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BABIES CONTEST-NOMINATING BALLOT.
I hereby place in nomination and cast this ballot for
(under two years of age), in the Independent’s Baby Prize
II Contest.
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i MARK HANNA’S COURTSHIP
1 How, When a Young Grocer, He
’ Wooed and Won the Daughter
of Daniel Rhodes.
Nearly 38 years ago Mark Hanna
was just starting on his business ca
reer as a grocer in Cleveland. He
was poor, plodding, and to the casual
observer a very every-day sort of young
man, says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Daniel Rhodes was one of the rich
coal owners of the state. He had one
daughter, Gussie, the very idol of his
soul. Around this lovely girl the
brusque old father had wreathed all
the sentiment, all the hopes of his fu
ture existence. Everything was to be
done for Gussie. Mrs. Rhodes, her j
fond mother, was a joint idolator at J
the daughter’s shrine, and the doting!
parents had dreams of a rich, influen
tial suitor, a splendid marriage and a
brilliant social career for Gussie,
when, as usual, the unexpected hap
pened. Gussie Rhodes met and loved
the obscure, poor young man, Mark
Hanna. Mr. Rhodes was astounded
when the daring young grocer called
upon him and asked for the hand of his
daughter. He refused absolutely to
grant the young suitor even time
enough to beg. He said “no" curtly
and sharply, and when he saw his
daughter he tried to scold her, but In
stead he took her la his honest arms
and begged her not to think of “this
unknown man, Hanna." He said he
never, never could consent to such a
choice for his child.
Gussie Rhode^ told her father, with
many a reassuring embrace, that she
would never marry without his con
sent, and she added: “But, papa, dear,
I shall never marry any man but Mark
Hanna."
Then she promised her father not to
see her lover or write to him for a
year at least. She kept her promise,
and in the course of a few weeks, alr
though she never audibly murmured,
and was sweetly gentle and loving to
all about her, she grew pale and wan.
She neither ate no slept. The old fa
ther was at his wit’s end. Some one
proposed a foreign tour for that change
Of scene which is supposed to work
wonders in heart affections, and,
preBto at a few hours’ notice, father,
mother and daughter were on board
an Atlantic liner.
For nearly a year the “change of
scene” prescription was faithfully pur
sued and the patient, always cheerfully
submissive, gentle and charming, ob
viously grew frailer day by day. AI
most in despair the old man brought
his child home again and one morn
ing he gathered the courage to ask
her if she till cared for Mark Hanna
“Why, father,” she replied, “I shall
always love Mark; I told you that,
you know, a year ago."
Poor old “Uncle Dan” Rhodes! That
was a bitter day for him, but he was
equal to the occasion. Sending for the
obscure young man, he said to him:
“Mr. Hanna, Gussie loves you, that is
my only reason for accepting you as
her future husband. You are poor. I’ll
fix it so Gussie can live as she has
been accustomed to and I suppose I
must see you marry her."
Now the coming young man cast ever
so slight a shadow of his future great
ness on the opportunity of the present.
“Mr. Rhodes ” said he, “I most grate
futfy accept the gift of your daughter’s
love. To marry her is for this world to
become a paradise for me, but I cannot
make her my wife unless she will be
content to-live as my means will enable
os. I can neither accept aid nor per
mit my wife to accept it from any
one."
So Mark Hanna and Gussie Rhodes
were married, ana the bride went from
her father's big house to live in a tiny
little cottage, where with one maid of
all work, she was as happy as a queen
for some years.
LINE OF CASTE IN ENGLAND
The American in That Country Soon
Becomes Conscious of Its
Restrictions.
What is it, at bottom, that makes
the English atmosphere so difficult
for an American to breathe in freely?
It is, I believe, that ho leels himself
in a country where the dignity of life
is lower than in his own; a country
where a man horn in ordinary cir
cumstances expects, and is expected, to
die in ordinary circumstances; where
the scope of his efforts is traced be
forehand by the accident of position;
where he is handicapped in all cases
and crushed in most by the superin
cumbent weight of caste, convention,
“good form” and the deadening artifi
cialities of an old society, comments a
writer in the Nqrth American Review.
That unconquerable buoyancy which
Infects the American air like a sting
and challenge, and braces every Ameri
can with the inspiration that he has a
chance in life; that there are open op
portunities, unreserved possibilities,
no battering at locked doors, no iloun
dering in blank alleys; that here, in
short, it is the man himself who
makes his career—is sometning which
the English have so utterly lost as to
be incapable of realizing it.
For Purifying Air.
Pure breathing air can now be main
tained in a small closed space by the
use of machinery. The device consists
of a distributor, which, by the action of
clockwork, drops sodium peroxide into
water at regular intervals, a cubical
steel box and a ventilating fan. The
sodium peroxide is decomposed by the
water with liberation of oxygen, ab
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