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Show 'V - 7- - tA WAS GENIAL AXI KIND MAN W H O KILLED TECUMSEH.J V CHARACTERISTICS OFAMERI-CAMARTYR ARTIST. ot 3 Mmitf Hint One of U Tt ni,rrj-inen- t ShnulJ One tp II,. if ln lhe tOopt t S--v Auotlier Tr.buto of a (litle;u& at HAT Thomas W. Hovenden, the patM-- h h o trt tT" to his Norris- hate rushed death dlwajs at town ta a moment of heroic impulse to try and sate a help'ess child Is not to strange those, who knew He was him wcl for others, thoughtful himself evening at lhe Salmagundi club Hotemlen was a very unselfish man, besides being P'fel wh qualities which endowed him with' a very enviable fascination, equally with women and vith 3i on. Thei e was never a traceable hnde of envy or jealousy In his nature; no disposition meanly and deftly to pull to pull to pieces a brother artists "oik, assaying the most ambitious points of a picture, so common in our studios. On the other hand, he sought the aid and counsel of artists and laymen even In his greatest work, himself suggesting all manner of deflciences, exaggerations in composition, distortions in drawing, and all of this with a sincere air. When painting "Elaine, certainly his greatest picture, and worthy of the name and fame of any artist who has tried to perpetuate . .that- - touching and sombre ocene, he would say; I think I have ma-Jthe old Setvitor too prominent, Sir Galahad Is a trifle bumptious, and the palace interior perhaps too gorgeous for the Arthurian period There were many .painters and sculptors who have"since risen to eminence, who were of the same studio building when he was painting this memorable canvas thirteen yeajs ago, and, of course, he had plenty of advice. Cut Hovenden vas true to himself, strong in his personality, and while listening, generally absorbed what alone was advantageous to the final result soughL Many artist3 yes, the great body of them ignoring toullj SjkI an arust the other 'Suit of S WAS IX THREE AVARS. tee I're.ideut Johnson to Ila reeled at the tapIt.L While nearly ever) one has heard of the famous Indian Reader, Tecumseu, tuere are many who are not aware of the fact that his d'ath was due to the biaerv of a man who afterward became the of the United States. To this patriot and warrior is to be erected a fitting memorial in (he halls of congress. The work was done bv James Voorhees, a son of the senator of Hut Jiaoutv-tuiwas doe- to ation passed by the senate that the busts of all the w ho had presided over that dignified body be placed in the hail to overlook the former scene of their political labors. Johnson was a native of the Blue Grass state, and that fact may account for his fondness for a fight. He was born in 1781, wtile Washington was still alive. The while man ruled only In the eabt, and out on the piairles in the west roamed the Indians, and the settlers on the outskirts of civilization never knew at what moment they might be attacked and destroyed. Such continued to be the state of affairs for some years, and - -- ts ' GEN. VAN VLEET - RELATES SOME REMINISCENCES. f ifty ImM Aco Ila Walked the Chalk I loo With lirtut and other at Weal Point Friend of Thonif m4 U coin. MAN WHO IS hale and hearty, at 80 is always an Interesting flgure.but when a man. has reached that age after a life passed In his country's service, when in him tre preserved the traditions and realities of three great wars, his personality i doubly The other afternoon the interesting. writer was driven from the railway station at Red Ilankr N. J several miles country road along the maple-shade- d and up to the broad porch of a charming country house, which stood in the middle of well-kegrounds. On. the old gentleveranda was a ruddy-face- d rocker man, seated In an built solely for comfort. General Stewart Van Vleet advanced to greet the reporter with a step almobt as martial as when, over half a century ago, he marched at the head of the cadet corps at West Point And yet only a month ago he celebrated the eightieth anniversary of his birth. pt BIST OF RICHARD M JOHNSON, when Johnson was In congress in 1812, end the English and Indians had combined to attack the new republic, Johnson went home to Kentucky and raised a battalion of three companies, and after they had been consolidated into a regiment was made the colonel and served for ten months. He returned for a short space to his congressional duties, but at the command of the secretary of war soon raised a regiment of 1,000 volunteers and, went