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Show 'ir f s Y vieeroy was w tiling to see him, he IIK WAS II UMUIiE ONCE. threw aside hi guards and forced his way into the presence of .Li Hung COMMANDER MCIFFIN OF THE Chang, who. instead of .being angry, NEW COVERNOR OF WYOMING admired hi pluck. After having been ROSE TO FAME. SHIP CHEN YUEN, IIK IS AN'AMERICAN duly examined he was put in efiarge of a gunboat. Iu the natal battle of 1 Gradual Thll Norton MeDIMo, Ysnlse he captured the only French Arsdinjr. Makta Aasspoll gunboat that was lost iu the war. He of was sent later to England to superinkrront for Hlairll tend the building of four ironclads, of Chino VtnUp, one of which he is now commander. W hen the present war opened he was III MOST llC- in command of the flagship placed tnresque figure thus Chen Y'urn. He was wounded in the far developed in battle of Yalu but is now doing w ell. the Chinese Japan In time of peace he lives in a palace war is an American in Shanghai, surrounded by sixteen fSJ ?-A. tall a n ts.1 n yh y sique ,. Mel i fti u, " N'yrt ' nuiUtt-W- : rff t h e4 Ve- q rri tw t b ffre v MeGiftin, the 11a bass a htaai of ThelTien Lliiii8 fine nose that looks like the extremely Yuen, the largest beak of a hiqsi, fine eygs and a firm warship in tha Chi- figure, and is straight as the proverbial nese navy, anil the arrow. His voic-qvibrant and thrillman that fired the first gun in the batsuitable for a leader of men. ing. tle of Yalu, and who bids fair to rival an HiSTomc House. Chinese Gordon in bold qiethods and in great achievements in the land of Hullt La ud Is Still 6mmI ft the Son of Heaven." McGiftin. whose tear. fifty full baptismal name ia Philo Norton, On the Haverhill and Itoston road, but who ia known to his friends simply at Andover, Mass., stands an ancient as "Nort, was born in Washington. house around which cluster the asPa., in lfi62. He was a student in sociations of two centuries, and which W ashington and Jefferson college in is especially interesting and memorahis native town for two years, going ble as having been the home of the through the preparatory department, first woman poet in America," Annie and then entered the Naval academy Ihidley Hradstreetof colonial memory. at Annapolis. His people on both It was built in the year I by Hon. sides are among the 'oldest Scotch-lrisl- i Simon llradstreet, who afterward besettlers in western Pennsylvania. came governor. It was afterHis father, Norton McGiftin. was a ward aa residence by classmate of Hlaine in the Washington Col. Dudley llradstreet until his college, a daring soldier during the death in 170'.'. The house is still in Mexican yvar. and colonel of a regivery good condition, and. with care, ment in the civil war. Col. McGiftin will serve its owners for another lias been a member of the Pennsyl- - half century. The accompanying Sl u Cotdr . . - 1T ud T1IE OLD HRADSTKEET vania legislature, and held an office, given him by Blaine, during the Harrison administration. The mother of Commander McGiftin belongs to the old family of Quail, well known in western Pennsylvania. Her people are connection of the Hlaine family.- well as of the Kwmgs of the Thomas Ewing branch. Like Gordon, Norton yvas reared in the strictest Presbyterian faith. As a boy Commander McGiftin was an omnivorous reader, making a habit of lying in front of an HOUSE - AT ANDOVER. y ervd lt C'r Sru a youth H Mi a ! IJeUeacle nod Other Horae Tank Store try Drag Sm1 OVERNult JGllN II Osborne of Wyoming was torn in Westport, Essex-countNew York, ou - Juue 19, 1858. ifhlf there he lived lie w lis ' IA yearsTTf ager-whet- r- pprentlct'd himself to a druggist IQL-Z- U in the neighboring state of Vermont. He later studied medieine and attended medical Iccturea at the Iniversity of Vermont during the winter months, working during the summer month iu a drug storeto pay liis- college expenses, 11a graduated with honors in 1880 and immediately pushed for the far west, whefe. by his unaided efforts he has accumulated a fortune and bnilt yip for himself ah enviable reputation as an enterprislhgpubitc spirited citizen of honorable impulses and of sterling integrity. Fpon amving in the then territory of Wyoming lie. went to the town of Hollins and ojiched a drug store, building up a good business and n establishing a reputation as a phjfSl-eiaranlt t lie front him in that placed of hts profession; and the In.on la- cifie Railway company, recognizing fitness for the rehis peculiar position, appointed him sponsible their surgeon. In time he branched out iu other directions, i and his keen business ability and general enterprise soon made him one of the foremost men of Wyoming as far as worldly possessions a re concerned, lie is at present the largest individual sheep owner iu Carlion county, his flocks numbering over twenty thousand. The records disclose that last year he was the