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Show I HE LIVES BY TBUSTS. YET THEY ALMOST TOOK LIFE. I.. us 7 nm Pill Ww York I Via d Hu Fomod (owMbio Hkota Capital rooU Cp Won Tkoo a ItUUoa Dollar. B. OYSTER AND SPONGE FISHING. cz K volution of h Industry Brought About by Hubuuirlse Boot. The submarine boat will revolutionize the oyster industry, says Lippin-cott- s. It hen in Chesapeake bay, cruising, the old Argonaut frequently settled down on ojstei lieils and, with the permission of the owners, procured all the ovsiep, desired h reaching down through ihe sea door The new Argonaut iau employ this method of ier gathenng rising to the surface when tne di n g loom is full, or send out 'divers, who can place the ls oysters ccilleiied in or receptacles, which those on the siufaee can haul up. When bays or rivers are frozen oVei and oystermen cannot ply their trade the Argonauts can go under the ice Fishing can also be carried on easily on the bottom with nets, for the fish have no fear of the object they evidently consider a whale, and swim from every direction toward the glare of the electric lights shining through the ports. Sponge fishing will engage the attention of the first successful submarine voyagers. Good sponges are becoming dearer, for the supply in shallow water is running short The divers cannot go deeper than twenty-fiv- e feet, and the best sponges are found in deep water. To this deep water the Argonaut will go, and, gathering the finest sponges, put them on the market at a price nd greater than that paid for the common varieties. She will also try pearl fishing, now conducted at an enormous expense of life, for by a strange freak of' nature peart oysters are generally found in localities where bad weatber prevails and hurrtranes and typhoons are frequent. These the Argonaut, under the water, need not tear, and her divers, instead of gathering np the oysters by the single handful, an gather them by the bushel. - (obi-bloo- The work that prostrated James E. Dill, the corporalum lawyer, was the formation of thirty trust with a combined capital of almost $6ikj,ihmi,0(m. lie baa earned the name of the great 01 ganizer, and among the filends who know of the vast amount of business he has done In the past six months the marvel is that be has so soon reuner- d from the worst Of his Illness.' Lawyer Dill Is a very Important factor in Wall street affairs, scarcely less so. Indeed, if It Is possible to compare them, than J. Pierpont Morgan, "the great In many ways these two reorganizer. men greatly resemble each other, and they have come to be associated to- -- JAMES B. DILI In the public mind to a great gether extent for the reason that the tmbl-tlou- s schemes of the one require and receive the aid of the others great financial resources for their development. Mr. Dill has but recently become prominent in the great field of finance, which has Its center below Pulton street. It required the widespread tendency toward trade combinations which has been the fruit of the revival of business to develop the peculiar talents for organization which Mr. DfU possesses. Within the last twelve months this young man, who came into Wall street as a struggling young lawyer, scarcely more than ten years ago, has organized trade combinations whose aggregate capital Is little less than $600,000,000. James Brooks Dill was born forty-fiv- e years ago at Spencerport, in northern New York. His father moved to Chicago soon after, and thence went with the tfofthefn army. He lost his life la the war and the later youth of the son - was spent In New Haven, - He graduated from Yale in 1876 and began the study of law la the office of B. Copes Mitchell, In Philadelphia, About a year later Mr. Dill entered the senior law class of the New York university. He was graduated among the honor men of 1878. He made his first success ..in the litigation over the failure of the commercial agency. . of . McKtllop. Sprague & Co., in which the question of the liability of the directors for corporate debts was raised. Mr. Dill was counsel to one of the directors and won the case for his client, while the other directors were defeated. The victory gave Mr. Dill a standing, if not prominence, as a corporation lawyer, and he Immediately devoted himself almost exclusively to that circle of law. He met with his greatest successes in the New Jersey courts and came to be recognized as the leading authority on corporation law in that state. His book on Jersey corporation law known as "Dill on New Jersey Corporations," Is a standard work tha is used In all law offices. It wag because of this comprehensive knowledge of New Jersey law, which is particularly benefl-ciein its treatment of trusts, that led the promoters of nearly all the big Industrial corporations to seek Mr. Dills counsel. Among the combinations In which Mr. Dills personal holdings are large are the American Tinplate company, the American Steamship company and the American Steel and Wire company. Mr. Dill Is also a director In the North American Trust company. He is married and Uvea In East Orange, N. J. ba-ke- A Y0UXG OLI) YT0MAN. KNEW CENS. WASHINGTON AND LAFAYETTE. SHE Mr. Sarah hot Terry. 