The National tribune., 1907-01-03

chord in every masculine breast. John
L. a good, quiet man, who in the lottery
of marriage drew q regular Zantippe.
His wife had way of jumping on him.
pulling out his hair and whiskerS. He
says she has pulled out large quantities
of his hair and whiskers. inflicting great
pain and depriving him of much needed
hair. Judge Philips has granted him
an Injunction restraining her from fu-
ture assaults of this kind.
The French court has decided that
Mme. Anna Gould must share with
Count Boni in the payment of two of
the creditors suits. These are both
Jewelry bills, one of $4,000 for neck
laces. rings. etc, which the former
Countess still has in her possession, and
the other. the $4,000 claim of thel
actress. Mile; Nimidoff. representing
diamonds sold the Count for the Coun-
tess, who, he said. had commissioned
him to buy them.
The London Globe has been making
fun lately of the John D. Rockefellers,
Sr. and Jr., for their utterances on the
great American need of thrift. The
Globe says this Is very funny coming
from the Rockefellers, who are conf
penseting for past avidity by pulpit
lectures" and that young John espe-
cially has shown a colossal lack OF hu-
NOR in his remarks. If you have tears,
prepare to shed them now. Altho MI
Rockefeller owns one-fortieth Of the
National wealth, and has an income of
$40, 100000 a year, he feels poor just
like the rest OF us. One of his little pet
weaknesses is oysters. He dearly loves
them, as does also his wife, and yet the
luscious and easily digeSted biyalve ap.
pears but seldom on their table, as they
cannot afford to indulge themselves
often. They feel too poor. What heart,
L. -,
heartrending tale of self-denial? 1t Is
rumored that Mr.. Rockefeller has Of
fered the English preacher. DT. Aked,
$4,000 a year and residence IL he
will leave his church in Liverpool and
take spiritual charge of the New York
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. Tho no
official announcement has yet been
mads in Liverpool or New York, DR..
Aked Is said to have accepted the offer.
The coming investigation by the In
terstate Commerce Commission OF the
Hartman Railroad system, which 1t Is
thought may lead to q dissolution of
the merger, Is said to be the direct
result of e. n. Harriman's attitude
towards the President during the recent
Congressional campaign. Mr.. Hartman
not only supported Hearst, and declined
to contribute to the Republican Con-
gressional campaign fund, but in a con-
versation with member of the COM
mittee freed his mind with regard to|
Mr.. Roosevelt, criticizing him in a very
uncomplimentary manner. He called
the President a "frebrand," and said
he was responsible for much trouble in
the business world. This conversation
was repeated to Mr.. Roosevelt, who was
very angry, saying he would attend to
Mr.. Hartman. Shortly after the Inter-
state Commerce Commission ordered
the investigation.
fx1 Il k~yN "a
Of the fatalist, that we will die when
our time comes and not before, is most
convincing. Hamlet. in speaking of
death, said to Horatio: eff it be now,
it's not to come; if it be not to come, it
will be now; If it be not now. yet it will
come; the readiness is all.'' OF all
miraculous escapes from the clutches
Of the Grim Messenger that of Hicks,
the miner, is certainly one of the most
remarkable. His time had evidently
not come. For Is days he managed to
sustain life entombed in a caved-in
tunnel, in SC cramped a position that
he could not stretch his legs, his dead
companions lying around him and the
rats running over him. For. two days
pened to have with him at the time OF
the accident. On the third day, by
tapping on the iron rail of the little
tramway that ran thru the drift, he
conveyed the intelligence to those above
that he was still alive, and 70-foot
pipe was forced thru the debris at that
point. which saved his life. Gallons Of
milk We're poured down the pipe every
day, as was also a good supply of to-
bacco, and thru it Hicks conyersed with
his rescuers. His courage and cheerful
ness during his entombment were Won
derful. The dangers of his position
never ceased for a moment, and the
t,oI h f,J Jlxyl
managed. After Is days he was finally
released, with his own hands pushing
away the last barrier of earth and rocks
and crawled, with a little assistance,
once more upon terra firma. He was
made much of by everybody, of course,
and offered position on the spot by a
theatrical manager. which he declined.
He has signed a contract to lecture in
stead, and will make a tour Of the
country, telling of his thrilling expert
ence in a living grave.
There is a very remarkable little child
in France, little girl, Yvonne Bor-
deron, just seven years old, who pos
sesses the unique faculty of being able
to tell the pitch of any sound. This
evidence of a most unusual musical ear
in the child was first discovered when
cat, jumping on the piano and
touching a key, the little Yvonne
called out, "She has struck F sharp"
She seems TO keep IN MIND constantly
the A of her mothers piano, and to use
that as a base, reckoning from it upl
and down the scale. She can, without
the least hesitation, give the note ofI
any sound, whether that of an auto
mobile horn, a cyclists gong, drink |
ing glass struck, an electric buzzer, To-
connective whistle, church bell-in short. |
any sound whatever. The only thing
that troubles her at all is note struck |
~, y,;a irI, ic N,vf nf t,,n Iiat
confuses her for a moment, but she
soon gets her bearings and names the
note correctly. The little girl, who
comes of musical parents, plays very
we'll indeed upon the piano and violin,
but is not in these respects a musical
prodigy.
1t turns out that the name of the
new Senator from Arkansas was not
originally jeff Davis, but Jeffries Davis. |
He shortened it to Jeff in order to
curry favor with Prices and Marina
dukes guerrillas who form SO large a |