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ed was-expanslon, and the Zealandia was
getting too small for us. Next trip we
all left In 'Frisco and took the steamer
for Vancouver. There we bought the
sloop which later became famous, or
notorious, as you please. Dope general
ly sells two or three dollars cheaper in
Victoria than in 'Frisco, so wc went
there and loaded up a quarter of a ton.
We had It all In kerosene tins hanging
over the side to our anchor cable tnai.il .
the revenue officers finished their inspec
tion. Then we set sail as a. pleasant lit
tle yachting party. A chap called Col
lins and I played the traveling swells.
Say, it was funny to see us, the way
we togged up and the airs we put on.
It was a great bluff.
"Our first trip'was a cinch. We landed
the stuff on the east side of Oahu, not
the least trouble, and then sailed into
Honolulu next day. The Chinaman took
it off our hands at SjB. and we cleared
$10,000 between us. Now, there's where
wo should have been satisfied, and no
in in a semicircle, de Kanakas taking
do cane and ve de beach. Py gum, some
of you fellers vas goot shots; de pullets
snipped up de sand right around us. I
had to laugh, de vay dem Chinese coolies
run—how dey scooted for shelter like so
many monkeys. Say, I chust laugh till
I nearly bust. Rut ven my mate Tom
Wilcox dropped beside me, and ven I see
two Kanakas kick up dere heels, den I
don't laught so much. Den ve open lire
in earnest.’’
‘'Yes," Interrupted Jack, "and that was
when Collins dropped dead with a hole
through his skull, and 1 got It through
my arm. But it was getting dark."
"Yes, and ve didn't see your game
chust den—ve left you a big opening.
Dere vasn't any shelter for us, so pret
ty soon Doc Peters, who vas In com
mand, he said;
"Come on, boys, ve got to bust In de
dor before they pot us all.’
"And ve did. Ye giff a whoop and
charged. Ven de Kanakas see dot dey
come, too, and we all came together at
do big door. Ven ve busted in ve saw
me when I fell, and to ask you about
your adventure.”
Her hand rested on the table. He put
out his and pressed It down.
"Charlotte, the Russian came this af
ternoon.”
“I know it—I saw him.”
"What will come of it?" he asked.
"I cannot tell."
"Is ho here to ask for—for—"
Char>)tte nodded.
“I fear so. Now will you tell me
about him? No one ever tells me the
truth.”
"Charlotte, it tsjiot manly for me to
speak of a rival—”
“*ou have, no rival." The words were
out before she could recall them. She
flushed violently, then looked up and
smiled. D Auhant caught both her hands.
“Yes. yes—I will. I will tell you anv-
fliing now—even about Alexis." 'nie
room grew very still. Before she could
prevent, lie had thrown his arm about
her. drawing her so near that even a
whisper could not he lost. Charlotte rat
tled a cup.
;;Aunty. may | send you some tea?"
‘"Ves. dear, you may send me another
cun we have suoli excellent service."
D'Auhant served Aunt Frederica a sec
ond cup. and wished he had taken her a
potful n( first. When he returned, Cnar-
iotte had moved her chair, and said de
murely :
"Now you can finish telling me about
the Russian prince."
D’Auhant looked at the space between
their chairs, but had to he content with
merely establishing a precedent. He
knew how gradually habitual usage must
be built up from small beginnings
D’Aubant, lured on by the excited
sparkle of her eyes, talked brilliantly,
lie told her stories of the Russians,
and Alexis—his passion for Moscow, his
hatred for St. Petersburg and everything
new in Russia, his religious enthusiasm,
—shooting himself in the hand to evade
a lesson—of the lady that had aspired
to be tsarevna, and lost Alexis by using
a lavender perfume, which lie detested—
his dislike for military duty—the diticr-
enves beiween him and Ills father. Char
lotte only remembered two things—that
Alexis abominated Martin Luther, and
that the odor of lavender made him lli.
But D'Aubant had a soft voice—she re
membered that.
"it mailers little what sort of a man
he is—I shall refuse him.”
Before she could help it, he had folded
her close to him and was whispering to
her rapidly. The girl’s heart fluttered,
and tip' frightened gray eyes pleaded so
hard that he let her go again.
"You must go. you must go. Good
night. Monsieur D’Aubant " She pushed
him from her and spoke loud enough
for her aunt to hear.
