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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-07-01

Misses Ingham, McPherrin and Love.
Miss Riser served punch ia an alcove in
the reception hall. Musical guessing
games were introduced and greatly en-.
joyed. Most Of the active members OF
the club who are in town were present To
enjoy Mrs. ONeal and Miss Smiths
gracious hospitality.
Mr.. ana Mrs. j. A. Cauger gave a
reception on Tuesday evening in honor
OF Rev. and Mrs. Decker, the new pas.
tor OF the Freewill Baptist church, and
his wife. All members OF the church
and congregation were hidden and also
the members Of the ministerial associa
ton and their wives A large number
of persons called to pay their respects
and TO assure Mr.. and Mrs. Decker OF
their cordial support and sympathy.
The house was decorated with cut
flowers and po,ted plants. The lawn
and verapdah we're illuminated. The
hostess was assisted by her daughters
Misses Laura and Lola Cauger.
On Wednesday afternoon the mem.
bers OF La Veta whist club enjoyed q
picnic at Lincoln park. Through the
courtesy Of Mr.. G. T. Boggs they we're
given the freedom OF the park including
the switchback and right jolly time
they had. The supper was ideal for q
picnic. Those in the company we're
Messrs. and Mesdames Weir, Lansing
Field, Gillian. Bell, Lair, G. 4. and
William Boggs, aud Hallett and Fred
Hallett with their families, and Miss
Stella Kirker.
On Wednesday at one o'clock at the
home OF the brides parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Rome Miller. in Missouri Valley,
Miss Winifred Miller and Mr.. William
B. Clark were married. After a wed.
ding dinner Mr.. and Mrs. Clark left for q
short honeymoon trip after which they
will come TO Lincoln to reside. Mr.. and
Mrs. William Clark, Mrs Charlotte
Clark and Mr.. Charles Clark attended
the wedding, returning to Lincoln on
Thursday.
Mrs. John Dorgan entertained the
Cheese and Cracker club Monday after.
noon in honor OF Mrs. Rollins OF Colum
bia. Mo-, and Mrs. Watson OF Friend
former members of the club. Mrs. w
F. Kelley won the prize at a game OF
bean bags. A luncheon was served
Mrs. Dorgan's guests were Mesdames
Rollins. Wateon, q. l.. Burr, MARSHALL
Woods, Mallalieu, Kelly, Howe. Curtice
Misses Carson, Harrison. Burr, M arsha all
Mcclure OF Mt. Pleasant, Jennie Rollin.
Of Columbia, Mo.
Miss Mignon Trickey gave a beauti
full party to her guest, Miss Bertha Mil
Ter, last Friday evening to young ladies'
In the early evening they went dowr
town to hear the orchestra concert ant
returned to refreshments. Miss Trick
ey's guests were: Misses Miller, Moore
Plummer, Lansing, Camp, Scholes, Cox
Woodruff, Palmer, Bignell, Parks, De
Putron, Chessington. States. Hutton
Ernst, Trigg,. Abbott, Whitcomb ant
White omb.
Mr.. w. A. Preston, for many years ,
prominent business man OF Lincoln, viii
leave the last OF next week to tax,
charge Of the shoe department il
Younker Brothers establishment il
Des Moines. Iowa. This is new stor,
and .one OF the large at and finest de
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-07-01

Mr.. w. A. Preston, for many years a
prominent business man OF Lincoln, will
leave the last OF next week to take
charge of the shoe department in
Younker Brothers establishment in
Des Moines. Iowa. This is new store
and .one OF the largest and finest de-
partment stores in the country. Mrs.
Preston will spend the summer at the
lakes and will join her husband in Des
Moines in the autumn.
Mrs. Sarah F. Harris left on Wednes.
day for Dakota Hot Springs where she
will join Mrs. Harwood who has been
there for few weeks. After receiving
the hydropathic benefit of the springs,
Mrs. Harris will visit her brother and
sister, Mr.. j. d. Bacon, and Mrs. Hatch,
Of Chadron. Nebraska.
Miss Vivian II. Wickham and Mr..
Irenus G. Evan were married on We'd.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-03
BELLE OF NEW YORK
TO MhRRY I'm HMERI6HN.
Cora Randolph Rejects an Indian MaharajaE1 and
the Brother of the KIledve of Egypt to
Wed Gotham Business nan.

