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About Hemingford herald. (Hemingford, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1895-190? | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1898)
s rr JL :T $ t A SOLDIER BOY'S A Young Nebraskan Toadies Bulldozing General Grant a Le9son Early In the Aotlon. Nebraskans have all taken a keen In terest In the court martial case of Pil A'ate John G. Mnher(of the Chadron company) of the Second regiment of the Nebraska U. S. Volunteers now en camped at Chlckamauga Park, Ga. Private Manor 19 n native Nebraska lioy, standing over six feet In his stockings and strikingly handsome. In order to enlist he threw a position of -court reporter for Judge Westover and -professional associations which would .yield him a splendid and lucrative law practice. Young Mahet lias at all times been consplcous for the brave and Independ ent manner in which he has always -stated his position or Justified his actions. Hence, It was no surprise to his Nebraska friends to hear that Pri vate Maher had set at defiance all the big army officers of the camp of fifteen thousand soldiers, becnuse their haugh ty orders and the deliberate opinion of Trivate Maher clnthed over the use af Private Maher's typewriting machine and that In the outcome Private Maher come out of the big muss with colois flying, while the generals, adjutants, colonels and the like had to suiter de feat In the eyes of all the boys Mr. Harry B. Kelsche of Chadron Is In Omaha, having Just returned from Camp George II. Thomas, Chlckamauga 3nrk. Ga. Mr. Relsche brought along with him Private John G Maher's type writer, the pne over which s,ome of the superior officers of the camp tin--dertook to have him court martlaled or refusing to allow his typewriter, 3i1s private property, from being used without his aid or consent. ' Mr, Relsche, In speaking of the In cident, says: , I .was In General Bills' office with Maher at the time orders came from General Grant's headquarters by an or. derjy to take possession of Private Maher's typewriter and make fourteen copies of an order for a sham battle ait 6 o'clock the next morning. Mr. Maher was engaged In making a transcript at the time of the testimony In the case of the State of Nebraska vs. C. C. Stevens for cattle rustling Stevens now being confined In Jail wait ing for the transcript that he might appeal to the supreme court. Mrs "Stevens had written Maher several very pitiful letters begging him to write out the testimony, saying they had five small children who were dependent on the father for bread Upon showing these letters to General Bills. Bills told Maher to make the transcript at once and do nothing else until he had finished It, .Mr. Maher Informed the orderly that the machine was his private property .-and brought to Chlckamauga at his ex pense, and that he did not propose to let the government use his private property. Thereupon the orderly Im Tnediately returned to Grant's head quarters and reported the farts to Cap tain Dapray, who was acting assistant adjutant general of the division under Grant. Dapray at once ordered Maher to ap pear before him, and on his arrival Captain Dapray sternly demanded to "know If he refused to allow his ma chlne to be used to which Maher po litely replied: "1 do, most assuredly, sir." "Will you say that to General Grant?' "Indeed, I will." coolly replied Ma her. "I would say It to the president of the United States." "Report to General Grant!" was the alern command General Grant was In another tent and when Maher reached the General's tent he saluted him In a soldierly man ner and began. "General, orders came down to Gen eral Bills a few moments ago to use my typewriter to copy certain orders on. The machine Is my personal prop erty, and I do not propose to allow the government to wear It out copying orders." "Very well." was .all General Grart said, and Private John Maher return ed to his machine feeling confident that "he would be bothered no more, Soon afterwards the same orderly came down with a note to General Bills and the same orders to be copied, this time by Maher as a punishment for refusing his machine to be used the first time. General Bills being out Captain Wil son of the Omaha Guards who was acting assistant adjutant general un der Bills, read the note, and handing the orders over to Maher, said. "Make fourteen copies of this order at once on the machine." "I have already refused them once to use my private property, and I re ttuse again. Captain Wilson, 1 am a A LONG ROAD TO TRAVEL. Before the Gold Standard is Estab lishedMisery and Ruin Would Re Bult from Such a course Is It any Wonder that