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THE SIOUX COUNTY JOURNAL L J. SIMMON ftmp. HARRISON, NEBRASKA, There are two species of husbands Among New York's KM) ex- husbands and hustiauds pro tern. North Carolina announces the dis covery of a big guld nugget. Now look out for another "yellow fever" epi demic In that State. It wouldn't surprise us at all if the power should at an early day sternly notify the Sulti that he must comply with those demands. Much of the uncertainty concerning Gomez is due to the fact that when ever he is surrounded and killed by the Spaniards he is not present. Mr. Franz and Dr. Griffins;, of Colum bia University have discovered it takes longer to read newspapers than maga zines. They did uot try magazine po etry. When one Ienver newspaper came out and advocated a new mint s'.te for that city, an envious contemporary sug gested that it be located near a julep factory. Massachusetts women are Imploring their husbands and fathers not to clothe them with suffrage. They re gard silks and sealskins as plenty good enough. The appointment of Alfred Austin as poet laureate brought It to the atten tion of many people for the first time that there is a Mr. Austin who has written poetry. A Hoboken husband asks for a di vorce on the ground of witchcraft. If witchcraft is accepted as a valid ground for divorce every husband will insist that he is entitled to his freedom. A Buffalo young woman who recently made her theatrical debut in that city Is named Miss Leouore Janet Anna Sara Hero Booth Winter. She is not the entire cast, however; there is only one of her. The Century Dictionary has nothing to say of cathode except that It is "the negative pole of an electric current." The next definition will tie longer, but probably no more enlightening as to the nature of the unknown force. The new photography has made Its appearance in the courts. An English actress who sued for damages for a broken ankle, demonstrated the Injury by producing a cathodograph In court, and won her suit on its evidence. Japan will invest the whole of the 200,000,000 taels of silver received froui China In battleships ami coast fortifi cations. The year 1895 opened promis ingly for the peace societies, but the tide now is running strongly In the op posite direction. Boston is about to make an exjierl ment in high liquor licence. Sixty ho tel will be called on to pay $2,000 each Instead of $1,500 as formerly, and the tax of retail dealers will be $1,000 each. These are said to be the highest licenses yet required In this country. England's swagger was conspicuous ly absent when Bussia In 1870 tore up the treaty of Paris of 1856, dictated by England, and moved her fleet Into the Black Sea. If Russia had been a weak nation like Venezuela or Nicaragua British vengeance would have been swift and relentless. America has far more attraction for a German emigrant than the colonies of Germany In Africa. Thus far only 700 Germans, Including 250 officials, hare taken up their residence in Cam eroon and German East Africa. Even English emigrants, by a large majority, prefer the United States to the English colonies. The truth is that England was en tierly satisfied with the Essequlbo boundary until gold was discovered be yond It, when she Immediately extend ed her "claim" to cover the territory thus found to be valuable. In other words, the question is simply one of characteristic and Insatiable greed so far as she is concerned. Chemical wafers and concentrated food may serve to allay hunger for a time, bat recent experiments do not promise that they can take the place of the usual rations with marching troops. An army fed on hard tack, bacon and coffee will make short work of another trying to fight with collaps ed abdomens and green apple sensa tions. A post-mortem examination of tho body of a patient who died the other day la Ward's Island Insane Asylum shows that death was caused by a kick la the tide; but the New York Tele gram wants to know more abtrat the kick and calls for an investigation. What's tho use? The attendants can very easily prove that the patient kick ed himself to death. Canada te a vast country, twit it glvta na a vivid idea of the emptiness of i of Its huge spaces to read that the Legislature baa passed resolo- asCborlslag the (torerooient to hawBM tarrttortce out of such fcX la Oat Piwflftr s are remote fc3 afSssssnl tUsd oait for rultlva- tX "C ssffrlrort Mt to "iceed 400 aOes exh, to be leased at an trraf satlmtkaafl psrnttt for periods of not tuor? than o n