BR i A
n "w the servant or
| jetion Wensler was confined in the
Sophia,
j time Exchange the vessel's report—
: : % passed six miles north j
ing for a Hoehood 1
font of £50 a month | |
Wensler, of Bpiker, Wabash
; y. Ind, now amounts fo more
than $25000, and Is growing at aj
‘rapid rate. What {x still more curious,
1 the Government, having pald Wensler |
this pension for a generation, will, at}
his death, receive back the £30 a month
and $8000 fn addition. Such a state
of affairs has never before cone within
the ken of the bureann officlaly, as re
ported by Bpucial Agent Btephens.
| The story of Wensler and his accumu.
{lated wealth Is an interesting one, and |
| 35 thaw related by the Wabash corre
i spondent of the Indiapaolls News:
“During the war he enlisted from
{Wabash County In the Eighty nint
| Indiana Infantry. While on the march |
1 in the Sonth he suffered from prostra- |
tion by the heat, which caused metal
derangement, and though he has not
| At any time been violent, he has been,
tor an extent, incapable of managing
his affairs. For twelve years nfter his
al for the fnsans at Indianapolis,
g I | and ‘was dlscharged as being Harmless
ible exhibit. fodoced
Bente 1870, showed that Wensler
id overdrawn his account with his}
pardian $11.37. In the next report
| Mr. Talmage showed that the pension |
(of $50 a month, with a considorable
amount as arrearages. had been paid,
: and t Wensler had been sappirted by |
State while at the hospital, the ar
1a
Poin was Tid Four years
Tuma dled, and “Thomas F.
' Hurean quid abont that
that al reports of guardians of
that the amount of funds belonging to]
Vensler tn his bands was $23 480, and
1 cost of administering
n ruardis ship was $1214. With a
€ security, ‘Rt ten per cent.
Y | tive, and contributed to bis own sus
| tenance,
tion as a huckster, and drove about the |
| county with his little wagen, on which |
For years he plied bis voea-
were printed in sprawling letters the
: words: ‘H. Wensler. Hugster.'
“Recently he went into business in a
small way at Bpiker's Station, four
i miles from Wabash. He Hyves alone,
and his expenses for food and dlothing
am almost nothing. His gusrdian pays
$250 a week for his food. and Wens
* iler takes $20 & month for other ex.
" {pensex. The rest of the $30 pension,
4 1 20d the handsome facrement from the |
§ $25,000 at interest. is re-invested as it
cotes In,
‘The reports of the guardian to the
Pension’ Burean, making this remarks
Commissioner
Evans to send Special Agent Stephens
to Wabash to look Into the came, and
{ be uncovered the facts as stated. The
special agent says that as Wennler has
no friends the money at his deith will
j revert to the Government. Wensler is.
J perhaps sixty-five years old, and never
Speaks unless sddressed. Ho is ex. |
| Pert In handling horses, and on several | onexpectediy: entered the drill roou,
occasions has been Wjured 3 runs
| ways, but he does not seem to know
wihat fear is. Probably mo eutate in
ie cates has bean so capatiy sas |
| "It Is sald of Wensler that & few
years ago be was seized with 3 desire
| to manage his property, and went tol
{the office of a wellknown Wabash
: lange « 10 state his case.
FM
| sabe. and I want my funds turned over
~" said Wensler. ‘IT am not is.
to me.' The lawyer gazed at him in
tetitly for a momen: and then replied:
You're drawing a good pension, aren't
Jou? Wenmsler admitted he was
il, then,’ drawled the lawyer, "if
I are mot Insane your pension will
for that's why you are getting
|! It! Wensler looked wild, and shot out
the door. And after that he was
er, the Paty is not ‘Balt $0 awk. |
: | ward as what comes afterward.
A bashful young man on being Intro.
duced to a lady at a dinner party,
said:
~ "I've got to take you in to dinner
Miss Travers, and I'm rather afraid
1 high roads of Norway is the great nun
| brought to light a most curious freak
wife with such a gife!
the Queen of Siam,
‘Bee here,
; a Drottling | i
On the blotter at the Mari
from Cape St. Francis"
seemed tle out of the ordinary,
but an interview with the Captain
of Nature
The ship. WHS Jor cargo of fron one |
for this port, passed thie four herpes
tien two days out from Wabana, N. |
But Ntile attention was paid to
pol until the ship was just abreast
of the largest one. A cry from one of
the crew on watch attracted all hands. |
Captain Nordahl at first thought what
he saw was an optical illuxdon, but Jey.
oled his glasses, and then ordered the
course of the ship changed.
