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i . SUNDAY OO'XOBER 27. 189/ / ) . 10 TIlE 01\fAIIA \ : DAILY DEFJf1 - - - - - - , - - . , - - - - - - I - . . . . ' . ' " , ' . . . . " ' . , , " . fit. , - : : I.A : : crEJS'J : : ' C Ecr'J : : : ' : ' O-c.rSEJ : : I : : I : ? ' .LV.L.ahfG.ite.le.ise.daie . TO OUT .Of- OUT - 0 F , , TOW ; RS : 1 I a e or a e 3 a eo. Spencer , .cUs % I I We have O . ave. ' f 154 and 155 Michigan Avenue , Chicago , cuts of o : I-3:5..s : : Jc.CO-ccl.para : : : : ble Stook of : F'5.rl.e ' : : will send --.r . , cuts 0 of tni 1 everything f e In our . t everything store you need In wnlcn we w furniture will ! D ) - - * OtT : : S I LE : : ECESE ° OVT -r and Stoves. . to stock of choice under , . We have bought for cash AT OUR RICE the entire a We are always ready buy a goods un price. .e Send a Postal san stock of J. SPENCER , 154 and 155 MICHIGAN AVE , CHICAGO , ( two six-story buildings full ) of elegant Furniture , rnagn Iflcer t I on Carpets richest draperies , excellent bedding , fine heating and cooking stoves etc. , etc Foreclosed under Chattel Mortgage by -we Will application Is the creditors. Spencer only opened last April , Here is a rare chance to get elegant goods 50 per cent off. That's the way we . do 0 the O rest have marked them-just half of Spencer's price. . . _ _ _ _ , L. - _ . _ - - - - . ' Bcd Room Couches Clieffoi ! iers ( BCd Lounges Blankets Ladies' Desks : Odd Pieces of SPE1OER BANKRUPT Suits In plush or corduroy. 6 Drawers \ In tapcsh'y or plush , Very heavy , gray : or rOll Solid oak. Parlor . hard wood ! . hovo'I . . . . . ! glnsa ; ! . Spencer's price 019.5 ! , our SpcncC\"s \ price $20.00 , SpcncOl"s price $21.00 , our SIJel1Cel"s price $6.00 , our SpenlC"s ! price $10.00 , Furniture . . and Spencer's price 8J,5uuur : price price , our price , price , price our price , at Oue..Half Carp ets DUgs $11.68 $11064 $8.75 $13.50 $2.25 $4.00 Spencer's Prices Spencer stock of floor covering is simply . . superb All go 80 per cent off Spencer's pP ce. Extension Wardrobes Iron Beds , Rocking Chair Mattresses Cook Stoves Fancy Rockers : , a Tables Spcnp.or's price , Any sizo. Large , with arms. Very good tieRing. Largo oven , gual'nr.tcc In plush 01' tapestl'y. IIartrol' Cm'pets , Axminstor ' $1 00 Oil Heaviest Cloth , quality . 17 Sponcor'a price e9.00 , $ 1t , 00 , Spenen"s : price $10.00 , Spcncet.s pt'icc I $0.00 , our Spenccr's P ricea.u0 , our Spcncet.s P rico l.OO ! ) , our S P encor's nice [ $ : ! i.OO , our Spencer I ) price $1.75 , to. . 0 SpuucOrprtOelat : ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ' e our price , Our price our price , price , price , pt'ico , price , Ul1l1y lhrussels ' 7 5 1000 1 000 , nest Gratin , Chenille Hugs $2 . 68 I $5 . 50 $5 . 25 $2 . 60 $1 . 75 $9 . 75 $3 . 00 \Vilton Spollccl.pl'icoI.2 Velvet : . . . . . . . . . . 70 C C size Spencer : ! price " 6\.1e. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1ge- \ . - - Spencer ' price $11)- . . . . . . . to 1.000 " . ' ill' I Esels Hugs ' ' 8 ' " 'IG , 1 trnged I 0 Dining Room Book : Cases Sideboards Hard Coal Beds Ranges Rattan Roct\er : Tapestry rat : a0ls , 58c spencer : price ' $3.00. . . . . . . . . . e ? t t . _ Chairs slz0. Solid Oak Base Burners All Sizes Hanlwood. " . hClwvT . . Spencer price 80 > e. . . . . . . . . . . 1 00lleet , Largoslzo. Largo oven yore . very large. I S ' 8ac.cwool 100lloltSmyrnaRIJrrs or. ar o. Spmicer . < > 75 Sponcor'l price } , $1.50 ' our Sponcot"l ' ! price , $10.00 , our Spencer 1 . s pt'icc. 1 $17.00 , our Large : enou/th . / h to . , brat 3 rooms : Spoucor's price $4..00 , our castings . I\ . " : . . \ . SpcncC\I 1 \ i price price $1 - I ) . 