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Facts and Fancies for the Fireside
THE MAN WHO WINS.
(Baltimore News.)
The man who wins is the man who
works —
The man who toils while the next man
shirks;
The man who stands in his deep dis
tress
With his head held high in the deadly
press—
Yes, he is the man who wins.
The man who wins is the man who
knows
The value of pain and the worth of
woes—
Who a lesson learns from the man
who falls
And a moral finds in his mournful
wails:
Yes, he is the man who wins.
The man who wins is the man who
stays
In the unsought paths and the rocky
ways,
And, perhaps, who lingers now and
then,
To help some failure to rise again,
And, he is the man who wins!
And the man who wins is the man
who hears
The curse of the envious in his ears,
But who goes his way with his head
held high
And passes the wrecks of the failures
by—
For he is the man who wins.
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TO THE BOYS OF AMERICA.
Os course what we have a right to
expect from the American boy is that
he shall turn out to. be a good Ameri*
can man.
Now the chances are strong that he
won’t be much of a man unless he is
a good deal of a boy. He must not be
a coward or a weakling, a bully, a
shirk or a prig. He must work hard
and play hard. He must be clean
minded and clean-lived, and able to
hold his own under all circumstances
and against all comers. It is only on
these conditions that he will grow
into the kind of a man of whom Amer
ica can really be proud. In life, as in
a football game, the principle to fol
low is: Hit the line hard; don’t foul
and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard.
—Theodore Roosevelt.
CLOTHES.
To be a leader of fashion one must
be a follower. The man who pays the
compliment is not always the man
who pays for the gown.
“United we stand, but divided we
get all sorts of mean things said about
us,” saith The Skirt.
The most adorned woman is not al
ways the most adored.
As a man’s salary gets higher his
wife’s gowns get lower.
A widow and her weeds are soon
parted.
An old fashion is old, but an ancient
fashion is always modern.—Walter
Pulitzer, in March Delineator.
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SNUBBED ENGLAND'S QUEEN.
The King met Mrs. W. W. Astor at
a recent dinner given by Lord Revel
stroke and bantered her about a mis
take she had made on her recent
presentation at court, when she curt
seyed only to the king and passed on,
to bo sent back by the court chamber
lain to curtsey to the queen. Mrs. As
tor was formerly Mrs. Nannie Lang
thorne Shaw.
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MRS. CORNELIA BRISCOE DEAD.
Last Survivor of Noted Southern
Family Passes Away.
New Orleans —Mrs. Cornelia Hunt
Briscoe, last survivor of the distin
guished Hunt family of Louisiana and
South Carolina, died here, aged nine
ty-seven, at the residence of her
nephew, Maj. M. J. Harrod, a member
of the Panama commission. The body
was shipped to Washington, D. C., to
be buried.
Mrs. Briscoe was the last survivor
of the eighteen children of Thomas
Hunt, one of the most distinguished
citizens of Charleston, S. C., a cen
tury ago, her mother being Mrs. Gail
lard, daughter of John Gaillard, for
twenty-one years senator from South
Carolina and president of the United
States senate.
Among her brothers were William
H. Hunt, secretary of the navy and
minister to Russia; Randall Hunt,
senator from Louisiana and long lead
er of the Louisiana bar; Theodore
Hunt, representative from Louisiana
and judge of the district court, and
Dr. Thomas Hunt, president of the
University of Louisiana and founder
of the Louisiana Medical College.
“COMING OUT” IN WASHINGTON.
(From Donham’s Doings.)
Miss Lena Mae Hemenway, of
Boonville, Ind., daughter of United
States Senator Hemenway, is soon to
break into “high” Washington society }
which means that she is soon to be
come acquainted with the Stanford
Whites, the Harry and Evelyn Thaws
of the national capital, and it is an
nounced that she does not look for
ward to the event with a very marked
degree of interest and happy anticipa
tion. It is said that Miss Hemenway
is a modest little country lass who en
joys a horseback ride in the fresh
morning air better than anything else.