"When may I come again?” The prec
edent had been set.
"I do not knowt some time—perhaps. ’
As D’Anhnnt passed through the broad
hallway, he heard a most boisterous up
roar coming from the apartments that
had been assigned to Alexis. The songs
were in Russian, the ribald curses were
in every language.
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Odd Tales from Real Life 1
Lovers 5oon
Conquer Parental Wrath
Millionaires Do
Not Live on Rose Bed*
REQUENTLY after the fata.’
step has been taken, the
lovers who had to resort to
flight to avoid parental
wrath find that forgiveness
awaits them. This Is not
always the case, although
nine times out of ten the
elopers hope that it may
he. Everything is lovely
when the parents extend
the helping hand after they
discover that their oppo
sition has been to no avail
e young man and the young
their own
don’t, well.
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body would hnwe bothered us, but we
were hogs, and no mistake. Back we
sailed to Yictoria.and loaded up with half
a ton this time.
"Now. yo want to understand that opi
um is entirely barred from the islands—
can’t come in at any price. This law
wasn’t enacted for the people's benefit,
not on your lift, but to give a certain
ring of government officials and leading
merchants a chance to do some quiet
business on the side. Well, after our
first little expedition the market went
down $K> and it was two weeks before
It came mp again. Then the ring knew
what was- up. And they found out just
what had happened. So naturally they
determined to stop our business. And
they were right—live and let live—we
were trying to hog it. 1 never bore
vdd Dave KaJn.ka.ua. any grudge for what
he did He had as much right in the
game as we had.
"So when we, left Victoria they knew
it by the next mail boat from 'Frisco,
and the Royal Hawaiian navy and reve
nue service had. orders to keep a sharp
lookout for us.
"We made
splendid passage, and
silghted Oahu about noon one day. it
wasn't our intention to land before
morning, or till after midnight, anyhow,
so WC stood off again. Pretty soon we
made, out smoke against the land. To
wn.! d evening, as we were standing in
shore again, a steamer came up on us
from leeward. We made her out at once
as the Maui, the Hawaiian navy and
revenue cutter all in one, but one too
many for us. By the way s he had slip
ped to the leeward of us and was comm
on we knew they were on to our game.
J lie wind was light and she to the lee-
ward so wc rook our only chance-made
joi the bench.
-Wc did it. The little KMrv slid
and land T SUrf . )ike Indian canoe
and landed us with hawlly a wetting
JUS cjy th<* Maui’s men opened fire with
bef a °tu 1 of e r n - Ea “ h ”• —b-
", ;* h<U of ammunition and a wln-
c tes er and colts. Wc saw the Maul
f'tdU v S ’ bUt to that move
, . e saw a ,ot of mounted men gal
loping up the beach toward u s , a
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Hesitates
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away.’
mne
"P
... . Interrupted the German.
1 remember dot; 1 vas dere.”
’"There was no shelter within a mile
nothing but cane fields, so we saw it
meant a fight. Near by was an old store
house, a brick building, and we made
for It. The coolies were just knocking
off work, so wc took possession without
any trouble. * Just as we'd barred the
doors Hie fun began. T.he King’s officers
opened fire and we returned it from the
top-story window. Burkhardt, vou can
tell this part bettcr’n I can. Go ahead
while I fill up my pipe."
"Veil," said the German, picking up
the thread of the narrative, "It vas a
Root scrap. Dere vas chust fifteen of
us—five refenoo men and ten Kanaka po
licemen. Ve saw dot you fellers meant
fight, so we dismounted a^d made de
coolies hold our horses. Den ve closed
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have a cozy tea, and you must wait on
•auntv—or I will' call Celete.’’
"No, no—1 can wait on—anybody,’’ he
whispered the last word, and Charlotte
looked nt him so innocently ITint he
laughed aloud.
"This is your chair. Monsieur D'Aubant
—you may slice the bread while I pour
the tea.”
The girl with great foresight had placed
her table where the portiere almost com
pletely screened It even from Aunt Fred
erica. D'Aubant imagined it a piece of
luck—an ounce of woman’s wit is worth
a. ton of luck.
"Oh! How hot the tea is'.’’ laughed
Charlotte nervously. "Just look at you
—you cut a loaf of bread in two, and
call that slicing it. Give me the knife,
and you take Aunt Frederica her lea.
