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"V TEXT Sunday ia the centennial
: IV I anniversary of the birth of Wil
X Ham Lloyd Garrison, temperance
advocate and emancipator In the
alavery atruggle; ad churchee and so
cieties In all part of the land will do
.. .honor to on of the greatest ' name
claims, Garrison Is known
everywhere a the treat anti-slavery
agitator, the editor of the Liberator, the
man .who wa quartered in- a Boston
prison' to protect him from the violence
i of a "respectable mob"; but not so com
monly is be known as a exeat temwr.
" ncs worker as well, who chose for the
mono - or his early paper. "Moderate
"""'n is ine Dowu-HIII Road to-
drunkenness." That. too. when the total
; abstinence cause was far more unpopular
nan u now is and, when hatred and
contumely were Hkrlyto accompany Us
espousal. At the earty aire of ZS Garri
son hadV taken up this fight Oarrlaon
In this work, which led to bis greater
crusade, ia the Garrison that the TV. C.
T. V. will honor on, the tenth of this
t month. h .;
William Lloyd Garrison was born In
Kewburyport, Massachusetu. December
JO. 1806. The surroundings of his' youth
' and his Inheritances from his parents
. were such as to nurture his hatred of
Injustice and bis championship of the
oppressed. Hla father waa a sea captain
' of treat bravery and skill and hla mother
' was of the sect of persecuted Baptists.
Hearing by chance, while yet a young
girl, a traveling preacher of that sect.
- which wasthen considered vulgar and
, was much despised, his mother was con-;-.verted
and became one of them, thereby
-losing a home with her Episcopalian
parents, who felt she had disgraced them.
11 was at one of the revival meetings
'. " that Abljah Garrison,' a handsome young
V sea captain, saw her and was Impressed
1 with her beauty. She waa dressed neatly
. In a blue habit and Garrison, wlthHie
". uudaclty of a sailor, followed her to Ine
door and asked to accompany her borne,
addressing her as "Miss Blue Jacket."
-" lie met with a rebuff, but when be fol,
- lowed up thla Incident with a letter the
lint day hla earnestness received some
reward. The romance resulted In their
marriage. The young man waa known
, as a fluent and pleasing letter-writer,
' and probably his son Inherited from thla
. aource much of hla ready flow of words
and easy expression, which bad received
; no training In school.
.Worked UpJThrough Ranks. .
X. Like many another leader, William
Lloyd Garrison had to work up through
the ranks. When he waa but -t years
old hia father suddenly deserted 'the
family, going' to another country and
never returning or communicating with
them. ' Hla affection for bis family had
"been indisputably strong and the. cause
of hla disappearance remained a mys
tery. It was supposed that he felt
-deeply they disgrace, of the liquor habit,
which was-gToaJng upon him and which
waa ao detestable to hla wife that he
to1 leave before nil sense or Honor
'.was lost.' Lloyd's mother first appren-
tired Mm to a shoemaker, but the work
,'wn eo distasteful to him that he spent
- moat of his time thinking; big thoughts
-and explaining Justice and injustices to
himself. He soon left ahoemaking and
the 'art 'of fpHntlng arTdnltu Tst""M t
had found what pleased him. In the
printing office he supplied the eduoa-
Hon which his mother had been unable
to give him. He learned to " spell.
learned the use of words, and finally
felt the power and- conviction of wrlt-
; ten words and ao choae his-own path
of life. The paper on which he worked
contained many anonymous articles
- from his pen. and even at that time he
jiad firm and fixed ideaa on the politi
cal and ethical questions of the day.
- His flrat contribution, however, waa
not on a-.politlcal subject. In' May. 1832.
he wrote over the signature "An Old
' Bachelor" an article entitled "Breach of
the Marriage Yromlse," which profeaaed
to be the . reflections of a bachelor on
reading the recent verdict in a breach
or promise case in Boston ny wnicn a
--- young - man- who had ."kept company
with" a girl for two years and then
" refused to marry her was fined 1750.
Garrison held that while a promise
should not-be .broken the -mere fact
that a man had "kept company with"
or paid attentions to one- of the oppo
" alte sexfor a year or two was not con
. elusive evidence of promise or en-
; gsgement, but rather indicated that he
' wlsned to be assured of the wladom of
hla choice before taking the momentous
.step. The "old bachelor" -of IS con
' eluded the article with aome cynical re-
marks on the vanity of women.
Signed Articles A. O. B .
