TO_CALL FOR AN ARMY OF VOLUNTEERS. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1009. | THE ZEPPELIN NING Pecy 31. warmng Aroused to action by the Maj. F. Baden-'owell before the members the Roval United Institution that England must "wake up" and prepare for the widest: utilization in any future war of present day aerial ernft, both divigible balloons and aero- the Aerial League of the Brit i<h empire has sought through the is giinnce of a formal popular appeal lo enlist teers as this ehd, Capt. Re A. London, voiced by S of Service planes, the service of an army of volun: a supplementary. factor to CaveBrown, R.N., chaje- -- GOO0000000000000000000 WELL OF ST. CLAIRE s-------- é 0 Q X 0 O00 0000000000000 0 M. B Short By ANATOLE FRANCE.* YOO OK ranslated hy Htewart from the French, for Stories I was in Sienna in the spring Oc cupled all day in minute researches in the archives of the city, I took my evening walk, supper, on the wild road of Monte Olivetto w here, in the twlight great yoked white oxen drew, as in the days of old Evander « rustic cart with solid wheels The bells of the.city sounded the tranquil death of day, and the purple of even- ing fell with a melancholy majesty upon the low chain of hills. When the black «flock of rooks had gained the ramparts, a hawk, alone in the opal sky, wheeled gbove an isolated evergreen oak 1 was alone with the silence, the aolitude, and the charming terrors whigh | inereased before me Insens- ibly, the tide of night covered the plain. The infinite eyes of the stars twinkled in the sky, and in the dark- ne the amorous light of the fire- flies flittered over the bushes living sparks cover on 1 the Campagna of Rome and" Thscany.: I had them once upon the Appian around the tomb of Cecilia Metella, where they had danced for two thou- sand years. 1 saw them once again the land of St de Tolmei, at the gates of the dolor- and charming city of Sienna. All after 2 hese nights al Ombria, seen in along my path they vibrated in the | grass and in tne shrubs, seeking one | and, at times, tracing above {the their | another, the path flight Unon the white on these transpar nights (the only tev. Father Adone the fiery arch of eal the th da n 'the ancient academy Degli Intronati 1 had from the first an affection for this corelier who, pale from study, retained the easy and amiling temper of an unlettered man tie tgiked freely, -and I took delight fn his suave = speech, his beautiful laniguage, his learned and naive /phought, his air of an antique Silenus 'purified by baptismal waterd, his in stinet of accomplished mimicry, the pl his alert, delicate passions, ang.the strange and charming genius Of his life, concerning which he +" was silent, 1 knew only that, born at Viterbo ofa noble and impoverished family, he had studied the humani: ties and theology dt. Rome, entered when voung the order of the Fran- c¢iscans of Assisi, where he worked in the archives, and had had difficulties regarding matters of faith with his coelesiastical superiors I thought 1 Doni, wy ot Ll er i man of the executive committee of the Aerial league, thus explained this na movement wide "In the first place we wish to tion oh tain the names and addresses of men {aerial : e i having knowledge of signalling, volunteer. to practise ! who, are willing to receiving and replying to signals from air craft. of every description. © There he many men who, having sedh | signalling service in the army, or Davy, would be ready, particularly in "time of war, to look after aerial craft | and their signals, much as the senfar- ing people on ourscoasts watch i must to- singular opinions He had rdligion and science, but not without whimsi- calities. He believed in God on the testimony of the Scriptures and ac-| cording to the doctrine of the church | and he derided simple philosophers who believed in them without being compelled. In this he did not de- part from orthodoxy. Concerning the devil he professed singular opin- He thought that the devil was wicked without being so absolutely and that his natural imperfection would always prevent him from at taining the perfection of evil He thought that he saw certain signs of goodness in the dark acts of Satan, and without daring to say so. too yften, he argued from this the final redemption of the meditative arch- angel after the consummation" of the ages s These, singularities of mind and lisposition which had separated him from the' world and east him into solitude were for me a subject of amusement, He had great intelli gence: he'lacked only the sonse of the common and ordinary. He lived in images of the past and dreams of the future. The notion of present time was absolutely tforeign to him. . His political ideas proceeded at the same time fram the ancient Saint Mary of the Angels and from the re- volutionary secret societies of Lon- fons Mav | reason | government of the States appeared to , iim an Way L A Catherine and Pia | being I met was |, who, | like myself, was studying all | { ful perceived, indeed; that he inc lined to} «Just perfect" this weather. { larches. don, and were those of a Christian soctalist, He was not excessively at- tached to them. He scorned human too much to place any great value,on his own part in It The enormous piece of buffoon- ery, at which he laughed quietly, de- | cently, like a man of taste The civil {and criminal judges astonished him somewhat He regarded the army with philosophical indif¥gence. 