The National tribune., 1907-10-31

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/ lar reception. One after another o
these fair political offenders dropped il
until the little cell was crowded to over
flowing, while Mrs. Walling and he
sister told of conditions in America ant
; talked of liberty and social progress
When the sisters left the prison upOr
their release they were given a perfec
ovation. This throws a comical ligh
on the laxness of discipline in that Rus
sian prison at least. Mr. Walling hat
no trouble in getting a letter to Tho
American Embassy, which acteC
promptly, and nothing suspicious being
/, found among the effects of the three
Americans. they were released on the
evening of the day following their ar
rest. 1t was, on the whole. decidedly
Entertaining experience, but the Wall
ings left st. Petersburg at once, and
will probably be a little more careful
in the future about associating too pub
licly with people liable to get them into
trouble.
) Another fashionable woman has
grown tired of the emptiness of society
and taken up settlement work to give
her greater interest in life Ruth
Hanna, daughter of the late Mark Ham
ma. now the wife of Medill Mccormick,
the Chicago publisher, has left her lux
uriouS home and settled temporarily in
the stock yards district of the Chicago
university Settlement. Mrs. Mccormick
inherited several million dollars from
her father, and her principal aim is to
use her money in bettering the cOndi-
ltion of little children whose lives arc
rendered hard and unlovely by power
ty. When in the settlement her quar-
tiers will be very simple as she took
with her from her beautiful home only
h In
iher comfortable. and while she is there
her husband. who has given her his
hearty support. will live with her. Mrs.
Mccormick will find plenty of work to
do in her new undertaking, and will
undoubtedly be 4 happier woman for
doing it
Consuelo. Duchess of Marlboro, is
really in this country. She has been
looming and not coming for SO many
months that quite Il nervous strain is
lifted by having her actually here. She
came over with her father. William X.
Vanderbilt. and one of her mothers
that is her fathers second wife, her
lstcpmother She looked extremely well
when she arrived. attired in n hand
some suit of blue broadcloth, sable
coat and q becoming hat, and expressed
herself as feeling very happy to be 1t
home again. She says she cannot re-
:
| if that interesting event does not come
! off before December, as she does not
wish to be away from her boys SO long.
New York society will probably outdo
itself III entertaining the Duchess, who
has not visited her native city since her
marriage, and who will probably get a
great deal more real, pleasure out or
these functions than she ever did out
of the most elaborate English ceremo-
mails. ~ f=7fn'
Marconi. one of the wonders of the
age, is only 33 years old now. He is
the son of an Italian gentleman farmer,
and his mother is very bright Irish
lady. He says he got his first idea of
wireless telegraphy from trick he saw
a travelling conjurer, also a sort of cleo
trician. perform at village fair. Mar
conf was IA years old when he sent his
first wireless message from one empty
tin biscuit box set up on clothes-prop
to another. His father. recognizing that
there was something IN his sons expert
ments, gave him the money to continue
them, with fhe result that seven years
after his first crude result a regular cx-
perimental wireless service was eStab-
lished between the village of Griffone
and a house in the suburbs of Bologna,
a distance of three miles. 1t was not,
however, until two years later, when
Marconi sent messages across the Bris-
itol Channel, that the world really rec
ognized, the fact that a great scientific
revolution had been accomplished. The
Italian became the lion of the hour, but
he refused to be lionized<and kept hard
at work. Two years later he sent mes
sages across the English Channel, and
finally saerosssthe Atlantic Edison says
that Marconi will send 1000 words of
wireless biography a minute across the
Atlantic in a few years. Truly nothing
seems impossible in this wonderful age
in which we live.
All eyes are now drawn to the old
Schonbrunn, in the suburbs of Vienna,
where the aged Emperor Franz Josef
/ is making such a brave fight for his life.
Tho terribly weakened by the fits of
coughing and fever which have hardly
left him since his illness appeared. he
pluckily keeps at work, going from arm
Ichair to desk continually. Everything
| is being done to supply the Emperor
with fresh air without exposing him to
drafts, and a miniature garden OF small
pine trees has been set up in the inn
perial bedroom, the odor OF the pines
supposed to be beneficial In his case
The Emperor's sad life is known to
everyone. and it is well known also
that he is very greatly beloved by his
people, whom he loves tenderly in re-
turn. No one has ever understood the
NlenneSe as FRANZ Joseph, and IL Is
| told of him, in illustration of this, that
when years ago strike occurred in one
tcf the suburbs of Vienna and n hot
headed Minister of War asked authority
| to quarter some Croatian infantry and
equally unsympathctic Polish lancers
upon the suburb the Emperor replied.
Man, you must be crazy; / know my
! Viennese. and that is not the way to
! deal with them" refusing the Minis
ter's request. That very afternoon the
Emperor sent out TO the affected quar-
! ter, which had been reported on the
verge of open insurrection, the band
of the regiment in which the sons of
the Danube city perform their military
service. The band went out unarmed
and without an escort, and the revolt
was turned into a ball. Roaring fires
were kept up in the streets, and the
men and women, whom the Minister
wished to frighten into submission by
the sight of armed soldiers, whom they
hated. danced thru the night and on
into the day, when, wearied by pleas
ure, they took a wiser view OF the sit
uation. The lonely old Emperor. who
has tried to find in hard work solacc
for his troubles. has become almost an
automaton, so regular are his habits
They say that The shopkeepers set their
watches by his coming into the city
every morning from the Schonbrunn to
the Hof Burg. where he received reports
, and granted audiences. A habit which
. he has had for years. when living at
j.. the suburban Dalace of the Schonhrunp