OCR Text |
Show anHHnaBHHa Gen. George . Rogers Clark 4 COL. BALDWIN, IN COMMAND OF AN EXPEDITION PUNISH THE MOROS IN THE PHILIPPINES Revolutionary Hero Who Wrested the Qreat Northwest from the British and the Indiana TC a Some Facts and Opinions U6E OF TELEPHONES IN SURGERY Hava Had Grant with Ilia ApplUare. Landua Hospital co (Special Letter.) HERE has keen a suggestion that Clark street in Chicago be rechristencd McKinley avenue, and there is an almost unbelievable state of ignorance prevailing among the citizens of Chicago in regard to the origin of the streets name and the history of the man for whom it was christened. Even the editors of several Chicago journals have been ill informed enough to confuse Gen. George Rogers Clark, the soldier and pioneer, with Capt. William Clark, the explorer of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition. It was Gen. George Rogers Clark who wrung ihis section from the Brit ish and the Indians, and whose unparalleled fortitude in the fiontier campaigns at the end of the eighteenth century led tin iin-- who laid out the streets of Chicago to honor one of them with hi name. It war Gen. 177$ George Rogers Clark, who in raised a small volmileer force In Virginia, crossed Ike Ohio, reduced all the British pods lad ween the Mississippi and the great lakes and made them the boundary of the United States Instead of the Ohio river. His marches through the pathless wilderness were marvels of endurance, his prudence was so great that e rarely lost a man and his daring has not been surpassed in the annals of the heroic pioni ers. Few things in history or in tie t ion are finer than bis march to and attack upon Vincennes in the winter of 1778. Gen. Clark was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1752. He was a surveyor, like Washington, but he preferred another kind of pathfinding, and in 1777, in consultation with Gov. Patrick Henry, he planned his expedition to the Northwest. After reaching Kaskaskia without much adventure he act out from there In February, which 1779, to recapture Vincennes, had been taken and garrisoned by the British under Harrison. For five days he waded his army Gen. Georg Roger Clark. the Wabash, flooded with melted snow for a breadth of six miles, generally waist deep and sometimes up to the shoulders an exploit that parallels Hannibal's crossing of the Thrasymene march. Ills ragged men suffered incredible hardship, but they routed the British at Vincennes, within a few short hours after they reach r:l the fort. This is the way Gen. Clark himself tells in his Journal of one day on the march to Vincennes. "The nearest land to us in the direction of Vincennes was a spot called "Sugar Camp" on the opposite side of a slough. I sounded the water and finding it as deep as my neck returned with the design of having the men transported on board the canoes to the camp, though I knew It would take the whole day and the ensuing night, as the vessels would pass slowly through the bushes. I "On the following morning harangued the men. What I said I am not now able to recall, but it may easily be Imagined by the person pos- - Sac- In several London hospitals surgeons are now using the telephone whenever they have occasion to probs for bullets or other metallic, objects. The receiver of the telephone is placed on the head of the operator and ths patent is placed, in the usual manner, in contact with a plate, the general medium employed being a wet sponge or some paper saturated with a saline solution, which is spread over the plate. The latter is connected with to have any such among us. The whole gave a cry of approbation and on we went. "This was th most trying of all the difficulties we experienced. I generally kept five of the strongest men nearest myself, und judged from my own feelings what must be that of the others. "I ordered the canoe to play back and fourth and with all diligence to pick up the men, and to encourage the party sent some of the strongest for- - the telephone by a wire and the probe, after li has been introduced into the body, naturally vibrates as soon as the foreign metallic substance comes in coitact with it. The probe is also connected with the telephone by a Reconnolterlog. ward with orders that when they had advanced a certain distance to pass the word back that the water was getting shallow, and when near the woods to cry out 'land.' This stratagem had the desired effect. The men, encouraged by it, exerted themselves almost beyond their abilities, the weak holdig on to the stronger. On reaching the wood, where they expected to find