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Show l ITT". I Swelldom Has Choice Morsel of Scandal. win of the lot Eugim Cruger, which la still claiming tho attention of the Surrogate's Court In New York, serve to recall the strange story of a man who once was the arbiter of fashionable metropolitan society and whose matrimonial experiments were as spice to the jaded appetites of swelldom's gossip. Cregcr belonged to a family of that name which has prominently figured In the history of old New York and was thus relieved of the alternative of purchasing his entry Into soilety. It Is money or blood never brains yon know that opens the gilded portals of " society and with his- - Knickerbocker blood Cruger 'had only to knock to have the doors opened. He became the rage of society. He was tall, handsome, cultured, a good talker, a good dancer and bad the happy knack of paying compliments as fulsome and as lying as a tombstone Women raved over him. They can rav oyer snythlngfrom a cannibal king to a chameleon. But Cruger was no cannibal king, though perhaps e bad some of tbs chameleon's changing Borne of them one characteristics. day bunted- - up an old mythology and lot Cruger beramo Apollo, the hand some, the divine. Well, Apollo one day found bis Venus. She was Blanche 8pedden, of New Orleans, a belle of course and naturally handsome. They were mar- ried In Grace cfiurch. " Society approved the union and lt butterfly life went on. In due time threw children were born to the couple, society, of course, approving. At this time 1888 the father was at the height of his popularity and Mrs. Cruger was allowed to shin In her husband's brilliance. All sof a sudden society was shocked Mrs , Cruger applied for a divorce and the custody of her children and got both. went Very Cruger prudently abroad. He visited the Riviera and dazzled the French shore of the Mediterranean. There he met Meta Kane Doll, the widow t Louts Bell, of New TiIIE Jg bui msxvimxi -- right. At any rate the Tartar wife did not sue tJr divorce, and a hen a few years ago Cruger died he left the following brief will, sf raw led on s piece of paper "1 leave my name of Eugene 0 Cruger aud my property which 1 possess to Olga Salomes Belts. I make her my legatee to ali my prtperty " Olga Salomea Helix was his Tartar wife TUr two ex wives contested the will each wishing for a share of the property for their children, and this con test la now goiog on It la unnet es sary to enter Into Its details, but It solitary mountain rising mtjes'l-rallfrom the plain of tne Campania Is the first object to greet the rye on arrival In Naples On the r to the mountain we passed tbrtnipa the small town of 1st hia, which scSBt-to be populated entirely by tapirs and tiny dusky children On ovirtie to n dry gravelly plain arother located almost at the base vessvt-u- s It is very remarkable that rfW the many cruel disasters these eople will build tip agair on tho very iput, knowing fhatfhnrarelBiibJect ta t le same calamities As late as 1855 this very town sag entirely destroyed, aud ial7i-aa-othe- r but lesser eruption oft mred, spreading desolation for tire The people moied out- - during jes. fiiat period and it Is said as soon as the lava was ool enougi to walk eQ gey built u their vihage agrln, fley have no fear of another outbreak. The height of the mountain nd form of apex aie subjec- - to ffewnt A In 1779, just 1 7oO years after the first, came the great eruption, aud second only to the first in its colossal death-dealirupheaval, destroying 'torre del Crwo and all vegetitlon within three miles of the base of Vesuvius At ita close eleven cones were in active operation and the dm charge so great that at one time s falling In of the entire mountain was feared Half way up ia the crater of tie outburst Of 1720 Only smoke and steam Issue at present some day will witness a terrible breaking out of this dangerous little fissure When we-- reached the top we were allowed by our conscientious guide to sit down and rest. We never appreciated rest like this, even though we were seated on a jagged rock We were annoyed by peddlers selling centimes set in lava. We wanted to make one of these curiosities ourselves, so we ventured near the crater The sul phurous gases strangled and blinded -- igg, I A Duchess at Nswpect. Thus fhr the railroads have announced no special rates for persons desiring to visit Newport during the exposition of the Duchess of Marlborough and her coronation robes, but we presume that such an announcement m-- st speedily follow. Of course we camot hope that the duchess will adopt J,ady Raglans scale of prices thrii pence a look for she must n take nto account the cost of and the readiness of our peoc- - to pay liberally for their shows. trans-porta'io- .''' r i v I .. )5?t dih h A V 1 may be said that the divorced wives are trying to prove that Cruger s mind wag