The Portland daily press., 1900-11-22
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Roswell NJ. Field (Eugene's brother),
whose work on the Chicago Times-Her-
aid has become we'll known, has been
engaged by the Youths Companion, and
will remove to Boston.
Charles Stewart Parnell's estate at
Avondale has been sold by auction for
5000 pounds by order OF the Land Court.
1t Is believed that it was bought for the
Subscribers TO the American Parnell
fund.
The Nav York Journal Is authority fer
.he statement that the engagement be-
known writer, and DIR Charles NJ. Free
man has been broken by the lady.
Juan Valera, the Spanish novelist and
statesman, has started n magazine al
Madrid with the name Gente Vista,
"Old Folks" 1t Is intended as a pro-
test against the eccentricitles Iand self
advertisement of the young school. I"
and Will uphold the established stand
ards Of art and of language. Editors
and contributors will be over fifty live
years Of age.
General Juan Luis Bueron of Guate-
mala, who is now in San Francisco on
q visit, was a Northumberland on the
staff Of General John q. Fremont when
the pathfinder made his second trip
across the Rockies He went to tiuate-
mala in 1879, and has q concession for
q line of road over the Chuepache Noun
tains, around the great volcano OF Santa
Maria, which Is 14.0o0 feet high.
William Allen was known as the Iron
Governor Of Ohio, not because he had
been nm iron king or anything like that.
but because he had not the slightest SYM
patty In thu world for a criminal, and
whenever an application was made to
him to pardon an erring one he was as
iron, and could not be moved. One
Thanksgiving eve he was applied to for
the executive olemency by the wife of
notorious thief, one who was serving a
third for that. He sat at his desk, his
back turned to the fearful pleader, not
even condesoendiDg to look at her. She
had brought with her a -year-old girl,
who had been quietly Watching. Sud
denly the child went to him, and, pulling
his coat tail, said: "You mean old
Governor snatched her up, kissed her
smack in the mouth, and said; "And
you shall have him." True to his word,
later that day the wife and child came
away from the prison with the pardoned
husband and father.
There Is characteristic story being
told about Lady Roberts and her trunks,
for which the soldiers now returned from
South Africa vouch. At the height of
the transport difficulties In the teeth Of
irate officials, she carried eight huge
trunks from Cape Town to BIoemfon-
tein. Every one wondered, every one
grumbled. No one but Lady Roberts
could possibly have got a similar quanti-
ty and weight Of luggage through. The
transport OF stores had been stopped for
the time, the sick and wounded lacked
every comfort, and those who We're not
in the hospital were half starved and
half-ciad, Therefore when fatigue par
ty was told of to fetch these eight noun
famous trunks from Bloemfontein sta
tion sharp things were said about ''the
plague OF women" But next day seven
of the trunks were unpacked and their
contents distributed among the "Tom.
miles," The clever lady had snapped her
fingers at red tape and had smuggl ed
comforts to the men in this way. One
small trunk contained her own modest
wardrobe.