Palmer; she had been with her friend,
Paris and in London. Tired of both and of
her lovely home at Mount st, Vincent.
on the Hudson, she suddenly determined
to sail for Egypt.
Richard Trimble saw her set off one
late fall day. He had the satisfaction of
waving his hat among a hundred others
yet again the god Of love-; he was going to
conquer with his best endeavors the god
of gold. Their paths were as widely sep
arated as gossip predicted they would be.
Cora Randoiph's led to Cairo. Her adj
vent there was the signal for the beginning
of a suit at once strange and eXtraordt-
nary. Deicately and indescribably Amer
lean from the crown of her brown hair
to the curves Of her slender figure, Cora
Randolph summoned to her feet by mere
ly raising her blue eyes fringed in a
wealth of dark lashes Mehemet Ali, mem
Der of the imperial house of Turkey
His counting was fierce, as became his
hot blood. He made no secret of the fire
of his instantaneous admiration 1t
coursed through his lips in rapturous elo-
quence and proclaimed itself in the midst
of his brothers court ...
His brother is the present khedive.
Some years ago he married a beautiful
handmade. To. them have been born only
girls. A wonaans may not ascend the
throne of Egypts al this had been VI.
pered into the ears of Cora Randolph
when Mehemet ALL next in line of the
roy8lsapdse, offesed bis hand TO this fair
daugFteR of the Four Hundred. There was
nothing subtle about his counting; it was
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-03

Cora Randolph, the Idol of the New
Gotham- by announcing her engagement
to MI Richard Trimble. ''Trimble,
Richard, treas, "a Pine, h. 50 E. 25''-as
the directory puts it.
Her titled suitors have been more
than she could count on her fingers.
They are more numerous than the coun-
tries throIgh which she has passed anT
wherein she has lived
She might have been, spite the tradi-
lions of his religion and his country,
the only wife of the only brother of the
khedive Of Egypt. She might have
welded AN Indian rajah and owned the
most magnificent black pearl ever the
property Of woman. Her hand has been
sought by a prince of the house of Bour-
bon, by noblemen of Russia, by duke
in England by men of lesser title in
many lands, and by Americans of intelli--
gence, of wealth, of position.
The society which Mrs Stuyvesant Fish
astounds cleverly, which Mrs. John Jacob
Astor adorns charmingly, which Mrs.
Ogden Mills amuses wittily, is asking
with bated breath. who is hep" Who
is this Richard Trimble whom the beau
tiful the witty, the graceful Cora Ran
dolph has selected after scorning peers of
the realm and the matches of America?
Richard Trimble is the secretary and
treasurer of the Federal Steel company
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+
er things with, strange, long names. that
i concluded he must be heather joss ="
These are C0rinne's own words.
And who was iGOrime?- 80. g:
At the baptismaf font she was given the
name of jessie Mcfarland Her home had
been with the Children of the heather
and the wind" but her footsteps, like
those of many another had strayed far,
far from the straight and narrow paths
which abound in the North countrie."
There had been a. husband, who left her
whether byai death or desertion is I'M
known in extreme youth and poverty.
1t was the pathetic grief imprinted upon
her face, theomotirer love in her eyes,
that made her .noticeably like the Ma
donna in the Greek church.
At least Kfpling told her so.
After her baby died the poor little
lonely mother sat white and mute IN a
sad. still chamber. day. after. day, with
folded hands upon. an aching heart. and
wept and wept:i 1t would have been so
sweet to lie down with the tiny waxen
one out there in Lone mountain, where
they laid tt-but-life and youth must as
sert itself, and Jessie had been taught,
back in the Scottish kirk, that it was
wrong to kill oneself. She had, too, been
taught to do work Of the sort done by
women of her own kin and class, which
consisted, for the most part, in -tidying
her own room, keeping her clothing in
order and making herself clean and
wholesome and sweet.
Would she, in country new, get leave
to live by the performance Of such simple
tasks?
Time and much persistent effort gave
the agonizing answer. She found that
her knowledge, commemorate, though it
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-03

