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Show PEFFER OF KANSAS. HE LIKES TO EE CARICATURED AND AbUSED, tie People Art Think vlili Iliu Sum Going to I)r From Printer' Devil to Senntor A Devout ChrUtiaa ERE U a portrait cfthe most thoroughly abused man In the United State Senator William A. FeiAtrr of Kanras. For years the cartoonists of the east hav utilized til features as typical ,of the wild anil a o illy .politicians of .the a ert. He has been caricatured more than any man on this com. rent, tv 1th the possible exception of Blaine, Rt yi fijan.and Cleveland. Unbke most puliii-iac- s he takes It all in good part, lie honestly be- lieves that all the prople will jet come to his way of thinking and that In the not distant future rt'e'will have of everyl'Ang woith owftlng, to say nothing of bushels of money that will be Issued In payment thereof. Like most pf the populist leaders, Senator Peffer got his first start in life as a printers devil. Printers devils have a habit of reading the proofs which pass through their hands, and young Peffer was no exception to the rule. In this way he accumulated considerable knowledge. When be -- to desk he was able to read a matket report back wards And it is said that he used to read that way. A facetious writer-h- a remarked that that is how he got It Into his head that the world was progressing backward. Anyway, toy the lime to the editorial chair he was firmly convinced that thing were. upside down gene; ally, and he succeeded In making other people agree with him. He entered political life and in a remarkably short time found himself elected to a seat In the United States senate. Today he Is looked upon as the logical cruidlriatefor president-toa large portion of his party. Aside from his political views. Senator Peffer would attract general admlr-to- r Peffer would attract general admiil ration. He Is a strict temperatlon by Inches. He Is a devout Christian and believes that finally the reign of the Christian spirit will dissolve the troubles of our times. HI home is a happy one. While In New Tork thoTher day Mr. Peffer took occasion to tell a reporter some things about his party. He said: It Is a mistake to supivse that the populist party is decreasing in strength. We are gaining. We shall call a convention next j'ear a ad put a ticket into the field. Our platform will be reform In finance, direct taxation, better returns to labor for It toll and govern- ad-ev- Jp f mk SENATOR PEFFER. meat ownership of railroad and other great public corporate Interests. "As to the silver question, I dont believe it will be the dominant issue next The agitation is already ceasing; camp-meetipart of the discussion is over, and people are getting down to the thinking. The silver question is one of continual Interest; but, like every other public question, interest in it flows and ebbs. Interest is now on the ebb. I hardly think there will be a sliver ticket in the field. If there Is It will be separate from the populist, unless it unites with us. "Business is better than it was, and crops promise large return. We shall Talse 00,000,000 bushels of corn in Kansas. The acreage la iargerjhan it was, although our proportion is not ao great. The situation hag been this: For several years the. manufacturers vastly overproduced. It was necessary for them to get rid of this- - surplus product, so, gradually, they decreased their output, until the country was down to bedrock and the manufacturers had' disputed of their old stocks. Then, of course, busi ness began to revive, and will probably continue to grow better.,J that Is, the ng Riding were known to the KILLED T1IEL0TTERY. Incredible and exaggerated a such statements must appear, the testimony to their truth is so abundant and unimpeachable that It seems to the reader if at tils crisis there had appeared in irop a being neither human, demoniac nor celestial, tout a man with superhuman powers of endurance, apprehension and labor, an angel without perfection, a demon without malevolence. For, on the whole, Bonapartes work, while replete with dangerous expedients. nd, as the future conclusively proved, inspired by was beneficent, constructive and permanent tn regard not merely to France, but to Europe and - the world. Professor Sloanes Life of Napoleon in the Au- Biographical Sketch of a Mark Talked About