PsjsjwajsBjaff ;....;v - . . v- , - - - OF KING'S VISIT ..; . ..'r'V. i The "House of Quality" Plan American Millionaire Must ' , Donate Half Million to H laward'ifeharity.;!- -.r---. . ' .1V l . Fvi m 'r - rt n V II PEIVATE CIRCUS IS LATEST SOCIETY FAD Duchess of Roxburghe Is First of ArrtaWcans to Take lTp New Craze xarted by Rothschild at Country Residence. j i .-,' . By Lady Mary. ' " V London, Aug. 24 Mayfair . kestows a nickname on almoat everyone and George Keaaler of New York is now familiarly known here a tha ' "Yankee River King." "Rlveradala" tha Eliza bethan mansion on the banks of the Thamea. which ha bought a while ago and renamed "New York Lodge" 'baa now been tranaformed by. Mm from' a beautiful old-world, house-to a sort : of mu aditinn of the: Carlton hotel, lhe alteraUona were flnlahed thla week- and coat $460,000. . But money la evidently no object to Mr Keaaler. Society haa been amased at a atory about him wnicn la now su ing the rounds. This aifirma that Mr. Keasler'a ambition Is to entertain King Edward at "New York lodge." He ' made hla proffer of becoming a royal . boat In the proper quarter and It la said 'to have' been Intimated that If he tt-- pared to-domte half a million' Hollars to the king a hospital runa, in ui proo blllty hla majesty would And time, to go up the river ana mane me acquaint ance or tne aonor tor a any, vuvi 1 week-end. Xonors Are SongM. Truly I waa surprised to hear the aum mentioned or that there should be any aet price for the honor of receiving Kins Eld ward as a guest. i in w nf thn nhars-ea recently made in Par Uament that honora have been .freely hnurht and sold, society Is only too ready to believe the1 latest atory. One Is alwaya hearing statements about the sale of honora but until lately It waa generally agreed that these statements emanated irom tne aisappoimea iom, But the fact that the lateat charge was made In the house of commons and that the prime minister and former prime minister DurKed an inquiry mio wa aublert. haa made the allegation one for aarlnua thouarht. So DerhSDS Mr, Kesaler'a IttUa "bill" Is to be really half a million -dollars. By the way An drew Carnegie gave this earn aum to the king's hoBpital fund a week or two " ago. In view of the Kessler story eo -clety la asking what signiucance at lichM In Mr. Oarnearie'a KlftT Society's very latest erase Is the pri vate circus.- This la now the season nf tha iiintrv-hoin Dartv and wlae women are thinking out novel means of amusing tneir irienas, ui eourso. it is only the very wealthiest people who can afford to have.auch a thing as a private circus on tap. f he first of the Americana to go in for the new fad la the duchess of Roxburghe. Collecting' Traiaed animals. , The duchess is now busying herself In collecting an astonishing number of trained animals lor tier circus wnicn will be riven for the special eel i flea tion of the prince and princess of Wales when they pay their long-promised visit to Floors Castle this fall. One must have some special attraction nowadays at the country-house, ptherwiae the hostess cannot gather to her the long Hat of fashionable leaders and other de sirables in exclusive society. All the luxury and magnificence in the world will not induce people these daya to go to the homea of others unless they are going to be amused. Certain sets, of course, are always ready if the shoot ing la known to be particularly good or the bridge play Is sure- to be fast and brilliant and the stakes high. But amusement is still the chief objective of guest and hostess alike. The Duchess of Roxburghe la, bow ever, following the lead of the Hon. Alfred de Rothschild, who has pos sessed a private circus now for some time. He Bet the fashion at Halton, where the king paid him a visit the other day. He la a most original enter tainer la Alfred de Rothschild and Ed- waed J a man who likes not only to be I amused but also surprised. Millionaire's Circus, It was certainly a surprise when after dinner the first evening the king and tne other guests were conducted to com fortable seats around a circus ring in permanent building , near the house, Here they witnessed a most wonderful Kicrformance by the large troupe of the iTHeMonaire s traineav animais. t them These - anliTnMav seemingly, can do anything under the sun but talk. Borne of then were trained bv the great financier him self but othera he bought from circus companies and othera for large sums. The star performer Js a Kerry pony aoout aa Dig as a latr-sicea xsewrouna land dog. This ia the pet of the finan cler and was trained by the owner. 