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Show re A SURE CELTIC KING. THE BIO IRISH BOSS OF THE TRANSVAAL. OUUn(hai I Ills "lutrodoMr of Whin to Kmii Kb and II I th Foilnr. A StUI Kauwa IduuniUa Xabob. (Special Letter. Two Americans, one representing a Dayton, O., carriage fuctury, and the other a marble quarry, have recently The former been in the Transvaal. sell Oou to while there attempted Paul a phaeton and the other desired to build a mausoleum for the president and his family. Their efforts to reacn the presence of the celebrated Dutchman revealed the existence of a very In important and interesting personage an Pretoria. This was no other than Irishman, named P. Gillingham, who, besides being a baker and justice of the peace, also enjoys relations with the president, which may best be defined, perhaps, as "introducer of foreigners." Mr. Gillingham gained a great prestige with Krueger by opposing the Jameson raid, and since that time it has been necessary for anyone desiring to carry a point with the president to approach first his most intimate friend, P. Gillingham, Irishman, baker and justice of the peace. After much difficulty the two. Americans succeeded in obtaining an audience with this potentate and found that he had already posted himself as to their mission. Evantually they were ushered through the bakery into a small g-room, where the presidents right bower receives all his callers, and met a man with keen blue eyes, light hair, mustache and chin beard, of well-sfigure, square shoulders and speaking good, pure English. He greeted them warmly and got right down to business. "Ive told his honor about you, he said, and he is anxious to meet you. If you will come to my house at 6 oclock tomorrow morning I will take you down and you can talk to him as long as he desires. He Is in good humor now, and will talk if you know your business. Gillingham was not disposed to speak of himself and evaded all questions bearing on politics, hut told his callers with no little pride that he was but 89 years old. He was born at the cape, of Irish parents, and there absorbed the customs of the Dutch so thoroughly that he is regarded in Pretoria as a stanch burgher and a good Dutchman. Though born under the English flag, he has no love for it, and that is the secret of his popularity with President Krueger, who, though a mighty shrewd old hunter and politician, has points of weakness bordering on fatuity. Gillingham made his first coup with Krueger at the time of the Jameson raid, when England threatened to wipe out the little republic. With the hosts of England arrayed against the Transvaal, and no friends, this plucky Irishman got together some of his countrymen and offered to raise a regiment to fight for it against the British.' Furthermore, he communicated with Irishmen in America and proposed that they equip forces to send down to aid Oom Paul, who is Just the Boers. as generous as he is vindictive, was quite overcome by this offer, and he has ever since kept a warm spot in his heart for the Irish. More than this, however, Gillingham has a long bead, knows when to advise, when to keep quiet, and is so genial and adaptable that he is always in the know. This is appreciated by Oom Paul, to whom the Irishman is loyal, for such is the political strife In the Transvaal that Krueger is often at a loss to know whom to trust Gillingham has no other position than justice of the peace, seeks for no public honors, is never written about and poses as a strictly neutral person. In this capacity Krueger accepts his advice on the most Important national sittin- A GLASS DARKLY. (Romance from a New Year'a Sermon.) LIVE THOMPSON sat In ber low seat in the little country church, paying trlct attention to the New Yeara ser-mo- n. It was her habit to pay strict attention to the regular Sun day sermon, but this was Sunday being New Year day she Her attention. her In try devoted of face the from wandered never eyes been bad the preacher, the face that ber Sunday study for thirty years. She was five years old when she began the study. The face had never grown any older to her. There were this same wrinkles under the little lobe of the ear nearest her, which she had always seen, and the devious creases above the eyes continued always of the same elevation, except that they had grown inwards, tending to the horisontal ripple above the nose, and deepening at that point The sermon, to the mind of Olive Thompson, was "more beautiful" on this particular day than had ever been before. Now we see through a glass darkly, hut then face to face," he said. "The mists of our present condition cloud our view; stormy days have sent dust and sleet against our windows until, for the dimness of our glass, we cannot see the sky. Olive