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Show WROTE NELLIE GRAY. at HANBYS GRAVE R. ben - f i 3 HIO. WESTERVltLE, Once ther-MoPopular of for the PubIts Time Made Money Ke warded the lishers but They Never Author BU Song 'Was ir NMARKED by a pretentious morej monument than a plain wooden head-- t board, warping and decaying as the years go by, there is a grave in the U n. i t je d Brethren cemetety at Westerville,; a northern suburb of Columbus, a, which cov- Ben R. Han-h- v s the mortal remains ofs author of Nellie Gray, one of the most 'eloquently pathetic songs of the mother tongue. Peaceful! in storm and touchisun the man forgotten, while his the ill3 , ge- - j aiu 1st- - 6ty 0. rlct nee Or. Ja st r- - sleeps, ng Verse still lives, Ben (Hanby few and personal aj gave by his family friends, unwept and unhonored. The story of his tender, passionate little song often has been told, although seldom, perhaps, truthfully. Like many brilliant and famous compositions of words and music, it was tjhe creation of an hour, and its sudden land astonishaltogethier unexpected ing success wasThe inspiration came to by the author. he wsjls a passenger while young Hanby Cincinnati train between railroad on a readiwas He listlessly and Hamilton. an acng a newspaper when he found beautifa count of the manner in yhich ul quadroon girl had ben torn from f pa. MAY BE A SENATOR. Col. Isaac Trambo Wants to Represent Utah in Upper House. One of the most important of the coming new states is Utah. Though the bill of admission has passed both the house and senate the constitution will not be adopted and the territory formally admitted as a state until next November. Steps will then be taken to send to the United States senate men who will be truly representative of the new state. One man who, it is confidently asserted,' will be thus honored is Col. Isaac Trumbo of Salt Lake City. Perhaps the greatest claim that Col. Trumbo has upon the people of Utah is his efforts to have it admitted as a state. When the proposition! to admit Utah was first broached, the opposition developed was tremendous. The Mormon question was invoked as a great bugaboo. It was cited as an unheard-o- f thing that any state should permit polygamy within its borders. A few earnest, devoted men got together to work for statehood. Col. Trumbo was a leader In the movement. He spared neither time, money, nor labor in his efforts. When polygamy was formally eschewed by the Mormons the chief argument to keeping the territory out of the union was killed. President Harrisons proclamation of amnesty and the later one of President Cleveland took the last prop away from the opposition, and the efforts of Col. Trumbo and his helpers, which never ceased during the whole of the long and bitter fight, were taken to a o sold oh be market southern slave The block. quadroons the auction name was given? as Nellie Gray.- The story filled Hanby with pity and indignation, for he was naturally gentle and of kind! and abhorred the! iniquities So impressed was he that! with pencil and paper, used as best! he could upon the jolting and' he car seat, jotted down the swaying words of a song in which the incidents This was o tjie story were utilized. relief of his own dond simply fof the mind and his oyerbuMened heart, and at that time there was npt the remotest design of ever bringing the verse to the the rms of her lover ahd - slave-holdin- g. ; light of day. py the time Hanby hhd reached his destination he had practically completed It was the 'few verses of the (song. carelessly with his baggage ahd soon after his ireturn to his home in Westerville it was tossed among some other papers in his desk and there forOne gotten for, six 'months or more. day he came across' the manuscript and firm of music sent it to a in Clilcago, wjith a note, say publishers If that they savjr anything in it. song they might' publish song sprang at once into popthrown well-know- n! a!e r itir 1 at and, Hanby, j like Byron, find himsawoke one morning to elf famous. But this awakening did ularity, ind ;nany months after the of his on g had poured from thousands of tuneful throats throughout the land. jHis publisher's never eyen ackno.wledgejd the receipt- jof. the1 manuscript! They made a fortune from it sale, but of all the thousands Of dollars vfhich poured Into their .hank account1 Hanby never .received a, cent. When he wrote to them they sent him six printed copies of the ,song, without the formality of thanks for the manus- at, on not come for pathetic 3 .ti- -r a ar melod - sl- - idl ion o i cript. 