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Show , GYPSY QUEEN FREE. 0BT8 Banywi A CHICAGO DIVORCE FROM HER HUSBAND. k; Appl-- ' Ika Wu M4 u uwfTwtoTntuin M a. Bt U Un vlU (Special Letter. HE first divorce ever (ranted to a gypsy in Chicago was issued by Judge Bren tan? in the superior court to Toda Uwana-witcdethroned queen of the Romany camp at enth street and Western avenue. Arrayed in bright finery, with beads and glittering brilliants encircling her neck and bosom and a turban on her shapely head, the told of refined and varied cruelty practiced by her husband, Stanislaus Uwanawltch. Mrs. Uwana-wltcwho is twenty-tw- o years old and pretty, gave her testimony in fluent English. Her charges were corroborated by two of her swarthy subjects.. The appearance of the gypsy e queen, in court in strange costume attracted considerable attention and Jpdge Brentano was compelled to order the doors closed before the taking' of testimony. Toda said she wgs married to her husband in a camp la Mississippi two years ago, after bdving been purchased from her father by the bridegroom tor 1100. Last May she ran away from her husband and the Chicago camp, and says his cruelty caused her flight. The people of the camp captured her and took her back, but she refused to h, Forty-sev- n h, I -- T t I t TROPICAL STORMS ! IN CUBA. IDEAL CAVALRYMEN. mt Asia That BrU Wmtmn ta Cataracts. MUST BE BRED Tp THE HORSE A sudden pattering in the trees, a FROM .CHILDHOOD, sudden darkening in blg.spot of tk white canvas, and down came the tropIs Flits the BIU ical min. How it rained! Like waves VMS M Lb la IN a44te far O'rs water breaking; great heavy blobs of U Bwmrcfml. Bu as bibs laatlaet volleying at you like bullets from a t Locality. machine gun. Men ho were ten yards from their tents were wet through before they gained shelter. (Special Letter. In five minutes the rsmp was undei O he a perfect eav-ai- ry water; on the slopea were rushing tor-- , man the man rents; on the levels were deep swirlmust have learned ing pools. Don the trunks of ths to ride before he trees the water poured In cataracts. learned to walk, From the lower edge of every tent tt la the saying of flowed in a broad stream. ' ' The men, high military aurubthe of corners tbelr drswing up thority. It is supber blankets so as to, keep the flood ported by the fact away from themselves and their bethat the conquerlongings, crouched under their tents ing cavalry forcea and shivered. I( rained for two hours In all agee of without stopping. In the first halt have beea recruited from regions hour every man in camp was wet ia which the horseman was th only through, so that many of them took man of consideration, and tha art of off their wet clothes and stood naked riding waa taught the hoy at so early in (he rain for the remainder of tbe an age that It was an lastinct with time. The sun came out again soon him rather than an acqulreasnt There is another class of cavalryman after, hotter than ever, and the damp earth steamed till the camp was an like the British mounted regiments In open-ai- r vapor bath. But blase away India, the French lit Algiers, and those as the sun might, the ground never got splendid riders, the United State cavdry again that day, and at night we alry, seasoned by scouting service sad turned In --shivering With the damp Indian campaigns on the plains cavalearth striking cold through the rubber rymen of the modern school who fight sheet and blanket Pity the poor dev- either la the eaddle or dismounted, and il now who, when they were marching through constant frontier . warfare In the sunshine, threw away the rubagainst savage horsemen have become ber sheet and blanket. admirably effective troopers. For the gathering, branding, herding and 'shipment of the mllllofia of nettle AN OASIS. that roamed the plains, a clast of men n Dr. Wright a missionary who could ride, and endure jmd take for forty years In the west, once said; risks, was required, and thus th bow-bo- y During my long service I remember waa developed. He Is the successor no more helpful personal encourageof the Texts and Mexloan vaquero, ment than was once given to me by a multiplied and modified. He ean rid wife In poor ranchers Colorado. and throw the rope as well as the old-tiDrouths had prevailed for a long vaquero, but has more of the civtime; the fields were scorched; the ilised and fewer of the homicidal traits whole surface of the country was bare, desolate wilderness. ImWi CkT h-t- well-know- "After traveling for several days through this arid desert, I came one morning in sight of little cabin surrounded by a green patch . of grass. Beside the door grew a honeysuckle THE GYPSY QUEEN IN COURT, live with her husband. She declares ha then tied her to a post in a tent along with a huge cinnamon bear. A chain was fastened around her neck wlth.au Iron ring. He kept her thus for days. One of the young men In the camp loved and pitied the fair prisoner and appealed to the tyrant husband for release. Stanislaus, satisfied