In 1831 Spain exacted from Cuba
taxes amounting to §26,000,000.
The Germans havo dealt English
commercial prestige in Russia a severe
blow.
England spent $600,000 licking tho
King of Asliantee, and then charged
him §BOO,OOO for tho fun.
The Michigan Supremo Court lias
decided that it is no libel ior a critio
to dissect and ridicule a book, so tho
merry work can go on.
A leading New York publisher has
• announced that ho will no longer pub
li-h books of verso. "Poetry," ho
says tersely, "does not pay in this
era."
Canada is proposing to mako a law
against American Sunday papers which
interfere with tho circulation of tho
Canadian Monday papers. Canada
papers are not allowed to publish a
Sunday edition.
The Brooklyn Eagle has discovered
that it costs more to fire the twelve
inch gun at Sandy Hook. N. J., than
it does to pay, clothe and feed for a
whole year tho soldier who fires it.
Tho expense is §561.70.
Baron de Zuy'en, President oi the
Auto-Mobilo Company, of Paris, says
that tho horse has got to go. Horse
less carriages, wagons and trucks are
rapidly driving him ofi" tho streets o.
Paris, and soon there will bo small
room left for him in the world.
A French paper devoted to the
building trades has invited architects
to send it their opinions on the sub
ject of "ilia best way to accommodate
bicycles in private houses." The
Paris Figaro adds: "Doubtless we
shall soon Fee advertisements of houses
to let or for sale with 'excellent stab
ling for several bicycles.' "
A representative of the Moscow
(Russia) Cotton Exehango lias just
made a trip through tho Southern
States, negotiating with cotton deal
ers for tho purchase of raw materials,
lie says that Russia has liceu buying
Egyptian cotton, hut owing to the in
creasing prices they h:c ■ been led to
investigate the cotton ■. this country.
He says that the quaib v of American
cotton is much b-i tc- Uau he antici
pated and the price lower.
Thcro are moro rumors that Great
Britain, to plcaso France, will evacu
ate Egypt. When Great Britain gets
ready to evacuate India it will evacu
ate Egypt, and not before. The closei
Russia creeps to Constantinople the
tighter grows tho Rrilish grip upon
tho Suez Canal nud neighboring Africa.
In tho opinion of the Washington
Star, John Bull will not surrender
what he has seized and now possesses,
and what is, moreover, of vital im
portance to him—even to pieast
France.
Tho New York Journal soys: Tho
old and romantic Spanish Don, in
doublet and hose, disdains mathe
matics entirely. And yet thcro is a
humorous side even to enumeration.
Up to dato the war in Cuba has cost
him §50,000,000, and the estimates for
the second year are §75,000,000. Dar
ing tho first yoar ho lost 406 soldiers
in contiict and 0172 by yellow fever,
and to-day Cuban insurrection is in
better shape than it was a year ago,
To complicate this prodigious and
hopeless task by incidentally whip
ping tho United States, at tho nuno
rate, transfers Cervantes to Yankee-
I'am and recalls Byron's remark that
"ho had laughed Spain's chivalry
away."
The year 1806 is likely to he nclablo
as tho beginning of a new era of r. -
feareli an 1 discovery in tho ton h :1
field of light. Several weeks a. > n
German profes or in Wurzburg i
versify, while experimenting w h tin
"cathode rays" from a Crooke's tub •,
happens:! to hold his hand over a pho
tographic sensitive plate exposed to
the rays, when, to his astonishment, i.e
found that an indistinct image of the
bonesof Ins hand had been let on the
plate, lie was not searching for such
n result; in fact, he was and is still in
vestigating an entirely different sub
ject. Ho found tbat. by the cathodo
lavs, or X rays us ho prefers to call
them, in default of exact knowled;-)
<.f their origin, ho was ablo to photo,
graph a coin inside a leather purse, in
u wooden box or through several
books. Ho announced these facts to
to the world, nud thu result hat been
to arouse tho most intense intere-i
everywhere. Scientists who have the
fuoilities within reach are themselves
experimenting with 'he now light,
while the great mass of | opto who
must take tho discovery second hmi 1
are awaiting further developments
with impatience.
; WORSE THAN DEATH
_
HOW CAPTURED CUBAN REBELS
ARE PUNISHED.
i 'terrible Tortures that Await Luck*
li'hs Insurgents iu Spanish Prisons
! -Shackled and Walled Up in Damp
I Dungeons and Left to ltot and Die.
