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Some people claim that John Sher- j
man died disappointed. Still, he left .
an estate valued at $3,000,000.
i
An Atlanta man has been fined $5 j
for digging in his garden on j
Sunday. Served him right. He
should have been playing golf.
In the Boston high schools the girls
outnumber the boys by 1000 or so,
but in the primary and grammar
schools the boys outnumber the girls
by nearly 2500.
Even John D. Rockefeller has his 1
financial troubles. Instead of Stand- j
ard oil paying $50,000,000 in divi j
dends this year it pays a paltrj
$45,000,000 only.
Eighteen states and one territorj ;
now have valued policy laws —that is,
laws requiring fire insuranoe com- j
panies to pay tho face of the policy,
no matter what may be the actual j
value of the property burned.
Although the Berlin experts ad- j
mit that American coal is superior in
quality to that imported from any j
other country, still the German col
liery owners hope to get the govern
ment chemists to report that it is
full of disease germs and subject to
exclusion like American pork.
Once more the introduction of
American methods will revolutionize j
British traffic. As a result of the |
visit of a prominent railway official -
to the United States the directors of j
his road have decided to substitute !
for the present lever system of sig
nalling the pneumatic method em- I
ployed on American roads. The in
stallation of the latter system is now
proceeding.
Speaking of Indian summer, a
down-castor is quoted by the Ports
mouth (N. H.) Chronicle as saying:
"The Indian summer comes in No
vember, usually the first week. It
got its name from coming so late
in the autumn that tho shiftless red
man could accomplish his tardy hunt
ing and crop gathering in season to
be ready for the first snows when
they fell—playing the limit, 1 might
say." This will answer for time and
reason until a better guess is given.
The government of New Zealand
last year paid out about $50,000 for
freezing the butter intended for ex
port. As the process cost three
eighths of a cent a pound, they must
have exported over 18,000,000 pounds.
Next year they propose that the farm
er or shipper shall pay one-half of
this cost, that they may use the
money to promote agricultural ex
ports in some other way. They think
that the farmers now understand so
well tho need of freezing butter that
they will not he unwilling to pay at
least half tho cost of the process, and
their exports of dairy products are
expected to increase.
Taking the recent developments in
the Castellane case as a text, the
Philadelphia Times presents a severe
class arraignment, concluding: "It is
American women who had opportu
nity for culture and for the most
generous philanthropy that so beau
tifully adorns American womanhood,
who have brought reproach and
shame upon the better women of this
country. They make marriage a
mere matter of commerce, and grasp
the empty baubles of foreign titles,
thinking themselves thereby honored,
when they sacrifice the last vestige
of self-respect, the respect of the
country and of the world, and all the
sanctity of homo life where woman
is grandest in her offices and
ments."
OUR FERRYMAN.
On, on to the ferry; the boatman is wait-
Still drips the rude wave from his oar;
Whilst he watches as if in his silence de
bating
The distance to yonder bright shore.
See again how he listens for passengers
coming
To hail for that haven of rest
Where the voice of the angels is heard
through the gloaming
While the day-star sinks deep in the
west.
Then on to the strand, where its rays are
still gleaming
If a passenger safe thou wouldst be,
For the tideway is broad and the wave
lets .ii- streaming
In haste to their home in the sea.
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| THE GARMENT OF IRON
§
MjS A Tradition of the Coyoteros That Worked Disaster
and Death.
iji
rfj Dy Gwendolen Overton.
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y ¥ T HERE was no skeleton In the
I armor when Hartpole found
J it; only some sand and a
6 bunch of tumble-weed, a rat
tle-snake, and a tarantula. The tar
antula scuttled off, he killed the rat
tlesnake, and the tumble-weed and
sand he emptied out. Then he had
the armor done up in a shelter tent
and put upon a pack-mule. After
which, the column moved on. It should
not have halted after all, for it was
in pursuit of a band of Indians. But
there were bands of Indians every day,
and the finding of n full suit of armor
lying under a mesquite bush beside
their trail was rare.
Certainly Hartpole had never heard
of such a thing. And. so far ns he
knew, it was the only suit of armor
ever discovered on the New Mexico
plains, but ills lore on the subject was
not profound.
