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Show I'ltOF. B. AN HONORED -- INSTRUCTOR OLD NORTHWESTERN." IN I I rurr really .TopnUr Botb with Iowa and Gown Holds an Lavlablo I! rr aK an Author of Edaratlonal Murk. ROFESSOR Robert McLean Cumnock Is one of the most honored instructors of Northwestern uuhersity, when he found the life of his officer was KATHLEEN' THE FAIR. not extinct Beside grate Injuries In Biographies! Sketch el a Krpre.rutatlra the upper face, a large stone from the American I'lthrn, OF gabion was driven through the cheek ALLLOVERS KNOW THE STRAINS NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIE- F Henry Oscar Houghton, who waa and Jaw to the neck, where tt ARMY. lodged; BRITISH OF MAVOURNEEN." born at Sutton, Vermont, April 30, 1833, the right wrist was smashed and a seridied at South Andover recently, Mr, ous wound inflicted on the skin. Houghton was the founder of the pub- II w.m 111 1'iret Spar at the Maa-rab- le Strange to say. he did duty, after a Hava Hoard of tl (anpor F. lishing house of Houghton, Mitfiin k Wl I.It rapid tempju-- recovery, till the Blag of Ithaitopu Mrkob Craarb, haw aa Old Haa LivCo., of Boston, and hia career, an imfor Dn4 oa th Field lib 1ragreos armies the skin wound ing at Haltlmor, Fat. Forth Thl portant one. having much to do with w aid. becoming more serious later, when the Melody, lp the education of the American people, bone began to exfoliate. was dus to his singular honesty and OW many millions JIGUST la a memoenergy Mr. Houghton began life aa a for of people who have rable month orga a Great Header. printer on the Buillngton Free Press, to - the listened Wolaeley. but while at work applied himself to his ft o r d Considering that Senator Morgan of t- strains sweeof of the presdint-ola Alabama a careful education. Through August said to have a wider range, f that plaintive old ent year baa seen of encyclopaedic information than any economy he flttted himself for college, '"Kathleen him designated song, and graduated from the University of southerner In public life since the are the Duke of Gen. Toombs, It. is remarkabledays Mivourneen, Vermont, working hard 11 the ttme, sa to as learn that he never of- - Cambridge aware that the comas to find means for hi instruction. I school but ef Commander poser is still living? for three years. He seems to have been Going to Boston, and thoroughly profiA famous writer of the British a youthful prodigy, for at tho cient, he found employment on a newsof 9 age has said: "There U paper, not only doing the work of a army; and In Aug-as- t, be had read an the works of Virgil in no eloquence that 1855, bis galcompositor, but writing for it. In 18i9 the original Latin, and many of the be purchased an Interest in the firm of lantry before odea of Horace. The senator la now 71 thrills like Irish eloquence; there is no trenches in the Freeman k Holies, who were printers. Sebastopol for him the years old. His father died at 94, and poetry that touches Ilka Irish poetry; gained France might hav lived longer It he had been there Is no wit so keen as Irish wit; Shortly after the firm of Bolles k Legion of from Honor t CamHoughton was established and the order of the Medjldlc from willing to take hla doctor prescription there Is no melody so sweet and plainbridge. In time publishing was added Turkey. It waa on August 81. 1853, that of a little whisky to stimulate his flag- tive as Irish melody. to the business of printing. Many edb Wolaeley,, then a captain f the NineThe composer of "Kathleen Mavour-Bee- n ging vitality. la at present at Portland, Me,, teenth Foot, serving as an assistant where he occasionally goes to visit hla engineer, performed th feat of arm Th MUlionalraPork Parker. old friends. which won him the two decorations, and The composers name Is F, Nichols Philip D. Armour la a representative very nearly cos&Jilm hi life, tor be waa Crouch, and he was born In Devonso badly wounded that hia body waa Citizen of Chicago, and a typical American. Bora In Stockbrldge, N. Y.. May shire In the west of England, In July, drawn aside fpr burial.