Be careful not to spill it; now wait, put
some toast on the tray. One lump or two
in yours?” she asked as She poised the
sugar above his cuf).
"Two." hy answered, afraid to turn his
head. He icarefully bore the tray and de
posited it in Aunt Frederica’s lap. Blind
fortune smiled on D’Aubant, for he did
not spill a drop.
When he came back, she motioned him
to the seat opposite herself. Despite her
efforts bo appear perfectly at ease, the
girl felt constrained. Even as she chat
tered she knew that her dheeks were
crimson; but she difi not know how de
liciously enticing it made her look.
D'Aubant watched her, and listened
and forgot a thousand things he meant
to tell her. He made a stumbling re
mark about its being very sweet and
homelike—and dropped his bread on the
floor. Aunt Frederica knitted on—an ideal
chaperon. He leaned over as rfJose to
Charlotte as he dared.
"Now, tell me, Charlotte, why did you
send for me? It must have been for
something.’’
"Get me pour you some more tea?
She held the kettle suspended. He cov
ered his cup with a broad hand.
"Not until you tell me—why did you
Bend for me?”
"You ought to—" In her confusion she
tilted the kettle and ipoured the steaming
tea over his hand. He jerked away; she
set the kettle down and finished the sen
tence—"You ought to know better than to
ask such awkward questions. See, you've
got yourself burned for your curiosity.”
Charlotte tried to laugh, but she felt
utterly disgusted at her own insipid
chatter. Never nad she wanted him so
much—her whole soul uplifted itself in
thankfulness that he haa been spared.
He was here—beside her—they were in a
little world of their own. She could
reach out her hand and lay it in nis,
yet only the most frivolous words came
to her lips.
D’Aubant was a most perserverlng man
—about some things.
"Tell me, Charlotte, why did j’ou send
for mo?”
"I wanted to thank you for helping
BirtH and Slow Evolu
tion of “Old Glory”
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noding—noding—only a dead man ve find
up stairs."
"Yes,” continued Jack, "there’s where
you fooled yourselves. Will In all you
chaps were bucking up against the door
we Jumped out of a window on the
other side. Burton was badiy hit,
though, bleeding from a hole in the thigh,
so we had to go on without him. Thomp
son, Harris and I cut into the hillB, but,
good God! it didn't do us much good.
You can heave a spud clear across Oahu,
’tain J t big enough to hide rats, and next
day they nabbed us.
"Well, we three stood trial. Burton
died. Considering that ws had done for
two Kanakas and wounded a white man,
we got it easy—two years on the Reef.
1 served six months on the road gang,
but one night I managed to cut clear
and stow away on a big Limejuieer bound
for ’Frisco. As luck would have it, we
beat the mail and I got ashore in 'Frisco
safe. And the moral of my yarn is,
when you get a good thing, go easy on it.
I’ve spoilt my chance's in Honolulu—
can’t show my mug there for years to
come. It’s a pity, ’cause it really was
a good thing In the steamer.’’
And Jack gave a deep, regretful sigh
as he threw himself back.
George on a white oanton that extended
across the first six stripes.
The flag that was first used by the
united colonies, was Hung to the breeze
bv the "Royal Savage,” a war schooner
on Lake Champlain, in 1776. This flag
was almost identical with the East India
ensign, differing only In that It was
cantoned with the Union Jack instead of
the cross of St. George. By some his
torians it has been held that the stars
and stripes of our flag were a natural
suggestion trom the coat of arms of the
Washington family, which, by a singular
coincidence, contained both thest* fea
tures of our nation.,1 flag. This j.s denied
to other writers an the subject, and with
apparent reason, n is, in truth, a mat
ter lor deep regret that the personality
been uTr de51gnt:r - ut ' Glory” fi aa
been lost trom the national arcuives it
indeed any record of it was ever made
S* Tx
Pence on the subject been successful \
anyone °wifi eviT'k ^ “ ^y' tmn
that slmn'idTe 1 ' S'ln^ “ *
United States a.«
honor Dy tne
‘if,I flag. U'hne e t d h eS!ffn,r ° f ftS beau -
stripcs. as we hav
1 anj white
duplicates
'tars was an entirely ori?
