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Show - i A A FAIR FAIRS JIOUKL. t EC SAHAH t! i v Jut, ' ,VN J t.oh Ileii . Out 1 n ir tht y Oa rtl( J e - rl' .fft Ih v Jil ft Jl HUM l ! int (,'U T UI M t i n I I tudil I j 'tH in I M i' i " v It' '. w , 1 t t lljud. i thi- - pre- - it ir !' fur Tin 111 wt tlt J ft-- ' JS ti 't 1 h t 'ta n-- 1 ii i - the ra t' - i a s 'UP jiihw 1 in ' ! ' " tin n r In It- a til vi - I Hnurti of t i hire ill' nit. stin ss r t, w i - it .1 11 i I Silf. m h w ' lie a la e n wffe' C.iiuus. 1 it ho at is tnl the v a i rj hi mi, 11.T lilu d uli l' oltte i j 1 111 ,v h a 1 has ji him' hak Is -- I ml irij e I''i lib a of r 1 f i lj, ,1 nn, c.i'ai i t ! il. ti mill ' . nil'll f to thi 111er! .1 s r bears 1 In 1870 11 In mm ' , ALLEN OF MISSlSFim. In 1S75 was I'nlverslty of- dint riot attorney for the First Judii tal dtstrict of the state; served four years, and was ttien elected to congress. conAt the election for the Fifty-thir- d gress he received a large majoiity over the Populist candidate. el'-cti- bought ful Fxprcvatuo from I ealle's Weekly. It Is the fashion with some people to berate the press as 1 . silly-mind- ministering to sensationalism and as In- 1 deter-mlnative- ly conclusions. JAMES a EUST1S. mbjwwdor to Farls tVuo Recently Offended Spain. 1 he American seemed to be a great speech-makin- g accomplishment, and a congressman a star of considerable magnitude. This dream of glory was not fulfilled; his health was poor after graduation, and In order to restore it he went to Mis- life, with a pirty of surveyor. After I this adventure he studied law and practiced a little In Chicago, but at last (though not until he was 31) he took up Journalism as a profession ami here found hia life work. An old friend, Joseph R. Hawley, was then, as now. 4 editor and proprietor of the Hartf'rrtJ Courant, and young Warner was called to the place of chief editorial writer on t let eiptfr-cntrrmt"halr, aeS ed. te m'Jr eat, ; a ted CO. A"a-derr.- le w T It SES CT9 LY Hi nc- t - I At I ntm. Etur gr UiO. T I ? ' well-know- s. New Gold Fields. North America Is likely to find a powerful rival in South Africa In the Item of gold production. According to the v V r t, most reliable figure, the product In UJ3 ) V c p and a half mil. was about twnty-elg-S.4 ' d lions, while in 1834 It was nearly thirty-nin- e millions of dollars. Experts who a, sir i.ff have studied the gold Adds of South Afberica announce that that country Is coming one of the most Important fae- tors In miinctarxma.tLkrsaJCJvftcjee-AsAa- ' ff7ahypfaoWexceedIngly rjch, and forms pockets, streaks and veins, and abounds In pudding-stonPyrtte pebbles are mixed with the gold, and there are large quartz. Very veins of quietly and without attracting more attention than Is necessary, mining parCANNON OF XLLIN013. ties are being made up and preparato the Fifty-fourt- h tions are in progress by means of which Mr. Cannon was the product of these rich fields w 111 furcongress by a large majority over nish the basis for Important and exten- his opponent sive mining operations. Door Frtrado. - Ostrich FIam raCelia Mr. Flitter Is such pleasant in each wing of the ostrich twenty company! Hut then he says such hatesix long white plumes grow to maturity ful things! He actually had the audacIn eight months. In the male these are ity to tell me last evening that he pure white, while those in the female didnt think you were stylish, You Della You call that hateful? shade to ecru or gray. The short feather are plucked for tips, and each wing should hear a few of the things hs says about you! Boston Transcript. ' of these. furnishes seventy-flv- s Jt ht e. gold-beari- . - out-do- or A James B. Eustls, the American minister or ambassador, rather to Paris, has lately become the subject of considerable gossip tn diplomatic circles io Europe and Am conceded that Mr. Eustls Is not a model ambassador. An ambassador should never express an opinion ofnls own. He if simply the Instrument, the mouthpiece, of the government which he represents. It wmi that Mr. Eustls sums time ago expressed (to a Farls reporter) sympathy for the Cuban revolutionists. A Paris paper published the Interview and It was also published In Madrid. Mr. Eustls