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Show StIlI WROTE AX.NIELAtfRIE ACNOST1C WITNESS NINETY-THRE- E. Sot Allow to Tolllf la Coart B of MU KrJlof. A WOMAN TO WHOM THE WORLD ' The Bulletin says: The Philadelphia WAS INDEBTED. (New Rochelle, Pa., Letter.) final disposition of a sensational will of New Mrs. Ann Bartholomew contest in which It Is alleged the name Y.. although 93 years of Rochelle, Who CaniptMad tha Muslo of the testator was Tha forged by the exaad ModiSed tha Wordi Alao a tritad ecutors one of whom is his daughter, age, is one of the best dancer in this town In spite Of her heavy weight f tha Toor sad Infirm f Bar wa delajed today for a week on acof years Mrs Bartholomew still trips Xatlia Booth. V count of tbe agnostiehsm of the princithe light fantastic, and waltzes as pal witness, Perclval Frazer, the handShe rase in The gracefully as any young miss. writing expert. question Each heart recalld a different name involves the jtiO 000 ebtate left by frequently attends informal dances, But all sang Annie Laurie Had the same words been set to Chas- H Masson, formerly a widely and only last week at a dance in a other notes or had some other love known conveancer and real estate private house waltzed three times dur ballad been adapted to the sweet mu- agent whose plate of business was on ing the evening Mrs. Bartholomew sic of "Annie Laurie," would the sub North Sixth street The defendants are ia the daughter of the late Samuel Sistle charm of suggestion have been Mrs Eliza Cram, his daughter, and son. a sea captain of Norfolk, Va., and the same When a dear old song Charles A Fessler. The hearing wis was born in New Haven In Jjae. 1808. progressing smoothly when. JL .8. plays upan.our heatu, la It the word-her chHdhood John-oshe During one of the the attorneys for aoeompanied or the music which exerts the most berfather on many of hla voyages influence? Whom do we hold best defense called Mr Frazer for the purof hav.ng him identify the alleged She entered society early, and became beloved, the composer of verse or the pose famed for her dancing and other acforged signature and several signacomposer of notes Upon her marriage In the case of this perhaps the tures of Mr Masson admitted to be complishments Mr calm she came to Derby, living here until Frazer, looking genuine love of langreatest the English song aad collected marched confidently to the death of her husband, twenty guage, she who wrote the music "Do you swear or affirm?" years ago Since then she has livtfd the stand practically wrote the words certain-Irth- e "I affirm, asked with a son in New Rochelle. magistrate. version as evng for the last half .lC I suppose I should have relegated Before going any Annie Laurie really lived. Plied Air 1 r centuiy desire to examine into the the dreamy waltz to oblivion long She was bdrn in th? purple,, sq to further of the witness, put in ago," said Mrs Bartholomew, 'laying speak, more thin 200 years ago in j competency Gra-but, to tell Dumfrleshlre Scotland A young fel- former District Attorney George de-- I aside her embroidery, low of the name of Douglas In a nea- ham, one of the attorneys for the I the truth, I cannot resist Its spell, Mr. Frgser even though age has set its seal on lendauts Then rly diamlet loved fair Annie, and he he asked- Do addressing you believe in a God?" my locks and limbs 1 can look on wrote the original version of the n I neither believe nor disbelieve, unmoved at a two-ste- p and the other poem. The verses lived their Do new dances, but the strain of a waltz answered Mr. Frazer. quickly little day and died Their author, in a makes me a girl again, and I find its due course of time, laid him down and you believe In future state of punishI neither believe mazes as easy as ever. ment and reward Im afraid I died, too. but not for bonnie Annie or disbelieve I know nothing about need a chaperon more now than 1 did for she would Laurie, have none of returned the w itness. I object to when I was a lass. You must not him, and insteaS of becoming Mrs it, the witness testify, said Mr. think because I am frivolous enough having Douglas, she elected to take the name deto dance and go out sailing and ride of Ferguson. In this manner she got Graham. "Under the law, which clares that a witness to be competent the