we who know this Should fight such legislation Head During a speech In the house of rep resentatives, Mr. Shafroth of Colorado said: Those who claim that the battle for the free coinage of silver has been fought and lost, and that It will never be the leading Issue again, do not real ize what must yet be done, and how rslowly In accomplishment In order to establish the gold standard. The next step to be taken by the gold standard powers will be to treat all silver and allver certificates as credit money re deemable In gold. The secretary of the treasury has already announced that he will directly redeem the silver In gold when In his Judgment there Is Any necessity for so doing. After this policy Is firmly established, the gold standard nations will attempt to abso lutely destroy all silver as money. They will qlalm with Irresistible logic that If silver money Is redeemable in gold, It Is nothing more than a promise to pay old; that a promise to pay can be printed on paper at a small fraction of the expense required to buy silver bullion and coin It Into money. The gold advocates of this country will claim that it Is foolish for the United states to have nearly 1500.000.000 in vested in silveT coins where they are merely promises to pay In gold. Again, it will be claimed that as sil ver coins can be counterfeited out of allver bullion for about 50 cents on the dollar, so perfectly that govern, ment employes cannot detect the same, the use of silver coins Is dangerous to the circulating medium Already this argument is being used with great force In Europe. Legislation by gold standard nations will then surely fol low, providing for the retirement and sale of all silver coins. These so-called friends of silver, who profess to be lieve In an enlarged use of sliver re deemable In gold, are simply playing Into the hands of the gold monometal llsts. The logical result of the es tabltshment la the absolute annihila tion of silver as money. This means greatly Increased burdens upon, de mand for and value of, gold, and great PRIVATE RIGHTS. soldier, and must obey orders from my superior officers. You enn make me copy those with pen and Ink, but you cannot make me use my private prop erty. I will copy the order with pen and Ink If you like." Captain Wilson grew pale with rage at the dignified manner In which Pri vate Maher refused to obey his orders, and snatching up the papers he flew out of the office nnd started in seach of General Bills. A few moments pass ed and Bills rode up and called Maher out. "John," he began, ,-I want to ask a personal favor of you. Won't you kindly make copies of this order on your machine?" "Certainly," quickly replied the young soldier. "1 am always glad to do any thing for you, general, that pleases you. I will get them out as soon as possible." "Thank you. very much," said the general. "You understand, John, 1 know you did Just right In refusing your machine to be used, but under ex isting circumstances I cannot afford to fall out with Grant." With this the general rode away. "That's the way to treat a man If you want to get anything out of him," said Maher us he came Into the room. "If I am treated right, even though I did enlist as a private. General Grant or any one else, can get anything I have got; but It will be a cold day when I lower my pride and knuckle down to General Grant or anybody else, flying high because they are backed by a reputation won by their ancestors " . "By the way," he continued, "we have no carbon paper here. Won't you go over to the Nebraska regiment and get some of Captain Fisher's carbon?" lAddresslng me.) "Certalnl." I replied, and I left at once to get the paper, and on my way back t met the officer of the guards, Lieutenant L A. Dorrlngton of com pany H of Chadron, who informed me that Captain Wilson had ordered Maher put under arrest. Soon after my going away after car bon, I am informed. Captain Wilson entered the office and wanted to know if he had made those copies, Maher said he had not. Wilson said "Go write them out With pen and Ink at once." "General Bills was Just here and told me to copy them on the machine, and now you tell me to copy them with pen and Ink. Who am I to obey?" "You're to obey me, and be quick about It." "Very well," said Maher, "I will copy them with the pen. captain." Seeing that Maher had started to work making the copies Captain Wll son said. "You need not make them; It Is too late. I will Just put you under arrest ' Two soldiers who happened to be present at the time testified to this lust conversation After plnclng Maher under arrest. Grant sent down a stenographer to take Maher's machine and copy the sham battle