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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, JULY 23, 1906, & ji i-r Ice Cream 05 Jell-0 Ice Cream Powder Makes delicious Ice Cream In 10 minutes lor 1 cent a plate. Stir contents of one pack see into a quart of milk and freeze: that's all. Beats the old fashioned, labori ous way and makes better Ice Cream, o lavors. Approved by Pure Food Commissioners. Two nackaoes. 25 cents at all nrocers. If your grocer hasn't it, send his name and 25c. to us and two packages and our illustrated recipe boon will De maiiea you. The Genesee Pure Food Co., LeRoy. N.Y. if. DIAMONDS FOR BALLAST. Crew of Tramp Steamer Taken in By Negroes at Coiombo. When the traniD steamship Man- Chester Merchant anchored in Bush's tlocks. South Brooklyn, today, her captain and crew of fifty men were a sad-looking lot. "Hard voyage?" Captain Foale was asked. "Seen worse," replied the command er. "Much worse," he added. ' But say, you got a line on any firm deal ing in fake diamonds, rubbies and supphires 'round this way? I got a cargo on board that will sink an or dinary ship. Got 'em inside now, and they're for sale cheap for cash. We'll sell 'em cheaper'n rocks." Then Captain Foale told how every man in his crew had been outwitted by a lot of negroes at Colombo. "You see, we touched at Colombo, where we loaded with a lot of price less cabinet wood." he began. "The wood isn't fake. It's worth $1,100,000 in the open market. Well, we were about ready to pull up anchor and make for Calcutta when a nigger came aboard and says he has stones to sell. He offers a diamond cheap to First Mate Harding. Then Second Mate Williams and Third Mate Date and Chief Engineer Jolly all gets interest ed. Then along comes Second Engi naer Parsons and Chief Cook Timothy Kyan, and behind them comes the crew. "That nigger looks like a Tiffany side show wit. he stones he had to sell. He sends for about twenty other niggers. All of 'em comes on board loaded down with precious stones. There were diamonds, sapphires and rubies until you couldn't see with the sun shining your way. "Harding had $20 and bought a barrel of diamonds. Date sold his silver watch an chain for another barrel. Williams got a hogshead full for a gold cigarette case. Jolly and Parsons parted with old .jewelry for a few barrels, and then the crew got busy. Thew drew all their wages, and before I kenw it the ship had ballast of diamonds and a cargo of rubies and jjaem niggers was tne goods as I Eion ignorant know-nothin's. Chief Bo's'n Jenkins parted with his four biled shirts the pride of his heart for a keg of rubies and sapphires mixed The niggers put on the shirts and left, and we sailed away, thinking we had more money'n Rockefeller and Morgan together. "At Calcutta E. Varnum, pilot, comes aboard the Merchant and we tells him plain we are rich. He grinned and uiked how .we come by our sudden vealth. Then he shows us that them ir.ggers had done us right. Our en- re cargo of stones ' and precious Langs ain't worth the trouble of un loading. However, we brings 'em on Lsre to New York, and if you know : ly fake seller of jewelry send him Jt.ound. We'll sell out some cheap ior cash and fur b'iled shirts.' ROMANTIC SIDE JOHN minim pu CAT'S EYE SIGNAL LIGHTS. Gueer Consequences of Feline Wan derings on Railroad Tracks. Hoston Transcript. "Did you ever see a black cat's ces when they were in the line of a a electric light?" asked Ben Wood Jief, traveling engineer for the Mis r.ouri division of the Burlington road. "If one steps on the railroad track i head of the engine and looks up the engineer sees two vivid lights ahead of him as large and clearly defined a.i any signal lights on the road. "Sometimes they are red, but most Lenerally green or white. In the night time, of course, the engineer can't see the cat, and all he can do is to run in obedience to the cat's rye signals. "If they are white he goes ahead without slacking; if green, he is cau tious; if red, he applies the air to make a stop. Sometimes a train is brought to a dead halt before the en gineer learns what's up against him. "The running men tell me that the eyes of polecats and rabbits are al most as perfect signals as cat's eyes. No, there's been no talk of training cats to act as signalmen. Engineers wouldn't stand for it, because they hate cats on general principles, and if they had their way would be hap py to lay the feline family on the rails ahead of their locomotives and crowd on all steam." A Necessary Preliminary. Aim high! You'll hit the mark of fame As many men you know did; But there's no use in taking aim Unless your gun is loaded. Grape-Nuts Pudding Try one for DESSERT I A man of distinct originality was John Randolph of Roanoke. There never was anyone exactly like him in this country, nor indeed in any other. There is no one else whom he suggests. Although a person of gra vity of demeanor and always in earn est, yet when one thinks ot him, tne first imDulse is a smile. His odd ap nearanco and grotesque dress, the strange things he was always doing, but still more the multitude of com ical incidents with which his name is connected instantly rise to the mind and if one were asked to what par ticular category of human beings he belonged the first answer would oe to the humorists. And yet no man's life was more intrinsically sad The earnestness of his manner in all circumstances was what gave a ludi crous character to his life. Randolph himself seldom smiled. Something of this we may ascribe to his aboriginal descent. His disregard of conventionality, unconsciousness of or indifference to the powerful, though unwritten, laws of propriety, and the freedom of his conduct and opinions are all traits of descent. To this, too, may be ascribed his remarkable na tural sift of eloquence. His oratorj was unstudied, and although he pos sessed more of the graces of the ros th staere. he made as a speaker a profound impression. There was a romantic side to Ran dolph's life. The general impression of him is that he was a man without sensibility, knavish, unfeeling, un nnlished and misanthropic, but those who knew him best seem to say dif- ferenlly. He was so much alone in ihe world that it might not be ea to get at his real character, and a transcient impression would not De strongly in his favor. But tnere is nothing better by which to judge an individual than by his friendships Randolph s history in this particular will stand a careful scrutiny. He was born June 1. 