'. Other articles followed and were ac
cepted by the editor, who did not sus
pect the authorship, and they were
. signed with the abbreviation of hla
newly-assumed title, "A. O. -B." For
a year hla. eontrlbutlona continued thua
secretly and tha editor waa aq pleased
with them that he wrote through , the
' postoffice, requesting a meeting. -
' The apprenticeship waa ended when
Lloyd waa 10 years old and shortly
- afterward be-' started the publication of
hla bwn paper, The Free Preas." In his
native town of Newburyport. But the
' field wss too small or the tone too high
- and the publication did not meet with
,,the aurceae the young enthuslaat had
- : hoped for. ao he tranaferred hla activi
ties to Boston, where he published "The
National Philanthropist". the first pa
., per aver established to. teach the evils
of Intemperance and the new gospel of
GERMANY'S SOUTH AFBICAN"WAR
j m U K
I ONSIDERINO" that a long" and
bloody war or.no smaii magni
tude has been raging for nearly
w-m in Herman South Af-
- rlea. It Is remarkable how little public
attention It has received. Perhaps the
term 'Hottentots" ss used for the rebels
tends to mislead the public, and t sug
gest mere naked savages like the Mata
Ceie and the Masai, who oppose numbers,
blind courage and -primitive warfare
- against disciplined troop and modern
weapone. The rebellion In German Na-
maqualand haa. In fact, frequently been
' "lumped In" with rlslnga in fff't Africa
.and elsewhere, giving a: wholly false
Impression. '
, . Tha so-called "Hottentots.w,ho hav
so long and so bravely resisted the
might of Oermany are akin t the Cape
Boys that Js to say, a mixture of all
racea, but with- Hottentot predominate
Ing. Many, have a large proportion of
white blood and some-would pass, at a
glance for Italians and Spaniards. Their
" langung la Dutch, they sre Christians
. by religion, and their dress and cus
toms are on the Boer model. Many of
them ran read and write, and their
standard of morality Is comparatively
total abstinence. He waa only tl yeara
old. At that time it waa the custom to
serve wine, at all the beat houses, so
there was an uphill and unpopular road
before him. It waa In thla paper that
he published hla radical motto "Mod
erate Drinking Ia the Downhill Road to
Drunkenness." All his editorials In both
these papera were set up by Oarrlaon
himself, without being first written la
manusorlpt. and the ability to think with
clearness and precision which he thua
acquired stood him in good stead in
later years. , - .
The political situation at thla time
(1S28) seemed to young Mr. Garrison
to demand the election of John Qulncy
Adams as president, and with the ardor
characteristic of him, ha bent all hla
energlea to that purpose. Going to Ben
nlngton. ' Vermont, he started a cam
paign paper supporting Adams, but did
not neglect hla total abstinence evan
gelising. : .
-And now a new idea entered his large
heart and brain -no less a on than the
emancipation of .slaves. He straight
way championed It with all the strength
of conviction, and this was tha begin
ning of the anti-slavery sentiment in
the preas. 1 In the Journal of tha Times
he brought out hla vlewa of tha ques
tion and from the first advocated dis
union -as tha only remedy.
Partnership With Lundyi ; ' " ;
' The only -other organ publishing aim
liar aentlmenta waa Genius of Univer
se Emancipation, published In Baltimore
by Benjamin Lundy. : It. . however, ad
vocated a more conservative , policy,
condemning the practice of holding
slaves, but - looking -'to their gradual
emancipation. Of course, the two men
came together In the course of time
and a partnership was formed.' Garri
son assumed the editorship and gave
the paper a radical and aggressive pol
icy. He demanded immediate emanci
pation and would accept no compromise.
For aome time Garrison and Lundy eon
tlnued the paper." presenting articles
from both signed with their own names.
The new policy, with the forceful -ar
guments of Garrison, Vita unqualified
demands and plain statements, alarmed
tha southern neighborhood and .Oarrl
aon began to be feared as a dangeroua
enemy. The mild converts to Lundy's
teachings became scared at Garrison's
decisive measures . and deserted the
paper. They - feared hla methods had
been too extreme, but that he waa right
was amply proven, for within a year
abolition waa being discussed all over
the country aa a live Issue.
The audacloua man had to be stopped.
and he waa approached through a libel
auit Instituted by a slave trader whom
he denounced. As a result ha waa put
Into prlaon for Inability to pay hla fine,
and hla half-hearted adherents aban
doned htm.
