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. Macaciat.
HENA
A'OLUME 6.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 6 1893.
NUMBEk 47
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The Hall.
fall eloMs for Pendleton, Portland, and all
hta east, except the Dakota, Minnesota
I Wiwonsin. at 5:80 PUi.
r'or Walla Walla, Sjjokftneand Sortb Pact-
flc points i 7:5
Mil arrive f;
ro v reufton. Portland and
t (' fMt Ht tt Vt.
, Krom Wat! W alia, Bpo Sane and North Pa
CMo Minl at ii -'5 p. m.
Office li(U!t-j2jen(;riil delivery open from 8
a. m. to 8 r- suniliivs, S to 11 a. m. Honey
order wiitw open fnm 9 a ra. to p. m.
Uso. Hanskuu Postmaster.
A F. & A. M. NO. 80 MEETS THE
VC3L. 1'irat and Third Saturday Evenings
oft each month. Visiting bretberen -cor
di-, 'y invited to visit the lodge.
- 0.F,,N0. 73, MEETS EVERY
-Jitw VWting Odd Fellows
in gJl yy9 welcome.
a ' 0. TJ. W. NO. 104, MEETS THE
ach month.
L. A. Githens.
Reoorder.
PYTHIAN, NO. 29, MEETS EVERY
Thursday Night.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
p a SHARP." ) l . v-
i Physician and Surgeon.
f Calls promptly answered. Office on Third
; Btreei, AWfiiiap.uregon,
Jjtt; CARLISLE,
' PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
Calls promptly attended to day or night.
Offloe: Main Street, Athena, Or.
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R. I. N. RICHARDSON,
V.KKATIVE PROSTHETIC DENTIST.
VTHENA,
OREGON.
W. & C. R. Ry. Co.
in connection with
NORTHERN. PACIFIC R. R.
Forms the - -: '
QUICKEST AND;; BEST ROUTE
f Between Eastern Oregon and ashington
and Pnget sound Points, as well as the
Popular and direct Line to all '
1 Points East & Southeast
I ' PuDman Sleeping Cars.
j Superb Dinning Cars.
, Free 2d-Qass Sleepers.
fX1? LOUGH TO CHICAGO VIA THIS LINE
S mwi F r trains of this Company are run
j h nine regularly between
.
Dayton, Waitsburg, Walla Walla, Wash;
and Pendleton, Oregon. rM
I Making close connections at Hunt's Junction
I with Northern Pacific trains for Tacoma,
I Heat tie, Victoria, B. C Ellensburgh, North
1 Yakima, Pasco,. Hprague. Cheney, Daven-
I port, Hpoksne, Butte, Helena, St. Paul and
I Minneapolis.. fc i - ,
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J. A MUIRHEA D.
, ' i Agent Athena, Oregon.
SOMETHING NEW!
Prof. Lane, the artist, has leased
rooms over the First National
Bank which he has converted into
a .
STUDIO v
and is now prepared to instruct a
large number of students in oil
painting and free hand pencil draw
ing. Nice quite rooms. Prices
reasonable.
PROF, h & HENRY,
PIANO cANDORGAK.
Will be In Athena on Thursday's land Wed
pen days of eacn week hereafter. Leave ojder
witb F. Bozenswelg, atC. Hollif Athena.
, B ' ' "
ji-F. FORi; Evangelist.
3f Dea Moines, Iowa, writes under date of
-- . March 23. am-. ,
S. B. Med. ;Mfg. Co.,
Dufur, Oregon. '
Gentlemen: . v
O'J arriag home k?t week, I found
all well, and anxiously awaiting.
Our little girl, eight and one-half
years old, who had wasted away to
3D pounds, is now well, strong and
vigorous, and well -fleshed up. S.
B. Cough Cure has done its;work
well. Both of tba-children. Uks
it. Your S. B.-Cough. Cure has
sured and kept away all hoarsness
from me, So give it to every one.
with greetings for all all. Wish
ing you prosperity, we are
Yours, Ma.& Mrs. J.F. Ford.