Cells Arc Living Tombs,
j Tho desperation of the Cubans who
i are lighting Spain for the liberty of
! their island excites wonder at tiin ?•
i in the American mind, and soiue are
inclined to tiling them 100 bloodthirsty
in their system of warfare. It is true,
very little quarter is given tle Span
ish soldiery in any of the conflicts
where the insurgents havo tho upper
hand, but there is a good, substantial
reason for this Seeming heartlessness.
The soldiers of the insurgent army
know that a fate blacker than death
will he tlieir allotment if they fail. Tho
kingdom of Spain lias never displayed
a gentle lmnd to its enemies Dark
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IX K< ITT IOX IN A SPANISH PJUSON.
echoes of tin* inquisition permeate its
treatment of malefactors, for as such
the Cuban insurgents are rega
The prison system of Spain is more
barbarous to-day than that of oitliei
Turkey or ltussia, and that is saying
. a good deal.
For more than a thousand years the
' Spaniards havo made a study of tor
t lure, and tho long aeeinnuhiiion of
knowledge I.ended from one genera
tion to another, and elaborated on by
each, makes their prisons the worst on
earth. There are nun forgotten and
unnamed rotting away in the Spa ills i
i duygeons to-day, under conditions
more horrible than that pictured by
Dickens in his Tale of Two Cities, in
the character of the old doctor confin
ed in tho Hastile for twonty-livo year.;.
Men who took part in tho previous Cu
ba n rebellion, nearly a generation ago.
. may still be living in the dungeons
Thirty years hence some of the m.
who are now lighting so valiantly in
5 Cuba may be rotting away in ihes.nnr
pest holes, it is this prospect which
• makes them desperate and bloodthii.
, ty. and eager to accept a thousand
risks to shake off the torture which
1 awaits them.
i Fach week batches of Cuban m.
I poets arc forwarded Spain. T<> Iu a
. suspect is equivalent to being guilty.
and those who go will, in all prnhnbil
' ity, never return. If a wealthy pin lit
er is suspected of furnishing financial
; aid to the insurgents lie is pounced up
oil and shipped off. Infinitely bet.tot
would have been his fate if he had
, joined tho insurgent, army and bet n
killed on the Held of battle. Tho ordi
nary suspect is not executed, but if h.
be proved guilty of treason tho gar
rote will speedily end bis troubles.
Tho garroto is the otflcial form of cap
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/if SU -
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IN \ m NO r.o.x.
ital punishment in Spain. Nearly all
of the death sentences ate executed in
tin- i'ra.lcr.i de bi Ysidro, in .Madrid.
Ail executions are public, and are us
ually l:e!d early in ih. morning. Tin
criminal is always mounted upon the
back ola tiny Spanish donkey and
goes to the ; ico of execution iii a pro
co-Mou wiii- !i coiisi- ts of citizens,
pri -is and soldiers. Prior to leaving
the j; isoii in which the condemned ha*,
been (oiiflii sl. ma<s is celebrated, and
th- |. Ml h sou -It,-,, is l ead to 1 |p guilty
wretch. m When th prisoner roach;.,
tic place of execution, ii" iiiouiii ■ a
! eaffold, and lie is ma uncled to a chair.
| Then around his neck is placed the
j band m tin g.irrote. Two turns of a
powerful thunil screw crush the neck
I ot the victim, and almost sever the
j head !';< m the body. Death is claimed
j to lo absolutely instantaneous.
I'lie political prisoner fares worse
| than the criminal guilty of assassina
, tiou. M t of the political prisoners
' are sent i Ceuta. Africa. Ceuta is an
• old Moorisli seaport town in Morocco,
opposite < lihralinr. The town is ou the
side of the ancient mountain. Abyla,
which forms one of the Pillars of Her
cules. tie lb ■ k of Gibraltar being the
# other. It is almost impregnable nnd
j is to Spain what Siberia is to Russia,
j with the exception that it is evi u more
horrible. The town was built by the
I Moors about 0 iuml it is pro! able
j that there is no other place in the
! world where to many devices of tor
. ture are eoueentrat cd.
