tbe merchant stood for better terms, but Emaley threatened to take the matter to another, and ail would ruin him. Wben the exchange closed with 600 bid for tbe stock and none offered Fogg went home know ing that ho would not be able to keep his agreement. In other words, he was a ruined man. The next morning Emsley appeared at Fogg's office. Fogg looked up at blm, tben bent bis eyes again to the floor. "You would like some Excelsior stock, 1 suppose?" Emsley remarked unconcernedly. Fogg looked at blm again, but did not speak. "How many shares have you sold?" asked Emsley. attorney was called In who wrote a contract between the two men. Then Kinsley produced his paper, uiul tho merchant bought up the season's clip, averaging 0 pence per pound. The very next day a steamer arrived with the news of war between France and Germany. Wool Jumped in price and continued to rise till It reached 3 Shil lings, when the wool purchased under the contract was sold. The transac tion cleared for Emsley £3,000,000. A few months later Mr. Fogg was sitting in his office in London. lie had sold out his wool business which he had formerly owned in partnership with Emsley for a handsome sum and had become what is commonly called a scalper on the stock exchange, buy ing odd lots of stock and selling them for a very small profct. booking up from his desk, he saw his old partner Emsley looking at him. Fogg was an older n;an than Ems ley, and since their parting his hair had whitened. There had been uj quarrel between the two men. Indeed, Emsley liad never utter.»d a word of reproach to his partner. Fogg stretch ed out ills hand, and Emsley took It. though he did not grnsp It heartily. "I've come back," he said, "with a few pounds to make a new start." Fogg, who had always regretted his action in precipitating his partner's failure, offered him what little assist ance was in his power and asked him to come to his house and renew his acquaintance with his family. "Is your little daughter Gladys there?" asked Emsley. "Little! Gladys is a woman, nine teen years old." "Oh, I forgot!" replied Emsley. "I remember her as a child who used to sit on my lap with her arms about my neck." Emsley had Imposed a condition of secrecy on the wool dealer in Austra lia as to his connection with the trans action that liad made them both rich and was known to his friends in Lon don as a poor man. lie was still thirsting for revenge upon his formef partner. One day he remarked to Fogg that stock of the Excelsior Gold Min ing company of Australia that was selling at a very high figure on tho exchange was worthless. Emsley said that h« had lived in the region of th« mine and there waa no gold there. Fogg, seeing a chance to make money when the bubble should burst, sold a large number of shares to be delivered In the future, Intending to buy them wbeu they were selling for a song and make the difference In price. The shares of the Excelsior Mining company, notwithstanding the tip giv en Mr. Fogg by his former partner, continued to advance. Emsley advised his partner to sell morv. "The higher the price the greater will be the fall," he said. And so Fogg continued to sell while the price continued to rise. The speculator began to grow uneasy. It was rumored that there was no Excel sior stock for sale. Fogg had agreed to deliver his shares on a certain date, and If he could not buy them to de liver he would have togo Into bank ruptcy. He did not know that the man ho had ruined had them all lock ed up In his vault Emsley had shrunk from visiting tbe family of the man he proposed to ruin. He had put off his appearance at Fogg's home until Fogg showed that ho noticed his virtual refusal of hospi tality, then made the call. Crimea have been committed for lore, but many a hand has been stay ed by the same cause. Indeed, by love the world has been drawn from bar barism. Emsley was Deceived by Gladys Fogg. When he saw her ad vancing toward him with outstretched hand, a smile an her lips, a warm wel come in her eyes, his scheme of venge ance tumbled like castles in the air. Gladys was the only being from whom before leaving England he had re ceived any evidence of affection. The difference of many years then be tween them had melted away now that she was a young woman, be a middle aged man. In the soul that came out to him throng... the stnlln | and the eye he saw something to make i life worth living. One day there was an exciting scene |on the exchange. The price of Ex ' eelslor gold mining stock was going up l ten or twenty points with every bid. Fogg had contracted to deliver the shares he had sold the next nwrulng. To pay the market price for them Fogg named the number of shares. Emsley took a fat envelope from his pocket aud threw It on Fogg's desk. Fogg opened It. took out a number oX stock certificates, looked at several of them, then turned lit* eyes Inquiringly on Enislev. "Use what you need of them." said Emsley. "t«> make your deliveries to day: tomorrow the bubble will burst." Fogg uiet his contracts with the stock lent lii-u and when tin- col lapse came tile next day purchased what he hid sold, clearing a hand some proiit. When Emsley appeared under his true colors as a multimillionaire Fogg called on him to speak his gratitude for what Ue could