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Show YUOIXOX P1EROL lit at midnight l'KRU.1 black Picroln, mounted, upon a horse, commanded the revolutiont.vo oclock there were five OK HAS WILD AMEITIONS FOR CONQUEST. A tlta ftouth !w of Longer. Mf .Imrriraa Kf Thu Intrepid der .of fbe T()ili- - Slay Kxtahllth .. i:u.(lre. No became inadequate for the crowds S ABOVE TIIK WORLD. that which assembled to hear her, and so the A POET AK1I A BEAUTY ists. hundred dad and the gavernment as SOUTHERN WOMAN WITH defeated. ' BEAUTIFUL CHARACTER,. But Pierola, addict ator,. felt ihe effect of Prado, the It nave. TJie couu-tr- y ! Faibankrupt, the army and navy de- Mr. l.llugtoa Mimint, a Iba heflneauuut. and Embraces factlure stroyed, he could do nothing iiiJhe or the victorious Chilians. They rupNew Faith sml Is Surrounded ljr lo tured Lima. and they gorged themtturiitlal tollow rn. selves with southern territory. Pier-olfriends turned against him nnd RS. LIVINGSTON he was compelled to flee,- - Four years Minims:, of Atlanlater he returned and, by force oparnw. Ga Is a unique ta. again won the place of dictator. But Xigure.The. disciple the people were against him and again of a new faith or a ?(lll ti mem util this year new art are generalhe wajt(,(j patiently, slowly organizing ly called, and often another army in the mountains. are, fanatics. They Again he has been successful, and now seldom come from vox poptill follows the clash of arms. the Inner circle of Pieiolu, president of Peru, is as brave conventional sociea soldier as South America ever proty. for conventional duced, and he is loved by his troops as ociety Is opposed to anything save conHe is Napoleon was by the Guard. ventionality. Mrs. Mlmms, however, married and haa several grown children. As a statesman he bas yet to was some years ago a leading social light In the best sense of the word; a brilliant and beautiful woman, endowed with a rare and comprehensive intellect, iwhleh she cultivated to the utmost In every possible line of literature and art. She drew about her all the persons of cultivation In her social world. In those days she could be said to have had more of what the French term salon than any other wonia'n In the south. She was the- - high- priestess of art and letters. For ten years she had been an invalid. but her sufferings left no race upon her mind, or upon her face. She had tried all sorts of remedies and all sort of physicians, spending thousands of dollars with the hope of restoring her health. At this time she became interested Jn Christian science through one of the disciples of Mrs. Eddy, the Christian scientist of Boston. Through the instruction of this young Christian sciMrs. MlmmsbeaUh began rapld- entist M ADA MR PIEROLA. ICHOLAS de ola. twice dictator ofPt;ru, Is now the presHnit, elected by the people. PicrOla has been termed Ihe Napo- Icon of . South Twice America. he has been exiled from hid native land and twice he has marched upon Lima with troops composed of hardy mountaineers, and, after ficree fighting, has won hia way to the executive building. His last battle o; in red in May, and one thousand 'b ad men lay on the paving-stone- s of i he City of Kings before he was its . Then he appealed to the people and they, by a sylc ml id majority, gave him the greatest gift , at their hands, writes C. H. Hazeltlne in Leslie's Weekly. Pierola has in view the aggrandizement of Peru. He believes In a more liberal treatment of foreigners, the attraction of capital to his country, and the opening of the Interior. Ho proposes completing the road to the wealth of the Cerro del Pasco mines and furnishing an outlet for the treasure that is known to be in hitherto inaccessible For fourteen years he has regions. been striving to bring this about, but time that he occupied the executive chair nn overthrow came before he could accomplish anything. Now that he is president he has the opportunity To lie has fought and .waited for. show the wonderful energy of the man a bit of hisjory is necessary, yet it la history or.o cannot find in books. 