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A MATTEE OF FACT AFFAIR Seneca H. Trnesdell. Mr. Titus Williams was a widower with a pretty ward, and not old enough to be beyond susceptibility to the charms of the fair as he confessed to himself one fine morning, with morti fication. He should not have been ten dered the position in the first place, but there were business reasons for it, and nearly everything in this wor.d must give way to busi ness. Besides, the ward was quite young, awkward and unformed when she first came into that relation with Mr. Williams And three or four years 3o a good deal for young ladies, notably those between fourteen and eighteen. At eighteen Miss Sarah Youngblood was to come into possession of a con siderable portion of her patrimony, and Mr. Williams was obliged to give an account of his stewardship. He was rather an indolent man and was glad enough to be relieved of a portion of his responsibilities, but was loth to be ^relieved of his ward. The ward, on the contrary, seemed pleased at the pros pect of cutting the knot which had bound her to Mr. Williams. She would We herself away to Europe and maybe wed a count. She was sufficiently un informed and inexperienced to have im agined she could marry a pope. When the matter had all been settled and the ward stood in her traveling toggery before him to bid him good-bye ere she went to visit an aunt, with no Intimations of an intention to return to Denver, Titus Williams was seized with 41 spasm of indis retion and took her in his arms and actually kissed her with passionate fervor before he could stop uimself. She made no frantic endeavor to get away, but it seemed to him she slipped from his arms like a shadow, with very deep blushes. As women ai rways do, she recovered her self-posses sion first and said: "Positively, Mr. Williams, yon are good looking when your face is soso well, so illuminated!" ""I haven't said much about being sorry you are going away," he said rather sharae-facedly "but I hope you understand itnow." "You were always good, if not garru- lous," the young thing answered, with a laugh, "and I believed all the time you were sorry. Maybe I shall make .you a long visit after I am married." Titus Williams winced, as she had wlsned in her little heart that he might, and she went on her way into the wide world with the knowledge that she had scored her first triumph in the courts of love. Mr. Williams went fishing and returned in a fortnight with no outward and visible scars to show where the *rrow of Cupid had smitten him. Her letters came frequently, and he de voted more time to answering them tnan to his business correspondence. After a little she used a good deal of space in describing the nice young men Who were dangling about her, and her -elderly lover was full of the gall of bitterness and showed his petulance in his replies, and this was no end of fun for Miss Sarah, until she noted that all At once her correspondent was becom ing rather prosy, not sending her any more of the airy nothings that had made his letters so pleasing to her vanity. She tried a new tack at once, but after a few weeks wept a little to think that her first lover was lost. For a few weeks the chatter of the young fellows who were charmed by her face, -figure and financial prospects sounded vsipid and the greatness and goodness of Mr. Titus Williams were magnified in her imagination. Then she employed a beautiful French maid, on the recommendation -of an interested party, and set up quite an establishment for herself in a hotel, all of which made the money go with amazins rapidity, but its departure in this way seemed as nothing when she returned one evening to find the maid jjone and about everything of value in the way of jewels and money that the menial could lay her hands upon In Tier ignorance she was more subtle than the wise, and straightway telegraphed Titus Williams an account of the sad affair The operator at the telegraph -office was an accommodating young man, and forwarded every word she said to the extent of five thousand or more and Titus paid for the message He at once sent a message to the chief of police of the town where Miss Youngblood was sojourning, which was of considerable magnitude, and one of Spartan brevity to the young lady, an nouncing his own intent to see her as soon as steam could annihilate dis tance The self-reliant young lady was mightily uplifted at the message, but was half-angry that it was so quickly read She wanted something lasting like chewing gumto sustain her until succor arrived. She felt a little better, liowever. when the chief of police "brought the maid before her for identifi cation, even if he did refuse to let her go upon her restoring most of the miss ing articles and a