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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05
SoTdd Romance Of the Exchange of Title For Gold; Is This the Twentieth Century or the Middle Ages !?

was unmasked before she could accom- plish her purpose. Shortly afterward
 the little nobleman was put frankly and squarely on the market by his se- cret promoter, whose identity has not yet been made public. A regular pro- spectus was issued, and copies of 1t were sent to several American cities and to those who were the reputed in fluential advisers of American heir esses.
 The secret agent, whoever he may turn out to be, found the marquis n difficult proposition. Try as he might. it was almost impossible to negotiate him. There were plenty of American heiresses in the market, and the Town shend title was good one as such things go, but the marquis himself was the stumbling block. He came to Amer lea at the instigation of his promoter, but it would have been better if he had remained in England. One look at him was sufficient to disenchant the most persistent title hunting heiress in the United States. The little nobleman went back to his ancestral estates with out having made even ripple in Amer fcan fashionable society.
 But the Suthersts, it seems, were not so fastidious. The lawyer had a beautiful daughter who had reached marriageable age. and he had made up his mind that she should be the means of putting the Suthersts on first class social plane. The daughter entered in- to his plan with infinite zest and shared his ambition to its loftiest aspiration. She saw the little marquis and declared that she loved him at the very first glimpse. Without great deal of pre- liminary ceremony they were married by special license at the ancient sanc- tuary of St. Martin's-in- the- Fields, in the presence of the ladys father and two friends.
 From that moment the beautiful new and her family took full possession of the captured lord. The Suthersts accompanied the young cou-
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conferred on the others simultaneously with their assumption of the position of chief of staff. There was no espe- cial significance in the union of the two offices. and leading military men were in favor of dissociating them. General CorbIn. who was interested personally in the matter. made a special recom- mendation that this be done and named General Bell as an officer qualified to become chief of stan.
 General Bell is a Kentuckian. born at SheIbyville on Jan. g. 1858. He att tended the public school in his native town and was such a bright lad that he attracted the attention of the con- gressman for that district. who sent him to West Point. His record at the academy was excellent. and he was graduated in 1878 and assigned imme- diately to a second lieutenancy in the Ninth cavalry. a coIored regiment. shortly afferwari he was transferred to the Seventh. Clusters old command During that first summer in the young ofrcers military experience he did es- cort duty in the construction of the Pacific railroads and scouting and led expeditions for special work
 Lieutenant Bell soon went to the de- partnsent of Dakota and commanded a troop tn the bloody fight al Wounded Knee. He acquired a reputation as an Indian fighter and was known to his companions in the department as a fearless and venfures9u-~ soldier Aft CT serving for a short time as military instructor at Fort Riley. Kansas. he wss ordered to the Pacific coast and was there when var with Sp.sin was declared He sailed for Manila as major sf volunteer engineers and par tfcfpet@d in the attaek on that city Here he psrfornsed a feat that for bray cry and endurance is unsurpassed ia the annals of that esnpzixn-I. search of frfornsff1z he swan af night aro1nf the spanizh ezrthuorkE fronring on fhe kAF-
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05
Mark TWans Method of Doing Literary Work:
 Combination of Mental Activity and Physical Reaxatl

tend to- He resolved to try the exper. iment of writing in bed and succeeded so admirably that he adopted the prac. tice and has continued it ever since.
 Mark Twain's argument in favor of doing literary work-or play" as he insists-in bed is extremely ingenious. There are numerous advantages, he claims. Sitting at desk, one gets so interested fin what he is doing that hs does not notice the change in tempera- ture produced by a sudden increase of the steam or furnace heat supply or a corresponding diminution of the same until he experiences fever or a chill. If the heating apparatus is in the room. one must replenish the fire or direct some one to do it. In either case he is switched off the trail of the idea he Is pursuing,a se.,o. ,e
 So Mark Twain. goes to bed when he has any literary business to do. There he is able to preserve an equable tenn perature without any effort and can work without being bothered. This scheme of combining physical relaxa- tion and mental activity may account for the tremendous amount of labor done by the humorist when he under- took to pay off the debts of the defunct publishing house of c. l.. Webster & Co. fin which he had invested as a spe- cial partner. But Mark Twain will not admit even to his intimates that the splendid achievement cost him any es- pecial effort.
 All had to do." he laughs. twas to write a certain number of books and deliver few hundred lectures. As for the travelling about and the nuisances to which I was subjected-well, those things are merely the incidents that one expects to meet in life. Those who had to publish my books. the agents who had to arrange my lecture tours. the lawyers who had to draw up tho contracts--those were the fellows that did the work. My part was only play. Had 1t been work for me never could have done it."
 GEORGE H. PICARD.
