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MRS. BEECHER'S LIFE. NOT ONE TO BE ENVIED BY WIVES. Early M niggle. of the Poorly Pui.l Preacher and Hie Helpmeet The Try ing Ordeal of the Tilton Trial Faith In Her ‘Hueband. O woman waa ever more devoted to her huahund and hi* memory than waa the wife of Henry Ward Beecher, the daughter of Dr. Ar tetuuM Bullard of Went Button. Matt*. Hhe wait born Aug. 26, 1812, and wag ohrlatened Eunice White. It wan when ghe waa at achool at Hadley, Magg., and Henry Ward Beecher wan a atudent at Amherst that they met and plighted their troth, Jan. 12, 1831. Both were very young, and when the hoyiah atudent made known his desire to marry Doctor Bullard's daughter that worthy wag ungry and his wife was grieved. "Why. you are a couple of bable«," «ald the doctor. "You don’t know your own minds yet and you won't for some years to •ome." Doctor Bullard relented, however, af ter time, hut It was not until Aug. 3. 1837. shortly after Mr. Beecher bad be gun bin flrst puHt.orate at Lawrence btir*. Ind., that they were weddei. Their flrgt yearg of married life were not years of financial plenty, for the ►alary then received by Mr. Beecher wag but $300 a year. Children came to 'bent as time paased until they had ten. and Mre. Beecher'* life wag necesgarlly \ \ MRS. BEECHER. one of care and constant occupation. From Lawrenceburg they removed to Indianapolis, and from there to Brook lyn, where he became the famous pas tor of the famous Plymouth church, and where she became his secretary. She had met. with a serious accident that, resulted In partial paralysis of one side and from which she never recov ered. She could not even read at first, hut she could write, and It occurred to her that she could be of service to Mr. Beecher in answering his letters. She •ontlnued to assist him by attending to hts correspondence to the day of his death. During the dark days of the Tilton scandal her faith In Beecher never fil tered. After he died she wrote a great deal for the press. Having done con siderable literary work during her life time, she had acquired a clear, direct, unpretentious style that won readers easily. Her most interesting work was "Mr. Beecher as I Knew Him,” which ran as a serial In a monthly magazine. Niivftju Mot!i4*r«'!n-L(iv». Mothers-In-law will be interested in some of the manners anil customs of the Navajo Indians. There a man can not under any circumstances speak to or even look upon his mother-in-law. Should his eve rest unon her even fnr « moment the supemltlon is that he will by accident become blind. It •-eems impossible that such an Idea should he actually held by a large num ber of people. The law must be brok en repeatedly by accident without the payment of the penalty. Vet the idea is current to-day, and Is In full force and effect, exercising an appreciable In fluence on the social conditions of the people. The mother has no direct In terest in her daughter’s marriage, hut tbs Interest arising from maternal love might oftsu complicate or e\eu make impossible the usual procedure. So the mother-in-law taboo began and grad r‘ .wily grew Into a fixed custom or law What harm could an irate mother-in law do if she were aloolutely prohibit r«| from rpraklug to her daughter's husband? And on the other hand vttm show would a man have If left iiiprotected to the mercy of three or tour tuothers-In-law*, for pub gamy Is nmniutli practiced In the trite*' Home such law la an actual ntt-eeauty ih pilmltlve societies V t.uvbf t «i ape laird Mu bard Neville, aid ,te-cuh'p u land IIriw«>. guvviunr of VlrtWtl, ba* lately bad a umsvukm* roape ttuM death In the hunting R»td Me • as oat with Ihe Nutwood hound* shout twelve mile* fiotn deltnaume Ilia but we turned a i umplet* entnet mull over a (erne The sbtmai toiled over lbn tide*, who veils probably Mil been killed on lb* spot bad he not hit* fallen into n deep drain He • vi apod wMh a htuhea cottar hone, •evert tweoratlan ml Ih* muavlsa of ths ■ boulder and n numb** of b-nt*e« on * tbs for# *1 t Waste vt itoumer, mtwi»>*> of Assuve in »« n» .score •nbinet and (be aut*>M 1 at the ib «w ins •* ts»m* hna oeeepted ha pntern>»*wblp of Toasts «n*<vnt by be death ml N At*n«d boeosr M tb««me> nsa born at Aurtiln* ,b IMT I a a haiitsSet and fournaimt end baa 1 m four rente in tbs *knmto*. CROW AND COLF BALLS. Hr l.lke* Only Ohs*. 