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Show V A T1 liELKSK A WORKER SNAP SHOT AT EDITOR OF A newspaper journal. B. l: llcrlurt of the Nation, Printer lonriMli.i Ituj.n life at ttie llottum Km " of the I iititer How He tturk' 1 bom. schools In municipal government, public and domestic economy, to be essential to true success in newspaper woik. Like Wesley's preachers, edi- -' tors should know everyth'ng that con- cerns human beings. w:ll matched. - HU 4f th Hippiest i ouple In Intllao. ei lit May j. Mr and Mrs. Frank Shade-th- e smallest couple In the state of Indiana I! HERBERT, edi-- ' live at Kendall ville. and Kendall villa tor National PrintIs rather proud of the unique distincer's Journalist was tion Mr. and Mrs. Shale have lived in born on a farm In Kendallville for many years with Mr. Fulton county, and Mrs. George W. Gilbert, who are May 3, 1MJ, quite wealthy, and take a great Intermigrated with bis est in both Mr. Sbade, w ho is not quite parents to IB ury three feet high, has a luxuriant growth county, Iowa, at the of h.nr. wearing a long, heavy beard. Uts hair reaehes below the waist, and age of eleven and two tears latei when open oei3 much of his form. to Red Wing, Minn., He usually wears It In braids, often or i..ibtr to a farm two miles and a eovenng it with a net Mr. Shade and halt fr,n that city. Here he workd his wife are gqod eonv ersationalisfs, on t!. f.um glimmers and in win'rs and both are acquainted with did i hurts nights and mornings ana topics. Mr, Shade enjoys a' good Sa ii d .'.and walked two nubs and a joke, and withal Is a good sotiled felbait o attend Hamline University low. is GO years of age. His wife sometimes the mercury dropnyd down isa few year? his junior. Her former to forty degrees below zero, but he home'-WS- s in New Haven, Conn. Like was tiong, hardy and ambitious, and Mr. Shade, she is also well known and neve" piist-e- a day. Frosted ears cnec lias many friends and is a pleasing little or twue was the only inconvenience woman. Mr. Shade Is an enthusiasle felt, in 1 115 he graduated in the classi- Pythian, and now holds the office of cal ro. use. receiving tho degree ol bach lor of arts, and three years later that of master of arts. A few dajs after ins graduation he was chosen FVank hbade and , j IS ity. especially during the exposition, but one night a few weeks ago It u bad been mark.tepped suddenly. HE WILL SOON PREACH TO THE ing o he minutes as usual until the time recorded was 8 IS. Then the PEOPLE OF CHICAGO. bands stoppd It was quite a coincidence and superstitious people were InKt. Frank B. rtMiuiaa of Hottnn Bo clined to cat h a tighter grip on the rabbit foot when they saw the time at Uctm Id Mueteolh Century Method for .Nineteenth Century lirlitiant M which the i lot k had stopped. It waa sit in mot, on again recently. Detrrudant a Count. A GIFTED DIVINE. C e 'i ll trf5 r Av' illi-t'oi- s I Rochester Seminary, at Rn heater. Minn., and after serving a year entered upon the study of his cho-c- n profession, that of law. at the Michigan State University. In May, ISOs h? passed examination and was admitted to practice at his old home In Red Wing and pursued the calling sun for five years. He was then employed temporarily to edit a new.-papan employment that was to only last six weeks during a vacation. Once launched in the business, he found he had a passion for the work. He became aggressive and earnest in a way to at once Identify himself with the paper. His weeks of newspaper work have lengthened into twenty-tw- o years. He used his paper In every way possible to build up his city. He became. with others, organizer of and an officer in a large flouring mill, a building association, stoneware works and a furniture factory; secretary of the Goodhue County Farmers Institute and president of the local Industrial & Fair association; He was for three terms elected president of the Minnesota Editors and Publishers Association. Then In 1885 he organized the National Editorial Association at New Orleans, the piuoipal of If EV. FRANK R Vrooman, of Bos- ton, to whom an in- formal call has been extended by the Kenwood Presbyterian church, of Chicago, la a divine of national and In- ternational reputa- uron l i Jingo, Mr. Cuizon's statements touching the proposed Egyptian campaign pleased the ultra torles and Jingoes. While he speciously brought out the fart of the great danger of der ish Incursions northward, no goo reason was adduced for British aid to Italy, though, of course, the safeguarding of the southern entrance to the Suez canal was understood. The opinion Is general that financial inter sts are fomenting this Egyptian foray as they did the disgraceful invasion of the Transvaal. Holdeia