1m 1876-7- 7 Peru prospered as she never had before, under the administration of Pardo, an eminent Jurist. White at the height of his successes he was shot down by a fanatic, and was succeeded in office by Prado. In 1879 Peru sided with Bolivia against Chill in a struggle for the control of the nitrate, beds. Then a cloud settled down upon the northern republic. Her superior navy was defeated. Her allies, the Bolivian soldiers, deserted during the first battle. In October, 1879, the southern part of the state was held by the enemy, and a march on Lima was expected. One. afternoon of that month Prado onh-rchis state barge to be ready In mas-ter- i jij . bf Jf- 4 . Ml rr J best-dresse- soot-staine- HOW HE COT THERE. I6':y f&S- V'llA J V I. - 5 1 .VstffeMid mM) RF.SID2NT DE PIEROLA. Callao, and, traveling by a (special train from Lima, he reached the seaport, where he announced that he intended inspecting what remained of the fleet and also the forts, so as to be The ready for the coming conflict. people shouted their bravas aa he stepped into the barge, accompanied by d brilliantly-uniformeofficers. He doffed his hat and addressed them, saying he would yet save Peru. The executive party visited the monitors In the bay, then the two wooden cruisers, There was much powder burned in saluting. The barge then turned shoreward, but Prado, ms If the Idea had Just come to him, bade the. coxswain steer for the steamship Islay, then lying at. anchor in the outer bay and due to sail for Panama; saying, as he did so, that there was a friend on board to whom he wished to deliver his parting salutation. Thither the barge' was rowed, -- awMbe president tripped gayly up the He never came down It ., again Itf Peruvian waters. The barge waited and waited until the big ship nearly capsized it when beading around to get her nose to the sea. The officers of state cursed and called out that their president was being kidnapped. The captain of the Islay smiled at them and ordered full speed ahead. As she was - fairly under way Prado, 'smiling and debonair, appeared near the after-ra- il and kissed his hands to his aides. In his cabin he had several hundred thou-- i He went to Paris and aod dollars. enjoyed himself. That night came the opportunity for Nicholas do Pierola. an der-secretary irn. Kcrll Michigan, General Russell Alexander Alger, the favorite son of Michigan in three na tional republican conventions, and the peer of any living American, had an humble beginning, writes an admirer. He knows what it is to be poor, for in his life, he lias been a laborer In i brick yard, a farm baud, and like Lin coin, has a record for splitting rails. It was as a "logger and rafter, how ever, that he found his way to fortune. General Alger was born in Lafayette, Ohio, Feb. 27. 1831. He labored on the farm until '.be reached the age of 20, when lie crossed the line Into Michigan, and then Journeyed to the lumber woods of the Grand River valley. He secured a job as a lumber shover at a saw mill at the princely salary of $12 a month Later he became a "rafter on the Grand river. At Grand Rapids lie engaged In the lumber business, on his own account, and the enterprise proved very successful. In the meantime he had not neglected the work of and In 1839. he was admitted to the bar. In 1864 hb raised a company of volunteers and went to the front as captain of the Second Michigan Cavalry. He dlslngnlshcd himself at Gettysburg and In ti:e Shenandoah valley, He came out of the war as brevet ma jor general. After the war be engaged in the lumber business at Detroit and In .1 884 ho amassed a large fortune. was elected governor of Michigan on His administhe republican ticket. tration as governor for two years was distinguished by many reforms. He reIn 1890 be was fused a In the war department-- He a v- - RUSSELL A. ALGER. choeen commnndor-Jn-chle- f of the Grand Army of the Republic. It is he is worth'$8,000,000. Twice a year Christmas and Thanksgiving he distributes large sums of money hmong the poor of ' Detroit and elsewhere. General Alger was one of the first to suggest the Grand Army of the ' Republic.. rather than the knaves kt the palace! For Prados ministry had declared they would carry on the government At ten oclock there was a rumble of wheels and a clatter of hoofs; a battery ef artillery and a squadron of cavalry ' had deserted the barracks and declared Infantry soon followed; fer Pierola. then men arrived from every direction. Messages sent over the wires of the A barricade was erected across a side street leading tt the Grand Plaza. It New York police department amount attacked by the government forces to mere than 1,000 a dajr. , m . J most lucrative, and It did not take the young graduate long to decide that it would he the proper occupation for him to engage In. He accordingly entered the Harvard law school, from which he graduated In 1865, Shortly afterward, to use an expression common among lawyers nowadays, he "hung out his shingle In New York city. lie was tolerably successful and won the good counsel of men like Samuel -J, Tlden. Francis Kernan and others.