POSEY'S PLUCKY PARSON.
de Started Grant and Garfield on the
Road to Military Fame,
One of the unique ami heroic figures
of the West Is Rev. ,1. F. Jaquess. of
I'osey County. Indiana. He was one of
tlie fighting parsons of the war period
and has the undisputed distinction of
having set Grant and Garfield on the
road to military fame.
The career of this man of the gos­
pel and gun is interesting.
He was
born in the wilds of Indiana early In
tilt- century, when pioneers were few.
As he grew up liis educational facilities
were poor, but lie finally succeeded in
working his way through Asbury Col­
lege and then began preaching in
southern Illinois. Those were rough
and ready days, but Jaquess was equal
to every emergency, and. If needed,
could use his fists as well as any man
in tin-county. The way he could swing
and ax ami handle a horse, together
with his brilliant mental qualities,
made him an idol among the pioneers.
A decade before the civil war began he
founded file Woman’s College at .Jack­
sonville. III. When the war broke out
Gov. Yates, of Illinois, sent for Mr.
Jaquess to come to Springfield. The
preacher obeyed the call ami became
tlie companion and adviser of the Gov­
ernor.
He was In the office one day when a
calm, blunt m-ili came in and declared
that lie thought III' could be of use to
the Governor in getting troops.
Tlie
Governor looked over the rough man.
but did not see Unit there was anything
that could be assigned to him Just then.
.Mr. Jaquess was sitting near the desk,
and he whispered to the Governor to
ask the man to call again to-morrow.
After lie had gone out Jaquess turned
to the Governor and said:
"Yates. there's something In that
man. I believe. and 1 think you'd better
keep track of him.”
"I don't see what I've got for
w as the reply.
"Well, keep him anyhow, for I feel
there's something In ldm. and I think
1 am something of a Judge of human
nil t lire.”
"What can I give him to do?”
"Put him at that desk in the corner
and let him write letters until you have
something else to give him."
“If you are so certain about his mer­
its I'll do It. by George,”
This is the worst swearing the worthy
divine ever heard from tin1 war Gov­
ernor. About I wo weeks later they met
again.
■■Jaquess, I thought you were some­
thing of a judge of human nature,
l lie < lovertior.
"I think I am; what’s the matter
now?”
"Why, that mnn Grant, who
thought was the one 1 should keep
available, has been nt that desk two
weeks mid hasn't yet written a letter
I'd sent out.”
"I didn't suppose he would be very
valuable as n clerk; 1 eonslderisl him
better as a military drill master. Com­
mission him ns colonel mid set him to
work with the soldiers. Now, there’s
the Twenty-first on tlie borders of in li­
tiny. Put him In «-harge of them li nd
see what’s in him.”
"By George, I’ll do It."
Gov. Yates took the advice mid the
world knows the rest. This was the
beginning of Grant. It made an Int-
pressloti on Rev. Mr. Jaquess and he
concluded to take the field also, He
went to tlie front with tlie Sixth Cav­
airy, but he came back ili tlie request
of the Governor to work ns a recruiting
officer. His eloquence was magical.
Defalked over the State, mid In a short
time had 3.00(1 men at Camp Butler.
There was enlistment after enlistment
made on the promise from the parson
that lie would command the regiment
and go into the light with It. Tills led
to the formation of the Seventy-third
.1 A Ql b SM
Illinois, he being nt Its head. He start­
ed his men on the march almost before
Ills commission was dry. Col. Jaquess
mid Ids men wore in many buttles. In­
cluding Chickamauga
They stood in
the slaughter pen. ordered then' by
Gen. McCook. Olive Ills horse fell. He
Imped to another. This one was shot
under him. The ball would have taken
off both Ills hands, but at this particu-
lnr moment hls hands were not in their
accu«tom<«l places. His liody seemml
under some strange charm. He took
Ills regiment to Missionary Ridge. The
regiment was in the lead at the on­
slaught. The Intrepid colonel was In
front encouraging the men. The flrst
IHisWIon of the enemy was taken, and
on they pushed with the rest of the
army, while Grant was asking who had
onion'd the charge ami di'elarltig Ills
army win lost. Tltey wore niet by a
shower of Imlls. They charged with
their bayonet*, am! so impetuous was
the onslaught that nothing could stop
them. The first line of fortifications
fell, and then the Recond. and the guns
mi top of the ridge. The Seventy-third
Planted their colors on the spot, aud on
the way they captured almost as many
«men as they were themselves In the
regiment.
