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THE DAILY EXPRESS
CinCKASHA
END. TER
Solitude Is a pIsco where they never
sdvorii.se Philadelphia Saturuav
lost.
The women continue to wear their
hair to Fiu't themselves rather than
Mr. Caniejle.
If "Mrs. Warren's Profession" Is too
touch fur New York It must be al-
mighty tough.
As a small ccueepslon to common
sense William Wallcrf Astor does not
wear a monocle.
Sir Frederick Treves says sickness
Is a blessing. Perhaps he intends to
i;;arry the nurse.
Usually when a man reaches ih?
'tin in tho lane he finds that it tarns
in the wrong direction.
The duke business In Russia Isn't
'likely to he as profitable in ttie future
as it has been in the past.
That Denver man who has nevei
been kissed is going to disappoint
some woman badly one of these days
The mystery of Edwin Brood has
been solved hut we are still searching
for the man who struck Billy Fatter-
.son. Stuyvesant Fish has paid one of his
wiie's bills at last. Oh these women!
They always have their way sooner or
later.
In the glorious golden autumn love-
ly woman bays a frock and the frost
Is on the wallet and the neighbors get
a shock.
A Tennessee state senator who led
a raid on his son's poker game prob-
ably gave the young man the surprise
of his life.
The American contractor is to build
the Panama canal. There is nothing
In this world he Is not ready to under-
take and execute.
According to the new state census
the population of Greater New York
is 4014304. This will make Chicago
feel worse than ever.
A check for $32035875.50 has just
been signed by the assistant secretary
of the treasury but It wasn't drawn
on his personal account.
King Alfonso traveled Incognito
through France on his way to Ger-
many. That's the only way that roy-
l lty can have a real good time.
Men are the real slaves of fashion
in Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish's opinion;
look at the hats they wear. Well
look at the things called hats women
wear.
An eastern poet says: "The morn-
ing light Is breaking." It may he
hcirevcr that it is the cook smashing
p few cut-glass finger bowls In the
kitchen.
An Omaha man who lost his job at
the age of 104 and then tried to com-
mit suicide will he excused for think-
ing that he had reached the end of
his rope.
William Schaus a scientist has
given 20000 moths to the American
Museum of Natural History. The com-
mon practice of donating dollars did
not appeal to him.
A Massachusetts man has been ap-
pointed to tho consulship at Vladivos-
toka place that seems very much
more attractive now than It did three
or four months ago.
A fleet may be sent to compel tho
sultan to make reforms In Macedonia.
In arguing with the more or less sub-
lime porte there is nothing quite so
persuasive as big guns.
A Long Island man who is 40 years
old and minus a leg bested his 10-year-old
son in a race for the affections of
a H-year-old girl. Tho Osier lim't
certainly does not apply here.
Now they're asking: "In a football
game between college players and pu-
gilists which would win?" As well
ask in a flirtation between a man and
woman which would have the best of
When every paper in the country has
paid due and proper attention to the
f'u t that toothpicks are riot considered
good form at the University of Chi-
caau the incident may be regarded as
closed.
lags laid on Sunday in Cumberland
Ny. will hereafter be devoted to con-
verting the heathen. But tho heathen
is: foxy. He will doubtless meet the
emergency by doing his lieathening
'behind a net.- Chicago Journal.
Oscar St. Cyr has wade a new
.' orbi's record for swimming forty
anls in the tank of the Chicago Ath-
.etic assticia.lon covering the distance
it nvci:ty-orie seconds and there
ir.m't any slligator behind him
it hi r.
r.-of. Y.'ih y proposes to test the ef-
ets of coid storage food on the bu-
au -' yMem. It is to be hoped that he
try the Cold storage egg himself
U: at he may fpeak from personal
xiii.ricr.ee Ii.stead of merely observing
u effect on some hired man.