years." The strength of a country that can af- ford to rent bunting preserve t $ a county Is not to le measured by it extent on the map. The population of England Is 27.4K3, 4J0, of Wales 1,519.035, of Scotland 4.025,647. and of the Islands 147.M2, a total of 33.175,014. In ease of war be- tween Great Britain and the United ; States the 4,704,750 Inhabitants of Ire- ; land will also have to be reckoned '. with. The question Is whether Ire- land will le a recruiting ground for ' England or for the United States. j I The London Times concludes that It would cost Spain $150,Owi.UUU and take three years of hard work to suppress the Cuban rebellion. If that estimate is correct, it means that Siiu will never succeed. She hasn't got the, money, and she can't get it. Her treas-. ury is depleted, her credit Is uotoriouH-, ly bad, and her taxes, which she has to collect almost at the point of the bayo-J net, are barely sufficient to pay her, running expenses. If Cuba can only j prolong her struggle anotner year sue will win her freedom. The sinking of the Edam by collision In the English channel was similar in some resiwcts to the sinking of the Ore gun, off the long liibud coast, some yea-s uro. The Edam remained :i float nearly three hours after she was struck and h-r passengers and crew were able to get away in the boats. The Oregon also went down slowly, and her passen gers and crew escaped In the small boats. But had the Oregon been alone on the sea after the colliding vessel bad disappeared a large numtw-r of people would have leen drowned, liecause her boats could not have accommodated them all. The Edam Is licensed to car ry I.Oihi persons. Had that many been on board when she was struck there would have been a heavy loss of life in spite of the slowness with which the steamer went down ant the fact that the water was smooth at the time. Something ought to be done to make the numlwr of boats on a steamer bear a closer relation to the number of pas sengers she Is licensed to carry. The statement of Balllngton Booth ailH his wife concerning real causes of the split in the Salvation Army will doubtless cause a marked change In the attitude of the American people to ward the new movement which is to be known as the American Volunteers. It Is undoubtedly a fact that many friends of this unique religious force, which came to us from England, were strongly Inclined to regard the revolt of the younger Booth as Ill-advised and injudicious, for the reason that It ap peared to presage the final disintegra tion of the army. The Importance of the compact military organization which is the distinctive feature of the Salvation Army should not be under rated. General Booth, as the organizer and founder of this vast evangelical or ganization, with its unique and start ling methods of combating the forces of sin. Is entitled to great respect as a benefactor of his kind. The element of authority which has been lodged in him as the directing genius was essential to the growth and general effectiveness of the array. Obedience to authority is the sine qua non of any successful military organization. But when the general proposed to use that authority to discourage the gradual adaptation of the army to American Ideas and American sentiment he adopted a pol icy that Is short-sighted a policy that discredits his managerial sagacity. American society tolerates a good many Anglomaniacs who ape English man nerisms in dress and speech. They are allowed to exist because they are both useless and harmless. But there Is no putee in America for a Salvation army whose commander protests against the display of the eagle and stars and stripes on the Insignia of the order. It seems that the general did all In his power to discourage the "national feel ing" and took occasion to reprimand Balllngton Booth for the diffusion of the spirit of Americanism In the army. If these allegations are true and cer tainly no one will doubt them when signed by Balllngton and Maud Booth the American Volunteers will receive j a great accession of new recruits. The j Salvation Army that does business in this country must sail under the eagle and the stars and bars. Qualifications for Senators, Here is a paragraph about Congress from a letter recently written by a Frenchman visiting Washington: "What of the Deputies and the Sena tors? As with us, they do a great deal more talking than legislative work. They are more free and eaay, and they . are not so reserved. However, this is quite natural, In a country where, In order to be