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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1011.
PREMIER STOLYPIN.
Czar's First Minister
Who May Resign Office.
Jw4 ;
St Petersburg, July 6. According to
the Bourse Gazette, Premier Stolypln
la 111, having become overfutlgued by
state duties. Berlin doctors have ad
vised the prime minister to tako an
extended nnd complete rest
It Is reported that M. Stolypln will
retire from ofDco and, with his family,
take the cure at Elster Bad, Germany.
CROPS ENDANGERED.
A Hundred Missouri Counties Are In
Peril From Lack of Rain.
Kansas City, Mo., July 0. Kansas,
Oklahoma and Missouri crops are suf
fering from the hot dry weather. Ap
proximately 100 of the 114 counties in
Missouri are greatly In need of rain.
A report Issued by T. O. Wilson, sec
retary of the Missouri board of agri
culture, declares that with plenty of
rain from now on an immense yield
of corn Is assured, but that If the
drought continues the crop will be
rained.
The wheat harvest is unusually ear
ly. The preliminary estimate on yield
Is 14.8 bushels an acre; last year, 13.2.
The drought has virtually ruined the
oats crop, says the report, and nearly
all now clover and timothy are dead.
The potato crop Is almost a failure.
The state cstimato on fruit Is 51 per
cent of normal.
FLIES OVER LONDON.
Aviator Ptartles Parliament and Cir
cles St. Paul's.
London, July 0. After Lord Lans
downe's amendment to the veto bill
was passed by the house of lords by a
vote of 253 to 40 a nolso like tho
whirling of a giant rattle summoned
the i)eers Into the street. They saw
an aeroplane encircling tho parliament
buildings. The members of tho house
of commons also heard tho noise and
joined the peers.
Aviator Gllmour, risking a suspen
sion of his aviator's ticket by Hying
over a town, contrary to the rules of
tie Aero club, went around St Paul's
steeple and thence returned to Brook
lands. It was tho first aeroplane flight over
London.
OUTBREAK IN LISBON.
Severe Fighting In Streets by Mon
archists Reported.
London, July 0. A dispatch from
Badajos, Spain, that purports to be a
relay from Lisbon that escaped the
censor asserts there has been a mon
archical outbreak in Lisbon and severe
fighting In the streets.
Seamen from tho barracks are said
to have revolted at tho instigation of
royalist agitators.
The populace, armed with revolvers
and knives, fell on sailors until tho
garrison was called out. After n sharp
conflict tho mutineers were quelled.
The city Is reported to bo In a state of
extreme panic, and the government Is
rigidly censoring all telegrams sent
from Lisbon.
BOXBOARD MEN PLEAD.
Score Deny Guilt and Are Released on
$1,000 Bail.
New York, July 0. A score or more
members of the Bosboard association,
recently Indicted on the charge of con
spiracy to restrain trade, entered pleas
of not guilty In tho United States
circuit court and have uatll July 25 to
change their pleas.
They were released In $1,000 bail
each.
Quite Likely,
"I wonder "when the first surgical
operation was performed."
"I suppose It was In Adam's time.
When ho had his fall ho must havo
troken something." New York Press.
The Weather.
Sunshine Is delicious, rain is refresh
ing, wind braces up, snow Is exhila
rating; there Is really no such thing as
bad woather only different kinds of
good weather. John Buskin.
His Lesson.
"But you silly boy, if I married you
with your means yoti couldn't even
dress me."
"Porhaps with a few lessons I could
learn." Exchange.
DEGREES FOR VETERANS.
vVesleyan Honors Men Who Quit Col
lege to Go to War.
The Wesloyan university at lilddlo
town, Conn., paid tribute nt this year's
nnnual eominencemenf exercises to
four of her sons who fifty years ago
threw down their books at the outbreak
of the civil war to enlist In the Union
army and thus failed to win their di
plomas. They got the regular bachelor
degree which they would have receiv
ed had they remained In college and
been graduated with their class.
This action was ordered by a unani
mous vote of the trustees.
The men thus honored are Major
Samuel I. Hatfield of New York, Brig
adier General Samuel M. Mansfield of
Boston. Dr. Benjamin P. Cheney of
New Haven and Henry B. Brown of
East Hamilton, Conn., all of whom en
listed In the Wesloynu guards, a part
nf the Fourth Connecticut volunteers.
STRANGELY BLINDED.