Catholic Prelate, LAWMAKERS CET NO SHOW IN Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul, aa an NEW YORK. orator, has gained a national reputation. He was born in faurnchurefe county. Kilkenny, Ireland, Sept. It, Ko More Liquor to Bo Nt on Sunday ISAS. His parents emigrated to the Thaodoro Roosevelt Uaa Canard thl United States when he was a boy, and Liquor Man ho End of Worrlraent settled In St. Paul, Minn. -- He went to A Dotormtned Man. Pane In. September, 1S53, entered the Petit Semina Ire of 'Mexlmeux, and finished the course In four years, half the N THE REALM usual time. After studying theology In the Grand Semlnalre at Hjeres, he reof American public turned to St, Paul In 1861, and was oraffairs the most indained In December of that year. He teresting -- topic of served as chaplain of the Fifth Minnethe past few weeks sota regiment during a part of the civil has been the en- gust Century. war, and was afterward appointed recforcement of the tor of the cathedral at St. IauL In laws against SunJUDGE "THOM AS M. COOLEY. 109 he organized the'flrirt total abstiday liquor (tolling, nence society In the state, in 1870 he by the police com- Sketch ef One of Americas Meet Lmi-aewent to Rome as the accredited repremissioners of New sentative of Bishop Grace at the VatiYoik City. Theo- Legal Lights. can. After hla consecration as coadjudore Roosevelt a Judge Thomas M. Cooley was bora tor bishop of St. Paul In 1875, he underIn has N. Attica, Y., Jan. 6r1S24. He began of the r.ew police board the president took the work of coloniznrtimr-l- n be the study of law In Palmyra. N.Y.. in taken the ground that reNorthwest. He made large purchases will observeastonishing 1842, and removing to Michigan the next Ms oath of office and of land in Minnesota, which were takthe laws. New York has never year wee admitted to the bar at Adrian en up by nine hundred. Roman Catholic spect been so shocked and surprised In all In January ,iT844. For a time he edited colonists He then hough twelve thou- - Its 250 Tho the Adrian Watch-Towe- r, a newspaper, years of existence. great politicians are aghast and and in 1557 was assigned to the work are declaring that- the party will be of enmilling vhe general statutes of rulnod. They pretest that it was not Michigan, which were published ig two for this that they helped to elect the volumes. In 1S58 he was appointed reMr, porter of the Supreme court. Which office reform ticket last November, Roosevelt Intrepidity seems even to be held for seven years, In 185 he have disconcerted Mayor Strong himself a very little, but upon the whole the mayor evidently like Mr," Roose-vellogic and Intends to support him to the end. It happens that Mr. Roosevelt colleagues on th police board are in absolute harmony with their presi-deand are aa actively. committed to r, the execution of the policy as Hr. Roosevelt himself. Col. Frederick Grant, who le one of the- - commissioner, has not forgotten that hla illustrious father used to aay that th best way to deal with an unpopular law hj to enforce lb The police commissioner do not give themselves much concern with the question whether the law Is wise or mistaken." They simply stand upon Us enforcement until the legislature chooses BISHOP IRELAND. to alter it , Mr. Roosevelt Is a veritable dynamo sand acres of land with equally of earnestness, force, and physical and results-.-J- n. 1S5J be was .appointmental energy. Iff build he Is of the ed archbishop of SL Paul. ! A f j f medium height, broad, very thlck-ee- t. I ' solid, and muscular. Even through the large-lense- d WILL TEACH HOW TO LIVE. glasses he Is obliged to THOMAS MlNTYRE CQQLEY, wear when at work he looks boyish and is constantly thus referred to In the wa made Justice of the supreme court Pittsburg Priest Alms to Reform Drunkards and Gluttons. press. That Is because he is not only of Michigan, becoming chief Justice in tout hi youth has been preserved 1868, and served until 4885, when he reRev, Father McKeever, of the Church young, an active outdoor life rationally di- tired permanently from the bench. by of St John the Baptist, is organizing rected. He has a plump, almost round When the law for the regulation of Ina novel temperance society. It Is face, thick brown hair, the small light terstate commerce went Into . effect and its members will be permustache