10S Teen Old. of I'hllmdvl thl. 'irtl How she One Cooked liU l.luut-hew Lefeyetld. Too. r The youngest old woman In America is Mrs. Sarah Dorou Terry, who one hundred jeais. ago, was a demure little Quaker lass. Today she is one hundred and eight years old and Philadelphia's oldest inhabitant. Despite her great age her faculties, with the exception of being a trifle deaf, are perfect. When Mrs, Terry reached her one hundred and eightfe uvHeeitm aha joined the Quaker City Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution. Her father was Stacey Doron, of New Jersey, who eerved under Gen. Washington (or seven years and distinguished him-e- lf In the battle of Monmouth. Her husband served in the war of 1812, because of which she gets a pension. Until ten years ago she supported herself by sewing fine buttonholes on silk and Other gowns of fine fabric. She wears no eyeglasses or spectacles. Her present weight is but twenty pounds less than It has ever been. Mrs. Terry's vitality and Intelligence are tbe marvel of scientist and layman alike. Her recollections of the days of Washington and Lafayette are complete. She esn recall events which occurred ninety years ago as though they were of recent date. She ia bright, quick and witty, and her reminiscencee of European court life and early colonial days are full of interest. Mrs. Terry admires Queen Victoria aa a monarch and mother almost as much as she did not admire" her" as ' a' child. It was sixty-eigyears ago when Mrs. Terry first saw iha queen.. , . . "I saw her in London at the KenGardens when .hep was sington twelve. She wasnt attractive. She was little and too chubby, but she looked real neat and not a bit proud like, she says. Seated In the home of her granddaughter, at No.. 645 North Sixteenth street, Philadelphia, she talked of Washington and Lafayette to a ret porter. Gen. Washington loved 'Phlladel- ht MKINLEY'3 NEW BARBER, ' . President McKinley shaves every morning with punctual regularity. That he wields the razor himself Is not generally known. It is rare that a barber performs the duty for the president He cannot cut his hair, however, nor can he keep his razors In that condition which his heavy beard requires. Thus he is not independent of the barber. Up to two weeks ago Charles Lemas, a colored man, who has tonsored every president Including and since President Johnsons day, trimmed President McKinley's hair, and occasionally shaved him. But Lemas died. Then the president looked about for a new barber. He remembered the colored man whose chair he always sought In the Ebbltt House shop when he was a member of congress. This barber was in hla mind when Mr. McKinley first came to Washington, but not desiring to disturb any of tbe established Institutions, at the while house', be continued Lemas as his predecessors had done, - e, The new man is Henry Wilson, a colored man, 48 years of age, who was employed at the Ebbltt House barber shop for twenty years, and who for the last, six years has been the proprietor of his own shop. He has already cut the presidents hair and removed the presidential whiskers, and Is elated at the honor of serving the president of the United States. He has performed similar gen ices for a great many public men. He was a favorite with Vice President Wheeler. He made the ac- - school ehtldrre ot parade were all the n carried Philadelphia, and roll of parchment tied with white and blue ribbon, with Gratitude written on It As the children cams rol.x tl Gta by they laid these He feet nearly smoth- fayettee s red by them. He would tak up and press them to h- - breut, whl! ' tears rolled down hie cheeks. Tho were happy times. nd Lafayette was as good as he wse great. When 1 hit splendid went to Europe 1 house and. estate. It wa about seventeen miles from Paris. Wfcn'f aa4a girl 'there wu' an" Indian camp on the grounds now occupied by the big city hall. On Sundays hiy father used to lake me up te their camp and he would take to them. That la nearly one hundred years ago. MrCTerryjlid not marry until had reached the age.of sixty, when she chose her dead sitters husband for a partner. He lived bat a few years after his second marriage. When asked , HE HAS COURAGE. fHIS PREACHER VERY BROAD IN HIS VIEWS. u rm-ful- (dor ' as Bash Sports Tkftt llu KsSwa Boar (.ardra la a Step la tka Right Direction. SISMin Sanday aad-Aay- a The Rev Horace Porter, assistant to Dr. Dwight Hlllis, of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, gave