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scrawny neck, and sallow face, and
you meet the woman's eyes with your
own. and mentally you say to yourself:
Here lies the secret of this woman's
power over even great men"
We are apt in these days of the Phil
istines to fiout the theory that our
lives are largely governed by heredi-
tary instincts. We have come to hold
sometimes that the child of vicious
parents born in the atmosphere of a
brothel may become great moral re-
| former, and so he or she may. But
some of US will perhaps continue to
hold that hereditary traits, like taints
of the same kind, may be transmitted.
We may go further and hold that they
may be exaggerated in the third and
fourth generation. and produce the very
subject of this sketch in ample evidence
to clinch the argument.
In order to more clearly understand
the career of this woman now passing
the last days of her life IN the town
that Wagner loved it may be necessary.
10 take brief bird's-ey view, as it
were. Of her forebears.
In the first place, she came of race
on both sides that never allowed con-
ventional rules to Interfere in their
love matters. Frau Wagner followed
the family will.
Her grandmother was Bethman, of
the family of Frankfort bankers and
brokers, and she was Young
widow at the time the French rev.
olution scattered the French no.
bility before it like chaff before an
autumn wind. Among these was a
Compile de Flah2ult, who wandered to
Frankfort, saw the fair widow. con-
quercd and was conquered. The widow
had in her own right q fortune of one
hundred and thirty thousand pounds.
and it was not strange that her family
objected TO her bestowal OF herself and
her money upon broken French
refugee. The fair widow seemed to
submit, even when her relatives IL or
der TO remove the fascinating French
man had hin arrested upon some
trumped-up charge and thrown into
prison.
il was a fatal move on their part, for
the young woman simply opened her
purse and bribed the jailors in the
prison where her lover was confined.
She went through some sort of mar
riage ceremony, not even Scotch. and
for weeks shared the prison OF her
Frenchman. At the end of that time
She returned to her home, told where
she had been. explained that her for
tame was her own. and advised, too,
that her relatives make the best of the
mater. and being wise in those DAYS
they did. Conpte de Flahault was
released ana the pair were married in
Il legal manner. and when Napoleon
came to grief at Waterloo they went 10
the complies own country again. where
he and his wife filled high position
in Partisan society
This was the story OF Frau Wacuer-s
grandmother For the hcnefitof those
who hold that there is something in
I hereditary influence il may 5e as well
to pass to the story Of Frau warner,s
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JAPANESE FLOWERS.
Evidences of the Aestheticism OF Pic
tr-csCuc People.


turcscuc People.
The Japanese are expert at garden
ing. and give such individual attention
to each blossom that they obtain won
.de,ful results The author of Clear
Round says that upon asking gar
iener if il were true that they help the
buds OF delicate flowers TO open by
gently tanning them he answered that
they do so in the case Of choice flowers.
No matter how humble the Httls
home. II is frightened by vase with
tat least one flower, or spray OF autumn
leaves. etc. Their arrangement of
flowers is always. lovely, such hnr-
1ponies of form and color. There is 10
stiffness. for they try to initiate nature.
1t is marvellous what man can do if
.he has a mind for it. | examined
tree in process of development Al
1aost ever twig was tied with a 6nc
thread, and bent in the way it Should
GO
The entire population turn out TO
honor the flowers, and write poems,
tying them to the branches. This habit
of writing little poems is sometimes
rather amusing. On one occasion,
when the British minister's wife left
for Europe. the empress presented her
with the verSiclc; Why does the gray
goose fly home to her brood?"
The Japanese term for picnic signi-
fies ito go out and see flowers" and a
probverb runs: Flowers are better
than dumplings."
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POINTS ABOUT TOBACCO.
Some Interesting News Concerning a Great
Industry.

