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Limerick.
By Mri. George Norman.
, vi . r ,» pone of us quite sure after
a whether Miss Van Busker had or
Lno: accepted the Duke of Derry.
•Thi- is so sudden. dook\” his sis-
l.ady Hlldegarde, wickedly
Miss Van Busker to have
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Dretemk
sniil and then that she must have
a month or so—In which to get
to know him.
Sn far Miss Van Busker's Retting to
hiiov. the Duke of Derry had seemed
almost to consist In staying in country
holl ,, s where he wasn't and—well,
tall.inn 10 his men friends. I sup-
p 0SI > -he talked about hltn.
A plain white envelope among her
pint and mauve scented letters on the
sideboard at Uttlewick every morn-
In? of our stay there seemed some-
iliim: of an indication, however, for
I.ai] Hlldegarde used to raise her
j, ret , v eyebrows whenever she came
down before Miss Van Busker and
fc:l w the writing.
We were all as a party very keen,
as the men called it. on limericks. We
usually spent «he morning spoiling
sheets of poor l.ady Newbattle's best
notepaper.
Mis- Van Busker wasn't so entliusl-
a.-tic as the others, however.
-I ll help," alio said the first morn
ing at breakfast—she always came
down as fresh as a daisy and as sweet
tempered as possible while trays were
going up 10 a lot of the other girls'
rooms. "1 mayn’t be a flyer, but I
guess I can fix a limerick."
( apt Crootne, who is a nice looking
young man, with a place in Warwick
shire. and thirteen motors, hut who
certainly isn't clever, developed a
most extraordinary taste for limer
icks.
I "It nu'd lie so good, Miss Van Busk
er." he aid, quite eagerly for hjm.
Why. certainly," Miss Van Busker
said, with her pretty smile and hold
ing out a buttered roll lo the pug. and
Capta 11 Croome hurried through his
breakfast to go and look for a pencil
and paper.
li was a dreadful week of fogs;
hunting and shooting were off, and it
was not cold enough to skate.
“What we should have done with
out these delightful limericks,” Lady
New cattle confided to me, "1 tremble
to think."
All the rooms, and even a drafty
pass,1.0 called the armory, were full
of people—usually two at a time—
with two pencils and one piece of pa-
per At luncheon they didn't seem to
have done so very much, baf the but
ler spent all his time sending down to
the village for sixpenny postal orders,
which soon ran out and had to be
fetched from tiie town.
Tin first few days Miss Van Busker
had sat in the music room, and Cap
tain Croome had sot there, too, and
mad* noughts and crosses, as I hap
pened to see afterward, on a whole
idmai of papers.
The other girls at this time were
father indignant with Miss Van Bus
ker.
"It she isn’t engaged to Stony”
(that is, the Duke of Derry) "she
might say so; and if she is, well—
Captain Croome ought to know it."
Lady Hlldegarde said to me as we
went up to dress for dinner.
I think some one must have given
Captain Croome a hint, for to my as
tonishment be joined me in a very,
very damp and uncomfortable tramp
around the park on the Wednesday
afternoon.
"Hr ah—" he began suddenly, just
as wo got up to tiie statue of Diana
above the house and as 1 was wonder
ing what 1k>M come for—"er—ah! Is
Miss Van Busker engaged to that
ass?”
Really, Captain Croome,” I said,
I can't think who you mean, and I
thiiik you’d better ask Miss Van Bus-
k'T anything like that yourself."
i changed the conversation, and
vp ry soon Captain Croome said he was
sure I'd catch cold if we stayed out
;| ny longer, and as he wouldn't go in
•>v himself we both went back.
•lust at this time Miss Van Busker
look to attaching herself to me. She
is very sweet and appealing, and I
hked having her, but Captain Croome
"•mild follow us about and gaze at
Miss Van Busker and say nothing, and
Rot quite embarrassing.
"Are you—will you think it indis-
r,, eet if I ask if you are going to be
• married?" I said at last one evening,
rather abruptly, as Miss Van Busker
came into my room before dinner in
an exquisite silver tissue over layers
°l rose-cclored chiffon.
Miss Van Busker gazed pensively in
to the fire. "I guess I don’t know,”
1,110 said, thoughtfully. “I don’t seem
able to know. But I’ll wmite you
whenever I do,” she added, brighten
ing up.
“Thank you,” I murmured, and 1
couldn't think of anything else to say.
