The National tribune., 1909-07-22
PEOPLE.

IuouuCeu tnat the people Vi tie Cntce
States will look upon it with horror;
will work until no reputable students
lgo there, and before the fight is don'
the University of Chicago will hay'
lceased to exist
No, the man who talks in this semi
icivilized way is not an Anarchist. H,
lis Rev. Johnston Myers, pastor Of ths
Emanuel Baptist Church of Chicago
and he is just mad because after beins
Trustee of this same University of Chi
lcago for a great many years, and hav'
ling made an incendiary speech abou
lit, he is threatened with loss of hi
ITrusteeship.
And he is a "Christian" Is 1t much
wonder after TRADE like that thai
lone almost applauds old Shylock's. q
hate him, for he is a Christian Z" why
lshould reputable" students care to at
tend school which has for one OF It's
Trustees a man of the stamp OF the
Rev Dr. Myers? Severance of his con
nection with the Board of Trustee!
would probably work a boom for at
tendance of students,
Mrs. r. G. Dunn, wife of the former
head of the great mercantile agency
recently returned from trip abroad
| and got very top-loftical about the
traps she brought back. She declined
to declare" anything. She gave hel
maid a $1,000 note, and told her tc
look after the baggage and pay the
duty on the dutiable articles in her
trunks. Mrs. Dunn ignored the declara.
Ition blanks handed her, and, ordering
the maid to do as she had told her
went Immediately to her home. Then
the maid found she could do nothing,
as the trunks were detained by the Gus
toms Inspector pending declaration
by Mrs. Dunn herself Mrs. Dunn did
not appear, and her TRUNKS were In
pected Mrs. Dunn was notified that
an examination by appraisers showed
that she owned the goods, chiefly wear
ing apparel, valued at $4,000. She was
also informed that she would have to
| pay a fine of so per cent of the foreign
| goods, or 81 900. She paid the fine and
the duty. $4,000 in all. And then for
some other infringement she had to
pay another $1,000, and altogether her
haughtiness toward Uncle sam cost her
$4,000, when, if she had declared the
dutiable goods it would have cost her
| less than a third of that. While Mrs.
Dunn has not SO much money she prob
ably has more sense to-day.
Miss Mary Morgan is dead. She was
| the daughter of the late Senator Nor
gan, of Alabama, and was one of the
keenest and quietest politicians in the
country. She was her fathers private
secretary, and was a match for him in
politics any time She, as well as her
| father, was identified with the older
Senatorial set in Washington, and as
she had spent most of her life here she
belonged to what is known as the cliff
Dwellers'' circle, and, with all the pride
of Southern woman, rather looked
down on the newer set of "noveatI
richie" people who crept into official
circles and hung to the ragged edge of
! the seclusive and exclusive Cliff DWELL
ers. AItho her fathers side partner
in all his political affairs. Miss Morgan
was not known in political circles at
all, was not a blatant taiker; indeed.
she was very quiet and most reserved.
She was good woman, and was. good
| to her kind. She was buried in Selma.
OF course Enoch Arden would be bet
tered some day; everybody knew that,
and the blow has fallen. This time 1t is
| a preacher who forgot, himself for
years and years. His name is John
Taggart (Rev.), and he married nice
girl In Bloomsbury, Pa, in 1887. A son
was born of this union year later, and
a few weeks after the boy came the
father disappeared, and never was
heard of more; at least, nothing except
circumstantiai evidence that he was
4 W
ow mourned him until 1892, when she
married again, and has two more chill
dren. Her husband, Van Horn, COM
mitted some criminal act, for which he
! is now in prison. One day last week
the reverend first husband walked in on
his wife, and told her he had come to
| take her away to peace and comfort.
He said he did not know why he went
away, but when he found himself, after
some years of wandering, she was mar
ried again, so he let her alone; but
when he learned she was in trouble he
thought it time to return. As Mrs. Tag
gart-Van Horn is really Mrs. Taggart,
she concluded to go away with her first
husband, and take all her children, and
Van Horn consented, SO all is comfort
able and pleasant like.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, who went
abroad for social conquest, is returning
in very poor health. She tried the baths
and other health cures, but none of
them benefited her, and she insisted on
she is sure she will soon recover her
health. Mrs. Fish is American to the
backbone.
A story they are telling on Mrs. Fred
terick w. Vanderbilt, which probably is
NOt true, has 10 90 Win WISH tnat Sne
and Mrs. George Keppel were making
at house where King Edward was
also being entertained. Mrs. Wander
bilt wore some enormous diamonds, and
among others an ornament which was
very beautiful and largely Of big dia-
monds. She and Mrs. Keppel were
standing together near the King, when
Mrs. Keppel spoke of the diamond or
nament and said II was very beautiful.
Then comes the fairy story. Mrs. VAN
derbilt Is said to have replied: Il am SO
glad you like 1t. Won't you please ac-
cept 1t as a token of my appreciation OF
your good taste?" A reply so utterly
banai as to cause one to wonder who
perpetrated the story. But that is not
all Mrs. Feppel, after objecting, ac-
cepted the jewel, and later wore II.
where 1t was again commented upon,
and she stated that 1t had been given
her by an American woman. II was
dining at an American house, and one
or the American guests was wearing
this / told her how nice II was, ana
she forced me to take it, I suppose
shed heard stories of Spanish hospital
ity where the host gives you anything
you happen to admire, and tho it was
not her house. but only the house ofsone
or her countrywomen, she must have
thought that Americanesse obliee,'"
Now. Mrs Keppel is said to be one of
the most brilliant women in the world,
and that she holds the King close TO
her by her wit. humor and originality.
If she really did get off the "original'':
utterance about the jewel she Is stupid
er than stupid. and is coarse and boor-