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A LESSON. la Li k Oncf, dear, for all that life could give * I asked, nor guessed what love might pj mean. Each night I prayed?hot tears be, tween? That thou wouldst live M Thy life alone for me. Wi Now am I wiser; dear, I know vVhat iov to love can service bring. Ai Of life I ask but this one thing? h? 'That 1 mav show . All I would be to thee. 10 ?Elizabeth Payne, in Harper's Bazar. bl fr ?L j ffffA SEASONED BEAUTY |jff By ALAN lONWCRT'lNGTCX ^ W Mr. Archibald Quibble used some ol * Tn? wl very picturesque m-guage. rui setting for the moment that his gout H was unusually painful that morning, bs he jumped from his chair, threw the ba letter indignantly on the table, and indulged in another verbal explosion as the movement forcibly reminded ex him of his infirmity. to "My dear, what is it?" anxiously I'l inquired his wife. ar! She was a beautiful woman, still y? young, and a leader of fashion. And, th as her husband knew, the lady was a strong minded and practical. He aS passed the letter -across the table. "There," he said, "see what that? W( that?derned?young?idiot has been sii . v -doing." to Mrs. Quibble read aloud: "My Dear Father?I know that the th announcement I have to make will pain you at first; but you will come to see at last that I am not to blame. W( My engagement with Alice Travers 'must be ended, and I mean to write to her to-morrow and explain matters a as gently as I can. I never really lovea Alice, it is ciear to me mjw ? / that I have given my heart to Fanny a 1 , Fairlie. She is only an attache of the Globe Theatre?takes a promi- i nent part in the ballot, you know? but she is the sweetest and dearest (ja girl in existence to me, and I will not give her up. I have promised to marry her, and I write to inform you that the ceremony will take place clt next Saturday. If you harden your th heart, we can live on my fifteen hun- he dred a year. You know, I am of age now?since last Thursday. Yours, m< "PERCY QUIBBLE." v "The infernal young j&ckass!" cried Mr. Quibble, as his spouse fin- SC1 ished the reading of the precious Ni epistle. "Why did his grandfather j T* take it into his head to leave the boy | tli fifteen hundred a year. I'll??" ca "Archibald, you'll go to the me- m: tropolis at once," said Mrs. Quibble. da "I shall go, too. He must be seen a fcefore he writes to Alice. This comes na of leaving him to his own devices for an entire month in a wicked city." ctl Mr. Quibble never disputed with ou his wife. Two hours later they v(ere of on the way to the metropolis. stc Percy Quibble went that evening ton to the house on West Eighteenth Pe street, where the divine Fanny Fair- s11 lie lived. He was twenty-one, but he *h looked seventeen, and his brains Pe might have fitted a lad of twelve wc years. sw "By Jove!" he exclaimed, "do you W know, Fanny, the governor and the a 1 mater have come to town. They drove up to the hotel just as I was leaving, and I dodged 'em. It's funny *01 how mad he'll be. The 'gov.' isn't so S1C had, but the mater can be just terri- be hie." ar< Fanny looked troubled. "But, Percy, darling, you'll be thi faithful to me? You know you have st< promised to marry me?and a whole *hi lot of the girls know it." wa I think Fanny would have cried S" were it not that she dreaded the re- iu: suit. Hers was a complexion that ba could be seamed. "Fanny, dearest, I love you better than life," exclaimed the youth. an "Trust me till death, darling." y? And there were kisses and em- tei braces. ab "Say, Percy, my own love," remarked Fanny, after an interval, ye "could you lend me some money? A *0' lot of things have to be bought for the happy day, you know." an Percy at once tossed her five in twciiLj-uuiiui uxiid. nu uuu uu mure. *aHny had to leave for the theatre be shortly afterwards, and the young co man escorted her to the door and ho took his usual place in the parquet. th As Percy failed to return to his an hotel, Mr. Quibble decided to go to lo< the Globe Theatre and see the object un of his son's affections. Percy had sc< been sitting in the front row of the an parquet for a few minutes only, when sa nis father took a seat beside him. dli "You infernal young fool!" the old man muttered into his son's ear. But the seats were nearly all occupied, and further remonstrance was out of the question. Just then the curtain rose, and the first scene of e? Wl the wonderful ballet, "Mazeppa," filled the stage. Percy almost forgot e the presence of his father, for was e not Fanny there, looking quite ethereal in the pale limelight, as she ^ ' sat on a rock, waiting for the return 0 of her soldier lover? cr "That's she?that's she!" he ou hoarsely whispered. His eyes saw nothing else; his thoughts were centered on that vision of pathetic love- er liness. "Oh! that's the girl?is it?" said ?? his father. 