The Drottling Sophia sailed around
"| the end of the berg. and all members
of the crew saw at close range the
gigantic head of a man in profile, ns
clearly defined in the ice as though
chiseled by a scuiptor. The forehend
way st the very top, depressions gave |
the appesrance of eyes, the nose wis
clear cut. and the bottom of the berg,
seamed by tiny rivalets of melting
joe. had every resemblance to a Jong. |
flowing beard tapering off into the
water.
foot high, and wis evidently aground
“| In about ninety fathoms of witi,
|The face and head, sald Captain
| Norlahl, bore great resemblance to
| the familiar Santa Clans. Phllsdershin
{ North American.
The leeberg was over 2X0
WISE WORDS.
Shallow waters Sow with vexed eur.
Tents.
The homes of a nation are the ta
rometer of its life,
We must answer for our riches, but |
our riches cannot answer for us
We put a price upon riches, but
riches cannot put a price upon vs,
The gem of truth bears all tests with |
out diminished lustre or clearness, |
The meanest use for money ls to
' | make It cover a multitude of sins
It 1s a great deal better to cheer ony
| man than to be cheered by a thousand,
Better a pair of clean bare hands
| than the miost expensive sofled white |
gloves,
Call another & fool and you are he
| Tool; eall yourself a fool and you be
gin to be wise, |
Goodness outranks pools. A bursts |
ing barn and 8 godless beart proclatm 3
2 fool without hope.
No lot In life is small enongh to stant
A soul. Lowly circumstances are lio
bar to high thoughts.
"Tis a $54 thing when s man can
~~ | have no comfort but in diversions, no
| joy but In forgetting himeelf.
Whim two hearts cease to heat ts
one, {1 will not be long antl the own
ors will want to beat each other,
nS A SSAA is iis
Costilest Thimble on Record,
And
thitk of a husband who presents his
It belongs 10
Thimbles were not in nse In Siam
until a comparatively recent date. The
King seeing that Engliah and Amer.
lean women visiting his gourt weed
thimbles, had one made for his wife |
The thimble is of gold, enriched with
precious stones. It is shaped like a
partislly opesed lotus dower, each
petal bearing the interlaced initials of
the sovereign and his
thysts, rubles. emeralds and topazen.
Around the rim of the thimble ean
be read the date of the marriage of
the royal pair sccordiag to the Siamese
snd European calendars, each number
and each letter belug of alternate din
sotds and pearls
AREA I con
Mis Swenth leart’s Letter,
A colonel, on bis tour of Inspection,
when he came across a couple of sol-
diers, one of them reading & letter
aloud, while the other was Hatening,
and, at the mune time stopping up tlie
‘ears of the reader.
“What are you doing there? the
pozzled officer inquired of the former.
“You see, colonel, I'm reading to Ate
Kins, who can’t read DMmself, a letter
which has arrived by this afternocu's
post frow his sweetheart”
“And you, Atkins what in the world
are you doing?’
“Please, cvionel, I am stopping up
Murphy's ears with both bands, Ia
cause 1 don’t mind bis reading my
sweethearts letter, but 1 don't want
him to hear a single word of what
she Las written” —T1it Bits
BAA pp
Cry i,
Nonainta Latter Carrier.
Letter carriérs were sent out from
| the Honolulu postoftice on August 14 |
for the first time in the history of the
| tslands, though actual free delivery of
mall was pot then begun, The letter
carriers were sent out to fauiliarize
themselves with the streets aml house
numbering, to apprise householders of
the beginning of the free delivery sy
tem, and to secure a practically com:
plete mall census of the city. —Pitis
burg Chronicle Telegraph.
Gates in Normay,
A cortous feature to travelers In the
bers of gates—upward of 10,000 fn the
whole country—which have to bel
opened,
These gates, which either
i /
mark the boundary of the tars or ses
arate the home fields from the wast |
: | lands, constitute & cons! ‘derable neon
sleep well, eat anything
Think of it. = thimble which cont | 1!
SEL000 fn Ameriean money!
wife in ame |
| = rom indigo on, aod Seu due 3
would return home rom my business feel:
ing so faint that I could hardl iy desg one
Jeg after the other; my der wife did all
she possibly could to tempt me with dain.
ty dishes, and av I entered the House 1
| miffed and thought: Oh. how good; 1
| know I can eat that’ Bot alas’ no sooner
Bad I esten a few mouthfuls, when I felt |
sick; severe paine shot through my chest
and shoulder bisdes, my eyes swam and
everything seemed black. 1 became
alternately hot and cold, and got op
from such a dainty dinoer hosrtily wick
of living, aod feeling T wan & gore trial to
| everybody.
sls very much troubled with a scaly skin,
and often boils. Bot one evoning 1 no |
| ticed my wife seemed more cheerful than 0
asual. I questioned ber and found she
| bad been reading » pamphist she bad re
ceived, of men afflicted just as 1 was, and
| who bad been cured by Yopeler's Com: |
pound. Said she, ‘What =ives me more
faith in it is that it ix made from the for
mals of an eminent physician now in se |
tive practice in thy West End of London,
80 I am sure it is no quack thing “All
right, dear, let's have & bottle, mid I
After taking the contents of the firgt bot.
