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Show r THE HOME OF PRETTY ANNEBOYELN. dan-gero- Thn Story of the Ancient English Castle Which Was Recently Bought by Henry Waldorf etaoln shrdlu CHshun Verily. swear It Is tetter to be lowly born. And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistening grief, And wear a golden sorrow. . KING HENRY VIII. American capital is stirring not only the present but also the ancient nobilRich men from the ity of England. western shores of the Atlantic are purchasing estates that were once the domains of royalty, and causing the countryside to rake up many a tradition of their early glory. Within the last fortnight the descendant of a wealthy New York family bought what Is reputed to be the birthplace of a lueen. and about which, even aa the Ivy of its moated walls, clings the itory of the hapless Anne Boleyn. So when Henry Waldorf Astor purchased Hever Castle near Seven Oaks, Kent, for seven thousand pounds sterling, some days ago. the good country folk started to tell again the romance of the woman because of whom it is chiefly famous. Though three places claim to be her birthplace the people of Kent contend that Anne Boleyn was born at Hever in 1507, the favorite abode of her father, Sir Thomas Boleyn. Here, they say she spent not nly the first seven years of her happy childhood, but also a later period cf exile from the court of Henry VIII, because she had dared love a younger and handsomer man than her monarch. Here, too. Queen Elizabeth is said to have visited years afterward to behold the home of her mother and do honor to her memory. Despite the conflict of various traditions as to the place of her birth, it is known that the future wife of Henry VIII lived at Hever Castle before she was sent to France to the court cf Louis XII, when she was a girl. It was a venerable and imposing structure which was built in the reign of Edward III by a Norman baron, William de Hever. and embattled as today with moat, portcullis, drawbridge and round towers after the fashion of a feudal fortress. The banquet ball which in recent years has been used as a kitchen, was huge, for it had been built for baronial festivities, before the father and mother of Anne made it their home, with a less free The purse for such extravagances. windows of the long winding galleries bore the shields of many generations. It was a quiet place for the chill. All its heraldic bearings were of a fo: grandeur. Sir Thomas Boleyn. her father, and the grandson of Sir Goef-fre- y Boleyn, who purchased the castle, had only the returns of the farm, together with a cash income of $20 a year, when be first made it his homo. The little girl found the court cf France, therefore, in striking contrast Sii home. to her English rein the bed thither gone tinue of Mary, the sister of th king of England, who had become the wife of the aged Ixiuis XII Here her father thougut his little daughter would obtain a culture and edicztian wMth would fit her to be a lady of thecaurt. The father reckoned well, but fata'.ly. When Anne Boleyn came back r Herer in exile some year liter t!i,? Joy of her early life had depirt?d f Sh? a already wuhi.t Vt of the f!r.:;'i power sovereign and was destined never escape from htm until it last she w;it Tower of to the scaffold m A'Jtr at the ag nf twenty-ninshe In Franc years eight tending had exchanged ihe cay life of l." French capital for he co.?rt of He:ny where ber beauty ns one of the queen's maids cf br.nr. soon turrounde.l n.r T'.i with a crowd of admirers kins smiled M her. but she did not Before then what his smile meint tho love with l.i had filien she long and Sir Percy, dashing Henry gallant a Hotspur, son of the Earl of Northumberland It appears that Sir Percy usej U come to court with Cardinal Wolaey, the chief councillor of the king at that time, and whi'e the master was closeted with the monarch the young page found to opportunity to meet tit , seven-year-o- inn-crea- four-coat- nal Hoo, St Omer, Melmains. t v-ev- er fickle-hearte- d I.p-i-do- e vIt. dark-haire- d and dark-eye- d Anne. Tie girl excelled in music, she could sing and dance and her lively manner completely conquered the heart of the Hotspur. Suddenly the girl was banished from court and tent to secluded walls of Hever. The king told her father that h could not marry Sir Percy, aa he se ed Wicker-ha- m, St. Leger, Wallop and Ormond. The father Is said to have misunderstood the motive of the king in sending his daughter home from court, until one night, when, according to a popular legend, the seneschal of the house that the king was without ld j ua WHAT YOUR NAME MAY MEAN had chosen another husband for her. Even the Earl of Northumberland was summoned to court and told that he must terminate his son's courtship of Anne Boleyn. At the king's behest, the father soundly trounced bis son. as far as words could secure such a chastisement, and to clinch things the young man was compelled U marry another. The old gossips of Kent still tell stories of the exile of the beautiful Anne Boleyn, and how she was wont to wander up and down the windy gallery of