'HATTDS ACROSS THE SEA.
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-Indianapolis Son
PROGRESS OF THAW TRIAL.
Taking of Kvldeace Ileaon In
Farnoaa Btarder Trial.
The trial In New York of Harry K.
Thaw for the murder of Stanford White
at the MadiHon Square roof garden June
25, 1900, was opened Monday morning
by the State without asking fur the dis
missal of any more juror and the evi
Oenoe was begun. Assistant District At
torney Garvan opened with an address to
the Jury for the prosecution. Mr. Oar
ran congratulated the Jurors on their body
having been completed and then outlined
the purpose of the law, which was not
necking for vengeancebut to uphold the
security of the State. He urged the im
portance of the cane and a strict observ
ance of the law In order that a verdict,
fair to all, might be reached.
It wax the claim of the people, be said,
that on the night of Juno 25, 1!HM1, the
defendant "shot and killed, with premed
itation and intent to kill," one Stanford
White. lie then briefly outlined the move
ments of Mr. White, beginning with the
Saturday preceding the tragedy and end
ing with the actual scene of the fthooting
at the Madison Square roof garden.
Air. Garvan told bow Stanford White
had on June 25 Inxt taken hi son Law
rence and a schoolmate of the latter to
dinner at the Cafe Martin. The boys
had bought tickets to the New York The
ater root garden and declined an invita
tion of Stanford White to accompany him
to the .Madison Square roof garden.
"Stanford White," said Mr. Garvan,
"went to the Madison Square roof garden
and sat alone at one of the small tables
there, watching the production of a piny.
The defendant was there wit If his wife
and two friends. The defendant walked
constantly about the place. In the mid
dle of the second act the defendant's par
ty started to leave the roof. The defend
ant let his party go ahead and he lagged
behind. Passing the table where Stan
t ford White was sitting, this defendant
'wheeled suddenly, faced Mr. White and
deliberately shot him through the brain,
the bullet entering the eye. Mr. White
was dead. The defendant did net know
this, lie feared he had not completed
his work, and he fired again, the bullet
eiie( rating White's cheek. Still, to make
lure, he fired a third time."
"The defendant turned and, facing the
audience, held his revolver aloft with the
larrol upside down, to indicate thut lie
iad completed what be Intended to do.
The big audieuce understood. There was
no panic."
Mr. Garvan concluded by giving the
details of Thaw's arrest and indictment
by the prosecution. Mr. Garvan spoke
less than ten minutes, always in a con
versational tone. Thaw sat with head
downcast and face flushed.
The assassination season la Russia has
opened with the usual rush.
The wicked flee when the Interstate
Commerce CommisHion pursueth.
There is always a foz or something
else around bandy to blame a wreck on.
The elimination of the railroad pass
ought to help the boot and shoe business.
The roller skat lug fad has entered the
field as the deadly rival of bridge whist
Mr. Ilarriman's spell of Indigestion
may teach him not. to eat railroads so
fast.:
The new electric road to Washington Is
to run direct to the Treasury doors. How
nice I
The Chicago university appears to lie
the receiving depot for Standard Oil
pi oats.
' Tie doctors have been baving the
weather all tbeir own way.
They need a block system to keep rail
road accidents from coming so close to
gcther, .
It seems to be inevitable In the West
that a crop longage should produce a car
shortage.
Now that rebates are done for. Con
cress should set to work to abolish rail
road wrecks.
. Like the Irony of fate, the "Holy Ter
ror" of Russia was himself slain by the
"Terrorists."
Commander Teary managed to get to
where he could almost see the shadow of
the North Pole.
Knou.th craxy things have been done
In the Thaw case to make that Insanity
plea the favorite. .
All the trust magnates' nightmares
new a days resemble the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Seven feet of snow in Itussla Is enough
to show pretty conclusively what has be
tome of our winter.
Tbe scientific theory recently advanced
that bloude will disappear in the next
J00 years doesn't upp'y to the bleach-
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WORSE THAN WAR.
Appalling- Falalllleu Anions Mem
bers of America' ndnatrlal Army.