of a younger man than he Is, Judge Cooley waa made chairman of the interstate commerce commission, a mitted the use of light beer and winea and snapping blue eyes Hla photoIn moderation. Should t 'e plans of the graphs make him look a trifle stern bepost which he resigned In 1893. He has (all that 1 have seen) are held the professorship of constitutional organization become popular the liquor cause they his glasses off and the strong and administrative law in the Unlver business of this country win be entire- taken with makes him half close his eyes, slty of Michigan, and the chair of light a While total revolutionized. ly like a man influenced by a stern reso- American history in the same college. himself. Father McKeever be- lution or character. In reality, he Is He is tlie author of a number of legal lieves in temperance in all things. The a kindly, genial, happy man, too full works, digests and commentaries, that of animal spirits and too fond of fun are much used in the profession, and work of bis society will be educational. has written a history of the governS It is to go Into homes and teaeh the ments of Michigan. science of living. - What food Is beat suited to Individuals according to the The Cigarette. work they do, and how to prepare It, It is puszllng to account for th dif the amounts necessary for the preserferent status of the cigarette In Eng vation of health and strength will be land and the United States lied It is who desire them. those For taught very rofe to find a man past middle life alcoholic stimulants tl.juse of beer and smoking cigarettes, yet the statement ts light wtoes will be advocated. Whisky, made on good authority that Herbert smokes Spencer,- - who le seventy-flvbrandy, gin, rum. Father McKeever them, and tt Is noticeable In reading relegates to the apothecaries, where the personal gossip or London weekly they are to be secured as medicine by papers that the same fault (from of treating prescription. The practice point of view) Is alleged will be discountenanced. Father Mcagainst many men of prominence In Keever Is arranging for a mass meetpublic life. When Emily Faithful died, the story of her fondness for cigarettes ing at which hla Ideas will be exwas repeated, and It shocked many plained. He is pastor of one of the American readers; but Miss Faithful largest Roman Catholic churches in was not unique among English ladles this city. He also proposes to reform in this Indulgence. In the case of men, eat who too much. people perhaps the" Inferior quality of their cigars and the proximity of England to the continent may account for the SI InUter ft Victim of Whltccaps preference given the cigarette. The other night at 11 oclock four B. T. took the Rev. Rooks, whltecaps Story ef Tom Reed. the Baptist minister of Westmoreland, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. After he was graduated from Bow-doKas., from his home In a hack, drove Reed thought out tn the country five miles with him to be stern college cn rare occasion. Hla and then tarred and feathered htm. mind worksexcept so quickly, and be is so seriously of becoming a minister, but he studied law Instead of divinity and Rooks is lying at a farmers house and In every impulse, that he talks California to hang out his he has been notified that he will be shot quick and seems to explode his words, went to The fast, or hung If he returns to Westmoreland. story of his admission to which fly from him In short volleys, shingle. "Tom," He Is accused of assaulting a girl. Th not 'in a loud tone, but with only half the bar there Is Interesting. act citizens of Westmoreland are taking res trained energy. He Is noted for his said the judge, "is the legal-tendsides In the affair and there is great high Ideals, but he Is nevertheless ex- constitutional ?" "It is, air, answered the excitement. Lynching are threatened lawyer, who knew his examceedingly practical I asked him once iner'syoung bent "You shall he admitted," on both sides. what he expected to be or dreamed of said the and the ceremony was being when he was a boy, and he said: at an end.Judge, Three year lajer Mr. Reed not I do recollect that I dreamed at was Bike Will Be Heavier Kext Tear. back In hla Maine home and a or all alL I at planned obeyed simply a Bicycle makers say wheels will be the injunction, whatever thy hand member