Hever Castle moaning for her On stormy nights even now lover. say they they can hear the sorrowful voice of a young woman singing in a doleful minor key some old love song Hedge-line- d of Normandy. paths are still pointed out where it is Baid she went in her lonely walks, and trees where she knelt and wept Critics of Anne Boleyn. the queen, would be compelled to admire Anne Boleyn, the maiden, if all the stories about her disappointed love are true. There was little at Hever to overcome the young girl's distraction. The dark moats with their stagnant waters, the forboding shadows that lurked around the round towers, all tended to her melancholy. In the long gallery, the stained glass windows, wilh their heraldic devices, shed for her a somber light despite the shield in her mother's rlght.of Howard, Broth erton. Warren and Mawbray; and the seven quarters of the pater- 1 closets of former flwrs are also pre served as a reminder of the more days of Kins Edward III and the fourteenth century when the castle waj3 built New York Tribune. the moat Hastily sending his daughter to her room, with the command to "get In bed in a trice," Sir Thomas ordered the drawbridge lowered and the portcullis raised. To the wonderment of its owner .the castle did not respond The with the bugles of a calvacade. come alone. had almost The king royal visitor indeed seemed ill at ease, and, after due refreshments, he made some transparently feeble pretext for seeing the daughter Anne. "Your majesty." was the reply, "the girl is 111 and cannot be seen. She is now asleep In her room." When the news came that her lover had married another. Anne is said to have thrown off her sorrow, so far as it was visible, had attempted to enliven the gloomy halls of Hever with the French songs and dances that she bad learned at the court at Paris. Later when the word came from the king that she should return to court, she is said to have expressed great delight and cn her return to have Joined In the gnyety of the palace with an abandon that was new to her. Her subsequent career, the machinations of the king, his advances and his repeated apologies, the divorce of Queen Catherine, the disruption of church and state in the kisgs attempt to obtain sanction for his art. his marriage to Anne Co'ryn. the birth of the Princess Eli zsbeih the usurpation of Anne's favor wtili the king by Jane Seymour, the ehsrfs brought against Anne, her be- heading and the mysterious dlsappear-- ! a nee of her body, are succeeding chap ters of English history, which wjuld never have been enacted If Anne had never left Hever Castle for a throne On the death of Sir Henry Boleyn, Hever Castle was seized by King Henry on the ground that it belonged tj his former wife, even though he bud divorced her and had had her beheaded tt was later settled upon tady Anne of Cleves, and on her death t parsed to Sir Edward Waldcgrave From the Waldegraves it passed to t.e Humphreys, and from the Humphreys to the Malleys of Sussex. The castle still retains most of Its mediaeval characteristics, and contain much of the furniture which was used there in the time of the lkleyns The room that has always been most popular for visitors is the bedroom cf Anne, which Is beautifully paneled and contains Anne Boleyn's bed Here are still a massive pair or andirons bearing the royal Initials H. A., and surmrunt-eBo-lev- n d with crowns Another room is said to hare been for a council used by Henry VI The room has a curious chamber stucco celling. Most of the windows 1 1 bearing heraldic designs still exist Tbs secret passages, dungeons and blind Has a Each Surname or Special Significance. In primitive times we know men and women boasted of but onj cognomen, as witness the Biblical records. It was not until the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth or even fourteenth century that surnames became really stationary. The word was formerly written Sire-Nam- e sir-nam- e. Williamson and Stevenjson would naturally be sir or sire names, equivalent to son of William and of Steven. In the same way the people of Rusei.i affix the termination of witz. as Pietro-witson of Peter, the Poles employing sky in the same way. Padercwsky. Among the Saxons we find ine ending "ing" denotes descent; to this origin are due such names as Browning. Willing. Dering. etc.; the patronymic syllable Mac was used in similar manner; and in Ireland the O sigui:ied graud-soas O'Sulllvan. The Welsh often put the father's name In the possessive case as George William's or as it is now written. Williams. To this origin may be traced many names ending in s. The Greeks bore a single name givtu the tenth day after birth, and usually expressing some admirable feature, as Sophron, the wise. The Romans were much less dignified than the Greeks; names were derived from which source so much of their cius, swineherd; or from some personal peculiarity, as Naso, History tells us that the early dwellers upon the earth erected their shelters upon the shores of lakes, along '.he banks of rivers or close by the sea. from which sourse so much of their food was drawn. And so the connection