Inixirtant Mops are soon to be taken
in New York City and elsewhere to es
tablish n system of compulsory nnd accu
rate records of the enormous number of
is-rsons who are ntmuully killed and in
jured in America's vast army of Indus
trial workers. In New York City alone
the meager record olituTnahle are start
ling. In 1!H4 there were 4,102 persons
killed In New York City through acci
dent und negligence as Hliown by the re
ports of the 'department of health, and
these reimrta are said to be incomplete.
!r. Josiah Strong, president of the In
stitute of Social Service, in speaking of
the number of persons killed each year
in our industrial occupations, made some
astonishing comparisons. He said.
"We in the United States kill in fom
years some HO.000 persons more than
fell in .battle and died of wounds during
the four years of the Civil War. We are
killing more than twice as many every
year as perished by violence In both the
French nnd English armies during the
three years of the Crimean war.
"There are more killed and wounded
on our railroads every year than the en
tire losses of the Itocr war on both sides
In three years. We have industrial cas
ualties enough every year to keep one
conflict like our war with Spain going
for 1,200 years or twelve such wars go
ing for 100 years. Our iieaccfiil voca
tions cost more lives every two days than
were lost in battle during the entire
Spanish war.
- "From the best statistics obtainable I
may say there are to-ilny .'71,000 persons
in the l nited States under sentence of
death to be executed at an unknown mo
ment during the next ten years 1,1(10
next week and the same number every
week until the ghastly work is complete.
An intelligent and earnest effort would
procure the reprieve of a multitude of
these Innocent victims."
An exposition will be held in the Amer
ican Museum of Natural History, In New
iork City under the auspices of the
American Institute of Social Service for
the purpose of studying and exhibiting
safety devices for dangerous muchlnery,
methods of industrial hygiene and to set
in motion the movement to establish a
more accurate record of industrial fatali
ties and accidents in all purls of the
country. At present Wisconsin is said
to be the only State in the Union where
any effort is made of official compilation
of these statistics.
In Europe there are several permanent
museums of this character where experts
are constantly studying how to safeguard
industrial, employes and as a result the
percentage of death and Injury from acci
dents baa been greatly reduced. Ef
President Cleveland and many other
prominent and influential citizens are In
terested In this new movement.
Wrallh-Mreklnir Insanity.
Tluit there is something insane in the
modern situation of business which en
ables capitalists to work up hundreds of
mlllnns in fortunes while they are spend
ing their tine, traveling or hunting, or
other leisure class sports, is the frank
statement made by lr. Felix Adler before
the Ethical Culture Society of New York
City. He Insists that there is no due pro
portion between the wealth and the needs
nor between the wealth nnd the deserts.
The men who, through the coinmeu'ial
spirit of the day hire child labor or who
sit down and devise ways of cheating
their neighbors by adulterating food so
as to enrich themselves, he declared to
be virtually Insane persons who should
be shut up in sanltariims until they can
be cured. He admitted that the. so-called
captains of Industry bad carried out great
works, such ns railroad building, but that
they had rendered these services only for
their personal aggrnndi-cmctit. Dr. Adler
dues not think that philanthropy solves
the problem of wealth acquired through
foul means, but in 'pile of all thU, hi
dues not regard himself as a socialist.
From Far ami Near,
Three men were ki'b-d and three fatally
Ipjured In an explosion at a construction
camp near Kenorn. Out.
A dispute over (HI cents led to the kill
ing of ltafurllo Pel nine at New Haven,
Conn., by Luciano lie Lucia.
The Supreme Court of the Cnited
Stules refused to grant a writ bringing
to that court for review the cuse of F.d-
waid Flickinger of (iulion, Ohio, under
hcntence of seven years' imprisonment
ou t lie charge of assisting in wrecking a
national hunk in that city.
Two (jermau coinjxinie have secured
from the Sultan of Turkey the electric
Hiihtlug com rai ts for severul towns on
(he Ilosporiis.