were. discussing the question of the love
Of music In various members of the ami
NAL creation, and particularly among
snakes, says the Pittsburg Times. The
majority Of them denied that snakes in
particular had, aany. idea of, music and
Secuted the thing as absurd and impos-
sible, when one of them offered to re-
late a story from his own: experience that
would be convincing on the point at Is
sue. AS he was Eeputed to be a good
story teller@his4eomp3rion agreed to hear
the evidence, however much they might
doubt the correctness of his theories.
Some years ago." said he, Il was the
organist in a little country church near
the Blue mountains, in Schuylkill county.
The mountains were full of snakes. 1
used often to go out in, the woods and
take my cornet along, just to have Il lit
tie music and, practice by myself. One
day 1 was sitting on log: by a spring,
playing softly and hardly thinking what
I was doing, when 1 suddenly saw a giant
swaying his head to the rhythm of the
tune. 1 am not afraid of snakes and
knew this one to be as harmless as a
L
ened, and continued to play a variety Of
airs for him to see the effect. lie ap-
peared to enjoy it immensely, and when 1
played something live'y he seemed to be-
come almost deIirious in his gyrations
1 concluded that If he had legs he would
surely dance, and as it was, his motions
were exceedingly graceful and his ideas
of time excellent. His eyes shone with
the pleasure 1t was giving him, and his
forked tongue fairly seemed to blaze in
the ecstacy of his. enjoyment. Suddenly
L stopped, and he seemed a very picture
of sadness and disappointment He crawl
ed up to me and asked me to resume Just
as plainly as If he knew every word in
the English language
SCENE IN CHURCH.
1T suddenly occurred to me that it
would be an interesting experiment 10 see
If he would follow the music. So I got
up, and, playing softly, began to walk
away. He followed me at once, and
led him along down to the church. When
L unlocked the door he followed me in
without hesitation, and came right after
me up into the organ loft. I then tried
him with the organ, and he was even
more delighted than with the cornet
Finding that he would never get enough
of the music, 1 was obliged 10 drive him
away by main force. The next day I
went into the church TO practice, and had
not been long at it when I heard a rustic
on the carpet, and, looking down, there
was his snakeship taking 1t in; and when
I finished 1 had to drive him away again.
ely the next Sunday I had almost for
gotten about the incident. when, just as
we were in the midst of the second hymn,
I suddenly heard q screaming and
screeching among the female members of
the choir as If someone were scalping
them all at once. 1 looked up just in
time to see my friend the snake disap-
pearing, with shower of hymn books
and stools hurled by the male members of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-03

do not often speak Of marriage to u.s..
and was afraid he didn't mean 1t; but
he said and did so many odd things.
How was to know what he didn't mean?
AT any rate, as. We had no COW and
there wasn't any East Indian priest here,
we didn't get married And then he
went away.
For awhile was lonesome, of course;
he had been kind, and then 1 missed the
stories. If could have written down
what he told me L would have a beauti-
full book. Well, perhaps, after all, did
not love him in that deep, dreadful way
he talked so much about. Then 1 hated
his spectacles They were hideous. And
he wasn't much to look at, anyway
The little singer grew wan and thin,
and the complexion which she brought
from Scotland went, with the mother love
in her eyes that kipling said was like
the Madonna In the Greek church.
Then there came q time when the killed
figure failed to confront a sea of approx
ing faces, and so few cared for her song
that she omitted singing it altogether
Finally the fogs crept into her lungs
and a ghostly cough made her presence
unpleasant to impresarios.
In humble lodgings she languished
alone, unsought and aforementioned, until
a Scottish samaritan in the city, learn
ing her sad story, placed her in pri-
vate hospital kept by one of her own SEX
and there she died.
And now she sleeps at Lone Mountain
beside the grave of her little boy.
Does the author of without Benefit of
Clergy remember her?
Mr.. Kiplings own notation relative to
the girl taken from American Notes."
is as follows:
Item, a girl IN dive blessed wi h a
Greek head and eyes that seem to speak
all that is best and sweetest in the world.
But woe is me! She has no ideas in this
world or the next beyond the consumption
of beer, and protests that she sings the
songs allotted to her nightly without more
than the vaguest notion Of their mean
ing"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-03

