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Show 1IAJ.NEIYT0N WALKER A A FICURE IN POLITICS PAST. I ow OF THE lT U lUlaato Ut Otk at Kaow Umilt loug- hu ha tha Dap of Their Ki.iug fetor? Retalaed HI Hoaaa to tha UiU A Major Newton Walker, one of the oldest pioneer eltUena of Illinois, died at his home in Lewiston the other day at the advanced age of 9t years When Major Wallace emigrated westward front Charlottesville, Vs, where he was horn in 1801 there were comparatively few signs of tiviiization west of the Mississippi river Chicago was then a mere village, with only a handful of inhabitants, while Illinois was steeped in the gloomy solitudes of the virgin wilderness Major Walker re ailed many notable persons and events connected with the early decades of the present century on this aide of the water He could distinctHe ly remember Thomas Jefferson saw that patriot many times and heard him apeak on several occasions He was one of the military escort that eonducted Lafayette across the Old DoIn 1832 Major Walker paid minion a visit to Washington There he heard Henry Clay deliver one of his im- - THE DREYFUS CHILDREN. f fttkn Is Towcfatag flctai IwDy oT fl IN FAVOR - BICYCLE STABLE. 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Of the Prej fus children there are on- IT two Pierre, nearly 8 years old, and Jeanne, who will be 4 next April Pierre resembles his uncle, Mathlen Dreyfus, and already shows that he has a similar force of character and strength of will He will need It alL Jeanne Is the image of her father She has all his nervous energy, mingled with a Itrtie girl s gayety, coquetry and general prettiness They are growing up without seeing the black cloud lowering ovVr their heads Motherly made their home so sweet a prison that thev do not think of going to s bool where Other children work, and when they play happily together their mother replace playmates for them It is with her that they go out for walks every day , It is she who tells them amusing stone to make them laugh while her on heart la heavy with grief, and it is he who teaches Jeanne the alphabet in a big colored pictuie book who helps Pierre with his lessons and who corrects tha exercises written In his sadly blotted One day and besmeared copvbook long ago their father did not coma home at night and on aeeing the vacant place at the table Pierre began to cry, then his mother, whose eyes were very sad, kissed him with extraordinary passion and told him some story. To appease his furiosity she said the minister of war had ordered him away on a mission to a very far-o- ff country. This pious deception has been pracAt last tha ticed on them ever since great news arrived at the house that Dreyfus had come back to France Then the pious deception had to be complicated In all kinds of way to allow of the mother going to Rennee to aee her husband The children did not' bear very patiently this separation tome Dreyfus refrom their mother ceived a letter at Rennes the other day saying that Pierre was quite angry, and that he and Jeanne were not convinced that it was necessary for their mother to stay away so long Why, wrote Pierre, "does not father after having been away so long ask for 4S hours' leave of abaence to come to Paris? He said he could not believe the minister of war would refuse hla father such a small favor as that, and now what sory will the poor mother tell him? Paris Figaro 14 GETS HUNG CHANG YELLOW JACKET. Star kr teroateo Cfcla WagrapAf lag,on It is X WOMgN AND BURGLARS. TM Hx ? Tkm Nv Qtl WkaaS Aaa Df Tai-Pln- THIS WOMAN AN IS MOBILIZING ARMY. Battens That a Mill lorn Mas Coa Dool with tha Barrooms AU hays That lleaix Bate la f Oar Large I t tea. Sbontx of Chicago is aa an energetic to the front coming and persistent advocate of the prohibition iause She has recently set out to secure the pledge of 1,000,000 votes to the political party which will explicitly declare ln favor of the aboit-tlo- u She believes that of barrooms. thli ia the only effective way to prevent the spread of drunkenness, aud she has no doubt of her eventual success in the work which she has undertaken Miss Shontx la president of the Young People's Christian Temperance union of Chicago. On aciount of her e enthusiasm in behalf of temperance she is believed by many to be the legitimate successor of Miss Frances E Willard. In personal appearance, as well as In mental characteristics, she Is very much like Miss Willard From ocean to o ean women have wept over the wrongs due to liquor, says Mias Bhonls "But a very fioodtlde of tears will not stop ths Mias Eva M wide-awak- A Mm Da. Tb few weeks ago my wife had s narrow escape from death at the bands of a burglar," said W. E. Hart, a resident of Chicago. "I was from home at the time She was suddenly awakened She