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Show 7 t THE INDEPENDENT. WHlkm P. Gibson, - ' - Editor. E. 5. Jordan, Budseu Manager.: Saterecl tke Post Offloe BprtorrUl, Utafc httiuulMM wrooh M buum sooncVol lsud Bvary Thursday Morning'. TKIUU OT aTBSCBCPTIOX. 9m Tmt 4... fix HootHa rtree Moath $!. 00 1.00 M AJt rOB AOTEBTUmo RATES. MONEY IN CUBA. Moat of It Kept In Placo Other Taa in Ranks. "The old Spanish residents of the Island of Cuba are a queer lot," said Mr. George W. Tracy of Philadelphia. Mr. Tracy, who is a banker, has recently recent-ly made a trip through parts of Cuba investigating various commercial propositions. prop-ositions. He naturally took an Interest Inter-est in the banking facilities of the island. "1'iider the old Spanish regime," re-gime," he continued, "there were prac-ticaMy prac-ticaMy no banks. The planters, coffee growers and all the prosperous landed proprietors seemed to regard banks as unsafe. They kept their money In old trunks, under a bed. in a closet, up on a shelf or any place that appeared to them safe. A few. perhaps, had safes, but not many. I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that many of the more wealthy planters often had from flOO.CMMj to imm) in currency put away in this odd manner. When it came around pay day they would go nd gel enough money to make the payment, and that would end it. Whenever When-ever money was received it would be put away. Some kept books, while others kept the figures in their heads. They seemed to have the same fear of banks that various old maids and rural farmers are credited with. The war i , . . . . na opcp.eu nicir eyes. Live, aggressive aggres-sive and comprehensive banking companies com-panies have gone in there. Inducements Induce-ments have been held out to thase men to deposit their money with the banks. First they came reluctantly, but lately the money has been coming out at a great late, and the fertility of the field is evinced by the number ot companies that are going there, and so far as I could learn nearly every one is doing an enormous business. The American occupation of the island has been most beneficial. The towns and cities have been cleaned of filth and dirt that has been accumulating for years. Waterworks, electric light plants, street railways and all kinds of telegraph, telephone and electric plants are going in. Cuba .has been redeemed almost miraculously, and In a score of years or sooner than that it will fairly hum with activity, glow with prosperity and Indeed be the Pearl of the Antilles. There is a great prospect for American capital and energy. I understand that various I capitalists contemplate erecting fine j hotels at various places in Cuba. That 1 4 ... I. : . l : i . . W....K ...e ,s,ann neeus. it tney nan nne noteis there a large number of tourists would readily see the possibilities pos-sibilities of the island and money would flow in even more rapidly than it does now." HE NEVER CARRIES A PISTOL. Iterative a Iuel Taught lliiu it Serious 1-enAoiu There is a prominent Baltiruorean who now attends church regularly, but who stiil delights to tell of some of his escapades in early life, says the Baltimore Balti-more Americ an. "I was a member of a prominent club when I was a young man," he relates, "and in one of our bo, Us erf niijht I unint"niionally in- i suited a fellow-member. At least I was tolcl the following niortiin when my senses had tetuijied. that I had insulted insult-ed the man that he would probably challenge me to- fight a d;;el. Sure enough a challenge came through the ordinary channels and I was advised by my friends to accept or to submit to perpetual disgrace. I accepted and selected se-lected pistols. The dueling ground was a spacious yard in the rear of the clubhouse. club-house. There we assembled with our seconds and surgeons. Much to my surprise the whole club turned out to witness the affair of honor. I objected to s':-h publicity, but was assured by my friends that it was all right, and I was prevailed upon to face my oppo- ; nent. 1 was thoroughly mad and I did 1 not care whether I killed my enemy or j half a dozen onlookers. We were j placed ten paces apart, with our backs i to each other t tlm wnnl "fire" u-o .. , . , .... , , . , , rr,rii nun ncau 10 ("imp ieau ai each other, advancing toward each oth- i er at each shot. I emptied two or three j chambers of the revolver which had i been given me without wounding my opponent. I then threw it away with disgust and pulled my own from my