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Show , '- j : -- -. ' ' J ' . .. - r . ;WvTv-- - j-- - - f - . 4 4 r A TYPICAL AMERICAN. Tribute to SUCH IS REV. EDWARD ETT HALE., EVER- - - VfkM H Go th Uit of a Fibmi aod PhllanthropUt 11m ( Scholar WU1 Ban Faasad Awy-rl- ll Literary Work. CFEW WEEKS AGO Rev. Edward EverT ett llale read the burial service over Oliver Holmes, Wendell and lor the last time two of the most famous and representative men of letters were brought together. The former now remains almost the sole survivor of the old school of American orators, writers and thinkers. He, the survivor, remains laboring on as ever, with tongue and pen, for all worthy causes, as keenly alive to the issues and duties of the hour, as tireless, as energetic, as ready to do and to give of time and strength as he was half a century ago. I)r. Hale is a Bostonian by birth and training and education, and an American in the broadest and highest sense of the term. His seventieth birthday came Dr. Hale's around on April 3, 1862. inliterary ability may be considered herited, since his father, KathanUale, REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE. edited the Advertiser, the oldest daily in America from 1834 to 1946. is litmother was a erary gifts. At various periods of his life he has filled at one and the same time the positions of pastor of a large city church, editor of a monthly magazine, a regular contributor to "several papers and periodicals, a popular lecturer, an officer in various philanthropic and educational societies and a writer of novels and histories Dr. Hale's published works number more than a score, some of the best known The of them being as follows: Rosary (1848); Kansas and Nebraska"1(1054); The Man Without a CountryThe Ingham Papers (1869); (1865); Ten Times One Is Ten" (1870); Our New Crusade (1875); Stories of War Told by Soldiers (1879); Stories of the Sea (1880); Seven Spanish Cities and Christmas in a Palace (1864); Christmas at Narragansett (1885); The Franklin in France" (1887); Story of Spain (1890). His most popular story, and the one by which he will be longest remembered is The Man Without a Country." I-- womaa-of-marke- t'ntrod by Unman Foot, The Devil's Tower is a geological wonder on the Belle Fouchre river in the Black Hills legion, of which s geologist of international repntation said: It is a remarkable freak of nature and appears not to have been repeated ' elsewhere on the earths surface, but stands alone, uniqueand mysterious. It is believed to be the cone of a cooled down volcano. At a distance it looks like a huge, cask or barrel made of " gigantic timbers, the " sides being roughly furrowed ywith crystals of trachyte. Its height is 625 feet and the walla on all sides are so nearly smooth ahd perpendicular that no human being" lias ever been able to climb to .(he top. Its diameter at the base is ' 796 feet, sad at the summit (estimated) - Preao 'front a Groat and Good Divine. Rev. Robert A. Holland of SL Louis, the - who nsed to be the rector of Trinity Episcopal chnrch in Chicago, recently delivered an address in Boston before the Episcopal church congress, in hich he paid a glowing tribute to the modern press. Some newspapers," he said, are scandal mongers; some make scandal to publish it; some are blackmailing newspapers, and some are The Midway Plaisances in print. newspaper I would speak about tonight' ia the newspaper of modern times Already the arm of the newspapers is lifting that inward door front . its - binges. opening The liberal compass of man's warm embrace the closes about pjisery that leans right against his heart, Caste ere lotig No house, no spirit, can shut out the light of humanity, high and low, rich and poor, that with the newspaper enters every door and leaves it No matter what the reader open. likes, the headlines run so close together that he has to see sorrow at the elbow of gayety and birth upon the breast of death, while sob and laugh, shout and wail, blessing and prayer aU blend into an undertone, which hia busiest thought and purpose can not hush. He is what ho reads, and his character Is richer and more harmonic, because w itli life's higher toues the lower too are heard, as the alto of their soprano, the hasavrf their tenor, in a full choired In all this, perhaps, the humanity. newspaper has no ethical intention. Profit may be its chief and only atm, but profits require sale. Unsold, its news would be tho puff checked wind ing of a cracked and silent horn; and in order to sell it must supply the intelligence which men want and mans wants, because they are human, are necessarily ethical and meet in ethical scales whenever brought to knowledge that can not avoid comparison and In the daily newspaper judgment. man lives the whole worlds life, throb by throb. The newspaper gives