Reflection of Lightning In Mirror De
Drives Millionaire's Son of Sight
Henry Adams of Atlantic City hap
. pened to glance Into a mirror during a
i severe storm and saw tho reflection of
'a vivid flash of lightning. Instantly
lie fell to the floor unconscious,
i When revived It was found that
Adams was totally blind. A delicate
operation was performed on him In
the hope that the paralyzed optic
nerves could be restored to usefulness.
The operation failed, and It Is believed
Adams will be blind for life.
Adams' mother once was struck by
lightning, nnd In his youth she always
cautioned liim to close windows during
a storm. He wns doing this when the
lightning flash came.
Twenty-tour years old, Adams Is the
son of a millionaire owner of board
walk bathhouses.
The Brazil Nut Tre.
In tho district watered by tho river
Amazon are many varietlefl of trees,
the most important being the Brazil
nut tree, sometimes 100 to 130 feot in
height, with horizontal branches, the
ends of which hang like great ropes.
Tho smooth cylindrical trunk has a
circumference of twelve to seventeen
feet at a height of fifty feet from
tho ground. The evergreen elongated
leaves, made tough by nature to with
stand the tropical heat of tho region,
give the tree an attractive appearance,
enhanced In the flowering season by
largo bunches of yellow blossoms
growing like ears of corn. After the
flowering tho fruit Is formed in the
shape of fairly large seed vessels, com
monly called pods, which vary In size
and contain from fifteen to tvventy
nuts, closely adhering. In similar man
ner to the sections of an orange. The
pods incasing the nuts are about half
an inch thick and so hard that the
wheels of a heavy cart might pass
over them without causing breakage
To remove tho nuts tho native Indians
use a peculiarly sliapcd knife.
Her Fan.
It is the custom In Paris for the cook
to do all tho marketing. This adds
considerably to the cook's income, for
every dealer allows her 5 centimes
(1 cent) on every franc (or 20 cents)
sho spends. So French cooks insist on
their marketing prerogative, nnd the
mistress who denies them it is deemed
n very mean, small, niggardly sort of
person. Well, a person of this sort, an
cderly woman, was in tlie habit of do
ing her own marketing in a long
duster. Tho duster hid her purchases.
It prevented her, while usurping her
cook's rights, from being detected in
the act. As the woman one hot morn
ing was walking homeward in her
duster from tho Marcho St. Ilonoro
she stumbled In the Hue Hyacinthe,
nnd u leg of mutton fell and rolle1
across the sidewalk. A passing stran
ger picked up the leg of mutton and
returned it, with a bow nnd smile,
"Permit me, madamo your fan," ho
said.
Naming the Gerrymander.
Tho gerrymander was christened In
1813, although it must have been in
operation long before that A Btanch
old Federalist, Governor Eldridgo
Gerry, controlled through his legisla
ture tho redisricting of Massachusetts
under tho census of 1810. In the ofllec
of Benjamin Russell, on ardent Re
publican editor, huug a map of tho
state ns newly subdivided by Gerry
nnd his men. Gilbert Stuart's ready
pencil whimsically added to tho out
lines of n grotesque district the wings
and tall of a dragon.
"Ha!" he said when he hnd finished.
"How's that for a salamander?"
Tho Republican Russell growled,
"Better call It a gerrymander." And
American politicians havo taken his
advice. Independent.
Heroism.
Heroism, in which I include courage,
fortitude and self denial, la nn essen
tial element of a great character; cour
age, which leads a man forth to moot
danger whenever thereto cnllod by
duty; fortitude, tho power and prac
tice of endurance, which renders him
superior to pain and makes him ac
cept witli cheerfulness whatever fate
comes, and self denial, the subordina
tion of tho material to tho spiritual, of
tho lower to tho higher nature of man,
which renders his will mnetrsr of his
nppetlto and passions and clowns him
to forego every personal benefit for
tho Bake of honor nnd conscience.
David Dudley Field.
Considerate.
Miss Antique I don't believe you
could tell my nge. Miss Caustlqoe
I could, but I wouldn't bo bo mean.
Philadelphia Record.
Practical Fashions
MISSES' JUMPER DRESS.
The jumper dresses as much in fash
Ion now as It ever was, and It deserves
its long period of popularity. The ex
ample illustrated In our model is suit
able for a young girl or for .a small'
woman. The waist is plain, but in the
center of the front is a box plait, just ,
folded in and continuing down the J
front of th skirt as a panel.' Th bal
ance of tho skirt 1b circular with re-1
versed box plait In the center of the '
back. The yoke and long sleaves of
this dross form part of the pattern, J
hut a separate guimpe may he worn (
Instead if preferred. Serge, choviot.j
pongee, linen and gingham as well as
other wash materials may be used in
making this dreas, while allover em-
broidery la perhaps the best thing for
yoke and sleeves.