hip pocket. U you ever saw con-'"kIi'oatinn con-'"kIi'oatinn it existed in that backyard for a few minutes. My enemy turned heels and ran into the clubhouse. The spectators scrambled over each other to get out of range. Before I could fire at ray retreating foe my second grabbed me and succeeded in disarming me. I was then told that the whole thing was a hoax and that my enemy and myself had been shooting blank cartridges at each other. I did not relish the joke, because I had endured all of the terror which must come to anv man who stands up to kill or be killed. That j episode was a turning point in my life. I I have never carried a pistol from that day to this." DON'T KICK. ThU 1 an Awful Climate, not Tber Are Other Much Worse. If you are not satisiied with this snappy weather just pocket your clothes and go to some neighboring planet. You can choose from the following fol-lowing kinds of weather: You will be scorched on Mercury by a burning sub seven times hotter than the tropics. You will not freeze on Neptune, with 900 times our winter s cold. You will be shriveled with everlasting drought on the moon, and drenched, perhaps, with storms something like our own on Mars. You would find on Jupiter a scorching soil and terrific storms of scalding rain a rain perhaps of liquid metals instead of water. Nowhere would you find green hills. If you wanted holly you would have to put up with red leaves! On Jupiter the shrinking shrink-ing that makes mountains and valleys has hardly commenced, and you would find vast hot level plains and scalding lakes and seas. On Mars, if you weigh on earth 140 pounds, you would weigh only 70. and could skip lightly and merrily on Its surface; on Jupiter your weight would have increased to 350 pounds, and on the sun your legs would be crushed under your own weight of two tons. Mcwot Business. Chicago News: Maude "Did Jack kiss you when you accepted him?" Clara "Certainly. I wouldn't consider any but sealed proposals." M fci y: f r, , H' pf fsK Sli Jmji ill rwim Death of Lincoln "Now he belongs to the ages." The curtain had just been rung down ; Jn tQat humble nule roo ni opposite the theater vtliere the president had, a few hours, before received the bullet of the assassin Booth. E. M. Stanton, secretary of war, gave utterance to the words quoted. How prophetic; how true. Centuries hence the name of Abraham Lincoln will still retain its rightful place in history. The president had been carried up the high steps, through a narrow hall, and laid, still unconscious, still motionless, mo-tionless, on the bed of a poor, litfle. commonplace room of a commonplace lodging-house, where surgeons and physicians gathered about in a desperate desper-ate attempt to rescue him from death. s ? While the surgeons worked the news ! was spreading to the town. Every man j and woman In the theater rushed forth to tell it. Some ran wildly down (.he ' streets, exclaiming to those they rctt. "The president is killed! The president presi-dent is killed!" One rushed in a ballroom ball-room and told it to the dancers; another, an-other, bursting into a room where a party of eminent public men were playing cards, cried, "Lincoln "Lin-coln is shot!" ' Another, running run-ning Into the auditorium of Grover's theater, cried, "President Lincoln has been shot, in his private box. in Ford's theater." Those who heard the cry thought the man insane or drunk, but a moment later they saw the actors In a combat called from the stage, the manager coming forward. His face was pale his voice agonized, as he said. "Ladies and gertlemen, I feel it my duty to say to yi u that the announcement announce-ment made from the front of the the- ater Just now is true President Lin- , . . coin has been shot." One ran to summon sum-mon Secretary Stunton. A boy picked up at the door ot the house where the president laj was sent to the White house for Robert Lincoln. The news spread by the- very force its own r ; In if DEATH OP LINCOLN "HE NOW BELONGS TO THE AGES." (From the Palntlnsr ) horror, and as it spread it met other news no less terrible. At the same hour that Booth had sent the ball into the president's brain a man had forced kls way Into the house of Secretary Seward, then lying in bed with a broken arm, and had stabbed both the secretary and his son Frederick so seriously se-riously that it was feared they would die. In his entrance and exit be bad wounded three "ther members of the household. Lit Booth, he bad escaped. es-caped. Horror bred rumor, and Secretary