1* no othei
d witl
idea. There was and
iginal
Ubto It
The
struggh'H'n.r m>erH eS e ” tered upon t
..... „ 1 ” liberty under no ,
heir
Ea.-h of the thir
t heir
own.
regiments l '‘ en , c ? limies ’ and often
The fEISLJS?. bann . ers of their
• « 4 41 ii u l N UI I huir
• re well-known examples ‘
.^Pendent flags! B.a^when
got down to its work eari
saw the
flag, under
congress
in 1777.
one uniform national
rmv should h nmJh^ S - the ^‘mental
:r f a its h first th art° vipt0ry ’ therefore, Tne
umtee T prTu"reT%urta a bIo P °deslgn, C anJ
ngxess as
place bo for
ns possible a
il nick ly
2 P lt , Illvln ati0n ? 1 tennw ‘hat should
lR> tne rail \ In sr i)oint for on *
trfoto, and strike terror int.', t'17".
of Its enehie
terror into the hearts
was appointed chairnuTof to^coTmU-
t e. And just here it may be well to re-
authorship that the true de^nToTT
beloved "Old Gtory" was General r
lngfton himself.
mark that there are many historians
T’/m,. 1 .'. 1 . ,h 7 abs .-' n < a ' ot Proof as t
designer of
General Wash-
lib .'T t bel K° f £lh01 " d SPe m all the more
ikelj to be correct from the very fact
01 the absence of crovernm^nt
ence of government records
" n „ ‘h» Po«nt- For one of the most
marked characteristics of Washington
"as his retiring modesty. In such a
case as this, it would have been quite in
keeping with this quality that he should
having created a flag that proved accept!
able, have withheld his name as its de-
signer, and pledged his committee to do
the same. In this way, and In no other
tt Is easy to account for the silence
or all records on this interesting point
The belief that noble Washington, the
illustrious son of Virginia, was the au
thor of our national flag, is one that
must appeal ns the truth, to ev p rv south
ern heart.
But be this as It may, the records as
tu the making of the Star Spangled Ban-
l.t’r in all other respects, are clear and
concise. A\ ashington's committee got
together, and a rough draft of the pro
posed flag was made—by some one—with
its alternate stripes of red and white,
and with thirteen six-pointed stars on a
blue field, the stars being white. The
color of the stripes was suggested by the
red flag of the army, and the white flag
of the navy. The thirteen stripes, and
the thirteen stars represented the thir
teen provinces or states that were fight
ing together for their liberty. These
original states were Delaware, Pennsyl
vania. Virginia, Georgia. South Carolina,
North Carolina, Maryland, Massachu
setts. New York, New Jersey. Rhode
1-land, New Hampshire and Connecti
cut.
A WOMAN’S WORK.
There lived at that time in Philadelphia,
find almost within a "stone’s throw” of
Independence hall, where the congress
was in session, a woman who had won
more than local fame for her taste and
skill in fine needlework. This was Mrs.
John Ross, better known as Mrs. Betty
Ross, ©lie lived in a quaint, old-fash-
loned two-story house that is still stand
ing, and will ever stand as an object of
love and veneration to the American na
tion. The old Ross house is on Arch
street, and its number at that time was
8y. Its street number is now 239, which,
to everyone who knows the admirable
system of street numbers in the grand
old city of William Penn, means that tite
Ross house is between Second and Thitci
streets, and on the north side of Aren.
"Long jnay it wave,” like the flag whose
revered birthplace it was. The quaint
old house is built of bricks that were
brought over from England in the good
ship Welcome, when she brought Wil
liam Penn to the shores of his new home
and country. So you see it was an old
house even when it became the birth-
j)lace of "Old Glory.”
It was in the latter part of May, 1777,
that Washington, at the head' of his
committee, visited Mrs. Ross, and showed
her the design, asking if she could not
make a flag from it. She eagerly as
sented, but suggested an improvement—
that the six-pointed stars should be live-
pointed nne«. as in heraldry. Taking a
square piece of paper, she folded it, and
with one cut of her scissors, showed
how easily the five-pointed star could be
made, no slight consideration, where
thousands would be called for. Sitting
at a little round table in Mrs. Ross’
back parlor. General Washington made
another rough sketch of the flag with the
five-pointed stars. This was highly ap
proved by the committee, and no doubt
lias been still more highly approved ever
since, by the flag manufacturers all
over the United Stateis.
Mrs. Ross at once set to work to copy
the design, and astonished the commit
tee tite next day after their call, by de
livering into the hands of Washington the
first national flag in its completed form.
