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CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVER, MAT 10, 1S03. 4 . nr G.apniG,".. keiir UUDIinVOOD c; ' .' '(Mrvr ;;.; jf r4 ; THE. MOST TSXTSCAEIX TDCSKIKGERSO , (Copyright. 10I. by The New York; Herald Co. All Rights Reserved.) : The Thursday Bridge Club hm al ways had the very nicest people in It. Of course 1 don't mean the real eocl-; ety people-who have yachts and dia mond Kara and divorce a, but we were all comfortably off and " lived nicely with two and three maids and . several of oe had csrrlagea or auto. And we almost all belonged to St. t Andrew's. We had sixteen members Chat made Just four tables and was not tmx 4o entertain, and waa not ao larg a crowd that we could not se lect who waa to belong. There waa Mr). Garrteon and Mm. Kent and Mr a. Foley and MIm Maxwell and Mrs. Ten ' Eyck and Mr. Perry and Miss Qrey and oh, a lot of others. The moat of ua lived In Pemberton square, too, and that made It convenient I . think the (rouble started when - Mra. Oarrlson's husband made all that money In wtock. (torn old stocks .' that had been left to him by a great aunt turned out to be perfectly won derful, and he Just scooped In che money,- you might say, without any effort to himself at all. Rome people are ao lucky! Now, Edward's great aunt -would ' never do anything thoughtful like that for ua. Mrs. Gar ' rison was simply tickled to death. She nt i big house in Alten avenue - hre blocks above the square., and aha left St. Andrew' and started to go to St. Mary's, where they say the ' occupant of the Aral ten pews aver age two millions apiece. It's the Bish op's church and awfully- high. They intone and chant and .awing censers , and do dear knows what. Mrs. Qnrrl ,' eon thought with all that money she ought to be taken In at oner, but not a soul paid a bit of attention to her. Rhe'nad gone there six months before even the curate called. You may know she felt bad, having left Ht. An . drew, where ill her old friends were, to get snubbed like that t Somewhere Mrs. Garrison had been In the summer she had first met Mrs. , Pace, and just before the bridge club ' started again ehe happened to aee her . araln downtown, snd In the couroe of conversation Mrs. Pace began to talk ; about being a courln of the Bishop and she rung In "Cousin Gregory" . about twice a minute. Mrs. Garrison fairly Jumped at her, invlt-d her to luncheon, ami made such a funs over her that 1 don't wonder Mrs. Pace . felt thu they were d'-stlned to be bo om friends. Of course Mrs. Garrison saw a virion of Mrs. Pace introducing tier to the Bishop, and she felt that she could have those people In the front pews at St. Mary's on her calling list in no time If he could once get hold of him. The truth of It was that Mra... Pace's husband -was second cous in to the Bishop's sister-in-law. or something equally remote, and neith er the Bishop nor his wife had ever taken the least account of Mrs. Pace. Hut we didn't know about this, until afterward. . Mrs. Kent gave a luncheon" about 'the middle of October. She asked twelve, all of whom have been mem toe r of the Thursday Bridge for two years. Mrs. Kent Is my nearest neigh bor and she Is a very pretty, sweH looking little woman, but her tongue - is tike vitriol when she gets Harled. ' She lias a lovely home and two dear - little children, and she is a perfect :, housekeeper; even her sewing room Is always neat. After luncheon we all began to talk -about the Bridge Club, and Mrs. Gar- .TJ Mrs. Holllns has moved to Detroit we . will have a racancy, and I would so much like to ask a friend of mine. If yon 'don mind. She is Mrs.' James Pace; she lives in Land avenue, and is a young woman, a Southerner and perfectly charming. ; I'm sure she would be delighted to be asked, too. ' There wasn't one of us but had . some dear friend we would have Vked 4o ae la Mra. Holllns place, but Mrs. Garrison, by speaking first had us in . rather aa awkward' position) So we all looked at one another and Mrs. Kent said: ."Land avenue? That's rather an out-of-the-way street, don't you think? But Mrs. Garrison ex plained that Mrs. Pace was a. new comer and did not know much of the city, and finally we mil said gracefully that we'd be glad W have any friend of Mrs: Garrison's, and that waa the way t was settled. . If we had only known. ' - r . The irc meeting .as Mrs. OarrT rn's. and we ail dressed a little more rmartly than usual lust 40 show her that her old neighbors vr not quite out of her way of living even if- sht had moved into that big house and had an English butler who had