Walter Poormau and Joint Scblosser of
Piqua, Ohio, were struck by (he fast
Pcuusylvania mail (rain near I'rbaua and
instantly killed.
Forest rangers have received advices
to )ermit free gathering of wood ou the
forest reserves near Unite, Mont., for tb
puriKses of fuel.
Landslides slong F.Ik river at Charles-
ion, W. Va destroyed gas mains aud
Clmrleston may be without gas tui
days. IndiiKtries are paruiyned.
CHICAGO.
Inabllltr of the rnllronds promptly t
ftandlo all the business offered them Is
the only drawback to trnd! 1 1 tbe Chi
cago district, according to the v.crkiy
review Is-ticd by U. C. Dun & Co.,
which says :
Mill and factory production ln'iot di
minished, and contracts for future execu
tion make a satisfactory ug;re;nte in iron
and steel, cars and motive pover, wood
working and brass. Costs of the rnw
materials hold (irmly to tVlr li'sh aver
Bgfc, but there is sUsainnd ra.d absorp
tion of available supplies of hM-yi, leather
and lumber, and bnlM.ng ;:X for early
use Is In much rep est,
January permits for new in iMinns have
an aggregate value of 2.'1 per cent in ex
ocsh of those, for wi!n mouth Inst year.
Business structures Included in the ;'ore
golng amount to $1.1!i2.."(it')1 nn iivrease
of 220.7 per cent, ( i; ' iudica'e mi itnuscr.l
addition to capacity in varlutnr commer
cial lines.
Mercantile rollectinns maintain n sat
isfactory s'.iowinj?, und distributive trade
In staple goorls Ik iipon an up vard trend.
Personal buying is more evidnir in t he
wholesale district, ther,; bi inx Inrgnr
numbers of country merchants present,
and their steady purchases of spring lines
compare favorably in extent with those
at this time ii llMHi. Itonkinxs have gain
ed in dry goods, cloaks ami suits, men's
furnishings. Ho'hing. boots. ni:d mIiom and
notions.
Traveling salesmen forward gr.ml orders
from the Interior, and results tints far in
ject more confidence In the outlook for nn
unprecedented movement of wared to the
West and Southwest. J,oir.l retail trnd
has made effective January cl"nrance
sales and winter stocks now u: reduced
to a comfortable point.
Earnings of the Chicago railroads ex
hibit liberal gains, but dm whacks t
freight transportation have c.aiu become
acute, although there is more roiling
stock in action nnd better directed efforts
to facilitate traftic. The total movement
of grain at this port, 7,1!I4.11. bushels,
compares with 7,77.".SU bushels bint week
and 7,4f)1.70.'i bushels u car ao.
NEW YORK.
Irregular weather conditions make fm
numerous cross currents in retail trade,
but there Is evidence of enlargement in
some lines of spring business, notably cot
ton goods, demand for which is limited
only by cupucity of mills, wholesalers or
jobliers to deliver. In the iron und Kteel
trade conditions vury with the material
nnd sections reported, so far as future
business is concerned. The receding of
the waters has mode for a resumption of
trade and industrial activities in the
Ohio valley. Colder weather and clear
ance sales have stimulated trade Kast
and North, In the Northwest trade, (raise
and contraction fed the effects of heavy
snowfalls, coming on top of tin acute
car shortage, though that section nppears
to bo gradually winning out. except in
parts of tbe Dnkotas. There is littl
change to be noted in crop reports. The
cold weather of last week has been suc
ceeded by rains or snow, and tbe wheat
belt has had n better snow covering than
at any previous time this winter. l'.rad
street's Commercial Report.
Chicago Cattle, common to prime
$1.00 to $7.00; imps, prime heavy, ?1.0C
to $7.00; heep, fair to choice, j.'UtC
to $."0; wheat. No. 2, I'M' to 71c; corn,
No. 2, 41c to '!:!; oats, standard, 3V to
U7e; rye, No. 2. Wc to "(; hay, t!,no
thy, $K1.0I lo .flV.Otl; pr:ii;-ie, .y.UH (0
$14.00; butter, clinic.1 erea !. , 27c to
Il-c ; eggs, fresh, 24c to 27c; potatoes.
