ON POVERTY'S VERGE.
AN HEnOIC OLD SOLDIER'S
LAST DAYS.
Ueu. John II. Tiircliln( of Crimean nl
CItII War fume. Now Mylng In OI
ctirlty In Illinois 111 (InlJnnt
Record.
In nn obscure Illinois village,
nmong a colony of Poles which ho
established, a noble old soldier, who
fought on two continents and undor
two flags, Is spending his declining
years in reduced circumstances. His
ease exemplifies tho truth of the old
saying that "republics are ungrate
ful." Tho man Is den. John B. Tur
chln, whoso brigado wonnhlgh honors
In tho civil wnr and under whoso
command Senator Joseph B. Foraker
and Congressman Charles II. Grosvo
nor saw service. In his old ago these
men, now high In tho affairs of gov
crnmcnt, remembered their gallant old
commander and secured for him a
pension of J50 a month. Upon thts
GEN. JOHN B. TURCHIN.
meager sum tho general and his wlfo,
onco the favorites In the highest court
circles of Russia, manage to live,
or High Hank In ltiusln.
Turchln Is a Russian of high birth
Ho received n thorough military train
ing and roso to tho rank of colonel on
tho general staff of tho Imperial
guard. In the Crimean war ho was on
tho staff of Alexander II. After peaco
was declared between Russia, Turkey
and Great Britain, ho camo to tho
United States, accompanied by his
wife, n lady of fortune. Ho gained
a position In tho engineering depart-
mest of tho Illinois Central railroad
When tho civil war broke out he was
mado colonel of tho nineteenth Illi
nois, to which he applied tho hnblt
of discipline and precision of drill
which he had brought with him from
Russia. The result was an organlza
tlon which commanded tho admlra
A widely known and highly respected
Virginian, Gen. James D. Brady, died
at his homo In Petersburg, on the 1st
Inst. Though born In Portsmouth,
Va., April 3, 1843, deceased was in busi
ness in Now York city at the opening
of tho civil war. Ho espoused tho
federal side, enlisted in tho Thirty
seventh New York volunteers as a
private, and was mado adjutant Soon
after ho was promoted to tho colonelcy
of tho Sixty-third regiment, of the
Irish brigade, commanded by Colonel
Thomas Francis Meagher. While lead
ing the regiment In Its charges upon
Mary's Hlghts at Fredericksburg, he
was shot twice. He recovered from
his wounds In time to serve ns an
inspector general on Gen. Samuel
Zook's staff at Gettysburg, and was
by his side when ho was killed . In tho
peach orchard. In the Wilderness tho
general was shot again, but was able
to resume actlvo duty at Cold Harbor,
where ho was shot through tho abdo
men, the ball passing through his
body. t The surgeons thought he had
no chance to live, but, to tholr surprise
he recovered after six months' Illness
and served until tho end of. the war.
His courage, fortitude and strength
wero tho marvel of his associates-. Ho
was cheerful amid suffering and his
geninl qualities, always In evidence,
did not desert him when ho was racked
with pain or when tho surgeon's knife
was repairing tho ravages of tho bul
let. INDIGO PLANTERS.
Germany'a Chemical Product Injurlac
Trmlo In Natural Cultivation.
Tho vegetable Indigo industry Is
largely concentrated in ihe province of
Bengal, tho most donsely populated
district of one of tho most crowded
countries In tho world. The business
of making Indigo by purely chemical
methods Is carried on in Germany, nnd
is a triumph ot Teuton. c scholarship
nud enterprise. Tho produce of tho
factory at Ludwlgahafcn Is equivalent
to tho crops on 250,000 acres In India,
and tho output Is steadily growing.
