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OOM PAUL AT HOME
SiORIES OF His' adventures on
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THE AT*RIOAN VELDT
’ A. I
PIETY DAILY LIFE
He Is Now ,6 Years Old and Has Been
FMecteif Ccli he Transvaal Presidency
Four Times— Gets a Salary of $35,-
000 a Year Yet Lives in a Most Sim
ple Manuer.
Johanna Paulus Kruyer,
president of the Transvaal, is an inter
esting public character. Upon being
introduced you first conclude that he
hasheen greatly overestimated. He
seeifiteiamhing more than a shrewd old
bun ter, wtm, by constant contact with
Wild animus and savage kaffirs, has
det eloped a weariness that makes him
suspicious oj everything and every
body.
His legs aife so sihort and slender
that you wo&der how they bear the
weight of a heavy, thick and solid
body. His head is big, and his neck is
concealed by beard, hair and coat col
lar, so that you cannot determine
whether or not he indulges in neck
wear. At home he is usually puffing a
short briar pipe, and as he handles
this you notice that the thumb of his
left hand is missing. There is a story
connected with this that Kruger will
tell you between puffs if he is in the
mood. It gives an idea of the grit
which is a characteristic of the old
Boers.
When Kruger was a young man he
was out hunting one day with a rifle
which had not been used for a long
time. While he was tinkering with a
charge the gun exploded, tearing his
left thumb to shreds. Kruger's com
panions wanted to give up the hunt
and hurry to the nearest surgeon, but
the intrepid young Boer refused. Tak
ing out his hunting knife, he placed the
lacerated thumb on the stock of the
rifle and amputated it himself. By
tying about the stump a piece of raw
hide he stopped the flaw of the blood,
and winding around it his red hand
kerchief he continued the sport.
Physical robustness and courage
have contributed greatly to Kruger's
success as the leader of a nation. He
is absolutely fearless, though not reck
less, and since boyhood has known
how to act quickly in an emergency.
When only 14 years old he and a
little sister strayed away from the
Jaager town in Cape Colony, where the
elder Kruger had settled on imigrating
from Germany, and while playing
were suddenly attacked by a leopard.
Young Kruger’s only weapon was a
jaeknife, but shielding his sister With
one arm, he met the vicious spring of
the leopard with the other, and after a
struggle succeeded in stabbing it to
death.
One is hardly warranted either in
speaking slightingly of “Oom” Paul’s
legs, for they once ran a race that
made him famous all through the na
tive tribes in south Africa. A Kaffir
chief had become celebrated for his
running ability and had never been
beaten until challenged by a i.umber of
young Boors, who chose Kruger to rep
resent them. It was decided that the
two shculd run for 12 hours, and the
man leading at the end of that time
was to have some sort of a prize. At
the end of 11 hours the Kaffir dropped
in his tracks unconscious, while
Kruger kept on to the finish, and, ac
cording to one of his companions, was
so fresh then that he took part in a
hunting trip.
It is the appearance of rough hardi
hood and the unkempt personal attire
that first impresses one on meeting
Oom Paul, but when the man begins to
talk you forget all else but Kruger, the
diplomat and careful statesman. He
gave the writer a short interview re
cently for publication with the under-
standing that the Boer side should be
{represented from his own view point,
Vfirst inquiring if I were a spy from
foul Rhodes. On being assured to the
/tVttiity by a number of Volksraad
\ Jbers who were present, he fol
ic JFed it up by another customary ques
tion, asking: "What is your relig
ion?” •
These two inquiries give an insight
into Kruger’s life. His first duty, he
believes, is to God. and his second to
guard against Rhodes, whom he detests
like a poisonous reptile. But for
Rhodes. Mr. Kruger says, all would be
peace and quietness in the Transvaal.
So long as this man is in South Africa
there is no rest for the Boers, and their
secret Service agents may be found on
every street in Johannesburg on the
lookout for Outlander conspiracies.
From all outward appearances Oom
Paul is intensely pious, and though
some insist that it is all hypocrisy,
there is no proof that Kruger does not i
live in strict accordance to his preach
ing. He was confirmed in 1842 by Rev.