Ceuta is a very small place and the
! Moors const iii- -cd a chain of fen.vs:-
; es around it to guard against nr.\ pos
'si bio attack. It is in tho center of
' tin so ancient and decaying fortiv---s s
,! that the dungeons are hunted. They
. | are hewn out of the solid rock, and are
[. i In tiers to a depth of fifty or sixiy fvi.
, j The approach to them is made through
.. | narrow openings in the st-.ne floors of
j tho I'm tret scs. and wheu the horrible
' i hole is opened the foul odor of tilth
Ic.ud decomposition is overpowering.
v I These dungeons are inhabited almost
I | solely by political prisoners, ami many
Cubaus arrested during tliq pre mt re
! bellion are there. Some are in solitary
( ' eonlinenient. Others are in dungeons
( i holding thirty or forty men.
j | When a man is placed in solitary con
. linemeni, a hole it cut iu the masonry
_ large enough to admit the passage of
his body, and he is dropped in. A
blacksmith follows and welds on the
j fetters. I.oeks and keys are never
i used. A heavy weight with a chain is
welded about the waist. A chain ut
| Inched to the latter is welded to an
j iron ring sunk in the wall of solid
; rock. The bole hi the masonry is
; bricked up again with I! < exception
! of a small space a few inches square.
| Through this comes the scant air and
! the scraps of food allowed the vic
| liiu.
j After that tin? man is loft to live or
, rot. The tilth of these holes canum be
I adequately described. Death is inerei
j fill li re, for few men sur.i.- iin* lor
| lure for any length of time.
i
fes p
Wouldn't Call Him Boli,
! An ex-T ongressman, WHO now prne
i ! tiees law. when asked the other day
: j why he abandoned politics gave a very
(peculiar and Intcrestiii", reason. He
: said: I quit politics because 1 found
| that i was not cut out for lhat pi >1
! sion. My name is Unhurt:, but 1 inw
■ ! yet heard myself referred .a - "Hob."
- or -Mr." So
1 mail ever achieves a real suece. s in
H polities who lias not that peculiar
I i- mil with th" pi pic ih ii pronqc ;
them to refer to him by a nickname or
V in some familiar way. Webster was
II always *T.! ick Dan;" i.e. an. "Ulaek
Jack:" .lack,:-n was "Old Hiekery" and
••AndyLincoln was "Abu" or "Um-te
1 Abe." It is not a question of dignity.
' T here i-' 110 more dignlfl d man than
c> rres'nleiil lfftrri-i n. and yet no one
speaks of him by Ids title. He is al
" wa.is refpiTt'rt lo as "Ben." 1 went
1 through my district after serving one
term in Congress, and 1 could tlud no
e\ idenee that any one had (?ver dtibia <i
| me -1 lob." Could I have been e.-ilied
! "Hob" 1 might have been Governor
of my Slate, but wo never bad a C >v
ernor without a ni< .kname. and 1 km w
1 I could not hope to break the record.
' Washington Siar.
Hon He Learned the News.
! Smiator Stephen I*. Klkins. of M est
: Virginia, tells an interesting story <i
i his election to his present seat. "I was
I .. , sirtin y; in i,
•""X Ktiulvai my conn
f try homo.- s.iltl
i~i 7£a M I--', "a'a ail in;, ihe
. T<i i' it ial- ii ili a I
- V <\,T -• Wlll't iter al tin! 1
. f v ,. : - ill Ik en ti a* n
\ \ / j/ B(mi a tor (Tini
t i . i]4-n. Tin: o|ii*r.i -
tin- ill llio I(■!.•-
m.\a run 1.1. mn-i. ftmph slatlou lia-.l
oriiors in njii'ii all tt'lr i-ain.s ml,ln-■ .., il
lo mi'. :iml la ti'li'ifiioiu'tln ii- Cpnti-nis
to mo iiniiioillatcl.v. Sinlilanly Hie I ■!-
c-I'll,mo liall i a ii:. - . ami Hie rhilth m' -.
yayiH'm. s. wim aiiswoi'i'il the 'phoito,
on ilia tn mo ami told 1110 I hat tho liei'aon
til tho other oml of llio wiro was snylns
.- 'liti'thiliß it limit 'shoos.- slip couldn't
(juiio maka ii out. aili,' said I, -it's my
wiio-s slHlemilhi'i-, i>i-,,',ah].v. Toll hi,a
,o In llio mallor rosi until 10-nion'ow.'