3." to 40c.
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $11.00
to $ti..0; hogs, choice heavy, $1.00 tc
$7.dO; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to
$.".50 ; wheat, No. 2, 74c to 75c ; torn,
No. 2 white. 43c to 4.V-; outs, No. 2
uliile, 37c to 3Hc.
t. Louis Cattle. $l.."i() to $0.75;
hogs, $4.00 to $7.00: sheep, $3.50 to
$5.75; wheat, No. 2, 77c to 78c; corn,
No. 2, 41c to -13c; oatf. No. 2, 3(k: to
8Sc; rye, No. 2, 04c to 05c.
Cincinnati Cattle, $1.(H to $."1.05;
hogs, $4.00 to $(i.!H); sheep, $3.00 to
$5.25 ; wheat, No. 2, 77c to 7Sc ; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 43o to 45c; outs. No. 2
tntxed, :8c to 3!c ; rye. No. 2, (i'.to to
TOc.
Detroit Cattle, $1.00 to $"..(K; ho-s,
$1.(H to $(i.70; sheep, $2.50 (o $5.00;
wheal, No. 2, 7(ic to 7Sc ; corn. No. 3
yellow, 45c to 47c; oats. No. 3 while,
80c to 41c; rye. No. 2, tl-Sc to O'.tc.
Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern,
78c to Sic; corn. No. 3, 10c to 42c;
oils, standard, 3tie to IWc ; rye, No. 1,
07c to (S", barley, standard, 5tlc to 5Sc;
pork, mess, $l(.0.
Puffalo Catlle, choice shipping steers,
f i.OOto $0.15; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00
to $7.40; sheep, common to goud mixed,
$1.00 to $5.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$5.00 to $7.S5.
New York Cattle, $1.00 to $5.St;
hogs, $1.00 to $7.50; sheep. $3.00 to
$5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, SOc to S2e;
C. ru, No. 2, 54o to .Vic; oats, natural
white, 44o to 4.5c; butter, creamery, 27c
to 33c; eggs, western, 22c to 25c.''
Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 75c to
70c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 4 4c;
oats. No. 2 mixed, 37c to 3.Hc ; rye. Xo.
2, 00c to tiSc; clover seed, prime, $H.40.
lntet-CHttrett News Items.
James Scheurniau of Fiaukliii, Nehn
fell down lu a hog pen uml after u dc
pel ate tight was literally eutcu ulive by
the bogs. ,
J. P. Morgau's bau';in;; house in New
York will lu future be in ilie hands of J.
P. Morgan, Jr.. and il is annoum-cd tint
Vail street will see little of (he senior
tueuiber of the concern iu future.
The Kentucky Court o! Appeals hell
that Wife house receipts are intangible
property aiul are to be listed for taxa
tion at tbe domicile of (he owuer.
Mis. Cordelia Hotkin. convicied of the
murder by poison of Mrs. IKune sud
Mrs. inmuiug at lover, Oct., will have
to wait three mouths longer befure get
ting au opportunity of baving her case
rtviewed by a higher court.
A part of tbe Wilmington, 1M., plant
f the Pullman Car Coniany was dam
aged by fire to the exteut of about $H0,.
01)0. Included iu the loss are fourteen
Pullman -cars which had been repaired
and were ready to bavsthe shop.
My teeos were still dispensing wine
Wbea. tapping all tlielr dear delights,
Wy nnt and sweetest valentine
Cesmed on me, from enchanted heights,
Her hair was like tbe summer dark,
IW cheeks a pair of rosy lures j
To Illustrate, I might remark
Her cheeks wsre rosier than yours 1
Her mon'.n had such a teasing play
Of nursing like a poppy bud,
Aaf then unclo:g In a way
Vo stir tti most ascetic blood J
Iter ) rlth love snd pity lit
Were lacons to lost mariners !
Indeed, my dear, I must admit
Vour eyes are not so bright as hers!
Her volee what's that. I see. A tear?
