The Athena press., January 24, 1908, Image 3

GOTHAM'S PALACE
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CfARLEC
Deposed bank president', palatial quarters of wrecked institution
and partner and brother-in-law of dead financier.
TO MY OLD UMBRELLA.
I honor you, my dear old friend,
For valued favors, without end.
Through sunny days and stormy weather,
We've wandered, arm In arm, together
In times of drought and times of wet
Since the glad hour when first-we met.
Your faded garments old and worn
Give evidence of hardships borne.
Your strength has been severeiy taxed;
You're all unstrung, unnerved, relaxed ;
, You've now become so old and thin,
You show the ribs beneath your skin,
You're worse, of late, whene'er it rains
- I'm sure you feel rheumatic pains.
Your joints are still : your members shake
And tremble; at each move you make.
Your cowers are surelv on the wane!
An ordinary hurricane
Or slight touch of a cyclone
Would scatter each remaining bone!
xou re warpea ana tattered, i declare,
And looking much the worse for wear;
Your coat shows "omintlaaa hnlnt nnd
. scars, ' .
As if you'd passed through many wars,
Farewell 1 Your life has been too hard !
You have my sympathies, old pard!
Forget your ugly gaps and seams,
And lay you down to pleasant dreams,
Peace to your bones ! May no rude pest
Encroach upon your place of rest
No scorching sun disturb your shade,
No drenching storm your peace invade.
Detroit Journal. 7
MarriaoMrranged
Oh!, my darling Mona, is It really
vjcou? t How delicious! I had ho Idea
you were In town yet And I've such
heaps to tell you. Only I've really no
time now, because I have an appoint
ment with Madame Celisne, and you
know she won't wait. But I must tell
you a little about It Come in here
and have an Ice, and 111 tell you how it
all happened.
I met him In Rome, you know. It
was very hard work at first, because
he would have been much more inter-H
ested In me If I had been an old stone
in the Forum. However, I had lots of
patience, and a lovely chiffon hat I
bought in Paris, and. so, finally, when
we all moved on to Naples, he, Ter
ence, you know, came too.'
vve naa a loveiy time in wapies witn
the volcanoes and things, and soon I
saw he meant It all right, only be was
frightfully shy, about coming to the
point and he had" not many opportuni
ties, Decuuse air. uarsiairs ana jacn
Congletqn were with us, and you know
what'they are!
Well ! our last day arrived and noth
ing had happened, and I got awfully
anxious, because he isn't the sort of
man to propose by letter; and, besides,
I knew If he went back to Rome, unat
tached, that Kitty Singleton would -Oh
I she Is a cat Mona 1
' So on the last afternoon, when we
all drove up to San Martlno to see a
museum or a monastery, I am not
quite sure which It was meant to be,
I made up my mind to be a mother to
myself, and said I should walk back
to the hotel, and wouldn't he, Terence,
voa know, come with me.
Of course, he Jumped at it Jack
Congleton and Mr. Carstalrs said they
wanted to walk, too, but I marched on
ahead, rery firmly, with Terence, and
asked him about stones and inscrip
tions and things they couldVt talk
about soon they grew tired of
walking behind together (because they
don't Ilka each other much), and so
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they took one of those funny little car
riage things and drove home after all.
Then I stopped talking about stones,
because I was afraid If Terence got
too Interested he might not notice his
opportunity, so I began to talk about
going away, and that sort of thing, and
at last he got husky and fidgety, like
they do7 you know, and I saw it was
coming; and then, when he had just
begun:
"Miss Cleveland, I ru
We suddenly heard "Poverlvlch," or
something like that Just behind us,
and there was a wretched old beggar
man! . Ttence broke off very crossly,, and
told the man to go away ; but he
wouldn't go,, but followed us, bother
ing, till at last we gave him some
money to go, and he went
That put Terence off for a bit but
in a minute or two he recovered, and
began again:
"Miss Cleveland, can
And then we heard, another "Poverl"
something or otner, and there was a
man with a broken arm!
Well ! we gave him something, . and
then two more came, and a woman
with a baby, and a lot of little boys,
some singly and some la crowds, and.
they wouldn't leave us till we gave
them money, and the more we" gave
money the more came, and we couldn't
get clear of them. And Terence got s6
angry, because whenever he tried to
speak to me they Interrupted him.