Some Interesting News Concerning Great
Industry.
Genuine amber is becoming scarcer
every year. In the not far distant fu-
ture a real amber cigar-helder or pipe
stem will be a rarity and a luxury.
The cigar industry in Florida has in
creased rapidly within the last few
wears The state is said to be the fourth
in the Union in the manufacture of
cigars and the amount of tobacco used.
The number of cigars manufactured
last year amounted to l50, ,879. .621.
A prominent American buyer of high
grade tobacco leaf, recently returned
from Cuba, says large crop will be
harvested this year. but the prices
maintained will be high. The quality
is of the best, and good cigars ought to
9csult.
4 French scientist declares that the
practice of medical student and anat-
omy demonstrators of smoking in the
6issecting room. though effective as an
zntiseptic. has disastrous effect upon
the offspring of these users of the
weed. The next generation. he says.
will lack the normal power of resisting
Siiseasc. chiefly through the transmits
sion OF defective nervous systems. His
powers OF foresight are marvellous.
The Legislature of Florida has passed
an excellent law prohibiting cigar
manufacturers in that state. outside of
Key West. from designating their
brands under that city's name. The
reputation of Key West cigars will now
be protected from the multitude of in
ferior makes with which the country
has been flooded. Heavy fines will be
= imposed on violators.
Killikinicl>, or kinikinill, with which
the Indians are in the ha bit of mixing
tobacco, is rapidly becoming extinct.
Several plants have received this name,
but they have no right to IL The true
]Ierb is the inside bark of young will
low, and when smoked alone makes a
mild and pleasant smolSe.-N. y. Jour
aal.
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the realm of music, had some sort Of
fascination for women of brains as
well as beauty, and himself said with a
vanity all his own that he entered the
priesthood to escape women.
Comptesse de Ajoult ran away and
lived with him at Rome and Weimar,
but eventually broke with him, for she
was freighted with vanity as heavily
as the great pianist himself.
One of his daughters by this affair
was named Blaudine and was beauti-
full woman who afterwards married the
French statesman Emile Olivier. The
other is the subject of this sketch.
be an artist. Instead she was a man
of business, in purpose and effect. She
had peculiar makeup. She had the
soul of an artist as had her father
List and at the same time she had the
method and keenness of the Frankfort
bankers from whom she sprung. And
like her mother and grandmother she
was by nature erratic.
She had been the wife of Hans Won
Bulow for years and had borne him four
children when Wagner crossed their
path. The great German composer
came to Munich upon the invitation of
King Ludwig of Bavaria, and discov
counterpart of himself. At any rate.
he thought he had found an admirer
such as he deserved and. great as he
was and egotistical as most great men
are, consciously or otherwise. he could
love. Won Bulow's wife became his
affinity. Before knowing him at all
she had named the four children of
Won Bulow after the heroines of Wag-
ner's operas. respectively Senta, Eliza
beth, Eva and Isolde.
She acted as private secretary to
Wagner and finally it dawned upon
Won Bulow that his own was no longer
his own, that his wife lived for Wagner
and not for himself. Then with
placid kindness that it is hard for us
who are not men of genius to under
stand Won Bulow consented to s,lrren-
der his wife to his friend. He even
gave bis assistance in the divorce
proceedings that they might go
through without friction. There is
letter that is published openly now
that was written by Wagner to friend
and signed by himself and the ex-wife
of his friend. 1t is queer reading when
you consider it from our ordinary
standpoint of matters social. 1t runs
this way:
You will no doubt be angry with
me, when you hear that am to marie
Won Bulow's wife, who is TO become a
convert in order to be divorced.
I'VE have the honor to announce our
marriage which took place on the 25th
of August of this year 1870 at the Prot
estant chUrch of Lucerne.
- RICHARD WAGNER,
"COsINA WAGNER. nee LIs5T."
Wagner did not stop at taking Won
Bulow wife. He took all his children
as well, and what is more he cared for
them as though they had been his
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y heard you when You came home
hast night" said Landlady Snapshort
10 a lodger who had attended n pro-
tracted smoking concert the previous
evening. and ii was ever 50 late. And
let me tell you. Mr.. T.. that if you were
my husband | should make YOU come
home earlier, so should"
Indeed" said Mr.. T., and let me
tell Won. madam. that if YOU were NV
wife shouldn't come home ct ALL
Boston Globe.
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DiSinterestei ATectioD.

. He-Leonora. it becomes my painful
duty to reques. release from our en-
gagement.
She-Why, have you ceased to love
me?
He-No, dearest. But am a man of
honor. have just learned that your
father has met with a disastrous fail
ure and cannot consent to lead YOU
into a life of poverty.-Chicago Rec
prd.
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Rural ADVANTAGES.

