Wealth and "Beauty
S'urrender to Cupid.
BEAUTIFUL KATHLEEN NEILSOM
Society is discussing the reported
ingagement of Reginald Claypooi
Vanderbilt, youngest son of the late
Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Miss Kath
een Neilson. second daughter of Mrs.
Frederic Neilson.
Their engagement is said to be an
jpen secret, and the delay in making
‘.he announcement Is due to the fact
‘.hat the young millionaire, although
if age and In possession of the for
tune of 512,000,000 left him by his
father, is still a student at Yale. He
will be graduated this spring, and it
Is expected that the formal engage
ment will soon follow.
Miss Neilson Is one of the most
beautiful girls in society. She is 20
years old and made her debut a year
ago. Long before that, however, tho
devotion of young "Reggie” Vander
bilt to her wa3 the subject of gossip
in Newport and New York. Of late
Mr. Vanderbilt has made frequent
trips from Yale to take Miss Neilson
out driving and escort her to social
functions.
Miss Neilson Is tall and graceful,
with a fine figure, a beautifully mod
eled. expressive face, a wealth of
light brown hair, and a dazzling com
plexion. She possesses many accom
plishments and withal Is a Jolly, gen
tle girl.
She 13 a niece of Freddie Gehhart,
and her sister is Mrs. Arthur Kemp.
Miss Neilson was the acknowledged
belle of the season in which she made
her debut.
Besides beauty Miss Neilson pos
sesses taste. She knows how to dre3S
exquisitely and her gowns have at
tracted attention at the horse show
and other society events.
The more dollars you get together
the louder they talk. Same with wo
men.
Lost by a Toy Balloon.
Diamonds and other jewels have
been lost in all sorts of queers ways,
but in none more unusual than the
accident mentioned in the Boston
Transcript, by which a diamond
brooch was snatched from the owner's
dress and left somewhere on the great
plains.
A young woman was traveling by
rail through Kansas. At Kinsley,
where the train made a considerable
stop, a fair was in progress. Here the
young woman bought of a peddler a
loy balloon for a little girl who had
won her fancy.
The child was delighted with the
plaything, and as they rode along she
•batted with her new fiiend and pulled
the balloon up and down. At length
she playfully fastened the string to
the lady’s diamond brooch.
The train was rounding a curve at
the moment and a strong gust of air
came through the car. The balloon
was carried out through the open
window. The sudden jerk on the
string loosened the brooch, and away
It sailed.
The jewel was so valuable that the
young woman offered a reward of five
hundred dollars for its recovery.
Spurred by this incentive, cowboys
scoured the plains for days in all di
rections, but without success—Youli's
Companion.
n«lllRf>reH>( Tr»lt. of Greek*.
Visitors to Greece are always amazed
at the criminal statistics, particularly
at the number of murders. Ordinary
crimes—dishonesty and the vices that
prevail in other countries—are not
general, but murders occur almost
daily. Homicides in the province in
which Athens Is located average an
nually almost one to 1,000 of the popu
lation. The causes lie mostly In poli
tics. The government has forbidden
the carrying of concealed weapons,
but the law is not enforced. A pouch
or sheath for a knife and a revolver
is a part of the national costume, and
they are worn openly. When two
Greeks quarrel the first act is to draw
their knives, and unless they are sep
arated instantly there is either a
homicide or a case for the hospital,
and the hospitals of Athens, which
are extensive and up-to-date, are
abundantly supplied with patients, es
pecially during periods of political
excitement. If a man is killed in a
controversy it usually begins a feud
which does not end until several
graves are filled.
A Simple Lemon.
Maria Edgeworth, in her time sec
ond only to .Jane Austen among lit
erary women, had a warm sympathy
for a 1 kinds of life, which accounts for
the ardor with which she writes of
human beings. A trifling incident, re
lated in one of her letters, impressed
her deeply.
‘‘We went the other day to see a
collection of natural curiosities at a
Mr. Broderip's. My father observed
that he had but very few butterflies,
“‘No, sir,’ he said; ‘a circumstance
that happened to me some time ago
determined me to never collect any
more butterflies. I caught a most
beautiful butterfly, thought I had
killed It, and ran a pin through its
body to fasten it to a cork. A fort
night afterward I happened to look
in the box where I had left It, and I
saw it writhing in agony. Since that
time I have never destroyed anoth
er.’ Youth's Companion.