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pie on their honeymoon, which war passed on the continent. According to letters written by the bride to her Lon don friends. the early days of this TO. mantle period were ideal. The faii Gladys seemed to be delighted with her bargain. land, as for dear Town shend." she wrote, "he is in the very seventh heaven of delight.''
 Within three months everything had changed. It became known to the friends of the marquis that he had married this charming young woman Tn consideration of loan of $135,00e to be raised by her financing father. The loan was still hanging fire. There was trouble about raising 1t. and thers was more trouble about the commis. sion of the mysterious promoter whs had played the role of matchmaker This powerful and secret influence whatever 1t may turn out to be, began to make no end of trouble. When the Townshends returned to England the young husband left his bride suddenly and without explanation and went to live with this potent Dan Cupid whose claim was still unsatisfied.
 He remained away from his London
  home for period of ten weeks; then he reappeared, and the Suthersts saw to it that he remained. He became a prisoner. Two physicians called in by the father of the young marchioness pronounced htm insane, and the lunacy commission put him in charge of his wife until the matter should be deter mined. The dowager marchioness and her friop6S fho sound with their lamentations. It is charged that the Suthersts have con- spired to immure the marquis in a madhouse; that the pretext of his in- sanity is deep laid scheme. The whole matter will have to be sifted by the courts, and the whole story as 1t stands at the present time is the most perplexing and sordid that the ex- change of titles for gold has yet in. spired. WILLIAM CHRISTIE.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-05
GEORGE H. PICARD.

were organized General Otis gave Bell command of a force gathered from dis charged soldiers of the regular army and the first short service volunteers. He proceeded at once to the front and entered into the campaign with an en- ergy that was productive of notable results. Congress awarded him a med- al of honor for gallantry in action in Luzon. The following story Is Illus trative of his zeal and intrepidity as . scout:
 one torrid day. when he was attached to General Hale's brigade at santo To- mas. Bell wished to communicate with General Macarthur. several miles away. Between the two forces stretched an impossible morass. Wasting no time in useless deliberation. Bell stripped himself of every article of clothing ex- cept his belt and his campaign hat and rode his horse into the muck. He man. aged to wallow through the mass in some way and presented himself to MacArthur precisely as he was when he emerged from the morass. General Macarthur. a stickler for dress and himself carefully attired in full regi- u1eutals. looked al him fn horror.  ~why. BeIl.- he gasped. what in--
 T have the honor to report. sir-- be. ran Bell. with all the dignity of the born soldier. And he did report to the very end before anything further was done.
 After the war honors came rapidly. Thirty-six months after setting foot is the Philippines he was made briszdiss general After the war he vas promi- nent in the rzcincation of the srchipsI- ago and developed great adminisfra- tive ability. His method of reconstruc- ton wss criticised in certain quarters. but t vas -fncfent He practically re- bgEIt ell of the rosds In the provinos of Bzfsnrzs. bringing sbost an era of pro<p<rffy such as it had never knssn The ne~ chsef cf s<A9 is tecf1sdly -nan cf parrs-
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things becomes known to the general public, he discovers that his reputation for being serious under any possible circumstances gradually fades away. Mark Twain has realized the truth of this more keenly perhaps than any oth- CT man of letters who ever lived. His appeal to the humorous instincts of mankind has been so direct and SO pow erful that all else has been overshad- owed. Time was-and not long since at that-when any attempt on his part to moralize seriously would have been hailed as the most mirth provoking buffoonery. For man of his profound convictions and outspoken advocacy of whatever convinces him the necessity for silence must have been galling, but his restraint was admirable. ff5 A.ssss
 It is so no longer. The time has come when he may take part in all the mo- mentous discussions of the hour and be listened to with respect. He has dem- onStrated to the satisfaction of all that he is more than the greatest living American humorist His prompt es- pousal of the cause of the Russian re- form movement and his friendly atti- tude toward Maxim Gorky, its famous apostle, show that neither his advanc- ing years nor any other reason has kept him silent when he is convinced that he should speak
 The American public at least has learned to discriminate between Mark Twain in earnest and Mark Twain in fun. It has even become wise enough to understand when the great mirth provoker is employing the phraseology of humor to demonstrate some serious truth. He insists laughingly that he has won by his persistence; that he has proceeded on the principle that if he repeated a thing often enough it was sure to make an impression in time.