not understand. "Your thanks are not due to me," said Emsley. "but to the little girl Whom we both love." The Best Kiteflier In Town. Some years ago there died In Ne braska n man named Walsh, who, as a buy, started a suspension bridge. When Walsh was about ten years old the first steps for the construction of the suspension bridge at Niagara were taken. The first thing necessary was the stretching of a single wire across the chasm. The engineer in charge bad thought of a way to get it across. "What boy la the best kltelller In town?" he asked. Tho Walsh boy was named as the best kiteflier in the town of Niagara Falls, and the engineer accordingly asked that be be brought to him. lie was made to understand that he must fly his kite across the Niagara river, lie flew It across and allowed It to come down on the other side. Men wero there to seize It. Then the en gineer attached a wire to the string on his side, and the men on the other side detached the kite and by means of tho string drew the wire across. By this, in turn, a cable was drawn across, and the bridge was well begun.—Har per's Weekly. The power of applying attention to a single subject Is the sure mark of a superior genius.- -Chesterfield. +o*o«o*o*o+o»«a+o*o+o'eo+d4 0 § Hughes' § Rise In ♦ ---■«-•»■■*• * 1 Five Years| o ♦oeoSoeo#oeo4»o#o»o#o*oeo» FIVE years ago a comparatively unknown lawyer, today select ed a member of the highest Judiciary body In the land this is the span crossed In that time by Charles Evans Hughes, governor of New York, who will resign that of fice to take on Oct. 10 the place in the United States supreme court made va cant by the death of Justice Brewer. "Hughes? Who Is Hughes?" people were inquiring when be first came Into prominence. The country quick ly found out, his work filling columns . In the press of the nation, and be has been talked of frequently as a strong candidate for the presidency. Up to 1905 he was little known outside of New York city. He had never been a politician. He had never Joined in campaign work. He was simply a hard headed, hardworking lawyer of moderate practice. In that year came the gas Investiga tion in New York. The legislature decided to look Into the charges of ex tortion by the gas and electric lighting companies, and the committee appoint ed employed Mr. Hughes for Its legal Inquisitor. The results were astound ing—to the gas companies. Next came the life insurance scandal. Again this hardworking, clear brained lawyer who had so great a genius for figures was called to the task. Again the re sults were astounding. Jnst as the Insolently Inclined gas barons had been taken down by this keen minded law yer, Just so the haughty life Insurance magnates were humbled. These in vestigations attracted worldwide atten tion, and the work made Mr. Hughes a figure of national prominence. After copyright by Q. Prince. CHARLIES EVAN'S HUSHES. the nomination of William It. Hearst for the governorship by tbo Independ ence league and the Democratic party the nomination of Mr. Hughes was urged as the only chauce of a Repub lican victory In the state. Mr. Hughes accepted the nomination and was olect ed. After his election Governor Hughes made a state Issue of the question of race track gambling and secured the passage of laws prohibiting it. He also obtained a law creating the public service commissions. He was re-elect ed in 1008 after a campaign in which he was opposed by Lieutenant Gover nor Lewis Stuyvesaut Chanler. The principal reform advocated by Gov-1 ernor Hughes during his second terra was the system of direct nominations. And now as to Hughes the man and his early career. governor in ap pearance Is not robust. He is about five feet ten Inches In height, with a slight but well proportioned figure His forehead, which Is high and rather narrow, Indicates intellectuality in a high degree. His blue eyes are wide apart uud deep set. Ue has a trick of allowing the lids to drop until they half cover the eyeball, which gives him an expression of anything bul alertness. At the same time he devi talizes his features in the same man nor adopted by a poker player who wishes to hide his emotions. His mouth is large, and his lips are full, and behind them are large, regular white teeth shaded by a heavy mus tache and short, thick beard. Mr. Hughes graduated from Brown university in 1881 and, inclined to en ter the field of education, made many applications for the position of teacher in various institutions of learning. For a year he taught Greek and math ematics at the Delaware academy in Delhi, N. Y., and then in 1882 went to New York and entered the Columbia Law school, from which be was grad uated in June, 1884, and was admit ted to the bar that same year. He taught la\v at Cornell university from 1891 to 18U3 and then began to prac tice law in New York city. lie was senior member of the firm of Hughes, Rounds & Schurmuu when he first ran for governor. In his first campaign Mr. Hughes was only a moderately good speaker Now he is regarded as one of the • blest, most effective speakers in pub lie life. His one hobby Is the law. He can get endless amusement out of wrestling with Intricate legal prob lems. Those who know him intimat* iy say he Is one of the soundest law yers In the country. For Hiram Cronk Memorial. Mrs. C. L. Morehouse of 301 ttr Thirtieth street. New York, has in dertaken the collection of funds t> erect a monuineut In memory of lllrain Cronk, the last survivor of the war ot 1812, who died five years ngo at the age of 105 at Ava. N. Y.. and was burled with military honors In Cypress Hills cemetery, Brooklyn Rottand May C row Now. The Society For the Protection of A alma is at i'arls has awarded a grand diploma to Ldmond Rostand for writ Ing "Chantedor." A BROKEN E?!GAGE?