orders for next morning His trial lasted several weeks, dur ing which time Maher had not been In the guard house, but by order of Lieu tenant Colonel Olsen was permitted to remain In Captain Fisher's quarters, or as he pleased At the close of the trial, Captain Wilson, seeing that Ma her was making friends every day among the officers as well as enlisted men, and that all of the officers were very cold toward him. reported to General Grant that Maher had not been In the guard house, but Instead was at Captain Fisher's quarters and dined at the officers' mess. Grant Immediately ordered Maher put In the guard house, and lust because he could held the ver dict of the court four days, to keep htm In the guard house. During the time Maher was In the guard house he enjoyed many luxuries. The officers of different regiments who heard of the affair sent fruits and cool drinks, while tho withem beV -se.v. flowers and Ice cream and many nice things to make the time pass away quickly Finally the verdict of the court was published, which was to be a repri mand only, but Instead of Maher re ceiving the reprimand. Grant lectured the court severely, saying that there was no limit to the punishment for the crime of which Maher was guilty. He fired the court and appointed a new court to try crimes In the future. When Maher was released the Ne braska boys gave three cheers, while every officer In the regiment extended to him the 1glad hand of friendship, saying, "We are with you, John. You have stood up for your rights." ly decreased price of all commodities and property. The establishment of the gold stand ard throughout the world means ulti mately the redemption In gold of all the Inconvertible paper currencies now In existence So long as a paper cur rency Is Inconvertible It acts as pri mary money and relieves the strain upon gold. Such a greatly Increased demand for gold will surely produce falling prices, with their attendant ru inous effects. We are beginning to re alize the truth of the statement of John G. Carlisle, In the house of rep resentatives In 1878, when he said, con cerning the destruction by legislation of silver money, that "the consumma tion of such a scheme would entail more misery upon the human race than all the wars, pestilences and famines that ever occurred In the history of the world." Is It any wonder, Mr Chairman, that we who believe such fatal results will follow from the establishment of the gold standard should fight with all the Intensity of our being such legislation, or that we should pledge ourselves anew to the cause that in our opinion will alleviate the bad condition, pre vent the destruction of business and enterprise resulting from falling prices and produce an era of development and prosperity unparalleled in the history of the world? A hero holding a man's life between his thumb and finger for three hours under fire In battle Is here pictured. A lieutenant lay wounde on the field, bleeding from an artery in his shoulder, during a night attack on an English camp at Malakand, In India. Surgeon-Captain E.V.Hugo found him and at the risk of his life, lighted a match and discovered the nature of the wound For three hours, while the English resisted the attack, he held the artery between his finger and thumb, and when the enemy broke Into camp took the lieutenant in his arms, still holding the wound, and bore him to a place of safety. The largest cargo of wool ever received at Boston arrived recently on the British ship Commonwealth, from Sydney, N. S. W. The vessel had In all 8,021 bales of the best quality of greasy Australian wool. The weight of this big amount of wool was close to 2,500,000 pounds. TALMAGES SERMON. There Is a woutd-be suicide arrested In his deadly attempt. He was a sheriff, and, according to the Roman law, n bailiff himself must suffT the punishment due an escaped prisoner nnd If the prisoner breaking Jail was sentenced to be endungeoned for thre or four years, then the sheriff must be endungeoned for three or four years, nnd If the prisoner breaking Jail was to have suffered capital punishment, then the sheriff must suffer capital punish ment. Tho sheriff had received especial charge to keep a sharp lookout for Paul and Silas. The government had not much confidence In bolts and bars to keep safe these two clergymen, about whom there seemed to be something strange and supernatural. Sure enough, by miraculous power, they are free, and the sheriff, waking out of a sound sleep, and supposing these ministers have run away, and knowing that they were to die for preaching Christ, and realizing that he must therefore die, lather than go under the executioner's