11 hirh 11# (itrrift off fhr S'leld. A crow which haunts the Mid-Surrey links at Richmond is a bit of a humor ist. lie has played such pranks with the golfers' halls that the subject ha* been discussed by the committee. H# 1 appears, according to "Golf," to hovei ; in atlendance only on players who us# , nice new white balls; “remade*," or balls that have been played with be fore, snd od which the paint ha chipped, receive none of his embar rassing attentions: "Recently two play ers were approaching one of the holes, one playor using a new IraII. the other a ball that had been played with be fore, On walking toward their hall* the players were astonished to see the crow alight near them, examine flrs' one ball and then the other, eventually rejecting the older hall, and fly away with the new one in his beak. The crow took the ball over Into sotnc marshy ground beyond the boundary of the links, where the caddie In hoi pursuit could not follow him. The bird dropped the hall for an Instant, looked sideways with a merry twinkle in hi* eye. as much as to say, Don't you wish you may get It?’ picked the ball tt|i again, and with offensive assurance flew back over the heads of the player* to his haunt In Kew Gardens." The crow has done the same thing dozen* of times, A council of war has, we arc told, deliberated on his Iniquities and has pronounced sentence upon th* marauder. We trust, howevr, that It will not he carried out. MORSE SYSTEM STILL LEADS Tests flrmoust rate the Triumph ol Original Invention. The Postal Telegraph company rnadt a test in New York a few days ago If determine whether the Morse system ol telegraphing Is cheaper to operate, tak ing all things into consideration, fhai other systems, notably the Wheatstone that Is used in Kngland and to sent* extent in this country. The result wai a unanimous verdict that the Morst system as invented more than fifty years ago stands to-day without flu change of a dot or a dash or any al teration In the principles of transmis sion. far ahead of any other system During the test three New York oper ators sent to Pittsburg, Pa,, 102 mes sages in ninety minutes and 200 mes sages, containing 5,605 words, in thre< hours. This was an average of sixty six and iwo-thirds messages per hour Pittsburg, however, beat, this, sending an average of sixty-eight and one-fifth messages per hour. These message! were taken in the regular course ol business, and I he result, while not equaling the fastest individual burst! of speed for a few minutes, exceed! previous records of its kind. The com pany then took into consideration th< cost of transmission, salary of opera tors, accuracy of work, time consumed and all other factors entering into tele graphy. These were compared with similar results In other systems and the decision was wholly in favor ol the Morse system, that is to-day an unchanged monument to the great American inventor. HON. REDFIELD PROCTOR. Bla Opposition to the Anglo-American Is Very Pronounced. Senator Redfleld Proctor of Proctor Vermont, Is a native of the Greer Mountain State, whose chief industry was once described as "raising men,’ having been born at Cavendish, Vt., June 1, 1831. After graduating at Dart mouth College and taking his diploma at the Albany law School he entered upon the practice of his profession, which he followed with success until the war. during which he served as lieutenant and quartermaster of the Third Vermont Volunteers, on the staff of Major General Wm. F. (Baidy) Smith, and was afterwards major of the Fifth aud colonel of the Fifteenth Vermont, regiments. Soon after the war he entered the political arena and served as representative In his state legislature in 1867 and 1868. and a senator and protem president of the state senate in 1874 and 1875. From 1876 to 1878 he filled the chair of lieu tenant governor and served as gover nor from 1887 to 1890. In the republl* HoV Ht'.l't <kt t» t*MO« fUK •44 iNNltlMltoi at IMI •ad l«M Aa tua* a Aratata*** part a* a AU p*lllw*| aAitMf »»d lM'i» mhum p.war.a* AM* »*• «aat I Ami At ltd %*V*« «t t*taai«MM llatti *«a la *lN* A* aaa >a*r>l»ird urn iaft at •» »a >A iM«ati*»a i> Atw* >««*• U«:> A >*V* ta IMt a Aaa Aa i<M-a4*tt **»•«•** *a *pt****> wmm* U t'attad ***»•* aaa* a* I* •*> wd tAaaa* f Mm*UHA» «ad ta M twAar A* aa* *t* I«d A» »A# W*t. >*,*»* ta All A*tA IA# a a* « ptt«d *tm» lA* tut t4*«M> ta iwa at «*»*a* »«*. ta* ta tWMt *t» *ptaaM>a* ta tlt« t %*•• •• «>«*>« I MM *»«*«•» THE COFFEE KING. JOHN ARBUCKLE FIXES THE PRICE AND WE PAY IT. Ilr I.Mtrly 1 mt itrrri !nl«* flir | fining Hu»lnfM mimI Hun Foul of H. O. Hmrinrj'rr 4 lllg Flglit Hna Hr •i*l 1 rd **er*t« «*f Trmlr FijwmmI. OHN ARBUCKLK has become one of the most Interest ing men In Amer ica since It was dis covered that It is be who tells the people what price they must pay for . their coffee. Mr. I Arbuckle’s name Is i anciently associated with coffee, and, now that people know that he fixes the price of Rio, .lava and Mocha, has become almost of as much concern as Mr, Havemeyer, who tells people what they must, pay ror me su- i gar that sweetens the morning cup. Mr. Arhue kle was very eager to testify before the investigating committee, and Ills story of the Iniquities of ihe Havemeytrs was a motive to tears un til the committee found out that Mr. Arhuekle himself was making a profit of 100 per cent on his own business. Henalor Lexow brought out this inter esting fact in his examination of James N. Jarvie. a member of the Ar buckle * Co. firm. Mr, Jarvie told how the slock of the Woolson Hplce Company was worth |1,G00 a share on a par value of 9100, and that the prof its of the company annually were equal to the original capital stock. Then it leaked out that for years this company had been reaping this tremendous prof it until most of the slock was recently JOHN ARBUCKL" vlonsly occupied several minor posi-1 tlons in that department. In 187-3 ho ■ was a member of the Spanish legation j at Tokio, Japan; in 1877. he was sent i, to Brussels. In 1880 he had his first New World experience as secretary of legation at Buenos Ayres; and two years later he became first secretary 1 of the Spanish legation at Washington. In 1884 he was transferred to Berlin. In all, he has served Spain as a diplo mat of rare talents for more than twenty years, and finds himself now, at the age of forty-five, surrounded by "conditions” at Washington that might tax t.he resources of a Palmerston or a lie (Her*. Speaking of Minister de Borne personally, and not at all In ref erence to the Spanlsh-('ulian troubles it must lie admitted that he has ac quitted himself In these trying emerg encies with dignity, respectfulness and a fair measure of success in the main point for him to stand by the govern ment which he represents. TEA SMOKING. Immn \lnniinl Mt Hu* (irowlli of Physicians and spec lallsis on nervous troubles are treating numerous cases of extreme insomnia and nervousness In young women without disclosing to litem thai Ihclr condition Is the result of practicing the new vice of smoking tea cigarettes. The habit Is increasing. From observations of Its effects, a West side physician declares that "a lea cigarette Is a genuine brain excit ant. Any one who uses it and yet does not work with her brain would go half crazy with nervousness, but with those who do brain work It is different, for the HiimuloiiH produces strange Intel lectual activity. After a couple of green lea cigarettes, a poem, for In stance, will almost write Itself, I am told by one of my literary patients. purchased by the Havemeyers. Mr. Jarvie said that the sugar trust was losing $1,000 a day with the Woolson plant just because It was trying to drive the poor Arbuckles out of the su gar business. The public has one con solation. however. Mr. Arbuckle doesn't fix the price of green coffee, and if anyone does not wish to con tribute to the 100 per rent profit of the combine he ran buy his coffee green and roast it in his owp oven. Arbuckle is an Englishman. THE SPANISH MINISTER. The Skilful UI|iluuiHI Who IU> Much Trying Hoilima hi Wa»hlugion. The present Spanish minister at Washington, Senor Henry IJnpiiy tie borne, has held the position only since the beginning of 1896 It Is believed that the honor was conferred in this case at the special request of the head of the Spanish government. Premier Panovas del Castillo. The posit Ion has been one inquiring much patience, tad wen i*r **4 *u#lb*M ul pmlpmrml *t«f «!