him a world consciousness. During the day he buys and sells by an almost coustant . appraisal of the worlds markets; he watches the stages of an international regatta while it sails; from he sees cholera spread the house house to along back streets of a transoceanic town; he attends the debate of a reichstag whose vote may precipitate a continental war, and all the while he feels his private values and schemes flicker like a pulse through which flows the blood of the whole world's market. Day by day, each day between two nights, a distinct Ufe between a birth and a death; the day that has no newspaper losing that much of the world' life from consciousness; newspaper a back number an obituary, an order of death and the sepulcher. wiltbe-Impossible. -- Goo-ormti- os - dnrar-wttrTt- o se DOGjOX THE ROAD;, A PBET?Y CHINESE 1V' cottage Its Airy Stroctur shows That It Waa fT Ifort,, Tkit Is a picture f a small end pretty Chinese resilience in Canton. There are plenty of shade trees tn the III. Cwtamary WUtM Trln U land aide of this house, though the Start th. Sonth A Canto AlmUnr'i Chinese are said aa a rule to be inHa Boom Startling Mums different to trees around their habitation. If they need shade they seem to Tiutlnete. prefer to stretch mats on poles. China 1 large enongh to enjoy a considerable rnr non variety , of ciiraate, and so airy an tramp of the rail- - j tbode as thls would hardly be found is way mad service, ,n Borthern ChlnBt here the rirert still on his Ira els j OTer lB t he winter months. Can- and was the guest ton is aa pear the equator as the south, last woek oI L , en(j0f Florida while Fekln-lapprox-- C u 11 berg of Jersey imtely in the iBtJtude of Kew York. the Americans In China were- him to Philadelphia compelled to live aa the natives do and and then L 'ued the in houses of their constructing, they d4W pAAiaUy , Vi4 (me oio Vo- of the railroad aa fay south as they could get; for in postal clerks over to one of the boys the vast majority of houses, even, bound for the south. Owney where the winters are severe, there is will spend the winter and spring nt artificial heat, except the little is hia custom, in obtained from the fuel burned in cookimonths, as -' Tatiof mild on the adventure pursuit ng, roads of the sunny south. He will be la so cold In- winter in the houses it a welcome guest of Uncle barn's of the common people of north China, at the health resorts of North that they usually wear aU the clothing-the- y Carolina, Florida and the Gulf states, can put on. In the dog days In, lingering for a few days at each-o-f America the usual question, .la it hot the famous sanitariums, working grad- enough for you? often" give annoyually over the country with the pur- ance to sweltering folks wh havent pose of striking New Orleans daring the Msrdi Gras festivities. It isOwnev's present intention not to return to brave the rigors of the northern climate before June. Owncy is the most celebrated of all canine travelers. The express companies for a while foisted upon - the publie a feeble imitation of thts ever welcome tramp, hut the express messenger dog lacked Owneys adaptability to the exigencies of travel, and succumbed sevt4 . eral months was born OWNEVf THE RAILWAY MAIC n ii-v- J J s ( raTttalJ . '' nW, ago. T JiK Owncy many years ago in Albany, N. Y. Exactly when he became a railroad tramp is not known, but it was longer ago than five years. He has traveled the length of every railroad In the United States and has seen the inside and enjoyed tho hospitality of more post ofiices than the oldest inspector of the service. He is a small dog witRmore gfime than judgment, and i(. ls fondly believed by hiaadmlrcrs (hut be would t - l RESIDENCE IX CANTON, much patience to spare. Travelers have said that the commonest c icstion in north China during the winter Is: Of course," is the Are you cold? almost invariable answer. Th Aveng Man, In the man of average stature the height of tbe body la ten times tho length of the face; the face from tho chin to the hair is aa long ns the hand;! tbe arm is four times tho length of the face; the solo of the foot ia. one sixth the length of the body, and six time the thickness of the hand in the thickest place equals the thickness of the body.. ' A Maw Advertising Davies The latest advertising device It to decorate shop windows with what appear to be big cracks in the plate gist. This is called a decoration advisedly, for it la put on with French chalk and paint Gray or bluish lines, radiating from a center, having JL surprisingly Ukeusaa to a break, and th device serves its purpose of canning people to atop nd look. -- OWSET, Til 1C RAILWAY MAH. CLERKS' DO0 " FRIEND. to-da- I Wlvea of Great Men. Like the famous wives of the En glish statesmen, Charles James Fox and Benjamin Disraeli, the lamented Princess