lurgest individual taxpayer in the city of Haulms. His success jn a financial way ran be attributed solely to his own energy and untiring efforts, as at the time he came to Wyoming lie was in debt for his surgical instruments and medical library. In politics he has always beea a standi democrat. In 1 882 he w as elected a member of the legislature and in 1S88 served one term as mayor of the citv he has chosen for his home; and his administration is referred to as the liest the city ever had. He now holds the position of president of the Rawlins Electric Light company, secretary of the Rawlins Wool Storage company, president of the Rawlins Hotel company, and ia a director of a large drug supply house. All these enterprises are in successful -- , I Da-kot- - ? Sewell, who JOHS E. OSBORNE. operation and their combined enpitd amounts to over tl.iO.OOO.He is a prominent Mason, in w hhji order he is t past eminent commander of till Knights Templars and past high priest of the chapter R. A. M. He is devoted to the interests of his adopted itate, and the aggressive stand he has taken on the side of justice and right has convinced even hia opponents that in him Wyoming hat a govern ir. of whom every loyal, law abiding citizen will be proud. The recent election oF t)r. 'Osborne as gover-erno- r of Wyoming reflects no little credit on his personal .popularity, says the Illustrated American. . He over- -' came a majority of 1,700 and carried the state for himself by a majority of 1,800, leading the entire state ticket by several hundred and carrying every county in the state with one exception,' which was only lost to him by pet-forc- e - Sh Lived a CVstnrj. colored woman, .who clairned to have known several servants employed in Washington's family, died in on Oct. 24, ut the authenticated age of 100 years and 8 month 8he was Mr Elizabeth Neal, and xvaa born in Richmond, Va., in February, 1794. She did not claim- - to have seen but she kn?w several YVashington, colored people employed in Washington's household, and she also remembered weeing several great men who wre pointed out as Washington's Landing a Crasad Cat Dress Low - oru of low cut gowps. the defcihe pludd" li vingypiabresrbut she declares that their effect is pot so bad as the expanse of bare flesh exhibited by society women; particularly at the opera. According to accounts Mr Grannis herself is an interesting woman, and there are many things about her aa remarkable a her Kite is photographed usualopinion ly in her atom skirt, which is nar-roand short enough to meet at the knee a pair of woolen leggins, but the fact is further known that Mr Grannis used to wear the Y'lctoria waist when she was a girl, and. what is more.sUowed a very pretty- - pair of shoulder She is the president of the Nstional Christian League for the Promotion of Social Purity, superintendent of the Womans Christian Temperance union of New Y'ork county, and superintendent of the Social INirity Central union. Besides all this Mr Grannis is the editor and proprietor of a Christian paper, the Church Union. This little woman who watches the polls and wants to vote and hates low dresses is bundle of nerves and energy. Her entire life has been devoted to work, and' she has never know n what it was to have a holiday A 'A Lawyer's Lack, Mira beau Lamartine Towns, a well known lawyer of Rrooklyh, N. Y., with a prediction of rhyming, and a member of the constitutional convention, has fallen heir to property valued at fl50,000by the employment of this gift in the service of Michael Boone, an eccentric Irishmen who lived in Queens county and who owned considerable real estate. - (Several years ago, Broone entered Mr. Town's office and asked him to take a case and snra it np in rhyme. The lawyer complied with the request and other similar on winning all the cases, much to the gratification of hi elient. - SPOKE AFTER FIVE YEARS. Yonag Woman AItc a Mr Ipwrh Krgaln Long lUnea. Miss Nellie J'uller, a in Hainville. K. For fire years voting woman living L, could pot articulate a single word. She was a teacher in a primary school and one Friday night in September; 1889, on reaching home she lay down on the sofa and said: Mother, I'm going to be sick,'.. She suffered from the grip for several weeks, and sine that Friday night has not been able to speak until Nov. .10, when, without I Hiring warning, she spoke alond. these years she ba tried every imaginable treatment which promised relief.-- ' Sixteen rloctorkwEre wilted;- - None of Alt .of for her peculiar malady. them agreed That some day slie would talk; when, they did not know, and what would bring about a cure they You do not were at a loss to say. know how strange it seemed to be not able to talk, said Miss Fuller. Try as hard as I might I couldn't make a sound above a whisper. All the doctor sEaKzrzcsrw-N- f I I severe - r A lllnes They told me that when T got strong. ' perhaps t would be able to talk, but none of them gave ine any encouragement ur much assistance. 