and saw a man at the bureau. leaped from the bed and seized s light rocking chair. The fellow ran to the open window, but she biought the ' chair down on his head He turned and fired, but missed, tbe bullet entering ladder at the He Jhd the ceiling Then window and made hla escape my wife fainted. She say she had no woe. only fear un til it waanll over,-bu- t Within a month 1 hav Indignant noted twelve cases where a woman hap attacked and In most Instance cap, d tured a burglar. In most cases tbe has been sound asleep, apparent , ly. until tbe thief was caught or raped. I dont think It la either eour-- , age or the rashnesa of Ignorance that, induces women to da what few menf would Moat men have figured It ouh that they owe it to their families not to risk life in a fight with desperate scoundrels for a little portable property Women do not think about it at all Awakened suddenly and finding somebody after the money they have saved for a new hat, they make a dash at the Intruder, with no other Ides than to recover the money or Jswelry. The woman is too absorbed even t cry out end ewaken her husband. Her etterk Is so furious end surprising that, ths bewildered burglar la cowed or Probably he is married. stampeded. over the nature) When the affair timidity of the aex asserts Itself and she lnglorlously swoon." Nsw Orleans Time Democrat. bus-ban- 1 -- HIS TERRIBLE THIRST." (aFartnx aec-tio- e, es - Hundred ireasur) department under ths roof of lt-bu ,t in tbe north court of at tba Ortaaf (r,lJsd t w treasury bu Ming and has a floor fiaiwilia llalMaa ' Of about l square feL The only pnrpoee - retarv of the 'hr once been has L4 Hung Chang, who treasury had m tcdenng tbs construe-tur- n more called to court and rehabilitated of the abed to provide added with the yellow jatket of the premier pioiection for the vaults unexteiislvp der the court Ship of China, has had more upa lure million hundred downs than any other helmsman doiin or nuuj ln sVf.r l()ln anj jaU In the world if oneLJLCj y, ,turwJ MtlkthWfl was finding Informed down to date in Chinese it way lnt0 the- -, mulls and penqitvg Prince whether one never knows nlhorliation lo ongress for the LI is in power or in disgrace. LI beof tin vast subterranean his area a gan his public career ln 1850, and wooden mof ovtr the space was first important coup was made during decided ttp0n happy thought oc He was curred to the i the rebellion of n apti of the watch that rapidly promoted through governor- If the roof a few feet ete tai-e- d he li igher than the ships and vice regal offices until hue. air ts plan conbecame the emperor s most valued sub- templated the huntli.Ms of bicycles that has encumbered amt uloikaded tbe corriject Since 1895, however, hla way the dors might be in The been quite thorny prince mentlv and safely (unv leader of the progressive party In Stored there He suggested tha change China. He has ever been an ardent and it was made the 91)0 em admirer of Gen Grant, whom he loved ploves of the d.pit nient or ich of not only for that great man soldiery them at may be addu ted to the bicycle habit, have stal fot their wheel, each sad heroism, but also for hla fame a statesman, it wan this admiration being assigned to a special number for thh general's genius that made Ll Nearly 509 wheen Hre stabled there The sight la so eager to visit the tomb of hla great from 1 to S eier dav friend at New York on the occasion one worth seeing and Is one of the of the princes visit to the Occident. curiosities of Washington abont which China's grand old man, while thor- few outiide of the ilepa'tment bav tra- - ever heard oughly Chinese in sentiment and Caart a. 4 H. OF SALOONS. ENEMY 't as -- r Wkshtngtoi, nt chu ago Evening One 0f (lt, ureatt-g-t bicycle eta- ln the count i is located inside of v walls of the - aaa Smi Oat at fa 0-- Mord NE' KAJOR NEWTON WALKER, He could recaH many other noted men of the arly century whose name are now and whose personalities historical, seem far away and dim to the mind's When HIS TRAMPSHIP eye of the present generation Major Walker went to the Illinois leg- Found Fnrasod la thn Bortk of Snugly islature in 1837 he made the acquaina False Car. was who tance of Abraham Lincoln, Ths New Yotk police arrested the then serving a term in the general other day a gentleman whose gall assembly. Tbe old pioneer was presof commareial debate at would stock a corps ent at tbe Llncoln-Dougltravelers. He called himself a proMr. and Lincoln when spoke Oaleshurg, traveler, had all the eclat of at Lewiston he had dinner at the ma fessional 23 and bore himself like a monarch. joe'a house. Major Walker preserved When the persons who sweep out tfaa bis clarity of mind almost up to his Wagner'palace cars in the Grand Cenlast hours tral station yards entered ths car Nomad at New York the other morning WHEN CHILDREN SMOKED they were startled to hear loud snore from one of the berths, Tkf Wert Seat to School with Pipes la emerging which was still hemmed in by curTheir Satchels. tains. They thought a passenger had Bymt oaa baa read that Hlctns been overlooked when the train cabs tobacco Into England and that ln and left him undisturbed until it King James inveighed against it. Elis- was nearly time to start tue car on Its abeth liked to sit on a low stool and return trip to Chicago, Mr. Tramp rewatch Sir Walter Raleigh puffing fused to get up, the police were called. 