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Show -- f T IS SO SUCILPEltSONV - HE IS POOR INDEED. TO CABLE THE PACIFIC. Favorable for lb Carrying Out r th I'rnJwL RICHEST MAN IN THE WbRLD IS Probably John VV. Mackay will alYET A BEGGAR. ways be know n as a bonanza miner, and yet y hr has, no doubt, a greater fortiine in tegraph properties than in r.aroa BothirhUd Would Willingly Part With Wealth Could U Ua Auurcd anything else. He is certainly the largest Individual owner in the world of Frotcctioa from AnmrthUU And of telegraph lines, and C, R. Ant I fee mite. Hosmer is the man he depends upon to manage them for him. Mr. Hosmer beHE life of an Amerlieves the time is near w hen the Englisj ican millionaire la government will combine with her not a happy ' one, in lay ing a cable across the Pabut It is heaven cific ocean. The colonies have already compared with that SSjql Mq- - y t T HAR OD RHSC HRI of the European granted subsidies or have bound them-selvarticle. The great to do so, and the entrance into majority of Ameripower of Lord Salisbury, with bis Concan point - with servative majority of 150 and odd votes, pride to their milis viewed in Canada as propitious for lionaire as" examthe Pacific cable enterprise. The ples of the possibilWestern Union, he went on to say, ities to all In the Land are that open to build years ago toward started Alaska with the Intention of laying a of the Free and the Home of the The great masses of Eurocable across Behring sea and reaching Bave. look with envy on millionaires. peans European Siberia, At the same time The man of great wealth over there they were constructing a line in Siberia. This was when It was believed Is believed to be a curse to the country he live in and hi death, by any means, is looked upon as a blessing. Roema n THE NEW WOMAN EXISTS PAPER ONLY. ON JLJtJ?.- - to-da- Ur. I'a-lr- r Hf to the Co i!n Sti Tlit Afi Iranlu Koltoriii'y fch of nruporx ('also lkiure. I!B rltv of Buffalo. New York, Is happy in being the home of many Women of neral culture anti re3nomcnt; prominent among them is Mrs. Bralnerd l'ullir, a w liter of grace and force and a public speaker of charm. particular She Is a native of Middletown, Conn , her parents being Norman L. Brair.erd and Leora Campbell Drainer J. Mrs. Fuller was educated at Miss Paynes Young Ladles Seminary, Middletown, Conn., and has traveled In Great Br:t.ua. Continental Europe, Canada, and to some extent lu the United States. Mrs. Fuller read an able paper at the Womans Congress" at the Columbian Exposition on Women as Poitieal Economists" Her idea of the New Woman published in Womankind will undoubtedly piove of Interest. It Is as follows:: Just who the New Woman of the day Hs, upon whoso much heralded advent d many good and people have taken fright, remains so far a mjstery. Wheie In real life there exists an individual, who acknowledges herself to be the original of the type dubbed the New Woman. we hava not as yet been told. Then, whence comes this strange and skirtless creature continuously Held before our startled gaze, and whose presence represented lu unwonted and most unseemly places is. Indeed, enough to stampede a nation back into the customs of past civ llizations. Were Betsy Frig to drink her tea la modern times, she would probably make another keen discovery, and exclaim, as she once did, In regard to the existence of Mrs. Camps supposltitlcus patient, Mrs. Harris; "I dont believe theres no slch person," as this kind of a new woman. And Betsy would not be so very far from correct. In holding such opinion. That times are changing, and women advancing: Into broader fields of education and usefulness, none in his senses can doubt. It Is equally cer- g( to-d- col-onl- es es masses of Europeans better than does Baron Alphonse de Rothschild of Paris, who has millions where other people have pennies. Like one of his English relatives, he Is compelled to say: Happy! I happy? How can a man be happy when Just as he is going to dine there is placed in his hand a letter saying, If you dont send me out?" 500, I will blow your brains Within a few months two attempts have been made by anarchists or to blow Baron Rothschild and sober-minde- kr - anti-Semit- es hi palatial residence was the head-q- u era of the German army during f ParU- - He has been abused bitter virulence for years by tbe 0f France and has received bushels of threatening letters ithtf anti-Semi- from anarchists