affected when he drew the will. It may also be noted that wife No 1 and wife No. ! married again, the first Mrs. Cruger becoming Mrs. J Frederic Tams and the second selecting Chevalier Raval Mourichon, a Knight of the French legion of Honor, for her third husband. Meantime, New York society has developed other Apotlos and other Don Jusds, and Cruger, while not forgotten Is rarely spoken of Society must have change, and it generally gets It. - y i akam ij v ; - -- t " w. CLEARED BARN OF RATS." a Hard Task. The tale is old as Hamelin Town. Rats! They hit the babies In their cradles, they licked the soup from the cooks own ladles. And they also ate up the grain in a Vermonter's barn. Hamelin tried the Pied Piper and gut rid, to its sorrow, of more than the rats. But this Vermonter tried rolled oats, and Still baa hit thirteen-od- d children, but no rats. If this were an advertisement for a breakfast food the moral would.bg plain, It was this way, said James F, -Manning:" Qut tq the far from Burlington, the grocer, who la general grain and feed dealer and dlsburser of farming tools and the like for the surrounding district, found bis storehouse to be overrun with rats, which no trap seemed cunning enough to catch nor big encugh to hold them all. As the grocer put It, no ten traps could catch them fast enough to prevent a second generation. So he hit on an Idea. He took a great, wide tub and filled It half ft.ii of rohed oat, The rata fattened on it, or rather In It for some days. When they had learned to go there with confidence he one day filled the tub halt full of water, on the surface sprinkled a coating of chopped cork, and then over all sprinkled a thin layer of the rolled oats. That night the rats came to the tub.as wraa. their, wont,, peered over the edge, saw that all Fas rolled oats, and jumped. The next morning seventeen of them were found dead at the bottom. In thle way the grocer cleareTbis storehouse. Be.ng a Yin7 kee, ha la already talking of a pat- " An tfflCv.dkM S i t :4 ; , t' j Ac J v . ; vr f I - I- - 'h I ) A, Furthermore, the duchess is a much important, personage than Lady Raglan: and did something of "tremendous gravity at the coronation, though we regret to say that what It was has momentarily escaped us. We believe she held up something at a critical moment The presence of the duchess gives a crimson glow to the more-- , expiring Newport season and a felicitous termination to an otherwise uneventful summer. Personally, we should take much more Innocent enjoyment In Hlnky Dinks wonderful wardrobe than In the duchess coronation robes, but this may be our vulgar taste. Chicago Evening Post Ping-Pon- g Cause for Divorce. Thqmas Ford, a Southsea, Eng., boarding housekeeper, who stated that his wife sat up late to play ping pong obtained a decree recently In the divorce court. Woman Will Carry Mall. Miss Lulu Adsit will be one of the y rural carriers on the -sew route established from Manlius Mrs. Cruger No. 1. (N. Y.) postofflce Aug 1. Miss Adsit one in the world knows. Is Paris, and Is the first woman to rscelye an apIn the gay, French capital Cruger espointment aa carrier in this country, tablished himself. and one of the very few In this state. One day In a restaurant he saw a She Is 23 years ef age, of rather girl. He saw many,, of course, but slight build, determined and popular, one this interested him. She was snd with a business education. cashier of the restaurant, lately pro- Superintendentgood Machen statea moted from being a scullion. She although the number of woman that, carwras of Tartar orlglf and had Jour- eers so far appointed are few, they neyed from her rative Russian aUp-po- s art good satisfaction. Cruger did some figuring. He hai tna rimoula! blisa two of chosen ahdwaa shipwrecksociety ed twice. He reasoned that a woman waa more devoted the more Ignorant she was, and he reolved to try an experiment He proposed to the Tartar girl, w a accepted and they were wed. His reasoning, possibly, w tried giving, To 'Command at Sandhurst The BTitlsh' military attache at Washington, Lieutenant Colonel Kit-sohas commandant at Sandhurst one of the most Important assignments In the British army. Lieutenant Colonel Kltson was formerly commander of the Royal . Mllitarj College at Kingston 'ndU Died for Her Baby Brother. One of the touching stories of the season comes from a little town In northern Wisconsin, where a child diei for her baby4 brother. The baby had been left in the yard, sleeping in its buggy, and the sister had been asked to go out and see to him. There the little girl saw a big rattlesnake colled at the feet of the Infant, and, realizing the danger, seized a broom and tired to kill the reptile. The snake, disturbed, darted at the little glr!, coiled around the handle of the broom, and slipped down It, striking its fangs Into the child's neck. The Infant hoy was untouched, but the