1 was in him flagrant ® | not slow! to discover | contradictions. He desired universal peace with all | ¢harity of his henrrt. But he had the taste for civil war, and held in {high esteem Farinato degli Uberti, {who so loved his city of Florence as {to bring it, by violence and cunning and reddening the Arabia with | Florentine blood, to wish and think | he himself wished and thought. Nevertheless, the Rev. Father Adone Doni w a gentle dreamer, Upon! the spiritual authority of the Holy See he relied to see the kingdom of God established in this world. He | believed that the Holy Ghest led the Popes in paths unsuspected by them- selves. Nor had he any hut respect- | words for the Roaring Lamb of | Singaglia and the Certincat ed Eagle | of Carpineto In this manner hel commonly designated Pius IX. and Leo XIII : Although ! Rev. Father Adone Doni was particu- | larly pleasing to me, I avoided, out of | respect of -his liberty and my own. visiting him too often in the city of | his too assiduous labors; gnd on his part, 'he maintained in regard to me an exquisite discretion But in our walks we were able to meet as if by chance At half a league from the Roman gate the road sinks between two hills which bristle with gloomy | Under the clayey 'side of a northern hill on the border of the! road arose the light pavilion of a dry | well. There, almost every evening, I i the conversation of the] {'Tound the Rev. Father Adgue Doni | Sitting dn the curb, his hands hidden in the sleeves of his robes, templated with peaceful things of night And wonder the the darkness these | doors of { within himself he con-| THE GROSS AIRSHIP, day for signals of distress at sea Germany is, presented by the follow ers of Maj. Baden-Powell as having in its fleet of "rigid" dirigibles "cruisers, equipped ten and ca- pable of floating aloft in all weathers the | approximately 12,000 feet above level of the . The kaiser's personal designing of a uniform for the¢ members -! the im perial Aero Club, in Berlin, as well as his authorization of that organization to assume the title of kaiserliches, "imperial," is held to practically monstrate his or de intense interest in th which surrounded him still allowed me to divine in his clear eyes and on his marvelling face the expression of timid audacity and = mocking gra®c which was deeply imprinted thereon We at first exchanged solemn wishes of good health, peaes, and content- ment, and 1 seated Myself near him on the old stone well Turb which still bore traces of carvings. ve distinguished in broad daylight a tigure with head larger than body, representing a winged angel The Rev. Father Adone Doni never failed to say: "Welcome, signore, to the well of | St. Claire." I asked him one evening for what reason this well bore the name of the preferred one of Saint Francis told: me it was because of a less: and very gracious miracle, which un- fortunately,' had mot been admitted into the collection of the Floretti. | prayed him to be good enough to re late it which he did in these words: "In the days when the poor one of Jesus Christ, Saint Francis, son Bernardone, journeyed through cities teaching holy simplicity love, he visited Sienna, accompanied by his Brother Leon, whom he loved dut the avaricious and cruel 1esse, true sons of the wolf, whos nilk they boasted of having sucked iid not aceord a hospitable welcom. o the saint, who counseléd them t¢ iake intp their houses two ladies o. erfect beauty, poverty and obedi mee They overwhelmed him wit. wutrages and derision, and drove him from the city. He went forth in the night by the Roman gate, L.eon, who walked beside him, said: 'The Siennese have inscribed up- on the gates of their city: "Sienna opens to you her heart wider than her gates." And yet, Brother Francis, men have closed their hearts ol the Sien to us.' "And Francis, son of Bernardone, | answered: "* "The fault Hrother Leon, not is in me, doubt not, little lamb of God. 1 been able to knock at the their hearts with sufficient strength and skill*~'I am indeea in- Tior to the men who make a bear have 1 lance upon the public square of the ity. For they attract a numerous as- sembly by exhibiting this great ani- mal, and I, who show them ladies of celestial beauty, have attracted no one. Brother Leon, I command thee, by thy sacred obedience, to say to me: "Brother Francis, thou. art a poor man without merit, disgraceful and truly harmful." 