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Show t LATE MB, APPLETON. OUR OLDEST PACIFIC ISLANDS. great publisher who recently PASSED AWAY. TWO COINCIDENCE STORIES. la Om4 Faith la Vlas Wkm AU la Barred. Chicago Inter Ocean; It waa tht secretary's turn to- tell a yarn to hta of ths Coincidence club. The Coincidence club, by the way, haa no cumbersome machinery. It haa member and officer, meets once a week to tell queer stories along the Una suggested by lta name, and everything bat the strict truth la barred. Tv got two stories, much alike, to tell. "There's nothlngjlramatlc or sensational about them. They struck me as queer, though. ' You know I'm a lawyer. One day a man named Dodge brought In a letter of introduction to me from a friend out west He had a simple sort of a caae, and I asked him to com back at t o'clock that afternoon. Then I went over ' to the criminal court on business that kept me UU within few minutes of 8 oclock. A I entered my office there was a man sitting In the shadow. Without really looking at him, and with my mind full of the appointment I said, as I went to my private office. How are you, Mr. Dodge? Ill see you in a minute. Pretty soon I rang and told the office boy to show in Mr,- Dodge. The man cam in and h wasn't my Mr, Dodg st alL Imagine my surprise when he said; 'How did you know my namef At ths sams time h handed ms a letter of Introduction from a friend down east. HI asms was Dodge all right, and h had a case. I gasped over the oddity of the situation, explained tbs coincidence to my vlattor, and even showed him the other letter of Introduction. But the man did not believe me. He evidently thought I was a liar, and left without putting hla case In my hands, A few minute later in came the first Mr. Dodge, and Vra had a good laugh over 1L The other coincidence was this; I got tetters from two friends one west of Chicago and on south, asking me to collect claims against a big Chicago firm and a big ineursne company with an agency in Chicago. I telephoned and mad ol appointment with representatives each of the concerns ons at 1 and ths Other at 12:30 oclock. 1 wept out on an errand and waa delayed until 12:80 o'clock. When I cam in both men were waiting. 8trange as it may seem, both men were named Rose. I introduced them. One was originally from Rhode Island and the other from Connecticut. As far as they could figure outjhey were pot related,.. I've used false names, but otherwise the stories are strictly true, and can be proven by evidence that will past muater la court of law. Baula MARRY AND BE 000. Aheoletetjr FwfMt, Whies Be Ball, bet Coa per lively wvj KlAt le Friedrich Printing haa just pnb-llah-ed in Germany, some of the resa before anchorbeat about for days sult of his study of the Influence ot f HU age la possible. Onu. bUrerbw OM marriage upon the criminality of men, Baker Uland was dUcovered by f th tullMi ACvoaataa ot the Cincinnati Commercial-Tribun- e. say hue Capt. Henry Foster, of the bark Jaaatiaaal c8rrlkl latMltlUs with From criminal statistics he demaica. in 1857. It waa reported from duced that property rights of all kinds MS r.UIUm rmt(B x,u.n marintime to time by various other are respected more generally by the ers, but waa not accurately charted married than tbe single. Such graver William Henry Appleton, head of until Commander Meade vUlted It, in flense as robbery extortion end the A firm ot D. publishing 1873. Appleton fraud are committed by married men died Co., the other morning at hit Out in the Wild waste of waters land was leased to the American GuThe island la a veritable death trap with comparative Infrequency, When reef home at Riverdale, near New York. He southwest ot Hawaii, ten days' sail ano company. There was no sate an- of the sea, a its wreck-atrew- n he is driven to the unlawful acquireIn was his h waa eighty-sixtfrom that island and four days sail chorage about the Island and the com- attests. Not only are shores strewn year. He ment of material goods he generally from the nearest land, the American pany placed a buoy about a mile and a with wreckage, but nearly a doaen for many years the oldest member of chooses some less dangerous method. Co. The flag has flapped and fluttered over two half from the western beach. This is akeletona of ships still exist in the the house of D. Appleton Receiving stolen goods, breaking the history of his lift U ths history of the clutches of the reel tiny bits ot land for more than forty the only anchorage today. laws relative to trade, commerce and the in Appleton an Baker island Baker Howland are and forms was la our the are born Ht other company. Such years. irregular poaaeaaloni public health, forcible detention of Haverhill. Mass. Jan. 27. 