A FAMOUS DUEL. HOW CHARLES DICKINSON MET HIS DEATH. The Slayer Went Forth Was A Most Meeting. to Slay and Slain Memorable Andrew Jackson was the repre ative American of his epoch. When the history of written by one wh men to be a evidence and who is posseesed of this countr be OMe y has been enough of 4 man among f i al} eicher of all { wise w kinds of that im aginative power which enables a mind to the events and per and whose meanings and reincarnate itself amid tendency aims to depict and sonalities whose purpose it robable Lin in 1 e830vS LO « xpla 3, it Abraham , born motives Jackson an ilrew o children of the be accounte two most typical Americans, nest firu i mal Pantheo: Chari yer of Pe litics, He consider world. savs the 1d * : ’ Like mos era, Dickin yroverh, P! ler drank A ‘3 thiew al aliuded gality of Vad Lud nel very loved hi still A oti, J ficht fratern event fore, were las You w Overton rath “ Bevor Jackson; bim, “that | let hin gerve mi fire simult should the etter | liberate pain, ev + I thin “und I wi That night, ped near the of a hearty sup and genial divining his erran return. Kemounting found they & und, Juckson corpcob 1 conducted | an ordinar r however, traveie r safe ently morning they {0 swim their horses across the tord, as no ferry. man was to’ convey them. Iuto the open heart of a poplar { and found his second, surgeon and friends await them. The usual civilities of polite blood spill. ing were duly perform, coins were tossed for choice of position, which wus wou by Dickinson's second, and the giving of the word, which be especially valued, fell to General Overton. As the sun was yet quite low in the cool heavens, position could not have counted for much in the way of Jackson's having 8 sun dazzie in his eyes, which has hap. pened to some doelists, but it is easy to understand that Dickinson's second posted themselves visible west they caine Dickinson with ne Jackson's nim. Eight paces were ured off and the men were placed. “Are you ready gentlemen,” Overton. +1 am ready,” replies Dickinson. “1 am ready,” replies Jackson. * Pere!” Overton Nens. cried shoots this word from his principals, Hardly had the word left his lips, when a ball left Dickinson's pistol, left Lresst of Juckson amd saw the left y the breast, but his man © neighboring pop- few steps in hand go slowly t« firm as one of tl recolled a amazement and angry despair, * Have I missed scoundrel ejunculated, vindictively, Probably cry of quenchless hate was the kind suffers from the temp But would he wonld perhaps a Dickinson on he thie thant cost him his life. Jackson f of man who oltén + i tation to be magnanimous, mag nanimity with a Dickinson have been suicidal. Spared, her fight, have au street ir! ¥ shouted hand on his pistol. courage, though i (Gen, n, laving his Dickinson rec vered his with han o his false longed by the n's unusually that of to lower over reg at the s be milk The demned is dt the dent because it i Tennesseans cons was 100 1 i follv of fight. na coming o th a seratch i smell owder was all Leave the stroke of grace, ng for the express of Kiil.ng, save where the honor of a woman was the point, rotised “Thou shalt do no murder.” Henry Austin, io the Hlustrated American ment, Fish Not a Brain Food. The idea that fish formed food for the brain arose from a curious nis. apprehension. | It has long been known that the brain contains phos. and it was naturally in- ferred that by eating phosphorous the brain would be nourished. But to eat phosphorous is not pleasant eating, and while the subject was being discussed someone discovered dark, which was hastily assumed to be due to the presence of nhosphor- It was soon after- ward discovered that the luminosity the process of decay, but the story hind been started, and evidently hit the popular fancy, since it has yet thousands of firm believers. ————— nn— Mayor and Indian Chief. “sn Dr. D. Frank Powell has the unique dis. hago Indians. His Tudian name is © White Beaver.” For many years he was a sur. ESENATOR ALLISON'S IDEA. ly, if at All Senator Allison, of lowa, is one of the healthiest looking men life. He is prow Go, but splendid condition, both physica and intellectually. and I might also say psychically. He has always cul- tivated looking at matters in a mon way, and, while he has been a hard worker and a fairly good liver, his life been an even one, and he has not allowed the chase for the dollar the am bitions of polities to contract and i his soul Ho is clear headed Always well dressed, he k of n New York club than of the His cut and the of his shirt and his broad, ex- 1 . i as 1 exceeds even } 16 8 COm- sanse, conservative has nor distort and clean, makes you thin man banke average Am black clothes linen oar are well pansive lar, whic that of William M. Evarts’ in size, is finost as the driven the last ves material and He wrehead Is very fu Oh ron. His {« the average Inrge THE NEW PRIME MINISTER. Lord Salisbury Proposed the Behring Sea Arbitration. was Lord Salis ry | $ his will term ns VP His first lasted but he was recalled to the head of the Govern ment in 1586 and remained in office six years. Mr. Gladstone and Lord Salisbury seesawed in the Premier. ship for nearly fifteen years, The marquis is of medium height, vory stout, weighs nearly 300 pounds, and growing stouter; has a heavy beard, and hair liberally silvered (he 18 65 years old), and a face. that lacks expression in repose, hut lights up wonderfully when he talks. His gestures are few, and he never attempts oratorical