THE LATE BISHOP MERRILL A
VETERAN OF METHODIST CHURCH
News of tho deal h of Bishop Stephen
M. Merrill came as a shock to the
city where he ha! labored for tho last
t""enty-eight years says a Chicago dis
patch. Although he was 80 years old
and had retired from active duty his
health according to his friends was
as robust as usual when he left Chi-
cago with Bishop McDowell to attend
a genera! missionary conference In
New York.
lie presided at the sessions of Nov.
11 and showed no Indications of weak-
ness beyond the remark that he found
it "more difficult than usual to keep
track of parliamentary business." Nov.
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12 he preached at the Fleet street
church in Brooklyn at the request of
the Rev. E. G. Richardson the pastor.
At the close of the sermon which
he delivered with his usual clearness
and vigor he complained of a slight
asthmatic trouble. He was urged to
rest during the afternoon and went
out to Keyport to spend the rest of
the day at the residence of Mrs. Jose-
phine A. Brown an old family friend.
In the evening he was taken uddeuly
ill and died at 11:10 o'clock despite
the efforts of three physicians.
Sketch of Bishop Merrill..
Stephen Mason Merrill was horn
Sept. 16 1825 at Mount Pleasant Jef-
ferson county Ohio. His father who
was a son of a New Hampshire minute
man of the revolution was a shoe-
maker and' taught his son t'e same
trade. The family moved to Green-
field Ohio where young Merrill joined
the Methodist church in 1842 and was
licensed to preach in 1845 before he
"was 20 years old.
His educational advantages were
slenderi considering his subsequent
success. Besides the studying he did
while at work as a shoemaker ho had
only a few years at tho public schools
and a year 'at the South Salem acad-
emy and the special training of a
scholar and teacher. Rev. Dr. James G.
Blair. But being possessed of fine In-
tellectual abilities he applied himself
so assiduously that before his death he
was considered not only a well-read
man and a fine' theologian but a fair
Latin. Greek and Hebrew scholar.
He was admitted to the Ohio confer-
ence in 1810 the year made memorable
by the secession of the Methodist
church south from tho general con-
ference. His first appointments were
to the Monroe Wilmington Roseville
Worthington Marysville Groveport
and Pickering circuits and he was af
tervvard pastor ' successively of
churches at Granville Zanesvillo and
Portsmouth. Ohio.
In 1859 he was transferred to the
Kentucky conference and was first pre
siding elder of the MaysviHe district
and then pastor of a chnrch in Cov-
ington. In 1863 he was transferred
CHINESE FRUIT FOR AMERICA.
Consul Thinks toe Pomelo Would Do
Well in This Country.
Consul Anderson of Hangchow
thinks the pomelo or Chinese bread-
fruit would do well in this country.
The fruit is grown in the United
States by a few persons but not com-
mercially. Foreigners agree that the
pomelo is the finest fruit in the far
east. It combines the good points of i
the orange with the good points of
tho grape fruit.
The Chinese 'say that a good-sized
tree wiil ordinarily produce from COO
to 7C0 pomeloes. When It is consid
ered that many pomeloes will run as
large as seven or eight inches in
diameter and even larger it will he
appreciated that such a tree is bear-
ing a load. The fruit is more oval
than round. Its color and appearance
are those of the grape fruit.
To Staunch Wounds.
For wounds of all kinds there Is
rolhing better than peroxide of hydro-
gen save where the bleeding is pro-
fuse. Sometimes a bandage kept wet
in witch hnzel will prevent further
trouble there.
Sedan Chairs Not for Taft.
The appearance of Secretary Taft In
Hong Kong in search of a chair struck
terror into the hearts of the chair
coolies. Mr. Taft is a heavy weight in
the strictest sense of the term and the
sedan chairs are not built fur such
bulky men. It is said that his first
day he succeeded in breaking the poles
of three or four chairs' and thus hav-
ing become known to a majority of
the chair bearer? they endeavored to
escape when the secretary showed a
disposition to go anywhere toward the
hither levels.