Daniel Lindlay, an American mission
ary, and from that day to this has led
a severely Christian life after the pre
cept laid down by John Calvin. He
can quote nearly the whoie Bible, and
this has served him weii in a secular
way, for helms learnedrrom it to speak
in parables, terse epigrams that are
readily interpreted by his followers
and have more force than the most
brilliant rhetorical flights.
Kruger. In addition to his other ac
complishments, is by far the best
pcgacher in the Transvaal, and the
formed church boasts of some
c „ D ', ( \men there. He occupies the
onlnit „ V><l ern brl ck edifice across
Pttlpit in a once a
froiTOiE -o standing
month and always tal'gF
room only. He uses no notes, but
| speaks offhand from a text and does
not hesitate to sprinkle a little humor
in the discourse. In his speeches be
fore the Raad he quotes Scripture gen
erously, and even more so in conversa
tion.
As for his private life, that seems to
bo exemplary. After rising he prays
for a long time in his room and “talks
over w r ith the Lord” the questions of
the day. When he develops a convic
tion in this way he proceeds to act on
it. Kruger’s piety once nearly cost
him his life, according to a current
story. A good many years ago he sud
denly disappeared, and when he failed
to show up a searching party was made
up to hunt for him. At the end of
three days they found the future presi
dent, who was then a field cornet,
lying face down on the open veldt.
He had been praying three days and
nights steadily without food or water
and w r as nearly dead. When carried
back and revived he exclaimed that he
had done it as a chastisement for his
sins.
Two stories the Outlanders relate to
offset Kruger's reputation for piety.
One was recently printed in a Natal
paper. It accused Oom Paul of punish
ing one of his Kaffir boys by tying him
under his wagon, spreading out his legs
and arms and making them fast to the
axles. The boy was hauled for two
days in this position, declared the
writer. On another occasion Kruger,
when he was trekking, lost an ox and
could not find another to take its place,
so, it is alleged, he hitched up a Kaffir
in the team and completed the journey.
This Kaffir is still living near Dreik
opies, in the Orange Free State, at a
ripe old age, so the experience does not
seem to have injured him. In fact, he
seems rather proud of the distinction.
The first question put to Oom Paul
by your cores* xmdent was why he did
not give the outlanders the right to
vote, which the English put forth as
their chief cause for complaint. Kruger
smoked hard for a moment, then laid
down his pipe, and placing his hands
on his knees, said:
“A man cannot serve two masters.
Either he will hate the one and cling
to the other, or despise the one and
love the other. Now, the Englishman
wants to do this. He demands the
franchise from me, desires to become a
burgher, and yet when it comes to
trouble he would forsake us In a
moment and claim the protection of
the Queen.
“How can I give such men the
chance to vote? They do not take any
interest in our country. They have
not come here to settle. They wish us
no good. I want to be fair with every
one who comes here to live, and when
he has proved that he is a good citizen
and has come to help us I want him to
vote. But we have a law for bigamy in
the Transvaal, and it is necessary for
a man to put off his old love before
taking on anew.”
Kruger related graphically the his
tory of the Boers from the time they
settled in Cape Colony, from which
they were driven by the English, until
they settled in the Transvaal. On this
great trek they killed 6,000 lions, of
which number Kruger himself killed
250. They fought their way step by
step until they finally reached the long
ridge known as the Wits waters rand,
where they settled, ah unconscious of
the hidden wealth.
"It seemed so poor,” said Kruger,
“that even the English did not be
grudge it. So we established a govern
ment, developed a constitution and laid
the foundation for a nation. We built
towns, cultivated the soil and were
making great progress and living
peacefully when gold was discovered.
Then new and proplexing questions
arose, and England immediately be
came avaricious, but we were not will
ing to give up the country which we
had developed by the sweat of our
brow, and so there was Majuba Hill.
You know about that?”
Here Kruger blinked slyly, and a
laugh went around among the Boers.
