The Territorial Topic. (Norman, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 8, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1896 Page: 4 of 8
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WAIT SHE DIBEN'T GO.
Miss Wilheltnina IVrks mid her
t;i(lior won' staying in I oiid n. They
had been in I'nritf for some time*, too,
partly because tli«*y wort' from lloston,
but mainly because i I helm inn and
made there >ni«* special purchases for
licr new adventure.
She proposed to sail for Christiana
from Hull in the middle of the month,
and already tic papers iiad inter-
viewed her, and "Miss Willi: Imiua
IVrks, the Female Franklin Hv Orte
'a's chair hack. She seized his hand.
The tall figure went quickly and
noiselessly from the reading room
and stood for a few moments in tlie
entrance hall, thinking hard.
Dr. Frnxcr did not come out, and
Wilhelinina went up I *■ left to her
roem, and. sitting down on a low
ebalr, had the hest cry she had for two
yea in.
The next afternoon two clerks were
reading the afternoon paper, as they
waited for the '!us.
"II«*llo." said one. "here's a go."
That Yankee girl isn't going to bring
home the Xonli role, after all."
"H lull's up. then?" asked the other.
T!:e rirvt youth read it out: "Acting
upon tlie doctor's advice. .Miss W11-
iielmiua IVrks has relinquished her
intended expedition to the North role.
Who Knows I lor," appeared in nearly I'e'nS. oVn,,l^o,^^\T,n'V«!r ha vebeen
piirrhiised by telegram l>y n Swedish
explorer, It is stilted tluit tlie uiur-
every paper ti'it you picked up.
They liail all been to Lord's, and Dr.
Fraser a lid Ids cousin, Mrs. WaTtler-
whaie, Iiad been brought linek to din-
ner at the hotel.
"Well," said Miss Wilhelminu, "it is
no use talking, you know. My mind's
wet on this trip, and I'm going to do
it."
"I know, my girl," said Old IVrks
"1 know. You wouldn't lie a Perks if
you was to give way now and go back
on \ % in- reputation."
"And I'll just go and make a name
for myself and then I'll come right
hick and" she glanced at I)r. Eraser
"and then we'll be happy."
Young Dr. Feasor pressed the young
lady's foot affectionately beneath the
table, and little Mrs.' Waldershare
smiled.
"I wish you were all coming with
me," she went on. "Ain't it just pleas-
nit, now, even to talk of floes and ico
ami miles of tin tracked snow, and—
and so on?"
"I)|d you say the boat was ready,
Meneer?" asked her father.
"As near ready as doesn't matter,"
answered Wilhclmiua. "The nun are
engaged, the stores are purchased, and
when I get to Christiana I shall only
have a fortnight's work to do. And iii
two or three years, you know. I stall
be through." She looked at lier sweet-
heart with lier eyes bright with en-
thusiasm. "Say. Flank, we'll lie mar-
ried at the'Abbey, if the trick comet
oft."
All (he time young Dr. Fraser looked
thoughtfully out of the window-.
rlaire of Miss l'erka lo Dr. Jv'roser, i ae
of I ae most successful medical men
of the day, will take place at an early
date at lli-ly Trinity, Sloane street.-
St. .lames' Gazette.
DAM. HONS TO SAVK 1,1KB.
CHINESE CHARACTER.
MONGOLIANS IN NEW YORK A
FUN-LOVING PEOPLE.
Always Joking and l'layli,K franks with
One Another All „f -riiem Are Very
Fond of Companionship Arc Not llatl
HE Chinese are a
fuu-loving people.
In spUe of their
general air of In-
difference in the
presence of strang-
ers. They race up
and down stairs, or
sometimes through
the streets, on a
frolic, every man
STEALING ELECTRICITY.
Citrrc,t Is Taken from Trolley Circuits
anil I sent In Houses.