00 , our lt'ico 8UOt. BeRt , quality . ' IIIYtain : . all Cm'pdlB' wool extra 4 2 C :10 SnOUCOr : X GO ( price $ r : .I. : 00 . . . . . $ 2 . . ! \ 'i S , . ' $25.00 , out' price . . . . . . . . . . . - I .u price price prICe bps tors prico-1,0 olr prIce [ price SpencOl' pries 760. Straw Malting : , Linoleum , C ? $9.50 Spencer always sold them C all widtlis , best , , . . e at 4Oc. . . . . . t OUR USUAL EASY TERMS WILL PREVAIL DURING THIS SALE. , . . . . . . . (1 ; ) . ' ' ' ' . > ; J . , ) ' { , . . , . > ! > . . Jt. : . ; .M _ _ . 'f' .rb , . . . . . \ "f : " ' I'.t ' ' ' ' , , , , _ ' . . . . : ; ' . . . _ _ . " , . ' ' . . " ' " ; . ' _ y : ' CR' ! . : ' " " _ : . ' ? .t. . "d' ' _ ' : ; .f.to ! ot ! "s. ' " " 'll. ' 1 t- " : ' ! - ' , , { ! > . N1t.I r . ! . . . . . . : v ; , . . .1 r.ir 1' $ t \ , ' ' . : : M. . . . . . . . ; ; . f + . ; ' 1C fi } . . - REA > a TS1 l IlL Y IN AMERICA - The Poet's ' Younger Brother a. Kentucky Pioneer - SUCCESSFUL IN BUSINESS VENTURES - ' . of the Fnmlly Fortune nt ; \\'rccl. : "lomc-I"nINe " StorleN of NeJleet- ! Auerlcn'n' ' 11 eCCehdrint-Soluu , . New Fact In Life of Kcut - , ( Copydghtcd 1895 , by JohlOllmer Speed ) ThIs Is the centennial year of John Keats , " who was born on the 29th of October , 1795. It Is Interesting to recall that at the time of hIs heart ho tie- when In the bitterness sired . that hIs epitaph should be : "Hero , lies ono whoso name was writ In water , " fliers was a household on the banks of the Ohio river In which he was most tenderly and loy- ally loved , and where , after hIs death , ho was mourned with a sadness which knew no lift- Ing. Ho had a brother In AmerIca and In Cave lUll cemetery In Louisville , Ky. , there boulders erected to ts monument built of the memory of the Keats family In America Around i this i lie burled the remains of George Keats and hIs wife and all of their children save the eldest son . John Keats , who Is still livIng In limo northwestern part of Missouri , : where ho Is a farmer and a civil engineer 'INHEIUT A COMFORTABLE ESTATE. George Keats was n younger brother of the poet , but on account of his larger slzo and more conservative temper was generally consIdered at school to be the older of the , r r C Y 1 } w LL' JOIN KEATS , THE POET. two. Indeed , the earliest of John ' Ceats' bIographers spoke of George Keats IlS the oldest of hIs famll ) ' . But John was born In . 1795 and George In 179 ; . John Jennings the maternal grandfather of the Keats retired from business with a fortune of U3OOO ( $05 $ ; 0"(0) ) and the business was continued \ly \ his son . IntawTltontas Keats Thomas Keats was lulled by a fall from his horse In lSOt and John JennIngs died the next yurt The . . latter left u.eoo In trust for the Keats chld- dren anti roe a year to their molher. The rest of his estate went to hIs wltow. ! The mother of the Keats children , who , shortly after Thomas Keats died , married again , died In 1610. The next year Mrs. Jennings ! , being desirous of making provision for her orphan grandchildren "In consideration of natural love and affection which she had for them , " executed ' 1\ deed putting them under . the care of two guardlanl , lo whom she made over , to be held In trust for their beneOt from the dale of the instrument , the chief part of tile properly derived tram her late husband : under his will. The value of the property 10 put In trust exceeded ! $90,000. When Mrs Jenings died tour years later lometblni : exceedIng $15,000 more was added to thlll fund belonging lo the Keats children. l3esldes these two sums they were entitled V . , 7I 1 to the 1.000 orIgInally left to them by their grandfather and to the principal whIch the r 00 annuity for their mother was derIved. It will be seen , therefore , that these four children were by no means penniless :1S 13OOO In the earlier years of thIs century was a great sum of money. But owIng to the urn iso administration of the trust fund , the Keats did not reach manhood without feel- ing ! many of the embarreesmenls of lJOverty. George Keats accompanied has brothers to the school at Enfield of l1ev. John Clarke . the father of Charles Cowden Clarke . who compUed the very useful