good many Miss Youngblood had not yet missed. When T. Williams reached Sarata laago he went straight to Miss Young Wood's boudoir, as she had been asking if he had arrived for seven hours. Tiefore his arrival wis possible, and .all the servants in the house knew what to do with him when he should nrrive. "Not the least obeisance made he not a moment stopped or stayed lie," but he walked up to the limp and dejected Miss Youngblood and took her in his arms, as who would say liim nay. And from somewhere between his collar and his ntck a girlish voice gtrgled: "Titus, will you please take and keep m. always? I don't kno.v nough to take care of myself and jrou are bold as a lioi. andandaud conscious of the prodigious ein *brace to which was being subject ed"strong as a beir." "The Parting of Mr. and Mrs. Will lams. Five minutes befcre the Banl- of Confidence at Denver closed one after roon an old man turned away froi'i ihe paying teller's window and walked .slowly from the room. "Williams grows old mighty fast," remarked the cashier as he prepand to pull down the blinds. "Yes, but his wife grows prettier and more dashing every day. I say she is a corker, as far as looks go," responded the teller. Then the bank r, closed for the day. A newspaper carrier tossed a copy of the Evening TergiversatOr into the room ran down th stairs with a ,l* catcalland for his companioe on the curb s| "The cashier picked it up and read for m A while in silence then he whistled, and without more ado began reading a personal paragraph aloud. "'Mrs. Titus Williams leaves next week for a trip to Paris and the mansion will be closed for an indefinite period. This will be read with regret by so ciety, as the Williams' hospitality is proverbial.* What do you suppose that means, Ole?" "The words of their mouths are softer than butter, but war is in their hearts,'" misquoted the paying teller from the Scriptures. "But I can beat you a game of billiards." The day's business was done and the two young men drifted out of the building. Titus Williams was reading the same paper as he rode home in his carriage, and he perused that item with a slight pain about his well sea soned old heart He continued to read until he came to this: "Willie Du dabs, the well known clubman, goes to New York next week to visit rela tives." He sprang to his feet, "for like to white hot steel is an old man's ire." He had put two and two to gether and decided that the sum was five. Mrs. Williams was busy as a bee packing her trunks when her husband entered the house, and greeted her lord with scant affection. "When do sou leave me?" he asked. "On Monday. Why do you ask?" "I think Mr. Dudabs will go about the same time, and I thought he might consent to take charge of you." Mrs. Williams had a narrow escape from falling into afclarge open trunk, but righted herself immediately. Her voice was not quite natural as she said: "Why do you say that? I have heard you denounce him as a rake but I consider him a gentleman." Mr. Williams never responded to this question and his wife hesitated a good deal over the preparation of her baggage for the next few days, but she packed it nevertheless. She was a guilty woman and knew it, but she was puzzled at the source of her hus band's information. She knew him well enough to know he would despise the employment of a private detective to spy upon his wife, yet he had im plied to her fearful soul a belief that she was going away with another man. She had married a man twenty five years her senior, and had now be come infatuated with a man ten years her junior. This she regarded merely as the working of a mysterious la-ft of compensation. Being an old man's darling had proved irksome, and be sides she wanted to see the big round world from various points of view. She was rich in her own right and be lieved Titus Williams was too proud a man to pursue her as well as too cold. Women often underestimate men In just this way. The remainder of my story may best be told in a few clippings from the news columns of the daily papers. From the New York Evening Sensa tion: A good-looking young man whose name appears to be William J. Dudabs fell from a second-story win dow of the Cavoort house on Fifth ave nue this morning and was fatally in jured. He was taken to the hospital, where he gave his name, but was singularly reticent as to the cause of the accident, if accident it was. Some of the servants of the hotel allege that they heard sounds as of an alterca tion proceeding from Mr. Dndab's room about the time the accident oc curred. A lady from the same West ern city where Mr. Dudabs resides is at the Cavoort house, but is too ill to be interviewed as to the young gentle man's antecedents. Albany, N April 30 Mr Will iams, a well known Colorado