President Lincoln wanted to promote
the fighting parson. The parson salil
it would not Is* fair for ldm to leave I
the men who had entered with him. He
knew a man who would make a good
major general, and he wrote to Presi­
dent Lincoln to that effect. This man
was Janies A. Garfleld. The President
made him a general, largely upon the
recommendation of the preacher from
Posey County, Indiana. The Colonel
went back to Camp Butler, but he re­
turned with only 2<M) of the able men
who went with him.and 200 disabled
for the rest of their lives.
The Colonel took up Ids Bible where
he had left it mid went after men—not ,
shooting nt their heads or hearts, as
he had told his men to do literally dur­
ing the war, but figuratively. He has
kept It up ever since.
A
DOQ
THAT
GOES
TO
FIRES.
He Broke Through a Butter's Window
to Hun After His En vine,
< >
POSTMASTER GENERAL
GARY
FAVORS
POSTAL
SAVINGS
BANKS.
St. Nicholas has lieen publishing a < >
Postmaster General Gary is in favor of
Gary continued, ”1 aui very much in favor
series of articles afsiut the F'ire Depart­ i >
postal savings banks and proposes to rec­
of pistai savings bunks, but as to how < >
ment of New York, written by ('barb's
ommend to Congress at the next session
they should be managed, what rate of in­
T. Hill, the artist Mr lllll tells about
the establishment of such banks in this
terest the Government should pay on de­
“ 'Peter Spots'—Fireman." a dog that
country. "It is very likely,” he said in
posits ami other important details I am
discussing the subject a few days ago,
belongs to one of the engine companies.
not ready to speak. 1 believe isistal sav­
"that some sort of legislation will be
ings banks would encourage thrift among
The dog owe fell into disgrace by play­
enacted at the iipproaehiug session, and
our i>eople and promote patriotism. If a
fully snapping at the heads of tho
that we will make a practical test of
man has his money in the Government's
horses when they were running to a
postal savings banks within a year. ' At
keeping he is naturally going to do all that
tire and causing them to balk. So he
this time 1 have no definite plans in view,
he can to protect the Government. Ten
was given to a baker who lived far
but propose to thoroughly investigate the
years ago tlie Government might have had
from the engine-house. Mr. Hili gives
subject, so that 1 will be prepared to make
some opposition from the savings banks
the following account, in the language
an intelligent recommendation to Con­
had it proposed to keep the savings of the
of one of the firemen, of the manner in
gress. I have sent for the blank forms
people itself, but to-day I believe the
which "I’eter Spots" came back to the
and other matters used in this service in
banks would be glad to see it take the
Canadu and other countries, and am col­
money. 1 myself have been for more
company:
lecting all the information it is possible
than twenty years a director iu one of the
"We had almost forgotten about Pe­
to find. As a general proposition,” Gen.
largest savings banks in Baltimore, and
ter, and got used to not having him
around, when one day a 'third alarm'
came in that took us out; and in getting
to the station I had to drive through
SNAKES DRIVE OFF ROBBERS. the street the baker's place was on. I
never thought of it myself, but. on my
Queer Pets Save Ernest Barbour, a
word, l’eter hadn't forgotten us; and
Dowser’s Hill, Pa., Hermit.
when we made our appearance he
The geese saved Rome once upon a showed up pretty quick. The baker
time, but probably the only case on rec­ told me all about It afterward, and thiH
ord where a rattlesnake proved a ben­ was the way It happened: Peter was
efactor to its owner occurred when lying asleep beside the stove in the cen­
Ernest Barbour, the hermit of Down­ ter of the bake-shop, when all of a sud­
er's Hill, was attacked by burglars In den he pricked up one ear. and then
Ills hovel and the robbers were driven jumped on his feet aud gave a bark
away by a rattlesnake. Downer's Hill The baker was making out some bill;
is In Susquehanna County. I’a.. not far behind the counter, and thought noth­
from the line separating New York and ing of it until the next moment Peter
Pennsylvania. Barbour has lived in a gave one Jump, and was In the show­
hut there for many years mid lias se­ window among tlie pies and cakes and
creted about $50,(MIO in securities. He such like. The baker hollered to him
also lias considerable money about the to him to get out; but Peter began to
little hovel at times. There he lives claw at the window, and bark and
with two large dogs and a number of howl. You see lie could hear our whis­
rattlesnakes which he lias charmed or tle and bell and had recognized us.
tamed so that he can freely handle Then the baker made >ip his mind that
them. 'I'lie neighbors usually avoid the the dog had gone mud. and got fright­
place on account of tlie snakes and the ened and got up on a chair, and began
tierce dogs and Barbour is left quite to holler himself; and what with the
alone. But last week a number of rob­ baker and Peter, there was a high old
bers planned an attack on the hut. at­ time in that bake-shop for a while.