elected a Deputy, one has only to be father of eighteen children, all of them born In the same district. ' If the same conditions were Imposed on us we might succeed In making a suc cessful light against the increasing de-. population of Prance. What would not one do to become a Deputy? It Is true that It la not In the power of every one to become the father of eighteen chil dren. At the aame time It la very un-: just that only the men should be re warded for acta of this kind. It Is rather on the women that an honorary distinction should be conferred.'' ftasalleet BepmMIc In the World. The snjalleat republic In the world ta Tarolaro, a little Island In the Med rtsrranean, about seven and one-half mflea from Sardinia. The Island ta only m and one-naif miles acres and baa only fifty-five tssiabtoaou. The Presi dent to elected for six years, no public official receives any salary, and women have the same vottsg rtarhta as men. It takes considerable application and hard stady to learn anything from a VlkTVC i KHITATION MILS U- ljl'LvAl Av.l. MATTERS OP INTEREST TO PU PIL AND TEACHER. Fifty Millions of Dollar Besto Tweatjr Year Upon Our fcdnca InatitBtljMda Cheating Norma iwad la ttonal il Btn tcbera dents AajsAkar Material for Te Millions for Education. In 1847 Abbot Lawrence gave $50,000 to Harvard, and It was then said to be th largest amount ever given at one time during the lifetime of the donor to any public institution in America. The reconstruction period, so fitly consum mated at Chicago last year, is a mark ed epoch for college endowments. Be tween the years lwR) and 18H2, the col leges of the country gained In wealth an amount larger than thflr entire val uation in lS'U. More than $5o,Ooo,ikk.I were bestowed In these twenty-two years upon our educational establish ments, and t,o,lX),(JOO of this amount were donated in the ten years between 1870-80. Johns Hopkins endowed with $3,UUU,upO the university bearing his name. Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, of Mas sachusetts, distributed more than $1, UOO.ooo among various Institutions of learning. Asa Parker founded Lehigh University, and Ezra Cornell, the uni versity at Ithaca, N. Y., which bears his name. The names of Matthew Vas sar, Sophia Smith and Henry F. Iu rand demand more than passing men tion. Each of these pioneers in the cause of higher education for women made their beliefs permanent by found ing female colleges, and Henry W. Sage provided for special Instruction for women In Cornell University. But the Ideas of generosity have widened with the process of the suns, and the last ten years have witnessed a far more llleral endowment of educational centers than the period Just referred to. Mr. Rockefeller's original offer of $HH0,On0 towards the resuscitation -of the defunct Chicago University was made In 18W5, and the total sum he chiefly, and others In lesser amounts, since bestowed Is more than f 7,000,000. Mr. C. T. Yerkes gave $500,000 for the observatory and telescope, Mr. Mar shall Field gave the University lands, and another $oOO,oo) was bequeathed from the estate of William It. Ogden for the school of science, the Reynolds es tate adding $250,000 more. Here, then, and at Palo Alto, also. Is a university practically made to order. Senator Stanford's gifts to I'alo Alto amount to more than $10,000,000. B' the gi gantic power of wealth wisely used he hag created the Oxford or Yale of the Wer upon his fruit ranch. The quiet man of affairs has put all future civili zation under bonds of obligation to him for this singularly noble achievement the phenomenal gift of all giving. Mr. James J. Hill, of St. Paul, has given $1,000,000 for the erection of a Roman Catholic theological seminary beneath the superintendence of his friend. Arch bishop Ireland. Mr. J. S. Pillsbury presented the city of Minneapolis with $150,000 for a science hall in Its univer sity. Mr. George A. I'illsbury gave an other $150,000 towards the Pillsbury Academy. Mr. James Lick provided the observatory, with Its mammoth tele scope, situated at Mount Hamilton, Cal., and named in honor of the donor. Dr. Cogswell bestowed $1,000,000 for the San Francisco Polytechnic School. Alias Mary E. Garrett's check for $350, CKjO was recently handed to the, trus tees of Johns Hopkins to complete the sum necessary to open to women the medical department of that university. The Glrard College of Philadelphia has been too long before the American public to need any Bpeclal introduction here. It cost nearly $2,000,000 to found this