1773. at Ma- toax, his father's seat, a snort uuis tance from Petersburg. His ancestors were irom Yorivsmre, r-ugiuuu, auu though his parental grandmother, Jane Boiling, tracedd themselves directly from Pocahontas. : His mother was a very beautiful woman, Frances Blond, and she mar ried twice. Her second husband was St. George Tucker. Of John Randolph's schooling not nuch is known, except that he ap plied himcelf very irregularly. His unusual talents were to be seen, but he was indolent and indifferent, and fonder of pranks and extravagances than of books. He went first to a school in Orange county, Virginia, and then to Princeton, and wo are told that he was irregular, wayward and hard to control. It is surprising how his mind became so well stored as it afterwards proved to be, but as he grew older he developed a pas- for readme, and he semcd vo possess one of those assimilative minds which take in rapidly f.nd co piously and never lose that which ban once been acquired. There can be no question that the great sorrow of Randolph's life, one that fell early and always lasted, was his unhappy attachment for Maria Ward. There was much in the his tory of this affair to remind one of Byron and Mary Chaworth, and Randolph thought of the parallel him self. The Virginian is set down by some who have written of him as a man intensely selfish and without .a spark of sentiment in his nature, but there is the best reason for knowing that he idolized Maria Ward and never overcome her loss. She was a very beautiful girl, and a proud and gentle disposition, and she was the daughter of a friend of Randolph's mother. It is not likely that she believed she could be happy with a man of hi3 disposition, although he would have always wor shipped her. But she must have un derstood the peculiarities of his dis-. position his temper and arrogance, j and fits of gloom and unnatural gaiety She would at least , have saved him from himself from the disorderly solitariness of his life in his latter years and from his discredit able appetites and habits, which he formed because he had no one to in fluence or guide him. Maria Ward was engaged to Ran dolph for a long period, and endured with patience his gusts of temper and jealousy. He was irascrible, egotistic and exacting, and his conduct was marked by moodiness and eccentricity of many kinds, but she probably dis cerned his genius; and also that which was good in him. The end of the en gagement was characteristic. One day when he had paid the young lady a visit, he was seen suddenly to emerge from the house with a countenance ( black as thunder. He came quickly down the steps of the piazza and walked to the tree where his horse was tied, and instead of untying the reins drew a pocketknife and cut them. He threw himself into the saddle, lashed the animal with his whip and rode off at a furious pace. From that time Randolph and Maria Ward never spoke, although they met once or twice afterwards. There was coldness, though not actual aversion In their looks, and on her part something of the affection may have remained which, up to the last moment of his life, existed in his. The rupture of this engagement, there can be no doubt, had a lasting effect upon the character and career of Randolph. Many conjectures have been made as to the causes, and there is a tradition that Miss Ward once said that it was a trifle, and nothing is more likely, for in love it is the trifles which are generally so serious. We may imagine from the circumstantial evidence sur rounding the parting from' the char acters of the two in the tragic occur rence that the gentleman with his domineering disposition wished the lady to do something to which she objected, and finding her resolution equal to his own, he left her. How could he have, expected, while still suing as a lover, to bend to his was the greatest belle of the state, and to whom all male knees were sup pliants. It was like Randolph, how ever, to seek to assume the authority of the husband when he was as yet merely the favored pursuer. It is said she felt a sincere affection for him, and an interest in his welfare which lasted while she lived. She married Peyton Randolph, the son of Edmund Randolph, who was secretary of state inder Washington, and they lived very happily a different sequel from the story of Mary Chaworth, who jilted Byron. 