8h ia called "Tha Bella of New York." The pony amused Edward immensely, par ticularly when she tried to sing "God Save the King" to the accompaniment or m. de Kotnacnim a magniricent pn vate orchestra. , The "Belle" caught' a cold Bome months ago and several veterinary aur aeons were called in. The chill dvel oped Into pneumonia and the pony's master stayed at her side night and day. He stated to the doctors that he would give -nan nis lortune tor the pony's recovery. Tge pet duly, re covered and although the "vets'v un doubtedly gathered in a fortune. , j doubt if it was quite half the Botha child millions. The new fad la a most exnennlva one for the pet animals comprising these private circuses are an private prop erty and if not trained by the "owner are purchased for very large sums. Juat now 11 is no uncuniraun minx 10 see advertisements in the fashionable morn ing papers for accomplished dogs. cats. monkeys, ponies and ao on. ;; Those de siring them are wining to pay sums vat-vino: from ISO to 1500. while a really gifted animal ( will fetch 15,000. --j Morgan , buibij. Majestic la the only Word which quail nicji jrie; aatt court, who was her uncle's guest, tried flea the "aide" whlc affected on his yacht, Corsal recent, cowea -regatta. rpont Morgan Mr durinar tha Mra, Lulu Har- to lntroduoe him .,; to several of her friends, including one or two serene highnesses. - and ulfiied the honor. It would aeem he haa cot into ma neaa tne iaea mat an Enr Hah TQ-aiUlea want. to aret something out f iifftu Even the king he keeps at a 'jafain distance lest his majesty might fx him for a favor. He had shoals of invitations to land parties and , to ao sept hospitalities on other -yachts, but lever once did he leave- the Corsair. ' - 'This vessel is tha possession he loves 8 1, so hla friends say, and he is never io haptty as. when temporarily Isolated ipon It from society in. general. ; The laloon Is decorated with seascapes4i.il naaterpieces, which include a Jew.Tur lexs. i Home ens - wno snows tens me .hat the kinghas bad a great deslrt to There is no gainsaying the fact that at "The House of Qual ity" you have the best opportunity for supplying your piano needs, you have the best facilities for selecting your piano, you have the assurance and guarantee of this bid house that you are to be pleased with your purchase and pleased with your dealings with us, and, what is more important than anything else, you have the positive assurance that "The House of Quality" plan of selling pianos always means money saved. - You come to our store with the knowledge that the first price you get is not only the last price, but it is the RIGHT PRICE. There is no foghere, no uncertainty, no haggling, no "" mysterious catalogue "dr other boosted prices to entrap the un wary. Every one is treated fairly and alike. All receive the Nsame low price based on factory cost, plus freight and handling expenses, which is right and just to buyers as well as to our selves. This always assures you of getting the exact piano value that you pay for and we believe that we speak the exact truth when we say that you can always SAVE MONEY on your piano purchase at our store as compared with what you will pay for the same piano elsewhere. Quality for quality, "style for style, we guarantee our Prices ic lowest 'And our terms of payment always satisfactory. You owe it to yourself to investigate our goods and prices before you buy, and this means that you wjll readily see that you can do better here ' than elsewhere. Read the following names of reliable pianos. These names are as familiar as the names of old friends : Stein- way, Knabe, A. B. Chase, Everett, Packard, Fischer, Hardman, Estey, Ludwig, Kingsbury, Sterling, Conover, Wellington, Huntington, Mendelssohn. The only place where you can buy these makes of pianos new arid subject to the factory guarantee is at our store. We are sole agents for all of the above makes. We are also western agents for A. B. Chase Player Pianos and are Pacific coast distributors for Victor Talking Machines. , ' Our