flourish, yet he otientimes is eloquent, is invariably forcible nnd clear and nover is at loss for a word. opposed to Irish oes without say- Of COUTRg | separation, ing In regard question he last autumn “If the Lords declaration to the House of made this handing the government of the country over en- tirely to a chamber come before the country, which I do not belle will do, we wonld have to confront the danger that the community has had to face in many centuries,’ Lord Salisbury, being a younger son, had to face poverty in his early manhood. He fell in love with a Miss Alderson, : father forbid the union because the yo Woman w only : aristocratic Robert stood tion. married been said by a | misfortune,” it, probably He obtna abilit } question of single should ve it is ns ang or fas mans vas ti and Children’s Fear of Animals. Keepin= Up With the Times ompany 1 3 2% cv v ~ tprouagnh am mn Remedy for Epilepsy. medical journal states Siminof! eminent of epi A foreign a Dr. Ss. A cites threo cases d by him by the adminis- un infusion of common used this decoe- an physician lepay cure tration of tansy. He has also tion successfully in thenia be effective cases of neuras- ian had ceased te A glassful of the in. | fusion of tansy (either dried or fresh | is given to the patient night and morning. ‘This is a common garden | herb, and while quite bitter to the taste, is not especially disagreeable and has the advantage of being harmless It it won't cure, it is | pretty certain not to kill. where vale: intensely Practical. | A story is told in connection with i some Jectures on theosophy at Bangor, Me. The lecturer wasin the midst of a learned discourse and asked in stentorian tones: “What comes after death®” 'No one an- swered; and, after a short pause, he vehemently repeated lus question “What comes after death.” At that moment the door opened, and in walked one of the leading undertak- ers of Bangor. The question was answered. A AA AS SA SA, "A Pocket Venus." Miss Ella Erving, of Gorin, Mo,, feels quite flattered when her friends call her “'a pocket Venus.'' She is only 20 years of age, but she is 8 feet, 2 inches In height. weighs 206 poands, and has feet thal measure | 17 suches from heel to toe. NOTES AND COMMENTS. THs Noses thin will Journal sup- order of the Kansas City that when the new 8 is fully established nden mn will circus contain fi aaring Ww A CURION of mice, i MY gow may recover the members of the Dipl 4 ¥ nga rresg wire ne managed very ¢n- which $0 \ two or three ride, they ar 19 8300 were caught traps alone. too, are appearing in the suburbs of Sydney and are bei that their dead bodies are proving a danger to the public health.’ Tue establishment in Columbia Col to be known us the ‘‘sSeth Low Professorship of American History,”' Frank thinks an incident worthy of special mention. The study of American history and of tha development of the principles of constitutional lib. erty which have here had their fullest exempliticat has not had the commanding place to which it is entitled in the curriculum of many of our higher institutions of learn. ing. In our public schools, until recent years, the subject has been made secondary to others of less importance. It ought to be a prim. now ng Killed in such numbers iege 1x sii “ 10n 100, stitutions to equip the student with a thorough knoviiedge of the history of his own country, bilities of citizenship, and the rela- tion of the national authority to the individual. Astoe from English the Bible has had the largest circulation in the German language. Through the agency of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Bible in the Ger. man language has had a circulation of upward of 17,000,000 copies, same society secured a circulation of 12,000,000 copies of the Bible in French: over 5,000,000 copies in Chinese; over 5,000,000 in Russian; over 8,500,000 in Italian: nearly 8,000,000 in Swedish; nearly 8.000 « WU0 in Danish; and over 2,000.000 in Dut on ch lanouage, (HN) v bya e 3h 1:4 1,.500,0 Bengali, over 75 ' i yi ot UHH be ced) in at Muovar iy 8 A CANCE PARADE Charming Festival Given by Summer Visitors at Ear Harbor i glireaked tric the other boats at came ailet { mysterious of fire-bubl ¢ Ness from the ele and yachts and the harbor ong train « leashes or wreathed fro with multicolored lanterns, destination was a dwelling sitaated upon the shore at some dis- tance up the bay, where the per. formers in these mysteries of the ex. pedition were expected ultimately to congregate at supper. For an hour the meanderings of the firedaden | boats gave delight to many watchers ashore. At last, answering the sig- from the house, the cortege fell again into line, and proceeded to aisembark upon a float. ing wharf lighted by Bengal fires and strung with colored lanterns. The boats, deserted by their crews, were then strung together by boatmen, and towed Lack tothe starting point, the revelers electing to return by the highways. from lamps tossing the air, stern Their “Just Like a When a woman bears that the school teacher says her boy is a bad boy she goes to the school house to scratch the teach. er's eyes out. But when a woman hears that her husband is a bad man she accepts suspicioned.—Atchison Globe, A A ASANO. Starvation in London. London has called the roll of deaths by starvation in 1898 and they number fifty. one, from which it would appear that Lon. don charity is too much occupled with the heathen, Chicago Times Herald. oman.”
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