If yon wish to feel freh and cheerful, and
nty or tbe sprtnsr's work, cleane yoar
ynwm wlrh the Headafhe and Liver Cure,
by taking two or three oscs each wecku
- 50 eenteser bottle by all druggists.
Bold under a potitiTe guarantee by tie
rioueer irg store.
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE.
- .., .
It Is Going to Hav a CreditH Ballding
In New York at Lat.
In the years that have intervened since
its organization in 1833 the American in
stitute has certainly done much to "pro
mote and encourage the industrial arts
in America," aa it declared it would in
its articles of incorporation, bnt it is
doubtful if it ever did a better thing for
itself, or anything more to the satisfaction
of the people who attend its exhibitions
than when it decided to supplant the
ramshackle old structures in which its
fairs have been held since 1869 with a
new building or series of building wor
thy of its dignity and usefulness and in
keeping with the progressive spirit of
modern architecture.
4 1 ii
NBW AMERICAN INSTITUTE BUILDING.; '
The new building will be erected on
the site of the present structures, which
cover 40 city lots, and will be in three
sections. One of these sections will have
a frontage of 50 feet on Third avenue
and wings extending to Sixty-third and
Sixty-fourth streets. . This will be called
Administration building and will con
tain the library and offices of the in
stitute, besides three large assembly
halls and a large number of lodgerooms
for renting. The first floor will give
entrance from Third avenue to the ex
hibition hall, and in the basement will
be a model kitchen. The front will be
of mottled Flemish brick, with antique
iron and terra cotta ornaments. ;
The Administration building is to be
100 feet deep, and to the rear of it will
be the great exhibition hall, 804 by 200
feet in size, and back of that will be Ma
chinery hall, 157 by 200 feet, making the
mean depth of the structure 610 feet.
There will be an extensive gallery at each
end of the exhibition hall, and the roof,
mainly of glass, will be supported by
steel trusses. -
' The main entrance on Third avenue
will have five Roman arches, supported
on Dorio columns, and there will be an
other grand entrance at the Second ave
nue end of the building, besides six fire
exits at the sides. The fair next fall will
have to be carried on elsewhere, as the
old sturctures will then be demolished
and the new one under way. ' '
THE NEW MODERATOR.
Dr. Craig, I41ce His Predecessor' Dr. Young,
It a Kentucklan.
The new moderator of the Presbyte
rian general assembly, the Eev. Willis
Green Craig, D. D., was elected as the
representative of the conservative ele
ment of the assembly, but has been free
ly commended for bis eminent fairness
by members who did not vote for him.
Like his predecessor in the moderator
ship, Dr. W. O. Young, he is a native of
Danville, Ey., and was educated at Cen
ter college in that town and at Danville
Theological seminary. V .
Dr. Craig graduated from Center col
lege in the class of 1851, when he was
not yet 17 years of age, and spent seven
years afterward managing a large planta
tion in association with his brother. He
entered the seminary in 1858 and in the
spring of 1861 was licensed to preach.
His first ministerial connection was with
the Westminster Presbyterian church of
Keokuk, la., where be remained 20 years.
In 1881 he was elected to the chair of
Biblical and ecclesiastical history in the
Theological Seminary of the Northwest,
but his congregation so vigorously op
posed his removal that his presbytery
refused to release him. The following
year, however, his church and presby
tery were both prevailed upon to con
sent, and he entered upon the duties of
bis professorship in September, 1883.
EEV. WILLIS GKEEN CRAIG, D. D. !
He occupied the chair of church his-;
tory for nine years and in ISO! was trans-'
ferred totho chair of didactic and po
lemic theology made vacant tj to resig
nation of the late Dr. Thomas H. fikmnerJ
He still retains bis membership in thd
Iowa presbytery, however, and was sent
to the general assembly as s commis
eioper from that body. . '
Dr. Craig is In bis sixtieth year, but he
looks fully 10 years younger. He is a
Suent talker, but has a marked accent
which betrays his Scotch lineage. He is
a cousin of Vice President Stevenson,
but has never taken any active Interest
la political matters. J
Ths Slant Troabl.
