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MARK. HANNA’S COURTSHIP
How, When a Young Grocer, Ha
Wooed and Won the Daughter
> ~ of Daniel Bhodes.
_
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-daj 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
fond mother, was a joint idolator at
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 hla
daughter he tried to scold her, but In
stead he took her in 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 Rhodes told her'father, with
many a reassuring embrace, that she
would never marry without his con-,
sent, and she added: “But, papa dear, 1
1 I shall never marry any man but Mark
! Hanna."
Then she promised her father not to
I see her lover or write to him for a
year at least She kept her promise,
and in the course of a few weeks, air !
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
j proposed a foreign tour for that change
j of scene which is supposed to work
I wonders in heart affections, and,
presto 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
aued and the patient, always cheerfully
■ubmissive, gentle and charming, ob- j
j viously grew frailer day by day. Al*
| 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
-Iways 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 j
equal to the occasion. Sending for th«
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 suDDOse I
mast see you marry her."
Now the coming young man cast ever
bo slight a shadow of his future great
ness on the opportunity of the present.
“Mr. Rhodes ” said he, “I most grate
fn—y 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
uS. 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.
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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, 1 believe, that he feels himseif
in a country where the dignity of life
is lower than in his own; a country
where a man born 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 super in- i
cumbent weight of caste, convention, j
“good form” and the deadening artifl- !
cialitiee of an old society, comments a '
writer in the North American Review.
That unconquerable buoyancy which
Infects the American air like a sting
and challenge, and braces every Amen- >
can with the inspiration that he has a j
chance in life; that there are open op- j
portunities, unreserved possibilities, j
no battering at locked doors, no floun
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 u
be incapable of realizing it.
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GREAT INVENTOR AT HOWt.
B Visit to Thomas A. Bdisoa—Mamma
and Surroundings Hot n Bit
Uks ths Man.
To one who knows anything at
all of Edison, the first glimpse of
his house and its surroundings
eomes with a shock of surprise,
•ays Woman’s Home Companion.
Who would have suspected
that this most democratic of men
would have chosen for himself en
vironments so essentially aristo
cratic? He lives in the heart ef
a splendid park, patterned after
the English idea of vigorous ex
elusiveness, its gates jealously
guarded by a lodgekeeper.
The interior of the house is in
keeping with the atmosphere of
the park without, quite unlike
Edison. The reception-room was
utterly different from what I ex
pected. The admirably draped
curtains, the tables and chairs ar
ranged wih an eye to artistic ef
fect, were not of Edison’s choos
ing. He cares too little for the
luxuries of life. This was his
wife’s work; it was all so wom
anly.
I heard quick footsteps behind
me, and Edison appeared, greet
ing me cordially and unaffectedly.
He was dressed in the queerest
cf costumes—a long blouse that
reached to his heels, evidently •(
his own pattern, serviceable and
work-worn.
“Come along into the labors
tory,” he said.
So I followed him through the
dining-room and the “den” into
the laboratory that he has fitted
np for himself in his home.
There I found his little boy, his
shirt-sleeves rolled np, his face
and hands smeared like hi*
father’s. They had been making
various compounds of which lamj^
black was the chief constituent.
“So you work on Sunday, too?*
Edison winked confidentially.
“You see, Mrs. Edison is eway. I
can do as I like.”
That brought back to me a story
that I had once heard from a friend
of his—a story of how he works
night after night in his labora
tory, utterly absorbed in his ex
periments. Midnight comes and
goes, the gray dawn creeps in, and
still finds him bending over his
test-tubes and retorts, until at
last Mrs. Edison appears and
fondly leads him away to sl^ep.
I looked around the laboratory.'
This at least was his room. There !
were Bunsen burners, mortars
and pestles, glass rods, watch
crystals, bottles of chemicals
scattered about in bewildering
profusion. I watched him and his
boy while they worked, the boy
listening with rapt attention tt j
the teachings of his father.
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Taber Raised by Scotchman and SoM !
at High Price—Well-Named
the “Eldorado.”
No potato ever gained so mueh
notoriety as Eldorado, raised by
the famous Scottish raiser Mr. A.
Findlay, of Markinch. The very
lame of the variety, says the Gar
dener’s Magazine, was a stroke of
genius, for it is hardly possible
that the raiser, or those who had
the good fortune to secure some
of the first tubers distributed,
could have imagined that in so
short a time it would change
hands at such enormously high
prices.
Mr. George Massey, of Spalding,
was one of the very first to obtain
the stock, and from him Mr. Zach
ariah Gray, a well-known grower
at Everton, Sandy, purchased a
■tone weight for £20. This set tbe
ball rolling, and as Mr. Findlay
resolved not to farther distribute
Eldorado until the autumn of
1904, tbe demand for the small
■lock available was donbled and
trebled, and so the prices rose.
Messrs. Dennis, the Covent Gar-,
de a salesmen, and Messrs. I. Poad
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plies, and the latter firm found a |
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per pound. This determined them j
to obtain further stock, and so at
the Smithfield club show a mem- j
ber of his firm found that Mr. Mas
■ey had a limited stock for dispos
al and made him an offer of £1,000
for a stone. Mr. Massey refused,
as he wanted £1,500, but eventn
ally the bargain was struck al
£1.400, to the satisfaction of both
parties. Subsequently Mr. Mas
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tity for £2,000, so that his original |
transaction brought him a vary 1
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