being obvious, we havve such names as Fisher. Hook. Bate, Sholes. Dolphin. Eels. Conger Salmon. Bass. Codman, Pike. Roach Herring and Crabb. all of them good English names. Trades and occupations have given names to more inhabitants of the earth than any other cause, as, for example, the innumerable family of Smith, derived from the Anglo-Saxosmitten, to smite, originally including wheelwrights, carpenters, masons, etc. z, n. long-nose- d. to-da- y, n Some years ago a philologist under- took to enlighten the public as to the extraordinary extension of this name, after thirty columns he threw down his pen in despair Trade also first gave names to thi Taylors. Carpenters. Bakers. Mason. Brewers. Slaters. Sawyers. Chandlers and Colliers. It is said that a Sussex family by the name of Webb has carried on the trade of weaving since the thirteenth cen- tury. Spencer is from dispensator or steward. Groevcncr from gros vencur, grand huntsman. With thebe we might mention names from signs of inns, as Will at the Lull and George at the Whitchorse. which were afterward simplified Into Will Bull and George Whitchorse. From wood Is derived Atwood. Underwood. Netherwood. cic. By-woo- Jenner is an old form of Joiner, of Miller. Bannister is the of a bath. d. Mil-ne- r ke.;er We find the name Pilcher means "a maker of pilches, a warm kind of upper garment, the great coat of the fourteenth century." Crocker means a maker of pottery, from the word crwk," which la ptw vinctal dialect signifies large Jr. Ward indicates a keeper, ns lurard. doorkeeper; Hayard or lleteward. keeper of the town cattle; Woodward, forest keeper; Milliard, keeper of a mill; Kenwood. dog keeper Formerly, if rp dwelt upon a hill, be would style himself Attehill or A'.hill or A thill ; If near a moor. Attnoor. W find color and complexion have given to many surnimes. as BLck, Uiv V.:rn Brown and Redman Ti c ,;(ir of the hair must also hae find Innumerable teen r,nMdcrcl a Redheads and Blackheads. C.nv Whiteheads The form cf the hea l d rd-de- a few linchf'ls. Brnadhf-ad- . eft. Net from the Mad alone have tunics been taken; Irncfellow Tallman. Prettyman Freeman. Pullman and Pennyman conjure up for us length, The termination height and penm kin is a diminutive. Timpkin. meaning little Tim Connecticut Magazine. Prof. Martin W. Odland of Madf-on- . Wis., who has Just been appointed United Stales deputy consul at Copenhagen, Denmark, expects to leave for his new post the latter part of July. PLEASANTR1ESOFPROMINENTPEOPLE Short Stories of Humor Told About Individuals Notable in the Realms of Politics and Industry. millionaire, has at Ogontz, a Philadelphia suburb, an estate that he calls "Folly Farm." Here he raises thorGrant's intimate friends, tabooed the oughbred horses, sheep and hogs, and other day the assertion which is some- here, to look after his flocKs, he has a times made that Grant, among rich number of collies, one of them called men, was something of a beggar. Jack, a beautiful and intelligent dog ' "Grant was not a beggar," said Mr. worth 1,000. Jack is In the charge of an importStewart. "He received the many presents that he did, not because he asked ed English shepherd named Giles, and for them, but because he had many J Giles has trained him to do a number friends who delighted to of Hic ks. wealthy One of those is to solve arithmetical honor him and help him. "The only ground for thinking him a problems. "Three times three," Giles in u will nay, and Jack will bark nine beggar that I ever heard of story sometimes told of him and ef a t tints. "Five plus eight," he will go cheese. He was very fond of a certain on, and the dog will give thirteen kind of cheese, and at dinner at a be Uh. "Nine minus two." and seven friend's house emco a huy;e cheese of harks will be the prompt reply. Jack will also, to a certain extent this brand was set before him. " 'Where shall I cut it? ka asked read. Two big cards are kept beside his hut. one Inscribed with the word the host. " 'Anywhere you please,' was thd "food" and the other with "drink." When ho is hungry he will take the reply. "Thereupon he made believe to hand "food" card down and crrry it to the shepherd. When he is thirsty he will it from the table to the servant. down the "drink" card. take " 'Wrap it up, he said, 'and I'll cut it at home.' All That Noise for Nothing. "That story," Mr. Stewart concludII. O. Havemeyer, who, k is reported, "is often repeated to General ed, will retire from the presidency of Grant's detriment The whole thing, the sugar trust soon on account of his as a matter of fact, was nothing but a poor health, is at times extremely nerJoke." vous, so that the least noise jars upon him. Sermon Not Old, Still They Kicked. of Mr. Havemeyer's butler, while servthe F. the president Baer, George Com& ing dinner one evening not long ago, Reading Railway Philadelphia two let fall a tray of crockery. A tremenwith was blessed pany, recently new grandsons, both born on the same dous crash of course ensued. "I suppose you have broken all the day. Mr. Baer was showered, on this account, with congratulations, and sev- plates," said