1 came to town ta away. Once she bet him that be could In court be said not tell the weight of the amoke in attend the Dewey celebration. I found his pipe, but the philosopher won. In there was no hotel accommodation to Anne's reign almost every one smoked. be found anywhere. Being well acstatic Ja Charles II s reign children were quainted with Mr. Dewey I thought I dition, doe not advocate the counsent to school with their pipes in their would use one of his palace cars. They condition that is so loved by hla satchels, ana the schoolmaster called were lying around In the yard with no trymen generally. Out from the walls of tbe forbidden a halt In their studies while they one In them. The Judge was so stagthe In 1702 Jorevin spent an gered that be neglected to fine him, and prohibited elty, where live smoked. famChinese members of the imperial Garra-way's evening with hi brother at and the admirals personal friend ily, comes a rumor that the dowager coffee house, Leeds, and writes: walked forth a free man. presumably of China has been desperately empress see his child to I was surprised sickly to seek accommodations until his disImpendf three years old fill his pipe of to- tinguished patron should arrive to give 111 and that great changee are celestial bacco and smoke it as audfarandly as him shelter In tbe suite set aside in ing In the government of the kingdom. The fact that the empress a man of threescore; after that a sec- the Waldorf-Astoridowager and nil tha members of the ond and third pipe without tbe least eourt are absolutely cut off from lb concern, as it Is Raid to have done GUERRILLAS. MOSBYS outside world makes It almost ImposThere were about about a year ago. to get accurate Information about sible 470 coffee houses ln London, besides most of the One startling incidents n in time. of Anna's the royal family. A large fire chocolate houses, of the war between tbe state is to be any is inof the caplUl city of Peking Smirking was general In them, and commemorated by a monument, just " toxicants could 'be also obtained, ss unveiled at Front Royal,' in Warren surrounded by a high stone well as coffee. Bishop Trelawney was county. Vs A granite shaft has been aide of which are the royal palace nauch hurt because Bishop Barnett has erected to seven of Mosbys men who end other state buildings No one but the highest officials, coming on busiaccused him of getting drunk ln one of vr ness of Imperial Importance. I them on the 20th of January s day of churchmen. Even wall they all to and torles tbe inside allowed good grief nr obliged to dismount upon reaching Pittsburgh Dispatch. the gate in the wall and proceed on to the palace. Nor do the memfoot land fro id Daalk. ber of ths Imperial family stray outAn English, traveler once met a comside the same boundary. Only once panion. sitting in a state of tbs most, or twice ha cither the emperor or hie woeful despair, and,, apparently near mother' appeared beyond the wall. tbe last agonies, by the side of one at Within the prohibited city the dowager tbe mountain lakes of Switxerland. He empress, now over 60 years old, Is suinquired the cause of his sufferings. was I hot said the very preme. What happens there Is an ablatter, Oh, solute blank to the world outside, unand thirsty, and took a large draught less tbe old lady herself directs that ' of the clear water of the lake, and then tbe news be given out sat down on this stone to consult my guide book. To my astonishment I A BsaklMwrry found that the water of this lake is P m a Birthday Ola I a man am Oh. gone Col. G. B. M. Harvey, the editor and very poisonous! I feel it running all over me, I have owner of the North American Review, COL. J. S. MOSBT. an eventful career. He started only a few minutes to live! Remem- were on the has had hanged or shot to death Let me see the a farmer life ber me to boy, and rose step by spot by Gen. Custer, while prisoners tap to hla present position. He was a guide book, said his friend Turning of 1864. Under the on 23, war, Sept. he found, L'eau du lac to the pass.