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Murderer Weed Admired
Famous Politician's Story of the Fin
est Exhibition of Physical and
Moral Courage That He
Ever Had Wltnesaed.
' "I onco asked Thurlow Weed, who
Was my lifelong friend, what was the
flnost exhibition of physical and moral
courago he hnd ever witnessed," said
tho lato Charles C. Clarke1, who was
lonn vlco president of tho Now York
Ccntrnl rnilway system, and tho right
hand man of Commodore Vanderbllt
in tho building of tho system, and tht
appraiser upon tho estnto of Thurlow
Weed following tho death In 1882 pt
that famous. Whig nnd Republican po
litician and president maker.
"Mr. Wood told mo that when ho was
a young man there was an exhibition
of moral and physical courage which
camo undor his observation more Im
pressive than nny other that ho had
witnessed In his long career. He add
ed that If he wroto an autobiography,
as ho thought of doing, he should re
refer to tho incident. Mr. Weed did
write a brief account of the Incident,
but that account did not compare with
the verbal one he gavo me, which I
can repeat In almost his precise
words.
"'Soon after I went to the city of
Albany, N. Y., to live In my early
manhood.' he said, 'I was told that
thero was to bo a public hanging of
a, soldier and I was Invited to witness
tho execution. A morbid curiosity
led mo to accept tho-Invitation.
"'The execution wasvto tnko placo
In a field perhaps a mile from tho Al
bany barrncks, where this, soldier had
been stationed. I walked out to tho
field with a friend and after a while
I saw a wagon coming, In which was
seated a young man who was bare
headed. He was chatting In a pleas
ant manner with two men who were
sealed beside him. I was informed
that he was the man who was to be
banged; I ha? already been told that
the young soldier had been convicted
of tho murder of the captain of his
company. Ho had shot the captain
In a sudden heat of passion because
,the captain bad reprimanded him.
'"At last the wagon stood behind
itbe gallows which bad been extern
jporired. The young man calmly
,watched the constables as they ad
Justed the rope. Then, perfectly self
.possessed, he mounted a ladder. It
.did not seem to me to be bravado on
his part; his attitude was that of a
i soldier who was facing death with
.Intrepidity. Tho boy for he was
scarcely more than a lad had said
that ho deserved death, that It was a
crime to attack an officer, no matter
what tho provocation, a crlmo for
which no excuao could be given.
" 'As tho ladder was twitched away
and the body fell, the ropo broke.
Mystery of Great Man's Name
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How. Munson E. Plerpont, Farmer's
Son and Yale Student, Became Ed
wards Plerrepont to Please His
Rich and Aristocratic Wife.'
Edwards Plerrepont was In his day
one of the leaders of the American
bar, and his name Is not yet forgotten.
Ho waB counsel for the government In
the prosecution of John M. Surratt,
iaccused of complicity In the plot to
' assassinate President Lincoln. He
jwas attorney general In the cabinet of
'President Grant, who was very, fond
of him. And ho resigned that office
to accept appointment, in 1875, as
minister to the court of St. James,
,where he served until 1877.
In all of the biographies of Edwards
Plerrepont It Is stated that he was a
graduate of tho famous class of 1837
at Yale, of which also William M.
EvartB was a member. .But If Yale's
records of that day and the catalogue
at that time are scanned, tho name of
Edwards Plerrepont will not be found
there. How, then, does It happen
that the biographers of Judge Plerre
pont declare that he was a member of
this class?
My attention was called to this by
the late Albert L. Train, himself n
member of tho famous clasB of 1SG3 at
Yale, and afterward one of the lead
ing editors of Connecticut
"I met Mr. Evarts," said Mr. Train,
' "at the Yale commencement of 1877.
His class was holding Its fortieth
graduation anniversary. Distinguish
ed as be was, be was then presumably
at the height or his publto career, for
In March of that year be had become
secretary of state In the cabinet of
President Hayes.
' "In the course of our conversation I
said to Mr. Evarts that It was an un
usual honor for a Yale class that two
of Its members should have been at
torney general of tho United States.
! " 'I suppose,' Mr. Evarts said In re
ply, 'that you refer to my own service
as attorney general In President
Johnson's cabinet. But who was the
other attorney general In my class?'
