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The Enterprise. W. E. HANNAFOBD,! Pub.

ROUND THE CAPITAL VIRGINIA, MINNESOTA.

Information and Gossip Picked Up Heia and There in Washington. Gossip of People and Events Told

in Interesting Manner. MADE G. O. Pi TAKE NOTICE

•? The-Betterment of Farm Life. President Roosevelt has appointed

a commission of five men to report on methods of improving the social con­ditions of farm life. Next to the con­servation of national resources, he re­gards the well-being of the farmer as the chief problem before the lation. On the, man who gives us the materi­als for clothes and food the entire na­tion depends. Through him society is rooted in the land. Many of the great economic improvements in late years have been directed to the betterment

* of farming. The department of agri­culture has been working to increase the productivity of the land, to in­struct farmers in the best methods of cultivation. All the development or Irrigation, the establishment of rural postal delivery, the improvement of waterways and railroads over which the product of the land is sent to the cities, the good roads movement, the creation of state agricultural colleges, the regeneration^ of the district school py&em, have tended to make farming more prosperous and the farmer healthier and better instructed. But most of this work has dealt in land and crops and tools and roads; it has in large measure missed the human being. The president's most inspir­ing idea, his most statesman-like mo­tive, is the belief that it is the man that counts. We must help and im­prove human beings. We must make farm life so attractive that' the best strength-of the nation will live it. At present the brilliant prizes of life s^era to lie in the city, and too many enable boys are tempted away from tfije soil. To bring to the farm the es­sential comforts and. intellectual inter­ests of the cities, to give farm boy and farm girl every chance for self-im­provement, to secure to the farmer his proper share of the profit of his labor, to make life in the country most worth living—this is the problem the solu­tion of which will strengthen the foun­dations of national prosperity. Meas­ures to be considered by the commis­sion, says the Youth's Commpanion, are the establisment of postal savings banks, the creation of rural parcel post, by which the farmer may more easily get the products of manu­facture, the increase of "co-operation between farmers for buying, selling and borrowing," and the "better adap­tation of rural schools to the training of children for life on the farm,"

The last trace of connection be­tween the famous East India Company and the government of India disap­peared when Sir Philip Hutchins re­tired from membership in the council of India on July 31, this year—50 years, within two days, from the date of the passage of the act transferring control of East Indian affairs to the British crown. Sir Philip entered the old company in 1857, and was em­ployed in its civil servide in Madras, where he continued after the transfer of control. He rose to responsible po-sitions in India until he was called home as secretary of the judicial de­partment of the India office. He was made one of the members of the coun­cil of India in 1S98, the body which ad­vises the secretary for India in the cabinet, in his administration of the Indian empire. All other men who had been employed by the old com­pany had disappeared from the India office, and for the last nine months of his tenure Sir Philip was the sole sur­viving servant of the old regime. Al­though its political power ceased in 1858, the East India Company itself did not go out of existence until 1874

There is no mistaking the fact that the dirt is flying at Panama. The en­gineers are hitting their pace now in a manner to cause the pessimists to sing very small. In August the total excavation was 3,252,506 cubic yards, against 3,168,840 in July and against 1,288,692 in August, 1907. Thus the work is going ahead not merely more rapidly this year than last, but with a distinct gain from month to month. The end of the digging will soon be in sight at this rate. Of course when the excavation is finished the dams and locks will remain to be constructed, but these present no insuperable diffl culties and preparations are now un­der way to reduce the workings to a scientific basis. With assured sanita­tion, a competent administration, an unfailing labor supply and abundant appropriations the completion of the canal is only a matter of a very few years.

It seems that the aeroplane is to be limited mainly by the gasoline tank. Delagrange, with 24 liters of fluid, used the last drop in a flight that lasted 29 minutes 55 Seconds. The machine that stays up 24 hours must have a tank bigger than a beer cask.

"For goodness sake," asks a Chi­cago paper, "why do not Chicago nov­elists get acquainted with some good people?" Because, for some unac­countable reason, they hate to leave Chicago.

As he feels about it now man doesn't think that he will ever wear the direc-toire trousers, but we shall wait and see how he acts when fashion hands

. him a pair in exchange for his good money and commands him to put them on.

The New York stock exchange plans a committee authorized to examine the books of any member at any time.

' Now we'll see whether the brokers really want to stop the practice of washed sales.