Bread Made of I'ea Floor.
Something new in the way of a food
product is pea flour, with which the
War Department has recently been
making experiments. It will be placed
on the market before long at a mod
erate price, and 3eems likely to come
into use to a considerable extent. This
flour is intended to be mixed with
wheat flour for making bread, and
the claim is that it Improves the flavor
of the bread, which remains soft and
moist for a much longer time than
when wheat flour alone is employed.
The pea flour is prepared for market
by cooking the peas with steam, then
roasting them, and finally powdering
them by roller process, the final prod
uct being light sulphur yellow in color
and nearly as fine as ordinary wheat
flour.
It is extremely nutritious and Is said
to contain nearly two and a half times
as much of the substance that goes
to make muscle and blood as does
wheat flour. Nearly 59 per cent of
the pea flour is starch and over 28
per cent is flesh forming stuff, with
practically no water.—Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post.
The l ate I)r> Kerman Hall.
The late Dr. i>ewman Hall was very
fond of mountain climbing and spent
many of his holidays in Switzerland.
He always made a point of exerting
himself in the hotels for the promo
tion of friendly intercourse and in
this way he made the acquaintance of
a very large number of persons of
all ranks and creeds. Towards tha
end of his life he was almost as in
defatigable as in his prime in preach
ing all over the country. One little
foible he had on these occasions was
of recommending his hearers to pur
chase his books, the profits of wdiich,
however, he devoted to special work.
Experiment! with Petroleum.
Experiments with petroleum for fuel
are being made in the Norwegian
navy. Of the refined oil imported an
nually into Norway $983,000 worth
comes from America and $99,000 from
Russia.
SOME EARLY HISTORY
FIRST OFFICIAL SURVEY OF OHIO
AND INDIANA LANDS.
Col. Jared Man'fle’il. One of the Flr*t
Teacher* Appointed to the fVe*t
Tolut Military Academy. Had Charge
of the Work.
In a recent arti°le relative to the
founding of the West Point Military
Academy some information of inter
est was omitted, notably the history
of the first teachers of that famous
institution. The following facts have
been supplied by Mr. Solomon Mercer
3t Coshocton, Ohio:
The first teachers in the academy
were Col. Jared Mansfield and Capt,
Barron. Col. Mansfield's father and
family came from Exeter, in England,
tud were among the first settlers in
New Haven in 163a. Mr. Mansfield
began his life as a teacher in New’
Haven, and afterward taught at the
Friends’ Academy in Philadel
phia, going from there to
West Point, where he taught
in the Military Academy in 1802 and
1803, and again from 1814 to 1828, In
clusive. In the meantime, however,
he was nine years in the state of Ohio,
holding the position of surveyor gen
eral of the United States.
While teaching in New Haven Mr.
Mansfield published a book entitled
"Essays on Mathematics." This book
was brought to the notice of Mr.
Jefferson, who was fond of science
and scientific men. The consequence
was that Mr. Mansfield became a cap
tain of engineers, appointed by Mr.
Jefferson, with a view to his becoming
one of the professors at the West
Point Military Academy, then estab
lished by law. Accordingly he and
Capt. Barron, also of the engineers,
were ordered to West Point, and be
came the first teachers of the cadets
in 1802.
Mr. Mansfield wae there but a short
time when he received an appoint
ment to a new and more arduous field
in the west, where the demand for
surveyors was urgent. He was made
surveyor-general of the United States.
i ne position was uy no means
sought after by Mr. Mansfield, who
was a scholar and mathematician, and
fond of a quiet and retired life, but he
was induced to go under conditions
which perhaps were never granted to
any other officer. It was agreed that
while he was engaged in the public
service in the west his commission
in the engineer corps should go on.
and he be entitled to promotion, al
though he received but one salary,
that of surveyor general. In accord
ance with this agreement, he received
two promotions while in Ohio, and his
professorship at \Nest Point was
awarded him on the recommendation
of President'Mauison in 1814, with the
rank and pay of lieutenant colonel.
At that time but a part of the lands
in Ohio to which the Indian title had
been extinguished had been surveyed.