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back to the Ohio conference and after
being pastor first at Royallon and then
at C'ircieville was appointed presiding
elder of the Marietta district two suc-
cessive terms.
In ISfiS Elder Merrill was a delegate
to the general conference which met
in the First Methodist chnrch in Chi-
cago and it was there that he first
achieved distinction. That was the
general conference which first voted
for the admission of lay delegates and
a famous debate over the measure
raged for ceveral days. When the
speeches had been limited to ten min-
utes Elder Merrill made a speech in
favor of the change of such power that
the body removed the limit and begged
him to speak as long as he pleased.
The result was that not only was lay
representation adopted but Elder Mer-
rill was elected editor of the Western
Christian Advocate.
When the next general conference
met in Brooklyn in 1872 it elected
eight new bishops and Elder Morrill
was one of them Tho other sven
vi re Bishops Bowman. Harris. Foster
Wiley Andrews Haven and Peck. Of
these Bishops Harris Wiley Haven
Peck and Merrill are dead and Bish-
ops Bowman and Foster are superan-
nuated leaving only Bishop Andrews
In active service. Seniority among the
Methodist bishops is determined first
by the date of elect! m and then by
the number of votes received and Bish-
op Merrill was for many years the
senior bishop of the church a distinc-
tion which now belongs to Bishop An-
drews. The Methodist bishops have no geo-
graphical jurisdiction each ' of them
being a bishop of the whole church
but each of them is assigned a place
of residence by ths board of bishops
and the residence assigned Bishop
Merrill was St. Paul Minn. In 1877
however his residence wa.i changed to
Chicago and remained there until his
death.
Bishop Merrill had been for many
years the most venerated bishop of
the Methodist church. He was greatly
admired as a preacher though his
sermons were rather deep and strong
than elor-ent. But his chief reputa-
tion was ut'-'ed on his comprehension
and exposition of Methodist doctrine
and Methodist law. In these fields he
was regarded as without a peer and
was tometimes called the John Mar-
shall of the church. He was regarded
as a man of dncere piety a tender
heart and an affectionate disposition
and was fairly idolized by the local
Methodists.
Mav 24 1897 the twenty-fifth anni-
versary of Bishop Merrill's consecra-
tion was celebrated in an elaborate
manner by the Methodist preachers'
meeting and the Methodist Social
Union of Chicago. The exorcises
lasted all day closing with a banquet
In the evening and the proceedings
were published in book form.
Bishop Merrill was married in 1848
to Miss Anna Bollmjre of Greenfield
Ohio who survives him together with
their only children two sons botli re-
siding in Chicago.
In the prosecution of his episcopal
work he was a great traveler. He
not only traversed this country fre-
quently but in 1887 visited Mexico in
1880 made the tour of Europe India
Palestine and Egypt and in 1883 made
the tour of Japan and China.
An Industrious writer he published
the following books: In 1870. "Chris-
tian Baptism"; in 1878 "The New Tes-
tament Idea of Hell"; in 1879 "The
Second Coming of Christ"; in 1882
"Doctrmal Aspects of Christian Ex-
perience"; in 18S5 "A Digest of Meth-
odist Law"; In 188G "Outline Thoughts
on Prohibition"; in 1892 "The Or-
ganic Union of American Methodism";
In 1895 "Mary of Nazareth and Her
Family" and in 1896 "The Crisi3 of
This World."
COMPANY'S TOBACCO IN DANGER.
Self-interest Prompted British Soldier
to Brave Deed.
During the South African war one
of the privates in a British infantry
regiment performed a very gallant
deed. He dashed forward from the
trenches across the veldt which was
being swept by a hail of bullets lifted
a wounded comrade in his arms and
carried him safely into shelter. The
colonel who witnessed the action be-
fore the day was over called the pri-
vate before him. araised him for his
heroism and told him he would be
recommended for the Victoria cross.