Secre-tary Stanton, too, was reported wounded, wound-ed, while later it was said that Grant had been killed on his way north. Dread seized the town. "Rumors are so thick," wrote the editor of the National Intelligencer, at 2 o'clock in the morning, "the excitement of this hour Is so Intense that we rely entirely entire-ly upon our reporters to advise the public of the details and result of this Ight ot horrors. Evidently conspirators conspira-tors are among us. To what extent does the conspiracy exist? This Is a terrible question. Whea a spirit bo horrible as this Is abroad, what man is afe? We can only adTise the ut- of Tti t yftC Iff most vigilance and the most prompt measures by the authorities. We can only pray God to shield us, his worthy people, from further calamities like the3e." The civil and military authorities prepared for attack from within and without. Martial law was at once established. The long roll was beaten; exery exit from the city was guarded; .out-going trains were stopped; mount ed police and cavalry clattered up and down the street; the forts were ordered or-dered on the alert: guns we're manned. p. the meantime there had gathered in the house on Tenth street, where the'piesident lay, his family physician aud intimate friends, as well as many prominent officials. Before they reached him it was known there was no hope, that the wound was fatal. They grouped themselves about the bedside or in the adjoining rooms, try- I ing to comfort the weeping wife, or listening awe-stricken to the steady j moaning and labored breathing of the unconsclous man. which at times could be heard all-over the house. Stanton alone seemed able to act methodically. No man felt the. tragedy more than the great war secretary, for no one in the cabinet was by greatness of heart and intellect so well able to comprehend tp.e worth of the dying president, but no man in that distracted night acted with greater energy or calm. Summoning Sum-moning the assistant secretary, C. A. Dana, and a stenographer, he began dictating orders to the authorities on all sides, notifying them of the tragedy, trag-edy, directing them what precautions to take, what persons to arrest. Grant, now returning to Washington, he directed, di-rected, should be warned to keep close watch on all persons who came close to him in the cars and to see that an engine be sent In front of his train. He sent out, too, an official account of the assassination. Today the best brief account of the night's awful work remains the one which Secretary Stanton Stan-ton dictated within sound of the moaning moan-ing of the dying president. And so the hours changed without perceptible change in the president's condition, and with only slight shirting shirt-ing of the scene around him. The testimony tes-timony of those who had witnessed the murder began to be taken in an adjoining ad-joining room. Occasionally the figures at the bedside changed. Mrs. Lincoln came in at intervals, sobbing out her grief, and then was led away. This man went, another took his place. It was not until daylight that there came a perceptible change. Then the breath ing grew quieter, the face became more calm. The doctors at Lincoln's side knew that dissolution was near. Their bulletin of 6 o'clock read: "Pulse falling;" fall-ing;" that of 6:30, "Still failing;" that cf 7, "Symptoms of immediate dissolution," dissolu-tion," and then at 7:20, in the presence of his son Robert, Secretaries Stantos, Welles and Usher, Atty.-Gen. Speed, Senator Sumner, Private Secretary Hay. Dr. Gurley, his pastor and several physicians and friends. Abraham Lincoln Lin-coln died. There was a prayer, and then the solemn voice of Stanton broke the stillness, "Now be belongs to the ages." Two hours later the body of the president, wrapped in an American flag, was borne from the house In Tenth street, and carried through the hushed streets, where already thousands thou-sands of flags were at half-mast and the gay buntings and garlands had been replaced by black draperies, anJ where the men who for days had been cheering in excess of joy and relief now stood with uncovered beads and wet eyes. They carried him to an upper up-per room in the private apartments of tne white house, and there he lay until three days later a heart-broken people claimed their right to look for a last time on his face. LINCOLN AND THE SENTINEL In an article in the Century entitled "Our Fellow Citizen of the White House." Mr. C. C. Buel told the following follow-ing story of President