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Show CHII.b OF .WYOMING. romantic history of unfor- tunate FRANCES SLOCUM. lUU la IDS, WhM u Ikfknt, by the fttarftudUf ludiftm Narty hlity Yoitri Before Ireoe Her WottAd Net G Home. (Wabash, Ind , Letter ) Charles B. Slocum, a banker of Defiance, Ohio, hai'idetarrained to erect a monument o thsNpieruory of Francos the loot Slocum, known to history a child of Wyoming X This unfortunate woman posse bees a history as romantic as any that ever was known in this or any other country As a child she was stolen by Indians and the carried away Into the wilderness early days of th republic. Shewas not discovered by her anxious relatives for nearly alxty years Banker filocnm Is a grand-nepheof Frances aad recently visited the lonely Uttle cemetery eleven miles west of this city where the dust of the lost child w Ths Slocums cams over from Engin the early days of settlement on these western shores As early as 1637 there is record of one of them, Anthony Slocum, purchasing land near land r.. see was 4 Lilians naw taken her to a ia.t tit ,- - mountains where she cried all tigiH until shta went to sleep The nt xt day she saw her father's part) huuMng for her, out an Indian stood over her with a knife nd thieattned to kill her If she uttered a sound The Ind. an then took her to Niagaia, where the chief had her face panned her hair dyed and she After wa3 dressed in Indian fashion. Iwo winters the Indiaua went to Detroit, where they lived for three years. Theu they moved to Fort Wayne and lived there twenty years. Later France was taken to live near Peru, Ind Shu an married-1- 0 a Delaware. Indian, imt afterward became the wife of the Miami chief She was given the name of Mahcone-qua- , or ' Young Bear," and she had two daughters and two sons By her strength of character and purity she gained greet Influence among tbs Indians and they venerated her as their "My official dignity, sir; my ofioial dignity. i unit k response. you see for fC ourlf that it more doth to encompass the digMANILA fakes DEWETIN THE STREET HOW OF THE HERO of the admlrsi of the United LOOKS g.tates navy in uniform ttisu when he is In pidtn ctlxen s dre.s" Then he it added "In civilian MnaWd of His Kaval as it I ( belonged to nivseif lb The ndnuts 1 put on m uniform it eni to me 1 IaDo llualiiM Mai I Kard public property If appsar SS Bcogub m Jrlfit th- differer' as 1 must be very noticeable citlasn American ths Dewey George in civilian s clothe, and George Dewsy S.lissl PloK.rs the Americas navy's admiral, ar by Only natuiait;, mil biologists no means the same Individual at least know how near ti eirh nTiito animal tfigri tKe verdict of those who have and pui't life an o:iic Even to seen Hero Dewey in tailor-mad- e garb, TO-OA- Y. nity c, PmU bs-eo- 1 Ths emotions of The brothers and litre Towns on beholding their Sister wai inteose. but Frances Slocum was a hardened, stoical, emotionless India woman In reply to their entreaties to I go horns with them she replied: cannot, I cannot; I am an old tree. 1 cannot move about. 1 was a sappllng I am afraid. when they took me away I I should die and never come back. ahall die here and He In that graveyard I am glad to see my white relatives, but I cannot go, I cannot go. I have(done " Tins she said In her Indian tongue, as she had forgotten the use of English. She did pay a visit later to her old home, but returned and died March 9. 1847. at the age of 75 She said she had always reyears. ceived good treatment st the hands of the Indians and sls took loving care of her children Now the descendants of her fathers family are going to erect a .tone to mark her grave. Learned M.u Who PRODIGIES. Mul.f Fifty DIFvr-- t ToBKW. the difficulty of acquainta even nodding acquiring ance with two or three languages, it seems almost incredible that some men should be able to spesk with all the fluency of a native In twenty, and even fifty, strange tongues. It Is only a few mouths since Dr, GottHiib Loltner, ths most famous linguist of this generation, died at Bonn, in Germany. Dr. Leitner, who acted as interpreter to an army in the Crimean war, could speak with equal