8 He regarded the languishing maiden earnestly for a few moments. 0 Then he laughed?laughed so heart- pc Uthat hie nniphhnrc wnnHoroH anrt . v. K, " V.V*, WWU his son was amazed. "Beautiful girl, Percy, my boy! Does credit to your judgment. Must ti< see her when it's over." C< Percy could hardly credit his ears, re This, indeed, was the very acme of ot happiness. The old man and his son waited on w' Miss Fanny Fairlie after the ballet lil was over. "Fanny, darling," cried the lover, cc "this is my father, who is almost in love with you himself, don't you di know. It's funny, isn't it?" "I think I have met Miss Fairlie sr before," said Mr. Quibble, coolly, ar- "W ranging his eyeglass and looking the zc dy full in the face. "She was Lucy ghtfoot then." "I am quite sure ycu did," she reied, returning the stare as coolly. Poor Percy was puzzled. "Let me see?it was at the Daisy usic Hall twenty-five years ago, isn't it?" "You've an excellent memory, rchie," replied Miss Fairlie. "Per- . ??? rnmamhar nthor thin?S. o?" "Rather, Fanny," replied Mr. Quibe, chuckling. "You're almost as esh as ever, and as cunning, too, I e." 9 "How much will you pay to get it of this mess?" asked Fanny. "Five hundred?cash down. Take Lucy, and don't bother any more." "Fork over, old man." Poor Percy's little brain was in a hirl. He had no power to lnterre. The crisp greenbacks were issed over, and Fanny said: "Ta-ta; but do you know that my al lover is little Jerry Traddles? d Tom's son? He was only a child hen vou and I were chums, Archie. * -a rir- -V ~ "i 1 es in uieveiana now. vve ?uau lvc a roaring old time when he gets ick." Then she skipped off. "You're a nice fellow, you are!" claimed Mr. Quibble, as he butned his overcoat. "Come along. 1 leave you to your mother now, id what a laugh she will have at iu for your insane infatuation for at seasoned beauty. Why, she was heart crusher twenty-five years ;o.V "But don't you think it would be all if you made little of the affair, *, in her presence, and helped me get off lightly?" said Percy. He had realized tha situation by is time. "Why should I, you scoundrel?" "Don't you remember that you ;re one of her admirers, my dear ther?" The old gentleman was silent for time. "By George!" he exclaimed, after minute's thought, "you're not such fool, after all!"?New York Weekly. >ANCE OP AFRICAN NATIVES. ithering of the Dancers ? Weird Music and Strange Figures. rhe high cliffs of the valley showed ;arly in the bright moonlight, when e strains of a native band were ard coming from a native village. irough the long guinea cornstalks 5n and women came out like so my shadows from the various clusrs of huts, writes Hans Vischer, deribing a dance he saw in northern geria, in the Geographic Journal, le sonud of the fiddles and the ratng of a calabash filled with pebbles me ever nearer, till the band with my followers emerged from the rk fields to the open space, where broad, sandy river bed formed a tural playground. A merry crowd had now gathered, attering and laughing and thorghly enjoying itself after the way the African. The musicians, three )ut men and woman, played in that pical way common to all primitive ople, one fiddle leading with a ghtly varying wailng tune, when e second fiddle took up the air, reating it in lower notes, and the >man accompanied with a rhythmic inging of her calabash. It is a sird, melancholy noise, naturally in minor key, full of ever growing exement. All the young people had now rmed into two rings, the men inle, and aroand them an equal numr of girls. They started walking aund slowly in opposite directions, ten, as the music became faster, ey quickened into a kind of twojp, the men dancing in and around 3 girls,who kept moving the other iy. Each time the boy faced the 1 he turned around, gave a little oap, and smacking her outstretched nd, moved off to the next beauty, lere the performance began again. All was done in time to the music, d the movements of the laughing ungsters could not have been betr