During his Imprisonment Garrison
wrote a good deal of poetry, arid it waa
at thla period that he- made the . ac
quaintance of and started ' the subse
quent warm friendship with John G.
Whlttler. H waa finally released by
a payment of the fine by -Arthur Tappan,
who had. followed with Irrterewt -the work
of Garrison.
After the releaaa he traveled through
the northern "cities lecturing, but was
coldly received, except by tha Quakers,
who were alwaya flrat to champion tha
slave. He finally returned to -the pub
lishing field and started hla famous
aim. In Buntuiu IDf'
forts were made constantly to suppress
It. for this organ waa detrimental to
the commercial Interests of the south.
Vigorous, Fight Begins.'
From, this time the' story of Garrison's
life Is the story of the anti-slavery
struggle. He is Identified closely with
every step In the fight. .He was the
founder of the New England ' Anti-
Slavery aoclety, which waa unsuccessful
and very abort-lived, and attempted to
establish a college fdr negroes In New
Haven.
In I83S, Just before sailing for' Eng
land to secure the cooperation of Eng
lish abolitionists, he met Helen Benson
In Providence. Rhode Island,--The name
of ...William Lloyd - Garrison long bad
been a household word In the home of
her father, who waa president of the
New England Anti-Slavery aoclety, and
waa an advocate of abolition, but held
hla vlewa unasaumlngly and quietly,
though ready to speak and fight for tha
great cauae whenever there eras need.
Hla daughter had formed a grand con
ception of the man who was leading
the fight of tha nation, and evidently
tha reality waa not disappointing to her.
They met 'again the next day at her
brother's store and he was deeply Im
pressed by her "sweet countenance and
pleasant conversation," and she. -who
had "found him to surpass even her
imagination of him," stood "riveted to
the spot." bidding him .farewell with
sadnesa, feeling that aha might never
see him again. Both remained in each
other's thoughts, and -when be returned
from England his first visit was to her
father's home, and before long 'ha had
won her for Ma bride. - . '
Mrs. Garrison .la apoken of with love
end admiration by all who met her. She
was. ' as"- a girl, a plump, rosy creature,
with blue eyes and fair brown hair, and
she was called by her friends "Peace
and , Plenty." not more In allusion to
her tmlformly placid disposition than to
her easily aroused and. Irrepreealble
mlrthfulnesa. Bhe waa simple in her
tastes, a famous patron of cold water,
and the wedding. September 4. 1834. was
marked by Ita simplicity. All the ap
pointments were plain and Unostenta
tious. Wine of course was abaent from
the feast and even cake was not pro
vided, for both felt tha Importance of
high. In fact, life, property and the
honor of women are safer among these
people, practically free' from controS tie
they are, than In too many well policed
areas in Europe. ' ' . "
( Though the Hereros and the Bushmen
have been guilty of soma, excesses, the
"Hottentots" have conducted their war
In a manner deserving of all praise. A
typical Instance la that of old Christian,
who found his men looting a farm. Al
though short of provisions himself,- lie
ordored the bulk of the property to b
restored, naively saying, "How shall
theae poor people live if we take their
food awayf a consideration that haa
given but little concern to many re
nowned, white military ' leadera. Only
on occasions of extreme provocation
have the warriors got out of hand, when,
like the British, troops In. the Indian
mutiny and the Japanese In the China
war,1hey were stimulated to-vengeance
by the apectacls of murdered fellow
pptintrrmen.. v '
In strong contrast to the Hottentots'
methods of warfare have been those of
Germany. From the first the Germans
appear to have sought te rrtre by terror
alone.. When they Ylrst annexed the
country a tribe that has adopted the ttUe
William Lloyd Garrison, Whose Centenary Will B Celebrated Next Sunday.
their axsmple to the. colored population
whose Interest n ate rally was keen.
Attacked In Boston. ;
n Til- ratnwi from Enrland he oraran-
lsed the NatioTT XITtT-STa (eTfTI3c1T
and this time the organisation grew snd
became strong. In 183& the pro-slavery
mobs began to commit depredations and
in the same year the southern press be
came aggressive In lta opposition and
threatening. The Uvea of abolitionists
were In danger and Garrison waa-attacked
In Boston and wan confined In
prlaon over night to ave him from the
violence of a respectable mob." This
event and many similar ones had the
effect of making frtenda for the abo
litionists, t - .
