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Show bm r r' r MOSLER, THE ARTIST. A GIRL HONORED. IS REFORMER CkwM Is FmIUm of Government HE FLOURISHED DURINQ LATE CIVIL WAR. THE Miss Adelaide Hasse. of Los Angeles, Cal., who has just teen appointed chief of the department of government documents and flies at Washington, is a The War PicturM ta Harper Weekly Among III Must Notable Work Ilea Recently Flair lie J a Fainting Dettliteii to ltecome P amour. Win -- NE of the conspicuous pictures in the current exhibition at the Academy of Design is the large production in the north gallery entitled "Last Jt Js a death scene in an old European interior. The subject renders it anything but cheerful, yet the signature affixed to the work must send the mind of many a visitor pleasantly back to the early sixties and our civil war. The artist, Henry Mosler, came Into considerable prominence then. He was a lad in Cincinnati, the city of his birth. Major Anderson was there just after the bombardment of Fort Bumltr, and Mr. Mosler saw him throughout the festivities Incident to h!a passage through the place. He made some sketrhes apropos of the occasion and sent them to the editor of Harper's Weekly. They were promptly accepted, and their author was commissioned out of hand to act as the special artist In the west for the periodical at that time foremost In the pictorial the war. Mr. Mosler started for .Louisville and sketched episodes In the trouble thereabouts. Within a short time he met Sherman, who gave him a rather bluff reception ;Yut he was soon at home In military life, and made .friends with the commander, who at first seemed to doubt that so young a man could be anything but an obstruction gt the front. He saw the battles of Mumfordsvllle, PerrysvlUe, Somerset, Shiloh, and Pittsburg Landing, besides many nameless minor actions in various parts of Kentucky. Tennessee,' Mississippi, and Alabama, All through this period Mr. Mosler sent sketches and correspondence to Harper's Weekly, and old readers of the paper will remember the and pic:ures.juen ss of his woik In 163 he threw up his commission and went to New York en route for Europe, where he contemplated a long course of artistic study. His employers In the East were astonished when they skw him. They had expected an older man But already Mr. Mosler had confirmed the faith which had been placed in his work, and not long after his arrival In Europe he showed even more coni lusjvely that his talents were of a substantial character. He entered at ouee upon a career which has been un- - j Wisconsin girl, having graduated from a Milwaukee high school. Secretary Morton was attracted to her ability aa a librarian by her method of indexing publications of the agricultural department while In the I, os Angeles public library. As city librarian, llss Hasse made repeated requests for publications of the department at Washington, and it was during this correspondence that Secretary Morton became acquainted with the system of filing In vogue at Los Angeles and its inventor. On account or some misunderstanding with Lbs AsgvLfa tttjpasry butAvMJ., Hasseand her assistant recently re- signed her position there, which she had held for six years. A few daya later she received a telegraphic offer of ths nected wltn many working girl1 homed, relief societies, and. In Tact, all of lUa char, table enterprise of the church of whlcn her husband la well s a numbir of outside pastor, missions Uet4 SOME RECENT CHANCES IN THE fnendl) words of advice cheer and ea UNITED STATES ARMY. courage many a forlorn and heart brok-c- n g.ii U,d wtj0 To IXor Hathaad ! deserving pu All fh Com to the help fi oq.jier generous heart In Vtw Fseos That 11st Honor of Reforming Xew orb a m ire substantial Front la the Military Banks Gen-raway. The Wn the Innrin Angel of the Cirent never lecve her door unfed, or thehungry naked Merritt, llllaa and Copplnger unclothed Work. ; The Letter! Uwqd Lark, ' 11 Legal ling Christian Endeavor sorilf ties, Mis Paikhurst expresses herself T Is pretty Certain stvorigly against their v HE elevation of Manecessity. the Endeavorers do reach some that when a man jor General . Schodoes the work and people w ho could not be brought Into field to the recreatgains the position rehgrm fellowship In any other appared rank of Lieutenant-Goccupied by Dr. ent wav," nas she, "but where a eneral, and of Charles H. Park-hurs- t, Young lv iple s Chilstlan Endeavor sothe retirement of there is a ciety is orgaHixed you may be pretty McMajor-Uenefwoman in the case, aure of finding a weak church preceding Cook, left the'PresL who Is something of it Each chuich n.emher should be an dent Several high ot- a power behind the earijes:. vigorous Worker in. the. AH the oT the saving ul ttimne. end ttVe of .iee hls , disposal. The worlJ knows now performs his over.Juty conscientiousnew Major-OeaerDr. tln he ran Paikhurst no ly. ie that reason for organis1 Wesley Merritt, ha is a moral here. The ing always accept It ay a sign Of to have