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WANTS TWINS, SO SHE TOSSES ? WEALTH Josephine Kryl Spurns Father's $100,000 to Elope With Youth She Loves. ELUDES PARENTS GUARDS Musician's Daughter 8peede to Station and Marries Com poser in Fifteen Minutes. NFW YORK, Oct. 28.?When ? sephlne Kryl, the pretty dtugh to? of Behumir Kryl, the now fa r >us musician, sacrificed $100,000 to marry, everyone shook their heads and declared the girl to be f o >lish. All she had to do was to wait five years longer, and then she eould have had the $100,000 and t1i<s husband too, if she still de * ed. But Josephine was tired of wait ing and she had a secret ambition t. ?t no one except herself knew anything about It wasn't exactly the kind of ambition that a bache ' lor girl could discuss unreservedly. Bribed Against Cupid. You see, Bohumir Kryl, the v althy musical director, promised J sephlne and her stoter, Marie, that * ' ch would have $100,000 If she did f t marry until she was thirty j are old. If either married, he *? pulated, the girl who was single at thirty would get her own share and the share of her married sister. - Josephine and Marie agre?d t"t they were only twenty, and the 11 -at five years went swiftly enough. T ley had many friends?but no a. eethearts. She Want* Twins. But now Josephine has eloped to Breton with Paul Taylor White, the young composer, flinging away the - $100,000 and glorying in the love of - her husband. Why? Well, don't ~ smile, but here'a the reason the pretty bride gave: "I don't care about the old (100, -S00 at all?I WANT TWINS!" Josephine blushed as she re _ vealed the ambition?her husband wasn't present, of course, but she went on valiantly: "Father wfinted me to follow a career. I don't want a career. I want babies!" A Defiant Daughter. More blushes then and a Mttle laugh, and then she told the story: "Of course $100,000 would come In very handily Just now, because It would help us set up our new home, but I guess that we can get along without it, Paul and I. We are In love. We are happy. We are married. What else could we ask? - What else except?but I've men .. tioned that already. "I met Paul in Cincinnati fjur ?rears ago. I was studying the vlo In under that charming teacher and great musician, Ysaye. Paul was atudylng with him, too. "We fell In love almost Imme diately. Soon we were dreaming our dreams of a little nest all our own. Father heard and was fur ious. An Adamlm Eden. "Father wanted me to become a great musician He thought I had talent enough to be a remarkable Violinist and he did wanf. me to have a career. He frowned on our pratposed mrrlage. He detested the Very thought of it. "He had forbiden either Marie or Ine to marry. No man was ever al lowed to visit us. Father wouldn't permit a man in the house. "But Paul and I saw a lot of each other, anyway, after we met. Every Winter he went to Cincinnati from Boston and I went from Chicago. We decided about a year ago that yrt- would be married. < "You see, father had really prom ised me that $100,000 If I waited until I was twenty-five years ol* be fore I married. I thought he meant It. We did wait, Paul and I, until I was twenty-five, and then father - changed his mind. Extended Time TJmtt. "When I was twenty-five he did not give me the money. He said that If I waited until I was thirty Without marriage the money would eurely be mine. So then, I derided this wasn't playing fair, and any way, I did not want to wait any longer "We set June of this year for our wedding. But I foolishly left some letters In the house and my father found them, and?well the Wedding was put off! "Paul and I decided then to marry quietly, very quietly, on September 4, but my sister Marie let the secret out and father doubled the guards ~ over me. Paul and I were desper - ate. Elude the Guards. "Paul called me from Boston on the telephone and said we should be married at once. I agreed. He ~*une on to Chicago and I Just sneak M out. eluding the guards, and 4/nve down to the station, where I j*et him in my car. "We sped to the city hall and fifteen minutes after he had arrived We were safely married. Now Paul Will , go on and write music and teach music and be a splendid suc cess. "I shall not stop studying, but _ my home shall come first. As I said, what I really want now, more than any career Is "Babies "Oh. I hope I hare twins!" SKIN IRRITATION Peterson's Ointment "People who use it know that Peterson's Ointment stops itching of skin and scalp almost instantly," says Peterson. "And I want you to know that its mighty heal ing power overcomes piles * and fiery eczema." 