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Show r- - RVTII BRYANS ENGAGEMENT TO WILLIAM II. LEAVITT ANNOVNCED ENGLISH MILLIONAIRE IS AN ADMIRER OF AMERICAN METHODS -- UNHAPPY CAFL9TTA WILL SOON BE LONG SUFFERING OF Efe IvML-- Miss Ruth Bryana engagement to Wm. H. Leavitt has been formally RUTH BRYAN TO WED SOON. FINDS AND KILLS TARANTULA. Ends Plane to Join Hull House Worker. Ruth Bryan, the eldest daughter of William Jennings Bryan, has abandoned her plan to Join Miss Jane Addams in social settlement work at Hull House, Chicago, since she has decided to wed William H. Leavitt, an artist, whose home is in Newport, R. I. Announcement of her engagement was made at a house party of the University of Nebraska chapter of the Delta Gamma sorority. The wedding will take place In October at the Bryan borne In Lincoln, Neb. Miss Bryan met Mr. Leavitt while the latter was in Lincoln several likemonths ago, painting a ness of Mr. Bryan. They were seen frequently driving in each others company during Mr. Leavitts stay In the Nebraska city. Miss Bryan Is tall, stately, and a favorite In her social circle. Venomoue Insect Had Terrorized Family for Six Months. An ugly, venomous tarantula from the tropics was dispatched at the home of William Zink, In Gloucester City, after It had terrorized the family for six months, says a Philadelphia dispatch. Zink was a former fruit dealer, and one day half a year ago, while he was handling a bunch of bananas, the huge spider hopped out and stretched Itself. Zink and members of his family searched for the Insect for some time, without avail, and then concluded that It had escaped. Not long after, however, the tarantula was discovered In the house, and again chase was given it, but once more it escaped by hiding. At intervals ever since the tarantula had been seen at various places through the dwelling, but In every Instance it managed to elude Its pup suers. It soon got to be a reign of terror in the house, and the Inmates 6hlvered at tne slightest sound. Just as he and his wife were arising this morning Zink once more caught sight of the tarantula as It clung to a picture frame in his bedroom. "Ha! cried Zink. "I have you at last," and he leaped wildly toward the celling. The huge Insect dropped behind the picture frame and mysteriously disSure that he was on the appeared. trail, Zink determined to rid the house of the creature, and continued the search. Finally, after two hours of unceasing scrutiny, he came upon the tarantula crouched in a crevice In the wall, where It may have hidden all those months. After a terrible battle Zink killed u and proudly exhibits the bgiry body at his home. It measures over five Inches across Its legs. Engagement Alfred Moaely, who Is now In New York In advance of a committee of British educators who will study American educational methods at his expense, Is an Englishman who made an Immense fortune In the gold and diamond mlnos of South Africa, and who now conceives the Idea of keeping Eng land abreast of the times by teaching her experts American methods. Last year he brought over a commission of twenty-fivBritish tradesmen and paid all their expenses during a visit to our Industrial centers. He was born In Bristol forty-eigh- t years ago, and Is Immensely popular. e full-size- d THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. IS A LOVER OF ORCHIDS. Intense Interest Manifested in Coming International Convention. ixever before In the history of the Disciples of Christ has there been such an Interest as there Is in the coming convention of the International missionary convention of the Christian churches of the world, which convenes His Collection the Fad of Retiring British Statesman. Joseph Chamberlain, the statesman, whose sudden resignation from the British cabinet, has caused such a sensation, is perhaps the most enthusiastic orchid collector in the world. It Is not believed that his exat Detroit, Oct. 16, and will continue tensive collection Is equaled anywhere in dally session until the 22d, Inclu- on earth. About 5, GOO different varieties exist, and Mr. Chamberlain has sive. Secrotary Benjamin I Smith of Cin- representatives of more than half. Mr. cinnati and A. Mclean, president of Goschcn used to declare that Chamthe Foreign Christian society, expect berlains course was not one to rouse groat things of the coming convention. public confidence In his Judgment or "Were Joseph Chamberlain During the past year fully fifty thou- sincerity. sand new members have been added first lord of the admiralty, said Mr. to the already strong membership, Goschen on one occasion, I should exntblch swells tbelr numbers now to pect to read In the Times some morning that he had sailed away with the 1,300.000. In addition to this splendid record whole channel squadron for an una Bum of $2u0,000 has been raised for known destination and would probably field work in foreign lands, and this never be heard from again. people have Just sent missionaries inFOUGHT IN MANY WARS. to Tibet, the urst In the history of the world. Major Way Eight Time