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Show 7 4 A WOMAN OF NERVE. SHE FOILED Mr. Mattie Kelt-harof Atkin, MSua., Trll How She " hilled" th Outlaw WtkO laleuded to Hob an Kxprvu 1 rain ATIIIDAY Mil March 8 lust, story of a the brave woman was toj-- j ..ill the pcTpeis under the caption Felled by a Woman." A wonmn in courage v --M, ut t,ul hardly fot-H-if tt - girt 1,1 ears, fur Mrs. ,Jr ' who Retchard, otelheanl tl.e would-b- e train wreckers plotting tin ir destiu tle s home and ti It i ,i f t d the wattling which saved the tram is orly 21 jests old At the i leqtttst Chicago papet Mrs. Relch-artells how the incident happened I.! the toll, wing words I hn 1 tuurh oT a si i liut thi s is tt nil took place. Fliday 1kj t March i Up ill(,r than usual atHii'g. :,.tinK out the telegraph l; 10.0,1, .iit of the oificp, as the noise disturbed me. i had been in the habit of leaving the instrument "cut into the othbe f,.i r nipany during the night, as I staid In the dc pot alone with my babe. S eai oinl I think that m., having cut tiie iiim i,;r t ut out v as what caused tlie mn to talk as the did for had they heard the instrument they would l.ace gene away. About if dock I began to prepare to ar.d while I was disrobing I beard foittpa coming from the direc1 tion of tut water-tan- k thought I was the sertic n men returning from the store, about one-hamile away, but as they slopped Jirst outside my bed- hn d ( lf Maunrr Ids froiu Mm. ftihop. Rleculatlon as to the original from which Uu Mauiier drew bls Trilbj o Kerrall and Svengjh have been ri' since the publication of the most popular book that has appeared for mail-ea- r All sorts of exemplars bate been Quoted, but none of. tin, n lmr a suflfTTetit' resemtTTme to rotn-- ' of the Uc v to be worth onshb i attoii The musical history of the time la which Trilby a cxtraordlnai htstoiv llL dated hfen r a uac W) b.j name of singe is whose carrcr-c- , in mu wa-touched upon the no toon flight "f that fxh.mri:mdij gul through tie upper regions of tm- - inubsl wnild Trilby was Indeed a shooting star, tin one knew whelm d Ining wiUi rare effuigeme for a short time ami suddeitt losing her brilliance and fad Ing Into nothing Rhe came fnnn nothing and to nothing she rituinod The lives of the other geat prhr.u donne of the period oiler no parallel to this extraordinary stoi. says t lie Chicago Weekly The gieatest singer of that day, (bulla (trial, began life as a i remarkable talent and ail exceptionally leautiful voice, studied hard under goud musters, was gradually promoted cm her merits, was for many years the reigning piima donna of Kuiopc, declined in popular--ltwith the advance of age and died In retirement- - peacefully and quietly. to Trilby, on the contrary leaped celebrity at a bound, blazed forth as a star of the first magnitude and was suddenly extinguished wt.en the magnetic force that conti oiled her orbit failed to act So It was with tfie other gieat vocalists Their lives have been written, even to the minutest detail. Their hlstmy Is the common property of the world, there is no mystery about It - One singer, however, whose fame was world wide, but who now Is well nigh forgotten, offers In her career a striking resemblance to that of Trilby. 1)8 A CANG OF TRAIN ROBBERS. 0f U THE ORIGINAL "TRILBY- .Cietir Ml Auu Ktvlerc 1 1 c ir horus-g-m.-shm- y , FAMOUS INN - young Western poet. OLD Nixon BULL'S the Present kite Since Mtolic Iron Safe KmiUdtt-tuof ltacdc Urtw' Wealth An Old d Mood on -- It PROF. JOSEPH EMERSON FAMOUS CREEK SCHOLAR, I Mlalater public of Mexico th to Jte- -' trt d. kev-n.ii- JXju rman s CvTTw u't 'mid Bull a a vmle ami and llc-ahotel or tav- humorandiMthmc.u, ,c, q, tear,hieml-Dani,u,h Urn s ern. a here - m ed ll pis .,LJWao tstifi ItticT feist I ; aW Ri Co ci,e sg-xt dallon for hit grt at rtad on a i,irk do.-t- n. .m tqil uf sunshine, lie is t'niiuue: he, and i , his if his wrilu.cs luinsU, thought, he is r. Ui i.. ,t ,.f n h,mn-tim- es there m a ni., , suns t a olnees ' but a. ).' ara M..miH aa a nmnu- - much moie McssT;eV ,,r ;i r, ,j,in song ment to old New at daj break o, Sl r Land, bis not of f ull Yoik at the corner optimism misof Third aenue and Twetity-fou- i th taken sort. He pou, i imli.nc, but , now It he doesnt guar.ir;, dreet Although the building, as lint theic Is a stands, has been modernized with the hag of gold at ti , , nil ct a Jlc tells faith in all uunklnd, but exception of some cf the upper part. It us to have h.,s lost none of Its attractiveness for to keep an tet out t n the green goods k t gold-bucsh.-peH the old n ldents who remember it when and sas w(i it stood in the middle of the fields, should be t'li'ij, ;Liful iig., tiling and was reached by staves from the central part of the city which was way down ton.