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SEPTEMBER IS, A90<T,
THE SUNNY SOUTH
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{ Gun = Maker IQrupp's Daughters, I j Two Odd Animal Stories 11 GREAT STOVE OFFER
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World's Richest Women Turn Down Fortune-Seekers for Poor Husbands
THIS BEAR ACQUIRED A JAG AMD
PROCEEDED TO APPLY RED
PAINT LAVISHLY.
OOR men nre to spend the
Krupp millions.
The daughters of the
famous Essen gunmaker
are both to marry the
men of their hearts, and
as frequently happens In
romance, the wealth Is
all on one side.
The weddings of Bar
bara and Bertha will take
place at the same time.
The engagements were
announced almost simul
taneously. First came the statement that
Miss Bertha would wed Baron Gustave
Bohlen von Holbach, first secretary of
the Vatican.
Scarcely had the surprise over this an
nouncement died out before it was fol
lowed with the news that -Miss Barbara
had plighted her troth to Tilo V. Wil-
mowskii, no more generously endowed in
this world’s goods than his future broth
er-in-law.
Germany has had no bigger sensation
in years. The wedding- of either of these
girls to a poor man would have been a
matter of comment, for the Krupps are
only a step removed from royalty.
The stern military spirit of the kaiser
always went out in admiration to the
head of the house that has turned out
Barbara Krupp.
lermany’s best machinery of war in a
Jentu-ry, and it was his thought to marry
the daughters of the late Frederick Al
bert Krupp to two of the biggest men
4n the realm, preferably distinguished
members of the army.
His plans go awry, not only once, but
twice, but much as it loves William, the
fatherland rejoices in the simplicity of
the two sisters who have had the courage
to marry from preference rather ‘than for
more money or improved social posi
tion.
Miss Bertha Is the older of the two
girls, and It ha3 been said that she is
the wealthiest maiden In the world. On
the death of her father she came into
the.biggest share of the estate, and al
though she Is barely of age, she rules
the immenge plant which employs about
40,000 men and gives the town of Essen
a population of 200,000.
Candidates noble and wealthy have
swarmed to the Krupp mansion with one
or the other of the daughters for a
magnet, but neither would listen to any
of the aspirants till Von Holbach and
WUmowskl appeared.
TWO YEARS’ ROMANCE.
The love story of the baron and the
"Queen of Essen," as 5,1-10 Is often called,
hegan at Rome In 1904. While attending
to his duties at the legation, Bohlen met
the lovely Miss Krupp, who was spend
ing the winter In the Eternal City.
The baron extended the courtesies that
Interior View of Oreat Krupp Gun Works.
would be expected of a diplomat to a ,
lady of first importance In Ills own coun
try, But he da*-e give no sign that his
affections had led him to -the point where
! Ills happiness and that of Miss Krupp
1 wore indissolubly bound together.
Whnt right had lie to aspire that
I high?
j There was much that was creditable
j In his record. He -could trace his family
j hack to tho twelfth century, his father
| had been minister to the Hague, and
j through a long test at
Strassburg and Heidelberg, Bohlen had
: shown himself a man of ability. His ad- j
vancemon-t in the army had been speedy. :
j He -began in the Second Baden Dragoon •
i Regiment I, and later entered the Baden ;
j state service.
j From there he Jumped bo the staff of !
| the German foreign office, becoming in
j 1899 one of the secretaries of the tm- |
perial German legation in Washington, I
| and in 1903 he served In a similar ca- j
I pacity In Pekin. Then he was promoted |
to the office of first secretary of the i
Prussian legation to the Vatican.
This was promotion and rapid promo- j
tion, with apparently still better things
awaiting him, but it was not money.
And certainly It was not to be expected i
that the daughter of all the Krupp mil
lions would contemplate an alliance with
a man who had nothing but his salary,
no matter how eminent might have been
the service to the state of himself or his
ancestors.
He overlooked one fact. The Krupps |
had not always had wealth. The marvel
ous fortune had built itself up out of
hard, honest work, and the heads of the
family from the great grandfather down
had not hid, but had rather rejoiced in
the faot that their own genius carved out
their wealth.
Democratic ways of living always
marked the Kruipps, and despite all her
millions, Miss Bertha lived very mod
estly in her Villa Huegel.
INDIFFERENT TO SOCIETY.