When lie got back to his two-com
pany post on the banks of the Gila, he
found the interest in life, which had
been lacking for him up to then, in
enlarging that knowledge. He sent
East for books and histories and treat
ises concerning coats of mail and the
men who have worn tliein, and lie even
went so far as to write to the Smith
sonian Institute, at the risk of having
a Government commission sent out at
once to seize ills treasure. And In the
interval of two months which elapsed
before he received n reply—for the
railroad was only to Kansas In those
days—lie set about cleaning the armor
himself, and with his own hands join
ing it together.
He was so occupied, what with that
and the histories and the other books,
thnt lie forgot to have Gila-bottom
malaria and had no time to worry
about the flies. Then, when the steel
was once' more bright as the azure
shield of Achilles, and he had proved
to ids own and to every one's satisfac
tion that it must once have protected
the body of one of Coronado's men,
and must date back from the middle
of the sixteenth century, or thereabout,
he hung it up in his one-room adobe
quarters, along with tlie Indian tro
phies that were as nothing now and
the bottled reptiles of many sorts; and
the fame of it spread through the
land. An English lord, in a pith hel
met and gray linen, who was going
about tlie country, traveled miles out
of bis way to look upon it; and a
scientific party from Boston did the
same. Hartpole was beginning to be
very proud, when one day be had a
Visitor of another kind.
It was a man he had seen sometimes
hanging around the agency and the
post—a small, lithe fellow, part Coyo
tero Apache, part Mexican, possibly a
very small part white, who had some
reputation as a medicine-man with the
tribes, but not much as anything.else,
j Hartpole was sitting under his ra
rnada on a late summer afternoon,
i reading a book whose covers curled
up with the heat, when somethiug
, came between him and his light, and
looking up he saw the medicine-man
peering in the opening. lie said,
i "Hullo, Ciego," and added: "What do
j you want, eh?"*
Ciego was so-called because he was
blind in one eye. He came in under
I the ramada, and stood so close to him
j that Hartpole moved a little. The
| Coyotero's cast-off uniform and red
l head-band were not clean.
Ciego spoke excellent Spanish, and
as Hartpole did, too, lie had no trouble
about making himself understood. He
explained that lie would like to see tlie
suit of iron clothes which he hnd been
told that Hie lieutenant possessed.
The lieutenant was so pleased to think
that it had been spoken of in the fust
nesses of the Sierra Blanca and of
the Tonto Basin thnt he forgot how
dirty Ciego was, and straightway rose
and invited him into the one room.
The medicine-man stood looking at
tlie armor with an interest and evi
dent appreciation I hat touched Hart
pole very much. After tlie foamier of
ills kind lie said no word, but present
ly lie went nearer and felt of tlie plates
and chains with his finger-tips, and
put Ills good eye close and looked in
side. Then he turned to Hartpole.
"Where did you Dud it?" he asked.
The lieuteuant explained at some
length.
"Is it very old?"
Ilartpole said it was at least three
hundred and thirty odd years old, and
went into a little history.
Ciego nodded his head. "I know,"
he said. But that was so manifestly
absurd that Hartpole did not pay any
attention to it- "It is very Que," said
Then hasten thy footsteps and learn from
such teaching
That sloth cannot rest wiin the
brave;
For energy rules while the bigot is preach
ing.
And victory glides with the wave.
Tread the pathway apace while the ban
ner is floating;
Note the finger-post while it is day,
With the voice of the signalman's watch
word denoting
'Tis time to be up and away.
With the rapids all past and yon harbor
light beaming,
We know that all dangers are o'er;
Then take to thy rest and may sweet be
thy dreaming
In peace for all time evermore.
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Ciego. "For how much will you sell
it to me?" Naturally, Hartpole only
laughed, but tile Apache was in earn
est, nevertheless. "No," he insisted,
looking him sharply in the face. "No,
de vc-ras, I wish to buy it from you."
"Well, I don't wish to sell," an
swered the lieutenant, rather vexed at
the mere idea.
"I have live hundred dollars," said
the Indian.
"If you had a thousand you could
not have It."
"I have a thousand."
Ilurtpole laughed again, a little Im
patiently.
"You do not believe me—look here."
Ciego drew a buckskin bag from the
folds of his sash. It was full of gold.
"There are Ave hundred dollars here.
In three days I can bring you five
hundred more."