" 'Why,' said I, 'Edwards Plerrepont
iwas of your class, was be notf
"'There was no man of that name
in my class, Mr. Train,' Mr. Evarts
- replied with great solemnity of man
ner. 'It Is true that Judge Plerrepont
,tM recently attorney general 0f tha
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What-dld that young man do? He
helped the constables to remove tho
rope. Then ho sat upon n box and
advised them to go as speedily as pos
slblo Into Albany nnd get n strong
Manilla ropo. Ho told them that thoy
should havo tested tho ropo beforo
using it upon him. And whllo two or
threo constables went for another
ropo he sat thero upon tho box, chat
ting with tho guards, and I observed
that at ono moment ho spoko confi
dentially to a goutlcmnu who seemed
to bo a sort of spiritual adviser to
him.
'"At last the constables returned
with a stout ropo. Tho condemned
man took It from their hands nnd test
ed it. Ho told them that ho thought
It was strong enough; then they ad
justed the rope, fixed tho noose nronnd
his anow, and ho again mounted the
ladder and then fell, and In duo tlmo
his body was taken down.
"'That,' said Mr. Weed, 'was phy
sical courage. Now lot mo tell you
about the moral courage; I learned
Wealth Did
Mrs. Leland Stanford, Her Husband's
Chief Counselor, Received Social
Distinctions Simply and With
Unaffected Demeanor.
Tho late Leland Stanford, governor
of California in 1861, tho original
planner of the Central Pacific rail
road, tho builder of over COO miles of
that railroad at tho rate of two miles
a day, the promoter who drovo the
final spike of tho Central Pacific at
Promontory Point, Utah, In 1869,
United States senator from 18S5 un
til hlB death In 1893, and the creator
of fho Leland Stanford university
with an endowment of $20,000,000,
sometimes In speaking of his career
and its great triumphs would say to
bis friends:
"I owe it all, first, to the training
in early boyhood which I received
from my mother, and second, to my
wife, with whom I formed an ac
quaintance that ripened Into betrothal
when I was a young man on a farm
near Albany, N. Y., and she a school
girl at Albany."
In all of Leland Stanford's career
In California, whither he, went after
his brief experiment as a lawyer In
Wisconsin, largely because he was en
couraged to do so by the young wom
an who became his wifo, his chief
counselor, the ono person In whom he
placed implicit confidence, was that
wife. Jt was she who encouraged him
to persevere while others pronounced
the Pacific railroad project a chimera,
saying that It was Impossible to carry
United States. Out there was no Ed
wards "Plerrepont In tho class of 1837
at Yale. There was, however, a Mun
son E. Plerpont In my class; he was
a farmer's boy and came from a little
village a few miles from Now Haven.
We used to call him "Munny;" that
was our nickname for him. But there
was no Edwards Plerrepont, .which Is
a very aristocratic name.'
"Puzzled greatly by Mr; Evarts'
statement, I bunted up a Yale cata
logue It contained the name of Mun
son E. j'lerpont, but there was no Ed
wards Plerrepont In the list Some
months later, however, the whole mat
ter was made plain to me, and then I
realized fully how greatly 'Secretary
Evarts must have enjoyed,, the Joke
he bad played upon me at the expense
of his good friend Edwards Plerre
pont. Mr. Evarts, great wit and lover
of fun that he was, was ' especially
fond of the sly Joke.
"Edwards Plerrepont and Munson
E. Plerpont It turned out on Investi
gation wero one and tho samo per
son,. But thero was no Edwards
Plerrepont until Munson E, Plerpont,
following his graduation from Yale,
had gono to Columbus, Ohio, to prac
tice law and there fallen in love with
and married a rich widow of aristo
cratic tendencies, who Induced Mun
son Plerpont to drop his first name,
substitute for it his mlddlo name of
Edward, with an 'a' added thereto,
and change the spelling of his last
name fiom the slmplo and common
form of 'Plerpont' to the complex
and aristocratic form of 'Plerrepont.'
Subsequently Mr. Evarts' old class
mate moved to New York city and
opened a law office. The name that
he placed onthe door was the one
that bis wife bad Induced him to
take. And, do you know, It was quits
a while before Mr. Evarts and other
New Yorkers who bad known Munson
B. Plerpont In bis college days well
.enough to call him 'Munny' and slap
him affectionately on the back, dis
covered their old college chum In the
person ol Edwards Plerrepont,"
(Copyright, 1911. by B. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)
Avoiding Hasty Opinions,
Doctor "I don't understsnd your
case at all. We must wait for the
post-mortem examination."
of that aftorward. This young man
had enlisted as a soldier, for that was
tho only career .rosslblo for him; he
was the son of a very distinguished
merchant of Now York City, but he
was born out of wedlock and he knew
who his father was. Whllo ho wob
waiting for tho second ropo, tho gen
tleman I observed talking with tho
boy asked him If ho desired to have
his parents know of his fate. Ho taAd
enlisted under an assumed nnme.