to attack the enemy in the west, joining his force to that of Gen. William Henry Harrison, who was then governor of Indiana and the leader of the American troops. It was then, on Oct. 5, 1813, occurred the famous battle of the Thames, the Americans being victorious. Tecumseh was found on the field dead, and it was asserted that Johnson was the one who shot him, aa he was killed by a man on horseback and Johnson was the only one mounted, his command being infantry. It was also known that Johnd son had been engaged in a fighmith one of the most desperate chiefs, and it was thought that Tecumseh would be the very one to single out the leader to meet his tomahawk, a foe worthy of his steel. Johnson himself was badly wounded. When Johnson returned to congress he was still too sick to walk, and his way up the street was a triumphal procession, while It was In 1836 when young Van Vleet a joint resolution of thanks was passed by the body. Afterward he came to the left bis home at Ftsbklll, N. Y., and senate, and the he was chosen as entered the military academy; and of on the ticket headed by the class of 42, which was graduated No election was fifty-fiv- e Van Buren. Martin years ago last June, only GenTHOMAS W. HOVENDEN. made by the electoral college; thus fail- eral George Getty of Washington and culor get angry at friendly suggestion he survive. Stewart Van Vleet was reIn an election by this means, Johntured criticism, which they are often ing son was chosen by the senate to that tired from the army twelve years ago, careful to invite, sometimes evading after he had reached the age of sixty-eigh- t, the effect wkh a contemptuous air or high position. with the rank of brigadier-genera- l. by supercilious silence and disdain. For a forty years his life wag filled of Owner Big Newspaper. He make would Hovenden. Not so with He passed safely with adventures. half-houwho An interviewer had a chalk marks on his canvases, and the chat with Joseph Pulitzer at through five wars, was repeatedly honcritic would go away certain that he Chatwold, his line Bar Harbor place, ored by his country w8 a companion had Influenced the painter to his direcdescribes the millionaire editor as an of Sherman, Graqt and Thomas; was tion. Such a tendency .was a marked amiable and agreeable man, who talked also greatly esteemed by Lincoln, and of of Hovenden,' and, characteristic without any appearance of restraint, is now highly valued as a friend oy course, he made his visitor Jeel highly and politely answered every question President Cleveland. flattered at the reception accorded to You want to know some facts of my was put to him.' Mr. Pulitzer is a that But of all this his artistic perception. asked General g experience? distinguished-lookinmilitary man, six fully was simply the trait of a gentle nature, Van Vleet. Well, its a dry subject with no desire to obtrude his skill In feet tall, and rather slender, with a at the best but I am always ready to reddish beards He is severaKyeara technique or the thoroughness with under the takear'ilm my newspaper teen, friends, It has and oblige fifty, only .which he was dealing with the subject twelve I dont want you to make what I to build only years newspaper for this instance, Witness, In hand. too personals. The artist be- - proparty that now yields him an an- -. . say was born," he began, "in Addison isrp picture. Elaine. I 'one nuaTTncome dolmillion otn?arly carae a complete master oHArthurian lars. In the popular conception a mil- county, VL, on July 21, 1815. When I a close student became He literature. lionaire editor enjoys a life of ease, but was a boy my father removed to Flah-kll- l, of the Knights of the Round Table, and N. Y., and at the age of twenty-on- e lnthe newspaper profession Mr. at any moment he could reel of pages of Pulitzer In 18361 entered West Point- .one of hard- is the notoriously .; Alt said, Tennyson letter perfect. "General Ulysses S. Grant entered moreover. In ho one of his impqrttfnt the school three years afterward," be Inworks is there other than hiu-tfwcontinued, "and for a year he, as well deof dividuality, In perfect mastery as General George H. Thomas and Gentail, and that chiefly Jaiihr he became eral W. T. Sherman, were comrades of the commanding figure he was and will mine. I was successively first corporal, remain. first sergeant and during the year with It has been generally supposed In Grant first captain of the cadet corps. was largely art circles that Hovenden Years