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Show A recent number of the Wheelman contained a . bright article by Mra. Peattie and was -accompanied by uu portrait- of herself, which Wrs. elia w. peattie DEFEN- excellent was labeled Mrs. Frederick J. Titus, DER OF THESEX. wife of the American eight-hou- r chamShe does not ride a bicycle, pion. k and her hysband is known1 to the newsBok (o' Kabratka Mother IXarUre That gti I. oral lie Work paper fraternity of the United States aad That liar Koval Ara Trua to tba aa Bob Peattie. WOMAN OF THE l EST. ; Life. WAS IN WAR OF 1012. GEPRGE WALLACE JONES OF IOWA.. First gan. tfc Dlct WtoroMla Hkc; Career. R3. Elia W. Peat-tithe friend of In every woman Nebraska, p r e s of the Omaha Woman's Club, author of many brilliant short stories and practical newspaper writer. Is a dynamo of energy and the half of Wliat she is and of what she has accomplished would be more than sufficient to satisfy many a woman of far greater ambition. Aa an editorial Writer upon the staff of the Omaha World-Heralshe has made her name known and respected in the newspaper offices of the entire country a'mong xnen with masculine prejudices against women in editorial positions. She has long conducted a dally "woman's column,'' which is not a pink tea or a sewing circle reduced to type, and she is the author of short stories which are recognized as among the best that the west Is giving to the world through the medium of the leading eastern magazines. But it is in her work for the women Of Omaha. Nebraska, and the west, that Mrs. Peattie has the strongest Interest. The particular phase- - of that work which is Just now engaging her energies is the organization of a circulating library, in connection with the woman's club of which she is president. We are trying to make it possible for every woman in Nebraska to have access. without cost, to the wide variety of books at the command of our organization, said Mrs. Peattie. "The public interest in this movement would surprise any person who is not in close touch vi;h it. A two days accumula- tion of the letters Which come to me from vvoun n ail over the state would heap high one of the ordinary letter baskets which business-me- n usually keep on their desks. As I never allow one of tluse letters to go unanswered, I find that F must make my replies immediately or become swamped .with the influx of two or three days correspondence. it would be a revelation, I fancy, to most people if they might read those letters, full of the pathos oi the struggle for more knowledge, for a horizon wider than a farmhouse kitchen and for a mental elevation higher than the level of that deathly Moloch, a kitchen stove the altar upon which many a prairie woman offers herself . a daily sacrificial victim. The yearning of such women for the better, higher and nobler things of life and the patient persistence in attempting to satisfy those longings have something heroic, in them that touches me strongly. "My own life in great Michigan my girlhood, woods, where I spent taught me many helpful lessons. The life a person leads before 10 years of age is what counts. It is what comes during that period that leaves the most lasting and permanent impressions. e, d, loafrMi from Michiand ilrat Hauator fro or Slat Hit Had Varld I t MAGARET L. WOODS. Lk Huron Jo the Pacific, district ever represented by one n congress.- - One of his first acta to Introduce a bill for the f matlo Territory, which comP4. most of the .country west Like' Michigan. He took the name ffrorn the Ouiscousln ! river, Denied iy Marquette, and secured thej passage of his bill before, the bill Michigan to statehood was passed. He wag elected delegate from W tfi'daniti while still holdlngjhat po- sttiOB from Michigan. He introduced and Retired the passage of the bill creating the Territory of Iowa. President Van Buren appointed him ( surveyor general of the Northwest Territory and he became a resident of Dubuque. President William Henry Hrretr removed him, but he was by President Polk;' "He was chosej first United States senator from Iowa la isis, a position to which he was In 1859 he was appointed minister to the country now knova as Colombia. While there he wrote to Jefferson Davis, who had hen a lieutenant with him in the Black Hawk war. Jones did not know of the beginning of the war, end the termi of his letter to his old friend put him under suspicion when it fell into the hands of Secretary Seward. General Jones was recalled and Imprisoned in Fort Lafayette for sixty-fou- r days. President Lincoln became convinced of his Innocence and ordered his release. A year or two later General Jones retired