concordance 10 Shakespeare. At this school the Keats boys learned hIstory , Latin and mathematics and In these they were as well rounded ! as the enerallly ! of English lads of 1& or 17 years of ae. ! The SCholarShip of John Keats In England was not only questioned but scoffed at . but George Keats , who was of less learn- Ing than hIs brother , was looked upon I.n Ken- tucky , which was a frontier In the United States when heo went to live there , as a man of exceptional cultivation THOUDLE WITH A GUAnDIAN. Shortly after their grandmother Mrs. Jen- , nings dIN , their guardian Mr. Abbey , con- cluded that for persons of theIr meal ! they had had school Instruction enough , EO he withdrew them from school. John as Is well known , was apprenticed to an apothecary and Burgeon and a year later George was falcon' ' from EnOeld and placed In Mr AblJey's counting room. There ho stayed several years and was Introduced to the se crels of commercial lite. But he was of a most Independent nature and could not brook the servitude Involved In a clerkship In a wholesale tea house. An altercation with a junior partner led him to throw up his position and to quarrel also with Mr. Abbey who appears to have been as stllt-nccked , as stubborn and as Ignorant a9 It 181 In the nature at a British merchant to be. Some time before this John Keats had "clenched his I1st" at his master In the surgery at Edmonton and so his indentures ! were cancelled and he moved to London to pursue his medical studies In the hospital there The three brothers lived together In the Poultry , and Mr. Abbey their guardian evidently regarded them as shiftless and Improvldcnt. That the two younger brothers should encourage John to lead ! a literary life and write poetry , In the mind of Mr. Abbey was n grIevous sIn , and ho considered that all three of the young men were little less than mal ! . Ibis disgust : reached high water marl when George ! , In IS18. left his employ- ment and John published his first book of . poetry DECIDES 'TO EMIGRATE George Keats wan then 23 years old but ho was also precocious for he had become engaged to bo marrIed to the daughter of n naval officer and had concluded to take what share of the estate lie could secure from Mr. Abbey anti emigrate to America In this ho hall his elder brother's approval as will bo seen by this extract of 1\ letter of John Keata' : "You know my brother George has been out of employ for some time It has weIghed very much upon him , and driven him 10 scheme and turn over things In hIs mind limo result has been ills determInation to em- Igrato lo the back settlements of America ho- come farmer and work with hIs own hands alter purchasing ! 1.400 acres cf the American government This for many reasons ; has met with my entire consent-and the chief one Is this : lie Is of too Independent and liberal a mind 10 get on In trade In this country . In which a generous man with a scanty resource must be- ruined I would sooner that bo should < 1 till the ground than bow to a customer There Is no cbolct with him : ho could not bring hImself lo the lat- ler. I could not consent lo hIs goIng alone- no : but that objection Is done away with : iJe will marry before ho sets sail . a younG lady ho has known for several years , of e. liberal nature and high spirited enough to follow him lo the banks of the .I18Ilsalppl. ' ARRIVAL IN AMEHICA. At the time this leller was written It was George ICeals' Intention 10 join the : colony founded by Robert Owen at New lhrmonr , In Indiana , or to purchase land In the neighborhood at that . . settlement lie set sail tram LIverpool In the early Bummer of 1818 , hIs brotber. John , going to the seaport to so hIm olf. Before leaving London - don Joseph Severn mode hIm the portrait of John now In the wrIter' 1'081011100 , and reproduced herawllb. This portrait wu eev er.ll times reproduced by S'vern after John Keat death , and some English writers have been