1 went to Boston and stayed seven months in an institution for the treatment of nervous diseases. When I grenttherr Footild walk and was getting along nicely from a physi- cal standpoint, but when I came home -everybody said I couldn't live three months, La- -t Tuesday as I lay on the d tried lounge I opened- my mouth to groan aloud.- It was a long time before I succeeded. Finally a lump lit my throat seemed to break and the first Hdng j Igicw I was down on u Ttnct-- beside tLe sofa. Thank Gotti Thank GotE' were the first word I uttered and the first tliut had passed my dips for five year.-, Y hat do I lay my cure to? God's inYVhat else could It have terjiosition We all think it a miracle," ' been?" It was a tuir--. spoke old Mr Fuller. Miss uele from God, and no mistake, . - s v X i ELIZABETH B. GRANNIS, may-n- Fifty-fourt- h -- 1 nunciation . served in the senate from 1BS1 to 1887, filled the office so creditably that scarcely any opposition to his election at time can be this made; and it is understood that there tskn almost overwhelming sentiment in his favor among the workWilling republicans of New Jersey. iam J. Sewell is 59 years of age, and was born in Ireland. He came to this country in 1851, and not long after he entered the merchant marine, making several voyages. A few years later he located in Chicago, and business again. He served in the war, and, after that, nine years in the state M GIFriX. COMMANDER senate of New Jersey, three years of open fire buried in a book, the floor which he was president of .that body. around him covered with books. At He represented his state on two occa- Annapolis'he received the thanks of the secretary of the navy for saving two children from a burning building. I n one of hia return tripe to Pittsburg he found himself in that city in the time of the great railroad riots, and promptly offered his service - lib was stationed in one of the roundhouses, which w ere surrounded for days by the mob. McOiffin volunteered to carry a message, ami got ou a locomotive by himself to doth An engineer started the engine for him, and told hint how to stop it. He went flying through the mob safely. Having been graduated from the Naval academy, he continued in the United (States service tor two years, during which time he made a trip aronnd the world. Ile received the thanks of the secretary of the navy for his courage in a storm, when the ship being closely reefed a boom WII.LIAM J. BF. ELI. swung loose and the blue jackets refused to go aloft. McGiflln. set them sions at tha republican national conau example by starting up the rig- ventions. In 1881 he succeeded Theoging, was followed by cadets, and dore E. Randolph, democrat, in the saved the ship from imminent danger. U nied States senate. At the outbreak of the Franco-Chi-nes- e Water and Malaria. war he resigned from the service It is ( pretty well established now of the United States and went, w ith that water so- - far- - from generating letter of introduction, to China. H inala ria. May really prevent its polpresented hia lettera to CapL Mannix, luting the atmosphere. The germ who was absent on leave from our gov- may grow in soils even moist, slightly the ernment, and who had organized but a thin layer of water evenly d in"Chinese marine corps. Mannix spoke ti ibuted over such soil may prevent of him to the viceroy, who said he the escape of the germ into the atmoMcGiftin at him. would like to see In the aame way a 'thick sphere, once presented hitnself at the entrance of grass with matted roots of the palace and was challenged by growth may be impervious to the germ and with the sentry. Not being acquainted keep it beneath the surface, where it the language and knowing that the can do no barm. 1 attention of the public by her Now that Garrett A. Hobart of New Jersey, the only republican in his state who is equipped to battle against Gen. Sewell for the United States senatorship, has come out so strongly for that gentleman. It is practically settled that Sewell will occupy McPherson's seat in the BIG LONDON ILLUSION. Arr l.lkrly , Mr Elizabeth R. Grannis New York woman who has won William 4, Bewelf M j Ff Elected from New Jersey. Gen. , W lu rliuinatrlr Mixed. THE BIG TOWN ASTIR OVER 1 lie ift, fourth congress will con. THIS TRICK. tain a le numlicr if mei duplicate names, says the WashA Woman Apparently Consumed here arc two tneniWr la th ington I ost by the name of Arnold one from aa Atidteare ' Runted of htuus lVnnsyUania and one from Rhode Ilone. W her She blood Th Mystery Island, three llalnTs, from Kansas, Lully Explained. Maryland ami New liampshiie; two llartlettK. from t.eoigia and New York; N INTERESTING two Bells from Colorado and Texas; trick that look a two Minks from Georgia and New York; two Hintons, from i Maryland