"Garrison, besides being celebrated to
day as a hero by temperance organisa
tions, might well be glorified by the
equal suffrage associations. He was
one of ita earliest, champions. About
thla time a division was caosed in tha
American Anti-Slavery aoclety by the
appointment of a woman on , the busi
ness committee. The - press took ad
vantage of the disturbance to heap more
contumely on the head of Garrison, but
the worst effect on htm personally was
tha alienation from men with whom he
had worked in harmony for yeara.
Arthur Tappan, who had been hla meana
of release frorir the Baltimore .prlaon.
waa ona who now deserted, but Oarrl
aon stood firm for the , privilege of
Women. One of his fellows In the light
was Wendell Phillips, who has delivered
strong orations on the subject. In 1840
Garrison was appointed one of America's
delegates to the -World's Antl-8uffrage
convention In London, but finding on
bis arrival that America s women dele
gates had been excluded, be refused to
enter It and sat' in the gallery1 as a
spectator. '. .. ; '
Lost Caste With Clergy. ',..;
Garrison next found himself In dis
favor with the clergy with whom he
never was particularly popular because
of his fearless denunciations of the In
consistency between their preaching and
their countenancing of slavery. .Now,
however, he waa accused of athelam be
cause he refused to Identify himself
with any one sect to the exclusion of all
Others. He expressed liberal V views
about the holiness of the Sabbath and
proclaimed the abaurdlty of breaking all
the other commandments of love and
kindness to make one keep the fourth,
and of professing to be' a good Chris
tian when all one'a life one had been
of . "Africanders" roe ... agatnat them.
Germany had practically no other right
to tha greater pari of tha oountry than
that of conquest, and 'the Inhabitants
najturally wlahed to sea th claim .mad
good. Tha Africander warriors were in
due time defeated and driven across the
border of Cape Colony, where they sur
rendered to a handful of Cape police
Captors and captives believed that the
latter would be treated aa. prisoners of
war, so the unfortunate Africanders
were handed back to the Germans only
to bo lined up." helpless, disarmed, and
submissive, and ruthlessly slaughtered
in cold blood : ...
In the present i campaign there has
been no lack of almllar barbarities. In
deed, If th Hottentots themselves are
to be believed (and their stories are fre
quently backed by white testimony)', the
German methods of warfare fall but lit
tle. If any, abort of those of th Span
lards In Cuba and th Phlllpptnear tha
chief difference being that there la no
Unci Sam at hand .to- whose Interest It
la to ventilate the grievances of the
Hottentots, and no wealth In the coun
try to Invite the assistance of filibus
ters or to make Intervention on tha part
of other powers seem profitable and de
sirable. .
The emperor la credited wftn having
ordered General yen Trotha to "hang all.
breaking up the marriage vows of the
black race. . , , ;-',. .;.
In 1144 Garrison began to attack the
constitution of the United matee and
caused consternation by-burning it pub-
i, -'ni
traffic. When seoenslon came he real-
laed that the disunion which
he had
been advocating was not sufficient to
cure the evil and that this would effect
a change only In on part of.the country
because the dissevered atatea , would
continue as before. Then he realised
that by war only could the matter be
aetUed and he atralghtway began to
prepare the publlo mind for 'this step.
Soon the north was ready for the
emergency. He urged ' the people on
constantly though he could not fight
himself. His son, however, . carried out
hla father's principles and volunteered
as an officer, for .one of the colored
companies.
It ia a significant fact that when the
waa was over Garrison insisted that
there was no more to fight about. He
withdrew hia paper Liberator from pub
lication and refused to remain a member
of any anti-slavery socletlea. Ha wlahed
then to enjoy the - domestic life for
which he waa ' primarily Intended but
which circumstances had kept him front
enjoying. He lived In Boston till 1844,
then removed to a more retired Ufa. at
Roxbury, Massachusetts. .'.,:.
Had Seven Children. ; 1 .
He had seven children, 'five of whom
grew to maturity.. The eldeat waa named
George Thompson- In honor of. the great
English emancipator who came over to
lend hla aid and. waa mobbed with Mr.
Garrison while' trying to lecture, in aa
unpopular cause. ' .. . - ' .
In 18(7 Mr. Garrison went to Paris
for his health and to visit his two
children there. He received marked at
tentions from noted assemblies - and
everywhere, people paid him honor, aa
one of the groat men of the day. At
St, Jamea hall in London ho was given
a banquet at which all the most distin
guished men pf London were present.