Honorably In 1S09 there was a single congreDischarged From Army, gation of the Disciples of Christ, with Major Benjamin Way, who claimed a membership that did not exceed 'twenty. Now there are 11,000 congre- to be the oldest soldier In the United gations, and 1.300,000 communicants, States, is dead at Akron, O., aged 92 and churches have been established years. He enlisted in the army and in all parts of the United States, in received honorable discharges eight record never probably Canada, in England, in Australia, and times a equaled in the country. He saw his In South Africa. first service with this regiment In one of the Indian wars of the western Eve and the Apple. At a dinner In New York the other states. He also fought in the war beevening Theodosia Garrison, poot and tween the Seminole Indians and the novelist, was seated beside a man who United States, while with this regila vastly .proud of knowing a deal ment In 1840 he was discharged, to about foodstuffs. At every opportun- again enlist with the Seventh United ity he airs this real or supposed States Infantry, with which he served knowledge, and ere long had begun during the Mexican war. Discharged to weary the clever writer. At length In 184$ he enlisted In 1861. He was durhe declared that apples were excel- twice discharged and lent for the vitality of the brain' be- ing the war. In 1864 he enlisted for cause cf the phosphoric acid which the last time, serving one year. they contain In large quantities. "Oh, Preacher Wtlh Good Ideas. then It Is quite clear, said the poeRev. F. B. Meyer, a London preachtess, "that Eve only plucked that aper, who labors among the poor of ple to supply Adam with a few Ideas. Westminster, has recelvg J the American degree of D. D. and has accepted, Rare Specimens of Insects. Dr. Frank Snow, with a small party though be will not use 1L This la beof Kansas university students, has cause he does not wish to give even In southwest Art-on- the slightest reason for his people to been They brought back 15,000 speci- think he la better than they. When he mens, all pinned and labeled, of which assumed charge In his present pastoraomo 100 are new to science. Of those ate the poor of the district thought 6,430 are beetles, 4.500 are files, 1,926 tho church was only for those who are butterflies and moths, and the rest are well off. "This Is all changed now," ,ruu the list of bees, wasps, bugs and Bays Mr. Meyer, "and my many friends Insects. The butterflies and moths In the district call me Skipper or were collected at night by spreading Guvnor, aa tney happen to choose." on a tree near the camp a mixture of Coming Chets Tournament. beer and molasses. Ths International chessmastcrs tournament Is to be held at Cambridge Boxer Uprising Aided Christians. W. P. Bentley of Shanghai, China, Springs, la., next April, somewhere addressed a Christian Endeavor meet-iln- near tho 15th. and those who will be i, at Bethany Park, Ind., the other invited to take part are tasker, Tschlgorlu, Telchmann, Janow-sk- i, day, and surprised his hearers by asMaroczy, Burn ami Schlechter. of suring them that the boxer movement had proved a great blessing to the Europeans, and Plllsbury, Showaltcr, church. The persecutions the Chris- IJpschuetz, Marshall, Napier, Barry tians endured then only spread their and Hodges, among Americans. Presiteachings. Since the tremendous dent Roosevelt has agreed to giro a slaughter of Christians the number of special trophy for the winner of the converts had Increased until It now tournament and there will be several equals what It was before the upris- prizes, but the sum Is not yet made t LEAVE THE FEUD DISTRICT. Famous Hatfield Family to .Live In the West. The Hatfields, famous In Kentucky and West Virginia for their feud with the McCoys, have deserted the old battleground and gone to the far west About fifty strong, they have bought land near Chchalls, Wash., where they will settle. It is nearly half a century since the feud began between these two families. Ever since then the trouble has been more or les3 of a terror In the mountain border land of Kentucky and West Virginia, scores of lives having been wiped out on each side. For some time there has been comparative peace. The present exodus Is due to the influence of friends who have already colonized In the northwesL Plans Cathedral for Denver. Undaunted by the difficulty which Bishop Potter of New York Is having In getting money to carry on construction of the great catnedral there. Bishop Olmsted of the Colorado Episcopal diocese Is planning a similarly notable structure In Denver. It will be begun In November next and his plan Is that only a small portion that can be used be now erected and additions made in subsequent years. Ills idea Is similar to that of Bishop Potter and Bishop Doans of Albany to erect a building which It may take 150 years to complete, not to be a parish church, but a center of congregation for the wholg diocese. Eulogy of Queen Alexandra. President Loubet of France says that In the presence of Queen Alexandra one forgets to look at other