1814. As a names of these old Pacific possessions quadrilateral figure about a mile long South Sea. pieces of property, bankruptcy, etc.jir boy he was in constant association of ours. They nestle close to the and a fraction less than a mile in tbe forms which offenses against propwith his father, Daniel Appleton, at equator near 176 longitude, and are width. It la of coral formation. There HOME, LANGTRYS MBS. the little retail store which the Utter erty usually take among married men.' marked on every good-size- d map of la absolutely no water on the island, Among those married at an extremely that part of the world. Yet how few and drinking water can be obtained A Coaatrv BmUvm la a BagUsB opened in Exchange place when he went to New York from Boston, la early age trespasses against the righto of us have ever known that we ex- only by distilling sea water. The toV ttlta 1825. of property are more common than When the founder of the house pands! jn the Pacific long before the pography of the island Is somewhat Mre. Langtry's country residence I among the unmarried of a correspond published his first hook, "Crumbs Sunn roared at Fort, Sumter. Peace- similar to that of Howland, save that Kent-for- d, lng age. This is explained by the feet' fully we took possession of them, peace- on the west side is a small open bay, situated In the pretty village of Tour mile from Newmarket It that poverty'll frequently a concomfully we have held them. No congre- in which la a boat anchorage. The Uland is encircled by & reef la fitted throughout with all that modssional debates have ever occurred as itant or result of such marriages. In- to their form of government, no Senate some 300 feet wide, and Its jagged ern convenience and luxury could sugrendlarlsm la found most largely has ever been called upon to ratify an heads are awash at high tide. A gest. The entrance hall has a wooden among tbe married between 80 and 80 years ot age. The unmarried outrun, the married in the offenses against morality, and also In those against human life, hut tbe married surpass the unmarried la careless and negligent killing and wounding. The difference In criminality between the married and the unmarried grows less with advancing years. Between the ages of 50 and 60 years u Is small, and after that It tn even less. Drunkenness claims the major share of its victims between the age of 30 and 60 years. The erlmta-all- ty of widowers between the ages of 30 and 60 1 notably greater than that WILLIAM H. APPLETON. of other classed The loss of the wife Hem the Masters Table," in 1831, frequently leads to mental derangeWilliam H. 'Appleton waa actively emment, end certain kinds ot ployed as a clerk In hla father' store sre difficult for this class to exercise. From the time of the first venture bis In general there le n decrease In crimpart In building up ths business was a inality of the married the longer they conspicuous "on for over sixty years. have been in the married state. Among Bit associations with foreign authe restraint which marriage places thors began with Thomas Moore, and upon ths married man Is the fear ot his acquaintance with English pubbringing disgrace upo bis family aru lishers goes back to ths time of the shame upon his children. Ths lasting elder Murray, of the married man to Intemptation He was a leading epirit In the dlrec-tl- o dulge In the pleasures ot ths public of great undertakings like the bouse Is less than thatof th alngl. American Cyclopedia and "Picturemss, -- With ths seed of defending and, sque America," and hla business life supporting s family, there comes, too, Included a safe passage through the Increased respect for religion, law apd finantroubled of waters three great THE ONLY HARBOR ON BAKER ISLAND. property, the defending and supporting cial crises In 1737, 1857 and 1873. In of the Institutions of society. Lastly, Addition to his publishing Interests he a strong deterrent effect of appointment of a governor over them. strong current, running nearly four parquette flooring of a very pretty and had an Important part for years In FRENCH ARMY AGAIN AVENGED upon criminality results frommarriage ths InIn fact, they are so far from anywhere miles an hour, sets In around the is- unusual design and leads through an the direction ot other large enterfluence of constant and Intimate assooffice-seekexland most even make and the near a oak archway into large, The cable announces that Urban ciation ot the it prises. persistent that navigation man with a member ot One of the earliest and most persist would scarcely accept an apGohier, one of