capitalist, committed suicide on the New York express this morning about 10 o'clock. He was seen to take something from a small vial which he carried in his vest pocket, and expired within five minutes. It is known he had been in New York but a few hours before, having registered at the Cavoort house, where he took breakfast He was a man of great wealth, etc. From a Paris letter to the Denver Tid-Bit (five years later): The death the other day of the well known Mme Ixe was the occasion of several sur prises. First, she was an American and was once prominent in Denver society second, instead of being an adventuress of the ordinary type she was enormously wealthy in her own right, and had for years expended vast sums in charity, and third, she had no lover upon whom to lavish her prop erty, all of which things are amazing in view of the reputation she bore. Her eccentricities are visible in her will. She bequeaths nearly a million dollars to establish a Magdalen home in London, gives the rest to distant relatives and provides that her own body shall be cremated and the ashes scattered in mid-ocean. It is believed her kindred will contest her will on the ground of mental unsoundness with a view to defeating the bequest to the Magdalen institution In Favor of Short SUlrts. The Alumnae Association of the Gen eral Society of Mechanics and Trades men of the City of New York is com posed of female graduates of the sten ographic and typewriting classes from 1887 to 1894. At a recent meeting at tended by over fifty of these young women, the chief subject for discussion was "Sensible Dress," opened with a paper read by Miss Magdalene Foerth. After some spirited discussion from the other members, it was found to be the sentiment that skirts to the shoe tops should be worn on a rainy day. Those who do not approve this style were recommended to wear leggings. This, it was argued, would be the first step toward cleanly dress, and the transition from short skirts on a rainy day to short skirts every day would be easy. Stonter. "Do you think my figure has im proved?" They were preparing for the ball, and the girl who had ridden her wheel all summer paused as she asked the question. "Yes, indeed. They remind me of"- (her companion gazed admiringly al the objects in question)"Ada Re nan's."Life. New Scheme. SquiresCan't I sell you some mari tal insurance only costs 5& cents 9 week for $40. S^'* LakerWhat new schema Is ihis.' SquiresIn case of a divorce we JKIJ the alimony. "~"TigfcrSK & i-%i^sS%s WELL KNOWN PEOPLE SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF NOTED PERSONS. Gen. James W Forsyth, Recently Promoted Brig-adler GeneralW. S. Gilbert, the l*la wrlghtEugene YsayeMr. Joel Hart. The successor of Gen. McCook in the rank of brigadier general of the regu lar army is Col. James William For syth, one of the best known and most popular command- ers of the West Col., now Gen. For syth was born at Manmee, Ohio, and graduated at West Point in 1836. At the breaking out of the war he went to the front and was ranked first lieuten ant of cavalry He was in Sheridan's di vision and tookpait in more than fifty battles without re GENERAL FOBSYTH. pciving a scratch. Alter tue wai he served six years as military secretary to Gen Sheridan, accompanying him to Europe. Since his return he has been in almost constant service. The last action of his command was last sum mer, during the riots accompanying the Strikers at Chicago. Robert Cook. Robert Cook, better known as "Bob" Cook, is in England, and will probably make satisfactory arrangements tor the long talked of match between the champion university boat crews of Eng- fiOBERT J. COOK. ri land and America Robert Cook is the creator of Yale's un questioned suprem- acy in tins country. Every schoolboy is acquainted with his history and knows about the wonder- ful "Bob Cook stroke, which he in troduced after a former trip to Eng land. He is now publisher and manager of the Philadel phia Press, and though to his business associates he is Robert Cook, to a host of Yale men he will always be "Bob." He is a thoroughly good business man, but never loses his liking for the sport that has made him so well known. \V. S. Gilbert. W S Gilbert, the playwright whose new comic opera, "His Excellency," has been produced with complete suc cess in England, was bora ondo fifty-six years ago He was given to writing little dra matic sketches whilj at college As a young man he fought in the Cri mean war Return ing to England, he was admitted to the bar, but his success as a counselor was hot conspicuous, and he became the edi tor of a semi-humor- ous and satirical col umn in one of the t\eeklj papeis He became a playwright when forty jears of age, and has been especially suc cessful as a comic