*«"« *<*• H*«*W ibwibl u*4u»i«i itub > b#r§* «*4 ib* «bin • i* ik«t ib* •b*> bit «*»*»Ui<4» «m i* ib «t«a ml l** i4Mb« b IfH l«l b ■ llvtbl | | •Uktt lb*t (Mkw batch)*b« )lw bakai i*MM**4 lb htw •MM*)bUb*bl )«• lb* pm •HM H*4» Tb* MW *M tWI Ml Vtbkii* Nbwt* ib li&l Mb •<* *4«» ■*t*4 M III lllitnM) ml IbmlMM. ! • H#* «bbb b* I mm* wf ib* *tt#4» *iI . >*b 4*4 *44 *4«itlt*M Ib Ihb bbf. KitbiwUi bt****»# b« !«H4b4 4iniit b*» »«#* *btt*4 lb Im «**!*• «*4 •fbbl tMUibt At tb« **• 14 ibikii I mm b* bwbbM Ibtt4 •*> Halt ml tb« | *M*)*b bttbMtl ml *«*•' klllbf b*« The effect of the tea cigarette, while stimulating to the brain and Its flow of thoughts, acts as a pure sedative to the rest of the body, quieting reetless I'css, uneasiness or actual pain. The nfter effects are bad. if they have not been worked off by unusual mental work. At Rome houses green tea cig aiettes are handed around after din ner, and I know three actresses of con siderable reputation who give tea smoking parties twice a week. One woman, to break off this habit, on which she had expended nearly $10 a week, has lately voluntarily placed her self under private restraint. She had concealed her habit from her husband by using an artfully contrived cigar ette case. It resembles a bunch of keys, each key containing one cigarette. So much has this habit spread that tevrral tobacconists and drugRists are keeping tea cigarettes In stock for reg ular customers. The active chemical ucparatlori of tea Is theine, juat as caf feine is of coffee and nicotine is of lo Mcco. When theine is administered to t frog or a small animal it Is found hat it chiefly Influences sensations xhich caffeine or coffee does not. In sign doses theine produces sponta icons pastil* or convulsions, which uiTeine does not This Is In fact, ths iltlnute effect of smoking numerous ea cigarettes, dually producing 'fits' »r con v u|«ions. Theine also acts as a °cal anaesthetic, quirting painful I ftte*. Hireu tea contains much more heiio* than ordinary black tea. iki you >e that the habit of smoking ten cigar ttea !> terribly pernicious." New fork l*rc« Wuurrn, Hr iiIh *mU I xhuiv^om,, U a re. eat ateruag of the \mettcaa t .ttatoal %Mot*tail»a. Ur $ W ^ **• t tfWtf of thr slate toanril af •slil «f M«h*ihoseuu, preaantssi owe Ag ue* legutdlag the prugortioo f putiuonai» tutwrvoiosis ta httsks » *hai in males ia Maaaoehwasttg Th > •Is In IWi Sir I Ml female* itt t.WV salsa, ta IMI t Mi famntaa to I mat •also sou .a iaM o«li *Jf tsmaies to <** «aalm. MM «ss ths •>« IMI l iha A»e< or * of tha Mata ta a hick taa amlmt of 4aaths fr>m piihtata ta fa is lea a as Mswlia thaa that ia maiao he fmt that a uniform ado* iw* to ths at# af taaaaia tf*a>ha organ «oa« At a •ara ago. about the sams him u«ua a ware begtooiog ta >t4e t« htafeia s’ettsissi) Mr tMoil row* 4ais -tg • •* aa> aad ha n <m I load to aitfthu<a »a 4a. tease lo ths liaolk-tala to tha* - •St la‘lease 10 ngwo SI St* 1 too m**»i i«hi» by tha us* of ths of* * MR. ROBERTS’ LIFE. HE ASCENDED THE LADDER STEP BY STEP. luring the < ourie of HU Life Me Knew W hat It Win to He » Kallroad Laltorer h> Well ha I'renltlenf of the (treat I'ennvjIvHiilH UyAtein. RORGK Brook* Roberts, president of the Pennsylva nia railroad system, who died the other day, came from one of the oldest famll 1 lew In Penns) Iva nia. Ills country estate at Peneoyd had been lu posses sion of his ances ors for two'centuries. He was born n Montgomery county, Pa., on .Ian, 15. 