For this purpose Mr. Mansfield arriv
ed at Marietta in the year 1803, estab
lished his office there until the month
of October, 1803, at which time his
headquarters were moved to Cincin
nati.
In the rapid progress of migration
to the vest, and the success of Gov.
William Henry Harrison in treating
for the purchase of land from the In
dians by treaty,the public surveys also
were soon necessary in western Ohio
and in the Indiana territory, which
was then an unbroken wilderness, al
though the French had established the
po3t of Vincennes. There may have
been a settlement at Clarksville, on
the Clark grant, but except these there
was not a white settlement in Indiana.
It uecame necessary to extend the
surveyed lines through that state,
then only a part of the great north
west territory. For this purpose Mr.
Mansfield, in the month of October,
1805, undertook the first public sur
veying expedition in Indiana.
Although the military sages in their
centennial at West Point failed to
mention the name of Jared Mansfield
as one of the first professors, he has
left many monuments in the west on
record that can never be obliterat
ed or forgotten. If the reader will but
go to a certain point near Paoli, in
Orange county, Indiana, he will ob
serve the point from which Col.
Mansfield operated in Indiana. The
point referred to is where the princi
pal meridian and base lines cross
each other at right angles; from this
point all the public lands in the state
of Indiana were surveyed. Jared
Mansfield established both meridian
and base lines and established a monu
ment at their crossing every six miles
from that point, whether north, east,
south or west.
Colonel Mansfield made the first
map of that part of Indiana which
was duly recorded and the land
granted to the purchaser according to
the survey he mane. This was the
first opportunity he had to establish
a principal meridian and base line,
ana for thi3 alone millions of people
have good cause to remember Jared
Mansfield, one of the first professors
at We3t Point in 1802.
Oood Story of Abernctliy.
Andrew Lang tells this story in
Longman’s Magazine: “As to asking
for votes, one would feel like Aber
nethy (1 think it was he) who stood
foiwr professorship in Edinburgh. He
hair to canvass a bailie, who was a
grocer. The bailie had une attitude
digne. ‘You have come young sir, in
*.his creesis of your career, to ask for
my vote for the chair of Toxicoekol
tgy?’ 'No, sir,' said Abernethy, ‘I
nave come to ask for a pennyworth of
your figs. Put them up, and look smart
about St.’ ’’
A LUXURIOUS HOME FOR OLD MEN
! Hurra far Thai* of 1'nlttr* nmt Ra
flnrment Who Aro In Seed.
When Col. Beard of New York died
a few years since he left a delightful
home at Poughkeepsie to be used for
aged men of culture and refinement
who have been unable in their days of
labor to save a competency for them
selves, It is known as the Pringle
home, is luxuriously fitted up and an
ideal place for those who are privil
eged to enjoy its homelike surround
ings.
For a long time there were no oc
cupants, but at the present time Mrs.
Duncan, the matron, has a family of
six talented old men. The latest ar
rival is Prof. Albert O. Ijturlence, a
musician of rare accomplishments.
The Polish count. Caslmlr Podgoviskl,
who was the guest of Paderewski on
his recent visit to Poughkeepsie, is
another of the sextet.
On the occasion of the visit of the
Euterpe Music club to the home re
cently, Podgoviskl looked upon them
as his special guests. Being a thor
ough musician, he took down his old
violin and gave a nocturne with sweet
touches. ‘'The Cuckoo and the Wan
derer” and “In the Mill,” by Volk
mann. As an encore he gave Gou
nod's beautiful "Ave Maria.” with de
votional effect. Podgoviskl was at
one time professor of music and
French at Smith College, Northamp
ton, Mass.
A third member of the family is
Philip Snyder, who was for years an
editorial writer on the Philadelphia
rress. lie is well posted on the cur
rent happenings of the day and has a
room that is a genuine sanctum, with
books of reference, typewriter and
desk.
James McCluskey of Paterson is
No. 4. He is a Scotchman uy birth,
a lover of Scottish writers and a
great lover of Paterson.
W. H. Foreman was once the dra
matic critic of a New York daily. He
has lost his hearing, but his eye is
still bright. He occupies the circular
room that was once the pride of Col.
Beard.
Spencer W. Cone is the last of the
3ix occupants of the nome. He was
a friend for years of Charles A. Dana,
and delights in telling anecdotes and
incidents in the great editor’s career.
