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The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-10-07

but the case OF Mr.. Hopper is not s.
of Miss Carvels refusal, and Stephel
Bryces fist, in time, and married ant
built fine house out of the satisfactor,
profits realized on his army contracts
and left some very worthy sons, who ar,
still living. In his old age he took t.
chewing tobacco again. and until the
| day of his death never forgot to cal
! late"-when asked for an opinion-oi
how to drive hard bargain.
The remorsless trade of commerce
years ago swept away to make room fol
a great office building the fine ole
double house on Locust Street where
that splendid old Southern gentleman
Col. Comyn Carvel, and his beautiful
daughter jimmy lived and entertained
their friends with the whole-souled hos
pitality that makes one almost regret
that the old days with all their faults
are gone forever. 1t was to this house
on Locust Street that the fierce, rugged,
Incorporating old Judge Whipple came
every Sunday for dinner. where he
quarreled with his host over the ques-
ton of slavery until he was blue in the
face. Here, TOO. came the clear-headed,
.ncisive. Capt. 'Lige Brent-for, whom
the colonel had bought the famous old
boat Louisiane--to smoke Havana ci-
to the little girl" those elegant dolls
that he had found for her at Nine. Pr
tou's down in New Orleans.
AS one thinks of those scenes. and OF
the great ball given there by Miss vir-
ginia Carvel, on the evening of her
eighteenth birthday, when she danced
the first time with Stephen Bryce, whom
she declared she hated, but really loved.
one can hardly repress the regret that
commerce could not have worked out
some other course, and left the oi1 place
as II was. But If one turns from this
spot with a feeling of disappointment,
he may find compensation for the new
order of things at Glencoe. This was
Colonel Carvel's country seat, and Is de-
scribed as a rambling, wooden house,
with a veranda in front. covered with
hoEey-suckle. Glencoe Is twenty six
miles from st. Louis. on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad, and is now very nearly
what II was forty years ago. The place"
proper has one store and three or four
houses, but across the country, at a
distance OF about mile. stands the Car
vel home, deserted now out in all its sur
roundings so much as 1t was on those
sweet summer evenings long ago, that
one can almost see the grand old colonel.
in white marseilles. smoking his cigar
on the veranda as he tells his guests
what a Jockey Ned used to be when he
rode Nettie Boone and Water Witch TO
victory.
Back of the old place lies deep
wood. and from the edge of that, the
glories of the Meramec valley burst up
on the view. Standing there, ones i'm
agination invokes the past, and the de-
caying summer-house is once more COW
cred with the Wild tangle of the roses
that sheltered Stephen Bryce and yir-
ginia Carvel on the glorious evening,
when. with the songs of the birds about
them, they talked of the wild rush of
the blue river. but never word of the
thoughts that were uppermost in the
mind of each. What tragedy life must
have seemed then, to that proud girl
whom We love. even almost as Bryce
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-10-07
THE scenes of the historical novel,
for obvious reasons. are always
i invested with a degree of inter-

"HE scenes Of the historical novel
for obvious reasons, are always
i invested with degree of inter
est that is lacking in contempt
raneous fiction. The extent and intensity
OF that interest depend partly upon the
magnitude and Importance of the events
chronicled. but still more. perhaps
upon tie point of view of the indi-
vidual reader. There are. some books
however. which interest almost every
one in the scenes of their action, and
to that class unQuestionably belongs
The Crisis" by Winston Churchill. 1t
matters not Of what section of the
country one is native. or what his po-
litical Affiliations are, or have been, II
is impossible to visit ST. Louis. If he has
read The Crisis" without feeling more
than passing interest in the place
of this great dramas embodiment in the
turbulent times of forty years ago.
Forty years is long period, and
many changes. especially in the West,
mark its progression; but. notwith-
standing it's relentless levell.ng OF old
landmarks. it is still possible to locate
every scene of THE Crisis" and. ia
some cases. as strange as it may seem
to those who realize the marvellous
growth of st. Louis. their appearance
has been little affected by the time that
has changed everything else around
them. The characters who figure in
1.-The Crisis" were, in most cases, as
real as the scenes, and while the chief
ones long ago passed over to the ranks
OF the silent majority, some yet remain.
and all are remembered by many per-
sons who knew them so well that they
experienced no difficulty in recognizing
the originals as soon as THE Crisis"
appeared.
Mrs. Cranes New England boarding
hous. on "Dorcas Row" deserves to live
in history, for, as the reader of THE
Crisis" will remember. it was here that
the remarkable youth. Mr.. Eliphalet
Hopper. found a resting place for the
soles of his feet after many weary days
Of wandering along the front OF the
great river, in search of the first leaf
for the nest OF fortune. that he did
actually, build. This hospitable old
mansion. where Mr.. Hopper lived, and
moved and had his being, for $3.50
week. while he slowly plodded the
steep and rugged way to wealth and
matrimony over the thorny paths of
villainy, was. like that gentleman's first
matrimonial ambition. long ago pulled
down; but In the days when It sheltered
the Abner Rude and the rest OF Mrs.
Cranes little colony of true Greeks, it
was known as Doris Row."
The old house was located on what is
now the northwestern corner of Olive
and Eleventh Streets. and ran back to
where a furniture store now stands
whatever became of the good widow,
the estimabie Mr.. Daritt. or the super
civilized Abner Rude, is problem the
solution Of which has bafled the writer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09
Persons. Places
and Things
He GAVE 1T VERBATIM.