I It is asserted that the stealing of
current from trolley circuits for use in
houses, saloons and stores is becoming
very common. This is not surprising,
in view of the ease with which the
tapping of the circuit can be effected.
A simple test for determining the
"source of any suspected electric light-
ing was put in practice recently with
conclusive results. A station superin-
tendent, in passnig a saloon, noticed
the electric lights go out, and then
start up bright again, as the inr.andes
cent lights in the trolley cars some
times do. He thought that was a queer
way for the lights supplied by his sta
tion to behave, and he decided to in
vestigate. Being familiar with the
technical differences between the cur
CAVALRY IN BATTLE.
CONFEDERATES NEGLECTED AN
IMPORTANT BRANCH. S
Thin Contributed Much to the linn I Over-
throw of the Southern Army The I'art
That Cavalry Playn Cannot Be Over-
eHtiniate«l hy the Jlest Commander.
will
They Will Soon lli> I'rovied on the
tirent Oeeiin I.Inert*.
The balloon has become a marine life
saving appliance. The big ocean gray-
hounds will soon, it is thought, lie
equipped with life boats harnessed to
bnlloonx so a.s to be practically uusiiik-
nhie. 'tills novel device has lieeu pat-
ented by a shrewd Connecticut Yan-
kee.
While ihe combination boat
doubtless prove of the greatest s
in saving people far out at sea, it will
not be available at life-saving stntions.
I he wind is usually blowing shore-
j wal*'l when vessels are in danger, and
I for triis reason it would be almost im-
possible lo force the boat, hampered bv
I the balloon, to the assistance of a,
I craft.
j In a reeenl lesi made in the Connec-
I licul river, m ar Middletown, it was
1 shown that, even with the boat tilled
1 with water in the gunwales, the lift-.
J ing power of tin* balloon prevented tlie
craft from either sinking or upsetting.
| The boat was constructed under Mr.
Riley's direction, and is sixteen feet in
i length. Cylinders filhni with 00111-
"If you won't say another word , pressed gas were placed |„ compart-
and from these the balloon.
about it," lie remarked: "if you'll just uietiis
please let me say this:" which'was harnessed with cords to a
i %t \v''i iHni! S ° ,sl'9 follow inn si eonnceted with tin- eyiin-
and JIis. Waldomharc rose as she dels, was inflated. The mast, which is
! w,s is ndjttstable, and when
thini ti..,v I , vet j thing, every- turned forward the big balloon acted
th ug that I possess in he world. as a sail .ours proving quite unneces-
Hiiitl I'laser, Mill looking hard out of sary
yon W0UM °Uly llUllK'° I n,0Ml and convincing
- 1 portion of the exhibition was when the
passengers and crew were landed and
the boat tilled with water. Even with
tlie extra submersion, the boat floated
nut f>f Keon.i '^u8hing until he is j rent systems for lighting and the meth
at, pu ling cues, stealing 0(| 0f supplying olectric power for the
propulsion and illumination of cars, he
knew that by a very simple experiment
he could find out something more as
.She came up lo him.
"My dear boy," she said, "that can't
lie; but you're just the sweetest follow
lo say so. ami and I shall think of
you dreadfully."
Mrs. Waldershare had scribbled fur-
tively a note on the menu, which she
came back lo show to the young fel-
low.
"Before I forget it, Frank," said the
lillle woman, "is this the right way to
spell compote mix fruits'/"
fJnder the item was her pencilled
message:
"Meet me in half an hour in the read-
ing room."
"Yes," said Dr. Fraser, "I think that
is right."
The two men had their smoke and
their coffee, and at the appointed time
Fraser threw away his cigar, and,
leaving old Mr. I'erks, went into the
reading room.
He found Mrs. Waldershare there,
and for live minutes their heads were
very close together. They talked spir-
itedly, and seemed to be arguing with
much good humor.
Presently they changed their scats
and sat behind a screen in the corner,
near the window. Then Airs. Walder-
share gave a confidential message to
one of the attendants.