afterward President Grant used favored by the pecuniary advances and to say to me: General, during my cadet patronage of William T. Walters of days I didnt know which was the greatthen the richest colBaltimoje. est man Napoleon, Wellington, or old While he lector In , America. The general leaned back Vleet Van to the assistance rentier dUl Ta tis Chair and laughed heartily t Britpainter working at Fort Avea, in recollection. the tany, Hovenden won a name for himself At the end of the Seminole war J soon. He sold his pictures to the great was stationed at Savannah, but when art-fstr galleries of Europe. Said another the Mexican war began' my company To show you what a man was Hov was ordered to Monterey, -- where Gen. enden, paid this Incident: A gentleTaylor was in command. I waa In comman well known In the art world pany B, Third artillery. Captain Vinton commanding. We were In the final brought a rJcit buyer to Introduce him The Sun. to Hovendens The Rising assault on tbe fortifications. We tbn artist was heedless of bis own pictures, General Scott at Vera Cruz, and Joined some recommended but strongly fongbt for twelve daysterore the city H. -Nlcholls, Breton Interiors of Burr was surrendered. . j f$ wha was then painting in Brittany, Vera Cruz poor Vinton was JOSEPH "At PULITZER, he had not yet made his debut in New est working journalists. .The attention killed- - We were in command of a morThe purchaser was convinced he gives to the World is as minute and tar battery, which, placed at an angle York. and ordered the pictures home, but careful as that of a managing editor. of forty-fir- e h degree, was firing afterward became one of Hovenden's His country place at Bar Harbor, where shells into the city. We were most valued friend and cnetomers. he Is spending the summer. Is one of only a few hundred yards from the Mexican fortifications. So near were tho show places Of that resort.' we, In fact, that we could hear our Alt Kind of Clin The United States has all kinds of Happy the man who sees a God em- sheila force their way through the roofs - . ployed and floors of the houses and explode in climate, from that of the Sahara In the 111 that Checker life! j the cellars. The Mexicans ' sandy deserts of Arizona to that of the In alt the good end had fifteen-inc- h Cowper. while Vinton and I Amazon in South Florida, and that of mortarsrand, An b finest mans tbe noblest work of f were talking, separated by a distance Greenland in Northern Idaho and Monof onlv a few feet one of these fifteen- - God. Pope, tana. ten-err- ts Inch shells passed between us, but did not explode. Vinton fell to the ground deadthe concussion had kiHeiUbtm. I had the nhell transported to Newport, where it still rests on the top of Capt. Vinton g grate When tho shell was 320 musket hails were found in opened it After my sort ice in Mexico I was made quartermaster, with headquarters t Denver. Time has passed jsince then, and all of my old comrades hate goue. Gen. Getty and I are the only ones left of that class of 42, and we, too. tftttsFwMrtr answer 'ttl Toft 'cair'wlth them. . Who was the greatest genetao! the war?" asked the reporter. I would not dare say ,r answered tho old soldier. There were many great men. McClellan was one of the greatest of our gt nerals. but he had to suffer because he was required to take a dismembered and disheartened body of raw, undisciplined men and turn them Info trained troops. But he was successful in this, and gave over to the United Slates one of tho finest armies In the world, every man in It a seasoned veteran... Grant was a great man. He had an Indomitable will, unflinching courage and an unleding determination. He was alsoTnnastcr tactittaft. Sherman and Thomas were two others of our greatest leaders " WISE A FARRAR OF PREACHER. LONDON A GRAND OLD Be llu MAN-- '' Just Preerh.il llle t .rt.rll -- Bell.Te. In of tbe Liquor In VVrtliiikuitfr the Total Abolition Tronic. HE cable recently MHHiuneed -- that Rev. W. H. Farrar had preached fils farewell sermon In AbWestminster bey and bad gone to take Charge of Canterbury Cathedral, of which he wa s lately made dean. During the fias last nineteen yeare the been one of the glories of the abbey. Few people are aware that he was born In Bombay some sixty-fou- r years ago, and that lie vas educated in the Isle of Man, lu wlrbse picturesque scenery he placed his excellent school story, When at Eric, or Little byUHle, Cambridge he wrote, in 1S52. a prize poem, an honor shared in previous