Later on the soldier was relating the
incident to his comrades. "He said
something about the Victoria cross. I
didn't think anything about crosses.
What I know is that I wasn't going to
leave Robinson lying out there with
all the comjany's 'baccy In his haven-
sack." expect New Einglish Cardinal.
It is considered probable that Most
Rev. Francis Bourne archbishop of
Westminster will be chosen as the
fifth cardinal to be appointed at the
next consistory In I'.ome.
Origin of the "Reticule."
That openwork hag for shopping
called a reticule gets its name direct-
ly from tho Latin "reticulum" "Utile
net." .Popularly however the word Is
supposed to owe its existence to the
fact that when an Englishwoman vis-
ited the first Paris exhibition with her
liitlfl bag in her hand the Parisians
cried "Ridicule!" The English wom-
an misunderstanding the exclamation
il said to have thought it the correct
translation of "little bag" and re-
turned t England calling It a "reticule."
MONEY SPENT ON WHITE HOUSE.
Large Appropriations Made for lt
Maintenance.
The white house up to date fcas
cost about J30imi 0 of which nearly
one-third has been paid for furniture
and interior decoration. Originally
the state of Virginia gave $13oooo to
build it Maryland adding $72000
To maintain the white house costs
from $25.00(1 to $00(00 a year the ap-
propriation for this purpose varying
considerably. But. every now and
then there is something extra to be
paid for and congress is called upon
to give the extra $30000 or $50000.
The biggest pull of this kind ever
made was for $550000 which wae
spent a couple of years ago in a par-
tial reconstruction of the interior and
In tho addition of wing-like terraceu
and an office building.
Every'now and then a new set of
china has to he provided and usually
that costs about $25000 rather a big
sum from the everyday housewife's
point of view. Repairs run up to a
large amount annually white paint
'jeing an important item.
All Annoyed With the God.
Momus in Greek fable was the god
of mockery and censure who delight-
ed in finding fault with gods and men.
He was chosen to act as judge when
there was a strife between Neptune
Minerva and Vulcan for supremacy
in artistic power.
Neptune made a bull Minerva a
house and Vulcan a man. Momus de-
clared that Neptune should have set
his bull's horns further forward for
fighting purposes. He said that Min-
erva should have so constructed her
nouse that it could be moved away
from troublesome neighbors and that
Vulcan should have made a window
in the man's breast through which his
thoughts could be seen.
Ail were so annoyed at his criti-
cisms that they turned him out of
heaven and soon after this he died of
vexation because he could find no
fault In Venus the goddess o love
nd beauty. Stray Stories.
His Own Translator.
At one of the hotels there is a negro
boy who runs an elevator in the.day
time and studies English literature at
night. A few days ago he was given
his envelope with a small fine deduct-
ed for some breach of the regulations.
Quite indignant he went to the cashier
and began:
"Mr. Gardner if you should ever
find If. within the scope of your juris-
diction to levy an assessment on mf
wage for some trivial act alleged to
have been committed by myself I
would suggest that you ref-ain from
exercising that prerogative. The fail
ure to do so wu'tld of necessity force
me to tender my resignation."
The cashier tottering reached for
his chair but managed to ask what
was meant.
"In othah words if you fine me ag'in
ah'm goin' to quit." Kansas City
rimes.
Only Half Right.
Frederick Starr professor of anthro
pology of the University of Chicago
was about to set off on his two years'
visit to Africa.
"You are going over there to study
the pigmies aren't you?" said a New
York reporter.
"That guess Is only partially cor
rect Professor Starr answered "for
I am going to study other things too.
He smiled and went on:
"You remind me of a man who
called at a house which the s'ork had
just visited.
'"Is it. a boy or a girl?' said this
man.
"'Guess' said the father.
" 'A boy' the visitor hazarded.
" 'You are only half right' the father
answered with a sigh."
Old Story Revived.