It was placed upon a staff, the better to
display its beauty, and the congress by
a formal vote on June 14, 1777, adopted
it as the national standard of the new
republic. The intense excitement, the
wild enthusiasm, and the thunderous ap
plause of the patriots of the revolution,
as they for the first time beheld "Old
Glory” soaring aloft, and waving proud
ly over their heads, can be better imag
ined than described.
Every one has heard of John Paul Jones,
that intrepid Scotchman who adopted our
country as his own, and fought our bat
tles on the sea with such success that
his name became a terror to our ene
mies, and a watchword to our navy.
Well, on the same day that congress
adopted the flag that is now known and
honored from one end of the world to the
other, it also appointed John Patti Jones
to the command of the brig Ranger. To
this brave sailor anil to Ills ship, the
Ranger, belong the honor of being the
first to unfurl on the seas the great
banner of liberty. .Not only so. but, sail
ing to France, the Ranger bore the
flag of the new republic to Quiberon bay.
where the French fleet, under command
of Admiral La Motte Piquet, lay at an
chor. Then and there, for the first time,
1 ne •Star Spangled Banner was saluted
by a friendly power. Dr. Ezra Green,
surgeon of the Ranger, writes in his
diary, under date of 1778. "Sat., Feb.
fourteenth. Very squally weather. Came
to anchor at four p. m. Saluted the
French fleet and received nine guns in
return. This is the first salute ever
pay'd tiie American flagg.”
While this statement is literally true
us to the letter, it is not correct as to
tile spirit. Six months earlier the conti-
netal flag, flung, to the breeze from the
General .Mifflin, had been saluted at Brest,
to the Intense indignation of Lord Stor
mont, the English ambassador. Also
more than a year before- that, in Novem
ber. 1776, tiie same colors, carried by the
War brig Andrea Doria, had been saluted
oy the Dutch governor of "St. Bustasia.
So far as history shows, the last named
salute was the first formal recognition of
outright as an independent nation, to fly
Dr. Green, of the
! right in his claim
the new and per
manent oanner of the United States.
<ir flag today differs slightly from the
nag carried hv our ancestors of a hun- ■
dred years ago. Between the time of its
a.ioption in June. 1777. and its formal
establishment ’ In 1818, the flag suf
fered several alterations. At first, as we
have seen it. consisted of thirteen stars
in a circle and thirteen stripes, emble
matical of the thirteen original stales of
Oration Then came two new states
into the fold. Tennessee and Ohio, and so
congress, in June, 1779. decreed that two
more stars and two more stripes should
be added to the flag. The change was
made and ordered, Rut ff soon became
evident to every one that this sort of
addition could not go on indefinitelv
More and more states kept, coming into
the union, with the result that the flag
grow apace, and became exceedingly
awkward in appearance. it was not the
stars, but the additional stripes that
made the trouble, and transformed our
once graceful ling into an awkward and
•ungainly hobbledehoy flag. Nor was
this all. The order and uniformity of our
nvigr wns g’orif*. oppooialTy f;ir ns our
shipping was concerned. Flags of thir-
te: n. fifteen, seventeen and twenty stripes
were in use at the same time, with like
but less conspicuous, diversities in the
stars.
At last a halt was called. Tt was every
where admitted that’something must be
don to check the growth and eccentric
ities of the national standard. So con
gress appointed n icommittee to inquire
into the expediency of altering the flag
of the United States. This committee
seems to have been in a quandary as to
what to do with itself and the flag, and
so it turned to Captain Samuel C. Reed
for advice. He had been a sailor and
had won fame during the war. and as be
had 'ought under Its folds, the astute
committee thought li . was just the man
to know haw to curtail it without the
loss of dignity
vu. iignc as an tndcpi
t\ flag o-f our otvp.
"anger, however, wa
j the first salute tc
He
pel-
REED’S IDEA.
The thought proved to be a happy one,
for Captain Reed h:ni ideas of his own
on the subject. TTo suggested that the
stripes should be reduced to the original
thirteen to represent the original states
of the union, and that a star should be
added for each new state, the whole to
be group’d in one large star on a blue
field. The brilliancy of this large star
should represent their union and the
progress of the country, and Its motto, E
Pluribus L’nuni. Captain Reed also sug
gested that this should be the flag for
merchant vessels, but tlyit the stars on
the flags of the war vessels should be in
parallel lines.