flying horses and swings, which I the husband of her choice, but no to testify must believe in a Supreme did at Glen Island not long ago, that fame. is clearly disqualified, re- 1 do nothing useful. I have stitched Being, In the course of little more than a turned he Mr. Graham, addressing the about thirty silk bed quilts, and 1 century there was born In England the court. Magistrate Elsenbrown at this woman who was to breathe Into the the breath of life and the stageMYcut the matter short by requestdead SMALL BO.Y WAS CAREFUL. Frazer to stand aside for the ing fiotil of musfc. She rescued from oblitime being Mot Want to Vlolal Bid vion the name of Annie Laurie, and th Low by bond of sympaSmothlox tb Track. wrought a world-wid- e Even PANACEA FOR POVERTYS ILLS. thy for the hapless Douglas. The narrow strip of asphalt which the name of Mr. Ferguson emerged Sara Core for Mendicancy DDeovorod by the city laid in Michigan avenue from from the gloom of the tomb and went Randolph to River streets for the benCharity Asa. t-efit of cyclists is a constant bone of clattering down the corridors of Time One of the agents of Chicago greatas the lucky husband of Annie Lauest charitable organization baa found contention. All of the traffic in the rie. It was a sort of a general resurdictrlct is of the heaviest kind, the specific remedy for the starvation rection. tracks of the wholesale housee great winter. of in the and the poor suffering So to Lady John Scott Spottiswood, constantly passing and repaBging, and who has just died, the world is indebt- The directing heads of the organisa- most of the drivers showing a decided tion have such a keen sense of the ed for the words and music of the humorous that they have forwarded preference for running the wheela on song that It sings today. Born In 1899 the one aide of their trucks on the asphalt report of their agent, in which hla she was married in 1833 to Lord John atrip. A battered tandem on which to was set the forth, people She suc- remedy Douglas Montague Scott. who had requested that a certain case two small boys were mounted wound ceeded to her brothers property in be Investigated. Some North Sidewo-me- n its sinuous way among the trucks the, 1870 and resumed the family surname became Interested in tbe case of other day, in momentary danger of beof Spottiswood. She was an accom- a man three-hon- e who, in the face of ill health ing wiped oif tbe map by a team. The lads tried to stick to plished musician and an efficient play- and with the handicap of a and large er on several instruments. Many growing JtemUy fif Chlldreo. was strug- the asphalt track as long as possible, years agar she issued a volume of popto make a livelihood. The wo- Tiuta heavily loaded 'track held the ular songs with music. It was much gling men put their hands to their purses right of way ia front of them. "Hey, more than half a century ago that she and aided in that way, hut that was there jelled the steersman of the modified the original words of Annie not what the man wanted. He wanted tandem. The driver turned slowly Laurie and composed the music that work indoors so that he could around and looked over tbe heavy load keep bis will keep alive the verses for aye. health and not he laid up every week to see what was the matter. "Pull When in 1854 England was fighting or two aa the result of exposure. He out, will yon " yelled tha,Wd n shrill treble. The driver smiled and in the Crimea it was our own Bayard was .a. peddler, and by tailing from Taylor who wrote the Song ot the the rising to the setting of the sun be turned to hi 'three horses again. Say, out of there, demanded the lad. Camp containing the lines: managed to earn a few cents profit pull I dont want to run into you and get They sang of love, and not of fame; There was never On any day of the Chicago Chronicle, Forgot,, was Britains glory; year enough of a margin to give the pinched. Each heart recalld s different name. meals. The three family satisfying And all sang Annie Laurie. Bettor Ttmoo for Draw Clarks childrens clothes were ragged and and thus linked the song to. the other there was scant eoveriagat night, notGovernor Roosevelt has signed the and younger branch of the Engllsh-epeakln- g withstanding the constant tolling of Henry bill, which provides that no world. " tbe