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Show V THREE AMERICAN DUCHESSES ATTEND AN ELABORATE DINNER IN THEIR HONOR AT PARIS Despite agitation for a change, the liam II. Carson, past commander of . 1). Wolcott post, No. 1, "nor should arrangement of stars in the blue field of the American flag will remain as it the stars in the flag. The design beis if prominent officers of local patri- fore congress is too set, and that of the otic associations have their way. Philadelphia man would cause the These have expressed their disapstates last admitted to occupy posiproval of the idea of Representative tions at the end of the tail, so to speak. J. .F. Shafroth of Colorado as embodied There is plenty of room in the field In his bill Introduced in congress, on for all new states according to the the grounds that it Is too formal and present arrangement, and the design would lack permanency. In this de- should not be changed. Mrs. Thomas H. Brown, president sign the thirteen original states form a circle around a star made up of of the Daughters of the American smaller stars, each representing a Revolution, said: "We love our flag 3uc AWFUL DEED OF INSANE MOTHER Suclaty Wamti Kills Hsr Mob and Ifaraalf at roachknfils, X. V. Wulthf A lamentable double tragedy oc- curred a few days ago at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., when Mrs. Albert Edwin Tower, wealthy, cultured, and a leader in New York and Newport society, killed her . Vogt and Shafroth Plana for Arranging the Stara Representing the Various States in the Proposed New National Banner. state, while the territories stand wait- because It is as it is, and no change could compensate for the loss of those ing admission to the larger star. The composite flag proposed by characteristics which have endeared it Harry Yanetti Vogt of Philadelphia, to us. is also condemned. It is said that the "I favor the present arrangement,' arrangement would give certain states said Mrs. Charles Catlin, president a preference over others in point of of the Daughters of the War of 1812, "and would not express a preference position. The stars in the blue field of the for any design until I saw that we heavens are not arranged according could no longer retain the flag as it to a geometrical design, said Dr. WU- - is. Indianapolis News. The Great Manafactarlnc State. Wad dad t'nder Llraasa Mr Taar Old. It is a somewhat curious fact that Jacob Groff, a faithful lover of sixty-tw- o the seven states which stood first In years, was married at Mayton, W. Ur. Albert Edwla Towr, son, whom she Idolized, 1a a fit of nervous frenzy and then sent a bullet through her brain. Her husband is a wealthy Iron master and had been called to the Poughkeepsie Iron! Foundry, which he conducts, owing to an accident there. During the evening Mrs. Tower, who had been a victim of nervous disorder, entertained a few friends, after which Bhe and her son retired to their rooms. A little before midnight she rang up her husband on the 'phone and asked him to return home. She received an evasive reply. A little later she repeated the message, threatening that If he did not come at once he would never see her or his son alive. Mr. Tower had received similar messages before and he made light of his wife's request. But Mrs. Tower was In deadly earnest, and a little after midnight she secured a revolver, went to her son's chamber and shot him five times, killing him instantly. With another revolved It Is now; she ended her own life. woman the unfortunate that supposed would have attempted her husbands life had he returned at her summons. From the scientific standpoint, the most singular thing connected with in the value of manufactured products Btand first again in 1900, and in exactly the same order. First of all comes New York; second, Pennsylvania: third, Illinois; fourth, Massachusetts; fifth, Ohio; sixth. New Jersey, and seventh, Missouri. Illinois is third in population, as in manufactured product. In that respect it occupies a normal position. Its output per unit of population is $201, compared with New York's $239. Pennsylvania's $291 and New Jersey's $324. The output per unit is affected by the character of the business carried on. New Jersey is the home of the silk manufacturing industry of the United States. It is partly owing to the manufacture 6f this expensive product that New Jersey, in one respect, outranks Illinois. Va., a few days ago to Miss Rebecca Glelsbury, three years his senior, the girl for whom he had waited for forty years. Nine years ago he secured the marriage license, but the bride elect refused to wed him then. He folded the license, put it away, and waited until she should be ready. His persistence and faithfulness finally won. and she agreed to become his bride. The minister, the Rev. D. S. Thomas, hesitated when he saw the date upon the license, but when he was told the circumstances he married them under the license nine years old. Threaten Calcutta Lin lin.irlc. Calcutta is in dinger of losing its principal landmark, the Ochterlong .monument. It has been discovered that ,it occupies the only site that is really available for Ixjrd Curzon's new VicGeneral Sir toria memorial hall. David Ochterloug, in whose memory distinH waB erected guished himself in the operations against the Ghoorkaa. 