The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-09

arrived. and IL is 10 bS hoped she
will get all there is out of the expert
ence.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, widow of the WE'LL
known publisher. has had considerable
experience in the field OF matriinony.
and was only prevented by death from
entering upon her fourth venture re-
Gently. The trousseau was purchased,
and she was To have hurried Spanish
nobleman in May, when the news of his
death IN Paris reached her. Mrs. Leslie
was a handsome New Orleans girl. and
was first married TO =. q. Sauicr. who
was at one time United States Minister
to Peru. and from whom she was after
wards divorced. She ttea married
Frank Leslie, and a few years after his
death linked her fortunes, then very
considerable financially, w!th those of
Willie" Wide, a brotaer of Oscar
Wilde. She was divorced from Wide.
who spent too much of her money to
suit her, and aitho the charn,ing widow
has been reported engaged several times
since she has not been induced TO
change her name. She sSsys her en-
gagement to the Spaniard. the Marquis
of Campallcgre, was the result of mu-
tual attachment and WAS most charm
ing romance. The Marquis used to
write her seven times a week and cable
her between times. She says he gave
her his picture, and told hecsto put IL in
a conspicuous part Of her drawing room
and to tell her friends that he wOnid
willingly give up his life for her. That's
the kind of Spanish gentleman he
was. The Marquis was past so. but had
lost none of the ardor for which his
race is famed. Mrs. Leslie expects soon
TO sail for Spain, where she will Join
the two daughters of her Marquis,
whom, it seems, had also had some ex-
perience in matrimony.
Nine. Emma Eames, the famous
opera singer and former wife OF Julian
Story, the painter. has secured her di-
vorce much more quietly and with far
less unpleasant disclosure than usually
accompanies such cases. MIR. and Mrs.
story were married 16 years ago, Doth
families o5jecting strenuously To the
match, and il has been We'll known That
for number of years the couple have
not lived in harmony. When both hus-
band and wife are poHs:.st of the artis-
tic temperament highly developed trnu.
BILE is likely TO follow: In fact, one sun
person in family is USUALLY too much
for comfort, and all so endowed, as a
general thing, fulfil their destiaics much
better in the single stata. Mrs. Story is
allowed By the courts to resume her
maiden name if she SO wishes and also
not take unto himself another wife I'M
Til Nine. Eames be actually dead.
While everybody is aware that the
rose is the national emblem of Eng
land. Comparatively few people know
how it became so. The rose was I'M
known in Europe before the ninth cru
sade when it was brought back from
Palstine by Thibaut, the Troubadour
Ia fh,, ,er-ae, as Gn ,Ir nf
the last crusade. During all his wan
derings from the Holy Land to his
home in fair Provence, the Count care
fully tended this red rose. and when
he reached his castle planted it in his
gardens, where it rapidly multiplied.
The beauty of the flower soon spread
all over France, and from the fact that
it came from the Holy Land was con-
sidered sacred and in great demand
for bridal wreaths and altar deeora-
tons. When the daughter of Count
Thibaut married Edmund. Duke of
Lancaster, and went with him to Eng
land, she took with her many plants of
this beautiful red rose, and later on in
the famous war between she houses of
Lancaster and York the rose was
adopted by the head Of the former
house as its heraldie badge and armo-
rial bearings. His descendants retain
ell Dcll tHSS1 eIIDieiftS anu tHe
rose became identified with the royal
house of Lancaster, to which the pres
ent reigning family of England be-
longs. The ruins of the Castle of Pro-
vince still exist. and its gardens still
filled with crimson roses, the children
of that single plant brought back to
sunny France by tie Troubadour Count
de Champagne.
Gambling has been one of the great
est OF the many serious problems which
have confronted poor Emperor Nicho-
las in bis unsuccessful a'teEnpts to gov
ern his people. The Russian is a mix
ture of Slav and Tartar. the result be-
ing a creature prone to sensetess eN-
travagance. particularly in the matter
of vices The Russian cannot play
cards as the American does. or even
the European. but he carries IL to- such
foolish excess that in order to pa his
So-cailed debts of honor he commits
some crime, ike embezzler!lent. Mi
classes of society gamble fearfully in
Russia. but this vice Is at its worst in
tine ranks of officialdom and the great
world. The Gar has been conscious of
its pernicious influence for &c long time.
and has now taken active steps to stamp
ii out by issuing an edict. not on1y for
the suppression of gambling, but for the
closing of all social clubs where games
of cards are played for money. As all
the principal clubs of st. Petersburg
exist principally by their card tables,
ruin now stares them in the face, and
the subject of the edict is excitedly dis
Gust on street corner. i'll cafe and i'll
the halls of the rich and great every
one declaring with one voice that the
Car is certainly crazy.
The South will doubtless be greatly
benefited by the Jamestown Exposition
in having the attention of the country
directed to its agricultural resources
and to its wonderful development dur
ing the past five years. While this has
been known in way. of course. it has
not been appreciated to the extent it
will be when people are brought face
to face with facts and results. 1t is ,
thought that the South will. within the
next five years. be the same industrial
power 1t was in ante-beifim days. The
planters, laborers, manufacturers and
business men are all making more
money than they have made in the past
40 years. The South can never regain
the political importance Of its position
before the war, but it will very soon
hold its own as far as sharing the
wealth of the country is concerned.
Probably the best collection of pho
tographs of animals in America is
owned by Ernest Harold Baynes, the
naturalist and writer. who lives in
Meriden, N. H. My Baynes takes these~
himself, and much of his time is spent
In this way at his shack in the woods,