For a long tlmo tho Germans had diffi
culty In making purchases oi dyo stuffs
to understand that tho artlclo which
they mado was not nn Imitation or a
substitute, but was tho samo thing as
tho vegetable Indigo. Tho two camo
from different sources, but wore identi
cal In nnturo and properties. Tho
world now recognizes this fact, and
tho cost of production hn3 come down
so that the indigo planters of Asia are
In a panic. Two plans for the relief ot
tho Bengal agriculturalists have been
suggested. Sir William Hudson, presi
dent of tho organization, haj called
tho attention of tho government to tho
fnct that In tho early part of tho cen
tury fiiigar was cultivated In India in
Alternation with Indigo, nnd that such
n rotation of crops would reduco tho
j GEN. JAMES D. BRADY
1 AAAAAVSAAVWSAASiVWVWAAMVVWVVWVVSMWWV
Hon of nil regular army officers,
When Gen. Don Carlos Buell was ap
pointed to command south 6f tho
Ohio, he recognized In Turchln n tnc
tlclnn of high degree of excellence,
and promptly put hlra In command of
a brigade. Ills ability In working out
problems In military strategy madd
him famous In the army within a few
months.
Cotirt-MnrtlaloiT.
But In tho midst of his promising
curecr, General Turchln encountered
an experience which Bcem destined to
end his usefulness. He Wns tho sub
ject of a court-martial Investigation,
to Turchln, with his years In tho Eu
ropean campaigns, wnr was wjir from
tho day hostilities began. To many
civilians, and even to regular army
officers who obtained high command
In tlio United States nrmy, war was
something that had to be learned. A
strnngo disinclination to hurt some
body Impressed itself In military poli
cy. Turchln couldn't understand It.
In Missouri General Pope had said to
hm:
"You must starvo la your tracks
rather thun tako nnythlng from civil
ians.' "Isn't It a state of wnr? ' tho Rus
sian asked.
Had there been a full complement
of Turchlnu holding command In tho
union army the civil war would not
have lasted half as long or cost half
ns much In blood or treasure.
Tho Rjisslan restrained himself as
much ns ho could, but he was unablo
to wago war as mildly ns his super
lore wished. At length the Issuo camo
In a crturt-martlal. One of Turchln's
regiments was attacked and driven
out of an Alabama city. The general,
with tho other regiments, went to tho
rescue. The town was retaken, soma
stores were broken open. Upon this
was based the charges. Tho court
martial was of Turchln as colonel of
tho nineteenth Illinois. Beforo the
unfavorable findings could tako effect
tho appointment of Turchln to bo n
brlgadlei' general for his admirable
record had been made. Garfield was
president of tho court-martial.
rounded n Colony.
Without political Influence, solely
upon his merits, the Russian made
himself a power in tho later campaign
ting. He was with Thomas at Chlcka
Jmauga and his brigado was part of
the front' which held like a rock
through tho second dny, saving what
was loft of tho union army from
crushing defeat. He marched with
Sherman to tho sea, and when that
campaign closed resigned and went
back to civil life. Twenty years ago
he went to Poland and brought over
a colony of Kosciusko's people, whom
ho established In tho fertile areas of
southern Illinois, In a villngo called
Radom. Here he has lived ever since
at times within tho very grasp ot
poverty.
In I860, Gen. Brady mado his home
In Norfolk, Va., and, as a Republican
was placed In charge of tho navy
yard. Ho was elected to congress &ev
oral times and was the national Re
publican committeeman from Vlrglnln
for many years. He was made collec-
GEN. JAMES D. BRADY,
tor of Internal revenue at Richmond,
Va., by President Hayes, and mado so
good a record as to bo retained under
every Republican administration since.
Ho was an eloquent speaker, and the
Irish-American element ot Virginia
feel they have lost their foremost son
In tho death ot tho gallant general at
tho early ngo ot 57,
coo: or growing tho late:. ThlB would
prove even more obvious If modern
methods of growing cano wern mlnnr
ed. Honco Sir William is In Tavor ot
continuing to raise veeotniii
and trying to lessen tho cost In tho
mnnncr noro Indicated. An address
on this samo subject wns rnenntiv .in
llvored at tho meeting of tho Gorman
uncmicai society In Berlin. Dr
Brunck, managing director of thr.
porntlon which manufactures chemical
indigo, deemed a still more radical
change In tho practice of Indian plant
era ndvlsahle. Ho believes Mint t
would bo bettor for them to elvn nn
growing Indigo altogether, nnd to ralso
toon stuns instead. The freminnov
famines In thnt part of tho world gives
additional point to his advice. In tho
meantime tho Government nf imiin
Investigating the subject. New York
Tribune.
rattl'n Taile for Diieiton,
Mine. Pnttl possesses a most curious
taste -for pointed weapons of all kinds,
daggers being her chief favorites. Sho
has a largo collection of them, many
having histories attached, and most of
them being ot qulto small size.