misled by this fact Into the belief that ono of these replicas was limo original Such however , Is not the case as the only finished portraIt for which John Keats ever gave ! sittings Is now In America and In my posf. > esslon. George Kelts' : ship sllled for Philadelphia which n was reached after a long voyage. The first close glimpse he had of American life was on the wharf In Philadelphia , where he saw a. very blacle negro with very white teeth eating a walermelon. This was his first Introduction to the African race , and also to the negro's favorite fruit The beauty of time meat of the melon and the expressIon of complete satisfaction on time lIegro's face made an instant Impression on hIm , and be was sure that he had landed In a country that flowed with mllle and honey- In Philadelphia - adelphia he bought a carriage and hor'C3 and set off on :1 journey to the Ohio river at l'lttsbur& At I'lttsburg ho embarked on a flatboat and floated down the Ohio rIver. ASSOCIATION WITH AUDUBON Somewhere between Liverpool and Pltts- burg ho changed his mind as to the end of his journey and concluded not to go to New Harmony- Instead of that ho went to Henderson , In Kentucl . and there by chance he fell I.n with Andubon the naturalist Audubon tool a fancy to the young Englishman - man because' of his pillcle amid manly bearIng and constituted himself young Keats' mentor In the new world. That was a bad thing for the young adventurer , for Audubon learned though he was In the ways of birds knew precious little ubolll the practical busIness affairs - fairs of everyday life lie persuaded George , t a w ' w , , ' 1 eb I t _ a t ! ' t , t , _ , / h l 9 " _ ' , G II "I _ m , t d u Irr I I Ir' , GEORGE KEATS' OLD HOME IN LOUISVILLE , KY , Keats lo buy a boat and engage In trade up and down the river In this George Keats invested all the money ho had brought with him from England. The venture was not only unsuccessful It was dbastrou ! The boat lost money from the beginning and be- forD It could he sold met with an accIdent and was a total loss. In their correspondence over thIs mlsad- nnluro both George and John Keata said ! thlns ! of Audubon that were Ilrobably entirety tlrely undeser\"ed. It La 1 likely that he was only unwIse In his counsel to an inexperienced . perlenced young man even though he did profit by the sale of the boat In which he had an Interest. George Keats went tram Ileaderson after a brIef stay , to Louisville . where he settled I , permanently , living ! there for store than twenty years and becomIng one of the first citizens of that city. After the wreckIng of the boat , beIng without resources he returned to England ! to get what remaIned of his share ot his grandfather's estate. lie go\ what ht couill-not all that he was entitled to by more that $5OOO-and returned lo Louisville , where he was now embarked In the lumber business , havIng saw mills , and flour mllli also , on the banks of the OhIo river Ills business career for more than twenty years was universally auecessful , anti he accumulated what was for that time and locality a handsome fortuno. It be consumption which curled off John Keats In February , un , could han been delayed a. few yeseh , ! It II nol at I\ll \ Improbably . ably that John Kea : s , to0 would bavq come to AmerIca , and quite prObable ells bit ( he woulll have beCEme a citizen or the great rev pUblic. George ICeats' Intention In comIng to AmerIca was not merely to better hIs own fortunes , but to build up those of hIs family , which had been wasted by time mismanagement - ment of Mr Abbey. It was his fond hope that he might stake a home for his brother John either In AmerIca or In England : , preferably - ferably In America , for he recognIzed that hIs brother needed near Mm a robust nature upon which to unburden the melancholy moods which now and agaIn oppressed - pressed him. From boyhood George Keats had been the one upon whom John most relied