Bismarck was a true helpmeet, and was a bulwark of strength to her spouse throughout their long and eventful career. The wife of Fox brought to the aid of her husband all the resources of a brilliant mind and rare personal beanty. Disraeli, after his first failure, was encouraged by tho devotion of a mate whose vast fortune was not an inconsiderable factor in his subsequent successes' The uplifting stimulus of theMeal home life she made for for the iron chancellor was the Princess Bismarcks unfailing solace to her husbands carking cares of state. She was of that noble type tackle a royal Bengal tiger. He views the ever changing scenery through which he passes out of one eye. The other he left In Canada two year ago, after an unpleasant encounter with another dog. Owncy has the postal car habit so thoroughly developed that he can rest in no other places, and sleep only comes to his tired eye when he lies eurled up on a mail sack. He wears a broad collar with jtinkl ing bell, and an Inscription that tells an inquiring world that I am Owney the railway mail dog, whose dog are von?" ft ('ti.nR III Mam. qU-- Cdunwn inWJWtjt colored hardware mewdraTJfJln jhe'yCDrleans, htt'lbd(Af'p)j(iatign irfrtutfe hGSTJbme clipLHe U six feet high, legally weighs 220 pouDditalTiVyaay hia name make people laugh the moment they see him. ( A Box Mystery. Harvey Huffer, who committed suiat Fairland, Ind., recently, had among his effects a small box that he always kept locked "securely. He showed it to his mother two years ago, Mother, this remarking at the time: box contains my private affairs, and, if I should die before you do, I want this box and its contents buried just as When found, his you find them. hand was resting on the box, which was still securely locked, and, it is thought, eotnained secrets which would probably unravel tbe mystery of bis LATEST PORTRAIT. death and, perhaps, the peculiar source of his conduct for several years past tomb is built of Westerly granite and But tbe family took tbe box out into is said to have cost nearly 820,000. The the garden, and, without opening it, the flames. The circular lot upon which it stands added committed it ia to now rife with divers neighborhood more to ita expense. The about 85,000 schemes and unexplained mysteries tomb was completed none too soon for its owner, for thf workmen had been Next Epworth Iaternatloul Cos feme. out of it less than two months when The general committee has located be died. On the day of Air. Wright conference of the funeral tbe entire interior was lined the international for 1895, at Chatt league, Epworth with 8,000 rosea, which completely hid Tbe dates fixed are the character of the place from those noogB, Tenn. 30. June 27, 28, 29, It was decided to who went inside. hold the meeting in the south and Chattanooga forcibly presented the ad MRS. CLEVELANDS PORTRAIT. vantages of the historic surroundings Bbe Has Bmm Baud Faced, Flia of that city, as weU as good hotel and railroad facilities, and has secured the sad Matronly. An attendance of 10,000 The new portrait of Mrs. Cleveland conference. One open air Is to 15,900 anticipated. shows that lady to have become a flb held onLookout meeting-wfmatron of plump proportions Her -- There are now 1,000,(KX) mountain., pretty coloring remains, but her face members of the Epworth league In tbe in losing ita girlish contour haa lost United States much of ita charm. But the expression ia gentle and kind 94 ever. Mot Master of tho Longasgo. Mrs. Cleveland is much absorbed in A foreigner, not absolutely certain caring for her little girls, who are 4f all the shades of meaning in our healthy and merry youngsters. Both word, recently attended a re of them are said to look like her. The English at Vaasar college, at which the ception portrait of the yonng mother herewith young ladiea of the institution were presented ia from a copyright photo- arrayed in all the bewitching beauty graph by Bell of Washington. of evening toilets Said he to th4 I have never before seen president: Bsc. electing so grand a sight as those young ladies Attention to a few simple rule will in their nightgowns assist any one to select from the Tlte Final Not to. various bats of the season one distinctA store keeper In Colton, Wash., goes ly suited to her 'peculiar needs Peocustomers through g ple with thin, delicately modeled faces, after h is All perwhose chin are inclined to be pointed, the village paper as follows: should avoid the bonnets with broad sons indebted to me on" account 'will frontal trimmings or hats with wide, save cash and trouble by coming in straight brims, as they hsve a ten- and settling up, as I bare spent all the dency to emphasis the pointedneas money and shoe leather that I intend of the face, giving It the look of a flat- tot Take warning. Last notice." iron or a