Stranger-I understand that there
has never been a court case in this
neighborhood. The people here must
be very peaceable.
Farmer Way that: but
you see the squire lives so far away
that by the time we git there we forgit
what we was quarrelin' about.-N. Y.
Weekly.
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ncn-eSsin-.

''I think / must be her sim re-
marked JayhauVhton. moodiiy, after
an unsuccessful call.
Why, how's tha,?" queried Biddle-
I'm always sure 10 find he- out -
Vogue.
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Nisitor-Sorry to find you here, old
chap: badly hurt?
Patient-Yes. / am afrad an: /
heard the doctor say / was ''eeaIr-l-
full ease.-Puck.
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Mrs. CHALLoNIK, the widow ana the
sister of well-known horse jockeys, is
said to be the only woman who trains
race horses.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-21
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mother, the daughter of Compile de Fla

mother, the daughter of Compte de Fla
hault by the widow.
This daughter married Compte de
Ajoult of the body guard of Charles
X, and came into one-third of the pa
ternal and maternal estate. Intensely
vain was this mother of Nine. Wag-
ner and not too strong, morally. She
was the friend Of George Sand adopt
ed the social doctrines of that erratic
genius, and then quarreled bitterly
with her. Able List, who despite
the fact that he was as homely, and
vain. and freckled as he was great in
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-16
Locomotives Before Bibles.

A writer in a recent issue of the New
York Times estimates that there are in the
isolated mountain districts Of North Caro-
lima. South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee
and Kentucky about !, 0O0, 900 persons xiv
ing in the poverty, depreciation and vice
born Of ignorance" Another writer in the
same paper corrects the statement by re-
ducing the number of such Inhabitants TO
about 1000 .OO0-the total population of the
states named is about 1900. 600. The second
writer also asserts that one-fourth of the
mum Der of mountAineers are fully
equal in every social, material
and religious respect to the average
inhsbitant Of northern village. The re-
mainder Of writer No. rs allegations are
agreed to; that is, as to the poverty, iguor-
ance and vice Of the people.
How to reach and regenerate this million
Of people is the subject discussed by each
writer. The first says send school teachers
and the Bible and missionaries among them
they need education to show them their i'm
morality, and religious training TO remove
the superstitious fear that makes them al
most heather. The second writer says
SohIAoAS dA4 u4ASSAOuaElGb hUu DADkee al
well enough in their way. but to get at the
mountaineers aud reform them in
the shortest time and most thorough
manner possible is, ,not to begin by sending
preachers and teachers into their districts,
but TO send steam engines over lines OF steel
rails. Put the isolated corners of the sew
eral states into communication with the
rest OF the world, and intelligence, educa-
tion and morality would soon take the
places Of the conditions that exist there
now. Preachers and teachers. churches and
school houses would soon follow the march
of progress. zone locomotive" says the
writer who would work moral reforms
through civil engineering. "would do more
than 100000 Bibles and 1000 churches
The common sense of the present day will
fully support this view of the case. Re-
ligion and virtue need q congenial soil to
flourish in, and the present condition of the
majority of the people is not oongenial to
anything but ignorance and VICE.
The writers have both overdrawn the
disagreeable parts of their pictures. The
mountaineers Of the south are not of such a
low order of civilization. That there is a
great deal of ignorance among them, and
lawlessness, in 30 far as the manufacture Of
Illicit whisky is concerned. is true. But
they are not, generally speaking, debased
morally. There may be exceptional cases
in each community; but what community
is there in the country in which there are
no lapses from moral rectitude9
The "civilizing" agencies suggested by
each correspondent are, however, all needed
in the mountain districts. Another agency
for good that might have been mentioned
along with the locomotive is the improved
country road. And this agency is as badly
needed In northern states as southern, and
in lowlands az in mountains.
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How Ee Silent.