facility in no fewer than fifty languages; and many of the more abstruse eastern tongues he knew as Intimately ae his native German. But there have been phenomenal linguists In all ages, from the days of Mithridates. king of Pontus, who could converse with the subjects In each of their twenty-fiv- e tongues; and from the days of Cleopatra, who never used an Interpreter in her relations with the world's ambassadors. Pico della Miracdola, a learned Italian of the fifteenth century, was eloquent In e twenty-twlanguages, and M. Fresnel was familiar with twenty, and in the seventeepth century Nicholas Schmid, a German peasant, translated the Ixrd's Prayer Into as many languages as there are weeks In a year. The greatest linguist of all time, however, was Cardinal Mexzofau-t- l, who died half a century ago. Mezzo-fantl- 's linguistic range was so great tnat he could have conversed In a different tongue every week for two years without exhausting his vocabulary. In all he was familiar with 114 languages and dialects, and in most of them he could speak with such accuracy and purity of 'accent that he might have been, and often was, mistaken for a native, When oue cotulder FRANCES SLOCUM, wbat Is now Taunton, Mass His son. Giles, was a member of the Society of FTiends of Portsmouth, R. I., In 1638. Joseph, Oiles had a who lived In the Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania, in the latter half of the eighteenth century. It was July 3, 1778, that the Indians, incited by the British, scattered death and destruction throughout the valley, shooting, scalping and burning. Most of the surviving members fled toward the Delaware river. Joseph Slocum and his family remained to face the danger. On Nov. 2 of the same year four Indians from the Delaware tribe' came toward th house. Two boys named InKingsley, who had Escaped from dian captivity, were standing near the door. One of these was shot and scalped. Mrs. Slocum was the only grown person in the house, as Jonathan Slocum and his father-in-laIsaac Tripp, were absent from home. She seized her baby and rushed to the Little Mary, her woods. daughter, picked up Joseph, aged 2 years, and ran after her mother. Little Frances, aged 5, hid under the stairway, but ths Indians spied her feet sticking out and dragged her from her hiding place. Ebenexer Slocum and the other Kingsley .boy were also seised. Then the mother ran from her retreat with tears pouring down her cheeks and besought the Indians to spars her children. Ebenexer, she said, could do them no good, as be was a cripple. Bo thsy dropped the' boys and kept Jranc$ oply, ,A searching party waa at Once organised and It scoured ths country for the lost child, hut with no success. So the weary weeks passed Into months and no things cams of the little girl. The frantic mother lived In ncertalnly as to her fate. Sis weeks afterward Jonathan Slocum and Isaac Tripp wers shot and scalped by the Indiana and the Uttle home was laft In mourning. Th search for little Frances, the lost child of Wyoming, was taken up by ths brothers of the poor girl. In 1784 thsy went as far as Niagara in the hope of finding some trace of her and again in 17(1 as far west as ths wilderness of Ohio, Ths next year a council of all the Indiana waa called at Tioga point and the mother walked the entire distance thither to try to find her child. In 1787 the four brothers started again 1b search of their stater, driving cattle to cover up ths purpose Of their expedition. One of them. Isaac, came through the wilde of Canada as far as Detroit, where he arrived, nearly dead for want of food and exhausted with hie long Journey. In 1788 the broth-er- a made another trip,, bat like the former one It wae unavailing. In 1807 the mother died, tearing as a heritage the charge to her eons that the search be kept np. For twenty year they kept It np finally locating her near here. -- When a little girl Frances had accidentally had one of her fingers smashed by a hammer In ths hands of one of her brothers. .The brothers and their sister. Mrs. Towns, noticed that the aged Indian woman had an in- a disked her how It had Jared flu them that-hebeen hfirL Toen aha-to- ld hm brother had let n hammer fall whan she' wae a Uttle of her father.. 