- As fa- - as is known the old ' l plicce was built In 1S25, ami managed by Thomas Smith for Daniel Drew The property was swept by file in lMt, and one of the things not destroyed at the A fire was tiie famous old lion safe which U Drew had built in oue of the walls to keep his money from midnight prowlers. This safe still stands in an oflioe on the ground floor, and, could It speak, would be aide to tell pocket-uehinstories of the fabulous sums K safely xx t --J' f , A. kept from prying hands and eyes during Its career. At the time Drew purchased the safe banks were unknown In that part of the city, and people who used to come In from the surrounding A. country to spend a few days Invariably ; y deposited their valuables and moneys behind Its massive doors. Naturally the fame of the safe, each side of which Is capable of holding two men standing upright between the doors and the Inner partitions, spread far and wide, and In consequence was the means of bringing a steady and substantial trade NIXON WATERMAN, to the house.As much as $50,000 has been the comfort of all created things, but looked In It In a single night. In the old days turfmen who had any we should not attempt to thaw out a kind of business at all to transact In frozen hornet's nest by the kitchen fire the city used to make the Bull's Head without first sending the family over ta tavern their headquarters, and some a neighbors. Mr. Waterman, who was born In remarkable transactions In horseflesh Kendall county. 111 , Nov. 12. I85, Is have been made before the bar. The favorite sport among the lovers the younger member of a large family. of speedy animals, when a number of Most of his life has been spout In the and on the frontier,' Several them got together at night, was swaphe took up his residence In years ago to owners would go horses. The ping he has since written exthe stables and trot out their animals, Chicago, where for the press of that city and tensively room. In bar the them marching right magazines and humorous When the swapping began to get excit- the eastern The papers. sevgod work he has already to unusual It was lee ing nothing done Is but a promise of the better achievement! yet to follow. son gs-l- s way between Old ratted State Hc-M- uy The m; RANSOM, To succeed the late Isaac Pusey Gray, j w ho recently died In Mexico, the Presimore catching thui, its and that a lie Ha Been In the dent has named, and the senate has Sinre beISIS can song funti. r tl'in .. Mgh. Senator Matt W. Ransom, of 1 tjumirr of (V Isrntid n He belles es that in,. (otlrge tlu, in.f North whose term In the senCarolina, ana rt ,, I( u, hvttin luted by aiuilrnl j KerenHa ing, ul S. Air. Ransom has ate March expired Ue.rth be the qj,, may trUitie. been a member of the senate sine 1872. - m MATTVL ' Ath,,,d Faine a kctrr u, ritr. Nixon Vrttmijm the jA ilcsophical HEAD TAVERN A NEW YORK LANDMARK. tat 5 Ila OU) ZEUS" OF BELOIT. w:. rrocu, , , . ir t MONO THE BEST known el and i- most vi senior professor of Greek at R loIFeol-leg- e Prof. -,-t k J u. i, c -- qiT-VV- g 0m mid-we- to Beloit men as He Is "Old Zeus. the father of this "college In the prairie grass, and with its phenomenal pi ogress he has been Inclosely Identified. The venerable structor came to lie Mit in 1848 from Yale, where he was a tutor In Greek. He was graduated frrmi Yule with the class of Dll. uml among his classmates wete eui h men us Jude l.arned. Rev. W T.' Judge Birds! e, and The professor Donald G. Mitchell. of New springs fiotn the most stalwart England s tupatridae, and 1.1 ancestry may be traced to the timeu of William the Conqueror; yet the more insplrtngly democratic part of the long gotvalogy lies at the heroic ago of the Puritan Immigrations, when Rev. Peter Bulk-le- y left wealth and position to escape he peiseculions of Charles 1. Prof. KrflerBufi was the cousin of the distinguished Ralph Waldo Emerson, and cairles with him the personalities of the family. He Is immensely popular with, his students, all uf whom revere him as a father. ills eccentricities of expression and voice are peculiarly Emcisonlan. It is g laconic utterances and by object lessons that the beloved teacher exercises much of hla unique Influence, so that a freshman half forgets the wonderfully exact Greek scholarship and,, wide Greek culture of the master while under the direct power of the man. He Is now 74 years of age, and measures 6 feet and 2 Inches In height. His favorite position In the classroom is with his feet placed plgeon-t- o style In the rounds of the chair In front of him, and many are the traditions of a class back In the 70s who determined to ml- - aud during all thesa years he baa bee;.., one of the most faithful attendants upon the sittings of the chamber. "His absence will be noted In the senate, for he Vi( a'p'i'didlur man