-me description . or nta personal ap
pearance in youth aa given by Thomas
B. Laws on,, an artist companion' of tha
emancipator in Boaton, will be of inter-
Ills hair a rich dark brown, his for-.
head high and very, white, hfr cheeks
decidedly roseate, hla lips full.snsltlve
and ruddy, hla eyes Intent, wide open, of
a yellowUh baser, with fine teeth, rather
th rebels upon trees." ' Though th
scarcity of tres prevents th gallant
general from obeying the-aetter of his
monarch's human command, he endeav
ors to act up to th spirit fit, and
floggings and executions attend the
German lln of march. Nor art these
verities limited to native rebels. Last
year two Englishmen - named Fisher
were shot by the Germans on suspicion
of having furnished th rebels with sup
plies, snd other cases of maltreatment
of whltea have .been reported .
Of course, all tha authoritative Infor
mation concerning this "little war" ha
to paaa through German handa before It
reaches ths butslde world.. Official ac
counts are proverbially unreliable, since
even with th check of impartial war
correspondents and foreign attaches, the
staffs of contending armies ars apt" to
turn repulses Into defeats, 'claim vic
tories for drawn battles, -and draw
largely on their Imagination . for the
damage inflicted on th other, side..
From ' th constantly renewed vigor
and confidence ahown by tha Hottentots
It would appear that the German suc
cesses have by no meana been so com
plete as they appear in print,- while th
extent of their disasters has been un
derestimated. Even thin explanation,
however, does not fully account for tha
larger than the average, and. a complex
Ion mora fair, more silvery white than
I ever saw upon a man.
. He became bald early and was alwaya
smooth shaven. He waa singularly pre
-nrt Jw"l- and even after
It became rtho rasTO&hTTOTOTiailrif It
always With men of no reputation just
as the conventional stage villain is
bearded. He encouraged Independence
in his children, but almost rated tt a
moral delinquency that hla sons all es
chewed tha racor.
Fond of Children, :
- Mr.' Garrison, outside of hla publlo
life, was a gentle character, fond of
children and having" a great Influence
over them. Tie waa, too, fond of pets,
except dogs, which he hated, and he
thought almost as much of the cat a of
tha houaa aa of his own family.. When
abaent from home, his customary way
of dosing a letter was: "Remembrances
to Mary Attn (the ona maid servant).
My good will to the cat. Love to all the
friends." He was fond of art and mu
sic and reading. In art. to be aura, he
was led- in hla likes and dislikes more
by sentiment than by artlatlo discrimi
nation. " But he heard good muslo when
ever it waa possible, Reading he had to
give up largely after he reached man
hood for lack of time. i
Mr. Oarrlaon died May 14. 187. at tha
age of74 yeara, at Roxbury, Massachu
setts, surviving his wife three yeara
and with four children yet living. Ha
waa burled beside his wife in the cem
etery at Forest Hills.- Mrs. Lucy Stone
followed the body to the grave In recog
nition of hla services to women. A
poem written by John Greenleaf Whlt
tler. for. the occasion waa read at the
funeral . eervlces. and. Wendell Phillips
delivered one of his masterly addresses.
Tha flags of , the city and state were
at half mast on the day of tha funeral
and the governor In his otder respecting
Decoration day a few days later Invoked
special honor to "the great cltlsen whose
name will forever be . associated with
the cause and the triumph of the con
test." in various northern arid south
ern cities the colored population met in
memory of , the Illustrious champion.
Tho leading papers of the TJnlted State
and Great Britain contained Ions; editor
ials and biographical articles on the
founder of the anti-slavery movement.
Even the very publications which for
merly had caricatured and reviled him
joined in the general eulogy.'-'-- v.
stubborn resistance of th rebels. Th
native of South Africa soon tires of a
long war -when the terms of peace are
not too severe. But when surrender
means death or other heavy punishment
he will fight to the last like a rat at
bay.' Marengo tried to enter into nego
tiations with th Germans, as a result
of 'which he has determined to send
his women and children to British ter
ritory and with bis band of warriors
maintain the war to th last man. Th
terms of peace must have been harsh in
deed, to force, the Hottentot chief -to
such a decision. . ;,
Meanwhile the ayes of black South
Africa are turned in eager -anxiety to
ward' th. chnfl let. Man i i natives are
aware that the British, If not the Boers,
admit the military superiority of th
Germane, And, having short memories,
they forget In the, present discomfiture
of the- white men th almost oonatant
sueoesa of British- and Boer arms
against them in. the. paat.'. Even wher
England haa failed, as in the Baautoland
fiasco of 1880. tha Boers have prevailed,
and vice versa; so the prestige of the
whit man did not suffer.
