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Show NELLIE GEAY. PVTROTE AT HANBY'S GRAVE WESTERVILLE, OHIO. B. N Once the Mot Popular of Pub-,hXl,nf Made Money for the but They Never Rewarded the Was 01, Sonp er Author. 1 N MARK ED W IIi a by more pretentious monument than a l board, warping and as the there yars go by, is a nrrave In the decaying United ' iff' T t, Brethren at cemetery a northern suburb v West-ervill- e, of Colum-bu- ?, cov-- ': O., which li remains of Ren R. fJray," one of the h t ic sonKs of the ; j,.ar'ful in storm and Han-N'--!- 1 1 : '..ri; t:--n- toueh-- ; Ren Hanby sleeps, and a few personal :::'y Si'- while his , and un honored. ; hi? tender, passionate f has been told, although ., truthfully. Like many :".'.iri"us com positions of it was the creation of ; cm it'! its sudden and astonish-,m- s MAY BE A SENATOR. Col. Isaac Trambo Wants to Represent Utah la Upper Hoaae. 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, wdll 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 Harrison's 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 altogether unexpected Trie inspiration came to while he was a passenger you.. train between Cincinnati He was listlessly when he found an ac-- t: manner in which a beauti- - n girl had been torn from -r :' lover and taken to a slave market to be sold on The quadroon's block. a u ;!.,n as Nellie was given Gray. The nan' o s0r"V liiliia:ii' vvtut and was he naturally gentle nation, for the iniquities of kind and abhorred So impressed was he that, with pencil and paper, used as test' he could upon the jolting and swaying oar seat, he jotted down the words of a song in which the incidents This was of 'the story were utilized. of his own relief for the done simplyoverburdened his mind and heart, and remotest was not the there time at that to the verse the ever of bringing design of day. Ujht By the time Hanby had reached his destination he had practically completed It was :he few verses of the song. his thrown carelessly with baggage and ;r. .,1 n. and H read-,vs:..ip'- -r work-ingma- h- - siave-hoMin- 'J- cr. after his return to his home in Westervtlle it was tossed among some other papers in his desk and there forOne gotten for six months or more. soon day he came seat it to a across the manuscript and n firm of music well-know- note, say-b- g publishers in Chicago, wdth that if they saw anything in they might publish It. The song sprang at once into poplike and Hanby, Byron, ularity, to find himsiwoke one morning elf famous. But this awakening did not- como for many months after the pathetic mekdy of his song had poured from thousands of tuneful throats His publishers throughout the land. aever even acknowledged the receipt of the manuscript. They made a fortune from Us sale, but of all the thousands of dollars which poured into their bank lecount Hanby never received a cent. When he wrote to them they sent him ill printed copies of the song, without the formality of thanks for the manu-icrip- t. tif l song While his song was gaining Its popularity and daily growing dearer to hund- reds of thousands of tender hearts, wa3 living undisturbed his calm mi peaceful rural life. He was yet to 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 talke and debater, but his great theme is the section from which he hails. As he says, he has lived in Utah all his life and no man knows it better than he does. He can tell you how much rain falls in any given section, the full extent of tbe mininc and milling industries, or any other details. In fact, he is a cyclopedia of Information and imparts it wdllingly. Hanby fame. Several months after the music of his song had become familiar as household words Hanby vis-U- d a young lady In Columbus and requested her to sing to him. Complying, she said she would sing a sweet littfc song, which, by some strange coincidence, had been written by a man cf his name. She began, and, greatly to his surprise, Hanby recognized the words and music of his "Nellie Gray." It wa the first intimation he had that tie song had been published. Hanby came of a musical as well as learn hlg To this day one can see traces of this period. It is, perhaps, as much a result of this form of training as of temperament, that the dispatches and the SALISBURY "A LATH PAINTED speeches of Lord Salisbury sacrifice so LIKE IRON." much to style, regard epigrams as harmless luxuries of writing and the neat collocation of epithets as more ImMalignant in Public Utterance but Soft portant than the stern facts of life. It at Heart Indiscreet and Out of was enough to make one's blood run Touch with Party His Happy Home cold to read that dispatch which Lord Salisbury issued in the very midst of Life. the Russo-Turkis- h crisis, and to see how the Saturday Review unregener-ate- , HERE is nothing in vehement, and Impulsive wrote as this world which is if his words were not things which so ;ipt to lead one might bring into motion and collusion astray In estimates myriads of armed men and the clash of of men as to act on ironclads and eighty-to- n guns. It was the principle, "The this epoch in Lord Salisbury's career style Is the man," which elicited from Mr. John Morley and there are few one of the finest of the many very fine men to w h o'm passages In his platform speeches. He the principle would reminded