has consequently been called upon to explain himself. He replies that he meant Just what he said and Is willing to accept the odium attached that the thereto. He knows, odlumgoe8uaLXU-umatte circles. Jn other words, he reasons that the common people of all countries, Spain not excepted, believe as es about the trouble In "Cuba, His declaration has certainly made many friend for him In hi own coun that Journal, and there he remains to (hla ijay, after a cfifvDrrrmrig left Ice' of over thirty years. It yvas through occasional contributions ta his own paper,, nov of an character, that Mr. Warner finally found himself numbered- among the successful authors of his day. The chapters of "My Summer In a Garden" Were originally a series of articles written for the Courant, without a thought of further publication. It was In response to numerous suggestions coming to him from various quarter that they were made Into a book. The extraordinary favor with which the little volume was received was a surprise to Mr. Warner, who Insisted that there was nothing in It better than he had been accustomed to write. He was much disposed to view the hit be had made as an accident and'to doubt If R would lead to anything further In the line of authorship. But he was mistaken. The purveyors of literature were after him at once. That was In 1870. -- Since then tils published works have grown to a considerable list and there Is time. If fortunately Mb life is spared, for s good many more. Mr. Warners home In Hartford Is within w hat might, be.-e- a Hed a healthy "walking distance of the Courant office. It means Just that, for Mr. Warner life and gets as much of loves it as he can while attending to his regular duties. His residence is planned on the Urge and hospitable style of the colonial times. Its Interior Is genial and attractive of itself and Its owners presence makes It still more so. - A cheerful drawing room opens Into a wide, bright music room, making with It one shapely apartment of generous proportions. The furnishing le simple but In every Item pleastrg. The hand of modem decorative art la there, though under A rational restraint A chimney piece of orienUl design rises above the fireplace of the music room set with antique tiles brought by Warner from Dams cus. Othe- - spoils of travel are displayed here and there, with pictures and engravings of the besL Tbs house is lull of books. Every part of jt is mors editorial Familiar face to, Geugr. n Joseph G. Cannon, the member from Illinois, has represented the Fifteenth district of his state ever since the Forty-thir- d congress. He Is a lawyer, and was state's attorney In Illinois from 1S61 until 186!L Last fall , any question fnvrlvlug the supernatural 01 def or supers, neon' matters was involved In his work on 'Chris-- ' tianlty and Evolution he has summed up In a few pa.agraphs his position on this subject la a very clear and forcible manner. " hen 1 reached Intellectual maturity," wrote Huxley l:i the volume re (erred to, and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a thelsj, or pantheist, a materialist or an Idealist, a Chilstlan or a free Hunker, 1 found that the more 1 learned and reflected the less ready was the 'answer, until at last I rame to the conclusion that I had neither 'art nor part with any of thtse denominations except the last. The on thing In which most of these good people agreed was the one thing on which I differed from them. They were quite sure they had attained A certain gnosis, had more or less solved the problem of existence, while I wai quite sure I had not and had a pretty strong convIcRfiji that the problem wiBo I took thought and inInsoluble. vented what X conceived to be the appropriate title of agnostic. It camo Into my head as suggestively antithetic to the agnostic of church history, w ho professed te know no much about tlio very things of which I was Ignorant." The word agiostlc comes from Greek vetb meaning not to know, and Us appropriateness as a r piled to all w ho agree with Huxley In n fusing to admit or even deny things unknown or unknowable by scientific tests will beea- "'aMu7 theology or re vealed religion this sole response always was I don't know. "You cant "It may be so, but I