the editor of the Au- - the we vkwi tremely dangerous. The land slopes reception hall. There Is a dog stove, wreiavnavrtyvs ioW tom d or eovvHowland Lea there. wounded Lieut of advocate teteraatteaSl pot seriously pointment away so abruptly from the reef that with old Dutch tiles, and from thU one . . son of the general, in a duel pared with that ol bis own, and bis partners recognised Ieore, island U the larger of the two, an anchor will not xrappte, and tor puses to a most- - charming dlnlnf'.yT'ftb-i- q the moral rights of foreign author from attacks mads on the and is separated from Baker Ulande by this reason a number of large moor- room, In which Is fitted a A Fsthetle Kxsartaaea, an arm of the sea about twenty-fiving buoys are anchored just outside ths stove. In tbe drawing room the when they were constrained by no le- officer by Gohler's paper. This Is not John W. Page, of Stokes, Pitt miles wide. It is about two miles long reef. the first time that the brilliant Jourgal obligation. county, woodwork are and furniture enameled and a trifle over a half mile la width. Speaking of the first book published nalist haa attacked "the honor ot the who was In town on Friday to consult Approaching the Uland from the white, the walls E. G. with discovered being hung by Capt. greet by the firm. In 1831, William H. Ap- army," and haa In turn been bitterly Congressman John H. Small, haa had It waa western side, the large white buildings Netcher, of the American bark Isabe- of the Houlders Bros., a guano firm, ot ribbed silk, and separated frdHa the bil- pleton recently aald; "That book was assailed by the officers. In the thick quits n romantic and pathetic experilla Sept.- - 9, 1842,. and was formally to whom the gnano deposit liard room, into which It looks, by a about three Inches square and half an of the Dreyfus excitement, when the ence with his ion, Alpbonso C, Page. taken possession, of by him the next London, handsomely carved screen, enameled inch thick, but its publication caused "honor of the nrmy was n thing to Alphonso ran away from home sin was leased, can be seen fourteen morning In the 'name of the United from shore. If a ship should be atmjles white. " It U understood to be then the firm more anxiety than the Amerithe conjure with, Gohier published n hook Jeers ago and enlisted in the navy unStates. He raised a flag on the island reproduced in Mrt can Cyclopedia, undertaken some thir- called "The Army Against the Na- der the assumed name of Georg W. there, the can be seen for an rooms which are and deposited a box at the foot of the buoy - The hour before the Uland comes Into Langtrys play,The American Degenerates. ty yearn later," tion," in which he exposed the moral Pollard, and gave John W. Pollard as Staff containing a record of what be The first floor U approached by a priu hla father's name. He served In the la 125,000 n volume before rottenness of the military view. cost establishhad done. In 1857 the Uland was viscl oak staircase sheet Carved a was Spanish with pal didgallery, warand later was ordered to He net ment, From criticise printed. "Plcturesqu the nrmy this side the Island presents ited by the whaling bark Portsmouth. newels and paneled eoffit, and a large America, was also one of the firm's from n military standpoint, but point- the Philippines, where he was promota with the white houses pretty picture, The flag staff erected by Capt. Netcher and corridor leads to the six mostly enterprises. Tbe capacity of ed out Its defects and weaknesses ed to chief master-at-arm- s in the had been blown down by the wlnda, nestling in the arms of the surround- landing each of which Is the house la shown by such projects from the social aide, declaring It to he marine service. ' And although the principal but the bark's captain found the record ing greenery on top of the reddish fitted withbedrooms, enameled white mantel m these. Of Webster Speller over n a constant menace to republican In- father has not heard from hi son for and promptly raised another flag. He coral cliff. High above them all waves and tiled the appointments be- Billion coplea n year were sold at on stitutions. The book created such n over n year, alnee May there has been hearths, stars the and stripes. But not always was determined that it should stand, well chosen. There Is, at the fringe period, and this book was only an sensation that its author was arrest- - an unclaimed letter lying In the Green-vl- ll ing does wave that there. used is It flag well how he succeeded shown and by of the pleasure grounds, stabllflg for kero In the firm's dlvsrslfled business, postofflee, addressed to John W. the decay'ng stump