Of the precise merits of the question
between France and Siam at its present
stage it is not easy to speak until the na
ture of the French ultimatum is made
known. But the Siamese appear to have
shown a conciliatory spirit in the bound
ary dispute. The area in controversy is
the broad belt of land lying east of the
Me-Kong and between that river and the
main mountain chain of Anam. The
Frenoh accuse Siam of putting garrisons
into this area, but it is quite certain that
the Siamese have withdrawn from point
after point without a struggle, while
such conflicts as have occurred seem to
have been of local origin rather than un
der the orders of the king. This mon
arch, a man of about 40 years, who has
been on the throne since the age of IS, is
admitted to be a ruler of high character,
humane, anxious for reforms and eager
to place Siam in the advanced line of
modern Asiastio progress. He has made
many Internal Improvements in his king
dom, has fostered commerce, has wel
comed foreigners, and if he now hesi
tates to give up a large part of what he
has always considered his domain at the
menace of a French fleet and an Anam
ite army it is what might be expected. .
One question now for Siam is, What
is England going to do? Without her
aid Siam may fall into the hands of
France, as Burmah fell into those of Eng
land herself. Yet that aid might itself
reduce her to the condition of a British
protectorate. The disputed boundary is
a fair subject for arbitration, but there
is no indication yet that France will
agree to settle it in that way. New York
Sun. "
Fortification For an English Port.
. The British war department has mode
arrangements for having the works in
connection with the fortifications at
Chatham" considerably advanced during
the current year- The chain of forts
which for some years past have been
under construction in the vicinity of
Med way are intended for the defense of
the dockyard and naval arsenal and the
military depots at Chatham and also of
the approaches to London. The expend
iture has already reached a- total of
many thousands of pounds, and. it is es
timated that a further outlay of between
$100,000 and $150,000 will be necessary
before the works are complete. Of this
sum it is expected that $70,000 will be
expended during the coming year $45,
000 on the eastern defenses and $35,000
on Darland fort. In both of these cases
there has been a large increase in the
amount of the original estimates. .
It was anticipated that the works in
connection with the eastern defenses
Would cost $480,000, but owing to the
substitution of civil for convict labor
that sum has been raised to $580,000.
The original estimate for the construc
tion of Darland fort $80,000 was also
found insufficient, but up to the present
time the actual expenditure on this par
ticular fort has been only about $10,000.
When the Bystem of fortification is com
plete, Chatham will be well nigh invul
nerable both by land and water. Ex
change. - ' . '
. Working a Keat Trick. '
"I saw a funny thing out in Chicago
while on a recent trip to the World's
fair," said a gentleman from West Vir
ginia. ,"I was in the lobby of the Palm
er House one evening talking with Colo
nel Jim Butt, our state commissioner,
and several other gentlemen. Against
one of the gilded pillars near us leaned
a forlorn looking wretch in seedy garb,
who every now and then gave vent to a
consumptive cough that seemed to cause
him intense pain. Suddenly he fell in a
heap to the floor, apparently with great
force, and in a minute a crowd was
around him a sympathizing crowd too.
One fellow, who was the most officious
in rubbing the unfortunate's head with
some kind of liquid to restore him to
consciousness, said:
" 'Gentlemen, I tell you what ails this
man. It's nothing more or less than
starvation. He hasn't had a mouthful
to eat in 48 hours. All he wants to bring
him around all right is a good beefsteak
and some hot rolls.'
" 'If that's what ails him,' said Colonel
Butt, he needn't suffer any longer.' And
he pulled out a $5 note and handed it to
the Samaritan, who had gradually rubbed
his pal back to life. Then the pair am
bled off arm in arm to play the trick in
some other hotel, but they must have
gone at least a block before it dawned
on Butt that he had been victimized."
Washington Post
, Old People Show.
A somewhat novel competition, which
is described in our Paris letter published
today as constituting the antithesis of the
baby show held in the French capital a
year or two ago, is about to take place
next month in the Pavilion de la Ville de
Paris in the Champs Ely sees. It is an
international show of old people. No
one under the age of 00 will be permitted
to compete for the prizes offered, but as
there are at least 60 duly authenticated
centenarians in France alone this restric
tion will hardly interfere with the suc
cess of a show from which the medical
authorities expect to derive as much sci
entifio and useful information as they
were able to obtain from the baby show
two years ago. New York Tribune. .