36c, 60c, ; |1.00, $2.50, $6.00. A LOVE VS. WEALTH 1 Ktv>. &^ Mam JCxryl ? Six yean ago, when Josephine Kryl was eighteen and her sister Marie was sixteen, Bohnmir Kryl, world-famous mu sician, offered them $1.00,000 each if, on their thirtieth birth days, they had not married, but had devoted their lives to the violin. Josephine met and loved Paul Taylor White, a Boston musician-composer. They were married, and she was cut off. Marie still is unmarried. NESTOR OF B. 10 0. HOLE II NINETY-FIVE L. F. Thompson, Oldest Em ploye, It Older Than the Rail road Itself. MANASSAS. Va. Oct. 28?The oldest employe of the oldext railroad in the United States, L. F. Thomp son, of Parkersburg, W. Va., re cently celebrated hi* ninety-ninth birthday?a distinction held by few Who are as active at this age as the present Nestor of the Baltimore and Ohio. He Is older than the railroad Itself, having been born in 1823, or four years before the city of Baltimore gave birth. In 1827, to the organization With which he has been identified for sixty-five years. Mr. Thompson was pensioned by the company in 1900, twenty-two years ago. By birth Mr. Thompson Is a Vir ginian, a native of Prince William county. By Inclination, "he first be came a school teacher. Imparting to the children of the early "forties" around his locality the mysteries of the three "R's" In 1848, he Jour neyed on horseback over the moun tains to Prunytown, W. Va., to ac cept a position at Rector College as Instructor In mathematics, con tinuing to teach until his health failed In 1867, and upon the advice of a physician he sought out-door employment As brakeman. he started his long railroad career in 1857 on the North Orafton and Parkersburg, W. Va., which had Just been completed, later becoming part of the Balti more and Ohio. Mr. Thompson went on for three years as brakeman, recovering his health, and in 1860, was promoted to freight conductor. He later be came a passenger conductor, be tween Orafton and Parkersburg, shortly before the chrtl war broke out. His train transported the regi ment of Union soldiers to Webster which engaged the first land battle of the war, at Phlllippl, W. Va., May 18, 861. In 1882 Mr Thompson went to Parkersburg, W. Va., occupying a position In the freight office where he remained the balance of his active railroad career. Mr. Thompson lives at Parkers burg, W. Va., with his grand daughter, Mrs. C. A. Swearinger. STAUNTON ELKS DISBAND. STAUNTON, Va.. Oct 28.? Staunton Lodge. No. 352, Benevo lent and Protective Order of Elks, having disbanded after many years of successful operation. Its lodge rooms are being cleared of club property. The library has been dis mantled and the bookcases sold. All furniture has also been sold. Wife Moved Furniture, Left Him Vacant House HUSTON, Oct. 28.?How his wife. Dora, left her home for Boston to mtet convivial companions several nights a weak and returned on the 8 a. m. train was told in court by Abraham J. Wolk, of Chelsea, m his suit for separation on ths kround of cruel and abusiv4 treatment ana desertion. Said he: "I upbraided her for leaving nie alone nights. She only laughed I told her she would have to do as I sav. She answered this by mov ing the furniture to Boston and leaving me & house with bars walls." Judge Bell granted Wolk a decree nisi. ADVERTISEMENT. ""^Gets-It" ?Painless Corn Remover ? ? This Corn Remedy Is T>uarante?<l No matter ? how tough or how ?tub born It may have been. the corn or callue that la touchad with a few drope of "Gata-It" la doomed to a quick, eaay, aura and painlaaa end. Never again can It pain you. Soon you ara holding In your flngere Ita entire remains?a alngle piece of dead, ahrlvelsd akin that you throw away?forever. 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Hypo-Cod is a wise precaution when someone else is sick In the house. Take it yourself?let the whole family take It. Hypo-Cod fortifies and In creases the disease .resistance. It is nice to take. M&lem, powerful and economical, too. Drop In at nearest Peoples Drug Store. Ask the manager. If he recommends Hypo-Cod. Look at the formula on the bottle. Submit It to your doc tor If you wish. Ask about special Hypo-Cod offer. If out of town. Hypo-Cod will be prepaid to your door (pay postman when It arrtvs*) Peoples Drue Store*, Washington SDN OF GRIDEE IS SUED BY WIFE Harvard Friends of Cordova Dispute Charge* Mad* in Divorce Petition. i BOSTON. Oct. IS.?Boston and Brookllne society lifted Jta eye brows In aurprlM at the dlvoros libel (lied by Mr*. Alice