A Kansas boy sat on a fence in-
closing a cornfield. A city chap pass-
ing by remarked: "Your corn looks
kind of yeller bub."
"Yes sir; that's the kind we plant
ed answered the lad.
"It don't look like you'd have
more than half a crop" said the city
chap.
"Nope We don't expect to the
landlord gets the other half."
The stranger hesitated a moment
and quietly ventured: "There Isn't
much difference between you and a
fool boy."
"Nope only a little strip of weeds"
said the farmer boy; and the city map
drove on. Kansas City Journal.
How "Jake" Mudgett Explained It.
Tho story is told that "Jake" Mud-
gett a veteran conductor on the Sa-
lem branch of the Boston & Maine
railroad being sent for by tho super-
intendent went in fear and trembling
to that official's office and was con-
fronted by the following question:
"How is It Mr. Mudgett that about
the same number of people ride on
your trains every day?"
"Jake" replied: "Well yon see
sir there are &n many people who
prefer to ride with me that when
they can't come themselves they send
substitutes."
The Old Excuse.
The Sparrow had Just shot Cock
Robin.
"Mistook him for a deer whilo out
hunting" he explained.
This was really tho origin of the
time-honored custom.
An Illustration.
"Papa what's a tip?"
"If you don't stop bothering me I'm
(folng to rpank you"
"But what's a tip?"
"That's one." Houston Tost.
T
.?T Save from Sea's Perils J
United States Active in Safeguarding
Welfare of the World's Mariners ' '
(Special Correspondence.)
It is impossible to say when in the
ago of man guiding lights to prevent
aiariners from shipwreck first came
into use. It. is claimed that Virgil
had knowledge of lighthouses and
Uiat according to him one was
.ilacid on a tower of the temple of
Apollo. Homer refers to lighthouses
md the Colossus of Rhodes erected
300 B. C undoubtedly bore in his up-
lifted hand a signal light. But the fa-
mous Pharos of Alexandria built
about 285 B. C is the first light of
undoubted record. The lighthouse at
Corunna Spain is the oldest existing
one in the world. It was built In the
"olgn of Trajan.
The lighthouse system of this coun-
try began with Its commerce. The
list !hthouse on this continent was
built at the entrance to Boston har-
bor on Little Brewster island in 1715.
Of the 6.000 lighthouses in the
world 1423 lighthouses and 40 light-
ships are in the United States. These
ire in charge of 1525 lighthouse keep-
ers assisted by 2879 laborers and
srews.
The shape size height and material
employed in the construction of light-
houses depend largely upon the loca-
tion character of the soil and the
amount of money appropriated for
(heir erection. Prior to 1840 there
were only two forms of lighthouses-
conical towers of rubble stone ma-
sonry and wooden frame towers
erected upon the roofs of the keepers'
dwellings. The lighthouses of to-day
are stately sentinel-like structures
and varied In form models of archi-
tectural beauty affording Ideal health-
ful abodes "far from the madding
crowd" to those In charge of them.
Varied Systems Used.
The systems and modes of construc-
tion used In building the lighthouses
on our coasts and lakes are the iron
pile system of which old Minors
Ledge lighthouse was an example
and the Mitchell screw-pile system
used principally in southern waters
built on coral reefs of which Thim-
ble Shoal lighthouse is a fair speci-
men.. The use of iron plates for build-
ing lighthouses on dry foundations
met with little favor in this country
at first; but in later years when the
excellence of iron as a material for
building purposes became known It
came into larger use. Iron skeleton
towers are used on land where the
soil affords an inadequate support for
First-Class Light-Vessel
a masonry foundation and when great
cheapness Is required. An interesting
specimen of these iron skeleton struc-
tures is the lighthouse on Paris island
South Carolina. It is the most econo-
mical structure of Its kind. The light
itself is simply a locomotive headlight
in the form of a powerful parabolic
reflector. The structure rests on six
circular iron disks anchored to a con-
crete foundation. The light Is housed
by day and hoisted at night to Its
place by machinery.
