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Show '2 TltE PROVO HERALD . a present to her from ber Grandpa Mellon. . , Some people used to thlnkjthat Allsa and Paul lived "there in tha house, but they really didn't, though in the sum mer me. especially, they spenV-s-o much, time-i- n it that H Uf "66 wonder strangers thought they lived there. "' Plrtesl of Playhouses. n't at all likely there is another playhouse in aU ' the world qulU as , HAS COMPLETED ITS REPORT ON THE WOOL' TARIFF - Xwy t, -- !r, B;tb!a 6ae.It haaieal furniture, made o fit it; the" finest little- stove you ever saw; curtains 'on the windows, and dollar-wel- l; thijr are i6 many dolls in the house that it really is quite overcrowded. Yet neither Ailsa nor Paul 4s anv too Mpjpy, despite everything that B!c I!" -.- niirp a wi:iri)7iTH 't . . d kind-hearte- f - r , - 1 people try to Jo for them. Wnen trouble first came i between Mrs. Mellon and her husband the sym- ithg.4t-tbeJorHyrarT)iafnl- trt v VV w iii' U V War P w Vj iri iv; Ii ffffltf - Nor has she lost one bit .or. It. since the case has been buffeted I oack and forth throueh the courts. The action of Mr. Mellon in having her ! lorcmiy ejected from th famiiv dencej In seizing his two children, has made some of bee friends most-bitte- r in their denunciation of the million aire. Yet, despite all the bitterness that- - apparently exists between the father. and mortefhejai ajuuillfii, toairiTTEey ever were '.when on the common ground of love for their chil- I vy'; M I v ; ' I M '"."- 'nri . - r ,'ljL M with ' y Mrs. Mellon.- ; , J of congress injLjdlhy,itfgn,t schedule. The document a comprehensive digest of the di readjusting s"ce f me or icrcwce in cost production in this country and abroad. The board members, from left to right are Tboma m-- - tt i fk.mia - z . LEGENDS ABOUMH ESCROW According to Roman Mythology the Bird Was White" Until Apollo Made It Black. It is difficult to state the average life of a crow, but It is certain that enrs is much In excess of its merits, for It can scarcely be said tott&inoXfgood old aee. and even ripe for mls- cnier. For the row Jn all ages has reached a bad eminence. It is fre quently mentioned in legendary lore. Aeeortifigioftoman mythology itscolor was . drifelnaTIy white, and It owes Its black plumage to Aesculapius, for his Tnothe, The nymph had a quarrel with his father. Apollo, who 60 far lost temper-prob- ably he had the worn of the argu ment as- to kill the unfortunate nymph upon the spot Apollo had the grace to mourn bis rash act, and he determined that the crow should mourn, too, and so he changed its J . j. B. Reynolds and William M. Howard. ORLEANS LOSETHOPE sentiment is rneartyB stiwg-asittwas a decade or even five years be The Catholic church has always been Leader loyalist Attempts to Reconr royalist in its tendencies, Jrft, since cile Few Warring Followers Pop--' the separation of church anltMte this ulace Care Nothlng'for Restor- -' influence is not as as it ation of Throne. WS8. " .f 3.." - ITTSBTJRO. 3 Pa, dear, So how the little girl and her little brother live In the great mansion wlta i Pvi' "0h ood'rl : Mamma's servants galore. One week tbey have their mother eoinun That U the pitiful little with them. The next week they have their fathtragedy that is enacted each wet at the front door of one. of er to play with them. Pittsburg's most beautiful mansions. Still Something Lacking. The children are Ailsa Of course,. Mr. Mellon is Just as rich andPaul, aon and as he ever was, and everything that Mellon and little Mies Allsa and young Master daughter of Andrew Mm. Nora McMulltn Mellon." Paul want they still can have.Father and mother are struggling And Mrs. Mellon, too, Is just as desperately In the divorce courts to pretty as she ever was in the eyes be free of each other. The children of Allsa and Paul, for, of course,. they are forbidden by the court to see eith- couldn't well be to Bee the er parent more often than every other lines of care thatexpected come in ber have week,.'