Miller de Cordova, of Brookllne, avalnat J. Dana de Cordova. Harvard man. and aon of a grandee of Spain. In her ault Mra. de Cordova, who waa divorced once before, and la the daughter of Ames H. Miller, prominent Boston merchant, aliases non-support, cruel and abusive treatment and gross and confirmed hablta of intoxication. When the newa of the filing of the libel aeeped through State street, where De Cordova la a stock broker, and Into the Harvard Club, both In Boaton, claamates and frlende of the aclon of royal lineage quickly rallied to hia support, not ao much because he was aued for divorce, but because of the ohargea brought ag&inat him. 8ald one who was a classmate of de Cordova's, Harvard, '98: "The chargea are abaoltuely unjust, .par ticularly that one of cruel and abusive treatment. Mra. de Cordova waa herself in Brookllne court charged with aaaault and battery on their col ored maid, and was fined 110, which fine the husband Waa oompalled to pay. | "As for non-support, that is equ ally absurd. Until something happened the couple lived very happily together In dlffenent apart Callouses On Hands Free 2 Weary Willies HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Oct. 28.? fALLOUSES on their hands saved Ray Bailey and Scott Carrier, two transients, from a Jail sentence in police court. The two faced Jud*e Mel rose on charges of loitering in the Chesapeake A Ohio railway depot. "Let me see your hands," Judge Melrose told the pair after they had told of walk ing twenty-eight miles along country 1 roads, working aa they went along. The hand inspection was evidently satisfactory to the judge for the two were dis charged and told to continue searching for work. menta that rented anywhere from $150 to $200 a month, and Mrs. Cordova wanted for nothing. The something that happrfhed will be e sensation. If it Is brought out in court. 4 "The charges of Intoxication are based on nothing at all. iJo Cordova never lost a day at his office, and while he may have taken a drink or two at cla^s banquets, there was never the semblance of his becoming non productive because of Intoxication." BRITISH (MUSED 8! HMERICm TOURISTS Visitor* Pretend to L,ike Water Better. Than Wine, One Writer's Belief. LONDON. Oct. II.?An opopr tunlty for American* to them selves as some other* see them la afforded by an English correspond ent who comments on the number of American tourists he has mat In his travels through the country re centely. "At t Chaster," he writes, ?n? would have thought that the May nower's passengers had all taken dateless return tickets and sent the whole of their descendants back to th? old country In a bunch. "The hotel where I stayed Ms full of aharp-faced men, elastic girls and ahriveled old ladles with eyeglasses and a drawl, who! drank tBelr Water hot at break-1 fast and cold at dinner with an air of thying to believe, for the credit of the Stars and Stripes and the laws of the United States, they preferred it to wine, "On the city Walls, In the cathe dral, by the pleasant Dee, every where one heard the Chicago burr, the western nasal twang, and what I beg leave paradoxical ly to describe as the long-drawn snapplness of New York. " 'There never were more Amer icans here,' a resident told me,' but they are mostly middle class people who have been in duced by the European rates of I ^WtV-VtcToi? I/ic Romance which begun over the foot lights In New York, where Miss Toyovonne Preempt, one of the beauties of the Ziegfeld "Follies." wan playing, resulted In her mar riage In Lm Angeles to Victor Llghtlff, a bond salesman. BEAUTY WEDS exchange to take a cheap holi day across the pond, and they don't lavish money like the mil lionaires of pre-war days.' "This comfortable assurance," says the writer, "enablea me to leave the city without ruining my self in tips." ??P Wfco Ciurtt Bergdoll Run Down by Automobile PHILADELPHIA. Oct. Carrol, the policeman who discover ed Qrover Bcrgdolt hiding In a cloth* basket when the Bartfoll home waa being searched for the draft dod*er. and who arrested him. was atruck by an automobile at Fifty-fourth street and City nn.. He la In the Mlaarloordla Honpiui Buffering from aevere cute and brulaee and a poaelble fractured lea Carrol la a mounted policeman 2? tached to tha Sixty-flrat and Thorn jy ?on atreata atatlon Hla horae waa alao hurt, but not aarlooaly. the driver of the machine. William J Soott, of Upper Darby, waa held un der $S00 bond for a further hearing November 4 by Magistrate Steven ADVERTISEMENT. 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