of bonds want to be sure that the victories of Menelek will not lead to a general uprising In the Soudanese provinces. thus creating a menace to existing conditions tn tho khedives domain; and for this reason, as a protective and precautionary measute, the campaign la planned. But France and Turkey will surely have to be settled with, and the czar will have a finger in the pie. Baron de Uourccl, the Freni h ambassador. has not jet returned from Paris, whither he went Friday, after a special audience with Lord Salisbury, to Inform hlfl government of the British plans concerning Egypt. Curzon believes In a vigorous campaign. tion. Mr. Vrooman Is a Harvard man. and has also studied at Oxford and Berlin. While In he lived about a year at Toynbee Hall, the first organized social settlement, where he had a splendid opportunity to study sociology. While attending Oxford he filled the pulpit of the Holloway Congregational church, aud at the end of a year received a call to become permanent pastor of that church. At the same time he received a call to the pastorate of the Beecher church, of Elmira, N. Y., to succeed Thomas K. Becber, brother of Henry Ward Beecher. He accepted the Elmira call, and was In charge of this -- hurch a year and a half. At the end of this time Mr. Beecher was so improved in health that he resumed his pastorate, and Mr. Vrooman returned to A ('anlii Drunkard. London. As a result of one of his pub- "w A dog in this city loafs In a saloon lished articles he received a call to the The dog Is only a Salem Street Congregational church, of and Is a drunkard. ei B. B. HERBERT, next year he was the nominee for congress by his party and carrled,hls county by the largest majority ever received by any one candidate, but was defeated" by a small vote through defection on an irrelevant issue, the hi license and local option, In three counties largely German, after having run ahead of his ticket in seven out of eleven counties in his district. But his heart was all the time really In his editorial work and printing business. He first conducted a weekly paper, then added a printing office and bindery In connection therewith. Having, In the meantime, erected a building especially for publishing his paper and carrying on the printing business, a combination with the oldest paper In the county, established by a subsequent governor of the state In 1S57, Mr. Herbert retained the ownership of his building and a interest In the business and became the editor of two papers, one issued on Wednesday and the other on Saturday of each week. In 1884 he established a daily, discontinuing one of the weeklies. He was zealous for the growth of the National Association of Editors that he had formed, and. In 1887, the convention of the National . Editorial Association held at Denver, Colo , by unanimous vote, asked him to undertake the establishing of a paper in the Interest ofAhe association and of the editors represented therein. He put behind him his political ambi-llon- s. and prospects, abandoned his prosperous business, a pleasant home with all its surroundings of shrubbery, grapes, etc.; that tt had taken years to build up, and threw himself heart and soul Into the new undertaking. He first paper, rented a bought a printer bouse In and moved to Indianapolis. At the and of the yea rj be deemed tt wise to move to Chicago, where he has eince continued ita publication. He haa attended and spoken at editorial inventions in over twenty states in the Union, last enmmer delivering an address before the New York State Press association at Lake George on Horace Greeley at an Editor." He loofca upon the editorial calling as worthy to be ranked as the moet responsible and useful calling of the age; believes that practice, wide information, the highest possible education, and a special course of reading, In political and" social science, - history, geography, literature, constitutional law. the use of the English language, In all those branches that touch the health- - of the city, and the two-thir- ds MR.. AND MRS. FRANK SHADE. Inner guard. He abstains from liquor and tobacco and is no stranger at the church. He reads every day the current events and la not slow In expressing his views on matters of common concern. Both Mr. and Mrs. Shade are In good health and enjoy life to Its fullest extent Western Hospitality People in the eastern cities know not the meaning of the word hospitality as it is written In the dictionary of the western ranchman. Why, said Senator Warren of Wyoming, discussing some of the characteristics of western people the other I would regard it as a personal day. Insult if I went to a house on any ranch and found the door locked. The first impulse of