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Show IA QUAINT OLD TOWN. SALEM ISiALWAYS FULL OF TEREST TO VISITORS. IN- Ikwt Hawthara. Wraia th. "Dearies kaffarad tha Paap Ha Thera Letter," af fawarlf. Tbara Hia Aaompha Maw Brief High Price (Salem Letter.) ' E PELT qnlte lost when little Mademoiselle with her gibraltara and took Black Jatka her departure, leav- ing us standing on old Main street In Salem town. For want of something belter to do we turned into an an- store which does a in these days when business thriving our forefathers are of the furnishings In such demand. Here were quaint rooms, and the little old lady who had that charge of the place remarked soon all the antique furniture would be manold, so general Is the craving for Is As It hogany of the last century. many an ancestral Insist ead has been town shipped out of the historical which has reaped a generous revenue from the sale of the household goods of the early citizens. People do not seem at all averse to disposing of these relics of other days; nor do they, as a rule, cling to them for old association. Among other curlosltlea eihlblted looked like by the little old lady-w- ho one of the characters In "The House of Seven Gables" was a aper from the old custom house, containing a number of Items and O. K., Natl Hawthorne." The writer, It will be remembered was In the employ of Uncle Sam for about three years. The old lady wanted to sell the bit of paper. We Inquired tha price. "Ten dollars." Little did Mr. llawthrone ever dream his bills, with "0. K., would commandany ruch figure. When Tennyson rereived a pound a line for some of his later verses, tha literary world thought he was doing very well as a poetical tradesman but here was 10 demanded for four words. Fortunately for speculators In autographs Mr. Haw- thorne was fairly Industrious during those three years and the supply of "O. K., Nat'l Hawthorne," will not give out at once. If Hawthorne could only have reaped a little of this profit shortly after he was turned out of office! "The Scarlet Letter was written to keep the wolf from the door. Fields relates how subsequently he found Hawthorne In Lenox, despondent and hovering over a stove and finally procured from him the manuscript of that incomparable story. Besides these au tographs there are many bits of paper marked with a stencil, N. Hawthorne. Hawthorne wee after asked if he really had the scarlet letter "A," and replied: "Well, I did have ft, but one 8unday the children got hold of it and burnt it up." Main street must ever Interest the Hawthorne thus had his .visitor. "showman expound concerning It: "The white man'a ax has never smlt ten a single tree; his footstep baa never erumpled a single one of the withered leaves, which all the au tumns since the flood have been harvest Ing beneath. Yet, see! along through the vista or Impending boughs there Is already a faintly traced palh, running nearly east and west, as If a prophecy of foreboding of the future street had stolen Into the heart of the solemn old wood. Onward goes this hardly perceptible track, now ascending over natural swell of land, now subsiding gently Into a hollow; traversed here by a little streamlet, which glitters like a snake through the gleam of sunshine, and quickly hides Itself among the underbrush. In Its quest for the neighboring cove; and Impeded there by the massy corpse of a glsnt of the forest, which had lived out Its Incalculable term of life, and been overthrown by mere old age, and lies buried In the new vegetation that Is born of lta decay. What footsteps can have worn this half seen path? Hark! do we not hear them rustling softly over the leaves? We discern an Indian woman a majestic and queenly woman, or else her spectral Image does not represent her truly for this Is the great Squaw Sachem, whose rule with that of her sons, extends from Mystic to HAWTHORNE'S BIRTHPLACE. Agawam. That red chief who stalks by her side Is Wuppacowet, her second husband, the priest and magician, whoso Incantation shall hereafter afd settlers with grizfright the zly phantoms, dancing and shrieking In the woods, at midnight. But greater would be th affright of the Indian necromancer If, mirrored In the pool of water at his feet, he could catch a prophetic glimpse of the noonday marvels which the white man Is destined to achieve; If he could see, as tn s dream. the stone front of the stitely pale-face- ball which will cant Its shadow over this very spot; if be could be aware that the future edifice will contain a noble museum where, among countless of earth and art, a few In- shall be treasured up dian arrow-head- s as memorials of a banished race." The crank was out of order and the showman added: Alas! my kind and gentle audience, you know not the extent of your misfortune. The scenes to come were far better than the past. And would your Interest have deepened as, passing out of the cold shadow of antiquity, In my long and weary course, I should arrive within the limits of man's memory, and, leading you at last Into the sunshine of the present, should give a reflex of the very life that is flitting Then, too, 1 had ex- past us! vast deal of light and