of the legislature. TIrea flndeth few pounds heavier next year. to do, that do with all thy will be one-balarger than at present might, and ao I took up what came Stanley's Remarkable Career, Between John" Rowlands. other wise along aa It came. Since then I have gone e, on Lincolns mot'o, Do the best; if not. Howell Jones, waif from a British then the best possible, " He has never Haggard a a Statesman. and Henry M, Stanley, member H. Rider Haggard, the author, was laid up anything to toe carried out In of parliament, there extends a career Whatever has occurred to him jt adventure and vicissitude a among those recently chosen to the future. a anything in a roman tie noveL to do that he has done at once with all his might and main, whether It was Aa cabin boy, confederate soldier, Inhunting bears, or writing books, r dian fighter, reporter, war correspondclimbing mountains. And in that way ent and African explorer, Stanley has the whole country has seen him go at had a life of rare interest, and now, at the task of reforming the New York police. Julian Ralph. AMERICANS OWE MUCH PROF. WO 3D BRIDGE." Was a prime in the Orlgloat and Jttcr Wevrred Inttl the Octopus Driven from One feontry. Moser ciuplg Aott-Lotte- ROFESSOR S. H. Woodbridge, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to whom perhaps more than to any other person the lottery business ewes its death blow, was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey g, nt - t ts nt i -- 1 aatls-faetor- y- - non-sectari- an ab-atai- TO .on Dec. 26, 1848. He descendant of the Rev. John Woodbrldge, a Puritan preacher, who came to this country in 1639, and became the first 'minister In Newbury, now Newburyport, Massachusetts. At Williams volUge, where he recejved hla acadepdo education. Prof. Woodbrldge exhibited trait of leadership and an ability for organization and aggressive effort which made hhn a young man ef mu, it- - He identified throughout his student life with all the religious and moral activities of the college, at one time toeing chiefly instrumental In" quelling a rebellion among the undergraduates, and at another raising from the alumni enough money to build a parsonage for the resident minister in the noted Whit Oaka missionary parish. 's On leaving college, it was Prof, purpose to become -- a- general teacher of physics, tout sn accident turned hla attention to the subjects of heating and ventilation, and his reputation as sn expert presently won for him a chair tn the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an instructor In these branches Falling 111, and lunlng for a season the use of his ej'es, he became deeply Interested In what friends read to him of the struggle In Louisiana to rid that state of th lottery curse. He with th mancamagers of the original paign; but when that waa ended by the- - exclusion of all 4oary matter from the mails, he discovered that It would be necessary to close other avenues of advertisement and correspondence also. Accordingly In the early day Of 1894 he organized the movement which ended only at five minutes before noon on the 4th of last March. It was a fine example of what can be accomplished In th face of appalling odds by one determined and tireless agitator. Prof. Woodbrldge trusted nothing to other hands which his own could do and the last night of the last session of the Fifty-thir- d Congress he passed In the senate ghllcry, encouraging by his presence the twelve hours siege which Senator Hoar, In spite of and exhaustion from overwork, was conducting on the floor. After the close of the session. Prof. Woodbrldge was called in to examine in er lf poor-hous- dra-mat- ia -- Astridw Napoleon's Industry. Before the time when the campaign could open in the spring of 1800 all these parts were intended to be, and actually were, running smoothly; tout they were running by the Inspiration and activity of a single man. The council of state was his greater self, the senate bis Instrument of governing; the legislative body was as sll-- nt as the tribunate was, noisy neither was a serious check on his plans. Legislation of the greatest Importance waa 'under way; it was devised for the purposes of centralization, and was studied in detail by the First Consul. Administration waa .proceeding with scarcely any friction whatsoever but H. RIDER HAGGARD. thl was because