WONDERFUL CAREER. HOW MR. JAMES. J. HILL ROSE THROUGH VARIOUS GRADES. From Freight Handler to He One of the Nation'« Kailroad King, and Twenty-five Time» a Millionaire- Some of Hie Charueteriatica. For many years In the Northwest they have regarded Janies J. Hill as the embodiment of success and a great railroad king. Men who have worked for Jim Hill say he Is a "holy terror.” Ills objurgations ihls father luid cut him out out for a Presbyterian minister» are more profuse ami horror-inspiring than those of the most profane pirate that ever lived. He Is tireless and he expects everyone else to la- so also. He Is accuracy Itself and he tolerates no slipshod business whatever. His mem­ ory Is all embracing and minute, and he abhors a man who cannot recollect. He won’t have anyone around him who Is not personally to his liking, no mat- JAMKH J. 1III.L. ter how efficient the niHU may be. Home Great Northern employes say he would rather discharge a man than eat, and they have to count noses at the main office ami nil along the Uno ovary day to set; "who's alive.” Janies J. 11111 began to work for hint­ self when he was 15 years old. He left school to go to work In a country store In the little Ontario village of Kock- wood, and in the Intervals of weigh­ ing out groceries he read Caesar, and dreamed that some day he would be a great soldier or a great literary man. Now, at the age of 00, he finds that fate lias made him a millionaire railroad man. Ills fleets of merchant steamers have blackened the skies over the great lakes with their smoke, and his rail­ roads have reached out from the in­ land seas to the Pacific. agent of the Northwestern Packet Company and known as one of the solid business men of St. Paul. Now he Is Co—and a man cannot be said to be old at that age. Mr. Iilll has a house In St. Paul which cost hlui half a million to build. The house, the grounds, the greenhouses, etc., and the works of art which the house contains are said to lie altogether worth nearly two millions. The paint­ ings alone In the house are valued at over $100,000. When Mr. Hill built his house In St. Paul he gave at the same time $500,000 to found a college for the education of Catholic priests. About eight miles out of St. Paid Mr. Iilll has a summer home which Is complete In Its equipments, and where he spend» with bls family the hot months. Iilll saw more clearly than any one else In St. Paul that the Northwest must develop tremendously, and that the way to win great wealth most rap­ idly was to go Into the transportation business. He wasn’t yet ready to be­ gin railroading, but he did the next best thing. He startisl the famous line of Red River carts between St. Cloud, at the head of Mississippi navigation, and Pembina, away up to the north­ west, on the Red River of the north, near the Canadian border. For a time he ran a line of steamers on the Red River In connection with the carts, and thus forced the powerful Hudson Bay Company to divide Its trade with him. Something that no one else has ever done unless it was the first John Jacob Astor. , When he became manager of the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad lie Set out to learn and did learn the entire work­ ings of the business. The strain was heavy upon his health, but be made the railroad pay from the start. Then he set about extending hfs own road to the great Western ocean. Hav­ ing reorganized the HL Paul & Pacific as the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Mani­ toba, he set out In the winter by him­ self, with three or four dogs as his only companions, to explore the route to the Pacific which he meant to follow. Ills outfit Included only the dogs, a small canoe, a sled, two or three boxes of sausage, coffee, hardtack, camp cook­ ing utensils and a rifle. He kept his bearings by the sun and compass by day and the north star and compass by night. As much of his route was through territory peopled by hostile Indians, he often slept In the light and traveled In the darkness. Sometimes he lay to for a few hours In a cave dug by himself In the snow. He supple­ mented bls packed provisions by what game he could shoot. When he couldn't shoot anything he would melt snow In Ills camp kettle, make coffee and get WHICH OF THESE HANDS HAVE YOU? BELOVED BY THE FRENCH, Mme, Carnot, Widow of the Martyr President, Wan Popular. I Mme. Carnot, the widow of the mar­ tyr President of the French republic, Sadi Carnot, who died recently at the Chateau de Preale, In France, was a popular and clever woman and was greatly