ax on the morrow and suffer public dis grace, resolves to precipitate his own decease. But before the sharp, keen, glittering dagger of the sheriff could strike his heart, one of the unloosened prisoners arrests the blade by the com mand, "Do thyself no harm." In olden times, and where Christian ity had not Interfered with It, suicide was considered honorable and a sign of courage. Demosthenes poisoned him self when told that Alexander's ambas sador had demanded the surrender of the Athenian orators. Isocrates killed himself rather than surrender to Philip of Macedon. Cato. rather than submit to Julius Caesar, took his own life, and three times after his wounds had been dressed, tore them open and perished. Mlthrldates killed himself rather than submit to Pompey, the conqueror. Han nibal destroyed his life by poison from his ring, considering life unbearable. Lycurgus a suicide, Brutus a suicide. After the disaster of Moscow, Na poleon always carried with him a pre paration of poison, and one night his servant heard the ex-emperor arise, put something In a glass and drink It, and soon after the groans aroused all the attendants, and It was only through ut most medical skill that he was resus citated. Times have changed, and yet the American conscl?nce needs to be toned up on the subject of suicide. Have you seen a paper In the last month that did .not announce the pas sage out of life by one's own behest? Defaulters, alarmed at the Idea of ex posure, quit life precipitately. Men los ing large fortunes go out of the world because they cannot endure earthly ex istence. Frustrated affection, domestic Infelicity, dyspeptic Impatience, anger, remorse, envy. Jealousy, destitution, misanthropy, are considered sufficient causes for absconding from this life by parts green, by laudanum, by betla donna, by Othello's dagger, by halter.by leap from the abutment of a bridge, by fire arms. More cases of felo de se In the last two years than any two years of the world'i existence, and more In the last month than In any twelve months. The evil Is more and more spreading. A pulpit not long ago expressed some doubt us to whether there was really anything wrong about quitting this life when It became disagreeable, and there are found In respectable cir cles people apologetic for the crime which Paul In the text arrested. I shall show you before I get through that suicide Is the worst of all crimes, and I shall lift a warning unmistaka ble. But In the early part of this ser mon I wish tu admit that some of the best Christians that have ever lived have committed self-destruction, but always In dementia, and not responsi ble. I have no more doubt about their eternal felicity than I have of the Christian who dies In his bed In the delirium of typhoid fever. While the shock of the catastrophe Is very great, I charge all those who have had Chris tian friends under cerebral aberration step oft the boundaries of this life to have no doubt about their happiness. The dear Lord took them right out of thelr-dfvzert and. frenzied slntp into. Per fect safety. How Christ feels toward the Insane you may know from the way he treated the demoniac of Ga dara and the child lunatic, and the potency with which he hushed tem pests either of sea or brain. Scotland, the land prolific of intellec tual giants, had none grander than Hugh Miller. Great for science and great for God. He was an elder In St. John's Presbyterian church. He came of the best Highland blood, and was a descendant of Donald Roy, a man emi nent for piety and the rare gift of sec ond sight. His attainments, climbing up as he did from the quarry and the wall of the stonemasgn, drew forth the astonished admiration of Buckland and Murchlson, the scientists, and Dr Chalmers, the theologian, and held universities spellbound while he told them the story of what he had seen of God In the Old Red Sandstone. That man did more than any other being that ever lived to show that the God of the hills Is the God of the bible, and he struck his tuning fork on the rocks of Cromarty until he brought geology and theology accordant In divine worship His two books, entitled "Footprints of the Creator" and "The Testimony of the Rocks," proclaimed the banns of an everlasting marriage between genuine science and revelation On this latter book he toiled day and night, through love of nature and love of God, until he could not sleep and his brain gave way. and he was found dead with a revolver by his side, the cruel Instrument having had two bullets one for him and the other for the gunsmith, who at the cor oner's inquest was examining It and fell dead. Have you any doubt of the beati fication