from public life. At one time he and. Daniel Webster wer partners in the town site of Madl-eoWig., and Sioux City, Iowa. He acted u second for Jonathan Cilley in the fata! duel with William J. Graves In 1838. In 1892 congresa voted him a pension for services in the war of 1812 and the Black Hawk war. It also him for services while In r imp L B Avthorm of In A New Villa? Rol. Trajwdj ," rock-boun- es vonbiy Ott; t'rorktu" IUjr of That Karljr 'tt MRS. WOODS, wav. The roar of the waves on the rocky shore sines dies in a mastf-rl-v through the drama, and while the whole verges on the morbid it is not pessimistic. IF DICKENS HAD LIVED. Heath Worked Faithfully to llio Laat Fame Suddenly and LheKpeetadly. How swift was the blow that struck Dickens down on that- - summers day five and twenty years ago, says Mac- millan's Magazine. Rich, happy, universally honored, rejoicing in his prosperity and in his power of giving pleasure to others, he worked faithfully to the last. Toward the close of his life his labors as a novelist had been somewhat interrupted, and from 1861, when "Great Expectations" was completed, until 1870 only on novel had come from his busy pen and that not one of the beet. But In that Tatter year (or, rather, in the close of 1869), after months of the most untiring exertions. traveling, lecturing and reading he turned again to his true vocation and began TheMystery of Ed- xf AVft AIa v, OLDEST Cittfoalat rlbrttn la tha Kama-Il- l -- riarsoar a. C.l.tnUil UcmlnUreurN of ly. death HE recent of Frank Mayo bus occasioned great n sorrow, not only 7 '11' amon hi old of the thta- mf ter, but In many fS circles where his and ' manly genial ff-- ' charactWUtto wore and re known spected. Although be never reached the top of the ladder, or biaxed forth a star of the first magnitude In the theatrical firmament, he was for many years, and dowirro the time of his death, a popular actor whose presence always added vitality to a cast and won favor from an audience. Frank Mayo, born In Boston, April year. 19, 1839, was in hia Entering tho dramatic profession when quite young, he was conected with the stage for forty years, and owing to his long service it was presumed by many that he Va a a much older man than the figures Indicate. His success had not with Pudd'nhead Wilson only rehabilitated hia fortunes, which at one time had reached a very low ebb, but had apparently given him a new lease of life. In 1854 Mr. Mayo left Boston and made his way to the Pacific coast, where his natural bent for the stage Two years soon became manifest. after arriving In San Francisco (1856) he made his first essay on the stage, appearing at the American theater, then under the management of Laura Keene as the waiter In a farce called "Ruining the Wind."-- - Subsequently he played for several seasons In San Francisco and among the mining towns, In the support of Edwin Booth, Laura Keene, Julia Dean Hayno, James Anderson and the Chapman family, and in 1863 made so much of a hit as 'Nana Sahib in Boucicault's drama, Jessie Brown, that he became the favorite leading man of the gold coast, an enviable position, which he was able to maintain until 1865, when his base of operations was transferred On Aug. 24, to the Boston theater. 1865, he played Badger In The Streets of New York at that theater with great success, and was subsequently seen there and elsewhere In Hamlet, Richard III., Iago, Othello, Jack Cade, D'Artagnon, Don Caesar do Bazan and other characters. His work during this period was that of leading man In a legitimate stock company, but In 1867 he made a bid for stellar honors by producing Davy Crockett, a typical American play. This Important event in hia career occurred at Rochester, N. Y. Sept. 24, 1872, and thereafter for eight years ha played th character at the American backwoodsman contlnu- r- . ousiy. But when the vogue of Davy Crock- - - asao-cict- fifty-seven- th There is no trace of .fatigue In it, no sign of lessening vitality. He was working on the ground that he had -- THE WEST. r D f lit alfa. IIL, Bpdl Chureh. 