once f een In service te a duke, f over be I ve a he hsd. anyway, or If he bad be ; - I rrotably stolen, th jewels and waa afraid to go back to England. I was ona of the first to arrive and I rwas shown upstairs by a nice looking maid the butler had let me In and Into a magnificent bedroom, the fur niture ail Circassian walnut and the hangings In coral and amber. Such ostentation! Well, I don't know -what I'd do If I became suddenly wealthy, and I've known Sally Garrison too long not to know that these foolish fancies of hers don't affect her real character, and at heart she Is sterl ing. I had taken off my coat and -was patting my hair and straightening my hait before the dressing table when In came Lull Kent and .Hannah Max well and Mra. Berry, and right behind them the most remarkable looking person. Her hair was too yellow and her cheeks were too pink and her eye, brows were too block. She had on a black prlnceks gown mad in the most exaggerated and actressy style, with a eont of bolero effect outlined in cold and black tbrald, and she wore a light blue hat and a white veil with big blue dots.' Her figure waa pinched In at the waist and simply Immense above and below. I spoke to the ones I knew and started out, and Lulle Kent, who had thrown off her wraps, rushed after me and seised my arm at the head of the stairs. "My dear." she whispered, "that's Mrs Pace." "Oh, not really!" I groaned. "Why, sne-g perfectly dreadful. "8-sh," said Iulle, "here aha comes." And In another minute w were down stairs speaking; to Mrs. Garrison and helng introduced to Mrs. Pace. I will say for her that she talked pretty well, and aald the prop. er things, only with a little too much gusn. Hut her get up! Hannah Max well asked ma If I didn't think she had Just come off the vaudeville stage, and I remember whispering nark yes, and. perhaps Mrs. Garrison would ask her to do a song and dance for us. -..-. During that first afternoon I stud ied the woman. I think she must have been a .belle f,iome small coll ege town, for a more self-assured person I never met and I never met one who felt herself so Irresistible. She told us all about her ancestors and snld that her father wns on Gen eral Lee's staff. But I didn't believe It. For one thing, her hands and feet were so blj. and Tve never. In my life seen a well born Southerner with large hands and feet. Of course that's a little thing, and Edward laughs at me for saying so, but It's true all the same. And she talked a good bit about things to drink, and that always stamps a woman, to my mind, as lacking real refinement. Well -bred women do not have the barkeeper's manual at their tongues end. She talked a great deal, anyway, it seemed to me. --Mi hadn't any children. , And then her playing! I'm hot a bridge fiend, but I've had good less ons and I play a steady game, noth ing brilliant, but I won three first prists out of the sixteen meetings last year, so that speaks for Itself. But Mrs. Pace had evidently been taught by a novice, of picked it up out of thd newspapers "Half Hour lessons In Bridge." (the made mis plays, gave the wrong leads, talked over the board and was so daring- in making 'the trump that Mrs. Foley spoke to her about having more cau tion. Actually! At the very first meet ing! Mrs. Foley la a fine, conservative player and hate to have- a poor part ner. . After we stopped playing we had aandwitches and auJad sad coffee, it rules never to more than two things to eat. With a drink, for refreshments. We make that rule so that our club would not degenerate into a scramble for each hostess to outdo the last. Of course we always have bonbons and salted nuts and olives and such thlnga They don't count. Sally Garrison's salad was not o very good, though she'd ordered k from Kelbh. and he's th best caterer In th city.. My cook can mak better.,-.. All he time we wer eating Mra. Pace kept talking and making up to every one in the club. She told me how often ahe toad heard of me and how ahe had longed to . meet me and Itow much sh hoped I would com to see tier. She said she had so few friends, only Cousin Gregory Bishop Msyhead and his family had been so good to her. Will, I wasn't taken in by her a minute. I smiled and listened and thanked her when n sked. jm to .caUrtJL4idJi!t say I would, and I do think that' a direct cut and any on ought to know It '. Then eh tried her arts on Lull Kent and found out that Lull uoed to live In Atlanta.' Sh amid sh had some relative in Atlanta th Mor rows and asked Lulle if she knew them. - Wbe Lulls said ys sh did Mra Pac said at one bow interested Mr. Pace would be to know that she had found some one who knew her relatives, and that she was going to bring him o call very oor on Mr. and Mrs.