more mysterious and Ohm; three t laiUs. from Alabama, almiist than any Iowa a ml Missouri, two ( auitons, from other that is just uowr popular, Las Illinois ami j j;;- - ; rook. f,vln - Kwnf-ie-' v J I toCMs mi. Y recentlys'qierx;' se nteii at Egypt la n LJi'I i( U,. Tttxax uriii Win; . consin: CVi rt ises, hall, lmdon, and thiee from Kansas Iowa, apparently consists and New Y'ork; of the destruction two (old.s. from Alabama and Misof a young woman souri; t.illett from Massachusetts and fire in the piesonce of the audience. Gil let from New York: two Ileurys, by from Connect ieul and Indiana; two It has made such a profound impression that some investigating character has Johnsons, from Indiana and North two Millers, from Kansas and taken the trouble to look into it and West irginia. two Murphys, froni lll tell how it is done: A inois and Arizona; two MeCalla, from light table stands iu the center of Massachusetts and Tennessee: Miner the stage, and upou it a young woman, from New York and Minor from Wis- whose dress almost covers the table consin bear the same name with the top. After the audience ha had an distinction of one letter: two members opportunity of teeing that the table bear the name of Russell, 'one from apparently stands upon four legs and Connecticut and the other from Geor- is open aud free from anything beneath 1 here aie two Smiths, one from it, and that four little electric light gia. Illinois and one from Michigan; two are burning between the legs of the Stones, both from Pennsylvania; two table, the better to show that it Is not Turners, from Georgia und Virginia; in any way boxed upas to afford an two Walkers, from Massachusetts and egress for the woman, a long screen, or Virginia. Then we have more men cylinder, is let down from the ceilIt covers the figure and bearing the name of Wilson than any ing. upon the top of the table. ht.rfotlr in uUflm ll1ttW NV rests At the discharge of a pistol an YorkMJ ami South ( urolina. immense flame bursts- forth front the cylinder, and it appears as 'though Successor at Oxford. inside of it was lieing coneery Samuel RiiuVhi Gardiner is almost sumed.thinghe screen is then raised, the certain to be apphqjted to the profes- young woman, ha-- disappeared aud on sorship of modern history at Oxford the table there rests a quantity of made vacant by the''dinth of Mr. blackened boues, still smoking, ami Froude, us the chair is inXhc gift of surmounted by a skull. The effect is the prime minister, and Mr. 'Bqrdiner seemingly startling and most realistic. is a liberal. He is the editor blithe As the serten has only two opening, at English Historical Rview, lm edited many volumes for the Calender of State Papers, and for the Camden society, and bus written some school histories. II is great work is the long history of England from the secession of James I., of which, the fourteen volumes already published come to the end of the civil war in Hits, while the first volume of the commonwealth period is announced for this fall. Mr. Gardiner is au accnrate and painstaking investigator and has thrown a flood of light on the Stuart period. His appointment is probably the liest Ixird Rosebery could now make; but he U not a great historian like Mr. Freeman or Bishop Stubbs, who earlier held the professorship, nor a great writer like Mr. Froude. She 1 picture shows off the house as faithfully as the photographer's art will admit, especially in open line work. It is at present owned by Sarah Dudley Bailey, the authoress, who is a lineal descendent of the llradstreet ; . family.', . . TO SUCCEED M'PHERSON. congress. MANY DUPLICATE NAMES. Cooare.-u.f- n top and bottom, there Ja no, Apparent way of the woman escaping under the table, and it is. or has been, an interesting question as to how she gets away. The explanation ia very simple, An a sereen havlng keve three vdc; In the center of the s,ace thus made the taWe with It four feet, ud beneath it the lights on four branches representing a canvas, Is atood. - On this table Is placed the young woman who each evening Is burned in the presence of the audience, and who is gradually lost to their sight by the cylindrical screen that is lowered with great Impressment until it finally conceals her altogether. The success of the trick rests upon the much used combination of mirror The table has only two legs; the candles are only two in number, as are indicated in the accompanying figure Beneath the table are placed two mirrors, joined at an angle of ninety degrees, which gives a false impression of four leg . to the tsble and four branches to the light. As each of these minora inclihe at an angle of forty-fiv- e degrees with the sides of the screen, they are reflected in them in such a way as to appear to be the rear portion of the screen only. Of course, with the two mirror coming together as they do, and affording thus a protection from