Lincoln: "There have been no soldiers as guardians guar-dians under the shadow of the great Ionic columns since war; and even then, on one fierce winter night, the boy in blue who was on guard was not allowed to maintain professional decorum. de-corum. Mr. Lincoln emerged from the front door, his lank figure bent PTer as he drew tightly about his shouHers the shawl which he employed for ruch protection, for he was on his wey to the war department, at the west corner cor-ner of the grounds, where tlmss of battle he was wont to get the midnight dispatches from the field. As the blast struck him he thought of the numbness numb-ness of the pacing sentry, and, turning to him, said: 'Young man, you've gol a cold job to-night; step inside and stand guard there.' " 'My orders keep me out here,' th soldier replied. " 'Yes,' said the president, in his ar-gumentive ar-gumentive tone, -but the duty can be performed just as well inside as ouf here, and you'll oblige me by going in.' " '1 have been stationed outside,' the soldier answered, and resumed his beat. "'Hold on there!' said Mr. Lincoln as he turned back again; 'it occurs ta me that I am commander-in-chief ol the army, and I order you to go inside." in-side." " LINCOLN AND THE WIDOW. The 12th of February. Abraham Lincoln's Lin-coln's birthday, brings to our thoughts stronger than ever reminiscences of this noble man's life, says a writer in Harper's Round Table. Hundreds of books have recorded and will perpetuate his good deeds for centuries to come, but it is a pleasure to read now and then of some little act of kindness that will stand alone illustrating the breadth of this man's sympathies and the nobility of his character. During all that dreadful period when the civil war was ravaging the country Lincoln held the reins of the government, and although worn out with the unceasing toil, he never neglected an opportunity to help those who suffered. One day a poor woman, whose tears had worn furrows down her cheeks, gained an audience with Lincoln, and in a few words related the sad tale of her husband, who had fought in the Union army, only to lose his life, and of her three boys who were then fighting. fight-ing. She requested the discharge of her eldest boy, that she might have some one to support her. Lincoln's heart responded to the appeal, and he replied: "Certainly, if you have given us all, and your prop has been taken away, you are justly entitled to one ol your boys." The poor woman went away light ol heart, only to return later, tearfully LINCOLN WROTE THE ORDER, begging the release of her second son. The discharge of the first son had come toe late. He was killed before It reached him. Sadly Lincoln sat down and wrote the requisite order for tb release of the second son. and rising, handed the paper to the afflicted woman, wom-an, saying: "Now you have one and I have one of the two boys left; that is no more than right" Weeping with joy, the poor mother blessed Lincoln and hurried out to send her precious order. A Troublesome Word. "While it is true," replied the Pale Face, "that I made a compact with you, It was with a mental reservation." Here the untutored Red Man manifested mani-fested bewilderment. "Is that the next reservation I shall be compelled to live on?" he asked, anxiously, his quavering voice betokening betok-ening the depth of his emotion. Albuquerque. N. M.. has the record of the greatest number of sunsmu aays in the year of anv town on the American continent. iirllii LU'iii One of Mr. Lincoln's characteristics was his ineffable tenderness toward others, says the Springfield Republican. Repub-lican. He wrote injuries in the sand, benefits on marble. The broad mantle man-tle of his enduring charity covered a multitude of sins in a soldier. He loved justice with undying and solicitous solicit-ous affection, but he hated every deserter de-serter from the great army of humanity. human-ity. He was dowered with the love or love. He was always equal to the occasion, occa-sion, whether saving a sleeping sentinel sen-tinel by one stroke of the pen from a dishonored grave or writing that bold and steady signature to the proclama tion of emancipation which made the black race give him a crown of immortelles. im-mortelles. As the negro preacher in Vicksburg said of him: "Massa Lln-kum, Lln-kum, he ebery where; he know ebery-t'ing; ebery-t'ing; he walk de earf like de Lord." Ifia Keen Irony. Abraham Lincoln could say true things when just resentment required censure. He released some prisoners