A California Fair.
The project of holding a winter fair in
San Francisco is gaining strength, and if
the financial troubles do not check it the
scheme will be carried out. Much de
pends upon the personal influence of
Herr Comely, the German manager, who
is on the coast to push the matter. The
Southern Pacific company and many
Large corporations are earnestly in favor
of the project
The trustees of a military academy in
Macon, Mo., have brought an action for
heavy damages against five ministers
for issuing a boycott on the academy be
cause dancing was taught the cadets.
The German and Swiss governments
have entered into an agreement for the
improvement of the navigation of the
epper Rhine, commencing from Lake
FIRST WOMAN CORRESPONDENT.
Graca Greenwood 6tiU Lives and Works la
- - Washington.
In the Washington home of Grace
Greenwood on Capitol hill the artistio
taste of the authoress who has delighted
the readers of
two generations
has been mani
fested in a way
that is quite aa
characteristic
of her genius as
anything she
ever wrote. The
furnishings area
happy mingling
of the old fash
ions and the new,
and the east and
Grace greenwood, west have both
made contributions to its etogancei and
comfort. A marble bust of the authoress
sculptured years ago is one of the not
able adornments. It might be taken
for an ideal head, it is so refined and
beautiful. - ,
Grace Greenwood was the first woman
newspaper correspondent in Washington,
She began her journalistic labors there
as long ago as 1850, and although she has
published many ... volumes of poems,
travels and stories her literary reputa
tion rests chiefly on her journalistic
work. Her descriptions of Pacifio coast
scenery when it was comparatively un
known were so vivid as to attract notice
everywhere, and her correspondence
from Europe during her nine years' resi
dence abroad added greatly to her
fame. ' In children's literature she is ac
knowledged to be without a rival, and
her poetical work is of a superior order
Sh achieved fame as a lecturer
at a time when no other woman
could secure the respectful attention of
an audience, and she did it without the
least effort to imitate the masculine
oratory of the day, trusting wholly to
her feminine eloquence and wit.
Of course it is well understood that
"Grace Greenwood" is a pen name, and
the real name of the authoress, Sara J.
Lippincott, is almost as well known aa
that which has been signed to her lit
erary productions for so many years, but
there is a story about her pseudonym
that is not generally known. Mrs. Lip
pincott's family name was Clarke, and
at her birth her mother named her Grace
Ingersoll, after a very dear friend, and
she was called Grace until she was S
years of age. The name did not please
her father, however, and he one day took
the child to church and had her baptized
Sara Jane Stewart, in honor of two maid
en ladies of prosaic names and lovable
characteristics.' '
When she wished to adopt a pen name,
her mother suggested "Grace Ingersoll"
as appropriate, but her mother's friend
Was still alive and prominent in French
social circles, and the young writer did
not think it wise to adopt her name.
The mother still clung to the name Grace,
however, and finally made the sugges
tion that "Greenwood" be added to it,
as the daughter was fond of riding about
the forests. Thus originated the happy
alliteration that has since become so fa
mous. Although now in her seventieth
year,", Mrs. Lippiucott.still does excellent
literary work. ;
' ' A NOBLE MONOLITH.
The Severely Clasalo Memorial of Mary, the
I Mother of Washington. i
The ladies of the National Mary Wash
ington Memorial association have award
ed the contract for the beautiful monu
ment which they
intend erecting
over the grave of
the toother of
George Washing
ton at Fredericks
burg, Va, A mod
el of the monu
ment is now on
exhibition in the
Woman's build
ing at the World's
fair, where it was s
the first exhibit i5Cf
UttJtALLBU. X HO
sign is severely the mart Washington
classic, simple monument. ,
and dignified, and will most appropriate
ly commemorate the character of the
woman in whose honor it is to be erect
ed, the woman of whom Lafayette said,
"In her only of all women lives the Ro
man matron of modern days."