tempting to get the money and securi­ Every time Peter gave a kick he knock
ties in the place.
ed a pie or a plate full of cakes out of
They made the dogs insensible with tlie window until lie bad it clear of
drugged meat mid were about to seize everything Then we hove in sight; and
Barbour when the faithful rattlesnakes through the side of the show-window
intervened. One of them bit a robber he saw us and recognized me in the
111 the leg. whereupon the marauders seat, and that settled it no bake-shop
would hold him then. lie jumped back
in the store, braced himself plumb in
SAVINGS BANK OF THE FUTURE.
front of til • pane of glass in the door,
and when we were Just about opposite
I feel sure that every man financially interested in that institution would be glad to see the Government establish
lie gave om* last howl, and crash! out
postal savings banks.
he came through glass and all.
"The value of Government banks for the small savings of the people can scarcely be realized. It can well be
"I heard the racket, and turned my
illustrated by the building and loan associations. These, I believe, originated in Philadelphia, and there are more
head just in time to see him come flying
of them in Pennsylvania and Maryland than any other States. In my own city, Baltimore, they are very num­
erous and have been for years extremely popular with the small wage-earners. The result is that the working
out. I understood it all in a moment, 1
people of Baltimore are probably more thrifty and industrious than those of any other city in this part of the
and expected to see him roll over dead |
country. Nearly every man in Baltimore owns his home, and it has been possible for him to do that by the en­
In the gutti r: but not much! He came
couragement to save his little earnings that has been offered by the building ami loan associations. When every
through so quick he scarcely got a
man owns his home he is interested in its pieservation, and he is going to think twice before he commits an act
scratch: and iiway he went, down the
that may injure his property. A'ears ago Baltimore used to be called "the city of riots.” but iu recent times riots
street ahead of us, barking at every
have been almost unknown. A Baltimore man thinks of his home and family before he joins a mob.
one, and charing the way just as lie
"I say this to illustrate one of the advantages of postal savings banks. If 3,000,000. or 5,0(10,000, or 19.000,000
used to, and running around in a circle |
of (he people of these United States give their savings to the Government for safe keeping, those people are going
to do all they can to preserve the Government. They are not going to join mobs to burn and destroy property.
and jumping high in the air and cut- |
They are not going to turn socialists and attack the institutions of the Government: they will not attempt to
ting up gymnastics and happy?—well,
injure the Government's credit and financial standing; they will all be interested in preserving and upbuilding
1 Jilst guess he was happy! Even the
the Government. The habit of saving would be encouraged bv postal savings banks, and you would find in a
Captain heard him In all the racket be­
few years boys and girls growing up to manhood and womanhood with little savings that might be the foun­
hind tile engine, and let up on the whis­
dation of a fortune.”
tle long enough to holler ahead to me to
look our and not run over him;
11 Eli Mil
there was small fear of that, for
bent us by half a block all the way
tled in terror. Two dnys Inter a tuait the fire.
Greek maiden, who was in the city as
BACK FROM THE KLONDYKE.
FOUND A BRIDE IN GREECE.
dled t'rom rnttlesnnke blte in a fartner's
"When we got there we ‘stretched
a nurse. He met her on the steamer
house six miles frotii I lallstead.
and stood fast,' as we call it, which Soldier of Fortune Met His Fate in Crete. Her father, her brothers and Four Fortnnnte Bonanza Kings Come
Back Laden with Gold.
Althougli Barbour is a recluse, lie means we stretched in the hose, and
the Athens Hospital.
her cousins were all in the army, and
came ont of liis hovel wlien lie heard got ready to go to work when so or-
Four of the most fortunate bonanza
A pretty Greek maiden, who served the girl, who is only 17 years old, had
footsleps. Wlien asked about bis rat- dered; but they didn’t need us, for the as a nurse in the hospitals during the volunteered as a nurse in the army hos­ kings from the Klondyke spent a week
tlesnakes In* pulled two of tliem ont of tire was pretty well out then, and the recent war between Greece and Tur­ pitals at Athens. His Red Cross badge in celebrating their return to civiliza­
bis pockets and said tliey were as taiiie third alarm had only been sent out ns a key. has just arrived in this country
admitted him to the hospital at any­ tion at San Francisco recently. The
as cals. Barlsiur boenme a hennit be sort of precaution: so in a few mo­ in company with the husband she re­
time, and he saw the young woman fre­ picture printed herewith gives a cor­
cause of disappoint meut in love.
ments the Chief ordered us back to cently won. Captain George Nelken. quently. When armistice had been de­ rect idea of how they looked at the
She appears happy and is proud of her clared and seeing no chance of anni­ conclusion of forty-eight hours busily-
quarters.
