Show cleveland jan 29 valentine christ 67 north a cool million lies I 1 dragging bishie away to a close in a hovel on bond street N E his big mansion out on heights adjoining john D rockiefel jcob forest hill estate is dark and I 1 tenantless I 1 the old man as he lies on his fevered pillow ministered unto by a sent to him by the associated chari aos mumbles incessantly of the art I 1 brown stone pile standing tharo on th hilll gaunt and bleak its the 0 folly of a afy otherwise well spent he christ built it 15 years ago lazzie elgort a comely young german girl lately come to america had to marry him when bo ant or jahe masons and carpenters ho cakl them to spare no expense nothing was to bo too good for lizzie he changed hla mind oh tho way to father martins little church in bucold township lizzie be decked in brides veil and orange blossoms was seated beside him in a cab which had been sent all the vay from a livery stable downtown in cleveland lizzie was ambitious her hustana tobe to be she realized had as much money as any man in town she was to have a grand establishment society would open its doors to her 1 I wonder it we will have any difficulty in getting help sue soliloquize ed as the coach neared the church it fell as a bolt out of a clear sky christ thought of help at all even in his fondest dreams he pictured any one but lizzie doing the cooking and the scrubbing and the the mending how much help do you think you are going to have he demanded oh a couple of maids a cook a coachman and she started to reply christ interrupted her by putting his head out of the cab window and ordering the driver to turn around im not going to get man led he announced noun ced it will coal too much for me lizzie tearful went back to her work in the hotel lizzie sued for for breach of promise the case dragged along a year before trial in the meantime she had married a young german who ran a saloon she was found in the kitchen over the saloon washing clothes run along with that she said when she was served with subpoena im too busy her suit was dismissed that was a narrow escape christ told his friends the old man is suffering from a complication of diseases his body is starved for the fresh air of one of his farms he owns a hundred or soc asthma with which he has suffered for years has now attacked him with renewed vigor he was struck by a street car and his leg broken two years ago A medical student who set the limb christ went to a charity ward made a poor job of it the bone Is ailing now blood poisoning Is dangerously gerou sly near christs million for ne nas given the last 50 years of his hie is bound to be the death of him he reuses to go to a hospital free or pay if im going to die let me die here he insists but im not going to die just yet here or anywhere else im going to get well in spite of you wien I 1 do I 1 want lo 10 be downtown 30 I 1 can collect my rents easily I 1 wont have to spend money for carfare either still the old man Is going to take no chances death will find him pre pared an undertaker who has a contract for burying the cites unknown at 10 per will do the same for val christ he has been given bis 10 already lanvers Lav vers arc drawing up the old mans will the three little children of his brother john will get the bulk of his estate father will bo cut ott john Is altogether too extravagant Is christs verdict upon his brother for one thing he buys his bread at tho bake shops a 01 money henry another brother was renounced long ago mrs barbara danbach a sister will get only the bond court hut in which christ Is dying the three children nf john are alone worthy says christ because they are too young to know any better the oldest Is eleven when chrlot farst came to cleveland he embarked in the garbage business mighty lucrative in those days one day be drove his rickety old waon the court hoase the sheriff was mounted on i alck in the street soli iak land titles christ curious joined the crowd As the pale proceeded it gradually through his brain whit wh it wa icing on A sudden impulse prompted him to bid he offered and got a farm worth he sold his ago collecting outfit the next day christ became a regular buyer at sheriffs sales thereafter he has missed one in 40 years that last week he was top sick to get out of bed or he would have been there in all this time be has acquired an enormous enor mois acreage af pf farm land in guy aboga ahoga county atthe at the county recorders office the records show that he Is the largest individual property holder in the county seldom has he been worsted in a business deal he attributes his extraordinary tra ordinary success to his strict adherence to this principle real estate increases in value as a city increases in size jt Is a natural law that cities must increase in size therefore real estate must increase in value one achievement christ Is proud of he borrowed money from rockefeller and still owes it ono day about five years ago I 1 needed some ready money the old roan recites in the telling of it mr rockefeller lent it to me at 5 per cont 1 paid him back yet chy you is aaker for the simple reason that it Is earning 10 per cent continue paying mr rockefeller 5 per cent for it until doomsday it hell let me the island of haiti in the west indies is again in the throes of a revolution the picture above shows the hyppolite arch which is a large wooden affair from the entrance to the chief market place at port au prince into haiti this perpetuates the memory f president hyppolyte the picture slow is of the cathedral the latest dispatches port au rance state that the government have driven the revolutionists ack from port au prince and have the now in hand matters are however lO wever in such a condition that the united states government has dispatched the cruiser des to the aland to protect american interests there the immediate reason tor the in frease of the naval force in haitian waters was the receipt of a dispatch today from captain marvell of the united states gunboat eagle velch in addition to reporting the fact that st marc had been retaken by the government forces added that a number of had been burned and that tho property of an american had suffered the des will reach port au prince about february 1 S fe wj Y i jl j L fa T rr hk f tT ii I 1 r SM fw gs haiste hAX Ste es ry acs gs 4 swi |