on the other side of the "divide" in 1863. The wife of one of these insisted "that her husband was a religious man, even if he was a rebel." Mr. Lincoln wrote the release slowly, as if in doubt, and, without smiling, handed it to the now happy wife, but said, with keen irony: "You say your husband is a religious relig-ious man. Tell him when you meet him that I say I am not much of a judge of religion, but in my opinion the religion that sets men to rebel and fight against their government because, as they think, that government does not sufficiently help some men to eat their bread in the sweat of other men's faces is not the sort of religion upon which people can get to heaven." Dick Gown's Appointment. Mr. Lincoln once told Horace Dem-Ing, Dem-Ing, a Connecticut congressman, when he had been importuned to join a church, that "when any church will inscribe over its altar as its sole qualification quali-fication the Savior's condensed statement state-ment of the substance of law and gospel, gos-pel, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy soul, and thy neighbor as thyself that church will I join with all my heart." His great good sense was shown In his making Dick Gower a lieutenant in the regular army. Dick had shown his bravery and his capacity among the western Indians, but was rejected by the board of military martinets at Washington because he "did not know what an abatis, or echelon, or hollow square was." "Well," sharply said the "I'D GIVE THEM JESSE." dilettante officer with a single eyeglass, eye-glass, "what would you do with your command if the cavalry should charge on you?" "I'd give them Jesse, that's what I would do; and I'd make a hollow-square hollow-square in every mother's son of them." Lincoln signed his commission and Dick made a famous soldier. Read the Letter. McClellan then requested his chief of staff to find a copy of the letter. It was speedily produced, and Gen. McClellan Mc-Clellan proceeded to crush Mr. Lincoln by reading his vituperative attack on Stanton, with reflections on Lincoln's conduct of the war. Lincoln's peaceful peace-ful smile vanished. When the letter ended he rose quickly, looking neither to the right nor left not waiting for any farewell to Gen. McClellan. He seemed oppressed with the consciousness con-sciousness of the dangers of the military mili-tary as well as the political situation of things. He drove slowly with Gen. Blair over to the boat, which was to convey them from Harrison's landing back to Washington. When the vessel had started, Mr. Lincoln, for the first time since leaving McClellan's tent. broke the silence and said to Gen. Blair: "Frank, I now understand this man. That letter is Gen. McClellan's bid for the presidency. I will stop that game. Now is the time to issue the proclamation proclama-tion emancipating the slaves." He forthwith issued the proclamation proclama-tion of emancipation. Within a week after the world was startled by a new charter of freedom for the slave. Gen. McClellan's Mistake. Congressman Vaux of Philadelphia, in his late years changed his views about President Lincoln. He told an interesting story about the proclamation proclama-tion of emancipation. The classic and scholarly Vaux had been making speeches in Connecticut, and came home with Frank P. Blair of Missouri, who was very close to the many-sided patriot president while the war lasted. Gen. Blair told Richard Vaux this story: "Mr. Lincoln had become impatient at Gen. McClellan's delay on the peninsula, penin-sula, and asked Frank Blair to go with him to see the commanding general. The distinguished visitors arrived on a hot day, and went straight to McClellan's McClel-lan's headquarters. They were received re-ceived with scant courtesy, and the commanding general did not ask the president to eat or drink. Lincoln sat in his white linen duster, uncomfortably uncomforta-bly silent, with his long and sitiewy Jimbs doubled up like a jackknife, till finallr Oen. McClellan broke the dense eilence by saying: "Mr. President, have you received the letter I mailed you yesterday?" "Ko," courteously replied Lincoln; T must have passed it on the way.". WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN. The greatest names in American history his-tory are Washington and Lincoln. One is forever associated with the independence inde-pendence of the states and the formation forma-tion of the federal union, the other with the universal and the preservation preserva-tion of that union. Washington