opera librettist. Mr Gilbert is a tall, powerfully built man of vigorous health, and in appearance Is a typical Englishman Count P. Sehnwalrtff. Count Schuwaloff is the successor of M. De Giers as prime minister of Russia and minister of foreign affairs. H( has been the Russian ambassador at Berlin and be am conspicuous through the interna- i on a 1 conference held in that city and through his friend ship for Bismarck, who gave him the mckname"The Hon est Broker." Connt Schuwaloff is the fortimate possessor of the only diamond held in Russia. He is among the wealth- OOUNTSCHUWALOST iest landed proprie tors in Russia, and related to the pres ent Russian ambassador to Berlin. Mr. Joel Hurt. Mr. Joel Hurt, recently elected presi dent of the American Street Railway association, is a resident ofr Atlanta, Ga.. and one of the most enterprising He was born in Rus men in that city, sell county, Ala., in 1850. The close of the war found the Hurt plantation completely desolat ed and the son, then fifteen years of age, had to begin the battle of life for himself. He man aged to acquire a good education, ob tained the degree of civil engineer at the age of twenty-one and followed his pro fession till 1875. Then he located at Atlanta, entered the real estate and in surance business, and in 1876 entered on the organization of building and loan associations. He became head of the Atlanta Home Insurance company, the East Atlanta Land company and finally manager of the Consolidated Street Railroad company, and in recognition of bis shrewdness and success in this last enterprise was elected to the presi dency of the American Street Railway association. Mrs. Ormlitin Chant. The closing of the Empire theater in London, which aroused such a storm of discussion, has brought Mrs. Ormis ton Cnant's name into frequent news paper mention. Mrs. Chant started the extraordinary controversy which has resulted in the closing of the finest theater of itg kind 'u the world. The London license com mittee refused to re 11 new the liceise of the Empire because of the evils con nected with it The Acommittee was I moved to this action _*=- by Mrs. Chant's pro eSSST^ against me re newal of the license beottUM ovil W. S. GILBERT JOKL HUBT. women frequented the lounges and promenades. Mrs. Chant is a hand some woman and is an American, Engene Tsaye. JW Probably the most distinguished vio linist in the world is M. Eugene Ysaye of Belgium, now in this country. Eu gene Ysaye, whose name should be pronounced as though spelled "E-sah-e," was born at Liege, Belgium, is young and has a fetriking personality. He came of a fam ily of distinguished musicians, and re ceived his first les sons from his fath er. In 1874 he com pleted his studies at Liege and enjoyed for the following year private lessons xvaxswraArn. under Wieniawski. Shprdy afterward Vieuxtemps heard him in concert and became so greatly impressed with him that the two were closely associated un til the death of the elder great genius. Ysaye's triumphs came thick and fast, and Europeans say the mantle of Vieuxtemp has fallen upon him. In ap pearance Ysaye is of a massive biuld, has a colossal head and an abundance of dark brown hair. His eyes are soft and tender as a woman's. Capt. von Henneken. Among the leaders of the war in the East none is more interesting than Capt von Henneken, the successful German officer, who, it is reported, has been put in com plete command of the Chinese navy. For the past twen ty-five years he has held a prominent po sition in the Chi nese service, previ ous to whicli he was an officer in the German army. He has served as aid de-camp to Li Hung Chang He wasoon CAPTAIN VON ns. 5 ar NBKEN. Shing at the time it was sunk, oy the Japs, and was picked out of the water. He has done good work for the Chinese in the present war, and was recently decorated recognition of his valuable assistance. Gen. Oyama. The report that Port Arthur, the Chinese stronghold, had been captured by the Japanese, makes Gen Oyama, in command of the Japanese forces at that place a person of interest Gen. Oyama is a compar atively young man. and the energy and thoroughness with which he has dis patched his duties as minister of war are not to be gain said The capture of Port Arthur practi cally means the close of the war, as ^j\\, there is now no ob struction in the way OKHBRAX. OYAMA of the Mikado's troops on their march toward Pekin. Port Arthur had been called the "Gibralter of China Mgrr. Ktimian. Mgr. Krimian, the head of the Arme nian church, is brought prominently be fore the civilized world by the recently reported massacre of 6,000 Armenian Christians by the Turks. Mgr. Krim lan bears the title of Catholikos. He esides at Etchmiad- zin, a monastery near Erivan, said to the oldest monas