Mr. Havemeyer. eral deputations waited on him with "No, sir, not one, sir," replied the their good wishes. To one of these butler. bodies he told the following story: "Then you have made all that noise "The quickness with which one new for nothing, eh?" said, testily, the grandson has followed the other In sugar magnate. ; my family reminds me of an old A of Hortx and of the my boyhood days Story Friendship. clergyman Leslie M. Shaw, the secretary of the quickness with which he would repeat treasury, told at the banquet of the his sermons. "His congregation didn't care so Chicago Bankers' Club last month a long as he would let a year or so go by strange incident of equine kindness. "This happened in Morristown, the before ringing in a sermon they had heard before, but when he would re- Vermont hamlet where I was born," peat the same discourse twice in said Secretary Shaw. "In my father's three montbs they would grumble to stable there were three horses, and one another mildly. One week the good one of them an old sorrel, with teeth old gentleman preached a new sermon, worn down so close, that a day came and then, through some lamentable when the poor animal could no longet oversight, he repeated the same ser- chew his food properly. "In some way the sorrel must hav mon the very next Sunday. The conhis two friends of his predicanejtifled over him the coals gregation hauled for this, but an aged deason, to com- ment, for they began Immediately to put their heads Into his manger, and fort him said: " 'Well, doctor, they have blamed masticate his hay for him, afterwards you In the past for giving them old laying it before him, whereupon he sermons, but they can't blame you to- would take It up and swallow It. That day for that, sir. Your cernion today was the only way he could eat, but he was only a week old, and well they did not suffer, for his friends were at tentlve, and he took on flesh during knew It " the week that we waited for tbehorss. doctor to reach, on his winter round Praising the Lord by Machine. our the Elkinton, section of the country. Pennsylvania Joseph On tht Quaker who induced the Russian doctor's arrival the sorrel's teeth were Doukhobors to settle in America, was filled, and he could then eat comfort persuaded by an Episcopalian friend ably. Ills friends did not attempt of his the other day to attend an Epis- thereafter to chew his food for him." copal church service. At the end of the service as be was Judge Maddox of Georgia is respondeparting, Mr. Elkinton expressed sible for the following story anent great liking for the organ he had just former Governor "Bob" Taylor of Ten heard. nessce: "What! you like our organ?" cried A Populist one day said to Taylor: his friend "I am surprised ut that I I'm Just as good a Demo "Governor, thought the organ would be the one as crat are." you I thing you would dislike. thought you "That reminds me," responded Tay Quakers were averse to music." "of an Irishman I knew years ago lor, we s a rule?, to do object, "Well, Pat became very ill, and the doctot praising the Lord by machinery," said Mr. Elkinton. "but If that sort of thing told him be would have to die. Th must be done, I like to hear a fine priest was sentjr, and asked Tat U he had any last request to make. machine." " 'Yes,' Pat answered; 'I want yoc to promise me, father, that I shall be One Grace Was Sufficient, In a Hebrew cemetery. burled The duchess1 of Marlboro jgh, who was Miss Consuelo VanderMlt, took "Naturally the priest was shocked tea on one of the? warships engaged In Pat had been a faithful member of the the sham battle off Newport during Catholic church, and the good fathei could not understand why a Catholic her visit to America last summer. hocM wish tu be b'iried eUewherc A young naval officer narrated the in concentrated ground. than other day a story fold him by the " "Why under the sun he asked, 'dc duchess cn this oecasfejn. "She said to me." he began, "that yoti want to be buried in a Hebrew the custom of saying grace before cemetery? " 'Because, Pat answered, 'that is nteal seemed to be dying out everythe last place the devil would ever where, and she added, apropers of thi3 think cf looking for an Irishman.' that she had entertained a bishon "You may be as good a Democrat a shortly after her settlement in Eng- I am." Taylor said to his Populist land, and the question of the omitted "but th3 Populist party I? fc.enl, trace pcrplcj.pl her not a little. last place, f would think of looking "However, at the first rneal which the f jr a De mocrat. the bishop partook cf at Blenheim Th palace, no graco was said. Colr.nd Alfred I Hi vcr. who hv duchess apologize. slightly for this, died at Charlottesville. Va., wa but the prelate, smisir.g and tsing, j'.st rlijcafed at tie Fole Polotee hnique aid: Paris, find was sent by the Emperor "Tour grace is sufTie ient Napoleon HI. in company with othei diijtingni.hcd mtn, to survey the coa tlkins' Dog That Can Read. illiam L. Rlkirva the Philadelphia f f Algieis, Where Grant Cut the Cheese. George H. Stewart. Jr., of Philadelphia, whoBe father was one of General 1 it-t- j . I j ! |