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.