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Pathetic Domestic Drama.
A curious human tragedy was
tion which is a logacy from Nape Whent Millionaires Earned Less who goes nour the thing. Anil ended in the Assize Court of
leonto daya. A grout conscript army means an element of au- Saintes yesterday, waya a Paris]
I have known a good many It is a common belief abroad-orgy which is incompatible paper of February 7, which no-
with real democracy. But we millionaires in my time,'
Raid quitted a husband of the murder in some countries at least that are comparing Franco now with Mr. Carnegie the other day, "but possessos a Buddha that life an of his wife under circumstances writes an English journalist under the Republic, and the ro- the time when he would have was sent there because it gave Franco is in a state of decadenco, what she has been at any time searcoly one who could not recall appalling reputation. Indeed, it which would rival the most serian-
Political life is a maze of intrigue, it is that, she was never so considered to pounds a week a the lady who owned it such a MANAGEMENT & CUISINE UNDER EUROPEAN MANAGEMENI tional melodrama ever stugod.
virile, novar so strong, or so pro princoly income. I myself was time that site refused to have The accused was a restaurant finance is corrupt, cemporegressive. The Fronch people, the proudest young man in the kooper, named Hugron, who had suffers from dry rot scamials, politically, are not so unstable or States when I was promoted from anything more to do with it. It 621 begun life on the lowest rungs of sabotage, strikes, riots, syndical- volatile as they are represented twelve shillings a wook to a lord-emerged into Europoon know- the ladder, and gradually from a ism, apachism, anti-patriolisin, of lust autumn, France maintain-graph-operator,
to bo During the critical timely five pounds a montli as tele-edge during 1853, when an servant had worked his way to uachy and other demoralising of a calm, a dignity," and a ro- And Mr. Carnegio, who has English sea captain bought it in boing a master. Then ho mar-forces are destroying the vitality sorve which was an example to live to give away forty of his Lower Burma. The ship on ried, and with a wife and daugh of the people, and souling the her neighbours.
millions, is, as he says, only one which he was bringing it home CENTRALLY situated, up-to-date Rotol, Revamily renovated, and under ter lind begun to look forward to doom of France is a great nation,
of many. who
can to-day write a caught fire, and the sailors, blam-Cuisfac ander the supervision of an Experienced FRENCH CHEF, and entirely New Management. Lange and Comfortable Rooms, Excellent -the happiness he had carned. Ho|Such is the glony picture of THE TRIPOLI WAR.
cheque for seven figures, more casily than in loss gilded days loing the Buddha, threw it over-separats Tables, Hot and Cold Baths. Electric Light throughout Terms took a restaurant in Paris called Franco arhich certain foreigners
could put his hand on a spare board. But It was not to moderte, First Clasa accommodation for Families and Tourists, "The Eightoon
Italy's Peace Terms. Samopane," paint. It a pieturé that is vorý
Hovereign.
be done that way. There woeks
For particulars and rates apply to and for a while his affairs pros-far from the truth. Let there be
His First Nest-Egg. later it turned up on the Welsh
Telephons, 170 The following is, according to
Telegrams "Astor." mistako about it; France was the "Corriere della Sern, said to count his millions up to a little of the gilt had been washod Mr. J. I). Hookefeller, who is coast, none the worse save that, o
OPEN AIR SKATING RINK countablo fulling off; his cus- never more alivo since it has been resume of the Noto presented by hundred, was a grown man long off. It descended to the captain's tomers drifted away, and his Republic; uover more active Marchese San Giuliano, Italian fore he was able to our
Foreign Minister to the Amanual £60, which was such doughter, and very nearly deso- business ran downhill at an intellectually, never. more basandors of the Powers, „alarming rate.
united in fues of danger or anoto The document is divided into
wealth to him that be religiouslylated her household. The Finally he found that he had confident of its strength, Thero four parts: an introduction, the put aside half of it, and "livod
on the bal-Bervants all swore that they saw like a fighting cock only about £800, including his is a new French rouaissance. To rosume of the fundamental views And Mr. Philip D. Ar- it walking about the house at of Italy, the conditions of the investments and jewellery. He be sure there are scandals which accord, and a conclusion,
mour, who lived to control a night; it nearly frightened her gave this over to one of those are ruthlessly exposod ; there aro
business with an annual output of friends and her children to death, The Minister, first of all, thanks plausible sharks who seem ever public anen, tot wholly gond, the powers for their initiative, father's farm, branded a life-fail- and made things generally so
| £20,000,000, returned to his to be prowling around, and who whose reputations are torn to which is in keeping with there at twenty-five, before he miserablo that at last she handed bildenly ill to Greece, the land piecor; there is subotage, syni has not changed her point of Milwaukee, and was able to point then it has been carefully watch- stipreme interests of Europo, Italy maile a second bid for fortune at it over to the museum. Since of his birth. This was the last calism and other evidences of la-view,, who still desires blow, and Hagron confessod to our unrest; there are putrid maintenance of the "status quo"months of hard labour.