The monument is to be a granite mon
olith 40 feet in height upon a base 10 feet
high, making an extreme elevation of 60
feet. Upon the rising ground where the
grave is situated this will be a very con
spicuous object, and it cannot any too
soon take the place of the mass of broken
stone which is all that remains of the
marble monument begun half a century
ago, which is today rather a monument
of blasted hope and fruitless endeavor
than the memorial it was intended to be.
' The ladies of the association have en
tire faith in the women of the country
and believe that they will contribute
what remains to be raised of the funds
necessary to carry out the designs of the
organization. These objects include, be
sides the erection of the monolith, the
beautifying of the grounds about it and
the provision of a fund for its perma
nent maintenance. Renewed interest
has been shown in tho project since the
model has been placed on exhibition, and
the sale of photographs and souvenirs at
the fair has augmented the funds.
It is upon the life membership, how
ever, that the association principally re
lies not only for the collection of money,
but for the strengthening and perpetua
tion of its organization. Life member
ship can be secured by the payment of
$35 or $35, as the donor chooses, the
smaller sum entitling the member to a
silver medal and the larger amount to
one of gold. Thexe medals, it is provid
ed, are to descend cs an inheritance in
the direct female line, from mother to
daughter or grand daughter . and soon, if
possible, or failing there may be devised
by wilL A medal entitles the jifmsessor
to vote at all meetings of tho association
and to the privilege of siding in the
care, protection and maintenance for all
time ot the grave and mennment of
Mary, the mother of Washington.
Bed Apples Won the Race,
Two large apple trees stand side by
side in an orchard not far from Sydney.
On one hung fruit which looked like
balls of gold in the sunlight. The ap
ples on the neighboring tree were a
bright red. One day the owner of the
orchard sent his men to pick the fruit
It was to be sent to the World's fair,
and he followed them out among the
trees to see that the work was properly
done. When at last the apples were
packed in the barrels, the fruitgrower
necided that those two barrels should
peparate in the orchard and not meet
gain until on the exhibition table in the
Horticultural building at the fair. The
red apples were to go east, and the yel
low apples were to go west.
The golden fruit was loaded into a
steamer and started toward the Suez
canal, while the red fruit was started
the same day in a vessel across the Pa
cifio ocean. The fruit grower marked
"No delay. Perishable goods," con
spicuously on each barrel. He wanted
to ascertain which was the quickest
route to the World's fair. The barrel
of yellow apples passed through the
canal, through the Mediterranean sea,
up the English channel, and finally
reached London.. Here it was taken
from the boat and sent by railroad to
Liverpool. Then the barrel of New
South Wales fruit was loaded into an
ocean racer and started on its way
across the Atlantio to New York, whence
it came to Chicago by railroad. It was
just 66 days to an hour when Thomas
Pugh, the assistant general superin
tendent of the New South Wales ex
hibit, received it.
In the meantime the red apples had
crossed the Pacifio ocean to San Fran
cisco in 20 days. Then they, were sent
by freight to Chicago. After numerous
delays along the way tho apples arrived.
They had been 52 days on the way and
had been admired by World's fair visit
ors for almost two weeks before the
golden apples which grew on the tree
beside them in Australia were placed on
china plates and set on the table beside
them in the New South Wales fruit dis
play. Chicago Record.
Sew Use For Spring; Chlokens.
Should the little daughter of Mr. Ca
lissi ever recover she owes her life to an
Italian violinist in the city. Suffering
as she is with brain fever and the doc
tors giving up all hope of her recovery,
this morning she spoke the first word
and ate the first morsel she has for sev
eral days. A friend of Mr. Calissi, an
Italian, visited the sick child and re
marked had he known her condition a
day or two ago he could certainly have
saved her. However, he was willing to
try it, and going out he brought in a
number of spring chickens. Taking a
live chicken he split open its back with a
knife, oponed it wide and placed the in
side of the chicken, entrails, blood and
all, over th child's head. ' As soon as
the chicken began to get cold he would
open another and place it on in the same
manner. '
About the time the second chicken be
gan to cool the child spoke, and after
ward asked for something to eat. So
far 22 chickens have been used, and the
child is doing splendidly. What effect
the warmth of the chicken and vitals
had upon the child's head the writer can
not tell, but should the child fully re-
over the Italian professor wants the
credit He says he saved his son's life in
the same manner when it was necessary
to use 48 spring chickens. He pref ers
rabbits when he can get them in his
treatment. Paducah News, r
Mrs. Stanford's Duty.