Lost—Material for One Army Office^* 4% pounds—the lost 180—would make at least one good-sized general or al­most two the size of Gen. Funston. }

The officers all came back the same day. This much was expected when the ambulance drove into the post empty about 10:30 a. m. There were eager inquiries concerning the where--abouts of the officers, and the driver,^ waving an arm, said: "Oh, there or thereabouts. We was in a hurry, so we walked back."

Undoubtedly the 40 were "out there somewhere," but they were a long­time crossing the finish line.

Everybody was in good spirits at the finish or said he was. There was little doubt about Gen. Grant. He was as hard as nails to start with, having done some 300 miles of saddle work this season.

There was a corps of surgeons in waiting at the hospital for the re­turned prodigals. A minute examina­tion was made of all the victims, and the results, comprising pulse, temper­ature, weight and respiration, were all tabulated.

WASHINGTON.—Lost— Somewhere in Virginia, 180 pounds. Finder

please return to Maj. Gen. Fred Grant, commander of the department of the east, who will attend to its distribu­tion pro rata among 40 army officers.

if all the detritus, cellular and adi­pose tissue, cuticle, epidermis and derma matter could be collected from along the route of the test ride that finished at Fort Myer the other day the United States army would be the richer by one highly efficient officer.

All the 40 officers came back, but there was a hiatus somewhere. There had been one member, or his equiva­lent, left by the way, for the command averaged 4% pounds lighter to the man than when it started. Forty times

Elkins Won't Stop Marriage to Duke

SENATOR ELKINS will not oppose the marriage of his daughter Kath-

erine to the duke of the Abruzzi after all. The wedding probably will be solemnized in November.

If the duke were as sure of this as Is Washington society, he would be spared a lot of worry. As a matter of fact, the duke is about to start for Washington, fearing all the while that the senator will withdraw his consent to the marriage on account of Queen Helena's unrelenting opposition.

The duke fears Senator Elkins will play the part of a high spirited Ameri­can and endeavor to prevent the mar­riage, fearing that with the Italian

royal family so haughty, his daugh­ter's position at court would be rather equivocal.

Senator Elkins is said to have given the matter careful thought and de­cided that on account of the duke's high position, the young women would soon force merited recognition.

Queen Helena is one of the most uncompromising enemies of the mar* riage. Her majesty, a princess of Montenegro, seems anxious to show her devotion to the dignity of the house of Savoy, which her own mar-; riage imperiled, as disappointed match­making royal mothers saw when it was celebrated.

Save among Republicans and So­cialists, public opinion in Rome, ac* cording to a dispatch, reflects, dis-tortedly, the royal opposition. The Italians are angry because the Ameri­cans, instead of loudly rejoicing that Miss Elkins was to marry into the royal house, have taken an unenthusi-astic attitude toward the love affair.

Government Clerk Is Sadder But Wiser

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THE down-on-his-luck story of Stephen K. Booth, government

clerk, is no more aggravated than many another story that might be told by persons who have come to Wash­ington to settle down in a federal berth for a life of happiness and peace if not luxury and affluence—only to be rudely awakened to a condition of af­fairs that would cause an ordinary person to turn pessimist even to the point of wishing that there were no such thing as a government.

Considering everything, Stephen fared remarkably well. In the end he came out with a government job; not as good a one as he had builded on, perhaps, but a government job, just the same. Thousands have not sur­vived so fortunately.

Stephen comes from Minnesota. For eight years he labored, if that word can be used properly in connection with the things that a government clerk does in order to draw his salary. He worked in the bureau of the cen­sus. Gradually his compensation was increased during that time until it reached the figure of $1,200 a year.

Then Stephen became fired with an ambition. He took a look around him and decided he could do better in some other department of Uncle Sam's service. So he "accepted" a position as a special agent in the immigration service, under the department of jus­tice. This was in May of this year.

Stephen is a man of a family. His new work took him back to Minnesota,

which is one of the pathetic features of the story. His headquarters were at St. Paul, where he moved his fam­ily after disposing of all his household effects in the capital city. For a short time—less than a month, in fact—he enjoyed his new field of work and his increased salary, for, with the addi­tion to his responsibilities there had also come an increased amount in his semi-monthly pay envelope. In the evenings he was wont to stroll out and mingle again with his old-time cronies. He talked to them knowingly about matters pertaining to the na­tional government, and incidentally impressed on them that perseverance is the only requisite of success under the civil service.

One day Stephen received a letter from Washington. It was couched in formal language, but from reading it Stephen gathered that the government had no longer any need for his serv­ices, or words to that effect. The gov­ernment was very, very sorry, so said the man whose signature was attached to the letter.