- Kent. - Lulle's face was a study. I've laughed to myself, since to think of it. .-- . - . : , . . And that was the way she went on to each of ua She asked Miss Max well if aho were any relation of the great ant 1st, Henry Maxwell, and said that ah knew him In New Tork be fore ah went 4o Paris.- And she told Mrs. Ten Eyck that Mr. Pace's sister had married a man named Ten Eyck Robinson, and she told Mis Grey that she begged her pardon for a personal remark, but that ah Jiad the most wonderful eyes and lashes she had ever seen, it was almost Ilk a play. For -with every speech she was making an enemy, and was imagining all. the time that w liked and admired her. If ah had been at all possible I be lieve I'd have felt sorry for her. . : I asked Lull Kent to drlv home with me, and when w were in the carriage X turned around and looked at her and raised my elbow without say ins; a word.---,r; - ' , v- --.-. "Yes. quite so, said Uill. "I'm surprised at Mrs. Garrison. If that Is the sort of parson w ar expected to associate with If we ever have lots ol money I bop I'll stay poor." That it her extreme way of speaking. "Do you know those Atlanta people she epok of?" I asked. .- "Tea, the Morrows are a fin fami ly, too. - I'm going to writ to Hen rietta Morrow and ask her what she knows about chla . woman... . I can't think that they ar closely related, or even -wwtf acquainted.- Why? thlr crea ture is positively a barmaid type." "Oh. say shop airf," I protested "Barmaid is a littl xtrme." During the week that followed I just mad It my business to And out what the other members of the club thought of Mrs. Pace. On and all they were of the same opinion. . Ordinary, impossible, loud, common, were but a few of th adjectives I heard applied to her. We all felt that something should be done but what could w do? , We wer' all. justly indignant with Mrs. Garrison fof bringing such a person among us. Little Mrs. Kirk, the quietest - and most refined of women, had been talking with Mrs, Pace. and. some mention was mad of obstinate peo ple. "My father,", said Mrs. Pace promptly, "was one of th most obstinate- men that ever lived. When he had mad up his mind to any thing he wouldn't hav changed It if th angel from heaven had come down and flapped their wings In' his face." Mrs. Kirk was stunned. That Is just on Instance of the outlandish speeches she made. And slang! Now, I don't, object to-an occasional word of slang, provided It Is not coarse, In a pretty woman's mouth. It adds plquacy. But any time and all th time It was slang with Mrs. Pace. , By the next Thursday we war de termined V to give her th cold shoulder. W met at Mrs. Ten Eyck's, and sh lives Just across fh squar from! me, so 1 walked over. As I was g&ng up th stoop I saw Mrs. Pac coming from th opposite direction andxiooklng as though ahe had . Just stepped out of the chorus in a cheap ,, musical comedy. She was all don up In pal mod Cloth, very Daoiy tailored and very, very tight, with-lot of light braid on It and a big flaring hat with a huge aigrette la th same shad. I am not oversensitive to public opinion, but oh, how I did - wish that I " could hav allDDed Into that hous before I had to bow to her! This meeting was painfully tike the first Mrs. pace's yellow hair and peneitrsting vole seamed to pervade th room. Th usual quiet, wall fcred lr sl the Thursday Bridge afternoon was entirely dissipated. W all seem ed to b infected with some latent ex citement, and L for my part f sit nerv ous and 111 at case. I don't think I ever enjoyed an afternoon at cards less In my life. It waa horrid. And of course It was all owing to this in terloper. Edward say I -ought not to Call her that since ahe was asked to Join th club and probably thought : i 1 ArvrV -r-.. m j y - -:- -fi-r" -i- "Wsjr..' ,l:'i-..-.