can't prove It. believe It." "My reason rejects IL "I dont know" and You dont know; there Is no possible tasls on which either you or I can arrive, not merely the great safeguards of liberty and that the newspaper Is indispensable to the maintenance of the social order. A striking proof ot AMs statement Is afforded by the recent triumph over municipal corruption In N'ew York and other cities, which was due primarily and chiefly to the vigorous and determined course of the press In advocating reform. There has not been In our later history a crisis of any aort. Involving high moral or civic Msucs, tn which the Influence of American newspapers has not been asserted In behalf of sound and Just 3 ikW the world with song, but his own ltf was prolonged lamentation; a wail o, discontent and despair. In hi later years mlfortune led him into excesses which are bo often the refuge of the weak, and he was wont to quench Ills thirst by the proceed of Impromptu some of which were compositions, among the most popular of his priduc-tlonKow little we know, as we listen to the melodies which catch and bewitch us, out of what heartaches and fierce wrestling with eager appetite and fierce temptation they may have been born. ag- - PRESS THE SAFEGUARD. post-offic- everything porta. ning to the aitlts and licit labor and pleasures She lias tin which ll'nner and lb njarr.m Constant love to paint, and skin which the exqui te milk-whioften a 'companies auburn hair Her tress'S are so wonlerful plentiful and long that he can envelop herstlf with tmm from nape to ankle Yvette pise principally In the des Beaux Art Julien s and privately Tor the great French painters Jules Le Febire is especially ptitial to her. and she has posed for a number of his great work. It Is Interesting to iit the Sal. n on the opening day and re ognlze the same model In perhaps a dozen largo canvases. Y.ette in the studio Is a beautiful creature to look upon, but when she leaves the Academy one would hatdiy recognize her. as she has the most atrocious taste in dress. The writer saw her once In the Salon, looking at a picture for w hl-- h she had Just posed. She had on an cnotmous hat, with an almost kitchen garden represented complete thereon. Her dress was a composite of r.isgcnta. sci?':7yii3fidJ-AeKTtfitvr-viV11T color.." w inch positively put one's teeth on edge. With her red hair, the tout esemble gave one the Impression that she had taken a set palette wrlth all the rude colors on It and used It as the motif of her costume. Sarah must be nearly 30 by this time, smokhut the years constant cigarette been able, not life have wild a and ing to mar her beauty. Her feline grace Is due partly to the fact that days she was a circus rider in her young and she has kept her skill byofacrobatic the stufeats that were the marvel knoWn of her is Little dents quarter. parentagerbut there la an established - tradition that her grandfather was an , English gentleman. the In the Illustration of Lauretta, the model soroe-- f 1 xalnter has idealised iwhaL but the type is taat of Sarah and century.- lilntseif, Huxley dealt dogreligion perhaps the severest I don't know" Mow it ever received was ids faionte'ejrplesslon whenever clined to eneoutage rather than to hold of Ring a f. vv books hints' If some In cheek the distuiblrig foreea In socieA little later, while attending day Is destructive, these persons yay, school at Cazinovla, N. A', he showed ty. It It has no reva cleve' hand at composition and at-- , lather tl.an constructive, erence for established firms and no re- traeted the uttenlion of lits j, receptors gard for the sacred things of life. There intendon that ateount His gua-dta- n are undoubtedly newspapers to which ed him for trade, however, and for a Ihete critk isms justly apply. but as to h eminenttime he was eiuplo.aiL4n-ie- H the great majority of journals they are to a clerk as belong ly practhal dutits without Justification, says wholly e In a drug shop, and then In the Leslies Frank hVeekly. The press In Hamilton Afkrward he entered this country Is the supreme conservacollege, from w'hb'h he was graduated tive force In affairs, the palladium of In 18.71. Hi flile I reams of paper with the rights and the liberties of the