“So, now,” continued Oom Paul, tak
ing up his pipe and dropping into par
ables, “the gold fields are like a beauti
ful rich young woman. Everybody
wants her, and When they cannot get
her they do not want anyone else to
possess her.”
“Can the English starve you out?”
“If the Lord wills it, yes.” he replied.
“If not, the English can build a wall
around us as high as Jericho and we
will live and prosper.”
Kruger is now 76 years old and has
been elected to the presidency four
times. His salary Is 35,000 a year. His
life has certainly been a remarkable
one, and at different stages he has been
a farmer, herdsman, hunter, soldier,
clergyman, ambassador, financier and
head of the army. In recent years he
hrs bought and sold land a good deal
and is reputed to be very wealthy. His
habits and method of living are so sim
ple, however, that he could have saved
nearly all his salary In these years,
which would give him a tidy fortune.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
Love grows by what it doesn’t feed
on.
No thin girl will ever admit that
there is a family skeleton anywhere
around her house.
Some of the worst gifts that Santa.
Claus ever put in a stocking are
what women wear in them.
After a girl has been engaged three
or four times she feels lonesome
every night a man doesn’t propose to
her.
Women who are awful careful about
matching ribbons that they wear
where nobody ever sees them are
mighty reckless matching hearts that
everybodt- can look at. —New York
Prcs^V^f
TABBY WHIPPED EVERY DOG.
Angora Cat Revenged the Slaughter
of Her Kittens.
In Athens, Ohio, there is an Angora
cat with a fighting record. When she
appears on the street every dog within
sight slinks off with his tail between
his legs. Not one of them dares to
pass her, and yet, under ordinary cir
cumstances, s’e is a peacetime, law
abiding cat. She made her record last
summer, and the tale of her provoca
tion is tragic.
In June she became the proud moth
er of four puff-ball kittens. They oc
cupied a basket in the barn, and every
one petted them and made much of
them; but one fateful day, •while the
mother was away, rats killed all four
of the kittens. When the bereaved
parent returned a dreadful sight met
her eyes. The owner of the oat had a
kennel of fine hnuting dogs. Tabby
had had various skirmishes with them,
and had reason to think them evil
characters. She evidently ngtired out
the theory that dogs were the meanest
creatures she knew, and the dogs must
have killed those kittens, for she rose
with her white fur bristling and her
eyes blazing and made a bee-line lor
the kennel-yard, where five dogs were
sunning themselves. Swooping down
upon the innocent dogs, she took them,
one at a time, and punished them until
they fled, covered with blood and yelp
ing dismally.
Tabby’s blood was up. Some dog
had killed her helpless babes. She
didn’t know -what dog had done the
deed; but she didn’t intend to take any
chances on allowing the guilty one to
escape, so she started out on the war
path, with a firm intention of whipping
every dog in town. The next door
neighbor owned a valuable pug dog.
who was lying luxuriously on a blue
silk cushion on the front veranda. In
at the gate came an avenging Nemesis,
spitting fire and slaughter. In two
minutes that blue silk cushion was
spattered with red, and the pug was a
candidate for a dog hospital. Tabby
left him howling in agony, and rushed
on in her mad career, tackling every
dog, big or little, that showed his head.
The righteousness of her cause spurred
her on, and each contest added to her
thirst for gore. An Italian greyhound
was fit for nothing but carpet rags
when she got through wLn him, and a
dignified St. Bernard has been blind in
one eye ever since he met incarnate
fury in Angora guise.
The crusade auraeted the attention
of passers-by, and a crowd soon col
lected and followed the cat. Betting
on each event ran high and the excite
ment grew. Finally the cat neared a
butcher’s shop, in whose door sat a
bandy-legged bulldog of great renown.
The fame of that bulldog as a fighter
had spread far and wide, and everyone
prophesied that the dauntless con
queror had met her Waterloo. She
made straight for the bulldog. He
rose and waddled out to meet her. He
would take her by the back of the neck
and break her back with one shake.
Then suddenly something fell from the
sky upon the back of his own neck,
and blood rained into his eyes and ears.
