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Made Up His Mind.

Yes, said Belinda, but the Young
minister made up his mind about fate
hrst and Clarice did not decide until he
had married the other girl"
And there was the young lawyer who
was devoted TO Clarice,'' said Phyllis.
Il am sure he was in earnest"
Yes" said Belinda. "and Clarice told
me she thought it would be lovely to
marry lawyer and know the real
truth in all the scandals people were
talking about"
But she didn't marry him." said
PHYLLIS. and she told me that he had
as good as proposed to her"
Yes, said Belinda, land he really
would If he hadn't been sent West on a
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600 Of national money. and durino
the last century thirty relatives of
the family obtained over s5 ZOO. 900
from pensions and public service
pickings.
Another descendant of an illegit-
innate child of the merry monarch
Is the present Duke Of st. Albans.
The family have drawn a pension of
$4,000 a year since 1854. The Dukes
ancestor was created Hereditary
Master Of the Royal Hawks. There
are no hawks and no duties, but he
draws the pension all the same and
from other sources he derives an
income Of $4,000 a year. From the
public crib the Earl of Amherst
and his predecessors have received
s1.660 600; the descendants of the
Earl of Bath, s2,210,000, ana the
noble Kintoul family have cost the
nation $4,000. which they did moth
ing to earn In the form of hered-
itary pickings twenty aristocratic
families alone have drawn vp to the
present time over sS5, 600 900 from
the public exchequer.
Royalty costs a great deal more
than is generally known During
the sixty-two years of her regime
Queen Victoria received the enor-
nous sum of s133 10000. She was
not expected TO provide for her fam
lily out Of her salary as other peo-
pie have to do. For condescending to
come over from Germany and marry
her the Prince Consort received
s150.000 per annum. The Prince of
Wales, before coming to the throne,
drew $26.670,000 from the treasury.
When the Queens eldest daughter
married in 1858 the Crown Prince of
Germany, who belonged to one of
the wealthiest families in Europe, a
kind, generous government settled
an annuity of $4,000 on her. Up to
her death In 1901 there was sent over
to Germany for her 81, ,945, 600 and
she left fortune amounting to 81
100000. The late Princess Alice re-
ceived s640,000. The Duke of Edin-
burgh, the Queens second son, re-
ceived $780, 900. His wife brought
him 81 $780, 900 and an income of over
s55.000 year. He succeeded to the
Dukedom Of Saxe-Coburg in 1894,
which carried with it a salary of
$150.000 a year. but the British gov
ernment still continued his annuity
of $4,000 a year, and when he died
in 1900 settled pension of $4,000
a year on his rich widow. The
Duke of Connaught, the Queens
bird son. gets s125, 900, besides his
army pay.
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Phyllis is wearing a brand-new dia-
mond ring and an expression of ecstatic
happiness.
Marriages. returned Belinda. with
asperity. ARE the results of the whims
of two silly people which they frequently
repent"
Belinda has taken 10 tailor frocks
has nine pockets and pessimistic views.
Somewhere in the world" said PhyI-
lis. sentimentally. for every woman her
true mate is waiting and in time fate
brings them together"
If that We're So" said Belinda
every other man and woman YOU meet
would not be trying TO get a divorce
There are women" said Phyllis. with
an air of conscious rectitude. who are
not willing to wait until the one man
whom destiny has prepared for them ar
rtves."
This would be a world of old maids
II they did" said Belinda.
Love rules the world" said Phyllis,
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Tense of begging when too old to
work. But hereafter the country
will content itself with generous
payments to its great heroes, Ieav-
ing their descendants to shift for
themselves. Lord Roberts received
s5OO.0O0 for finishing the war in
South Africa and General Kitchener
was paid $3.50, 900 and given a peer
age for again finishing the same war.
No provision was made for their
heirs.
Great as have been the rewards of
ancestral 'valor they appear small
compared with the extent to which
the national cow has been milked
by descendants of illegitimate royal
offspring, who are now numbered
among the shining lights of the
British aristocracy. The present
Duke of Richmond is a descendant
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sEvENTY-THREE MEANS MUCH,