Wedge. Such faces should be Benoit of Mohaakss surmounted by bats with rolling brims The Ilermit of Mohunkus Maine, and bonnets of, high oval shape or carries a shotgun, but no ammunition, trimming. living mostly oa beechnuts aod herbs cide of womankind-whlay all considerations of self and all worldly ambitions upon the sacred altar of home. What a monument of these attributes ia Bismarcks elogium to his departed mate She it is who has made me what o am. i A Good Mother. Humming birds are very shy and fleet of wing. It is difficult to make their acquaintance. A gentleman who had a rare opportunity to watch 350 feet. mother bird and tbe tiny nest which Why Red Infuriates Cattle, she had built near his room says that The reason why red infuriates mem- one day, when there was a heavy bers of the ox family is because red is shower coming up, just as the first the complementary color of green, and drops fell the mother came fluttering the eyes of cattle being long fixed on home, seized a large leaf which grew herbage while feeding, when they on a tree near by, drew it over her espy anything red it impresses their nest in a way to completely cover it, sight with greatly increased intensity. then went back to whatever work she had been about when the coming storm On Waa Killed. distnrbed her. The watchers at the Railroad thieves were surprised at window wondered why the leaf did Fairfield, Iowa, by James Harrison, not blow away. found it hooked They the railroad detective. Several shots to a stick just inside the nest. were fired, two of which lodged in When tiny the storm was over the mother Harrhons leg and one struck a robber came home.unhooked the green cur and killed him. The affair caused tain she had so perfectly put up and -- great excitement in that section, found her babies all dry. Where Apples are Cheap. Tlte Woman Vote of Colorado. Apples are plentiful and cheap on Mote women than men voted at the the Pacific coast In Oregon, aa in recentelection in Colorado, and they Maine, the crop ia so large the farmers are not gathering the fruit, but east a larger per eentage of their regisallowing it to drop and rot It is tered vote than the men. They led the worth too little to inake picking and men in Denver by 8,00l votes, besides inducing 6,000 men to vote who usually packing profitable. neglected their ' duty. Only a few of Ceea Cats.' the 70,000 women who voted took part There is a breed of cats little known in the street processions." A large ms outside of Maine, and designated in jority voted the republican' ticket and that state aa coon cats. Animals of a few supported the prohibitionists. this species are tortoise Bhell in color, Throughout the whole state not the and the fur is remarkably thick and slightest affront was offered a woman long, the tall being bushy as to sug- voter. Such are the silent facts of the gest that of a young fox. first general election . in Colorado in which women had an equal share. Bad Doubts Ahont It. The trial at Owosso, Mich., of 'Mrs. A Qmr Co tom. . Ursuma Burpee, charged with boiling One of tbe queer customs of Russia is the feet of her foster son so that am- shown in the recent death of the ezar. putation became necessary, ended in a When Bth death of Alexander at "disagreement of the jury. . Llvadia was announced the people Aa made merry over the accession of the Bicyclist. Perhaps Dr. Morrill Wyman, aged 83, new rnler, and after the festivities of Cambridge, Maaa, isnt the oldest were concluded they began mourning kycycliat, bat he is among the oldest for the dead monarch. MRS. CLEVELANDS broad granite steps lead to a platform, from either side of which another short flight of steps rises at right angles to the main platform. The approach Is wide and very gradual and has at each side a plain rail, ornamented only by two or three simple laurel wreaths at thq tnrna The newel posts are very simple in design. The approaches and , OrtirlM 2:EA There are sixteen niches, ture has been in course of nearly a year and a halt and will be THESE TOMBS FOR MEN LIV- - completed in a few weeks. The reING AND DEAD. mains of Mrs. Huntington. ho died about six years ago, ill be removed part of the Vut Sums of Money Ik tag Fold to from a grave in another in one of the new Poaoenro the Aibca o t C. f. Hanttaf-t- o plot and placed crypts as soon as the tomb ia comnod Others WU1 -- tho Future pleted. Appreciate It? In marked contrast to tho simplicity of Mr. Huntingtons tomb is the elaborate design of the tomb of William 11AS BEEN fer5ij,,EEE remarkable in F. Foster, which Is being constructed in tjie'new part of the cemetery near crease in the number Of costly and the lake. In four different places over handsome tombs in the arched entrances to the tomb apWood lawn cemepears tbe name Foster," cuf In the tery in the past few stone in fae simile