JOHN V. MACKAY the laying of the Atantic cable would not be a success. When the latter proved a success the other was abandoned, and now has practically disappeared although 16,030,000 or 17.000,-00- 0 were spent upon It. Th Canadian Pot The Kahn is the signature appended by an erratic Canadian journalist to poems and sketches that have given him a wide reputation throughout the Dominion. He is a poet of the people as distinguished from the poets of the magazines, and before taking to journalism be was for many years engaged in farming. Many of his verses have the directness and simplicity that characterize the work oj Riley, and at his best The Khan writes true poetry.-Like every poet engaged in Jour nalisvic work, however, ho writes too much, and the badness of' his worst productions is something lamentable; but at his best be has a command of humor, pathos, and homely sentiment that entitles him to the high esteem In which his work Is herd by many. ri9fol1ed Ky Honor. o Itm-ouil- 'it t1 sea-eon-- J ! I t f REV. JOSEPH COOK. TN KomlaaU Him for Frwldaat Noil Year, The above is a portrait of Joseph Cook of Boston, probably the most aggressive orthodox preacher of the present day.- - His name has lately been mentioned-Iconnection with tbe nomination of the presidency on tho prohibition ticket next year. Joseph Cook has no equal on the lecture platform or FrohibiUonUfri ft!jr n tv g55 i V. hiv it ''stiX'? ! 1 JOSEPH COOK, in the field of religious literature. Mr. Cook was born In Ticonderoga, N. Y., ' January 26, 1S3S. He was educated at Yale and Harvard, and after studying tour years at Andover he was granted a license, but declined all Invitations He to any settlement as pastor, preached In Andover for two years and In Lynn, Maes., for one year, and In 1871 went to Europe, where he devoted hlmeelt to etudy and travel until near the close of 1873. Upon his return ho became a lecturer on the relations of religion, science and current reform. His Boston Monday lectures, in Temple, attracted general attention. In 18S0 he made a lecturing tour around the world. Mr. Cook's publUhed works Include "Biology," Transcen-dentaUeOrthodoxy," 'Conscience," Labor, "SoMarriage, Heredity, cialism, "Occident, and Orient. His greatest popularity arises from Use fact that be attempts to show tbat science is to harmony with religion and the blble. Tre-mo- CAPTURED ' NICKOLA TESLA. dlls money ap&rL -- Not long ago a "personal" letter waa sent to tbe baron. Fortunately for the banker, the document was opened by his private secretary, who was maimed for life by the explosion that followed. Still more recently an attempt was made to blow e, np the Rothschild bank in the Rue and if this millionaire target for dynamite bombs lx not ill at ease and La-fltt- looms and : churns forthpatorftt household while her husband preached. Tesla's electrical work started when, as a boy, in the Polytechnic school at Gratz, he first saw a direct-curreGramme machine and waa told that a commuter was a vital and necessary feature In all such apparatus. He drifted westward and made bis way to Paris; he then made his way across the Atlantic to work in one of the Edison shops. He Soon won the admiration of the great inventor. He worked arduously as did Edison himself, but worked on new lines, lines sc divergent those paster that separa- tfon was wise. Tesla had become i genius of the electrical world by him elf, supported by Edison. The pupil baa made marvelous discoveries and known throughout the civilized world because of what he has accomplished In his field. His latest discovery, that of taking pictures by wire, has aston Ished even Edison. nt of-the self-relian- H FortaaM Are Utils Eleven yeara ago George Newnes wa a young brass-finishin a factory at y He possessed Manchester,' England. vj- some literary ability and remarkable business tact. He conceived the Idea of a small penny paper for the masses, to BARON ROTHSCHILD, be called Tid Bits. He borrowed unhappy he must surely be a mao of hundred friend and Is- a from pounds rare nerve and courage. ElfOh'ATphoftse'Js th e eldesTkoffST Baron James, who founded the Paris rekly paper.' Its success in' Manche was so apparent from the first that branch, and a grandson of Mayer An- Newnes There removed to London. selm, the poor Frankfort dealer in fur- Tld Bits became and prosperpopular MISS JANE ADDAMS. tho who and laid niture ous Is .the daughter of Hon, John H. Adfoundation stone around which bae brass in a few months. From a 'poor finisher Newnes soon became the dams, for many years state senator been built the colossal financial strucproprietor of an immense publishing from northern Illinois.