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Show THE SEMI-WEEKL- NATION. Y WAGE-WORKER- K. T. HYDE, FnblUher. LOQAN, S I I I BRITISH HENRY DEMOREST LLOYD. FRIE D OF WHO DIED L ST WEEK S. AMBASSADOR HERBERT DIES AT SWISS HEALTH RESORT UTAH. : One good thing about a hone nee, there ia no time limit. The biggest bargain counter of the world for women Is the altar. The military automobile, we assume, will be equipped with bullet-proo- f tires. There are no reconcentrados In the territory which has been pacified by the Turk. If Prof. Langley succeeds In making his flying machine carry him, he will be a bird. It appears from the records that the British war office was about the best friend the Boers had. Edward has congratulated the Duke of Rozeburghe. Who will congratu- late the other party to the contract? Notwithstanding the efforts of Prof. Langley and others, the leading flying machine Is still the American eagle. Sir Thomas couldn't take away the cup with his fleet of Shamrocks, and the whole British navy couldnt do It, either. DEATH No one can accuse the Atlanta man who was wedded In the blaze of 5,000 Incandescent lights of having anything to conceal. Has Commander Peary thought ou In the long arctic nights Just what he will do with the north pole In case he gets It? ; Colombia has turned It down. But she ought to remember that your Uncle Sam has ordered it up and that spades are trumps. The real brains of the country Is about to be assembled In great Intellectual pools. The freshmen are preparing to enter college. Inasmuch as a man cannot have two wives at the same time he ought to be protected from a duplication of breach of promise suits. l- - featita'tff aii&r fiwn plays have yet to demonstrate whether or not the thing la possible. The sultan of Turkey admits thai; he Is superstitious about paying bills. Those who have had dealings with him also Insist that he Is absent-minde- That New York man who hastily drank off a heavy dose of carbolic add the Instant he heard a street organ strike up Hiawatha was probably a musician. Sam Child Is back after a two months sojourn abroad. He was asked If he sprung any of his jokes In England, and blandly asked, What was the user William Waldorf Astor has contributed 5100,000 to the research fund to And a cure for cancer. It Is a pleasure to be able to Bay something good about Mr. Astor. - A .surgeon announces the discovery will make hair grow where all other hair tonics fall. This Is all right for the hair, but of what use Is the scrambled brains?' that the X-ra- y The trouble about having Turkey divided by the powers Is that each power wants both legs and the dark and white meat and a couple of wings and the stuffing and the wishbone. Considering how often he expressed his desire that the better boat should win, Sir Thomass dissatisfaction Is most Inconsistent It Is generally conceded that the better boat won. The president of the New York stock exchange has decided that there must be no more horse play during business hours. Evidently the bulls and bears want It all to themselves. Two women were searched at the New York custom house and found to have 51,000 worth of costly lace wound around their bodies. They learned that It was their duty to avoid lacing. A great ado Is being made because the bcu of a man worth 58,000,000 has enterod his fathers foundry as an apprentice. Iu our simple, democratic way money lends Importance to the most ordinary event. No doubt Lou Dillon, when she established her wonderful record, felt pretty sure it would remain undisturbed for some time, but.Mdjor Delmar's mile In 2:00ti must rather tend to upset her equine-lmlttwo-minut- e OF HENRY D. LLOYD. Long Known as a Devoted Student of .Economic Questions. Henry D. Lloyd, a devoted student of economic questions, died of pneumonia at Chicago last week. Mr. Lloyd was widely known, not only In the United States, but in Europe, as the friend of the wage worker, and as. an authority on all matters pertaining to the toller and his welfare. He was born In Belleville, N. J.,' near Newark, May 1, 1847. His father was Rev. Aaron Lloyd, a clergyman of the Dutch Reformed church. A brother, Demorest Lloyd, was a celebrated playwright In bis day. Henry D. Lloyd received his early education in New York city. When a young man he studied In CoODD ANIMAL FOUND IN GIRL. lumbia University, and after he was graduated he took a law course; in' 1869 he was licensed as an attorney. Creature Which Puzzles Doctors Tak en from Near Shoulder Blade. During the next three years Mr. An extraordinary case which ha Lloyd was assistant secretary of therrqfesslon Is n American Free Trade League, organ- baffled the medical from ' TtiutrfagTm ,nv..i..t ., Last October a girl aged twenty-tw- ( lb 10 the young man was also actively living in a village near Bucklnghan engaged in organizing the Young fell 111. She gradually became worst Mens Municipal Reform Association, and In February last vomited a nun which contributed its share In the de- ber