of the on ners trade A years, say the New mark- - This tomb waa designedly, Y ork Sun. Some of New York architect named John Wool-le- y those erected lately upon instructions from Mr. Foster. have cost enortnouft It will be tkediighesi in the cemetery t suhif AmhgTEero when ToinpteTett; itar feet in the air. It stands on that of Collis P. Huntington, the fifty-twx feet in diamerailroad magnate, which is now nearly a circular plot sixty-sisituation. in a ter ia conspicuous very tomb this of cost completed The said by ita builder, Robert Caterson, to The tomb is of Concord granite, and be 9250,000. Mr. Caterson explains the its main platform will he eight feet enormous expenditure by the fine from the ground. It differs radically the other tombs in the cemequality of Quincy granite which waa from all used in its construction, and the fact tery, inasmuch aa the niches will be the main that unusually large stones were re- placed out of sight beneath ow ners body will quired for parts of the tomb and its platform, and the elaborate approaches. Several of the rest ln a sarcophagus under the vaulted stones weigh upward of fifteen tons root The main part of the building will be cruciform in shape and the eai h. The Huntington mausoleum stands roof will be supported by sixteen great on a lot 100 feet square, which faces polished granite column, twelve feet east from Chapel bill, near the railroad In height. A dome composed of enorentrance to the cemetery. Part of this mous slabs of Concord gr n ite w ill cover from of ground was bought many years ago by the sarcophagus, and on the top little pillars this a smaller dome w ill serve as a final decoration. Four crypts w ill be constructed under the main floor, in each of which there will bo room for two coffins The tomb has been building for nearly a year and it will not be finished uutill next 111 spring. The tomb w have cost more than- - 830,000 when completed. The plot added fully fio.ooo more to the outlay. tine of the most modest of the new rOB C. P. HUNTINGTON. tombs recently completed is that of J. Mr. Huntington, and the rest was secured when the new tomb was started. Hood Wright, tho banker, who diod This plot is said by the cemetery peo- only a few weeks ago on an elevated very ple to have cost altogether 830,000. railroad station. This simple, butinterThe tomb stands on the side of a bank artistic mausoleum stands at the feet above the level of section of Hpruce and Observatory avetwenty-fiv- e Magnolia avenue, which passes in front nues, near tbe lake. On twoother corof it The approaches are particularly ners of this crossing sre the tombs of impressive. Three short flights of Messrs. Ellis and Clews The Wright TELL QUEER STORIES. GOOD NEWSPAPERS. - FOB W. Wl v F. a FOSTER. stoop measure 46 by 48 feet The tomb itself stands on a broad platform and is of the simple Doric stylo of architecture.- - The building is 28 by 43 feet and its height 24 feet. There are six polished granite columns at either side and two at either end, with a pilaster at each of the four corners. Under the simple peaked Doric roof, upon tbe lintel, appears in simple letOrest ters tbe name Hadtington. bronze doors, suitably simple in design, guard the entrance. Within the same plain finish is maintained, in marked eontrast to some of the newer tombs, which are lined with costly mosaics. f non-payin- I i I a rhenam.no In Btrmcth, Willie Holmes of Lalorte, Ind., is p phenomenon in strength, and if he grows to manhood will undoubtedly surpass Bandow. Although but 4 years old he weighs eighty-fiv- e pounds, and easily carries his father, Charles " Holmes, who weighs 17S pounds, across thy room, and does- - other wonderful feats of strength. Sheriff of London Town. Alderman and Sheriff Samuel, recently elected to the London shrievalty, is the youngest of that great city's magistrates, being only 41 years of age. The business of which the young official is now the head waa founded in London in 1332, and const!- - MARCUS SAMUEL, tilted under ita present style In 1878. The firm of Messrs. Samuel, Samuel A Co., Yokohama and Kobe, Japan, of which Marcus Samuel is also the head, is one of the leading houses In th Japan trade. Saved Himself sad Other.. Uncle Billy" Patterson, who died in West Philadelphia recenty.had been for forty-thre- e years an engineer on the Philadelphia railroad, and was never hurt in an accident. Bold aa IH.terlral Fanm Judge John C. Creal recently sold the Kentucky fans upoh which Abrhain Lincoln wax bom. There arellOX acres of it. The purchrser is A. VT, Dennett, who paid 83,000 for the property, and will convert it in a park, free to alL land Worth Owning. In 185S an is island in the Missouri river near Leavenworth, contained 500 acres. Now it haa spread until it comprise 1,460 acres A coal mine ha y been found on !l -- |