79 ,Dg an it iJ ap H es, H J ! song was gaining its populand arity dailjf' growing dearer to hundreds of thousands of tender hearts, Hanby was living undisturbed his calm and peaceful rpral life. He was yet to learn his fame. Several months after thehausic of Ills song had .become familiar as household wOrds Hanby visited a young lady in Columbus and reWhile his1 I her tc slng.tq him.) Complying, she said she would sing a sweet, llttlfe song,wh ch, by some strange coincidence, had been written by a man of his name. She began, and, greatly to his surprise), Hanby; recognized the words and music of his Nellie Gray. It was the, first intimation he had that the song had been published. Hanby camel of a musical as well as quested r nil alt er. or ?na use r tU5 1 d B COL. ISAAC TRUMBO. finally crowned with success. The bugaboo was laid and Utah will be admitted as a state of the union, the house passing the bill Dec. 13, 1893, and the senate July 10, 1894. As Col. Trumbo himself said: 'The struggle for statehood was a bitter one, but the admission of. Utah being assured has killed all .prejudice against it and Utah will justify the faith put in it. Col. Trumbo has always been a firm believer in the future! of Utah. His business is chiefly that of mining. He owns a big silver mine and employs a large number of men. He is personally popular with both Gentiles and Mormons, not less on account of the liberality of his opinion than for his devotion to the interests of the territory. In appearance Col. Trumbo is almost 40 years of age. He is a good talker and debater, but his great theme is the section from which he hails. As1 he says, he has lived in Utah all his life and no man knows it1 better .than he does. He can tell you how much rain falls in any giyen section, the full extent of the mining and milling industries, or any other details. In fact, he is a cyclopedia of information and Imparts it willingly. BABY SETTLED THE CASE. o to His papa and Trouble Said Was Over. An unlooked-fo- r ending to a case of Peek-a-Bo- rt and desertion, almost tearful in Its simple pathos, occurred the other day at the Central Police Court in Philadelphia. A little boy saved his father from jail. Mrs. Alice Montgomery, 3344 Ludlow street, entered the courtroom with her four children, placed her hand on the bible, and swore that her husband had only given her $10 since April 10. Besides, she said bitterly, my husband drinks, and, has lost his work. Then she looked scornfully at her husband, Thomas Montgomery. Magistrate Jermon was about to mention the amount of bail Montgomery would have to enter for court when a small voice said: Oh,! papa I see you. Peek-a-boThe magistrate leaned over his desk son and saw Montgomery's dodging between the legs of two policemen, vainly trying to reach his father, who stood scowling In the prisoners non-suppo- LORD AND HIS LADY. SALISBURY LIKE IRON. Malignant in Public Utterances but Soft at Heart, Indiscreet and Out of Touch with Party His Happy Home Life. In e$timates astray of men As t!) act on the principle, "The style is the man, and there are few men to I Papa,"Peek-a-bo- voice. play .with me? HAMBYS GRAVE, fighly descended di3 and cultured family. father was a bishop in the United Brethren church and was the compiler a hymn-boqwhich is still in use. loung Hanbyj composed a number of ongs, several pf. which were published, however! receiving the remark-- v which was given to , recePtlon A feWi years after the Gray,j. ar Hanby died as he had livedo in scurity and poverty, and the fact that was tbe author of the famous song s known to few save his family and Wmate friends. o. laughed the baby Why dont you Even the big policemen were visably affected and the magistrate asked: "Montgomery, try and settle this case. If I let you go will you swear off drink for one year and take care of your wife and family? Yes, sir, saidv the big father in a hushed sort of tone. He placed his hand on the bible, took the oath and walked off with his reunited family. -- k, Heredia a Cuban by Birth. the new member of Heredia M. de the French Academy, was In his youth who, a singularly handsome man one comFrancois to Coppee, according and bined the nobility of! the hidalgo the grace of the creole. He Is a Cuban in love with by birth, but sufficiently to her call language his adopted land the finest that has issued from human de Heredia owes lips since Homer. in M. to his sonFrance rank his literary The Humble Must Rule. of their because polish and which, vh f.ewsPaPr remarks