peorhymes, essays and romances, and was ple, the foe of Injustice, and the potenalwajs active In the debating society. tial ally of every realy deserving cause. Justice Brown of the United States Supreme court expressed this fact none too strongly when. In Ms recent address to the students of the Yale law school, he said that the bar and the press are -- e A matic D.fi-s'- . of-th- 0 called lie Get-tysb- rat are men er, of the term which nostic. al-w- PS! J EngAamd, bourne, was one of tltw re- HdSTTtisin, or, rath-- ., a souri f the Inventor of ag vfi-- t 8 actentlst, English ho recently passed away , at , Eastmarkable distimtnn r f w at the gteati s!. as '01 I-.- .. ROP, THOMAS Huxley, the great al-.- li" lv - It- -l 1.'. mblann to D.e genlil " Man.-- ! tie .null .1 of ineam Life the of v It of will e this m. n di set lift JV.Ml.S i' COUIi a Im uus. their writings have fi om Tmoi y tV.lh ge In thnt state world Ini n of the p .sliivh lv hopeful and s the to was admitted in 156. kit d someUun with the sunbar, and n moved to Trims In lbaT; and cheery In them and the breath of the shine from Hirvfd in the Confedirate army fields and the woods Neither have con1MJ1 until he was made prls mer at I it to lie their ilutv to dwell upon Fri m 1V74 until lvvfi he was ceit ediseasis g of sodrty or the body pothe of Alabama of the eiriult judges jie litic, nor to help 0 much as by a sinHe has always bet n a lJimoitnt. gle note to mi. II the nev . ceasing refrain of 0 hmpor.t' O mores! It Is a pleasure .0 know that we have ome writers of vth un this can be said. Like mini other suici bsful authors, Mr AVain fiunl hints. If elected to i the ! .pul guild one d'y without ever hastiig Perl msly and diUlieiately propostd hini'elf for stu h a position As a hov on a New F.ngland farm h" devour, d ill the books that came within his r i. h and had hi dreams, as to have, such a 1. .j might be exiH-etevv Itefen.e Revelation. No -- 111 1. t' kvrolutlunT-oDogmat- gi lilu the mill! I'lilei Did i ' mg w i't.'iur'ls u msiv MiiiiS'fol 11 gradated 't pipulu men of letteishe utiie wilting Inc nun fli lk f lie t' 1 m law n li 1 1 h piodut id The a G mb 11 and n. 'gilt ih'tinguish lt- Ink ir It tin il In any id lines Mi Warmr ki .,.ii .'i d i vji, ni 0 1 will as b ro'i v 1 lij one of tn fill n . m w of olu.. THOMAS wm . HENRY" HUXLEY, at any certainty, but even at any ra tional and authoritative opinion. There Is no doubt that Bonnet and Darwin by their theories of evolution are responsible for this loosening of the bond ot faith, for If their theories can Xa maintained the very foundation on which rest the doctrines of man's creation directly by the hand of God as a perfect being, vertebrate, rational, and fully endowed with free will and understanding, are swept aside as delusions of the past But on the other hand, there la unmishalt takable evidence of a world-wid- e In this red-hpursuit of all things with a scientific stick, so to speak. Men are beginning to ask themselves to what good end will tb's pursuit lead T how will the human ra.ee be benefited by learning that they are descended from fishes, reptile, birds, or monkeys? ot ww ' ; Come of Heltef la Rellgtoo N'oesd la Results of Belief to an i tion, in nigli j j n-- Ki, ii"i a of r 1 .!- ,y was ' What Good Would rpiak tly Jag a poet. j I . i ' 1 1 r Is a writer horn It is not easy 1 'n-1 M. ALLEN. th-i- .inn AGNOSTIC. THE LATE PROF. HUXLEY AND HIS SCIENTIFIC THEORY. 1 (t classify by any or s. itlotia) tei 111, airy other t rtn, foe (that ilia tie r He is , il.'vb 1 ii w ji Mi, GREsVT A tngrrM 111 Namt It aml'Ur. John M Aihn of Mississippi has been steadily tn toogre's mn. the Forty-nint- h 111, to nh h he was elected X tom . the First t of his native state Mr All. n w is born in Tishomingo county in in;, was educated in the emmon schioN and lentil tn the Confident te army throughout the war. He As a U.I.F lUlM.KT W a rile t' SiMtthll S im llri-- ' I.e ll it K a f I . a Ut t a h lent ' as It is nn st I 01 .uctili In tin i t ' ' u'. I:. j! r.t am .10 f r cnti 1 JiN -- H t 1 " I 1 Ilftjr-FooTl- . i' ! haruts in ttv el f' ur la ''a lieal'Ii thll' iot itri el li (t - I t ailar In n rnlhi F 1 tna-- i sti. n T T it n f i 1 liminit v -' i' of a 1'hrai-flank ti.e