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About The Hustler of Rome. (Rome, Ga.) 1891-1898 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1894)
'FOR WOMEN FOLKS ■. ■ - A Clever Duck. V A young lady was sitting in a room adjoining a poultry yard .where , chickens,ducks and geese "< re <lib- M porting (heuiselvt s.A. dr.-ke came iu, approached tire iady,»jezvd the bot tom of her dress with his beak, and pulled it vigorously. At first bLe took L no notice. The bird still persisted tri Somewhat astonished,she got up He waddled out quickly before her,More and more surprised she followed him, I and he conducted her to the side ol 11 a pond where she perceived a duck with the head caught iu the opening | of a sluice. She hastened to itlease '' the poor creature, and restore it to the drake, that,by loud quacking and beating of his wing’ /estiiied his joy. She Kept her Pet. According to the Journal de ; Rouen, an amusing scene was wit- I; uessed recently at the Dieppe rail way, in which a fellow country man of ours took part. The lady, , who spoke in broken French, had a dog which she was taking into a compartment with her, when a ! guard informed her that it must be placed in a proper receptacle and j paid for. The following conversa r, tion took place: “Dogs must be paid for.’’ “Not mine.” “Madam, no exception can be ■ made.” “I will put it in my bag.” “You cannot.” “I always do in England?’ “In France you must give up • the dog and pay.” “1 will not pay. Can I leave the dog?’, “If you lik Q . Hand it over.” The lady held out the dog and the guard took it, when to his sur prise he found it was not alive. It was a pet dog that had been stuff- M ed. There were roars of laughter from the bystanders, and the zeal- L ous employe retired looking ex tremely foqlish —London Daily News. Some Neat Compliments. Perhaps one of the grandest ' compliments evt-r paid by one hu i man beirg to another was that rendered by Nicholas, the late Em peror of All the Russias, to Mlle. Rache , the celebrated French ac tress. When she was introduced to \ him she knelt ; but the emperor raised her, ai_d himself falling on one knee, said : “Thus should royalty of rank pay homage to royalty of genius." Wiv n the great Duke of Well ington said: “He always slept well when Sta pleton Cotton was on guard,” he paid a sterling compliment which must have gratified that cfilcer —if ' he heard it -as much as a promo tion of i auk would haVe done. Mrs. Moore, the wife of the poet ( was noted for her benevolence to the poor in the vicinity of her country residence. On one occa sion a guest observed: “1 take it for granted that no one is dying in nor neighborhood, ■ or we should not be favored with Mrs. Moore’s company ” Not long ago, when a brief mat rimonial engagement was broken off, a near relation of the gentle man, one who fully appreciated he high qualities of her from whom the would-be lover was sun dered, said to the young lady : “You have only lost an ideal; he he hts lost a reality .” A sweet compliment this, under the circumstances, it seen s to us. Her Mother’s Grave Sbe was only a little lame girl, with thin pinched cheeki, great melting eyes, and a general look of sorrow and suffei ing around her. Her poor and oldfashioned clothes £ pok» v little bonnet and threadbare jacket, not only of poverty but told of a neglected and wretched home. The man at the cemetery had v seen her around many times since k* the spriug weather had made a vis- to the burial-ground pleasant. BftlAhat she appeared to be inter- THE HUSTLER OF ROME, SUNDAY OCTOBER, 7 1894. ested in the fine monuments, th-il Hower decked lots or the beautiful graves. She never cared to notice them. She always limped her sol itary w tv to “ qnet corner of the single grave seclion, where seated upon a neglected mound she would stay for hours, thinking ‘quietly crooning to herself, obliviousof her surroundiiiuh and seemingly careless as *o who might see her and indifferent to what was going on in other parte of the beauti ml gro'in is. The other morning she was at her post as soon as the gates were opened, and the cemetery-keeper watched h-r painfully hobbling a'ong to her accustom d seat, and s >w bor reverently place upon it a little handful of poor, tawdy blos soms and daisies. It was a small and pretty form of decoration, but there ceuid be no question about the purity of the sympathy which prompted her to decorate an un marked grave. Taking a bunch of exquiste roses m his hand the man followed the little girl to the place where she was seated, and handing them to her said: “Look here sis, this won’t do. I cannot have a little