enforced en-forced the declaration "f independence " ' ' as against" England. Lincoln proclaimed its fulfillment, not only to a downtrodden down-trodden race in America, but to all people, for all those who may seek the protection of our flag. These illustrious illus-trious men achieved grander results for mankind within a single century from 1775 to 1S65 than any men ever accomplished ac-complished in all the years since first the flight of time began. Washington engaged in no ordinary revolution. With him it was not who shcild rule, but what should rule. He drew his sword, not for a change of rulers upon an established throne, but to establish a new government which should acknowledge ac-knowledge no throne but the tribune ol the people. Lincoln accepted war to save the union, the safeguard of our liberties, and re-established it upon LINCOLN ROSE QUICKLY, "indestructible foundations" as forever "one and indivisible." To quote his own grand vords: "Now we are all contending that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that the government govern-ment of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." LINCOLN OFFERED TO RESIGN. The president's treatment of Hunter's Hun-ter's order dissatisfied many who had been temporarily quieted by the message mes-sage of March 6. They were made still more critical by the slow advancement of McClellan and his army toward Richmond. Again they besought the president to emancipate and arm the slaves. The authority and magnitude of the demand became such that Mr. Lincoln fairly staggered under it. Still he would not yield. He could not give up yet his hope of a more peaceful and just system of emancipation. But while he could not do what was asked ot him, he seems to have felt that It was possible that he was wrong, and that another man -in his place would be able to see the way. In a remarkable interview held early in the summer with several republican senators, among whom was the Hon. James Harlan Har-lan of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, the president pres-ident actually offered to resign and let Mr. Hamlin, the vice-president, initiate the policy. The senators went to Mr. Lincoln to urge upon him the paramount importance impor-tance of mustering slaves into the Union army. They argued that as the war was really to free the negro, it was only fair that he should take his part in working out his own salvation. Mr. Lincoln listened thoughtfully to every argument, and then replied: "Gentlemen, I have put two hundred thousand muskets into the hands of loyal citizens of Tennessee, Kentucky and Western North Carolina. They have said they could defend themselves them-selves if they had guns. I have given them the guns. Now, these men do not believe in mustering in the negro. If I do it, these two hundred thousand muskets will be turned against us. We shall lose more than we should gain." The gentlemen urged other considerations, consid-erations, among them that it was not improbable that Europe, which was anti-slavery in sentiment, but yet sympathized sympa-thized with the notion of a Southern Confederacy, preferring two nations to one in this country, would be persuad ing the south to free her slaves in consideration con-sideration of recognition. After they had exhausted every argument, Mr. Lincoln Lin-coln answered them: "Gentlemen," he sa!d, "I can't do it. I can't see it as you do. You may be right, and I may be wrong, but I'll tell you what I can do; I can resign in favor of Mr. Hamlin. Perhaps Mr. Hamlin could do it." The senators, amazed at this propo- LINCOLN'S HUMBLE HOMES. i w i "Ac ' " - I i i miit- - lino ojMifll Here are three homes of our great as he was himself. Hi3 birthplace was " 'Tain't much of a place to be born 6cene in his youth. The years from 7 home, near Farmington. Coles county. bouse in Springfield, where Lincoln toward the top of the ladder. sltlon, "which," says Senator Karlan, "was made with the greatest seriousness, serious-ness, and of which not one of us doubted the sincerity," hastened to assure as-sure the president that they could not consider such a step on his part; that he stood where he could see all around the horizon; that he must do what he thought right; that, in any event, he must not resign. Xtoacbes Lore Mucilage. New York correspondence Pittsburg Dispatch: When a business man downtown down-town had an important letter mailed severa' days ago brought back to him, "held for postage,'' he was so mad that his stenographer and office boy dared