-greporter on the Springfield Repubthe water of Impression that It was unprotected. lican, and had won tha esteem of the eat bien poiesoneuse "Is that Major Chapman with fifty of Mosbya management by the fidelity and effithis lake abounds ln fish. Certainly. The men attacked a union ambulance train, ciency with which fae had covered a the meaning of it? with a radiant but found they had encountered a number of suburb known ns the looked man up dying countenance. "What would have be- whole corps of cavalry. They quickly "Huckleberry District. Os hi birthbecome of you, said his friend, If I had retreated, but seven men were left day the city editor sent for him. I should have died of hind as prisoners, and these were "Youpg man, be aald, "you hive been not met you? No reason was given for ths n good suburbanite, and hart given imperfect knowledge of the French hanged. hangings, and ln revenge Mosby more satisfaction to the paper, the laiguage." Argonaut banged an equal number of union men Huckleberry District and tbe Hackle-berrithen any one we have ever had whom be captured later.- 0(11 Maks aa a Htotorl BatlteSold. This Is yonr birthday; and we before. Golf assoThe Princeton University went to celebrate It by presenting yja J Stamp Import I Ti ciation has just purchased the farm on Botanists and entomologists know with the finest huckleberry pie that which the battle of - Princeton was Upon the will It out in that a dead Mump, or dead tree, stand- 8pringfleld can produce." lay fought in 1777, and ia a aourc ' of crust of the pie waa worked the dates tree Princeof battle near the At living links ing golf of hie birth and annlrersnry, "mt-188- 3. ton Washington commanded tbe con- peril-t- o them, by, furnishing a refuge Before the pi was consumed e timber borers for tinental troop ln person and won n and breeding-placbad accepted nn offer in Chidecisive victory- - Gen. Hugh Mercer, and other injurious Insects., Trees, as Harvey more than twice big former at cago surroundas need well men', hygienic who led one division of tbe continental ealarv army, was killed on the battlefield. is octal speeches in congress. Sara EVA M. SHONTZ. liquor traffic. The 240,000 saloonkeeper in the United StAtea, the brew-er- a meeting In their sUt conrsnUons, ear not on cent for all your tears, though They had th volume end force of Niagara! Tear ar well, but work Is better, and work w must If the nation Is to be free of this curs. Erery city In thee United States I ruled end governed by the saloon. This la a statement which I should not dare to maka and which no cultivated audience would allow ma to repeat If It wars not absolutely true. But no on can deny It. What we need t hard, practical ' work. ' The saloon-keepeare working for their Internets; w must work tor our, which ar the and the salvation of every per soft. 1 thin world.' What 1 want Vs tn secure the pledge of the rotes of 1.000,-00- 0 man who will vote for the political party hlchc makes one of Its plank n declaration for prohibition. Not locnl option, which cn be overcome by trickery, but complete prohibition; prohibition fefalch will wipe out the liquor traffic ifad make it s crime for a person to stake or ad I r give away any kind of intoxicating liquor. With, ths pledge of 1,000,000 rotee eecured It FLORENCE MARRYAT. will be enay for us to accomplish what Florence Marryat, tbe noted novel- we want, for if the old.partie ahould w want we ist, who is critically 111 at Brighton, refuse to grant us wbaf own and of bur a could party organise England, Inherited her genius for literature from her distinguished father, be victorious at tbe polls" So far the late Capt. Frederick Marryat of ths Ml Shontx bee secured pledgee from British navy. In her, childhood Mia about 10,000 voters. Marryat (tbe future Mrs. Francis McA Boro Fate. Lean) was by no means happy, and It Is erldent tbit the emperor of her unfortunate surroundings left a brand of melancholy upon her spirit Germany doe not expect the horsewhich hee never left her, Her father less age" to arrive very soon. He i of showed little affection for Florence end under construction, in the outskirts the to ia be, probably, whet her sleter. If wee his custom to place Berlin, world. Outthe two tots on the high mantel of most splendid stable ln the and Ina like looks palace, It hie dining-roowhile he and bla wardly the of appointIt has many Iriesfin et4,,Mr., toe Leon bon had wardly of one. Certa remarkable success as a writer of ments and chaftmnsucr more never were bora stories, and surpassed her father ln ainly than they will be her. lodged lafinancial returns from her literary The stable is being erected by tbs Imbors. She has not only excelled as a occuperial architect, Herr lhne. Ot romancer, but has won high praise aa area of more than a superficial pies a linger and an actress Mrs. McLean two acres. There will be roomy and was caught In tbe wave of