Sho ilolivoreil llio nit- -:iuo, but roiurn
od shorlly to >ay that tho man insisit d
on talking to urn. 1 wont to the nl
- li wns the telegraph operator,
and 1 i i o llio- S.U'O ho was iryin.x m
li'iin-aalt lo mo was: 'V, lion .shall 1
■ml you my shoos? Johnson It. ram
. don.' Then 1 know thai I had
I l iaison to 1111 tho shoos of that w ,rthy
, irontloman."
A fc'eiintor's Call for Water.
| When a Senator wauls a drink of
water ho wants ii badly, ilr. (ioor.
j was talkto.a the other day and stoppi i
hi his oh loin; oniuirfli to hurl a
i oinuiiiml at on -oi ihe pagi
"li.rins nio some waior hero."
Ho was lalkiio; about Kl'ass -ooils.
I ami llio suhji- 1 must havo l-oon a dry
, one, lorhofin-on i-asi- i-ould i each lii.n
, the Sena lor shouted at another:
i "i Jivi* mo a little wall r here!"
I'y this lime tho italli-rlos. as well a.
llio pam's. h-arued that the Si-iiafi-!-
1 from .Mississippi wn.. atliirst. SI ill Hi
i patio did uot appear. 'I lieu, 111 disnora
tlon, the Senator ilnvw out his int.;
I la a nmst pleading maniior, and o-.
claimed:
> "Is there any water about here an:
■ whore?"
< This outburst united forth a hurst of j
i In tighter from the Senate and gallon'. 1
Tile s mil tor joined in tin- laugh ldm : j
-in a few minutes. This ■i 1 I
. (pionch his thirst, for he didn't touch j
• his glass or water for ilv,- minutes after '
it reached hint. -Washington Time.,.
PERILS OF SPRING
IN THE WEST.
PIMM; is the most perilous sea-
HI of lUe year in the far West
**•— mi.l is always attended with great
- of lii'o ail properly, fierce hli:.-
zanis •>w i•.■ {i across llic great plains of ,
i.:c Dakota-. Wyoming and Colorado,
marking llieii* course with the frozen '
car. ;u> -s of thousands of caitlo.
The bli/.zard give.-; but a brief warn
ing •. j; s coining. Only those close to
shell t may jiope to escape its fury,'
1 ho cowboy on the distant range reads'
the sign in the sky. notes the action of ■.
the cattle, and prepares lo battle for his
life, t'saaily a snowfall precedes the
Mi/.zard. fie snow Is line and light (
and dry. The atmosphere is calm and ,
'■old, tiie leniperaturo being below the
freezing point, but there is a feeling of j
oppn -.'iveness in the air. The sky is
dull ;ad leaden. Ilrute instinct is :
quicker to discover these signs of the |
approaching blizzard than the int dll- •
geiice of man. The cattle begin to *
gather for protection. lir.t in small'
bunches which meet and mingle until
they have grown to the proportions of I
ah. rd. Animals that liflve strayed oil' j
ah,ne are at true tod 10 the cons antly ;
iffc is j a body, and ; hey a.
proacli the common center from alii
larts • f the r tug \ Not a breath of air j
has yet disturbed the m-wly fallen
snow, hut the sk.v is growing darker,
and nolwitl; landing the coldness the
air semes I.envy and produces a sult'o
catin alien.
Snd ; iil.v the leaden hue fades i'nen
the sk; : it grows bla.ck in an hist* lit.
The )\ r, cry falls to zero within a < w
moniei;: and . uiitinnes to sink toward
i he bulb of i he thermotnetcr. The cold j
is bitter and keenly penctiv. \ ing. i it j
ii: pew er : > chill and kill will he <Mu-
M • i when a velocii \ of sixty or eighty I
mi cs an it out* has been given the at- :
i o.sphive. 'I Is. cowboy buttons his huf- j
i'alo overcoat and ties it with a rope
h .htly around id- walsi -preparatory
t • lighting his way to shelter. The win i
comes in ihicrniitteiit • tiffs, and hot":
and there lino ; articles of snow nv ;
, ... ;
''gdy' x
" ■ '• {v. '■i
' ' " < ' . ' !
< \i i. it i IN \ ma. . \ v.D.
tossed and w ; , I in the air. ,'p.si as;
lit?lo ' loud *of dust ! i s-a and curl when i
a glancing hnllci strikes th - dry grot; ah !