*EfiT. The Romance That Kept Charles Vll liers Single All His Life. Charles Vllliers, loug the "father of the house of commons." never mar ried, but he was the hero of a ro mance which Is described In the "Reminiscences and Correspondence of Mme. Olga Norikoff" us having lasted all bis life. Vllliers was once ou the eve of mar* rylng a very rich spinster. The lady, however, wue Imprudent enough on* day to say to her fiance that sho knew very well he only wanted to marry her money and uot herself. Vllliers' arlstncrutlc dignity mani fested itself He took hltpjiat. bowed to the lady and said that after that' remark there could be no more ques tion of marriage between them. Off he went. Strangely enough, the deserted spin ster spent the next thirty years In try ing In vain to see him to make up. He never came near her or gave her a ehanoe of coming near him. "And do you know," remarked Lady Gilbert, who told me the story, "she still lovss him and cherishes his memory." "Oh, that is charming! Quite a ro mance!" I exclaimed. "Tell the lady to lunch wit h me tomorrow." We were acquainted. "Charles Vllliers is com ing." Lady Gilbert delivered my message. The two old people met at my hotel, after which the lady humbly asked Charles Vllliers to call on her. He ac cepted the Invitation. When we wera alone together sho said: "Do you know, Mtue. Norikoff. he Is not in tha least altered after all these years. Ha Is exactly the same In looks and man ners." Of that, of course. 1 could have n<» opinion. But surely thirty years be fore the old Charles Vllliers was nei ther half bent nor half blind. How ever, the old time friendship was re newed and lasted until the lady'i» death a few years later. She left him the greatest part of her very great fortune. Charles Villler* became very rich In money, but un fortunately he was then very rich In. years also Praise For American Chorus Girl. The American chorus girl Is stj. preme, according to Julian Mitchell, Stage director for Florence Zlegfeld, Who returned to New York recently from Europe. "My principal mission Ingoing to the other side," be said, "was to gath er one chorus girl from each of the large cities of Europe. 1 wanted the best In each place I went as far as St. Petersburg, but 1 did not meet with success. 1 saw but few who would compare with the American girl and none to surpass her. The girls are wanted for the new "Follies of 1910.' The music of the new piece, which is to be presented in June, fci being writ ten by Paul Llncke of Berlin. I closed the contract with him several weeks ago." To pity distress Is but human; to r®. lieve it U godlike.—Mann. Night Blindness. Inability to see by day is matched by the commoner night blindness whlcb most of us have known in friend or relative. This defect, which Include® an Inability to see even by artificial light, is congenital with some people and never overcome. It is often he reditary. It may also be caused, how ever, by long exposure to an overbright light, coupled with fatigue. A strange story is told concerning a ship's crew two centuries ago which were over come by night blindness so extreme that their captain was obliged to fore* a fight with a Spanish privateer dur ing the day, knowing that by night his men would be helpless. In order ta J obviate this difficulty for future occa sions he ordered each sailor to keep one eye bound during the daytime, discovering, to his gratification, that this eye, having rested, was then freo of the defect. The sailors were very amusing In their efforts to retain the bandage well over the eye that must be ready for nl;;ht duty, and s< > a method of modifying this trouble was discovered— London Strard Magazine. The Attorney In England. The use of- the word attorney de notes a belated mind. Since Nov. 1, 1875, uttorneys IMVO ceased to exist, their title merged by law Into that ot solicitor of the supreme court of Judi cature, says a writer in the London Mall. The name had long been usedl as a term of abuse. Johnson observed of an acquaintance that "he did not care to speak 111 of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentle man was an attorney." Archbishop Trench, In 1859, noted that the word attorney was going out of favor and that tho lower branch o t the legal profession preferred to b« called solicitors. So when the Judi cature act of 1573 was before parlia ment a clause was inserted abolishing the obnoxious title. But with our de lightful conservatism we still honot the "attorney general." HI HEW! A R.ellal9l« TIN SHOP r»r all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlnsr ind General Job Work. Stoves, Heaters. RanfM, Furnaces, eto- PRICES TUB LOWEST! QGILIT! TIB ERST,' IOHN HlXSOi* NO. 11» E. FBONT ST.
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