Hartpole guessed how he had come
by it, and bis temper rose. "That Is
stolen money," he cried, angrily; "put
It up. Y'ou can't have the armor.
Ukasliee."
"You let me have It," begged Ciego;
"I wish it very much. I will do many
things for you."
Hartpole swore this time—mean,
Spanish oaths. "No," he said, "you
can't have it. Go to the devil—get
out."
Even though Ciego was only a dirty
Indian, the White-Eye should have re
membered that he probably had feel
ings which could be hurt. It is well,
however, for those who have the di
rection of children and savages in
their hands to remember that those
simple folk have sometimes reasons
for the things they do nnd say, good
and sufficient unto themselves. But
it never occurred to Hartpole what
this half-blind Indian's reason might
he.' They did not transpire until some
weeks later.
Yet in Ciego's tribe there was a le
gend of a great white chief who had
once married one of their women, and
had ruled over them, nnd who had
worn a suit of shining iron. And their
tradition raq that whosoever should
find and wear that garment again
would be impervious to the bullets of
the Wliite-Eye, would become the
greatest of medicine-men, and rule not
only over his own people, hut over all
tlie Apache tribes aud those of tho
plains of tlie North. And the very
founder of that family to which Ciego
belonged was reputed to have been
the white chief in the coat of iron.
The Cbyoteros believed these things,
and so did the mcdiclne-man. So when
the news of the armor suit had reached
him he had levied heavy fees for bis
incantations for some months, and,
adding these to the gold he had ex
changed for Mexican dollars, col
lected from many raids, he took him
self down to the camp of the soldiers
to obtain fairly and by purchase that
which was his very own. But fair
ness and the offers of purchase had
failed.
C'iogo looked the White-Eye officer
from his scalp to his toes and up ngain
and thou with no sound save just one
grunt went out from the quarters and
from the post.
Hartpole told of't at the mess that
night, and forgot all ahout it after
that, ltut Ciego did not—as llartpole
ought to have foreseen.
One night an Inuian, his body naked
as it was born, a poisoned knife in his
hand, stole across the sandy parade
ground when the moon was under the
clouds of a coming storm, and slipped
as silently as none but a savage can,
under the ramada of Ilartpole's
quarters, and thence through the open
door. The Indiau had missed nothing
when he had been in that one small
room a month before. He knew where
everything in it was, from the shromo
In n Idue frame on the wall to the cot
in the corner, across from the fire
place. He hid himself behind the
piece of calico that curtained off the
nook where Ilartpole's clothes hung,
and waited until the moon showed for
a moment through a break in the
clouds, and he could see the figure on
the cot beneath the mosquito net. When
the room was dark again he slid out,
and the blade of the knife in his hand
went straight through the heart of the
man nsleep. Then he took the rat
tling armor from its nails and wrapped
it in the calico curtain, and fled
through the night, as silently and
swiftly as only an Apache can.
Now it happened that Hartpole had
gone to nnother post - good many
| miles to tho east that very day, and
he had left his striker to sleep In his
quarters and keep guard over his
things. So It was Into the luckless
soldier's heart that the knife was
driven, and the next day a telegram
apprised Hartpole that his striker wag
murdered and his suit of mall wag
gone.
The day after that all the depart
ment anew that the Coyoteros were
on the war path, and, having cut the
reservation, were killing right and
left. They were led by a medicine
man called "Ciego," and the scoutg
reported that he was dressed in a gar
ment of white Iron which no White-
Eye's bullet could pierce. They also
reported that the Chlricahuas and the
Pah-Utes and the Sierra Blancas were
joining him. It promised to be an In
teresting time for the Territories.
Hartpole began to have a dim idea
of why the medlclne-man had wanted
his Spanish mail now. He was or
dered out, of course. Most of the de
partment was. Trouble of the sort
that this promised to be had to be
checked at once, If at all. It was se
rious already, but there was one thing
in favor of the troops, which was that
the hostlles showed no desire to get
away. Their fanatical faith in the
medicine-man led them to seek battle t
rather than to shun It. And twice, |
having done so, they beat off the |
troops, because there were, as usual,
too few. But the third time they were
caught in a pocket of the Mogallons,
and there were no less than six troops
against them. Hartpole's was of the
number.