But now the spectacl of a few bands
of Hottentots defying a vastly superior
army Is bound to ' have an unsettling
affect npon. th native mind,. - -
From the New York Sun.
HERB waan't anything child
ish or foolish about the
great giant," said the old
circus man. "He was a
man, like you and me. but he did have a
boy streak In him that stayed In him all
his life, same ss it does In all good men,
and kpt him young and fresh.
Now, I don t mind saying, about
myself, that I haven't forgotten the fun
I used to have flying kites. I don't
mean to say that I'd go to making kites
and flying 'em now In my o(d age, but
If I come across a lot of boys flying
kites I like to get hold of the string
of on for a mtnute and feel the tug of
It it brings back a touch of youth to
me; snd ths giant was Just like that. -
"One spring when we were waiting in
winter ouartara for tha weather to settle
a Uttlemore, before taking the road for
the summer, the giant saw some boys
out flying kites; he had a mild attack of
kite fever and he thought he'd build a
kite and fly It himself. '
Naturally the giant built a aits mat
was proportioned to his own else, just
ss you or I would do, or any boy. If we
were going to build a kite, and that
made the giant's kite about 11 feet
high, which. If youll : stop to tnin
about it a minute, is a good deal of a
kite, and one that any ordinary man
couldn't begin to hold at all. But it
waa all right for the giant..
He had for a kite atrlng a number
of goad atout new clothes lines tied to
gether and to end and for a tall no naa
a lot of oid horse blankets torn into
thick strips and knotted together, with
a long roll of old canvas that the old
man had lent blm sandwiched In to
lengthen It out and he had great fun
flying the big kite for on day and
then something happened
"There was standing at that time out
side of a two-story brick butldlng that
we had on the grounds there at our
winter quarters a building that we used
for storage, a weather-beaten stairway
that reached from the ground to the
aecond story. This location aaved tha
apace that the stairway would have
taken up inside tha building, and it was
just aa good, better, in fact, for the use
we put It to, outside; we couia naui
wagons right alongside of it outside
and tots ths stuff right up It, to the
second story. . -
"WelL on the . second morning mai
the slant had th big kit out, the wind
being aa it was, he was flying It from
around by 'that storehouse building and
on the stairway aide. And wanting to
amoke, and "finding that he waa out of
matches, he lust tied the kite atrlng
around the outer atdepiece of that stair
way going up the aide of tb Dunning
while h went and got some.. - And what
with tha tremendous pulling power f
th kite and the fact. I suppose, tost
soms of he spikes had rotted off or
worked looae in the mortar, the kite
pulled the old stairway away from the
building and started off with it.
"It brought up first, draggtng more
or less on ths ground, sgalnst the board
fence running around our property, ana
for a minute we thought that was arolng
n. hold It: but a guat or wina atruca
theblg kite juat at that minute, and
amaah ment three panels of the fence
Into kindling wood and apllnters and the
kite was off, dragging th , atairway
after it aeroaa the country, with the
whole clrcu now humping aner it,
with, the glant.ln the lad
He had tied the line abouFhalfway
Busy Lives of
t ft
HE sons of rich men ars rarely
idle whatever tha extent or
If-there is nothing hers thst
Interests them, they make a businesa of
aport. Foxhall keens Is an example of
cMasriil devotion to snort. In ons
farm or another it has Kept Dial nappur
employed all his Ufa. He nas maoe
himsaif shsmnlon in every field of
sport from billiards to cross country
riding. Hs made it a ruie 10 piace Him
self in-the first rank of players In svery
n.w snort that became popular. He
had been expert In racquets and later
took up golf. Hs conquered that with
ease.' All ths time ha conducted a rac
ing stable on ths side. . Mr. Keen never
waa In business, but nobody vsr heard
that he found little In life.
Riinni Hiarsina. who Is a large owner
In great carpet- induatrlea. haa not for
years taken any active share ia the
management of thla business, but hs
would never t consiaerea s. mu
found it difficult to occupy his time.