In these fits of depression , md limo younger ! brother always regretted that In time saddest time of John's me he shoulll have been away and wIthout power to look after hIm. But , as we have seen , George KeatS' good ! fortunes In AmerIca were delayed - layed several years and ho lost about all of time money he brought to this country' with him before ho began making anrthlng. When he did begin to make money It was too late for his good fortune to bs shared by the young poet , who had gone ! to Italy as a forlorn hope and dIed In Home after :1 few I long months of painful Illness FALSE STORY OF NlmLECT. One of John Kenta' Intimate friends , Charles Armitage Brown was of a most jealous nature , and ho wished the world to believe that he had succored John Keats In a time of poverty , and that In fact for a year or so he had supported his young frIend. 'l'o support this view ho had the story circulated - lated that George Keats , had taken all of John Keats' fortune to America with hIm and had refused to snake restitution. In evidence of this he quoted what George Keats sold to John In letters about his ! Inability to make remittance. Never did a human being do fl more cowardly or a baser thinK than Drown In thIs instance Drown In the main Wall 11 good ' : and generous man . but his jealous desire to fink hIs name wIth that of Kent overmastered him , It h true that when John Keats died he owed Drown somethIng' like 100 but It L'f also a fact that when Keats and Drown lived to- gelher Keats always scrupulously paid his share of the expenus. And what Is more , accounts were kept whIch are In exIstence today It Is pleasant to record the fact that George Keals paId this debt to Drown and every other debt of hIs brother's of which be could learn. Two years after John Keats' death George discovered that the two sums previously al . luded to , left by his grandfather to the Keats children , and for the purpose of turnlshlng an annuity to their mother , amounting now with accumulations of Interest to r4.lj2 , had never been touched and had either been forgotten . gotten or concealed by the Inefficient Mr Abbey. One-fourth of this belonged to John Keats ! , and had he known of Its existence John could have drawn It and escaped the need of borrowing that ! 50 or so which gave a slight color to the slanders which Brown . circulated against George Keats When ' George Keats learned of this mOney he took one.tourth of It , leaving her own share , to . gather with the shares that were Jobn's and Tom's , to ids sister , Fanny ne was . Of toutpe , entitled to one . balf Instead of only oae fourth ' LirE IN KENTUCKY Ia Kentucky from 1S2S to UU , when he died , George Keats was successful In his ventures , but always restive under the feeling that he ought to do something to make his brother as man and poet , better known to time world and so enlarge his fame . Ho op- posed with all his might the Intention that Drown had of wrIting Keats' life and publishing the poetry that had been left unpublished - published when Keats died At length he secured an order of the court restraining ! Drown from publishing the literary remains of his brother. 110 did not believe Drown had the capacity to do the subject justice and also fancIed that Drown' main desire was to glorify hImself. John Hamilton Reynolds another of "John Keals' frIend ! , " was urged to undertake the work but for some reason nothing : came of It Just before his death , In 18t2 , the shadow of Audubon agaIn fell over George Keats' path. lie Indorsed thin notes of a connection of Audubon's who failed In buslncss. In time settlement time accumulations of all of George Keats' business life was swallowed up. Ho tiled a few months later , before 110 had had tire to make a fresh start. ThIs merchant whose failure Involved George Keats had been kind to the young Keatses In their early years of onibarramnment ' after time failure of the boat ventureo. George