'The oldest Baptist church la Illinois, or in the West, is at New Design, I.L It was built in. 1796,. and its centennial was duly celebrated by the Baptists at the state quite recently. In the summer of 1787 James Smith, a Baptist'"" preacher from Lincoln county, Ky, visited New . Design and preached to the people. His labors were successful, and several of the pioneers professed to be converted. Amongst them were Joseph Ogle, James Lemen, their wives On May If and other connections. Smith was taken prisoner by a party 1; of Klckapoo Indiana and carried off . . captive. luTrfs abgence meetings werw heid. conducted by Shadrach Bond, who ana!' the first Governor of Illinois. At one of these meetings a stranger came in, whoee dress indicated that he was In advance of the hunting shirts aad moccasins of the settlers. The stranger was Rev. Joseph Dodge, from a Kentucky, on hk way., brother, residing in Ste. Genevieve. He, pent several days preaching In the settlement, and upon his departure, baptised James Lemen and wife, John Gibbons and Isaac Enochs, who were the first persons baptised in the terrl lory. For the next two years they were without a preacher, but continued to hold regular meetings. In the spring of 1796 Elder David Badgiey of Virginia made them a vlilL Before he departed, on May SO, he baptized 15 persons. Elder Badgiey and Joseph Chance of win Drood. made his own and he was happy in his work. On the morning of the Eth of June, 1870, he had been writing In the little chalet in the grounds of his house at Gads Hill, writing cheerContrary to his fully, hopefully. usual custom he had resumed work after luncheon and continued through the greater part of the afternoon. Then he walked back to the house he was never again to leave alive. He had' made an appointment with a friend in London for the following day, but It was never kept By the evening of the 9th he was dead, leavMRS. ELIA PEATTIE. of Edwin Drood with back I If could go my family ing "The Mystery a one, it may be, mystery still, though to the peaceful solitude of one of those that does not need much unraveling. great clearings in the woods, such as I knew so intimately in my childhood, Grek Honor t'ycllt. and we could there raise enough from Americans are fond of lauding their the soil to easily satisfy our dally needs and sustain a comfortable existence, I athletic heroes, but it seems that we would never write another line. I are far behind in this respect when would just do my work, play with my classed with the Greeks. Spiro Louys, children and think my own thoughts the young man who won the bicycle race from Athens to Marathon, during for their own sake." This declaration was uttered with all the Olympic revival, Is having honors the enthusiasm of which Mrs. Peattie thrust upon him that even Rusle or the pet of Burkeville never dared is capable, and that Is not a little. This might lead to- - the Impression dream of. All Greece is heaping upon that Mrs. Peattie considers her newspaper and literary work a little better than a daily grind, but' the truth Is that she takes no snth pessimistic view of her routine task. Quite .to the contrary, her whole heart Is In whatas a pracever she does, whether It tical philanthropist, a writer of stories or a new spaper woman. When Istarted my woman's colIt should not umn I determined--ha- t be made the vehicld of womans follies or foibles, but that It should contain whatever of good common sbnse and practical wisdom. I could command," added x,rs. Peattie. "The result has been gratifying to me, for it has demonstrated the fact that departments of this kind as ordinarily conducted are not what women want or appreciate, but what bachelor edilors think women llkev "I have been deriving no little SPIRO LOUYS. amusement from the good critics who him gifts, lotterw of congratulation and That the dishave been kind enongh to pass Judg- offers of advancement. ment upon my latest collection of short ease which so commoqly afflicts the stories, called A Mountain Woman. achiever of sporting greatness, aptly The very stcries in that volume which termed big head, has pot tainted this of Marathon winner is testified to by the they have branded with the stamp " Improbability are little more than statement that he has actually declined pieces of reporting rather than imag- many offers. How unfit for an Amerinative creations. The principal char- ican career this youth must be! acters, as well as the main thread of Plain red combined with red and incident, in the story of The Three Johns and Tp the Gulch are absolute- - white in wall papering Is considered ly true and practically cnombelllshed." very artistic. IN -- r Wallace EORGE Jones, ex - United States Senator from A remarkable dramatic poem, Wild Iowa, has had a reJustice. has come out In England, Its career. markable L. author being Mra. Margaret Woods, at Born Vlnceqhis, 'who some seven years ago was quite Ind AprH 12. 