motherly baby sister died In great agony. Undisputed for Half a Century. is a remarkable fact, which for half a century has not once been disputed, that SL Jacobs Oil never falls to cure shooting pains In the arms, legs, sides, hack or breast, or soreness In any part of the body. It has for fifty years been guaranteed by the proprietors, SL Jacobs Oil, Ltd., Baltimore, Md, to promptly cure lameness, sciatica, rheumatism, lumbago, stiff and awollen joints, stiff hack, and sH pains' In lb hips and loins, strains, bruises, burns, scalds,' toothache. Chilblains, and all aches and pains. SL Jacobs Oil costs 25 cts and 50 eta.; sold wherever a druggist is found. acing the Latest Automobile Sr -- Different Social Customs. writer says: The rhtns. man bends to the very ground when be salutes; the Russian, farther west, takes off his hat and scrapes with It hs very path; in Prussian Konlga-ber- g y always farther west the salute each other by taking off their hats or caps very low; In Berlin the head covering is raised but little; la Paris still less. In London not at all or wRh a difference. The American keeps his hat on Immovably and Wver bends, but all civilized nation, of course, take off their hats the ladles." A recent p&as-ersb- suffer from tbst horrible jiilaa-.l'caas-- cures, quk-kland At any drug store, 60 cents. permanently. ad King Alfonso Obssrvr - The young king of Spain may be troublesome to those nearest him, hut he Is evidently not lacking In keenness. One hundred years ago, he says, news was carried across 8paln In one day; now, with the telegraph, it takes two days. A king who observes defects can most likely find a way to remedy them. On of nature's remedies; cannot harm the weakeet coaxtitutioa ; asver fails to car summer complaints of young or old. Dr. Fowlers Extract of Wiki Strawberry. Making Artificial Rhine Wine. The process of making artificial Rhine wine is comewhat complicated. .Mix one pound of essence 4n three gallons of proof spirits and add thirty-se- ven rectified cider; then gallons dissolve a pound of tartaric acid In a half gallon of hot water, and add to suit taste. About one-haof the Rhine wine uted In the United Statea Is made in this manner, says Pearson's Weekly. -- a lf Mothar Gray's Sweet Powders for Chfllraw Successfully used by Mother Gray, nun in th Childrens Home in New York. Cure Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, mov and regulate the Bowels and Orer 80,000 testimonials. Destroy Worm At all druggists, 26c. Sample FREE. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Letloy, K. Y. free-dellver- with an art student 4 American Tourist Not Intorestsd In That Lina. American tourists are notoriously Irreverent One of those Inevitables paid a visit to Cbatsworth, England, the other day, and after exploring the marvels Of the Palace of the .Peak, be said to a Sheffielder who bad been also Inside, This is a nice place; who The Duke of Devonbelongs to it? shire. How did he get It? It was left to him." What does he do? Did he ever earn ten cents in his life?" Oh, yes, he's very clever." But did he ever do a days work, like you or me?" The Sheffielder was soon a$ his wits end for replies, and by wey of changing the subject suggested that the American should visit Fountains Abbey "Fountains Abbey," replied Old Yank, "wbats that?" Its a very fine ruin, was the answer, "ti' ruin, is it, said the Yankee; then I guess I don't see It Ever since I tomarried her (jerking ward' his wife) I draw the line at ruins, stranger. She's ruin enough for me." It's folly to pjsgseet Ointment finer still, for two drachms of It by weight would resch 400. miles. In water la which Vegetables have been Infused the microscope discovers animalcule of which many thousands together do not equal a grain of sand; and yet nature, with a singular prodigality, has supplied many of these with organs as complete as those of the whale or the elephant, and their bodies consist of the same substance, ultimate atoms, as that of man himself. In a single pound of such matter there are more living creatures than of human beings on the face of the globe. fj. THE LINE AT RUINS. It j changes by the ever flowing lavs. It us, the lntense heat and glare daiIs estimated to. be at present thont sied tis, hut we accomplished pur aim 4,(H)h feet high." In the eruption of and a piece of money encrusted with 4SMHStPstF"fwetrltieaekK,JldffrS( hot lava is the reward we treasure. which has been restored by subsAt each step of, the descent we equent working. Before tils event the sank nearly up to our knees in the summit was a rough and rocky plain fine, looee pumice (much to the detricovered with blocks of lava and rent ment of our shoes). It was very with numerous fissures from nhkh hard to walk and we pulled our feet clouds of smoKe and steam wert co- out of the gravel with great difficulty. , nstantly Issuing. '' Before