measured. Without reserve all andoned themselves to the moti: orough enjoyment, dancing and lling as if we had been acquainted r years. A little way off sat the itrons and the old men, watching d talking over what they had done their younger days. jaenina was me DiacK Dusn, wicn re and there a higher palm tree ming out and showing in clear siluette against the white rocks,while e stars moved slowly over the sky, d the great silver moon made it all ?k wonderful and uncanny. Quite [consciously I recalled old familiar snes, other music, other costumes, d a smaller room; and these naked vages were, after all, not so very [ferent from the wise Westerners. The Lady Cow. Marjorie was on a visit to her andparents on the farm, and her joyment'of country life was somelat marred by the apprehension of ing horned by the cows. One day r mother asked her to run to the rn and call grandpa to dinner. She irted out, but espying a cow in the t, one of the mooley kind, ran back, ying: "Oh, mamma, there's a cow if V* ATA f ' ' : t liici t After a glance out of the window the meek looking bovine her mothsaid: "Why, Marjorie, that's a mooley w. She can't harm you, for sh? isn't any horns." "But, mamma," exclaimed the iild, "she might butt me with her impadour!"?Harper's Weekly. History, on the Stump. The story is told of an ardent polilian who In making speeches for )lonel Harris out in the short-grass gion, struck a flowery period the he? night, and said: "In the words of Daniel Webster, ho wrote the dictionary, 'Give me jerty or give me death!' " One of his colleagues pulled at his >at and whispered: "Daniel Webster did not write the ctionary; it was Noah." "Noah, nothing, replied the >eaker; "Noah built the ark."? 'illiam Allen White, in Emporia Ga:tte. - C / jij -V \ New York City. ? The princesse gown Is always a dignified and graceful garment and at ( the moment is in the height of , style. This one is made of chiffon broadcloth in a light shade of brown and is stitched with belding silk and worn with a deep yoke and cuffs of twine colored lace, while the trimming on the skirt is shaped bands of the material. The model, however, can be utilized for a number of materials and can be treated in various ways.* The princesse style always suits velvet and velveteen admirably well and is, indeed, adapted to all i folirino flinf nra r\ f ciiffi/?iont' chf. ( to afford grace and dignity. The yoke and the cuffs are exceedingly handsome and are much liked this season, but. are optional, as neck and 1 sleeves can be finished in any way that may be liked. Again, while fabric trimming is greatly In vogue, no one style can be said to be obligatory and bandings and appliques i of any sort can be utilized on the 1 skirt or it can be finished with a hem . only. , ' The dress is made with front, side- ? fronts, backs, side-backs and three i under-arm seams, its many seams i providing not alone perfect fit, but i mo.it becoming lines to the figure. Well below the hips there are invert- i ed pleats that provide fulness In the \ skirt, but at the waist line and over the hips the garment is perfectly c smooth and plain. The shaped yoke c is arranged over the waist, and cuffs 1 finish the sleeves at elbow length, i whether the long and fitted portions t ? nUnrvA/l C are useu or are uut. i uc Dua^cu s trimming bands are arranged on in- s dicated lines and the closing is made 1 invisibly at the back. i The quantity of material required for the medium size is fifteen and f one-half yards twenty-seven, eight t and three-fourth yards forty-four, or 3 .ight and one-fourth yards fifty-two inches wide, with one yard of all-over lace for the yoke and cuffs, one and three-fourth yards if long sleeves are used. Suspender Effect Remains. Although advices from Paris say that the suspender effect is out, it is still to be seen in the shops. Sus-^ pender and belt combinations are shown in plaid ribbon and black velvet ribbon is much used. In one case two pieces or incn-ana-a-naii black velvet ribbon were joined by , baby ribbon to form the suspenders and four points of ribbon similarly joined fell over the shoulders. Flounces For Tall Girls. Double or triple flounced skirts 1 still hold good. This is an especially ( desirable style for the tall, slender * young woman, as well as for the ( gruwiug gin. i I T Japanese Button Trimmings. Japanese buttons in the royal medallion china are exquisite trimmings. Trimming For Leghorns. For evening wear with the light dresa ;here is nothing prettier or more suitible than leghorns or Panamas, with their dark chiffon or tulle trimmings, md, for the present, flowers, especial' [y pink roses. Manves and Blues Best Liked. Velvet, satin, silk, cloth and anj bright flowered ribbon, all make at< tractive trimmings for a voile gown, Velvet is newest and serves to bring iut the natural shade of the material to advantage. All shades are fashionable, but the mauves and different jhades of blue "are, perhaps, most in jvidence at present. All shades of pink and red are, however, smart and ;reen, when becoming, is always ef? 