Bonaparte kept bis eye A Bare Chance, Perhaps. on each separata office, and carefully a advertiseHeres queer Daughter English House of Commons. Mr. Hagsuperintended Us working. By special ment in the Trumpet: "A well cultured gard is best known to Americans as the arrangement foreign relations were con baby for adoption. - Dont yon think writer of stories. It Is said that be inay aldered and settled In secret consultameans that at an early date be chosen to Oil a va- tion by th chief of state and TalleyMother I dont know. JPerhaps Its cancy In the Salisbury cabinet rand, but the latter never pretended that In unraveling the threads of so a Boston baby, tangled a web, or in their skillful rethe Initiative was his. JadlrUt Incredulity. , arrangement. ' 3etwren the Dcril and the Peep See. Carnot at his old work, with his old Judge Do you acknowledge that yon genius unimpaired, needed little enThe women at York Harbor, Maine, guilty of the charge made against couragement but even In his departtare two alternatives, either to wear are ment every corps, every battalion, every you? to a stop bloomers or put sprinkling Culprit Whats the uee of my say- regiment, every company of all the arms the streets with salt water, which ruins ing not guilty?" You are so suspicious cavalry, Infantry or artillery of every their dresses. you wouldn't believe ms anyhow. class, eonseript, soldier, reserve or home The "new woman" is only copying after the ancient dame when abe rides astride, as is now the fashion of the royal princesses and the leading equestrienne of both England and Ameri ca. Joan of Arc rode astride at the head of the French army, and Queen Elizabeth used Yo ride to falcon hunts in this fashion behind Lord Leicester. It was only In the Sixteenth century that the side saddle came into use in England, and women rode astride In Germany until the close of the eighteenth century. In most foreign countries the fashion of riding on one sole has never been adopted by women. well-nature- Ut twenty-nig- catch them In a peculiar manne hi arms and between hie legs. I Of hla playing we are told passed from one drum to the othcsaki such wonderful rapidity that spectVuh ceuld hardly follow the movement ft hla hands and body. V M. IL anil-lotter- y ft-- - Vs ? j? yskp V .' y''rr',J frr . ? v H$i 1 AA , VX 1 'A$- - REV, JOHN WOODBRIDGE. the defective ventilating appliance in the hail of congress, and to report plana for their permanent Improvement He la etlll engaged In thl work. tV'rtle' education, leaded th paters trade. v Desiring to biter h(r condition, and hearing of an irenJog in MaysvlUe. Ky., he started fotjthat place. The steam- boat na.whli be book passage was blown to atfw by the explosion of it boiler, and ar several, months Mr. Lewis hover between Kfe and death in a CJnclnati hospital. When the war broke oft he went to the front with the ScvJth Michigan cavalry, afliT Served withlils rcgimepi throughout, the conflict kfter being mustered out he went to Michigan and again took up the print re trade. He was connected for I time with the rontlao Bill Poster, id then drifted to Lansing, where one wtiter be was engaged to act as jeglelathi correspondent for the De Mi-- bom-stealin- X C. n LEWIS -- ? -- M QUAD." trolt Free Jres. He sulsoqqenHy went to Detroit) and became a reporter for the Free frese," continuing hi connection with that paper for over twenty-liv- e year. He made himself and hi paper famous with his short stories and articles depicting th humorous and pathetic phases of city life. A few years ago he became connected with a New York paper, and since that time has resided In Brooklyn. Mr. Lewis ha written a number of novel that have been well received, but he ta best known as a humorist. Recently he returned to his aid hame" on the Free Press. Melbft't Trill An Interesting aaerdote Is being told In New York about Mme. Melba, On a recent occasion she took the part of the queen In The Huguenots" at a per- formance at the Hotel Savoy. During tbs performance a little child became excited and running to Its mother, who was in ths audience, cried in audible manner: Listen, mamma; birdie, blrdler The effect was magicaL Th audience broke forth Into a storm of applause. Alter the performance th great singer said; Nothing has ever pleased me more in all the things that have been said of me