Tho Russian ministry of communi
cations hns decided to adopt petroleum
for gcnerntlng motlvo power on the lo
comotives of all the railways.
was NeE
NEWSBOY
The man who is slated to succeed tho
late Marcus Daly as president and gen
eral manager of the Annconda Mining
company resembles In mnny respects
his sturdy predecessor. He Is Ilemy
H. Rogers, one of tho vice presidents
of the Standard Oil company. His
life Is a record of what a poor boy
with energy nnd pcrservcrnnco can ac
complish In tho United States. He ia
one of those remarkable Americans
who has worked his way from n news
boy to tho rank of u millionaire nnd n
position nmong tho grcntest ot the
world's business directors. Mnrvolous
an was Marcus Daly's rlto from pov
erty to afllucnce, even more marvelous
has been the rise of this man Rogers.
Daly grew up among mines nnd min
ers und nearly all his youth wns an
apprenticeship In tho business that
eventunlly mado him rich and famous.
Rogers, llko Dally, was early thrown
upon his' own resources. Like Daly,
also, ho comes from poor nnd humble
stock. Unlike Daly, ho has striven
In mnny fields of commercial enter
prise, nnd from each of them he has
exacted tho toll that only succcs3
awards. Ho Is mighty In many ways.
Daly was mighty In only one.
Hold I'nper for n I.lTlnc-Fifty-llvo
years ago Henry H. Rog
ers was selling papers for a living on
tho streets of New Bedford, Mass., then
tho port of n grent fleet of whalers,
That was beforo the day of oil wells
and when tho sperm oil trado was at
its zenith. Knocking nround among
tho whalers and oil refiners, It Is prob
able that young Rogers then engnged
In dreams ns to the standing and
wealth which awaited tho man who
might succeed In controlling tho oil
HENRY II.
supply of the world, for he says that
he always favored tho combinations of
capital which are now called trusts'
and early saw the advantages which
they offered. Ho worked hard to sell
his newspapers, but In those days there
vas not tho fc.mand for current rend
ing which now exists) and the profits
of his business wore very small and
uncertain. This caused him much
worry, for ho was expected to give as
sistance to tho support of his home,
which was in Fnlrhaven, Conn. He
sought a Job which would yield n
steady Income and was employed In n
grocery store nt S3 a week and board.
Ho made tho most of IiIh allowance
for board and sent hlB weekly salary
of ?3 home. For five years ho re
mained in tho employ of tho grocer
nnd was gradually advanced to tho
position of head clerk. When oil was
discovered In Pennsylvania New Bo
ford soon became ns dead as a mining
town thnt had been abandoned In n
rush for now diggings. Young Rogers
went to tho oil fields. He knew many
things nbout tho oil trnde In New Bed
ford nnd his knowlcdgo wns of the
prnctlcnl kind. Ho readily found prof
ltablo employment and had soon
formed a personal acquaintance with
tho oil barons. Ho saw opportunities
when they presented themselves and
was' ablo to formulto plans to fit them,
Ills Ideas for saving and marketing tho
product of tho wells wero so good that
ho was employed by ono of tho big
operators to carry them out. This
position stimulated him to new ef
forts nnd ho began to dream again of
the wealth and Influence of tho man
who could control the oil trado of tho
country.
Founder of Htnndiiril OH Company.
Rogers Is not generally credited for
tho brnlnwork that made, tho Standard
Oil company possible nnd successful,
but It wns ho who suggested tho plan
from which It hns grown and has al
ways been ono of its ablest directors.