""No," said tho boy, "do not do
that. My father has already suffered
enough for tho mlatnkc of my being.
Let him nover know that his son was
hanged."
" 'Afterwnrd,' concluded Mr. Weed,
'I learned who that father was, but I
havo never rovcaled the .secret to any
living person, nnd I havo never ceased
to ndmlro that boy murderer though
ho was for tho physical and moral
courago ho displayed In tho clutches
of death.' "
Cop light, 1911. by n. J. Kdwarda. AV
TtlghU Reserved.)
Castles In Spain.
A good many castles In Spain seem
to be in danger these days.
Not Spoil Her
a railroad over the Rocky mountains.
When wealth camo and Governor
Stanford had become distinguished
for public services, Mrs. Stanford re
mained tho samo unassuming, unos
tentatious woman that she was In the
days when her husband and herself
wero beginning their careers. She
was fully competent to maintain all of
the social dignities and proprieties
which were Incumbent upon her hus
band as governor and afterward as
United. States senator, but she cared
very little for what Is callod social
life, and her chief delight was In her
domestic clrclo, surrounded by a few
friends who cared for her rather than
for her fortune and the position of
her husband.
Shortly after Leland Stanford went
to Washington bb United States sen
ator, Mrs. Stanford received almost In
numerable social tributes. The great
wealth or ber husband, his distin
guished career In public -life and bis
prominence bb the originator of the
Central Paclflo railroad all served to
make ber more conspicuous than the
wives of any but two or three of the
senators. But how simply and with
what unaffected demeanor she receiv
ed these social distinctions one anec
dote will illustrate.
Shortly after her arrival In Wash
ington .with her husband a committee,
whoso members were among the
proudest and most distinguished of
women In Washington associated with
official life, called upon Mrs. Stan
ford. They laid beforo her the pros
pectus for a great charity ball. They
told her that It was tho hope to raise
by means or the ball a larger amount
or money for tho particular philan
thropy they had In view than bad ever
before been earned by an entertain
ment for charity; and tbey added
that they sought permission to add
Mrs. Stanford's name to the list of
patronesses, all or whom, they as
sured ber, were to be ladles or high
official distinction.
Mrs. Stanford looked over the list
She discovered In It the names or al
most every woman or social promi
nence In Washington. To be a patron
ess of that entertainment was to wear
the badge of the national capital's so
cial aristocracy. But Mrs. Stanford,
turning to tho ladles, said:
"I thank you -for your kindness r in
asking me to become patroness of
this charity ball. But t ought to say
to you that I am a very plain woman.
I have never cared very much about
balls or that kind of thing. I shoujd
not care about that kind of pleasure
now. "It would not Interest me. But
I am greatly Interested In your
philanthropy and I will ask you, In
stead of accepting my name as a
patroness, to accept something else
which I will now give you."
She went to ber desk In an adjoin
ing room, wroto something upon a
slip of paper and gave the slip to the
ladles. When they looked at the writ
ing, they saw that It was a check for
five hundred dollars. '
(Copyright. 1911. by n. J. Edwards. AH
Right Reserved.)
Five Hours' Difference.
"How is that lazy son of BUdad's
getting .along now that he's gone to
London?" asked Hicks. "Showing
any signs of a brace?"
"I KitcBg so," returned Wattles.
"His father showed me a letter the
other day, and the kid says he's up
every morning at six o'clock."
"London time or New York?" asked
Hicks. Harper's Weekly.
Her Part.
"Your husband says you proposed
to him."
"That's quite right. Everything of
Importance that my husband ever
got credit for doing, I either did or
showed him how."
More Work.
"I wish these people had more com
pany," complained the housemaid.
"Why?" asked the cook.
"When nobody sits In the chairs. I
pave to duit then oft myselL"
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THE May Fly, a dlrlglblo built for tho British navy nt a cost of about f 200,000, met with disaster recently when A
sho was taken out or tho shed for her first trial flight. Fortunatoly thero was no loss of life, although the
offlcers and men In chargo of the vessel were for u tlmo In an extremely norllous position, durlna- which the "fl
behaved with great courago and coolness. Almost Immediately after coming out or tho shed the airship was
caught by the wind, heeled over, and eventually broke her back. Her fate will probably cause the abandon
ment of llghtor-than-nlr craft In favor of tho hcavler-than-nlr biplane or monoplane.