'Twenty-three" has almost passed
from slang into proper language, but 10
the average man rSeVenty-three' is still
an unknown quantity
Seventy-three" is telegraph slang and
INTO those two characters are crowded
every wish for good When the tele-
grapher crooks his elbow he utters Sew
enty-three" in place of Here's look
Ing" and IL means volumes more than
the usual greeting. 'Seventy-three''
takes the place OF Yours truly. at the
bottom Of his letters and seventy
three" is a word of farewell more preg-
nant with meaning than so Ions"
II appears on the badge of the Mag
nehc Club, composed largely OF those
in the telegraph and kindred trades ana
huge .73'' in electric lights is the
principal decoration at their dinners
the switch being run 20 the presfdeut's
table, that officer flashing out the greet
ing when a speaker rises to tell how he
commenced life as a mes@~..e..>r boy
New York Sun
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case That kept him a long time, he de-
clded TO make his home in the West and
well, L suppose he happened upon an
other twining vine. for he never really
proposed and Ciarice says she thinks
lawyers are a hateful class of people and
never made good husbands.
yes. said Phyllis with a sigh, ''and
now she Is engaged to a self-made busi-
ness man, though she always said she
wouldn't marry "a man who had not been
to college and studied a profession"
The business man happened to be the
nearest oak" said Belinda
But L really know said PHYLLIS
that old Rounda about asked Bella to
marry him, and she refused point
blank
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Stuarts We're Expensive Rulers.
The Duke of Grafton is another
nobleman who owes his immense
fortune and exalted rank to the fact
that he is the descendant of one of
Charies IFS mistresses. A perpetual
pension of S91, $50 was bestowed on
the family in 1873. After it had been
drawn regularly for $50 years a pro-
cess OF communication was begun.
extending over fifty years, by which
the pension was ultimately bought
in for S2,1O0,0o0. AS a consequence
OF that transaction the Duke now
owns $4,000 acres OF land and enjoys
an income of $195, 900 a year. In his
younger days he was fond Of preach
ing thrift to the working classes. His
two predecessors drew over $4,000
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or an illegitimate child of Charles
Ii. A perpetual pension of about
$4,000 per annum was granted to
MS family in 1876. Between 1901
and 1925. $2,OO4,17O was paid to COM
mute this Infamous pension. This
was exchanged for s3,165 900 worth
Oh Government stock. The stock
was sold and the proceeds invest
ed in 2S6,409 acres of land which
brings a rental Of 100000 a year.
The family drove magnificent bar
gain with the nation. Altogether the
descendants of this illicit royal Off
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Woman Clinging Vine.

"A woman" said Phyllis, dreamily,
is still the clinging vine and man the
sturdy oak
notice." said Belinda. that the
clinging vine usually twines around the
most convenient tree. though there may
be better and handsomer ones a little
distance off"
You do not mean. Belinda" said
Phyllis, Mortified, that every woman
marries the first man who pays her at
tention.''
No. said Belinda, for he is not the
man who usually asks her to-"
You cannot mean. Belinda" said
fhyllis. almost in a whisper that al
most any woman would marry almost
any mar who asked her?"
res, said Belinda firmly, II do"
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Lord RagiQn's Sinecure.