beloved by the people of her land while her husband held the reins of power. The graclouxness of her manner, her keen knowledge of affairs, her quick perception and engaging con­ versational powers made her popular among all classes. Mme. Carnot was the daughter of a distinguished French lawyer, and her maiden name was Dupont White. When her husband was elected Presi­ dent of the republic they lived in apart­ ments that rented for only $2,000 a year, and they left that home with great reluctance. Their four children were educated In music and literature, and In no home In France were the do­ mestic virtues better cultivated. As mistress of the Elysee Palace, the home of France’s chief executive, she was a brilliant success. Her dinners and receptions were regarded with de­ light by diplomats and other distin­ guished persons present. She was a woman of charming taste and one ot the best dressAxl women In France. The assassination of her husband by rhe anarchist Santo at Lyons, June 24, No. 1. Uncouth Hand—The uncouth, boorish or common hand, is heavy, with very xhort fingers, which look as thov'jh they had a swelling at the ends. The hand has no symmetry. The thumb is very short and the general appearance of the hand is repulsive and obnoxious. No. 2. Ideal Hand—The ideal hand has straight fingers that run to a point, with pink nails. The thumb has a strong root or !>ase, a very symmetrical form and runs to u decided point. The person with such a hand is self-sacrificing in his nature and would die for an ideal or principle. This hand Is that of poets, great reformers and religious enthusiasts. No. 3. Artistic nnnd—The artistic hand has a small and narrow shape. It is fleshy, with short fingers atjd the muscles are hardly visible. The finger joints are perfectly smooth and fingers tapering. OOM PAUL AT HOME. Description of an Interview Heid with Him by an American Traveler. THE LATE MADAME CARNOT. 1894, was a crushing blow, but she txire up bravely for the sake of her j children and the republic. Although a ] grandmother, Bhe preserved her beau­ tiful youthful appearance to the lasL Paid the Full Penalty. RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP LINES CONTKOLI.KD BY IAMKS J. HILL. In the early days of railways North American Indians were many and loco­ motives tew, but In a comparatively small number of years these positions have been reversed. Unfortunately, perhaps, for lovers of adventure yarns, the Interesting experiences of the driv­ ers and guards who accompanied the first trains which ran from East to West across the United States have only on rare occasions been recorded In black and white; and, therefore, when an old hand can be Induced to speak of those stirring times, he Is sure of a ready audience. More than once, remarked an Ameri­ can engine-driver, I remember charg-i lug through a herd of buffaloes, which, as the train approached, obstinately re­ fused to leave the line, preferring to be run down rather than to turn tall on the Iron horse. Their surprise at this strange mon­ ster, however, could not have equalled that of the two Indians who made a desperate attack on an engine. In the hope, I presume, of securing Its scalp. Mounted on fleet steeds, they took up positions, the one close to the line It­ self, and the other some little distance to the right on the opposite side. As the train, which I myself was driving, came thundering along, the latter dex­ terously threw Ids lasso over the funnel of the engine, while the former let fly an arrow at the cab. In the excitement at seeing his fellow warrior violently jerked by the lasso clean out of the saddle, the first native forced his horse on to the line, where both paid the full penalty for Ills rashness. The train was stopped, and we rush­ ed to the Indian whose lasso still clung to the engine, but his fall had broken bls neck. The horse, rather wiser than bls master, fled from the scene. | | ■ i Charles Kilpatrick, the one-legged trick cyclist. Interestingly describes an Interview he had with Doom Paul, the great President of the Boer republic, Africa. "Presldeat Krueger,” he says, "can speak English quite as well as Dutch, but declined to speak to me In my own Language, and a B oat named Waldeck acted as our Interpreter. After Intro­ ductions the President said to the in­ terpreter in Dutch: ‘Ask him how he lost his leg.’ ’Run over by a train,’ I replied, and this was translated. "Tell him he Is marvelously expert for a one- legged man,' said Kruger. ‘Tell him,' said I, ‘that he Is very kind to say- sc»’ Tell him,’ said Kruger, ‘that I am al­ ways happy to meet an American—one of his great race.’ Tell him,’ said I to the buffer on the fender, or whatever you want to call him, ‘that we had two men In America that were greater than auy three men that ever set foot on earth.’ ‘Ask him,’ said Kruger, ‘who they are.’ ‘George Washington,’ sold I, ‘and Abraham Lincoln.’ "The old man glared at the Inter­ preter with an awful face. He did not look at me at all, but, to tell you the truth, I was terribly awed. Now, Kru­ ger speaks In a tone that would do con­ siderable credit to a large-sized mega­ phone. But In making his reply to my last shot he doubled the volume of his voice and almost put me to flight. Tell the young man,’ roared Oom Paul, ‘that I know more about the history of George Washington and Abraham Lin- coin than he does!’ I thought I had gone far enough after that, and I then made some remarks I thought compli­ mentary to the Boers, and the Presi­ dent made a sign that the interview was over. He was sitting on his porch. — . — ............... =[ along on coffee, sausage and hardtack. Sometimes be would walk, sometimes ride on bls sled hauled by the dogs and sometimes navigate the streams with bls canoe. He rode horseback over some stretches, procuring saddle ani­ mals ax best he could. The open air ami exercise of that memorable trip made a new man of him, and when It was finished he had found a peerless route for bls road. When Hill had bls road roughly laid out he sent civil engineers over the route, put 10,000 men grading and lay­ ing track, and built the whole line with hardly a break at a rate of not far from n mile a day. Such a thing was never done before and never will be done again. Hill In politics has always been a Democrat and is a great admirer of Cleveland. He Is said to lie worth $25,- 000,000. Besides his railroads he has a PAUL KRUGKH. fine line of lake steamers. His stock and he arose and went within. Wal­ fnrm contains 4,000 acres. He owns deck and I turned to leave, but as we many sections of land In various States. were going Mr. Kruger came back and He 1» Interested In several New York gave Waldeck an English sovereign financial Institutions. lie has done all ■ with instructions to have It properly he set out to do and a good deal more, engraved ami presented to me as a gift and his career Is apparently not yet The Slums of Madrid. from the President of the Transvaal. closed, by a good many years. Madrid abounds In slums, which are I thoroughly appreciated the gift, and HOME or J. J. HILI.. Mr. HUI controls 14,000 miles of rail­ even greater eyesores than those of the story was told alxrnt town. The Ing him, ami never In Ids direst pov­ road with 80,000 employes who receive Whitechapel. There are labyrinths of next day an English newspaper edited erty dlr the remains lie. The place is unkempt and pany, and once more Mr. IllU returned the electric nerve filaments end, and In Infant Prince Imperial of France, tn fast going to ruin. It Is overrun with some Instances the discharge la from 1.850. Its lightness, brightness and weeds. One can barely find the path to commercial life. All the time he went forward. From | the head to the tall, while In the ease ring flttial tt admirably for such a pur­ which leads from the broken stone freight handler to »hipping clerk, from of other tlshea the reverse Is true. In pose; but only a prince could afford wall to the tomb, while Ivy and long shipping clerk to agent, and then as a a full slaed electric eel or gymnotus, such a rattle In thtxw days. grass have run rk>L making walking partner In a freight and transportation the voltage Is probably from 300 to 800 difficult Foreknowledge. business, be rose like the boy» In the volt a, and la easily capable of stunning The fattier of Zachary Taylor was a First Nlghter — What! Every seat story book» until he reached a place a man. The momentary currents are •oldler of the revolution, and came to taken? where be was able to carry out bls sufficient to deflect a galvanometer or Ticket «teller-Every one. But there Kentucky when Zachary was a mere plans for the reorganization of the Ht. magnetite a needle. It Is to be noted will be plenty after the first act. I lad. He settled on a farm, which Is yet the Taylor homestead, though now Paul A Pacific Railroad, which steel that the generation and lute nelly of saw a ivbeara*!.