tle I felt very minch betier, and deter
mined to give this remedy a fair trial, and
T oan positively amare you that a few bot
ties have made & now man of me. I can
and thoroughly
enjoy life. 1 have tol
friends, whom 1 Knew were suffering the
sme aa mywell, and they all wish me to
say that they are like now men. I ain |
cerely bless the great physician who gave |
you the formula of Vogeler's Curative
Compound, and also yourselves for mak
ng its virtnes known to a
suffering pub
| her The proprietors (the 8t. Jacobs Oil. | y
| 1ad., Baltimore) will snd & ssmiple free
£0 any one writing to them smd mentioning
Abie paper.
Explorers have
miles of the North |
approach to the
IM TR ie Hr A A A
dapead Th the mets A omen Are 4
pt er oF tmitations.
Chamber of C
The New York Chamber of
{ton batting (not coarse hair),
cloth (seven yanis off each side)
year.
: Dystog 1 as afr ee
use Porsaw Faves Sebi whey by §
I may mention that 1 was driggion.
meverst of my
| ion ha wn
rooms to aus on cacti bod four qu ts
and one banker, each guilt to oo
tain not lesd then five pounds of cob |
and to
be coverpd with at least 14 yards of
wa
and one-third yards lnng and at least
two yards wide; and the blanket to}
weigh at least two pounds: this cov
ering to be kept on the beds from Sep
tember 10 to May 1 :
There were 3 016 Immigrants refas- |
od admission to the United States last
en ht in
SL the Swine Inkes sixty: five
he] hich the the largest enn erry |
The Chiness Have tori ve saried Mosbw,
once in 1387 and susin in 129%.
sein Hh Some eam fai Baseline.
y oured, No fits OFervisa.
DERM Kum Lad. 8{Arob 8 Phila, 2 |
Takin evrything oto nto y consideration | I i
he nator bridge is withoot a pier. |
nS SAS FR SS] WR eR RNAS
Mrs, Winslow! ‘Soothing Syrup fore: “ilifren |
teething, softem the gums, red
tion, alleys pain, cures wind
und for a colds. we
F. Boven, Tri iy Spine, Ing, Fes. 15, 1900,
or That fe un pind
A FR YR AD J
Garfield Tes sure sonstipation.
Headache Powders! 4 I wars ate :
Garfield
gold for 100. Ouse Powder curme saduche,
we have sways with os
Pi sel Re Hl
as
Are Anxious to Pay Their Fines.
Among the sromalles. wiley :
an ihn
fraauaver from
which are imposed
every month And thin Jotntxespe
onihitier the
aceenting
Ad paring their Aten $306 each, o
months in ‘Mizance.
on jolntieepers
Een
Ad Lila dal
assatany
Life ont of (doors and out of the games which they play and the enjoy-
ment which they receive and the efforts which they make, comes the
greater part of that healthful development which is so essentiid to their
happiness when grown.
given to them to cleanse and sweeten aad strengthen the internal organs
on which it acts, should be such as physicians wounld sanction, because its
component parts are known tO be wholesome and the remedy itself free from
every obiectionable quality.
well-informed, sipprove and redommend and which the little oles enjoy,
Because of its pleasant flavor, its gentle ction and ity beneficial eifecta, in
Syrup of Figs—und for the sume reason it is the only Jaxative witich should
be used by fathers and mothers,
Syrup of Figs is the only remedy which acts gently, pleasantly and
naturally without griping, irritation, or nagsesting and which cleanses the
system effectually, without producing that constipated habit which results
from the use of the old-time cathartios and modern imitations, and against
witieh the children shandd be so carefully euarded,
grow to manhoad and womanhesd, strong, bealthy and happy, do not give
them medicines, when medicines are oof needed, and when aatare needs
in the way of a laxative, give them aanly the simple, plossant and
gentile -Syrup ol Figs.
Ita quality is due not only to the excellence of thy combinution of the
laxative principles of plants with pleasant aromatic syrups and juices, but
also to our orignal method of manufacture and as von value the health of
the little anes, dhinot acoept any of the substitutes which un
ers sometimes offer to increase their profits,
bought anywhere of all reliable druggisteat Afty cents per buitle
When a laxative is needed the remedy which is
The one remedy which physicians and parents,
If vou would have them
serupnlons deals
The genuine article may be
Please
ta remember, the full same of the Compaay
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. iu printed on
thie front of every packs
aga. In order to get its
beneficial effects if is als
ways notidssacy $e buy
the genuine soly.