The Cottage Grove sentinel., June 24, 1910, Image 2

Many Whose Faces Frightened
Little Children Were Noted
Lady Killers,
JOHN WILKES CAPTURED ALL.
were twisted backward ana almost
every member was out of joint.”
In spite of these terrible physical
drawbacks Hamilton easily outstripped
all the gallants in his district in the
favor of the ladies. “He might have
married any of them for the- asking—
indeed, it is said several of them ac-
tually asked him,” says a chronicler.
But he remained proof against all their
wiles until after his eightieth birth­
day, and then he married a girl of
20, himself being carried to the altar
on men’s shoulders.
JOHN ALDEN WAY IN CHINA.
Married the Prettiest Heiress of His
Time—Pair Labeled “Beauty
and the Beast.”
Chinese Student Lovers Like Having
a Middleman Propose for Them.
Many of the plainest men of whom
We have any record have not only won
pretty and Well-dowered brides, but
have been able to pick and choose
among the fairest, to the confusion of
their more well-favored rivals.
Was there ever a plainer wooer, we
wonder, than John Wilkes,, the famous
champion of popular liberties and one
of the most dissolute men of his day?
asks Tit-Bits. %So ugly was Wilkes
that the very children ran away shriek­
ing at sight of him in the streets, and
yet such was the spell he cast over
women that “ladies of beauty and fash­
ion vied with each other for his notice,
while men of handsome exterior and
all courtly graces looked enviously on.”
“Give me a quarter of an hour’s
start,” he used to boast, “and I will
win any lady’s hand against the hand­
somest man in England.” And he
ecould have done it, too. There were
ifew beauties, however fair or highly
-placed, whose hands could not have
3been his for the asking, and in the
"very early ’20s he won for his wife,
cone of the loveliest heiresses of the
time—a lady who refused more than
Dr. Isaac T. Headland, a resident of
Pekin for many years, where he enjoy­
ed the friendship of the late dowager
empress, throws a new light on the
new women of China. Taking up the
relations between the sexes and espe­
cially the Chinese method of getting
a wife, the Travel Magazine says, he
repeats a conversation with a young
Chinaman who had recently become
engaged to a Chinese maiden with
whom he had never spoken.
“We students have a very great ad­
vantage over the old Chinese method
of finding a wife and getting engaged,”
said my celestial fribnd.
“What do you mean?” I inquired.
“Well, you see, by the old Chinese
method a man can never see his wife
until she is brought to »his home, un­
less he can bribe the middleman to
allow him to stand on the street cor­
ner and see her pass by in a cart.”
“And what advantage do you have?”
KWe see the girls in church,” he an­
swered. ‘They also can see us. We
have sisters in the girls’ school; they
have brothers in the college, and when
we go home during vacation we can
learn all about each other.”
“This is an advantage.”
“In my judgment,” he continued,
HALLEY’S COMET IN THE EUROPEAN SKY.
HETTY GREEN.
Site Will Turn Over All Business to
Her Daughter.
Mrs. Hetty Green, celebrated for
years as the richest and shrewest busi­
ness woman in the world, will soon
retire from active business life and
will-' turn over the handling of her
immense fortune, estimated at $50,-
000,000, to her daughter Sylvia, now
Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilks.
• «The Coward Cat.”
For months it has been rumored This
is my little Maltese cat.
that Mrs. Green’s health is failing,
Some people say that “cats is nice,”
and these rumors have been partially But those I like most ’specially
substantiated during the l^st few
Are they who catch the rats and
weeks by the irregularity of the aged
mice.
woman’s visits to her office in the
Chemical National Bank, and her My cat is ’fraid, I really think;
She sits all day around the house
feeble appearance when she does ma-
sleeps so hard she doesn’t wink.
terialize there. Among the few per- And
Yet she has never catched a mouse.
sons in close touch with Mrs. Green it
is understood that for years she has Of course she bathes, ’cause cats is
been quietly training her daughter to
neat, ,
successfully manage her immense for­ And for a sponge she takes her paw;
tune, and that since her daughter’s Then drinks her milk and eats her
meat
marriage to Mr. Wilks, with its ac­
And digs the garden with her claw.
companying possibility of an heir, this
training has been increased. It is re­
ported that the transfer of the active
control of Mrs. Green’s millions to her
daughter for management is only a
question of a few weeks at most.