which still stands as a signal to Incoming ships, as well Pollard, and stamped upon It the name eighteen horses, and fortunate must pearly all of which cams within ths as a symbol of our ownership. there, though another flag staff was be those "gee gees .wbd find she of U. S. steamship Monad nock and the Intelligent grasp of the subject of this From November to April It Is pracraised some fifteen years later, on a for better letch. therein, government frank. By tome mean It was stablrahr He on married arranged 16, April higher part of the Uland, by Comman- tically impossible for a ablp to ap- seldom seen. The property was supposed to be Intended for Mr. fdrasrly 1844, to Mary Worthen, of . Lowell. der Meade, United States steamer Nar--. proach the island,' and - during the to Georger Lord Bishop of Co- Bass, Hi children now living are and be was notified to call and belonged Page, disother months of the year a landing U ragansett. Capt Netcher aUo but This he did, and It proved falre owner lumbia, It, open Hiss tbe has, WorWilliam Mary Appleton. covered another island, quite moun- not always possible, TbU is entirely even to be a letter from Commander Nichwithin tbe last three years, spent sen Appleton and Henry C. oridue to Appleton. volcanic current the and of around the some thousands in evidently tainous, strong ols. of tbe Monadnock, dated April i, i Improvements. miles north of Island. When a vessel approaches the gin, about forty-fiv- e 1899, Informing him of the death of his fw the Kaslleh Army. Howland, and took possession of this land she hoists the jsck at the fore on In the hospital. The letter was Tk purchase of a large number of A Valaabla Fradaet. also in the name of the United State. royal masthead. If conditions are fato the young man, and complimentary korses In the United States for ths ns Near the center of the Uland are vorable, the ensign continues to float Last year 5,200,000 pounds of stated there waa 1150 to his credit on of small t thickets trees covering from the signal staff on ahore, and ths valued at IL716.000, were of the English army la south Africa la the ship's 'books. Mr Pagt cams Id an area of many acres. ,The ship spproarbej the buoy, bufjtjbere. produced Jn IfteJUnlUd-StAto.-- . The Jd ec8.sry, by the fast that va town to see J. IL Small, to whom he eastern side of the island U composed la any danger tbe flag on shore Is value per pound was therefore 33 with ths elaborate horse registration mad ths above statement, and Mr. in fore la Great Britain it is f a succession of ridges, generally of hauled down, and, to prevent being cents. In 1888 19,000 pounds of that Small ones took steps to procure the st to secure all ths animals sand and shelU. At earlier stages of wrecked on the reef, the ship most metal were produced, valued at nearly lapossibls money and If possible to have the body needed for Immediate service at home. the Islands growth these may have stand to sea, sometimes compelled to $3.33 a pound. returned to Pages old home. WashIn time of peace the military estab-11t-h successively formed the weather shore. ington (N. C.) Gasette. sent of England requires for Its Bits of pumlcs and driftwood are scatam a total of 13,599 horses. tered all over the Island. There are In time ft Mil Siae. of wsr this total Jumps at once to 28, so springs on ths Uland, but water , URBAN GOHIER. There are three crimes which, no 70. Horse buyers for ths army are may be obtained by digging a few feet, ' now at work, not only in this country ed, charged with libel. It was fonnd matter what may be tbe degree of their ta the center the Island spreads out In conto secure n bat sleo in Canada,' in Australia, and Impossible, however, a plain containing about 400 or 500 venality, are regarded by the world as ' viction. Aaitria, Under the present arrangela renal. acres. This Is susceptible of cultivaThey are lying st poker, smugThe Boer never ment in Great Britain a sort of horse gling, and understating the ag of n tion, but the Uland would be valueless . ta Faria. carries Aasloiaeala forage for militia is kept always at the -- were It not for Its coral and 1U guano child. Where breathes tbs disposal A correspondent of ..the Westminster hla mount, but deof the government tn time of war. Permother who wm not fudge a liuis deposits. The guano covers the entire Gasette writes; If pends on such pasAnglophobia a number of horse at middle part, from north to south, and reachee Its acme In n certain class of when It comes to the question ot payture as the spot he sons having their disposal apply to the war departIs from six Inches to four feet In depth. chooses for Anglophilia has at- ing 5 