years by such men as Macauley, Pracd, Christopher Wordsworth and Alfred Dartmouth. Olitr.l ftrodnnln. Tennyson. The echoolmaster fias now Dr. Claudius B. Webster, for many merged Into the preacher, but Dean years United States consul at Sheffield, Farrar was one of the most successful England, and prior to that time prin- publlc srhool tutors ever known In cipal of a young ladles lemlnary in Groat Britain. The head of Marlbore Norwich, Conn., is now the oldest sur- - ough College once wrote of fils assistant: I never knew anyone who had greater power of stimulating Intellectual exertion and literary tastes among the boys with whom he came In contact; his character Is most lovable; he wins to himself all, who .approach ilim He would be, I am sure, the magnet of all that Is noble and generous tn the hearts of those whom he rules, And later on Professor Max Muller, who cannot be secured of having any great affection for the clergy, observed that Farrars name would add luster to any school Iq England." Ills chief post for some years was the mastership of Marlborough College. He has always been In favor of total absttnence, and is a fearless advocate of the total suppression of tbs liquor traffic. Dean Farrar, who has had an exceptionally happy home life, surrounded by his wife and many gifted children, will lose about $5,000 a year by bis promotion to Canterbury, but he will probably give himself up more to literary work. In one particular Farrar will be muck missed in London, He has helped to marry arch-deaco- n sister lived together la aa Ideal Inti- macy, sharing their Inmost thoughts, hopes and convictions. A brief interruption came at tbe time of Ernest's marriage, the announcement of which at first proved a shock and a disappointment to his devoted sister. Realizing la time that her jealously was . unreasonable and unworthy of her, Henriette took the new wife to her heart and thereafter tbe three lived happily together. When Renan went to the east on a mission for the emperor, his wife and sister accompanied him. It was a fatal journey for Hen- - ' riette, who was attacked In Phoenicia by fever, from which she never recov-ereBheJIei now Til a gravels the Syrian desert. Her bereaved brother, on his return rom the east, wrote the beautiful prose elegy which has Just now been made public. Previous to his death It was circulated among the Intimate friends of the family. It is . a touching record of a kind of friendship that Is rare, and Is a warm tribute from a man of genius to a woman to whose help and- - sympathy be owed, as he testifies, much of his success and fame. d. c6me3 Ketr to america. lt Brit liu Ub.r ffmrdte, Tl.lt in ( rklni . liil ; Keir Hurdle, England's great labor leader. Is now In thia country. - He hat 0T: .7 ,j T Y one-tim- , ww, tc 7- - - KEIR HARDIE. been sent here as a delegate to the. trades union congress In Chicago, Hardle waa defeated for parliament at the last election, but he Is as active as ever In the labor movement Hla visit la likely to make more of a sensation even than that of John Burns last year. Hardle la now 40. He has been all hla life a workingman, havlngwOrked In British rolling mills. His home Is In West Ham, Englandand he bas been a social istjeader Jtfcr many years. He always goes abbut In a typical Scotch laborers flp'and has the broad north-er- n "btirr" In his speech. He Intendi ifl fry ' try, and hla tour will be a lengthy one, hand-to-han- r 1 vice-preside- nt , rs up-ih- e n A rirtnrqm Flgoiw L&feodlo Hearn, the author, Is a unique and picturesque figure, mentally and physically, among American liter- ary men. His very name is unique, in recalling the Leucadian cliff from which Sappho jumped into tbe sea. He Is a vising graduate of Dartmouth College, having been graduated In 1836'Tn the same clasa as C. Bart-let- t. Dr Webster is now, on this ac- count, president of the local alumni association In Concord, N. H. The venerable doctor name was recently mentioned by the Boston Journal in connection with an interesting bit of hisIn May, 1791, several young tory. women of Atkinson, N. H., demanded and secured permission to pursue the same studies and use the same text books as the boys In the academy of that 'place. Among them was Elizabeth Knight, who not only struck a blow for of the sexes more than a century ago, but afterward became the mother of three men who became prominent la various ways John Calvin Xebster, an agitator; Dana - Webster, General Grants chief of artillery at Shiloh, and Dr. Claudius B. Webster. REV. W. H. FARRAR, most of the fashionable couples in don during the last tea years. A Lon- JOHN E. HURST. GREAT FREIGHTER, of Uoorqta, Du-rlptlo- a lu Klad Largo! Afloat, Ship of - - anti-slave- nR Alan.'