The Indians fought from dawn of
the first day until twilight of the sec
ond, in the open at first, then from be
hind shelter, then at last they re
treated to a shallow cave high up on a
hillside, and there was no getting
them out. A mountain howitzer ,
might have done it, but there was
none with the command. All day the j
troops fired volleys into so much of the
mouth of the cave as showed between j
the pine trunks and the walls of rock.
They knew that the slaughter within ]
must have been pretty severe, but I
there were no signs of surrender, nev- ]
ertheless. The hostiles might hold out 1
until the last one was dead; they cer- ,
tainly would until their medicine-man j
should fall. The medicine-man could ;
be seen from time to time, a gleaming j
figure, moving clumsily among the |
.trees nnd underbrush. And for all |
that it went so slowly and was sc
bright, no bullet seemed ever to hit it
Even the white men began to cousidei
it with awe. ! 1
At sunset of the second day, wlier t
the sounds from the cave had all but
ceased and the Indians within it weri
without ammunition and at bay, tin .
glistening form came clambering do- ;
liberately to the top of a high rock,
whooping and yelling, calling the rem
nant of its followers on. It stood so .
for a moment, the red sun rays strik- j
ing through the pine branches on the I
dented steel, a weird sight in the I
depths of the mountain fastnesses of 1
the New World; so odd nnd strange i
that the soldiers hesitated with their
fingers on the triggers of their car
bines. | 1
But Hartpole, kneeling alone behind
a bowlder, remembered only that that |
glowing armor was his, and that he
wanted it. The visor was up and he
could see the glitter of the one good "
eye. He had won a sharpshooter's
medal in his time, and he put his
skill to use now. There was a puff of 1
smoke from above his bowlder, and '
the shining figure threw up its arms
and staggered. Then it fell forward, |
down from the pinnacle of rock, clat- ;
tering nnd crashing among the logs
and stones. 1
They found, when they dragged him I
out, that Hartpole's bullet had gone
straight through the good eye, and 1
that Ciego was ciego in very truth J
now—and quite dead.—San Francisco
Argonaut.
Armored Automoliileft.
Two new armored trains for employ- '
ment over country where there arc no I '
rails of permanent ways have just j
been placed upon the establishment j '
at Aldershot. Each consists of a loco
motive or traction engine and four j
trucks, all of which are painted the , '
now familiar, but ever unlovely, khn- 1 i
ki. The locomotives, which are of ex-!
eeedingly powerful construction, are i i
completely cased with steel, the vital
parts being especially protected. An
Ingenious arrangement of prisms and \
mirrors, somewhat after the manner
of the camera obscura, enables the
driver inside the cab of the engine to
see without being seen, or in any way
exposing himself. The trucks are
built with high sloping steel sides,
which are pierced and slotted at in
tervals to enable the occupants to fire
through them. They are also provided
with slides at either end to permit
of guns and wagons being run into
the trucks. The steel sides of the car
riages are so constructed that when
necessary they may fall inward and
lie flat on the platform of the truck,
which can then be used for ordinary
transport purposes.—London News.
Good News Froin Liberia.
Commercial progress is reported
from Liberia. If this is not of great
importance to the world it is sufficient
ly unexpected to be striking. Persons
who were not so sanguine as to expect
that settlement to solve the problem
of American slavery, at least expected
It to grow nnd flourish and surpass the
English and other white colonies in
the dark continent. All Rorts of ex
cuscs have been made for its sluggist j
development, but the fact remained
the same that It did not prosper. Now
there are reports of commercial en
largement and real signs of prosperity
—New York Journal of Commerce.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE
STORIES TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN
OF THE PRESS.
He Hold Her —Then They Laughed -
Somewhat Largo l'aw Answer* Os
tein! limited Hardest Ta*k of the
Hay—-His Solemnity Accounted For,lite
With .flirting and foolishness now she waa
done,
For she meant to be wed to this chap.
"My race for a husband," she sighed, "ia
near won—
I believe I am on my last lap."
—Catholic Standard and Times.
Then They Laughed.
"How restless the water is, foaming
away behind us."
"Something like the baby; it's al
ways a wake."—Brooklyn Life.
Rome what Large.
First Fly—"That's what they call
the fly wheel."
Second Fly—"Strikes me they should
have named It after the elephant."—
ruck.
l'aw Answer* Ostend.
