TOLD BY A NEAT LIAR. CHARACTERISTIC STORIES OF JOE MULHATTAN. I The Poor Fellow U Sow In n Madhouse Kever Told I.les Tl.at Did Anyone rersoual Injury—The .Natural Poun 8, when he sat for N'orthumber land, which consti tuency he repre- Mr. iuu«y. sentcd until 1885. In 1SX6 he mas re turned for a constituency in Lanca shire. His wife, the very popular daughter of Lord Tweedmouth, died last year. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach is the ninth baronet of his name. He succeeded ms ra il ther in 1854, anil M '1:1s been prominent *2 n British politics nee 1S‘'4. His first m ; m portant offie y vaa that of chi f Q 'cretary for Ire Hand, to which he was appointed in 1874, when he ■ was sworn on tne Mr. Beach. privy council.Since that time he has occupied numerous high offices, participating in the ups and downs of the conservative party with imperturbability. Will Frloiitis. Ah yes. our hands met here and there, Our wandering eyes met now arid then, i About Life's crowded thoroughfare— But coldly seeing we were men. ! And looks are slight, and hands are slow. And words so hard to say, and weak; j Even the best the poets know Mean more than even they can speak. Torn Death struck lightning through the air; A rock was rent, set free a heart; I And two old friends communion share When one lies speechless and apart. A New (ierniiin 1’unUhment. The young Germans who emigrate to America and elsewhere without do ing their fair share of military service have long been a thorn in the side of officialdom. A method of dealing with this state of things has at last been hit upon which bids fair to work suc cessfully. One Friedrich Grobbler, a runaway, settled in Kansas, has been informed by the German military au thorities by cable that he must re port at home for duty, and notifying him that unless lie returns and serves I him time his father will be lined a I sum equivalent to 200 pounds. If this procedure is followed out in every case German fatlurs are likely to be tray a more affectionate interest in keeping their sons at home. Mototur* Need© I by Oak True*. An oak tree of average aiz\ with 700,000 leaves, lifts from the earth into the air about 123 tons of water during the five mouths it is in leaf. A NOTED PREACHER One of the most noted Epise pal clergymen in the west is Rev. Dr. Clin ton Locke, the dean of the church in Chicago. For 41 years he lias been as sociated with Grace church in ihit city. Clinton Locke was horn in New York c ity in 18‘J9. From the public schools lie went to the academy at Sing Sing, and from the academy he went to Cnion college at Schenectady, from which he was graduated in 1849. Then he became a private tutor for two years, after which he entered the g n oral seminary of the church. In 18." he was ordained deacon at Dobb’s Ferry. From there he was called to a Joliet (111.) church. In 1859 l)r. Locke was called to tirace church, then a small parish with a small building, in Chicago. He found it a struggling congregation and, as the shepherd of the little flock, he gave it all the force and strength of his character. The church grew un der his ministry. In 1S<>4 Dr. Locke took the initiative in founding a church hospital. His congregation was with him. and St. Luke's was founded in dhat year, an institution that fer years has taken a front place in the hospitals af the big western city. In 1895 an affection of the throat de veloped, and increased in severity un til he was compelled to take leave of ! his church, to the regret of every mpru j her. Although his eloquence is no more heard, he ministers to his fellow men thtough the medium of written language. He is a remarkable linguist, and has pursued his passion for litera ture into manv tongues. He is never KEV. I)R. CLINTON LOCKE. (The dean of the Episcopal church in Chicago.) idle. He p3KcpH hours every day in his sunny library, with his books and his papers He writes for denomina tional papers, and occasionally for the magazines, and has published several ■ books that have proved acceptable to 1 the public. WAS ONCE A NEWSBOY ... Now Probable Successor to MaVcus Daly — The man who is slated to succeed tin late Marcus Duly as president and gen eral manager of the Anaconda Mining company resembles in many respects his sturdy predecessor. He is H, n y H. Rogers, one of the vice presidents of the Standard Oil company. His life is a record of what a poor boy with energy and [terserveranee can a; romplish in the United States. He is one of those remarkable Americans who has worked hi* way from a news boy to the rank nfi millionaire and a position among th-e greatest cvf the world's b uni ness directors. Marvelous as was Marcus Daly's rise from pov erty to afliaence, even more marvelous teas been the rise of this man Rog«s. Daly grew up among mines and min ers and nearly all his youth way an apprenticeship in ttae business -‘hat eventually made hint rich and famous. Itagers, like Daily, was early thr-awn upon his own resources. Dike Daly, also, he 'cmes from poor and hurxhle stock. 