When he could see aga,n a wild and
demoniac cat wasstandingteu feet away
from him, but she didn’t stay there.
She flew through the air, landed on his
back and clawed furrows before he
could touch her. Then she was gone
again.
The unequal contest lasted five min
utes, and at the end of that time the
bulldog, whipped for the first time in
his life, slunk into the shop, and Tabby
hunted for another victim. None ap
peared. She had cleaned out the town,
and, after looking vainly for more
worlds to conquer, she trailed sadly
home and sat In the barn door wailing
dismally all the afternoon. Since then
every dog in town will cross the street
to avoid her. —Cleveland leader.
FROGGING IN THE WOODS.
How Hunters Go Forth to Capture the
Loud-Voiced Creature.
One of the relaxations of camp life
is to go a-frogging, and at these times
the bullfrog is pursued and presecuted
relentlessly. It is a sport, and at the
same time there is a reason for the
pursuit of the bullfrog. The reason
for the capture of the solemn-voiced
creature is that their hind legs, or sad
dles, as they are called , are particu
larly good to eat. in the auernoon or
toward evening frog hunters go forth
to the marshy places along the lakes
and in the pond3. Good catches are
made with either rifle or a rod, a hook
and line and a piece of red flannel, this
last exciting their wrath as it waved
before their noses. In the daytime
the old frogs are missing. They are
too sly to be caught napping. Their
time for business is at night, when all
is still and when they can make their
croaks resound through the forests like
like the bellow of a bull. And this is
the time when they make themselves
heard without being seen. To circum
vent these old rascals a different mode
of procedure is employed. The re
quisites are a covering for the head, to
keep off mosquitoes, or the generous
use of some ungent to drive them away,
a lantern giving a good light, with a
reflector that puts all behind in dark
ness, while it dazzels the frog; a flat
bottomed beat, or one drawing very
little water; a man In the stern of the
boat who knows how to move a boat in
any direction with the minimum
aipount of noise; a dark night, a lake
with plenty of frogs, and lily pads
along the shore. Two men are neces
sary for this pursuit of the sport, one
to hold the lantern and gather in the
frogs and one to move the boat along.
The man in the bow of the boat has all
j the fun; he espies the frog, signals sil
ently to bis companion in which direc
tion he lies. The boat steals upon the
frog, who is to-* > busily engaged watch
ing the bright light to notice anything
else. Before he is aware a club or
scoop net has gathered him In, his cap
tor remarking as he casts the latest
prize into the bottom of the boat.
“Thero is another one for breakfast.”
There may be nothing strictly sporting
in catching frogs in this or any other
way, but there's a fascination about
night trips of this sort hard to over
come.
Spearing frogs is an art and is prac
ticed in the marshes and around the
shallow shores of the lakes where frogs
abound. The light canoe is sent noise
lessly through the shallow stretches
of water by light dips of the paddle,
and as the hunter nears the frogs,
floating in the water, he stops the boat
with a turn of trie paddle. The spear
is then raised, adjusted and sighted. It
strikes the water with a chug, trans
fixing the frog's body. If the spearer
is expert he can get several in a bunch,
one after another, wituout their taking
alarm. Frogs are not speared except
when they are in the water.
Then there is the way of securing
them by shooting. This requires skill
with the rifle and patience in stalking.
The frog is sagacious on land, and at
the least alarm he will launch into
space and dive down into the water. To
shoot them before they jump is the
trick, and to do this a cautious ap
proach is required. The best way to
get them with a rifle is to shoot them
from the water, wading along the
shore, a little way out, and shooting
them as they sit on the bank. A 22 cali
ber rifle is amply large enough for this
kind of shooting.
EXHIBIT OF DAIRY PRODUCTS.
Opportunity to Win Diplomas and
Medals in Russia.
The Department of Agriculture has
received through the Department of
State notice that the Imperial Free
Economical Society of St. Petersburg
will hold an exhibition of Russian
dairy products and an International ex
hibition of machines, apparatus, kinds
of packing and appliances for trans
portation of milk products at St.