- In 1873 he became corporation counsel of New York and served until 1882. That was the only political post he held previous to bhrappointtnent st secretary of the in wearing weeds of woe for the dead; navy in 1885. He served until the end her faith is one of cheerfulness. She of the first Cleveland administration, refuses to entertain In her own mind 1889. He succeeded In having Clevethe Ides of evil. She says that the mil- land renominated in Chicago In 1892, lennium will come when the creatures of thjs earth throw off the acknowledgement of sin and death; then, and only then, will they enter Into their heritage of Immortal life. This Is her creed si nearly as can V I Vw- - ; expound It, and Its verity she claims to have tested nosT Tor ten years In her i own life. He health has become perfect since she espoused It and she has seemed to become younger ever day under Its Influence.-- - A soon as she became convinced that Christian science was for her the greatest truth that life held, her own life changed materially. ly to improve. Ehe is an extremely receptive and sympathetic woman, and she became absorbed with the Idea of This power she did spiritual power. not claim as part of her human personality, but aa the gift of the Creator. The faith of Christian science, as she expounds It, 1 a beautiful one. It Is of evll either the through the mind or body. Her creed is that to. ths human being whose soul strength Is fully developed there can be no sin, no pain, no death. She takes the Idea of death as it is taught in the Bible, literally translating It as a transition relinquished social honors and pleasures. To the poor and needy ahe devoted her time and money, responding to every call made upon her. Her whole time Is now devoted to humanity. At first Mrs. Mlmms found her faith WILLIAM C. WHITNEY. a difficult matter. When she first expounded her belief there were many to and is himself a candidate for the presicrltldse and scoff. Of this fact she her- dential nomination next year. lie has self says: "I have borne everything; the the support of Cleveland. Mr. Whitney am the last one in the is worih several millions of dollars. pi strangers. Ibraved such things untW world to have Ill lrrm Book. ordinary circumstances, but my belief "Let me congratulate you on the sucwas stronger and greater than It all. I had found the truth and nothing could cess of your dream book, said Mr. Dukane to a rising young author. make me relinquish it "My dream book? repeated the auGradually followers came to her. Converts, however, have come from1 the thor in surprise. "Well, I fell asleep while reading it ranks of serious reading and thinking she held dreamed lots of things before J her and fir1 At meetings people. every Friday and Sunday in a - small waked up. Pittsburg Chronicle room in the center of the city.- Soon . ; Y Fond of Flgaren. Although Jose Ecbegaray, the Spanish dramatist, has written more than s hundred plays during the past twenty years, nearly all of them successful, he aspires to be famous as a mathematician rather than as a playwright. He writes plays in tbs Inters of leisure from, his scientific studies, and none of them baa cost him mors than a fortnight's labor, Ecbegaray Is a lively old man of 70. and be haa recently learned to ride the bicycle.. He makes the carious boast that up to the age of 60 ho bad read every novel published In England. MRS. LIVINGSTON MIMMS. htJPIcUESl3LCK!0?J?J3.4s81 is- sued a pronunclamento and sent forth Pierola! trusted friends. "Pierola! .. jV UV- - -- 1 l side-ladde- r. 1 v LSJg-Hg, law, Judge Harmon, the new attorney-genera- l, ha the reputation of being d one of the men in Cincin-nat- l, and one of the few able to keep d their linen Immaculate In that city. Judge Harmon has found leisure to acquire various accomplish inents. He knows a good deal about music, he feuces skillfully, and ho Is enough of an artist to have painted some very creditable miniatures of his daughters. Judge Harmon Is still a few years under fifty, and even younger in personal appearance. of ' well-to-d- lrrel