Institution. The Drexel Institute Is the latest descendant of Girard, and perhaps It Is the best and wisest of Philadelphia's many philanthropies. The various departments of Pennsyl vania University owe a great deal of their existence and efficiency to promi nent Pbiladelphlans. Mr. Leaning, for example, gave $750,000 to the scientific school, and the late Mr. George Pepper left more than $1,000,000 to the schools and charities of the city. The Western Reserve University has founded a med ical college with $250,000 given for that purpose by Mr. J. L. Wood, of Cleve land, Ohio. William F. Clark followed with $100,000 for the Womens College of the same Institution. The Cincin nati University was the gift of Mr. Me Mleken, who bequeathed almost $1,000, 000, for its support. Mr. Armour has given his Institute to Chicago, a wor thy peer of the Tratt Institute In Brook lyn, and the Cooper Union In New York. Mr. Armour's gift will have cost him about $3,000,000 by the time It com pletes Its founder's purpose. Bishop Hurst's scheme for a national univer sity at Washington Is well under way. A donation of $100,000 Is Just report ed. It should be observed that the monetary estimates of these number less endowments Is only a partial one; the contagion of generosity has caused a leaning offer, such as Mr. Rockefel lera, to Chicago, to become the precur sor of far greater auma. The tlmell neas, the healthy spirit, the sanity of view which haa prompted such dona tions. Is even more admirable than their magnitude. Exchange. Tracking CfclMresC The first and most Important thing Is to teach the children to observe, com pare, and contrast; the second Is to Im part Information; and the third Is to re-enforce the other two by making theresultaof them the basis for instruc tlon In language, drawing, number, modeling and other handiwork. There are, however, other important uses of good object-teaching. It makes the lives of children more happy and In terestlng by opening up an easily ac cessible and attractive field for the exercise of the brain, hand and eye! It great the chOdrea aa opportunity of learalag the simplest aatural facts; iid direct their attention to external objects, uiuklug them lest bookish. It f .-Uier develops a love of nature and au Interest In living things, and cor- rtcu the tendency wbicb exists In nuny children to destructlveaesn aud thoughtless unklndness to animals, and shows the Ignorance and cruelly of such conduct, The value of the serv ices which many animals render to man should be dwelt upon, and the Im portance of kindly treating them should be pointed out By these mean and in other ways, good object-teaching may lay the foundation for the right direction of the activity aud In telligence of the children throughout the whole school. Education Review. Make Tour Own Methoda. There Is no class of educational Jour nals of so little real use to teachers as that which gives great prominence to methods. Such Journals look uion teachers as mere parrots, with no mind and ortgluulity of their owu. The teacher should study herself and the mind of her pupils and thereby be aide to be a law unto herself and originate and use methods worth more to her school than all the methods to be read In books and Journals. A well edited Journal with article that inspire to study and original work is the one that causes the teacher who reads it to grow. Exchange. We commend the above text to the careful consideration of our readers. It is of as much Importance to respect fh individuality of the teacher as of tbt pupil. Slake your own methods frt-m day to day, aud for each class, and do not be guilty of copying those already made, unless you are con vinced that they are specially adapted to your school. The habit of depend ing upon educational Journals to fur nish your methods and devices is most pernicious, and Is destructive of genu ine Interest in the work at baud. The independent teacher who thluks out a subject and the ticst manner of presenting It to the class has a live In terest In its success. Rend, study, get all the light you can; think the matter over, aud note, carefully the diameter of your school or your class, and then you may select, and adopt, and Invent, to the lasting good of your pupils. If you have any originality alout yon cultivate It by all the means In your power. If you are willing to keep school only, the edumtlonn) Journals, with the patent devices, will aid you, but if you wish to teach, then you should place no reliance ujHin the cut and dried methods of others, but "make vour own." Educational Journal. The Prog-ram an Aid to OrJrr Did It ever occur to you, young teacher, how your program tnay assist you In the government of your school? In ungraded schools, It Is your duty to bare the entire school recite between each Intermission, or In other words, to arrange your program that each class has a recitation. In view of this, your program should provide time fof the preparation of each lesson before the class Is called. The days' first lesson should be prepared at school, the previous day, before the close of school. The writer has never used thd same program twice since be ha been teaching. Why? Because the pro gram has been arranged to suit the school. To do this requires some work and good Judgment but A's program will not suit your school. Having1 your classes arranged to follow each other regularly, each pupil, at the close of a recitation, find the work of the next class awaiting him. Busy pupils find no time for mischief. Having made your program, post it conspicu ously, stating time for each recitation, making sure that you are seldom "late" in calling classes. This will In still In pupils a habit of being "on time." A slight tap of bell Is sufficient for calling out cjasses under this ar rangement Poor Material for Trachrra. Report comes through the dally press that a batch of half a dozen members of the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute, Ind., has been expelled for cheating on examination, and that there are more to follow. A normal school student who will cheat will lie, and Is certainly poor material to make a teacher out of. He ought to adopt some other calling. But why do stu dents In a normal school cheat especial ly In blocks of six? Is there not some thing out of Joint In the conditions? Ex. War Be Was Not at School. Teacher William, you were not at school yesterday. Have you any ex cuse to offer? ' William I was sick, ma'am. "When you are sick your parents usually send an excuse." " Parents didn't know It ma'am." "How Is that?" "Wasn't taken alck until after I left home." "And why didn't you return home?" "Was afraid to, ma'am." "What was the matter with your "Cigarettes, ma'am." Thla la Klht. The Utah State Legislature has pass ed a bill which provides that where females are employed as teachers In the public schools they shall receive the same compensation that la allow ed to male teachers for like service, when holding the same grade certifi cate. In a recent examination aome boys were asked to define certain words, and to give a sentence illustrating the meaning. Here area few: Frantic Is wild. I picked some frantic flowers. Athletic, strong; the vinegar waa too athletic to use. Tandem, one behind another; the boys sit tandem at school. And then some single words are funni ly explained. Dust Is mod with the wet squeezed out; fins are labafl wings; stars are the moon's eggs; circum ference Is the distance around the mid dle of the outside, Education! Ga-sette. A CONVICT'S BOGUS WILL. Ha Used It to Make His Life Inthe Penitentiary Kaaier. A peculiar ease of deception ram to light Thursday st the penitentiary, on BIa kwell's Island. Lsst July Sam uel J. K. Adler, a lawyer, over 7u years of age, of this city, was sentenced to the penitentiary for two years and ten months for fraud. Aller practiced In the Yorkvllle po lice court, and It was there lie com menced the practices which flnally landed him in prison. Since that time his friends have leen working to se cure him a pardon. To aid them Adler from time to time has feigned sickness. He claimed be was going to die. and succeeded In get ting word to that eff-ct outside the prison. Before going to the penitentiary Ad ler made the acquaintance of a nuni Wr of charity workers, who felt sorry for him on ai-count of, his old a;."-. These workers were of all denomina tions, and to each the old limn pro fessed his desire to embr.