The hotel clerk was talking to the drummer.
says the Detroit rec Press:
You see a good many funny things in your
travels he said. land occasionally see one or
two, and stay at home
For instaace?" inquired the drummer, non
chalantly.
We'll, day before yesterday we had q coun-
try dude stopping with us over night. He had
on store clothes and blue necktie, and what
he didn't know wasn't worth knowing. When
he started up to his room at night told him
there was folding bed in it. and. If he wished
the bell boy would show him how 1t worked
But not much: he didn't want to be shown any
thing. He knew a thing or two about the city
he did, even If he cid live in the country.
so let MIN go and next morning he paid
his bill without word and went away About
noon happened to be on that floor and a cham
bermaid called TO me to take look in this
room. And what sight met my eyesl The
bottom drawer Of the bureau was pulled out as
far as 1t would come. AMI in 1t were all the rugs
in the room, with towel spread over one end
for pillow. Evidently he had tried to sleep
there, for pinned up on the glass was sarcastic
little legend, reading:
"'Gol dern yore foldin beds. Why don't you
make 'em longer and put more kivvers onto
UNI? Mebbe you expect man to stand up and
sleep in your burned old cubberd'"
The drummer laughed.
The burned old cubberd,'" resumed the
clerk. was one of our best wardrobe folding
beds" And then they both laughed
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, BRIGHT BITS.
ELsIr-You are a fiasterar. doctor

ELsIE-You are fiatter>r doctor.
Dr. Cheatum-Why. Miss Elsie, it is quite i'm
possible TO tistter you. If l were to say that
you were like an angel should not be tiatter-
ing you, but the-angeIs.- Boston Budget
HOPE OF PRoMoTtoN.--Her Father-Is there
any chance OF promotion in your business or in-
crease 10 your salary?
Suitor-Is there? Why. my position is next
TO the lowest in the establishment.-Tit Bits.
KNowLEs--Fo For what peculiar reasons are some
divorces granted. An actor has been granted
one because his wife caused her clock to strike
Bowles-Ihat,s trivial tnough reason.
knowles-Well, not exactly so. You see, the
clockStruck his head.=Sfh JeueLeYs Circular
JUsT MISSED r.-Miss Fitt-And so you were
in the Crimean war. major! We're you with
the Light Brigade in their heroic charges
Maj, Ananias BluR-I-eh-came very near
being in that historic charge, Miss Fit Never
was 80 disappointed in my life. They would
| take but 600 and I-eh-was No. 60i.-Pnck
LITTLE BoY-How soon are you and Sis goin'
to be married?
Accepted Suitor-Sha has not named the day
yet. l hope she does not believe in long en-
Little BdyL-shs doesn't. Il know. came all
| her engagements has been short ones-G Good
| NeiUs. ..I.. -.rs~+a
THE family living next door TO little Bess has
a new baby: A few days after it was born she
turned she gaveh her brother detailed descrip.
| tion of it.
rs it a boy or girlfe he asked.
| Why" replies BesS what a ridiculous
| question. OF course. they don't know yet
| They can't tell until It's baptized y BttfdIo
| hrpress. . .-.--
| JAcK-1'll tell you what's the matter, George
| You don't praise your wife enough Even ii
things don't go right there's no use growing.
| Praise her efforts to please, whether they are
successful or not. Women like praise, and
| lots of it.
George-An right. Tnremember il.
| George TAT dinner. same day)-My dear, this
1 pie il just lovely It's delicious Ever SO much
| better than those my mother used to make
She couldn't equal this pie if she tried a
| month.
Georges Wife-Huh! You've made fun OF
| every pie ever made. and now
| George-But this is lovely,
| Georges Wife-That came from the bakers
| AeD York WsektU
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a Pioneer in Lepal Rsforn,.

A Maine lawyer tells the Lewiston Journal
how, years ago as a student just beginning his
study Of human rules and regulations, as he
terms the science Of law he adopted method
that ten years later was put on the statute
books and is now common practice. In other
words. he got ahead of the law about ten years
He was left alone one daysin the Office, the law
yer being out OF town. To his dismay an old
fellow who lived some miles away came in. saw
fng he had been sued before trial Justice and
the case came on that day and he wanted it at
tended to.
The young disciple had 8 better acquaintance
with the office broom than with the legal
principles. but he questioned the caller and
learned that his chief desire was to try his case
before q higher court and not before the trial
justice. So, srming himself with the courage of a
clear conscience, be went before the Judge"
with his first client, fixed his pleading up after
fashion. and then told the court squarely that
1t might enter Judgment against the old man,
and from it he would appeal The ''other fell
low" who wanted TO try his case then and
there, protested stoutly that the thing wouldn't
do; that a party couldn't appeal from judy-
mont be had consenl ed to. etc, but the student
convinced the justice that there was no law
against it, and pushed his appeal through. He
charged the regular fee for attending to the
case, y which the old man forked over willingly.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-16
woolsen,s Splendid Shot.