In a few in Unites Wilhelinina entered
the room. She was a tall, striking girl. I -i niiy (iniiles
and everybody looked up from their j , |. n„|..'.,(i „.i.
evening papers as she came in. I i.iuwihi. wiieu
"In that corner, 1 think," said the j l!lH's "lore strenous
man, carefully. "I think I saw them | most anywhere el si
fly a perceptible de
along with
crease in speed,
By the simple process of reversing
the pumps the inventor showed how
lie could pump the gas from the bal-
loon back into the cylinders. Some of
the gas was then burned as a beacon
light, which could be seen for luauv
1 miles around. With this and a reflec-
tor signal, flashes can lie made which
| would be certain to attract the atten-
! tion of passing vessels.
[ Another claim of the inventor is that
I il can, by being launched from a siuk-
I Ing ves.-el, secure aid from shore lie-
J fore a life-saving crew, even though
ready, could shoot a line aboard.
; Often, owing to a strong wind lirectly
I off shore, the life-savers are unable to
| place a life line so that it can be of
j assistance.
| Tills ditiieuity is met by Mr. Riley
, who has supplied his boat with a line.
, The boa I, he claims, when supported
j by the balloon, could even without a
I crew, 1>" headed for the shore, and.
j owing to its remarkable buoyancy,
would have little difficulty in riding
i breakers and getting within reach o/
| the life-savers. New York Herald.
go I here just behind the screen, miss.
iKiss Wilhelminu walked across the
large, thickly-carpeted room to the
place indicated. The two familiar
voices came to lier ear, and there was
in the voice of tlie Utile widow, so unu-
sually earnest a ring that Wilhelinina
paused involuntarily.
"You don't know, Frank, how much
I love you," she heard Mrs. Wiilde--
ahare say. Bhe was speaking very dis-
tinctly: "You dou'l know, and until now
you have, perhaps, never guessed tin,
you are everything to inc. You will
call it unwomanly; perhaps some
might call me shameless; but I can't
help it May I may I ask you to give
tSe one promiseV"
"Tell ine what it is," said the voice
of Dr. Fraser, hoarsely.
"1'romine me that as soon as tills
American girl with whom you think
you are in love—"
"With whom I atu in love."
"Yery well, with whom you are in
love, then, l'roinbe me t hat as soon
as she lias gone on her preposterous
expedition you will give inc leave to
apeak again. I am no child in these
matters, Frank."
"I can give ypu uo promise of any
bind," answered I>r. Fraser, steadily
"1 can quite understand your posi-
tion," the little widow went on. "it's
very hard on you. I tut when she
comes back, if she ever does come
liac.k, after, say, three or four year
aged and altered by Ibis ridiculous
exploring business, she surelj would
not he surprised If she should find
that you have forgotten her."
"I shall never, never forget her," de-
dared Frank.
"Attended," said the little widow,
persistently "I repeat that I know
(something of these matters. We'll let
Iter go; let lier go right away, and
then we'lll talk over this matter again.
If I'm not mistaken, you'll be of a dif-
ferent opinion then."
"I be; you don't appreciate—"
"Oh, my dear one," cried the little
widow, with a catch In her voice,
"think again. She does not love yon,
really, or she would never leave you
like this, risking her life and your
affection."
"Don't speak to me, please," prayed
Dr. Fraser; "don't speak to me. I'm
doing her a grievous wrong by listen-
ing to you."
There was a soli from the little
widow, and Dr. Fraser rose and put
In l.onilon
tlie word "lady"
service than al-
io the world,
| where "lady journalists" flourish and
I "lady help" is familiar, a new "lady"
I has appeared. She is called the "lady
tfnide." and although the name is
' against her, she is a popular i>erson-
i age and a most convenient one. She
, is so numerous that she has been band-
ed into an organization called the Lady
< iuido association.