Australian Reporter Turns Tables on
Parliamentary Critics.
An Australian reporter, with a
sense of humor, has demonstrated yet
again the risk courtec by the wight
who removes his gloves before hand
ling the humble representatives of
the press. Fault had been found by
some of the members OF the Sydney
legislative council because some of
their speeches were not published YER
batim- Whereupon, the reporter in
question hit upon means of confound-
ing his critics literally out of their
own mouths. He did so by reporting
one speech exactly as it was spoken.
This is how it read in print:
The reporIers-ought not to-the
reporters ought not to be the Cnes to
judge of what is Impeachment to
say what should be left out-but-
the members can only judge of what
is important As las my speeches
as the reports-as what 1 say is re-
ported sometimes, no one-nobOdy can
understand from the reports-what It
is what / mean. So-it strikes me
it has struck me certain matters
things that appear of Importance are
sometimes left out-omitted. The re-
porters-the papers-points are re-
ported mean-to make brief state
ment-what the paper thinks of inter
est-is reported
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09

Col. Bunner in the coming production
of Captain Molly" at the Manhattan
theater, New York.
Mr.. Harrington was graduated from
Chicago university in 1900 and studied
banking with his father. His love for
the stage, however, proved too strong
to allow him to spend much time in a
counting-house, and, getting chance
to play the role of the Tammany sher-
iff in "A Man from Mexico" he took it.
He was so successful that Nine. Mod
jeska took him into her company, In
which he played eight Shakespearian
roles with credit.
In Captain Molly" Mr.. Harrington
will be one of the principal supports
of Elizabeth Tyree.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09
Wanted to Know His Value.

An unusual letter was read to the
Ruthin (Eng) Board of Guardians re-
Gently. 1t was addressed by a pauper
to the clerk of the board, and begged
him to inquire of a wax chandler what
he would give for the writer's skin,
and whether his body would do, if
melted, to make candles or some form
of fabrication for machinery axles-
Furthermore he wished to learn of a
doctor for what his bones were best
adapted-whether they were most
suitable for knife and fork handles,
what price they ought to fetch, and
whether they would command a better
price if sent to make handles for sur.
gical instruments
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09
Standard Time in ohio.

time, in Akron, O., according to de-
cision just handed down by the SUI
preme court of the state of Ohio.
Thomas Mier took out a fire insurance
policy on his saloon at 1880, standard
time, four years ago, the policy being
dated noon of that day. At the very
minute he was getting the policy the
saloon caught fire and was burned.
Ohio law makes standard time legal
time, and the company refused to pay
the $4,000 insurance on Mier's saloon.
The case was. fought through the SUI
preme court, which has decided that
moon" meant the time the sun passed
the meridian at Akron, which is
11:27, standard time. The court or
dered the insurance company to pay.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09
DID HE FALL SIX sToRIEsa
Or Did He Really Fall Only a Few
Feet?