"Paw," said Osteud, reading the
war news, "what are disappearing car
riages?"
"Those drawn by horses," responded
paw, without looking up.—Chicago
News.
Limited.
"Great Scott, and the bnnk has gone
up for $.100,000! For how much are
the directors responsible?"
"Only for the failure."—Denver
News.
Hardest Task of the Day.
Harduppe—"l always do my hardest
work before breakfast."
Borrowell—''What's that?"
Harduppe— "Getting it." Philadel
phia Record.
Ill* Solemnity Accounted For.
Dyer—"ls that solemn-looking j'oung
man across the way an undertaker?"
Gj r er-—"Yes; that is, he is a grocery
clerk who has undertaken to support
a wife on a salary of $0 a week."
Must Be Jealous.
Penelope—"While he was talking to
me I imagined I was floating in tho
air."
Patrice—"Yes, gns has that tenden
cy, you know."—Yonkers Statesman.
Unfortunately, It Is the Case.
He—"l would be willing to exchange
the responsibility of riches for the
bonds of love at any time."
She—"Unfortunately, one cannot cut
coupons from the bonds of love."—
Brooklyn Life.
Amended.
Friend—"You don't believe in the
rule, 'Never prophesy unless you
know?'"
Fortune Teller—"Oil, no! Our rule
Is, 'Never prophesy unless you're paid
for It.' "—Buck.
ller Explanation.
"Mrs. Fotlieriugny Jibbs came to my
reception without an invitation."
"You don't mean it?"
"Yes; she explained to me that she
felt sure my omission of her was an
oversight."—lndianapolis Journal.
The Information She Desired.
"Ah! beautiful lady," exclaimed tho
clairvoyant, "you have come to find
your future husband, is it not so?"
"Not much," replied the beautiful
lady; "I have come to find out where
my present husband is when he's ab
sent."—Philadelphia Press.
The Prototype of Highwaymen.
"Jack Slieppard is considered tho
prototype of road agents, isn't he?"
"Oh, I don't know. What's the mat
ter with Atlas?"
"Atlas?"
"Yes. All the world's n stage, you
know, and Atlas held it up."
The Student Wants to Know.
Professor (lecturing)—" Oxygen, gen
tlemen, is essential to all animal ex
istence; there could be no life without
It. Strange to say, it was not discov
ered until a century ago, when——"
Student—"What did they do before
it was discovered, professor?"
Tho Evidence Was Lacking.
"If I were a queen," she announced,
"I tell you I would write some laws
that would "
"But a queen doesn't write the laws
of a nation," he Interrupted.
"How do you know?" she demanded.
"Because there is no reference to
millinery in any of the codes." he an
swered.
Got What They Wanted.
Their Caller —"I don't sec why
Count Parchesl and his American wife
should quarrel."
Miss Mavis—"Their interests clash,
do they not?"
Their Caller—"Not to any marked
degree. She wanted a foreign al
liance, nnd he a foreign allowance,
that's all."—Harlem Life.
Became a Question of Economy.
"That youngster of yours seems to
be having his own way lately. You're
not as strict with him as you were."
"No; It was a question of economy
with me."
"Economy ?"
"Yes; every month I used to have to
buy myself a new pair of slippers and
the boy a new pair of trousers."—Phil
adelphia Press.
Ills Method.
"Aha!" exclaimed the editor of tho
Daily Shouter, "at last I have discov
ered the secret of journalistic success:
Publish so many reports that it will
be physically linpesslble to contradict
more than half of them, and then
point triumphantly to the uncontra
dicted other half."
And then ho set to work vigorously
an Extra Number Twenty-six.—ruck.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
An exploring party from Harvard
University, who spent the last suiumei
In Labrador, says that they made dis
coveries warranting the belief thai
more gold can be mined in Labrador
than at the Klondike or at Cape Nome.
According to the Sioux Indian
weather prophets it's going to be a
hard winter. Those predictions are
based on tlie fact that the buffalo
grass showed a heavy crop of seeds,
which, the redskins declare, is a sure
sign of severe winter and deep snow.
A pipe line, 142 miles long, has been
built to carry Caspian petroleum to
the Black Sea. The railroad was in
adequate to handle the oil, and it was
found more economical to lay the pipe
line than to improve the road. At pres
ent, however, it must be carried by
rail for 400 miles.