1833. Ills carlv education was re elved at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, where he took « •ourse In civil engineering After his traduatlon he went to railroading, and tils life after that was spent In railroad service. Mr. Roberts was only elgh een years old when, In 1151, he began bis work as a roil man. employed In the ■onstriu’tion of the mountain division >f the Pennsylvania railroad. In 1852 he became assistant engineer of the Philadelphia and Brie Railroad, and ror the subsequent ten years was stead ily engaged In the construction of varl ms railroads. In 1862 Mr. Roberts re turned lo the Pennsylvania road ss as PRESIDENT ROBERTS. Blatant to J. Edgar Thomson, ut that time president of the company. Mr. Roberts’ skill as an engineer ami his superior administrative abilities marked him for promotion to the fourth vlce-presldency In 1869. This election was followed almost Immedi ately by another which made him the second vice-president of the system. Upon the accession of Col. Thomas A. Scott to the presidency on June 3, 1874, Mr. Roberts was advanced to the office of first vice-president. In bis new ca pacity he bad oharge of all engineering matters relating to the construction, extension and Improvement of the com pany's lines and a general supervision of the accounts, through the comptrol ler. He also handled almost entirely the business associated with the roads leased or controlled by the Pennsylva nia company. Upon the death of Col. Scott, in May, 1880, Mr. Roberts bei came president of the company. Some Idea of the importance of the place held by Mr. Roberts can be gained from the fact that the company operat ed then, as It does now, nearly 10,000 miles of road, running through nine states; hauled nearly 90,000 cars of all kinds, with 3,000 locomotives; em ployed an army of men, nearly 100,006 altogether, and had a gross income of 110,000,000 a month. Mr. Roberts' rise from the bottom at the ladder to the top was the result ol hard work and great natural ability. In the days when he was a rod man his work attracted the attention of those over him, and he was picked from a large field for his first promotion. Af ter that his advances came luster. In each new place his work was better, and s brilliant career was mapped out for him by those who took an Interest in him. It was in the work of handling the lines leased and controlled by Pres. Ideut Scott that Mr. Roberts distin guished himself and showed his fitness to occupy the place of president of the road. Mr. Scott was a brilliant planner and hta policy of aggression, combined with strategy, was what enabled tn<- ivnir sylvauta road to extend Its system und connections southward, westward and In the east. When he died the system had been developed a tel a Conner ru tile management was necessary. \{r Roberts wax the almost uitaniutous choice of the directors Mix Roberts wax u ted for herd work He waa at hla u®** prump ly at t n c lorX every mm mug and always > a it died hts ohnwu.ii msd himself Its la or 14 huclwk he was atwavs read* for vtsiterw. bu utm those who bad boats*** of lapstaavu uwU ever **. mm The rest ef hts day a a* spewt tn omits* bust a*** late wblca ..*• got uBrstt of the toad was allowed to break Pereosatty. Mi Robert# was a gutet, oasarvatlve ansa He cared lint* tor society at easdeemeats 41* was a vaa iry area of * HtepSea * Mpixsesi bona ta Pbix*d*ipaia and of the •** •hsrea at 4t topi tkae of ble it nsagrirt r barer te. t*lt s eas a gieat •a* >d far the Ha baa th. tie would never talk hoelseoe -*a that day white veogattttag ike aereeetty >| m using raise u* Headers, <k*lr somber war imHed to ike a*. esrlue* of ifssrguris irra sad the aoetr >orii«sr*see, aarl a* aaay wf the eatgtoiew of the - >*ieeasy Mre tel oil as *«« guM*.bte VI Mita> bad seen til sta- * ‘art V>»g tei sad -infill1.-Jlil—I.JlilLH..!