In all my life." Dahls the rMyUt Hamilton W. Mabie, the essayist and editor. Is frequently mistaken for an Englishman, probably because of his appearance and the fresh look of health In hit face. He barrens, however, to be an American, for he waa born at Cold Springs, New York, fifty years arc. He I a man of attractive personality, and he is as fond of life as hla writings make Others. His summer home Is in the mountains of BulUvan county, New York. out-do- or Mrs, Beecher Still at Work, Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is now eighty-thre- e years old a slender woman of medium height, with a face that Is described as faded and wrinkled, but WASHINGTON IRVINQ BABB. has line of strength and determination I strong and her One of th Caadldates tat Gorernor of in It, while her voice Beecher clear. has conMrs, mind Iowa. - tributed many articles to periodicals Washington Irving Bcbb, on of the during ths last few years, and found litcandidate for governor of Iowa, waa erary work profitable and pleasant. born Oct. 4, 1844, on his father's farm In Pea Moines county, near Burlington, Aa Excited Coaeeraatloa. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. Miles Horrors! Those First Bystander low came from to who PennsylBabb, to each others scratch ar two descent. were trying Dutch of There vania and wers hut two children in the family, eyes out Second Bystander No, they are not. W, L Babb and his sister. Mi. Belle Mansfield, now dean of the music and Its a deaf and dumb man, and his wife, art school of De Pauw university. quarreling. Greencsstle, Ind. Miles Babb died when his son was young. Anxious that her children should have sn education, Foster1 Big Fee, Mrs. Babb sold her farm and moved to ML Pleasant, that Hi might enjoy its educational advantages Young Babb Immediately entered the Iowa Wesleyan university and continued until 1863, when, at the t,J of eighteen, enlisted in the famous Fourth Iowa cavalry and 1 5 J, served until the close of the war. Then he reentered college, graduating in the class of 1866. Having chosen the law as his profession. he at at once entered the office of bi admitAmbPr & Ar"hiT, ani1, tance to the bar was made a member of the firm under th name of Ambler A Babb, After a few year he formed a partnership with John S. Woolson, another leading lawjer. The firm of Woolson & Babb at once became recognized a th leading one in southeastern lewa and enjoyed a large practice. The firm was dissolved four year ago, however, by the election of Mr. Babb to the district bench. Shortwa ly after his partner, Mr. Woolson, appointed United States Judge for th southern district of low. Judge Babb cast hi first vote for Abraham Lincoln. M. STANLEY. be secure a place In British politics equal to th one he gained !n - probably the most remarkable drumLondon society by Jean Henri, the j,g mairiage to MIse mer that ever lived w? of the Emperor Tennant, sister of the celebrated famous tambour-majo- r "Dodo." The has lived in Napoleon, who some Sixty years since London for some years, and during all gave sn exhibition of his wonderful talof the time has been more Interested ents at the Lyceum theater, London. tn blue books than in the Dark ContOne of his feats was to play on fifteen inent He has grown stouter with tls differently toned drums at the earn life of ease. time In so soft and harmonious a manupner. that. Instead of the A hoy has been sent to the roar that might have been expected, the reform school from Rockford, KM for effect wa that of a novel and complete .. Instrument Another trick of hi was e, QUAD. A Kaa Vho Hat Made AO dom Charles B. Lewis, better knoe hi pen-laof 'M. Quad," w born !n northern Ohio early in and, after recthlng a come"1 school j"7 fifty-fiv- drums: ht Wood-bridge- rs eigar-smoke- to throw th air la all directions and -- e. MMm year. guard e(.b end all First Consul PARTY MEN AGHAST. BISHOP IRELAND. Pram-Bestin- g. I-- pMl above la a portrait of of State Foster who gained world wide fame as a diplomat, be having ably conducted th peace negotiations between China and Japan. For his services China is said to have paid him tb handsame sum of 1200,000, The Another Woman Sheriff Mrs, Helen C. Stewart, has taken the oath of office, and become sheriff of Green county, Missouri. She gave a bond of 23,000, which was approved. 9 . r ' |