He is a man of about forty, having been
at Harvard as a member of the class of
80. He is tall, straight, of a type
somewhat pronounced, recalling John
Drew when that actor wore a mustache.
To an OLE Quaker family Richard Trim
BILE belongs. He could neither be de-
scribed as wealthy nor a society man.
Indeed, gossips predict, unless some
strangerdecree of fate interposes, that he
will for many years be known as Cora
Randolphs husband"
The lady who has decided to confer
upon him this honor is the second daugh-
ter Of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Randolph,
of Mount St Vincent on the Hudson,
and also a daughter of the gods, di-
vinely fair
Cora Randolph is not only amiable; she
. is also witty. The combination has given
to her the pseudonym of the idol of tbs
Four Hundred"s
At that annual New York festival
known as the Portrait Show"
Richard Trimble first came into her life,
or, more properly speaking, she came into
his Richard Trimble stood enrapture,,
before a painting which recalled family
the celebrated Girl with the Muff," by
Nine. Vigee Lebrun. Only this one had
eyes that beneath curls of brown cap-
tivated him, Her lips were nodded tc
enthraI him. The turn of her head
chained him where he stood Her brow
her throat, her figure, riveted his ewes
But he was only one of a crowd He
stood unnoticed. a thousand others had
admired the girl with the muff
In less time than it takes to write the
fact Richard Trimble had learned a
name he has never since forgotten.
Cora Randolph sounded in his ears like
the sweetest music. Somehow. some
where, two days later they met Was If
accident? The god of love, who is as
strategic as the god of war, had discov-
cred to Richard Trimble that his old ia.
miliar friend, Edmund Randolph, was
own brother to the betwitching Cora.
The conquests Of Cora Randolph had
made her a figure in society At the cell
ebrated Bradley Martin ball she is recalled
enchantingly in sables and cloth of gold.
parsonage of the French court in en-
pire days Recently in Austria, at the
highest function, she was belle among
bellies At the opera it was remarked of
her that she carried herself as a. princess
should She had a court of her own.
Richard Trtmble was but another name
on the list Of her courtiers, one more VIC
tim to be added to those ground under
the chariot wheels of the exacting belle.
She had been abroad a dozen times. She
had gone with her friend, Mrs. Potter
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-03
WORLDS SMALLEST WATCH.
of Microscopic Dimensions
1t Sold for S1.O40.OO.

Though of Microscopic Dimensions
1t Sold for $1,940.0O.
There is a Berlin man who Is the proud
possessor of a timepiece which Is con-
sidered to be the most marvellous piece Of
mechanism that human skill ever put to-
gether. The case is made of the very
finest of gold and the whole watch weighs
less than two grains troy. In troy weight
1t takes 4S0 grains to make an ounce and
twelve ounces constitute a pound or
5,76o grains are contained in a pound
So great a curiosity was this midget con-
sidered that its owner paid 1,946.60 for 1t,
and would not sell 1t for twice that
amount.
The numerals on the face are in Arabic.
and II the hands were put end to end
they would not measure five twenty
fourths of an inch in length, the large
one being less than one-eighth and the
small one less than one-twelfth of an
inch long. 1t has, besides, just as an ordi-
nary watch or clock, a second indicator,
which Is about as large In diameter as
the small hand Is long, and the hand of
this second indicator Is less than one-six-
teenth Of an inch In length The nu-
merals here are also in Arabic, but are
engraved in red, to be more easily dis
cerIibie.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-03

was, awaited nothing in the great, selfish,
hurryfng, bewildering world In which she
found herself alone; for no one wanted a
little lady to work.
sometimes, when in desolation and de-
spair, people are comforted by music By
1t the mind may at least be momentarily
diverted. The little lone mother knew
songs which Highlanders sing In their ma
tive heaths, and she sang them from sheer
relief to her intense soul. there in that
silent chamber. little dreaming she would
be heard; but some one listened, and once.
AFTER she had finished her song when
passing out over the shadowy staircase
into the sun, voice arrested her
You sings?" said the voice, addressing
itself to her.
"a little"
Il hear you. live In house. You want
earn money!"
must earn money" was the answer
Go see my boss; he give you job" con-
GUIDED the short-syllabled italian, as he
thrust card into her hand-a card which
bore the address OF his boss The little
mother followed the direction She re-
peated the song to listeners Of seeming
appreciation. When she had finished the
head seeker after nocturnal attractions
said:
Come here every night. furnish Co.'S
tunes which you are to wear while you
sing. At the end of each week 1 will give
you $15"
The little song-mother went for she
must live, and in that place, where night
~ men assembled to be what they called
amused, Rudyard Kipling found her, clad
In her Kilt, her barred blouse, shoulder SASH
buckles, and tasseled turban, singing the
little song, doing the fling" as thew
say In haunts of the half-world And
the word-wizard, not content with ''the
fling, the fumes, the smiles, the glances
the sounds and scenes, the blare and
glare that contribute to male entertain
ment in that haunt found speedy means
to conciliate the little singer.
After we got better acquainted" re-
lated Jessie, reminiscentIy, land I told
him about Roy, he called me Little Moth
en- and when he wished to express SYM
pathy he would say, Poor Little
Mother Roy was my baby.
when We were alone he used to ask
me If he couldn't let my hair down. Then
he would tell me of life in India; the
strange men Of the jungles, the caravans
of the plains, the children, the animals.
the birds, the rites Of marriage and
death. The cow; he said, was con-
sidered there sacred creature, nearly
always introduced in religious cere-
monies.
when a couple wish to get married
they present themselves before a priest,
standing on either side Of a queen of
the stalls. After sprinkling them with
water and reciting a ritual, the priest
bids them mount the cow. They then ride
away, tmbued with the comfortable be-
lief that they have done what they could
to merit marital felicity. He asked me
to marry him Indian way. Now men
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-03