With IhVmerabers, and wa among- - the beet known of the to the frequenters of the galleries. He did not speak often, but when he did so was a conspicuous exponent of the style of oratory picturesque in language. Involved In rhetoric, bur iiiiml suave and eooetcaus -In manner. Mr. Ransom, when the democrats gained ascendency In the senate, was made chairman of the 2 on commerce, and he also served on the Committees on agriculture and -- com-mitt- ae wa .W if-v- j?v m. deep-sinkin- MINISTER RANSOM, forestry, on printing, on private land claims, on transportation routesr-ampesereral others. During his long serv Ice he gave up his law practice almost entirely; and his friends In th senate, knowing that he had no fortune, but lived on his salary alone, were apprehensive that after that ceased the future was not bright. When Gov. Gray died, the democratic members united In a st Odd Comblaatloa of Adrocmte. In Paris there are often some curious a combinations of avocations,-Duri- ng recent trlar the defendent was a 6f mutes at funerals and porter In the office o( a magistrate.- - In the 7,000 latter capacity he appropriated s belonging to the estates of deceased whose property was committed to the safe keeping of the magistrate. It was his lavish expenditure that led to the detection of his crime. He was par tieularly fond of his relatives and was continually getting up little treats In their behalf. He took them on excursions and tried to make life exceedingly pleasant for them. As for himself, he erected a fine mausoleum In a suburban cemetery for the reception of his remains when he should give up marshaling funerals for others. There were In his no extenuating circumstances case and he was sent to prison for eight years with hard labor. mar-shal- er pep-son- OLD BULLS HEAD INN. eral animals on the floor at one time. Old Rufe Conklin was one of the frequent patrons of the place, and nothing delighted him more than to indulge In his favorite pastime of crack-a-loThe gume consisted of throwing a penny Into the air, and the spectators making bets as to which crack it would fall nearest to. This sport was particularly fascinating to old Rufe, who wagered sometimes as high as 100 at a time on the result of the fall of the coin. Drovers also used to make the old place their headquarters for the exhibition and sale of cattle, special accommodations having been provided for them, aa well as for horses. After the fire In 1841 the plac1 was purchased by Pierre Lorlllard, and Is still owned by his family. In 1888 George Metcalf became the manager of the hotel, and three years later he turned It over to Blaine & Bristol. Alfred Abrams had it later, and in 1880 he sold it to Charles Wendelken. who modernized tha buUdlng. John C. Bcheuplein is the present proprietor. About the earliest history of the Bulls Head tavern Is found in the following advertisement that appeared In the New York Spectator Tuesday. May1 o. ann Riviere bishop. room dear I knew It was not they.--1 In fact, as far as her professional life is was In bed by this time, but when they concerned, Ann Rtvlere, afterward stopped I thought I had better see what Lady Henry Bishop, then Mme. Anna they meant by stopping there, so I crept Bishop and at last Mrs. Meyer Schults, bold relief as the only quietly to the door and Just as I reached stands out-Iit I heard Voice No. 1 say: artist from whose life It was possible to Incarnate the eccentric but delightDo you think it will work? Sure. No train can get over a pile ful heroine of Du Maurlers wonderful romance. Of course, the story previous of ties we put on the track. Vole? No. 2 Shall we put em on the to her public appearance as a singer Is purely Imaginary and the .product of .bridge or east of the bridge? No. 2 East of the bridge, for we dont the brain of Du Maurier. Ann Riviere want the express car to go into the never was an artist's model, never wore ' Vlver. coat, never knocked about No. 1 Well, we will go into thd depot the streets of Paris as a waif and stray, but was born and bred a lady and ,and stay until the freights are gone, maintained through life the respect and then fix the ties. of all who knew her. Her father, Just as soon as I heard the last re- alove musician of talent, was of good demark I knew if I did not tell the train being a scion of the ancient and dispatcher at once I would have no scent, French family De Crecy, who chance. So, without waiting to dress, noble had migrated-- to England during the I hurriedly took my revolver, a 32 call-brreign of terror in the first French revoand went into the office, cut in, lution. She was well brought up and and began to call the dispatcher at well taught, and at an early age was and started to tell him there were married to at man very much her senior, the