While the Euterpes were at the
home, says the New York Times, the
count exhibited his workshop, which
is fitted up with carpenter’s and up
holster's tools. He learned the
trade while in the military service
at St. Petersburg.
A Calm You ns Woman.
A young woman of Brooklyn, sus
pected of a cruel murder, amazes all
who see her by her remarkable calm
ness. She was calm when arrested,
she was calm when the prison doors
closed upon her, she was calm when
confronted by the evidence. In fact,
the girl is rarely mentioned without
some reference to her calmness. It
may be an exhibition of wonderful
nerve, or it may be the outward mani
festation of innocence. Anyway, she
is calm.
This will remind old-time readers
of the Orpheus C. Kerr letters that in
fatuated firemen who fell in love with
a wax figure in a hairdresser’s win
dow. It wasn't her pink-and-white
beauty alone that drew him. nor her
lovely garments. It wast her calm
ness that quickened his heartbeats.
’ She's so ca’m,” he murmured, “so
very ca'm.’’ And when he rescued her
at the risk of his life from a fierce
conflagration his first words when re
stored to consciousness were:
“Wasn’t It beautiful to see her a
standin’ there so cam?”—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Germany'* EronorJe Method*.
The Countess Alida von Krockow
writes from Germany to the Christian
Register: “Germans find that tt pays
to encourage peasants to free their
fields of stones; the property rises in
value—taxing value. The stones
thrown into heaps by the roadside are
purchased by the district road repair
ing commission. Poor men, who
otherwise would have to be supported
by the almshouses, are hired to break
these stones, and then are trained to
the work of repairing the roadbed.
The money to pay the men is made by
auctioneering off to the highest bid
der the crop of the fruit trees that
were planted on both sides of the
highway when it was built, and which
are nourished well by the manure
that falls along the road and is push
ed at intervals by a road tender upon
their roots. The purchaser of the
crop sees to it that his fruit is not
stolen. The road commissioners have
no bother about that. And, although
the sale be by auction, it brings in
considerable. Every burgher knows
how much, because the sales of high
way fruit crops are published in the
local newspapers.
When D* Wolf Hopper Went to Cliurrh
"1 attended church once upon a
time," said T>e Wolf Hopper in an up
town cafe the other day, "in a Rhode
Island city, and heard a worthy cler
gyman named Whicher get tangled up
in his pulpit lines to a painful degree,
while the heads of his auditors were
bowed in their efforts to suppress
laughter until they looked like rows
of tasseled cornstalks bent by the
breeze.
"The .tev. Mr. Whicher was
booming the Sunday school, or, rath
er, he was chiding the congregation
for its lack of interest in that church
annex, and finding that they did not
act aa 1? moved by his admonition, be
came slightly incensed.
“ *r never,’ he shouted, as ne banged
the pulpit with his fist, ‘knew a
church which had so many parents
with no children.’ "
CONDEMNED IN MISSOURI AND CON*
FISC/.TED IN NEW YORK.
Judge Clarke of St. Lcuis Iihs con
victed and lined heavily a number of
grocers for selling baking powder*
containing alum.
The week before ,'ie Health Depart
ment of New York seized a quantity
of stuff being sold for baking powdei
which they found was made from
alum mixed with ground rock, and
dumped it into the river.
The Health Authorities are thua
taking effective means to prevent the
Introduction into our markets of in
jurious substitutes in place of whole
some baking powders.
As alum costs only two cents a
pound, there is a great temptation for
those manufacturers who make sub
stitutes and imitaliou goods, to use
it. Alum baking powders can be de
tected by the health authorities by
chemical analysis, but the ordinary
housekeeper, whose assistance In pro
tecting the health of the people is im
portant, cannot make a chemical ex
amination. She may easily know the
nlum powders, however, from the fact
that they are sold at from ten N>
twenty cents for a pound can, or
that some prize—like a spoon or
glass, or piece of crockery, or wooden
ware—is given with the powder as an
Inducement.
As the people continue to realize the
importance of this subject and con
sumers insist on having baking pow
der of established name und cnarac
ter. and as the health authorities con
tinue their vigorous crusades, the
alum danger will, it is hoped, finally
be driveu from our homes.