father. The interested women aP drug clerk ia New York shall be alThe poor and infirm in the parish pealed to the charitable organizations lowed to work more than seventy of Westrother have lost a real beneto try to secure inside work for the hours a week; that they shall be alfactor bthe death of Lady John, who worthy man that would pay enough to lowed one hour for each meal and have was wont to say of her charities, "My givp adequate food and shelter to his one full day off la every two weeks father was kind to the poor, and why family. An agent was dispatched to Another clause of the bill provides Of pronounced an- look np the case. His report was turn- that clerks mast not sleep in any should not I be? tiquarian tastes. Lady Scott Spottls-woo- d ed in and was sent last week to the store or apartment which does not secured every Important find in charitable North Side women. It con- comply with the sanitary Inspection the district, and daring her long life tained this comment and this recipe gathered a large collection of objects for the removal of the poverty ilia of of arphaeological interest She per- the peddler. I have seen Mr. OHooli-hamitted no interference on her estate He is honest, hard working and with any feature that served to keep worthy. A a way out of his troubles 1 would suggest that he save enough alive the memory of the past, and names were strictly adhered to. in summer to carry his family through Instead of placing the direction, Shut the winter. Chicago Tribune. the gate, on gates she wished kept closed in her demesne, the request ' Wky Ha Tarnod Book. appeared in her vernacular, Steek the A gay and festive youth who is embox-seon her ployed as a clerk In the Pennsylvania jtt She had no carriage, her coachman having railroad office had occaslbh'to go down as postillion, and her clinging to by- to Wilmington one evening last week, gone customs was manifested in every and while there he met a glrl who imrelation f life. pressed him as being worthy of cultl-vstidsays the Philadelphia Record. Grow kr Law. He asked if he might call, and was as1 An Idaho soldier has had five Inches sured that he would be welcome. But added to his height by law. It la the live In Newcastle, she said. first case ot tbe kind In the history of where is Newcastle?" he insisted. Oh, anybody can direct you," she recongress, says the Washington Post. It seems that W. W. Pefley went into plied. "We live In a greatrblg stone the war with Spain as a private in the house the largest .house Ip the town." 1st Idaho Infantry. Recording to the He was forced to be satisfied with records of the war department, hla that On Sunday he took a run down height at the time ot his enlistment to Newcastle, and when he inquired was S feet 5 inches, when, aa an where the young woman lived the big actual fact, his height was 5 feet 10 jail was pointed out to him. "Thats inches. The missing five Inches made where she lives," said one of the town a lot of trouble for Pfefley. Hi cap- boys. "Her father's one of th JailThe young man took the next tain- wrote a- letter to the major, the ers. major to the colonel, and 'the colonel train back. wrote to Senator Shoup, while the ear affidavit Sengeon prepared O of Artoms Wars. ZtoriM, ator Shoup framed a bill and introArtemus Ward used to tell of a lecduced it; the committee- on pensions ture experience which he had in a litconsidered it, and reported it favoratle place In the far west. There was bly, and the senate passed it So now, a blizzard on the night when he held eo far as the senate la concerned, Mr. forth, and. consequently the audience Pefley has hla five inches idded nnto was smalL "After my lecture," said him by due process of law. , Artemus, "I ventured to suggest to the ch&lrtpnn of tbe committee that the elements Earing been against me Both Wfch4 ths Sam- "I wish now, shrieked thA angry that evening I might repeat my talk young wlfeT wish now you had mar- later on In the season. After conferried Edith Macmahon instead of me! ring with his fellow commlteemen, the chairman came back and said, to Thats what I wish! I would have married her, only the me: We havent any objection at all to your repeating your lecture, but wouldnt have me, and you would! the" feeling is that yon had better re. Stray Stories, peat it in tome other town. Vnu - e n, 1 j - well-know- n. old-pla- ce DANCES JOHN L. SULLIVANS CALLERS. GAMES. AND PLAY5 (n with hbMu written a Fiatk--, John L. Sullivan waa telling about the queer schemes people have - to make money, says tbe New York Sun. t It is impossible to reproduce anything that John JL says exactly as he tell it for the reason be has a picturesque style of narration that Is inimitable, but as nearly as It can be reproduced in print the story went thus: "A conlooking fellow came in to sumptive -sea me and says, T got s great scheme to make money; d'ye want to come la?,. 