the following interview to a New York paper the other day: and gymnastics should Religion travel hand in hand. It has taken tountless ages to develop end bring to its present perfection this wonderful body, of oure Man has just about at-- , Uined physical perfection. Any farther development will be la the mental and spiritual welfare. Having euch t splendid mechanism and the will and If aha thoughrmarriageijaiiu,., ghe power to control 4L w should dq aid: everything in our power to advance T had very little time to think about and perfect it. It is our duty to It when I young, hut my advice to our neighbors and our deall young people Is to marry. Do not scendants. be in too great A hurry, pick out a A dyspeptic Is pessimistic on all partner who It good and then lose no lubjects, a bug-beto the community, time; I had lotoof'Thaiees when 1 rod leaves hla descendant A bad Inwas young, but waited until I was sat- heritance. He has no right to be a 1 isfied I would be happy,-Althodyspeptic no man haa Let hint eat was' sixty years old When 1 married judiciously, keep reasonable hours and Mr. Terry we lived very happily, if ezercise. Let tbe body be in" good you cannot find tome one whom you healthy condition, and pure thoughts can trust and love you had better re- and a high moral standard ia inevitamain tingle. It is much better te be ble. Once, ages ago, we were all body; single than have a bad husband or snimal, growling, roaring, chasing aniwife. There are plenty of men and mals. But ths backs began to straightwomen to nick ani choose from, and, en, the wrinkles on the brow disapthe only way to secure happiness is to peared, the angle of the forehead grew bear with, each other, both pain and lets and lest, and thought eventually took the place of Instinct, With pleasure and sorrow and joy. thought eventually came spiritual development, and some day we hope to WONDERFUL CAREER. be all spirit. There are many who CoL M. .J.,, OBrien,, who has been wish scriptural support for auch a elected to succeed the late Henry B. stand as 1 Lika ' A man" asked for Plant, has been In the employ of the scriptural evidence and gave y quotaent prayergreat Southern Express company for tion against it at a many year. He began as a driver of meeting where I need this subject one of the wagons of the Adams Ex- Take the life of Christ. He lived alpress company, and worked his way up most exclusively out of doors, walkin that aervlce until the Southern com- ing over the hills and through ths valpany hired him. Then bis real career leys of Palestine, going frequently to In buslnesa began. Thirty years ago the mountains for rest, and living on Mr. OBrien became the private secre- none but tbe plainest of food.- - The tary of the president of tbe Southern sanitary code of the Jews was high. Express company, end now he Is him- - They were a rural people naturally, which assured their physical health On tbnt was based their splendid pby slcal- - seal The dependency of the on the bodily health is great, spirit though there are wonderful exceptions, Henry Ward Beecher was a man of enormous physical development, with great power for good, a veritable leader of men; the Rev. Dr. Abbott, weak physically, aa be says ha la, but with wonderful mental and spiritual development, a striking Illustration of the ... power of mini over matter. .. ...In. the city we have opportunities to walk of which very lew of us taka advantage, XI a business man. Instead of climbing Immediately Into a crowd ed L train, should start from horns a little earlier and should walk part of the way, would It not benefit him? I consider the bicycle one of the greatest blessings, one of tbe greatest Inventions of the age. Used with moderation and propriety, there can he no better exercise. It tabes people out Into tbe parks and country who otherwise would never get out. There are those that say It Is immoral, vulgar rod unladylike for women to ridr wheels. Every woman in tbe land should have a wheel, and, ridden with- - moderation, I venture to say that the very near future would find the women of our land healthier, stronger and 'natter in every way than they ever were before. I believe in Sunday sports to this extent among tbe laboring classes those who have to work from 7 to 7 every day, wfcen night comes are so tired that bed ia their only thought Under these circumstances I think that man does wrong if he does not go out on Sunday and breaths the good air our-lelve- s,' tu -- 1 HENRY WILSON, quatntance of Mr. McKinley while the latter was a guest at the Ebbltt during Bnglabd, the World's Folios, . , , his years as a member of the house, The work of establishing an effective The president has fifteen or more rapolice control' over diverse redes and zors, which are cared for by his barsubject populations Is not confined