Or Did He Really Fall Only 4 Few
Feet?
A man fell down an elevator shaft
a distance of six stories in New York
the other day and wasn't hurt. Con-
nected with his fall was circum-
stance which calls for some expert
ness in mathematics to figure out
The man was at an entrance to an
elevator shaft at the tenth floor look
ing down, when the elevator came
whizzing by from farther up the shaft.
There was a space of two feet be-
tween the floor on which the man
stood and the elevator, but the man
was leaning over just far enough so
that the elevator touched him as it
passed. Unnerved, the man lost his
balance and fell, following the de-
scending elevator. The elevator was
going down almost as fast as the man
was falling, so he did not overtake it
until the fourth floor was reached, or
until he had fallen six stories. mas
much as he and the, elevator were
travelling at almost the same rate of
speed, the impact was very slight,
and the man was scarcely bruised.
Together MIN and elevator went to
the ground floor, where the man was
met by his friends who fully expected
to find him dead.
Now, the question arises, how far
did the man really fall? OF course
he went the distance of six stories
before he reached the elevator, but
the elevator was never at the farthest
more than a few feet ahead of him.
Inasmuch as he fell only till he
reached the elevator, did he really
fall for a greater distance than these
few feet!
Some one who has more time than
we have may figure out this and the
other queries which arise as one pom
ders on the queer circumstance.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09
His Great Mistake.

"The mistake of my life," said the
reminiscent man, was when 1 was
selling patent medicines in Russia
One day attended review OF q
crack regiment. and suddenly every
man in the ranks began sneezing for
all he was worth In q trice ! had
my sample case open and was trying
to sell the commissary q carload of
my anti-grip pellets. when he rudely
informed me that the troops were only
hailing with delight the arrival of
Gen. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. - Judge
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09
HER VIEW OF wEsTERNERs.
Moral of Spinster LandIady's Story
Somewhat Spoiled.

Moral of Spinster LandIady's Story
Somewhat Spoiled.
81 think that the people OF the West
are exceedingly interesting, but 1 do
not like their ways" said the spinster
landlady, as she began her nightly at
tack with the carving knife on a leg
of cold mutton.
What don't you like about them?"
asked her nephew, who sat next to
her and often embarrassed the board
ers by saying there was toe much wa
ter in the soup.
why, 1 think that they are too for
ward said the woman with the knife,
as she peeled off a thin slice for a
hard working politician and office
holder, who often entertained the rest
of the boarders by telling them of his
campaign experiences.
Have you met many westerners?' '
asked the politician. as he saw his
almost empty plate set before him.
''Yes,'' was the prompt reply. 81
was out in California and the people
out there entertained me almost to
death. The women 1 met at. noon
acted as if they had known me their
whole lives by o'clock. They were
altogether too forward. I didn't like
it,
But the men didn't bother you,
aunty, did they?" piped up the
nephew.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09
A County Affair.

The late tom" Marshall, one of
Kentucky's most brilliant wags and
lawyers, was always as poor in pocket
as he was rich in wit. On one occa-
sion he found the judicial sentiment
setting strongly against his process
of questioning the witnesses involved
At last, losing his temper, Marshall
turned on the judge and asked:
will your honor kindly fine me
s10?"
For what, Mr.. Marshall?" asked
the Judge.
Contempt of court"
But you've been guilty of no con-
tempt" insisted the Judge
Your Honor, believe mel never
before saw a court for which had SO
much contempt as for thfsi'
Enter a fine of $40 against Mr..
Marshall for contempt" ordered the
bench, turning to the clerk.
'-Thanksi" said Marshall aAnd now.
your honor, will you lend me $40 with
which to pay the fne?"
mark Mr.. Marshall's fine remitted %
ordered the judge, promptly. The
county can better afford to lose it
than l."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09