ASK NEW
British Statesman Would Rear
range Months of Year.
Every Month Would Begin on Sunday
New Year Day and Leap Year
Separate Many Other Novel
Features In Scheme.
London. Sir Henry Dalslol, leader
of the ultra-radicals In tho house of
commons, the rather of the bill which
alms at giving Scotland local self
government had Just had prepared a
bill to alter the calendar. This bill,
known as the fixed calendar bill, con
tains some novel features. As the
memorandum which accompanies It ex
plains, the bill purposes to substitute
for the present Irregular calendar a
fixed calendar having regular periods,
of which the week Is the common
measure.
In this, as in other features, it dif
fers from the calendar reform bill, In
troduced In the house of commons In
1900, but which never got boyond the
second reading stage.
That bill' sought to make the months
as uniform in length as possible, but
as a difference In this respect Is un
avoidable In a year with 12 months, It
Is thought better to increase that dif
ference so as to allow of tho week be
ing a common measure of all months.
This arrangement makeB It possible
for each month to begin on a Sunday
and end on a Saturday.
A table giving tho proposed fixed
calendar shows that the months of
January, February, April, May, July,
August, October and November would
each consist of 28 days, whllo the re
maining months or March, June, Sep
tember and December would each
have 35 days. "New Year day" is sot
apart, thus bringing the total of days
up to the requisite number ol 305 days,
while for leap--year -a special day Is
set apart for "Leap day," which Is to
be intercalated between the last day
YANKEE ANKLES TOO BEEFY
"letter Fifty Years of Europe Than
an Instep of Back lay," Para
phrases Briton In Boston.
Boston. Literary England doesn't
like the ankles of the women of Amer
ica. Alfred s Tennyson Dickens, son
of the novelist and godson ot the poet,
cries aloud in paraphrase of his god
father: ,.
"Better fifty years or Europe than
an instep or Back Bay,"
At the City club Mr. Dickens told
the sad story ot how, walking about,
his eyes cast down, presumably
through homesickness for London, he
caught a glimpse or Boston anklos
and bow bis soul cried out In horror:
"Beery I Beery as Mrs. Mlcawber's
own I"
Mr. Dickens said later be was only
attempting to be a little humorous in
a land where he had heard humor
was lightly thought of. He gave bis
word not to touch on such a dainty
topic agaia as long as be lived.
Judge Is Expert With Needle.
Hot Springs, 8. D. Emmett B.
Cook, Justice of the peaco, aged 61
years, devotes several hours every day
to the making of fancy work. One of
the features of the exhibit at the state
fair .from this county will be a crazy
quilt made by him.
Sewing Is Mr. Cook's bobby. He
learned it as a child. Although once
famous la New York state as a ball
player, he has become more noted for
doing -fancy work.
r Since-the death of bis wife, a few
years .ago, . he Jaas lived alone. He de
voted several hours each day to his
rasy. quilt patches.
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CALENDAR
of Juno and tho first day of July, as re
constituted by tho bill.
A clauso In tho bill provides that
tho Now Year day and Leap dny shall
not bo accounted days of tho week,
and shall not, excopt whoio specially
mentioned or provided for, be held to
bo Included In any computation of days,
but shall othorwlso be public bank
holidays.' The conditions of labor on
these days, and the remuneration
therufor, undor tho bill, would conform
as far as possible to what prevails on
Sundays. A fixed date, April 15, Is se
lected for Easter day,
Finally, tho bill, If passed by parlia
ment, will not bocomo operative until
tho government decides that sufficient
International concurrence has been se
cured. CAT SLEEPS ON $16,000 RUG
Lives All Night In Waldorf-Astoria
Safe, Which Is Supposed to Be
Airtight and Burglar Proof.
Now York. When Frank Allstrom,
treasurer of the Waldorf-Astoria,
oponed the Inner doors'of the big sare
In bis privato office he was greoted
by a stray black cat which Jumped
from a vault containing 116,000 in
fresh, crisp bank notos.
Mr. Allstrom could not explain how
tho tramp cat happened to bo In the
safe Although tho massive steel
vault is airtight and burglar proor,
the cat seemed none the worse for its
sixteen hours of Imprisonment.
"After unlocking tho safo," Mr. All
strom said, "I reached Into the vault
whero I had placed the bank notes. I
was never more surprised In my lire
than when the big, black cat yawned
and looked at me as though to ask,
'Is my breakfast ready?'
"We have been unable to ascertain
how the c t gained access to the safe,
as the tfjier doors are at all times
kept loched.' None or my assistants
can recall seeing the cat 'in the office
before we closed the safe on Tuesday
afternoon."