Hetty Green is 73 years old.
age, coupled with her monotonous
business routine, has begun to tell up­
on her. She no longer is able to put
the snap and dash into the handling
of her affairs that characterized her in
the past, although her shrewdness, it
is said, is as keen as ever. One of
Mrs. Green’s geratest disappointments
in life, it is said, has been the non­
inclination of her son, Edward H. R. She never walks the fence at night
To meet more cats—she seems to
Green, who lives in Texas, to become
fear it.
as famous a financier as herself. It
one time she put $20,000,000 into Sometimes I’d like to see her fight,
And know my kitty had some spirit.
southwestern railroads ‘for her son, so
that he might become a railroad mag­ One time my little yellow Dick
nate. The accumulation of wealth,
Flew from his cage around her head,
however, is not a fad with Edward H. She raised her back and ran as quick
R. Green, who is content to live well
As lightning ’way beneath the bed.
and carry on sufficient business at the
same time to keep his mind occupied. I’m sure the rats and mice at night
Run past her back and forth with
Sylvia, the daugther, takes more after
glee,
her mother, and it is on this account They know
that she’s a “coward cat”
that the control of her mother’s enor­
And I’m as ’shamed as I can be.
mous fortune will soon be turned over —rlrene Elliott Benson.
to her.—New York American.
Donghnuts.
METHODICAL MR. BLINXOM.
one coronet—to be his bride. “ ‘Beauty
and the Beast,’ they call us,” Wilkes
once said to a friend, “and really I
cannot find fault with the descrip-
tion;”
Brougham, the great lord chancellor,
was a man of almost repellant ugli­
ness, without a solitary compensat­
ing grace of speech or manner. When
anyone asked, “Where is Brougham?”
the invariable answer was, “Where cue
ladies are thickest.” And, sure enough,
there he was; and the more he re­
pelled his fair persecutors, the more
they clustered round him.
Another famous “lady killer” was
Jean Paul Marat, one of the leading
and most infamous figures in the
French revolution. “Beyond any ques­
tion,” wrote a contemporary, “M.
Marat is the ugliest man in the whole
of France—and not merely ugly, but
positively repulsive in person, habits
and manners.”
Even while hiding in the sewers of
Paris, lie was devotedly nursed by one
of the loveliest of his admirers, whom
he “married one fine day in the pres-
ence of the sun.”
If possible, a still more repulsive
man was Potemkin, the ex-private sol-
dier who enslaved the fancy of Cath-
erine the Great, and by her favor was
made virtually Czar of Russia. ’Dread­
ful and repulsive” was the descrip­
tion of him by one who knew him.
“He has an unwieldy figure and knock­
knees, is swarthy of skin, coarse in
feature and has lost one eye. He often
passes whole days in his room half
dressed, uncombed, unwashed, biting
his nails and scratching his untidy
head.”
But perhaps the most remarkable of
all these cases of woman’s infatuation
for ugly men was that of W. Hamil­
ton, a Scotsman of a century and a
half ago. Hamilton was not only pre­
ternaturally ugly, but he was terribly
deformed. “His legs,” we are told,
*were drawn up to nis ears, his arm's
“we have a better method than even
you foreigners have.”
“How is that?”
“Well, you see.” he continued, “aftei
,we have selected the lady we want,
We can have a middleman go and ask
her for us, while you have to go and
ask the lady yourself.”
“But,” I objected, “we can get so
much better acquainted by our
method.”
“Yes, that’s true,” he admitted, “but
doesn’t it make you awfully angry if
you ask a girl to marry you and she
refuses?”
It was necessary to admit that there
were advantages in the middleman
method which had never occurred to
me, and, while I was not ready to
acknowledge that his new-found meth­
od was better than mine, I could still
see that the force which brought it
about was bringing woman out of her
seclusion and placing her on a level
with her brother and her future hus­
band.
A Compliment for the Senator-.
When the young teacher of a small
Western New York charity kindergar­
ten asked a new boy his name, she
was rather taken aback to have him
answer,
“JEt’s
Chauncey
Depew,
ma’am.”
A few days later, having heard that
Chauncey was ill, she went to inquire
for him.
The door was opened by a neat­
looking Irish woman, who, on being
asked, “Is this Mrs. Depew?” replied:
“No, ma’am, that’s not my name.”