It was this way: Congress had failed to grant the amount required and expected for the service, and it would be necessary to dispense with the services of the new appointees. It meant a laying off of a number of em­ployes in each of the 11 districts, into which the service is divided.

Stephen is now back in the bureau of census. His salary is only $1,000 a year, for his place had been filled as soon as he left, and it just hap­pened that Director North had a va­cancy in the lower grade. It cost him something to move out to Minnesota and back again, but, taken all in all and in the light of experience had by others which, turned out less fortunate­ly, he considers that, at least, it might have been worse.

Great Exhibit of Aerial Craft Planned

THE marked general interest in aeronautics aroused by the Zep

pelin and other dirigible balloon flights in Europe, aeroplane flights in France, and Baldwin motor balloon and Wright aeroplane tests at Fort Myer, has been noted by officials of the Smithsonian institution and Na­tional museum.

Prof. S. P. Langley, who built the first successful power driven model of an aeroplane, was secretary of the Smithsonian institution and his vari­ous models, the famous Langley aero­drome and the numerous aeroplane parts used in his experiments in aero-dynamics acre now in possession of the institution. These and other exhibits in the institution are being arranged into a special exhibit by George C. Maynard, assistant curator of the National museum.

Octave Chanute, the father of aero­nautics in the United States, has of­fered to build one of his gliding ma­chines for the aeronautical exhibit, and it is understood that the Wright brothers will present the institution with a model of their latest flying ma­chine, and one of their earlier glid­ing machines.

As soon as the new building for the Smithsonian institution is completed the aeronautical exhibit will be ar­ranged to show each step in the progress of aerial navigation from the hot-air balloon of Joseph Montgolfier in 1782 to the Wright brothers' aero*

plane. One of the Lilienthal's two-winged

gliding machines, a model of Har-grave's compressed air flying machine, whioh flew 319 feet; Stringfellow's aeroplane model, exhibited in the Crystal palace, London, in 1856, and numerous motors, propellers, wings, kites, and other interesting parts of aeroplanes, are now in possession of the Smithsonian institution.

Fiji Islanders' Sugar Cane Dance. A very curious and exceedingly

clever dance may be witnessed in Fiji, called by the natives "the sugar cane meke," or sugar cane dance. It repre­sents the growth of the sugar cane.

In the first figure the dancers squat low on the ground, shake their heads, shut their eyes and murmur slowly and softly an unintelligible sentence. Gradually they all stand up together, growing taller and taller, and as they "grow" they wave their arms and tremble all over from ankle to head, like the tall, tasselled cane waving in the wind, and still they keep on chant­ing louder and louder.

The last figure represents a series of combats meant to symbolize the ex­actions of the chiefs, who compel the "kaisi," willing or unwilling, to come and cut their crops.

He Had a Chance. "Wouldn't you just as lief have had

a little brother as a little sister?" asked Margaret's mother. The little one hesitated a moment and then said, "Well mother, boys are rather noisy and troublesome, but what with my bringing up and pap's bringing up and your bringing up he might not have turned out to be so very bad!"— Delineator.

Obadiah Gardner of Rockland, Me., is a late arrival in the ranks of men who have made the world pause for a moment to speculate and won­der. It is very doubtful whether tone man in 20,000 in the United States outside of Maine had ever heard the name Obadiah Gardner a month or two ago. It is quite certain that outside of New England his quaint Yankee name would have aroused no shade of interest in the mind of the average reader. Probably a few days more and the hurrying, selfish world will recollect as little of him ae it knew day before the recent election. Yet for the time being he has made some 25,000,000 of people sit sharply up and take notice of his existence in a little rural village up in the rock-bound Maine.

For Obadiah Gardner is the man who came within a narrqiw margin of carrying his state Over bodily into the Democratic camp. Two Occasions there have been recorded for the last, oh, many and many years, when the good state of Maine failed to remain in the G. O. P. line-up in the: matter of selecting a governor. Obadiah nearly made it three times, d That he didn't quite do so is a result for which his opponent may thank the national Republican organization, which bent every effort to save the state to the party for the effect it might have upon the presidential election two months later. The most eloquent and noted speakers at the call of the national committee were hustled over into Maine for a whirlwind campaign and all the influences possible were brought into the battle.