'And while Brother Leon hesitated to obey, the holy man was troubled Along the dark road he remebéred sweet Assisi, where he had left his sons of the spirit and Claire, the:daughter of .his soul He knew that Claire was exposed to great ! tribulations for fhe love of holy pov-! erty, and he questioned if his beloved daughter were not ill in body and so and 'turned away from her goud pur- pose in the house of St. Damien. ""Thesé doulits burdened him with such' a weight that, arrived at this spot where the road sinks between ANTISEPTIC THROAT yal There could | the | Ie! ana | Brothe: | ad tending over a period of fifteen years {7 "have come to the conclusion that | course-for securing for them the hus- WANT WEALTHY HUSBANDS Confessions of a London Matrimonial "The other day a reporter was hay- ing lunch at a famous restaurant in the * Btrand,' London. | same table was a well -groomed man, with whom he entered into ¢on- versation and seeured a number of facts regarding matrimonial agencies which were Suite startling. "You would be surprised," said my table companion, "at the amount of money which is made in London and other large towns by matrimonial agents who succeed in marrying lady clients to wealthy husbands. After ex- periences as a matrimonial agent ex- women are far more business-like and ambitious in their matrimonial pro- jects than men. And they do not quibble about paying you whatever fee you may -agk--wi reason, - of band they want. * "About eighteen months ago a lady came to me and told me frankly that she was looking for a: husband with at least $10,000 a year. She was ex- tremely 'good-looking, accomplished, and to all outward appearance a lady. She was, 'in fact, a governess in a titled family. To quote her own JinusTaaTion conquest of the air. Only two other clubs now the same status-- the Kaiserliches Automobile Club, *in Berlin, f | Club. possess tn | Once Rich; Died A Pauper. | Pueblo, Col., Dec. 31.--Gilbe.s Nobis, ' once the richest man .in Pueblo, with 'a fortune of $1,000,000, died at the county poor farm, He was lavish {with his money and' at the time of his death had only an interest in a mine which was tied up in litigation. | two kills, he felt his limbs fail under him at every step. . Hé dragged him- iself as far as the well, which then was new and beautiful and {filled with clear water, and he fell cxhausted upon the curh where we are sitting at thos moment. The iman of God remained long leaning | over the mouth of the well, after which, lfting his head, he said joy« { ously to Brother Léon: "*What thinkest thot, Brothgr | Leon, lamb of God, that I have seen 'in this well?' "Brother Leon answered: '* 'Brother Francis, thou hast seen in the well the moon which is re- flected there.' 'My brother," replied the man of God, 'it is not our sister, the moon, {that 1 have seen.in the well, but, by the adorable grace of the Lord, the true face of Sister Claire, and so pure and resplendent with holy joy that all my doubts have been suddenly dissipated and it has become manifest to me that our sister is tasting at this hour the full contentment with the reasures of poverty.' "Having thus spoken, Saint of his hand a few drops of water and rose strengthened. "This is why the name of Saint 'laire was given to this well." the good GENERAL LLOYD oie | Remembered . The Teachers Scholars. - : Central .0., Wolie Island, Dec. 25. \ very pleasing event took place at Separate school section No. 7, on Wed nesday last, when, after the closing ex- ercises, the chiklren were presénted a feastgof candies, oranges and all 1ynds of confectionery, the gift of Gen. Llovd, of Pittsburg, Pa., who spend': his summers. the guest of Mrs. Luther Harvie, and who, at Christ mas, never forgets the school children and teacher of that section, The presentation was made by J. Murphy, Mrs. TI. Murphy Luther Harris, © The latter address and presented the teacher, (Gieorge McAllister, with a beautiful fountain pen, Both teacher and pupil: were taken wholly by surprise, but Mr. McAllister replied, and with a few well-chosen words, , thanked the ladies who made the presentation and: asked that they would express to Gen. Lloyd his thanks and the thanks of the chil dren who were so kindly remembered. In conclusion, Mr. McAllister ad dressed the children, expressing his gratitude for the good will that ex: isted between teacher and pupils dur- ing the year, and expressed his regret at having to sever his companionship {with them, but hoped that the next teacher would leave the section with the same kind memories tHat he bore to both parents and children. Then, wishing all present a merry Christmas and a bright and prosperous New Year) the happy event was brought to a close. And with Mrs and Mrs read = an | Buy combination fountain syringes, hot water bottles, bulb syringes, at Prouse's: Drug Store, The kind that last, are sold here. { There is about seventy-five per cent. more gold money in the world now jthan there was ten years age. Rose Hill Creamery Butter ip every: body's mouth, made from pure cream. "There are about 5,000 men in. the Prorttiimese navy. : } | and the Kaiserliches Yachting | Francis drank from the hollow | words, however, she was 'sick of the life,' and wanted to marry a man who could®provide Ker with a fairly luxur- ious home, in return for which she would help him with his work and ambitions. "Husbands