that Gresham nets, hold a high place in contemvigor, ijl? 7 last of the statesmen French literature. porary be ast oiir great men who lava their way Upward from the The Only Survivor. the! t. We hope not. fnd t be surveyor-genera bald ju day for America when George W. Julian, who wasunder Mr. Mexico New of places are by lace-eand administration, first ?7e!,.r,e!l cra?les and mansions of Clevelands erpr? Thei losr cabin, the humble who lives in a suburb of Indianapolis, ment the ,canal boat and the of the prominent am shop is the only survivor soil we free to party. Air. the of trust, furnish us leaders ith pmtinue but he is in 78 Presi(3ents old, now and years Is secretaries of state Julian lor rnany his pen, with active a and decade to come health When excellent he in the cease to Feople frequently when our name rule, appenxing his See cease to spring from the pages of the magazines. It is fifty years of the common people, this will since he went to congress for to aa,r a republic. Home and time and forty since bis candidacy for Wantrir. the vice presidency. I .i jl, Be i log-Cab- ln Pine-kno- al Jo1 1 tX m- the-firs- t w h om the principle would prove so unjust as to the Marquis of Salisbury. If one were to judge him by his spoken, .and still more if (ine were to judge him by his written, utterances, he would pass for one! of the most rancorous, the most implacable and the narrowest of men. MrT Bright spoke long ago of his haughty unwisdom, and those who are old eiiough to remember his somewhat wild and scatter-brained political youth are still unable to throw off the unpleasant and biting memories o.f some of his fierce and malignant Utterances in theise days. He once, for instance, spoke (of some proceedings of Mr. Gladstone as worthy of a pettifogging attorney; and when, some days afterward, he was asked to apologize, his reply was that he apologized to the attorneys. YVhen we were In the midst of the struggle over the reform bill of 1867 Lord Cifanborne (as he then was) cut some, very fine jokes over the question whetherj a workingman who was in prison would be held to have qualified by residence in fact. Lord Cranborne of that day was very much like the and rather rancorous youth whom we know by that name in this day with the very important qualification that the elder bearer of the name added great brilliancy to his gibes; if the humor was sardonic, at least it was humor. And yet those who know Lod Salisbury give one the very opposite impression of his inner nature. There is a strong movement at the present time to drive him out of the premiership in case the next election should return his party to power, and one of the reasons given for this movement is that he is of so soft and really amiable a disposition as to be unfit for the position of a ruler of men. He is described as one o that unhappy class of men who are never able to say No, and who, accordingly, cannot be trusted to deal with incompetence or imprudence or knavery after the stern and pitiless fashion which a leader of men is bound to display for the preservation of himself and his party. Liberals, even, who are privileged with the personal acquaintance of Lord Salisbury, declare thkt in private life nobody could speak nkore amiably more reasonably more tolerantly of political things, and evefi of political opponents. The training of Lord Salisbury is, to a certain extent, responsible for this gulf which stretches between he popular estimate and the inner life of- - the man. Though he is now a nobleman of considerable wealth, and has reached the highest place in the scale of British ambition, it was not always thus; and his early years were years in which poverty, struggle, and perhaps even bitterness, were not unknown, He was not the eldest son of his father. In the home of Lord Salisbury, too, there was another family for his father had married a second time; and it' is; jdot ' often that in suchhouses there is peace between the elder and the younger tribes. If anything were wanted to accentuate the family differences which such circumstances were so well calculated to produce, it would be a carriage which was regarded as a mesalliance. And Lord Robert Cecil, as he then was, made such a marriage. In these days It may appear somewhat ridiculous to regard a union with the daughter of one of the most distinguished judges of his time as a mesalliance for anybbdy, however exalted; but we have advanced very much in the democratization of society sineg the days when Lird Salisbury was a resolute young lover; and undoubtedly