we bad gone many steps we The lava which was ejected ok (he broke Into a run, which was easier occasion of the first eruption f?9 and our feet only sank to the ankle. A. D.) hurled the two famous cities In fifteen minutes we were at the of Pompeii and Herculaneum, VWch base bedraggled, weary, ragged remained almost unknown until a creatures. The ride back to the hotel Vas uneventful, we were too tired to century ago. Since that fearfii It has been a volcano, mere or enjoy anything. The scenery was all less active. Once In 1538 the simait green trees and blue skies, or vice known as Monte Nuovo was toned versa. We couldn't see, our eyes up to a height of 413 feet in twodtys. ached, and we still had the disagreeIn 1631 the villages at Its base were able, sulphurous odor clinging to what covered with lava, and Dolling aster clothes we had left Our guide took us to the front door poured forth for twelve days : ,4 wit-bur- , rrtr 4 . r . . s ..... C3 fV MPTI : . - DRAW hlg-tbii- i Mrs. Cruger No. 2. former ncro.'antt towurmaef or fittingly suggested bon Juan. At thla time Cruger, whether from bit matrimonial lnfellritiea or from some other cause, developed epilepsy. He became old looking and haggard and probably realising that, he bad ent" not long to live and that when once dead bo would be a long time dead, Curloaltlss ef Nature. be determined on enjoying himself The thread of the silkworm Is so during the Interval of hia epileptic small that many of them are twisted attacks. The place for this, as every- together to form our finest sewing thread. But that of the spider is - of the hotel, where we were Inspected by a curious lot of tourists, and hit desperate efforts to escape were re waided by a storm of questions ana queMes We replied, we know not wha. but a party forthwith engaged our guide and arranged to take the same trip from which we bad just returned, so our answers must have been favorable FRANCES E. A WRIGHT. g , - His Pillow of Stone. Bishop Taylor of the Methodist church, who died on May 18 at Palo Alto, Cal., bad for over half a century slept with his bead pillowed upon a stone.-H- e generally carried the' stone in a satchel and always laid his herd upon tt at night wherever he was. A Baltimore clergyman says that on one occasion tha bishop visited him when the temperature waa far below sero. and that the bishop slept in the room with all the windows thrown up and with his head on the un. -- . By-To- n - VESUVIUS Vermonters Ingenuity Was Equal to Eugene Guide CrUgef. York. Each knew the Intricacies of tb love game and after a few careful moved each captured tho other. Cupid led them to the altar, where the usual ceremonies were performed, and the American colony abroad approved Shortly after the birth of a daughter, Mrs. Cruger No. I applied tor and got divorce. Society now became downright Interested. What could It mean?" It asked itself, and as no one offered an answer It Tery acccmmodatingly began formulating theories Itself. But its Apollo was shattered. It had to have another title, however, for Its : Success of American Women. A much traveled man in speaking RACIhS OVER THE SWISS A passion for sklmmirg 0y the surfacexit the earth with of a bird or of a rifle bullet- -j developed among the Idle richth the development of the antomotit. It Is a sort of speed madness tig j( constantly on the lookout for nt xrorlds to conquer; s lunacy that h requisitioned of Inventors strargsjjts of armor and hideous masks toe,w Its victims to tear through fc atmosphere at a blinding, smother y pace. thed MOUNTAINS IN AUTOMOBILES. This madness had a terrible climax In equipped with alpenstocks and ropes. i ranee recently, when Millionaire Before long, doubtless, some new Charles Fair and his wife were whirl- Diavolo will be looping the loop" ta ed into oternlty in the twinkling of an auto, thrilling thousands with his an eye daring and exciting some contempo-- Now .that the limit of speed ani rary lunatic to go him one better. As to the possibilities of mount of the publics "endurance of it has in automobiles, they were been reached, the speea maddened have taken to climbing mountains proved in a recent race from Cbam-plgn- y to Vienna, across tne peaks and glaciers to mountains of Switxerland. Ne dolbg the Alps, for Instance, with chaufleurs instead of with guides York Press. snow-covere- d of the way in which women walk announced that without doubt the women of Baltimore have the most correct carriage and most graceful walk of any In the world. As Baltimore ha long held the palm for the beauty of her women this will ho another feather in her cap. This same man. wfio la a Londoner of exalted social position. to what he attributed the social success of American women. He answered the cruse were splendid dressing, self posses-slo- n and freedom from shyness and a superlatively good education." "FAT Asked recently |