Why, dear, 'tis your young charms I stngt
You've changed, you know, since that dim
year
When we fared townwsrd for a ring,
Hut though youth's graces all mar flee,
While I am camped this side the line
You'll still possess my love, and be
My lst, my only valentine 1
Kdward W. Par nurd, Jr., In Mitnsey's.
MARIE'S VALENTINE
By EllMbtth Whllnty
"Girls, are you going to make any val
entines this year?" asked Marie, as the
group were walking borne from the gym
nasium after basketball practice.
"O, ves, let's !" said Olive.
"It is a lot more fun than buying
them," said Marion.
"Can't we do it together?"' asked Edna.
"When?" said Olive.
"O, come to my bouse Wednesday af
ter school. Nothing Is going on then. Be
sure to bring your water colors and paper.
I say we rule out all printed pictures
and verses and make it all original," said
Marion.
"O, dear ! I can't !" objected Olive.
"See here, Olive Warner," and Marion
fuced Olive sternly, "if you don't stop
this minute you'll spoil it ail ! I'd like
to know why It Is that we never try to
do anything all together that some one
doesn't object !"
"Of course you can do it, Olive," said
gentle Rliss. "And if you get stuck, you
know, we will nil help. We always do
have to help each other, anyway. One
person alone never does very much."
"Here we are at my house," said Ma
rlon. "Good-by, Olive, and don't be fool
ish, (iirls, do be sure to come just as
early as you can." And Marion ran up
the steps, while the others sent a chorus
of "Good-bys" nfter her.
Promptly on Wednesday came the
laughing group of girls.
"How will we begin, girls?" said Edna.
"Well, of course, we must put a henrt
somewhere," said Marion.
"Of course," Olive added. In a tone of
Voice tlint made Marion exclaim : "For
goodness' suko, girls, don't get sentiment
al." "Valentines without sentiment would
be very funny things, Fm sure," said
Olive in an aggrieved voice.
"Well, sentiment is one thing, and get
ting sentimental is another," hegnn Marie.
"Hear hear!" called out Kdun.
"Well, it Is," continued Marie. "Senti
ment Is the love of beautiful pictures, and
music, aud fine Ideas ; the noble things
you fee! in people nnd in nnturo; nnd get
ting sentimental Is well It Is "
"Just being dead foolish, (hot's all,"
supplemented Marion.
"I guess It's what you think people are
thinking about you." said I'.liss.
"Specially boys," laughed Kdna.
"Humph!" said Marion, who was used
to three brothers and their numerous
chums, "I don't see anything to be afraid
of in hoys! They are just us seutiiuent
sl ns girls, anyway. Wail till you see
the valentines I hey send!"
"Well." said Marie, "mini, is pin r to
he perfe,-(ly peachy." I'll ivo Jim li:ree
guesses where it ' is suing,"
"Yale," said Olive ami lldua iu unison.
"Guess again," said Marie.
"It can't lie you've forsaken 'Yale' for
'Princeton,' after all you've said!' ex
claimed the girls.
"Guess again," and Marie held up her
valentine in such a tantalizing way that
the girls clustered eagerly around her,
Kdna exclaiming, "What on earth are you
doing to it, Marie?"
"Well, In the first place. I'm putting
lu the sun, to moke a kind of 'halo of
glory' over nil. It is the kind of thing
you always do see in the people you like.
Then the henrt has a crown u round it.
I'm going to put stars over here, und a
verse like this :
"When starlight Into sunshine turns
The flaming heart of true love burns.
Its radiance is for thee."
"I say, girls, that is u peach." exclaim
ed Kdna.
"There Is a good deal of 'Harvard'
color about it," speculated Olive.
"Well, valentines are sent lo sr,,( one
you (liink a good deal of. and (In t means
'Yale' or 'Princeton for Marie." snnl .Ma
rion decidedly.
"'Three times ami out,'" s.ii.1 Marie.
"Girls, you simply can't guess, for I'm
going to send mine to some one 1 don't
like at all."