girl like you moping away by yourself in this dull place. You mustcewe up to the top of the bill and see all the nice people. I’ll find you a seat, little one and then, when you ’re tired of being among all J»he fine folks and pretty llowors, you can take your bouquet and go home.” “Oh please sir,let me stay where I am. My dress is old and shabby, and I should be ashamed, I thank you tor the roses. They are very sweet and —may I lay them on the grave instead of taking them home? They are too pretty for me, but they are not too good for her*” ■‘Why, little girl, how you talk. Whose grave do you wish to lay them on?” “Od my mother’s,” The man turned away. Tears were iu his eyes. The child’s sor row unmaned him. Recently I was looking aiound the lots, when the cemetery-Seeper c ime by. “How goes your little lame pro tegee?” I asked. “I went down to the hospital to see her last night, ’ he replied, and she will never come here again until she is tube laid by her mother's side. She was dying when I left her, and as I pressed her lit tle worn hand in bidding her good by she said: Thank you for the flowers. ’.The angels have told me that mothe was grateful for them.—Chicago Tribune. A large black hat trimmed with black ot’rich tips is favorite head gear itb Mrs Frederick Gebhard al present. Mrs Nathan Straus, wife of the I New York philanthropist, is as’ charirable as her husband and quite as fond of giving. Gertrude Vanderbilt has had her portrait paiuted by Carolus Duran, but with the proviso that it should not be exhibited iu Paris. Mrs Nellie Grant Sarotis has re turned to Washington, with the intention of making it her future home. She has leased a house on R. Street, Mrs Talmage, wife of Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, received not long ago a legacy of $13,000 from an ' old woman to whom she bad once been courteous. Mies Susie Sterlin, the daugh ter of a well co do farmer of Pat tie couuty, Mo., is a somnambu list and was lately found to have written a very intlligible letter while asleep. Miss Norma Monro u , daughter of the late publisher, Munro, drives some dashing steeds, and even an accident now and then does not deter this young * woman from her favorite sport, Mme Carnot, widow of the late president of France, has been ask ed to remain honorary president of the Union des Femmes de 1’ rance, the largest voluntary am- buiance organization in France. Mrs. Frank Burnside is clerk to Professor Langley, head of the Smithsonian institution and Na tional museum. Her capability for grasping details has made her an invaluab e assistant. Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, who in 1851. while editing a temperance paper at Seneca Falls, N. Y., be gan wearing the costume that is still known by her name, lives with her husband at Council Bluffs la. During her travels in Africa Mrs. Shelton, the famous explorer was once great ly embarrassed by a present of 600 husbands from the local sultan. It was with difficul ty she declined the delicate atten tion without giving the greatest offense. Mr. Galt Smith, a New Yorker, spends every summer in Ireland, where she has quite a fine castle, and in which she entertains a suc cession of house parties. Her cas tle has no less than 75 bedrooms, to say nothing of other sumptuous apartments. Mrs. Gresham is the only one of the cabinet ladies who does not maintain an establishment in Washington. Her ill health forbids her doing this, but she and the secretary entertain very hospitably in the large private wing of the hotel which they make their home- Mrs. Julia Ward Howe does not look her age, 75 years. She has the presence, the demeanor, the ex pression, the voice and the step of 50. She had a handsome face, is in vigorous health and gives heed to the art of dress. She is far more lively than are most woman at her time of life. WHY SHE WORE TROUSER New York, Oct. 6 in the little town of.Mechanicsville the other day a person registered at the Ho tel Leland as “Howard Burton Troy, N. Y.” The individual wore blue goggles and was dressed in a man’s attire. It was ascertained that the supposed young man was a woman She confessed, saying that the cruelty of her parents had driven her from her hom». She had waited until her broth er got his pay. and had then stolen $35 from him. she said she had been away from home a month. Her funds were exhausted and she was contemplating suicide. She would not give her name, but said she was only 18 years old, BURNED ALIVE. ♦ ■ 1 ' — Horrible Fate of a Girl who Foueht Her Rescuers Savagely. Cleveland, Ohio, October 4. 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