his wifes affection was lost to him, finally agreed to sell her to his rival for flSO. The recash was paid and the leased. Toda was not grateful to her liberal admirer. She refused to marry him. Another lees gallant suitor had captured the heart of the gypsy queen and she soon married him with gypsy rites. This aroused the anger of the 1 160 admirer and he Joined with Stanislaus in persecuting her afresh. They tried to frighten her by declaring she was s bigamist, and this drove Toda to consult a lawyer. Then the divorce project was born and a blit was filed In the superior court According to the complainant the action broke all gypsy traditions. Stanislaus made no defense. like all his race, he has a n horror of courts and the ways of mod-rno attention civilisation. He paid to the notice served on him and the exgypsy queen and her two witnesses told their stories without being contradicted. Toda grew angry when she described how she had been chained np and her baby taken from her to be sold at soma future day. For deserting her husband she said she had been beaten and punished In various cruel ways. According to the Romany law, her bus-hawas her absolute master andnot until he had sold her did ha lose Con trol of her. The suggestion that if the courts should recognise a gypsy marriage by granting a divorce she would he liable to arrest for bigamy did not worry Tods. The gypsies, she explained to her attorney, had too great an aversion to Ulw courts to take any action. Judge Brentano did not allude to the bigamy phase and It was not brought to his attention. The evidence was deemed by him sufficient to Justify a decree being granted, and so he ordered. When the gypsy queen returned to the camp In the evening with the decree the repaired to the tent of her second husband, and no gypsy in the settlement dared dispute his rights and JOHN HILL, hers. The big red seal and the ribbons lng as address in church. Ur. Hill la on tbs decree seemed potent to them. a natural horn fighter and the struggle ha is having with the gamblers la InIittrutloul SHmtS Coagrww. teresting If not edifying. The International Miners congress ""held at Vienna' In Augustvotsd is Vns , Workfavor of making the eight-hoThat the color of eyes should affect day compulsory by law. It was de- Utelr strength may aeem strange, yet manded that laws be enacted in every that such is the cate need not now be country by which employers shall ba proved, and those whose eyes are made responsible for all accidents hap- brown or dark colored should be Inpening to miners. The demand that formed that they are weaker and more nil mints be made the property of the susceptible of Injury from various government was voted nsnlmously causes than gray jot blue eyes. Light by France, Belgium and Austria. The blue eyes are generally the moet pownext congress will meet at Brussels. erful, and next to these are gray. The lighter the pupil the greater and longer Aeeerleas Aiylsnu the continued is the degree of tension - John McDongsll of London after a whlch the eyes can sustain. , visit to the insane asylums of the -United States, declares they are as a --"It Isn't always the fighting parson whole the best In the world who puts hls congregation to sloe. -- en nd i vine covered with blossoms. ' 1 confess that I choked, and the tears rushed to my eyes at the sight. It was as If all the dear folks at home had suddenly risen in my path. I rode up to the cabin door and dismounted. A cheerful, tidy woman came out smiling. How Is this? I cried. 'What has 1 did It, she worked this miracle? said: Tt U no miracle f but I Was so A HARD MOUNT, tired of the almost barren desert, dry and hot around m for days and weeks than hls lawless, picturesque predecesthat I resolved to keep my own home sor. He waa bred upon th ranches or free from it I have carried water five times a day to this little bed ol earn as a young man ; from tha grass and to the vine. I tended and "States, aUraeed by th adventurous nuraed them. My husband thinks my life ot the plains, and Inspire grass has warded off the fever, and hope of making a fortune in .cattle some of the people who have passed by raising, ns so many men did in the behave said it gave them fresh strength ginning. Usually the newcomer was a and courage to go on their Journey passable rider before he came west. Afterwards, by experience more or lees 'I have not forgotten the lesson of painful, he learned th Idiosyncrasies that cheery little home, said the mis- of - broncho nature, how to keep hls "None of us can make the saddle in a "pitching sea, with hls sionary. beneath him, great wilderness bloom, but each one pony Jumping of ns has his own little patch which he and to handle cattle in all their moods can keep green if he wllL In all weathers. It would be difficult to find anyNow, when the dread breath of war where cavalry recruits better fitted In counface of the whole has chilled the character and training than the cowtry, let each of ns resolve not to