celebrated Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, the well known composer, whose name is made familiar by his famous glee, "The Chough and Crow, the popular songs, "Should He Upbraid? "Maid Marion and "Sly Pretty Jane, and the adaptation from an old Italian air to Home, Sweet, Home, which in the after career of his wife held the same position as a standing musical dish that English's ballad, "Oh. Dont You Remember- ,- Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? held in the vocal repertory of Trilby O'FerralL The married life of Sir Henry and Lady Bishop was troubled always by the ambition of her ladyship, who insisted upon being a prlma donna, while her husband, a musician of vast experience, always declared that, although she had a voice, she had neither talent nor aptitude for n I - Big Work, Little Money." Air Anglican for an organist who was to receive 10 a month, In return for which he was to play three services on Banday and one on Wednesday evening, when, also, the boys must have, an hours practice; on Rriday he must conduct a full choir practice, first giving the boys half an hour by Ihemselves, and attendance is expected on the usual feast days. Fur- ther. no pupils maybe taken to the church organ, nor may that Instrument be used by the organist himself, save on Sunday afternoons." England' Grant Monomer tall 1st. The position of European powers in RROF. EMERSON. relation to the International money I, 1825: inks the attitude of "Old Zeus during Is now pretty well defined. "The subscriber Informs his friends conference of England, and Ribot of recitation by keeping their feet In a Ilarcourt and the the and particularly public, France, both have declared themselves like position, but after a few attempts drovers of this and the adjoining states, in unmmtakeable language. Sir William the collegians decided it was a dangerwill be establishment that this opened makes the ous policy to pattern after Greek modposition of the British govon flrst the accommodation for their els. ernment very ha "If," says plain: reto he hopes day of May next, when Among his expressions on accommoceive, and by bis superior are: "Zeus will 'one day. the campus dedations and unremltted attention to come back again from Oceanus to his serve their patronage. own Olympus," "Keep the college full" The house Is large and commodious, of soul," "We make Bella! what she Is. and the yards, having been laid out according to a plan furnished by the Tic tort end Carlyl. drovers, are well adapted to the exhibiThomas Carlyle, In a letter, tells how tion and sale of cattle, and will be kept he met Queen Victoria at Dean Stanclean. ley's residence. The SUnleys and we .'The stables are large and airy and were all In a flow of talk, and some particularly arranged for the accomhad done setting coffee-pot- s flunkeys fine horses that may be modation of of sublime pattern, when and teacups brought to the city for sale. her majesty, punctual to the minute, To travellers who may choose to put glided in, escorted by her up at his house, the subscriber can of(a duchess doles ger of Athol) and fer all the luxuries which the city afby the Princess Louise, decidedly a fords, with many comforts not to be pretty young lady, and clever, too, as obtained there, while their horses will out In talking to her afterreceive the attention of sober and honwards. The queen came softly forward, est grooms and, provender of the first a kindly smile on her face, gently shook quality- on respectable terms. with all the three women, gently "hands that position. "Although but a short distance from with a nod the silent acknowledged the city, for the accommodation of perof us male monsters, and directly bows sons who may resort to the house, there DeeomtWe Art In Bmlou. In her presence every one was at ease will be stages running regularly, early MRS. REICHARD. agalp.Bhe Is a comely little lady, with The new public library building of and late, to a central part of the rlty. ' some men going to wreck No. IS. But a pair of clear, kind gray eyes; still Boston, upon which a THOMA3 SWIFT. generous almost young tin spite of one, looks as soon as the plotters heard the Instru- outlay has been made, very illustrates tjie bir william harcourt, broad wrinkle, which shows on each ment they rushed to the office door, and possibility of a general revival In these ' IT Abut (trow Old, hts '""France and .Germany, or any other cheek occasionally); Is still plurfip; grasped the doorknob, trying to get in. matters of American civic art and ' la nothing In the world so curion the quesg fine, low voice Indeed, her whole powers .wish to ccr.it-lnI Instantly picked up my revolver and architecture. Not only Is the building ousThere the ap champagne which Is served tion they can do so, but it Is