Vice-President and Mrs. Fairbanks
are preparing to give a ball in honor
of this innocent country girl, when she
is to meet and mingle with libertines
and scantily dressed sirens who are
but little —if any—better than the
street strumpets loathed by woman
kind. In speaking of her coming de
but, Miss Hemenway said: “How I
do hate it! /1 guess I will have to sub
mit, however, and I might as well get
it over with!” The poor girl seems
to have a pretty fair idea of what
“high” Washington society means.
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AMERICANS PROFANEST PEOPLE.
Dr. Madison C. Peters, in his ser
mon in the Majestic theater, declared
profanity was New York’s most popu
lar sin. “in fact,” he said, “the Amer
icans are the profanest people in the
world.”
GETS DIVORCE, ASKS SIOO,OOO.
Edmund Zollinger, an official of the
Metropolitan Railway Company, hav
ing been awarded a divorce, has sued
George Rouget, one of the three men
he named, for SIOO,OOO damages for
the alleged aleniation of his wife’s af
fections.
BULL FIGHT “HONORS” NORDICA.
El Paso, Texas. —Lillian Nordica,
grand opera singer, and JO,OOO other
persons at Juarez, Mexico, saw a bull
fight, in which professional female
Spanish matadors and banderillos
killed three out of four bulls. One
beast was slain in * the singer’s
“honor.”
THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
FALSE NEWS KILLS MOTHER.
Eau Claire, Wis. —A mistake in mes
sages causing the news to be sent to
Mrs. Phoebe Stahl, that her daughter
in Altoona had died, when the latter
was only ill, resulted in Mrs. Stahl
dropping dead. The message about
the daughter got mixed with one an
nouncing the death of a sister of Mrs.
Stahl.
ONE DEATH CAUSES TWO MORE.
Battle Creek, Mich.—Otis Thayer, a
Civil war veteran of Homer, came
here to visit his son, Clifford. He was
stricken with heart failure and died.
His aged wife, overcome with grief,
was taken ill, and soon after the fun
eral, expired. The shock produced
such an effect on Mrs. J. T. Tomp
kins, mother of Mrs. Clifford Thayer,
that she, too, collapsed and passed
away.
MISSING GIRL FOUND INSANE.
Troy.—Miss Cora Townsend, of Buf
falo, who mysteriously disappeared
Friday after visiting relatives here,
has been located at Hudson. She is
hopelessly insane and will be placed
in an asylum. The woman lost her
mind while riding on a train. She
alighted at Hudson and tried to com
mit suicide by inhaling gas.
Mrs. William Waldorf Astor snub
bed the queen of England, but the
queen graciously forgave her. The
queen plainly knows how to make al
lowances for American snobs.
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H. L. McCRARY, ASA C. BROWN, J. J. BROWN,
Sup. Pres, and Med. Director. Sup. Sec. and Treas. Sup. Vice-Pres.
W. C. PRESSLEY, Sup. Organizer.
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CALLED HUGGING “EMBRACERY.”
Beaver Falls, Pa. —Embracery—the
crime of attempting to influence a
jury—was the only charge Henry
Johnston, justice of the peace, would
entertain when Miss Clara Parmlee,
the school teacher who was hugged
by a strange man on her way home,
wanted to make a complaint for as
sault and battery. She went to an
other magistrate.
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GIRL IS ANTI-TRUST WITNESS.
Chicago—Julia Doyle, a stenogra
pher, is the chief witness of the gov
ernment in the federal cases before
the grand jury against fifteen firms
engaged in the school and church fur
niture business, composing the Ameri
can Seating Company, charging an Il
legal combination in restraint of
trade.
GOOSE 72 YEARS OLD.
Caldwell, N. J.—William Yours
Strong, a farmer near here, owns a
goose which is seventy-two years old,
he swears. “William Yours, the man
I was named after, gave me this goose
in 1871,” said Strong. “Yours was go
ing back to the old country, and he
said: ‘Bill, I’ve owned this goose for
thirty-six years. Cherish her, Bill;
be kind to her in her old age, for she
is almost like a sister to me.’ ”
Dowie is dead, but the status of
Mrs. Eddy is still the subject of a
lively debate. It is up to her to ap
pear, or file her will.
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