of live animals about the size c moralization of the notorious Tweed a sixpence. machine. In that cam algn Mr. Lloyd Then she wsb taken to Bucklnghai The Nursing home, where she prepared a manual for voters. title was Every Man His Own Voter, medical attention for about sixreceive weeki and the pamphlets were distributed in At the end of time Bhe was take tbat New section of York every city, and i a hospital In London. helped to open the eyes of the citizens The were applied, and th to the machinations of Tweed and his cause of the Illness was found to b gang. Mr. Lloyd then went to Chicago. In the presence of a large animal nea 1 1873 he was married to a daughter of the left shoulder blade. White flat and color, as almost as tb large William Brass, once lieutenant govpalm of the hand, surrounded b ernor of Illinois. As a Chicagoan Mr. Lloyd continued scores of smaller ojies. Several members f the medical pn his work among the people. Through fesslon were present at Jie operatioi magazine articles, lectures and personal labors among the masses he and others have Been the animals, an came to be considered an authority on they all agree that 'such a case ha sociological questions. Several years never before been known, neither ca ago he went to New Zealand, where he any idea be given as to the origin c remained six months studying eco- the animals. nomic conditions. One result of thin Boy Hero Saves Three Lives. trip was a book ent led A Country At Clifton, near McBrayer, Ky., Without Strikes. He was also sent by the Allied Howard White, a boy, Trades Unions of the United States accomplished the wonderful feat ol to represent them at the International rescuing three drowning persons from congress in Berne, Switzerland. A few the Kentucky river, and as a result months ago Mr. Lloyd was associate the boy Is being praised and honored counsel with Clarence Darrow before by friends of those whom he saved. A the national arbitration commission. party consisting of Mrs. White, his The miners rights were advocated by mother, his grandmother and a sister had been ferried across Mr. Lloyd in a speech which was the river from the Anderson to the warmly praised. He was a producer of many books Woodford side, and 'after leaving the and treatises. "Wealth vs. Common- boat the horse they were driving bewealth and Making Bread Dear are gan backing and plunged the occuamong the creatures of his brain. He pants of the buggy Into twenty feet o: was a man of considerable means, a water. The mothhr and child were pleasant personality, and had the repu- clutched together as they went down, but the boy managed to swim to them tation of being a forceful orator. and grasped the child. He swam ashore and saved her. Instantly he Keene Criticized by Hie Valet. James R. Keene's valet, whose con- returned to his drowning parent and, vivial habits landed him in a New grasping her, carried her safely to the York station house last week, betrayed shore. This done, he plunged In to one of his masters secrets when he rescue his grandparent, and in this he was arraigned. He said the only thing gallantly succeeded. The horse and he had agin Mr. Keene was that he vehicle sank, the horse being drowned, wore pink pyjamas. He also comAndrew Carnegies Diversions. plained that Mr. Keene had the bourYou ought to Bee Andrew Carnegie geois habit of retiring before midnight, a thing that Col. Toni Ochiltree, his strip, get into a bathing suit, and swim former master, never thought of do- around in his private tank qt Sklbo ing. All tlicsd things preyed upon his Castle. Hes a lively old fellow, said mind and he admitted that ho had Gen. C. II. Grosvenor of Ohio, who arrived on the St. Louis last week tried to flood them out. from an extended European tour with his visit to Mrs. Grosvenor, desa-ibinStrenuous Pennsylvania Pastor. A. AIinoBt unaided, ltcv. W. Lewis, the estate of Carndgie, In Scotland, Cdrnegie has had a of the Cherry Valley, Ia., Methodist and continued: church, rebuilt tho houso of worship tank built lu his casjle for his private In which his congregation assembled. use. It Is fifty feet long, twenty feet He did the painting, mason and car- wide, and Is filled with sea water, penter work and even carried tbe which Is heated fron the bottom. Carladbricks and mortar up a thirty-foo- t negie not only swln s, but plays golf le Is in excellent and plays It well. der. Tho church was redcdlcatcd I health. - X-ra- twelve-year-ol- d two-year-ol- , I Sir Michael Henry Herbert, who died In Switzerland Sept 30, had been British ambassador to the United States since the death of Lord Paunce-fot- e last year. He had previously represented his government at Washingand ton as charge daffaires in 1888-'8While secretary of legation In 1892-99 3. CHINAMAN TO WED at the head of the legation at Wash- ington in 1888 he was married to Miss Wilson, the daughter of Richard Wilson of New York, and sister of Mrs. Ogden Goclet and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. Besides