 The Mark Twain of today is still straight and spare as a New England pine, his mane of thick white hair, thrown back shaggily from his fore head; his thin, mobile upper lip covered with a heavy. dropping mustache that
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to earn living. This would have'been extremely inconvenient, for the mar quis is diminutive in size. with a shrun- ken body on which is placed a very large head, with an abnormal frontal development and peculiar flatness at the back. He actually stands only about four feet six inches in height and has the frame of badly nourished boy of
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matrimonial prize. He was the nom inal owner of about 10000 acres, but when he entered into possession of his estates about five years ago he found them mortgaged so heavily that his title to them amounted practically to nothing. If he had not come into pos session of lot of valuable family heir
 looms he would have had to go to work
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to look upon his effort to amuse the American public and the publics of va rious other countries of two genera tions as anything more serious than play. Had it been work" he observes sagaciously, "Fd have had none of it. Had I ever made the discovery that was actually working. do you suppose I'd have gone on? No, sir. I've never done stroke of work in my life, and don't expect to begin now.'
 In the light of the great funmakers known achievements his asseveration is rather astounding. It would be per- picking if one should chance to forget for a moment that Mark Twain is first of all humorist. One must not take him too seriously. and when he appears to be most in earnest he must be taken with the most extraordinary care. Most important of all. no attempt must be made to decipher him. Let him be his own apologist and let it go at that Then it is that he disposes of his star ting assertion, which seems to suggest a lifetime of perpetual idleness. in this ingenious fashion:
 "Ths work that is mans own work, the thing he ought to do and no other, is not work at all it is only play. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great play CTS. Work is slavery. The product of slavery. intellectual or physical, can never be great.''
 When a man begins to gain reputa- tion as a humorist, when his happy talent for saying and writing amusing
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is not so colorless as his locks. His eyes are as clear as ever, sometimes reflective. sometimes flashing with the fire of the thoughts that leap. like lightning. behind them, although the words that give them utterance fall from the lips in that quaint, deliberate
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twelve. He walks with short, rapid steps and speaks in shrill and high pitched voice. His face is pale, his eyes lusterless, his mouth tremulous. with heavy hanging underlip.
 Soon after his accession to the title the marquis seems to have fallen into the hands of some mysterious person or persons who-concocted a scheme to
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active service and the appointment of Brigadier General James Franklin Bell as his successor. A fair preliminary idea of the new chief may be formed from one of his favorite remarks. made long before he dreamed of the present honor. If had anything to say in the matter" he has been heard to say more than once. "I would never allow a pick or shovel in my regiment"
 General Bell has always held the opinion that the proper weapon of the soldier Is the rife and that whenever an army halts and begins to dig the en- eny takes courage and begins to at- tack The only safe way to deal with an enemy. he maintains, is to keep him on the run all the time. The majority of the men in the ranks agree with him in his opinion in regard to the proper weapon for the coldier. and it is even admitted by many men high in authority that if General Bells idea should prevail one principal cause of assertion would be removed
 The general staff is a comparatively modern creation. The biI creating if went into legal effect Aug. Is. 1sa3 The general staff consists of officers detailed from the army at large under such rules as may be prescribed by the president Its duties are 70 prepare plans for national defense and mobEII- ration of troops in time If var. to in- vessiszte questions relating to the ef1- ciency of the army and its prspzration for var. to assist the secrsfary of war and other general o<fcers and to act as their agents and to perform such other military duty as nay De ordered by lhs prssident
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10 spiced with the element of novelty What interest in the matter has become 3nternational. It has to do with the 5marital infelicities of the noble British house of Townshend, and were it not for the corroborative official records and the unimpeachable evidence of .'Burke's Peerage" one might believe that the romance maker was abroad.
 g It is alleged that a marquis of an- cient lineage and even royal connec- tions has been made a prisoner in his own house, all of his friends and rela- tives denied access and that he is the victim of sham lunacy proceedings brought by his captors. His mother, the dowager marchioness, has made af- fidavit that she has been refused ad- mittance to the premises. She declares that her son is perfectly sane and that an effort is being made to immure him in madhouse.
 All this is highly interesting, but it is by no means the climax. That is reached only when it is disclosed that the central figure in the plot is the un- fortunate mans wife, bride of few months. beautiful and notably clever. This young woman who has captured her husband in the full significance of the term was before her marriage Miss Gladys Ethel Sutherst, daughter of a prosperous London lawyer and finan- cier. The Suthersts are respectable people. but they have never before fig ured in society, and admit freely that the marquis was attractive to them only on account of his family name. Aside from his title and family con nections the marquis was not much of
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drawl which thousands who have heard will never forget. His face is still with out lines, and his cheeks have ruddy glow. There is not yet any strong re- hinder that Mark Twain has passed the Scriptural limit.