Another moment < f h ad calm d •!lo I !
by a old Ma of wiiai n -re sal |
and far-reaching than what has pro-!
ceded, which u hiten the air will: i
snow. < i'ilU the ciwl;. and his peay. '
and caa-i t he en;:!e on the edge . the J
hoi d i ■ .- hi v !" a they ■ >wd clo; or
together.
Presently 11 ere com •ia low moa i
ing sound from th north: ii grows!
shriller until it re iiibles a wail: ii '
i - ami .-w alls into a how! and tlmn
a shriek, as the great cunmils of ah j
frm.i iiattire's cold storage • v. * v;> \\ i: h
cyclonic fury over the tre d plain.. :
The air is thick with lii:c, cold snows j
the cowboy and bin pony are o 1)11 ! •' j
ate 1 from the vi on and tie- herd is but j
a mas • of Incomplete and shadow}
Im'iris. i hi* bli/.gaid i.xs : in. The
buffalo ciiat of the cowboy dues not
colli lo afl'-"'! htm any 1 ' to:* pr.u
:i o : m jf p Vi . iV ~f dn-m: th.- •
wind linds Ms way into irv-.-ry oj sms
and peiici rau s 11 th !; cm .. r ; a .
i liougll ii were a sir .c. 1i i , :n •
• -mien!:!rii.v bliii e I by t - I • • . -' !
snow. and i here i . -i -o in.: :; .. . ...i ;
ia his face a.- if a ma. s of ehlilod nee
! !h -• w re 1,--dnr hur! • ! into it • o-.h i
; .Jill. His iii• time lit is for -Licj• r,
out whitimr w.l la- go ." The; •• arc n •
: ■ ay eardi: al painls of Jao coin
da . hhirlh, c;ish south and west av
all one now . I'licre i not Id. -g hu; a
w\ irliiig. swirling, blimiii.g mass oi
: o\V aid I lie shriek oi 'he tempest. He
cauirot trust to his ]<cii.\ t - igirry hiiu
io a place oj rcftjgo :• i , the bona
ranch, i'cr die pony in a idi/.rard ; -
i tiled a lis iat- ly by the iusiiucr of • if
preservation, whicli means that if i •di
to el too.- ■ It:- own route ho will trawl
in the -anu dircedon as the storm
Only b.\ persistcul urging can lie be
made to I'm it, and ii must be an -
pmi. need rider that can guide Id a in
any direr,j<n lnu the cue which gi\ ;
him the i protection ft cm the ele
ments.
Tin ; > will come momentary lulls
when t! • rider may tako bis hearings,
bti i- due I. - can make much headway
in wl I 1. t hinlis i !he right dliv.-ii,,,!
die bll' ,ji'! .1 is again i:; u; lain aud ;
often the skillful guiding' of his pon.v
wdl V? suit in travcling in a circle.
Tn • rd. with tin :-.us instinct up
P'-rnmsi in the pony, turns tail n th
stern! and d il'ts v. ith it. h'ia? h-.di, -
" ' • •! d. Old •!• ! ; 111,.
arc s ">:i I!!• !; with snow ami
there is a constant snuggle for a pin
near the center el' the bunch, whore
the ; auro a ading animals impart
warmth and serve to break the paw
erfid force of the wind, Ii is a cmtlcst
in which the gnmg 'M .r ihr surviv
ors and the we ik. •: peri h.
If the biizzard la: ts but a few hours
all may escape: if l'or dny.% then only
the hardy animals will be left. Fol
lowing in the path of the blizzard tlm
I rider will emue upon the dead carcas -
es of the animal.-- singly, in twos, and
smooth. • a many a (1 n will
fall and perish toge'lier.
The In ;iv; iiiaw tl: - often foll"\v
fasr upon t! blizzard frequently
• causes as heavy *le; s m cattle as the
bliz vird it If. i'li c,i i tic m '!x the low
laud i • wt. i'lit re tlicy tlnd that
the tcritie wind has swept away the
no . The gr;; s tinge ig nine luxu
riant than on the range, but with each
hour of si: Mhlnc tin ir looting buooines
more and m . insecure and tltey sink
decpi'i' and deeper Into the soft iniro
of the marshy ground. Those that
Save been weak nod either through
lasiiii. or the rigors of tho storm are
It :1 fast. In tin'spring every nmraliy
• . crliole Is ch s !y wat *hed by tho cat
lleip, ;i and thousands of cattle are res
cued. 'lMit.se place* that arc hot v. nich
ed are thick!, strewn with carcasses,
and in the summer and fall look llko
bojieya I'; I s.