Well ! I knew he would never get
anything .done In that crowd, . so I
"mothered" myself -again and said I
was tired, and wanted to drive home
after all. He looked awfully pleased
at that, so we hailed one of those car
riage things, and after we had fought
e
"I MET HIM" IN BMK."
out way through all the drivers we
hadn't hailed we climbed In and drove
off in peace.
Terence heaved a great sigh of re
lief, and I sat quite silent so as not
to put him off by any Ill-advised re
mark, and in a few minutes he pulled
himself together, and took hold of my
hand (I had left It lying near him in
case he wanted It), and he began:
"Miss Cleveland, may "
And then the driver turned round
on his seat and pointed out Capri to
us I
Well ! of courste, Terence took ' his
hand away very quickly, and pretend
ed be had been pulling up the cover,
and got very red; and I smiled sweet
ly and thanked the driver.
But that stupid Italian had no-tact;
he just let his horse drive itself, and
sat sideways, looking at us and telling
us stupid stories about the places we
passed. Of course, It wasn't for me to
tell him to look the other way and
not Interrupt us, and Terence just eat
still, muttering sort of Greek words to
himself. However, we were nearly
home, and I felt something must be
done, and I saw I should have to do
it, so I said the others would laugh at
us If they found out that we had driv
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en borne, after all, and that aa we
SUICIDE OF CHABIES T. BAEKET.
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Charles Tracy Barney, deposed presi-.
deut of the Knickerbocker Trust Com
pany, millionaire promoter, social lead
er, clubman and one ofNtue best known
men In New York City, shot himself
because of his inability to endure the
blot upon bis business reputation which
he feared would result' from the sus
pension of the company. He had been
at the head of the trust company for
many years and had seen it grow from
a comparatively obscure concern to one
of the leading financial Institutions of
the city. Then, almost without warn
ing, came the crash. The resignation
of Mr. Barney as president of the
Knickerbocker was accepted by the di
rectors and the nest day the great
trust company, with obligations to Its.
depositors amounting to nearly $7,000,
000, was forced to suspend payment
were near the hotel we had better get
out and walk the fest of the way.
Terence brightened up wonderfully
at that, and we stopped the carriage
and Jumped out He paid the driver
and we turned to walk on.. I think he
saw he hadn't much time to spare, so
he began at once: '
"Miss Cleveland, do "
And then we beard loud shouts bet
hind us, and the driver came hurrying
after us to say we hadn't paid him
enough:
Terence said another sort of Greek
word to himself, and told the-man to
bo off; but of course he wouldn't "go,
and marched along beside us, arguing.
I couldnS understand why . Terencp
would not give the man more money
and send him off, but he has since
told me that he hadn't a penny left In
his pockets, he -had given all to the
beggars.
Well! of course It Is Impossible to
propose to any one while a Neapolitan
cab driver man ls walking along be
side you, arguing about his fare; and
the hotel was in sight!
Then three beggars and the old man
who sells oranges outside the door
came clamoring round us, and I was
hopeless, because, you kno-T,'.Abesldes
the title and estate, Terence is. a dear.
And then I saw Jack Congleton': come
out of the hotel and turn along. toeet
us, nd I was so desperate that i cried
out aloud accidentally: ;.
"Oh, dear! here is Jack, and now we
shan't be aloue, again." '
When Terence heard that he Just
stopped dead and looked at me. and
then be looked at Jack eomlnir townivi I
us, and round at all the clamoring beg-
gars, ana then he stuck both hands
savagely in his pockets and turned hla
back on the cab driver and 1nsr hnrHf
out desperately:
"D It all !
Allss Cleveland, will
you marry me?"
I laughed so much that I couldn't
answer till Jack reached us, and he
must have thought sie quite mad, be-1
cause I laughed all the way up to the
hotel door, and then I turned to Ter-1
ence and said:
I "Oh! yes, yes, yes!" and ran into 1
the hotel, and up to. my room, and lay
on my Dea ana laughed till I felt quite
ill, because I was so happy.
And ten minutes later they brought
me up a lovely bouquet, and the dearest
sort of apologizing note from Terence,
and so it was all settled.
But we won't go to Naples for our
honeymoon! Philadelphia Telegraph, .
Ho La ted Well.