Lord Raglan in 1856 received a
pension of $4,000 a year for self
and successor for services in the
Crimean war. The present lord
is the last holder of the title to re-
ceive the pension, which thus far
foots up $780, 900 and, like ''Charley's
Aunt" is still running. Lord Rag
Ian also enjoys a snug sinecure as
governor of the Isle of Man. which
brings him in s9,4OO a year.
In striking contrast to the generos-
ity shown the descendants of heroic
titled ancestors is the treatment
meted out TO those who fought and
bled for their country in the ranks.
John Burns, a survivor of the Gal
liant Six Hundred" over eighty years
of age and still suffering from a
bullet wound in the knee which he
had received IN the Crimea, recent
ly was sentenced to three rxonths'
Imprisonment for the heinous Of
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drawn 81 ,29O. 600. The fourth daueh-
ter, Princess Louise, who married
the Duke Of Argyll. one of the
wealthiest Of Scotch peers. receives a
similar annuity and has been paid
up to date S1,010,000. The Queens
youngest son, the Duke of Albany.
who died in 1884. had received up to
that time $500, 900. His widow was
granted $4,000 a year for life and
she has already drawn $500, 0,0eO.
Princess Beatrice the youngest
daughter of the Queen, VINO married
Prince Henry of Battenberg, gets
similar annuity and thus far il has
Eetted her $4,000 In respect Of
large families the English royal
house sets a commendable example,
but the nation has had to pay big
price for it. President Roosevelt's
numerous progeny would hardly be
so much admired If the taxpayers
had. TO shell cut $4,000 a year to
each OF them when they grow up
The King gets $3.50, 900 a year.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
between them are officially credited
with beggarly $4,000 year, but
they really get more than that.
Queen Victoria's relatives were
great pension grabbers- Prince Leo
pold of Saxe-Coburg. King of the
Belgians, who had the good fortune
to marry her aunt, drew s6,S35, 900
from the taxpayers Of this country
before he died in 1865. The Duke OF
Cumberland, King of Hanover, an
uncle of the Queen, received in an
nuities $780, 900 before death claim
ed him. Queen Adelaide, the wiG~w
of William ", and the late Queens
aunt, received $4,000 900 in annui-
ties. She died in 1S49. Queen Vic
toria's mother, the Duchess of Kent.
who died in 1861. received $4.4S5. 900.
The Duke OF Sussex. an uncle who
died in 1S43, received s3.770, 600. An
other uncle, the Duke of Cambridge,
who died in 1856, obtained $3.50, 900.
Princess Augusta, an aunt who died
in 1910, took s1,980.000 from the
public treasury. Another aunt.
Princess Elizabeth, who died IN the
same year. received s2.075, 900. The
Duchess of Gloucester, also an aunt,
drew $3,275, 900. Two Princess
Sophias, both fortunate enough to
be able to claim a similar relation
ship, drew between them s3,940, 900.
The Duke of Mecklenburg-S -Suelitz,
one of her cousins who died In 1860,
received $554, $50. Between them
these twelve relatives of the late
Queen drew from British taxpayers
in hard cash the enormous sum of
$44 ,924, $50, for the most part for
merely condescending' to keep alive,
kill time and enjoy their incomes.
But that golden age for royal rela-
tives will never come again. The
growing democratic sentiment of
the country viii not permit it.
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Y the time these line,
appear in print the CEN
tenary of Nelson's death
IN and the battle of Trafal-
gar will have been cele-
brated in this country
Many complaints are being made
regarding the inadequacy of tho
commemoration doings. But anart
from the fact that the entente cor
diaie with France imposed a re-
straint upon a too exuberant d.
play OF patriotism on the occasion
some excuse for the spirit of econ.
omy shown in The matter NAV he
found in the fact that British tax-
payers are still paying for that great
naval victory and are likely 70 con-
unue doing so for many long years
to come.
Besides creating Lord Nelson's
brother. the clergyman, a peer and
purchasing 100000 estate for him
In Wiltshire. grateful country con.
ierred perpetual pension of s25 600
year on the earldom. For deeds
wrought by his great uncle 100 vearz
ago, the present earl. an old man op
eighty-two, who has never been con-
spicuous for anything but strait
laced piety, has drawn upon the
national treasury s1,750, 900. He ms
sesses an estate of over 1000 acres
and rent roll Of nearly $50 900 a
year.
The Nelson pension was the l.s+
perpetual pension ever granted in
England and the country will never
stand for another. The Duke Of
Wellington's pension of $40 O0o a
year, voted ten years later, was re-
str1cted to three lives. But as the
duke received grants from the tax-
payers In hard cash amounting IN
y, 900 900, and a fine estate was mr.
chased for him, and palace built
Tor him-the two costing together
$780, ,000-he had no cause to COM
plain that his country had failed
to appreciate his services in de-
feating the empire-building ambi-
tons OF Napoleon. The pension
ceased when the present duke sue
ceeded to the title. but as a result
OF the nations gifts to the Iron
Duke he still possesses an estate
OF nearly 10000 acres and a rent roll
OF over 100000. Yet he complains
that he is hard up-for a duke.
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.. But, said Phyllis, much shocked
he might not be her fate'''
ana II he wasn't then il might he
her tate never to be married at an"
said Belinda an
you know that young minister Who
pald her so much attention and whom
she liked so much? She told me nosj-
tIEeIy that she felt that fate had never
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and there are few women who do not
obey the dictates of their own hearts in
marrying"
"A woman's heart is easily guided. :"
said Belinda. ''and 1t usually obeys the
dictates of the first man who appears
upon the scene"
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Any Respectable Girl Would.

Yes" said Belinda, ''and any re-
spectacle girl would THAT is the ex-
ception which proves the rule He was
no oak anyway, just withered old
stump, seventy years old If he was a
day, and no decent vine would try "a
cling to such tree"
But there is Helen" persisted Phyl-
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Royalty a LuxuYV.