1.-THE finest rife shot that ever walked the
soil Of the west was a man named King Wool
sey, an old timer, who lived near Yuma, Ari.
in the good old stage days of the west, "
said Wallace McLaurin to ST. Louis Republic
from Ohio. He moved to Arizona in his early
childhood. When ne was about the age Of 10
his fat or and mother we're killed and scalped
by the Apaches. He hid in the rocks and es-
capped. Five years later. when he was a mere
boy, he went on the warpath for the Apsc es
and he never spared one. He could not count
exactly how many he had killed in bis life.
1.-THE last time saw him was one day while
the stage stopped to let the horses rest near
Texas hill on the ella river, in 1922. His fame
as a rifle shot had spread al over the west and
the mention of his name filed the Apaches'
hearts with fear and trembling. The pas
sengers persuaded him TO give an exhibition of
his craftsmanship, and he consented. He
nailed board up to the side of little shanty
and put 100 balls at a distances of 100 yards in
the same place, without the difference of a
sixteenth of an inch in 100 shots. He then
drove the nails far into the board with ten
more shots.
Every one appIauded Then he took a
common bullet, tied it to an Enthusiastically
small thread, fastened tbs thread to the limb
of a tree twenty feet above the ground, placed
a smal-neck bottle ON the ground and started
the bullet swinging to and fro. He walked
back fifty PAGES, wheeled suddenly around and
fired.
We'll, gentlemen, you may stuff me with
the biggest liar in the universe if Woolsey
didn't cut that string in twain with his rife
ball and make the bullet drop in the mouth Of
that bottle -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-16

The college "men' at Princeton, as welt
as those at Yale, are beginning 60 find out
that life is not such a roaring, bowling
farce as they were inclined to think after
all There is something in police court
and subsequent prison cells that convirces a
reckless roysterer that there is a seamy
and serious side to the worlds affairs that
Is decidedly disagreeAble. and to be Stunned
whenever possible. A few nights ago two
Princeton students, out for lark, stole
xign with the intention of fastening it up
in the most ncongruous place that could be
found. The joke is as old as the hills, but
is still considered very funny by some peo-
pie. But the young men were quickly ar
rested. When taken before the police court,
which they had concluded they would es-
cape with the payment Of small fine. they
were ''paralyzed" at being recommitted for
the grand jury on the charge of larceny.
The authorities seem to have come to the
conclusion that the linen" must be made to
behave themselves.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-16
Unprofessionel Conduct

The woman who FASTENED into the pantry and
returned with q saleratus biscuit for the peripa-
tetic stranger at her gate wore ginRham gown
which she had obviously buiided with her own
hands. 1t was cut on the bias and did not hang
straight
my man." she remarked, in comprehensive
tones, Il will give you this biscuit on one condi-
ton"
Name it, madam"
The tramp, for such he undoubtedly was. says
the Detroit Tribune. leaned gracefully upon one
foot.
You must saw stick of wood"
A look of pain fitted across his face.
Il cannot, madam, cannot"
Think WE'LL urged the woman. SIT was
only fifteen minutes ago that another man in
your business sawed stick OF wood for one of
my BISCUITS"
The tramp started violently.
You astOnish me" he exclaimed.
A great perplexity seemed TO DC expressing
him. '-'
"Was it a tall MANI" be inquired. with some
anxiety, after considerable pause.
1T was"
Wore checked vest with hole on the left
side?'
The woman nodded.
"A long coat, very slmy?'
Yea
Had a mean, hang-dog looE!'
"Decidedly."
The tramp heaved sigh of relief.
"Thats Bill Stokes" he announced with a
gladstone smile. Hes always doing something
outre. l feared it might be somebody of stand
ing.''
There was that which was beatific about the
expression Of his eyes as he went his way.