with $10,000 a year, of course, do not grow on gooseberry bushes, but I felt sure that a lady with such personal attractions would have uo difficulty in infpressing any man looking for a wife. Ulliihately 1 | introduced her to a young iron m L freturer With a prosperous business, who was so smitten with her "that | they were married a few days after | the introduction. The last I heard of | them was that they were extremely [happy together, and the husband was | never tired of talking about his wife's clever business methods. "I get a lot of letters from lady | clerks, shop girls, and even barmaids, | asking me to.introduce them to well to-do husbands; but as a rule they have little to recommend them, and I sm obliged to tell them that I have no client who would suit. Of course, I know that many agencies run on fraudulent lines make a practice of tuking fees from such girls with no intention whatever of finding them husbands." But it would not be worth my while to do business in that man- ner." The usual procedure of a matrimon- ial agent is to send, in the first place, a letter on the following lines to a prospective client: Dear Madam,--I am in receipt of vour favor, dnd am confident that I | can bring about an early and, desir. able marriage for you. I have a num. bor of clients whe, I am sure, would b> pleased to make your acquaintance with a view to matrimony. If you will forward remittance according to scale of fees stated in circular, T will at once place yqu. in communication with a selection of most suitable clients.--Yours faithfully. | John and Hannah. { { The late Bishop Fowler was a broad: { minded man. Bigotry he abhorred. Creed, he claimed, should never hedge one good Christian from another. Sin. cere creeds, no matter how diverse, should, on the contrary, bind Chris. tians together. . Bishop Fowler used to tell about a young couple, John Smith and Han- nhh Jones. | John Smith was a Presbyterian, | Hennah Jones, was a Baptist. They | hesitated about marrying because they ! feared that in after life, when the , little ones came, religious disputes | might arise. Thus the years passed. | Neither would renounce their church. John Smith grew bald and Hannah Jones developed lines about het mouth and eyes. It was a complete i deadlock, the world said. | Then John was sent abroad for a | vear by his firm to buy fancy goods. | He and Hannah correspond=d. regular i ly. Toward the year's end, by a re. | markable esincidence, each received from the other i letter, the two let | ters crossing 'in the mails, They said: "Friend John,--The obstacles that stood in the way of our marriage have at last been removed. This day 1 +was received in full membership in the Presbvterian Church.--Hannah." "Dearest Hgznnah,--We have no 'onger any ground for delaying our inion further. 1 united myself this lay with the Baptist Church--John." Fifty Years a Diva. Aaslina Patti recently celebrated tne fiftioth anniversary of her debut as an operatic. singer at the New York Academy of Music, Nov. 24, 1859, when she appeared as Lucia. She was then under 17, but had made a public appearance on a. con- cert platform nine years before. In this year of Patti's operatic debut Strakosch paid her $100 a week. At her first operatic appearance in Lon- don in 1861 she received $450 a month Previgus to her marringe in 186¢ her earfiings never exceeued $600 a night, but later when Christine Nils son was engaged for $1,000, Patti got $1,050. Though these prices cut a small figure In comparison with those the present songbirds get, it is calculated that Patti's voice earned her about $4,000,000. Artist and Author at Golf. - Mr. Will Owen, the artist, has a delightful drawing of the caddie watching a very erratic player, and remarking to some children who stand by, "Now; ain't yer glad yer didn" go to the pantomime?' This he con siders his best golf story; but the fol lowing, which he tells at the expens¢ of himself and the author of "Many Cargoes,"" bears repeating: "Jacob: and I--both of us regular duffers- were playing on the ladies' Links af Deal. many people playing here? *No, sir, we don't--only ladies and ola gentleten 'wot can't play." --8trand agazine, Ouly One "BROMO QUININE," that is axative Bromo Cures a Cold in One Day, ce % 2 Days on every 25¢ nity and elevation.' LATE SIR THEODORE MARTIN KNEW MANY NOTABLES. English Man "of 'Letters: Thought the ' Present Generation Did Not Com- pare. Very Well With the Early Victorian Age -- Remembered Sir i Walter Scott Walking In Edin- burgh--Friend of Queen Victoria. The death of Sir Theodore Martin at the age of ninety-three gives to The London Daily Chronicle the opportun- ity to recall some literary personalia of & man who could look back to the beginnings of thé Victorian era and compare it 'with the present genera- tion, which Sir Theodore was wont to deseribe as a Saad and saddening spectadle." a He .. .aembered seeing Sir Walter Scott walking down Pringe's street, Edinburgh. A very tall old man with a club foot, leaning heavily on a stick, around which his legs seemed to twist