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Some EGrLY BLOOmers

A S a matter of fact, I've got two buttons on the
"a map. One is in North Carolina, and the other
represents a newspaper in eastern Utah. We're not
quite sure about Utah. 1t seems the man hasn't
sent his 50 for quite a spell now, and maybe the
paper isn't being published any more. That's one
of the things I'm supposed to find out.
1t was my notion that I wouldn't have to go to
North Carolina. because the paper there publishes
the column. But it appears that this is not the way
business is done. 1 am to drop in and say Hello"
and not talk too much about the Newspaper Guild.
It sounds dangerous to me, because if we get into
a fight it means the disappearance of my last
marker. In that case I'd ask for a change in color.
I'd much rather be a powder blue thumb tack. 1
could work better that way.
Mostly. of course, I am inning at the open ter
ritory." I'm no William Tell, but I could hit that
ninety nine times out of ninety-nine with a bow
and arrow. But I'm glad I saw the map. It's really
awe inspiring to look at the sketches of this coun-
try where nobody reads Broun. They are so vast.
It's like gazing at the Milky Way and the farthest
stars. There are no thumb tackS up there, either.
And yet the cosmos continues. I suppose in time
1 will have to get around to admitting that a col
umniSt is a pretty puny thing.
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NEW L
ce-P1gSidency Goal of Louis LudlO70
BY STONE
Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, May 7-Once in a burst of seh-revelation, Louis
w Ludlow, Indianas Twelfth district congressman, told a friend
that if he could be elected Vice-PreSdent of the United States his cup
of happiness would be filled to overlooking.
1t is not a rare ambition in a Hoosier politician. Many Hoosiers
have aumed to that post, and a few have achieved it. This reporter
has vet to meet Or hear of an Indiana senator n governor who has
not # one time or another, or at all times, heard the v1ce-preSldentlal
bee buzzing in his bonnet. Each seems to think that the hand OF tate
directs him toward the high seat once occupied by Warren Fairbanks
ad Thomas Marshall and other successful 1ndianianS whose names
they read in history books.
To get within striking distance of the vce-presdency, Mr.. Ludlow
decided that he should lift himself out of the obscurty OF the lower
house and into the imelght of the upper house OF congress And So
after hitching his wagon to a star, Louis started pointing" for the
senate.
held through the gift of the Ku-Klux Klan, by Arthur R. Robinson.
Two wears ago. MI. Ludlow was just as earnestly in pursuit OF the
seat then held by Senator James E. Watson and now filled by Senator
Frederick Van Nuys. Then, just as now seems to be the case, Louis
voice was the one CRYING the loudest for Louis nomination. But Mr..
Tudlows name was not even placed before the 1882 state nominating
oonuontion and indications are that history may repeat itself.
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Whisky Making Disgusting