not speak to him all day. He knew he had placed a stamp on the letter with his own hands, yet it came back with only a faint mark on the envelope showing where the stamp had been. He puzzled over it for a long time, and then he went to his stamp drawer to get another stamp. To his disgust he found that none of the stamps had a vestige of mucilage on them, while a swarm of cockroaches ran away as he reached into his drawer. Then he understood. The roaches had eaten the sweet mucilage and were hungry for more. A few inquiries among acquaintances ac-quaintances wise in the ways of roaches revealed to him that this insect in-sect liked nothing better than the mucilage from postage stamps and that the postal authorities are always engaged en-gaged in a pitched battle with the pests. He went out for a box of roach poison immediately, and while the stuff is doing its work he carries his office supply of stamps in an envelope in his pocket. Thrift In the Granite City. A good story is told by an English tourist who stayed for a week in apartments apart-ments in Aberdeen, the "Granite City." "I had heard." he says, "of the canny folk of Aberdeen, and my experience, short though it was, proved that rumor had rightly estimated the character of the people. The streets are gi.'nite, the houses are granite, and the inhabitants inhab-itants are granite; and when they have a granite baby they give it a ball of granite, for fear it should break any other toy. I had a granite landlady, land-lady, and one day when I was going fishing her son volunteered to accompany accom-pany me. I provided the lunch, the rods, and the lines: he provided the worms dug them up in a neighbor's garden with a borrowed spade. I caught sixteen trout; he ate the lunch and broke my best rod. When we got home I made a present of fourteen of the fish to my granite landlady, and asked her to cook the other two for my tea. She did and charged me threepence three-pence for the dripping in which they were fried!" London Tid-Bits. lturnine Ice. "That story of the crime beat reminds re-minds me of a celebrated story written some sixteen or seventeen years ago," said the night editor. "It was at the J time when Montreal was the Mecca for mid-winter tourists on account ot its celebrated ice palace. Robert Barr conceived the conceit of the ice palace going up in fUvmes. and he wrote up the fake conflagration in a facetious vein for a column and a half. The story created a great deal of amusement amuse-ment among intelligent readers, but, do you know, there were some people actually fools enough to believe that the ice palace really did burn up, and some railroad officials wrote us a let-tr:" let-tr:" bitterly complaining because of the falling off in their excursion business?" "But it didn't burn up. did it?" innocently inno-cently asked the Fenian reporter, who had come in just in time to hear the last few words of the story. And he isn't able yet to understand why every one present leaned back in his chair to laugh heartily at his expense. Hobart and Newspaper Men. The late Vice-President Garret A. Hobart delighted in informal chats about people and things bordering on Bohemia. The ways of newspaper men strangely interested him. He said once that he envied them because of their roving freedom and the ease with which they seemed to write. He considered con-sidered writing a greater art than speaking. "I find no trouble in talking talk-ing to an audience," he said, "but when it comes to putting my thoughts on paper I find it a great task. Readers Read-ers are more critical than hearers. The art of writing is the greater." New Fodder for Cavalry Nags. Molasses for cavalry horses will In future be one of the items of expense for the maintenance of the army in the Philippines. A woman begins to enjoy her Christmas Christ-mas presents about New Year's. She spends the time in between wondering what they cost. XINCOLN5 4-1 -!L I NCOT.'TST laiii, LA 4.