1S14 and 1815, and in other Indian wars. The wildcats were caged wildcats. smuggled into her apartments by Melba's maid, much to the girls distress. One day while the cage door was ajar to introduce food one of the beasts clawed terribly the hand of the The Tower Mantlon, Ponghkeepale- servant, who fled shrieking, leaving the tragedy is the fact that Mrs. Towthe wildcats in possession of the er's mother, many years ago, had ramon rooms. The brutes were the made a similar but unsuccessful attwo for hours, climbing curtains, page life of her son and upsetting bottles and crockery, and tempt on the to shreds. tearing valuable tapestries The Towers owned a palatial homo In Poughkeepsie, a mansion In Newport and a handsome yacht and possessed unlimited means. Both father and mother worshiped the boy who met with such a horribly tragic end. 1890 Roche-faucaul- d, Frond lie cord of a Negro School. the fifty colored boys who were Of ess of Marlborough. Other guests ware the Duchess of Devonshire, W. K. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Harrlman of New York. Mrs. Von Andree encountered difficulty deciding the question of precedence between the Duchesses of Marlborough and Manchester. The Duchess of Marlborough won because of the antiquity of her title. Frog1 Egg for Complexion. Two young girlH of Berlin found their eyesight falling and their parents sent them to a doctor, where they had to undergo a cure lasting for some weeks. Questioned by their parents as to what they had been doing to bring their eyes to such a condition, the girls confessed that they had washed their faces In water mixed with frogs' eggs in order to Becure a dellcatj complexion. graduated from the Richmond Colored High School In the decade 1873-8twelve have died. At the time of death one was a contractor, one was a professor of ancient languages In a college, three were postal clerks, and others, respectively, were an Internal revenue collector, a candymaker and a still preacher. Of the thirty-eigalive thirteen are teachers, three are are jourlawyers, two are doctors, nalists, five are postal clerks, one Is Porfonio la Aacloat Daja, a civil engineer, one is a clerk, two are The records left us by the Phoenl-cian- s, bookkeepers, one Is a bank president, Assyrians and ancient Persians and so on. Not one of the thirty-eigshow that among all those nations the now living has ever fallen iJtp use of perfumes was very common. 3, , ht Mme. llelba's Wildcat. Recently in Paris Mme. Melba tried to imitate Mme. Bernhardt in having to i savage household pets, like the Divine Sarahs panther. Accordingly she bought from a sailor a pair of (1708-1823- ), Von Andress, sister- to Chauncey M. Depew, gave the most elaborate dinner of the season in honor of three American duchesses. No other hostess In the American colony has ever succeeded in getting these three together. There were the Duchess de la nee Miss Mattie Mltchell;the Duchess of Manchester and the Ducta- The Baroness ln-la- w ht WEALTHY PHILADELPHIA NEGRO WHO LEFT AN IM-A1EN- SE FORTUNE TO CATHOLIC CHURCH her-sel- f. Illustrated Journalism in the Chinese Empire MARION MAN0LA MASON VERY ILL Singer Now on a Coooh of Bultorlag la a Motion llottpItaL Marion Manola Mason, who is seriously ill in a Boston hospital, Is one of the most widely known women on the American stage. Eleven years ago she won her sensational divorce suit In Boston against Henry S. Mould of Cleveland, and one month later she Mason in London. married Jack These events were the occasion of much gossip at that time. Mrs. Mason is a handsome woman, dark, with Popular COL. The Dowager Empress' first task, With other western innovations, illustrated journalism has invaded the on her return to IVklu, was the reHere is a recent constitution of the Emperor's harem, Celestial Empire. news illustration from the Shanghai which forms also his body guard. It .Tong Wen Ou I'ow. It depicts, as the is largely through the ladies of the Chinese text attached to it states, the harem that the remarkable old Emarrival at the imperial palace in Pekin press Dowager Is kept Informed of what little may go on in the mind of of many young Manchu girls. the nominal sovereign, Kwang-Su- , come to and present These girls to the Dowager Empress as is thus enabled to maintain her influcandidates for the post of court lady ence over him. She is the real ruler of tno empire. or imperial concubine. 1 hem-selv- es clear cut features and n most pleasing voice. Her best talent lay In tha charming manner in which she personated male characters. xwar THREE. The will of Col. McKee, who died a few days ago at Philadelphia, gives his fortune, the largest ever possessed by a negro In the United States, to Archbishop Ryan to lie used ta the construction of a Catholic Church, rectory and convent at McKee. N. J.. and the building ami mninteii.mce of two schools for white and c.ilored orphans, one. in Philadelnlii'i to he modeled on the United States Naval Academy. Col McKee, who was a member of tho-stntof the Governor of Pennsylvania and iutluential in politics, was converted to the Catholic Church by the ministrations of two Sisters of Charity who were sent to nurse him in his illness. Ills only living child is a laughter, Mrs. Alibi; A. Spyhax, who Is gien an annuity of $.',0. f |