NEWEST THING
From' Parle Comes an Innovation
Which Will Eliminate Present
Clews to Menu of Host
..Chicago. And now it is odorless
cookery.
Straight from Paris, and also from
a master chef or that epicurean met
ropolis, has como the latest item ot
elimination by which modern civiliza
tion makes Its progress, and a bevy
of Chicago matrons, young women
who have "come out" and others soon
to do the samo crowded the Instruc
tion rooms or the Chicago School of
Domestic Arts and Sciences to learn
of tho newest thing In cookery.
For no longer are palates to he
tickled and mouths to water on
Thanksgiving morning at the frag
rance of roasting turkey, and the
higher cost of turkey will not neces
sarily be responsible.
No longer are the breezes to waft
more of frying onion and boiling cab
bage from your neighbor's kitchen to
your living rooms than that neighbor
gets wbea bis dinner Is served.
And never more will houses become
saturated with stale reminiscences of
the failures and mistakes of cooks
who might have been more accom
plished in their vocation.
Investment In a few paper bags Is
all that Is necessary for the new style
of cookery. It Is almost utensll-less,
as well as odorless, and the hours and
energy employed In scraping pots and
pans hereafter will be saved.
The greater part of an elaborate
dinner was placed In a single com
partment of on oven by cookery stu
MONEY ADRIFT THREE YEARS
Pocketbook Dropped From Boat In
Delaware Bay Comes Ashore and
Owner Recovers Valuables.
Lewos, Del. Dr. Harry Hickman of
Philadelphia has rccovored his pook
otbook and $120 which It contained.'
Threo years ago ho dropped It fromi
a launch Into Delaware bay. The
pockotbook was round by the little
daughter or Ernest Lynch, who picked'
It up on a marsh where she was drlv-'
Ing a cow, where It was probably
washed by some winter storm.
Threo years ago Dr. Hickman, who)
was visiting here, was In a launch par
ty and dropped his pockotbook over
board. Search was made for it, but no
trace was discovered. Some of the
money found by the girl was redeem
ed at the National Bank here and the
rest,' which was badly soaked and
torn, sent to Washington for redemp
tion. Although the pockotbook con-'
talned Dr. Hickman's name In it when'
It was lost, the card was gone when'
It was returned to him.
SNEEZE PLAYS QREAT HAVOC
Big Indian Elephant Performs Her
Triennial Feat, Shaking Building
and Breaking Qlase.
London. Daisy, the big Indian ele
phant, which sneezes once In three
years, porformed her triennial feat
the other afternoon at the Bostock
Jungle, White City. As results ot her
sneeze:
Huge pieces of plaster fell from the
celling.
Four windows were broken.
An electric light cluster was smash
ed. .
A party of thirty schoolboys were
watcblpg Daisy, which had been mo
tionless for more than an hour, when
suddenly the animal gave a scream,
reared up on its bind legs and, giving
vent to a roar that shook the Jungle
to Its foundations, spurted a stream of
water over them, drenching tbem to
the skin.
Daisy laid down Immediately after
her sneeze and went to sleep.
IN COOKING
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dents of the School of Domestic Artal
and Sciences this morning. And!
when onions, trout, bacon, baked ap-l
pies, potatoes, stuffed tomatoes and)
several other edibles were cooklngi
steadily at the same tlmo, a nose held
so close to tho oven as to be In dan-i
ger of scorching could not detect any
odor whatever. '
Mosquito Saved His Life.
Sharon, Pa. A mosquito saved the
life7 or John Mahoney the other day.
He was passing a building In course ofJ
construction when a workman on tbel
top floor accidentally dropped a heavy1)
hammer.
At the same Instant a mosquito tried
to alight on Mahoney's nose, causing
him to Jerk his bead backward. The
Gammer grazed his face and chipped a
piece out of the stone pavement
Had the hammer struck Mahoney en
the head It would have crushed his
skull. Mahoney declared that the
mosquito's attack was so vicious that
the pain had caused him to throw his1
head back, saving bis life.
Buy Land by the Inch.
Louisville, Ky. Public-spirited cltl-j
sens ot a West Louisville neighbor-!
hood are buying a lot 350 feet square!
nt the rate- or about $1.85 a front lack.
When the lot is all sold It will be)
presented to the trustees of the Louis-'
vllle free library as a site for a new,
branch, the money for which' 'is1n
hand, but awaiting presentatloa of a
site. No site donor coming forward,
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