- - Sue was gradture of the Rothschilds of uated from Rockford college In ISiJ, Baron Alphonse and bis cousin, Lord house.- Two years' ago be started the Strand Magaxinprwhlch, like Tld Bits, and has since been a trustee of that in- Rothschild of London, head of the Enwag an Instantaneous success. Jn eleven harwork stitution. , glish branch of the family, Tears Ceorge Newnes has made a remoniously together and control the colossal fortune the family possesses. markable record. Today he Is a ml! A Evil Report. The mother bowed her bead and her They are literally the financial king of lionaira and a member of parliament Eurofre and wield far more power than frame ebook with sobs. Tell me," she faltered, "tell me, many of the monarebs combined. The Kew XVommo, kind eir, if my poor lost boy was good They are by all odds the most powerful "I dont hold agin this here new bankers In the world, and their opera- woman business so much as gome,1 to the last? A shade flitted across the bronze tions cover the entire globe. They con- said Mr. Jason. It's Jlst her nateral trol the Russian oilfield, the South bent fer Information takln a new tack, far of the seaman. I dont know for sure," he answered African diamond fields and the Chile Ef she wasn't tryln to find out all as considerately as possible, hut I nitrate beds end think no more of loanbout government an microbes she to some of the natives saying ing 1100,000,000 heard Indirectly government would be about tryln to find outfall than most wealthy men would think of the neighbors, they had eaten better. sn you- - know the All was still but tbe sound of weeploaning 11,000. Baron Alphonse bas a trouble that leada to." Indianapolis ing. Detroit Tribune. magnificent chateau at Ferrleres, and Journal. er tr bric-a-bra- c, to-da- y. . - nt THE CONVENTION. .a, Power Make llor Father Secretary of Stte br I'utlrlng Effort, Miss Katherine Markham Power, of Jackson. Miss., successfully conducted the canvass of her father for secretary of state during hts recent serious illness, and helped to win the hardest fought battle in the Democratic party In the state. She Is now editor and proprietor of Kate Powers Review, the only paper on the gulf coast owned by a woman, edited by a woman and JAME3 RYDER RANDAL-- . for women. This paper has published the silent crowd, Among !Epmadly. and unsuspected, stood James Ryder had a phenomenally successful career, Randall, who, at this demonstration, having attained the fourth place In felt a hand laid upon his arm, while a circulation among the state weeklies and having kept up an exalted literary voice at his side said: Miss Power was for days Do you not, as a Marylander, feci standard. her fsther's death being probhelpless, of that song?" proud I able at any hour; but when, on WednesI dont know, replied Randall. am afraid tbat I am rather practical, day before the county election on Tuesand I feel convinced, tf he were to ask day, the beloved sufferer passed the this girl with n lions courage it, that there Is not a man In this vast crisis, in a woman's heart, kissed the tender tho lend $5. who entbor would throng brow of her fatberrThd with that kiss Yes, said the stranger, but they will give him a splendid funeral." Through his mother, Mr, Randall is centfcd ft cm Rene Leblanc. the gn- tie notary" In Longfellows poem, Ills father was n merEvangeline. chant of Baltimore, and In that city, on ilan. 1, 1839, the poet was born. On of his earliest teachers. Professor Clark, bad formerly been a tutor of Edgar Allan Poe, and up to 1835 was still living In Baltimore at the age of 90. In 180 young Randall entered the old Jesuit Before hts college. In Georgetown. graduation, however, circumstances obliged him to abandon bis studies, and after a brief experience In n Baltimore book store, and a term of eervlce a a teacher In tbe slide of Florida, be drifted to New Orleans, where he filled a position as clerk In a merchants ship' ping office.' the' poets 0thWpStrI5TO Among verses are "Theres Life In the Old ' fcxrd LifidfB i et, tbe "Battle Cry of the South, but he KATHERINE MARKHAM POWER, regards At Arlington, written at a as a ben Ison, started forth on her la, later date, and fonnded upon