the average western man on such an occasion would be to break the door down." But how about locking up when the Inmates go away? It would Senator Warren laughed. make no difference at all, he said. We all go on the general supposition that a man traveling through the country is hungry. If he has any food In his haversack, and finds nobody at home he goes in the house, takes possession of the kitchen, and cooks his meal. If he has nothing he helps himself to what he can find. He does It GEORGE N. CURZON. . as a matter of course, end the family would feel that he was worse than a dude If he declined to share with them Worcester, Mass. This call was accept- common cur, but he likes bis toddy and even the smallest store. Ex. ed. Two years ago Mr. Vrooman mar- must hare It every day. Not a day ried the daughter of Gen. John C. Black, passes that the dog does not get drunk, Ml Lln1y Lomax at Virginia. and after getting full be staggers beThis attractive young lady, daughter of Chicago. An interesting feature Mr. Vrooman Is the fact that be hind the stove and sleeps It off, The about of Gen. Lomax, one of the bravest of is a direct descendant of Count Egmont, dog is 12 years old and has made his Confederates, Is an unusually pretty Prince of Garre, who was beheaded by home around the saloon In question for one most with and the girl, charmingly the Duke of Alva during the religious the past nine years. He never atsweet manners. Sbs is of a peculiar of the sixteenth century, tempts to bite any one and all who frepersecutions type, her hair being light and of the quent the saloon think a great deal of reddish tint that Titian loves to paint. the dog. Often men will visit the A warm color that one sees with a Just for the purpose of seeing the milky complexion. She has regular His liand getting him drunk. dog features, a graceful figure, and is one of Is given to him In a saucer and he quor the most fascinating girls of which the likes It, like many a man. Louisville Old Dominion can boast Her native Commercial. place Is Fauqyier county, one of the garden spots of Virginia. Her father is All th War from Kanpy to Portland. one of the gentlemen in whose charge The other day a man 4n Bangor, Maine, wished to send a dispatch from etV that city to Portland, Maine. On acX count of the destruction of tbs bridge at Benton direct communication with i Portland was impossible, but the WestU. ii i ern Union got the message through all the same, and this was the way it was done. It was telegraphed from Bangor to North Sidney, C. B. then to Hearts Kr Content, N. F., thence to Valencia, Ireland, thence to Lands End, England, thence to Dover, then to Brest, France, thence to SL Pierre, Miquelon, thence to Duxbury, Mass., thence to Boston REV. VROOMAN. and thence to Portland. Mr. Vrooman Is a forceful speaker, with ideas, and does not believ Mark Twala la F.xrpt in medieval Christianity for the twenMark Twain Is at present lecturing tieth century Christiana. la EgypL A few weeks ago considerable anxiety was aroused because of a OLD ATLANTAS NJIS3 LINDSAY LOlJAX. CLOCK, is placed the war records. Miss Lomay's Exact Tin o t Fretl at th If StoppaS home has been at the capital for some drat Llarot'. Death. yeara old black-fac- d What caused th clock oai Whitehall street, near the corAraertr.n Oil Bailn Sf ner of Alabama, the one with the gilded An American expert in petroleum figures and the yellow hands, to slop who has been looking over the Russian at the fateful moment? asks the Atoil fields reports that the oil of this lanta JourcaL That Is the question country Is not likely to be displaced by that many persona have asked themthat of Russia, though there will be selves as have looked at the hands some competition in foreign countrlea of the they for the last few clock, pointing ImThe quality of tho Russian oil Is weeks to 8 :18. That waa the exact Urn proving, but the American Industry al- of night when President Lincoln met so advances, and there are Urge his death at the hands of John Wilkes sources of supply In this country that Booth and as a silent monument to are as yet unopened. Lincolns memory the makers of painted clocks since then have always PmI SUkr Hi. On Coffla. the hands pointing to 8:18. painted old-tiBenjamin Hathaway, the Nearly all of the painted clocks havs Casa MARK TWAIN. Little Prairie Ronde, poet of the hands marking that time and U Is county, Mich., died a few days ago. strange that the clock on the corner report that be eras dying at Bombay, India. The report happily turned ont Hathaway made his own coffin. Years should know about It For more than to be unfounded. chestnut tree. Not a year the old clock has been keeping ago he planted sawed It he the