M❘ to £75 as the fruits of twolve his wife' that they were ruined. plays, and there is demuralising in the Balkans, and it was only Mr. John Wanamaker, statos caught it walking about or hurt- when constrained by events that The woinan, stricken with re-literature; and other signs of desho was forced to take action and Cross, made his first ing anybody, one never knows Under norse, exclaimed: "Kill me at generacy. The trail of intern-against Turkey, To-day,
Best-egg out of a weekly twelve once. It is I who have deceived tional finance is sometimes ovi- steps taken by the Powers open and until he had loft his twenties the meantime it stands placidly, when it may break out again. In shillings earned in a book-store, you and robbed the tili regularly dent in politics, and it cannot con- the way to a cessation of the bernd "over knew what it was a browny-black figure with an every day to give money to my cel its sordid trucks. There are
hostilition, if not to a formal lover to bet on the races." The
to spend more than twenty dollars obscure and somewhat 'sinister treaty of peace. unfortunato man was, however, varieties of revolutionary socialism The Italian Government de month"; and Mr. John W. too iniserable even to be angry, and anarchy, but these things clares itself ready to discuss the Gates, who made so many mil-mile. There is another little He forgave her, and instead seem more tortile than they real-conditions which could help to lions in steel and wire, spent his Buddha sent by Lady Dorothy No- killing her, as aho persisted in
early manhood as a farm labourer, vill for precisely similar reasons. begging him to do, ho declared are. Francelmusabsolutefred to reach this agréémont,
thankful to take home that they would die together. of the Press; seindals are un-ceals; ought to signify, for Tur-equivalent of twelve shillings entire family unluckly, and as the (It rendered not only, her but her agreement, the document pro- "No, no, kill us all three. It is eartlied which in other countries key, the explicit recognition of oach week-end,. bottor for our little girl not to be would be hillon. The failing the new state of things created famous "(old King" of Colo- ficient to state that it was once in When Mr. W. S. Stratton, the for its previous history, it is suf left." And so it seems to have of politicians are magnifial. In by Italy in Libin, and, on the railo, left his carpenter's, bench Naples, and hedevilled the people been decided. In a sort of gentle |
part of the Powers, the recogni- folly he collected all that he could Francis this, editor of to-day may tion of the legal situation as far to chase rainbow gold among the there to such a degree that when lay hands on, and with alout 12 be the minister, of to-morrow. as this region is concorned.
Itockies, he had to tramp and it loft it was hung all round with in all he said: "If we have to Journalisan is pornmently alliol Turkey will, therefore not be starvo for nineteen years before every known Neapolitan charm die, let us first have the bust time to literature on the one hand and constrained to sign an explicit Fortune smiled on him at Cripple against the evil eye.
This habit of trying to palm off to personal polities on the other. treaty in which the Italian Creek, where he struck a vein of Frankness and outspokenness of sovorciguty will be formally 220,00 a month into his pocket. appears to be very general.
gold which was soon putting private demons on the public The trio then quitted Paris, Filiacussion go to extremes and recognized. and after staying at the sonsido crento wrong impressions a broad.
Lote of people come here "In those days," he says, "I|· The preliminary to this agres finally reached Marennes with Thant France is sound at the core, mont alrould be the withdrawal would live bartered all my wanting us to take off their hands fourpenco left. Thoy went to that its institutions are stable, of the Ottoman troops from reams of riches for a life Oriental images that have, they inn and retired to rest in the and that it is passing through Africa. Italy will then at once income of eight ollurs a week!" are convinced, brought them ill- luck," an officer of the museum samo room. Towards eight period of extraordinary intel cease all hostilities in every pari
told one of the "Standard'e" re- o'clock the house was roused by lectual activity is ovident to any of the Ottoman Empiro.
presentatives. Usually they are the sound of revolver shots, and lose observar.