80 we went down to the drawing
room where Captain Croome was
standing gazing at the door. Ho had
had an enormous box of lilies of the
valley from Solomon's that afternoon,
my maid, who will gossip, told me
while she did up my dress, and Miss
\ an Busker had a lovely bunch of 111-
les in her silver waist belt.
Wo were getting rather tired of lim
ericks, but after dinner I.adv Newbat-
tle set us down to a final competition
lot an old age pension, a country man-
eion, with fishing and shooting at
tached, and three footmen thrown in.
We all seemed to have exhausted our
ideas, however, and oar best efforts
were poor.
Miss Van Busker that night wore an
absolutely plain white ciepe dress, and
her golden hair was very simply done,
and she looked perfectly lovely.
Captain Croome retired to the fur
ther end of the library behind a
screen, and tore up simply dozens of
sleets of paper.
“Can't you get through. Captain?”
Miss \ an Busker called out at last,
when every one had handed In their
folded slips of paper.
Captain Croome started up, and
went over to Miss Van Busker with
quite visible anxiety, and handed her
ltls paper, and I could not help hear
ing him beg her to read It.
Miss Van Busker frowned dreadful
ly when she opened the slip.
"Why, yours doesn’t begin to he like
a limerick," she said coldly to Captain
Croome. "I guess you don’t get the
prize. What do you say?" and she
leaned across and handed me the open
paper.
I just glanced at it and then at Cap
tain Ocome, whose face was a study,
and I crumpled it up and threw it in
to the fire,
"I can't do mine," I said, and I got
up and went into the hall. Captain
Croome followed me.
What he didn't say In general terms
of the perfidy and heartlessness and
general horridness of women isn't
worth mentioning, and I felt quite
wretched. But at last lie went off into
the smoking room and said he'd have
a peg and turn in, and I did tlie same.
I mean, I went up to bed.
At breakfast next day Lady Newbat-
tie looked dreadfully worried.
"Miss Van Busker’s gone, she said,
looking round round tiie table. "She
got a telegram last night. And Cap
tain Croome got one this morning, and
lie’s gone, too."
“Did they go together?" I said in
credulously.
Lady Newbattle looked nervously at
little Lady Hlldegarde.
"Oil. no,” she said, "certainly not.
Miss Van Busker had the brougham,
though how she got all her luggage on
it I don't know, and Captain Croome
had t he landaulette, and neither knew
the other was going."
One of the men laughed.
“But they'll meet at the station,” he
said, "by .love!”
Lady Newbattle looked more wor
ried than ever.
"And this wire’s just come from the
Duke of Derry to say he'll meet her
at the other ytul," she said wretched
ly.
Lady Newbattle sighed heavily and
went over and fed the dogs.
And we all. though we’d done noth
ing, looked rather guiltily at each oth
er and at little Lady Hlldegarde, the
duke’s sister, who is devoted to him.
And how Miss Van Busker com
pounded with her two admirers at Liv
erpool street 1 can't think.—The Tat-
ler.
BARK BEETLE IS CONQUERED.
Nature Comes to Aid of Forestry De
partment in Annihilating De
stroyers.
After ruining a billion and a half
feet of the choicest lumber in the
Black Hills of South Dakota, and rav
aging thousands of acres of the finest
pine trees in the West the little bark
beetle, which lias robbed Uncle Sam’s
forestry division or $10,000,000 in the
last leu years, lias been put to rout by
nature working in her own way to ac
complish that of which the scientists
connected with the bureau made a
complete failure. Already the beetles
are on the decline in numbers and the
forest rangers now believe .that with
in a few years the little pest will have
disappeared entirely from the Black
Hills forests.
l.ast year tlie foresters, who had
vainly tried many remedies, noticed
that many of the trees attacked by
the beetles were shedding their bark,
effectually killing every beetle which
happened to be in tiie tree at the time
the bark fell. They investigated and
soon found that every tree from which
the bark had fallen was covered with a
grayish slime which worked between
the wood and the bark, loosing the
latter from the wood and causing the
death of every young beetle which hap
pened to be in its little gallery or lar
vae mine. In most cases the bark sim
ply falls from the tree, leaving the
wood bare and bringing the beetles
down to earth and certuin death.
