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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. * - 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. X 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. - 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. •t 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. THE 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. ✓ Home Office, 415-416 : 417 Fourth National Bank Building. . ATLANTA, GA. A Fraternal Beneficiary Association A HOME INSTITUTION •> ioo Energetic Men Wanted to represent us. If you want Pleasant Employment that pays well, write to the Home Office for full informa tion. 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. •t 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. 13