Acting upon plana submitted by him
mnny of tho largo operators pooled
their interests nnd this was tho Incep.
tlon of tho company. Later tho com
pnny was Incorporated, Rogers wns
mado a director and for some time bus
been n vice president. Through his
a
Now Probable
Successor to
MaVcus Daly
e
connection with tho company ho grow
Immensely rich. The grocer's clerk
at ?3 per week, CO years ago, Is now
reputed to bo worth $G5,000,000. Some
years ngo he noticed that new elec
trical Inventions were eating up cop
per faster than the mines 'could pro
duce It and camo to tho conclusion
thnt wealth nwnltcd tho owners of
copper mines. He went to Wisconsin
and Montana, visited tho copper re
gions nnd studied the situation. When
ho returned to Now York ho had
formed his plans nnd soon tho Amal
gamated Copper company, with tho
millions of the Standard Oil company
back of It, wns formed. Tho subse
quent advance in tho price ot copper
from 11 to 18 cents showed tho vnluo
of his business Judgment. lie ad
mits that his purposo was, and Is, to
establish a copper trust, but 'ho can
not scoro a complete success In this
endeavor until tho syndicate acquires
tho great Verde copper mines of Ari
zona, owned by W. A. Clark of Mon
tana, and In Wall street Mr. Clark is
credited with having mado tho dec
laration thnt he would not only novcr
sell to the copper trust, but thnt he
would leave the mines to his children
so safc-gunrded that even they should
not bo nble to turn them over to the
trust.
An tlio Man I.
Henry II. Rogers Itf now 07 years
old. Ho does not look to bo past 45,
Ho Ib well preserved, stalwart and his
bearing is like thnt ot n man who
trained In n mllltnry school. While he
Ib courteous nnd nffnble In his social
relations lie Is n hard taskmaster and
n bitter and relentless foe. There is a
lot of bulldog in the man; he Is tear
ROGERS.
less, combative, energetic and tireless.
Ho olso is stubborn; onco convinced
he la unchnnKoable. In these character
istics ho resembles In n groat degrco
tho man whom he will succeed ns tho
head of the Anncondu company. Ho
has a magnificent homo nt tho comor
of Fifth avenue nnd Fifty-eighth street.
Now York city, nnd n country homo nt
lalrnavcn Which Is ono ot tho show
places of Now England. Ho has spent
more than a million dollars In beauti
fying his country rcsldonco nnd Its
surroundings nnd as much more for
tho benefit of tho town which was his
home when ho was a poor boy. In
speaking of trusts, ho says: "My idea
of a trust Is that it economizes and
brings before tho pcoplo tho best prod
uct at the lowest prices. That la what
the Sugar trust Is dolmr. That 1h
what the Standard Oil company hns
done. I know thnt trtiBts nro goo
things."
Dojr n n Dutcollvo.
Tho officer whoso duty It is to en
iirco the game laws of Knnsns recent
ly had reason to suspect that some
market hunters wore Illegally shipping
qunll from Wellington, hut the gather
ing of evidence was found to bo an nl
most, Impossible task. Finally tho of
ficers borrowed a poluter dog nnd took
It to tho freight dopot, nnd tho anlmnl
promptly centered Its attention upon n
lurgo ogg cose. Tho caso was opened,
nnd undor Its two top layers of eggs
wero found several dozen quail. Tho
law breakers wore found without diffi
culty upon reference to tho rnllrond
company's books, and arrests promptly
followed.
Ifor Stealing Klnntrlo I.lclit.
Ah Sin's propensity for walking in
ways thnt nro darft has been demon
strated In New York's Chinatown,
where nine Mongolian merchants and
restaurant hoopers hnvo been arrested
for stealing several thousand dollars'
worth of electric light from tho Hdleon
company. Tho theft wiih accomplished
through tho uso of an Ingonlous dovlco
nrrnnged by an export electrician, who
farmed It out to the Chinese nt $10
per month.
TOLD BY A NEAT LIAR.
CHARACTERISTIC STORIES OF
JOE MULMATTAN.