The foresters ceased their wood cut
ting und stripping and turned their
attention to transplanting the new
slime to different portions of the areas
which the beetles had attacked, and
within a few months a serious decline
in the number of new trees attacked by
the beetles was noticed.—New York
Herald.
Takes Time.
It Is true that the civilized world is
gradually shedding its superstitions,
hut the process is slow. We have in
this country the finest hospitals in
the world, surgery and pathology are
in ^ high state of development, but
we have countless citizens, of more
or less eminence, who carry potatoes
in tlieir pockets to cure rheumatism.
f—New York Times.
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j OLD-FASHIONED BOYS IN DEMAND g
THEY SEEM TO HAVE ENTIRELY DISAPPEARED
Hundreds of Positions Awaiting Them in New York Offices—The Type
of Youngster Who Is Sought for Diligent'y—Good Work
Quickly Recognized by the “ Boss"
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1 iiere is a price on the head of the
old-fashioned office boy. Somehow he
lias disappeared. Business men are
diligently seeking him, and if lie re
appears he will find hundreds of po
sitions awaiting him. This is said
on the authority of one who knows.
The other day a staid old merchant
advertised for an old-fashioned boy,
active, intelligent and square. He
hoped that Ills advertisement might
meet the eyes of an old-fnshtoiied
father, who had a chip of the old block
at home. Tilts merchant knows there
are hoys and boys, but like Eugene
Field he believes
There are no boys like the good old
boys.
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But the good old boys are scarce.
The race Is almost extinct, one might
venture to say. Where they have gone
and how they went are problems which
others must solve. Tiie fact remains
that tlieir number Is few, which un
doubtedly is a condition to be de
plored.
For the boys who started out to
earn tlieir living twenty-five or fifty
years ago were, in their humble sphere
useful members of society. You will
find many of them today occupying po
sitions of trust, or perhaps at the
. heads of the firms they served intelll-
i gently and well.
They began in the old-fasliioned
way, by reaching the office long be
fore the others and sweeping it from
end to end. Then they dusted the
desks, and filled the Ink wells, put
fresh nibs In.the penholders, and ar
ranged the blotting pads. Keeping a
hot fire in the office stove was another
of their duties, and they saw to ft
that the ashes did not fly over the
floor.
The letters and bills they filed away
in such ail orderly manner that none
was lost or mislaid, and all were avail
able at a moment's notice. In taking
press copies of letters written in long
hand, the old-fashioned boys were
careful not to blur them, and when the
envelopes went out they bore the prop
er amount of postage. And the
stamps, by the way, were not used for
their own correspondence. They re
membered that the stamps were the
property of their employers.
Politeness Properly Instilled.
Such yqungsters had been trained
and educated according to the methods
of tlieir day. Politeness was properly
instilled in them. They knew how to
receive an office caller with courtesy.
They could say “Yes, sir," instead of
"All right" or "Whatcher want?” and
they touched their caps to those whom
they recognized as tlieir superiors.
And their personal appearance! It
was a pleasure to look upon them. The
old-fashioned boy went to bed early,
had a solid sleep, and was ready for
work next day, with his wits about
him. His shoes were blacked, ills
clothes were brushed and his face liad
obviously been under the pump. More
over, his fingers were not stained with
nicotine, and if you turned his pockets
inside out you would not find stumps
of stale cigarettes.
When he ran errands, he didn’t
stop to discuss the details of the lat
est murder trial or divorce scandal,
for these things were beyond Ills
realm. Neither was he familiar with
the past performances of the "ponies,”
nor with the merits or demerits of
prize-fighters or popular actresses. The
street-corner game of craps was not
for him, and the day of the comic
supplement, that lure to procrastina
tion and idleness, had not arrived.
Still, he had his fun, however old-
fashioned the variety may have been,
though his play was not in working
hours. He attended to business, and
was not afraid to jump in and do a
trifle more than he had bargained for.
He kept liis eyes open, learned his
duties without asking unnecessary
questions, and was ready to accept re
sponsibility, even after initial failures.
Fortunately, the old-fashioned boy
lived before the days of educational
fads and fancies. He was well ground
ed in the three "R’s.” He could spell
with Ills elders, he could write a pre
sentable letter, and he was not at a
loss when told to figure interest. And,
what was equally important, he could
name the state I11 which Chicago is lo
cated when ordered to address au en
velope.