a great audience in St. James' prove so unjust as hall that in Alpine heights the deadly to the Marquis of avalanche, which brought death and it one desolation to the quiet villagers below, bansoury. were to judge him often was so neatly poised that the by his spoken,. and still more if one were sound of a human voice was enough to to judge him by his written, utterbring it down; and then he asked ances, he would pass for one of the whether, with such terrible forces in most rancorous, the most implacable such dread tension existing around us and the narrowest of men. Mr. safe to have issuing Bright in Europe, it was office the harsh and of spoke long ago his "haughty unwisfrom the foreign dom." and those who are old enough to thoughtless voice of the Marquis of remember his somewhat wild and scatter-bSalisbury? If we escape war with Rusrained unare sia in that terrible time and a general still political youth able to throw off the unpleasant and conflagration it was in spite of Lord biting memories of some of his fierce Salisbury. and malignant utterances in those days. And yet this man, who was about to 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 apothe When we logizedto were in the midstattorneys. of the struggle over the reform bill of 1867 Lord Cranborne (as he then was) cut some very fine n jokes over the question whether a 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 Lord 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 LADY SALISBURY. and really amiable a disposition as to be unfit for the position of a ruler of precipitate events so awful, would men. He is described as one of that unprobably have been more shocked by happy class of men who are never able them than any other man in Europe. to say No, and who, accordingly, canFor he was not like his chief he had a not be trusted to deal with incompeconscience and a heart; and he was also tence or imprudence or knavery after unlike his chief in lacking that magnifithe stern and pitiless fashion which a cent which is often as leader of men is bound to display for great a hardener of the nerves as true the preservation of nimself and his courage. Bismarck, with that keen and party. Liberals, even, who are privi- almost cruel eye of his, soon found this leged with the personal acquaintance out, for, meeting Lord Salisbury at of Lord Salisbury, declare that in priof the when the Berlin, vate life nobody could speak more ami- great powers met, representatives he described Lord ably more reasonably more tolerantSalisbury as a lath painted like of iron. hisly of political things, and even of poliMany of the worst catastrophes tical opponents. men who weak tory are produced by The training of Lord Salisbury is, to desire to appear strong. a certain extent, responsible for this The Marquis of Salisbury at the presgulf which stretches between the popuent moment is to some extent on the lar estimate and the inner life of the decline. Arthur Balfour has immenseman. Though he is now a nobleman of ly advanced in his public reputation; considerable wealth, and has reached and, above all things, he is touchy with the highest place in the scale of British his party, while Lord Salisbury is not. ambition, it was not always thus; and Indeed, except in the case of the late his early years were years in which Mr. Parnell, there has never been an poverty, struggle, and perhaps even bit- instance in which a political leader has terness, were not unknown. He was kept so far apart from his followers as not the eldest son of his father. In the Lord Salisbury. This is due to many home of Lord Salisbury, too, there was circumstances, but mainly to his inmarhis another family for father had tense love of study and his intense love ried a second time; and it is not often of home. that in suchhouses there is peace beIt is known that his singularly rich tween the elder and the younger tribes. intellect, in addition to its immense If anything were wanted to accentuaptitudes, is scientific, and that ate the family differences which such literary in his laboratory with almost he works circumstances were so well calculated as much as a professional industry to produce, it would be a marriage chemist or a man of science to whom which was regarded as a mesalliance. the of natural phenomena is the And Lord Robert Cecil, as he then was, sole study life. Out of touch with of interest made such a marriage. In these days the house of commons, feeling unfamilit may appear somewhat ridiculous to iar with the details of its warfare, pasregard a union with the daughter of one sions and moods, he rarely got on a of the most distinguished judges of his without committing some time as a mesalliance for anybody, how- platform indiscretion it took all which ever exalted; but we have advanced blazing of his the all and the energies subtlety very much in the democratization of so- adroit But the to future undo. nephew ciety since, the days when Lord Salis- of every politician is dark and the bury was a resolute young lover; and unionist party must settle their own afundoubtedly his marriage to Miss fairs. was resented by his family. Let us dismiss Lord Salisbury with It would be Indiscrete to ask how far some gratitude that, with all his faults, he has given the country an example of political highmindedness and personal cleanliness of