I WESTERN PIONEER TELLS OF KILLING OF YEARS AGO Alexander Beaubien is the first white ehild born in Chicago. That interest ing exert took place eighty-two years ago. He Is also the oldest policeman to the world, and furthermore he car ried one secret for seventy years— probably a world’s record. Recently he told the pupils of the higher grades at the Jones school all about early times in Chicago and also all abont the secret. “Yes," said the veteran, “it is a little atory that will be of some interest to the children and as there is now no reason Ajr it being kept I am going to tell them air about it. “It was when I was ten years of •&. when we were living on the West 8ide in the shadow of the old stock ade. My nncle at that time had charge the payment ot the treaty money to the Indians and it was during one of these festivals that I killed a man. “The Northern Indians had assem bled to get their share of Cncle Sam’s s*cmey and among the crowd was one Sauk from the south, who was not en titled to anything. He joined the oth er red men in their potations, h “He was dead, and I buried the body as well as I could and went home. I told my mother about it and she told me to mention the fact to no one. I did not and she died without telling the secret. — “The reason for secrecy was that tl:e Sauk were ar that time a warlike and powerful tribe, and had they learned that one of their number had been shot by a white man it is more than probable they would have swooped down on the stockade and killed all the pioneer citizens of Chi cago. I cion t think there is any danger ! that the Sauk will wipe the city out of i existence now, so there is no harm | in telling the secret.” •Claims He Saw Birth of Party. B. W. Judd, now a resident of Ev rvett, Wash., claims that it was in his parlor, near Ripon, Wis., that the formation of the Republican party was decided upon. Mr. Judd is now a Pro hibitionist. In 1S54 he was a free sailer. The question came up that year of how to rid Wisconsin of the ■ten in power. A preliminary meeting was field in a sehoolhouse, but Judd's nrpport as a leading free soiler was desired. He was visited by a commit tee and signed the call for a conven tion; The movement was outlined in Is parlor. The call declared against She further extension of slavery. It was published in anti-slavery papers aud in the New York Tribune. In answer to Horace Greeley's query as to the name of the new organization w*:e of the leaders dubbed it the Re fublican party. Perfect Wireless Telegraphy, r Signor Marconi, who is in Washing ton at the Italian embassy, says that tfcn British admiralty can eommuni mte with one of its worships any where on the Atlantic ocean or in the Mediterranean at any moment. “If it afaould become necessary for the Brit ferfe government to send orders to the ■eel it would be done by wireless,” In continued. “Eighty of the British warships, including most of the Pa cific vessels, of the Mediterranean and channel fleet, have been equipped with long-distance apparatus, and in the other vessels the system is being in stalled as rapidly as possible. Wire less communication between England and Gibraltar has been in uninterrupt ed service' for many months in spite •T the fact that messages must trav erse a long stretch of Spanish terri tory.” First “l»assen-ger Traffic Manager.” Lucins Tuttle, now president of the Boston and Maine railroad, was the drat man to hold the title of "passen ger trafflc manager.” It was bestowed spon him by President Van Horne of the Canadian Pacific railway. Van Horne created the position for Tuttle m 1887, so as not to interfere with Ike rank or title of officers already em ployed and because the Canadian Pa cific was largely owned in England, where railway officials' titles are dif ferent from those in America. Grand Wolf Hunt. The citizens of Chattanooga, in the leg pasture reserve of Oklahoma, hre making preparations for a big wolf heat. It Is expected that hunters Area Indian Territory and Oklahoma will take part The plans are for the sportsmen to gather on the four sides af a six-mile square tract and proceed •a the center, forcing all game ahead «f them; when- at the center they wdB, with the aid of their ddgs, kill •e wolves. No guns will be allowed Ms the hut Prefers to Live in America. ! Drexel, t!»e Philadelphia mil lionaire, arrived home the other day from a trip along the Pacific coast, just in time to learn from the news papers that he contemplates taking up his permanent abode in England. Mr. Drexel indignantly denies the report, saying he has not the slightest inten tion of following Mr. Astor's example. “I a“ an admirer of England,” he says, "but I like my own country infinitely better. The rumor may have arisen from the fact that Lord Vane Tem pest was my companion on the jour ney to the Pacific and back.” Schoolboy Cause of Quarrel. John Barwic, a boy of Canadian birth ard parentage, was attending a public school in Pomona, Cal., where his parents now reside. The Ameri can flag is hoisted over the