Close Calls for Two M. P.’s.
Two members of the Britisn parlia
ment have had narrow escapes from
ignominious death. Mr. O'Mrien, who
leprtsents Cork, was in 1817 convicted
of having led a Fenian rising, ur.d was
sentenced to be hanged, drawn and
Quartered. As it was proved, how
ever, that he had saved inmates of
burning barracks at great risk to him
self, his sentence was commuted.
Another Irish member, Mr. O’Kelly,
of Roscommon, while serving as a
correspondent in Cuba in 1875, was an
rested as a spy. and the firing squad
was just forming when the United
States consul arrived and saved his
life.
Botha's Wife an Emmett.
The wife of General Botha, the Beer
general, is a descendant of Robert
Emmett's elder brother, Thomas Add a
Emmet, who was one of the United
Irish Directory in 1798, and was pun
ished by the government by confine
ment in Fort George for three years.
Robert Emmet, whose name is so pop
ularly known, was but a youth of 20
in 1798. His attempt at insurrection
in 1803 was the last effort of the
Brotherhood of United Irishmen, and
his death on the scafTold on Septem
ber 20, 1803, ninety-seven years ago.
was the last tragic act in that move
ment
An Honest Man's Opinion.
Vermont, Mo., April 28th.—If what
Mr. J. S. Tillery of this place says Is
true—and none who know him doubt
his honesty—the new remedy Dodd's
Kidney Pills is a wonderful medicine
indeed. Mr. Tillery says:
"I had Kidney and Liver Trouble for
years. I had used many medicines but
could get nothing to cure me.
"I heard of a new remedy called
Dodd’s Kidney Pills and began a treat
ment with the result that l was very
soon on the mend.
“I kept on using the pills and am
now entirely better. I honestly do be
lieve that they are the greatest remedy
the world has ever seen.
“I am always willing to help a good
thing and I cannot say too much for
one that helped me so much.
"If I didn't know that Dodd's Kid
ney Pills would do all that <s claimed
for them I wouldn’t say word of
praise for them."
A loud profession and a quiet per
formance never yet went hand In
hand.
T>*rTnan*niiy curw. No At* or oenrouanewi after
• MO first tiny’» him of Dr. Kline* 'treat Nerve Re*tor>
rr. Send for PKKK 93.00 trial bottle and treatino.
Du. It. 11 Klims. Ltd.. 031 Art h Street. FhUadelithla. Pa.
A little learning is like dried apples.
They both puff you up.
820 A (VKKH AM/ »..M ENSKS
lo nin with rig to introduce our Poultry goods,
bendstp. Juvelle Mfg Co. .Dept. D, Parsons,Kan.
The last shall be first when a wo
man picks up a novel.
The well-posted druggist advises you
to use Hamlin's Wizard Oil for pain, for
he knows what it has done.
“Any port in storm'1 is tho wine
bibber’s motto.
Drive Rheumatism Away
hy the use of MATT J. JOHNSON'S GOSS.
It cures thoroughly and quickly.
Shopping has no Joys to the woman
who is color blind.
Piso's Cure for Consumption Is an Infallible
medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. Siam,
Ocean Orove, N. J.. Feb. 17. 1900.
Men want hands more than hand
outs.
EARLIEST RUSSIAN MILLET.
Will you be short of hay! If so, plant a
plenty of this prodigally prolific millet.
5 to 8 Tons of Rich Hay I*er Acre.
Price 50 ltis $1.90; Ilk) lbs. $:i. Low freights.
John A. Halzer Heed Co., La Crosse,Wis. VV
Poison Is not antidoted by a golden
cup.
Mrs. Wt islow's Smithing Syrup
For c hildren teething. softens the gums, reduces ln
llaumiatlon, allays pula, cures wind colic, zic shuttle
It takes a great man to lead a small
army.
WHEN YOUR URni'ER SAYS
he does not have Defiance Starch you
hu’Lt^iT'ls afrai<i to keep It until
°fk12.oz Packages are sold. Ue
fl.aknce/?tlirch i” not onlv belter than anv
o etr„Cthe \Vatr 8t»«h. but contain? 1«
money Ce““ for 3*“8
Homehow a creditor always has a
better roBmory than a debtor.