The end has come, and to Mrs. Stan
ford falls the melancholy duty of carry
ing out a great" educational scheme such
as the world aa never seen. That this
scheme should originate in California
seems in keeping with a state which is
itself an empire, self feeding in almost
every particular, as great in beauty and
wonders as in size and natural products.
" Fortunately for the university, Mrs.
Stanford was essentially her husband's
helpmeet. She shared his sorrows no
less than his joys. She was a coun
selor and friend to whom he confided
all his enterprises. Rising above per
sonal loss therefore, Mrs. Stanford can
take her place at the helm and steer a
magnificent idea into the safe harbor
of accomplished fact. Hers is a glorious
task, in the doing of which there will be
infinite comfort. Husband and son have
only gone before, and spiritual help will
come to her who humbly bears her cross
and dedicates her life to the advance
ment of humanity. Kate Field's Wash
ington. . -
Color Photography.
Our Paris correspondent reports that
much interest was shown at the Photo
graphic club there in some plates ob
tained by Professor Lippmann's process.
The pictures on glass were cast by an
electric projector onto a white screen be
fore an admiring and enthusiastic audi
ence. The firsjt picture to appear on the
screen was a bunch of roses, violets and
jessamine. They came out with all thoir
natural colors and tints and velvety ef
fects. As a person remarked, the only
thing these flowers lacked was scent. A
corner of landscape in a Paris park was
the next picture. The sky was of true
blue. The sanded alleys and the green
lawn were as like to nature as natnro it
self. Next came a cottage in sunlight
overgrown with creepers, flags, match
boxes and photographs of illustrated pla
cards. London News.
In the House of Lords.
When Lord Roberts takes his seat in
the house of lords, he will find himself
in the uncommon position of being one
of two peers with the same name. Tho
other one, it is true, spells his name
Robartes; but that Is neither here nor
there. The house of . lords has also an
Earl of Mar and an Earl of Mar and
Kollie, an Earl of Lindsay and an Earl
of Lindoey, an Earl of Longford and a
Baron Lamjford, a Viscount Midleton
and a Baron MIddleton, a Baron 8udloy
and a Baron Sudoley, two Lords How
ard and two Lords Napior, London
Tit-Bits. .
ANOTHER MILITARY IDOL,
The Mantle ot Bonlanger Offered to tbe
Hero of Dahomey.
Itreally looks us if "fair, fickle France"
had selected a successor to Boulangcr as
a popular idol. It is another soldier,
too, General Al-
irea Amedee
f Dodds, "the con-
i f. . W auerer of Daho
mey," as bis ad
mirers proudly
call him, having
, in mind his vic
; torious campaign
there last year,
t- When the eov-
Sm' erninent recently
fgg; ' recalled him front
LrJiv given out tnattne
ministers desired
GENERAL DODDS. to consult him
concerning the military organization of
that country, but fciere were not wanting
those who construed the order as practi
cally a measure of censure.
It may have been the spreading of this
sentiment among the people that caused
tho ovations which the general received
on his arrival at Marseilles and Paris re
cently, or it may have been that the
"party of revenge" was simply seeking a
new center around which to rally. Cer
tain it is that the League of Patriots,
who are the organized representatives of
that party, had a prominent part in tho
management of the ovations, going so
far aa to placard the walls of Marseilles
with a circular offering General Dodds
the succession to Boulanger, which con
cluded wilt these words, "General, do
your duty, and if parliamentarians re
sist thrust them out at the door."