Congress, which accepted the report of
its committee, seems to have Josl sight
of the distinction made between the mer
chant service and the navy, and also of
tiie arrangement of the stars on the oluo
field. An "act to establish the. flag of
tile United States ' was passed on the
4th of April, 1818. tt provided simply
that tne nag sho-jid have thirteen stripes,
red and white alternately, and that the
•union should have twenty stars (Cue num
ber of the states tit that time), white, on
a blue neld. It ordered tnat this cnange
sihould b e made on and after the ensuing
4th of July, and that on the 4th of July
following the admission of every new
state a new star should be added to the
union of the flag. This act is still 111
force, and as it iails to specify the order
of the stars, every flag maker arranges
them according to his own ideas. This,
of course, Is tatal to the desirable uni
formity of our Hag and it is a matter for
wonder that congress has not long ago
remedied the omission of the congress of
1818.
in the navy, a circular order of Sep
tember 18, 1818, directs that flags for
the ships have stars on parallel lines,
and thus they are to this day. In the
army, custom has decreed that the stars
shall be grouped in one large star, ar.d
this is the flag that floats over the heads
of our soldiers and forts. The uniformity
of the flag is a matter that should be
settled by congress, although probably
very few people have noticed that any
difference exists In our revered Old Glory.
The stars are there, every one of them,
and this seems to satisfy. e
and that th
woman have taken things
hands after all. When th
its just a case of the young people shap
ing their own lives then the best they
<ari. and if they be not remembered in
Licit- fathers' wills they probably can con
sole themselves with the thought that
they prefer to have each other than all
the money on earth.
f his thought will be effective for a few
years at least, (ind after that thev can
remember that they did it themselves
and have qnly themselves to niame. But,
a- lias been said, once In awhile the pa
rents hold out the forgiving hand at the
beginning and everything is serene.
Such was the case with J. T. Kohler
and Miss Emma Dugan, of Louisville.
Their romance led to a justice court, and
while the ceremony was in progress the
fathers on both sides entered. Thereupon
ensued great distress, occasioned by the
demand on the part of the stern parents
that the marriage stop immediately. The
bridegroom pleaded and argued, but to no
avail Finally the bride began to weep—
and it was all off. Neither man could
stand out against the young woman's
tears, and both capitulated. The forgive
ness of both families was extended to the
young couple and the justice proceeded to
marry them.
Down in Belleville there is another bride
whose intercession saved the day for her
self and her husband. Miss Annette Gos-
lar married Allan W. Johnson without
parental knowledge. After the marriage
sbe called on the young man's father arid
informed him of the fact tnai: she was
the wife of his son. The father was sur
prised, as he and a right to be. hut the
parental consent was forthcoming at once
and the young coujile are now in Chicago.
WEDDING TRIP FOLLOWS FOR
GIVENESS.
Fidrerrcp "Jlassa, of SioTix Falls. S. Dak .
was another fortunate bride in this re
spect. She married Loon Coveil without
the knowledge of tite parents. In fact,
both families had determiner! to prevent
the marriage for the present at least, hut
when the young people stole a march on
them they decided the hest thing to be
done was to forgive tb4m. The girl's pa
rents have planned an elaborate wedding
*vip for the two.
One wedding was not stopped by pa
rents, but by a sterner hand—that of
death. Alfred B. Cannon, an artist, was
engaged to marry Miss Evangeline Me-
lich. They were to have been married in
October and were discussing plans for
their wedding, when the young man was
taken with a stroke of apoplexy
dropped dead at the feet of bis
Although Miss Olive May Stauffer was
not directly concerned in either of the
following two events, it will be admitted
that she played a unique part in both.
In one day she was bridemaid both at
the wedding of her mother and of her
brother. , .
Fir ank letters, a carpenter of Alle
gheny, has been a boarder at the Stain-
fer home. While James Stauffer was
courting Ills sweetheart a few months
ago Etters remained at home to capture
the heart of Stauffer's mother. A few
davs ago the pastor of the church nearby
was engaged to perform the two cere
monies, one in the morning, the other
in the evening.
Etters and his bride will quietly settle
into the groove at the comfortable De
catur street home. The younger couple
will take a brief wedding trip to the
home of the bride's grandparents and
will then return to a cosy- home already
fitted up just next door to her parents.