 When Mark Twain has anything to
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exploit his title in the matrimonial market The marquis had already been the recipient of matrimonial over- lures from several sources. One wom- an, a reputed widow of great personal charm and alleged fabulous wealth. nearly succeeded in carrying him off. but the dowager marchioness had been conducting a still hunt, and the widow
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This general staff consists of one chief of stan and twO general officers from the army not below the grade of brigaGisr general four colouels. six lieutenant ecionsls. tweIve majors and twenty captains All are detaled for a service of four years and rh&n re- Iieyed return to their former po<Aions- The chief of staff sgperFises au dfops
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do of literary character he takes to his bed and remains there until it is completed. This curious reversal of the usual custom of mankind seems to come from habit. That. at least. is the only explanation vouchsafed by the aged humorist. It seems that he &C.,
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quired the habit during a persistent att tack of bronchitis. He lay tn bed duti- fully for a fortnight without making any attempt to exert himself. but at the expiration of that period he was still unable to be up. although he had a very pressing literary matter to at-
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of the line and is under the direct au- thority of the president in his capacity of commander in chief of the army
 The new appointes to this responsible position Is one of the youngest b-isa- dier generals in the army. attaining that distinction only in 1soL Previous to that time he vas only a captain ot regulars. When he vas nade erigztier
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IE master humorist who has been mas- querading under the pen name of Mark Twain for almost half a century declares that he has never done a days work in l i:s.
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TE of the most highly sen sational domestic dramas of the still young twentieth cen tury has recently come to the front in England. Its features are so startling and
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IE general staff of the
 army has recently un-
 q erg on g another change by reason of the voluntary retire
 ment of its chief. Lieutenant General John C. Bates. from
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-03-16

they may understand
whit life In q big city
really means. They
should read this story to
learn what Lady Lefty
learned In her effort to
reform LOndOn's East
end. She sees there the
molly crowds thronging
the streets; the ragged
and hungry looking
children touch a chord
in her heart. As you
read this wonderful
narrative Of the condi-
tons Of life In a great
city, you appreciate
more fully the blessings
Of the country.
The squalor and suf-
ftrings are pictured by
the author of this won-
-derful story; the men
and women searching
the turbulent sea, reach
ing out and saving lost
souls; also the great
work of the Salvation
Army. Lady Lefty be-
comes so strangely fas-
cinated by the new
views of life that she
abandons her own pal
atial home, forsakes and
denOunces the aristocr
among the lower elem
story fascinates strangel
= II. a NJ
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-03-16
Fine indian Photographs.

We recently published an illustrar
ton of Indian Twins which should
have been credited to Major Lee Moore
house of Pendelton, Oregon, who has
perhaps one Of the best collection Of
Indian pictures of the north west.
Major Moorehouse's famous pictures OF
the Cayuse Twins has had more re-
cognition, perhaps, than any other
Indian photograph ever taken and he
has now issued an album containing
other striking pictures. "The Last
Outpost of Dying Race" is a pictur-
esque photograph of a lone Indian tepee
or wigwam with background OF dark
landscape, suggestive in the extreme
Iof the title OF the picture. Many OF
the Moorehouse pictures attracted
much attention at the Lewis and
Clarke Exposition.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1906-03-16
Longest Climb in the World.

Imagine making the ascent of Mount
Washington by means of a staircase.
But feat akin to this many travellers
in China have accomplished in going
to the TOP, of the holy mountain, some
six, thousand feet above Taingan-fu.
The road leading to it is the best in all
the kingdom. About mile north of
the city walls stands large gate amid
the ruins of a once fiourishing suburb.
Leading from this gate the road is
lined with temples, converts and
shrines, where pilgrims stop to pray il
they are fortunate enough to rid them
selves of the hordes of beggars.
Where the real ascent begins there
is a stone portal which is inscribed
with the fact that here the great Con-
fucius halted 1900 years ago, not hav-
ing the strength to ascend the six
thousand stone steps leading to the
top. These Taischan stairs are by far
the highest in the world, for, taking
the number of steps in one story of an
ordinary house to be twenty, the num-
Der of Taischan steps equals three
hundred stories. The coolies will carry
a pilgrim up the stairs and back, a dis
lance of twice sixteen miles, for thirty
cents-fifteen cents for each coolie.
When the ascent is made one finds
himself upon large plateau, which Is
covered with numerous temples and
stone monuments. The main temple is
that of the holy mother, consisting OF
several buildings surrounded by a
stone wall. The several courts are
adorned with magnificent statues and
monuments of bronze, with a huge
statue of the holy mother on the altar.
These doors are opened once only
each year, when an imperial commits
sion comes to collect the money offer
ings of the pilgrims. BY means OF a
substantial "tip" the guard may be in
duced to push the bar of the main
gate aside, so that one may have
glimpse within. The floor OF this
large temple is usually filed with
heap of coins of every description
size, and value, probably represent
ling $4,000 in American currency
The money is divided among the con
vents and beggars of the holy noun
tain, but the largest share goes in
to the pockets of that enterprisinl
lady, the Dowager Empress.