as he walked.. "1 ean vividly recall Sir Walter," he said, "sitting as clerk in the court of session. e would sometimes seem to go to sleep during the proceedings, and. then suddenly wake up and begin scratching upon paper with a quill." : Sir Theodore Martin's long friend- ship with Queen Victoria was a privi- lege he valued very highly, and some of the most vivid and charming rem- iniscences of the late Queen were those he published only a few years ago. When it was decided to publish a life of the Prince Consort Sir Arthur Helps was to have been entrusted with the biography. Feeling that the task was beyond his powers, he urg- ently recommended that his friend Mr. Martin should undertake it. In taking up the work the latter very soon found how great were the res sponsibilities attached to it. On one occasion he went to Windsor to con- sult the Queen as to the advisability of making certain statements. Her advice was unhesitating. "Tell the truth as you find it in the materials at your command," she said. "Tell the truth, no matter whom it hurts. Truth is a very precious thing to people in my position." Among Sir Theodore's many tri butes to Queen Victoria is one worth quoting. "'It is always to be rémem- bered," he said, "that Queen Victoria was two women at the same time--on the one hand a loving wife and moth- er, and on. the other an exceedingly dignified sovereign. In talking to the one woman you were never allowed to forget the other." The frigndship brought about by the Prinee Consort's biography did not cease on the completion of the work. Sir Theollore continued to ad- vise the Queen in literary matters and has told many humorous stories of how he was asked to turn some of Mr. Gladstone's despatches into in- telligible English. © Very often the Queen 'would send for him to go to Windsor, when he would find himself a fellow guest with either Mr. Glad- stone or Disraeli, It gave him an opportunity ' of comparing the two statesmen. With the Queen Disraeli was by far the greater favorite. "Disraeli," 'Sir Theodore said; "had the art of appealing to a woman, Gladstone was by far too full of his own ideas." When Sir Theodore left Edinburgh --where he was born the year follows ing that of Waterloo--and came to set- in London, one of the first friends to welcome him was Carlyle. "Well can I remember," said Sir Theodore, "Carlyle. bursting into my business room one afternoon and plumping himself dow by the fire, and saying in broad Scotch, 'Why is it you never came in and had a crack with me, Martin?' "' With both' Thackeray and Dickens Bir Theodore was acquainted, and he was present when they patched up their unfortunate quarrel. He liked Thackeray the better. "He was like a great big-bearted boy." But of all the distinguished men of the day with whom he came in contact Browning held first place in Sir Theodore's af- fections, perhaps becguse he knew him most intimately. The poet spent weeks at a time with Sir Theodore and Lady Martin at Llangollen, and his host's recollections of him are veluable prrsonalia of one whose per- sonality yrded scant material for biographers. ; "As everybody dore said, "there knows," Sir Theo- was very little of the apparent poet about Browning He looked like a business man, and talked about avin else but po- etry. He was particularly full of good stories. I think it was all partly due to real sensitiveness about his poetry He was, anyhow. far more inclined to resent parody than Tennyson, whom we knew very well." George Eliot another fricnd--was te those who real- ly knew her not a Delphic oracle of whom everybody sat in awe, but "a most genial, homely woman." By his marriage with Helen Faucit, one of the greatest Shakesperian ac- tresses who ever trod the stage, Sir Theodore was brought into another circle of friends -- a {tneatrical one, and his memories of the great players went back to the days of Edmund Kean, whom he saw in various roles "His acting," said Sir Theodore, "was very unequil, but there were meo- mews of passion that were quite over- whelming."! Coming to later times, Macready he pronounced "full of dig: With such memories to earry with him through the years that brought a change from the old order of things and gave place to the new, it is only natural that Bir Theodore should have viewed with despondency the social and literary dctivities of the préSept day. "We of the old order," he said recently, "see much to deplore in the new. The stately manners of the spa- cious Victorian days are gone. Men with brass mouths and iron lungs eom- mand, undivided attention to-day. Haste, bustle, noise, the jingling of the guinea, the thousand and ond meretricious allurements of the age, have for a time dimmed the fair mir- ror of English life; but it will pass." With some, one fancied" i more than offset a dozen favors. Rose Hill Creamery Butter in every- body's mouth, made. from pure cream. Fight shy of any business that would be injured by publicity. Tight Joints Modern plumbing is sanitary, y tractive and clean. 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