At such a season as tills, when Lon-
don is full of visitors, tlie association
is particularh valuable. The duties
which the lady guides undertake are
shown by their ciicuJar to be numer-
ous.
"l'anit s are met at stations or on
board ship; apartments, boarding
houses, rooms at hotels recommended
and engaged; shnpping, packing, dress-
making and all needle w rk underta-
ken; arrivals and addresses registered,
and letters and parcels received; ship-
ping steam parages and railway tick-
ets provided; house* taken, furnished
rooms ami flowers provided; 'at homes'
attended, entertainers prov! led; din-
ners and balls arranged; typewriting,
short hand copying, auto-copying, invi-
tations, etc., undertaken; commissions
of all kinds executed; spring and au-
tumn house cleaning and removals un-
dertaken." San Francisco Kxamlner.
!No Talking Iii I'nrl* Then torn
"Talk about disturbing the audience
of a theater." remarked a gentleman
yesterday. "y u ought to see how par-
ticular they are in I'aris. No such free
and easy ways as those tolerated here
are submittal to iu that city. I re-
member attending a liiatlncft a few
years ago with a friend, also ,t.i Amer-
ican. It was Saturday afternoon, and
the theater, which was not one of the
highest priced, was crowded. We got
good seals and all went well until I
made some si tto v< ce remarks lo my
companion. 1 spake iu a low tone and
one which would have disturbed no-
body In ibis country. Hut yon ought
lo have seen how thos:- Frenchmen
and women looked at us. We weiv
transfixed al once by a dozen pairs of
angry eyes and the man who sat next
to us clinched Hintte - by exclaiming
aloud: "Mon. lour v.mle/. vous votts
talreV" This was only a shade isJiier
than "Will non siiei 'u-i, sir';" and he
meant it We took Hi • libit and we
shut up for the rest of the matinee.
St. Louis UepubiU.
hats, and playing all manner of practi-
cal jokes on one another. I recent!}
heard a great commotion in Doyer:
street on a hot Sunday afternoon, when
the street was crowded with Chinamen,
and, fearing trouble, hurried hastily to
the place, only to find one man the butt
of another man's joke, trying to get
away from his pursuer, while about
500 laughing men joined in the
fun, and finally administered good-na-
tured Justice to the perpetrator of the
.joke. At another time on Sunday
afternoon I heard a sudden outcry and
scuttle overhead, and the running of
scores of feet. I ran into the hall,
fearing that the building was on fire,
•and with a sickening dread at my heart
for the Italian children in Bethany
Sunday school, which was then in ses-
sion in the Mission rooms. I saw a
man coming downstairs, and asked him
what was the matter. With a shrug or
Infinite disdain, he remarked: "Oh.
my people to muchee laugh," and
passed on his way. It was only a
school-boy joke played by one group
of men on another, followed by a gen-
eral malee, in which shouts and laugh-
ter, and the incessant clatter of wooden
so lets on board floors, made us think of
"pandemonium let loose."
Some of the keenest and purest
humor and some of the wittiest sallies
1 have heard have fallen from the lips
of Chinamen in lower New York. I well
remember the amased and contemp-
tuous look with which a Chinaman
once said: "Melican man savee (under-
stand) Chinaman allee same number
one fool. Chinaman savee Melican
man allee same. Chinaman every time
gettee top side Melican man"—which
does not contain a reference to pugil-
ism, but merely means that in a battle
of wits the Chinaman "sees through"
the American man, and will come out
on the "top side." They are quick at
repartee, and their black eyes will
sparkle with amusement and fun if you
jest, with them, or when they start the
ball rolling among themselves.
They dwell together for years in the
same apartments, happy and comfort-
able. They minister to one another in
sickness, bury a relative or neighbor
when dead without calling on public
charities for help, and in the case of a
relative assume the support of the fam-
ily of the dead man when be is gone.