“But,” said the nonplussed teacher,
“Chauncey told me his- name was
Chauncey Depew.”
“Sure, it is,” promptly answered the
proud mother. “I named him for the
sinator meself.' My name is Mrs.
Pugh, an’ his,is Chauncey D.—Chaun­
cey D. Pugh.”
If we were a girl, we would insist
on being named Roberta
A story is told somewhere bf an ex­
cellently brought up child. He was
His Mysterious Gain of Two Min­
' guarded with the utmost care from
utes Made Clear to Him.
everything that could possibly harm
“I am, I have been all my life,” said him. His toys were carefully steril­
Mr. Blinxom, according, to the New ized and so was his mouth several
York Sun, “a very methodical man. times a day'. The nursery was built
I rise at a certain hour, take my with rounded corners, where no germ­
breakfast at a certain -time and start laden dust could lie, and with a solid
downtown daily always at a certain floor and composition walls that could
minute by the clock; but this day for be washed with an antiseptic solution
some unaccountable reason I ■ found daily.
myself starting two minutes early,
Especially was his food looked after
and really it quite disturbed me. I with the greatest care. Nothing passed
couldn’t understand how or where I his lips that was not down in the diet
had gained that' two minutes.
books as most innoxious—no pork, no
' “But that wasn’t the only bewilder­ pie, no beans even, but only the bland­
ing thing' that was to happen to me est, the most nutritious, and the most
this morning. At the office when I digestible of foods.
took off my hat the office boy, before
He -grew apace and seemed to thrive,
he could -check himself, started back but one fatal day he was allowed to
from me with a look of astonishment. go alone to see his grandmother. This
A man who came in to see me five old lady was of the former generation,
minutes later looked at me for a mo­ which knew not germ§, and which ap­
ment with what was clearly amaze­ prehended no tragedy from a good,
ment, and another man who came in healthy stomach-ache in an active boy,
a little later still started back a step so she fed her visitor with pie and
when he saw me with ‘Er-r-r—hm-m— jam and two or three big firm dough­
ha—’ before he collected himself and nuts.
got down to business.
The surprise was- too much for the
“Then, at a later time yet, when I little one’s stomach, so abused with
sent for my stenographer, who is com- mistaken kindness, and it was only af­
monly very calm and sedate, why, ter many days of anxious watching
■when she came in she ail but laughed that the doctor could say with assur­
at me this morning, and she seemed, ance that the child would live.
to be quivering with merriment over
One need not inquire too closely into
something .all through my dictation. the truth bf this story, but true or
What’ could it all mean? Really, I not, it points a moral, for it is with
was lost in wonderment over it' all the stomach as it is with the system
until, it came time to go out to lunch­ as a whole—it can thrive only by exer­
eon, when, as I was drying my -hands, cise. If the stomach is guarded against
I happened to see myself in a mirror. everything not easily digestible, every­
Then I was ready to laugh after I had thing that demands of it a little hard
got over my amazement.
work, it will never learn to take-care
“My head looked like that of the of the food that will inevitably get
wil-d man of Borneo, my hair was so into it some way and somehow at
mixed up and twisted and tousled. I some time.
had somehow forgotten to comb my
To the perfectly healthy stomach a
hair this morning, and no wonder I well-cooked doughnut is not even a
had created a commotion. But I was challenge, but to the overcoddled sen­
glad of one thing. This made it all sitive organ it may be as much a dan­
clear to me how I had come to gain ger as , would be a rock.
In this sense the very air is filled
that two minutes in starting away
fr-om home, and that was a satisfac- with doughnuts. It is not desirable to
tion to me, anyway, for I am very advocate any Spartan system of hard­
ening, but in the physical as well as
methodical.”
in the moral world it is due to the
A Byron Statue.
young to prepare and toughen them
Many years ago some admirers of for the world they are in. Every part
Lord Byron raised a subscription for of the system calls for toil to strength­
a monument to the poet to be placed en it. As the mind needs problems, so
in Westminster Abbey. Chantrey was does the stomach need doughnuts, or
requested to execute it, but on ac­ their equivalent. They need not be fed
count of the smallness of the sum to babies, neither do people set .sums
subscribed he declined, and Thorwald- to infants or give them, chops, bift
sen was then applied to and cheerfully those who are wise will recognize the
undertook the work.