school house every morning and all scholars are expected to salute it. This was too much for Johnny’s rich Canadian blood and he refused to follow the general custom. Thereupon he was sent home by Miss Hill, the teacher, who has been sustained by .he local' board of education. The boy’s parents uphold him in his refusal to raise his cap. Clings to Useful Life. Miss Isabel Hagner, private secre tary to Mrs. Roosevelt, has a fortune ample for all the frivolities of New port and Tuxedo or for division of her life between Fifth avenue and Bel grave square, but she prefers to fol low the useful career she mapped out for herself when, with a thinner purse, she entered semipublic life. When Miss Hagner came into a handsome in heritance recently she gave no sign of intention to leave her present post. Noted Vocalist Is Dead. By the recent death in Melbourne of Mrs. Theodosia Stewart In her nine tieth year, the first woman who sang the title role of “Maritana” in the Southern hemisphere, has passed away. She herself always maintained that she sang the part in Sydney be fore the first production of the opera in Drury Lane in November, 1845. She was well acquainted with its com poser, the gifted but erratic Irishman, William Vincent Wallace, who was a resident of Sydney in the late ’30s. Divorced Catholics’ Club. The first number of the offlpial or gan of the Austrian Divorced Catho lics’ Club has appeared. According to it there are in Austria no fewer than 200,000 divorced persons, the ma jority of whom desire to marry again. Highest Inhabited Spot. Tibet has the highest spot inhabited by human beings on this globe. Thfa» is the Buddbitt cloister of Hanle, where twenty-one monks Hen at an altitude of 16,000 feet LIFE OF ONCE FAMOUS ACTOR DRAWING TO CLOSE Maurice Barrymore, who is said to be in a hopeless condition in the sani tarium at Amityviile, Long Island, was famous in his day as an actor and a wit. His proper name is Herbert Blythe. He was born in India in 1848, and was educated at Cambridge Uni versity, England, subsequently study ing for the law and for the India civil service. After being: admitted to the bar he practiced law for a time, but soon adopted the stage as a profes sion. For years he was leading man in the A. M. Palmer and other com panies, and also for Mme. Modjeska and Mrs. Langtry. Mr. Barrymore is the author of a libretto and of several plays. KNOWS SITUATION IN EAST, Chester Holcombe Student of Affairs in the Orient. Anent the many interesting situa tions developing every day as the re sult of the Russian-Japanese war, Iowa people have been listening with much interest to the utterances of Chester Holcombe, the orator, diplomat and author, who is an authority on the Japanese Russian controversy and as sociated. questions. Mr. Holcombe has spent many years in the far east in the diplomatic service of this country and is probably as well qualified to answer the questions, to unravel tnom and make them plajn as any other liv ing Armerican. Shortly after his grad uation from Union college Dr. Hol I combe went to China and was soon appointed secretary and interpreter to the American legation in Pekin by President Grant. He has filled all of the important posts of the United States diplomatic service in China. As a member of the commission for that purpose he negotiated the treaty between the United States and Corea. In 1884 he was appointed to represent our government at the capital of the United States of Colombia, but de clined the appointment. He was twice offered a decoration of high order by the emperor of China, but declined. He spent much time in Japan in the early part of 1895 in connection with the negotiation of a treaty of peace between the empire of Japan and China. He is especially 'interested in missionary work and is one of the Cl ('7IE577J? ffODOCnST rectors of the American Doard. He w^s on terms of friendship with I.t Hung Chang and many prominent Chi nese statesmen. Praises Schwab’s Generosity. Rev. Ferdinand Kittell, rector of St. Michael’s church. Loretto, Cambiia county, Pa., the church which Charles M. Schwab built at an expense of $200,000, states that “C. M. Schwab had paid out more than $2,000,000 to persons whom he believed to have lost money by reason of the formation of the shipbuilding trust. There was one case of a widow in New York who lost all she had in the business, and she had had nearly $500,000. Mr. Schwab drew his check for $400,000 and gave it to her. I saw the check.” Costly Member of Rich Family. It Is said that the family of Harry Thaw, the young Pittsburger who re cently married Evelyn Florence Nes bit, the ehorus girl and artists' model, has spent about $1,000,000 in trying to keep him from making just such a marriage as he has contracted. The young man has been entangled on sev eral occasions with stage beauties, and the sum named is believed to be about what it hcrcost hii thmfly to prevent such affairs reaching the wadding stage.