DOSSIBLY this is reaching a long way out into
Z space for a topic, because sleep seems to be an
infant industry hereabouts and John Fitzgerald, q
distinguished horse reporter, noticed up the situa-
ton when he said, some years ago, Il don't sleep
long, but sleep awful fast"
I visited a distillery which is turning out $1,000
gallons of whisky a day and marveled again at the
dumbness Of the prohibition people who tried to con-
vert the citizens by Turing them to church when the
thing to have done to disgust them forever with
whisky was to take them touring through the fumes
and b%ubbling corruption of a plant where the stuff
is made.
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Representative LudloW's trou-
BILE two years ago was that he had
his eyes so focused on the election
that he missed the nomination.
Bv voting for the Smoot-Hawley
tariff. when it was passed by the
house. he may have ingratlated
himself with Republican voters.
But he thereby eliminated him
self as a possible opponent to jim
Watson, for he failed to get back
in the good graces of the Demo-
Gratis by voting against the tariff
bill in it's final form.
Louis seems to have made again
the same mistake of catering too
strongly to general election votes,
and thereby antagonizing those
who will be delegates TO the DEM
ocratic nominating convention.
For it is true that Louis has made
an u~nmistakable play to the same
elements from which spring the
So-called Robinson strength.
Like Mr.. Robinson, Representa-
tive Ludlow voted against beer
and against prohibition repeal,
despite the pledges of the 1882
Democratic state and national
platforms. Mr.. Ludlow'S record
should make him as much a fair
haired boy of the dryS as is Sena-
tor Robinson. But what good can
that do Louis if he fails of the
nomination?
Unlike Senator Robinson,
- Mr.. Ludlow voted for the
President RooSevelt'S economy
law. Economy, in the abstract,
is a religion with Louis. But the
pension-seeking among the wal
veterans hardly could hold the
economy law vote against Mr..
Ludlow. For since then, he has.
like Senator Robinson. voted for
a number of emasculatory amend
ments to that law. And, like
Senator Robinson, Mr.. Ludlow
voted for the bonus bill. Louis
has learned that. in politics, it is
easier to preach economy than
practice it.
1t was on the last veterans
vote when he matched Senator
Robinson's record by voting to
override the Presidents veto of
the independent offices appro-
priationS bill. that Louis appar-
emily cut himself off from the
possibility of senatorial nominal
ton.
Indiana Democracy. rent asun-
der by factional controversies re-
volving around the state admins
tration. must make its campaign
this year on a support RooSe-
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nored the ardent proteStationS, the
flowery flights, even though she
may still have loved him. Posi-
bly, she did-possibly she didn't.
Who can say? It is a question
every reader must decide for him.
self. There is certainly nothing
on the surface of these records to
show that Dickens had much rea-
son for encouragement.
Henry Fielding said that the love
of young girls is very capricious,
uncertain and hard to under
stand.
Dickens at least proved the truth
of this observation. 1t will be
seen that he was very reluctant
to give up hope-much more so
than most young men of his proud,
sensitive nature would have been.
1t will perhaps be agreed by all
that if Maria Beadnell had any
real affection for him she used a
negative method of expressing it.
But after all, the question of
whether she loved him or not is Of
minor consequence, compared to
the important fact that he
lavished his entire devotion upon
her, and Notwithstanding her
GOODNESS and repeated affronts he
cherished her image, unbroken
and unforgotten through all the
viciSsitudeS and triumphs of
more than two decades.
VOUNG DICKENS seems to
4 have done everything hui
manly possible to regain Maria'S
love; he even wrote some sort of
reply to her last cruel note. What
it was, none will ever know, for
either Kolle did not deliver it or
else she destroyed it; or possibly,
as seems to have been her habit,
she returned it to him.
With wounded pride and aching
heart he turned his back on all
the BeadnellS, with the exception
of Anne, who on the next day was
to become Mrs. Henry Kolle. MAY
81, 1889
The wedding over, the Bead
nells saw no more of young Dick
ems. He bent his efforts harder
than ever to forget the girl who,
he firmly believed, had broken his
heart and ruined his hopes.
Shut out from social pleasures
for a time, and certainly no longer
required to compose long love
letters, he turned his thoughts
with fierce intensity to the idea
of getting back at the Beadnell
group by making an enviable po-
Sition for himself. Selecting one
of the short sketches he polished
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Bottle Hearers There