Workmen are now busy at Belfast
completing the outside work of one
of the largest log cabins to be found
in the state of Maine, and probably
the world, a massive structure, which
recalls in a way the primitive huts,
but is, indeed, "a thing of beauty"
The building is owned by prominent
Philadelphia people. 1t is composed
of spruce logs and cost $75, 900.
This cabin, erected by the children
of the late William II. Folwell of
Philadelphia, who began its erection
but died before the completion, in
many ways is one of the finest build
ings on the coast.
The lower story is entirely of
spruce logs cut on the island and in
their natural state. Above this the
finished. The front room downstairs
is 80 by so feet. hardwood floor and
is artistically decorated with oil
paintings, wedgewood, mounted birds,
brass work and other decorations.
The windows are many and those
to the front are of one pane of plate
glass, with frame of gold on the in
terror, giving a beautiful natural pic
ture effect.
At the back of the room is a mag
nificent fireplace of a gigantic nature.
1t is built of brick and granite, the
mantelpiece being of marble, II feet
in length, three in width and nine
inches thick, the whole piece of work
weighing some forty tons. Across the
front of the mantelpiece, cut in the
marble is this inscription: How
In
Back of the mantel is another tab
let of Pennsylvania marble, five by
Eve feet, decorated with brass ro-
settles and bearing the Latin inscrip-
ton, mon Reve," translated to MY
Dream" The hall which opens from
the back is twelve by sixty feet, ana
from this is entered the two wings,
the main house, and the stairs to the
chambers. The main part of the
house runs back some twenty-five
feet by sixty three feet, in which is
located the kitchen, laundry and
storage rooms.
| The two wings are each twenty by
thirty feet, the southern one being
fitted for dining-room in the style
of the old English times, with a fit
/ teen foot table and beautiful decora-
tons, while the north wing is gwen
over to smoking and bath rooms.
Upstairs the main hall is twelve by
sixty feet, and there are twenty-five
sleeping rooms on either side of the
large hall, running the length of the
house. Each room is thirteen by fit
teen feet, while the front rooms are
fifteen by twenty feet, three in num-
Der. All the rooms are equipped with
white iron bedsteads and first class
fittings, while the gable roofs and
the seventeen dormer windows
make them all desirable The lower
part of the house is built of six-inch
logs, and the sloping roofs overhang.
The building is set upon fifty-eight
piers of stone and will have been two
Years in building, when it is complet-
ed There are several fireplaces OF
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09
BEFORE THE
PUBLIC EYE
END OF FAMOUS SCANDAL.
May Yohe and Capt. Strong Quarre
and Separate.

May Yohe and Capt. Strong Quarrel
and Separate.
The son of the late Mayor w. L.
Strong of New York, who came into
great deal of notoriety by clipping with
May Yohe, the actress, and then wife
of Lord Hope, has disappeared from
Hastings-on-the-Hu n. Y. 1t is
said he pawned $4,000 worth of Miss
Yohe's jewels Strong resigned from
the army a year ago while his rela-
lions with May Yohe were under in
vestigation by the war department He
was a major of volunteers
Wherever he may be, he is now safe
from arrest on the charge of grand
larceny made against him by May
Yohe, as the Strong family settled that
woman's claims against him.
A sum of money said to be between
$4,000 and $4,000 was paid to Miss
Yohe and her lawyer.
Friends of Strong believe he has
gone back to Japan. Miss Yohe sent
a cablegram to the man with whom
she pawned a good many of her jewels
in Yokohama last year, saying she
would be in that city just as soon as
the next steamer would bring her
there Emanuel Friend, the woman's
lawyer, stated that there was no ar
rangement for Strong and Miss Yohe
to meet again at the other side OF the
world.
The negotiations with the Strong
family were carried on with secrecy
The exact terms on which a settle
ment was reached were not learned
Mr.. Hedges declined to say anything
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09
MEANT FOR THE TEACHERS.
Boys Idea of Sunday School Interna-
tional Letter Sheet.

Boys Idea of Sunday School Internal
tional Letter Sheet.
What appears to be a really new
Sunday school anecdote comes from
West Philadelphia, and is said to be
a truthful record of a bit of dialogue
between teacher in one of the upper
grade schools of that section and
pupil who is neither brighter nor
duller than the general average. He
was third in succession who failed
with regard to a question concerning
the geography in and around the Red
Sea, and was finally told that he
should have interest in that part of
the earth because of it's religious and
Biblical associations.
why, teacher" he said, 81 never
pay any attention to things I hear in
Sunday school,"
You don't?" she asked, in surprise.
why, for what do you suppose is all
the expense of getting up the Inter
national Lesson sheets every week? ?"
-Huh!" he snorted in fine contempt.
Because the teachers don't know
what to talk about unless it's printed
out for Them
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09
TITLE FOR LOUISVILLE BELLE.
Miss EIIison's Engagement to Sill
Charles Ross Announced.