a highly bor of love. After traveling In a day 190 miles by poetic incident, tbe best poem J:e. has rail and road combined, visiting every over produced. Near the close of the war, hile trav- one of the 125 delegates to tbe county eling in a railroad car, Mr. Randall convention at tbelr homes, and reborrowed a newspaper from n lady sit- turning late at night to tbe bedside of ting near him. Th lady, then a her father, ebe would epend several stranger to him, jess Miss Hammond, hours planning the next days corre bis future wife; tbe paper was the Au- spondence to be executed by her sisters. gusta Chronicle, of which he afterwards Indeed, In less than five days she bad became th editor. Other papers with visited every precinct In the county which he had been editorially and except four, and this failure was due otherwise connected are the Baltimore to an unfavorable change In her father's American, the Catholic Mirror and the condition, requiring her presence near him. And though it all ehe never let Georgia Constitutionalist. At present Mr. Randall holds an of- her father suspect that there was any Of the fight In the county, putting her ab fice under the eergeant-at-arm- s corressence down to Important business of Is the and senate, States United lether own, lest It Increase his illness. pondent of a number of papers, his ters from the capital being widely cop- And, during all that time, Kate Powers ied." ills home ts in Augusta, Ga and Review has never failed to- show its there. In the Intervals unclaimed by sparkling face in lta accustomed pneo official duties, his life Is passed with Ms at the right time. hi IU i In Hol- any--thi- V sational powers, and those who bavo seen him of late describe him aa pos- e sessed of all the enthusiasm of speech and manner, and still In appearance a young man, without a touch of silver In his hair. During the last Randall has had a number of Battering offers for a lecture tour through the country, but the author of Maryland, My Maryland, Is slngu-larl- y indlffereuLto lba emoluments ot. thla world, and can say what few. poets are able to claim, tbat h has never written a line of verse for money. old-tim- The war against YVorld-Fo8I 85:1:5 not Lyrit Struck All long go.M an In- - Ill ( " o Heart Ha I 4 Attache of tuP!'i and dangerous. S B!upi(j an tbe t'nlted fetetee Wntlr -- Uk Other Odious, but the same pfct underlies both." Ho la L y rtoFrodTu c lion a. 0 . and the walls of his pa- latial home are cotrcd uiih tbe work RUE merit is a of such masters as Titian, Rubens. Vesous is a passport lasquez and Murillo. He lives Tike a which so sentry his king tharitie are legion, and be will question, and manages his minions with consummate long before peace skill. He would with a bad bees declared, doubilepart great many of them could he be assured M y Maryland, In that future the knife of the assasthat Maryland. sin and the bomb of the anarchist fiery bit of rhymed wouTd no longer menace his life. eloquence, had crossed the enemy's lines, and exacted NICtyJLA TESLA. Its meed of praUe from the literary critA Glfled Foroicnrr of VVkoai AU Amor ics st the North. Oliver Wendell Holmes Hi ! Broad. j of It: It was the best poem provNlehola Tes'a, the electrician, says says duced on either side during the war. that It will be only a question of time And the Soon poet himself writes: when all labor will be performed by after its appearance abundant evidence We are merging Into a waa borne to roe, electricity, that, whatever the new world, he says. "The change will fate of the confederacy might be, mf as If the material world song would survive It," It crossed the had passed away and the spirit world ocean,, and when It came oat In Engbad takea its place. In fact, what land, Mr. Randall received an autothrough all ages has been called as the graph letter from a member of Lord end of the world is now here. Tesla B.vrona family, filled with expressions Is a Slav, with the racial characterisof admiration of It, and containing a retics strongly stamped In look, speech, copy, and an quest for n and action, but he has .developed the invitation to manuscript author to visit bis the same genius which has marked the correspondent in London. About this highest class of American Inventors. ttme Mr. John R. Thompson, for so His father was an eloquent clergyman many years connected with the Southin the Greek church, but to his mother ern Literary Messenger happened to