Thompsons eyes filled with tears. She remembered the dust and sleet" of weary years. IIow the storm had breathed upon the windows of her soul, turning Into frosted tablets what otherwise might have been avenues for semi-circul- life-lon- ar sunlight "Take heart" the preacher went on, "spring days are coming when the windows will be open to the sky, and we shall see face to face what been, but which we rould not see for looking through a glass darkly." has-alway- A few months later Olive Thompson stood making apple plea In the panfry. The pantry window was up and le song of birds came in. Also there 08 In the voice of Joseph, the hired man, who was coaxing the new calf to Take It he was saying to drink. the Inexperienced animal; It Is good." "Take It; It Is good," OllVe repeated to herself In the pantry. "What Is good?" asked the old . wrinkled mother knitting In the warm kitchen. , "Why, everything, I suppose," Olive answered, still listening with one ear to what Joseph was saying. It doesn't seem good now, bossy; but It Is good, take It. Olive," said her mother, It Is time to wash the windows. The froBt Is all off and they look dingy. I know It," Olive said, I will do It tomorrow." Olive Thompson obeyed her mother g from a habit, and from religious principle. Was she not her mothers child, and ought not children to obey their parents; old, wrinkled, feeble parents?" In tne morning she took her pan away like a glint of sunshine from the pan of water in the chair. Olive had watched this broken bit of radiance, as it played on the celling above the table with the album and pictorial Bible on it. It was like a halo above the precious spot She moved her chair up to the window with a little sigh. Joseph moved his ladder up to the same window on the opposite side. Let it down from the top, Olive, he said. It I can't. Olive called hack, sticks. Joseph was on her side in a moment. His fingers just touched hers as they pulled on the spring together, and something which was not unlike a glint of sunshine passed through the two. The spring slipped hack and Joseph was on the outside again. Joseph lowered the window to bring it within easy reach of the woman on the other side. Strange he hadn't thought of that before. Standing straight up, Olive on her chair and Joseph on his ladder, the two looked Into each others eyes. There was nothing on Josephs side and nothing on Olives side' to dim their vision. It was all clear. But now face to face, thought Olive. The old mother passing by the lor, smiled, and spoke par- not a word. From the kitchen she called: "Are the windows all clean, daughter? AH clean, mother, came the answer, and Olive Thompson recalled the words of the sermon, Take heart; spring days are coming when the windows will be open to the sky; and we shall see face to face what has always been. IS IT CLEAR, OLIVE? of suds and the polishing cloth and stood In a chair to wash the windows. She would begin in the kitchen, she thought, and go clear around to the parlor. She tried to pull out the old fashioned spring of the upper sash, but it would not yield. said her mother, "Joseph Olive, had better help to wash the windows. He can stand on the ladder on the outside." Joseph," she called at the come In and pull the spring for door, Olive. And, "Joseph, polish the glass on the outside, It Is too hard for Olive. Joseph was obedient. He had been the hired man for five years. No one would have known he was the hired man except the two women. He might have been the old lady's son and Olive's brother, so kind and true had he always been to these two. Olive stood on a chair on the Inside and Joseph on the ladder outside. The features of each were dim through the glass, and the two scrubbed away with soap and polish. What was left of smoke and frost yielded to double persuasion, and Joseph called from Is It clear, Olive? the outside: "Olive, scrutinising closely, called back, pointing to the upper corner. Just a little more rubbing right there. She did not notice that Joseph was looking Into her eyes, and thinking to himself how clear they were. He rubbed away at the filmy place, and then called again: It Isnt quite clear down In that corner. Olive polished away on her side catching Joseph's eye full of a light that shot right through the obscurity and made her remember the text of the Now we see New Year sermon a glass darkly. through Around the house went the two, Olive on the Inside and Joseph on the outside, and only the last perlor window was left. The morning had sped et the American article, which Is vastly superior in quality, as to practically exclude it The unsubsidized press is very bitter against Mr. Krueger on account of this concession business, and goes so far as to ask how the president could amass a fortune of