waste boy of the plains. In everything hut his time deploring the calamity, but he is a proved solto keep his own home and heart full military discipline ot life. He la mode his dier through of truth and cheerfulness and kindto hardaccustomed ness. It will need some of the "water hardy, enduring, and to calls to sudden to duty, ships, but if of life to do thla, that fountain without saddle In stretches the long always open to na. food or rest. Hie bed is the ground under the rain or start as may happen; FOE TO THE GAMBLERS. hls simple fare Is much the same as Thla man la the deadly- - foe of the that of the army soldier. His home is Hls th saddle, and he is usually a good Chicago gambling fraternity. can manage his firearms house has been partially wrecked by shot, who from the hack of a hone. Ilia was handily he and other the night dynamite made the target by a gang of men who standard of honor and duty, as he sees threw egga at him while he waa mk them. Is high, and he thinks that noth-In ing la so disgraceful as cowardice. hls personal quarrels and in defending hie life and his employer's property against Indians and white robbers he has in many cases had already hls baptism ot fire. He is resourceful In emergency, and, a valuable quality In a cavalryman, he hts an Indian instinct of locality and difficult .. country. MoreAmerican, over, he Is an ultra-loyaggressively patriotic and ready at all times to fight for hie country's honor "at th drop of the hat What disci- its, ur Bt stiff-legg- ed CMILDRIN S INDIVIDUALITY. Our children BASE BALL GOSSIP. are compared to th bvtly plants that grow In th tUld. with plain, so with children; and v must nudy th nature of each PHat in our garden that w may th nor Intelligently cultivate it. Just to la th management of the little one Dat are ghen into our hands to trala. must diligently study ths uaAuro aad character of each human plant, that e may be able to cultivate and CWTct to the best advantage. CURRENT NEWS AND NOTES OF THE OAML f the Bar of the Imms Ctaaa "Many Ara Call a hat Paw Ara I'haaaa ( School for prafaaataaat Piarare. Be-aat- ly lMtUa EIUJAPS there is no calling, vocation, profession hll one child is of a cheerful and call It what you independent nature, preferring to car which prowill fur himself, and even anxious to fight duces few skillso hlaown battle In life, another, though ed artisans as proof Jmt as cheerful a disposition, t fessional baseball, careless end thoughtless allowing Comparati v 1 y, others to carry his burden and bear re mighty there II responsibility, while he glides few of the many easily along and manages to enjoy life who go In for the after a fashion. Another isthlnd,. national game, either for recreation or and hut la with the intention ot making tt a of g very sensitive-nature-, and la lack- meant ot who attain to a livelihood, in ing Still another, per- sufficient degree ot skill to obtain and haps a member of the same tnorlly, retain employment in the btg league while possessing many desirable traits the National League. But most of of character, is extremely eolMm the men in the National League are portent and very overbearing. htgh-claa- s players, else they wouldn't be there. There ought to be a school Would it be advltahle to uee th - Just for professional baseball-playersame mesne In wauaging aU. thee as There is for acting; for it requires children ? Would It not be better to Intelligence, mechanical jktll and unthoroughly study the nature and needs about of each child separately, and chooee a remitting application to bring the best And results. profesyet mod of treatment to meet their Indisional baseball, no far a the general vidual requirements? Would you covof the player Is concerned. I er th face of the sunflower from th ability progressing. There are more good ball sunlight? Would you ex- player than there used to be. True, pose the modest little violet to th dry there are no catcher now like "Buck" heat and dust? Ewing, nor any Mike Kellys; hut thf are Collinses and Robinsons and Need we prepare a trellis for th holland Burketts and Nicholses and y yhock, or expect th clinging morning-glorRusiet and Jenningses and Hamilton to stand erect and open Its tenand Longs and Keelers and ot der blossoms to the withering rays and Dablene and Davises and the sun? Clarks and Chlldes and Tebeaus and o numerous to mention who others We quote from a writer who has unmay not shins out in their company, doubtedly had a broad experience la as did those d heroes of this Important line of work: Th key th past, but who are non the less to the training of children 1 th study capable. The baseball standard aver of their Individuality. Evry child la ages higher nowt therefore, tb promthe home Is an Individual problem. inent figures stand out lees conspicucertala One child requires to have a now than in the days of a deously trait developed; hls brother may need cade ago. to have th same trait gently and lovYet ther la hardly a team ia th ingly held In check to