Society appealed little to her, and she
refused the social prestige that the
friendship of the emperor and empress
would win her in Berlin, and chose
rather to stay in Essen, where she could j
look after the great enterprise her
father left. Worship of that family
skill in gunmaking, which attained its
fame in the Prussian success of the war
of 1870-1871. is very strong in Miss
Bertha, and she delighted to be always
in sight of the monument to her father,
on which no less a person than Wilhelm
himself thought it not beneath his dig
nity to lay a wreathe.
There was plenty to hold her atten
tion, for the plant, modestly begun in
1818 by Edward Krupp, has expanded
to a point where it has become a city
in itself.
The statistics of the works, given in
totals, are astonishing. The Essen
plant, which has an area of 890 acres,
burns 1,700,000 tons of coal a year.
There are In use 6,300 machine tools,
22 rolling mills, I4l steam hammers, 63
hydraulic presses, two of them bending
pieces of 7,000 tons each, and 591
cranes of varying power. Then there
are 60 miles of normal gauge railway,
16 tank engines, 712 cars, and 32 miles
of narrow gauge railway, 27 locomotives
and 1,209 car
sovereign the name was changed to von
Bohlen and Halbach. Gustav von Boh
len und Halbach lives In the Grand
Duchy of Baden-Baden. Whenever the
Bohlens from Philadelphia go aborad
they have always visited the home of
llieir kinsman who will marry the
j daughter of the great German iron
| master.
SHOOK FORTUNE HUNTERS.
1 Miss Barbara Krupp did not wait long
i after her sister to make the announce-
LauuBanne. | men t that a second disappointment was
in store for the fortune tiunters who
had been cherishing the fond delusion
that they might come into the Krupp
money. Barbara lias only about one-
half as much money as Bertha, for
when Krupp died he split his fortune
one-half to Bertha, and one-half to bo
divided between his widow and Bar
bara, but as he left $400,000,000, It will
be seen that there is still enough to
keep the wolf away from the Wilniowski
family.
Miss Barbara's husband is deeply in
terested in the philanthropic relations
that exist between the owners of the
Krupp factories and their workmen.
The income fom the works might be
N a ridge of mountains back
of the Big 'Indian and
not far from this village,
where the late Jay Guuld
served his first clerkship.
Is a small lake that ha-s
for many years been fa
mous for its speckled
trout. The lake is stir-
rounded by a dense forest
and has rocky shores. Out
of the lake flows a small
trout stream, which soon
becomes a river and is
called the Delaware, [t is not on this
! lake but along the coarse, of this brook
i that the scene of this story Is laid.
About a mile or so down stream Is tho
farm of Mrs. Joy, supposed to be more
( than ninety years old, who lives there
- carefully cared for by her two sons,
- who look os old as herself. Both ore
1 bachelors.
This used to be a great county for
i bears, but now there are few here
abouts. The hest bear story of this sec-
I lion is that told by Mrs. Joy. The old
j laf-^. wrois ns bright as a newly-
I minted dollar, tells the story with A
1 qualntness that Is Impossible to repro-
• duce In type.
HUNTED FOR IRISH WORMS.
"A few weeks ago," she says, "some
city fofks cum up here and wanted to
| stay a few days fur tho troutln', which
was purty good down through ihe
j woods. They had the greatest lot of
j baskets, fish poies. lines and wadin’
j boots that you ever see, and wns sottln'
i great store on gettin' a mess of fish to
j s'pripe their folks with down to New
i York.
| "Wall, they Just begged and argyfied
so much, promisin' not to he no trouble,
that 1 finally agreed to allow them to
stay a spell, tollin' 'em, of course, that
we never took no boarders nohow, and
they'd just have to fare like my men
folks if they cum. They agreed to that
and afore I knowed It had their things
i into the spare room and was out in the
I garden a-diggin' tip my cucumber vines,
J huntin' arter fish wums. Pretty soon
| they got enough on 'em and started off,
| bent on havin’ a great time troutln'.
! "Havin' city convp'ny fur dinner
j seemed a lectio strange, hut T knowed
j that Bill and Toni, my boys, would help
i me out parin’ taters, keepin' the brick
j oven hot and cleanin' garden pass.
CHASED BY MOTHER BEAR.