The Old Fashioned Boy’s Successor
The successor of the old-fashioned
boy should not be condemned too se
verely. His faults are not altogether
of liis own making. He is the pro
duct of a town that has outgrown old-
fashioned ideas, perhaps to its own
detriment in many respects. As a mer
chant recently said:
"The modern boy, as a rule, lives in
a flat. He lias never tended a furnace,
nor carried coal up the cellar stairs,
and the only fire he knows Is the one
he builds on the asphalt pavement. He
has never planted a garden, never
milked a cow, and if you put a ham
mer and saw in his hands and told
him to mend a fence, why, he would
be all at sea.
“These things may sound superficial,
but they give a boy self-reliance, in
genuity, and imagination, all of which
are essential qualities in business life.
You’ll find some office boys unwiling
to take responsibility, others who
blunder over the simplest duties, and
more who?** memories are so faulty
that they can't carry a message
straight from one room to another.
Such boys haven t received an old-
fashioned training, you may be sure.
“In my opinion; it is the home
training that counts, i am not pre
pared to blame (he public schools, al-
i though some of 1 lie letters we receive
in answer to advertisements indicate
that the boys have been imperfectly
educated in the essentials. You can't
teach a boy to do office work before he
gets Into business, but you can teach
him to be tionest, conscientious, and
trust-worthy long before he Is ready
to earn liis living.
"We want boys who will leave the
stamp box alone, who won’t think too
much of flashy neckties, and who
won't talk horse racing about the of
fice. There is plenty of room for boys
of this type, nnd lots of opportuni
ties for promotion."
While the modern office boy is a rec
ognized butt of tiie jokesmith, it would
be both ridiculous and unfair, say bus
iness men, to condemn him In general
for inefficiency. Bright and able
youngsters by the score are scattered
throughout the business centres, the
kind who possess all the qualities
which make for success. As a rule,
their work is quickly recognized, al
though ii frequently happens that a
firm is sorry when the time conies to
promote a capable boy, because it nev
er knows whether It can find another
to fill the place satisfactorily.
Hiring a new boy is almost as much
of a lottery as engaging a domestic.
You may draw either a prize or a
blank. It depends upon circumstances
over which the employer perhaps lias
little or no control. The demand for
hoys is so heavy that the employer-is
unable to pick and choose. He may
hire one who has no aptitude for of
fice work, but who would make a
good mechanic. He may get another
who is lazy, shiftless, and always
“watching the clock.” Again, lie may
find one who has determination, who
is careful, honest, polite, and willing
to do a little more than his share of
work without complaint. This is the
boy who will he encouraged and sent
upward, if he maintains his original
gait. Of that lie may be sure, for em
ployers are on the lookout for polite
and reliable office assistants, men as
well as boys.
A School for Office Boys.
Some time ago the West Side Young
Men’s Christian Association opened
classes for office boys. The field had
been canvassed beforehand, and the
course of instruction was outlined in
accordance with modern office prac
tices. Knowing the urgent desire of
employers for boys of character, the
instruction included lessons in per
sonal appearance, neatness, cleanli
ness, carriage and address. The im
portance of receiving customers and
visitors with courtesy was made a
feature, and the necessity for convey
ing messages accurately and prompt
ly was emphasized.
Then the pupils were taught how to
care for hooks, desks, furniture, sta
tionery and other office appliances,
how to answer desk calls from the
indicator, and the use of the telephone
and switchboard, in addition to letter
copying and book indexing. Most of
these duties have to be learned by a
boy after entering an office, and each
Is important in its way.
Business arithmetic, the simple
forms of which are frequently a puzzle
to a new boy, was also taught in the
classes, and lessons were given in
business English, spelling, correspond
ence, and commercial geography, with
emphasis laid on the geography of
New York.
Some of the pupils took kindly to
the courses and were benefited by them
and the directors believed that the
school justified its existence. They en
deavored to turn out old-fashioned
boys, but they had more applications
for help than they could fill, which in
dicates the extent of the demand for
capable youngsters.—New York Even
ing Post.
YOU’VE GOT TO REFORM YOUR EXTRAVAGANT HABITS, OLD MAN!
Veterans in the Senate.
Senator Proctor’s death leaves only
eight Union veterans in the senate—
Bulkely, Dupont, Burrows, Nelson,
Warner, Foraker, Scott and Warren.
There are ten Conferedate veterans
in the senate—Bacon, Bankhead, John
ston, Daniel, McCreary, McEnery, Me-
Laurln, Money and Martin.