He spends most of his time on his yacht
with congenial frtenda f
m i never without the Interest tnai
an snthualaatlo yachtaman nnds In his
favorite sport. Mr. Hlgglns is supposed
to possess an Incoms of- mors than
8200,000 and has during recent years
spent most of. it abroad, as ha rarely
comes to this country. Mr. Hlgglns is,
like Mr.'Keene, enough of an all-round
sportsman to have other resources than
his trips on ths Varuna or bis four-ln-bands.
He Is a crack pigeon shot and
on. of the best fencers that th old
club, with its quarters in West Twenty
eighth street, ever knew. In the same
way Frederic Gebhard, who has never
been In business, haa found in a rac
ing stabla sufficient occupation w awp
alive his interest In existence.
At least -two of ths younger Zander
bilts find In horses" sufficient to occupy
much of their time. Alfred drives
four-ln-hand frequently In tha fall and
winter seasons in isew xora anu .
Newport in the summer. Reginsjo, wno
has not, liks Alfred, an offlc in the
Grand Central station, has. grown, so
much interested in his stables that M
roes even as far west as Kansas yy
exhibit in ths horss shows. He baa no
other occupation. ' . " -
.it,., aim travels abroad on ac
count of his health, would Ilka nothing
better than to remain here and derot
himself to his business ana mecnan
leal interesta. But he spends little time
i ,v.i. .nnntrf. His arfaWi. however,
are kept constantly under his eontroT
nr hla occupation in ine us ni u-
hess. Georg Vanderbllt has for years
devoted most of his tim to controlling
his vast estat at BUtmors. - With his
tenants .and overseers. . that has been
work enough for' any man, especially as
tha estate baa been tha scene of many
Important agricultural and sociological
experiments. . w
Other wealthy men wno na not nave
to work and sought other interests have
chosen different channels for ths' eon
sumption of their time and money. Two
of the Stokeses decided that their chlof
Interests lay in church and charitabl
work.
Everit Macr. ons of the richest men
in New York, has for the last II yeara
made a business of putting his money
Into the good works that seemed to him
moat worthy of it. .Mr. Macy not 'only
glvea his money to tha support of
worthy causes, but he devotes his time
to Investigating thetr needs and aim.
He determined to make philanthropy hi
business when a very young man. and
as soon as be cams Into his great for
tuns he carried out this ambition. . -
Evert J. Wendell haa never done any
business sines ha left college, Jint divides
his large . income between bjs rescue
work tor boys from th slum Snd hla
rro:
UT
up on the stairway, where It was handy
for htm to reach It, and so tha etulr
way waa now about evenly balanced
on th atrlng. Our next door neishbor
on that aide was. a farmer who had four
stack of hay In a field Just the other
side 6f that fence, and the atairway
Juat caught each of those' haystacks
right at the bass and picked up and
shook out and scattered the whole lot
of 'em, one after another- all over
creation. And at the next jump It made
it broke the -bayowner's- arm and tor
the roof off his woodshed. '
"It bounced along the field after tear
ing up the haystacka and happened to
be on an upward bounce when it struck
the woodshed and caught under tha
eaves. The farmer had coma out along
with everybody else when the kite
started, and he rushed up and grabbed
the stairs and tried to hold them, but
a puff of wind on' ths kite pinned his
arm between the stairs and the shed,
and the next Instant away went the
roof. leaving nothing Of it but sticks
and shingles, and away went tha stairs.
tearing up fields beyond and tearing
down fences on the way nntil it came
to a road, where - something really
extraordinary happened.
This road ran east and west and
there was coming along It at th time
a horse' and wagon, headed east. The
stairway bounded clean over the last
fence by thla road without touching
that, but, as It sailed over on end of It
It hit this wagon a smaahlng blow, and
turned the whole outfit horae. wagon
and all clean around la tha road, so
that the horse headed west, and tt
started, with the wreck of the wagon,
running away, in that direction. Just
contrary to ths way it had been headed
a minute before, while ths kite dragged
the stairs slong across the road and
through the fence on tha other aids and
on Into the next field.
"Not very far from th fence In this .
field there was a - .big ' moss-grown
boulder, too big to move, and which the
farmer had . never ; thought it worth
while to blast out, and not far beyond
this was the farmer's bouse and barns.
Moving fast and tearing things up gen
erally on the way, and with an extra
blast hitting the kite at Just that
minute, when the stairs hit this boulder
they slid up ths slds of it and high Into
the air and turned around' and came
down end first Ilk a great battering
ram and smashed half .. their . length
through the aide of this farmer's big
gest barn. - Tou never saw such destruc
tion anywhere.