hour when it is best that all of these
In about 1838 the finished statue should be ventured.
arrived at the customs house in Lon­
Horseshoes.
don, but to the astonishment of the
Horseshoes are lucky hung up over
subscribers the dean of Westminster,
Dr. Ireland, declined to give permis­ a door because they keep the devil out
sion to have it set up in the abbey», of the house. It happened in this way:
and owing to this difficulty, which Good St. Dunstan was a famous black­
proved insurmountable, for Dr. Ire­ smith, and the king of evil, who used
land’s successor was of the same opin­ to travel around the world in person
ion, it remained for upward of twelve before he became so busy; stopped at
years in the customs house, when the saint’s forge one day and asked the
(1846) it was removed to the library blacksmith to put a shoe on his hoof.
St. Dunstan knew the person he had to
of Trinity College, Cambridge.
The poet is represented in the handle. He took the ropes that he
statue of the size of life, seated on a used to tie horses with and bound the
ruin, with his left foot resting on the devil so lightly that that gentleman
fragment of a column. In his right could not move. Then the saint set to
hand he holds a. style up to his mouth, work, The devil roared and screamed
in his left a book, inscribed “Childe as St. Dunstan put a red-hot iron shoe
Harold.” He is dressed in a frock over the hoof and pounded it in with
coat and cloak, Beside him on the long nails. He pleaded with his captor
left is a skull, above which is the to let him go, promising anything in
Athenian owl.
The likeness is, of return.
“If I let you go,” said St, Dunstan,
course, posthumous. Thorwaldsen was
born November’19, 1770, and died oh “will you promise never to enter a
house that has a horseshoe over the
March 24, 1844.
door?” '
If you ran a shoe store, would you
“On my honor as a gentleman I
like it if your clerks bought shoes of promise,” said the devil solemnly, and
an opposition dealer?
then St. Dunstan let him go. And
from that day to this, so they say, tne
devil has never entered a house so
protected. The devil is a man of his
word, whatever else people may think
of him.
TRIALS of r/ie NEEDEMS
THESE COMiC SEC b
{WHY EVERYBODY ELSE SEEM!
TO ENJOY THEM. YOU ARE NOT/
FEELING. WELL. TAKE A
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Thoug-hts on a New Rug.
The rug that’s lying in the hall,
Was never meant for me at all,
And yet it doesn’t seem to, be
A grown-up rug at all, to me.
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It’s colored red, and yellow, too,
With bits of brown and bits of blue.
And things that are so bright and gaj
Are meant for children, I should say.
And then, besides, it has some queer
Small animals, like little deer,
A-walking round it in a string—
And children like that sort of thing
HA! HA! THESE CARTOOÑS)
ARE .CERTAJNLY FUNNY.
THE FELLOWS WHO DRAW W?
THEM MUST ALWAYS BE IN W
A GOOD. HUMOR. I WONDER^X
IF THEY TAKE PAW-PAW PILLS)^
And yet it’s by the parlor door
Instead of on the nursery floor—
Perhaps the grown folks like to see
Those funny things as well as we.
—Chicago News.
HEXT
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Sour Milk.
There was trouble up in the sky the
other day. Halley’s comet came so close
to the Milky Way that all the milk was
soured, and the Heavenly Twins hat7
to go without their breakfast.
Two Cats and a Dog.
Two cat-tails started in to fight,
One pleasant summer day.
A sun-dog jumped down from the sky
And scared them both away.
A SMUGGLER’S HEROISM.
A Girl Who Held Her Fallen Brother
on Alps Thirteen Hours.
L- . IWTrail
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The heroic effort of a girl smuggler
Send 10c for trial package.
to save the life of her elder brother
after holding him thirteen hours on
Just a Chance.
a rope over a precipice is reported
“Yes, you offer the property low
from Bellinzona. Mlle. Poretti, aged ehough, Mr. Yipsley,” said the real es­
18, and her brother, aged 23, left Swiss tate agent, “but it will be best for you
territory to cross the Baldisco Pass, to give some satisfactory reason for
carrying contraband goods into Italy. wanting to sell.”
“The reason why I want to sell is
On the summit they were overtaken
the property is all run down. It
by a violent snowstorm—which raged | that
doesn’t bring me 2 per cent on the
throughout Southern Switzerland— money invested In it. I’m not offering
and were soon in deep snow.
it at a sacrifice. I don’t need the mon­
The Poretis roped themselves, the ey. I want to get rid of it, but I am
young man leading. They lost their asking all it’s worth.”