-ice ttielr p;ir tlciilar form of religion. After Iwing In prison a short time lie s trans ferred to the hospital ward or dor mitory, as It is known. While there Adler, who had announc er at the Tombs and the peiiltentinn that he was very wealthy, commenced to make a will. After the usual om ii Ing phraseology, lie started off by leav ing $2o,onO to the Protestant orphan Asylum. In some way Adler managed to make this fact known to the peo ple of that faith whom he hud met The result was that many charitably Inclined women sent baskets of fruit to the old man to cheer his dying lini ments. Adler had also made the acquaint ance of many Catholics, ami In his will the orphans of that church were not forgotten. They were put down for $20,000, and charitable persons of that faith also sent him delicacies. But Adier did not die; he grew fatter af be grew sicker, and would probably tx1 working his scheme yet had he not de cided to make Warden Pillsbury and Deputy Warden Kopplngs executors of his will In the hope of deceiving them. It was then that It was learned where Adler's fruit and delicacies came from, for after adding them u his will, he told them of his lwqucst and this put them on their guard. Yes terday a friend of Adler called at tin penitentiary and sluted that the old man did not jmishcss a dollar. Tin friend bad heard of the will and investi gated It New York Journal. Drowned with Ills Captive. 'The fish hawk." sulci a fisherman "almost always enrrim a fish with iti head in the same direction as Its owu An ordinary sized fish hawk will cute) and carry off a four-pound shad with out any great difficulty, and nothiiu less than a charge of shot will mnk him let It go. I've stood under a tisl hawk flying not more than seventy five or eighty yards high with a ns! In his claws aud shouted at him unu the neigh! thought I was trying i new fog horn, aud yet never dlsturbw blm a bit "But the fish hawk doesn't alwayi have It all bis own way. Sometlmei he gets caught. I once saw a big hawk with a four-foot spread of wings, thn was sailing along Monmouth beach Suddenly he made a dive and fliec his claws In a fish's back. The flsi sounded. The fish hawk's claws ar sharp and strong; they sink far anr hold fast. The flsu was a thirty pound striped bass, a good deal big ger. In fact,, than the hawk had cal culated on and far more than be couk carry away. He could not free hii claws nor could the fish free Itself So they struggled there In the watei until both were dead. They were cas up on the beach, the fish hawk's cluw still fast in the fish's back." An After-Church Pleasantry. There was a little after-church ruc tion down in Pine Bluff, Logan county W. Aa.. a Sunday or two ago thai illustrates some Interesting feature of life In that region. When devotloni were over Charley Mulins started It escort Teresa Ha r man to her home, Teresa's brothers objected and Mulins' brothers came to Charley's support. In a few seconds ten persons were mixed up In a scuffle and knives and revolvers were freely used and rockt were thrown promiscuously Into the tangle of disputants. "Men, with theli wives and children, fled to the neigh boring woods," snys the local chron icler. When peace whs restored Her bert Stone was found to lie fatally wounded with a cut In his left side, Kenton Mulins wss badly shot In tin left thigh and half a dosen others wen wounded. "More trouble Is looked for," as usual. It must be a rugged com niuity where a worshiper carries hit prayer book to church sandwiched be tween a bowle knife and a revolver. Care for Hiccough. A female patient presented hersoll at a French hospital for a rebellion hiccough, which had resisted all treat went for four days. She waa asked tt show her tongue, and It was noticed that with the putting out of the tongut the hiccough ceased. The same thing has been since tried, and with succest In other cases. All that is necessary apparently la to stronalr tongue out of the mouth and hold It sc for a minute or two. The Meat Bill of London. The annual meat bill of London I something wonderful. During the year 181)6 the butchers of that burg killed and sold the flesh of 400,000 cattle 1,000,000 sheep, 600,000 calves and 700,! 000 bogs, to say nothing of the horses and fowls. No man ever thought a woman waa an angel, though mhay of them have lied about It TAPLEY IN THE FLESH. kl J'u. Character a Chlc-a--. When Charles Dickens wrote the ii.. i-i,iilelt he hsd little Wea that a grand- ' " f' ZL character 1 11 U 'f J ! citizen ofChlcgo and lire to. 2, to attet the truthfuliM- of the Jellneatlun. Mark Tsph-y I. o",ch alive in the flesh im,. hoo ver as he 'was ye. shko. hen he tried 1.1- luck. Iitsucl. ,:.r sr. ss in this country. 'U name adorns a silver pb.te on the 'door of.. -.mfortsble resident at 8.7 I North It.--kw.-H street, aud he 1 J.irt aYjoll and h-l-fu. as the man of .whJu, the famous uovelW mime. I Uas lived in Chi. ago s. gt hat U -n; Hiders hlm-elf ."titled to the dm ID tiouofan old se.Uer. and. al.houirh an F.o,ilHliman l.m. Is as true a patriot 'us the Hug ever waved over. Mr. Taplcy I- nt '-B ,n l7'"rt ; fame from the fact that h!