Senator Briggs of New Jersey grad
uated at West Point in 1871!, and
served for a time as an officer in the
regular army. Senator Dupont is a
West Pointer. Senator Dick was an
officer in the Spanish-AmerlcAn war
and for years has been an officer in
the Ohio National Guard. The Civil
War veterans are fast passing from
both houses. Tennessee ha3 only one
in congress—General Gordon.—Nash
ville American.
Bunching Them.
Man with the Retreating Chin—
What do you understand by the
phrase, “the personal equation?"
Man with the Bulging Brow—Oh,
nothing in particular. It’s a convenient
one to use when you don’t happen to
think of "in the last analysis,” “other
tilings being equal," "academic ques
tion,” "reducing it to t^ie concrete,” or
“purely as an esoteric proposition,”—-
Chicago Tribune.
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—Cartoon by W. A. Roger*, In the New York Herald.
TO PLAY WAR ON GIGANTIC SCALE
Regulars and Militia Take Part in Big Game This Summer—
A Minimum of Ceremony and No Merely Spectacular
Exhibitions—Details Provide For Progressive
Work and Long Practice Marches.
Washington, D. C. — Preparations
have been completed by the War De
partment for joint maneuvres during
the coming summer of all branches of
the regular service and many State
militia organizations, for which Con
gress has appropriated $1,000,000.
Instruction camps will be established
and maneuvres held for one month
at each place, as follows:
Pine Plains, N. Y., June 15 to July
15.
Chlcknmauga Park, Ga., July.
Leon Springs, Texas, July.
American Lake, Wash., August.
Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., August.
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Iud., Sep
tember.
Fort Riley, Kan., September.
Atascadero Ranch, Cal., October.
The army maneuvres, which are to
be on a scale never before attempted
In the United States, are to be car
ried out by Major-General Frederick
D. Grant with the regulars of the De
partment of the East and a large force
of militia. The operations, says Gen
eral Grant, will lncludemore men and
cover wider territory than any pre
vious, and, as far as can be, they will
offer an approximation of warfare.
The plan of campaign Includes two
separate series of operations, the first
on the coast, the second Inland. A
series of coast defense maneuvreB will
be carried on simultaneously at the
various fortifications from Baltimore
to Boston. After four weeks of this
coast defense practice, the comman
der believes, the troops, both regulars
and national guards, will be thor
oughly seasoned to powder, while the
officers will have gained great famil
iarity with the particular styles of
maneuvre Involved, and the chiefs In
command will have plenty of valu
gin with an experiment In concentra
tion. Troops of the department from
many posts, some as far as Washing
ton, D. C., will be marched so as to
arrive at Pine Plains, near Water-
town, N. Y., within three hours of
each other. Large evolutions will
then be carried out on much the same
scale ns In modern war.
In introducing hta plans General
Grant began with a plain word or two
on preparation for war.
“We are the most pugnacious na
tion on earth,” he said, “and perhaps
the least prepared for real trouble."
He did not believe that “In God We
Trust” was a good enough motto to
excuse lack of mllltaiy preparation.
Ho went on to say:
*‘I am preparing seacoast maneu-
vres for this summer to show how
our big guns could knock out any for
eign fleet that might come polling
around with evil intentions.”
The absence of the battleship
squadron In the Pacific has led, It la
understood, to the attaching of miTch
more Importance In Washington this
year to the maneuvres centring about
the coast defenses of the Atlantic sea
board.
Orders Issued governing details of
the maneuvres prescribe a “minimum
of formal ceremonies and a total ab
sence of merely spectacular exhibi
tions.” Practice marches have been
ordered, in which Infantry will cover
200 miles and cavalry 250 miles. The
exercises will be carried out In a pro
gressive manner, beginning with
small bodies of troops and ending
with the entire command. These ex
ercises will comprise periods of at
tack and defense; periods of advance;
rear and flank guards, and control
work; periods of outposts and control
able records a3 to the performances work, to be followed by general man-
of the troops and the efficiency of the 1 euvres. It Is understood that the
Individual officers. | State troops will not be required to
A month or more later wilj come I do all of the work prescribed for the
the inland maneuvres. They will be- | regular organizations.