not for manner la melodiously perfect. Jt ta fired four shots, through the door, and Itself most worthily and intelligently had the satisfaction of hearing them designed to meet the objects in view, at the Opera Ball. Nobody has ever England to follow their example." He Impossible to imagine a politer 'little the least Imperious: run away. but Its architecture wins approval from been able to divine where It comes from made It apparent that any representa- woman; nothing would all gentle, all sincere, looktng I a as so badly frightened It waa some art critics, while it Is also setting a or where It goes to. For my iart I tive of England to a conference ' attractive even. rather time before I could tell the dispatcher. good example for our civic administra- hsve always, believed it to be the very ba a Tnonomelatlist. Makes you feel, too. (If you have any A soon as I made him understand he tors by employing the best American same wine which la drunk on the stage lr. the drinking choruses, or it may be wnse In you) that she Is queen. told me to go for the section men, which talent to decorate its Interior with ar- the Modr Ji tha tnlnrky Day. T diabolic liquid which flows In A statistician In the employ of the I did. NVe have not seen -not; heard any- tistic mural designs. The city of Paris Faust ' ' when Mephlstopheles bores In- German government three Ingennlty Obtain has lent, great encouragement to a to the table years ago dething more of them. once obtained a his with You person An from the magic Ingenious to shaken gimlet nerves termined are make a careful investigatnoble form of art by engaging great My badly to see It suddenly fly out of the ion of the crowded pit in a Berlin theafright, but nothing more serious re- French artists to paint decorative de- expect superstition regarding Fri- seat In ashouting "There Is a fire at In a blue grass and flame, makes it as you The an division by ter sulted from the plot. day unlucky day. As a result of signs for the Interior walls arid ceilings think also of the "Arabian Instantly all the his exhaustive labors he has given the gchultzes house. Nights. of a number of public buildings, even superintendent sent out the section-me- n feet and made to patrol thq track until after No. 18 including the public schools, Boston has says a Paris correspondent of the Lon- world a book of queer tables and fig- gchultzes sprang to their theater half Lad passed. now entereup upon a policy In this re- don World, but It Is fearfully alcoholic, ures which prove that It la Monday, for the door, leaving thename la Prusso iL.sfwe!l not, to ponder over .Its not Friday that Is the most The commonest MATTIE REICHARD. ot empty. CcfcuRxe. fatal gard which It may well Continue to origin 1 too long. sia unfortunate week. Atkinson. Minn. day'ln the pursue. , e, Du-(iu- th dame-ln-walt-l- - e unem-barrassl- 8t. ng petition to the President asking that the Mexican mission be given to the senior senator from North .Carolina. This request was promptly granted, and the senate promptly confirmed the nom- ination. , Mr. Ransom was born In Warren county, North Carolina, In 1828, and was graduated from the University of North Carolina In 1847. He studied law, and In 1853 became attorney general of th state. He served In this Office-Hi- re year and resigned. Ha was a member of the North Carolina legislature In 1858, '59, and '60. He went a a delegate from Me state to the peace congress which met in Montgomery, Ala., In 1S81. When the civil war began he entered the Confederate army as a lieutenant-colone- l. He served during the war, and surrendered at Appomattox. At that time, he had become through various When the promotions, a major-genera- l. war was over he resumed the practice of the law, and was also a planter In Northampton county. The Aboltl of Nichols. An Important piece of news from . Russia has been the assertion of autocracy In its most extreme form by czar He had entered upon hi reign So amiably, and In what seemed to be so reasonable and so tolerant a spirit, that it came to be hoped in some quarters that he might look with favor upon a slight further development of In the representative provincial and local councils. But he has sternly rebuked all such aspirants, and has informed the nobles and aristocratic elements that he would stand firmly where hts father stood and maintain the absolutism of the czar with; out Impairment at any point. It Is Just possible that he may live to regret this pronunelamento. The grand difference between this young gentleman and his lamented father lies In the fact that Alexander had demonstrated his capacity and his faithfulness as an absolute ruler, while Nicholas has yet to give some evidence Of possessing even average ability and character. r. the-you- w. r. .VAK' ti . |