IF walls could speak and could be induced to tattle
l. they colud sell their "reminiscences for something
very appreciate. The barrage continued. 1t Is
strange about that. The Louisville hotels have bars
now and walters go tearing through the halls with
trays of juleps, cocktails, and tall gin drinks OF the
hot weather type.
Yet the citizens, possibly from force of habit, had
brought bottles of their own. Or, maybe they had
lust brought emptieS of their own strictly for throw
ing purposes. The throwing bottle concession in a
Louisville hotel ought to be worth something, too,
a few years from now, when the citizens get out or
the habit of toting their own. There is something
resoundingly fine about the crash of a bottle on a
concrete pavement several stories down, accom-
panied by a yell of "whooppee" or "ylppee." IL
makes a man of a man for an hour once a year.
There are advantages and disadvantages in rooms
in the Louisville hotels at Derby time when large
numbers of citizens tear loose from their problems
at home and come boiling into a neutral city TO drink
dull care under the table.
On the court the merriment goes along to the
crash of glass until maybe 2 or 8 IN the morning
with an occasional challenge to an informal hight
downstairs in the lobby. 1 do not think these fghts
are very good because I never have heard of any
demand for return matches.
Time Out at 3
DUT, on the court side the hardest of them gen
ID orally have hollored themselves out OF voice and
run out of throwing material or dropped unconscious
or wandered out to the lawlesS Indiana bad lanos
across the Ohio river to gamble their money away
by 3 a. m. After 3 a. m. it is pretty fair sleeping
on the airShaft side.
On the street side, the sleeping generally is not
very bad during the evening and the early hours
of the morning. The street cars clatter Familiarity
and there may be an occasional yowl from a pack
of party people Keeling out of the dairy lunch under
the influence of fried egg sandwiches up to l a. M.
But the street side is fair sleeping territory until
along toward $50 when the newsboys begin their
hollering and the widowed buns with the long shot
specials go into action on the corners.
The widowed buns with the long shot specials
do not seem to play their own specials in the pari-
mutuels. otherwise why would they always be mil
dewed buns year after year? Or maybe they do
and that is why.
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KIDNAPPED, BOY REPORTS
13-Year-Old Says He Was Slugged
and Robbed of Clothes.

Howard Peterson, Is, OF 1874
Broadway, was slugged, kidnapped
and robbed Of his clothing last
night, he reported to police. He
said he was walking on Park ave-
near near st. Clair street when a
young man pulled him into an
automobile and beat him into un-
consciousness. Police took the boy
home in a borrowed bathrobe.
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This was a lady's voice from
over yonder where a feminine
figure was revealed against the
light. The lady was strapped
into her armor and was enamel
ing her features before her mir
ror. She seemed an average sort
of lady.
Il wish you wouldn't ask me
that" said a gents voice from
another window. From here 1
think I am looking at a very
beautiful girl. but 1 am easily
fooled. Could you be interested
in a little something in the way
of a stimulating beverage before
dinner?"
AT this point the lady's win
dow shade came down. The in
cidopt iS only q fra CmPOt for
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other voices were sounding across the airshaft,
the rather tiny voices of ladies being informal and
the raw voices of gents in the social mood OF the
Kentucky Derby. Before dark, the crash of bottles
began to be heard in the airshaft and the tinkle OF
glass s%plinters against the brick walls. This is the
court into which some of Al Capone's young men
from Cicero, Ill, hove a radio cabinet on Derby
night a few years ago because it wouldn't play
Mother Machree' on demand.
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WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE

Charles Dickens met Maria Beadneli'
beautiful daughter Of a banker. A years
ardent courtship ensued. Mr.. and Mrs.
Beadnell, feeling that Dickens pros
poets were too poor for him to be consid-
cred as a prospective husband for Maria.
sent her TO Paris. Months later she re-
turned. The old love affair famed anew.
But Maria vaccilated. Dickens wrote her
a poignant farewell letter. Maria con-
suited her best friend" Mary Anne
Leigh, as to the best course. Mary Anne,
desiring Dickens for herself. advises the
returning of his letters to break the
friendship. This Maria did, alleging to
Dickens that he had made a confdante
Of Mary ANN and was friendly to her.
This Dickens denied in a glowing iet-
ter. at the same time sending a letter
of barbed sarcasm to Mary Anne. and
enclosing a copy of the letter to Maria
asking her approval of 1t
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A FTER reading all this Maria
Beadnell replied Immediately
so that her letter reached him
Saturday. Before returning the
one he proposed to send to Mari
anne, she copied it carefully and
thus it was fortunately preserved
for ~posterity.
She wrote that Marianne would
probably blame her for the whole
trouble; then after asking to see
Marianne's answer she designed
to give him permission to write to.
her again, if he chose.
There is no record that Miss
Leigh ever answered his letter.
The following "conciliatory note"
is the last one in existence that he
wrote at this period; it tells of his
love as only he could relate it. 1t
shows also how deeply Maria had
wounded him, and that he had
little hope of a favorable reply
Inc EnG OF the quarrel
10 Bentick Street.
Sunday morning.
Dear Miss Beadnell:
I am anxious to take the earliest
opportunity of writing to you
again, knowing that the oppor-
tunity of addressing you through
Kolle-now my only means of
communicating with you - will
shortly be lost Kolle was to
marry Anne BeadnelD and having
your own permission to write to
you, I am most DESTROYS of for
warding a note which had I re-
ceived such permission earlier, I
can assure you you would have
received ere this.
Before proceeding to say a word
upon the subject of my present
note let me beg you to believe that
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HIoemy TO Me
%
Haywood BROUN

