The National tribune., 1909-08-19

whom she had tried to reform had been
convicted of forgery. Last year, IN Inc
hope of making her charitable work
broader, she asked permission OF the
Postmaster-Ge General to hare all letters
addressed to Santa Claus sent TO her,
but the request was refused.
1t looks as If the deposed Castro, of
Venezuela, is walking on his uppers,
to use an expression of the streets. He
is Just about dead broke. A few years
ago he was worth s5,0O0,000, but this
has disappeared like punctured soap
bubble Castro owned $1,000,000 in a
lcigaret company, which was given him
as his share in the promotion of the
ICigaret Trust there. A few weeks ago
the directors sold the company for
$250,000, or for just about five per
cent of its capitalized value. new
| company was organized, which left
Castro out. so his stock of S1,0tO,0oO
was reduced to $4,000. His other
money has dwindled by extravagances
and in wild investments and in other
ways.
Col. Albert A. Pope, who has been
called the father of the American picy-
Gle, is dead. His inventive genius re-
suited in the evolution of the old high
wheel which was the first practicable
|
that that manner of locomotion was not
| for the ordinary man without acrobatlc
qualities and he became one OF the first
| to produce the So-called safety" bicy-
| Gle. 1t was in the safety" that he de-
veloped tremendous business and be-
| came a millionaire not very many years
| ago. Mr.. Pope was captain of indus
| try, in that he stood for the malnte-
nance of high prices. He organized his
| business on a high basis, and sold his
safety bicycle at first for $3.50; but he
| was unable to hold the market at that
price, and later the prices began to
| tumble, and now the same style of
high-grade bicycle can be procured at
about S35. g..
He was buried at Boston Friday, and
| his funeral services consisted of short
prayer, the playing of the Lost Chord"
and the sounding of taps" Delega-
tions from the Loyal Legion, Grand
Army of the Republic and many social
and political organizations with which
Col. Pope was identified were present.
The Hon. Thomas E. Watson, one
| time candidate for President on the
Populist ticket, takes issue with Secre-
| tary Dickinson on the subject of the
result of the civil war. He differs very
radically Mr.. Dickinson said at Get
| tysburg on Memorial Day that the pres
ervation of the Union was blessing to
both sides. The Hon. Thomas regrets
| that the Confederacy lost. He predicts
| that four Republics will be made with
| in the present boundaries of the United
States. He merely says some day."
| 1t will be, according to his notion, the
Northern, Southern, Eastern and West
ern Republics. Mr.. Watson is like the
Irishman who was never happy unless
| he was miserable.
| Five students of the University of
California, who left San Francisco on
June 20 to beat the trip of Jules Verne's
Phideas Fogg around the world, arrived
| in New York last Friday, and will have
been gone about so days. 1t will be
remembered that Verne's hero made
the imaginary trip in so days, and when
| his story was written it was regarded
as most improbable of achievement.
The students landed in Yokohama on
schedule, but later missed a few con-
Injections. They were whirled by way
of Y.adivostok to Moscow, then to Ber-
lin, where they did not tarry to inter-
view the Emperor; to the Hook of Hol-
land, where they took the swift turbine
| Munich of the Great Eastern Railway
of England to Harwich. An express
| Travelled to Liverpool, boarding the
Lusitania. They will complete the trip,
according to Mr.. Baker, agent Of the
Great Eastern, in about so days. That
time has been beaten.
The Shah of Persia, Admed Mirsa. is
II years old He is now having his
household arranged, and will soon be
married. Ever since his accession to
the throne the Shah has been thoroly
miserable. He declares that he is the
| unhappiest boy in Persia, weeps contin-
ually, and says his one desire is to ac-
company his father into exile. To quiet
the child his mother has been allowed
| to visit him at the palace of Sultanata-
bad. She. on her side, cannot reconcile
herself to the loss of her son, and de-
| clares that the Nationalists Will emo
by killing him. 1t is rumored that the
ex-Shah, Mohammed Ali, has been plot
| ting to regain the child, and, thru a
woman servant, the boy was told, at his
! fathers instgation, of the execution of
| the reactionary leaders. Then he was
| warned to escape to the Russian Lega-
tion, as his life was in danger, and to
abdicate and leave the country with his
father. A plan was concocted to effect
| this escape while his youthful Majesty
was riding in the country. Last Mon
| day, therefore, the little Shah ordered
his horses out, and once past the pre-
| cincts of the palace proposed race
with a eunich of his fathers household.
| Both spurred their horses and galloped
away. The other attendants thought at
first it was merely boys game, but
/ when II was seen that the horses were
galloping in the direction of Zerguen-
deh they suspected n trick, and pursued
the Shah in hot haste. A courtier over
took the royal runaway, caught the
bride reins, and drew his revolver. IF
lyour Majesty does not come down from
your horse 1 will shoot myself on the
spot" he said. When the Shah saw
that his plan had failed he returned to
/ Sultanatabad.
Gov Hughes, of New York, has added
| another accomplishment to the many he
already possesses. He Is a mountain
climber of no mean ability, having
scaled the famous Sulphur Mountain,
which is 1000 feet high, in one hour
and SO minutes. After starting the
Governor didn't stop until the summit
was reached. The Alpin climbers will
have to look to their laurels.
Llwellyn Williams veteran of the
tcivil war, at Massillon. o., where he
has been janitor of the school, has
been notified that ne and his brother
are heirs to an estate in Wales valued
lat S50,000,000. His brother, who h7s
spent $4,000 in tracing the claim,
Twill now enter court to obtain possess
sion of the estate for himself and
brother.
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