The National tribune., 1907-08-29
PEOPLE.

The term "race suicide" would never
have seen the light, would probably
never have been thought of in connec-
ton with our American families were
there more in the country like the Rev.
Abraham G.. RuebuSh, of Port Lavaca,
Tex. DR.. Ruebush is a one-legged Con-
federate veteran, the spiritual director
of a Methodist Church in that place,
and lastly, but by no means leastly, the
father of 2S children. Twelve boys and
16 girls look to him for shoes and hats.
to say nothing of bread and meat.
Think of the time he has getting the
boys up of a morning. and of the COM
bined efforts of himself and wife in
starting the whole bunch of girls and
boys off to Sunday School One is re-
lieved to know that he has been twice
married, the first wife presenting him
with 13 tokens of her wifely devotion,
and the present wife with six boys and
| nine girls. her last baby having just ar
rived. The Rev. Ruebush is now 65
years of age, and is still active, strong
and vigorous.
The railroad trains and ferryboats
| pour into our cities every morning
great army of men and women engaged
| in business. All places near large cities
are filed with people who morning and
night make more or less long trips on
the cars, in order that they may be able
to do business in the city, yet not reside
| there. But up to the present time Mr..
John H Watkins, of Memphis, Tenn,
enjoys the distinction of traversing the
| longest road to business. Mr.. Watkins,
who is President of the National Bank
| of Commerce of Memphis, lives at
Mount Kisco, N. Y, in Summer at least,
and it takes him just six days to get
| from that place to his bank. He makes
| the trip in a 60-horsepower auto, which
contains writing desk, typewriter, Ii
brary of about 100 volumes, and other
| facilities for doing work He takes a
stenographer along with him, attending
| to most of his correspondence and a
| lot of other business while making the
run.
oxford and Cambridge, those famous
old English universities, seem to be los
| ing something of their popularity with
the Indian Princes as alma matters for
| their sons. For many years the
wealthy families of the high-class Hin
dus and Indian potentates sent their
| sons nowhere else, and many of the
rulers of the Hindu principalities are
| graduates of these universities. But
| they have awakened to the fact over
there that England is not the greatest
country in the world, and are now
sending their boys to Germany. Japan
and America to be educated. The latest
student booked for an American col
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rules over a Bengali Province. and who
has heard such favorable accounts of
| Cornell that he has determined his son
| shall be educated there. The Prince is
4 great athlete, and will try for place
on the Cornell team.
Ouida, the once popular novelist,
whose destitute condition made it nee
essary for her friends to apply to the
English Government for assistance,
made between s250,000 and $500, 900
from her writings. In one of her books.
Friendship" supposed to be her own
love story, she portrays the character
of her faithless lover and of her rival
In so unmistakable and unfiattering
| manner that they we've obliged to with
draw for awhile from the Tuscan Capt.
tai. This book alone brought her S14,-
| coo. This romance was supposed to be
the one love OF Ouida'S life. The novel;
| ist, who was never handsome. was at
this time no longer very young. The
man was a Florenrine Marquis, young,
charming and cultivated, but it was the
same old story; after wooing and Win
ming Ouida he fell in love with the
young and beautiful wife of another,
! hence 0uida'S book. Stories accounting
for the novelist's impoverished condi
| ton are told which show her to be a
person of great eccentricities of char
acter, and at the same time possessed
of unusual kindness of heart and gen.
erosity. She gave much money to the
poor; her pocketbook was always open,
and it is said she never heard of any
case of poverty or suffering which she
didn't try to relieve. She seemed to
have no idea whatever of the value of
money, and handled it as child would,
spending and giving it in this way and
that with the greatest freedom as long
as it lasted. She was devoted to ami
mails, particularly dogs and horses hay-
ing as many as 40 horses in her stable
in her prosperous days, and the pos
SCISSOR of 80 dogs. The three that are
left of this number are now her insep-
arabic companions, and are practically
the only company she cares for. One
of the stories told of Ouida. illustrating
this fondness of hers for dogs, is that
she ordered a meal of milk bred and