“Um—well, I’ll list it for you, Mr.
way, and while attempting to find the
path Poretti fell through the snow Yipsley,” said the real estate agent.
into a crevasse into which he nearly “It’s barely possible that the novelty
of the thing may attract some equally
dragged his sister, who, however, cranky
purchaser.”
planted her ice ax in the snow and
withstood the shock.
Grandmotherly Pride.
Early the next morning several,
Old Rooster (with some irritation)—
smugglers crossing the pass from What
are you doing all that strutting
Swiss territory into Italian found the ¿nd cackling
about?
young girl near the ordinary route
Old Hen—My eldest pullet has just
taken by smugglers, and recognized hatched out her first brood of chicks,
her at once, as she belonged to a smug­ you mean old thing!
gler’s family, and lived at Chiavenna.
The smugglers at once drew up the
brother, but found that he had died
during the thirteen hours his sistei
had held him by the rbpe. He had
received severe injuries in the head,
“Before I began using Cascarets I had
and his body was frozen.
a bad complexion, pimples on my face,
The smugglers carried down the and my food was not digested as it should
brave girl, who was almost uncon­ have been. Now I am entirely well, and
scious, as well as the dead body of the pimples havé all disappeared from my
her brother, and notified the Poretti face. I can truthfully say that Cascarets
just as advertised; I have taken only
family at Chidvenna, On reaching are
two boxes of them.”
the valley the girl had recovered suffi­
Clarence R. Griffin, Sheridan, Ind.
ciently from her terrible experience
Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good.
to explain that she and her brother
Do Good. Never Sicken. Weaken or Gripe.
10c, 25c. 50c. Never sold in bulk. The gen­
had spoken for several hours after the
uine tablet stamped C C C. Guaranteed to
accident, and at last he had said that
cure or your money back.
he felt nothing and wanted to sleep.
A warm night followed the snow­
storm, or two dead bodies would have
been found. Under the great strain
the rope had cut through the girl’s
clothes, and her waist was bleeding
when she was rescued.
Bad BLOOD
WESLEY IN HIS GEORGIA WORK.
Great Methodist’s Motto, “Be Dili-
g’ent,” Was His Rule of Action.
One of the Wesley rules, inherited
from early Oxford days and handed
down to his “helpers” in later days,
was this: “Be diligent; never be
triflingly employed.” His own output
of solid work in Georgia was extraor­
dinary, according to “The Journal of
John Wesley,” by Nehemiah Curnock.
in Harper’s Magazine. He mastered at
least three languages and taught two.
He built a house, fenced and planted
a garden,, felled trees and helped to
make roads. He compiled and pub­
lished the first hymn book ever used
in the English church, and prepared a
second, translating hymns, composing
others and selecting from the best
sources. He had a long, wide and
difficult parish. In the library of the’
London Colonial Office I found a map,
drawn probably by an early eighteenth
century survey officer, which repro­
duces Wesley’s American circuit,
bounded by the Savannah river and
extending south to the frontiers of
Florida—a territory of pathless woods,
swamps and savannahs; a seacoast
studded with a perfect labyrinth of
islands and indented by river estu­
aries and creeks. On foot or in pettiaw-
gas and scoutboats he worked his par­
ish, traveling in all winds and weath­
ers and feeding sparsely.
Wrapped in his cloak, he slept on
the ground or on deck, drenched with
rain and night dews, his clothes some­
times frozen to the earth, fording riv­
ers, losing his way in swamps, read­
ing prayers and preaching to planters
and Indian traders and boatmen, sing­
ing and reading and praying as he
went, observing all his rules, wasting
no time, evangelizing every man, wo­
man or child he met with, caring with
infinite tenderness for the sick—-the
bond slave or Jesus Christ, the friend
and pastor of lonely colonists,
As He "Went on His Way.
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lilderly Depravity.
The professor regarded with an eye
of suspicion the small yellow cube the
waiter had brought him.
“I take thee,” he murmured, “for
butter—or worse.”—Chicago Tribune.
New York is experimenting with
street cars driven by electric motors
which get their power from gas en­
gines mounted below the floor of the
cars.
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