his marriage to Miss was resented by his family. It would be Indiscrete to ask how far Al-ders- on THE INVENTOR OF THE WONDERFUL TELAUTOGRAPH. The Instrument for Transmitting Handwriting and Pen and Ink Sketches by Wire Has Been Perfected at Last-H- ow It Works. HE telautograph is the latest invention of Professor Elisha Gray. It was first fexhibited experi- mentally in 1893, but the Instrument did pot give satisfaction, and &. corps of fexperts was set to work to perfect and develop- - the Invent- , ion.1 A factory .nd laboratory were built at Highland Park by the Gray National Telautograph company, but the manufacture of the perfected Instruments was turned over to the Gray Electric company, of which Thomas S. Wheelright is the president. There Is a colony of electricians now at work at Highland Park on the telautograph machines. Professor Grays invention made its appearance at the Worlds Fair and was worked locally ahd over a line between the exposition grounds and the companys offices in the Rookery building. A number of tests were made over lines from 10 to 15 miles long and all showed satisfactory results. Since then more attempts have been made to perfect the machine and the company believes these have been perfectly successful. Two months ago the telautograph was tested between London and Paris, a distance of 311 miles, the results being highly satisfactory.- The tests between these two cities were made over lines - self-confiden- the paper. A small rubber tube attached to the glass pen carries the ink from a well at the side of the machine. Line sketches are also reproduced, the pen zigzagging from side to side until the pictures are. completed. The paper on the receiver is moved automatically when the pen reaches the end of a line. Prof. Elisha Gray, the inventor of the telautograph, has had a long and distinguished career in the field of electricity. Now, at the age of 59, he looks back with something akin to pride and no tea the progress he has made in perfecting the transmission of intelligence by telee graph wires. Prof. Gray Is a man and nothing but his own grit and brains have helped him. He was born at Barnesville, Ohio, in 1836. He had to work hard for a living in his early days and picked up a few scraps of knowledge whenever he could. He worked aa a ship carpenter and afterward made the anvil ring in a blacksmiths shop. One of the ornaments in his home at Highland Park is a shovel which he made while a blacksmith and hrf weaves around it stories of the hardships of hi youth. self-mad- Mary Xowe Dickipgon. Mary Lowe Dickinson was born in Massachusetts, but, after her marriage resided for some years abroad, and is now a resident of the city of New York. An early experience in life as a teache led her to realize the need for a more practical education for girls and women, and she has sought to teach better systems of training. Her latest work of great importance was in Denver, Colo., where she held a full professorship in English literature. Such an estimate was placed on the value of hen services, not only as an Instructor, but as a social and moral influence, that her chair was one of the first to bo ce courage. Bismarck, with that keen and almost cruel eye of his, soon found this out, for, meeting) Lord Salisbury at Berlin, when the representatives of the great powers met he described Lord Salisbury as a lath painted like iron. Many of the worst catastrophes of history are produced by weak men who desire to appear sjtrong. The Marquis of Salisbury at the present moment is to some extent on the tdecline. Arthur Balfour has immensely advanced In his public reputation; and, above all thipgs, he is touchy with ord Salisbury is not. the case of he late has never been an a political leader has from his followers as Jrhis is due to many circumstances, but mainly to his intense love of studjy and his intense love of home. It is known that his singularly rich ion to its immense is scientific, and that he works in his laboratory with almost as much industry as a professional chemist or a mart of science to whom the study of natural phenomena is the sole interest of lijie. Out of touch with the house of commons, feeling unfamiliar with the details of its warfare, passions and moods, jhe rarely got on a platform without , committing some blazing Indiscretion which It took all the subtlety and jail the energies of his adroit nephew to undo. But the future of every politician is dark and the unionist party must settle their own af- ira. especially constructed for long distance