NO CHANCTTO CHEAT.
Comiuctorrt to Carry "Keigistcr nuil
Face Collector,"
The nickel in-t he slot machine is
about to enter a new tield in lietroif.
It is to assist street car conductors in
their work, and is called a "register
and fare collector." It is a niekei
plated contrivance which will hang
around the conductor's neck. Fingers
that i' h for Illegitimate coin will not
touch tlie fares. The com!w ;or will
present his machine in the passenger's
face in hold-up fashion, ai d the pas
senger will trail, in* bis 5-eont piece
from Ills pocket to the machine. The
coin will rattle down into its depths
until a little bell will jingle. This v. d
inform the passen. r that Ins faro is
recorded in due and proper .form. He
will • h down assiii; d that it will reach
the coffers of tli • company instead of
the pocket of the ccaduotor. The con
ductor will be ordered to linger neither
llie coin nor the tick* . T : y pr -s di
rectly from the hand of the pntseong'T
'C; .■ |
!: ' ,T Ycy.;!,
/" v 'ch.
x:C:'k Vv': V:V
iY. r u
. - Mv ev-:) ,
■ -uJ
sivrtrr. i" <w n <oxufcrouk; si.oi e .\i!iNi-;
into the slot. Once w i ciii the machine
, 1 hey cannot be bale n out. When they
iinally drop tlimm !i in o the rceoivev
jr T I In* I oi i in- ■! •. : hey arc rc;* -
i istCi Vd. At the cud ef 1: e rtr.c il IS
; i he eonipany .. cr . ider and not the on
du< 'tor who unlet *. .He slut machine
and lakes nui th • ie elver. He has in
jhk !.,* ion I- s •e.arkv d with each
, conductor': nam • reel number. The
I register Is reset, smoker receiver is at
| inched, and the in ,diu lor sets on his
| The Detroit c*.u iiicim-.s are objecting
j to the use of i i" n. -v device, because
!•• !'"\ ay 151: i! it l> ads t ic-'o a lilies i
I but th" oliic. rs of th - a,patty a: . tire
I them il is fur the |>u'-t' : * ; " of curing
.. • ■■ .
...
i era*.; - N. d.ouo (•;: \\ \ ca. in 10..- a-s frmu
j both these sour • • .
"v-id - the machine wlti !i the
: Dcindt company K to confer upon all
its conductors, the mail who calls out
' 1 ■. d" will he '■ • h : do\ n hii an
.o;: * : de\ Ice. T,. •, . ihe ch.'lli e be.\.
| built on the j>! .of the dime banks,
! v.-'edi Wi'i'e j ap iiia r a few .\ars ago.
Tl i is merely a .e x ivaiu eto get out
of the ditlicaliy c: iii vi eg into the pock
r after change. The company has
been Investig.iiiug all sorts and man
ners *{ ci uriva c* - t d'-inay klepli
• a oil the part of tie-conductor, but
the rcgi . is tlie invention regarded
as ilie safest, however irksome it may
be for the conduct or to wear it.
TIMOTHY E. BYRNES,
Who is* to fh Bei-Kuant-at-A > iusi of t he
Kcpiiblican Netionnl Convention.
Timothy F. I'ynies, who will be ser
*. a i.i-ai artcs of tlie K publican mi
tiona I convention at St. Mods, i: a pr.t"
iicing attorney of Miniicajielis. and a
managing jioiiti' ian of wide CXJK ri
cnce and neknowlcd red tact. This ex
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jm rlcnoe and tad he gained not < nly
in tho inner sanctuary of the Nliuue
sotH tetuplo of b' Muiblicain. in, but in
posts of a national s<- pc. When Wiii
inm Wimloin was in the cabinet Mr.
llryims was aiipointcil cl-erk ef the
Treasury Department. There he made
many friends among the I aders of his
party. H • added to ' • rc • ita'ioii by
sue • fill work ill ramie., fun d dur
ing bis term as -retaky • f tin Na
tional League of Republican (Mill is.. Mr.