Mr. Gardner, who gave the G. O. P. so wild a scare, is a plain, everyday sort of a farmer, shrewd,, fluent of speech and earnest of manner, with a way about him that appeal? to the average plain-spoken and hard-headed resident of the Pine tree state. He is the head officer of the state grange, which unites the farmers of Maine in a strong fraternity, and he has a wide personal ac­quaintance among the farmers. Moreover, he was shrewd enough to sink the national political issues in a revival of the prohibition question, and thus arouse a red-hot fight in which party lines were almost entirely wiped out by the voters. Up to the last few days his success seemed a certainty, and as it was he carried many towns and cities that haven't gone Democratic before since the notable days of the lamented Gov. Kent.

"Chameleon Girl" Forgives Exiled Sister

HEADS NEW DIOCESE Rt. Rev. Peter J. Muldoon of Chicago has

been named by the Vatican as first bishop of the newly created Catholic diocese of Rockford, 111. The selection was really made by the priests of the Chicago archdiocese, for upon the list of names submitted to his holiness that of Mgr. Muldoon, like Ben Adhem's, led all the rest, while it was further indorsed as "most worthy."

Mgr. Muldoon was something of a bishop before, having been some time since given the titular honors as bishop of Tammos. The fact that there is no diocese of Tammos made the rank a purely honorary one, after a pleasant fashion of the mother church.

The new chief of the new diocese of Rock-ford is one of the most eloquent men of his faith in the middle west. Born and educated in

California, he studied theology and philosophy in Kentucky and Baltimore, and was ordained a priest in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1886. He was at once locat­ed in Chicago, and his rise has been rapid. In 1898 the late Archbishop Fee-han made him chancellor of the archdiocese and episcopal secretary. He was made vicar general three years later and given his titular bishopric.

In the educational work of the church Bishop Muldoon has been a forceful factor also. While rector of the parish of St. Charles Borromeo he gave it an academy, a high school for girls and a parochial school that set a new mark for the archdiocese. He had personal supervision of the two first-named in­stitutions, and they are recognized throughout the educational field of the church as models. He was the head of the Catholic department of the edu­cational exhibit at the Chicago world's fair, and his interest in everything pertaining to broad educational work has been deep and unselfish.

ENGLAND'S OLDEST ADMIRAL Richard Moorman, England's oldest admiral,

has just celebrated his ninety-eighth birthday anniversary. Probably no other naval officer in the world can boast a longer record, as he en­tered the British navy at 13. His memory of service afloat goes back to the year 1823, and he has some wondrous yarns to spin of life and adventure on many seas. ,

One of the most singular experiences which he takes pleasure in relating is rubbing noses —literally—with a Maori queen, who in her turn had "rubbed noses" with Capt. Cook, the famous explorer.

"The Maoris In those days," said the admiral in the course of a recent interview, "were a cannibal tribe on the west coast of New Zealand. I was one of the first to visit them. This was

as far back as 1827. I revisited the Maoris 16 years later, when Sir George Grey was governor, and met the chief of the Maoris. He remembered my earlier visit The chief and I became very friendly, and he committed to my charge his grandson, who was, in a way, prince regent of the country. I kept him a year on my ship and then persuaded the British government to give him an education."

Admiral Moorman has the distinction of having commanded the first screw-propelled warship in the British navy, the Rattler. It was a complimen­tary appointment which he had won through his merit in naval gunnery. After commanding the Rattler for some time he was transferred to the first paddle wheel ship in the navy; and he has witnessed all the wonderful changes in steam propulsion which have taken place since those early days.

The aged admiral is as remarkable for his idea of naval reform as he is for his singular experiences. He always has made a stand against promotion through favoritism. He was among the very first to plead for the advance­ment of men from the lower deck.

TOOK PART IN LYNCHING BEE William Van Amberg Sullivan, former

United States senator from Mississippi, having been out of the public eye and mind for a year or two, has projected himself back into view by means of his recent participation in a south­ern lynching bee and his defense of his course through the public press.

During his public career the Mlssisslppian oc­cupied much more than his share of public at­tention. He was sent to the senate by the ap­pointment of Gov. McLaurin in 1898. Shortly after that he announced that he was to marry Mrs. Marie Atkins. The first response was a breach of promise suit by Miss Lucy Leetin of his home town of Oxford.

The suit was settled and the matter was permitted to drop. A few weeks later Sullivan

had an altercation with a colored Pullman car porter, assaulted him and was sued for $50,000 damages. When he went back to Washington to be married he was so fearful of injury by the friends of the porter that he had a big squad of policemen about the doors and took a bodyguard of detectives along on his wedding tour.