—Chicago Chronicle. Proud of His Business. Adolphus Busch, the St. Louis brew er, has a lively appreciation of the fact that his big establishment in the city named is an important business undertaking. Some stcries, more or less true, are told in illustration of this. Here is one: While traveling in Europe recently he made some ac Quaintanceswho.se knowledgeof Amer ican geography was rather limited and the world's fair came up for discus sion. “How much of a walk is t from New ’iork to SL Louis?” one of the party asked. “Oh, St. Louis is not near New York at all,” Busch replied “It is right next to my brewery.” Russia to Modify Laws. Congressman Henry M. Goldfogle has received a letter from Sir Stew art M. Samuel, M. P., indicating that Russia will soon make great reforms in her treatment of the Jews, inci dentally abolishing the discriminatibn which has hitherto been exercised against Jews bearing American pass ports. Sir Stewart is the nephew of Sir Samuel Montague, who, when a member of the English parliament, ! went into Russia and was driven out ! because he wa3 a Jew. He writes that ; it is “highly probable that a relaxation * in or abolition of the anti-Jewish reg ulations will soon take place.” Bernhart Plays in Germany. Sarah Bernhart has entered into contract to give eight representations j at a Berlin theater. This will be her second appearance in the German cap iital. Formerly, with all the fervor of a patriot of the Deroulede type, the remarkable Sarah used to declare that the price for her public appearance at Berlin w ould be Alsace-Lorraine, which she would thus restore to France, just as in 1866 Francis Joseph ceded Vene tia to Napoleon III in favor of Italy. But since that time internationalism has made wonderful progress, and Sarah has dropped her price from two provinces to $10,000. Win* Honors in Botany. Miss Minnie Robinson of Detroit, a graduate of Michigan university, is winning national honors as a student of botany. For some time past Miss Robinson has been professor of botany and biology in Vassar college. Last summer she spent her vacation in making special studies in botany in the botanical gardens at Boston, and this summer she spent on the Island of Jamaica, studying plant life. Mis3 Robinson has made discoveries in her studies of ferns that were never known before, and is winning distinc tion among the botanists of the United States. Rose to High Position. From ragpicker to United States senator is a pretty big jump, and yet that is just what the new senator from Massachusetts has made. Not “ragpicker” exactly as we might un derstand it, but almost that. His grandfather, Zilnas Crane, founded a ' small paper mill at Dalton, in the western part of Massachusetts, and his ! father, also Zilnas, succeeded t3 the business. When Murray Crane was 17 years old he left the public schools to take a place in the mill, beginning at the lowest place, that of ragpicker. Bring Alaska Gold. W. P. Beardsley, George Klapproth, David W. Scot and John Belsea have reached this city from the north, bringing with them $39,000 in gohl dust and one of the largest nuggets of the year. The gold came from Glen gulch, in the Tanana district, where | all four of the men own valuable claims. The party are all experienced | mining men, and have spent several seasons in the north. Mr. Beardsley has spent eight summers in Alaska.— I Seattle Post-!ntellir««cer. f —. New Way of Recovering Sunken Treasures Invention el Cevaliere Pino _ HE HAD LEARNED SOMETHING — Why Colored Paster’s City Trip Wa*: a Good *' ’Vertment.” John Sharp Williams tells the follow ing story of a colored preacher wh< came to Now York and had never he fore heard a graphophone or realize .ts acoustic properties. Later or it the day he saw a wireless instrnmen' on top of one of the skyscrapers do* town. When he got back to his yarist in Georgia, after telling his congreg' tion all about New York, his perorr tion was: “Brevren. foh a good many yea., we’ve done gone an’ hollahed on lungs out asking de good Lawd ton money to build us a new church, but de Lawd nevah seemed to heah us. 3ut up in New Yawk day ve got a ma chine that can hoilah a thousand times louder dan we can, an’ if de Lawd don’t heah us den we'll nevah get our church. An' day got anudder ma chine dat talks across de ocean widout any wires, an’ as we can’t see across the ocean, an’ we can see the sky. den we ought to be able to communicate wid heaven if you’ll all subscribe gen erously dis mohmn’. An’ I'll feel dat my trip to New Yawk was a good ’vestment.”—New York Times. Verses on His Dog. “No, sir,” said the struggling young poet, “editors do not give a fellow any encouragement. One day last week l waited two hours to see the editor of a ten-cent magazine. I told him I had written some verses on my dog. ”He asked me what part of the dog I had used, and then said if 1 didn't live too far away he would run up and look at it. “I explained that I had the verses with me, and handed them to him with the remark that I had just dashed them off. “He quickly glanced over them, and handed them back, telling me I didn't dash ’em off far enough.”