Miss Patti Burnley Ellison, whose
engagement to a rich English land
owner, Sir Charles Henry Augustus
Frederick Lockhart Ross, has been
announced, is the third Louisville girl
within a year to marry substantial
title Her wedding is set for the mid
die of November. Her predecessors
were Miss Grace Carr, who became
Lady Marlborough, and Miss Lillian
Langham, who became the Baroness
Won Sternberg.
Miss Ellison, who is an accom-
plished musician, is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ellison and is
descended from a noted revolutionary
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09
MARK TWAIN AND HIS COLLAR.
Humorist Did His Best to Make
Amends for Fault.


Mayor Lows secretary, James B.
Reynolds, is authority for the follow
ing anecdote, which connects the
author of Uncle Toms Cabin with
the originator of "Huck Finn
The Stowe house at Hartford was
situated close to the Clemens place,
and not infrequently Mr.. Clemens is
known to have Skinned over the
back fence, his corncob pipe in his
mouth, his collar and cravat any
where but on him. These informal
visits were source of considerable
annoyance to Mrs. Clemens, who fire.
quently demonstrated with her hus-
band on the subject.
On the occasion of one particularly
long call of this sort, the indignant
wife read her spouse severe curtain
lecture. Returning from this, sad
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09
Bad Traits in kino Aifonso,

The blood of the Hapsburgs and the
Bourbons already tells in young King
Alfonso. Now that the restraint of
careful tutelage is removed from him.
through his assumption to the throne,
he is displaying traits of dangerous
eccentricity. If his disrespectful con-
duct toward his mother and his at
fronts to his ministers are not exag-
gerated. he may prove more trouble
some monarch for Spain than many
of his predecessors were, which IL
saying = very great deal
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09

about the matter and Mr.. Friend said
he had pledged himself to say moth
ing. 1t is believed, though, that the
Strong family paid enough to Miss
Yohe to enable her to get her jewelry
out of pawn here, to redeem that
pawned at Yokohama and Genoa, and
gave a large cash consideration for
the jewelry that Miss Yohe says was
taken from the box.
Whatever the terms of settlement
were, they were evidently satisfactory
to Miss Yohe and her lawyer. They
came out of Mr.. Hedges office jubil-
ant.
Detective Murphy went with Miss
Yohe and Friend to the pawnshop and
got her jewels. Mr.. Friend paid the
pawnbroker an amount said to be ST.
500. They paid cash. About $500 of
this is said to have been interest.
Immediately on leaving the pawn
brokers' Miss Yohe, with Friend and
Murphy, drove to a hotel. Miss Yohe
got a cable blank and then dictated
the following message, which Mr..
Friend wrote down:
ITO Wood, Yokohama.-Look out
for diamonds. l sail on the next steam
er. May Yohe.''
Miss Yohe paid $40 at the hotel tele-
graph office to send the dispatch. She
took the money from roll six inches
in diameter.
The belief that Strong has started
for Yokohama is based on q talk
had with him one day last week.
Strong said then that the way men cut
him and laughed at him had become
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09

dened and repentant, the mournful
humorist carefully wrapped up a
collar and cravat in a sheet of brown
paper and dispatched them to Mrs.
Stowe, with the following explanatory
note:
Mrs. Clemens tells me that I spent
half an hour at your house this morn
ing without the inclosed articles.
Therefore 1 must ask you to look at
them for that length of time.
P. S.-Please return them; they
are all I have.'-New York Tribune
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09

poetic temperament and doubtless
communicated it to her son, who, by
the way, was known to his school
mates as Pip" Morgan. She was
married to Junius Spencer Morgan
in 1886. She it was who had most
to do with designing the mansion on
what is now Pennington avenue,
Hartford, Conn, where John PierpOnt
Morgan was born. Many changes and
additions have been made to the
house, but the original structure
stands just as it was planned by Mrs.
Morgan, under whose personal super
vision it was completed in the early
'40's- 1t is now owned by another
member of the Morgan family.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-09
J. PIERPoNT MoReAn's MOTHER.

Great Financier Inherited Much of His
Genius From Her.
There is a tradition that John Pier
pont Morgan wrote poetry when he
was youth, long before he even
dreamed of coming to be regarded as
the master mind in the realm of
finance. 1t is reasonably fair to pre-
sumo that the tradition is based on
fact, for his maternal grandfather was
a poet of some distinction. Rev. John
Pierpont, who died in Medford, Mass,
in 1866. Juliet Pierpont, the clergy
mans daughter, and mother of the
financial colossus of the present day,
inherited a good deal of her father