an almost fact Is universally recognised that he is church weakness, and the organised long been thought a man with a thought, and that he pos- Christian Endeavorer acts as a prop to certain chance of securing the first vaIn the rank above he sesses the courage of his convictions. keep it from falling" Mr. Parkhursl cancy has held for eight year past. General His praises are sounded everywhere, was bom in Chalemonl, Mass. Merritt Is on of tlvelfew-remainibut how many stop to think of the noofthe war of the rebelble woman Jn his home, who has been Ha was Harrier Berrher Stowe. lion, says Harper's Weekly. herself, in a large measure, the InspiraMrs Hurt let Beecher Stowe, who grsdustedfrom West Point only the tion of this great life? Neverthelesa, it His was the sixth child of Rev. Dr. summer befor the war began. Is a fact that Mrs. Charles H. Park-hurfirst commission was as 8eond Lieutenis a woman of such Intellectual Lyman Beet her, was born In Litchant In the Second Dragoons, and except ability, moral and spiritual character, field. Conn . June 12. 1812, and was at the Litchfield Academy- - At when he has served as a general officer, as well as personal address and magnethe has always been tn the cavalry. Tho the sge of twelve she wrote composiism, as to be placed Justly on this pedesSecond was changed Into the tions She on In tal. She believes her husband. profound themes,- and' at the Second Dragoonswhen ths army was or- Cavalry believes In his work. She Is In fullest age of fourteen taught, a class In "Butw sympathy with him In, hat he has done lers Aralogy." Ip 1822 she removed and is doing In her quiet, refined, with her father s family to Cincinnati, womanly way she renders assistance where she was mairied In 18.16 to Cjrfv in Ellis Stowe. Subsequent that can never be told and that will, But to the south, consequ. ntly," rever b, known. all people everywhere ought to be given and fugitive slaves were uften shelto understand that when Dr. Park tered In her house and assisted to eshurst and his work are spoken of. com- - cape to Canada In 1843 she published MRS. CHARLES H, PARKHURST AN EARNEST WORKER. a -- , ta p "Evi-dentl- thai-Whlc- h ng "boy-genera- ls' st edi-rat- Prb-fsa- ADELAIDE HASSE. The Momentary collection there ls the largest of Its kind In the world, containing upward of 800.600 volumes. Her appointment was made solely because of her merit and the marked ability she'Tias shown In similar lines of work, of which she has always made a specialty. Her work resulted in giving the Los Angeles library one of the most complete collections In the eountry, and a scheme of classification of them, devised by her, won her A medal at the world's fair, and Its adoption has bon decided upon in the government bureau. Miss Hass? has done some commendable literary work on horticultural and kindred topics. She la also interested in athletic subjects. and Is an enthusiastic cyclist. Her particular fad, however, In sports is fencing, in which she is an expert. Her father is Dr. Hasse, of the Soldiers' Home, Santa Monica, Cal. place at Washington. have to leave the service without attaining more than their present rank. General Copplnger was born In Ireland, and was appointed to ths Fourteenth Infantry ss Captain In 1861. Previous to this 'he had been In the Papal Guard at Rome, and hU companions jn hls Journey of adventure to this country-wer- e Colonel Keough, of the Seventh Cavalry, killed at the Little Rosebud massacre, and Captatn Nowlan. now of the Seventh Cavalry. He acted gallantly during the war, and was for a? r vices at TrevIUan and Cedar Creek, while after the war he wa brevetted Colonel "for teal and energy while tn command of troops operating against hostile Indian In 16. 1867 and 1868. When the war ended. Genera! Copplnger was still a Captain of Infantry, and hla rise through the various grades to hla presenthlgh rank is aD The 'more notable. bre-vett- -- MpN&tEUR DEmOHGAN, jplf dojf J Tka RUIsg Has ( . th8 Land St Pharos. N Monsieur de Morgan, who- holds the very Important office of director general of antiquities in Egypt, Is fast attaining the distinction of being on of the foremost explorers and disooverers of our Time in that land, of tnonumenta and splendid archaeological possibilities. He possesses not merely the taste, the knowledge, the enthusiasm, and the - patience requisite to the successful worker In, situ, usually sub situ, but a rare genius for determining just where historic sculptures and relics of Inestimable value may be disinterred or brought to light In a word. Mde Morgan Is both personally and officially the man par excellenca to preside over the treasures of the Boulsk Museum and wield the sceptre of erehasotogyln all Egypt. This word, long prompted by hia career of discovery, la Inspired Just now by M. de Morgan's rscent disclosure of antique Jewelry at Dashoor. The two mummies of royal princesses of ths twelfth dynasty (2500 B. C.) may be of little account: but one of ths coronets fresh and perfect as ever, is n wreath of forget-me-nomads of precious gems exquisitely mounted on sterna of gold. The other coronet contained a spray of various flowers, made tn the rarest gems, with delicately beautiful stems and foliage of virgin gold, aays the Boston Commonwealth. It waa M. de Morgan who opened a vault In March. 