HOPES BY CHILD CULTURE TO AID HUMAN RACE
Dr. Landone, Pupil of Herbert Spencer,
Does With Plants—Starts $100,
Los Angeles, Cal.—Dr. Leon El
bert Landone, who has purchased a
$100,000 residence property In Holly
wood, where he will establish a school
in which to accomplish in child cul
ture what Luther Burbank has done
In horticulture, has met with the dif
ficulties that Invariably beset reform
ers, but Ignores them. He is about
to work out theories regarding child
culture that he hopes and intends will
result in the material benefit of the
human race. To a World correspond
ent he said;
“There are four steps in evolution
ary development which are true in
both the human and plant life. Bur
bank recognizes the gradations in liis
plant work, as did Stanford in the
breeding of fine horse stock. Even
so, they figure .in the human race in
the development of children.
“These four steps or gradations
are a3 follows: First, variation; sec
ond, sex crossing to carry on the
qualities by heredity; third, selec
tion, and fourth, cultivation and de
velopment.
“Dr. Jordan, president of Stanford
University, recognizes these same
steps in a recent work.
“As far as concerns the first two
steps in evolutionary development,
those called variation and crossing,
they have been attended to already,”
explained Dr. Landone.
No Artificial Marriages.
“This country of ours Is the most
crossed, as far as races go, of any
nationality on the face of the globe.
Wo simply take the best representa
tives of child life in the land and
work with them.
“Any effort along the line of arti
ficial marriage is a failure, since true
marriage is where each party to the
contract is honestly in love with the
other freely and of hiB or her own ac
cord. The offspring of an artificial
marriage would be a failure.
”1 will select ten to twelve children
from various parts of the United
States for each of the first two or
three years, and in these children I
will seek to develop the best there is
In them.
“The basis of my system of educa
tion for these children will be In the
reconstruction of structure. The com
mon way of changing a child who has
Will Work Among Mortals as Burbank
000 School on the Pacific Coast.
developed some harmful habit or ten
dency Is to quiet that particular re
gion of nervous activity. Then it Is
easy enough for the child to pick up
its old habits, although it may have
reformed temporarily.
“With my system the entire struc
ture Is changed. It Is a different
structure entirely, and the child In
order to get back into Its old habits
must not merely ‘backslide,’ but build
back. Do you catch the essential dif
ference between the two?
“I will have four” departments In
my school this year. The first will be
art, with special attention to muslo
| and sculpture; the second, therapeu-
1 tic curing of incurable diseases, like
spinal troublos, particularly; the
third, remedying backward children
1 who are deficient In eome of the
I senses, as in color perception or In
i not hearing accurately, while the
fourth will be the selection of those
dozen children whom I will choose
this summer, and the educating of
them along the lines given In my spe
cial educational system.
“These particular twelve I will ed
ucate free of charge; the other pupils
I will charge for, as in other institu
tions of educational character.
Methods Will Be Radical.
"My methods of work with these
children will differ radically from the
ordinary methods of teaching. For
instance, you have observed, doubt
less, many a man in the business
world whose school training didn’t
extend beyond the seventh or eighth
grade perhaps, but whose mental pro
cesses and accordingly whose busi
ness methods were on a better plan
and were much better systematized
than those of the man who had had
more years of school and college
training.
“Now, when he was a child that
man of little training but of excellent
ability would have been the child we
would choose for our school.”
Dr. Landone has been connected
with settlement work In New York
City, the South End of Boston, Phila
delphia and Chicago. He studied
abroad at Padua, the University of
Paris, <at two or three English insti
tutions of learning and for three
months was a companion and pupil
of Herbert Spencer.
Eccentric Recluse Left
President Roosevelt $10,000.
Boston.—Upon the authenticity of
a new will and two codicils, which
have just been discovered and which
provide for a bequest of $10,000 to
President Roosevelt, depends the dis
tribution of the $500,000 estate left
by Benjamin Hadley, an eccentric re
cluse who was found dead in Somer
ville last December.
If the new documents are genuine
all of the estate with the exception of
the $10,000 bequest to the President,
will be distributed among relatives.
Chairman Now Allotting Seats
in Republican Convention.
Chicago.—Chairman New has as
signed seats in the Republican Na
tional Convention to the press, the
politicians and the people. Five hun
dred seats have been allotted to the
press.
One thousand and fifty seats have
been allotted to delegates and the
same number to alternates. One ex
tra seat will be given to each delegate
and 300 will be held by the commit-,
tee for distinguished visitors. The
capacity of the building is