When Harrtwleir
within its borders the Ancestral Loan I
Society, and Miss Miriam Lester was I
Invited to become a memw ,
knew that the three spirited portraits
or miss Lester's great-grandfather,
would be offered for exhibition.
"You are Justly proud of your anees-
tor. my dear Tounar lsdv." aaMf a t.u.
on the occasion of the first exhibition i
of the avlpfv ftoi- f.,,. i
ta WaTrLT. " rMm
n Miss Lester a company. "He was a
brave man."
"Wasn't her' cried that enthusiastic
young person. "Why, he took part In
twenty-three engagements, and there
was hardly one where he didn't lose '
an arm or a ieg or something!- . .
otmng makes a woman who does
wmae wu quue so iunous as to nave I
anyone even Intimate that she does not l
hav tn work tmuh hat h.n v,
nave to worn mucn Harder than the
women who work down town.
it ! oniv mtt Af fim .,t.i fK-
man with the borrowing habit runa out
of frlenda.
BEES THEIVE IK WASHUfQTOH.
ftar LHtle Inaecta Brln la. Goodly
Rcreaa Each Year.
Charles W. Sager, the bee king of
antral Washington, has succeeded in
making a record In his apiary that will
attract the attention of oil those inter
ested In honey-making, says the Seattle
Times. At his ranch near Beluia, Sa
jer has upward of 8,000,000 bees.
Speaking of his experience In bee cul
ture In this locality recently, he had the
following to say :
'When I came to this country four
years ago the few people here who had
boes told me two suwrs to a colony
' would he fill nnv would ciHifr Thnt
year I lost much because I was not
prepared wun supers ana the bees naa
no room to store what they could gath
er. Iu 1905 I had ninety colonies in
the spring. During the season they
produced 8,9r0 pounds of honey 2.ST0
pounds extracted honey and 6,000
pounds comb honey, an average of nine
ty and a half pounds to the colony.
"The best colony produced 196
pounds. The lowest gathered fifty-six
pounds. In 1900 they did somewhat
better. I began the season with eighty
six colonies, from which I took 8.SCS
pounds, 6r 103 pounds to the colony
The gathering this year will be onlj
about half a crop. This condition, how
ever, seems to be general.
"In a good year the bees can gathei
honey quickly and consequently It Is
very clear. Comb honey usually whole
sales for 12 cents a pound, and tht
extracted product for 8 1-3 cents. ' At
this price the colony making 100 pounds
would produce $24.50 worth of honey.
Ing the honey Is that it leaves the comb
f K I i . -...ill .1
ready for the bees to refill, thus sav
ing the time required to build new
coiubs. Also the freight on extracted
honey Is only about half what It is or
comb honey. Bee authorities contend
that bees will produce one and a half-
pounds of extracted honey to one ol'ft. ?u"w
k u ,, 4u. ,Of a giant, who lost It
comb honey. Alfalfa makes the clear-
esi ana very nest noney. uaen variety
of bloom makes a different colored and
flavored honey,
"This country is much better than
the average for honey because of the
great quantity of alfalfa raised. How
ever, the ranchers are cutting theii
grass so soon after the bloom arrives
that the bees do not have the opportun
ity they could if It were left standing
a few weeks longer.
"During the working season the aver
age life of a working bee Is forty-twc
days. Sixty-three days from the egg to
the grave. A good queen will lay from
2,000 to 5,000 eggs in a day. I like tc
save nbout 90,000 bees to the colony.
AUTO SLEIGH.
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Qara Over Ice and Snow.
Automobile enthusiasts will be Inter
ested' in an attachment designed by a
Washington man whereby motor cars
can be easily transformed Into sleighs
Automobiles cannot be depended upon
to traverse overoads covered with
deep snow or an ley surface, and thli
exhlla,'nting BI'ort must be forsaken in
w,mer ul lue ume ol e!ir wnen n
would D most appreciated. The no
elty of sucn a auto-sleigh as that shown
in the accompanying illustration will
appeal to many. Runners are attached
to the front and back wheels. An aux
lliary wheel, which assists In propel
g venicie, is piacetl in front ol
tne mr wneel8- Wound around the
,atter and tne auxiliary wheel is a
tootned ain, the purpose of which Is
to grip the icy surface of the road and
foroe the tehlcle onward. Any . auto
n be "'PP00 wIth these attach
u,euts w"'cu are not maue a perma-
iifui juri oi me motor car.