1894, In the pyramid at Dashonr, which contained emeralds and other precious atones to the value of 2,004,000 franca. Fortune honors genius aa well as the brave, and we congratulate M. de Morgan on his brilliant career aa ths succeasor of Maspero, W congratulate also the government of H. R. H., the Khedive. In having so remarkable a man as the present director-generto conduct the most Important archaeological bureau In ths world. -- -- ts Ths. Tonsure. The priests of the Catholic ChurcT, have three special ways of shaving the head. Those of the Latin Church shave the whole crown, leaving a fringe of hair that represents thecrowiTor Thorns worn by the Savior; and this is called St. Peter's tonsure. The priests rf the Greek Church shave the whole head and call It the tonsure of St. Paul. The other special tonsure Is called that of Simon e is shaven from Magnus. A ear to ear, above the forehead, but it does not reach to the back or the head, where thehair is allowed to growr- - Thta last Is the one usually adopted by lbs Irish missionaries. fir THE NEWBRIGADIERS. Wtji M 5 - GEN. WESLEY MERRITT, ganlaed In 1861, and Wesley Merritt, who served with Jhls regiment In the early battles In Virginia, was promoted to be a Captain. Later he accepted a commission In the volunteers, and by 1863, when he waa only twenty-seve- n years old. he was a Brigadier-Genera- l, Before the war ended he was a Major-GenerHe did gallant and conspicuous service during the war, and there were few young men who came out of the conflict with so brilliant a record. When the army waa reorganised on a peace footing In 1867 General Merritt "of the waa made Lieutenant-Colone- l Ninth Cavalry, and ten year! later hw waa promoted to be Colonel of the Fifth General Merritt served for Cavalry. y one term as superintendent of the ' Hla adAcademy at West Point. ministration was remarkably auecess-fu- l. In 1887 he was made a Brigadier-Genera- l. During the war General Merritt received many brevets for gallant service In JUis field,, at Getty a burg,. V Tavern, Hawe'a Shop, and Five Forks, and for hls service In the final campaign In Virginia he was made of Volunteer and Inevet Major-GenerIn the regular army. Since the war he has done many kinds of frontier service. Including much Indian fighting, and he has always enjoyed a high reputation for soldierly The qualifications of the beet sort. time for retirement Will not come for him till 1900. For one of the other vacancies Colonel Zenaa R. Bl'sa, of the Twenty-fourt- h Infantry, wa chosen, and become a l. Colonel Bliss has Brigadier-Generalong been a candidate for promotion, and though he passe over the heads of two ranking colonels Bhsfter of the First Infantry, and Merrlam of the Seventh hi appointment was not a surprise. Colour! Blit has always been In the Infantry arm at the service, which Lieutenant when he joined as a Second m West Point, he Was graduated-froshortly befort the war. In-- 1862 --he was commissioned Cohmelof ths Tenth Rhode Island Infantry. Later he was transferred to the Seventh Rhode Island Infantry. He was breyetted for gallant services at Fredrlcksburg and the Wilderness. , He Is a native . of Rhode Island, and will reach the retiring age . al TO STUDY THE HEAVENS. Prof. K. , Barnard, , the Aatroanuier, Locates In Chicago. One of the best known observers In the world. Professor E. E, Barnard, of MtH-tar- semi-circl- w Major-- HENRY MOSLER, ARTIST, broken in Us success, and has recently brought him back to America to Settle with a consciousness of work well done and well rewarded. When Mr. Mosler departed for Europe the Dusseldorf school was In Its glory, and he went straight to that center of German thoroughness and sentiment. He found much there that established him in hls art. but it was not long before the" Paris began to move him, and Tie proceeded to the French capital. He entered the atelier of Hebert, the man whose refined and stately style was for some years the presiding example at Villa Medlcls In Rdme. the Mr. Mosler profited by the thoughtful strain In his master. He fixed himself In the path to which he had gravitated from the beginning, a path in which nothing was ever thought worth doing unless it served a serious purpose. He came back to America with a profound distaste for and aimless chic, for fragmentary sketching. He brought an equally profound enthusiasm for compositions. In 1874 he returned to Europe, but for some reason or other the Parisian air was not as attractive as before, and he became Plloty's pupil in Munich, settling In the Bavarian city for three years. At the end of that time bis earlier feelings were revived and he went back to Paris. He has lived In that city, exhibiting