-Th16, 1832, Mr. Armour was educated in 1808. HU hair la as white aa the driven la told by of the story wounding General Sir Evelyn Wood in an article th district school. In 1851 he left anow, but hts frame Is still erect and he on "The Crime in 1854 and 1894. It home and went to California to seek hla la as young as ever and his soul as full la worth repeating, not only for the in- fortune. He returned in 1856 without of music Music Is his life and love, terest that attaches to the anniversary having accomplished hla purpose, and and, old aa he Is, he U continually writbut because It brings out In distinct soon thereafter embarked in the com- ing and composing, and the writer 11s colors the surprising difference between mission business in Milwaukee, Wla, In tenod for some time to sweet melodies and good harmony which he had Juat made. He le a man who lovea sociability, and makes thoroughly enjoyable every hour you are with him listening to hie fund of anecdote and reminiscence. Professor Crouch has had an eientful life. The atory of the writing of "K&tb leen" le this; In 1837, when Mr, Crouch wa 19 years old, he noticed one day In British magazine tbe little poem of. Kathleen Mavourneen," and waa struck with the rhythmic beauty of the line and tbe tender pathos of tbe theme. They kept running in hie head, HENRY O. HOUGHTON. and one day, while riding about the grounds of th duke of Bedfords caatle tions of Bacon, Carlyle. , Macaulay, at Engley, be evolved the melody of Cooper, Dickena, were Issued by the Kathleen. that was destined to be firm. In 1864 Mr. Houghton became sung by countless generations and In associated with M. M. Hurd, and under almost every tongue. the name of Hurd & Houghton a large When he returned to hla lodgings he and lucrative business was carried on. completed the song. It waa first sung In 1878 the house of James R. Osgood k by himself at a little 'concert In PlyCo., the successors of Tlcknor k Fields, mouth, and after the concert he prewaa amalgamated with the firm of Hurd sented the score and copyright to Mrs. & Houghton. The firm then became Peter Roen, the wife of a music dealer Houghton, Osgood k Co., and later of Plymouth, of whom he waa very fond. Houghton, Mifilln k Co. To the meThe music house of Roen failed, and chanical appliances of the Riverside effects passed to the large house of their Press were added many valuable literary franchises. There were published the productions of Longfellow, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whittier, Lowell, Holmes, Thoreau, Whipple- ,- Agassis. In 1873 the firm of Hurd k Houghton purchased the Atlantic Monthly, and from the Riverside Presa were issued th? Journal of American Folk Lore and the Andover Review. Mr Houghton was Councilman, Alderman and Mayor of Cambridge, and though directing , with all his energies his business of he publishing, paid great attention to hla civic requirements. Mr. Houghton took great Interest In the passage of tho International Copyright Law. DuriV ing hla long career of activity, his re"b lationships with the many men of letters were of the most cordial character. 7H GENERAL WQLSELEY. THE LATE H. O. HOUGHTON. 31. CUMNOCK. Trlb--nt- es of praise which '"often' Luk the ring of sincerity are not the kind bestowed upon him by the admiring students of E'aneton. He. is universally popular, both with town And gown. Professor Cumnock la "very Scotch and proud of hia lineage. And he has reason to be, since the glorious Scotch tiait of t ue manliness and wholehearted nest have brought him honors and untarnished reputation through tho life. One can ' eai s of his work-a-da- y easij fancy the free das of the boy'a i.fe in that land of ballad and romance, whose song and stories are yet bo dear to the son of her "banks and braes. O'd students of Wesleyan in Middle-towConn, still remember him in these wide-awacollege days when he acted as first tenor, "finest fellow and "moat popular boy on tho campus. The Wesleyan elmtree walk, the president's garden and old North Hall must still hold echoes of that chef rg, strong, commanding voice that said so many goodly words and shouted so many enthusiastic greetings. The elocutionary adtantages of Middletown aroused hla asp'rations. The kindly words of advice from Professor Hibbard, a master in voice culture, and also from hia president, Dr. Joseph Cummings, brought the decision that his voice was his calling During his college course he was a member of