Tho I'oor Fellow It Now In n Madliouno
Nc-cr Tolit Mm Thnt Mil Anyono
TcMonnl Injury Tlio Natural Foun
tain. There Is no change in the condition
ot Joe Mulhnttan, the famous newspa
per correspondent who Is now In a
mndhotiBO In Arizona, and no likeli
hood of lits recovery, Bnya a PhPo'onlx
dispatch last week, Slnco tho an
nouncement was made of his misfor
tune, nil sorts ot reminiscences have
been brought out concerning him. Mul
hnttan rather prided himself on his
ability to Invent falsehoods thnt were
entertaining. He was never vicious
nnd novcr defamed anyone. He merely
tried to outdo Munchausen and he ap
pears to have succeeded.
Tim (llrl nml I lie Ilnlloon.
The following, which was one of
Mulhnttnn'B first, gives some Idea ot
his life:
There was a man by tho nnmo of
John Smith of Lludon, Knn., who be-
enmo ncqunlntcd with a little girl at
the seaside. She wns a nice girl, nnd
her nnmo was Lulu Avery, from Al
bany, N. Y. He bought the little girl
n bunch of toy balloons. She wrap
ped tho string holding them about her
waist, and when n strong gust of
wind enmo the bnlloons sailed away
and carried her with them, to tho hor
ror of her new friend, An old hunt
er out In tho fields saw tho predica
ment of tho little girl nnd fired so
thnt ho exploded two of tho balloons.
The othora nctcd ns n parachute, nnd
tho little girl Bnfely descended to tho
ground and thanked her rescuer.
In 1833 telegrnph editors In nil the
Importnnt cities of tho country re
eclved n telegrnm In tho course of tho
news service which read:
Htory of tlio Natural Fountain.
"McCook, Neb., June 14. A slight
enrthquako shock was felt in- this vi
cinity nt 5 o'clock this evening. Houses
shook, dishes In cupboards were rat
tied and soverul people In tho strcots
nt tho tlmo wero thrown down. It
Is reported that CO miles north of hero
n great llssuro has opened iu tho
ground nnd that water Is gushing from
It. Investigating parties will start out
tomorrow."
Thnt is a harmless squib which
everybody accepted without Juat do-
JOB MULHATTAN.
tectlng Its earmnrks. A week Inter a
number of southern papers of reputa
tion received n typewritten nccount of
tho "flowing nnd spouting well" of Mc
Cook, Ncb which an earthquake had
created.
Tho story was circumspect. It de
scribed tho earthquake, tho opening of
u fissure In the plain land a hundred
feet wldo and of bottomless depth. This
llssuro was loeuted in tho arid wasto
of tho state, whero water was most
needed, and where for tho lack of it
settlement was next to impossible Aft
er It had opened n stream gushed forth
which roBc 50 feet above the surface
of the earth. It overflowed the land,
created small streams, was confined to
courses by tho delighted ranchmen,
nnd people somo distance nwny camo
A NOTED
One of the most noted Episcopal
clergymen lu tho west Is Rov. Dr. Clin
ton Locke, tho dean of the church In
Chicago. For 41 years ho has been as
Boclated with Grnco church In that
city.
Clinton Locko was horn In Now York
city In 1829. From the public schoola
ho went to tho academy at Sing Sing,
and from tho neudemy ha went to
Union college nt Schencctndy, from
which ho wnH graduated In 1849. Thon
ho beenmo a prlvato tutor for two
years, after which ho entered tho gen
crnl seminary of the church. In 1855
ho wns ordained deacon nt Dobb's
Ferry. From there ho wns called to n
Jollet (111.) church.
In 1859 Dr. Locke was callod to
Grnco church, then a smnll parish with
n small building, in Chicago. He
found It a struggling congrogntlon,
nnd, ns the shepherd ot tho llttlo flock,
ho gave It all tho force and strength
of his charactor. The church grew un
der his ministry.
In 18CI Dr. Locko" took tho Initiative
In founding a church hospital. His
congrcgutlon wns with him, and Ht.
Luke's wns founded In that year, an
Institution that for years has taken a
front place In the hospitals ot tho big
western city.