of Hugh Miller after his hot brain had ceased throbbing that winter night In his study at Portobello? Among the mightiest of earth, among the mightiest of heaven. No one doubted the piety of William Cowper, the author of those three great hymns, "O, for a Closer Walk With God," "What Various Hindrances We Meet," "There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood" William Cowper. who shares with Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley the chief honors of Christian hymnology. In hypochondria he resolved to take his own life, and rode to the river Thames, but found a man seated on some goods at that very point from which he expected to spring, and rode back to his home, and that night threw himself upon his own knife, but the blade broke; and then he hanged him self to the celling, but the rope broke. No wonder that when God mercifully delivered him from that awful dementia he sat down and wrote that other hymn Just as memorable. God moves In a mysterious way, His wonders to perform, He plants his footsteps In the so. And rides upon the storm. Blind unbelief Is sure to err And scan his work In vain: God Is his own Interpreter, And He will make It plain. While we make this merciful and righteous allowance In regard to those who were plunged Into mental Inco herence, I declare that the man who. In the use of his reason, by his own act, snaps the bond between his body and his soul, goes straight Into perdition. Shall I prove It? Revelations xxl., 8 "Murderers shall have thcli patt In the lak which burueth with fire and brim stone. ' Revelations xxll., 15 "Without ate dugs nnd sorcerers and whoremongers nnd murderers." You do not believe the now testa ment? Then, perhaps, you be lieve the ten commandments "Thou shalt not kill " Do you say that all these passages refer to the taking of the life of othets? To show how God In the bible looked upon this crime. I point you to the rogues' picture gallery In some part of the bible, the pictures of the people who have committed this unnatural crime. Hrc Is the headless trunk of Saul on the walls of Hnthshnn. Here Is the man who chased little David ten feet In stature chasing four. Hero Is the man who consulted a inlrvoy ant, Witch or Kndor Here Is a mm who, whipped In battle. Instead of sur rendering his sword with dignity, ns many a man has done, asks his servant to slay him, ami when thnt servant de dined, then the giant plants the hilt of his sword in the earth, the sharp point sticking upwatd, and he throw.) his bijtly on It and expires the coward, the suicide! Here Is Ahttophel, the Machined! of olden times, betraying his best friend, David", In ordr that ho may become prime minister of Absa lom, and Joining that fellow In his at tempt at parricide. Not getting what he wanted by change of politics, he takes a short cut out of a disgraceful life Into the suicide's eternity. Thora he Is, the Ingrntel Here Is Ablmelech, practically n sui cide. He Is with an army, bombarding a tower, when u woman In the tower takes a grindstone from Its placo and drops It upon his head, and with what life he has left In his cracked skull he commands his nrmur bearer: "Draw thy sword and slay me, lest men Hay a woman slew me." There Is his post mortem photograph In tho Book ot Samuel. But the hero of this group Is Judas Is carlot. Dr. Donne says he was a mar tyr, and we have In' our day apologists for him. And What wonder, In this day when we have a book revealing Aaron Burr as a pattern of virtue, and this day, when we uncover a Htatue of George Sand as the benefactress of lit erature, and In this day, when there are betrayals of Christ on the patt of some of his pretended apostles a be trayal so black It makes the Infamy of Judas Iscariot white! Yet this man by his own hand hung up for tho exe cration of all nges, Judas Iscariot. All the good men and women of tho bible left to God the decision of their earthly terminus, and they could have said with Job, who had a right to commit suicide If any man ever had, what with his destroyed property and his body all aflame with Insufferable carbuncles and everything gone from his home except the chief curse of It, a pestiferous wife and four garrulous people pelting him with comfortless talk while he sits on a heap of ashes scratching his scabs with a piece of broken pottery, yet cry ing out In triumph: "All the d.iys of my appointed time will I wait till my change comes." You sny It Is a business trouble or yoti say It Is electrical currents or It Is this or It Is that or It Is the other thing Why not go clear back, my friend, and acknowledge that In every case It Is the abdication of reason or the teaching