Small Payment Plan Jakes Piano Buying Easy Portland Tacoma Seattle Everett Spokane Belli ngham San Francisco Oakland Los Angeles Fresno Stockton San Jose VICTOR Talking Machines ' 11111 SheraraTi! SIXTH AND MORRISON May & Co - - 0pp. Post Office l! j I Steinway j Pianos J ' " .,.. i. .' . i ' r '-. i,v l. J : : " ;. - , : . : -i ' 1 M see the interior of the "Corsair." but the millionaires haa no intention of asking mm to do an. All tma was peculiarly awkward for Mrs. Lulu Haroourt, who la on terms of such intimacy with the king and aueen. But being aware that discretion is the better part of valor, she- realized1 that once her uncle takes a thing into hla head all the xtrowned heads In Europe would not lnfuce. him to alter his mind. ' Racentlv them was attached to the Prince of Walea' household a Scotsman whose capacity for bluntnesa scarcely1 fits him for the delicate duties of court Th 1 j. nr.u. v. V. . I'Q , rilllVOH .UL TTB1W, 1T1IIP una m cumins' deal r a that her husband should be as popular with the people as Is the King, is always endeavoring to nna out the exact feeling with which the- people regard mm ana aueries averr newcomer In the establishment for information. Calling the latest addition to her side on day she said: - , .."' - now ten ma thu nnnaat trntn- wnat ao ine puDiio aay about tha prince rv -,rW hv. how , ahmilH T knnw ini'iml" he replied. do know and I do want to hear." . After some consideration and feeling tnat there - was no way-out of it the acotenman blurted out, -"Well, ma'am. J.0110".?11" rutb J y ha drinks liae a. f Ian. .j- ... .... v. "HOW dlsrrarnl anil nnVlnt anit im. just, too, of them to Bay auch a thlng,"1 reiuraojne princess with tears in her 5?? i. What an Jiptrutlj, too. I realy donjhlnkvyou ahOuir ava"fbTa to such a thing." . . People In the rOvat ant ah rara nnw SAT that tha Snot haa nnmai n th. mnA of hla -tether, and that he won't get a PRESS BIYSTERY STIRS PARIS Anguished Personals Plead for Keturn of Adored One to Unknown Man (Jonrntl Bpeelil Berrtra.) , Paris, Aug. 39. In vivid language In tha public preaa a mysterious man,- be lieved to be a rich Russian, la calling tb his runaway wife to return to him. aay Parla for the time being, is In tensely interested in thejragedy of oya which 4s Unfolded. For many days the "personal" and other columns of V Journal, the 'paper with, the biggest circulation in France, has contained unsigned messages ad. dressed to "Madeleine, my adored one." A a the daya pass they have grown more fervid tha anrulshed cries of a Parisians are unanimous In hoping that "Madeleine" will answer tha agon lailnai annaala i . ' By niecina' together the Varioua nara- graphs ia the "Agony" column one gtta almost the complete story of this "tragic" romance. Evidently the French wife of a Rus sian has left him and journeyed to Paris. From here she has communi cated with him. He has followed but she appears to have vanished. The man, presumably Is wealthy, for "personal" advertisements cost 1 franc, 75 centimes a line In Le Journal, and al ready hundreds of lines have been used. During the last few days, too. the man has not been satisfied with the "per sonal" column, but has spread his cry of agony all over the paper from the editorial to the sporting Dare. "Madeleine," If she ia a reality and alive and In Paris must surely have re ceived the messages ere this. Blamea Himself. Here is a translation of some of the advertisements, which tells the atory: "Madeleine, my adored one! Your only fault In the past was due to my miserable character,- Seven years I have tormented you, injured you but never deceived you. Forgive, forget ,-Jbe past never think of it again. - , i nave suirerea only too mucn ty my wretched character. Looking back I understand now that I never knew bow ta touch your good heart, so fun of sentiment. I hurried to Vichy, my only wish being to adore, to . caress and shelter you. I cannot live without you. The -proof is that I have lost aU my strength. I have now been In bed nine days, all alone in Paria. where one aeea all the -world. You will find, hera a wish is to see us together before hla death. Poor old man! Have pity on him. He loves you so much. If you do leave me you will get your desire, lib erty without divorce. You needn't come DacK to our old abode if you don t want to. we