- f , T. ' - liTVi, 1 "L. I flr T. I In Vivp T-re3 . t ki ' -, 9T a. 1:7 IWiW I .: .1 I"W ff J I C l", . . -J , i scrv t r- r j-1 : '.Lt -rr w . -; ' , . - v-. she would meet women -with whom she could make '. friend her own class she doubtless expected. ' I'm no snob and I has snobbishness, but Z do feel strongly that th word "in terloper is right and proper, and I told Edward so. . y , , ? : , W all went" horn feeling uncom fortable and cross and out of sorts. Personally I felt Ilk drawing right out of th club, when then I reflected that thing often turned up, and I should not despair too early, and, be sides, I had . not yet entertained th club, and it would look as though I Lwas trying to get out of doing so. Two days later, early in the morn ing. Lull Kent cam rushing over, I was still at th breakfast table, so you may know how early It was, be cause I make It sn unbreakable cus tom always to hav breakfast" with Edward, and h leaves at a quarter to nine. I don't approve of letting one's husband go away In .the morning without knowing whether he has had anything fit to eat or not- I told the maid to bring; Mra Kent Into the dining room and I poured a cup of coffee for her, but sh waved , it away.; -v'' '', 5,7' i Iv ' Just finished," she said, and looked at m so queerty. "On, Ly dla, she burst out, "what do you think! That awful woman and ber husband actually cam to call , last night!" . : ' . I was struck speechless. 1 could only look at Lulls in theblankest as tonishment. "Yes," she went on, "we had just finished dinner,, and th bell rang and she was In the house and right n the library before th maid had time even to ask for cards and J-flve'm"a ;chanc to say Not at I home,' .: She simply forced - herself right Into th room where w wer. -. "What did you dor ; "Ther waa nothing to do but make the best of It She had on that absurd light cloth gown, and her face was so covered with rougs and powder that she looked like a pink marshmallow. Oh, my dear, I never lived through such an evening. - Sh gushed over me as though I had been her lost twin sister, and her behav ior toward Mr. Kent was outrageous Imply outrageous!" f .' "Oh, Lulle, what do you meant "Why, she made eyes at him like a chorus girl and tried to talk kitten ish oh, you know fairly jumped down his throat. I never was so an gry In my life!" v Mr. Kent is so dignified and quiet I 'could not conceive of any one act ing that way in his presence. "What did Mr. Kent do?" I asked.- - "He simply frote!" Lulle laugh ed a little. "Oh, It was funny too. He looked her all over and gave her th shortest answers, and th - more quiet and monosyllabic he became th more gushing and and Intimate she, acted." No words seemed to me to compass the situation. At last I asked vague ly: "What Is her husband like?' . "He's .about twenty years older than she, I suppose. Rather a flashy, sporting type. The sort of man who tells about getting drunk 'plfflicat- ed, he calls It and how his wife behaved when h cam home. ' He thinks such things , ar humorous. And they stayed and stayed 4hry never went home until nearly eleven o'clock. Well. I must go; I have a hundred things to do this morning. But I couldn't settle down to any thing until I had told som one. I don't think I'll ever go near a Thurs day bridge again." k . "I felt that way too, Lulle,'4' I said. "But 'then I. reflected that I hadn't entertained the club, and the mem bers might think I was trying to get out of it."- ,' . , "That's so," said Lull. "I suppose thst applies to me too, Oh, . dear well, good-by." . -I As I thought over" the?-things sh had told m I couldn't blame Lulie Kent tor being awsTy.- 1'v always felt, and I supposed most women hav. that your own hous was the on plac wher you did not have to come In contact with people -distasteful to you. and to hav them liter ally force themselves upon you why, it destroy th whole tradition of the home. --- This was Just Mrs. Psee's begin ning. She called on us all, and on ';..' a? 1 aaav XV ' m m I - ay- : . -w som of us twice, -on the pretext of a new embroidery stitch or a book she wanted us to read, or something equally futile. She begged us all to call on -her, urging us to bo quite In formal, ' and sh even invited Lull Kent and me to luncheon. I declined, of course.-and so did Lulle: She came to the meeting early and stayed late, and it's hard to say which irritated us more, her frocks or her efforts to be familiar with us. . W did not re turn her calls, and we tried, in a well bred way, to'subdu her but it seemed ljttl us. -. , ".. . ' . By the tlm th Thursday Bridge Club's season waa half over we were completely disgusted. Mr. Garrison, I'm happy to tell, has been brought to see her mistake and she was more than' anxious to expiate her I near ly said crime offence. Especially since she had found out that Mrs. Pace was no real kin. to th bishop and would be no us to her at ail. Sh really had been th most dis agreeable -of ua all to Mrs. Pace, and I suppose it was natural of th -woman to resent it.. It was at the eight' meeting. - X shall never forget that, 'day jf I live to be a thousand,. we wer an ramer late in meet ing was at Miss Maxwell's and Mrs. Pace was already ther when Lull Kent and I cam in. The creature had on another new