Fishcrme i ot'Sl. Pierre mid Miquelon
•'When we were 'picking up' or put­ husband, who has had a remarkable hilating the Turk, he laid siege to the spent in putting Bonanza Creek gold in
Near the west const of Newfoundland
ting the hose back in the wagon. Peter career as a soldier. He was born in Greek maiden's heart and came off vic­ circulation. The picture is a copy of
are the islands of St. Pierre mid Mique­
was around among us like old times, Argentina. but was exiled In 1892 for torious. Mrs. Nelken is petite and pret­ a photograph now in the possession of
lon. They are the last relics of the once
mid every one of the 'gang' hail a kind too active participation In a revolt of ty. She speaks only half a dozen words A. D. Gray of Grand Rapids. Wis., the
great possessions of France in North
word for him. He was cut a bit about tlie radicals. lie speaks eight lan­ of English, but talks French fluently, youngest man of the quartet. The hats
Amerlcn. They haven French governor
worn by the men are not as old as they
the back with glass, so tlie Captain guages. In 1891 he fought under Ad­ and says she likes America.
mid a uniformed French police. Many
look,
having been purchased but a few
miral
Moutt
in
Chill;
in
1892
he
took
says: ‘Throw ldm in tlie wagon, boys,
French fishermen make their headquar­
hours before their owners faced the
Heat in the Body.
ami we’ll take him back to tlie house, part iu the Brazilian revolution, serv­
ters on those islands. These Frenchmen
camera.
An important source of heat in
and mend ldm up. I'll put him on pro­ ing under Admiral I)e Mello, and later
"sail 'their trawls." Their fishing ves­
The four men were “dead broke” a
bation; mid If be acts right he can stay engaged in an uprising in Argentina tidy is duo to tlie friction of tlie blood
sels are much larger than ours, and In­
year ago. and now they are reputed to
ns
it
circulates
in
its
vessels.
All
of
under
Dr.
Alone.
Since
then
he
has
with us as long as he wants.’ And then
clude even barks.
Instead of dories
be worth at least $1.000,000. Mr. Gray-
lie adds: 'But you fellows will have to traveled In many lands, and, becoming this resistance, which is overcome by
they carry sail boats. Tlie vessel come;
says he brought witli him from Alaska
chip In mid pay for that pane of glass.' Interested in Red Cross work in Spain, the heart. Is transformed directly into
to anchor, and near her each Isiat drops
was
sent
from
that
country
as
a
dele
­
heat.
We
may
calculate
the
amount
And we all laughed; for we were will
Its flrst trawl-keg overboard. Then one
ing to pay for a whole show-window to gate to the International congress of approximately. If we suppose that 180
boat will set a zigzag trawl by tacking
ccs. of blood are expelled from the left
the order.
get Peter back again.
against the wind, another will run a
At the time of the breaking out of the ventricle at each stroke, under a pres­
Ktralght-a way course, so that the
Graeco-Turkisli war Nelken was Ln this sure of one third of an atqi°sI>here. this
The Ladles Must Pay,
trawls, while all converging toward the
The generosity, as entertainers, with city. The Greek cause appealed to would correspond to .0192 kilogramme­
vessel, do not interfere with one an­ which Americans treat women Is in ldm. and he started for the front, with metres at each stroke, and at 72 strokes
other. Then. too. the fishermen can In strong contrast with the custom of
a minute, this would give 44.3124 kilo­
foggy weather get back to the vessel Germans. In their own country they
grammemetres per minute. If we sup­
by simply underrunning their trawls. have no hesitation in intimating to
pose that the right heart does one-quar­
Our fishermen set theirs where they their female companions that they are
ter the work of the left, or aliout 10
think they will hook the most fish, and expected to pay their share. Iu Ger­
kilogramme-metres per minute, we
the vessel, instead of coming to anchor, many. if a man's feminine partner at
have for the total work per minute
cruises about where she put the dories a public linll desin-s a portion of Ice
54.312 kilogramme-metres, which cor­
over. -St. Nicholas.
cream, he will bring it, but with tlie de­
responds to 128 calories per minute.
mand of "Forty pfennings, if you
This is perhaps a rather high esti­
Ant Pie.