-- ' face, nor Is it likely they will notice Were there ever two children so the one or two white hairs that trousore beset? Tor ,mor than eight ble has sprinkled among the mass of years of ber young life Allsa bad been brown. Nor Is It likely that Allsa and tt-th happleat Utile girl .In all Paul notice, a bit of difference In their r six years ane was mother when she plays with them on muurg. quite .certain she was very happy. the floor of the nursery. Thf nt'vhen a little baby brother came But they realty are not yery happy to keep ber company, she was positive Just as they are getting real good ' of it ., and acquainted with papa again after And what fine times Ailsa and Paul, khe has been away for a week, he bun mat was tne name they gave little dies tbem up In his arms, bids them brother, had. ViTheit- - papa was Very, good-by- , starts off and they don't see very rich. . Everything they wflntfd' tilm again for a wek- - i "Goodby , pa- - Many officers in the French anny Paris. The royalists, who are al- and 'perhaps- - the majority of those ways feent in France; although their holding highest rank in the navy bePgliticy Jnfluciice ceased to be imlong to the old nobility or aristocracy, portant long ago, were surprised and but the new generation Is Quickly rather dismayed the Duke of Orleaus'an order that he will crowding these representatives of the life of France into the backhave no direct representative in ancient ground. In spite of the Socialists' efFrance hereafter. forts to decry militarism, the army is The Duke of Orleans, the: royalist Inteneely loyal to the republic. to the French throne, of pretender In a word, the old ghost, the restoratcourse, who is an exile In Rnglard, ion of the monarchy, seems to be laid writes an open letter in which he exTherefore the letter of the definitely. white feathers JnjtoWajjkajDd the pressly says hat-apneT&ssuiBins: Duke of Orleans, completely changing crow was made to "put on ; sullen to be his personal representative will his past plans, awakens interest only black Incontinent." do so without authority. his few followers. The crow has always been fabled In this way the-- duke hopes to end among to have the gift of speech, and it was the discord which- began several consecrated to Apollo on account of months ago after he changed his repIts gift of prophecy. The Augural resentative here. On the one side a means of di- the newspaper known as Action watched Us flight-a- s vination. If it flew to the right it was of which Leon Daudet is head; a most favorable omen, while if it on the other are Individuals who op- Strikes Sea Monster Asleep Off the turned to the left.lt was a plain indi pose the militant methods of this news-- ., Pacific Coast, Euv Stapes cation that disaster awaited the enter paper. . Damage. In his letter the Duke of Orleans prise. Pliny also comments upon the and of life the crow, states that says he has undertaken to long Tacoma, Wash. With a mighty if it made its appearance upon the his followers in an effort to reorganize decentral- thump, that sent Capt Crosby sprawlleft side it was a happy augury. He ize the royalist movement as he has ing in his deck house, - and deck says that its cries "were an indication always been opposed to centralization. hands flopping wildly out of the bunks, of coming rain, and that Its eyes were The political bureau Is suppressed, put the engineer on his back and set valuable as charms. The Latin crow but delegates will be who, the mechanism shuddering, the tug seems to have been a more worthy by means of committees,appointed on Redondo came to a Sudden stop near will carry -and better behaved bird than his In- the royalist the light four miles north of the fork 7 campaign. dian brother, who is an incorrigible As a matter of fact the cause of the of the Fraser. river oa the sturdy thief and mischief-maker- , and an un- Orleanlsts, the most important branch tramp ship's trip here from Vancoumitigated nuisance. According to Dr. of royallsm in France, has shrunk to ver, B. C. Buckland. funeral honors were read a mere shadow. At first CapC Crosby thought tbe Tourists, particularly to the crow and the raven by the Ro-are prone tug waa aground. But the real rM"n Americans, France, visiting mans and the Egyptians, to discuss the possibility of the mon for the big thump and the cessation of the followlnglranBlatlon;Inrj)roof of some day replacing the present the engines was even more hair rals-IPthis statemenJ!And the Romans per- archy But these discussions spring . For it .was discovered the republic. a formed, funeral rites to theraven, more from romantic speculation than was on the back of a whale. flute player leading the procession, from And It was a whale something more of the situation. any knowledge two borne