to ber. They compose the finest set In India alone, says William Cunningham Washington, all being of thr best in the Atlantic.' is coming to the make. Tbe steward of the white house front In every part of the globe. The notifies thp barber when be Is wanted. problem of governing diverse races on The president sits In a common chair, the same soil Is the political problem and chats with tbe barber while the of the future! and It is one which Eng- latter works over him. The president land has dealt with In India, with ter- la not fussy, and is the delight of barrible difficulties and many mistakes, bers because be is so easily satisfied. but yet with such success that she does He never complains that the razors not shrink from trying to face It in hurt his face nor criticises. other parts of the globe. This Is the lllntratd rig.rrttra. - meaning see that police control is necessary, if manufacturers in Paris haa taken ad the control of civilization, and bar- vantage of the excitement over the' barism Is not to be a continued curse Dreyfus case to advertise cigarette pato mankind; there must be strong per in books, each leaf containing the - civil, authority established to keep the portrait and biography o f one of the peace and punish the wrong-doe- r, actors In the famous case.' On the pawhether black or white, and English- pers will also be printed summaries of men are ready to undertake this police the proceedings in the affair. Prizes control, wherever we are called on to are offered for the best articles on the exercise lb We do not grasp at It; we subject, to be printed on the cigarette - know- - the strain It involves-and- the paperTThese papersLlhe advertise: jealousy It breeds, but we will not ment continues, will be the most shirk the responsibility when It comes powerful means of spreading a knowlto our bands. edge of the great struggle tor right Cftttl FMdlnf Aiporri Now if the president will only ponAsparagus ia so plentiful on the Rus-ela- n -der on what he heard from lhe New steppesthat the cattle eat It Ilk England girl graduates all should be grass. The seeds are sometimes dried Yell. and used as s substitute for coffee . -- -- , self the president of that great concern. When Mr. Plant died Mr. OBrien was taking a rest In Europe, but he at once returned to Georgia, and bis election as president followed Immediately. CoL OBrien served In the Confederate army during" the war, nd waa attached to the fleet of Commodore' Poindexter until ' It waa ' destroyed to prevent-It- s falling Into' the hands of the enemy. When the colonel -- yean before Christ Whet They Brail y Bald. Deeds of valor and la face of the enemy ere not always accompanied by rhetorical fireworks. During the Zulu war, after an engagement In which the British troops were defeated by Cetewsyoa black warriors, and were compelled to fly tor their Uvea an English cavalryman, whose scraggy little pony limped from an assegai slash, detached himself from the retreat and galloped back upon the charging Zulus. A glance over his shoulder had ahown him s dismounted comrade, stumbling painfully along, trying to jam some cartridges into hia When the troopers clogged revolver. pony trotted up the Zulue were almost upon the two soldiers. Fortunately, however, they had discarded their spears, rofi were m'ahandUpg captured, , carbines. Now, In a melodrama, or in a realistic hover, the lingual of these two gallant officers, one to ths other, would have been noble, lofty and In- -, spIrng. ' The fa what they really raid; Get out of this. Bill, ye bloomin' lji; the black beggars will akewer ye, You climb gasped the wounded man. up on this orse or Ill punch yer 'ead off! was the reply of (he other. And It la delightful, says a writer In Col llers Weekly, "to be able to say that he did eltmb up, and they both yelped from tbe black beggars, and that the trooper got the Victoria cross. Ills Turn Mow, The plumber discovered hla caahier Man came in in a state of collapse. hers a few momenta ago who must have, been crazy!" gasped the cashier when he had recovered sufficiently to r "He entered tbe office humapeak. a ming popular tuna of tha day and wanted to know wbat hla bill amounted to. I looked it up and It waa so large that I was almost afraid to tell him, expecting a roar and tbe customary kick. But he only smiled, hummed another tune and paid It without saying another word, going away whistling,' "What waa his name?" -- d, 1 Ckin Dletloaftry, It la believed that the moat ancient dictionary In the world Ia the Chinese lexicon, compiled by Pacut-ah- e M00 tees of the Ohio Stata university, having been appointed a tew months ago. Ha resides at Columbus and la married; Tkrafhtfal Sptmw. smoke-befogge- Atflcal r: CORSON. London Mail: We have all heard of the.