'ective. Antique Leather Bags., Antique bead bags, carried by jrandes dames of the First Napo eon's day, are among the Interesting lisplays made by one of the leather joods departments. The bags are, nost of them, of generous size, nounted in quaint jeweled frames. They are made of the tiny beads vhich were used in the old days and n the quaint patterns and colors of hose long ago times. They are gong to be seen in company with the landsomest opera and evening coats his winter. Nine Gored Skirt. The skirt worn with a girdle of ;he material is a favorito one. It jives the suggestion of the corselet ifte ct without the disadvantages which that style has for certain figures and is very generally becoming, Here is one that is absolutely novel in effect and that is pleated after a quit? new and distinctive manner. In th illustration gray broadcloth, in the shade known as opium smoke, if stitched with beldlng silk and trimmed with little folds of the material and with handsome buttons. A.11 the suiting materials of the season are, however, appropriate, the i ji ikirt making a desirable one nore severe and useful coat' nannish suitings and tweeds, is for the dressy ones of brc The skirt is cut in nine gor i;ont gore is laid in two be vith outward turning pleat ;dges, while the sido-front g :ut with extensions that tap>nto it and are stitched into rhe back gores are laid in jleats that meet at the cei he girdle is cut in sect teams of which meet- thot ikirt and which provide p The closing of the. entire nade invisibly at,the centre back. The quantity o^ materia! required, or the medium size is thirteen yards wenty-seven, six and three-fourth, rards forty-four or fifty-two inches vide when material has cither figure, )r nap; eight and one-half yards| wenty-seven, five yards forty-four, >r four and three-fourth yards fifty-' ;wc inches wide when it has not. fr \^TortpMp0iDj\ T II rr.rntr ? t Olia_^n tlilntra J. XI. no.?, ui oiuucjfy ili.c,, wiiuu he is "high line" on plgifthis season, as one of his hogs recently presented him with a litter of fifteen pigs. The wettest place on earth is reputed to'be Cherrapunji, India, and a recent fall of seventy-four and onehalf inches of rain in five consecutive days must discourage other competitors for the record. Modelling in breadcrumbs, which are soaked in liquids of various colors and are made elastic and almost uabreakable by a special process, is the curious new art of Suzanne Meyer, a French woman. The record for thirst endurance belongs to Pablo Valencia, a Mexican, who recovered after fully 160 hours in the desert without water. So far as is known, half of the victims of the rlPRArt hav? died within thirty six hours, another quarter in fortyeight hours, and very few have survived longer than seventy to eighty hours. To give some idea of how weeds multiply it may be stated that a single plant of pepper grass will produce 18,000- seeds; dandelion, 12,000; shepherd's purse, 37,000; wheat thief, 7000; common thistles, 65,000; ragweed, 5000; purslalne, 375,000; plantain, 47,000, arid burdock, 43,000. The importance of not allowing a single weed to procure seed cannot be alluded to too frequently. single hour's work in destroying weeds may save weeks of labor next season. A. P. Powell, a Mississippi Choctaw, who lives near Homer, I. T., went to the Ardmore land office to register. He was the father of fifteen children, but found that he had forgotten the name of one of them. "After half a dozen names had been suggested by the affable clerk in the enrolling department," says the Ardmorelte, "Powell thought of the right one. This child bore the name of its father and Powell had forgotten his own name." The seventeen allotments belonging to the Powell's family are worth about $80,000. So peculiar is the formation