aloft 09 the shoulders of The French .. republic was i never than three times as big as the tug. - the Marsh of Ethiopians. more solidly placed on Its ;Capt- Crosby . said the sea monster stronger, Myrls sepuchres of the crow and Ibis, foundations than at this moment The must have been asleep, for otherwise made of valuable stone; were vlBlted." royalists proclaim themselves openly he would pot have lain about in the chamber of OeputlesT deep in that way knd got bumped. but their number 1b insignificant; tbey intd.7"vVbales have beeV reported as fail to hold even the balance f power extraordinarily" plentiful off the mouth when the other parties are closely di- of the Fraser, and constant lookout ' Scheme to Make the Carpet or Rug vided.... was kept for them, but the night . Warm by Means of . -"" was,. Among the working classea no demisty- - and completely"" hid the sire for the restoration of the mon- whopping, napping ocean giant The tug smashed into the whale archy is apparent - The last strong- eBJ1. of .wtridtv It In now ,R , it - f! Mtn Fran-cals- ttts.i ! I- nine-year-ol- - - r d three-year-ol-d I - i ' 4-- 4- -u- . -- "thef couTOT., , Mammahow they did love berl goes away, mamma comes rushing in, smothers them with "kissesfahiT when come into the nursery every morning, they want to know where she has been and how they did play on the floor. for a whole week, JuBt. puts.her flngei 4.Allss,wbo-wa- s on r her Jips and says, Now, : sweet- very J. . M II for her age, every one said, often used neans. no iair .Bsaing queswons.: to ask ber father and mother if they Iw.-P-Jrttyaiid-ab-8ed-t- o T M ,uppo eiee in me worm to 4t,Tw.slfcle-foraayvoay- -- try L. - De f as happy aa she of the little Mellon children. .the court - . Clever Russian Swindler BCginntng of the Trouble. Less than a year ago every one In Pittsburg and many people outside of Pittsburg, were genuinely shocked and really sorry to hear that Mr. Mellon and bis wife had disagreed. ; Mr. Mellon, whose wealth is estimat-e- d la the millions, J was very . well r , -- know throgBSBrXh'FtusTness worldT sand his friends were legion and loyal. Mrs.' Mellon was many years her '.husband's Junior. gh had. come -- to Pittsburg from Dublin, Ireland, as the bride of Mr. Mellon, and ail PHtsburt -welcomed her with pleasure. ' They liked ber bright ways,-he- r keen wit, 'find she was acknowledged a beauty The Mellona. first when they .had .only little Ailsa and later when they had Allsa and Paul, lived In one of the finest houses in all Pittsburg. ; In the year that has followed the of Mr. Mellon that be intend-eto free himself from his wife there ' Taave been occaslnal references to the fortunes of the two little 'Mellon chll-- . ' ' - ' " " v ....C'-.dren. - At first the children were permitted io 'remain with their mother. ..Then a Judge who had to look only through the eyes of the cold, harsh, unsymplaw, said the children belonged athetic ' to their father," Tbep another Judge a!d they didnt belong to either finally a Boloqaon-lik- e judge has wisely decided that tbey be-long to both, but that they can't have 'both thetr. father and their mother at the same time.- .'j - - d . - Mellon guardian,' was to be permitted to visit them for one week and Mrs. Mellon for the next, and so on alternating until the troubles should all be finally settled. l'And that's the way matters stand now. -. Ji Fine Home for Ch'IdreB.r : 'l,,--.-,- TiOudKluidjdspecmedwhat kind of a house the children should have, so Mr. Mellon promptly went out and found the nicest one that was vacant in- Pittsburg. It ' has twenty rooms and five bathrooms, and it really: Is plenty large- - enough for" Miss Allsa and Master Paul. ' Their rooms Tars right side by' side and . their guardian is directly across the halL Then at one end of the house la a very nice, pretty, sunny room, that no one but Mrs. Mellon uses, and at the, other end of the house there is a room that Is kept for Mr. Mellon. " There are a few other rooms set aside for, the servants, and the en tire remainder of the house is Just one A big playroom. There aren't many people who have ever beeu In this house, for the Mellon children are too young to have many callers, and it Isn't likely their guardian would want tbem to have much company at present anyway. If you happen tcr pass the house some day you will be quite certain to notice standing in the yard right close by the side of the big house a tiny littfe Tlc that la Just as perfect a house as you ever would want to see. That ' is AUsa's playhouse and it was -- -- g sold floors. 