1'alike Daly, he has striv n in many fields of .commercial enter prise, and from eath of them he has exacted the toll that only suciess awards. He is mighty in many ways. Daly was mighty fn only one. Sold I'aiu rs. fur • l.lvlnt. Fifty-five years ago Henry H. Rog ers was selling papers for a living on the btrects of New Bedford, Mass*, then the port of a great fleet of whale s. That was before the day of oU wel » and when the sperm oil trade was at its zenith. Knocking around among •he whalers and oil refiners, it is prob able that young Rogers then engag d in dreams »3 to the standing and wealth which awaited the man wh > might succeed in controlling the oil I connection with the company lie grew immensely rich. The grocer's clerk at $3 per week, 50 years ago, is now reputed to be worth $65,000,000. Some years ago he noticed that new elec trical inventions were eating up cop per faster than the mines could pro duce it and came to the conclusion that wealth awaited the owners of copper mines. He went to Wisconsin and Montana, visited the copper re gion* and studied! the situation. When he returned to New York he had formed his plans and soon, the Amal gamated Copper company, with the millions of the Standard Oil company hack #f it, was formed. Tlie subse quent advance in the price of copper from II to IS cent* showed the value of his business judgment. He ad mits that his purpose was, and is, to establish a copper trust, but he can not score a complete success in this endeavor until the syndicate acquires the great Verde copper mine* of Ari zona. owned by W. A. Clark of Mon tana, and in Wall street Mr. Clark is creditsd with having made the dec laration that he would not ondy never sell t# the copper Crust, but that, he would leave the mines to his children so safe-guarded that even they should not 2»«* able to tuia them over to the trust A» tho Man h. Henry H. Rogers is now G7 years oKL He does not look to be past 45. He is well preserved, stalwart and his bearing is like that of a man who trained in a military scliooE. While he is courteous and affable in bis social relations he is a hard taskmaster and a bitter and relentless foe. There is a iot of bulldog in the man; he is fear HENRY H. ROGERS. supply or tn« worm, ior ne says mat he always favored the combinations of capital which are now called trusts and early saw the advantages which they offered. He worked hard to sell his newspapers, but in those days there was not the '(fc«'nand for current read ing which no\^ exists, and the profits of his business were very small and uncertain. This caused him much worry, for he was expected to give as sistance to the support of his home, which was in Fairhaven, Conn. Ho sought a job which would yield a steady income and was employed in a grocery store at $3 a week and board. He made the most of his allowance for board and sent his weekly salary of $3 home. For five veals lie re mained in the employ of the grocer and was gradually advanced to the position of head clerk. When oil was discovered in Pennsylvania New Be ford soon became as dead as a mining town that had been abandoned in a rush for new diggings. Young Hagers went to the oil Helds. He knew many things about the oil trade in New He 1 ford and his knowledge was of th ■ practical kind. He readily found prof itable employment and had soon formed a personal acquaintance with the oil barons. He saw opportunities when they presented thems lvcs an l was able to formulte plans to fit them His ideas for saving and marketing the product of the wells were so good that he was employed by one of the big operators to carry them out. This position stimulated him to new ef forts and he began to dream again of the wealth and influence of the man who could control the oil trade of the country. Founder of Stuiulurd Oil f'nmpinv. Hagers is not generally credited for the hralnwork that made the Standard Oil company possible ami sure xsful, but It was he who suggested the plan from which it has grown and has al ways been one of Its ablest directors. Acting upon plans submitted by him many of the large operators pooled their interests and this was the incep tion of the company. Later the com pany was incorporated, Rogers was made a director and for some time has been a vice president. Through his mss, combative, energetic and tireless 1 He also is stubborn; once convinced lie is unchangeable. In thrse character istics he resembles in a great degree thp man whom he will succeed as the head of the Anaconda company. He has a magnificent home at the corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-eighth street. New York city, and a country home at Fairhaven which is one of the show places of New England. He has spent more than a million dollars in beauti fying his country residence and its surroundings and as much more for the benefit of the town which was his home when he was a poor boy. In speaking of trusts, he says: “My Idea of a trust Is that it economizes and brings before the people the best prod [ net at the lowest prices. That is what ! the Sugar trust is doing. • That Is what the Standard Oil company has done. I know that trusts are good things.” Png it* >i Detective. The ollicer w-hose duty it is to en force the game laws of Kansas recent ly had reason to suspect that sortie market hunters were Illegally shipping quail from Wellington, but the gather ing of evidence was found to he an al most impossible task. Finally the of ficers borrowed a pointer dog ami took it to the freight depot, and the animal promptly centered its attention upon a I large egg ease. The ease was opened. , and under its two top layers of eggs j were found several dozen quail. 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