life which will be one of its valuable heritages in all its future political experiences. LORD AND HIS LADY. BABY SETTLED THE CASE. o to Ills Papa and Trouble Said Peek-a-Bo- AVas Over. ending to a case of 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 her street, entered the courtroom with 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. An unlooked-fo- r non-suppo- Peek-a-boo- !" self-confiden- T. P. O'CONNOR. AN ACCOMMODATING the baby "Papa, I see you," laugheddon't you voice. "Peek-a-boWhy o. HANBY'S GRAVE. descended andi cultured family. JMy 313 father was a bllop In the United Brethren church and was the compiler a hymn-boowhich Is still In use. Joxng Hanby composed a number ' of k, ngs, several of which were published, however, receiving' the remark-ici- e reception which was given to Nellie Gray a few years after the fvar Hany died as 'ho had lived,, in -scurlty and poverty, and the fact that ''WJ the author of the famous song known to few save his family and aJmate friends.. j -- " I V A The Humble itInt newspaper remarks l lsIast ot the n the last ot 0lr lav log-abl- Rale. . an1 the Plne-knto- log-cabi- i M. de Heredla a Cuban by Blrtn. M. de Heredla, the new member of the French Academy, was In his youth who, a singularly handsome man one "comto Francois Coppee, according bined the nobility of the hidalgo and is a Cuban the grace of the Creole." He In love with but sufficiently by birth, his adopted land to call her language "the finest that has issued, from human de Heredia owes lips since Homer." in M. to his sonFrance rank his literary of their because polish and nets, which, In contema hold place high vigor, literature. that "Gresham statesmen" French ereat men who porary their way iipward from the We hope not. 'tf.V a baid t. f0r Amerlca day when ur v sh Places are filled by lace-em- -r is,. fe3 cradles and mansions of arn. The: the humble 'er.t, the canal boat toand the shop l'h?ntlnue'!we trust, furnish us e?1Jents and secretaries of state Tor many a decadei to come.' When ?"opIe cease to rule, when our cease to spring from the f the 4:0121:11011 People, this will' taa t0 be !a r?DubIlc- - nonie and uat Joiled play with me?" Even the big policemen were vlsably affected and the magistrate asked: case. "Montgomery, try and settle this off swear drink will you If I let you go for one year and take care of your wife and family?" "Yes, sir," said 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. n, of---fiol- The Only SurvlTor. Julian, who was surveyor-generGeorge of New Mexico under Mr. Cleveland's first administration, and who lives In a suburbofof Indianapolis, is the only survivor solithe prominent party. Mr. leaders of the78 free but he Is in old,, now years is Julian his pen, with active excellent health and his name appearing frequently In the fifty years pages of the magazines. It is for the. first to congress since he went, his candidacy for time and forty since the vice presidency. "W. al ; PASTOR. He Had the Interest of His Congregation dock. LORD SALISBURY. the young household had to face the bitter want of insufficient means; and, at all event, there is no reason for such an Inquiry now.' The marriage has been exceptionally happy and satisfactory; there Is not a happier; as there is not a purer home In England than that which thus, In storm ahd stress, began so many years ago; arid besides, to the necessities which such tj, marriage and his position as a younger, son created, Lord Salisbury owes probably his present position more than tofany other Influence In his life. For It was as a writer In the1 Saturday Review that Lord Salisbury learnt the great doctrine of struggle and of work. Mr. Beresford Hope, who founded' that Journal and expended uppii it and upon churches a vast pprtibn of his patrimony was his brother-lij-Iaand thus the joung writer found la ready-mad- e plae for his pen. The character of the Saturday Review in Its early years must have come largely from Lord Salisbury. The Saturday Review gave Lord Salisbury bread; and he himself was ready to say so many years afterward, when having reached the great position of foreign secretary In an hour of national crisis he! presided over less fortunate members of the journalistic profession. , w; j THE INVENTOR OF THE WONDERFUL TELAUTOGRAPH. The Instrument for Transmitting Handwriting: and Pen and Ink Sketches by Wire Has Been Perfected at Iast -How It Works. HE telautograph ls the latest Invention of Professor Elisha Gray. It was first exhibited experimentally in 1893, but the Instrument did pot give satisfaction, and a corps of experts was set to work to perfect and develop the invention. A factory and were built at Highland Park laboratory 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 Gray's invention made its appearance at the World's Fair and was worked locally and over a line between the exposition grounds and the company's 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 The receiver writes the message In Ink, the pen being a hollow glass tub" with a fine point. The pen tha same position at the angle occupies of the shaft as. in e pencil ana moves rapidly across the paper. A small ruober 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 notes 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 as a ship carpenter and afterward made the anvil ring in a blacksmith's shop. One of the ornaments in his home at Highland Park is a shovel which ha made while a blacksmith and he weaves around it stories of the hardships of his youth. self-mad- Mary owe Dickinson. 