'A patent has been taken out for running wires through the. carpet in parallel lines In such a way that an ordinary lighting current can be run through the .wires. ': The con- ductor becomes- - warm and heatsthe carpet The heat in l,args carpets can be controlled as desiredrand the car-three hours after the current is turncan be heated off. A small foot-rued and taken for comfort during a carriage' ride. The wiring of carpets for this purpose is new, but patents have been Issued before for passing wires or through,7 compartments in tablecoversr carpets;' and other "coverings for lighting purposes. g wlre-gaus- e , , -- The Dog In-- , Warfare. Vegetlus, the Roman ? writer on things military, tells us that dogs were used in the fortified towers of his time, to make known by their barking the approach of . the enemy. During the to middle ages nogs were employed ' guard - camps , and bulwarks. ' The Scotland bore a republoodhounds-otation, for wonderful Bklll in tracking escaped prisoners; and - they were used, too, for Attacking the enemy's cavalry, being provided with coats' of mall baying hooks and prongswbere-wlt- h to muUIafe horses.- There are records of 'dogs having been used in warfare aa far back and flip tarcb and Pliny both refer to them io ,; their hooka - ; f " - s-1467. 'v-- '"t ?. 5eonr-- bmidrej and fourteenyears JJldVand said Bill.."l , declared by the United States census to be the oldest man in America, has announced that he will retire. - "One hundred years of work is n," enough-for-any-ma- retire with J100.000 to my creditrim average of $1,600 for every-year of my life, but I cannot make wanted to . -- it." 300 pounds He is reputedl ' of gold cached away in hiding place about the little shank which he calls home. His gold, according to estimates, Is, worth between $75,000 and .. His fortune has been made ' $80,000. within the last fifteen years from gold mining in Leadville, Cripple Creek and along the Grand river. The pnly ;j . name by., which he - has ever : bee- D- known in this part of the country is : "Cherokee Bill." , , - with terrific impact and as ;U- r- Wfellow tttftggl'ed, the tug's propel-'ler blades sank into his sides. That put the engine out of commission. -- Re-don- tbe dive. n .Finds $10,000 In Wooden Leg. ' Oklahoma Okla. Aa old City, wooden leg may not be much of a legacy,, but when It contains-$I0,000- rJ It certainly Is worth' having, thinks Jacob Randall, a pauper at the poo farm of Canadian county The leg was given to him by. Alexander .P. -- y Hamilton.a8UPpo8e4..pauperattha-- - farm. Just before he died a few days , Randall later discovered a larger roR- -of 'money 3ii r the stock of tbe artiflcial litib. If Hamilton had rela- Uvea they are not known of here. ago. , , ..' 71 TO WED WOMAN ' 38 Professor F. Flsk of Northwestern nd a Former Pupil : University ' - to Marry In Spring. - York Life for 35,000 rubles and in the following year he took' a man from Him In Custody. ' the hospital who was incurably ill and equipped bin with all the Ferlounln St Petersburg. A widespread swin- papers. Tbe dying man was installed dle effected by fictitious life insurance in the apartment of Poplavaky's operations has Just been discovered where very soon be died. His brother, y'the StJPetersburg-;poUo.The-chie- f "is so far unknown, but-h- e real name figure la Sigismund Poplavsky, was burled as Fedlounln and once ?0J?tjinJnBu gorTlaniu'rah'ce owned to frauds on the New York apfnF6prava"ky ' Life, the TJrbalne'and the Kertch In- money. Then ' Poplavsky married a young surance companies. Poplavsky received a high school education' in his woman named Smurnoff and forthwith native town of Tiflis and started insured her with the Kertch company windling earlyHr gotTippoInted to forBOO Tubes."' Soon he found a fethe traffic department of the Vladikav-ka- g male patient in one of the St Petersrailroad and there sold six wagon-load- s burg hospitals whose case was hopeless. He was abielo get her furnished of - wheat- - belonging- - to ' He was indicted and his mother, with his wife's civic papers, and when per. balled him out giving him the title shfdied he collected his wire's Insurdeeds of an estate she owned ai se- ance money.' She alBO was buried" in curity. He sold the bail security and tbe name of Fedlounln.