A romance which began In England
was ended in Pennsylvania last week
when Alfonso Smith, of McKeesport, and
Miss Agnes Jordan, of Wolverhampton.
England, were married In Philadelphia.
Connected with the marriage there Is a
pretty little romance which began over
two years ago in England. Smith ur
that, time was connected witlv the ad
vertising department of Barnttm &
Bnilev's show, then making a tour of
Europe. While in Wolverhampton he
beeamp ill and was left behind by liis
companions on the advertising car.
Being without friends, the young man
was taken care of by the young English
woman, who nursed him through an at
tack of fever. He recovered and came
back to America. Finally, he proposed
by letter and the girl accepted him.
Then he sent for her to come to America
and they have just been married
It frequently is the case that voting
people balk at a justice of peace and
refuse to have any other than a minister
marry- them, but it is infrequent that
they balk on the minister and demand
the justice of the peace But that’s
what happened in the following case, al
though it cannot be said that they were
young people. The groom was 87 and
the bride 72. but they refused to have
n minister. They- wanted a plain jus
tice of the peace wedding, did G W. B.
Leonard, of Taunton, and Mrs. Eliza J.
•Tcllison. and that is the kind of a wed-
dtng they' got.
CLERK BLOCKS DOUBLE ELOPE
MENT.
Four young people of St. Louis think
License Clerk Jake Schaedler, of Clay
ton. is the meanest man In St. Louis
count?-.
it was almost midnight when loud
knocks on the front door of his rest
dence disturbed Mr. Schaedler from
peaceful slumbers.
Eloquent persuasion on the part of
two male ami two female voices from
tite darkness of his front lawn caused
Mr. Schaedler to don his togs and hie
himself tj t*lie court house with the pros
pective grooms and brides.
It was too dark for Mr. Schaedler to
view the countenances of the young peo
ple closely, but as he walked to tiie
court house he had a vague suspicion
that they "were all too young."
As the rays from the incandescent
light in his office fed upon the faces of
Clifton Walters and Miss Feon Flanders,
Schaedler cruelly placed his official ta
boo upon their chances of securing a
license.
Clarence De Witt and Miss Constance
Greiner vowed so sincerely that they
"were old enough” that Schaedler issued
them a license
Turning to Walters and Miss Flanders,
Schaedler remarked that there Was
"nothing doing.”
“But we are old enough, really we
are,” chorused the slighted pair.
"Gwan,” replied Schaedler, -‘you are
only children. Your parents wouldn’t
do a thing to me if I issued you a
license.”
"Weir, if that is the case we- don’t
want ours,” spoke up De Witt, “as we
had planned to elope and marry to
gether. and if we can’t do that we won’t
got married at all.”
"Three generations from shirt sleeves
to shirtsleeves” is exemplified in the cast
of Cornelius Vanderbilt—not, however,
from necessity, but because of his love
of labor.
Every day he is in New York he may
be found standing at a drafting table or
poring over books of mechanical or
electrical engineering, and he keeps two
or three draftsmen working with him pl
under his supervision. That his work
is eminently practical is attested by th>
firebox and boiler for locomotives now in
use on all the great systems of tlv-
United States, inventions of his brain.
The trip of A. J. Cassatt from Phila
delphia to New York in 78 minutes to
attend a directors" meeting is but a fail-
indication of the speed at which lie
works. He is indefatigable and through
the vice presidents of the Pennsylvania
railroad keeps in touch with every move
Beginning business life as a rodnian with
a surveying party on the Pennsylvania
he has never shirked the sheer bard
work by which he climbed to the top
A man working with almost as much
speed as George Gould is K. Ii. Harri-
man, who caused the Northern Pacific
corner by his tight with J. Pierpont Mor
gan. and who controls 20,000 miles of
rai! road. Knowing almost everv Inch
of the Lnitod States, insofar as 0 af
fects railroading, his forte is straleev
a .nd relies on this to make hint tiie
railroad king of the United States. Shar;
INE out of ten millionaire’
work harder than media:
ics or day laborers. Mr i
who know them intimatA
say the pace set by jSJP
big financiers would kl
an artisan in a mont
were he to attempt to fo
low It. True, he does not
get around to his office a
7 or 8 o'clock, but when
he does set foot in hi-
place of business he is
keyed to work at the
speed of an express train. Henceforth
there is not a moment of inaction, and
until bedtime his mind is at work get
ting things ready for the next day.