These people—these much derided peo-
ple—spend hours together in one an-
other's apartments, conversing to-
gether, ating together, sometimes
smoking the long water-pipe, always
with a pot of steaming tea between
them. In two years I have seen thou-
sands of such groups, but never yet
have I found these men drinking
liquor together. I have found them
playing games—sometimes, but not al-
ways, gambling; have found them
playing their musical instruments,
which are harmonious to them, how-
ever much they may lack of melody to
other earti; or have found them read-
ing or discussing the last liong Kong
or Shanghai daily; but I repeat I have
never found them drinking liquor, or
in any degree under the influence of
intoxicants.
The Chinaman celebrates his wed-
ding, not by a drunken carousal, but by
the finest feast that hia pocket-book
to the source of the supply of the cut'
rent. A lighting company wires
building so that any incandescent
lamp in it can be shut off or taken out
without affecting the others. In a rail
way plant the lamps are fed in such a
way that it one is shut off all cease to
glow. The superintendent passed into
a side room of the saloon and quietly
unscrewed one of the incandescent
bulbs. As he expected, all the lights
on the same wire went out. On the
following night the current supplying
the electric line on that street was, by
agreement, cut off at a certain time.
At that moment the illumination in the
saloon ceased. When the current was
turned on again the saloon was again
lighted up. Examination showed that
the wire had been tapped near the sa-
loon, the connection with the feed wire
being made by means of a nail. A
large number of similar "taps" were
found. In some cases the job had
been done by a bogus "station man,"
who had called regularly for payment
of the current supposed to have been
consumed. This, at all events, was
the story told by some of those who
were found using the stolen current.—
Chicago Record.
AN EXPENSIVE PLAYHOUSE.
A I.lttle Chicago tllrl IIdk One Which
Cost $:t,ooo.
A little girl out in Chicago who has
a very rich and independent father is
the owner of the most oeautiful and
complete dollhouse, probably, that
ever was built. It stands on the lawn
of her home, and built oi brick, with
a tiny tower and cupola, it looks ex-
actly like a small copy of any fashion-
able residence. A flight of stone steps
leads up to the front door, which is
of solid oak, beautifully polished, and
provided with an electric bell to an-
nounce callers. On the door, which is
fosr feet high, large enough to admit a
good-sized child, is a polished silver
plate with the name of the
little owner written upon it.
Once inside, the delights of
the place would rejoice any little
girl's heart. The hallway is finished
in hard woods, and is lighted by a small
gas lamp, hanging from the ceiling,
umbrella and hat racks stan.t there,
and pretty portieres separate It from
the parlor. In this handsome room the
furniture is all of white enameled wood,
covered with white brocaded silk. It
has a beautiful mantel covered with
haf.dsome ornaments, a real gas chan-
delier, besides lovely little lamps on
tables. The dining room has side-
boards and china closets, the kitchen
is exactly like any kitchen, only tiny,
and the bedrooms are fitted up in the
most complete manner. As the ceil-
ings are six feet ten inches high, the
rooms are plenty big enough for the
little owner and her friends to play
about in it. Lovely dolls
from Paris make up the fam-
ily, including handsomely dressed
dolls as ladies in the parlor,
a cook doll in the kitchen, baby and
nurse dolls in the bedrooms, and wait-
ress dolls in the dining-room. The
"^HE son of a Con-
federate officer, Mr.
Puncan Rose, con-
tributes a paper to
-j,the Century on
" "Why the Confed-
eracy Failed." This
failure he attrib-
utes to three lead-
ing causes—the ex-
cessive issue of pa-
per money, the pol-
and the neglect of
the cavalry. Concerning the last of
these Mr. Rose says:
It is a fact worthy of remembrance,
that all the greatest generals of ancient
and modern times have put their great-
est faith in their cavalry. It was his
superb cavalry, and not the Macedon-
ian phalanx, with which Alexander
charged the Persian center at Arbela,
and won the crown of Asia. IL was
Hannibal's Numidian horse which
slaughtered those eighty thousand
Romans at Cannae, and carried the
war to the very gates of Rome. It
was Napoleon's powerful cavarly re-
serve at Austerlitz which enabled him
to finish off that great victory with the
capture of forty-three thousand Rus-
sian and Austrian prisoners, and a
hundred pieces of artillery. And it is
undoubtedly true, as the great captain
himself stated, that, his success at
Dresden did not avail to save his
thjone, because the horses with which
he had conquered Europe had per-
ished 111 the snows of the Russian
steppes.