—Cbiraga Record-Herald. FQ'-g!v*ntsi [Jot Necessary. Adelaide was having a good time rmining up and down in the street, a forbidden playground for her, when she was startled by hearing her mo ther call, “Adelaide, come in.” She reluctantly obeyed, but in a few min utes she clambered into her mother's lap and whispered, “Please forgive me, mamma.” “Yes, dear,” said her mother; “of course mamma forgives you.” Shortly afterward Adelaide rushed down the steps again, and out into the street. Her surprised mamma called, “Adelaide, what do you mean? Come here immediately.” It was a puzzled little girl who returned re luctantly and pouted, “Oh, if you won’t let me out on the street you needn’t bother about forgiving me.” Cause of Her Tears. Carrie Elizabeth is a two-year-old philosopher. She has a keen sense of humor, and is as quick as lightning. Not long ago at the dining table, she asked for cake. Her mother broke a ; large piece, giving the small daughter a small portion. This offended the little woman, and immediately there came a downpour of tears. “Oh,” said her father, in an effort to soothe her wounded feelings, “I wouldn’t cry about a little think like that.” Quickly the sobs ceased. “But why Bhould mamma have made me cry about a little thing like that?” she asked.—Boston Post. Ci.Mb for Traction Employes. The officers of the consolidated street car lines of Oakland, Cal., have fitted up a spacious and thoroughly equipped athletic and social club for their employes, including billiard, pool and card rooms, reading room, lunch room, gymnasium, bowling alley, shooting gallery and baths. The only expenses of the members will be for Janitor and other service. DIGESTION AND THE WEATHER. Changes in Temperature Are a Source Of Much Trouble. "Do you know I think there is some sort of intimate connection between the weather and the digestive or Rans,” said a man to a New Orleans Tiines-Democrat writer, "and I do not mean by the bad effects which some- ; times will result from the influence the weather has on vegetation. I mean a more direct connection. I think, to put it plainly, there must be ome immediate connection between a storm, or any other sort of meteor ological violence, and the digestive organs. "Of course, it would not be reason able to assume that art persons are influenced by tlmse changes in the weather. There are, however, many who are. influenced and who are, in my opinion, often puzzled to know the cause of the trouble. 1 cannot peak for other persons, but I can -peak for myself, and when I tell you that a stor a w ill often give me indigestion 1 am easily within the o-uh. It has not hn, neced once. It har happened many times. *It is the •ante way with other violent changes n the weather. There is an old be ;i f, and it cannot be doubled, that thunder will sour milk. Of course, kis is rot exactly wl.at happens, but ‘t is a fact that milk will sour under either condition- favorable to this hanee. Chcrnot th to ranch of man e affected in the same wfy? Mine j SCENT THEIR PET DOGS. >». Fashion. Has Selected an Appropriate Perfume for EacP Modish Breed. Nowadays the pet log must be per fumed, but it is not enough to seen: him with any old perfume. Modish women who consider their pets ir to select an appropriate odor fo them. Thus, Japanese poodles are perfum ed with frangipani, which has a spic Japanese odor that suggests the Or ental nativity of the animal. Mexican hairless dogs, which are enjoying quite a vogue just now, arr scented with chypore, which has a heavy tropical odor that suits thos dogs of the south. Very little of i is used, as the scent is powerful. Tw > or three drops on the long hair be! r.d the head, where the dog cannot in dulge his tendency to lick it off, is ai! that is needed. The shaggy Skye terriers are seen* ed with a stimulating extract >•: Scotch heather sold by one of th Fifth avenue druggists and redolent of the Scotch flower's perfume. French poodles, which are not near ly so popular now as they used to 1>» smell delicately of some British per fume. Boston terriers have received a their special perfume a scent made by a New York druggist and declared to he the sportiest of all odors. Remedy Bad as Disease, An American tourist was talking about the bankrupt Marquis of Angle «ey. “I attended the sale,” he said, “of the young man's personal effects, and I bought three or four of his enor mous collection of walking sticks. The size and the extravagance of bk> wardrobe amazed mo. It seemed in credible, in these sober modern days, that any sane male should have spent so much on clothes. •'Anglesey, though, had been extrav A Water-Telescope, Consisting of a Steel Platform Buoyed Up by a Mass of Cork, a Strong Steel Tube Big Enough to Allow a Man to Enter, Fitted With Steps, and at the Lower End a Huge Camera Containing Twelve Great Lenses Specially Constructed by Saint-Goubin of Paris. —Illustrated London News. is- I do not know about yours. My own experience has convinced