-1 L IN 1 -D J. A lA martyred president, as unpretentious a cabin in Hardin county, Kentucky. in," said young Abe. revisiting the to 10 the lad spent in the Indiana The picture also shows the modest lived when events began to push him HE IS A E0THSCHILD. SON OF FAMOUS BANKER TO HELP BRITAIN. Son and Heir of the First of the Nam to Gala a Title in England He Is a Naturalist and Owns a l'ark Is a Benefactor to Science. What John Jacob Astor was to the American side of the late war with Spain Lionel Walter Rothschild is ambitious of becoming to the British side of the wn jwfouth Africa, viz: the millionaiy; battle. Young Rothschild is fu son aud heir of the first Baron Rothschild, and is member of parliament for the Aylesbury division di-vision of Buckinghamshire. He was born in 1868, and was educated at the University of Bonn and Magdalene college, Cambridge. He is famous as LIONEL ROTHSCHILD, a naturalist, and possesses the finest existing private collection of zoological zoolog-ical specimens. His museum is situated sit-uated at Tring park, his residence In Hertfordshire. Mr. Rothschild's wealth is enormous. On his scientific museum alone he spends not less than $100,000 annually. His immense fortune enables en-ables him to be a most generous benefactor bene-factor to his favorite science. His gifts to the natural history department of the British museum have been un-equaled. un-equaled. He has frequently purchased -very valuable collections and has presented pre-sented them to the national museum in order to prevent them from leaving leav-ing Great Britain. NAMES OF WEIRD MALADIES. Curious Nomenclature of the Various Diseases Di-seases That Afflict the Kody. "I have been looking over one of the blanks for the regular monthly mortality mor-tality report of the board of health," said a citizen who admits that he likes to pry and prowl, "and I was amazed at the weird diseases which I found enumerated. I had no idea that humanity hu-manity had such a variety of things with eerie names to select from in the matter of shuffling off. Science has certainly made a great advance in that particular. A few years ago appendicitis appendi-citis was about the only fancy disease on the market, and that was beyond the reach of people of limited means. It was confined entirely to the aristocracy. aris-tocracy. Here are a few sample maladies mal-adies from the last board of health catalogue: Hacmetemesis, apthous, phlegmasia, doleno, cachexia, lympha-denoma, lympha-denoma, colica-pictonom, spina-bifldla and mollities-ossium. I'd like to see the man who would dare assert, after reading that little list, that medicine has been at a standstill during the last decade. Altogether there are 302 different dif-ferent ways of getting out of the world eet down on the blank, and the chap who couldn't find something to suit him In the lot would certainly be ultra-fastidious. ultra-fastidious. The document looks at first glance like the classified advertisement advertise-ment of a big bargain sale. It is a magnificent monument of pathological perseverance." New Orleans Picayune. Pica-yune. PREACHER FAVORS CARDS. The Methodists of Massachusetts are greatly excited ever the sensational stand recently taken by Rev. Charles A. Davis in regard to card playing, dancing and theater-going. Mr. Davis is the pastor of the First Methodist church of Lynn. He declares that the rule of the church forbidding its members mem-bers from taking part in these amusements amuse-ments is a dead letter, and only tends to keep many desirable young people out of the church. He believes that, speaking generally, the theater is rotten rot-ten to the core, and he condemns both public balls and indiscriminate card REV. CHARLES A. DAVIS, playing. At the same time he take3 the position that there are some worthy actors and improving plays and that children dancing among themselves them-selves or playing cards together at home are "every bit as innocent as they are in Sunday school." Mr. Davis' radical views will be pleased upon at the next general conference, by which body it is not expected that they will be indorsed. He Hot Teddy's Endorsement. Gov. Roosevelt recently told a story of his experiences with a western gambler, gam-bler, who served with distinction in the Rough Riders. "When he got his discharge he came to me and asked for my personal endorsement on it,", said Teddy. "I was glad to oblige him and wrote: "Smith is a good and gallant gal-lant soldier, who has done his duty In every particular.' 'Thanks, colonel said Smith. 'You see, my name ain't Smith, but Jones. I had a slight difficulty dif-ficulty with a gentleman some time ago well killed him. Now, you see, if the district attorney in Cripple Creek undertakes to stir up the case your endorsement will set me all right. Thanks, colonel." Foiled Again. From Chicago News: "I never give money to beggars on the street," said the pedestrian. "Oh, very well " replied re-plied the seedy individual. "Here's my card; kindly call at my office and leave your contribution with my hook-keeper." wilt mini :4 1 - |