"O O O !" came in a chorus of as
tonishment. "Of all queer things!" said IMna.
catching her hreulh.
"Girls, she's getting brain fever," said
Olive.
"No, 'Valentines on the brain'- a new
disease," said the gentle I'.liss.
"Dreaming!" cxch.lmcd Marion.
"Pinch her and wake her up! She is
talking in her sleep !"
"I'm awake enough." said Marie, "but
really and truly 1 did dream about it."
"(), what fun! ! tell us alstiit it!"
chorused the group.
"I was in the loveliest sunshine," be
gan Marie, "much lovelier than any I
have ever seen when awake. And I felt
so happy and seemed to love everybody
In the whole wide world. It seemed just
as though the sunshine was a part of
every one; only in a lot of people it was
no larger than stars. The sunniest peo
ple seemed to wear something like crowns,
very shining ,aod white. And I wanted
all i them lo wear the same.
I"0, it was perfectly lovely, girls !
"Then It seemed to me that those who
were the most different from each other,
like boys aud girls, could help each other
better than just girls alone or boys alone.
Indeed, it was the people the most differ
ent from each other who made all tbe
sunshine by working together. The boys
I meant to send valentines to had a lot of
the white sunshine about them. The one
I dislike most of all was sort of cloudy,
and 1 felt I must help In soma way to
snake a purs radiance for him. When I
awoke it all seemed to connect with vai
aatlaes, and I decided to send on ta the
- I didn't like."
The hour was on us; where the man?
The faithful sands unfaltering ran,
And up the way of tears
He came Into the years,
Our pastoral captain. Forth he came,
As one that answers to his name;
Nor dreamed how high his charge,
Ills work how fair and large
To set the stones back in the wall
Lest the divided house should fall,
And pence from men depart,
Hope and the childlike heart.
We looked on him; " Tls he," we said,
"Come crownless and unheralded,
The shepherd who will keep
The flocks, will fold the sheep."
Unknlghtly, yes; yet 'twns the mien
Presaging the Immortal scene,
Some battle of His wars
Who sealeth up the stars.
Nor would he take tbe past between
Ills hands, wipe valor's tnblets clean,
CotnmnndinK greatness wait
"I don't believe I understand your val
entine, Marie," Bald Edna, "but it cer
tainly is different."
"I think it is perfectly lovely," said
gentle Bliss. "If you just feel that girls
and boys are made to help each other It
Is all so jolly and pleasant, and you don't
get a bit sentimental."
"I guess that is why all the boys like
Marion so much," said Olive. "She un
derstands them all, I wonder why all
girls don't have brothers !"
"Well, there's a difference In brothers,
you know," said Edna. "Some are so
nice to their sisters and others are simply
horrid."
"I don't see why girls and boys should
feel they are so different," said Bliss.
"They are not," said Marion. "I know
I'm a boy inside. Girls are Important, of
course, but I wish every day I was a boy,
sure enough."
'Tgh, Marion, bow can you !" exclaim
ed Olive.
"Olive, it is an awful pity that you
haven't brothers, or something," said Ma
rion ; "you wouldn't feel so afraid of boys
then, and get so sentimental.
"I tell you. girls." she continued, "boys
are the liesl tiling going il' they only have
the right kind of mothers to begin with.
You see, the right kind of mother is a
regular chuui. Shu understands things.
She never scolds, and you-know perfectly
well that if you told lies or killed people
she'd be your mother and stand by you.
just the same, only she has a way of
making you feel that you wouldn't do
such things, no matter how much you
want to."
"Three cheers for Marion !" exclaimed
Edna.
"Three cheers for our darling moth
ers !" added Bliss.
"Mine is expecting me home in ten
minutes, girls; I must leave your fasci
nating company," said Olive.
"I must go also wait for me," said
Ililna.
"Girls, can't we meet again, to finish
our vulentines together?"
"O, yes," said Bliss; "come to my
house Fridny."
"All right Good-by, Marion. I've had
a lively time "
MISS SAINT
Till he stand at the gate; .