Princess Christian, the late
Queens third daughter, receives an
annuity of $4,000 year from the
public treasury and has already
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the vine or the vine to the oak. or
whether it IS Fate or whether il isn't.
and they are pretty sure that they are
going TO live happy ever after, just like
the end Of the fairy stories, and they
do. too.'-Brooklyn Eagle.
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possess estates that apart from their
pensions would enable them to live
In luxury without work.
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Cough, Viscount Hardinpe ro-a
Aeene and Lord Seaton are the
lucky descendants OF military COM
manders to whom pensions of s1o.-
pVo year were granted for three
lives. The pensions cease with them.
put they have already cost the ma
tion s3.445,ooo. Most of these recip-
tents OF rewards for ancestral valor
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lis: ''she is so happily married 1 am
sure Ii must have been fate with her.
II don't know" said Belinda. Helen
told me herself that she thought no wo-
man ever knew that she loved a man
until he had proposed 10 her, and then
she found that she had cared all the
time"
And do you think that mans pro-
posing to girl makes her love him?''
asked Phyllis, doubtfully.
That is about the way it is most of
the time" said Belinda, decidedly. .'You
see. 1t would have to be pretty much so
unless it was leap year all the time and
women took advantage of il. This
world Is made in a very queer way. II
Is not bit fair Women do not have
half chance. and If they did not have
the most ec~~enient and adaptable
hearts in the 1an't know what
would becom
do you kn id con-
fdentially, oak is
4 very good \ .,n6
KNOW some )ntented
with their at +hax-
uoh care ONES TO
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Engiand's COSTLY Victories.

Few persons have ..-sy conception
OF how generously England has re-
warded her military and naval he
roes, and their often unworthy de-
scendants- For mis- military victor
les the Duke Of Marlborough was
granted a perpetual pension OF s2O,-
600. The taxpayers built him a
hne palace and purchased an estate
for him at a cost OF s1,240,0 900, in
addition to which he drew emolu-
ments of s320,000 a year. The fam
lily has been paid over $4,000, 900 for
battles gained by their ancestor
more than 200 years ago. The per-
petual pension was commuted in
1894 for $685., 600 and re-invested in
land that would have brought in
more than $4,000 year The last
duke was licentious reprobate and
despite his big rental and pension
money died so heavily in debt that
the present duke had to marry a
Vanderbilt that he might maintain
his rank in fitting style.
For naval victories he won a pen
sion of $4,000 a year was granted
n 1882 to Lord Rodney and his heirs
forever. The family has already
drawn over $1,000, 900. The present
lord has 5000 acres of land with a
rental of s35,000.
Viscount Exmouth was granted a
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II ARRIAGES," said Phyllis,
|" beginning the conversation.
"are certainly made in
heaYen"
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Tldny British Peers Still Reap the Rewards of
Valorous Deeds Done by Their Ances,
tors Long Ago, While Oilers Are Even
Better Paid Because They Have the
GOOD Fortune to Be Descended From
lllegltimdte Children of Charles II

London, Oct. 81.
. Y the time these lines
appear in print the CEN
tenary Of Nelson's death
IN and the battle of Trafal-
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Viscount Exmouth was granted
perpetual pension of $40 600 a year
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-03-19
TRIAL OF YOUTH IS
FIXED FOR MONDAY.
Slayer of Gus OliveTHas
Hearing.
FUNERAL OF YOUTHFUL. VICTIM
attended Yesterday by Concourse of
Friends-Iouns Tarver is stu i'm
Jail and VIII Have a committa
Trial Monday Evening.

The funeral of young Gus Oliver,
the thrteen-year-old lad for whose
death at the hands of Grady Tarver the
latter is still hello, was conducted yes
terday from the home OF his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs John l.. Oliver, and was
indeed one Ct the saddest ever wit
messed here
Young friends of the dead boy bore
his body to it's last resting place.
Many beautiful floral offerings adorn-
ed the small &C fin, and large con-
course of friends witnessed It's consign-
ment to the grave and mingled their
tears with those of his family.
The services were conducted by ReY.
J. P. Wardlaw and Rev. Turner.
There were few developments yes :
terday in the recent fatal sffair beyond
those already stated. A lumber of
young companions, engaged in the ball
game, witnessed the delivery OF the
blow with the ball bat All these have
been summoned to testify.
The fl miles Of both boys are greatly
distressed ever the> tragic affair, yet
there is To feeling of resentment, and
all concerned are willing that the law
shall determine it.
Young Tarver is still in the county
jail, where he is treated with the ut
most kindness by good-hearted Sheriff
Bell He occupies quarters with Mr..
Bells boys at night. and everything is
done to render his incarceration there
less trying as possible.
He will be given committal trial
Monday afternoon before Judge Chas.
r. Crisp, and his friends hope that the
evidence may be such as to admit him
to BAIL The courtroom Will be throng-
ed, such is the interest in the affair.
Young Tarver. it is said, is IA years
old, while the dead boy was 10.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-03-19
DANGEROUS HABIT.
Gladstone's Physician Gives Warning
Against Growing American Gus
tom,