' "I ttseter sort o' pride myself on my
cookin’ fifty years ago, when me and my
| man fust corned to this .part of the ken-
try, an' my pies was tho talk of the town
in them days. So 1 just told the children
that I'd show them town chaps what
cookin' really was, fur I don't suppose
they’d ever eat a decent sody biscuit or
had a bit of real cow's cream in their
lives.
•• ’Gong about noon Bill he spied them
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fellers jut a runnin’ acrost the pasture
grealer were It not for the fact that j ] ot am i a-comin’ fur the house like all
death,
says I, ‘what's
look like you'd
many philan-
benefit of the
Tilo V. Wilmowski, Shortly to Wed
Barbara Krupp.
the proprietor carries oi
•thropic schemes for the
workmen.
Practically the whole city of Essen
is the property of Miss Krupp, its fire
men. its police or watchmen are all in
her employ. These two services, in
which about 900 men are employed, hat e
been alluded to as her “army."
The churches, hospitals, libraries,
homes, are all supplied by the Krupp
works. There are insurance and pension
societies to which the workmen contrib
ute, a saving fund in which they put
their little surpluses, and to all of these
the “firm” gives every year us much as
the workmen combined.
Stores and slaughter houses are oper
ated by the "firm," in which food and
apparel are sold as cheaply as possible,
and the profits put into some channel
where the workmen can share it.
While Baron Bohlen is aiding in the con
telegraph system ofi duct ° f tlle business, so as to increase
possessed. They didn' wait fur no gale,
but Just jumped the stone wall like dee"
and tore on to the back stoop all sort
of winded and lookin' scairt
•Fur Massy sakes. Joys,’
| the. matter with ye.’ Ye
i seen a ghost.’
; •* 'Thank goodness.' sez the biggest on
1 ’em, ‘we are -hero at last. We’ve had a
turrlble time on’t bein' chased by an old,
she bear. Here's her cub,' lie sez, and |
stoopin’ down lie just shook a little black |
l’ellcr out of his shooting coat pocket and ,
put it Into my lap. 1 never see such a 1
cute little critter in all my born days j
and you bet i was tip and into the but
tr'y and a feedin' of him quicker’n
wink- Wall, soon as they got
breaths the boys told their story
ontt said:
STRUCK BY TROUT HOLE.
“ ‘it was this way, Mrs. Joy,’ he says,
we waded through that old cedar swamp
j follerin’ the compass like the. boys told
us. ami finally we come to the prettiest
i lake ever von see. W e didn t have no
l,oat or raft or nothin’ to go fishin' with,
| SO we just tried oft the rocks for a white.
We could get nothin' there but a few
little bull pout and some rock bass.
••‘Wall, it was a good, while before we
struck good troutin’, but finally we came
to some big woods near a ridge, and | the sn
11E maternal love In tho
lumb brute creation Is
sometimes strongly mark
ed, and I was witness
some years ago to an act
of devotion on the part of
an animal that Impressed
me most deeply, and if
you think the story Is
worth hearing I’ll tell It
to you."
Benjamin Armstrong, a
cotton elasser employed in
a Vicksburg firm, sat with
a group of friends In the corridor of Ihe
Grunewald hotel ono night not long ago,
end-ns horses, dogs, cats arid other quad
rupeds best known to domestic life wera
the subject of conversation, Mr. Arm
strong took advantage of the occasion
to relate a rather unusual tale.
“I was reared on a ranch in west
Texas, you know," Mr. Armstrong be
gan his story, when the group hod dho-
-rufied a des'ro to hear, tho yarn, "and I
remember well one of the prise posse*,
elans of nty father was a bay maro oallod
Brownie, Brownie was cleanly built,
with limbs made for running; shr had ft
long sweep of tall and a great flowing
mnnp, nnd altogether was ono of the
pretl lest horses 1 hnd ever looked upon,
She was used only for light work, such
us bearing my fnth«r on her bank when
Ihe old gentleman wanted lo have a look
around »! things, and us n filer her equal
1 don't bollevu existed In nil the country*
side,
LOVE LAVISHED ON HER OOLT,
"When Brownie became a mother she
w.-is so proud of her baby that she would
hardly allow any one to enter the fenced
lot adjoining the atables where she wns
confined, and if a person—with the in
ception, perhaps, o-f my father—dared to
approach to inspect the colt she would
prance around angrily, toss her head In
the air, work her upper lip, showing a
row of solid grlndprs, nna kick up her
heels energetically,
"Xemo, the colt, hardly repaid the love
his mother lavished upon him, and the
little rascal's chief delight was to slip
and scamper away for a chase on the
prairie. At these times Browne woul.i
almost throw a fit in her anxiety and,
trotting about over the lot, she would
arouse the whole place with her whinny
ing.