Petersburg during September, 1899.
None but Russian produets will be ad
mitted to the exhibit of dairy prod
ucts. but the exhibit of machines, etc.,
will be international. Preserved milk
(condensed milk, milk flour, etc.) will
be admitted to the international ex
hibit.
The exhibition of dairy products will
consist of milk, cream, curds, cheese,
koumiss, kefir, gaseous milk, milk
brandy, condensed milk, etc.
The international exhibition will em
brace apparatus and machines to work
milk, separators, churns, butter dry
ers, cheese kettles, pasteurizers, eleva
tors, apparatus for scientific and prac
tical analysis of milk, butter and other
products, dairy buildings, ice wagons,
cooling-rooms, etc.
The exhibition will open Sept. 13 and
continue one month. Exhibitors will
be required to notify the committee
on organization of the amount of space
wanted and to-pay an entrance fee of
about 85 cents per square yard.
Diplomas of honor, gold, silver and
bronze medals and certificates of honor
will be given for the best exhibits.
Intending exhibitors can obtain
blank applications from the bureau of
animal industry, United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.—Washington
Post.
REMEMBER WHEN MARKETING.
It Is Easy to Secure Variety For the
Table Without Extra Cost.
“To insure success in catering for a
small family, attention must be given
to the marketing and to the arrange
ment of quantities; otherwise the
family will be eating beef, mutton or
chicken four or five days in succes
sion,” writes Mrs. Rorer in the Ladies’
Home Journal. “Materials should be
so arranged that the left-overs will
come in between the newly cooked din
ner dishes. For instance, if you have
a steak today do not have it warmed
over for the next day's dinner; but,
instead, have chicken, and the follow- 1
ing day the left-over beef, and the day I
following that the left-over chicken. 1
Arrange to have guests for luncheon
the day following the largest meat
dish. If you have roasted chicken on
Tuesday night for dinner, have com
pany on Wednesday at noon; then you
may have chicken croquettes or chick
en patties as the main luncheon dish.
In this way persons of limited means
may entertain without adding to the
cost of living. A clever housewife
may do wonders by arranging menus
in this way.”
TRUST'S AND ADVERTISING.
The rapid formation of trusts threat
ens a serious injury to the newspaper
craft. It is estimated by conservative
men that during the past six months
the trusts have caused a decrease of
from *9,000,000 to *13,000,000 yearly In
the amount spent by general adver
tisers. The recently formed baking
powder trust is a good example. Among
the heaviest advertisers with news
papers of a general character have
been the various manufacturers of bak
ing powder. The Royal, Dr. Price.
Calumet, One Spoon, and others have
for several years been spending Im
mense sums of money in advertising.
The new trust consolidates all these,
companies and the result is a with
drawal of an Immense lot of money
from advertising channels. The beer
trust threatens to do ti.e same thing,
and other trusts now In process of
formation will Increase the withdrawal
of money from advertts.ng medium .
The cigarette trust, the corset trust,
the cereal trust, silverware trust, knit
goods trust shoe trust, and many
others—all representing goods hereto
fore advertised extensively by compet
ing manufacturers—have withdrawn
most of the advertising heretofore in
dulged in. Leslie’s Weekly places the
amount lost to advertising mediums by
reason of the consolidation of inter
ests at $15,000,000 a year.—Michigan
Bulletin.
SIX MILLION LETTERS ASTRAY'.
Why the Y'early Work of the Dead
Letter Office is Enormous.
“It is estimated that during the last
year 6,000,000,000 pieces of mail mat
ter, including all classes, were posted
in the United States,” writes Patti
Lyle Collins in The Ladies’ Home
Journal. “Of this number, 6,312,731
were sent to the dead-letter office,
making an average receipt of about
21,000 leters and parcels for each work
ing day. During this period more than
85,000 were dispatched either with in
sufficient postage or none at all, 32,000
bore no address whatt ver, 34.000 were
misdirected, 200,000 unclaimed at ho
tels, and something more than the last
number were sent to fictitious ad
dresses. And to these figures must be
added 2,973,387 letters and circulars
without inclosures of obvious value
which could not be returned to the
senders and were destroyed. More
than 50.000 letters contained money
amounting to $38,595. while 32,422 in
cluded drafts, money orders, etc., to
the value of $945,000, to say nothing of
30.000 with photographs.”