1 says to himYes. If it's on the level. He says it lb He sits around and gets his skin full of booze When he's busting to tell, 1 tell him to out with it, and he says, 'John,' says he, you know the English and Boers sre fighting sn1 every Irishman is with the Boers. I says to him Yea He says, Well, another fellow and meselfs goin to print a million circulars and send em to every prominent Irishman In tbe country appealin' for a dollar to help the sufferin' Boers,, he says. What we want,' he says, is a representative name to head the list,' he Now, John, everybody know says. youre on the level,' he says,, .and wed like to- - get you in. If we can't get you we thought we'd try Gen. JOBeirne he says. You see the scheme, John? he says. Suppose we get only 200,W0? You know it's easy enough to get that money at a dollar a throw. Well, wb sends the Boer a 25,00l and whacks up tbe rest, he says. Well, I looks at him. He was a consumptive so I couldn't hit him, and I says, G'wan, you crook! Dye call that on the level? I says. And he says, Sure its on ' the level; everybody's doing it 'Well, MRS. ANN BARTHOLOMEW. I says, get out, you crook. I dont make a great many buttonholes for glasses for four years, nd her hearing give a whoop if everybody else is. - Go She . recently Jour- try Gen. O'Belrne. You cant get me, Is unimpaired. the dressmakers In New Rochelle " Mrs Bartholomew has not used neyed alone to Illinois to visit a son. 1 says, and with tha he lighted, 1 waa sorry he was a consumptive, hut If Id a bit him, I'd a gone clear through of th health board The passage of BOHEMIAN STUDIO . PARTIES. him. Maybe be was on tbe level at this bill w ill mean a general over4 that, and thats the way they ran those of Few Tb lHhtful Comblnatlo funds. ' hauling of drug stores throughout tbe Formality. city. Exchange Observant It Is Just as true, said the PLAQUE OF RATS. that proper environment counts Girl, Retort Hr as much inthe battle of success- Fans Cats Fail ts Hasp ths S4mm qutte Judge Taft of Ohio tells this story ful entertaining as the proper placVTItkla Bowed of how his wife once turned the tables of an army doea in actual warIn Paris there sre low streets near on him Then be attempted a bit of ing are When the surrounding fare. where the inhabitant are sarcasm st her expense. a host of even very moder- the river, charming, Mrs attended allow Taft their children to cross to afraid The Judge and peoate tact and ability can pdTsuade or th ths courtyard after dark, church out Sunday morning, and after garden into believing that they have The the Philadelphia Inquirer. service Mrs. Tzft was the center of a ple tays Perpassed a most delightful evening. Central marketa are Infested to such group of women who stood In the aisle althis is why studio parties are has been an extent that and bell a long and animated discus- haps ways placed among the things to be abandoned in despair, As soon as dark ot intersome feminine sion os topic desired. Certainly a studio generally sets in armies of rats attack ths reest, as women will. means thronging place of many old serve deat the provisions, to' which they have The jodte grew impatient rare things, all valuable in remln and burrowed their way beneath the lay, and waa very grim on the way iscences and compelling starting point masonry. A singular detail Is that tha home. At last he said: for if these trifles cats, which ars very numerous at tha of conversation, women Do you know you chattering abroad Central markets, live on the best terms remind me of Balaam's - ftBg blocking have been .plckeA-.uawaken memories in the minds with the rats. They can be seen troteither the way!" ot those who have been there or raise ting about together. Tbe city cat baa 