I;*\ m ■ and.!, d. ' lark son have always
been close friends, and bis appoint
ment is lai-"iy due Jo tlie lowan's
friendship.
A woman who new r marries misses
the granted, ojiportuuity of l *r lii'i* to
be a mai 'yr.
COL. R. W. THOMPSON I
NOW LIVING QUIETLY AT TERRE
HAUTE, IND,
he Once Feircturv of the Navy Paas- j
JUL-. ITIA Declining Days in a Tran- j
quit Iloiiii I'lnuucd hy Himwclf ami
WiV Nearly llalf n Century Ago,
Four Fin re and Seven.
In I >-|y U.v'-.i 111 homo :iI TcriV Ilnuto.
! 'I . {'nl. Richard \Y. Thompson Is oil
"'.vin. I well •;!rnetl rest. alter half a
'•••ittiiiy of important judicial, leglsla- J
ti\c ami administrative duties. At the
aue <i ST. vigorous and active as many
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IIIt'llA!U> W. THOMPSON.
i n .'id ,tears younger, his iutelleet is
strong as e\< r. and the eiear appro- j
! -• ■•HI. the sterling eluiraeler that
i 'i'. ■ him an i aipnrl anl figure in Con
ml in ii.e Presidential Cabinet ,
•''ir: g viia] ja i iods of tin- nation's his- <
; n-y. nsaniiv i themselves powerfully 1
v.'h ii !:.• is called upon to express his I
sentiments on questions of thu day.
• ' ght rp in tli" vicinity of such men j
: i a '• •• :). Madison and Monroe, tli"
of Adams. Jackson, Webster.
cla\ and ( alhoun. the intimate friend 1
"• !:!••■: : sin snen and orators, his \
ommorics embrace tiie inosi interest- j
phas.i s of national politics, and all |
, 'sc..,- :( a nice; a Oilier men in various '
!' •id in public life have aeeuniu- j
' ! 'Hc i - of dollars. Col. Thonip- '
"i is far from being wealthy, as rich j
men ire rated, and tlie competency It" i
v.a., derived from sources wjiol
l.\ cjiarale from polilies.
•he \e ita.ilili ex-Secretary of the j
" v i-nm near <'ulpcpcr. \ a„ in
IN' < f mrained Anuniean stock, ami ;
ihroii iieut his life his habits of;
•• h. his ! 'pi I a lily, ! ; culture and j
• •'1 • i ;• • i.iivr been 1 hose of the ;
Hed. w red Southerner. Twen
yi.i. later, at the Christmas'
• • s 'ii. i e (el l for Ihe West ami set- ;
i ! at K •dfcid. Ind.. as a \ ouilg law- j
In 1 *-• ! - h" <lme to Terro I laute, '
I 1 a ! 1 ' earece opened up for j
I'MI \ t MI in I lie Stale Legislature I
nad 1 n ; Ho wed by one . .Slate Sen- i
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COL. THOMPSON'S HOME A? KRRK HAUTE.
■" i' l l he Was HOW ill ( 'oiigress. lie j
\returned in IMS. then appointed
cii'-uii .fudge. :ii:11 from that event |
\ ' til ho was handed the naval port • j
:*>!!> hy 1 *!•; -Mont Hayes was nearly '
■ill tho time serving tin; people in a j
judicial capacity. During (ho war IK- J
was provost marshal of his district ami \
ilril 1"*1 four regiments an official cu- j
m-miiy fraught with danger in thai par I
lieubir district. v.herc ihat somewhat i
f.st nts and deadly association, Urn j
Kit M< i,l the Cnldi'ii Circle, ware a |
strong pr. scut social feature. It was j
i; his til st term in Congress, in INII. j
i! ti 'ci. Thompson mot Abraham Lin
coin, the acquaintance grow into a ;
i ri.-: dsi p which emlurcd until the !
death of Lincoln. When the latter was j
President he urge,! Col. Thompson to j
i;ij a - a! en the bench of tin- Court '
of Claims. The ex-Congressman <le
. ii'M-d. a- he had the proffer of the
\n .ti'ian mission under Taylor and the i
ordership of tlm Land Olllee in Kill- i
- administration, but lie was a'
I • i-111 iigure i i ill campaigns. In i
the old Tipecanoo campaign he gave
cider 1121 rri -1 :> /. rahms support on '
tump. As a Presidential elector, i
isi his viii" for the first President 1
111 the name. Nearly lifty-six years j
M .erward his support materially aided i
i!m grandson in securing the nominn-j
. a and elect ion. <le was several times !