PRIVATE SECRETARY' FOR. MANY.
One Way in Which a Bright Girl ’May
Earn a Living.
“Few trades are so overcrowded as
that, of stenography, because twenty
girls can be found for each position
offered,” writes Frances E. Lanigan in
the Ladies’ Home Journal. “Anew
branch o'f regular stenography is that
of the typewriter-stenographer who
works hy the piece. She visits her cus
tomers each morning, takes notes, and
does her work upon her own type
writer, returning the letters promptly
for signature. She also does copying.
To business men who have not suffi
cient. work, nor office room sufficient
to share with a typewriter, she is in
valuable. She is also a valued as
sistant to women who are busy with
club work, answering their letters,
copying rules and regulations, and
filing away their business "papers.”
MONEY FOUND IN THE MAIL BAGS,
Almost *IO,OOO a " TViir For Which
Claimants Are Never Discovered.
“It seems almost incredible that in
the neighborhood of $40,000 In actual
cash should have been confided to let
ters during the last year, and harder
still to credit that the most exhaustive
efforts failed to find the owners of one
fourth of that amount,” writes Patti
Lyle Collins in The Ladies’ Home
Journal. “The envelopes which are
addressed are kept on file for four
years, blank ones not so long, but in
either ease a liberal margin of time
is allowed for claimants to appear be
fore the money is finally turned into
the treasury to the credit of the post
office department. In addition to the
money contained in letters during the
same period, something like SIO,OOO
was found loose in the mails. It is of
ficially styled ‘loose money.’ ”
MUSIC KILDS A HORSE.
Music caused the doath of a beauti
ful 3-year-old filly at Florence, Ala.,
the other day. A farmer drove his val
uable young mare Into town, and as he
was driving up the principal street a
brass hand suddenly struck up its
blatant music. The mare had never
heard any sound like that before, and
so startled was she that she dropped
dead in the shafts of the trap. A veter
inary surgeon who examined the car
cass declared that the mare had died
of heart failure, duo to excitement,
caused by the sound of the unaccus
tomed music of the brass band.—Roa
noke News.
FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION.
The percentage of profits of any busi
wbich are apt to be put into advertis
ing is a matter for individual consid
eration. All kinds of trade do not de
mand a like amount of advertising.
Proprietary medicines, whatever their
Intrinsic merit, must he exploited more
persistently tbon, for Instance, bicycles
or typewriters. A moderate sized busi
ness handling any of the staples may
he maintained with very little advertis
ing.
PLANTS WHICH CAN BEAR FUR
NACE HEAT.
“I am asked to name several good
plants which can be grown In halls and
parlors where the heat Is from a fur
nace and the temperature is kept at
seventy to seventy-five degrees," writ**
El am E. Rexford iu the Judies’ Home
Journal. “There are few plants which
will stand such heat. It is to dry. The
life-giving element has been burned
out at it. The Aspidistra will be more
likely to flourish under such circum
stances than any other plant that I
know of."
HIS DAY HAD COME.
"So that young puppy wants to take
you away from me Just as I need you
the most?”
“Yes, father; he says every dog has
his day, and you have had yours.”—
Brooklyn Life.
HOROSCOPES.
Before the sibyl with her haunted eyes
Two sisters sat with delicate arms
enlaced;
Watched as she deals the cards, and,
without haste,
Spelt out the rune of their two des
tinies.
Brown-haired and gold-haired, fresher
" than the dawn,
Poppy and white anemone were they,
A flower of autumn and a flower of
May,
They watched to see their fates from
darkness drawn.
“Life will be sad for you and yours,
heigho!”
The sibyl told the autumn-colored
meld.