Not he would cramp to one small head
The awful laurels of the dead,
Time's mighty vintage cup,
And drink all honor up.
No flutter of the banners bold '
Borne by the lusty sons of old.
The haughty conquerors
Set forward to their wars.
Not his their blare, their pageantries,
Their goal, their liberty, was not his;
Humbly he came to keep
The flocks, to fold tbe sheep.
The need comes not without the mnn;
The prescient hours unceasing ran,
And up the way of tears
He came Into the years.
Our pastoral captain, skilled to crook
The spear Into the pruning hook.
The simple, kindly man,
Lincoln, American.
John Vance Cheney, in New York
Independent
"So have I "
. "And I "
"Thank you so much for the lovely af
ternoon, Marion Good-by "
"Good-by, girls'."
"Good-by" "Good-by" And the mer
ry group was gone. Chicago Tribune.
Lincoln and the t)naker.
Iu tbe beautiful Lake Champlain is a
large island, with several separate town
ships. Somewhere about 1785 a family
of Quakers came from the South and
found the place. "The Lord," they say,
"has led us Into ways of peace. Here
we will live, and the blessings of heaven
will be with us." They labored at their
wholesome toil and their minds were fill
ed with wholesome thoughts. Sun and
storm succeeded sun and storm, and the
years passed and they found rest unto
the third generation.
In lSOl, when the stricken country
cried for men to save her, the note of
war came to the Island, and the great
grandson of the first Quaker was drafted.
"But it will be no use," be said. "I
shall never light. My mother taught me
it is a sin. It is her religion and my
father's and their fathers'. I shall never
raise my hand to kill any one."
The recruiting officer took little notice.
"We'll see about thut later," he com
mented carelessly.
The regiment went to Washington and
the Quaker boy drilled placidly and shot
straight. "But I shall never fight," he
reiterated.
Word went out that there was a trai
tor In the ranks. The lieutenant con
ferred with the captain, and all the forms
of punishment devised for refractory sol
diers were visited on him. He went
through them without flinching, and there
was only one thing left. He ws taken
before tbe colonel.
"What does this mean?" demanded the
officer. "Oon't you know you will be
shot ?"
The Quaker was a manly boy with
steady eyes and a square chin, and be
smiled a little. "That is nothing," be
said. "Thee didn't think I was afraid,
did thee?"
The prisoner weut back to the guard-
VALENTINE.
house and the colonel went to the Presi
dent, to Lincoln, who was great because
he knew the hearts of men. The case
was put before him of the mutinous
Quaker who talked of his religion, the
soldier who refused to fight, who defied
pa(n and laughed at the fear of death.
Lincoln listened and looked relieved.
"Why, that Is plain enough." he answer-.
ed. "There Is only one thing to do.
Trump up some excuse and sftid him
home. Yon can't kill a boy like that, you
know. The country needs all her brave
men wherever they are. Send him home."
So the Quaker went back to the island
to life and duty ns be saw them, and his
children tell the story. The' Watchman.
LINCOLN AND VIRGINIA.
Aallallon Canard by Ills teller lo
Ks-t'onfederalo Official.
"In April, ISO.", just after tbe end ot
the war," said Major Aldcrson, "I wtt
sitting on the porch of the residence of
Lieut. Gov. Price in Lewisburg, In Green
brier county. I had just returned home
from tbe army, and you may well believe
I was enjoying the rest nnd the company
of the prettiest girl in the world, Gov.
Price's daughter, who was on the pord:
with me.
"While we were talking," Major Al
dcrson continued, "a soldier suddenly gal
loped into sight nnd drew rein nt the
door. Ho nsked if that was Gov. Price's
house, and upon my telling him that It
was he said be brought a letter for Gov.
Price from the President of the United
States.
"I told him that the Governor was
down on bis farm, two or three miles
away and that as he seemed tired and .
broken down I would deliver the letter.