The growing habit amongst Aneri-
cans of taking mint tablet or some
other so called digestive after ea'ing a
hearty meal, is something that Sir An
drew Clark, Mr.. Gladstone's physician
advises strongly against, saying. sit
is absolutely dangerous to take into
the stomach remedies which are popu-
larly supposed to aid in the digestion of
food"
There is nothing known o the scier cs
Of medicine that can perform the work
of the human stomach. Drugs do not
and cannot digest the food. They sim
ply decompose il. What can be more
revolving or disgusting than the thought
of taking pmething into the stomach
that is going to turn the good food you
have eaten into a mass of corruption.
Tee only way to overcome indiges-
ton and it's evil effects is TO remove all
irritatit n, congestion and IL Hammation
from the stomach, liver and intestinee,
and Mi-o-na il the only agent SHOWN
that will do his.
Wh.n Nina tablet is taken be
fore each meal every trace Of irritation
and Inflammation is removed from the
stom. Gu aun digestive system, and
those organs will extract from the food
all that goes to make good. rich blood,
firm mu Gle, STEADY nerves and sound
healthy body. If you suffer with head
aches, Indigestion. fatuleney, scots be
fore the eye, vertigo, or dizziness.
palpitasion the heart, sleeplessness,
or any stomach troubie, get fifty cent
| b. Of Mi-o-ra from Dodson's Pharma
cy, one of our most reliable Fl ms
" hose faith in the remedy is shown by
their Offer to eiurn the money # Mo
No does not give complete satisfaction.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-03-19
JOTS AND DOTS IN
NEWS OF A DAY.
Little Tales aressToldIB riefly
Here.
BOILED DOWN TO FOUR LINES.
News Notes of interest But Too Short
for Headlines Bunched Together
Short Tales of the Town Whacked
Shorter Still.

Full line of Buist's fresh garden
seeds. just received at Hudson's Drug
store
''A cent apiece or dime a dozsn" is
the cry of the egg peddler here. And
Americus goes against the shell game
with ayidity.
When an Americus preacher is "qui-
city approached now for an April date
he has to refer to his day book to find
an open one.
The pending litigation over the AL
len insurance is in statu quo, and the
outcome of the case is awaited. with
much interest.
That catnip farm is no joke, as al
ready full acre of the infants delight
is being planted on farm three miles
north of town.
The cotton market settled serenely
bottomward yesterday, but as holders
here have no cotton to Offer prices do
not affect them.
There are no further developments in
the Hotel Windsor case, all parties
waiting upon the court in the confirms.
ton of the sale.
Ii the business streets of Americus
were paved with cement, uniformly,
instead of brickbats the improvement
would be wonderful
With but one mild case of varioloid
in the city, and that in remote negro
quarter, citizens wonder at the recent
order for vaccination.
The Macon Telegraph suggests that
the next governor can be generous and
make up his staff from the ranks of his
leading competitors.
The rural rooster and the meditative
hen are strangers here. Not feather
was blown to town yesterday, and the
hungry lament loudly
Americus' young neighbor, Cordele,
sets her an object lesson in sidewalk
paving. Cement only is used, and Cor
dele has fine pavements.
Constable J. I. Hudson held a matt
nee in front of the temple yesterday,
disposing of carload of household
brio. a-brac at legal sales.
If you see Lee street citizen dig
ging in the garden don't think for
moment that he is working. The fth
are now biting in Muckalee.
The city council will probably take
early action regarding the decaytd
wooden awnings and swinging signs
on the business streets here.
ItE is announced that r Y. =. F.
Wardlaw will preach for the colored
people at the G. M. E. church, Hemp-
ton street, this afternoon at 3,