women who may be twice as beautiful and not half her age. As for her grace, It Is astonishing. She makes me think of a queen of old France. Where did she learn that superb graciousness of hearing which clothes her as with a garment? Surely not In that sleepy little Danish court she came from! We have women In France who are probably better dressed, but we have none who possess her supreme elegance. She la royal from top to toe. MRS. MAYBRICKS VAST WEALTH. Imprisoned Woman the Heiress to Fortune of $7,000,000. According to the statement of her lawyer, Daniel S. Decker, Mrs. Florence Mayhrlck, when she comes out of prison In England, will be heir to about $7,000,000. While her mother, the Baroness de Roques, lives, Mrs. Mayhrlck will be dependent upon her bounty, as this estate must be held together, but on her death it will become the property, outright, of Mrs. Mayhrlck. "We have already recovered a good part of the lands In Virginia," said Mr. Docker, "because they were deeded away without proper authority. Darius Blake Holbrook, Mrs. Maybrlcks grandfather, owned Immense tracts x H A'J (5 jpEPHI' , UrooU) "Perur of the of or ny syst okwhi ihereft I think -Jo Carlotta, the wife of Maximilian, the Austrian Archduke who conqv iimais III refused her pleas that e effect' her husband, who was finally captured and shot. She Is now dying. the si Mexico, has been Insane since Napoleon janes. CLAIRVOYANTS "POOR CARLOTTA" IS DYING. Unfortunate Widow of Maximilian Can Not Live Many Days. Calling for her dead husband Carlotta, widow of Maximilian, once emperor of Mexico, Is dying in her prison, the Chateau de Bonchat, near Brussels. She still holds a mock court daily, of fancying herself yet Empress Mexico, for she has been bereft of reason for thirty-seveyears. To humor her the attendants pretend that she presides over their entertainments. Carlotta was seventeen when she became Maximilians bride in 1857. It was a love match and the ten years of their wedded life were a continuous honeymoon. But Maximilian was overthrown. captured, led out behind a hill at daybreak and shot by the execution guard. Before the capture of the Emperor the Empress pleaded with Napoleon III and with the Pope to aid her husband. Her prayers were unanswered. The first symptoms of mental were manifested on the day on which she had her last Interview with Napoleon. Her mania is harmless, and by humoring her belief that she Is still empress and In a palace in Mexico, her attendants find her easy to manage. With the limited funds allowed her by her family she has always found much fault, because "the palace," as she styled the castle that is really her prison, was not kept up in better style. King Leopold seldom sees her. It Is a public scandal that he dissipated her fortune. The most pathetic feature of Empress Carlottas fate is her hallucination that her husband Is alive. She talks of him frequently, and often begs courtiers to send her husband to her at once. Why does ho stay away from mo bo long?" she asks pitifully. n to Combine to Seer IN A TRir Investigates' Market. The clairvoyants of New York formed a trust, or what serves purpose of such an organization If It does not deserve to be calls, that name. Unlike the Chineses dry trust. Its object Is not to fix pr The trust of the seers has am. purpose. All of the members are. lied by the head officer that cr stocks Ere to be recomme: to clients seeking enlightenment i the best means of Investing t money. Sometimes several oompt. fc are the list. Dally reports are made by the to the members as to wk: nature of their advice should be course, this combination doesnoti only for the benefit of the compa Tho clairvoyants get their ra. But, naturally, they do not prof much as the companies, one ol made G0,rtoo last year through branch of u.s business. on '(4 Sm lAiOf fl The Changes of lime. Bishop Potter tells of a New 1 clergyman whose views when he his present charge were far In vance of those about him. Hr grees new Ideas crept in and a y minister, thoroughly Imbued these advanced notions, was e in to assist him. Said the young t one day: Doctor, I haveslv Leen told that you were i Ij churchman, but I dont think jw n The t high church at all. preacher replied: "My dear brother, when I first took up dence In New York I lived w town. Now I live way do:-anyet I have been living In ea. the same house all the time." r d Christian Unlverelty for China Lawrence Thurston, who has h Sww sent to China to found the Cnristian university to bo estabV by the missionary society of Yale T A Much Traveled Author. versity. Is but 28 years of aga Cutcliffe Hyne, whose "Captain w ill locate the new Institution lal Kettle stork's have won him fame, Important city. Sons of prosuj Is a tall, stalwart, auiletic looking Chinamen will be secured aa atuM . man of 36, with a cheery disposition with the hope that their conver-and a capital fund of stories. He has The7 a have Influence. wide may roved over most of the Interesting will have and uncivilized portions of the earth, posed university course and a postgrat- -j