cents for her boy or stealing his ment, which sends an officer "to Mam- Parisian journals At the Jtlme of Commander Meade's n ultra in social hab- for him n tree ride? It tbs boy be the tained plus . camp may afford. them. - Such horses a ere found visit. In 1872, ths guano export was" So its.' The way the horses ie uncompromising le the belief large for his years, her period of mensuitable are registered and a price set shout 8,000 tons annually. ConsiderAnglo-Saxo- n la are hobbled, as superiority that dacity lasts but n short time.1 but If he Their owners agree to upon them. able coral was also being exported. Frenchmen of fashion not only order be underalxed her equivocation exshown in the draw-la- g. hold them always ready at the call their clothes from English tailors, hut tends far into ths seventh year. Bach During the early fifties the BrltUh la certainly as of the government and receive In reship Pelican was wrecked. os a reef dispatch their cuffs, collars, and other s mother never bands mors than a effective as It It turn an annual sear Howland Uland. Thd crew manc r n s 1, Protests horse. Under thisaubsidy of 2.50 a washable garments across the Hanch nickel to the conductor when ah and provision 14,000 to b got up in London! This fact I Tommy travel together; h aged to get to the Island in safety. havs been made by horses are might registered, but even with have on the authority of on who keep n dime for the Some years later the huts they had two, or take change humane members this Urge supply upon which they may lived in and other traces ot the trip. In should know I, e., n Parle doctor in out ot a quarter. The railroad comof the South Afri- draw It has been found necessary to go large practice. Wbat le the reason? panies ar beaten out ot 1872, could not be found. The men had can colonies and abroad for a many thoumajority of tbe heavy Are English laundries supposed to be sands of dollars disappeared. What, had become of by the darling mothers republics, but the draft sad artillery horses. ' them will doubtless never be known. conducted on more hyg.catc priori-- , who cannot sew more than four yearn custom teems too water found to he when paying fares. New York Press. Doubtless, tired of the eternal solipie? deeply rooted jo be Frmjor tor Toooo. than that of the Seine? mtcroblc tude, and of battling with, sea birds less - On oae evening easily abolished. little and rats, with which the ' Uland My Informer did not elucidate this WaMad Him to Stay. Dorothy bid failed to remember her the fact he Instated on, and abounds, they built a raft or a boat . These So- father in her prayer because he had point, but on Kitty From Puck; Von - Blumer "Have the wake of in It a la; curious snd put ta sea. only to meet death lfi cialists are a dan- scolded hL Yon must pray for papa, Five oclock, 1 tub, football, and another cigar?" Planktngton "Thanks the'migbty waters. ' gerous lot her XX(puff), but really I must go. (Puff.) Its Amother- ,- But 1 cricket hav- e- followed Anglo-Saxo- n too, Howland Uland will never be vUSubbubs Only to dont went to." replied the little Von Blumer "For late getting flatirons!" One, end lted by tourists for tbe sake ot Its themselves, though. "But you mU8t- - Gut," said her mother. soapsuds sake dont leave yet, old man I heavens It Is almost flat, of coral scenery. These church af(Puff.) My wife objects to my smokDropping upon her knees agiln, Dot Traveling la Kaula. formation, and rises but twenty feet fairs wont hurt added; And far pity's .sake, bless ing in the house," "Tit-BitOfficial Russian' above the level of the reef, only shout "From yon unless you atand us let too, have peace In the "You cant stay In this country, sir." paps, t velve or fifteen above the level of the tend them. t- Bawars ot family-"- Traveler "Then Ill leave It," Official ilgh tide. The western side of the When cows milk Is fed to babies Travleave?" to a Island is slightly depressed, and much "Have you permit One Briton la evof It is covered with an abundant Thirty Toot ot Saad. eler "No, sir." Official "Then yon with enfeebled digestion it must be ery five has an aclargely diluted with warm water. OverIt Is supposed that the average depth cannot go. I give you twenty-fou- r growth pf vegetation. count In the pastal 1 the deserts pf Africa la from hours to make up your mind as to what feeding is tbe frequent cause of Infan(and of war after civil the the Swtly avlngs bank. feet. ah-- II tile dyspepsia An thirty to forty members We Expanded in That Direction Over Forty Years Ago. - M' er oak-panel- ed Hol-.lan- brass-mount- ed 1 , BOER METHOD Of EEIHE lilffi HOUSES. -- Pe . !- e: self-contr- ol |