more than $1,000,000 on a salary of 7,000, Eloff, could and how his no salary. on build a 8250,000 palace of conrank Is in front the Gillingham cessionaires. He lives In more simplicity even than Mr. Krueger, who dines with his coachman. His two sons, Joseph and the town school Parnell, attend (though Mr. Gillingham intends giving them a college education), and they may be seen at times behind the counter. Gillingham lives plainly and dines plainly, bis only Indulgence being good cigars and a fine pair of horses. His team is usually on the all go day, for he is in no one place for many minutes. He is closeted with Mr. Krueger more frequently than any one else, and the president often calls at the bakeshop and chats in the rear room with the proprietor about doings In the rand. Though seldom seen actively engaged in his place of business nowadays, no false pride absents Gillingham, and when the Americans called In the evening to bid him farewell he was engaged in wrapping up some hot buns for a comely Boer maiden. son-in-la- w, HOOSILR BOY RIVALS SANDOW Richmond (Ind.) Letter. This city Is the home of a young man who in time promises to be the rival of Sandow, and who now is capable of many feats of strength much out of the ordinary. He is Harry L. Williams. Williams does not hear the appearance of being stronger than the ordinary man, as he weighs but 148 pounds and is only five feet seven Inches tall, but the strengia of his chest, neck and arms is mar HARRY L. WILLIAMS, velous. He la twenty-si- x years old and is the son of rather small parents of Scotch Irish descent, neither of them possessed of more strength than thoir appearance would indicate. Neither are the other sons of the family possessed of strengin sufficient to distinguish them from other young men. Williams has always been strong, but it is only within the last five years, since reaching his majority, that he has come to be known as a young Hercules. He Is growing stronger all the time. The following is a partial list of the feats performed by Williams, none of them giving him any particular trouble:' dumbbell above Holding a the head at arms length; lifting 1,400 pounds with harness; twisting two packs of playing cards in two with the man greatest ease; raising a above the head; lying down to let two ordinary men, or one weighing 200 pounds, stand on his neck; driving a h y cut spike Into a afterward with the pulling hand, plank It out with the teeth; bursting a bowlder with the fist; breaking by expansion of the chest a chain that will stand a pressure of between 800 and 400 pounds; lifting 1,000 pounds, hand tied hold; breaking a clothesline around the bare breast by lung expansion; allowing two men, while he walks dumb- - . around, to swing on a bell held across the back, making a total weight of about 500 pounds; balancdumbbell on the head; ing a lifting a barrel of flour with one finger; lifting a barrel of salt from the ground into a wagon. Williams has never taken any special training, hut has a system of exercise of his own. He neither uses dumbbells no Indian clubs in his exercise, but has a system of twenty-tw- o gyrations that serve to deHe has never been muscles. the velop sick, is temperate and possessed great endurance. His lung capacity is 410 cubic inches, the extent of expansion and contraction being seven inches. The neck is so well developed that a seventeen and a half inch collar is Just a comfortable fit, which is fully two sizes larger than that worn by men PETER GILLINGHAM. and international questions, and the of Williams stature. only way he profits is by concessions. Whin th Rnl Filltd, Concessions are granted for the most Wallace The way to get a thing One man has ths absurd purposes. exclusive right to make Jam in the done properly is to do it yourself. Oh, I dont know, I have a The dynamite concession-alre-a Ferry Transvaal. give the government five shillings distinct and painful recollection of tryon each case and clear about 50 shilling to enamel my bicycle once." Cina is Such cinnati Enquirer. high duty put upon ings. -- 175-pou- nd 150-pou- nd two-inc- sixty-penn- 175-pou- nd When Autumn dies at last upon her throne Amid the ruin of a regal state, Boreas' clarion trumpets sound her fate, And Winter knows the realm thenceforth his own; Calling his minions in the Arctic sone And making them through bis own greatness great. He Journeys forth to his possessions straight. The winds wild music aye before him blown. A lock of frost he fastens on the land. And makes the air with keenest cold to sting; The waters lie 'neath fetters from his hand; And while his white snows toss and whirl and fling, Robed royally and crowned for all command lie proudly cries, Behold mis: X am King!" William Francis Barnard 175-pou- nd . |