"Brownie’s iwhlnnying always resulted
in some of the men being sent out on
mettlesome ponies (o bring the truant
Nemo home again, not that it was feared
the colt would he lost, hut because of
the presence of coyotes on the plains.
“The coyotes were very bad in that lo
cality in the day of which I speak, and
roaming the outlying reaches in packs,
at times worked havoc among the stock.
A colt like Nemo wouldn’t have had a
chance with the beasts which bold and a kain father came out and examined
desperate from ltungrer. were' rcadv to i hern , thoroughly The only Injury to be
... , , , 1 •' 10 found on either horse was a long scratch
attack anything tint came the1 r way, | on Brownie's left flank. The hurt wasn't
NEMO RUNS AWAY I sor *° ,IS and healed rapidly under some
venbio- t„ i . r.’ liniment That was applied to it.
tening in December, after a par-1 .< Thp folks ot , ho l b „use reasoned It
noi tiier which had buried j out ‘that Nemo, before Ills mother could
tho district under a mantlo of snow and ! overtake him and turn him back home,
ire, Nemo, shivering- at Ids mother’s side I bad been
in the stable, saw a chance for a gallop
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^contort by wolves anti
based across the plain. Ijiiekilv. Brown-
m,™ on, of ,h. m.n „ i! £*"S-fST' ’SS
door to bring in some straw for the stalls, struck the trail, and. no doubt both
arid bounding into tile lot he loped away horses instinctively sought the edge of
under the bar and dashed out to the un-! the thick belt of woods as affording the
inviting plain. j best place for a stand against the enemy.
"Brownie wns „ i Although (he coyotes didn't get Nemo.
, . ! a “ ei * 11,n a shot, j t) 1P experience was too much for the
nu. the barrier stopped the mare's course colt and, contracting a severe case of
and she could not get out of the lot. But! pneumonia, lie died In less than a week.
£j with a wonderful sagacity and before she! Brownie grieved for months over her loss
their 1 could be prevented, she / and finally
her teeth
ment of Ii
in its socl
leased froi
fell to the
! * n 'j ^V 1 , a d, uic , k sic| e move- I'fpnT*iier’ that, one of t
i sh.ipt-ly head slipped it back Upon to end her misery
’t» and the end ot the beam re-
one section of Its support,!
round and Brownie leaping;
she met a tragic end. A
train struck her and so badly
he men was called
with a rifle ball."
Orleans Picayune.
bar. gained her freedom,
nit had a good start and only
outline could be scon *: the
moving through the hazy mist
d begun to fall. But Brownie
she knew instinctively the
course her unruly offspring had taken and
- she followed It with unerring precision.
By the time the men had saddled up and
made ready to go out after the runaway
! and his mother both horses were out of
j sight, but their lioofprints were clear in
‘ and the trail an easy one to
there wits a wliopptn’ big hole by a fiat | take uft.
rock, where we sat and kept ketcliin' BROWNIE’S WHINNY HEARD,
trout till we was satisfied. They was all j “The cowboys—four of them, as I am
good, big fellers and it seemed like all the , told afterward— galloped across the prai-
brook was in that cold | rip for a Rno(1 half ho|u . hpfore th
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At Meppen is the proving ground. It
is 15 1-2 miles long and 3 miles wide.
! There nearly 25,000 shots are fired each
year to test projectiles and armor, for
, both are made at Essen. The other
groups comprising the works aret equal,
j ly extensive.
i This vast enterprise yielded Miss
j Krupp an Income of $5,000,000 a year,
j but this huge sum did not make her
j less eensltve to Cupid's dart than a girl
| who worked in a mill. The biron had
; won a way into her affections, and she
- deftly let him understand that it was
the revenues, the other husband, Wil-
ntowski, will be aiding in the distribution
of a part among deserving workmen.
THE GALLANT DOCTOR.
"Do you think it will take, doctor?"
asked the charming young girl who had
Just been vaccinated.
"Well,” replied the gallant doctor, "if
it doesn't take on an arm as pretty as
that I'll have no respect for vaccine
hereafter.”