A CCORDING to present indications, the sentence
will be from six to eight weeks, with nothing
of for good behavior. I wish I could think Of that
Greek whom they banished from Athens for no
better reason than the fact they we're tired Of hear
ing him called the just My case is something
like that, although not precisely. I have been hang
ing around New York for so long that people are
beginning to say, "Oh. it's just Broun."
The syndicate manager tried to explain to me
that was being exiled for my own good. He says
that il I go away and stay long enough people will
appreciate me more when I come back. But 1 re-
member. with dire forebodings. the story Bide Dud-
lev used to tell of his return to Atchison, Kan after
a wear in metropolitan Denver. In that year he had
made himself quite a name as a newspaper man and
rad acquired a new yellow suitcase. He decided
not m take the back AT the depot
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WILLIAM H. WOODIN
BURIED IN BERWICK, PA.

Brief, Simple Services Held for
Former Treasury Head.
BIZ United Press
BERWICK, Pa, May 7. - The
body of William H. Woodin, first
secretary of the Treasury in Presi-
dent Roosevelt's cabinet, was buried
in Pine Grove cemetery here yester-
day.
Thousands, including many of
Mr.. Woodin's boyhood friends and
~neighbors, were at the cemetery for
the brief, simple services.
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Thieves twisted the lock from an
automobile belonging to N. B. Til
man, go Campbell avenue, last
night and stole a s125 fur coat, be-
longing to Katherine Vogel, 1903
Pleasant Run boulevard.
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Fair Enough
WESTBROOK PEd[ER

I OUISVILLE. KY, May THE social phase of the
Il Kentucky Derby has developed rapidly.
Along toward shutdown of the night before the
horse race, as the citizens began to pile back into
city from the routine heats at Churchill Downs,
repartee and ripping laughter sounded through the
roomy air shaft of the Brown hotel, which is the local
Waldorf.
Well, Mugg," a voice demanded, what are you
J11I-;N- -t0H
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est, degree, and the love I now
tender you is as pure and as last
ing as at any period Of our for
mer correspondence. I have now
done all I can to remove our most
unfortunate and to me most I'M
happy misunderstanding.
The matter now of course rests
solely with you, and you will de-
eide as your own feelings and
wishes direct you. I could say
much for myself and I could en-
treat a favorable consideration on
my own behalf but I purposely abb
stain from doing so because it
would be only a repetition of an
oft told tale and because I am
sure nothing I could say would
have the effect of influencing your
decision in any degree whatever.
Need l say that to me it is a
matter of vital import and the
most intense anxiety? I fear that
the numerous claims which must
necessarily be made on your time
and attention next week will pre-
vent your answering this note
within anything like the time
which my Impotence would name.
Let me entreat you to consider
your determination we'll whatever
it be and let me implore you to
communicate it to me as early as
possible AS I am anxious to con-
vey this note into the city in time
to get it delivered today I will
at once concluded by begging you
to believe me,
Yours sincerely,
CHARLES DICKENS.
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LOVE LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS
Too AmaSing IuterIudes in the Life of a Great Artist