bril-- 1 a pended Jianry on a representation of the street in its whole length, from Uuffom's Horner downward, on the night of the grand illumination for Gen. Taylor's triumph. lastly, I should have given the crank one other turn and have brought out the future, showing you who shall walk the main street tomorrow. llaasrkaapar far All Lincolns father was teed. an 4 the pirked up from the ground a bit of old scantling, broke It In two, sharpened one end, and, walking over to hla fathers grave, drove the piece of wood on which the father's Initials were rut, et the head of the grave, remarking that when he could afford it he would get something better. When the money wee afterwards sent so that a tombstone could be erected, the recipient of the fund pocketed It, and had It not been for the generosity of Mr. C. F. Gunther, of Chicago, the grave would have long ago sunken out of eight. After the death of the elder Lincoln, the etepmother, who wee much loved by Lincoln, lived In the cabin with n near relative, John Hall, who remained with her till her death In 1S69. The cabin then passed through several hands, but was at last bought by an association ' In Chicago, and from this it was obtained by its present owners. Among the relics of the family which will be placed in the hut will be the bed on which Lincoln first slept, the wheel on which the yarn for his clothing was spun and the axe which he used in cutting fence rails. The McLean house Is yet at Appomattox, but la not standing, as some years ago It was carefully taken down with the view of moving It to Washington. But Just at that time the financial panic came on and the project was postponed, but It is certain that it will now be successfully carried out. Prior to the dismantling of the place, Colonel Dunlap had a series of photograph! taken aa well as a great many blue prints showing the exact HEAL KANSAS CRANK. president-elec- t TO BE REMOVED PROM CHICA-curiosltl- ea CO TO WASHINGTON, ; Iks VtMi H(UM si Apponmttax ThU ss4 Lm Ms! saS hl(ssil tks Terms af karraadar Will Is Where Crust Alsu j ' 11s I'rassrrsd. (Special Letter.) A 8 II 1 N 0 T O N. which possesses so historic many treasures, is to be enriched further by two relict of national Importance about which are most entwined memories closely of the two great Union and Confederate leaders, as well se of the president who fell Juat as bis dreams of a land were being realized. These relics are the log cabin, which was built by Lincoln and his father, sud the McLean home at Appomattox, Virginia, the place In which Lee and Grunt met and algned the terms of surrender. REVOLT OP THE HAUSFRAU. Nat a Uaud yer in Springfield. LINCOLNS OLD CABIN. Her ra4arr. Germany is not a rich country and only a very little observation is needed to see that the Incomes of the professional and mercantile rlasses are much smaller than in England and that the German women are therefore obliged to devote a great part of their time and thought to household work, says the Nineteenth Century. And Just for this very reason that the women's minds are absorbed In details German housekeeping is both unscientific and inartistic and, although It entirely occupies the hausfrau. It seldom attains even Its own uncomfortable standard. In this vicious circle, where want of system takes up the time which should be devoted to developing system, it Is very hard for a German woman to leave her narrow household Interests and to educate and develop her own individuality. All the more honor Is due, therefore, to those few thoughtful women who have conceived and led movement that, though lacking the great and powerful Inspiration of a new conception of lire, has undoubtedly done a great deni to overcome German prejudices and to widen Germs'! Ideas about women. These women have nut been aristocrats. for aristocratic women In Germany have never. like the brilliant leaders of French and English society, taken any Interest In polities nr influenced leading politicians. Tbs present empress Is entirely absorbed In her children, her dress, the formal etiquette of German court society and the work of endowing and building churches. The Empress Frederick undoubtedly takes an Interest tn the woman's movement, blit her time of power was too short for her to do mnch more than help to establish elementary technical schools for girls. The women of the nobility have charitable Interests which chiefly take the form of extravagantly arranged liaxars or concerts; and, though they have some societies for helping the poor and the sick, the hardworking committee of the English aristocratic woman Is unknown to them. Their daughters have less freedom than girls of the upper classes In England and are not exported to take any Intermt In public affairs and it Is very difficult for them to get time and opportunity to carry on thorough studies at home. The revolted daughter who leaves home to work is almost unknown. as the universities are practically closed to women, and nursing is not, as In England, a common occupation for Indies. Sometimes In later life, when a girl has not succeeded In marrying and If she does not wish to lead the "drone and dressing-gow- n life," as