Antoinette Bertha Krupp, Richest
Young Woman in the World
not her plan to permit wealth to stand
as a barrier between them.
With this encouraging information
gained, Bohlen quickly pressed his stilt,
and was accepted.
It is understood that he will quit the
diplomatic service in order to assist in j
the management of the Krupp plant. |
The baron has American connections !
to whom_ he paid many courtesies while j
he was here in Washington as a repre- /
sentatlve of his government.
General W. H. C. Bohlen. who was |
killed at Bull Run. was a first cousin :
of the lute John Bohlen, father of Fran- i
els H. Bohlen. Robert M. Bohlen and D. j
Murray Bohlen, of Philadelphia.
The daughter o' General Bohlen mar- !
rled one of her German kinsmen, Gus
tav Halbach, and by permission of their 1
Gustav Von Bohlen Engaged to Marry
Miss Krupp.
fish in that air brook was in that
spring hole near the old cave. £• many
wo got grub-struck and Jack he allotted
it was lunch time.
-go we sot down on a big mossy log
and spread some newspapers and green
leaves on the old fiat rock. We had
opened a pint flask of somethin' good
and was proceedin’ to eat when what did
I see ittst across the little brook but a
baby bear a walkin’ along just as sassy
a, could be. In less than a minute we
was arter the critter, and 1 claimed I
got. Caere first.
•• -\\'e didn’t have much time to arglty,
fur just then we heard the old bear
n-cotnin’ and a-thrashin' through t ae
bresh down bv the blackberry vims and
we just lit out. Will he begged me to
drop the cub, which kept a squalln-
like a pig an’ a tollin' the old un on ft"
fast as we went. 1 just couldn’t drop the
little -feller, and managed to shut off
his yellin' nuff to enable us to escape, and
iwe kept on a runnin’ and finally got
here.’
'• 'Well. I sez, boys you’d better have
yer dinner. Mebby my sons will fix
i:p the old musket and go huntin' with
you this arfernoon.’ So they agreed to
do this, and wrassled with my dinner,
which was just on the table, and said it
vtas the finest meal they ever eat. Could
not be beat In Fifth avynoo, they said.
"They 'peared to like my new bread
and the chicken pie and strawberry
shortcake pretty well, anyhow. So afte.
dinner mv boys got ail ready and they
looked pretty smart for fellers more than
65 years old'. There was quite a passe!
of titan folks went along with their hound
dogs, guns and things, and I told 'em
that it would lie a hard day fur that
bear farnbly if they got arter it.
"The party hadn'fc gone m"ie than •:
mile when they met a little boy runnin’
toward ’em iwith his hair jest a standli’
on end and his eyes as big as sassers,
an' sez he. 'I was fishin' the brook down
just now an' wlien 1 got out there bv
the flat rock 1 seen an old bear .prancin'
around with a bottle in her -paw. She
was eatin' sandwiches biled eggs and
things and was all tangled up with fish
lines and the fishpoles was just a flyin'
erottnd like everything. 1 was so scart I
lit right out, and here I be.’
“Well, th’* men all goes back with the
boy and find what he said was a'i
straight. The old bear >'«<! natchexly
been there and eaten the lunch, she'd
opened the bottle of whisky and drank
it all up. You could see paper scattered
around a-r.d fishpoles broken and tiwistel
to pieces and the line lyin' about.
"The men looked for that bar and pm
their dogs on the track, but never an
aniniile could they find. Mebby she for
got all about her young un after swal-
lerin’ down all that lleker. I don't won-
oer that air boy was scared out of a
year’s growth.
"He always stuck to it that the old
bear was drunk and standin' there with
the bottle in her paw when be first saw
iter, and we hev idlers believed him.
'cause we found that ete bottle empty
and the lunch eaten by the bear. I am
a -professor of religion, and you can coun
«‘>n this story bein’ gospel true."—New
York Pres*.
LJTNflOIiN’S PERSONAL FRESFNcej*
(From The St. Nicholas.)
For many years it has been the fashion
to call Mr. Lincoln homely. He was very-
tall and very thin. His eyes were deep
sunken, his skin of a sallow pallor, his
hair eoarse. black and unruly. Yet he
was neither ungraceful nor awkwadd nor
ugly. His large features fitted his large
frame, and his large hands and feet were
hut right on a body that measured 6 feet
4 inches.