the Psl Vpsilon fraternity, and at the close of the course hla high rank in acolarshlp gave him an election Into Phi Beta Kappa. With the first prise for oratory and the prise for "second honors as being next to the handsomest man In college, he graduated in 1S6S. In forsaking college halls he was leaving only friends. In the fall of 186S, by the Introduction of his former teacher. Dr. Miner Raymond. he came aa tutor of elocution to Noith western university. Sinee then n, GENERAL 3Y0LSELEY. r sue-pesso- In-Chi- Aeaa Ulewett. th Jean Blewett has Aatbareoa. become well and favorably known In connection with th literature of Canada and the United -States, and ta constantly acquiring aider recognition. She was born in a country place near Rondeau Bay, Ontario, Canada, November 4, 1864. Her parent were John and Janet McKish-ne- y of Argyleahlre, Scotland, and much of her fbuth wa spent with her Scotch grandparent. She received a liberal education, and early manifested the imaginatUe faculty which caused her to be regarded as an indolent dreamer. At the age of 17 te a book of prose, which, though showing the amateur, displayed much strength and originality and gave promise of the better things that were soon to follow. She has since been a contributor to some of the leading of Canada and the magazines United States, snd her poems, etchings and have fouad their way to the hearts of thousands of readers In both countries. A keen observation and the faculty of describing What she sees in language that flows naturally from a poetic soul, give her the rare poser of making the reader see, hear and feel she-wro- es e -- "V - 5TU' ? - V JEAN BLEWETT. with her, while the senses are gratified with the musie that accompanies the revelation. Moil Crowded Spot on Forth, The most crowded spot on the earths surface Is that portion of the city of Valletta, Island of Malta, known as the "Manderagglo. In the whole of Valletta tbe proportion la 75,000 human being to the square mile, but in the Manderagglo there Is one locality in which there are 2.574 persons living on a plot of ground lest than two acres and a half in extent This would give no less than 636,000 persons to t the square mile, or 1,017.6 to the acre. In Liverpool, the most crowded city in Britain, the densest portions hate only 116.4 to the acre. -- ( v7 A Shot Through the Brain. A man ahot through the brain, says PROF. R. M. CUMNOCK, Victor Horsley, dies, not through failhis home has been in Evanston, with ure of the hearts action, but through the university. His election to the pro- the want of breath occasioned by the fessorship of rhetoric and elocution explosive effect of the bullet passing took place in 1873,'whlle in 1881 he also through the wet brain substance, and consequent Injury to the base of the accepted the same professorship in Garbrain. The heart goes on beating, hat rett Biblical Institute. Professor Cumnocks work la not of respiration stops; Indeed, the heart ta the past, but of the present The hours stimulated, not depressed, when a bulof every day are filled with the duties let enters thp brain, and the proper that come to him a director of the treatment of a man thus shot is the magnificent college of oratory he has same as that resorted to in the case of built up. The oratory building at drowning people one should try to set Northwestern is a monument to his un- up artificial respiration. flagging industry and genlua. It is the only building of its kind on the AmeriA Carpenter! Lock. can continent As a reader Professor The most interesting of the men made Cumnock Is equally at home with the newly rlehJiy the Cripple Creek mine powerful Shakespearean trsgeiiyrThe rippling love ditty and the grand poetry and beauty of the Bible. When he renders Dickens the listener Is at loss whom to admire most, the author or the reader. Professor Cumnock holds an enviable place as an author, since his "Choice Readings have passed through many editions and hla "School Speaker" la widely known. HI words, so often re"Cultivate peated In the class-roothe soul." have been embodied In hla own nature, for he Is a man of sturdy heart and sympathetic nature. Hli professional career has always been characterized by anjndomitable spirit and a hearty good will. trained veterans and raw