General Dodds Js a tall, handsome
vaUn and looks like the soldier he has
proved himself to be. He is a mulatto,
English, French and African blood
mingling in his makeup. "His grandfa
ther married the daughter of a French
man and an African woman, and his fa
ther married a native of Senegal, who
came of a Norman family. The general
was born in St. Louis, Senegambia, in
1842 and was educated at the French
military school of St. Cyr, where he
graduated in 1804 with the rank of sec
ond lieutenant of naval infantry. He
was promoted to a first lieutenancy in
1867 and to a captaincy in 1809. At Se
dan in 1870 he was taken prisoner, but
escaped and rejoined the army. He
fought through the Franco-Gwrnan war,
the conflict with the commune and the
campaign in Toriquin, coming out of all
of them unscathed. m ' ' ;
He has been in the "service in Africa
since 1871, except during tho Tonquin
campaign, and was made a major there
in 1879, a lieutenant colonel in 1883 and
a colonel in 1887. He was commandant
at St. Louis in 1890 when Colonel Terrl
lon conducted : his campaign against
King Behanzin and was made com
mander in chief of the expedition in 1893,
on the successful conclusion of which he
was promoted to be a general and made
an officer in the Legion of Honor. (
VILLARD'S UPS AND DOWNS. ! t
The Phenomenal Snoeess of a Penniless
German Immigrant.
Not many of the moneyed magnates
of the world have had such a romantio
career as Henry Villard, tho story of
which reads like a chapter of imagina-
., f eimr
1
HENRY VILLABD.
tive fiction. In the first place his name
is an alias. When he came to this coun
try in 1854, a penniless emigrant from
Germany, he was called Heinrich Heil
gard. , He was born in Speyer, Bavaria,
and graduated from the gymnasium of
his native town the year before he emi
grated. i
Having some literary ability, he com
menced writing for German publica
tions, and after he bad mastered Eng
lish continued his connection with
journalism for some years, up to 1874, in
fact, when he branched out as a finan
cier. In that year he was sent out from
Germany, where he had boeu reporting
the Franco-German war, by a committee
of German bondholders of the Kansas
Pacifio railroad, which had defaulted on
its interest. He was finally appointed re
ceiver of the road, and this appointment
may be said to have given him his start
as a financial skyrocket
As early as 1809 he had conceived a
scheme for the consolidation of various
steamship and railroad interests on the
Pacific coast, but it was not till 1879
; that he found himself strong enough to
I carry it out. Then he gained control of
the Oregon Steam Navigation company
and the Oregon Steamship company and
combined their interests under one man
agement. Then he got control of the
Northern Pacific, and the story of his
quick achievement of a colossal fortune
was liko one of tho stories of tho "Ara
bian N:ghtc." But it did not last, as all
. the world knows, for his downfall was a
rep-'Hon of the talo of tho rocket and
M sicute discernment and indom
. :-sy were not to be thus dis
, forever, and after a brief period
.-. i:svre blazed across the financial
il:y iu fall ascendancy a Bucecaful fin
ancier, a railroad king, a millionaire, a
j ihining mark for the financial para
' rrfiphers, a man on whose word "tho
itrett" waited, and whom the street,
with more or less unanimity, tries to
"down." .
I
A r
.V'
A Girl's Physical Training;.
It is a trying period to. a girl's health
when she steps from tho kindergarten
Into school. The out of door Jife thafc
ihe has enjoyed with her , brothers ia
then frowned upon as "coarse and un
ladylike for such a girL" It is at this
age that her physical training should be
gin, and it should continue throah her
school life to keep her in good condition,
her muscles well balanced and her
growth proportionate to her years. In
ordax that she may be surrounded by the
highest sanitary influences it is very es
sential that her director of physical cul
ture should know thoroughly her (Edi
tions, her environment and inheritances,
and should also-know the amount of
health she possesses so as to regulate her
expenditures of mental strength accord
ing to her resources.
As years roll on and she arrives at an
age when eastern demands her to be
caged in long dresses and hor hair twist
ed into a knot, her freedom is enslaved .
to all future and then, especially if she
has not. had special care in her earlier
years, we must doubls the watch, so to
speak, on her health. The action of
manyvaluablo muscles is interrupted,
others are rifcglectcd altogether, spinal
muscles grow lax, the chest droops,
careless posture becomes habitual, and
consequently the entire internal struc
ture is -to ft greater Or less extant de
pressed. At this age society is allowed to
make inroads on hours invaluable for
sleep, and the girl becomes nervous, petu
lant, depressed, actually morbid, and
from no fault whatever of hers. It is
her environment, and she cannot be re
lieved of these unfavorable inflwences
without thorough physical training. She
cannot be strengthened when her mind
is continually concentrated on mental
pursuits and hygienic principles ignored.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher in Godey's,
A Kural Tournament of Sons;.