spiritualism for mors than comfortable that overswept London, and tbs fruits 270 horses, and carrlaga-bou- s apacs of her thought on this subject are In tha for more than 800 carriage There Ia No center of the whole will be a two-tor- y found In her books, Risen Dead and "Spirit Death building,, where the Imperial coachand so forth.' man, grooma. stable-boy- s, with their families, wlllbe, lodged. In Eighty families will have quarters ths building; the drivers or coachmen The will be at least fifty ln numbfifa. stable will be provided with bora elevators, telephone and electric lights, and the walla of the carriage-house- s and other portions of the building will be beautifully decorated with paint and gliding by the best decorative artists in Berlin. Tbe cost of the etable Is estimated at seven millions of marks, or more than a million dollar. Three construcyear will be employed ln It rs m pel-tlal- box-stal- ly of a Mm Wa Toon a Tenon Trip. In tbe New Llppincott for September Albert Bigelow Paine thus describes bis sufferings from thirat, while traveling alone through southwest Texes, having lost the trail: - "My-thi- rst had become torture, and suddenly remembering that 1 bed once heard of Indiana discovering moisture la the heart of the nlggerhead cactus, I etror to uproot one by kicking It fiercely with the heel of my beery boot. The cactus grew everywhere la profusion, adhering 4 Ah soil with great tenacity, while 1U long, horny spikes mad It difficult to handle even when uprooted. Still I managed at lest to end cut open. There wa A pulp within that contained some sea-blaaof moisture, but I could not sew that It allayed my thirst Perhaps I M: was not accustomed to ita use, bauds were tor by the thorns e my feet wounded in many places, was suffering tnd weary, and my thlret was tjhoamlTir unbearable It was testing 1st by this time, and If I wa t reach Pecos bsfor dark I must pnsls bn in spite of pain and weariness. My clothes wars becoming taller d and ny( hands were bleeding, but all other misfortune was forgotten la the fiere blight of thlret that had fixed Itself on me like a withering demos. When si last It began to grow dark 1 uprooted more of the nlggerhead caetueee. And, tearing tba hearts from them, chewed and sucked aa one might chew suck a sponge from which tfaa laeh trace of moisture has been all hub pressed. I ate n part of my Ust sandwich, and than, thoroughly exhausted end mad with thlret, I sank down upcB tha hot, sandy earth and stared up e the darkened sky. it oe WILLIAM'S TROUBLES, I It is announced from Berlin thsb Minister of Agriculture Hammer tela to psetff ths Prussian "Junkers, who ar fighting the emperor's pat canal project. la making desperate efforts The "Junkers are the old feudal aristocracy the great landownera ot PYuasla. The canals are being cut so that agricultural products may be transported cheaply into ths interior o fear th the soHUtry, ,T,;juolter they will not be able to meet the sod petition' of these Imported profit Hence they are fighting the canal bills. y ls ,Tbe MINISTER HAMMER3TELV. of the ' Fifty years ago population of Germany waa engaged In agriculture and 95 per cent of all the tion. food consumed was raised at home.' i:,if of the population Now only one-thiSpldar Crab SCtevea Faet Long. d and at leaat M agricultural, been have Mufflt Miss might Little food products used ln the emof the had It if excused, for running awsjr -- It Is argued, there--been a Japanese spider crab that bad pire ire Imported. era a necessity, cenala sat down beside her on the memorable fore, that the ar the "Junkers fighting a and that day when ab was eating bar curds muat be lost sooner of FLORENCE MARRYAT. which battle to auch s From Up and whey. tip Her stories hare been renWorld. eleven feet Its later. crab measure civUl-xatloof the hell language dered Into but 14xlj inches, U small, being body DM Not Claim D but It has the regulation number of Summer Boarder "I thought yon ten arms or legs, which measure from two to five feet each la length, and wrote me that you had no mosquito." straight A area tha Sh be to You ought are from three to eight Inches In diam- Joshua Hay Well. I halnL Their Mrs. Bender em errouad here, eshamed of yourself, staggering up the eter. ' The crab Ja yellow and not be more or leu ot em." Ohio State claim Bender-Tb- ash all dont A but I Mr. ln specimen appearance. handsome lawn like that - j moon glah of thie erastaceous animal has just Journal. right, Betty; even Mrs. Bender-T- ea, bees received st ' Rutgeri College, full one In a A The first law school In America vat where It will be added to the collecbut tbe moon alvrsys leave In Philadelphia ln 1799. opened the museum of tnetltutlon. the ln tion . path. straight four-aevent- i rd one-thir- w t-t- ' - . v |