a Piv-idential elm tor. and was a mem- |
i- r of all the historic or notable He- ;
publh an conventions after the forma !
t mil of ihe pally. Col. Thompson re
•; '"I from the Ilayes Cabinet shortly
befor the close of tie* administration, j
to in oine president of the American '
. unniitlee of Hie Panama Canal Com- j
pany lie was also a director of the
Istlimns Railway.
cd. Thompson is passing his declin
ing dajs in a tranquil lionuv surround 1
j eii by great elms that look*as if they
J were natural forest growth, planted hy j
him: elf and his young wife close upon
! a half century a-. o. He has Just com- j
pie led his iat u-riing "Personal Recol- i
| lections." Full of entertaining nnec
i dote, he is as well a rare analyst of
' human excellence and the* national
progress. He believes that Webster's
i oration will never die, that Calhoun
was a brilliant man always underesti
mated, that Clay was the greatest
speaker of his age; but he does not
believe that American eloquence died
| with them. Ile considers ihat, as great
questions come up for settlement, able
disputants will meet the occasion, and
that American pride and energy can
.• impass all requirements that arise to
make it neeesary to maintain the su
premacy of the railed Slates.
A QUEER MISER.
Ho Wore His Wife's Clothes and Hung
Himself.
A i-lmvat'UT committed suicide
i ill Youkers. N. Y„ the other day by
I hanging himself to his bed post, dob a
{ Adaui Ilortlcin was his name and t'arm
; iiitf his occupation. About three months
I ago his wife died and since then Ilert
: lein had convineed Ids neighbors, by his
S queer doings, that he "had wheels.' as
i one of them expressed it. The loss of
i his wife seemed to make him Inconsola
ble. lie skirmished around among the
things which had been hers and got out
in old dress she used to wear. This he
(lonm .l, saying if it was good enough
for her ii war for him. In this out*
lainllsh costume, which was much too
unall for him, and a pair of rubber
boots 11 erl lei ii went about the house
and farm, or rather truck garden, and
did his work with the assistance of a
hired man named Rivinski. The latter
after a struggle became, reconciled to
his master's queer togs ami queerer ac
tions and tilings went on harmoniously.
\ ware that his dress would cause com
ment when lie went to market, and yet
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' determined not to take it off, Hert
lein drew on a pair of pants over the
skirts, which of course made the pants
look rather qucorly, and an old over
; coat over the waist.
There was something ludicrous about
i liis appearance in liis wife's things. Ho
was r.3 years old. but lie had looked at
least ((). and lie wore a white heard.
The beard and the skirt seemed to
Rivinski an impossible combination,
but it did not strike Ilertlein that his
garb lacked dignity, and he went to
work and washed the dishes after each
meal as he had seen his wife do. They
were the only things in the house that
ever were washed.
The house contained a vast aecuinu*
lation of rubbish. It was never swept
or dhsted. Ilertlein saved tons of val
ueless stuff books, newspapers, string,
tin cans, cigar boxes and the like. The
bed clothing and linen had not been
cleaned for years. Dust an inch thick
covered everything.
Ilertlein was a miser. lie was report
ed to be worth considerable money,
but where be bad it hidden is net vm
known. lie carefully locked up the
food for fear the hired man would eat
too much. In many other ways he
showed the instincts of the miser. Ho
had one great ambition. It was to mar
ry a young wife in the spring. He waa
continually talking about ir with Rivin
ski. who bad tact enough to humor him.
The Newest New Woman.
out West there is a "traveling man"
who is a enrloslo simply because this
man is a woman. She is .Mrs. j. Jng
odnigg. of Kan. as City, and her line is
one tTint is dear to the average wom
an's heart line furs. Mrs. Jagodnigg
represents a big furrier, and she lias
Just returned from a successful busi
ness trip through the Northwest. Her
samples consist of several thousand
dollars' worth of all manner of fur
wraps for men and women, and die
carries as well a full line of fur trim
mings, from ermine down to the f.-est
expensive. At Salt Lake City She wu;.
given a big reception, and many promi
nent ladies called at her hotel and paid
their respects.
Fashion ru ie? t links <3 fntroduclng
a style that is of any benefit to hu
manity.'