KeatfJ' i . credit and all that he had was ever after at this merchant's disposal TIlE KEATS DESCENDANTS George Keats had several children-four daughters and two sons reachell ) maturIty. Time eldest daughter ! ; Georgiana , she to whom when a baby the well known lullaby was written IIY her uncle married Alfred Gwath- mey of Louisville. I Their only child George Keats Gwalhmey , Is the editor of a news' paper In Missouri. The second daughter , Emma , marrIed Philip Speed of Louisville and was the mother of the present writer. She left a large family and there are now some two score of jtrandchlldren. : The two other daughters married and left children The younger ! son Clarence Keats , died young ! , though he was married and left one daugh- ter The first son . John Keats Is the only algid of George Keats still living lie Is a man of a very shy temperament and pre- fers a quiet life In the far country 10 a more active lito In the busy world , In the affairs and society of whIch hIs natural talents and his liberal accompllshmel1ts admirably nt hIm to shine lIe has one child , a daughter and It seems likely that Keats as a tamlly name wlll perIsh In America wIth hIm. JOliN OIL IEIt Sl' ED. . . STOnll OP l'nl : ACJlEns. It Isn't In the traditions of the Ozark country says the alobe-Democrat , thaI old Jonathan Magness was ever converted , but storIes are told to show that ho bad a certain - taln kind of respect for rellgion The lIIag- ness familycame from Kenlucly. On one occasion It Is said , nev. John Milligan stopped at Jonalhan's house for the night. The arrIval was unexpected Mrs. lIIagncss had made no unusual preparations for sup- per. As the family and the guest sat down old Jonathan surveyed the simple fare for a few moments and then said abruptly : "Help yourself , Mr Milligan " I Breakfast brought an altogether different looking array of dishes. Old Jonathan looked It over. "Well , old lady , " he said , addressing Mrs . Magness "It looks as If you hall something for breakfast worth thanking God for. " TurnIng to the preacher old Jonathan said : "Glvo us a touch Brother Milligan. " And IIrotber Milligan promptly asked a blessing. Three young Methodist preachers on the way to conference stopped at time Magness house for the night. After supper old Jonathan - than produced 1\ bible and a hymn book He handed them to one at the young preachers , askIng : "SIr , will you pray In my family ? " The young preacher read and sang and pra'ed. As soon as they arose tram theIr knees old Jonathan banded the books to an other , asking : "SIr , w11l you pray In my family " The second . preacher conducted service , and then the old man called on the third. This young man took the books and went at It In earnf"llL lie read and sang and prayed. Ifs opened with a' general appeal fur Illl mankInd , and generallY narrowed down hla Intercessions unlll b. got down to "poor old Father "fagnell , whose locks have grown gray In sin , and wJ10 Is now stalking on the brink of hell " no begged the Lord "to . soften this oM sln-hardenel heart and turn the face of Father l\laness ! Zion ward. . ' Old Jonathan asked for no more prayers. The next mornIng the preachers asked what they owed Mr. tagness said to the first : "Your bill Is $1. " To time second ho said : "Your bill Is $1.'To the third ho said : "Your bill Is nothing I'll bo - ! It you didn't pray well for me. " A Ducyrus , 0. , clergyman ! , with an eye to business , publishes a weekly program of the church servIces , interspersed with advertise- ' ments. A paragraph exhorting limo people to praise time Lord Is followed by 1\ rattling ! "ad. " of a hardware house. An "ad. " Le- ginning , "Good butter :1 specIalty , " follows a paragraph beginningVlmnt ! o\\'est thou unto the Lord ? " After an exhortation that ends , "In the next worh no offerIngs ere needed " comes an "ad. " beginning "Trade with Meyer & Hirsch. After a paragraph ' referring to the