it a bit here and there, with the
hope of getting it printed.
1t bore the title "A Sunday Out
Of Town which he changed to
"A Dinner at Poplar Walk."-Qt
is since known as Mr.. Minis and
His CouSin.") He put the little
manuscript in an envelope, ad-
dressed it to the editor of the
Monthly Magazine and, according
to his own account, one evening at
twilight he dropped it stealthily,
with fear and trembling, Into a
dark letter box, in a dark office,
up a dark court in Fleet street"
and went on with his shorthand
work.
GUNNER and autumn passed
~ and when December came
the sketch appeared in the pages
of the Monthly Magazine. When
he saw it in all the glory of
print" he has told us in his own
words: Il walked down to West
minister Hall and turned into it
for half an hour because my eyes
were so dimmed with Joy and
pride that they could not bear the
street, and were not fit to be seen
there"
The article truly proved to be
the forerunner of a series that
went on month after month; and
the circle of friends" at the
Beadnells who had frowned on
his love-making began to see
themselves laughed at in his writ
ings.
Sometimes they were very little
disguised, as for instance, Mrs.
Joseph Porter of Clapham Rise"
was of course Mrs. John Porter
Leigh, who lived at Lower Clap
ton and was the ~disagreeable
mother of Marianne, the young
busy-body who had helped Mr.
and Mrs. Beadnell to shatter the
gossamer dream of Maria and
Charles.
And very soon people began
talking about this rising genius
who continued to write, and the
public continued to read with in
terest his Sketches by Boz"
He moved from his family's
home in Bentick street to rooms"
in Furnical's Inn, where he set up
a sort Of bachelor quarters. more
of a work shop than a home.
WHAT HAPPENS TOMORROW
Tomorrow's episode marks a turning
poin in the dramatic life of Charles
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TWO DIE IN BUS CRASH
Is Others Are Hurt as Vehicle Hits
Freight at Fremont, o.

By United Press
FREMONT, O., May 1.-THE bod
les of two women killed in a bus
crash at Clyde, O., were returned to-
day to New York and New Jersey
for interment.
The bus driver and two Pennsyl-
vanians were on the critical list.
Thirteen others were less seriously
hurt when an eastbound Great East
ern bus struck an electric freight.
The dead were: Mrs. Gracella B..
Shank, New York, and Miss Gladys
Freeman, %, North Bergen, N. j.
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but to walk home in order to get
the thrill of plaudits and ques-
tons from his friends. He had
gone hardly more than half a
block when one of his old cronles
hailed him cheerfully. Hello,
Bide," he said. Going away
somewhere?"
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THOSE who in their callow
youth have written letters of
like import, trying to patch up
lovers quarrels, need no common
tary on the volcanic state OF young
Dickens mind while he awaited
her answer.
ut would be useless to look for
ward and state my hopes for the
future" If little Maria could have
looked ahead, even three short
years, and seen the future of this
crest fallen lad, she would not
have sent the cold reproachful'
answer that he wildly recalled in
one of the series of letters he wrote
her in after years.
But alas! Maria pondered over
the situation on Monday, and that
evening when Kolle came, she gave
him her reply to be delivered to
Dickens. Kolle certainly carried
a heavy mail in those last siren
uous days.
In Maria's hasty note, she ig-
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COncernina Another ExiLe

THEN there was the cas- OF
l. Jimmy Sinnott, who used to
do a column on the old Evening
Mail. Jimmy was very senti-
mental about New York, and
when he was assigned to go to
Atlantic City and stay for one
month it seemed as if his heart
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WHAT HAPPENS TOMORROW

WHAT HAPPENS TOMORROW
Tomorrow's episode marks a turning
p0in in the dramatic life of Charles
Dickens. The affair with Maria definite
ly ended, Dickens impulsively, and to
his later regret. married another girl.
Copyright 1884, John F. Ollie Co..