Algor .' st A Well Man. In addition to his knowledge of the i.iuc iwplilral Sketch of nt A' - demonstrate his ability, but there are many w ho believe that his advent for a country which hss seen only reverses for fifteen years. quarters wore moved to a handsome building on Peachtree afreet, Some BALTIMORE CIRL WHO HAS WON months ago word went forth from Mrs. Renown. Eddy that the disciples of Christian science wore to give no moire talks or sermons, but were to read from the Martha CannlnctTfeiUi fetaretjr Out of Her Torus, t! book on that faith and expound its SurprUed Americas fcthol m an with Her Tlni-A- lo meaning. She still occasionally reads lUrpUi at the rooms ami hss private talks hith of Except luual Iwer. V her friends on science. : Mrs. Mlmms Is the wife of Major LivARTHA Cunningingston Mlmms, a southerner of wealth ham, a young poetand distinction, whose daughter Is Mrs. ess. whose fame is wothe of Joseph Thompson, president steadily t a k I n g mans department if the Cotton States shape and who has been compared, and then Mrs. Mlmms will attend a even by some of or dinner luncheon, and this Is considous severest critics, ered a rare treat to her old friends. to Browning, has Mrs. Minims snow white hair makes accomplishments a sort of halo about her forehead,, Her that sre not con- complexion Is as clear as a child's, and flned to the field of eyes are almost as babyish. She is poetry. what all women She has,, first, always well dressed, blue and lilac be- prize above all 'Writ things, and that I genFatting Hoard. the She 'shades she chiefly favors. ing uine beauty, and she speaks French, Mrs. Kate Chapin, whose tales of the is not old la spirit, for she has lived Italian, and German with people, of the Louisiana bayous have fluency. up to her faith that there is no age c.r She Is also a bar pest of exceptional sorrow or death to Those whose souls power, her execution .being something have attained the highest strength. notable for a woman who has Just i MAUDE ANDREWS. passed her teens. . She was at school f a . a jli J. I abroad for als yeara, In Paris. Berlin Hi fit p over and traveled haa and London, WILLIAM C. WHITNEY. si: several besides spending Europe, 1 Brief Sketch of a Maa Now months In the Holy Land. All this for ' rj. r a wpman who bas not fet gotten be Public Evo. William Collins Whitney was born In yond'her twenty-firmilestone is i y f North Conway. Mass.. July 8. 1841. His little unusual, even in this age of rapid ,' $- Iw i father was Scotch, his mother was Irish. development One of Cardinal Gibbons last acts beo They were Sj4 people and their son found no barriers In the way of fore embarking on his late foreign trip completing the education begun in a waiMO write to Miss Cunningham country school house. In his seven letter, of praise for her reeent book of teenth year he entered Yale College poems, The Ballad of La Jeunesse In which his eminence was Doree, and made rapid progress in the department of classics. He graduated from pleased to say that the work of the poetVK that university with honors in July ess displayed a high order of literary merit Through a large part of the 1863. The practice of law at that time was considered among the most honproducts of this gifted and versatile orable of professions, as well as the young American woman there Is a vein MRS. KATE CHAPIN, of religious mysticismT as well as her given high rank as a writer .of touch of metaphysics, but here and there short lives in St. Louis, where stories, .thegeniitjjewomaniy-..MiitlmeTitfropi she was famous for her beauty before out as In this little gem-:she gained equal fame from her pen. .. 8he is still a handsome woman, though Give me of thy gold, O 8unshlne; now the mother of elx children. She Of thy silver, give me, Moon. la a creole by birth, and her husband And I'll take them to my sweetheart was a Louisiana planter. It may he of 8he will bid me enter soon. Interest to ambitious young authors of the gentler sex to know that Mr. ChaThen It will not matter. Sunshine; held pin writes on an old cutting-boar- d Then It will not matter. Moon, in her lap. . That we have no purse between us Only loves sweet, priceless boon. Xordu'i QrMtMrt Although Max Nordau is several That Miss Cunningham's Imaglna years under fifty, his hair and beard tinn has also a sublime and powerful are perfectly white. He Is a hearty, range Is Impressively manifested In the genial man, with no trace in his prisparkling verse entitled "Dawn, which vate life of his professional pessimism. has been highly praised: Reading was his only boyish amusement, for his father, a Jewish rabbi, Darkness, Blackness, then a gray; wag poor, but possessed of a full library.