me that the weather mflay have much to do with indigestion in a great many in stances. Do you not think so?” — Organists Long Lived. Organists are proverbially long lived, though doubtless the oldest or ganist is Mr. Gervase Cooper, an Eng lish musician. He is more than nine ty years old, but still does active service as organist of a Wesleyan : church. He has been associated with the musical services of that denomi nation for seventy-five years, and for fifty-eight years has officiated as or ganist continuously. Another notable veteran is Mr. T. N. Webber, who played the national anthem at West minster when Queen Victoria was crowned and did the same at the cor onation of King Edward. He has been organist at che parish church for sixty-four years. Queer Case of a Letter. This from a lawyer: “I have been called in to settle a peculiar case. X owed M $20, and one day wrote a let ter inclosing a check for the amount, put a stamp on it and was on the way to the postofflee to mail it when he met M. There had been some feel ing over the indebtedness and M pro ceeded to abuse X for not paying him. His offensive language caused X to show the letter and say: *1 have a check for you in this envelope and was about to post it, but since you are so blackguardly I shall des troy it and let you wait lor your money.’ With that he tore open the sealed envelope, exhibiting the check, and then reduced it to bits. M is prosecuting X for tampering with the mails on the ground that the V>tter, being sealed, stamped and addressed to him. was bis property, and should not have been opened by X. He is going to carry tne matter to the Unit ed States court.”—New York I’ress. A City's “Fresh Air.” Fresh air in New York i3 not clean air. This has been established by rec ords obtained from the fresh air fil ters and automatic sweepers of the Hotel St. Regis. From outside air pumped into the hotel in one week, which was without rain, one barrel of dust was obtained. In the same week the automatic sweepers in the hotel gathered two and one-half bar rels of dust. The air is drawn into the St. Regis passes through screens of fine mesh cheesecloth. From these screens the barrel of dust was gath ered. In sweeping a pneumatic hose is used which draws up the dust by suction. First Woman Pastor. The first regularly ordained and in ducted woman pastor of an English church is Miss Gertrude von Patzold, M. A. (Edinburgh), who conducted her first service in the Free Christian church, Leicester, on Sept. 29. She is the daughter of a German army offi cer and is twenty-eight years old. She has had a notable scholastic ca reer. agant in everything—in jewels, in pic tures, in motor cars, in perfumes. His household didn’t resemble in its unheard of luxury that of a million aire. It rather resembled that of a billion or a trillionaire. ‘When his affairs began to be in volved, Anglesey called in an econ omical cousin for advice. “ Help me,’ he said, to stave off ruin.' The cousin lived well enough, but somewhat simply. After he had mas tered Anglesey’s financial condition, he said “ There is nothing for it but econ omy. You must live like me.’ “Anglesey, his jewelled hands on the jewelled head of his stick, looked slowly about the plain, bare room. “ ‘But I can do that,’ he said, ‘after I am ruined.’ ” Women and Angels. Bishop McDowell smiled benignly. He was presiding at the conference of the deaconesses of the Methodist con ference, in session at Chicago. The question box had just been opened. The secretary read: “Why Is it that the angel’s most frequently appear in the guise of women?” The bishop blushed. Dr. Jackson, who was on the platform with him. pulled his goatee. The only other male member of the congregation, a newspaper man, crawled under the seat. “W’ell—well, dear sisters, the wom en are all angels. Perhaps If they went anywhere else there might be er, some talk.” The bishop continued to smile In that bland way of his, Dr. Jackson laughed aloud and the newspaper man got out from under the seat. But there were several of the speakers at the session who extended their noses toward the ceiling. Some Funeral Remarks. In his funeral remarks on a late brother of the fold, Bfother Dickey said: “By de blessin’ er Providenee he lef, money ’nuff ter bury him, en I hear tell dat dar’ll be a margin over ter he’p his sufferin' widder ter git a black dress ter mourn fer him In. 'twel she gits married ag'in. He died happy, en never wuz lynched in his life—kaze he always wuz able to out run de lynchin’ committee!”—Atlanta Constitution. Fly in Hia Ointment. Col. Henry Watterson of Kentucky during his recent visit to New York told a story of an old darky down south who was informed that whisky was an infallible cure for snakebite. His informant told him that if he was bitten by a snake and drank a quart of whisky the snake would die and he would go unscathed. “Dar’s only one trubble T>out dat cure,” the old man said. “I knows whar dere’s plenty snakes, but whars I gwine ter git de whisky r*— New York Times.