tic institution in the world He was pre iously archbjshop of Jerusalem, and has been patriarch of Constantinople, but was banished from the Turkish capifaT. ana deprived of his rights as an Ottoman subject on account of his pat riotic views He was chosen Catholikos in 1892 As a race the Armenians are the intellectual equals of any nation despite the many years of persecution that they have undergone under Turk ish misrule. JlOIt KRIMIAN. One of Whistler's Retorts. When James McNeill Whistler we^t to Venice to make those fourteen fam ous etchings of his he became so in toxicated with its beauty that he made seventy pastels first, leaving his etch ings till the last few days. These pastels made a tremendous sensation. All the art world of Venice was carried away with enthusiasm, except a Rus sian painter, who declared them tricks, betting a basket of champagne he could paint six not to be distinguished from them Mr W histler amiably gave some of his paper and six pastels, which were finally mixed up with those by the Russian and submitted to a iury who had seen none of them. Mr. Whist ler's pastels were unmistakable and the Russian lost the whr'. A few days lat er the two met on the Rialto and Mr. Whistler laughed a little about the wine and the bet. The Russian was fu rious. *You forget, sir," he said, "that I'm a Russian, and if you scratch one you'll find a Tartar underneath." "Oh, no, you have it wrong," said Mr. Whist ler"you have it wrong. I scratched an artist and found an amateur.San an artist and found an amateurSan Francisco Argonaut. Bara-lars Beaten Off by Girls. The other night, just as the family had retired, three men forced their way into the residence of the venerable Robert stathers at Sisterville, W. Va, and began to loot the premises despite the protests of the old gentleman Two of the men ascended the stairs, where they were met by two of the Misses Stathers. One of the girls knocked a robber down stairs with a chair, while the other was grabbed by the second man and both rolled to the bottom. Meanwhile Mr. Stathers had knocked out the third man with a poker, and, with the girls, was proceeding to charge the other two when they fied.-^CinciD nati Enquirer. -JM5V Hard. BertrandI wonder how 1 can make an infyreHsIon on that Boston girl's heart ClaudeFrom my experience I ad vise yon to use a stone-crusher. TO JOIN TWO OCEANS. IS '1?'* m PLAN FOR A SUBWAY CANAL. PANAMA OR NICARAGUA. A Vessels Wfth Hinged Masts and Yards "Which Might Lowered to Admit The Vessels to a Canal Eighty by Ninety Feet, With Thirty Fee* of Water. As these American canal enterprises are once'again assuming a construc tional phase I am desirous of laying before you a plan for connecting the two oceans which I submitted two months ago to the liquidator of the canal company at Paris, says George P. Cole in the Chicago Tribune. A further attempt at hewing down the mountain ridge still only seems to promise financial disaster. Were all ships steamers then, as in the case of railroad construction, a "bolt" tunnel, through, which the hulls might "be drawn, would satisfy the requirements of maratime transport across the isthmus But the sailing ships, with their towering masts and outstretched yards, have to be considered, hence the herculean 'effort of "digging" an open channel. The question arises whether, in these days of mechanics, these spars of sail ing vessels, designed by our forefath ers before the birth of machinery, should remain standing as a stumbling block to tine construction of a gieat commercial undertaking In our dock-yards, on board armor clads, by the aid of steam and hydraul ics men think nothing of moving bodies of over 100 tons in weight Why, then, cannot these masts be so designed and constructedthe largest with its spars and rigging cannot weigh one-tenth the aboveas to be lowered on to the deck by means of modern appliances, per mitting the hulls to pass through a subway canal? What I propose is to tunnel through the rock (one runnel in the first in- Operation of Lowering a Mast. -^0 stance) a passageway 80x90 feet, hav ing a depth of thirty feet of water, such a tunnel costing on the Panama section some $10,000,000. This would admit of the passage of the largest class of ships, by means of cable or electric power All sailing ships proposing to utilize the water passage would have their masts, spars and rigging constructed i and arranged upon a special plan MIWCOMAiT NThe base of all masts would be fitted with a steel joint or hinge, strongly bolted and keyed, but when unlocked allow the mast to fall backward on the deck. The backstays holding up the masts would also work upon pivots at their base, so as to move with the masts and guide it while being lowered. At the entrance to the subway would be