An Oklahoma man lias invented an
apparatus for supplying an endless
roll of paper to a typewriter. It con
sists of a light, frame placed on or
above the machine, carrying a number
of rolls 011 which the paper is wound.
It is possible to run two sheets with
manifolding paper between them. The
paper is wound on a third roll, in front
of which is a pair of jaws by which
the paper can be torn off at any point
desired.
The United States Consul at Madge
burg, Germany, describes an electrical
farm operated in Germany in which
the power for generating the electric
current was derived from a stream
whose waters were dammed lip to se
cure the necessary fall to turn a largf
turbine wheel. Nearly all the faru
machinery, including pumps, harvest
ers, feed cutters, thrashing machines,
churns and plows, were operated by
the electricity thus generated, which
was conducted to all parts of the farm
on overhead wires.
There has recently been opened on
one of the lower slopes of Mount Leb
anon, Syria, near the road from Beirui
to Damascus, a newly built hospital
for the insane. Its founder is Mr.
Theophilus Wahlmeier, a veteran mis
sionary in Abyssinia and Syria. A
considerable area of land and gardens
for the growth of wheat, olives and
other fruit surrounds the buildings.
If is the first organized lunatic asylum
in Syria, where the need for such in
stitutions is said to be great. It will
probably be dependent upon support
from Europe for a good many years.
llenefltft of Doar Coal.
An observing engineer, traveling
through some ot the Swiss manufac
turing centers noticed that, generally,
Swiss steam engines were of a higher
economical type than those in Eng
land, while Swiss electrical generators
and motors were distinctly inferior to
those of English standard practice. By
a process of deduction from local cir
cumstances he was able to attribute
these two circumstances to the high
cost of fuel in Switzerland on the one
hand, and the great plenty nnd con
sequent cheapness of natural water
powers in the country on the other.
The highest results in any branch
of industry require an artitteiai stimu
lus. At no time within recent mem
ory lias the trade in economical appli
ances for the production of steam
energy been as active as it is now.
Economization in manufacturing pro
cesses simply moans the suppression
of waste nnd in that view (he existing
exorbitant post of fuel is not without
its compensations. It must also he re
membered that the present high price
of coal is most likely transitory, but
that the economical Improvements to
which it may give rise must he per
manent, for, however slow advance in
manufacturing practice may he, there
is no stepping back.—Loudon Express.
Itegpected XI if* Memory.
She entered the ollice of the tomb
stone company," and the clerks imme
diately became sad of countenance.
"Is there anything I can do for you?"
asked the chief mouruor.
"Yes; my husband, John T. Abornn
tliy, has died, and I would like to se
cure some suitably engraved head
stone—something with an appropriate
inscription, if you please."
"Certainly, madame, right this way.
Now, here is a very pretty tiling in the
stone line. Eight over tills cross we
would carve: 'Here lies John T. Abcr
nathy,' and "
"Ah, sir," interrupted the widow,
"you must think me cruel. I would
not say 'Here lies.' That was one of
his faults in life, and I will not follow
him with the accusation now that he is v
gone."—Denver Times. "**'
Ilcgan Anew at Slxty-Bl;; Ami Succeeded.
An American came to this country at
sixty-six with n wife and four chil
dren and sl4 in his pocket, having lost
a.fortune in another country by specu
lation. This man was "game." He
started in doing odd jobs of surveying
down in the hot country, raised vege
tables on a small tract of laud be
hired, gradually acquired some upland
country where everybody said coffee
could not be grown, and made a suc
cess of his plantation. He added more
land as time went on, and now takes
in $30,000 a year gold from his place.
He is eighty-six now, and says that,
were he again to lose ids property, he
lias the grit to begin life over again.—
Mexican Herald.
Fifty Tliousund l'OHtrardii Destroyed.
It is said in Holland that a firm of
picture postca-d makers In The Hague
was so eoniiuent that Queen Williel
miua would marry Duke Adolf of
Mecklenburg-Seliwerlu that they print
ed ills picture on 50,000 cards, in readi
ness for the nnnoi'Mcement. When the
event proved that his brother, Duke
Henry, wan the happy man, the cards
had to be destroyed.