The Prussians are the greatest sol-
diers of modern limes, and they have
never made the mistake of underrating
cavalry. It was Blucher's terrible cav-
alry which changed the drawn battle of
Waterloo into that dreadful rout, and
which ail that awful night after Water-
loo pursued the flying Frenchmen until
when the next day broke, of all those
with whom Napoleon marched out to
tight there was not an organized body
remaining, except Grouchy's detached
command. And in her last war it was
the Prussian uhlans that made Ger-
many's great victories so effective, and
made possible Sedan with its two hun-
dred thousand prisoners.
And 60 it has become to be consid-
ered an axiom that, however authori-
ties may differ as to the relative value
of the different arms of the service in
battle, no great, decisive victory can be
won without sufficient cavalry to press
the pursuit; that the fruits of victory
cannot be gathered, the harvest cannot
be reaped, without sufficient fresh men
on horseback to pursue the retreating
enemy.
It might be expected that, as the
Southerners were natural-born horse-
men, "cavaliers from the cradle," the
mounted arm of the service would have
been the strongest and the most val-
ued and cherished; but strange as it
seems, the contrary, the very contra-
dictory, of that was true. From the
beginning the cavalry was relatively the
weakest, was underrated and neglect-
ed, and even ridiculed and derided. In
jocularity rewards were offered for "a
dead man with spurs on," such a poor
opinion had they of a soldier on horse-
back.
can command, to which not only his house and fittings and family cost over
immediate relatives are invited, but all t $3,000, and do you know that there is
who have the slightest claim of friend- [ no more real fun to be had out of it
ship upon him. A Chinaman who was than from the lovely dollhouse many
recently married in Mott street gave ! girls make out of soapboxes?—New
three large feasts in as many restaur-
ants, entertaining several hundred peo-
ple at each before he had gone the
round of his acquaintances and friends.
Yet this man was not one of the most
prosperous ones. A child's birthday is
likewise celebrated with a feast, the
wife entertaining lier friends In the
family home, while her husband enter-
tains his friends at his place of busi-
ness or in a public restaurant.
I'nUerHtood al I.ust.
An old Scotch lady, who had no rel-
ish for modern church music, was ex-
pressing her dislike of the singing of
an anthem in her own church one day,
when a ne!ghbor said: "Why, that is a
very old anthem. David sung that an-
them to Saul." To this the old lady re-
plied: "Weel, weel, 1 noo for the first
time understand why Saul threw his
javelin at David when the lad sung
'or him."—Exchange.
The World's Ilitlltrity Mllenge.
Only seventy years have elapsed
since the first railway in the world
was finished. During that compara-
tively brief period 400,000 miles have
been constructed, the British Empire
iccountlng for about one-sixth.
The Only Way to Up Convinced,
"You can play dominoes for ten
hours a day for 118,000,000 years with-
out exhaustiug the combination."
"I dra't believe it."
"Juat yji try it and see,"—Bay City
CfcaL
York Times.
Municipal Tram way h in <;iaHgow.
The successful operation of the tram
ways in Glasgow is full of encourage-
ment to the ailvocatos of municipal
ownership and operation of street rail-
ways. The Committee of Councils hav-
ing charge of the matter report th t
for the second year of the experiment
the receipts were $1,618,387, and the
operating expenses $1,215,373 leaving a
balance of $403,014. Till .it has
been achieved at the same time that
the fares were reduced. For the 86,-
462,594 passengers who were carrkd the
average fare was 1% cents a passen-
ger. The employes are clothed at the
expense of the department, and a
friendly society has been established
among them, with 1,474 members.