Not So Dad aa It Seemed.
An American who recently made t
walking tour of Ireland in company
with his daughter came upon a white
haired old woman, sitting In the green
in front of a cabin, surrounded by
some poor little sticks of furniture and
a fowl or two.
evlct,on- of urse!" ald the
da"fbte.r-.
lne ratner 8ala nothing, but being
a" rlcb ,n Bath as he 18 ln dollars,!
, J ,
a pressed It Into the old woman's
UH11U.
"Now," said he, "tell me, what Is tha
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said
th old woman,
aure, sir,
Vl ,n bep wurtesylng, "me ould
tMtaa,alh, '
Humor In the Jnng-lo.
The Monk Afternoon, Mrs. Lion.
Are you taking little Leo to dancing
school?
The Lady Yes. Mr. Monk.
The Monk Do you patronize Profes-
sor Bear or the Misses Fawn? .
'V""'. air: uu"-. 1 reier Cslno' .
" TT x t -11 jl
nu- "e leucues an tne unu aances,
, r , .
jrvu iiiuw. vicveiauu 1 lain ueaie.
ETr7 otner man meet claim
that at. 0De toe he Sbt of being
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AUTO EOUlIM'Kll WITH HI7NNERH.
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The Common Thins;.
The things that happen every day
Are common things, so the Town folks
ay,
But I am a child, and I enn see
Most wonderful happenings, all for me :
The flower can grow, and the bird can
sing,
But each of these is a wonderful thin; !
i
Away to the south, where the air rests
. sweet
On meadow of clover and fields of wheat,
Lives the Prince of the Wind, in a castle
, hewn
From a gray rock-hill that touches the
moon.
And once In a while, when the sky is
bright
And the clouds of summer are floating
white,
The gates of the castle are opened wide,
And the Prince of the Wind comes out
to ride.
Tis something just a child can see,
And not for grown-ups, but for me.
In the meadow-lands, where the lilies
grow,
Where the reapers sing and the cattle go.
The river dreams as it moves to sea,
And the Heaven above smiles tenderly ;
Over Its waters she gently bends,
And her glad, bright smile to its depths
she sends
S m M.AA. il.A 1, nnj . 1 V
.T;9 gomcthlng just a child can see,
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And not for grown-ups, but for me.
The sun is a fire, so the grown folks say,
And warms the earth in its own good
way
But th 8un ls the 8 rouaJ crowa 1
years ago.
He was King of the Clouds, till one black
Hav
The Wind, in an anger, swept him away,
And his golden crown, like a living thing,
Keeps moving about to find Its king,
'Tls something just a child can see,
And not for grown-ups, but for me.
When the night has come, and the lights
are out,
And the shuddering shadows creep about,
The Moon sh.nes down througu the cur
tain lace,
With her gentle eyes and her loving face,
And says, with a smile that calms me
quite,
"rm "uardian angel over the night.
So go to sleep, don't be afraid
For a child's sweet comfort was I made."
'Tis something just a child can see,
And not for grown-ups, but for me.
Tm irln1 T'm fhllfl tri tf inani. inn taA
To misg 0 much that ,d make
, .
glad.
i Youth's Companion.
Greedy Boy's End.
This greedy boy would not be satls-
fled w,tl1 a moderate share of the pud-
dinK' but ate " a11- See t0 what hl
.gluttony broueht Mml-Chica Dallv
gluttony brought him! Chicago Dally
News.
Hare Von a Tool BoT
Nearly every boy likes to work with
tools, and Is glad for a good sugges
tion. Here are a few easy things to
make an(1 the7 are as useful as well
ornamental
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tuiaa fi1 11 al rPkQ f tfn van laniA I ln A
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4 - .w. tin. ir .ut n
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a boara as long aa the cupboard, but
tmlr four Inches in width. Rest It on
four flat screweyes, two at each side
ax tne cupDoara. xn narrow shelf
bottles, spies boxes, etc.
A pretty dressing table may be mad
for mother or sister by using a low,
plain wooden table and screwing on
the top a wooden lapboard. Cover the
top with dimity, chintz or muslin, with
a rulUe around the edjre. The legs of tlw
table are prettier stained or painted.
A looking glass should hang over the
table- It can be made without the lap
board, but using the board for a top
allows one to sit close to the table.