- - Then he set. tled In St Petersburg as Boleslav hid In the Caucasus. , His first experiment in fraudulent Kuplnsky and opened a timber-business- . -- He tried to Insure with life insurance was a. dozen years ago. the He insured himself with tbe TJrbaine company tot 15,000 rubles, as company, for 15.O.0Q rubles. -- The - fol- he now i.admitSr" Intending to repeat lowing year a very sick" man present- the swindle that had so far succeeded. ed himself at the PBkof office of the But by . this time he was " being watched. . : . oompany," fa away rromwhere:the ,The police will exhume his and his poUcy was jaken" out- and duly paid the ; premium. Jle. showed ali the wife's doubles ixf try and learn how passport identification documents of they dletL They believe that he had Poplavsky Soon the sick man, whose eeveral. pupils, who worked" the trick true harne waa Ivan Fedlounln, died, on other companies. The obligation in and Poplavsky, Vwho had taken, the KuBsia to produce passports and docu other's Identity, drew the Insurance j ments showing one's 'antecedents real-jollcy. Still keeping Fedlounln'8 taras TTy made the swindle easy, because tbe he went to Nam and in a year had production of them had the effecV-o- f spent the money. r Then in 1901 be Btopping-tbinquiries that would have Insured as Fedlounln with the New followed natural ansplcion." . y rahlp Hel-singfo- e J V "The tug," said Capt Crosbyt"was really at the mercy of the big fish for -several minutes. If he had been inclined to get mad over his loss of sleep and try tossing about a bit he certainly could have turned the over. But he was apparently a peaceful fish, for, Instead of trying to throw us up ia the air, he only struggled enough to get the propeller blades out of his ribs and then left us MAN z . ; that in all fairy stories there Just JtfrItwa"orderedby seMellon should Immediately has to be a bad fairy." And while this cure a bouse for the. children's use. so as to beat He dot Insurance Money by Fraud isn't a fairy story, there la a had fairy Then tbey were to be installed in it wiring the or and da Now 8t Petersburg Police Have . the rug away with carpet in it for the little Mellon children. with their and Mr. waa. Now ( Tug HitsrWhale J)uring Fogr Ro-don- floor-coverin- : e, and-hegl- Perslan rug, or the tiger's pelt as warm In winter as the latter was while worn by the tiger. In Germany the experiment is:now7belng tried ofr FULL CENTURY T ny $ A j: "Pretender" Changes Plans Attempt to Form Monarchy. - i HAS WORKED Coloradan Retires at Age 114Sald to Be Natlo n's Oldest Man Want , ed toReti with $iQp,ooa hold of those who still, retain loyalty, in to a king of France is found among Grand Junction, Col. "Cherokee the aristocracy, but even there the Co-roni- i ttr Is . W. Page, Alvin II. Sanders, Henry C.Emery, James aren. lav- - ;-t eeartetetts-re':er'w-ootOfn- 1 the-wo- 9 Evanston, 111.- - Dr. Herbert F. Flsk member faculty of North western .university, and Miss Carla Sar gent, formerly a student in one of his classes, are - to - be marrtednext Of-t- he" - spring: -ur- is 71 years old r and .-.-Flak M .AlJiJIt-hilJuPio- r. ' "alal ce .. hegan several years ago, when Miss Sargent was a pupil listen- - , -ing dail tojpr&. Fisk's Jectureal .c'ip ' Dr. Fisk has been an Instructor in tt . Northwestern Jinlversity for nearly 4Vr yearB and Is one of the best known educators In the west He is a gradu-xi'- l ate. of Wesleyan university, in IHTS hd became principal, of the Evanston academy, which position be held until. 1904, when he resigned,' .Since. then he has been principal emeritus of the -academy and professor of pedajpgics ' ,: in the ublverslty. ." v . JDt..JPl8k'i flrst. wife was Miss Anna Green, whom be married "la isett. They had two daughters, tbe eider be- ing the wife of Prof. Charles Zueblin..ln: and Miss Nell Fisk. Mrs. Fisk died in ," ' 1908A:. , Sargent was a student or Dr."" ' Fiskflrst In the academy, from which she was graduated in 1891, and later " in bis classes 1ft pedagogies In th . university, from which, she, graduated . . . ..-- ; ,"-- -- ' : In 89S..Sbala sr baember of Uie Pbtrl ucta Kappa soronty. in 1K97- sba tame' a. member oftbe faculty a tY'j academy, .:" y She re6lgned,''glvlng. a',hprrTeiv5oo that ahe ;wished :to take care-o- t btr mother during ber decllntne., tears - - . , V |