years lie avows that since his marriage, In school of Journalism. Mr. ho 1S97, has become "gradually born In Connecticut and tamed," but In company with his wife from Yale In 1898- - Tfr graduated he has pretty thoroughly "done tho other members of hls class ha littoral of north Africa from Algiers come missionaries. foreign to Tunis, while he has also to many of the oases considOrders Coat of Tiger Skin. erably south of Biskra. Miss Anna Morgan, daughter P. Morgan, whose prowess In the b City Executive a Yale Student. lng Hold has been much written-allow- s Charles llenry Leeds, mayor of her fondness for wild n btamford, Conn., will he among the to color her taste In dress. She political science in a three year New a Just given an order to course. Mr. Leeds will not as furrier for a coat of tiger skin. students of Yale universityresign astonished tradesman protested that Institution reopens this fall. when He while rugs of the strired skin we will devote himself to the of study of mayor, to which position he was douutedly beautiful, no garmentwot fur had ever been made or elected last November by a large Now York. The young woman ri Ills friends are to planning that this was a matter of no e,! make him democratic candidate for quonce to her, and next winter she governor next spring. The mayor astound her friends with the 80 graduated from Drlneeton in 1895 and costume. only thirty years of age. Plans Work for Women- Wedding Will Be Gorgeoue. Tho countess of Warwick Intro ,m"nl,,;r of ri.ynltles and other establish agricultural settlement "m w,n01 1,0 ll"'ltod to different parts of England, where atteml 0 Duke of on who Wl,lllllnK are expert In bortlcuUM Thar-wa- s pene-trate- g Tar-rascl- y w d nta-Jorlt- T r t 111 v le-i-- i I two nefrorr Pronunciation of Maeterlinck. The correct way to pronounce the name of Maeterlinck, the author and dramatist, Is as though It were spelled "Mahterllnk, not Maytcrllnk, or as It Is variously called. The French pronounce It Maytcrllnk OPS nci'rfiT StlAYUKX the sound of ao In French la "a," but In Belgian French the ae Is pro- there and In West Virginia and we Maeterlinck is a Bel- have recently found that ho also ownnounced "ah. gian, having been born at Ghent in ed valuable property in Fourteenth 1864. Ho has been styled "The Bel- street, near Broadway, New York." gian Shakespeare." It was In 1890 that he first became famous upon the It Oppoied to Consolidation. Rev. Dr. Davtd O. Downey of Brook-ly- n production In Paris of his play, "La Prlurcsse Malelne." Is leading the New York "onfer-onc- e of the Methodist Episcopal tip. Presidents Cousin Wins Lawsuit church It a fight against the proposed ing, 100,000. J. Emelin Roosevelt, cousin to the of the Methodist bqnk Indictment of "Fast Set" president, has gained a victory oxer concerns :n thi country. The p'uu Popular Italian Professor Dead. InBronson Howard, the dramatist. of highway of cortcmpiates t combine of the sey. rrof. Francesco Pepore, dean of the commissioners .the law faculty at. the University of dignantly denies that New York wom- Oyster Bay, In their fight to compel oral publishing houses, tho capital Mls8 Mn Ini Godot dairy farming and poultry rearing jNapIos, whose death, at the age o 80, en, outside of the "4H)," are addicted him to do away with the pier erected rtock to he from $15,ooo,ono to to declares those hut of that condrink, bad been own his and the presidents for 1nrt Qu'"'n Alexandra, ,was recently announced, the ps.ah'lshment to he that,!, work on cooperative principle- - - j trd and empress of Germany; what has come to be known as "the The matter was de- located at some point In the mlddlo the nected with that university fifty-fou- r believes that the problem of exprince and princes of Wales cided by Justice Herrick, when he west. Dr. Downey thinks this savors 1 years. He was the Idol of the stu- fat set" indu'ge to a doplnrablo tural depression can he eolved rlnr9 I,onry f Prussia ueh women, however, are la handed down a decision continuing too much of trust and turn er training dents. although those who came from tent. methods and Intelligent and hri other parts of Italy sometimes found his opinion Ignored by refitted persons, the Injunction restraining the highthat tho interests of tho church the list, women to this calling. She which, Mr. so Howard are bethat stories sas far ns j this country by hiring a few way commissioners from Interfering are becoming more material than spirit difficult to follow his lectures, Incottages, the occupy bend d.tlv 1" Nnv V. rl; of women with the dock, The derision will re- itual. He ilici.t'-ecause when he herinne wry tuttelt that of which separator Of this "against the diphnnalic will cultivate ! li r or intoxicated fet .iric main In force until the case Is ri allied tone of mnterln'istn I wish to enter an corps ntl(i RlK.ty he terested In his subject he S eke In enthe product being tnurk e r functions. at o.lu dinners and Issue. of ttie dialect. on trial the broadest Neopolltan emphatic protest." in order to do sway with petition. Met-erlln- the helpful j |