of infidelity, which practically says: "If you don't like this life get out of It, and you will land either In nnnlhlllatlon, where there are no notes to pay, no persecutions to suffer, no gout to tor ment, or you will land where there wltl be everything glorious and nothing to pay for It." Infidelity has always been apologetic for self-immolation. After Tom Palne's "Age of Reason" was pub lished and widely read there was a marked Increase of self-slaughter. A man In London heard Mr. Owen deliver his Infidel lecture on socialism, nnd went home, sat down, and wrote these words: "Jesus Christ Is one of the weakest characters In history, and the bible Is the greatest possible decep tion, " and then shot himself. David Hume wrote these words: "It would be no crime for me to divert the Nile or the Danube from Its natural bed Where, then, can be the crime In my dl vertlnc afew drops of blQod frgm Jhelr ordinary channel?" And having writ ten the essay he loaned It to a friend, the friend read It, wrote a letter of thanks and admiration, and shot hlm selfi Append'" to the same tyook. Rosseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Montaigne, were apologetic for self-immolation. In fidelity puts up no bar to people rush ing out from this world Into the next. They teach us It does not make any dlf. ference how you live here or go out of this world; you will land either In at oblivious nowhere or a glorious some where. And Indldellty holds the upper end of the rope for the suicide, and alms the pistol with which a man blows his brains out, and mixes the strychnine for the last swallow. If Infidelity could carry the day and persuade the ma jority of people In this country that It does not make any difference how you go out of this world you will Jand eafely, the Potomac would be so full of corpses, the boats would be Impeded In their piogress, and the crack of the suicide's pistol would be no more alarm ing than the rumble of a street car. I have sometimes heard It discussed whether the great dramatist was a Christian or not. He was a Christian. In his last will and testament he com mends his soul to God through the sac rifice of Jesus Christ. I know that he considered appreciation of a future ex istence the mightiest hindrance to self-destruction. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. The pangs of despls'd love, tha law's delay. The Insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear. To grunt and sweat under a weary Ufa, But that the dread of something after death Tha undiscovered country from whoa bourn No traveler returns puzzles tha will? My friends. If ever your life, through Its abrasions and Its molestations, should seem to be unendurable, and you are tempted to quit It by your own behest, do not consider yourself as worse than others. Christ himself was tempted to cast himself from the roof of the temple, but as he resisted, so re sist ye. Christ came to medicine all wounds. In your trouble I prescribe life Instead of death. People who have had It worse than you will ever have It, have gone songfully on their way Remember that God keeps the chro nology of your life with as much precis ion as he keeps the chronology of na tions, your grave as well as your cradle. Why was It that at midnight. Just at midnight, the destroying angel struck the blow that set the Israelites free from bondage? The 430 years were up at 12 o'clock that night. Tha 430 years were not up at 11, and 1 o'clock would have been tardy and too late. The 430 years were up at 12 o'clock, and the destroying angel struck the blow, and Israel was free. And God knows Just the hour when It Is time to lead you up from earthly bondage. By his grace, make not the worst Of things, but the beat of them. William VolY nt PnlnrnHA ....... ,1 ,. six baby coyotes on his ranch, and trlned them so that they will follow uiui iinn uuks. COMMODORE WATSON. Thanks to an army nf hlocrnnhers nnd newspaper gatherers, tho reading puunc nave neon made quite familiar with the personality and naval record of two of the men In command of our squadrons In West Indian waters. But there Is a third commander down there, nn nblo and efficient officer, ns mod-'st ns he Is able, and a toyal good fellow to boot, who Is performing a duty of the utmost Importance and value to the country, concerning whom very little has been printed. This man Is Commodore John Crit tenden Watson, who, with a fleet com. posed for the most pint of small ships, Is maintaining the blockade of Havana nnd other north Cuban ports In a man ner which must win for him tho ad miration of his superior officers and the peopte ns a whole. Here Is a man who by virtue