one of them describes it, she becomes a deaconess, hut she has even less Independence under the strictly organised guardianship of the church than In her own home. The Lincoln log cabin la now In Chicago, but it Is but the question of a short while before It will be brought on and erected In Washington. The McLean house will stand In the same lot and both will comprise part of a museum which will be the property of patriotic Washington gentlemen, prominent among them being Colonel M. E. Dunlap, to whose energies Is due yr n n t . sub-stan- ce IS Lisas la tha Opsa aaS tllsss flair auS HssrS ta Uns lasts ts That Asaaaslaa Ua; BbaalS Ha Haaagalsad ay S'aSaral (Special Letter.) OSSESSED of con- alderable wealth at least enough to ren- der him independent of all things General earthly Hugh Cameron of K a n a a s, widely known as the Kansas hermit, mskes his bed on an old barn door in the wild woods near the historic city of Lawrence. He livea In the open sir, and when he sleeps has no other roof than the foliage of the trees, through which the stars twinkle as If amused at the eccentricity of the man. He has one pet hobby, which he is urging on congress. He wants Ascension day to become a national holiday by virtue of a law of the supreme legislative body of the land. General Cameron would be a picturesque figure even If he were not eo filled with eccentricities as to attract attention. He ie tall, finely formed and straight ae an arrow, in spite of hie advanced years. His white beard and white hair hang down from a massive head and face, the former reaching below the waist, extending forty Inches In length, and the latter descending In a anowy cloud thlrty-sl- x inches. He Is one of the richest men in the state, but he refuses to live in a house, preferring the freedom of the woods to the confinement of a civilized dwelling. He Is d a marked man. but and well versed in the science and folk lore of this and most other countries. He is not In his dotage, but he clings to any Idea he embraces with all the vigor of a man accustomed to pushing things to success. General Cameron's Ascension day idea has been advanced by him for years. He believes that the day on which Christ returned to heaven after the crucifixion should be set apart by a Christian nation such as America as a day of rejoicing equally If not more significant to the people than July 4. the nation's birthday. He has commenced agitation in favor of this Idea, and will work with a singleness of purpose toward Its accomplishment until he is called to his fathers, unless success crowns his efforts before that time. Genera Cameron erected a pole on Easter day of this year to commemorate the resurrection. Imposing ceremonies were conducted under his direction. The site chosen was a suburb of Lawrence, and the old man, now 70 years of age, caused the pole fifty feet long, to be raised with ceremonies of the most impressive nature. On the top of the pole Is a cross symbolical of the crucifixion, and near by a liberty cap, symbolizing true liberty to all. He bent on an American flag to the halyards, and ran the silken emblem to the top with hie own hands. Many of the residents of Lawrence were present, for the old man, while queer in many things, Is always Interesting. He is called the Kansas hermit because he himself adopted the title. He saw hard service in the civil war, and was severely wounded. In spite of this fact and his advanced age, he works on hie farm early and late. Uncle Sam helps him out to the extent of $30 a month. Fifteen yean ago he threw off the bans of fashion, declaring that he would be perfectly Independent and he has been. Since that time he has neither trimmed nor cut his hair or beard. His hair la three feet long and silken, while hla beard has reached feet. the length of three and one-ha- lf While working he braids both hair and beard, and tucks them inside his shirt. On his head he wears a close-fittin- g cap, and over this either a thick winter cap or straw hat. For years Hermit Cameron has been praying for a fuller acknowledgment, by the people, for the divinity of Jesus Christ. As Easter Is the commemoration of the ascension of Christ, he thinks it should be at a fixed date every year. Instead of as now, arranged according to the ecclesiastical moon. Eaater Is for the rich folks to wear fine clothes." says the old man. Two-thirof the common people God's chosen people don't know what Easter a.' clear-heade- LOG CABIN. THE LINCOLN the preservation of these souvenirs of appearance of the roome, and each bit the must memorable epoch of Ameri- of boarding is numbered eo that the can liisiniy. Colonel Dunlap, who house will be just as It was before it fought under General Banks, is the wae torn down. Even the plastering owner of the McLean house, the title has been preserved and stored in barol the cabin being with the rest of rels, so that it can he again mixed the gentlemen who are organized un- and used In mortaring the bricks. der the name of the National War These bricks now He in a heap, but are closely guarded, ao as to prevent ami Museum Company. The Lincoln cabin, when It stands the depredations of relic hunters. in the shadow