80 ')f' S1! waa their tong-W. when great-grandso- n, va nAmumt fM,, frrSet af t - Bfn os Shipped Swllnr's Llfs ths Seeeed Bust Hutlt Liki Is 1SS1 superior. Xho ou th. Shores of Mirbli. (Chicago Letter.) Capt. Henry Kelley of Milan, 0., enof being the oldjoys the distlm-tloest living captain of the great lakes. While he has lived practically In retirement for several years past he Is till Indirectly connected or associated with lake marine sen Ice. Before Chicago was even a thriving Indian agency, Capt. Kelley shipped d aboard the steamer Superior, the boat built upon th lake shores. His experiences as a sailor and captain hive' hot been without The peril's associated with a mariner's career. Capt. apparKelley, la In hL 84th year ently enjoys better heai'h than hta advanced age and nature of his life work usually admits. "1 began my life as a sailor," said Capt. Kelley, on the steamer Superior She was the aecond April 1. 1831. boat built on the lakes and was set afloat In 1827. She was commanded by Capt. William Pease. her first mate was Levi Allen, and Peter S. Lenholty on 1 remained was second mate. rs BORCHESH, and Pictures by a Oaoo MISFORTUNES OF I.m( of Paine Mighty Unaa. The house of Borghese U another example of the mutability of human affair and a confirmation of the theory of those who 'consider that to touch trade is to touch pitch, with the consequent contamination, as It waa through 'busluees1 that they lestthelf-riche- a. This family, which at one time was royal In all but (tame, which gave Paul V. to the papacy and mads history In the middle ages, which ws considered high enough for Napoleon, the 'kingmaker to give s husband to his most beautiful sister Ihia family is now only known by name In Rome, the last remnant of Its glory having Just passed Into the hands of ths Italian government., in the shape of the magnificent collection of pictures 4nd sculpture known all over ths world as the Borghese gallery. First, tbelr palace, laige In the city of the largest palaces la the world, was taken from them, and Rome assisted at the spectacle of a public aale there of tbelr furniture and effects. Gradually other palaces were lost, tbelr villa also all over ths country, especially that i of Frascati, with all its art treasure, including th egorgeous coaches given by CAPT. HENRY KELLKY. N apoleon I. to Pauline Borghese. gav. board the season of 1832, known aa the ing for a mere song to a Jewish cholera season, and again shipped in banker. And now their are gallery. 1833. About this time Capt. R. C. Bristhe largest and perhaps most valuable tol, afterward a prominent min' of private collection known, becomes the -Chicago, brought out a new vessel, the property of Italy for 3,600,000 lire!In ' villa s the John Kinsey named after Chicago really nothing while man which was owned by ths firm of Roma It, to all intents and purposes, Dow A Johns of Detroit, I shipped at the property ot th city, as the Borg-hear not allowed to sell It pteca Buffalo with Capt Bristol and went to Cleveland with the othery of ths crew meal and Are obliged to keep It open to to fit out the new boat tbs public. This wonderful collection In relating hie experiences Capt of artistic treasures is housed in the Casino, a gem In Itself, all frescoes, Kelley tells of the great rush lo th present site of Chicago In 1833. In busts and decoratlowi, set in the midst ' that year the general government -- of trees hundred of years old, shaded n fountains In fact, looted this point to give presents and alleys, money to the IVIang of the great all that goes to make ths villa Borgnorthwest The rushxtf people to the hese of universal fame. The erowa new 41 untry was occasioned by desire and glory of the gallery la ths great td trade 'with the Indians, then assempicture .Sacred and Profane Love, by ' According to Titian, qvpr which the battle wages, bled. jn vast numbers. will' always wage, as to which ! Capt., Kelley, this was the Initial step and of the founding of Chicago, During the sacred and which the profane love. the year of the rush the John Kinsey Though mocb lesa numerous, thd sculpture Is not less well known. Th brought in a cargo of general merchanAe there was 'no node statute of Pauline Borghese, a dise from Buffalo. room te harbor, the cargo was brought ashore Venus, by Canova, having a In a battoo, which was towed In by itself, U considered the masterpiece. London Telegraph. 