St. Augustine lighthouse Florida
is a conical brick tower 150 feet high
3 f-vU-'--i L"lJJ-
F"ir;t Crdcr Lighthouse at St. Augus
tine F.'a.
n;id-visible to the mariner for a long
'ance. As It n:ight be mistaken by
i!o for any of th other high brick
:;.r;. tVo idiaft Is colored with
:!;! and vhlle piral bands giving
I the abearance of a barber's pole
.r has ii l.'j.e white light varied hj
-. u:u ti.i .h every three minutes.
i'eiiflelii R.'ef lighthouse stands on
a n i f abon' two miles from land in
I or:g Island sound off Bridgeport har-
i .r. Connecticut. Its flashing red
'-1 :
light ran lie seen from a distance of
14 miles.
.Many Iron lighthouses have brick
or alone towers. The modern light-
house Illuminates by means of a pow-
erful electrical or argand-burner lamp
usually reinforced by some optical ap-
paratus like the Fresnel lens. Tho
light produced may be steady revolv-
ing or Intermittent the differences be-
ing produced by machinery lenses
reflectors etc. and enabling the ma-
riner to distinguish Individual lights
and thus identify the part of the coast
he is near.
Lights Seen Afar.
The distance from which the prin-
cipal lights can be seen is only 11m-
Thimble Lighthouse Hampton Roads
Virginia.
ited by the horizon. They might be
seen sixty eighty or even 100 miles
if sufficient elevation could be gained
from which to view them.
Inst lad of lighthouses ships are
sometimes used. These are employed
where a lighthouse Is necessary but
where it has not been erected because
of the great difhculty or expense of
such a structure. The lightship
should have the permanency of a
lighthouse and to insure it is a mat-
ter of great difficulty.
There are forty six lighthouses of
various sizes on duty In the service
of which the best known Is the one at
Sandy Hook.
Several lightships are provided with
fog signals which are in effect loco-
With Steam Fog Signal.
motive s'ea
and power.
whistles of great size
Each lightship shows either one or
two lights each light being composed
of eight reflectors. A fairly typical ex-
ample of this class is the lightship at
Pollock Rip on Nantucket sound
Mass. This vessel is 120 feet long
and is of 410 tons burden. She is
schooner-rigged with a lighting ap-
paratus upon each mast supplied with
eight burners and reflectors. It has
been found so difTieult. to keep this
vessel from dragciug her anchors
that she Is now fitted with as heavy
moorings as she would have if she
were a battleship. In spite of her brll-
liant lights and her powerful fog sig
nals she lias been repeatedly run in-
to by passing vessels and damaged
as for that matter have also most
of the other lightships In the service.
Famous Fastnct Lighthouse.
The most famous lighthouse of tho
world Is that of Fastnct. It stands
on a rugger! and Kolllary rock nine
miles south of Crookhaven at the ex-
treme southwest corner of Ireland. It
gives the first and last greeting to the
transatlantic steamers as they pass to
and from the Old World to the New.
The rock Is eighty feet In height and
the lighthouse (overs another twenty
feef. above yei; in winter Kales the
Atiiintlc billows literally bombard the
massive structure and have even
smashed In a portion of the lantern
at the summit of the erection the
seas frequently sweeping over the rock
wllh troinendons force. Some two or
three years auo the stormy weather
then prevailing prevented all corn
municatlon with the rock for many
weeks so that the store of food was
consumed wllh (he exception of seine
flour. At last a schooner managed
to approach suflirlefitly near to crab:-
a small quantity of food to be drained
through the sea to the hungry ni"n;
nH fortunately the next day the
storm moderated and the etorcs were
once more replenished. Except In
very calm vea'her the Fasttwl is sur-
rounded by fringe of foam and the
only means of lauding Is by ni l
of a "Jib" fifty-eli ht feet In hng'h.
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