at the Old Salon and winning honors there, until only the other day, when he came back to New York. To recapitulate here Mr. Hosier's recompenses abroad would be a dry and useless task; but there Is one honor which It lameeessary to mention erence to It brings back the memory of hls best work.1 This picture. "Le Retour, was first shown In the Salon In 1873. The government espied it and purchased It for the Luxembourg. It was the first time an American .artist had been so honored. The chances of admission to fhe anteroom of the French Pantheon were slight for a painter from this country. It was only of 1st years that the policy which has admitted Whistler. Sargent, Maemonnles.Alexan- - Jer Harrison, and W.T.Dannat has been In favor. When Mr. Hosier's picture was purchased it, was in recognition of certain good qualities which at all times re rare. Hls art Is not a brilliant one, but 11 Is sound. It Is based first ofall - on the most admirable' of artistld data, that a picture should have not only the charm of color and personal character, but Intelligible form intelligible - -- - The average height of man In the five feet ten and one-ha- lf Inches; In France, five feet four Inches; in Belgium, five feet six and Inches, ' United States is pne-four- t th Father Violet. When Napoleon left France for Elbe, he said. "I will return with the violets," and the followers who awaited his return wore always on their breasts a violet, and In their gathering they always drank to the toast of "Corporal Violet. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. Prints are in existence that In two vla lets have the outlined profiles of Napoleon and Marie Louisa. and beneath mended and praised; 'Mrs. Parkhurst "The Mayflower, or Short Sketches of these are the words "En printemps II ought to have a place In the mental conthe Descendants of the Pilgrims," and revlendra. There was a popular song cept How carefully she guards her In 1831, while living at Brunswick, Me., early In this century, called "Le Pere husband against Intruders', is known where her husband had a chair In Bow de la Vlolette," and le pere was chiefly, If not only, by those who have doln College, she wrote "Uncle Tom sought and failed to obtain Interviews Cabin, or Life Among thd Lowly. It with Dr. Parkhurst- - She measures his was published serially In the National with marvelous accuracy, and Era. and tn 1832 appeared In book form. strength Kent of HraUlsy t achy. when the limit is nearly reached she un- Nearly 500.000 copies were sold In the O. derstands it and no amount of persuaThis is the latest portrait of-United States alone within the jive Bradley, who has been chosen by ths sion cam prevail upon her ta give way years following Its publication. It baa and permit another ounce of weight to been translated Into twenty languagea be placed upon his overburdened shouland dramatized In various forma Mrs. ders. As a counselor Mrs. Parkhurst Is Stows traveled extensively in Europe not only sympathetic but wise; with for several years, and has published a true womanly- - instinct she sees, as if number of other books, among them by a divine inspiration, the right, and "The Minister's Wooing, "Dred; a Tale then, notwithstanding her native gen- of the Great' Dismal Swamp, "Old tleness, she Is ready to stand by the Town Folks," "The True Story of Lady s right as unflinchingly as Is her Life, and "Lady Byron Vindihusband.. Mrs. Parkhurst Is Byron's cated." for some years she has rewoman's sided In Hartford. Conn. aot an advocate of rights, and If all women could exert their Influence as she Is able to put Tba MoJlar Fountain. forth hers, there would be no crying from the National Library, Not demand for the right of franchise on any where (he Httle street Mollere runs Into thepart of woman If shenothad be able the Rue Richelieu, at this converging number of ballots she would to exert by their use a tithe of the ln- - point, la the Fountain of Mollere, on of the handsomest In Paris. It Is supposed that the founder of French comedy died In the house now numbered 24, Rue Rlchelleui and so the monument was placed here, near It, lit this commanding point. The monument wss built by public subscription and bears the date of the birth and death oTlhe celebrated actor, whom Loula XIV honored with Us friendship. It was through W. O. BRADLEY. the efforts of eng Regnler, Socletalre of Republicans of Kentucky to lead the the Comedle Fra nealae when Molleres ubernatorlal campaign la plays delighted all Paris that this subthat state. scription wa started and the monumental fountain erected. There Is Order of ths Carter. above which Is a bronre figpedestal, The widely circulated report that ure of Mollere. who appeals as If In deep Victoria Queen proposed conferring the thought, while In his tmnd Is a pen. On Order of the Garter on little Queen each side of the pedestal there la the figIs found to be enof Holland. ure of g woman, one representing High tirely without foundation. It would be Comfdy and the other