His was a. sad and thoughtful face,
ey came i and from boyhood he had carried
load
up with the missing horses. As they rode I of care. It is small wonder that when
they could hear in the uncertain distance j alone or a'bsorbed In thought the face
ahead of them the faint whinnying of a! should take on deep lines, the eyes ap-
horse. The whinnying, they knew, was; pear its if seeing something beyond the
Brownie’s but there was terror, the sug-j vlBlon 0 f other men, and the shoulders
gestion of an appeal conveyed in the j stoop, as though they, too, were bearing
found. Once or twice, when the men had' a v.-eight. But in a moment all would
rode farther, they heard a weaker whin- j p e changed. The deep eyes would flash,
n.ving. which they took to be Nemo’s cry, or twinkle merrily with humor, or look
and then came to their ears the unmis- out from un( ier overhanging brows as
takeable yapping bark of coyotes. “The they lli( , lipr>n the Five "Points children
wolves have got them horses,’ Bill) kind , Iest gentleness.
Springer, an Indian fighter and an old-! go too )n public speaking. When his
time plainsman, who was leading the | ta „ ' bodv ’ rose to ita full height, with
searchers, yelled above the sob and| head tbrown bac k and his face trans-
whistle of the winters wind and the ! , ... anmMtnPflq n f 1 T
riders urged their steeds forward to re-i fl * fUred with the 1,re aml earn f stne38 of both
neweci effort. j his thought, he would answer Douglas In
“Sleet was falling about this time and \ the high, clear tenor that came to him
through the flying specks of ice and dusk j i n the heat of debate, carrying his ideas
of approaching night the men say about j s far out over listening crowds. And
half a mile off a small patch of timber. , . , , ,, -
The sounds that now came to them were! 'ater, during the . e rs of . .
, of a most alarming character. The bark-j he pronounced with noble gravity the
ing of the wolves rose in a chorus, but ! words of his famous addresses, not one
above this was the wild, piercing neigh of i j n tbe throngs that heard hitn could
a horse facing death. That's an awful] that he was other than a
sound. I heard it once when a stable In ' •' }
Dallas was burning and God granj that 1 i handsome man.
never hear it again. The neigh becomes: It has 'been the fashion, too, to say
almost a shriek of horror that the human I that he was slovenly and careless In his
voice can hardly express and flinty, in
deed, must be the heart that that plaint
of woe does not touch.
MARE FACES HOWLING PACK OF!
COYOTES.
"The riders dashed ahead and in a few j
minutes came upon a stirring picture, j
Brownie was over against the trees a-nd I
half hidden by a black shadow east by !
the timber belt was little Nemo. In low. j
crouching attitude, with tails dragging |
In the seven or eight big coyotes
were closing in on the horses and It was
dress. This also is a mistake. His
clothes could not fit smoothly on his
gaunt and bony frame. He was no
tailor's figure of a man; but from the
first he clothed himself as well as his
means allowed, and in the fashion of the
MENELIK A KING.
(Robert Skinner, in The Independent.)
Perhaps the most interesting of reign
ing kings is Menelik of Abyssinia. He
was born in 1842 and claims to be the
descendant of the Queen of Sheba, whose
own son, of the same name, was reputed
to be the son of Solomon.
The visitor to the capital of what Mene
lik has made a united Abyssinia Is agree
ably surprised to find himself -traveling
over smooth and well-constructed rok-ls.
The imperial palace occupies the crest
of a hill and dominates the whole city.
Standing in garden grounds inclosed by a
! thatched stone wall, it comprises a num-
j ber of -buildings, to which access is ob
tained by traversing several courtyards
and a spacious campus, where are sta
tioned the only body of regularly Euro
pean trained troops in the Ethiopian
army.
A wide doorway of Indian design admits
the newcomer to the audience hall, a
large hal“-chttrchlike structure, with a
roof supported by timber bridge work,
at the far end of which stands the throne.
The floor is covered with oriental rugs,
mixed with certain products of French
and German looms. Back of the lines
formed by tho -pillars are -massed on cere
monial occasions, in either aisle, hundreds
of the chief people of the capital dressed
in many- colored raiment.