prevent It National League this year that does Mother sometime contain in its ranks at least one not say, I treat all my children exactly ball player who has become famous; alike Therein Is a mlstaka. On naon the other hand, with one or but, ture is helped by a course of discipline two there is hardly a team exceptions, that Injures another. A a gardener In its ranks more than contains that flowe- r- In .hit- - chart two or three Teally great ball player. equally loving care, yet varies th There ar what are known profestreatment of each, o should tha mothas "beaut" and "lobsters on er treat th human flower entrusted sionally teams; hut' such" la th all the league' to her care. The same sun that molts of baseball and th fickle-ne- e uncertainty wax hardens clay. of baseball crowds that th w, "beaut, of today may he a "lobster-tomorroLIGHTHOUSE IN CEMETERY. and vie versa. Th player when th returns ar all. in, is who, i Throuchout tha world there are hua unanimously voted a "beaut, hi tew AraAa ot Ushthouaae dotted alOBg th tnto th "lobeter class havvooetrbtttB lighthouse in the midst deneenta been ing forgotten, is the true baseof a cemetery la a rare thing. Sneh ball and with him this article hero, one, however, has just been erected In has to do, th cemetery at Ulverston, Lancashire, Before going further It should be A Miss Wilson had it built In remans no attempt will brance of her father, who died In' Lon- understood now that be name all th baseball to made here don eighteen month ago, Th strucof feet In heroes of 1898, only some lackthem. ture, which is twenty-thre- e of That relentless condition, e height with a spreading base twenty-fiv- space, necessitates leaving out aomt feet in circumference and eight feet in diameter, is constructed of whit of them. New York's Giants, disappointCarrara marble. The tower proper bears a striking resemblance to Bit ments though they may he, contain John Barrow's monument on th HIM one or two names that baseball posterity may well mention lovingly and of Hoad, which, again. Is Ilk th lighthouse.. It Is surmounted with reverence. Theres Amos Rusie, with a small dome and ball, supported Did. sver a. greater pitcher face an en four pillars, and between these in a opposing batsman? Was ever the atmosphere lacerated with such scorchchamber, ornamented with a molds cornice and containing the radiating ing speed as hi, or were -ther ever lantern. The light is forty candle-powe- r, sack sweeping curves as- emanated and the lamp haa a burning frem hls mighty arm? Baseball pos- capacity of about thirteen feet of gaa per hour. On the fin "die block Immediately beneath the entrance door ia' cut In bold relief a large and beautifully carved anchor, bearing acres it the words: "An Anchor for tho Hop e. s, Ufe-glvl- Dele-hant- The MOleat Book la th WI4 The smalleet book In the world U of so Inch precisely five-eight- of an Inch long, ot an inch wide and three-eightthick, aaya the New York Journal. It contains two hundred pages and five pages of the very finest type imagin. able. The point of n pin would cover a letter, and n magnifying gUao Is necessary for anything like reading. Charles Scribners Sons have a copy of this wonderful lltl volume, which Is Kept ia an envelope in the ante to Insure It safe keeping. It was printed in Padua, Italy, In 1898, and Is a reprint of an Italian article on OaUIeo( printed originally In . 1859. It la only a curiosity, but as such it outdoes all previous attempts at making small books, "thumb books,' as they nr called, for they nr no larger that " . . your thumb. seven-sixteent- hs hs ' - 1- m ys green-diamon- glvee-td-eac- ne cowboy wUl show In action, when led by officers like Wood and Roosevelt, is told In the story of. the charge of La Quaalna and the carrying of th hill of San Juan In the taking of Santiago de Cuba. Employed as Infantry, throughout the advance and siege, the rough rlden showed the steadiness of regulars, not only la active fighting hut in th harder ordeal of waiting under fire. f Mc-Ora- al pline and intrepidity the lnto tha league last spring. HI may he bucolic, but they ara th lees puissant. 81 Seymour of th New York, b of th cannon-ba- ll speed and whiplash curves; Clark Griffith of Chicago,, Iceberg and owner of th greatest slow ball In the business; Jesse TannehUV tb swarthy southpaw ot the Pitt-- i burgs; Johnny Powell of " Cleveland who left the boiler factory to beeomaj a high-cla- aa curve artist; All Maulj ot Baltimore, whom Ned Hanlon naui-- j rected from th past and made lntwj on of the moet successful pitchers lw the league, and Hughes, tb Calif ora-- f Un, who jumped Into prominence ntf the start," are among the moet notable! performers of '98. Then there art "Red Donahue ot - Phlladelphk Thornton of Chicago, and that old w horse, Breitensteln of Cincinnati, who are entitled to a place on the roster ofl heroes. If for no other reason thant because they shut out opposing teams without a hit a truly heroic feat la ' baseball. Theres an unassuming