of the eapilol, will be When brought to Washington, the Just the same rough frontier abode house will be rebuilt exactly as it was as it waB when built of unhewn logs on the day on which the articles of in 1S3G. Every bit of timber, every surrender were signed. Much of the nail, every shingle has been relig- old furniture has been secured, and iously preserved, so that there will be as far as possible the rooms will look the rude hut with Us fireplace of brok- Just as they did thirty years ago. Neen bricks, its pegs running up the walls which had no ladder to mount to the garret, its tumbling door and window just us they stood wliep Lincoln paid his farewell visit to his home before leaving for Washington nnd his inauguration. Lincoln was born In Kentucky, hut moved with his father tn Indiana at an early age and It was In Spencer gotiations have been opened with Mr. Gunther looking to the bringing on of hie famous collection of war relics and the storing of them in the house, eo as to make a most interesting museum. If this Is accomplished, most of the furniture will be restored to Its old chambers, and the table on which the terms of agreement were drawn up, which is owned by Mr. Gunther, Knu Th Why. An amusing srtlrle In a contempoprofesses to explain rary explains-- or the reason why Englishmen so often - capture richly endowed American girls for wives. "The female mind, says the writer of this article, who Is herself a daughter of the United States, "loves a mystery, and here Is the whole secret of the constant capture of Ihe American girl by the enemy. Snob-!er- y, eyes dazzled by a coronet and familiar Intercourse with crown Jewels are not the final explanation: for titles are few and American girls are marThe rying Englishmen every day. American man. It appears, never comes up to the Ideal standard which the American woman keeps always before her. for he has little or no romnnee In his disposition. The lady who makes these assertions follows them up by saying that she "calculated the other day that she had known some fifty American men more or loss Intimately and that she had never had so much aa a passing acquaintance with one whose soul had passed the embryonic stage." She thinks that the American never lived who could not be read through and through after a short acquaintance h.v a cleier woman, whereas It would take several lifetimes tn understand an Englishman. The Englishman. of rourse, may have nothing In him to understand, but the reserve nnd mystery In which he wraps his empty mind are Irresistibly attractive to the American woman, so much so that "every Englishman that settles In toe Ui Ited Stales could have s dozen wives If all the states were Utah. Verb Recorder. GENERAL HUGH CAMERON AN ECCENTRIC BEING. full. This custom Is very rare, usually the titles only being read to the eenat The document caused no little comment on all sides and here is the of it: To the Congress of the United States of America: Your petitioner, the undersigned, respectfully asks your honorable bodies to make the 5th of April a national holiday. It being the day on which the "king of the Jewe," whom Pontius Pilate caused to be crucified on April 3. A. D. 33, achieved his splendid victory over the grave. The king of the Jews has always been a true friend of the United Statea of America. He was with Washington and his compatriots during their great struggle for Independence, and was also with the union army through the entire war to maintain that Independence with union and liberty. Your petitioner has an abiding faith that your honorable bodies will cheerfully grant this request, as well on your own account aa that of the multitude of hie faithful fpl lowers, comprising all the industrious poor people (God's chosen people), many of whom are now prayerfully waiting for the second coming of said king, which, it is claimed, will he to the United Statea of America. Unquestionably thia king has done more to establish and maintain free government on this continent end to make the United Statea of America a respectable nation than any other king, and so we aa Individuals and as a nation ought not to be ashamed with THE M'LEAN HOUSE AT APPOMATTOX county that his mother, who was a Mlsa Nancy Hanks before marriage, died. Young Abe was then a lad of about eight. The father subsequently returned to Kentucky, where he married a second time, his last wife being a sweetheart of his early youth. Aa Miss Bush she had won the elder Lincoln's heart, hut she discarded him for a Mr. Johnson. Mr. Johnsun died, and Mr. Lincoln being a widower, the affair of old times was renewed and In a short time the second Mrs. Lincoln was ensconced in her new home in Coles county, Illinois. Here It was that Mr. Lincoln, with the help of young Abe, erected the cabin. In thii hut the future president slept for the first time in his life in a bed. for as a small hoy his only couch was a pile of loaves In a corner. The second wife, who proved to be a most devoted stepmother, brought with her from her old Kentucky home a common bedstead on which the boy was put to sleep and on which his father and stepmother afterwards ; died. When Lincoln was studying