be may probably be traced the secret of abroad, and upon the return he said to his Inventive genius, for she made Mr. Randall: I envy you above all men. Why? asked the poeL said Mr. Thompson, ''Because," "W hen I was 4a London I met in a drawing-rooone of the most beautiful and charming of women, who naked me If I would not like to hear a song of my southern country; and upon my replying In the affirmative, weut to the piano and sang, Maryland, My Mary landf After she had finished, she turned to me, saying: " When you see the friend that wrote that, tell him that you heard it sung by a Russian girl who lives at Arch angel, north of Siberia, and learned to sing It there. Ten thousand people surrounded the Washington monument In Baltimore at the reception given to the French visitors to the Yorktowa Centennial, and when the Dod worth band played Maryland, My Maryland, and the guests, hearing that it waa a distinctive air, rose and bowed low, the crowd cheer '4V woman her cpiere. The go. den chains of love and maternal devotion bind her wi.lingly to IL She could not leave It if she would, end che would not if she So after the extravagancies could. and exaggerations that are now following naturally enough in the wake of the movement which Is advancing woman Into a higher position In the social system, shall have settled down, as extremes attendant on reforms have done before, the real new woman will appear. as tree to herself and her vocations, s any of her predecessor. If the spirit cf her times extend her duties, in some Instances into public life, there she will conduct herself with dignity and ability. She will preside at the fireside, a fair and stately figure, none the less loveable because adorned with more cf the gracee of Minerva, us weir as those of Venus; none the less compan'omlle because of her better understanding of tne things that interest men. grandchildren about him. the-char- -- - traveling land writes that Melchers. the Detroit artist who won tbe Paris exposition v y- prize In 1SS9 and has since enjoyed extraordinary vogue on the continent, is quite unspoiled by the honors heaped MRS. BRAIN ERD FULLER, new woman, upon him. Though he hat dined with tain that the bug-a-bwe are worrying ourse.ves about, lest the German emperor, he still wears a she imperils the perpetuity of present peasant blouse and wooden shoes on tho plea that be is too poor for social order, has scarcely-mor- e qualibetter. When he went to dine ties to Insure her continued existence than a phantom or a poorly executed with the wife of the burgomaster of a picture. In fact, she Is a sort of com- Holland town be appeared in this cosposite, produced by the various Impres- tume and soaked to the skin by a hard He apologized, not for the sions of the peculiarities of living ex- rain. tremists. which have been developed clothes, but for the fact that they were by the fear of pessimists, the anxiety wet, and maintained that It was the of conservatives, the wit of lampooners, only suit he had. His hostess thereand by the caricaturists holding high upon provided him with a dry suit of carnival over alL The real new wo- her husbands.' man of America, which the nineteenth century will give to grace the decades Jus Addtna f Cblr( of It successors will be one, w ho, to the Miss Jane Addams, whose portrait it gentle feminine attributes of her colon- here given, superintendent of street ial ancestors Jtv 11 1. add the.. atnenKthLal clean ing lo Ch lea of the mes go,iane and the force of system- remarkable women o'f the decade. She Her more atic, intellectual training. liberal education obtained from her college curriculum, together with a freer mingling in the alfairt of the world will tend to Improve, society, rather than to undermine IL Education, a wide experience In life, and an extended knowledge of human nature, has never yet retarded tbs wheels of progress, or deracinated society, and there seems to be no very good reason to believe that different results Will prevail, bcause women possess these advantages, As for the New Woman" bundling up her recently acquired knowledge, as she would pack a band box, and flying off with It Into an indefinite place, wo call "out of her sphere, why ofce never will, to any alarming extent. c SBd his gifts aa a poet and Journalist he adds of brilliant converTo m An American lady oJISr children THE AUTHOR OF MARYLAND AND HIS CAREER. 1 HiA r It AKD.UL.r0ET JAMES ' m - |