felled tree, up ago long Wherever the truth In any ahape la good time for the many shoppers who and made the box into which, by his have thronged along Whitehall street being sought, it means that tome ont la own request, he was placed for burial until It was a veritable Babel of human searching after God. t aa-lo- on f t f "mm JWFWT up-to-d- V ABOUT EVA tight sleeves and a rolling collar. But under that jacket she wears the very reddest Jersey a woman ever wore, AND and the front of that jersey la embellished with pictures and remarks BOOTH. OF BLOOD MESSENGER FIRE IN AMERICA. , embroidered In white silk. The chief work of art la the seal of the army an eagle above the words Blood arid To this, which every woman Eire, warrior wears. Mis Booth haa added a sentiment of her own in the form of the words Blood Wasaed very heavily 1SS Eva Booth, the and elaborately done hi white allk- She trhandsome yquug says she selected that motto when she Englishwoman re- - was a child, and that the has always appointed wor . It. Tho poke bonnet she weare la cently ' by Gen. Booth as heavily shirred with navy blue silk anil the wide ribbon strings tie at the e o temporary left ear In bow that is almost coqueof the Army in this ttish. In speech Miss Booth la quiet and country, has had a most Interesting gentle. She hns a way of listening to carter. Her motto you as if your remarks had great and weight, and of suomUting hera as If Blood is in comFire, and she has had considerable ex- they were of no importance -But she parison. eturns active to recent own her Her both. with perience holy war when views conflict, and in Important engagement In the is by no means her first. Although she matters she takes her stand In a gentle Is not yet 30 years old, she has taken but absolutely immovable fashion. It would not be an easy nor an especially part In a number of conflicts, and has task to try to move her from emerged ffom the smoke of battle calm pleasant a stand which she thought was right. and flu ruffled. In this, too. she is like Mrs. Ballington She knows the luslness of the Salvation Army from the first step to the Booth, whose Iron hand was frequently last. Before she was 15 she was selling In evidence beneath the glove. War Cry In the stciets of London, and since that time she has filled every THE PRUDENT MARLBOROUGH. army from cadet II Takv Oat m HI grade and rank In Follejr oa th Lift to commissioner' of th Durheu exhumble her and early Following The report that the young duchess of perience In the selling of War Crys Marlborough (nee Vanderbilt) was to Miss Booth settled down In the Train- have her life Insured for the benefit of the duke Is confirmed in a private letter, say a the New York Recorder. The amount la 600,000. An application has been made and a medical report submitted, but so far as known the Insurance companies have dot passed upon it The probabilities are that they will accept the risk, for they will receive a big premium and get other benefits, Besides, British companies like to mortgage the Uvea of the aristocracy. This will he one of the largest. If not' the largest, of risks ever taken. It will undoubtedly be underwritten by a synTwo or three weeks ago s redicate, port was cabled that the duchess was ill tn Rome and her condition was such that physician had been summoned from London. Both stateEVA BOOTH. ments were promptly dented and lha Ing Home In London and helped her report waa evidently based on the visit sister to turn out large numbers of of the Insurance medical examiners to women warriors from that Institution. the duchess. It was about that tima It was not easy work to transform that Sir Dyce Duckworth, M. D., LL. earnest but Ignorant young persons D honorary physician to the Prince of from the streets - Into ' Wales, received a commission from th thoroughly trained, and persuasive Insurance companies representatives women officers. Eva Booth did it, and to proceed to Rome and examine the her pupils made fine reputations for duchess. When Mrs. Hamersley marthemselves and did her great credit ried the late duke of Marlborough her About this time, and when she was and went to live In London the ex- - . considerably less than 20, the famous pended $1,600,000 In restoring the palPall Mall Gazette revelations convulsed ace of Blenheim and, by way of 'ndem-nlt- y, London, and the Salvation Army took she, at the suggestion of her a prominent part In the trouble. In- American solicitors, took out a policy dignant citizens of the lower, classes on her husband's life for 300,000. It who objected to being exposed or saved was denied by the Marlborough family according to the armys methods, spent that sny of the Hamersley money was a great deal of time bombarding Ita used to rejuvenate the palace and It was headquarters and making things un- asserted that the expense was borne pleasant for officers and privates. Th by the Marlborough estate..