-belongi- 60-fo- ot Ears! Renan nil Ml Oa f th Ciadidattif or Ooramor ot Marylaai Tbe accompanying Is a portrait of John E. Hurst, nomine for governor of Maryland. He wa born In Maryland In 1832, being the eon of a wealthy farmer and preacher. John loat this parent when but 16, and his mother put her son tn the Cambridge academy. In 1849 be removed to Baltimore and entered the employ of a dry goods firm a year later. Seven years afterward he started la business for himself, and tbo firm of Hurst 6 Co. soon became widely known. The bouse ts now one of the largest in the importing gnd jobbing line. Mr. Hurst has long been one ot Baltimores most prominent citizen. He I a member of the board of trade, a director in several bank and ex- - SIMM. story of sisterly devotion to a gifted brother is told 1m a A beautiful little-boo- COL JOHN T. NORTH. In Peru. 28 years ago, to find employment at laborers wages. His fortune bas found an entrance for him into the charmed circle of the Prince of Wales, and bis magnificent lavlshnesa of expenditure made him tbe most talked-aborich man la the kingdom. ut distance lends enchantment to the view. And clothes the mountain in Its azure hue. . ' Ti - 1Sw r 1 au-tb- or The big new freighter of the White Star line, the Qeorglc, has just arrived in New York on her maiden voyage. Tbe Georgic is the largest freight steamship afloat, and Is furnished with r the all the latest Improvements handling of freight and cattle, which make her a valuable addition to the already large fleet of White Star frelght- ers. She was built by Harland & Woiff of Belfast. A valuable part qf her cargo is the blooded hackney stallion lo Richard Croker,' New York The Tribune, saya Tho "Mint King." Georgic is 538 feet in length, The fortune of Colonel John T. North, beam, and la 40 fefet ' In depth. When fully loaded tbe vessel will have the "nitrate king of Peru, and probfeet Her tonnage Is ably the wealthiest man tn England, a draught of exceeds one hundred millions of dol10,071 gross and 6,470 net. The veslars. He is 1 years old, and be was sels displacement is estimated at 20,116 a humble Yorkshire mechanic when he tons, with a dead-weigcarrying went out to the little town of Huasco, capacity of 12,300 tons. She is constructed with a cellular double bottom extending fore and aft, capable of containing 1,900 tons of water ballast, besides two deep tanks to bold 2,995 tqns of water. The propelling power Is of the twin-scretype, with a doubie set of triple expansion surface condensing engines, working up to 200 wounds steam pressure. Tbe Indicated horsepower is 4,500, and the vessel Is capable of making from 13 to 13Vi knots an hour. Four boilers generate tbe steam; two are double and two are single furnaces. ended, besides twenty-tw- o w ten-inc- dark and diminutive man, and used, before he went to Japan a few years ago. to wear an enormous sombrero that dwarfed his small head into lnslgnlfi-cance. Hearn became known aa an while he waa a newspaper maa( in New Orleans. His life In Japan agrees with him, and It is likely that he will continue to live there with hts Japanese wife to the end of hla days. ( . Just published entitled "Ma Soeur For Henriette by Ernest- - Renan. obvious reasons. Its publication was delayed until the tomb bad closed over both brother and sister. The eon and widow of tbe great writer have maJo a pious task of giving to the world this interesting record of a pure and lasting friendship, which Ernest Renan took pleasure In. writing after death had robbed him of his faithful sister, Henriette Renan was twelve years older than her brother Ernest, and the tender solicitude with whichahe wetched over him ia his years of infancy wa never relaxed while aha lived. After the death of their parents, the brother and . JOHN E. HURST, president of the Merchants and Manufacturers association, and is reputed to be a millionaire. He has never held office and untH now waa never prominent in politics. Cora la Minnesota. Minnesota will raise about as much corn as wheat this year, and tn the years to come probably a great deal more. Corn will be the future great cash crop. The demand for It la practically unlimited, and the United States 1 the only country that raise' a surplus of com. n r |