0, no, replied Mrs. Taft severely mean. to. tost it reputatton In Parts. Me or b You aw mistaken. It was th angel the hopes of , the people whoa and some thus splendid stilt enjoys killing a mouse, but with prove go day, of the ass!' that blocked the way stimulus to a general talk. Exchange, other fuod to band a rat ha become Memphig Scimitar., rather large gam from the feline point V. J f the budget For Pretoria Mot a CpltoL Senator Pettus big black slouch bal I commission suppressed ibis yearlhe supPretoria is not, as is a curiosity. It is his traveling desk, credits for ths cats kept in the storeposed, tbe tip fetal of the Transvaal. When he starts out in the morning houses of tbs ministry of war. The cat Pott hefstrooB Is the capital of the Senator Fettus fills hla hat with let- sa an official is now only to be found ot seat and governPretoria the state, ters and papers. When he reaches the at tbe ministry of finance and the ment They ire about 105 miles apart senate he lays it upon his desk end council, ofstate. No decision has yet carefully extracts his budget from Its been cams to by the authorities as to It h All Rlskt. When he has searched how tbs rat plague is to be got rid of, Mr E. Conomy What do you mean generous lining. satisfled that its valand is hat tbe though poisons with Instantaneous efby buying al these things? Mrs. K. uable contents have been extracted he fects, which have tbe additional adConomy DoTt get excited, dear; 1 sends it to the cloakroom by a vantage ot mummifying the body, are didn't buy them. I had them charged. Post, favorably regarded. The system, howPhiladelphia Record. ever, has the disadvantage of making Dr. Entitles to It. poison too readily obtainable. "Mrs. Brimerson always has Sfich a Thiery mentions four terriers belongHorsy Tmsovaat Ponies. A Cape peny has been ridden 100 ehlc look." "I wonder if its because ing to M. Girard, chief ot the municipal miles over rough country in twenty-seve- n her husband is In tbe wholesale gg laboratory, which are excellent ratbusiness? Chicago Tlraes-Heralhours. catchers. They have cleared the cellars of th prefecture of police from tbe vermin and have strayed along the sewers as far as Bercy, two miles from A SOUTH AFRICAN SCENE. home, killing large numbers of rats on tbe way. M. Girard's favorite terrier can break instantaneously the hack of a rat weighing one and a half pounds. On Acheres Plain rats estimated to he 10,000 In number have been seen at once on two acres of ground planted with beetrooL Why Ooo Who - -- -- p tWe-fess- en d. at to-rid- e Wklt Cltj" Mot Equaled. whole, ths Paris exposition could not have been planned so as to il as present each a splendid did the Court of Honor at Chicago. As n, eoup-d'oe- Our world's fair had the advantage of unlimited space, with the opportunity of spreading in ATI directions. As Paris wished to have her exposition wjtbin her own walls, she was obliged to take the largest open spaces which the city afforded and to connect them at best she could The broad waterways of tbe White City suggested the possibility of using the banks of tbe Seine far more than they have ever been used before. The quays have, been widened and in places raised to the level of the avenues which border them; hence ths river may be called the main thoroughfare of the exposition. Otherwise the space is the same as that occupied by ths exposiJ8S9, with the added area emtion braces between the oId Palais ' de rindimtrie, now removed, and the Place de la Concorde. On this piece of land the two great art palace and . the monumental entrances have been very center of the erected,- facing-th-e - tt - - city. Scribner. " -- ' (tool Hardship - Dolly What au awful, awful time Bogo War Fa 4 Collector. Some of the English towns are beithe pioneers must have had! Polly "Yes. Just think, the poor things ing Infested by fraudulent collectors for the war fund. (didnt bav chafing dishes! ft - J flrra lonlSnllal ' - r ' EHdones, . Sad thing.-- ' that Beckham Meeks 1 Weeka dont affair, wasnt it? Meeks "Why. know. What was It? while his wife was consulting her dressmaker this morning Peekbam dropped dvUd in the aext roam. Weeks "Is that so? Have they any idea what caused his death?" Mseks "Well, the conorer thinks be must have overheard what the dressmaker zald. Chicago News. |