a widow. Sir Michael leaves two sons, boys of thirteen and eleven years of age. jIla BURRO FALLS 100 FEET. AMERICAN. Slips From Mountain Trail and Landa in Tree. A burro belonging to A. M. Nagle and T. W. Noble of Los Angeles, Cal., fell so far la two minutes that It took ten hours to get him back again. Nagle and Noble were, traversing an old abandoned trail in the mountains In the Lytle creek region, when the trail became blind owing to erosion caused . by the winter In their rains. They persisted attempt to get over the bad Orient ' Hin has been In this country for ten stretch of road and had nearly sucyearB and waB formerly employed as ceeded when their burro, upon which a cigarmaker in Los Angeles, Cal. was loaded their camp outfit, slipped om mere mr wem, iu dublouxO work and went over the precipice and landtit at his trade. He became acquainted ed in a live oak tree 100 feet below. with Misa Robbins stepfather, and The animal, apparently stunned by through him met the girL Hin Is an the fall, remained quiet till they got intelligent looking Chinaman, cuts his down to him, whn he began kicking. hair short and wears American This dislodged him from his position clothes. He belongs to tbe Baptist In the tree and he fell to the ground, church and is thoroughly American- twenty feet below, none the worse for ized. He declared that the trip to the fall. it took the men all day to cut a Chicago was In no sense an elopement. He said that full consent had trail and get the burro out of the canbeen obtained from his fiancees step- yon. father, and that he Intended to be married in Chicago. New York will HER FRIENDS TOO FAITHFUL. be the home of the strangely mated couple. Hin Intends to enter business Admirers of the Divine Sarah" Rethere for himself. fuse a Substitute. Sarah Bernhardt is much displeased ITALY IS ALSO DISTURBED. with her Paris public. During her pro vincial tour she determined to keep American Competition Has Its Effect her Paris theater open with a revival Even There. of "LAiglon, In which her latest proAmerican competition has disturbed tege, young Max, was to play the hero. Italy, according to Prof. Luigi Luzzattl, But Sarah has worn LAlglon's a financier, who has breeches so effectively that the Parisbeen three times minister of the treas- ians refused to accept any mere man ury and has worked out almost all the in the role. One of the critics wrote: commercial treaties betwen Italy and After the remarkable nonsuccess-whichas greeted Mr. Maxs appear ance as LAiglon, we have no doubt that next season, out of the goodness of her heart, Mme. Bernhardt will promote him to her other great role. Mar guerite Gauthier." Chinn Kai Hin Will Marry Boston . Girl in Chicago. Chin Kai Hin, a Chinaman, 26 years old, of Los Angeles CaL, secured a marriage license at Chicago last week to wed Carrie E. Robbins, an American girl of Boston, Mass. The almond-eyeswain first met Miss Robbins eight years ago at a Baptist church in The acquaintance ripened Boston. into love, and the young woman consented to marry the man from the d . world-renowne- d d Traveled Far to Pay Debt. To pay a debt of 51 more than 10,009 miles over the sea came Fergus Thorkleson, a Danish seaman. lie arrived at New York on the coaster Bethel, In Brooklyn, tattered and still humble, and proved himself as he said, a square man to Capt Hiram I Meeker, who had advanced him five years ago. In his simplicity of mind the sailor had never thought he could just as well have discharged his debt by mail. Capt. Meeker, he said, gave the money to me with his own hand, and I had to give It back to him with mine." He was in Sydney, Australia, when he made up his mind to pay back the money. For months the sailor beat across th& seas on his quaint mission. the-dolla- other countries In recent years. Prof. Luzzattl has had a wonderful career and was twice elected to the Italian parliament before he was thirty, but was unable to serve as he was under age. He is the apostle of of which he Is the able exponent. Victim of Boer Sharpshooter. A marblo cross has been placed on the Bpot where tho carl of Ava wns shot during the siege of LadyBmlth four .years ago. The earl was an unusually tall man and therefore was a comparatively easy shot for the Boer Just as tho Englishman fell sniper. dead one of his men, crouching near by, located the Boer's hiding place and when next tho latter's head appeared Tommy Atkins put a bullet into It Death Pact Is Fulfilled. A remarkable compact on tho part of five young Germans to die within a year has Just been fulfilled at the village of Ltciitcnfels, near Ausburg. Eleven months ago, the young men, who were all particularly Jovial In temperament and of powerful build, woro drinking in a local tavern with the village cemetery keeper. "We agree to place ourselves in your hands for burial within a year, was their pledge to tho gravedigger. Foijr of them died a natural death before tho expiration of six nfoutlu. Last week the fifth died also. half-jokin- g |