1 The fame of Maria Ward's graces of mind and person has come down to our day, and she is never forgotten when Virginia beauties are mention ed. General Lafayette was charmed with her and carried his admiration to 3uch a length that he would have ad opted her had she permitted, but it was out of the question. .She died before the French patriot left this country. The loss of this beautiful girl had a lasting effect upon Randolph's spirit and character. He was not a man to be crossed in trifles; he was spoiled from childhood wilful, impatient, proud, he grew up and so when this disappointment came it grieved him deeply and cruelly. And trom that time a lonely and misanthropic ex istence was his. Her lovely image, as we can not but infer from his letters and conversations, was otten beiore him in his hours of lonliness, or plead ing with him at those darker times when he plunged into unworthy ex cesses. All tnat was gooa ana irue in his nature this hapless passion of his youth represented. Evidence that he was the victim of a secret griet after wards constantly broke torth there were agitated hints and smothered exclamations. Sometimes in his dis turbed sleep he uttered stifled cries, and his near friends have heard him in bursts of torture speak of the one so loved and lost as his angel; but these displays were wrung from him. He was not a man to parade a sorrow, but like the Indian whose blood he had under a stoical exterior. In one of his etters, .written after Maria Ward's death, there is a sentence which con tains a world of meaning: "I loved; aye, and was loved again, not wisely, but too well." This disappointment is the only cir cumstances in Randolph s lite which furnishes an explanation of his eccen tric life in the forests of Roanoke, whither he retired after his political experiences, it was aDoui isiu iuai he left the habitations of men and took up his residence in the log cabin on tne Staunton, wnere ii passeu several years in almost utter solitude, o far as his own race was concerned. A number of negroes he had about him, and favorite dogs and horns, and like another melancholy Jaques, and with gleams of the fierce humor of that philosopher, he lounged and read and reflected. There were two buildings of one- story each, and both made ot logs, picturesque only in their primitiveness. in the larger house a single door open ed into the sitting room, which com municated with the bed room. The smaller house was of rather, better maT terial, and the windows glazed, and in this he dwelt in winter. There was not much furniture in either, and such as he had was plain and substantial. On the walls there were fouling pieces and pistols, and on the table and over the floor were scattered books and papers. And there were book cases also, which, it is said, held about a thousand books politics, science, phil osonhv, poetry and here and there nailed up rudely and carelessly prints nnd engravings, and there was one large portrait of himself. Now and then some friend, drawn by curiosity or admiration, came to pass a few days with him, and notwithstanding his peculiarities and his fits of moodiness, he was a hospitable and entertaining host. It was plain living and high thinking with the retired sage. Coffee, bacon and corn bread generally formed his breakfast, and for dinner game always to be had. He was fond of dress, and even in the forest ' generally wore costly clothes. Much has been said of Randolph's attire, and it was often odd enough. When he was in England his strange, tall figuure and generally grotesque appearance attracted uni versal attention in the streets, and all the more when it became known that he was the famous Mr. Randolph of Virginia, whose fame as an orator and publicist had become almost world wide. In summer Mr. Randolph was accus tomed to dress in white trousers, white flannel coat, white vest, and around his tall hat he wore a white paper. Hev was slender and of unusual stature, and the strange appearance he pre sented may be conceived. Generally he rode on horseback. He was the last gentleman in the state who drove a coach-and-f our. . It is interesting to look back upon these quaint old times. Randolph, although a patriot, was yet very much of an aristocrat. He held to his coach-and-four long after they were out of date, because they signified something of state and splendor. The coach was a clumsy and hard-riding vehicle.which he had imported from England, and a journey in it over the bad Virginia roads must have been far from a pleasant experience Randolph loved everything old his old books, the old family china and plate and everything that had been in his family long. He was fond of horses and dogs, and was a good master tohis slaves, al though he believed in strictness of discipline. The negroes stood in- great awe of him, probably on account of his explo sive temper and peremptory manner. A peculiarity of his was to invariably take off his hat in speaking to his overseers. His thin sharp features and pallid complexion made him an object of notice wherever he went. He had brilliant eyes and clear, dis tinct, high and sweet voice, which when he spoke, could be heard afar. His eloquence was fiery and impas sioned, and he possessed the magne tism of the natural orator. His fac ulty of enchanting the attention was marvelous. He had taste for music al most a passion, indeed and loved flowers. And this man who appeared so devoid of feeling and wbo trampled so ruthlessly on the feelings of others was yet fond of children. A story is told of some children presenting him with a boquet. He f Shabby! Houses It does riot pay to let good property decrease in value for the want 'of a little paint. And painting need yLot be the costly item it so often is. It is a question of good paint skillfully applied. Get a good painter and. have him use o9oe CE (EI oooe a NTRAL HOTFI TV In the Heart of the Business District H Ver 30000 nas been spent in modern Improvements, aiakin,. Tj this one of the best appointed, cleanest and most comfortable hJ. "H tels In the Carolinas. The table is unsurpassed south of Waiiin? Tt ton. J K A All are outside rooms and every one electric lighted. Kleotrlp M elevator service day and night. Rooms with private baths. M. P. O'CALLAHAN, Mgr. Charlotte, N. C. y -w - - -u--w-Wtt t-f. 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