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 teacher led her to realize the need for a more practical education for girls and women, and she has sought to teach better systems of trainrng. 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 ba ce Al-ders- on The magistrate leaned over his desk son and saw Montgomery's two of the policebetween legs dodging men, vainly trying to reach his father, who stood scowling In the prisoner's PE0F. ELISHA GRAY. at Heart. of a congregation in an minister The was greatly andistrict agricultural after Sunday by the unnoyed Sunday of conduct jthe junior members of ruly his flock. When one of the younger representatives Qt the gentler sex got weary of the evening services she would invariably rise dnd go out. A moment later her admirer would seize his hat and sheepishly follow her. To such an extent would this course of action prevail that by the time the discourse was finished only the old people remained for the conclusion of the service. Mr. Jones concealed his chargin for several weeks, but at last he firmly resolved to act. A youth grew drowsy one Sunday eveulng, and, picking up his hat, stepped Into the aigle. ,But the minister's keen eye was ubon him, and, to . the culprit's dismay, he stopped short in his sermon. "Young man," said he, "the girl who went out last is not the one you wish to walk home with. When she goes I will let you know at once. Please sit down. After this when a young woman goes out I will call on the proper young man to take care of her." The minister resumed his discourse. There was muc a tittering and conslder- able anger, but the sermons were not interrupted again. Hartford Times. Sketched Prom Photograph In America MARY LOWE DICKINSON. especially constructed for long distance fully endowed, and when telephone service, the conditions for obliged her to resign this position thm long distance telautograph service be- chair was named for her, and she wad ing quite similar to those of the tele- made Emeritus Professor and holds now its lectureship in English literature. phone. The method of transmitting telauto- She has been secretary of the Woman's grams is simple, but it has taken years Branch of the American Bible Society, to perfect the invention. The average national superintendent of the speed of a writer is 30 words a minute, department of higher education in the but many write faster than this. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union telautograph can easily send 45 words a and president of the Woman's National minute. The writer sat down at the Indian Association. She conducted for transmitter and found a six years a magazine devoted to the pencil case waiting for him. The lead Care of invalids, and held an associate used is like that one finds in an ordinary editors-hiwith Edward Everett Hale pencil and is preferred to ink because in his Magazine of Philanthropy. She it is cleaner. The transmitter is a neat is general secretary of the Order of little machine, but it is as full of small, King's Daughters and the editor of its magazine. Her principal literary works are "Among the Thorns," "The Amber Star," and "One Little Life," novels; and, in poetry, "The Divine Christ" and "Easter Poems." In 1894 Mrs. Dickinson was chosen president of the Woman's National Council, with headquarters in New York. ill-hea- so-call- self-feedi- ed Will Interest Chemists. Chemists will be interested in the announcement by the Chemlke 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 used, and mixed with three times Its 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 alcohollo 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 The a pure blue with ammonia. azolitmine in the filter ls then dissolved in distilled water containing, a few solution diluted drops of ammonia, thetimes the weight a half to three and of the litmus originally employed, exand mixed with tens 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. the-litmu- s ; - lth ng PROF. GRAY, INVENTOR. delicate wheels as a watch. The pencil ls 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 flourished acted on the two steel rods. At the end of each rod a piece of thin was attached, giving it the appearcord Machine fjr Patting Up Pins. ance of a violin bow. Tbe cord was One of the cleverest inventions ever fastened round the drum, which regupatented is the machine for sticking lated the; interrupter wheel below. The common pins in the papers in which movements of the pencil were thus they are sold. The contrivance brings chronicled and the electrical impulse up the pins in rows, draws the paper was sent along the wires. When . the into position, Crimps it in two lines, writer got to the end of the line he had left then. at a single push passes the pins simply to turn a crank with his ana through the paper and sets them In posi- hand and the paper shot upward; ovward about an inch. - OtUbrtda Miss Virginia Fair Is the fastest bicycle rider among the fashionable ladles She Hnn wai at NewDOrt. O. Henry Clews by doing the Ocean avenue ride of ten miles In five minutes les JMA.I than an hour, |