Even then he does not always stop. For
instance, James Stillman, president of
the National City bank of New York, has
a telephone at the head of his bed—and
it is there for use. Ills business asso
ciates are not surprised to be called up
at any hour of the night for consulta
tion. Business is business for iMr. Still
man at 4 a. m. just as it is at 10 He
Is in his office an hour before file bank
opens and rarely leaves before 4:30,
luncheon being served nt his desk and
eaten between answers to the telephone.
Surely an expert correspondent would
not envy August Belmont his -‘snap."
He insists on reading all his letters per
sonally, and opens every day more than
three bushel baskets of mail to L sure
no suggestion may escape him. The
many sided character of the man will
bring him a suggestion from an outsider
for a change in the color scheme of
a subway station, a report of a financial
nature, an estimate on construction, then
a protest, followed, perhaps, by an offer
for a race horse.
In the building of the $35,000,000 sub
way not a thing is done untii it has
been passed upon by Mr. Belmont, wheth
er it means the expenditure of i cent or
$1,000,000. He Started out with the
theory that if he began to hand the small
details over to his subordinates it would
not be long before their ideas of trifles
would grow- and large questions would
be settled without his knowledge. As
president of a rapid transit company, a
construction company, a national bank,
a realty company, and a jockey club, di
rector In five railroads, a trust company,
a race track, and nineteen other con
cerns, mercantile, manufacturing, and
transportation, he has no idle moment...
Where would a mechanic be who should
attempt to keep the affairs of all the .
concerns straight in his head for .-,
month? Yet Mr. Belmont has found time
to make himself th e authority in the
east on the breeding of horses.
GOULD WORKS FASTEST OF ALL.
George J. Gould is another millionaire
with an extraordinary capacity for work.
Ja fact, it is an accepted fact that Mi
Gould can accomplish more work in
given time than any other financier,
simply because of his grasp of details
and his wonderfully accurate memory.
From the prices of ties and spikes and
the lasting qualities of the different
woods to the capacity, condition and
strategic importance of every railroad
in the United States he is so thorough.]'
informed that he can and genera !ly does ’
make his decisions seemingly Q n impulse.
But if the truth were known it would
probably be found that they were th"
result of deliberations at Lakewood. He
seldom is in his office more than three
days a week, but when he enters, which
is - by 10 o'clock if he is going to be
there, he is ready to go through an as
tounding mass of business.
He proceeds as fast as three secreta
ries can follow him. and then is ready to
discuss questions of policy w-ith his cab
inet. Mr. Gould believes the collective
mind of his advisers works better and
more surely during luncheon; hence it
is at as rich and expensive a midday
meal as is served in New York that the
affairs of the Gould properties are guid
ed. By following this seemingly joyous
but really strenuous course Mr. Gould
has increased the 6,000 miles of railroad
left by his father a dozen years ago to
16.000 and doubled bis personal wealth
II. II. Rogers, vice president of the
Standard Oil Company, once said: ‘Tite
richer a man gets the less he knows what
he has unless he works to protect it.”
Acting on that principle no detail has
been too small, no labor too arduous, no
hours too long for him. and at 72 the
same passion for work possesses him.
it. is his custom to bury himself in his
office at 9 o'clock in the morning. Usu
ally he remains until 5 p. m.. but it not
infrequently happens that midnight finds
him there. All policies of the Standard
Oil Company anil its allied properties,
nil plans of extensions, absorption or
suppression, all increases or decreases
in the prices of oils, and all agreements
with transportation companies are under
his direction. And as a large part of
the Rockefeller holdings are in copper
Mr. Rogers is identified with the min
ing industry.
and incisive, the man who gains' admit
tance to him needs have his '
Mr h H ‘® n = ue ' s “P. or if he hesitates
Mr. Harrlman will prod him along
other mcn wh o are in the class
"lth those named are J. I Hill whn
has capacity for work in keep] '
his great depth of ctet
of 6 the S stee? 1 't rust^'n iui
who spent his " • Gates.
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3:0,
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office keeping other , .
guessing, his afternoons at' Th " ' *
tracks unnerving the
his nights on his yacht
■ acular plans for the morrnn-
a ToTTvard. 11 " 1 " ° f the ™"™ai
bookmakers, and
concocting spee-