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<nv
and when very drunk got into
iatR* trouble with my uncle.
“1 was told to watch him while my
rwclo went inside the house to get a
whip, and when he came out the Indian
was given a severe beating.
“That was all there was to it at
the lime, but about a week later 1 was
*«t hunting, and this Indian made a
dash out the bushes with his knife in
his hand to take my scalp. I had an
ate double-barreled shotgun with me.
sml when he came close up I gave him
Che contents of it in the face.
I Killed tfie In
dian. I Hsv
Kept the Secret
70 Year6. —
ALEXANDER
BEAUBIEN.
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“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.
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New Way of Recovering Sunken Treasures
Invention el Cevaliere Pino
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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.
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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.