at least four out of five of the rubbishy little brass things that rushing in, the proprietor found There are many signs in France The "memoire" then sums up men across the Atlantic who to-are of no uro to 18. husband and wife lying side by of the now renaissance. It is pro in seven paragraphs the engage day have more millions than they not seem to bring in fine things People do side on the bad, and the littladucing new philosophers who are ments which Italy will under- have fingers on their hands. girl, 14 years old, crying for help cosmopolitan in their ideas. And tako:--
Tako any names at random and like that Buddha," He sighed and Complete Telephone Installations. on the floor, with a bullet through it gives examples of amazing in- her arm. In the course of the dustry-witness M. Rollarda por-ligions Khalifat. The name of L Blair, who lived to amass tresses them a lot, I tell them (1) The recognition of the re- you will find this true, from John regretfully. As a rule we can- not take the things, which die- trial it came out that the child tentous work on John Christopher, the Sultan will continue to be £10,000,000, after knowing the to burn them to get rid of the bad which has already run to many pronounced in the public prayers struggle to keep the home oupluck, but they seem afraid to do but had then begged her father books and several volumes; and is of the Mussulmans, but his au baard supplied on the two dollars that, under the idon that the evil, LONDON, WITTON, MANCHESTER, BIRMINGHAM. only to pretend to kill her to not nearly finished. It is a story thority will only be religions; it a day he earned in a Hope store, spirit will express its displeasure please her mother, who was and a study which is apparently cannot be either aduainistrative, to Charles Schwab, who was on by a violent explosion, or some urgent in her request that she intended to lay bure some of the judicial or political.
joying an annual salary of auch moane." should first be shot, "I never weaknesses of French civilisation (2.) Rospect for the religious £100,000 within twenty years of nieant to kill my girl, and so 1 and strengthen the ties of inter-liberties and the, customs and driving stakes for the Carnegie fired at her first, sining so as to national sympathy. Such a work usages of the population. Company for a daily dollar, wound her only slightly; and is only possible in France, whore (3.) The assurance that noj In those days of scanty purses, did not kill my wife because she book profuction is cheaper than punishment will be inflicted on too, it must be remembered that had been untrue, I assure you.. 1 in any other country. France has the natives who, even since the many of these Crasusss-to-be had had forgiven hor, and only killed the cheapest now books, just ns, declaration of the annexation, wives, and in some cases families; hor as I wanted to kill myself, through a system of subscription havo indulged in nets of hostility to support. because we were ruined," by post, it has the cheapest news against Italy.
Mr. Chauncey Depew, the The sympathies of the Court papers.
(4.) Guarantees to the creditors"richest lawyer in the world,' were already half won over to Another healthy sign of the of the Ottoman Public Debt of began his wedded life not only this unfortunate assassin when times in the increase in popular the amount produced by the Cus-penniless, but, desply in debt. the litte girl was called to give universities, the growth of the tons dution in Libia,
"I was poorer than any mechanic," ovidence. As alie was put into conference and the literary pil- (5.) Purches of the Ottoman he anys. "The cupboard was often the witness-box the father burst grimage. Young men are taking State property in Libia.
empty, but my wife always car ied into sobs, and a wave of emotion more and more to field sports, (8.) Re-establishment in Turkey a smiling face through the passed over the Court. The and quite a respectable corner of of the "status quo ante" as far as darkest days." child, too, apoka through the daily press now required to concerns the posts and schools. her tears ILA sho confessed record, the results of football The Italian posts will be sup that she had not at all wanted matches,: cross-country runing, pressed when the other nations to be killed. "Quite right, hockey, etc. And the progress decide on this suppression. The too, added the judge, and has not been confined to the men. same will hold good of the The damping of demons in he allowed her to cross the floor The women of Franoc, while they Capitulations. and fling herself into the arms of do not seek the vole, demind (7.) Italy will not refuse to this country, and more especially the prisoner with a ory of " Papa, freedom for professional advance sign agreements with the other in our public, museums, is be- my papal" to which came the ment. The feminist movement Powers guaranteeing the integrity coming & national danger, says anguished response, “My darling has made great progress in recent of the Ottoman Empire. little one, my darling?". The years, and the womon have con- The "memoire" then stipulates the "Standard." This boom in jury bent their heads to try quered positions in the profes-that Italy, while reserving the curio collecting is concentrating honestly to avoid being in- sional world still closed to them right to carry on, by all the evil spirits of every kind from fluenood, and the Public Prosecu-in many other parts of the world. means that she may judge proper, foreign olimes upon British soil, tor confessed that he had not There are, it must be admitted, the operations of war, declares the courage to ask for a condom-demoralising social influences at herself disposed to examine any Haunted houses, village, ghosts, nation."
work in France; many weak other eventual conditions, which and farniture that waltzes are Counsel for the defence had points in administrative and in the Powers may propose on their becoming commonplace. But it won the case alrondy. The jury Parliamentary life, perhaps some own initiative to safeguard as far is in our public museums, that immediately acquitted Hugron, sordil 'associations between the as possible the "amour propra' and, amidst the loud applause of Prosa and the Government. For and the prestige of Turkey, but ing
the evi all present, father and little many years the Republie had to always on the irrevobable banis serious doughter, hand in hand, wont be watchful of enemies within her of the sovereignty of Italy in have heard of the mummy of ad But, free to face the world sysin, gates, the had the supreme Idīts,
gyptian prized in the British |
we can
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What Italy Will Undertake.
The Wife's Smiling Faco.
And the same story is told of
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