erected high cranes, pairs, fitted Section of Subway. take up a position between two cranes and the masts would be raised, bolted and secured, the whole being handed over to the crew ready to sail off ^gain and continue the voyage, i*\i* -n The overhang of the m1xehuiabt. J1"-e?d tunnel. The superstructures on a sel would have to be arranged so as permit the masts to come close down the* deck. The running rigging, fo: stays, would have to be of double length. A The steel hinge could be .fitted, to ex-ft isting masts, the spar being sawn through when the appliance was in place. If such idea as the foregoing were af pted it would be an easy matter to connect the Atlantic and Fa ^W*lL for trade purposes. JSlSfv Va&ffij *rs& y&F'i'- {km CZAR'S MEDAL TO AN AMERWJHg fCAN Charm Presented to Mind-Reader Bishop by the Late Alexander. Obverse of the Charm edge Is the following inscription, in Russian: "Under the Auspices of Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Feodorowna On the reverse side tho center is filled with a cross on whichr are a crown, a monogram and the d&te 1881. Beneath this is the inscription, in English, "Washington Irving Bishop, the 15 December. 1894." Above are the words in Russian, "Alexander Hos pital for Men, 1881." The date refers to the time the hospital was founded. Her Royal Highness Olga Feodorowna was a patron of the institution. Tho charm is at present owned by Clark D. Frost, manager of the Wellington hotel, who was a warm personal friend' of Mr Bishop. In the spring of 13889 the Reverse- el the Charm. latter was performing at the Midland hotel in Kansas City, of which Mr. Frost was then manager. At the con clusion of the entertainment Bishop presented the charm to Mr. Frost, say ing at the time, "There is something I value more than anything1 earth." STAYS HIMttO o*c*smt with falling tackle above and engine power below. A ship entering the canal dock would pass between a pair Of these cranes, Operation of Lowering a Mast. the yards having been first placed in a vertical position by the crew. The canal company's mechanics would then unbolt the binges of the masts and stays, and, gripping the former (the nuzzen mast first), with the tackle suspended from the cranes, lower it upon the deck. When the mast had been lowered the hull would be drawn through the tunnel by cable or electric power. On emerging the ship would again Millet as Co Feed II When Washington Irving Brshop, the mind reader, was in St. Petersburg ho was requested by Alexander IH. to ex hibit his powers at the royal palace. Mr.*Bishop did so and later on gave other experiments While in St. Pe tersburg he also donated $25,000 to the Alexander Hospital for-Men The czar was so pleased with the mind jfts reader's cleverness and generosity that,lj|4 he presented him -with a handsome watch charm as a token of his friend ship. The charm is three-quarters of an inch in diameter and three-fourths of an inch thick and is surmounted by a golden crown. On the obverse side i* the Russian eagle in gold, on a back ground of red enamel. Around va Millet is almost always cut'folTrip*o*.bl&l to make good cow feed Horses like it after the seeds have matured, be* cause the seed is rich. They will fatten on it So, too, might a cow that waa*il intended for the shambles." Buu the woody stalk of ripeed millet is not compensated for to thes cow by extra 1 mount of nutriment itn the seeds It 1 do ta have seedfr. fully a "J -in else on Whence Comes- the Diamond Theories concerning the origin of the .2 diamond have been both numerous and $ curious. Some mineralogists have sug gested that it is the residence of car bon vapors dissipated by heat during that indefinite epoch knowni as the "coal period Newton says that in his opin- ^p* icn it is "a coagulated unctuous sub stance, probably of vegetable origia." ^'|t Haynes and Faure are both of the opin--I|| ion that no diamond was ever ormedt & on or within the surface of our earth, ***$ and that all such gems are brought to. this planet my meteoric stones from.^ some far away world. Sir David Brew- S ster, the eminent British philosopher^ (born 1781, died in 1868), entertained ideas concerning tbe diamond's origin, which, while simHar to those of New ton, were different in some respects. 1 In his estimation such gems were onco masses of gum, exuded from certato,|| species of extinct trees or plants, whicliM had frequently "petrified" and assumed W& the crystalline form! According toff Dana, the greatest living authority, J| they may have been produced by slow decomposition of vegetable or even anw mal matter.St Louis Republic. 0 wio?wttwtho cr a when down, might have to.l)*' sup- w silo. That pre&erves its snecrx^tee ported, buoyed up in going tluousU the odmillet fe lli richer- ft 4@5