frock, a green checked silk with yoke and sleeves of pink flowered organdie, very much shirred and lac trimmed. On any one else it might not hav been bad, but I don't believe she could have looked like a lady in anything no, not even In deep mourning, with a crep jrelL lo Jlda' her ..face ant hair and a loose coat to cover her hour glass figure. . " -y ;:;.r. Every ona Seemed depressed. ' and we played listlessly. All th flavor of good fellowship was completely gone, I thought Mrs. Pace's manner was a littl strained and sharp, but I set It down to th natural behavior of the woman and paid no attention, After we had finished playing and we were sitting about waiting for Miss Max well to announce the prise winners and give the prises, Mrs.- Psce spoke up. very loud and clear: '1 can .tell fortune on the cards; perfectly," sh said, apropos of noth ing that X had heard. . "Do let me tell yours, Mrs. Kent" , Lulle murmured something about not believing in such things, but of course she could not tetl Mrs. Pace outright to stop. We all rather turn ed, to watch, and Mrs. Pace shuffled the cards and asked Lulie to divide them in three parts. As she looked at th first pile ah gave a . little atart. . - - . .. . . , "Dear me," ah said, "I suppose It would be unfair to ask it, but It's very plain that you did not marry for love. Here's a love affair with a dark man plainly shown your husband is fair and. oh, yes, you've been rather indiscreet In varioua af fections, have you not. . Mrs. Kent? But perhaps you've outgrown that, for here is a card," and she laid one down, "that shows what a jealous temperament you have, and its near ness to this king of hearts proves , ,r ;.; TXAY2 that you are intensely jealous of your husband." Lulie Kent went white as a sheet I thought for a minute he was go ing to strike Mrs. Pace. But ahe never moved. Mra Pac Picked up th second pil of card. My tongu waa dry. We were all leaning- for ward like people at th theatre. ' "Ah, here's th reason of that Jeal-s ousy," went on Mrs. Pace, "Here's the blonde woman you know has your .husband's real affection. And money trouble, too, you're having, aren't you? There's nothing good here. I'll just go on to your future, "Dear me. the death of a near rela tive, loss of money, th perfidy of on who professes to b your dearest friend. And there' a lot of sickness In your family coming soon, among the children. I should Judge from the cards. I really hate to tell you all the bad luck the card say i in store for you. But here's the end of your husband' affair, with that blonde wo man, at least, and the dark man re appears for you." She paused -a mo- : men! and threw the cards together. Now. all of us know that Lulie had been engaged to Tom Jenkins before i she met Mr. Kent and was said to hav married for pique.. I, don't be lleve it, but you. know how people lov to talk. . t . Before any on could relieve the strained situation with a commonplace remark Mrs. Pace looked up at Miss Maxwell, who - had been standing, struck dumb like the rest of ua dur ing the last half 6f the fortune. "Now I'll tell your. Miss Maxwell, and in another way. Cut th cards please, and I'll lay them out and toll you all about yourself" ' . . ' ' . Hannah Maxwell cut th cards and tried to act natural and ' say some thing about being afraid of such a prophetess of evil It really was the kindest thing she could do to try to, spar poor Lull' confusion and Mrs. Pac deftly laid out a douWa, row. ' . ; -i- -.- . "' ' "So you'r an old maid from necessity,"- she - said cruelly, t ven though you do go about and 'try to attract, man's attention. Well, It is of no use, you'll die without a proposal. You've had great hopes this year try ing to get the. bachelor brother of aa old friend of yours;" sb glanced at Mrs. Ten Eyck. "but It Is no use, he is mixed up with a little stenogra pher . down-town." Mra Ten Eyck's eyes positively stood out Uk ' mar bles.' - '' f ;A '-a ' ': "You hav not been successful in the art you tried to follow; no one would buy your work." Poor Han nah's miniatures are the despair of all her friends. "You hav a fond ness for the vain things of life and go out a great deal and entertain, sometimes laying aside mora serious, considerations of charity and , church work in order to seem to be on of the social whirl."