the audience, , provided for. the rest is table of the The rear portion slides aw ay, leaving ample space for the young woman to sink through it and touch the floor behind the mirror Putting one foot down to the ground, she then quickly draws down her body and stoops beneath the sheltering mirrors, stopping just long enough to place the bones and skull an the sliding part of the table and restore it to It former . position. Then xhe creeps buck nailer the re of the screen, goes under the stage out To the front entrance, and when the cylinder ii raised from the table displaying the bones she Walks down the middle aisle . - ; ' safe and sound. Slf. rslmteri's DkMwrerl. Palmier!, who for oine-yea- r has been studying the earth current at the observatory on Mount Vesuvius, ha discovered that the direction of the current changes when the volcano is unusually active. The earth line runs from a deep well In the village of Resina, at the foot of the mountain, to the observatory, near the top. From 889, when the experiments began, till August, 1893, the current were from the lower station to the higher, so that Prof. Palmier had concluded that the earth currents always ascend. In that month, however, the direction began to ehange and settled into the opposite of the dirwtlm smce l88U, the Volcano being abnormally agitated.- In Janumountain 181M, the and February, ary became quiescent, when the current sgain moved npward, and later turned downward once more, on an increase in the activity of Yesnviu Rig. Elizabeth oraxxi b. he comes from New England and her mther was the primmest and strictest flier kind. Early in life Mr Grants developed a strong Cbristiaii When she was 1 1 years old she Wght a Sunday school class, at 15 she a school teacher filling positions fist in Ohio and afterward in lirook-ln- , until she married CoL Gran nix Y first of her married life was and happy. Then her hus-loten-enc- com-frtab- le st soon t Derihis money-anved died, leaving her without any ntans of aupport except her indomit-al- e d Khe energy and ready brain.-wrked hard and saved money, which sf invested in a house in ehich she per live - i Fuller said her latest medk-s- l adviser advanced as a reason for the loss of voice the supposition that the arteries around the vocal cord were compressed. The blood in these arteries got a start ) 4 bull this enqbled the invalid to speak Valoud. That Shaped a Great Career. The life of the late Philip Gilbert Uarocrton was a notable one in many ways and hi Invaluable contributions to literature and art give widespread interest ta his own statement of the influences that shaped his career. He says in an article In the current Forum that the most powerful influences over ray life have been: 1. Literature; t. Nature Jn landscape; 3. The graphic arts; 4. Society. It may seem strange that I should put human intercourse last, but the reason is that I have lived very ranch In the country, both in England and France, and especially in Scotland, where books and landscapes were more easily accessible than cultivated people. Rociety, for me, has been chiefly in London and, in alminor My debt to books is degree, in Iari infinite, and my Tove of reading seems to increase with age. As for natural landscape, it has always been to me an unfailing pleasure, an Inexhaustible study, and a source of refreshment and consolation. The graphic arts In- -, terested me first because they could represent landscape more or less faithfully; H was not till later that ) understood them as an expression of human sentiment and creative geniu 4 .1 i t 1 laHuene . ' Electric Fewer InpreveoMet ia Eaclaed. Large water powers are rather scarce in England, and one of the most important is to be found in the celebrated lake district of the poets and philosoThe fall of water at the south? pher era end of Lake Windermere will develop, it is said, about 40,000 horse power, and there is now some seriuu talk of utilizingpart of it A company has been formed which will Install turbines and dynamos, and will then dis- - tribute the general current at high potential for consumption at a number of points within ten miles, including. Kendal and UUeswater. An electric tramway is also projected, to be run from the same source, and there can ba no doubt It will be highly used, as well as free from many of the objections that Buskin and others have so vehemently nrged sgainst the steam railroads in that romantic and quiet . region, Wanted Another Wlf. At Rohillgallen, in Germany, lately, an old gentleman of 73, named Jurk-li- e, who had already burled three, wives, proposed to a fourth. Rhe toul him he' was too old, whereupon ho went tntoAhe neighboring forest and, hanged himself. I.Ixard Wine Fukhol, in China, exports over one hundred thousand dried lizard rained at $2,500 yearly. They are used for making lizard wine," a medicinq used for eye trouble f v - r i - |