of his commission Ih tho senior nf both Snmpsou nnd Bchley, and yet repot ts to the former. Com modore Hohley Is, on the nnvnl register, acting Rear Admiral Sampson's senior by two numbers, and by the same token Commodoru Watson ranks ahead ot Bchley. It Is probably not remembered by many that It wns this same Commo dore Wntson, then n young lieutenant, who lashed Farragut to the rigging during ithc battle of Mobile bay. Thnt Incident of the great struggle between the Htates long since became historic, and poets and artists have found In It the Inspiration for somo of their best and most spirited work. This Is tho story briefly told: The powerful confederate Ironclnd Tennessee attacked the Hartford fierce ly. Farragut took up his position In the port mlzzcn rigging, the better to observe the progress of the light and to direct nnd cheer on his men. Lieu tenant Wntson, Reeing the great dan ger to which the Intrepid admiral was exposing himself, procured a rope nnd lashed himself In his place. In a letter which Lieutenant Watson wrote to his mother after the battle he mentions In detnll the reckless bravery of Farragut, and ndds: "At length I lashed him to the rig ging with my own hands, having In vain begged him not to stand In such an exposed plnce." The relntlons which existed between Admiral Farragut and his flag lieuten ant were of the most affectionate de scription. In his official report of the Mobile buttle Farragut showed What he thought of young Watson: "Lieutenant Watson," he wrote, "hns been brought to your nttention In for mer times. He was on the poop nt tending to the signals, and performed his duty, as might be expected, thor. oughty. He Is n scion worthy of the noble stock from which he sprang, and I commend him to your attention." There Is no better blood In the navy than flows In the veins of Commodore Watson. He was born In Frankfort, Ky August 24, 1842. His father, Ed ward Howe Watson, was a skilled and popular physician of the old school, and his mother, Sarah Lee Crittenden Watson, was a daughter of John Jor dan Crittenden, the famous Kentucky statesman, rival of Henry Clay, govern or ut one time of Kentucky and at torney general In VVIlha ti Henry Hur tlson's cabinet. Governor Crittenden's first wife wus Miss Sarah Lee. Some years after her death he married the widow of John Harris Todd, By his first wife he had a large family, Including General Thos, L. Crittenden of the United States army. Among the children of his sec ond wife was Henry I, Todd, a well known Kentucklan and father of Chap man C. Todd, U. 8. N now command ing the gunboat Wilmington of Com modore Watson's fleet. Another of her sons was George R. Todd, former mayor of Louisville, Ky. Commodore Watson was married In 1873 to Miss Elizabeth Thornton, a dis tant connection, and daughter of Judge James Thornton of San Francisco. The result of this union was eight children, seven of whom are living. The eldest son, Johj Edward, Watson, Is an, ensjgn in the navy and Is now attached to the cirulPT .Detroit. Commodore Watson's naval career has been a notable one. He was immediately assigned to the rank of midshipman, and August 15 Joined the Susquehanna In that capac ity for a cruise to Europe. While he was abroad the civil war broke out, and he returned at once to take part. In It. He wns promoted to the rank of mas. ter August 31, 1861. His career as n fighter did not really begin, however, until January 10, 1862, when he was or dered to the Hartford as navigator. This was Admiral Farragut's flagship. He was commissioned a lieutenant July 16, 1862, and in January, 1864, he was made flag lieutenant to Farragut. He was at the battles of New Orleans. Mo bile bay, Vlcksburg and Port Hudson. In a letter to his son Loyal during the war. Admiral Farrugut tells him of Watson's volunteering to 'slip off and blow up a blockade runner. Among other things he Bays: "It was an anxious night for me, as I am about as fond of Watson as I am of your own dear self." The ship referred to by Farragut was burned blown up as effectually and completely as was the Merrlmac the other day by heroic Hobson and his equally heroic crew. At the close of the civil war Lieuten ant Watson was ordered to the Colo rado, on the European station. He wat made lieutenant commander July 26, 1866; commander January 23, 1874; cap tain March 8, 18S7. and commodore No vember 7, 1897. During the last thirty years he has commanded a number of the best ships In the navy and held Im portant posts on shore. His wife and unmarried children reside at the Naval Home In Philadelphia, of which Insti tution he was governor for a number of years. New York Herald. PAINT-WALLS CEILINGS, CALCIMO FRESCO TINTS FOR OECORATING WALLS AND CEILINGS R,0Sh,rp.VicVr,Sr'CalClmO pslot dUr cod do roar own ktlaomlalng. This mUril i aid on MiiotlBo prioelpUf bj m cblnr7nd mlllxl la twentr-foar Uuuad if noprior to tar eOBtocUoa o( Ola od Whiting tht MO poulbl bo mads b bd. Tobaaalied wlU Cold Water, rvneSD mB SAMPLE OOI.OB CARDS and If ton cannot parent UU malarial from jour local daalara ! o know and in will pat joa io tha Mar of obtaining it. THE MURALO OOMPANY. NEW BRISHTON. 