4 the ship's small boat. Then the John Klneey was chartered 1 LEADER. for a trip to Indian Port, Green Bay, The for a cargo of rough timber. Eugene Etienne, who Is now posing round trip was made In fourteen days. leader In the as the was rafted ashore When the lumber baa bad of chamber French deputies, the water's edge was lined with people and distinguished career as a a long of the to boards, possess enough eager public man. He ie now 55 years old. coarse as they were, to erect a primiIn early manhood he served as Insptive hut. of the' state railroads. ector-general continued The spring of 1838, Capt. 1881 be was first elscted a deputy, In Kelley, I took command, my first, of serving three terms. In 1888 ha bethe brig North Carolina, which waa came secretary of atat for th colbuilt at Black River, Ohio, and owned which position he held tor three onies, by Capts: Aaron, Root, Richard, and consecutive years. In 1892 and again and and Joy Wlnilow of Cleveland, In 1894-3- 5 he was chosen Webi okpuffslo. That season J tradof th chtfliber oraepDtle. H1s ed mostly at Lake'Mlchlgan ports and took up nearly all of the machinery used for the first dredge used In Chicago harbor. In ths fall of the same year I was st fit. Joseph, Mich., with a general cargo, which had to be lightered ashore. While I was paying my bills a gals, blowing on shore, came up suddenly, compelling us to leave without ballast When off Point Betsey, down the lake, there was a sudden change of the wind from the north. This forced us to run up the lake. We could not see land. At daybreak the beached two next morning we wer miles weet of Grand Calumet, and DEWEY. there the vessel, remained until the of 1837.1 was lent back by these atadeats the dividing line Is spring owners to get off ths vessel, which the something hazy. The lahabitaate of was deeply Imbedded in frozen sand, 8L Lada have 'lately discovered a I necessitating ths use of picks most wonderful plant. It grows In a walked to Michigan City, a distance of . ivVjju cavern. In an immense bsein of brackZ and had twelve picks ETIENNE ECOENE miles, thirty ish water that has overflowed from the and carried them on my back a Republican In politic and a man ol made, sea. The bottom basin Is covered with to ths beached ship. When the first great Influence with th present govpebbles and aach pebble with from oas six th depart dog dull I slung them on my shoulernment, particularly to fivt of thsas pleats, which, for want and walked to Chicago, also a disder meat of foreign affaire. Hie open and of a better Beam, are termed animal use of about thirty miles, f mad bitter attack on ih policy of England flowers. - Thee curio creature, two trtps a week with s ar therefor significant which are is all shades of color, renntll ths vessel was launched and picks bed. flower on mind of a beautifal And then we had another Th Car. To the eight they are perfect flowers, at anhor. vessel ashore . It la an Italian doctor who specially the uddsa forcing gale, but on the approach of a hand or a for anchors dragging. ' Ths ownrecommends laughter a a car stick they reure out of sight Close with ms back agalnto tell her or modern Ills. The diseases Influenced sent ers examination shows that ths middle of heF off ths beach. by a hetrty laugh ar numerous, and the flower-Uk- e disk Is provided wltk get weather I determined Owlngioths to try again. range from bronchitis to anaemia. It fins tour filaments which move rousd the Ws war taken back by a small vessel, will be Interesting to see how th petals with a brisk, epontaaeous motreatment Is effected. There Is unleaving Chicago on Monday. The foltion. Each of tbes filament 1 proSaturday ws had the North doubtedly s great opening tor profeslowing vided with pinchers for receiving prey. Carolina la Chicago. Although the sional gelototherapentlst