telephone service, the conditions for long distance telautograph service being quite similar to those of the telephone. The method of transmitting telautograms is simple, but It has taken years to perfect the invention. The average fairs. of a writer is 30 words a minute, Speed Let us dismiss Lord Salisbury with but many write faster than this. The some gratitude that, with all his faults, can easily send 45 words a telautograph he has given the (country an example of minute. The writer sat down at the political highmindedness and personal transmitter and found a cleanliness of llfq which will be one of pencil case waiting for him. The lead Its valuable heritages in all its future used Is like that one finds in an ordinary political experiences. pencil and is preferred to ink because T. P. OCONNOR. it is cleaner. The transmitter Is a neat little machine, but it is as full of small. AN ACCOMMODATING PASTOR. ng He Had the Interest ot His Congregation at Heart. The minister of a congregation.in an agricultural district was greatly annoyed Sunday after Sunday by the unruly conduct of the junior members of his flock. When one of the younger representatives of the gentler sex got weary of the evening services she would invariably rise e nd go out. A moment later her admireir would seize his hat and sheepishly follow her. To such an s course of action preLORD SALISBURY. time the discourse was the young household had to face the finished only the old people remained hitter want of insufficient means; and, for the conclusion of the service.' Mr. at all event, there is no reason for Jones concealed his chargin for several such an inquiry now.' The marriage weeks, but at last he firmly resolved to has been exceptionally happy and satis- act A youth grew drowsy one Sunday factory; theie is not a happleif as there evening, and picking up his hat, stepis not a purer home in England than ped into the aisle. ,But the ministers that which thus. In storm and stress, keen eye was upon him, and, to the began so many years ago; aridYiesIdes, culprits dismay, he stopped short in to the necessities which such d marriage his sermon. and his position as a younger son creYoung? man, said he, the girl who ated, Lord Salisbury owes probably his went out .last is not the one you wish present position more than to 'any other to walk home with. When she goes I influence In his life. will let you know at once. Please sit For it was as a writer in th Saturday down. After this when a young woman Review that Lord Salisbury learnt the goes out I will call on the proper young great doctrine of struggle and of work. man to take ca re of her. Mr. Beresford Hope, who founded' that The minister resumed his discourse. journal and expended upon it and There was much tittering and considerupon churches a vast portion of his able anger, but the sermons were not patrimony was his brother-Iii-laHartford Times. and thus the joung writer found a ready- interrupted again. made plae for his pen. The character Machine for Putting Up Pins. of the Saturday Review in its early One of the cleverest Inventions ever years must have come largely froifi Lord Salisbury. The Saturday Review patented Is thk machine for sticking gave Lord Salisbury bread; and he him- common pins i,n the papers in which self was ready to say so many years af- they are sold, The contrivance brings terward, when having reached the up the pins in rows, draws the paper great position of foreign secretary In an into position, crimps it In two lines. hour of national crisis he then at a sing e push passes the pins over less fortunate members presided of the through the pap er and sets them In posi- rion. journalistic profession. Sketched From Photofreph la Anerieea OelebrMe- - MARY LOWE DICKINSON. , w; The receiver writes the message in ink, the pen being a hollow glass tub with a fine point. The pen the same position at the angle occupies of the shaft as .the pencil and moves rapidly across LADY SALISBURY. precipitate events so awful, would probably have been more shocked by them than any other man in Europe. For he was not like his chief he had a conscience and a heart; and he was also unlike his chief In lacking that magnifiwhich is often as cent' nerves as true a the hardener great jf self-feedi- , see you, ament, that the dispatches and the speeches of Lord Salisbusy sacrifice so much to ityle, regard epigrams as harmless luxuries of writing and the neat collocation of epithets as more important than the stern facts of life. It was enough to make ones blood run cold