In 1889 Editor Connolly of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal bitterly criti­cised Sullivan's vote on the Hawaiian question. The senator took his gun, hurried to Memphis and announced that he would shoot the editor. The men met and each had fired one shot when they Wtere stopped.

Having been named only for the unexpired term of Senator Walthall and failing to secure a re-election, Sullivan retired from the senate in 1901, and has since been numbered among the politically extinct. He is a lawyer, 58 years old."

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Outwitted the Landlord. When recently leasing a house in a

fashionable suburb of Philadelphia the lessee failed to examine closely the terms of the lease. After a time his landlord called and reminded him that he was bound to do all the out­side painting at certain intervals. The tenant protested in vain; so, he engaged painters and ordered them to paint the whole front of the house red, white and blue—in stripes.

When It was finished the neighbor­hood rose up in arms and the land­lord was frantic. The tenant polite-

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ly explained that there was nothing in the lease about the color, so he intend­ed to finish the job by painting the back of the house green, with large yellow spots. The landlord saw that he had met his match, and within a few days the tenant had a new lease, in which the landlord undertook to do the outside painting.—Lippincott's.

Hypothetical Question. "Daddy," said the three-year-old,

"what would you do if you loved me just as much as you do and didn't have any children only sister?"

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NEW YORK.—Over the body of Gio­vanni P. Morosini, the wealthy

banker and philanthropist, who would not forgive, an erring sister was for­given by Miss Giulia Morosini, the "chameleon girl," daughter of the banker, noted for her mastery of horses, her leadership in society, and for her statement that no woman cap dress on less than $100,000 a year.

The forgiven sister was Yittoria Morosini before she married her fath­er's coachman, Ernest Huels-Schilling, in 1884. Since that time Miss Giulia had been her father's constant com­panion. The aged banker never for­gave the girl who disobeyed him.

Mrs. Schilling. has lived in Rutland, Vt, for the last six years. First she was au inmate of St. Joseph's convent there, but later she went to board with a family named Williams, on the out­skirts of the city. She divided her time between visits to the convent and giving music lessons, by which she helped provide for herself, though she let it be known that her family sent ber funds to live on.

Before going to Rutland Mrs. Schil­ling divorced her husband, who en­tered the United States Marine corps.

Only the three daughters, the two sons, several of the servants, and the overseer heard the services read over the banker's body. None of his busi­ness associates, lawyers or few friends was there.

Giulia, who has been the insepara­ble companion of her father since her sisteh fled wiht the coachman, is fa­miliar with the terms of the will, and let -it be known that if Vittoria desires to share in the estate she may. The brothers and sisters will amply pro­vide for :her. She may leave the con­vent if she will, and live in luxury.

Concerning the younger sister of the family, Amelia, a complete mys­tery has been maintained. She is never seen outside the grounds, or without the house, except accompa­nied by maids. Since she was a very little girl she has never been permit­ted to speak ot a man.

All of the men servants on the es­tate are housed in a building far back in the terraced grounds. When a child this girl was attacked- and terribly lacerated by a tame bear that roamed within the grounds. It was said after­ward that the shock had unsettled the child's reason. None of her sisters or brothers would ever mention this sub ject, nor would the banker ever per­mit it to be mentioned in his presence.

Society Woman Renounces the World

ANEW YORK society woman has forsworn the world and become a

nun in the Dominican monastery of Corpus Christ! at Hunter's Point, L. I. She was Mrs. Georrge Merriam Hyde, daughter of Oliver Prince Buel, but now by a promise to the mother prioress of the monastery, involving the vows of poverty, chastity and obe­dience, she is Sister Mary of the Ta­bernacle in the convent of Perpetual Adoration.

A year ago in such finery as a bride wears she crossed the graveled path from the monastery door to that of the church, followed by her matron of honor, Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan, the capi­talist's wife, clothed in black.

That was Mrs. Hyde's last appear­ance outside the monastery, for she pronounced her vows, after months of ascetic probation on that occasion and

returned to adopt a religious garb for life. After impressive services partici­pated in by several priests and sisters, Mrs. Hyde was indued by the mother prioress with the black veil.

Mrs. Hyde, or Violet Buel, was a convert to Catholicity as well as her entire family. Through her mother's family, the MacDougals, she has many affiliations with the army. Oliver Prince Buel, her father, was senior partner in the firm of Buel, Toncey & Whiting, counsel to the United States Life Insurance Compay, Her brother is president of Georgetown university.

January 11, 1899, Miss Buel was married to George Merriam Hyde, a literary man, son of Dr. James T. Hyde of the Chicago Theological sem­inary. She was a sunny girl, fond of social life. She had a talent for paint­ing and her canvasses were accepted by the academy and the Society of American Artists.