For two days the little town of Kendal
was given up to holiday life a holiday
not on the ordinary lines of merrymak
ing, but whoso motif was the carrying
out of a musical ideal, and whose raison
d'etre was a genuine enthusiasm and a
strenuous devotion to art. The holiday
had been well earned. During long win
tor evenings the church and school choirs
of the villages of Westmoreland and of
the contiguous parts of Lancashire and
Yorkshire had worked with a thorough
ness and enorgy beyond all praise with
these two days in view. To take part
and if possible to excel in these compe
titions has every yoar fired the conduct
ors of these village bands to fresh exer
tions, till now it may truly be said that
no rural district in England can supply
a pendant to this unique musical meet
ing. The competitions this year, as last,
extended over two days. The first day
was chiefly dedicated to soloist perform-.
ers and to the contests between the junior
choirs. - . .... .
The delight and enthusiasm with
which the children go through their per
formance form a charming and pictur
esque feature of the festival. The dif
ferent villages are distinguished by col
ored badges and rosottes, a distinction
in which the children take evident pleas
ure.. In many cases a choir is conducted
by a lady belonging to the neighborhood,
to whom tho children turn with a rapt
attention, their eager faces and keen eyes
hanging on each twist of her wrist and
stroke of her baton. This year 18 junior
choirs entered the lists, and the really
admirable work that they did both in
singing and sight reading gives promise ,
for great results in the future, when
members of these junior choirs will bo
come the nucleus of larger village and
choral societies. London Saturday Re
view. ;' 1 ' ; " ' - - - ' .
r Artistio Mosaic Work.
, The mosaic, covering a space of 120
square yards, at which MM. Lemiere
and Gilbert Martin have been working
for over three years in the apse of the
Madeleine, was visible Sunday for the
first time. M.Lemieredosignedthework,
which represents the triumph of the
French church, and contains 21 figures,
which are executed in tinted camiou.
There are 2,000,000 small, square stones
employed in the work, the basis of which
is Portland cement 7 centimeters, deep
under a bed of martic, whioh becomes
nearly as hard in drying. , The ground
is in five tones of gold and yellow.
, Tho separate squares : forming these
tones are placed close to each other.
Seen close, they would be spotty; seen at
a distance, they seem of one hue, but of
a quieter tone than if they had been of a
uniform shade, The figures represent
Christ issuing gloriously from the tomb,
with the Marys and Saints Veronica,
Martha and Marcella around him, and
the bishops and holy men, Isidore, Maxi
tnin, Marthal, Julian, Trophemus and
others who implanted Christianity in
Gauh Paris. Cor. London News.
An International Coin.
When everybody is fretting about let
ters of credit and all the other make
shifts to avoid penury in a foreign land",
it occurs to the mind unskilled in ques
tions of finance to wonder why we cau
bot have one single international coin
which would be good wherever it is spent.
An entire international currency is a boon
reserved for our grandchildren, but a
single gold coin of about tho value, say
of $2.50, would bo an fanmonso conven
ience to travelers. A moderate sum in
luch coins would not be burdensome,
Bnd before leaving each country the na
tional currency could be exchanged into
them at the hotel office or the nearest
shop without any fuss and feathers what
ever. Multiples of such a coin, to the
extent of a hundred or more, would be
easily portable, and fractions of it would
not be large enough to cauae serious em
barrassment to most travelers. The
amount of time and trouble which a sin
gle international coin would ;iye is al
uiost incalculable. Kate' Field's Wash-
Uigton.
If aught? Little Kutherlno.
Katheriuo, aged 5, had beun naughty,
and her mother was reproving her for
It, whTi K:'.t!:erir.e drew herself up and ,
iu a digiiiiit'd tono tu.id, ' Purinh mo if
Jou must, nminma, but pray ktop thia
talking." New York Tribune.