-Crandfath-ier has Ih-cii tinuioi tailed by IM. I.cn. I He left no doubt i.uthat P"itit 'ii 1 l.,.,utrT Hasnn.de as to ,ls relationship I with tin- no,.-.l. l,r.ter. Family n bt ! strong enough. tliiK. ' ! him assert himself a d.. e...li.t of the lonlv Mark Taplcy. lie called UiH.il hi Imeniorv for a picture of his grandfath er as he upiMsr.-l in hi d.clin.ng veais. and add-d t" H' '" re-idlec-i 'lions of his father of the m'-cH'iC l ! tween the auth.-r and thse two tq-on Ithe cliffs near lv.-r nearly seventy 1 years ago. I -it Is true that my grandfather w Ithe one who furnished Pickens with Ithe character of Mark Tapb'.v." Mr. ,1'apley said, "and that I am hisidirect 'descendant. Alml ivjs Mr. IHckeim. '., . uhs stoiitiitig in a j i ie-u a j ouii ! small town called Suwb.il.-. about sixty Indies south of I'lidon on the Lngllsh Channel. My father was l-rn in this place, my grandfather wns Is.ru a1sut six miles from there, und my birthplace U the same us my father's. ! "The.-oiist along l-'olk.-sioiie, Sawgate land Hover Is lined with high cliffs of ' ( hulk, tnpjied with grass, and their sum , mlts were In those days used n a park. ' Otic day at the period 1 have mentioned j my grandfather and father, who was I then a youth, were walking in this park, when they came usiu Mr. IMck etis, reading. They entered Into cou- versutlou with him. and my gnindfath 1 er related some of his travels in Ameri- cu w hen a young man. There were several meetings of this klud, my father told me, at which Mr. IMckens gathered 'many of my grandfather's ex jw-rlenc- In this country. I "Mr. IHekeiis retold tny grniidfatu I er's experiences In bis tsxik. and, allow ! ing for tlie lltert!es which an author Is tiernilttcd to take, they are related j faithfully. My grandfather's mental 'and physical traits are also given with much faithfulness. 1 can remember him at iiTi at lielng lmld and Jolly under all circumstances. He died and was burled In New York State. My father died four years ago at the age of K'l. while I am In good health at 51, and trying to make a living lu real estate, Insurance, mixing horse medicines and anything else that comes my way." Mr. Taplcy laughed as he enumerated his occupations, and stroked a large ilmld spot on his head. His face Is round and good nntured, and but for i a mustache streaked with a few gray Lairs might lie called youthful, "Yes, I am one of several generations iof Mark Tapleys," be said. "My great-r I grandfather's name was Mark Tapley, !as was my grandfather's aud father's. My name Is Murk Tapley, ami I have a son named Mark. My father often told me that 1 bore a close resemblance to my grandfather. I guess the family iiiniie is in no danger of becoming ex tinct." Mr. Tapley came to this country In 1H.'i4, and a few years luter i-ame to Chicago with his parents. He enlisted In the Nineteenth Illinois Volunteers In May, lHjn, and served until the close of the civil war. He was twice wound ed, and at the buttle of Chlckamauga lost his hearing partliilly-Tlmes-Her-ald. Havages of Abalnth. M. Rochefort recent advocacy of temperance has directed attention to the consumption of abstntlie in France, and some startling statements D eob neetion therewith are Mug made. Men as a rule take the absinth diluted In water, sipping It slowly. Rut the wo men, to the consternation of the doc tors, Insist as a rule on drinking it "neat," with most terrible results to their constitutions. The number of brilliant men whom France has lost through the abuse of the opalescent but poisonous fluid, from the great poet Alfred de Musset, who used to lie picked up drunk aud half dead every night In the streets, down to the cele brated artist and caricaturist, Andre Olll, Is simply appalling. An Idea of the extent of the evil may 1 gathered from the recent returns of the ministry of flnan.-e, which show that at the pres ent moment there is a mareband de tin, or French absiuthe seller, to every three bouses lu the French metropolis. Westmluster Caiette. Olant Tea Feet mh. There Is a giant ten and a half feet high In the country above Canton In I v.mn, ana an American showman has , lately been trying In vain to Induce hint to travel. The Mi folk., u ... a . liimself for being mt unduly long, and v.. uui rare to i-otne an exhibit. Big" of Better Times. All employe, of the uMgh v,er Railroad Company reivlng $i ooo or more a year ln, ad the 10 per cent cut (u their pay of two years ago r- affected by the reduction, and so do nei hare In the advance. OT!to of Host. ,Zfl.?Cn pl,n, l Boston gives atcltyapopulatloBof41lj0.