Oliver Prince Buel, her father, was taken suddenly ill some time ago and suffered greatly. This and his death greatly affected Mr. Hyde, who disap­peared and later was found dead. After that Mrs. Hyde decided to re­nounce the world.

"Ice King" Morse Wins Back Old Power

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WALL STREET gasped the other day at the news that "Ice King"

Charles W. Morse, hurled from his place of power in the money market by the collapse of his string of allied banks, and defeated in several efforts to regain his old prestige and power, had finally won his long fight. He will have even greater sway in the world of bank-notes than he possessed be­fore his overthrow.

How he has won his old place back, nobody seems to know positively. His National Bank of North America was the keystone institution of a great chain of banks. The central bank exerted a ruling influence over the chain—and C. W. Morse was the cen­tral bank. He ran it as though it were an independent corner grocery with nobody to consult about any­thing that was to be done.

Then came the crash. The Na­tional Bank of North America went to pieces, and Morse was hurled head­

long. Every resource was gone, and he had apparently no place to turn for aid. He took a little office at No. 1 Nassau street. Time after time he put before the comptroller of the cur­rency one plan or another looking to the rehabilitation of his institution, but every one was turned down.

Then he began paying up the claioMr against the bank. Where the money came from was not revealed, but all claims were sought out and settled.

Now the receiver has been in­structed by Comptroller Murray to take the final steps necessary to turning over the big bank to Morse. He will give a $500,000 bond for the bank's contingent liabilities. He has already bought back from the receiv­er, at book prices, the various loads of securities he had sold to the bank in its palmy days at figures that have been the subject of more or less difference of opinion since the smash.

The new conditions will place Morse once more in his old command­ing position on 'Change, and make him as before a dictator in the same Wall street which applauded his utter defeat when his bank was closed by the clearing house banks seven months ago. In seven months he has whipped fate.

Elsie Vanderbilt to Wed Again Tis Said

FOLLOWING the application of Mrs. Elsie French Vanderbilt, through

her attorneys, for a final decree of di­vorce from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, made to Justice Gerard in the supreme court, there is a report which has gained wide circulation that Willing Spencer, son of J. Thompson Spencer, vice-president of the Pennsylvania railroad, is the accepted suitor for her hand.

There are those who say a formal announcement of the engagement will be made as soon as the legal formali­ties have be£n carried out, which will make Mr.:. Vanderbilt free to marry whom she chooses. It is said further that the marriage will not be long de­layed.

Spencer has been attentive to Mrs. Vanderbilt since last June, when her domestic troubles were being aired, and that he is her accepted suitor was told a few days ago by one of his inti­mate friends.

Before Mrs. Vanderbilt and her for­mer husband had differences which re-seulted in her filing divorce proceed-lugs, young Spencer and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt were fast friends. After Mrs. Vanderbilt filed her suit, she ancl her mother took passage for Europe on the Kaiser Wilhelm II. At the same time young Spencer sailed for London on the Caronla. Daring the trip he was in constant communi­cation with Mrs. Vanderbilt by wiro-less..

Spencer took quarters in a secluded part of London and stayed there sev­eral days. He was then summoned to France, and there lost no time in joining Mrs. Vanderbilt and her mother.

In August Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs. French left Paris for a tour of the provinces and of Germany. Spencer was their escort.

Spencer is regarded as one of the most eligible young bachelors in the country. He is a lawyer by profession and has an office in Philadelphia.

The Wrong Shade. Before trying to match the sample,

of silk, says a writer in the Philadel­phia Ledger, the clerk asked: "Is this a piece of something you want or don't' want?" "Something I want, of course," rerplied the customer. "You don't suppose, do you, that I would go to all this trouble for a thing I can't use?"

"Some folks do," said the clerk. "I; have met a number of them. The first woman I ever saw with that point of view had a square inch of blue silk1

that she wanted me to match. The scrap was so small that it was hard to make comparisons, but after haul­ing down half the bolts on the shelves and running to the door several times to test the color in broad daylight, 1 found the exact shade.

" 'How many yards do you want, madam?' I asked.

" 'Oh,' said the woman, 'I don't want any. Almost any other shade will do. That particular shade is very unbe­coming. i just wanted to make sure that I don't get it, that's all.'"

The customer laughed. "What did yon say?" she asked.

"Nothing," responded the clerk, with ft patient smile, taking up her sample.