"But that waa ths and of ft. . Coming
on the run we'd come up with the fly
ing atairway now, and th giant got
hla handa on the kits 11ns and hauled In
the kite and we got ths stairway out of
the hole in the barn and started home,
with"- ths giant ahead - carrying " th "
kits and soms of ths circus men carry
ing what there waa left of the stairs,
marching back across country along
the line that the stairs had plowed up.
"And ths old man paid all the bills
cheerfully. He was always willing and
more than willing to do anything he
could 1 to amuse th great giant, the
greatest circus attraction that over took
the road, to make him happy and keep
him comfortable.' But ths giant never
flew any kites after - that; ha didn't
want to. .: r-- . -..
"He'd juat had a little mild attack of
kits fever, that'a alt, and now it waa all
over.. He waa a freak in slae only. In
other ways he was Just like tharest
of us."
Rich Men's Sons
theatre collection, which la one of th
flneat In existence. But it la the reacue
work that oocuplea him chiefly. He ttn
a uuLiuiaij tu lisjlp Mm. ' ETSty flay '
from until 10 in ths morning he re
ceives at his office the. boys who come
there in search of help, -
This office is in the front basement of
his residence and hla . neighbors have
grown accustomed to the ragged band
that gathers there svery day. Mr.
Wendell thrlc a year makes a trip to
tha far western states, where many of
the youths that he has rescued fln.l
homes and develop Into useful- cltisens.
Mr. Wendell does this all at his own
expense and has never solicited aid from
anybody, whether financial or otherwise,
Thomas Pearsall Thorns lives in Paris
and devotes himself to musical composi
tion, although he has not produced any
of his works sine his "Leonardo" failed -here
several years ago and cost the com
poser more then such experiments
usually do because. Mr. Thorns had
engaged an expensive company and pro
duced hla opera In very elaborate fashion.
He still makes muslo ths work of hi
life, although he plays his compositions
chiefly. In his den drawing-room, tct
which . he Invites hla friends to heat
them. . , .. ,- '
Thomas Hughv Kelly, who Inherited a
large shore of ths Eugene Kelly fdrtune.
haa never been in bualneas but ha de
voted much of las tlms In recent years
to Irish national purposes. It was hs
who several years ago backed a series of
performances of Teats plays.
Lloyd Warren, a younger brother of
Whitney1 Warren, la an architect, but has
devoted much time lately to furthering .
in this country the interests of the Beaux .
Arts society. H. 8. Brooks, the oid Tale
sprinter, is, like Hn Tendell, very much
Interested In settlement work, and. hav
ing, no regular business, devote all -his
tim to It. . - , .
Mow So Brush she XCalx. -
Dr. George W. Spencer, writing In tha
American Physician on the care of th
hair and acalp, says:
"Boys and men think they have to
have their scalps and hair scrubbed
with soap and water and then dried by
violent' rubbing with a rough towel, or
submitted to a moat wonderfully bene
ficial preparation, - called a ehampoo,
which leaves the scalp In a tender and
congested condition favorable for In
fection . and sensitive atmoepheri
changes.
. "The eteanlng of the scalp should be
very carefully and tenderly performed,
using warm ..water with a mild soap,
rubbing in gently and with the ends of
ths fingers, then rinsing with tepid
water and drying by gently pressing the
hair and acalp with a very dry towel,
continuing until thoroughly dry; or,
atlll better, dry It by fanning. If any
application is necessary to bring tli
hair thus dried Into shape, dnmpen with
a bichloride of mercury solution 1-J.fi.
"Ordinarily thla thorough cleaning
need not be done oftener than once a
week and in th Interim the hair needs
only to he brushed with a aoft brush
without allowing-to brush to acralcli
the scalp. r
"The stlfT brush, and especially thst
most Injurious of all brushes, the mili
tary brush, which Is frequently .need f.jf
months severs! tunes dally until It l
comes filled with dirt, cun onlv be i,f
great Injury to ths acnlp. because of the
vigorous scratching, a well as brisk
ing the hair."
'"' v Aa! Opinion.
From the Philadelphia Pri
- "Starr's manuw has promise! to K
a nresentntion of that comedy of ni"n- '
said da Klter, "but, I don't know t.a
IV te to eme aff."
"Probably the night after It ft
on, suggested tb oul sriuu.
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