please." An instance is found in the
mate for ordinary conditions, but
Savages, we know. Indulge in such experience of some English women at
where the heart is forced to pump a
luxuries as grubs and locusts, but for a a Prussian military ball given by the
much larger quantity of blood in order
civilized white num to finish up his din­ officers of a certain garrison. The price
to maintain the normal temperature,
ner with a dish of raw ants seems too of the supper was printed upon the In­
tills estimate is probably much exceed­
nasty to lie credible. Yet In Mexico vitation. The English women expected
ed at times. Since this friction takes
It Is the custom and a custom adopted that the officers who accompanied them
place largely in the most constricted
by plenty of colonists ami visitors.
would pay for the refreshments. They
portions of the circulation, it would lie 1. H. C. Anderson. 2. A. P. Gray. 3. -.lake”
The ant eaten Is called the honey ant. were quickly undeceived, for. after
Halterman. 4. Willi un Hawley.
natural to expect that the blood which
and Is perhaps as curious an Insect as supping, the money was demanded,
had been driven through the capillary only $10,000, which he figured would
lives. With a tiny head and legs. It has mid they were compelled to liquidate
system of a gland would issue much last him until spring, when he intends
a huge body ns big as a large pea. and the debt.
warmer than it entered, and such we to return to Dawson City for another
tills Is yellow anil swollen with excel­
find to lie the ease. Thus the blood of year. He lias spent more than $5.000 In
CAPTAIN NKI.KKN AND HIS BRIDE.
lent honey.
Women Wr ter« in Frame«.
the hepatic vein has been observed to
In each nest there are 3(M> or 4< mi of
There are said to be in France 2,150 a shipload of patriots who were going lie 40.73. while that in the right heart thirty days, and his companions are not
these honey ants, which are attended women authors and Journalists and to tight for their fatherland. As soon was 37.7. In the muscles no contrac­ less free with their nuggets.
by thousands of others. The honey ants about 700 women artists. The prov­ as lines were east off Nelken donned tion can take place without an in­
The Liquor Problem.
hang on to the roof of tile cells In the inces contribute most of the w-iters— Ida Argentina uniform, pinned his Red creased flow of blood through them
"I wouldn't of swiped the ham.” said
nest while the others fet'd them. They about two-thirds while Paris is repre­ Cross badge to his breast and was with a simultaneous constriction of the the contrite prisoner, "but I was half
are. in fart, living storehouses of win­ sented In the same proportions among elected captain by the votes of admir- capillaries, which would naturally give drunk.”
ter food. An observer says that if one the artists. Among the writers 1.000 ing Greeks. On the trtp across he rise to a considerable production of
"All!” said the city missionary.
of the honey ants falls from his |>ervh art- novelists. 200 are |s»ets. 150 educa­ drilled the Greeks in the manual of heat—a fact constantly observed.—San­
“That's what done it. If I had of
n worker will go and pick him up and tional writers and the rest writers of arms. Before starting for the front he itarian.
been paralyzed. as I ought of been at
replace him. This Is as If a man wen' various kinds. The artists comprise 107 was Inspecting the hospitals. and there
that time o' night. I wouldn't of got
Getting Down to Bnaineaa.
to walk up the face of a cliff carrying sculptors and the others are painters, met the Princess Marie. Through her
into trouble.”—Indianapolis Journal.
"Have you made any new discovert«'*
a large buffalo or cart horse on his ranging over all branches of the picture he was accorded a special audience
Something of a Geoloiria*.
to-day with reference to that case we're
back.
al art.
with King George. Nelken says he working on?" Inquired one detective.
“Winkle says ho knows what * gla­
told the king he hail traveled from
Valne an<l Price.
“Not yet.” replied the other. I haven't cial period is now.”
She Milked Other People's Cows. America to aid the Greek, and was as­
“How's that?"
"I suppose, of course, that's a $100
had
time to read the newspapers."—
A (Ki-year-old widow of Tidenhaui, in signed by the king to Prince Constan­
"He has Just been refused by a Boa­
wheel."
Gloucestershire, England, has been tine's staff, with headquarters at Itner- Washington Star.
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■ ■
"That’s what It Is."
ton girl.”— Detroit Free rress.
sent to Jail for two months for milking
Some people who have been East
"How much did you pay for it?"- | other people's cows on the town cum- ts'g.
At Athens Captain Nelken was mar­ within three months say it is no longer
A girt is getting old as soon as sb*
Chicago Post,
mou.
ried to Marlanthy Mourabas, a young proper to use napkina at the table.
puts her hair up in a knot.
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