recruits, even In a British army, where bravery la always looked for, and one man la assumed to he about aa good aa another. The regiments that Lord Raglan carried to the Crimea In September, 1854, were largely composed of old soldiers, of sturdy physique and dauntless valor. These were the men whose 'personal prowess won, against great odds, the "soldier battle" of Inkerman. By the summer of 1855 this splendid material had been pretty much expended. The hardy veterans were dead or Invalided, and the troops who came out from England to take their place proved loo often of very Inferior quality. -- "They were no longer, saya Sir Eyelyn Wood, "men In the prime ofllfe,biitweedy boys; and on the 26th of August, when a Russian shell, bursting In the fifth parallel, killed a line soldier, hla comrades not only retired, but refused to return to retrieve the body." The same lack of valor was shown by a British working party composed of newly arrived soldiers on the night when Captain Wolaeley got his wound. A small body of Russians bad made a sortie against the British advanced works on the extreme right, where Wolaeley was stationed. There was no covering party at hand, "and the working .party fell back In confusion before one-thiof their numbers, in spite of repeated attempts of Captain The RusWolBctey to Tatty"theTn." sians destroyed some fifty yards of the sap, wad then fell back to the DockWhits Boats Sots Paper. .. yard ravine, from which they kept up an Mrs. Cleveland uses for note paper a A Russian battery, Incessant fire. known as the Gervalt battery, also very pale blue paper, neither rough nor smooth, but comparatively smooth, played on the head of the sap, and in a which looks aa if It were covered with Bhort time Wolseleys little, party had W. S. STRATTON. lint of & deeper shade of blue.. It Is twelve casualties out of sixty-fiv- e men. The gallant Captain waa at work re-blue, hut so light as to look almost la WrS. Stratton,-wh- o own the indegray. This paper, which she haa usd pendence mine and has an In- pairing damages at the head of the ever Since she was married, she orders terest la other outright He - sap, under a shower of bullets, round mining properties. from a Boston house, to which she was la a carpenter, and three years ago he shot, snd shell, wheu he received the introduced by her friend, Miss Ruth walked from Colorado Springs to the wound which so nearly brought his Burnett, whose family are among the new camp, a distance of thirty miles. career to a premature close. Here la residents of Beacon Hill. Miss Burnett, In order to save the fare, which amount description of the affair glveh by for whom little Ruth Cleveland was ed to 4. Success has not spoiled him, Sir Evelyn Wood: named, is a convert to the Roman and with his income of 31,200,000 a year Wolseley was on hla knoes holding Catholic faith, and recently entered a he Is a modest, small-size- d front gabion. Into which a sergeant, the with man, cohvent iron-gra- y hair and mustache, dressed working also in a kneeling position, threw earth over his captains shoulder. In a plain business suit, and wholly InThe gabion was half filled when it waa Hs who gives himself to vanity and conspicuous. struck in the center by a round shot dees not give himself to meditation, forrom Gervais battery. Wolseley was woman Th getting the real aim of life and graspsocieties suffrage ing at pleasure, will in time envy him throughout tbe country will celebrate terribly wounded, and. Indeed, the aer-th- e back without who has exerted himself in meditation. birthday of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady fpnt pulled hie-bo- dy 1 ceremony. Intending to Buddha. Stanton Nov. 12. bury It in camp, 1 Tit -- rd formed a partnership with John Planklngton of Milwaukee, in the pack lng business, and that arrangement w& the beginning of the immense enterprises In which Mr. Armour haa since been engaged, and which has made hla nam known all over the world. The Chicago establishment of P. D. Armour k Co. waa founded in 1808, and there are now extensive branch houses New York and Kaneaa City. All in all, In which Mr; Ar the pscklng-house- a mour and hla brothers are Interested, form one of tbe most gigantic enter prises In the country. He gives hie 1863 he F. N. CROUCH. DAlmalne