-Th church-Work and the charities,", (sh pointed to two cards) "would be far m or fit ting to your age. Acordlng to these you have -never tried to mak th most of your family i ties; a certain death of a near relative not long ago was a positive relief. It looks as If you wer -to travel very soon and meet with a railway accident,: but there Is nothing to show that you will be injured. and killed, though ther Is j nothing to show, that -you win not. now," sh went on sweeping th cards together, "I'll tell yours, Mrs, Garri son." -v.',. ; : . Why some of us did not get up and stop this dreadful ordeal none th lea dreadful because of Its vulgar ity, for the moat of her statements held just enough truth to mak them uncomfortable, I cannot tell, ' But no on moved. - W were fascinated by the. sheer nerve of th performance,' It was evident that she meant to pay up every slight and snub she had re ceived. : I- "You ar painfully fickle," sne be gan after she had arranged her cards, and looking straight at Mrs. Garri son. "You have recently acquired a great deal of money and Its possession sits heavily upon you.' You have not yet learned how to spend It with the ease of one who has always ' - been used . to such thlnga But you are trying very hard to live ip to your new possessions, and. would b will ing to , sacrifice your friends, your family, anything, to get a better so- AXnCKT AND .- ? clal position something you will nev er achieve." v - .-.': :.-vt I suppose I am only human, but I did feel a littl satisfaction in hear ing those plain truths told to Sally Garrison! She had been awfully over bearing, at times since she .got her money. . - - ,- "No, you will never achieve It," re peated Mr. Pace. ."You have tried very hard to find acquaintances" In a better set than yours, but they only laugh at you. You find, too,' that your husband will never be brought to sym path I x with your social ambi tions, for, though he has all th home ly vlrtuea he never could bo polished up into even a remote likeness of a gentleman." - : - . . - ' ; Gasp w all gasped. I believ th woman had written It out and learn-riLit-byJieart. She said it off ojat. But she was not don with Bally by any means. - ... " f .. - . "You are soon to have your life darkened by th breath of eriou scandal and will have great difficulty In proving yourself innocent, ' and will never be entirely free from th taint or it You will learn what it is to have those whom you hav looked down on look Jown on you, and ther that red queen, that might b yourf : daughter, I presume well, .It Oooks; as though she were to be deserted by' . her fiance at th very steps of the V ajtsr.". ..... .5 . That wasn't the end. She went on ; and flayed alive every woman In that; club. You'd never believ the things she said. She scored Miss Grey on :J her vanity, and told her she would be twlc married and twic divorced, and hav two sets of twins. ' Sh ridiculed Mra Ten Eyck's pretsnalon to fin . ancestry, and said that her family tree and her coat -of arms had been bought outright from som unscrupu-'. lous gnkgist Pretending , to . fin ' all these things on th cards, too. the. wretched falsifier! , No littl - thing-; that had been said or don or. even, looked against ber seemed to have escaped her '.and sh paid us up in' full.; 8h even told me--m--that I? was a hypocrtts and a gossip, and sh : intimated that my husband was not tru to m. Oh, my heaven, almost - It was nearly o'clock before ah ; got all through. Then. eh got up. and -put down th card and walked up to Miss Maxwell and saldt "I'm -so sor ry, Miss Maxwell." arid, every word ' had, a spiteful emphasis, "that I can not attend any more of these delight- ' ful meetings, but I hav been Invited to Join Bishop May head' Ethical ' Culture class, which meets . on - Frl- -day afternoons, and since he is my cousin I feel that I ought to do it 1 1 want to thank you all for th many ' delightful afternoons I have had and th uniform kindness and cordiality you all have offered me." ,. - And she flounced out of the room. For a few minutes wt sat ther without a "word. But when we heard the front door slam and knew ah was out of th house . we. just, looked at one another and burst out. In the wildest laughing w laughed ' and laughed we Just screamed. Lulle Kent was almost hysterical. But that ' laugh cleared th atmosphere -and restored us to our. normal selves. The-, Thursday Brldg Club was Jtseif again.- - ., J.,...v- She hadn't' been Invited to' Join th Bishop' class that was Just a' bluff. And Hannah Maxwell did mar-' ry Mrs. Ten Eyck's brother. W hav another member' now In Mrs. Pace's place, a Mrs. Crane, from Boston who Jl-'-tESf11 ,0"lYand lives In Al-i-ton avenue, a block abov Mra Oar- e rison.-And sh is a D. A. R. , and a Colonial Dam and a second cousin of mln and 1- invited her Into th elub.,.,.?