In 1895 nn affection of tho thront de
veloped, and Increased in soverlty un
til ho wns compelled to tnke lcavo of
with barrels to cart tho water to thel
barren fnrm patches. Tho artlclo went,
on to sny that owing to this kind ac
tion of nnturo tho problem, of Irrlgn-'
tlon In Western Nebrnska had been
solved, that water for millions of
acres was now nt hand, and that set
tlers wero poulng In by every train.
There wns not n sldo or phase of the
story thnt was not carefully covered.
Needless to say that tho newspapers
printed It; thnt It was rccoplcd In.
northern papers, nnd thnt finally It,
reached the eyes of tho astounded citi
zens, of McCook, who had enjoyed no,
carthnunko, no earth fissure, nnd wero
as much without Irrigation water ns
they ever were. Tho story was only a
"Mulhnttan."
NEW BRITISH PEERS.
Sir Michael Hicks-Bench and Sir
Matthew Ridley, who havo Just boon
elevated to the pecrago of England,
were tho chancellor of the exchequer
and homo secretary In tho Inst cablnot..
Ridley la tho eldest
son of tho late Sir
Matthow V h 1 1 o
Illiltev fifth Imron- A
f ------ i.
ct of this title, and -i
succccdetl his
thcr In 1877.
began his parlla
mcntnry career In
18GS, when ho sat
for Northumber
land, which consti
tuency ho rcprc- w ""y.
sentcd until 1885. In 1830 he was re
turned for n constituency lu Lanca
shire. Ills wife, tho very populnr
daughter of Lord Twr.cdmouth, tiled
last year. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach Is
the ninth baronet ot his namo. He
succeeded his fa
ther In 1854, and
tins been prominent
In British politics
alnco 18C4. His first
1 m portant office
was that of chief;
ecrctary for iro-
land, to which ho
was appointed lu
1874, when ha
was sworn on Urn
privy councll.Slneo
Mr. Beach.
that tlmo ho has occupied numerous
high offices, participating lu tho tips
nnd downs of tho conservative party
with Imperturbability.
Old l'rlmld.
Ah yes, our hands met hero nnd there.
Our wnndorlng eyes met now and
then,
About Llfo's crowded thoroughfare
But coldly Bcelng wc wore mcn.
And looks arc slight, and hands ' ,nro
slow,
And words so hard to say, nnd
weak; , ,,
Kven tho best the poets know
Mcnn moro than oven thoy can
speak.
Tncn Death struck lightning through
tho nlr;
A rock wns rent, set frco n henrt;
And two old friends' communion eharo
When one lies speechless und
npart.
A Jfonr (loriuan riiutnlimriit.
Tho young Germans who omlgrnto
to America nnd elsowhcro without, do
ing their fnlr sharo of military service
hnvo long been n thorn In tho aide oC
officialdom. A method of dealing with
this Btnte of things hns at last boon
hit upon which bids fnlr to work suc
cessfully. Ono Frledrlch Grobblor, a
runaway, settled In Kansas, has boon
Infoimcd by tho Gormnn military au
thorities by cable that ho must 're
port at homo for duty, nnd notifying
him that unless ho returns and serves
him tlmo his father will bo fined a
Bum equivalent to 200 pound. If thla,
procedure Is followed out In ovory
cam German fathers nro likely to bo
tray a moro nffcqtlonato lntorcst In,
keeping their sans at homo.
MoUtars NeetloJ by Oak Troor.
OO.T. 1
An ouk troo of averogo slvso, with
700,000 leaves, lifts from tho earth Into
tho air about 123 tons of water during
tho five months It Is In leaf.
PREACHER
his church, to the regret of every mem
ber. Although his eloquence la no
moro heard, ho ministers to his fellow
men through tho medium of written
language Ho is n romarknblo linguist
and hits pursued his paBslon for lltcrn
turo Into mnny tongues. Ho Is novcr
REV. DR. CLINTON LOCKE,
(Tho denn of tho Episcopal church In
Chicago.)
Idle. Ho passes hours every day In
his sunny library, with his books nnd
his papers, Ho writes for denomina
tional pnpera, und occasionally for tho
magazines, und hns published several
books thnt have proved acceptable to
tho public.
lyiBi
ffoi