„, S It was announced a short time ago that he would decline a re-election at the meeting of the directors of the Penn sylvania. HOW A QUEEN LIVES. Nome Mile l.lglits 4,11 ft,41 limn* l.lfe of \ l4-tort«. The queen, whose taete In fo<xl la rather simple, has a penchant for a certain oatmeal soup, delicately pre pared, and with which she Invariably drinks a glass of old white sherry, though, when I nay a glass, I should say a eup of gold, once belonging to Queen Anne, says the Woman at Home. Heef Is placed upon her majesty'* aide table every day in the year, for, like many other hard workers, she has im plicit belief in the virtues of b The statesman who devotes his whole energies to important duties, the paint er who tolls early and late, the lawyer who can never let bln brain repone, these men. I find, are all advocates for the roast b4‘ef of old England. And I may add that Adelina Patti, who owes so much of the beauty of her voice to ■ • •• P», UV’I I *• I ' n rrnc > nil i/ii i j "sing upon beef," and has always a flllei prepared for her some hours be fore she appears either at an opera or concert. The queen frequently orders pb-kleij cucumbers (for which the late Prince Albert owned to a special weak ness) to be served with her beef. I may tell that the day's menu Is sub mitted every morning to the queen, who strikes out the dish she does not fancy and orders another that she doe*; also that she keeps to the good old practice of having the cook's name called out as each dish Is brought U> table. The German emperor Is somewhat preju diced In his tastes. He does not, I think, care for any dishes save "made In Germany,” although, out of courtesy, he will often praise the plates which are offered to him at. Osborne. He In variably drinks a brand of champagne spe. tally manufactured for him. His wife, the empress, 1 may say, prefers, In her devoted way, those dishes agree able to the palate of her lord and rises regularly at (I o’clock In the morning to herself prepare the early cup of coffee without which the kaiser cannot begin his day. The king and queen of Italy I learn, have a great partiality for frltto, described as "a terrible com pound of nrtlehokea. chickens' livers, calves' brains and cocks' combs.” The pope’s menu la the most simple which could be named. A cup of coffee and milk, a roll (no butter) for breakfast. Soup, plain meat, pastry and fried vegetables, with one glass of Burgundy, for midday dinner. At 6 o’clock a cup of bouillon; and at supper a little cold meat. The pope takes his meals alone, according lo tradition. The empress of Austria and the Empress Frederick of Germany may be described as of a "sweet tooth.” Both these august la dle- have a weakness for pastry, creams and puddings of all sorts. The Em press Frederick still remains partial (o (he simple English dishes which were served In the nursery at Osborne. At King Oscar’s of Sweden the delicacy most often to be found Is raw salmon, which has been preserved In earth, K soup of boiled barley with whipped cream lie also affects. HON. J. W. BABCOCK. K«|irnrnl»tl«e In l'on|rtu of the Third Wisconsin District. lion. Joseph Weeks Babcock, who represents In the National House of Representatives the Third congres sional district of Wisconsin, was born In Swantou. Vt., March 6, 1860, and, when six years of age, accompanied hie parents to Iowa. Hls educational ad vantages were limited to instruction In the common schools of Mount Ver non and Cedar Halls, but hls natural abilities and force of character soon gave him weight and prominence. In 1881 he located at Necedab, Wisconsin, and engaged In the lumbering busi ness. whirh he prosecuted with the success usually the attendant of busi ness tact and energy; and In 1888 he was elected to the Wisconsin assem bly. a here he served as chairman on the committee on Incorporations, and was re-elected in 1890. He was elected to the Fifty-third congress by the re publicans, and In the spring of 1894 received the remarkable compliment of being chosen chairman of the re publican national committee, the high est tribute which could have been paid to the party confidence entertained in the energy, tact, and executive ability 1 of no young a i>olltlelan. and was re* 1 tie* *»4 In >h« » tUt Su>» Ih l«Hr«M M j * n»»jMt*l» Ul am »»ff Ik* .w«kt»e>l iwiNlbl umI nenhkhHIrm | *m»* Hie tune** In i*|nn kna >*»■■ *n enur* antitlh* ttun in n He/** at* Mill ut hi* »n*ii««#nte *a«i he *n Nwtrember !••• tat ik« thlM tun* . «»*»an in rattentnl taa* in Ika Inna* i !“*»« nhfch bua* «*# i**en*la raaaM# Mil • «l«H»M»* •***na U kl#ka« hunt** *1* •** at «n* i<n* htwhatl nnnn *• ike hm*m HWiHfimii larnkar tat tbn ***** «4 na*t» «!•«•» 4 Mine in I4*k« i ***ll| •kint'rt «n» •fc'aa Wte <*f tl |« tan