- Ix-mdon Ttt-BIt*. occupied by a family 1n no manner re­ highway now reaches from lake to the discharge are under the control of oown. At the age of 4ft be became the : the animal, which la apparently tn no The Indian ha» abeorbed only one lated. The Taylor burying ground oc- 1 copies one corner of the lot president of what 1» now known as the j way affected by the action. Also, there hatdt of civilisation, to get drunk. The fact that Zacharj Taylor, when Great Northern Railway. Ills »ucc«»» are no Insulating materials tn the flsh. Physicians do not communicate with a taut of 23, left the farm to enter the bad l»een rapid wben be ones got fairly I and the greatest economy la »hown In ■ army as first lieutenant of the Seventh started. Even at tbs age of 37 be was tbs gvoerackm of tbs electrical energy. th« dead wben they wire a skeleton. When he was 18 years old Mr. Hill took Ills Caesar and what little money he had saved and started out to seek his fortune. He began In New Eng­ land and went west until he arrived at Ht. Paul, then a town of 5,(NX) In habitants. There he stopped and there he has remained and grown rich. He found not only fortune and power, but his wife la St. Paul. When he got his first Job there and was employed about the docks of the line of Mississippi steamers known as the "Diamond Jo Line,” lie saw an Irish damsel of beauty and brains whose sweet and womanly qualities at once attracted him. He still lielleved that some day he was to achieve fume, the dreams of martial glory or literary renown haunt- The hand has an effeminate appearance and is that of artists, sculptors and people of remarkably refined tastes. No. 4. Scientific Hand—The scientific or mathematical hand lias the following outlines and characters: The hand should show on the upper surface a flat and broad construction and should have rather long fingers, inclined to be straight, knot­ ty in the joints und round at the point. The thumb has a very strong and deter­ mined l«Lse, and while being rather long is also rounded at the end. No. 5. Self-confessed Murderer’s Hand —The hand shown in the illustration is that of a well-known murderess, who con­ fessed she had stabbed her husband through love of another man. It is notice­ able that the upper part of the hand is ex­ tremely short and angular. The index finger is bent in such a shape that it al­ most overlaps the middle finger. Th« chief point in connection with this hand is the extreme length of the middle finger, The finger nails are very short and thin, which characteristic indicates weakness, treachery «nd trickery. No. 0. Floptical Hands—The klepticn) hand has these characteristics: The thumb is somewhat elongated and varies but slightly in its shape from the root to the tip. The knuckles of the hand are some­ what coarse and the extreme ends of th» fingers have an inward inclination. Th» nails are usually short and thin. No. 7. Ordinary Criminal—The ordi­ nary criminal's hand has a peculiarly rough shape, the thumb being very plump and short, while the fingers nre uneven ami heavy. The small finger is turned in­ ward and bluntness is the hand's chief characteristic. Infantry and remained atvay from his WORLD’S ONLY WOMAN JOCKEY home until elected to the Presidency, dying soon afterward, may account for Mrs. Bagwill of Nevada, Kides Just Like a Man. the little interest taken in his memory Garson City, Nev., Is famous for Its in Louisville. Kentucky saw but little of the soldier, and knowing him little in *ilver mines and for having been the scene of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons tight. life worships him less in death. The monument to Zachary Taylor, Now its citizens are laying claims for which stands in a wild confusion of further fame, for It Is a fact that that vegetable growth, is forty-five feet high city is the home and birthplace of the and is surmounted by a life-sized sta­ only woman jockey In the world. The tue In marble. One Inscription reads, name of this new rival of Sloane and Maher, and she, by the way, Is young and pretty. Is Mrs. W. A. Bag will. She has been riding professionally for about a year and rode her last race at Reno, Nev., on Sept 19. Of the three horses first under the wire the last of the trio was ridden by Mrs. Bagwill, who, sitting astride, plied whip and spur in masterly style, and though her animal was beaten clearly outrode her competitors. Her experience as a jockey has not been very extensive as yet, she having ridden In five races only; but In propor­ tion to her attempt Mrs. Bagwill’s suc­ cess has been remarkable. Of the five races In which she has ridden twice! has her horse come In a winner, an^ never has she ridden "outside” of the money. * Mrs. Bagwill’s first attempt was at| Carson City about one year ago. Then she rode third to Coates, sometimes known as "Plzen,” and Feathergill. ZACnABY TAYLoa’S GBAVK. She was greatly elated with this result, "I have endeavored to do my duty. I even though she did not win, and deter­ am ready to die. My only regret Is for mined to continue her efforts until she might take rank with the top-notchers the friends I leave behind me.” in the business. There are other inscriptions dealing She is 24 years of age and has been with the events In which President married for five years. She Is of medi­ Taylor participated. Some distance um stature, petite In figure, but well from the monument Is the tomb In proportioned and weighs 101 pounds. which the President lies buried. It is She is very modest, demure and unas­ of brick and faces the rising sun. Spi­ suming. When on the street she ders have worked a myriad of cobwebs dresses In plain black, and from her around the door, the corners being hid­ appearance none would Imagine that den. Ivy Is banked on either side and extends all over the tomb and for fifty feet In each direction. The grass Is more than knee high. On a slab of marble ulxive the door is the simple In­ scription, “Z. Taylor. Born November 24, 1784. Died July 9, 1850.” Vaccination. In the German army only six or seven cases of small-pox occur annually, and there can be little doubt that this al­ most complete Immunity from a dis­ ease which formerly decimated conti­ nental armies Is due to the thorough way in which vaccination Is carried ouL All recruits are revaccinated, and the regulations prescribe that there shall be at least ten punctures In each arm. A further confirmation of this view may be found In the fact that the one soldier who died from small-pox In the period from 1874 to 1887 was- a man who was twice unsuccessfully re­ vaccinated when recruited. There can be no doubt that other diseases are sometimes communicated through the medium of the vaccine lymph, but the unprejudiced observer will probably arrive at the conclusion that these form but a very Insignificant fraction of the number of »mall-pox cases which would ensue from the abolition of vac­ cination. There are. no doubt, many objections to either human or animal lymph, and we look forward to the time when the cultivation of vaccine virus shall take place In a sterilized medium which can transmit no other disease. A Natural Mud Pie Foundry. MBS. W. H. BAGWILL. she ever assumed the part of a jockey. In the saddle, when ready for a race« Mrs. Bagwill wears bifurcated skirts, not so wide or loose ns to catch too much wind and thereby Impede the progress of her horse, but fitting neat­ ly. She rides astride, well forward over the horse’s foreshoulders, and with whip, spurs and Bteady hand pilots her mount like a veteran. The Price, Gen. Lefebre was one of Napoleon’s generals who rose from the ranks, and was finally made a marshal and Duke of Dantzlg. After this elevation he met an old acquaintance, who congratu­ lated him In a rather sneering tone. "Yes,” said Lefebre, readily, "I am Duke of Dantzlg and also a marshal, while you are a poor clerk: but If you wish to change places with me I’ll ac­ cept the bargain at cost price. Do you know bow many shots I’ve been ex­ posed to before I won my epaulettes? Twenty thousand; that’s alL I’ve heard more cannon rear than there are stitch­ es In my uniform. I will place you In the courtyard of my hotel and expose yon to the chances of 20.000 shot and »hell at a hundred paces. If you escape alive you shall have my sabre, plume, scarf and order.«; all my honors shall be yours when you have bought them as I bought them.” The clerk begged to be excused. Uncle Sam has a freak artesian well on the Brule Indian agency that Is at­ tracting widespread attenilon, says the SL Paul Pioneer Press. It threw a six-inch stream of water wben It was first opened, and for several years thereafter, but for about eight months It has been engaged In making mud pies. Since that time an endless chain of blue clay six Inches In diameter has been forced up through the pipe, rising slowly above the casing to a height of ten feet, and then toppling over on the ground. The eruption continues night •nd day. and the amount of clay so far forced up from the bowels of the earth has made ft necessary for the Govern­ ment to employ a man to care for the premises. Very little water comes up with the clay. A noticeable peculiarity of th!» well Is that the clay rises more Patchworth