- ,' , -: ; . , . -GOV. JOH.N8QV.H CAXDroACxV., Charge That Wall Street Is' Back of It ; ls Declared Absurd. '' ' New York World.;"; -" 1 "''AW v, v Governor Johnson has gone to th . ' trouble of denying that New York or Wall street or James J. Hill has any " connection With his candidacy - for -President The denial is superfluoua .T Mr. Bryan and his press agents ar responsible for tho insinuations of sinister Influence back - of Governor Johnson, but it is unlikely that they themselves believ th slanders they v circulate for political effect X, ' Tber I no more mystery "about ? th Johnson candidacy than ; about th Bryan candidacy. Casual referen-. ces to the governor's availability be gan to find their way into print short-- r ly after the election of l0r Th -Charleston, g. c. Neks , and Couri . claim the credit for the first edltoral uggeatlng- Johnson's nomination, and" ; Its title seems wen founded.'. - - Iln ths beuef that Mr. Bryan should -hot b nominated, and that the Demo cratic party if u had sense could find -a candidate who would hold out som ' prospect .of victory. The World began V Its search. Our first inclinations were ' not toward Governor Johnson, but a thorough In Inquiry Into his political " sutus flnslly Convinced ii that h 1 would undoubtedly be th strongest ' candidate tha Democrats could name. . v W found that his reputation was -spotless; that there were no weak pla ces In his record; that his intellectual development slnee his first election had been extraordinary; that hla pop- v ularlty In the Northwest was very great; that he was gifted with the' 1 gen us of common sense, and that he . could appeal , to the Imagination of' the masse perhaps aa no other can 5Wlfmee ncoJn h heen able to'"'-" do. This investigation proved to the satisfaction of the World that Johnson r " could carry; n that ha could carry ' States which Bran could not carry, and that ha could give hope to the ; Democratic party in State In which B.n candwer would mean a R! : publican walkover. . . If Wall street and Jam 3. Hill '' have anythln to do with his Candida-' V 2ir- Sry1, la M ,nJ lnslnuat- ' ing. Th World has yet to find evl- , dene of It and so has Mr. Bryan. ' - ANCIENT j WlKATHEll rROPIIETs. Greeks First to Make ' ItegnUr - Ob 1 secyations nret Measurements of '.Rain.- --' : .. . . ;-; CWca'Trlbuna;-;,;' " '- 'X ..Meteorology as a science Is' In Vts ' tinc.y.,bu rnca;.of.-itndw---S' ledge it is perhaps aa old as mankind. Th beginnings of meteorology are to ' - b found at th origin of clvlilaaUon. ' ;v,t.woul tTTOt 'lmtn. that In rich weather lore found la th Bible, especially in th book of Job ' i and In th poems of. Homer and Hes' iod, originated in PalesUne or Greece On the - contrary, th familiarity of " th people with the saying and rules concerning; th weather revealed by these writings show clearly that- they ' must bo . considered as a - primaeval t " stock of tho culture of that time. - '- Ther is reason to believe that the - -origin of much of modern weather' lor can be traced to" its ludo-Ger-' "5 manic source. - The Greeks as far ' J back as th fifth century B. C. wsr tha first to mak regular meteorologi- ' ': eal observations, some results of which ' ' ' ' still are preserved. Their great capacl- ty ; for pore science induced.- them to i. propound meteorological theories. At v ' this time they used wind vanes and' ' In the first century B. C. they , built the Tower of th Wind at Athena . - The first quantitative observaUons that is, the measurement of rain ' -. wer made in th first century A. D. These wer made in Palestine and ' 5 their results ar preserved - In r ta-' Mishnah. ; Meteorology made but lit- tie progress among the Romans. ; The 1 barbarous sUt of Europe after the-' : fall Of tha Western Empire was' not adapted to the furtherance of science. ' which was barely kept aUv within". th Christlon Church. ' ... Th fathers of th Church, writing, commentaries on th week of , the- -even day, often took occasion to insert long celebrations on th atmosphere and the phenomena, ' The revival of expert-, mental science in th thirteenth cen tury led to th development of regular , ' ' meteorological observation in thefeur- ; teenth century.. It w only during th latter part of th nineteenth century that - meteorology became . . partially an exact science. - - Every road leading Into wilkes Barre. Pa, for a dlctance of 59 mile will, be aign-boarded by t,he autom- -bile club of that city.
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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May 10, 1908, edition 2
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