Light Comedy, an unprecedented act. as the Garter hoth of these the work of Prodier, the has never yet been Bestowed upon a who was born In Geneva, but sculptor PARKHURST. MRS. H. CHARLES female foreign sovereign, and In no caBe who did all hls best Work in Paris. fluence affect to public that goes out would It be given to one under the age Four Corinthian columns support a pedof 18. The Queen Regent of Holland affalifrom the quiet of her home. Her iment and cornice, and In the pediment and the Empress of Russia have both Influence for good is simply Incalcula- is an emblematical figure that Is holdreceived the Royal Order of Victoria ble. No wonder that In an atmosphere of such happy domesOcIly'Dr. Park- ing out a crown to place upon MollerSs and Albert from the Queen. hurst stands out boldly against the en- head. franchisement of women. It Is because Aa Honorable Record. he has such a wife, who In her quiet Ts tlwlf Mars. . The honor of being the oldest man In way works such a mighty Influence, Mr. Perclval Lowell, of .Boston, who point of consecutive years in the em- doubtless, that he ha been led to take erected and equipped a fine temporary ployment of the city of Philadelphia is thl position. All honor to this noble observatory In Arizona last year merely accredited to Uncle Divld Brown, mes- woman for the part ah ha taken. purpose of ytudytng ths planet senger In the Health Bureau.. Uncle the Influence ahe ha exerted In public for the announces that he will have a David has just celebrated his fifty, affair, all unknown to th great outside Mars, made by Clark for fur. telescope in of service ofthe health year eighth nd, in some respects, unsympathetic fice. and gives promise of contributing world. There Is no end to Mrs. Park-hurs- ther research. his faithful labors' to ths city for many mission work, the demands uponAn old flame the light of other days. heAlme years to come. She 1 conworld-famou- lr fr ch ts being-enormou- s, General al - PROF. BARNARD, JUG A8TRONO- - MER. ths Lick observatory, will begin giving Instruction at ths University of Chicago tn ths fait When ths Yerkes observatory at Lake Geneva ts completed he will spend most of hls time there In Professor Bartnsklng observations. nard Is a comparatively young man, hut hls name Is familiar to astronomers In atl parts of .the world. Especially brilliant have been hls discoveries of nebulae, and In reference to the Milky Way. On these subjecte lie le an acHe te a knowledged frequent contributor to the astronomical journal of a scientific character, and In 1899. The other appointment was that of particularly to the German publications. Colonel John J. Copplnger, of the Twen- - The addition of Professor Barnard to the astronomical faculty of the university makes It ss complete aa ft Is brilliant. Both he and hls friend and former associate St Lick. Professor Sylvester W. Burnham, of Chicago, are su perior observers. Professor George E. Hal, director of the Yerkes observatory, first showed hi unusual powers of star reading In hi private observatory In Chicago. Hls specialty Is astrophysics. . Dr. T. J. J. Be and Dr. Kurt Lares hav given especial attention to the mathematical side of tho science. All thsjnen have an International repu-tation. and with the largest telescope world-authorit- In the y; world. Chicago, where It la im- possible to see the heavens for more than a third of the time, will be a center for the advancement of tho science obof astronomy. Work on servatory is being rapidly poshed. By next March It I thougM the building s huge glass will be completed and conveyed there and mounted ready for the eye of the observer, W the-Yerk- -- H GEN. Z. a BLISS, Infantry, to b a Brigadier General. i This promotion was something of a surprise, as it had been thought that whatever further advancement this officer received would be at the bands of a Republican executive. of the late James He was the G. Blaine, and It would not have astonished many In the army If he had received a star from Mr. Harrison. Indeed, It has been said that Colonel Copplnger' promotion was urged upon the last Republican President 'With much Insistence by members o'f hls wife's family. As It Is, hls promotion is made over the heads of thirteen other colonels, and ts he wtlLnot be called upon to retire tor four years and. half, many of those grho have been skipped will probably rd son-in-la- w A Queen Marh-Aba- Man. Victorias, elderly cousin, tha septuagenarian Duke of Cambridge, who ha recently been so roundly abused by The British pres for declin- Ing to resign his office as Commander- of the British army, and denounced a obstructing every military reform, Is once more bejng held up to public obloquy In consequence of hi Inexorable refusal to permit any bicycling to be Indulged In in Hyde Park, of which he Is the ranger. Why Hs Starved, Did Watts you ever know of any one dying for love? Potts Qnce. I knew a fellow who starved to death after being refused, by an heiress. Indianapolis Journal. , U- - |