law he spent part of hla time at his father's cabin, employing himself by mastering the books of Euclid. With a bit of paper held on the back of a shovel he worked out all of the problems till the whole book was clear day in his mind; then he eet out from ihe hum-bis abode to begin hla career as a law- N will be placed on the very spot it occupied In April, 1865. The house was owned at the time of the surrender by Mr. Wllmer McLean, who used to boast that the war opened and closed on hie premises. While living at Manassaa the battle of Bull Run wae fought almost on his farm, and It was to get out of the theatre of active hostilities that he moved his family down to Appomat tox, thinking that the tide of conflict would not flow eo far south. But, by a strange coincidence, the very lust set in the drama was in his parlor. The Confederate army, about ten thousand strong, reached Appomattox at dawn on the morning of the 9th of April, and after an Ineffectual attempt to break through the slowly con trading lines of the enemy, gave up In despair. Lee decided that It would he a useless waste of life to pro long the struggle, so arrangements Vere made that the two commanding generals should meet in the village and agree upon the terms of capitulation. It was near 11 In the morning when Grant and Lee met In the road. an.l. as there was no convenient plait where writing could be done, the party went to the house of Mr. Mclean and occupied his parlor. Here the terms were discussed and the final disposition of the Southern troops agreed upon. GEN. HUGH CAMERON, frankness and alacrity to acknowledge that we owe him a debt of gratitude which we will never be able fully to liquidate. For all these and many other obvious reasons the undersigned hopes that your honorable bodies will without delay make resurrection day a national holiday, for which we will continually pray. Respectfully, HUGH CAMERON. Camp Ben Harrison, Douglas county, Kan. After the reading the senate referred It to the committee on Judiciary. As will be seen, this resolution. If adopted, would upset the present arrangement of Easter days according to the church festival. Easter Is a movable festival. The rule which has been followed in fixing its date each year Is that it shall be the first Sunday after the fourteenth day (not the full moon) of the calendar moon, which happens on the next after March 21. The calendar moon Is not the moon of the heavens, nor the moon of astronomy, but an Imaginary moon for ecclesiastical convenience. Eaater may come aa early as March 22, or as late as April 25. Last year It occurred on April 14. NAPOLEON With Thslr Child st High Hass ArrhhUhops f V The 1 had a card of admission to a seat Immediately In front of the altar and close to those occupied by the imperial party, says Blackwood's Magazine. It was interesting, of course, to be able at such close quarters to scrutinize the somewhat sombre countenance of Napoleon III., the delicate features of his beautiful wife and the fair face of the boy on whom so many glowing hopes were fixed all doomed to be quenched In the dust of death at one desolate Zululand. But it waa spot In far-o-ff the venerable archbishop who attracted my attention most strongly, from the subdued gentleness and humility of his aspect. In spite of the gorgeous-ne- ss of his vestments, rich in crimson velvet, gold embroidery and priceless lace. The archbishop woreallttlered skullcap over his soft, white hair and the expression of his mild countenance was that of simple, genuine goodness. His complete absorption in the religious service on which he was engaged was quite in accordance with what I had been told of his pure, devoted life and the appearance of the meek, defenseless old man would have led one to believe that he was one of the last persons who could ever become the object of implacable hatred and brutal violence. Yet two years later I stood on the spot where that gentle spirit had at last escaped by the tardy mercy of death from an agony of perseriition and torture little known. I believe, beyond the prison walls where the last ryuel scene was enacted. ds 4. AND EUGENIE. .4 V Thf Mir riminlipr ork The veritable lock and key of the famous Star Chamber were sold at ChrisIs. It who know Its reui significance.'' lie ties rooms, Itndon. recently. The lock announces that he feci convinced that is soundly made of brass, and though April 5 is the true date of the resur- decorated to a certain extent Is plain rection. He prepared a petition to rompared with the key, which Is e wonderful piece of fretted steel. The congress, which is remarkable as petitions go. Unable to got either Senator metal Is of a beautiful temper, otherBaker or Congressman Curtis to pre-- I wise It seems Impossible that the stem sent it to congress, he sent it to Sena- - should not snap off If there were tbs lor Pfeffcr. rind that gentlemun pre-- ; slightest hitch In the turning of the seated it to the senate a short time lock. On both sides are portrayed ago. A full reading was demanded by crow ied Leads, presumably of Charles senators. It was read In I the curious CAMP BEN HARRISON. Is the church-goin- g people only i il |