can always go and live in 8t. Petersburg or TrouvUle. There I will live for you only and arrange for you a little nest, full of happiness and care and you will be happier there with baby than you were at Bac, as with my for tune and position I am sure to euooeed. having you near me. There you will be my adored wife, my adviser, and my Departure Is Unknown. Tn Russia your departure is un known. . I have traveled IS days and passed zo daya In Paris without sleep. Knowing .nobody here I have not one been at the theatre or concert. My only rest has been to read over and over day and night your letter of May 1st from Paris when you wrote you would only be too happy If I would come and get you. Coma back to me. We will ao and etay a' month at TrouvUle or Ofc- tunae 10 invert you. ion win snow me raria and your beautiful country. "Suffering terribly knowing you have no money, neg or you to come ana get what you. want: it ia all voura. Come back, aven if you do not love me any more, xou naa-a tfi right aa you cave Buffered through . me. The Jove will come back by and by. The last time you telegraphed me you saldv that you loved mA alnnarelKL ; tegvt will for you,y?rmftalicTe annTedBatTaraeaVeTTt- you ao not come oaca to ma. Madeleine, loved one!- I cannot live aoart from vou. - In you -1 have-wife. family, joy, everything. Papa came the other day and left ma crying, bia only name. In the name of all that haa been aear to you in tne last seven years, nave pity on your husband who loved you all the time, but by his way of acting never proved, it to you. 4 Seven , jreara until June you loved me and that was my strength, happiness and Incentive to work. I have spent 21.000 fr. to try to see my beloved Madeleine. Without hope my martrydom Is unsupportable. Have pity and communicate witn me. The Literary Man's Chickens. From Llpplncott's Magazine. An Indiana man tells of tha efforts of an author belonging to the Hoosier school of historical novelists to put In his leisure time as a "hen farmer" in that state. The literary person's ven ture afforded his agricultural neighbors no end of amusement. During his first year the amateur farmer discovered that all his little chickens, which were confined in coops, were languishing at the point of death. The novelist went over his "hen litera ture" to locate the cause of the trouble. but to no avail. Finally ne called upon an old chan named Rawlins, to whom he put the question: s "'What do you auppoas W tha matter with those chickensr' - - "Well. I dunno," said Rawlins. Whm do you f eed 'nvr-" , v..'.-, "Feed them!" exclaimed the nayeiiat. farmer. "JWhy, I don't feed, them any thin g." -. . i... .. , ,. . . "Then. howd vou , s'noaa thV a-goin' to iiverx' 'r - "rr T'I presumed." replied tha literary tier. son. "that the old hena had milk enough ut . utsiu jut au,..- ' v ' A Bad Break. . One of our contemporaries, save the Camera, haa taken special delight in becoming a critio regarding some of the ' -j ) mishaps that one will' make 'in "speech or writing. No writer ia infallible, nor d0 X? Pretend to be, but what are we to think of the expression "One of our f.2S,.?tJdent8. ln eayar" Is thla lnfjf&tbl" gentleman running a "dlvorra milC or will he claim that the hyphen, la a missing letter that the usual in telligent linotype operator hit Id mis take? We are - advising thla nohle editor to move from hla green house the roof la rather attractive to atone throwers, Probably we will aend him n nice big rock the next time we give hlu prominence. -. ; 7 ,.',1 '.Expert Tteportlng. - A V-From the Westminster Qasetta v,Ther are evident advantages la hav ing our cricket reports written byex perta, as ia the custom nowadays. Of the match between Notts and Surrey one of these gentlemen says: "If Notts 1m 1 held all their eatchea, and If Surrey list t done the same, tha totals of titi iii would undoubtedly ? have - been mu. n smaller." Had this not been pointed ut ao clearly the average man woiii.i nevn have thought of ao simple and pnm -log an explanation of the high WXiHaatlaf ' tot Tronhla. . a Tva lived la California i0 yr, m am atlll hunting for trouble In n . of burna. .soreav.woun.laM. t! h - sprains or a cae of plies l! lena Arnica Salve wont oi' writes Charles . Walters ( Sierra Co. No u hunt tera; it cures or money . ; Cross Pharmacy. Jj s,