- He began to write whon only fourteen years old, and bo was earning twelve dollars a month Dr. Nordau from, . literary work. neither smokes nor drinks spirituous liquors, and he takes but little Interest In society or the theater. He recently told an Interviewer that the few hour he spends at his writing-tabl- e every evening ore viin mrtimnm nt 1(. . as 10. Where were the mound builders? History cannot answer these questions. Science only cattJ 11Deflne flinch, and use It la a sentence. Flinch, to shrink. Flannel flinches when it 1 washed. , 12- .JBy.what is the earth surrounded and by what la'll lighted T It is surrounded by water and lighted by gaa and electricity. 13. Name six animals of the Arctic zone.- - Three polar bear - and three seals. f 14. What is yeast? Yeast Js a vegeta ble flying about In the air, hitching itself to anything. . 13, Why do yen open the dampers in stove wnen lighting a fire? To let the oxygen In and nitrogen out IS. What did the constitution do for the country? It gave the president a heath t 17, What are the last teeth that come to a man? False teeth. Boston Budget MARTHA CUNNINGHAM. Itaeolla Ufa. Just finished glows hi grapes, of which his harvesting pales, vines yield ninety tons a year, and for Stillness; silence, then a stir which bs finds a ready market In New Of breathing life. White trails Tbe naturalist and essayist York. to the west. Of sombre clouds float leads a very bucolic life, for a literary, And sink within the sea to rest man, at his country home on the HudPeak on peak leaps np He exacts all he e&n from natnre, son. And slope on slope then swells with ha uses for even to the goose-quilthrills, found him visitor a reeds and the pens, of call bird Sweet and pipe and His Into And beast Then high above tbe hills transforming and grapes retur a peaches. currants, horn and flares sun up, The shepherd's him a better Income than his hooka Resounds and echoes Day is born ; Blue Load and light that silver John Burroughs has J - rose-tippe- d. ls . pen-holde- queer answers. Replies 3Ule Jo Examination Oaattloae Ilottoa School, la Since wit has been defined by Noah Webster as the "fellcitlous association of objects not usually connected, so as may to produce A pleasant surprise, not the pupils of some of our public schools, who gave the following answers to their examination questions, as her givlay claim to It? The record en Is bonafide, having been read during the last week at the graduation exergrammar cises of one of the leading ' schools of this city. were the Pilgrims? A dirty, - 1. Who set,wMilss4 under hf ground. Name s domestic animal useful for clothing, and describe Us habits. The ox. He dont have any habits because he lives In stable. . 1 If you were traveling across a desert wbee would you cboose to rest? I ; would rest" on a stool. Men, 4. Mention five races of men. women, children and babies. 5. Describe the white race and show ttsnt it't superior to the other recee.-- A white man will nod at you when he meets you on the street.6. Of what lathe surface Of the earth composed? Dirt And people. 7. Name a fruit that has seeds on the outside. A seedcake. Hot 8. Name five forms of water. well faucet water, cold water, aster, water and ice water. t. Name and locate the fire senses. The eyes are in the northern part of the face and the mouth in the southern. Said by Madaaaa March!. Madame Marchesl bas trained prtma-dobnjor the ..lyric stage for forty years, and what she says on matters of vocal culture is law. It is refreshing to hear her statement that tbe elaborate rules of diet for singers on which many teachers lay stress art humbug. "If a girl has not learned by the time aa fiRh 2. JJ - MADAME MARCllESI she comes to me what food suits her she never will, says . Madame MarThis famous teacher, now a chesl. woman a few years past sixty, trained Melba, CalvA, Eames. Sibyl Sanderson and other artistes of almost equally great fame. She gained celebrity as a concert singer In 1850, and a few years later married ths Marquis de Castrone, an Italian political refugee. Ehe was long a friend of tho -- fine-looki- ng Abbd Liszt " |