A good corner washstand for a small
room may be made of three triangular
boards fitted Into a corner. The top
board should be covered with white oil
cloth and hold the. toilet set. The lower
boards or shelves are for towels, fast
ened to the wall, and should be finish
ed In front with a cheesecloth ru31e,
which will conceal tire shelf beneath.
A good mendhig box may be made
from any wooden box obtained from
the grocer. Cover it with denim and
pad the lid,
KITCHEN MENDICANCY.
Some CuKtoms that Had Tbelr Ortffia
in Slavery.
There are many Institutions which
nre exclusively and peculiarly southern,
and which obtain In no other country,
says the Augusta Herald. They hav
their origin in slavery and the customs
which have grown out of that comli
tion and some of thein are the reverse
of wise. Of these the institution of th
service pan is one that Is so 'Injurious.
that it should be suppressed by law aa
something which has pssssed the staga
of being an intolerable general nuisance
and ls a fearfully demoralizing evil. ;
The service pan figures In every
.household where a colored cook Is em
ployed. It belongs to the cook, and la
supposed to be a receptacle for tin
scraps that are left from the table.
These are claimed as the perqulsltles
of the cook, and are by her collected
and taken home at night. In theory
the service pan Is to receive only tha
scraps, which otherwise would be wast
ed, but In practice It Is made the stor
age place of all the eatables that can
be transferred to It, and not only the
scraps but very often the choice ends.
JSothlng is served on the table but a
generous sample of it goes Into the ser
vice pan and the finer the cake or tha
more expensive the dish the larger tha
slice of it which ls abstracted to go Into
the service pan. .
In the evening the cook goes hom'
and the service pan goes with her. At
home she has her man, who ordinarily
puts in a good day's work loafing
around some dive, and shows up at
night with a healthy appetite, sharpen
el by twelve hours' fasting, and put
the contents of the service pan to the
use for which it was invented. Some
times It Is the cook's whole family
which Is fed out of the service pan, but
In the majority of cases it Is some
worthless loafer, who snends his time
hanging around dives and makes hla
living out of the service pan.
Liquor in Norway. '
The Sanilag system in Norway gives
power to municipalities to grunt all the
Kretall licenses which it deems necessary
to a company which would bind Itself
to carry on the truffle In the Interests
of the community, with a. fixed annual
return of not more than 6 per cent on
Its paid up capital. In establishing
the system the question of compensa
tion does not appear to have presented
much difficulty. When the Snrnlng was
Introduced two kinds of licenses weii
in existence flri-t, thoBe granted an
nually or for a term not exceeding five
years, and, second, privileged licenses.
grunted for the Ufa of the licensee. In
the case of the first no compensation
whatever wits paid to those dispossess.
ed of their licenses. In retard to tin
latter coniiiciiNntton whs granted In tha
form of an annuity equal to the aver
age yearly profits for three years pre
ceding the suppression of the license.
With these provisions the alum and
principles of the Sanilag nre summa
rized as follows,: The diminution of
private profit and securing the monop
oly value for the public, insuring high
est quality of liquors Bold, the reduc
tion of the number of licenses, the easy
enforcement of the law, the destruction
of the power of the spirit trade and
the furtherance of nil progressive
nicfimires of reform. New York Her
ald.
Another Iteaaon.
An English clergyman. vlsitlne ln this
country told of a Jilting that had linp
pened in his parish. He said that ho
had an appointment to inarry a couple
at 4 on a certalu afternoon. He ap
peared duly, and the bride appeared,
but not the bridegroom. The clergy
man and the lady, silent and embar
rassed, waited In the quiet church from
4 till 0. Then they sadly departed. A
week later the same couple wrote to
the clergyman again, annolntlntr an
other afternoon at 4 for the ceremony.
And again the clergyman and the bride
were on hand duly, and attain the
groom failed to turn up. As the two
waited time passed slowly In the still
and empty church. It grew darker.
Five o'clock sounded, then fl. And
then the bride broke the silence with
a fierce ejaculation.
"Drat hlra I" she cried. " 'Taln't his
trousers this time, 'cause I bought hlia
a palr."v
A Terrible Pace.
"Literature sets a terrible rar for
man," remarked the sympathetic ad
mirer. "Yes," answered the hlgh-browed and
determined youth; "It's fierce to keen
trying to write things faster than the
editor can throw them Into the wont
basket" Washington Star.