land.ngs of i?;!:"d'h.tir! way. and si ,n ku tpe wav on to the work room In th- - ihird story, where Mr. aruer siands his niorninst hours and dixs the bist jurt of hie work. Ae-ri- li I of tin- musi Rut when the day ,, - .her p or ks nOMi: OF AX AlTIIOR. COBB. 1 a - 1 tinner ail iur lda j.a! , 4 t , 4 r' luituo call 1 fr"r i i ' .ir n jr.no Tit s itH' ' mil in i " n 'in ' Lit.n h ti'li .i. IM- - I i ti r - twin- - - it lit! it k aft- rk - E. k the ATTRACTIVE domestic aeode oiicres. Aai-dtaitain binds to const ess her Oh MR WARNER. trlid and trU'tv rt ptesentatlv e Trotil the Fifth di''riit. Junes K Cobb, who his d.ne pood '.rvlie fir the people Hears I'.riruihltm.. to Ik Muriel" of tils slate in t v Fiftieth, Ftftj-flrs- t, Hi Drifted Inin .limrnuiisui ljr con- Fiftj-son I alt) Fiftj th!i d t I lei ...nr a laril to amt. It of the friernl liiuuntf Pl'sts bissanu in of luiiii..ia w In.raturis born IS Cobh Mr m.1. " was giaduated to nil in Southern V . t ulanit-- ! tv-t.h- oi ttiu til U.l it'FI vv. - lit. M tl U irlsi JAa'.ES j f the meat ir! J Jlt-- mio THE .v a 1.. 1 that r i - t ' in Jn! SH il tts-- TT ll I', '( i' me I . tn-- 141- ir not a tit tit tw rl ttl( male n. nit-A I iii I I'U'inling - t .1' oi i u )n 4 an t u w i ut. r w tub U t tw ' j T .be whtl h. n t! Mi 1 tits i r (I. rt l il t l 1 i 'tul. Ft ina ino a ki th. it- - nuk la' S'.rai gc "rv (t I.rr I li I.Uu t!,u, He Ir. iut Latin ID, tritr Whole - - n ti ti ht r of Die Ai uii il v 1 ltv 1 (n yoh ) A ! in l h 'il aI u. 1 f iur of t a i WHO POSED LARETTA Fht- la- - r L ...wRl-toss of their belief effered-ta In revealed religion and especially In a beautiful hereafter? Is It not better to leave these sweeL coinforting- - beliefs (unshaken? We have woes and sufferings enough without robbing us of what seems to be the one great consolatory hope of a blissful hereafter. It Is to the front, that men should look. It matters more where we are going than whence we cams An admirer of Huxley once reprimanded Mb negro slave for devotion to the Christian religion. "I dont see why 'I you are so determined In this matter, , he said. "There Is getting to be entireVV1 m (As ly too much of this Christ business on this plantation. You ought to know anyway that there Is no hereafter." To T dunaj, which the slave replied: tnassa, 'bout dat, but I look at It In dls way if I belitb on da Lord as It says In de Bible an do what It cays 1 11 be a bettah man while In dls world. There Is a heap of truth In the slate's defenxaxjJf .dogmatic religion as against scientific theories. That religion makes better men and women. Is Belief in evolution cannot accomplish that much. It Is ouly the religion, of... i he - wrmts dbirr W tirm a y 'mae n ast belli f what good purpose will such AMBASSADOR EUSTI3. I serve, Is of opinion try, where free Texpresslon Prof. Huxley was born In the year regarded as a sacred privilege. French 1835, at Ealing, Middlesex, England, and Exchange. displayed the peculiarly original bent of hi mind eveo when at school In his Row Ha Woi tb BA native place. His sturdy spirit of Indeat stationed A European regiment no pendence And proneness to. Investigate whom eolonel a had Umballa, India, were greatly strengthened while he pur-cu- ed one had ever seen laugh, the study of medicine In London, a while prisA private of this corps, still more so while he was acting and a for military oner In the guard-rooas naval surgeon on H. M. S-- "Rattleoffense, bet the sergeant of the guard snake" In the South Pacific and Torres the make five rupees that he would Straits. commanding officer laugh when he To enumerate all the honorable positaken before him. filled by Huxley would require tion In due course, after reading tha more space than an article of this dethe asked prisoner colonel the charge, scription would admit. Oneo after an. a great "Have you anything to say?" all the honors possible-4other I wont say anything more about IL scientist fell tq his lot n? In eh he the P11 sir, If you wont, replied but with tbs displayed the most remarkable ability The grim face relaxed, In 1871 he . m and originality of thcughL chuckle came the decision: visited this country. James IL Randall to "Fourteen 4ys confljted aMnd for the die-do- IS L -- , m . J |