land, the water waB up to their shoulders, but the weakly held on to the trees and floated on the drift until they were taken off by the canoes. The strong and tail got ashore and built fires, but many of the feeble, unable to support themselves on reaching land, would fall with their bodies half 4n the water. The latter were so benumbed with cold that fires would not restore them and the strong were compelled to exercise them with great severity to revive their circulation. Gen. Clark's last Important military service was against the savages in the Big Miami. He died at Louisville, Ky., Feb. 18, 1818, after passing bis declining years in sorrow and poverty. There is an insignificant tombstone over the grave, and in Indianapolis there is a handsome Clark monument, surmounted by a statue, but that is all posterity has to Bay about George Rogers Clark. - An April Fable. across the valley of B At the forks of the road March lost his way and loudly called his winds that wandered in the crimson deeps and violet vales of April. They cried to the hills, that signaled them with banners green and glorious and sent the echoes of their voices back to the opposing hills. And then did March, with trumpet blast, command his winds to storm the rosy battlements d and all the captains of the April armies; and the captainB fell before their might, and their rlcn raiment waa rent and scattered over a thousand hills; and under a sky serene and beautiful the soldier-wind- s lay down to rest and sighed themselves to sleep, and, sleeping, dreamed of little children, g in the sunshine, and reaping from that storm-swebattle field bright arms full of bloom. Atlanta Constitution. wreath-crowne- sweet-singin- wire, u nd thus no Buch blunder Ib possible as sometimes when an ordinary battery is used. When a telephone is used in this way the plate acta as one pole and the probe as the other. Needles, bullets, grains and shot and CoL Baldwin, who for many years or. The first recommendation waa for of steel and copper can be was stationed at Chicago and Fort gallantry in an Indian fight in Texas pieces located the use of this sim8heridan as Inspector of rifle practice, in 1874, and the second for conspicu- easilymethod. by ple is in command of the battalion which ous personal bravery in the battle ol has gone into the interior of MindaWolf Mountain, Mont He has also nao after the Moros, who attacked a been breretted several times for bra- CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT SENATE party of American soldiers. Col. Baldlacullarltle very. la Mnmberililp at tkn win la a veteran of the civil and InCol. Baldwin was born in Michigan, Great Legislative Uwl dian wars, and bears the distinction and after serving i the civil war as a Not only does the Senate represent of being the only man ever twice namvolunteer was given a commission In In its membership almost every phase ed by congress for the Medal of Hon the regular army. of professional and industrial activity, but many of its members were experienced in legislative work before comWive by Fn rebus- Ua Had Xellceil lb ing to the Senate. Of the eighty-eigWives are still obtained by purchase Bridget and Fat were sitting In an senators twenty-si- x served in the in parts of Russian Europe. .In the armchair reading an article on The House of Fifteen Representatives. Russian district of Kamyschln, on the Law of Compensation. "Just fancy," senators have served as governors of Volga, for example, this Is practically exclaimed Bridget, according to this, states. Senator Warren served two the only way in which marriages are whin a roon loses wan iv 'is sinsea an- terms as governor of the For in- Wyoming, and his second territory brought about. The price of a pretty other gits more developed. term ended o girl from a family ranges stance, a bloind mon gits more ainse with the admission of the territory as from $50 to $100, and in special cases av hearin an touch, an "Shure, an a state. He was then elected first gova much higher sum is obtained. In it's quite thrue, answered Fat Olve ernor of the state. the villages the lowest price is about noticed it meself. Whin a mon haa Fifteen senators have a record if wan leg shorter than the other, $25. It is customary for the fathers service in the confederate army and of the Intending bride and bridegroom the other's longer. one was in the confederate navy. Nine to haggle for a long time over the senators were in the Union army. price to be paid for the lady. A young A Fable. Senators Pettus of Alabama and Bate farmer whose father cannot afford to A man had plundered