"I found the old fellow at work In
the barn fanning wheat," Major Alderson
went on, with a reminiscent smile. "They
had burled two or three sacks of grain
to keep it from foiling into the hands
of the Northern troops, and now they
had resurrected it and were cleaning it
to have some bread. A negro was turn
ing the wheat fan, another was scraping
away the cleaned wheat and Gov. Trice
was standing by the hopper working the
grain through to the. riddles.
"I jumped off my horse and hurried
into the barn.
" 'Governor,' I said In some excite
ment, 'here is a letter for you from the
President of the United States.-'
"The old fellow turned as white as a
sheet. Y'ou see, we did not know at that
time just what course the United States
government would pursue toward the men
who bad fought In the Confederate army
or held office under the Confederate gov
ernment. The old fellow broke the seal
and took out a lurge document, portentous
looking indeed. He read hurriedly nnd ,
then laughed. i
" 'It's all right,' be said, and he handed
me the letter. It was addressed to Lieut.
Gov. Price, nnd signed by Abraham Lin
coln. It requested him to call the Vir
ginia Legislature together nt once to take
action regarding the chnnged condition of
affairs In the State. In conclusion wero
these words, which I shall always remem
ber : 'I want you people to come back nnd
hang up your hats on the same old pegs
"But on the vopy iiipht thut letter wiii
received, I think," said Major Aldersoii
"the President was assassinated,' and his
plans for the government of the State.-t
which seceded were never carried out."
Abraham Lincoln's Words.
In every event of life it is right make
mixht.
I havo one vole nnd I shall always
cast that against wrong as king as I live.
This is my right to do.
I don't think much of a man who is
not wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
The Union must be preserved.
I believe this government cannot per
manently endure half slave and half free.
If our sense of duty forbids slavery,
(hell let us sliiinl by our duty, fcarlcssly
aini effectively.
Having (hits chosen our cuurso, with
out guile and with pure purpose. let u.t
renew our trust in God, and go forward1
without fear and with manly hearts.
I hope, peace will come soon and coin
to stay; and so come as to be worth t he
keeping in ail future time.
If this country cannot be saved without
giving up this principle of liberty, I wa.
ubout to say I would rather be assassinat
ed on this spot than to surrender it.
To sell or enslave any captured person
on account of his color, and for no of
fense against the laws of war, is a re
lapse into barbarism and a crime against
the civilization of the age.
Lincoln aud Woman's Itlabti.
"Many people who celebrate his birth
day do not know that Abraham Lincoln
stood for woman's rights," quietly re
marked the clubwoman. "He appreciated
the worth of his mother too well to see
why she should not have a voice in pub
lic questions, especially since she had not
only been of a fine character but had
been so much In advance of his father
that she taught him to write his name.
7 It was at Vandaiio, III., In 1830, that,
after making a wonderful speech whic-,
electrified his hearers nnd caused friend
to ' carry him from the court room on
their shoulders, he was requested to make
a statement of his political principles.
'I go,' he said, 'for all sharing the privi
leges of the government who assist in
bearing Its burdens ; consequently I go
for admitting all whites to tbe right of
suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by
no means excluding females.'
"Already bis heart had been deeply
moved at a slave market scene and ha
expressed himself at the Injustice of slav
ery." Philadelphia Becord.
Lincoln's Kindness.
One of the many example of Abraham
Lincoln's kind hearted nature recently m
came to light among the paers on file in V
the War Oepartnient. It was a letter
from a young woman in a Western State
asking, for the return of her sweetheart
who was at the time a soldier in (ln
I'u ion army, lu a pathetic manner she
(old how at the beginning of the war sho
becunie engaged, and how her lover hail
gone to the front promising to return at
(be close of the war aud make her his)
bride. Over a year had passed, the war;
continued, and her lover was lying wound
ed iu a hospital. The young woman said '
if the soldier lu question did not return
at once she would die of a broken heart.
Whether or not the two lovers were ever
reunited the department records do not
show, but the paper bears evidence thnt
the appeal touched the heart of the War
President, for across the back is written
in bis own handwriting: "Let him go t
ber. A. Lincoln."
The largest mull In the world Is that
which leaves Cannon street, Ixindon, oo
Friday nights for China, Japan and
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