The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-16

and your hand swelled. while your
friends talked about cholera, and no.
body dared whisper poison" though
everybody knew. There is another IA
nous ring. II belonged 10 a great ex-
plorer-a heavy band OF gold. with 8
/ cameo having the face OF a beautiful
woman cut in IL But the cameo is
Z like a lid and lifts up. and under il is a
vegetable poison that. softened by q
/ little heat. will kill two or three men,
and this one man took il rather than
ride 10 the guillotine in a common cart
In a little town near Vienna an enter
prising American girl found and never
was satisfied until she had bought the
wedding dress OF Marie Antoinette. Like
all OF the house of Hapsburg. she had
given her marriage gown and veil TO
some poor church. where the lace might
be used as a veil and the dress be cut
into vestments. Here il was waiting its
turn, and the frock worn by the girl
bride viii probably remain always
souvenir. a something that has q his
tory and one that is so delightful. Queen
Victoria counts among her treasures the
walking stick that Bonnie Prince
Charlie forgot when he started of that
morning TO fight the battle OF Culloden-
1t was discovered afterward and shows
on its handle that IL has carved on one
side the head OF Wisdom and on the
other the laughing head OF Folly.
From all the world over We hear that
Jewels were never worn 20 such great
extent as now, but nobody wants just
diamond band. The diamonds must be
set in some strange way and must have
been worn by some great and good wo-
man or some great and bad woman.
Which would you rather have. the ring
of a nun who gave her life to prayer or
the ring of Catherine the Great2 No.
no; no explanation is necessary Human
nature is very much the same all the
world over. but you know they did have
such odd things in the days gone by.
When a worker in trinkets devoted
year TO cutting out a ring or designing
a rosary, then they were worth possess
ing.
That poor empress OF Russia. poor be-
cause she stands equal with the poorest
woman living or dead, claimed TO have
had a piece OF the tree upon which
Christ was crucified. and this tiny bit OF
wood is in a perfect scell OF diamonds.
while il rests on an altar made espe-
ciaIIy for il, draped heavily with fine
Iaces and before which a lamp burns
forever, while a sister Of charity never
ceases saying her prayer for the whole
wicked world.
Apropos of wonderful rosaries. a SRI
who has plenty of money, and. better
still, good taste, picked up in Japan a
rosary formed of huge beads made OF a
dark brown, highly polished wood Each
bead is hollow and cut in sort OF lat
ticework. so that through it can be
seen the little gold god that literally
grins out at each one and about which
the bead itself must have been cut.
Undoubtedly il decorated some famous
temple. since its great length-it is "a
feet long-would suggest that II was
not intended for home use.
BY the bye. even in the hour Of sick
ness laughed and laughed and laugh
ed again at an old Scotch story as il
was told me. A Scotchman was having
a slight contest about money with the
driver OF a hanson. il was a matter
of money. for the Scotchman does not
lessen his life and weaken his heart
by quarreling over anything else but
money. The driver on the high seat in
sisted that he had not been given
enough. The fierce looking -addie from
the land of the mountains threw him.
self into a dignihed attitude and said.
Mon. mon. dinna We ken that ] am
Nackintosh?" "Oh. bOsh"" answered
the cabby. II don't care II you're an
umbrella. You have got 20 pay that
sixpence" So. with dropping crest. the
Scotchman gave the sixpence and felt
that he was in a country that was no
good.
like that sort OF pride. I like the sort
of pride that when pennies are scarce
makes one happy because ones grand f.
father came OF what our Scotch cousins
call guide" blood. It is very good TO .
know that ones progenitors were re- .
spectacle.
All OF 'you-uns" and all Of "we-uns' .
may have been born Of respectable and
well behaved people. who wouldn't have
known how 20 wear a coronet. but still .
IL is from the great middle class. in
dustrlous and economical. that all the
wealth In this world comes. But wealth
Is not everything There is something
In being a Macintosh. FOR Il gives one .
a respect for oneself. and the right
sort OF self respect makes the right sort
y man or woman. You and I both Ike
the good things q lie. We Ike 70 De
Miss Muhet I should. Tor 7 have a
special liking for cuTds and whey and
hink they are Just as good out % an
ordinary bowl as II eaten from the finest
y fine china 4,
Like beautiful things. possess them -
-ou can. but DO noe let the rage o, the
.oIlector overcome you. The man with
me idea grows very tiresome- His ono
des is always the great value % the
stter Il"