world 10 come there Is an "ad " about "l resh and smoked meats An absent-minded young preacher In Now England says Harper's Houm ! Table wlah- hog to address limo young ladles of his con- grejtatlon : after the mornLn ! services remarked - marked from the pulpIt that he would bo very glad If the female brethren of the can- greatlon ! would remain after they had gone home. 110 was almost as badly mixed , the narrator of thIs says , as another preacher who , after descrIbing a patbctlc scene ho had witnessed , added , huskily : "I tell you . brothers there was hardly a dry tear In the house. " Rev . " ' . Wllllama In Ins "Personal Reminiscences nlscences of C. II. Spurgeon , " tells an anecdote - dote about the great preacher as a smoker ) Same gentleman wrote to l\tr. \ Spurgeon , sar- inc "he had heard ho smoked and could not lJellel'o It true Would Mr. Spurgeon write and tell him If It really was so ? " Tim reply sent was as follows : "Dear - . I cultivate I : my Mowers and burn my weeds Yours truly , C. H. Spurgcon. t DIOItNING ; G1OItiI lily Marion when she lived , 50 loved these fiowers- There's many must remember how SIO tripped Each morning when they nil hung rainy I1rll'ped. Across the meadow to the heather bowers : Whl'ro sinking sadly from the midnight showers They hung storm . bcaten In the early hours , Until the aunhigimt or m ' Marion : ( came And lifted < \ them to their n'custome 1 placl' . Where the would twlno again ! aid Inter- lace And hear quite proudly theIr old. fashIoned name : Their l'alnlJow colors flaunting whim such claim. The paler , pIning primrose drooped for shame. And sometimes she would place them In her hair. Purple alllI gold In royal ! challenging : A lovelier crown no courtier could l IJrln/ Then sin would com to meet rime ; not 1\ care Upon the upturned face roO young and fair Nor In time eye ! whIch hid : me captive thero. hut that was long agol Sweet Marlon wed I knew not whom nor marls a single quest : lJut then a song had died wIthIn rimy breast I From every scene of hoyhool hope ) I fled Yet did 1 forgive : and ! when lilY love lay rlcar These blossoms kissed uuln ! hl'r Dunn v hrUlI. n hryniV -Kathryn tu h. r Au Adcntnre with J.hbCllluJ . Captain Frank Wallace at Small Point , Me. , had a thrilling experlenc recently dur- Ing a thunder shower. lIe was out In a dory after dueles when the storm came up and suddenly there came n flash of lightnIng that seemed to surround his beat with Its flame and then something like a ball of fire danced along time crest of the wave In his dIrection. There was a dreadful roll of thunder that seemed to break over his head and then bo ) mew no more for some time . When ho roe ! vlved he was at first unable to move , but at last halt lipped over , his hands ! going Into the water lie them 111co'lered that his oars were gene and his rifle lay In the bottom of the boat completely shattered lie also found that he was bleeding freelY , but , reco\ erlnl somewhat , he paddled ashore with a piece of board reaching there after several hours ! of hard worle. Then 1l took the doctor a long while to atop the raising of blood , but Captain Wallace bas now reo oovered 10 II to be around IS usual , 'l'JII l'OWl' SCOUT : CnlCulll Jaek : Crun'fnrll' . ElI'l'rleuee : : us ' n First NIJhtcr. On the evening of August 13 Captain Jack Crawford gave his entertainment nt the People's National park , Staten Island rev hates Talent of New York Just before com- mencIng ho caught sIght of' ! ' . W. Cerno , thus tragedian In limo audience with 1\ dozen or moro professional frIends , when he I'egan 1Jy ; telling this story : "When General Grant hall completed ( his tour around the world I had this honor at playIng the star part In limo first dramatlo performance ho witnessed after landing In Auherlca I see some of you smiling which would indicate to mo that you believe mo to be a-descendant of the Annanlas family amid yet It Is true . although I have never tolll It before In public nor woulll I now were IL not that theta Is present tonight a comrade , friend and brother who performed for inn anD of the most magnanimous and generous ! ; acts / over perforlllt' l by one mat for another. It , - Is eighteen years sInce I love met him and perhaps I can never show my appreciation of what ho dill for mo better than now ntlll In his presence. Seine months prIor to Gen. oral Grant's return I wnl\ left In Virginia City badly wounded through the drunken carelessness of a man to whom I was very much devoted When I recovered I was penniless and In debt My lodge of Elks took care of me , however , and ! having had some experience ! ' In amateur thc:1trlcals at whIch I hall dls. - - - L played some talent , my friend and lIrothel\ < Elk . time man who Initiated moo Into limo order . der < . by time way , and who was Il',1 < lIng man of time California Stacie company , without my knowing It , went to the managers ; Genera ) Barton and Barton 1111I. and asked them that 1 bo allowed to play the leading part guaranteeing . anteelng that I would do It justice . "Why , " saId Barton 11111. " ) 'ou on't ! mean that you would gl\'o up thIs part to :1n amateur and actually support him In on Interior part ? " + "No. ' said my friend , "I will do as well III this part of the federal captain , and there" will po no star part. " 'fho result was that I did play It. Time piece was a military play and the part for which I was casl-tho hero oC the drawn , was a Tenneseo mountain seolll. On the first night , near time cud of time pert formanclI I recited the "MountaIn noy's I.c.t. ter " directly to time general In his box The first verso la as follows : "Drar General , I alu't no great sehoHur And never done nothln' to brag 'Cept thls-I war one o' the outfit All fought for that star-spangle,1 , , IIII ! ; " . An' today , while 'ou're toasted hy I'Cholau An' big bugs us make u great nols , I thought Il thew lllOr' thing 10 write you I An' chip In 1\ word ! for the boys . " Time house was full of old soldiers and It II needless to say that every verso was cheered to limo ecllo. This poem appeared In "Grant'R Tour of the ( World " published In Chi' and with the exception of "Tho Heathrn ChI. nee , " by lire ! Ilarte was time only poem ever wired across time continent at that time and perhaps since. Well to make a long story short , that was the greatest boom I ever had I reeelre l a personal note from General Grant through : Colonel Fred Grant , saying that he appreciated the conpllment coming as It did from lie ( bo's , more than any thin ! ; that had < l hallpcnel1 since his return Need ! I mention the nama of time noble frIend who did this for nn almost obscure brother There was no glory In It for 111m and not one mal In len thousand would have permitted nn amateur 10 play even a small part. . ' Then looking ! down to the group of professional peolll . Captain Jack saId with much feeling : "God bless ) 'ou. Tom Keene-brother Tom you arc the fellow that did It. " The roof seemed to go UI' with time applause and It was fully two m\llutn \ before the "Iloet .cout" . could speak another word The followIng extract from rolr. ICcene'a letter 10 Captain Jack explains Itself : "I cannot tell you how pleased I was In his- lenlng to your talk on the rolrum- new- so novel-so Interesting-so full of genume American character-Io unique , amid withal , so Intensely dramnlle. Your true and stirring storIes of the welt are quite a lesson 10 the people of the call , and only one who bas been a partlclpater therein can tell them as you dc. dc."Go on In tllll work , my dear Jack ! , for t candidly think that you are the right mllq In the right : place. With all good wishes IQ you and yours , believe mo to be lncerel1i r yours , THOMAS W , ltEENl . 00014.4 Extu Dry Imperial Champagne II the pure juice ot the grape naturally tee men\td. \ For b-qult It hits vo superior