A MarkimI College.
Dukane: "The college which will at-
tract the most attention this year does
not possess a football team." Gaswell:
"Oh, nonsense!" "It's a fact." "What
college do you refer to?" "The elector-
al college."—Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele-
graph.
"Whir."
The word "whir" Is regarded by somo
philologists as a natural symbol of the
idea of revolution. The German has
"wirren," to twist: the French "virer,"
with the same meaning; the English
"veer" and "wear," theTirtter used with
rftfarence to ttu* turulca al u aula
At the first great battle of the war,
on the plateau of Manassas, the mount-
ed men did not even fight as an organ-
ized body, but were divided, detailed
and attached two companies to each
brigade, in imitatSon, perhaps, of the
old Roman legion, a method of arrang-
ing cavalry in battle which was aban-
doned before the Christian era. And
yet Johnston has been blamed because
he did not capture the Federal army
and the city of Washington, too. And
at all times after that the little band
of horsemen never seemed to be con-
sidered as a constituent part of the
fighting army. Nearly always they
were separated from it on detached
duty. At Gettysburg the Confederate
cavalry was miles away when the bat-
tle began. They were not a factor in
the great fight until the last day. If
Lee had won, and had captured the
heights of Gettysburg, it could not have
been in effect more than a drawn bat-
tle, because he had not sufficient cav-
alry with which to press the pursuit.
And so, from the beginning to the
end, either because the government
could not learn the value of mounted
troops, or was incapable of changing
a policy once adopted, or for some in-
explicable reason, the cavalry was un-
derrated and neglected. The excuse
cannot be offered that there were not
sufficient horses in the Confederacy. A
glance at the census of 1860 will show
that there were horses enough in Tex-
as, or Georgia and North Carolina, to
have mounted all the Confederate arm-
ies in the field, leaving enough to make
the crops; and surely, if the govern-
ment may lawfully "conscript" a man
into the army, his horse or his neigh-
bor's horse may also be conscripted.
Almost at the very timj> when the gen-
eral of the Army of Tennessee was
begging for horses to draw his can-
non, a Federal army was capturing
nearly two thousand horses from the
farmers in the valley of Virginia.
The TroUt Don't I'lease.
An eastern farmer recently shipped
a lot of apples to England. He was not
delighted when he received a profit on
them of a cent a barrel.
SANKEY'3 MOST FAMOUS HYMN
The Sudden Inspiration from a Nowf-
paper 1'oem. '
At a gathering recently in Denver
•Mr. Ira W. Sankey, before singing "The
Ninety and Nine," which perhaps of all
his compositions is the one that has
brought him thp most fame, gave an
account of its birth, says the Outlook.
Leaving Glasgow for Edinburgh with
Mr. Moody, he stopped at a news stand
and bought a penny religious paper.
Glancing over it as they rode on the
cars his eyes fell upon a few little
verses in the corner of the page. Turn-
ing to Mr. Moody, he said: "I've found
my hymn." But Mr. Moody was busily
engaged and did not hear a word. Mr
Sankey did not find time to make a
tune for the verses, so he pasted them
in his music scrap-book. One day the>
had an unusually impressive meeting
in Edinburgh, in which Dr. Bonar had
spoken with great effect on "The Good
Shepherd." At the close of the ad-
dress Mr. Moody beckoned to his part-
ner to sing something appropriate. At
first he could think of nothing but tho
twenty-third psalm, but that he had
sung so often; his second thought was
to sing the verses he h'ad found in the
newspaper; but the third thought was,
how could it be done when he had no
tune for them? Then a fourth though,
came, and that was to sing the verses
anyway. He put the verses before him,
touched the keys of the organ, opened
his mouth and sang.not knowing where
he was going to come out. He finished
the first verse amid profound silence.