a of Tennessee were in the Mexican war. pay for a wife for him need not think carried home the dripping combs and Washington Star. of getting married. was just engaged in getting on the outside of some of the honey when Blow at Roane Gallery. American Women In Germany. a hungry little bee came buzzing A Brooklyn magistrate is taking Of the fourteen ladles who took around to eat a little of it. The stepB to circumscribe the rogues' galdoctors degrees at one or the other of idea!" Indignantly roared the infurilery. He threatens to arrest policemen the German universities last year ated Sian, "Stealing my honey and who take prisoners to police headquareight were Americans and only six struck it dead. From the German of ters and photograph them before their Germans. Reinhart Volker, "The Whim. arraignment is made. lie says that such action is a violation of the penal code. The magistrate also pays his JOHN BURNS. THE ENGLISH LABOR LEADER. WHO HAS respects to the third degree." a as relic of the he which stigmatises INCURRED THE WRATH OF ASTOR. dark ages. His point is that when a man's photo has been taken for criminal record and the prisoner happens to be acquitted of the crime chargcl with he suffers an irreparable injury by hla portrait being in the possession of the police. The police say they always destroy the negatives if the subject is acquitted, but the magistrate rather doubts this. Anyhow, he says, the whole proceeding is illegal : ht well-to-d- be-gor- ra bee-hiv- e, ed Branca' pt Ill Jew Luck, Everybody who has been behind the scenes at Weber & Field's knows that the game of checkers whiles away the time between acts for the principal Fritz Williams took a performers. turn with Joe Weber the other evening and lost six straight games. "I can't understand it. said Williams. "I never played more carefully more scientifically, in fact; and yet you have swept me out of existence. It's just your Jew luck that did it. Which proves. responded Weber, tin it Chris"that Jew luck Is York Tribune. tian Scieme."--Nc- Steam Engine. years before Watt saw kettle steaming Giovanni Branra, an Italian, invented the crude Nearly 200 hla mother's steam engine here pictured. r w lived Contented. Thomas Brackett Reed always bad a well-fe- d look, of course, but nowadays air of comhe wears a as such he never fortable prosperity could boast while in rongress. When he visits Washington he puts up at the best hotel, which Involves greater expense than he could have met in the is said to old days. The in he remained wonder why public life so long. well-groom- ed Helen Ke'.ler lin Written a Hook, the deaf and blind Helen Ki girl, has written an autobiography' which will soon apptar. MUs Keller is now a student at Krulcliffe college. Her book, which Is written in sign language of the liind, is said to be remarkable fur the excellence of Its style. Fort et Vlarrmnca easing the regard which 1 at that tlnn entertained for them. I immediately stepped Into the water without waiting for a reply. Before a third of the men bad entered 1 halted and called to Major Bowman and ordered hint to fall men and to the rear with twenty-fiv- e put to death any man who refused to march with ns, as we did not wish Hint or? of MIlonarjr Work. Rev. Dr. Wilson of Fast Orange, N. J has compiled a histoiy of the hone missionary work of the Presbyterian church for the past I'M which will be issued at the centennial celebration of the home hoard. y-ars- Iiive Is the great divine likeness. type-featu- re . of UI2H3 xJOHTI RITIH LABOB LEADER John Burns, who has drawn upon his head the wrath of William Waldorf Astor for daring to advocate the building of a street car line on the Thames embankment, where Mr. Astor has offices, represents the constituency of Battersea in the British parliament and Is the foremost labor Mr. leader in the United Kingdom. statesman Burns Is a self-educat- ed and is proud of the fart. He says ol himself that he came into the world and is struggling now, struggling, and has a prospect of continuing the struggle Indefinitely. Mr. Burns is a radical. Much of the labor legislation lately passed by parliament waa fathered by him and he is prominent in all the great Ixtndon strikes. He la 48 yean old. Govarner llnvli In Trouble, Gov. Jeff C. Davis of Arkansas haa been summoned to answer to grave charges of heresy by the Baptist general convention of the state. The governor has. hitherto been regarded as an exemplary member of the church, ills friends declare he has the politeness of Henry Clay, the finesse of Abraham Lincoln and the force of Daniel Webster. |