little bit ot , Am an down In Louisville over wtom;r; not much fuse Is made, but who la ft cracking food pitcher, nevertheless. Hls name U Cunningham. He la ft. veteran at tha game. Age has not wlthered-Aor-custostaled., bis... -J finite variety, - He bar been especially good this year. OeorgeDsvlaofth New Yorks let such a good ball pUyer that haa bound! to be prominent It may he said of Davit that ha haa been conspicuous through hls absence this year. ThUj only shows how good a pUyer he laj Whenever he doesnt play the team strikes a losing streak. Ha 1 oaa of WILLIAM KEELER, (Right Field, Baltimore.) terity, If H knows its business, will He's a sort of perpetanswer "No! hero la Amos, for he has nearly ual UGHT-HOU8ULVERS TONS MARBLE always been great, and his fame will b lasting.. History will add" lustre to " Th hls name. Just as It will to that of of Sorrow Through in Tima chain finiahes with a brokea link, th Charles, better known as "Kid w other end being burled Jtt the rock. g r wont to assume an air of familiarThe whole of the baa of th lighthoue ity with our baseball heroes Nichols la akillfully carved to represent wave of th Bostons. All baseball has never ft breaking against the rock, and produced two more eminent figure 1 going than Rusie and Nichols. Both of these coping covered with aea tend to he erected around this In order to peerless twirlers are products ot the giv the whole a thoroughly reallsUe boundless West, Russte, ilk Ben Har" 7 appearance. rison, hatllng from Indianapolis, and -Nichols from Kansas City. Pitchers are especially conspicuous Ha It ASvaatafe, A conflict at arms, said the par- on the diamond thia year because of son with Utopian Ideas, "Is always un- the light batting that has characterised tbe pennant fight' Philadelphia necessary and deplorable." "Well, answered Miss Cayenne, thoughtfully, unearthed a chap named Platt, n left"this on wasnt without Its benefits. hander, who has a mighty potent It enables; a great many ladle to speak whip," and Is probably tb best pitchof before th War without embarrass- ing "find- - of tb year. Platt was rement. Washington StAr ferred to as "Rube" "when he broke E. "RED DONAHUE, (Pitcher, Philadelphia.) the best hitters In a pinch that ever swung the willow,1 "Cap Dahlen of Chicago, always a great player, has played wonderful ball at shortstop thla v year, and so haa Tommy Corcoran ct Cincinnati. Jones ot Brooklyn need doff hls hah to nobody. He Is a fast man la ail departments, even though he is wRl a team that is not noted for rapidity Another fast and valuable outfield! is "Billy Hamilton of the Bostons; likewise "Willie Keeler, one ot th smallest men physically and biggest in ability in the business. The playen who outbats these two skilled performer! this year is likely to lead) th league In batting. Big "Ed Dele bsnty ot Philadelphia is another great hitter and etar. He Is a base stealer par excellence. Van Haltreu, Burkett, MeAleer, Joe Kelley and Patsy Donovan, the efficient leader ot the Pioutfielder rates, are other hlgb-clanonchalant FrenchThe easy-goinman, Napoleon Lajole, called "Larry by hi intimates, of Philadelphia, 1 on of th wonders of the season. II 1 n terrific hitter. Asked once what sort of balls he preferred to hit at, ha replied, "Anything I can reach. He was a great first baseman last year and Is Just as great a second baseman this year. ' Jimmy Collin ot the Boston, by many experts considered tbe beet tlflrd baseman that ever guarded the position, la n player of surpassing excelHe la as graceful as a danclence. ing master a finished artist,- - Indeed. Wallace ot Cleveland isnt far behind blm as n third baseman, s and, lik American tho gentleman from th Athens, has played better ball this year than ever before. He must b fleetfooted indeed who bunts successfully on Collins or Wallace, and bunting is on of tbe hardest problems with which the third baseman bas to do. JWild Bill . Everltt of Chicago la-- n player, who ha been one of the leading lights ot the national game this year. Fred-Clarof Louisville I another, and so I little Charley Dexter of tbe aamo team, who more than once ha listened to the sweet music of applause bestowed upon him by admiring rooters for some wonderful catch In tho outfield. Ereritt, Clarke an4 Dexter, as well M others mentioned In this article are comparatively young blonds. W can go to the other extreme and find knights of the diamond who ar worthy to be ranked In the hero das because of praiseworthy achievement In their vocation. Out In Cincinnati nobody is held in higher esteem than veteran second, Bid McPbee, th baseman. "He was playing ball wham tome ot hie contemporaries of today) ee were in tbelr swaddling clothes. la a "credit to bis call and to alb hls native land"; and so la another war-woveteran. Jim McGuire of th Washington team. Full many a yea tbe incessant ba McGuire stood pounding that comes to a catcher, but he stands there today stanch sal sturdy as ever. .. .. sa g, Mc-Ph- rn W. B. HANNA. , |