- - Whoever greatest trouble was connected with an circulated the story doubtless had In army building In the very heart of Lon- mind the mortgage on the duke's life. dons slums. Era Booth was sent to Those close to the Vanderbilts say that restore peace. Day after day she and they are not particularly well pleased her little band of women marched out by this latest development and Mrs. has written a as a target for sticks and stones, and Alva Vanderbilt-Belmoletter to her daughday after day they marched back very very matter-of-faHer father will much bruised, but still full of cheerful ter on the subject enthusiasm. It was on one of these oc- probably have his say in person when casions that Eva Booths powers of di- he meets the duchess and her duke. plomacy first revealed themselves. Mia Clark at Alabama. Recently Mlsa Eooth haa been In a. Representative Clarke, from command of the London province, has a lovely daugh.ter.who la yet 350 which xonUtna 21,000 soldiers field officers. Several weeks ago she at boarding school, and who will not received from Gep. Booth her orders make her debut for two years. Miss to farewell that is, to get ready to Helen la a tall and stylish blonds, with command and pwalt further peachy complexion, perfect features her resign orders from headquarters She la here, and golden hair, high on a graceful head. She la a student, fond of hooks aj we know, temporarily, says the New and devotes much of her time to GerYork World. She haa no Idea where of which abe is fond, though her man, ha will be sent after she baa turned over the affairs of the army to Balling-to- n Booths successor. In the meantime she Is working day and night She aleepa only when absolute exhaustion overtakes her, and she eats only by special request of officers, who follow bearonnd with tea and bowl of The Ioorly Educated from th tU'houlroom standpoint th luhtralljr ' of the World Haa Helped Her Grtat ly la Romewhlt of a Beauty. v - Sul-aatl- te . d, nt ct Hla Ala-bam- rt Vi aoup. In appearance, as In character. Commissioner Eva Booth Is very much like She has less her popular sister-in-laattractive features, but her face Is stronger than Maud Ballington Booths. She is 5 feet 2 Inches tall and she weighs shout 100 pounds Her chief beauty lies In her eyes and hair, which are the same soft shade o( brown. The hair Is very curly and the eyea are large and tired, and slightly appealing, Just now, perhaps because they hare been turned on so many unfriendly faces. The shape of her head Is hidden by the' ugly army bonnet she wears, but a fringe- of worldly little curia aoftena the effect of a high forehead and very, very large nose. Any ona who baa aeen Ballington Bomhs nose will look at his sisters with a pang of recollection. - The family resemblance is very strong. Mis Booths mouth Is X good, largo mouth, hut the lips are parched and the llnea around them look strained. Her complexion, which is naturally a fin English complexion, shows that It will aoon rebel against the late hours and Irregular meals, with which it has been gallantly contending. Miss Booths hands are long, thin hands, with nervous, slender fingers that are never atilL 'When she Is not fingering a. pencil aha Is fingering a piece of paper, and when the charms of these pall, she picks up the American flag from her desk and .follows the pattern of the stars and stripe. With one or two rather startling exceptions her dress la the uniform with which" ate are familiar. 8he wears a plain navy blue aklrt, which flaps drearily around her Bjepder figure. She wears a little blue Jacket, with plain. - i WZfrj cm MISS HELEN CLARKE. , . talent in literature is also marked. Representative Clarke stands an excellent chance of receiving the gubernatorial nomination, and If he should be the successful candidate, there is no girl In the south who would more grace the mansion of Alabamas capital Bloomam Is Alaska. Bloomers have Invaded the Yukon country, Alaska; at least, they are now en route there. Half a dozen women attired In bifurcated garments and armed with rifles have left Tacoma for the Yukon on the City of Topeka, they, expect to make high wages by cooking and sewing at the Circle City and Fohty Mile. Three of them take sewing machines. . Kntsrkj 014 Faople. Lexington, Ky., has an old peoples club, of which the youngest member ia 83 years old. There are three members 60 years old, one 91. two S3, and two 94. ' , b t Sympathy. Families with babies and families without babies are so sorry for each other, - |