of their feet that night and day the Tonquinese can run with per^pct security over most dangerously rough and smooth places. From a narrow heel the feet broaden remarkably toward the toes, of which the great one is so tonomtoH frnm th? nthpra as to form with them a wide angle. And from the toes grow nails that can be fixed In the ground like hooks. This peculiarity in the feet of the natives of Tonquin has obtained for them among the Chinese the name of CaoCi?the people with the crooked toes. CUCKOOS AND COWBIRDS. \ Bad Lot?Other Birds Are Driven to Desperate Measures by Them. With all its vagabond ways. the cowbird is scarcely as bad as {he English cuckoo. It has all the sins * * la added the imate of its j^have of its aafeftaEfe and its '. ' the yeli to rec& to build st, thus $11 warmth aes, says iey even sr ?t> an t gs: Fz J ri! ? .ndyinoon. *' - &**" ?ad had h?v well ttttlng her. ; >?<-: I of wind -'... uncertain ' ." No reet go that v ' vement. A f"1 were ^overT'-Se?*'-" that sheet ? ,i t8 bride, "if ;h about it. e kindly to your wile. ? eadfci;. r Prosperity in New Zealand. New Zealand is enjoying a period of remarkable prosperity and progress, if figures showing a big trade balance in its favor are significant or symptomatic. During the first three months of the year the imports of the colony amounted to $ 18,855,537, the exports to $34,541,000. The principal exports were butter and cheese, $4,749,704; gold, $2550; frozen meats, $3,387,000; phormium, $1,100,000; skins, $729,000; wool, AAA AAA XTcitv Vnrlr PTprflld. fia,VVV,VVV. .'Wt. W*. ? A Strong Face. "Facial expression," said the thoughtful looking man, "is not confined to human beings, by any means. "For instance, some time ago I went to call on a friend of mine, who was not at home. However, a dog of his was there. I looked at the dog a I moment and he returned my look. Then something in that dog's face j seemed to take hold of me and-simply root me to the spot. "n- TOaq hia tppth."?ChicaeoNews. . i>' ' - J Jk'.i-' ' ? " ' ' r_.,' *V\' ^ \ . Ar> ^si^weei$p i y WASHINGTON. Officials of the Department of Justice conferred on methods to prose- . cute the Standard Q1T Company for violation of the law. President Roosevelt,- accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and Surgeon-General Rixey,. started for. Panama. Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, British Ambassador, announced his re- 1 tirement from the Diplomatic service. ' >; . Director of the Census North and Chief Garry, of the Customs Division 1 of the Treasury Department, sailed from New York for Germany. I The President placed 1109 deputy collectors of internal revenue under , Civil Service rules?" , ? -' ? * ? 1 r\ 1aU/x? saujum uumpeii) auu uiuci muvi leaders had a conference with the President on the Peafrre Anti-Injunc- i tlon bill and other questions affecting , labor. The Army will adopt the new bullet, which was recently tested at the i National rifle meet at Sea Girt. President Roosevelt bas approved the arrangement made by Colonel Rodgers, of the Sixth Cavalry, for the settlement of the grievances of the Ute Indians. The President instructed the officials of the War Department to inform the Indian chiefs that he will give them an audience at the White House on his return from Panama. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The moderate party of Cuba voted to disband and reorganize under another name. Cuban Liberals, dissatisfied because Governor Magoon has not given them office, held a meeting.to plan to bring pressure to bear on him. A Cuban band of one hundred former rebels was dispersed near Cienfuegos by Major Kane, commandant of marines. Three thousand Filipinos assembled at Cagayan de Misamis, capital of the province of Misamis, Mindanao, P. I., to protest against the rumored separation. Captain Fredendall, of the Army, who was tried in the Manila civil courts on the charge of misappropriating the funds of the quartermaster's shops, has been acquitted. DOMESTIC. - . ; ' Jet Hicks, a negro, was lynched at Sale City, Ga., for the murder of John Akridge. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee has re-elected General Grenville M. Dodge as its president. It is believed that Winston Churchill, the author, stands a chance of being United States Senator from New Hampshire. President Roosevelt returned to Washington from his outing in Virginia with one wild turkey, which had fallen to his gun. The President has approved the report of the committee exonerating Governor Frantz, of Oklahoma, of. charges against him. District Attorney Jerome, of New York City, explained in a letter to exJudge Herrick his reasons for deferring action on alleged coercion methods of the Mutual Life. The British laborers on the Isthmian Canal were granted a holiday in honor of King Edward's birthday. San Francisco policy holders have appealed to the State Department for aid in forcing three German and one Austrian flre insurance companies to pay $14,000,000 losses. (Suits were begun In the Federal court in Utah to recover thousands ? J- * il>A C9 + A+A Of acres or coai lauub iur me oloig from the Gould corporations. A brother of Senator Money killed another man in a pistol duel at Mon-. ey, Miss. The will of the late James G. Morse, several times a millionaire, filed at Thomasville, Ga., leaves nearly all to his daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Morse Ely. The Louisiana State Board of Health has modified the quarantine against Havana, so that passengers may go direct to their homes without detention, provided they report on their health daily. Secretary of Commerce and Laboi Metcalf visited the Oriental schools in San Francisco, in pursuance of his investigation of educational conditions. Senator Chauncey M. Depew, completely recovered in health, it was learned, would attend the next session of Congress. Voluntarily appearing before the Fifth Court in Mexico City, J. E. Starr Hunt, charged with fraud in connection with the International Bank and Trust Company, was acquitted. ' FOREIGN. The Pope, it was announced at Rome, had decided to call a consistory. ' * 0 A rumor that Herr von Podbielski, the Prussian Minister of Agriculture, has resigned was published in Berlin. ' Dr. Carl Hau, of George Washington University, was arrested in London, charged with murdering his mother-in-law In Baden-Baden. Counsel for Count Boni made a. vicious attack on Edmond Kelly, the American lawyer, in speakirg for the defense in the Castellan. Ilvorce suit in Paris. Replying to a message from the International Peace Aesociation at Milan, the Pope urged all nations to take steps for the prevention of war. Action by the captain of a British warship in the Newfoundland fisheries dispute provoked a protest frotn the Colonial Cabinet to the Imperial Government. German industrial circles ^reatly fear a tariff war with America as the result of the Congressional elections. A fire in Canton, China, near a European suburb, caused a loss of over 11,000,000. "Kingsland" was a fictitious name given by a rich young New Yorker to the French court which sentenced him to three months in prison for the death of a woman run over by an automobile. A convention of French Socialists declared that it was not satisfied with the program of the Clemenceau ministry. Justus G. Strawbridge, of Philadelphia, was dangerously injured in a motor car accident near Biarritz, France. The British House of Lords again carried an amendment against the Government to clause 4 of the Education hilL :OHIIUL WIDOW DIES Vlrs. Damon at Twenty-two Mar- M riarl 4 Dounlntinnini l/atarnii iieu a nviuiuuuirai; ibwibik Ffer Grandfather Also Had Fought For Independence?D. A. R. Had '.|jj Helped to Support Her. Rutland, Vt. ? The Revolutionary iVar pension list wan closed with the * | leath of Mrs. Esther Sumner Damon, % iged ninety-three years, the only surliving widow of a soldier of the Rev- '' ^ ilutioa, which occurred at her homo -'^S n Plymouth Union, Vt. $ Mrs. Damon was a native of mont. She was born In 1813, 4iid '"^ tvhen twenty-two years of age, on Septemoer 6, 1835, at Brldgewater, Vt., she was married to Noah Da- Y' mon, aged seventy-five yearB. Da non enlisted in the War or the Revo^ I " lutlon at Milton, Mass., April 19, :J& 1775, and served five years. A pension waa crranted to him at th? am fi? jf eighty-nine years while living at Plalnfield, N. H. He died July 2, Uf, 1353. It waa on the strength of the record of her grandfather, Williaja Thompson, also a Revolutionary W veteran, that Mrs. Damon was made a member of Palestrello Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolu- ^ 1 j tlon, at Walllngford, Vt For the last two years nearly -all; Os the chapters had contributed- to her. support, and the State Legislature of Ji ?: 1904 appropriated $200 for this purpose. A pension of $12 a month had