- - faithful- - dog -- that aummons the to the help oMta dyftrg mas- passer-b- y ter. A correspondent of High Wycombe endows the Insignificant sparrow with the same high Intelligence. REV. HORACE PORTER. a end commune with tha birds and learn and profit by nature,,. The German beer garden, that aeems to be finding favor today, ia in lb right direction. A man can go there, take his wife and ait for an hour" or two sipping beer in comparative safety. " But the separation of the family, when the father goea Into the musty, ba c k roo mofth eao-c- a led Raines hotel, with a lot of boisterous companions, la bad Tha sooner people recognize it tbe "better." . :,COL. O'BRIEN waa the superintendent of the Southern company it ia said be traveled net leas than an average of 30,000 mllea the year. oscar the plumber, looking the caahier over to tea it he had been drinking. Smith. I wish you could have heard him when he went away, whistling. He can afford to whistle," answered the' plumber, gloomily. Hes the Ice men. By tbe way, I think Ye had better change Ice men tomorrow." SARAH DORON TERRY. " Asso-clatlon- ugh 'M phis and Used to live here. One day a messenger came to my mother, telling her that the general wanted her to cook hla dinner, ao I went with her and helped to cook him a nice meal. They did not always have good meals then. My father was once hungry and met Washington. He asked him for something to eat ; The general put hla hand in hlajocket and gave my father a biscuit which he waa probably saving for himself. Gen. Washington was a bonny man, and the American people loved him. Every time he would walk down Chestnut street men would taka off their hata and the girls end ladles courtesy. He would bow In a stately manner, and -- Tbepeeple Would any: Ah, what a fine man! What a brave . general! And then came peace with England end the freedom of the colonies. Every wagon. jart cr carrlage whrch drove Into town had a big sign on it and every sign said Peace, Tha city was Illuminated and tha people cheered, and the pretty" girls let the young men kiss them oh their return from the war. I waa Jn Philadelphia when Gen. Lafayette came to the city,, In 1821. He wa a handsome young man, wRh nice rosy cheeks and black curly hair, and every one seemed to love hia. The whole town waa beautifully Illuminated. Tbe general paraded np and down the streets, escorted by yonng men who had fought with Gen. Washington. When Jhe general reached tha arch he got off hla hoiSe and stood near i jtand and saluted all the rest of tha soldiers' as they came by. In the Oscar Taylor Corson elected president of the National Teachers a dative of Ohio and Is a farmer's ton. He was born In Preble county, near Camden, May S, 1857. He was educated in tbe village schools of Camden hud the Ohio Wealeyee-eeKveraity at Delaware, from which institution he was graduated in 1879. Ha had engaged In teaching occasionally and when hia college while work was done ha determined to make that hie life work:' He was elected Vn- perintendent of ' the "schools at Cam- bridge, Obfo, in which work he con- -' J tlnued until 1892, when he was elected commissioner of common schools of ReOhio., In 1895 be was tiring from office last January he applied hlmsclfto, the, work, ofpu,hHhjcg;,: the Ohio Educational Monthly, e mag- aa tne devoted to the eauee of education which he had purchased while in office. and to institute work." for which he has received calls from Michigan. Pennsylvania "and Florida. Mr. Norton ia a member of the board of trus- - ar t nt OSCAR T. CORSON, PRESIDENT. he Passing along Bridge street, writes, I saw one of a pair sitting on a house top, when suddenly a loose slat slipped end caught the bird by the tall, so tbst it wss quite unable to move. It called lo Its mats, who, seeing its companions difficulty, tried hard to raise tbe slate, hut without success. Then it flew around, uttering wild cries, until the attention of n man wlth. a ladder .was attracted.... ita climbed up and released the poor bird. Both sparrows then flew off with a A sparrow that knows merry chirp. the utea of a ladder would be worth, something to a showman. 4 Urkktla( la Kim la. In August last the foundations were Hebrew JUrrtaxra a, laid Russia, of the first In Hebrew marriages tbe woman Is firebrick works erected in the Ural. always placed to the right of her mate. Ten kilns have been built, with a caWith every otfieF nation" of the vrorld pacity of 3,000,000 "brlcRsiaauAIlr." her place in tbe ceremony .ia to the left Hitherto all the firebricks used In tbe Ural hare been obtained from England. Ferro Population. The American citizen who te not In Baltimore has the largest negro some manner connected with a Dewey population! any city In Christendom. Tha census As expected to show at reception committee "must feel rather lonesome. east 125,000. ' . ' - near-Lysv- ' Urnt a W c ! , |