1804, prominently before the public on ache was a drummer count of the somber power of Tier first no vet, A Village Tr&sly.Sinte. then hoy ln tha.warMif 1812, and won disshe has written little but what she has tinction in the done has been of fine quality. Black Hawk war. Mrs. Woods is a daughter of the dean of Westminster and is married to the He was the last delegate In congress Rev. H. G. Woods, president of Trinity from the territory of Michigan, the first college, Oxford. Her other writings of delegate from Wisconsin and the first note have been a novel, "Esther United States Senator from the State which has for its central fig- of Iowa, and he selected the names ure Dean Swift; The Vagabonds and Wisconsin and Iowa. He has known a volume of poems. The present poem every President since Monroe, was In shows the conflict between good and the escort of Lafayette, was a business evil In the human soul; the scene is partner of Daniel Webster, was the d . island laid on a lonely, colleague In congress of Thomas II. where dwells a man who for years has Benton, Charles Sumner, Stephen A. tortured his helpless wife and children. William H. Seward and James Douglas, one One child a maniac, one drowned, was the intimate friend of a cripple and another leading a life of Buchanan.' John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren, shame to escape parental tyranny presHenry Clay, John C. Fremont. Jefferage a horror which Mrs. Woods ham son Davis and Franklin Pierce, was a minister to South America before the war. was a party to seven "affairs of honor, caught the dying vlctlmf of the Cilley-Gravduel in his arms, was Imprisoned by Seward on suspicion of being in collusion with Jefferson Davis, was the Chesterfield of Washington society nearly fifty years ago, was once the richest man in Iowa, but in his South America. latter years has had little income except a pension of $20 a month, granted Rallway la a Volcano Cratar. eighty years after his service as a The survey of the volcano Popocatedrummer boy. To these must be added petl, Mexico, for the purpose of deter- many minor distinctions. Tb rnItAillV (VU J? rxsMl In-di- an to-vi- sit BUILT IN ,1796, Kentucky organised the church, with was called New Design, Jcffron Itovta PrlTat rrofwrt. Confederate ex - Postmaster - General John H. Reagan related the following In his recent lecture In San Antonio, Tex.; 1 said there were some things Illustrative of the character of Mr. Davis not generally known to the public. When Gen. Grant waa moving h is army down the Mlaeieaippfxbelow Vicksburg, Mr. Davia waa notified that bit Brtarfleld plantation and large property would fall Into federal hands and waa advised to have the movable property carried out of danger. To this suggestion he replied that the president of the confederacy could not afford to employ men to take care of his private property. And when the federal army waa moving on Jackson, Miss., and he waa advlud that 8 la htU boro la Iliad eownty aed hi vaXitaM llbraty and. other property there would fall into federal hands and that he ought to have it removed to a place of safety, be made the same reply that the president of tha confederacy could not afford to uso men for the security of hia private property. And all movable property at both places, Including hia negroes, waa lost to him. I make these statements because I was present at each of these conversations and 1 have not seen them In print Dcllllag Wllk Ballat. A novel method of perforating GEN. GEO. W, JONES. General Jones is the son of John Rice Jones, mentioned In history as the friend of Benjamin Franklin. The falser was for years chief Justice of the supreme court of Missouri, The family lived at SL Genevieve, Mo, In 1814, and when Captain Ltnn was commissioned to raise a company of young Jones was the drummer boy who marched about the streets in that service. He graduated from Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky., In 1825. Henry Clay was his college guardian. In 1823 he was sergeant of the body guard of Andrew to Jackson on his way take his seat as United States senator. When Lafayette revisited America the young student waa selected by congress as a member of a reception committee and escorted the French patriot through Kentucky. After graduation young Jones lived three years at SL Genevieve, studied law and was clerk of the United States district court for Missouri. "His health gave out and his physician ordered him Into the woods to recuperate. Accompanied by a dozen slaves and a number of hired men, he wefit to Mound, then in Michigan Ternow In Wisconsin, not far but ritory, from Dubuque, He engaged in mining, smelting, farming and merchandising, living a simple, rough life, which restored hia health, and he boasted freedom from sickness for nearly seventy years thereafter.1 , When the Black Hawk war broke out In 1832 he enllsted as to General Henry Dodge, father of hi colleague as United States senator from Iowa.. After the war the pioneers of Michigan