been granted to her by the Government and a year ago this waa doubled. ' Why Esther Sumner, as a bright, and from all accounts, spirited girl - jj of twenty-ohe, married Damon in his m old age, no one attempts to explain. ' She was left an orphan at eight years and was bound out to household service. She managed to save from her scant wages enough to enable her to attend a village school In the win- ^ ters. When she was seventeen years . old she taught a "district school" at Plymouth Union. Damon appeared In Plymouth Union at a time, romancers say, when pretty Esther Sumner was^angry at a swain for whom she cared more than she would show. Within -jx two weeks she had married the aged soldier. He was renuted to have some means. Ee had none at all.". ? After the wedding the bride learned that all his worldly wealth was $16.50, and that even his wedding 'r.t\ suit had been lent him,by a friend, . Esther had saved a little mbney, but is within a few weeks this was gone, and the. young wife had to set about yj-JJ supporting her heroic but disabled husband. For sixty-seven years slie. has j maintained herself by her own efforts, except for the forty cents a day pension that she received fronl the Government Indeed, the fin.t pension, awarded soon after her husband's death, was only $80 9 year. Mrs. Damon sewed, nursed the sick* and refused offers of marriage. PET DEER KILLED MAS FEB. Herbert Bradley Found Dead in ^ Ravine at Monte lair, N. J. , '-y Montclair, N. J. ? The shocking death of Herbert Bradley, a million- V| aire flour importer, with offices in New York, who was found dead at J the bottom of a picturesque rayine . i |n, the deer part of his costly and J beautiful estate on Eagle Rock .Way, 'J._ near Montclair, with a wound In his thigh which had severed the femoral 3 artery, has been thoroughly investi- ^ gated. y/'-jj The result confirnjs the theory that Mr, Bradley met his death In a; ?a| desperate struggle with one of his deer, a large buck about four years old, with long antlers. , ;"3g Chief Gallagher and Deputy County Physician Herbert Simmons looked among the herd of deer as they roamed about the park to ascertain whether any of them bore the marks' of the struggle. As soon as the bife buck came into view they plainly : saw that its antlers were co'ered with blood and that there were a number of blood spots about the legs and body. The animal which slew its master still acted wildly and '.fQ defiantly, and in, order that it might do no further harm the Chief drew his revolver and promptly killed it. ^ This animal was Mr. Bradley's fa- ijm vorite pet in the entire herd of fifteen * ** deer. None had ever attacked him % before. Mr. Bradley was forty-one years old, and leaves a widow and two children. "I'M OFF TO SEE THE DITCH." Farewell of Roosevelt as the May- -. flower Leaves For Panama Trip. $9 Washington, D. C. ? "Good-byer : M I am going down to see how the ditch ;;i is getting along!" shouted. President/' -3 Roosevelt as he stood on the after deck of the yacht Mayflower at the Washington Navy Yard. The vessel was leaving with the President for his Panama trip. Accompanying the President were Mrs. Roosevelt and her maid, Sur- ; J geon-General Rixey, of the Navy, and si M. C. Latta, one of the assistant secretaries at the White House. The Mayflower took the party to Wolf Trap Light, at the mouth of the Rap- - | pahannock River, in Cheaspeake Bay,. '^3 where a -transfer was made to the % battleship Louisiana, which is to convey the President to and from the Isthmus. Peonage Indictments. Twelve officers and employes of ' v the Jackson Lumber Company, of ' Lock hart, Ala., have been Indicted at Pensacola, Fla., for conspiracy to commit peonage. Shaun Kelley Not Indicted. The Grand Jury at Boston flas | iailed to return a bill against Shaun Kelley, the Harvard University student with whose trouble young Roosevelt was mixed up. Newsy Gleanings. That the Atlanta police did not present a determined front to the % mob during the recent race riot there was the verdict of the Fulton Countyj ; (Ga.) Grand Jury. The Russian Government has appropriated $250,000 for election expenses. The registration lists are small, owing to the exclusion of many; <'?n voters. . The General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church decided at Buffalo to fix the total J sum to be appropriated for home and foreign missionary work at $1,605,<JO0 for the coming year.