ths ' vary d one They Uv upon Ihe spawn of fish smile I who makes took name waa badly study th leaking vessel the P lashmarine-- . er with stnd ballast to get below, various ways of Inducing laughter. A chances ers on th filament make a eateh, the courts of tickling la prescribed for where the repairing could be done. petals immediately close, and there Is Off Beaver Island tbe vessel wae bronchitis, for examplt; a course f so escape for whatever has bean eapehMd In a heavy gale. Two of the farcical comedies might suit . an caught. crew were lost, the others clinging to anaemic patient, while puna, fired off at intervals, would be found efficacious wreckage. We were picked up durthe When a ataa gets tired of sinning bp Of pleurisy. and In the by barkJDetrolt the night is ready te torn over a new Mat- - - ing moss-grow- Ful-genc- ANTI-ENGLI- anti-Engli- MESSAGE FROM HEAVEN. Letter.) (Indianapolis Hs taken back to Chicago, where fmet m y old friend, Capt. Bristol. He lave myself and craw passag eM Buffalo on ths steamer James MadidbnT his command at that time. Thus ended my early career on the lakes and the only bad luck 1 ever had. I followed tbs lakes continuously from 1831 to 1896. During the win ter seasons I learned the carpenters trade and eventually became a builder. I have been connected with the great lakes up to the present time. If I live until March 1 I will be 84 years of age. Capt Kelley has an excellent memory, and can In detail describe all the cities along the lakes as they were In the early days. Naturally he baa watched the remarkable growth of Chicago, as well as that of other cities He can not renow promlnentTtorts. name call the of a captain who has seen more years of lake marine service than himself, and there Is no record of any great lake seaman who ha wwatherad-JL'yeaof sailor lit se far-awa- y o LIV NO CAPTAIN OF THE FRESH WATERS. THE OLDEST aec-on- queen LINGUISTIC 1 IS DEAN OF THE LAKES Mrs. A. Elberson, formerly of South Bend, this state, who says she has a special message from heaven, has come nt : ADMIRAL MRS. A. ELBERSON. nd h Indistribute her tract, fih tends to distribute the tracts free to the poor and to sU them for a penny each to persons able to pay. She says sb has spent six years In this work, and In her travels has visited the Holy Land, Italy, Egypt aad England. She came here from Chicago, where eh has been at work for th last two months. to this city to spesk In the street sr A Fumm Hlsa Dee. Swaml Bhaskarananda, the fsmons Hindu Ascetic, r of Benares, la dead. This devout Brahmin, who kept hlm-te- lf was visnaked and ited by nearly all the Indian tourists during their stay at Benares, Including the Prince of Wales. He spent hie life In a rigid posture, giving no heed for jo his visitors, and patiently waited death la tin holy etty, which, accordevering to Hindu belief, means life cewas a Swaml Although lasting. vishis was learned by Uttle lebrity itors of his aotnal Ufe 0 of the beUfg that dictated IjlgjiecuUif asceticism. d, r aad also la ths dassllng regalia to which he ie entitled by reason of his exalted rank. Ths difference. Indeed, It so great that the admiral has no difficulty whatever la passing , through the public streets Incognito whan be Is not uniThis Is the formed and more remarkable because no man, with the possible exception of tbs 11 exOeorge Washington, ha been mors eoneelrsbls tensively pictured by every process than Dewsyand It wosld seem that hit features could not escape Immediate recognition. That they do Is so ti rely owing to the transformation wrought by .citizen's frb. Without ths gorgeous accouterments of hi high office the admiral loses hie picturesque one identity to such an extent that would see la him merely a correctly attired, unassuming American man, aad never suepset ta passing him that one had touched elbows with 4 aMloai IdoL Dewey appears mors slender In n frock eoat nd ellk hat, and his face seems to lose the fallneee that It has aadsr a eocked hat He v onc asked what mads so much difference whenever he exchanged gold lace aad . brass buttons tor. plain clotbre gold-braide- d. Ja hatf-doze- fi Uhl( hr -- InsacUL--Whenev- |