“But will my lover love me?” “Ay,”
she said.
“Why, then, I shall be all too happy
so.”
X
“With earthly love you never shall be
fed,”
The sibyl told the lady white as
snow.
"But shall I love at all?” “Ay, even
so.”
“Then happy 1 shall live and die,” she
said.
DICKENS’ GRAVE IS UNMARKED.
No Monument Rises over the Remains
of the Great Novelist.
The suggestion has been made that
a monument to Charles Dickens should
be erected in one of the public places
of this city. It is not at all likely that
the proposal, however warmly it might
be supported by the English people,
will ever he carried into effect, for any
such scheme of perpetuation would be
in direct opposition to the expressed
wish of the great novelist, who desired
by his work alone to live in the hearts
of his countrymen. The will of
Charles Dickens, from which the fol
lowing lines are taken, very clearly ex
presses the master’s wishes:
“l conjure my friends on no account
to make me the subject of any monu
ment, memorial, or testimonial what
ever. 1 rest my claims to the remem
brance ot my country upon my pub
lished works and to the remembrance
of my friends upon their experience of
me in addition thereto.”
To this wish tho members of the
family have always given the strongest
adherence and have already discoun
tenanced, and will continue to dis
courage. any attempt to set the provi
sion of the will at naught.
Some few years ago Edwin Elwell, a
gifted American sculptor .completed in
marble a full length portrait figure of
tho novelist, with little Nell looking
upward to tho face of her creator. Tills
charming group the sculptor offered to
the Ixmdon County Council for erec
tion In some suitable place In Ixmdon,
but owing to the attitude of the family,
who out of respect to the wishes of the
novelist refused to countenance the
movement, the offer was declined.
In these circumstances it Is hardly
probable that any memorial, at least of
a public character, will be attempted,—
Ixmdon Mail.
NO MORE RICE AT WEDDINGS.
One of the new and attractive fea
tures of the wedding ala mode is the
absence of the traditional rice which
lias cnade itself very unpopular and
notorious the last few years by bring
ing disaster on wedding parties in the
way of inflamed eyes, etc., causing
lawsuits and other unpleasantnesses.
Even :he sanctity of tradition lias not
been able to withstand the ruthless
hand of the iconoclast. At some of
the recent ceremonies rose leaves have
taken the, place of the grain. Little
baskets filled with these fragrant har
bingers of good luck have been handed
the wedding party, and the united
ones have gone away under a shower
of bloom and perfume. Tradition is
all very well, hut modern methods are
sometimes better. One loses, perhaps,
the savor of the practical Joke, the
perfunctory smiles of hotel clerks,
watchful foi retained particles, but the
custom has certainly gained In grace
what It has lost In humor, and after
all, the rice throwing neveT had any
thing but the force of habit'to recom
mend it; it was neither a beautiful nor
a dignified custom. I.<et us hope the
rose leaves have come to stay.—The
Criterion.
ROYAL LADY COIjONELS.
Queen Victoria Is colonel of a regi
ment of Prussian dragoons, but her
majesty has never donned the short
blue tunic and other obligatory uni
form of this iKsly and ridden at its
head. Her daughter, the Empress
Frederick, is a colonel of hussars, and
has often appeared at reviews in the
loose-braided Jacket, Dir cap, scarlet
tights, and gold-embroidered top boots
of her regiment, a dash of femininity
being added In a blue skirt not belong
ing to the regimental uniform. The
present German empress is a colonel of
cuirassiers, and at reviews rides at her
husband’s side In a white rldlng-sklrt,
white military jacket, and plumed
three-cornered cap. The queen of
Greece, a Russian princess, is admiral
In the Ruslan navy. Most of the prin
cesses of the Russian royal house are
army officers of high rank, but they
content themseleves on military occa
sions with wearing the colors of their
commands, Instead of riding at their
head In full uniform.—Tld-Blts.
Harlem Life: "What are you doing,
doctor?" asked a man who entered as
the physlcion was vaccinating a pa
tient.
“Scraping an acquaintance.” was the
reply. - ”