8. I.. NEW YORK. Mr. Speckled Trout I suppose I might as well let my accident policy run out for a while now. Mrs. Black Bass Why, what ever put that Idea into your head? "Oh, summer vacation, now, you know, and there'll be nothing but city men fishing out here for the next month or two." "To kiss," quoth he, "Is rapturous bliss." "To kiss," said she, "necessitates a miss." "To kiss r.mlss," protested be, "Is an aggravation." "To miss a kiss," responded she. A Benefactress' Kind Act. from the Rixning lttw$, Detroit, tlleh. Mr. John Tansoy, of lao linker Street, Do troll, Michigan, la ono of thoso women who always know just what to do In nil trouble nnd sickness. One Hint U a mother tu thoso In uUtross. To reMrtor nlinsuMi "1 nin tlio mother of ten children and hart mined elRlit of them. Hoeral yiur hro we hod a Nnrlmin time with my iIiiurIiht, which began when slio wan about sixteen year old. Hlio did not lme nny nerloita Illness hut seemed to grad ually waste an;y Having never had any con sumption In our family, niwncomnnf good old Irish nnd Scotch stock we did not think it was that. Our doctor nil led tlm dlntiann by nn odd imino which, ns I nrturward learned, meant tack of blood "It l Imjxuslliln to tleiorlbo Iho feeling John nnd I lind nt no noticed our daughter slowly laingawRv from in wo finally found, how over, n medicine that seemed tu help her, sua Jlf oil of the Time She Wan Cnflntd to Red. from tha if rtt wo nntlrnd a decided change for ttio better, and nftnr tlireo month' tronlmoB her hualth win to greatly Improvod you woutg not have rncognlzod her, alio gained In tlntfe rapidly and soon wns In perfect health. The medicine lined wns Dr. Williams' rink P.'lli foe l'nlo l'eopln. I have always kept these t lilt la Iho himso slnco and have recommended tl em to many people 1 have told many mothers about them ami thuy havo ellccted soma wonderful cureH, , "Kvery mother In tills land should keep theta pill In the house, as lliey are good for many ailments, particularly those arising from Ita IKivorlshed or diseased blood, and wcakonod norve forco." "What Is the chnrgc?' said the Judge. "The accused," responded the prose cuting uttornoy, "had two wives, and on the 3d of September last he took his revolver and shot both of them." "Humph I" observed the court, "there Is something 1 don't understand about that." "What Is It, your honor?" "How could nny man with two wlvea have a revolver without shooting him self?" Elsie Is It cool where you're going this summer? Pussle I'm afraid not. Name does n't sound like It. "Why, how's that?" "Oh, I heard mnmmii nsk pnpn where he thought we'd better go for our va cation nnd he rnld to Bluzes. Were you ever there?" Cholly 1 renlly don't know what Miss Caustic meant, doncherknow. Cholly I nwsked her If she didn't think 1 made good cotnpnny, and she Bald I left nothing to be desired. Summer . ,1 . .V r' '' Tourist i Rates ! now in effect to Colorado, Yellowstono Park, Dlack Hills, Montana and Utah. Surprisingly low ouly 825 for ithe round trip Omaha to Denver, Colorado Springs, or Puublo; $55 to tSalt Lake City; $00 to Helena or Uutto. Got full information from ! nearest ticket agent or write to J. Francis, (icneral Passenger Agent, Omaha, Neb, I H.-lf you go west via Omaha and the illurllngton Itoute, you can stop off aud see the Traub-Mlslslil Kxpoaltlon. A Hanover postage stamp dealer named Decker, known throughout Ger many as a high philatelic authority, has been sentenced to a month's Im prisonment for embezzlement. He sub stituted less valuable stamps for those sent to him for his expert opinion on their genuineness and value. Agents wanted to sell a new patent house hold article Address J. C. Lkakmcu, Lock IkuM9, Chicago. Ills. Nthawa Millar Kraporatlo Nat Ktft at t J I Ilea and mltM on poultry mak ing tha btm lr mora frealj, and add health, comfort and bsautr to tha fowl. At trocort. droggiatt or faotorr Ilia aarh, 1 1 Oj Dot Kiprau prsptld Agaatt want. lMNS-Ml$S EXHIBIT. NiTHlWAT & MllUS, wiHOO.NU. O. P. Co., Omaha, No.30, 1898 M CUMS rHtRE Alt lli FAILS. PM hm Beat Cougb Sjrup. Tailoa Good. Cm 9 m la time. Sold br druirzlit. IH -4-Sl-Jw'-Hi)AiaJirfM1!iaQ Bi 11