The pattern (4675) is cut In sizes 14,
16 and 18 years. Medium size requires
4 yards of 36 Inch material, with 1
yards of 36 for guimpe.
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to "Pattern Department," of this paper.
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NO. 4675. SIZE 7...
NAME
TOWN :
STREET AND NO
STATE
EIGHT GORE SKIRT.
4926
When a woman has a number ot
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models. The front forms a panel which
has tho appearance of a double box
plait the forward one extending In a
tab over tho one toward the back. At
the center of the baok these tab a meet
across tho reversed box plait, where
the closing la placed. Such materials
as sergo, cheviot, etamlnes, voile, taf
iotas, foulard, pongee, linen or oth
'er wash fabrics may bo used to advan
tage in this etyla.
The pattern (4026) la cut in sizes 22
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writenacS j
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NO. 4926. SIZE
WAMffl.
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Rich Man, Poor Man.
You can easily tell a poor man from
a rich one by exrrmlnjng bis mall. The
jdoor man's mail consists of requests
for money that he owes, the rich
'morrti tor money that to doesnt owe.
' Lrppincotfa.
No Aspersions.
Interested, iTriend Your son's chib
are quite a homogeneous set, are they
not?
Indignant Parent No, they ain't no
such thing. They're all the same kind
'of nice young fellers as my John.
sua and
A MEDIFVAL
LOVE AFFAIR
Bv MARGARET L. BUSS
Copyright by American Press Asso
ciation Ibll.
One tnuniitm mine three centuries
ago. wbeu l'loreiu-e. ltuly. ruled hj
Duke Coslmo de Medici, was divided
among n number of powerful families,
the Duchess Uleanora, attended by
couriers, was driven from the Plttl
palace across the bridge rnlled the
Ponte Vecchio. spanning 'hi river Ar
no. Into the main part ot tin- -lty It"
side the duchess sat a young mi l noted
especially for hei fair complexion a. id
golden hair. From an upper window
overlooking the bridge a youtu: man
looked down on the cavnlcany About
stood n crowd ot persons dividing iin-ir
glances between the young man and
the young girl besldo the duchess. Ills I
eyes were riveted on her. while she '
glanced up nt him. Tbey were known '
to be lovers, all Florence sympathized
with tbem. nnd the crowd had collect
ed to observo this lovers' look that
passed between them. j
The girl was Maddalcna. the (laugh-1
ter of Bernardo Vettori, surnamcd "the
tight haired." and It wns from him
that his daughter Inherited her locks
of gold as well as an immense fortune.
The mother of Maddalena when wid
owed married Pletro Snlvlatl nnd. in
order to keep her fortune in tbe fam
ily, the stepfather betrothed her when
still a child to his son by a former
marrlnge. Out this young man was
killed In battle.
When Maddalena came to a mar
riageable age a love affair came about
between her and Lodovico Capponl.
who owned a villa In tbe country ad
Joining one of her own. It was a
grand passion on both sides, and tho
flame was fanned by opposition. Mad
dalonn's stepfather, still bent on keep
ing his fortune in his own family, per
suaded Duke Coslmo to forbid the mar
riage. Despite her own. her mother's
and her lover's protests and entreaties
the girl was placed In a convent
Lodovico was a flery young man. nnd
It was hoped by the stepfather that he
would commit some act of violence
which would afford an excuse to ban
ish him, lock him up or otherwise dls
pose of him. But the lover displayed
more self control than had been et
pected and refused to give his enemy
the coveted opportunity.
Maddalena's mother told the story of
her daughter's love nnd misfortunes to
the duchess and succeeded in interest
lug her. The affair was known to all
Florentines, who were a poetic and
nrtlstlc people easily moved by a story
of love. Moreover, they feared thai
if the duke was able to prevent this
marriage he would prevent others.
Therefore, though all the power to
keep the lovers apart was on one side,
all the sympathy was on the other.
The duchess Anally succeeded In per
suading her husband to permit her to
Invite Maddalena to visit her for a
few days at the palace. Instead of
days she remained months. But the
struggle to compel her to resign her
lover was not given up. Indeed, her
Invitation camo In order to unite ber
with another suitor. By the duke's
order Lodovico was never mentioned
except in contempt, while Biglsmondo
dl Rossi, a favorite of tho duke, was
always spoken of with the highest
praise.