to read that dispatch which Lord Salisbury Issued inthe very midst of the'' Russo-Turkls- n Wisls, and to see how the Satunlay Review um;egener-atvehement and impulsive wrote as If his words were not things which might bring into motion and collusion of myriadsf armed men and the clashwas Ironclads and eighty-to- n guns. It this epoch in Lord Salisburys career which elicited from ' Mr. John Morley one of the finest of the many very fine passages in his platform speeches, He reminded a great audience in St. James hall that in Alpine heights the deadly avalanche, which brought death and desolation to the quiet villagers below, often was so neatly poised that the sound of a human voice was enough to bring It down; and then he asked whether, with such terrible forces in such dread tension existing around us in Europe, it was safe to have issuing from the foreign office the harsh and thoughtless voice of the Marquis of Salisbury? If we escape war with Russia In that terrible time and a general conflagration it was in spite of Lord Salisbury. And yet this man, who was about to PROF. ELISHA GRAY. e, ,HERE is nojthing in this world which is so apt to lead one o! dock. PAINTED A LATH To this day one can see traces of this period. It is, perhaps, as much a result of this form of training as of temper- fully endowed, and when obliged her to resign this position the chair was named for her, and she was made Emeritus Professor and holds now Its lectureship In English literature. She has been secretary of the Woman Branch of the American Bible Society, national superintendent of the department of higher education in the Womans Christian Temperance Union and president of the Womans National Indian Association. She conducted for six years a magazine devoted to th dare of invalids, and held an associate editorship with Edward Everett Hale In his Magazine of Philanthropy. She Is general secretary of the Order of Kings Daughters and the editor of it magazine. Her principal literary work are Among the Thorns," The Amber Star, and One Little Life, novels; and, in poetry, "The Divine Christ ill-hea- lth so-call- ed and-Easte- r Poems. In 2894 Mrs. Dickinson was chosen president of the Womans National Council, with headquarters in New York. Will Interest Chemists. Chemists will be interested in the announcement by the Chemike Zeitung of a delicate litmus paper giving a sharp reaction. Commercial cube litmus is extracted in a percolator with distilled water, the extract, being evaporated down to the same weight as that of the litmus used, and mixed with three-timeits weight of 90 per cent alcohol The mixture Is then acidulated with hydrochloric acid and allowed to stand for two days. The azolitmine will now be precipitated in the shape of brown flakes, the dull violet coloring matter remaining dissolved In the alcoholio mother liquor. The .precipitate is collected on a filter and washed two or three times with acidulated water, until the faintly reddish colored filtrate gives a pure blue with ammonia. The azolitmine in1 the filter is then dissolved In distilled water containing, a few diluted drops of ammonia, the solution to three and a half times the weight of the litmus originally employed, exand mixed with ten actly neutralized, in order to make It alcohol of per cent, thus the tincture Prepared better. keep is found to be an excellent Indicator, the change from red to blue, and vice versa, being perfectly sharp. s tROF. GRAY, INVENTOR. delicate wheels as a watch. The pencil is attached to two thin rods of steel which meet at an angle of 90 degrees. The contrivance is something like the pantograph. Taking the pencil the writer wrote on a strip of paper, four inches wide, which was drawn up from a feeder below and stretched tight along the writing pad. As he began to write the upward and downward strokes, the curves, the punctuation marks and the flourishes acted on the two steel rods. At the end of each rod a piece of thin cord was attached, giving It the appearance of a violin bow. The cord was fastened round the drum, which regulated the Interrupter wheel below. The movements of the pencil were thus chronicled and the electrical Impulse was sent along the wires. When the writer got to the end of the line he had left simply to turn a crank with his ana hand and the paper shot upward onward about an inch. i Miss Virginia Fair is the fastest bicycle rider among the fashionable ladies at Newport. She has beaten Mrs. Henry Clews by doing the Ocean avenue ride of ten miles in five minutes less than an hour. j |