gowned in fawn-colored :, cloth made
princess, which doubtlessska@ could never
have described. He only knew that it
fell in one line from the turn of her
adorable neck to the tip of her tiny foot,
disclosing the lines of grace that an ar
fist courts. He was not an artist. and
yet they were so palpable he could dis
cern them for himself. He saw them re-
vealed IN spite of great sable collar that
was turned back from vest of white
chiffon.
Over her brown hair Miss Randolph
had a turban sable. She was q har-
mony Of brown, except for a touch Of
turquoise velvet that matched her eyes.
The young man sighed, and for the first
time in his life, he said afterward, real
lied that he was looking at perfectly
dressed woman.
This has been said of Miss Randolph
before. Although not wealthy, she has a
style that sets many a woman with bet
ter clothes to wondering why she doesn't
make as much effect. Miss Randolph is
habitually seen In only one color-many
shades Of those tints known as mastic.
Grays, mauves, beige are peculiarly
hers. They bring out the golden tints
in her brown hair, which she wears POM
padour fashion, off the forehead
Once again this season she has been
seen at a big function. In a striking
costume Of black liberty satin, combined
with white lace, she appeared at din
ner. 1t was her last appearance unfet-
tered. At that dinner was Richard Trim
BILE.
He must have marveled that he could
have won a vision so radiant as Cora
Randolph on that occasion. Her. ex-
quisite neck and arms were bare, out
lined with bertha of white duchesse
lace, which was tied and fell in two ends
to the knees. Her costume was striking,
and in her face was the radiant look of
happiness.
On that evening she announced her en-
gSgement. The friends who had predict
ed a brilliant match sighed. But there
were those still romantic enough to
murTnur contentedly:
"And in the end love wont"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-03
KIPLING LOVED HER
SCOTCH LASS WHO SANG IN A
MUSIC HALL AT SAN
FRANCISCO b..
HEAD OF A GREEK MADONNA


the ''Littles eoISniaT" Had Classed
Woman an "a Nag, a Bone and
Hank "a Hairs-ToId Her the
Tales and Ethe Folk Lore of Far
Away Inda6.l
The San F'ra6tt Emusic hall girl whom
Rudyard Kiplihs openly owned to hav-
ing loved, wl@ haS he said. "a Greek
head and eyes t1al Sseemed to speak all
good and beanifut hmgs." died recent
ly, says the saN FEaaacisco Examiner.
When Mr. KapanE.s tender confession
was made. woman, to the genius of the
century,s end ,zseem4d to have been some
thing other than "a rag and a bone and
hank of hair" but that wassten years
ago, on the occasion of the word-wzard's
passage from the Orient through San
francisco, whenFto him the world was
young, his fame unWon; when a halo
hung about every pretty face, and vam-
pires were out of sight. :;
1t is generally. known that the credited
staH correspondent of the Allahabad Pho
neer did not, when here, conf1ne his vs.
its to Mob hill andft newspaper Offices
milan tourists, globe trotters, sailors. SOL
diers. reformers and close students of hu-
mainly go. He went to the theaters, mu-
sic halls and vaudevilIes
In one of those places he made the ac-
quaintance Of one billed on the boards
as Corinne. Whether 1t was the incongru-
lty of the mention. Of Nine. de StaePs
masterpiece in SUCH place, or the girl
who had adopted the name, that attract
ed the bespectacled scribe from Bombay
is not recorded but, certain If is, he
was attracted, and to such an extent that
not day, nor half day. hardly pissed
after their meeting WITHOUT the passage
of some token Of tenderness from him to
her. k-sa.i
''If I looked from my window I was
sure to meet his eyes in the street below
and when 1 went out the first to salute
me was this swarthy Joss as I used
to call him. for he talked so much about
Buddhas, idols, shriries; Shintoos, and 9th