The throne itself is a sort of divan, and
occupies a platform surmounted by a
gilded canopy, the gift of France. At re- :
ceptions eaclt side of it Is defended by :
two young princes with guns, while be- I
hind and around are grouped the minis
ters. judges and officers of the court. 3
The first impression made by the em- j
peror Is a distinctly pleasing one. Hi* i
face is full of intelligence nad his man- ,
tiers are those of a gentleman no Ds*
than of a king. He sits In oriental fash- ;
ion, his legs crossed and his arms sus
tained by two cushions.
He wears as outer garment a red velvet :
mantle, which affords glimpses of a
snowy white underclothing, and about his J
head is wound a white handkerchief. Dia- t
monii eardrops hang at either cheek, and .
hands are adorned with rings. x
To converse with the stranger he makes
use of his private secretary, who is also
his interpreter, since he speaks no other
language than that of Abyssinia. Soma
scraps of French he can, upon occasion, '
employ apropos, and to an English- (
speaking -person he will, as a compliment,
say a "howdo.”
The emperor's thirst for Information 1* j
phenomenal, and his knowledge of other l
countries is more considerable than ona
might imagine from the meager sources 1
at his disposal. He can discourse on
•the Fnited States' recent war with Spain,
and more summarily on the war of lnde- 1
pendence with Great Britain.
President Roosevelt he has evidently -
learned a good deal about, and seems to
tesque stories of his boyhood, of the Lall
stripling whose trousers left exposed a
length of shin, it must be remembered
not only how poor he was. but that he
I lived on the frontier, where other boys
j less poor were scarcely better clad.
| In Vandalia the blue jeans he wore
j was the dress of his companions as well,
j and later, from Springfield days on, clear
] through Ills presidency. Ills cos :me was
of the animals. j the usual suit of black broadcloth, care-
"When the coyote circle was drawn too 1 fully made and scrupulously neat. He
tight rhe -would dash forward and with I cared nothing for style. It did not mat-
rapid kicks drive the snarling brutes | ter to him whether the man with whom
back, and the only sound emitted was J lie talked wore a coat of the latest cut
the deep, wheezy breathing noise, the \ or owner no coat at all. It was tile
result of overexertion. One of the coyotes : man inside the coat that interested him.
lay motionless in the snow and, as it af- . j n j bp same way lie cared little for the
terward proved, the animal's neck had ! plpasures of the’table. He ate most
time and place. In reading the gro-1 b<* much- interested in his personality.
from Nemo's lusty lungs that the piteous
neighs issued. The mare was activity
itself and w-ith leaps anil bounds to the
right and to the left she endeavored to
shield her frightened sort from tiie attack
been broken by a kick from Brownie's t
solid hind hoofs.
"The cowboys were afraid to fire at the
coybte=. the horses being in range, but
knowing that the brutes are cowardly
nature, they drew their big ipistols and
popped them off in the air. That had the
desired effect, and the wolves. with
itowfis and snarls. abandoned their
quarry and sped into the timber, where
they were lost to view.
"Brownie and Nemo. both evidently
glad of the timely intervention, trotted
away home in front of the rescuers, and
when they were both safe in the stable
sparingly. He was thankful that food
was good and wholesome and enough for
daily needs, but he could no more enter
into the mood of the epicure, for whose
palate it is a matter of importance
whether he eats roast goose or golden
pheasant, than he could have counted tile
grains of sand under the sea.
“Miss Roxley's engagement to Lord
Nokash was announced yesterday—’’
“Yes. but was denounced today,
old man had his say about it.
Having heard that the president is a
sportsman, he expressed the hope of see
ing him some day in Ethiopia, inquired
his age and was eager -to have the story
of his election narrated.
The Empress Taitu rarely or never as
sists at the reception of visitors, unless
some public cqremony is involved abso
lutely requiring her presence. She is said-
to be a woman of great force of charac
ter and to have been in her youth of
striking beauty.
She is now 47 j-ears of age .and is the
daughter of a former ras of Gondar,
and one of the hereditary princesses of
the absorbed kingdom of Seitnen, the in
habitants of which are reputed for their
white skins. Several times married pre
viously she -became the wife of Menelik
in 1883. They have no children.
Menelik calls himself "the lion of tha
tribe of Judah, the cltosen of the Lord,
king of kings of Ethiopia."
“I hear the woman midget is going to
marry the india-rubber man,” said tha
living skeleton. “I wonder what she see*
in him?"
"Oh.” replied the obese lady, “she prob
ably realized that it was a s-piendid op- i
The: portunity to get a husband she could
I twist around her finger,"