He took a long breatli, and wondered
ii he could sing the second the same
way. He tried it and succeeded. After
that it was easy to sing it. When he
finished the hymn the meeting was all
broken down—-the throngs were crying
and the ministers were sobbfiig ail
around him. Mr. Sankey says it was~
the most intense moment of his life.
From that moment it was a popular
hymn. Mr. Moody saij at Ihe time
that he had never heard a song like
that. It was sung at every meeting,
and was soon going over the world.
While traveling in the highlands of
Scotland a short time later Mr. Sank-
ey received a letter from a lady at Mel-
rose thanking him for singing the
verses written by her sister. That sis-
ter was Elizabeth C. Clephane. . He
wished to call it "The T-ost Sheep," but
Mr. Moody insisted upon calling it
"Ninety and Nine," whenever he an-
nounced it. Mr. Sankey firmly believes -<
that God inspired him to sing that
song with such effect and the honor
should be His.
Space and Temperature.
A footstep sounded upon the stait.
"I shall be cold and distant with him,"
she murmured. It would be easy to be ~
cold, since the janitor never started
the steam until October 1, but how to
be distant in a flat of that size was
not readily apparent—Detroit Tribune.
A Cheap dorse.
A man in Lawrenceville, Ga., re-
cently sold his horse for 25 cents. He
had put it uplat auction once before,
but, as he could not get even that sum
for it, he did not sell.
A Level Head in IviinHa*.
The Atchison Globe, which keeps a
'man on the lookout for freaks, says
that the more worthless a man is tho
more time he spends talking politics. ~
PERSONALS.
Howko—"I can do 'my best work
R'hon it is hot." Cumso—"What a great
future you have before you!"—Life.
Richard Croker will return to this
country in December.
R. D. Jefferson has completed the
feat of riding a bicycle a distance ol
6,574 miles In 150 days.
Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford has added
600 members to the suffragist clubs
since her arrival in Idaho.
Every morning Mrs. John Burns, wlt(
of the great labor leader, reads foi
four hours before breakfast.
(,ov. Budd, of California, says hi
thinks the fraudulent coyote scalfi v
claims will aggregate $50,000.
The sultan of Turkey of late has beer,
given quite a number of nicknames,
The last to come to the surface is thai
of "Hamid the Hangman."
Dr. Livingstone used to tell how.
while traveling in Africa, he was sa .
hard set for food that he made a meal ^
of two mice and a light, blue-colored
mole.
The queen of the Netherlands is nol
as strong as might be, and it has been
decided to take her to Italy, and, per-
haps, to Egypt, for a good part of tha
winter.
Czar Nicholas has become a patron o(
literature. He has commissioned M.
Istomine to make a collection of thn
popular songs and patriotic ballads oj
his empire.
Mr. George Faudel-Phillips, the new
lord mayor-elect of London, is the
fourth Jew to hold that office. His
father, Sir Benjamin Phillips, who was
lord mayor in 1866, was the second. |
Sir Henry Irving is one of the best
swordsmen in England. He has prac-
ticed scientific swordsmanship for
many years. One of ills fencing mas-
ters was Prof. McLaren, now of Olym-*
pla.
The oldest living graduate of Har-
vard is Dr. William Lambert Russell,
of Barre, Mass., who was in the class
of '26. He is also senior alumnus o|
the medical school, being in the class
of '31.
The Belgian government has just
conferred the civic cross of the first-
class upon a man of the name o|
Achilles Vandercamp, In recognition oi '
his having saved the life of King Leo,
l'old.
Emlle Zola spends money with a lav-
ish hand. His house at Milan cosl
1,000,000 francs, and the objects of art
which it contains are worth 3,000,000
more. One table in his drawlng-rooip
cost $2,000.
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