Territory chose him colonel of militia without his knowledge, although a son of Alexander HAmmon was a candidate. Later he became a major general. While "organizing a company of soldiers at What Is now Mineral Point, Wis., he was chosen county judge, although he had not sought the place. In 1835 he was elected delegate to congress from the Territory of Michigan, which then embraced all the coun- sol-dle- Sln-sina- mining the best location for an aerial cable railway to the summit has Just been completed. It has been determined to start the line from the ranch of Tlamacua, and It will be connected with the interoceanic railroad at the base, so that the business of shipping sulpbur can be cheaply accomplished. new railway will be a great at- traction to tourists, who will now be able to make the ascent to the summit, feet above the sea, and also scend to the crater, where the process of extracting sulphur is being carried out. : Iron platea la reported from Salt Lake City. The city la being supplied with electricity for lighting and power generated fourteen miles away in the big Cottonwood canon. It was found necessary, for the purpose of pipe connections, to cut four openings la the seven-fopenstock, the plates of which were half an Inch thick. Tbs workmen began to cut with cape chisels, but the procees made was too exasperatlngly slow for the engineer of the works, R. M. Jones, who. Is known throughout the west as the cowboy engineer. i Mr. Jones took up his rifle, and, using steel bullets cased with copper, shot s line of holes through the plates from a distance of The intervening about thirty feet edges were afterwards easily cut out, and In a very short time the job war finished. 48-In- ch FRANK MAYO, ett" expired through the operation of the statute of limitations enacted by popuiar taste Mr, Mayo found It ls ceedingly difficult to gain the attention flckIe pubUc Jn anything else, of gCCU8tomed to seeing him In the buck-18,0coat 0( hunter, nothing else Kemed Just right, and thua it hap Davy pened that from 1884, when I Ctockett was put aside, until within a recent period, hia fortunes waned. During that interval he wrote a play, Nordeck, in collaboration with John G. Wilson, and appeared in the chief s. role with artistic but not financial He also appeared aa a member of various combinations and stock and a smaller and narrower choir, I companies, but failed to regain his old re position before the public until a little which latter ends In a more than a year ago, when he hit upon Puddn head 'Wilson. As an actor Mr. Maya, was sincere He believed in and sympathetic. straightforward methods, and was destitute of mannerisms or affectations. Hi sbeautlfutdanghterr Eleanor, was seen last year In Princess Bonnie" hut her stage career was cut short by marriage,. James El verson, Jr., of the Philadelphia Inquirer, became her husband a year ago last April, when ahe permanently retired from the stage. Frank Mayo was beloved by even one In the profession, and I do not think any man in it had warmer friends than be. ,He played his first 1869. His engagement In Chicago death takes away one of our foremost actors. It seems that all the old ones , THE OLD CHURCH, An are going, and the new ones do not cess, within which is the altar. open gallery surrounds the chhrch seem to fill their places Frank Mayo Light enters only through the small, was a prince not only as a man, but round holes under the main roof, so as an actor. that the worshippers are alwaya so fashrouded In that LaaSMCa-Words "7vorable to meditation. are the sharpest stHleltos ever wielded by the hand of a friend. There "T went to two receptions last Bight 4 no sledge hammer on earth so powerIts ful as language; no lilies so white; no and lost my umbrella at the last. a wonder you didn't lose It at the first thorns so sharp; no poison ao deadly. one. Thats where I got It. Truth. Rev. Frank Talmage. ex-Th- 00 de-Lk- ot auc-ces- -- semi-circul- ar ill I A? ; semi-darkne- ss Ortl Womao. Eag land Next to the queen and the princess of Wales, Miss Florence Nightingale is by all odds the most prominent woman in England. The fame she gained in the Crlmeg forty years ago haa penetrated Into the remotest corners of mk FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, the British Isles, and almost as much as the queens her name Is a household Some evidence of her popuword. larity was given on the occasion of her seventy-sixt- h birthday, recently, by mesthe numerous congratulatory sages she received. Miss Nightingale shows. tbeJidvance of age visibly, but though she is feeble physically she U serene of mind. She rarely appears in publlc-nowa-- i'" ; |