k Co., of London, Slid they published the song. It went like wild fire, and edition after edition was exhausted. Into almost every country, dims and language went this simple Irish song, with Ue softening melody, until hardly a civilized aatlon remains that does not know sweet "Kathleen." Fortunes have been made out of this song, th copyright ones having sold at auction, after many editions had been published, for 2,500, and many a concern has got rich from Us sales. Out of all this vast amount of money th poor old composer hag never received, a dob-la- r. MoUturo (a a Maaa Male-- ! p, A British scientist recently made the statement that upwards of five-si- x ts of the weight of a human being waa composed of moisture. His colleagues questioned the statement, whereupon a hospital Cadaver, the remains of a small, fleshy man, was obtained and put under th hydraulic press. Tbe corpse weighed 140 pounds even and It was found that w hen every drop of moisture bad been pressed from tbe body, the residue was a thin mass of dry, fibrous flesh and bones, weighing but thirty-thre- e pounds. F. Marloa Craw font. F. Marlon Crawford has won great popularity as a novelist He is the son of an American sculptor, Thomas Crawford, and was born In Bagnl di Lucca, Italy, August 2, 1854. He was educated partly In America, at ConcordTN. H and Heidelberg, and from 1876 to 1873 studied Sanskrit at tbe University of Rome. In 1879 he went to India and waa editor of a dally paper, the Indian Herald, at Allahabad. Returning to America in 1881, he remained until 1883, and then went to Italy, where with th Crouch has written many famous songs, hut none have approached "Kathleen" in popularity. Some idea of the extent of Its circulation can be gained from th fact that thirty-thre- e bouses In America alone have published this song. ' Professor Crouch came to America in 1849 with Max Ueretlr to- establish Italian opera In this country, but the scheme was a financial failure. He then taught mushr seveir years in Portland, snd subsequently resided in Philadelphia, Washington and the south. He served all through the war la the confederate army of Northern Virginia, and carries the scar 6f severe wounds now. He has lived for some years In Baltimore, snd it Is still his home. There is something pathetic about this dear old musician. He will never grow PHILIP D ARMOUR. old, but wilt live on in hie atmosphere of poetry and music until he joins tbe business hla personal supervision, and choirs In the Eternal City, and glistens haa s wonderful capacity for work. to the harmonies of heaven, Tb Bohctniaii'g Comment. my life t a miracle," said one of the combatanu to Murger. the of LA ie des Bohemes." I bad left In my pocket a five-frapiece and tbe ball struck flat on the spot where it waa." "In your pla I should have been dead man waa Murger, reply.-- Le Petit Parlsieu. 1 owe au-th- or nc FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD.' exception of occasional visits to this Sliower. A Blood-R- d , and other countries, he haa since rein considerable excitement was There sided, his home being near Sorrento. one Avoca last day the little village of Mr. Crawforde writings are chiefly in week, the occasion being a abower of the line of fiction, though he has dons to at first was which thought red fluid some work In critical philosophy and It came from a bright red, be blood philology, and has contributed sketches funnel-shape- d cloud, and nntll aa Invesof travel to periodicals. His first novel, ran excitement made high. Mr. tigation waa Isaacs, made him famous in th It waa found, however, that before it literary world, and his succeeding ones, cloud had the passed the village reached over a raspberry patch and cranberry man Wklng about marsh, and it is thought that numbers . '?ln,rAhe.ar on earth, it Is a of the berries were drawn up by the good time to watch how he treats her suction, crushed and tbe Juice being mixed with the moisture gave the rain Adam waa th, only husband who diops their red color. And thus endei never complained of dressmakers bills. th scare. ' which have followed one another in rapid succession, have been eagerly sought after and widely commented upon. The web of an ordinary spider will bear the weight of three grains f" & |