Lodovico. not being permitted to visit
the girl he loved, rented a house over
looking the Ponto Vecchio, from which
he could look down upon her and re
reive ber return glnnco whenever she
crossed the bridge with tho duchess.
It was ono of these occasions that
has been described at the opening of
this story, a Bceno that would not like
ly have happened nnywhero except In
tbe city of the medlevnl Italian poets
and painters whoso names and works
are part even of the present age. The
bridge that Maddalcna crossed stands
today, traversed dally by thousands of
Florentines and tourists.
Perhaps no incident In the history
of Florence can so well express tnu
difference between that nge. thnt peo
pie nnd this. Fancy a crowd at tbe
entrance of a park in an American
city, Washington for Instance, wait
ing to Bee an heiress driven out with
the president's wife, her lover stand
ing at tbe window of a house ho has
hired for tbe express purpose of see
ing tils ladylove go by. That age
has passed, but romance still exists
and Is as deep set In human nature as
ever. Whllo tho people of that day
were Interested In Individual cases,
wo now find Its expression In "best
sellers." Have we not In this respect
degenerated?
Whether It was that the duke, who
was only Interested In Salvlatl's plans
through friendship for him, found that
be was playing a losing game for him
self, becoming unpopular, or whether
be met an undercurrent of opposition
from those prominent families who
feared his power to Interfere In their
own affairs, is not recorded, but In
any event his opposition suddenly col
lapsed. One morning at daylight an
old woman appeared at Lodovlco's
bedside and awakened him with some
astonishing nnd delightful news. She
bore a message from the duchess.
Lodovico was summoned to the palace
to tako Maddalena away with him and
prepare for nn immediate marriage.
Tbe lover bounded out of bed and
began tbe preparations nt once, going
as soon as be was dressed to tho pal
ace. All Florence was Interested in
tbe wedding, which took place at tho
house from which tbe lover had bo
often looked down od bis mistress,
but since it was not large enough the
piazza on which It stood was Inclosed
for a ballroom.
Charles Lamb's Excuse.
Lcndcnhnll street, London, was for
many years tho scene of tho daily la
bors of Chnrlcs Lamb. That Lamb,
dasplto his many complaints, appears
to have had n fairly cosy time at the
East India house is evident from a
story told by Algernon Black in Mac
milian's Magazine for February, 1S70.
One morning he "was observed to en
ter tho office hastily nnd in nn ex
cited manner, assumed no doubt for
the occasion, to leave by an opposite
door. He appeared no mare that day.
He stated tho next morning in expla
nation that as he was passing through
Lcadenhall market on his way to the
office he accidentally trod on a butch
er's heel. '1 apologized,' said Lamb,
to the butcher, but the latter retort
ed: "Yes, but your excuses won't cure
my broken heel, and, me," said he,
seizing bis knife, "I'll havo it out of
you I" '
"i.ainb fled from tho butcher nnd, in
dread of his pursuit, dared not remain
for the rest of the day at the India
bouse. This story was accepted ns a
humorous cxcus for taking n holiday
without lenvo."
Superstitions of Scalping.
Indians believe that scalping la anni
hilation of the soul; hence tho eager
ness of tbe Indian to secure tbe Bcalp
of his enemy and save his own scalp.
Deprived of theeajlp tho body becomes
mere, carrion, not even worthy of bur
ial. "Whether or not lta removal an
nihilates n soul," says General Dodge,
author of "Our Wild Indians," "tho
Indian Is yet sure that a Bcalp is 'strong
medicine' nnd equally sure that Us tak
ing by him will involve consequences
to him either very good or very bad,
and lie does not always know which.
An Indian will never tako the scalp of
a colored soldier, nor does be give any
reason .for it; all to bo got out of him
by way of explanation is, 'Buffalo sol
dier no good; heap bad medicine.'
Whatever tho special religious opinion
of ench Indian In regard to taking the
Bcalps of slain enemies, I haw; never
yet known a single case where the
scalp of n suicide was stripped off, and
In many cases the superstition is so
strong ns to prevent the Indians oven
from touching the body."
Just One.
"I heard him behind the door plead
ing for just one. They must bo en
gaged." "Now. they're married. It was a
dollar ho was pleading for." Louis
ville Courler-Jonrnnl.
Recalled the Fact.
Mr. Club woman John, I was posi
tively besldo myself at the condition
you came home in last night.
Clubman I remember now I did see
two of you, my dear. Boston Tran
script. Some Left.
Lives of fishermen remind us
That If the bis ones never got away
Thore would bo none left behind us
For us to lie about another day.
Judffo.
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