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FULL DETAILS OF THE
DEATH OF SCHLATTER
A California Man Finds His Grave in Sonora,
Mexico—How the Healer Came to His
End in the Desert.
San Francisco Examiner.
Sschlatter is dead. The "divine"
fanatic is no more. Reliable information
Iras come that he perished miserably on a
lonely Mexican desert, unattended by any
of the thousands who profess themselves
cured by his miraculous touch.
Dr. H. F. Gray, of Los Angeles, has Just
leturned from Casas Grandes, state of
Sonora, Mexico. While in Mexico, Dr.
Gray came upon Schlatter's lonely grave.
He saw all the paraphernalia and wearing
apparel of the healer, which are now in
possession of the Jeffefioliticla, or chief
official, of Casas Grandes.
Dr. Gray says that there is absolutely
no doubt that the strange healer came to
ills death in a lonely Mexican desert about
150 mi'es below the American line.
Thousands of people will remember
Schlatter. His wonderful "cures" in Den
ver, his great following and the hundreds
of all classes who thronged to his apart
ments, waiting eagerly in the street in
the long line that slowly filed by him in
order that the garment might be kissed
or the healing touch bestowed, spoke
rather of the superstition and credulity
of the middle ages than the matter-of-fact
skepticism of nowadays.
Divers and many prophets have sprung
Up in modern times. Some have held pop
ular attention for a month, a year; others
have lasted but a day. But none have ex
erted so great a following as did this un
couth Norwegian shoemaker, who was be
sought by rich and poor, humble and great,
"with a strange, feverish intensity that
amounted almost to religious fanaticism.
For Schlatter, the healer, professed to be
endowed with a divine touch.
His faith in himself approached sublim-
Jty. Without an apparent feeling of blas
£S*ray he cultivated in his bearing a
»?3Mking imitation of Christ. His long,
£axen hair, light brown beard, drooping
garments, bare feet and an expression of
unutterable weariness and ecstatic absorp
tion through which in deeper undertone
ran a mournful vein of religious fervor,
might easily have betrayed the conscious
charlatan had not his "healings" been at
tended by cures, apparently so thorough
end testimony so sincere that his bitterest
enemies and those most bent upon his
exposure were dumbfounded.
No doubt the cures he effected were the
result of suggestion. Before Schlatter's
rise to notoriety he had been an humble,
Ignorant shoemaker., and conducted a
little shoe shop in. the slums. The man
■was open-eyed, vacant, superstitious. In
tensely religious, his eyes far apart, his
feverish, flushed, irregular features made
one think of Zola's workers in the field or
Millet's man with the hoe. It is not im
probable that Schlatter's remarkable suc
cess was due to the fact that he thor
oughly believed in himself and so made
others believe.
DIGGING UP THE ANCIENT DEAD
Work of the Archaeologists in Egypt This Winter—Mummies to Be
X-Rayed to Discover What They Have on Their Persons.
London Dail^y Chronicle.
Various expeditions of German, Eng
lish, American and French archaelogists
have been at work as usual during the
winter months in Egypt. All have been
to some extent successful, but for the
moment attention chiefly centers itself
upon the completion of Professor PetFie'a
exploration of the first dynasty site at
Abydos; and the discovery late in the
•eason\ by J. Garstang, of some long
sought royal tombs of the third dynasty.
The various results may best be consid
«red in the order of their historical se
quence.
At El Amrah, a few miles south of Aby
dos, Messrs. Wilkin and Randall-Mac-
Iver showed how the types prevailing in
the prehistoric times, whether in the
forms of vessels or materials employed,
or in the construction of ■ tombs, merge
gradually into those which are known to
have exisced in the first dynasty. They
also found on a carved slate which is
known as a type of the middle of the pre
historic age, an emblem in bas-relief so
curiously resembling the general charac
ter of the hieroglyphs, though not iden
tified with any particular one, that it is
believed to be the earliest recorded ex
ample of the primitive writing.
At Abydos Professor Fetrie has con
tinued his work of identifying the royal
tombs of the first and second dynasty,
despoiled by his predecessor, and so ar
ranging the chronology of that time. But
bis search has been even more fruitful.
In the tomb of Zer, placed as Mena's suc
cessor, and therefore the second king j
of Egypt, was found a female arm wrapped
la its original cloth, which on being un
rolled yielded a unique and valuable set I
of jewelry, with designs in gold, tur
quoise, lazuli and amethyst. These were
rdstrung as found., and remain at Gizeh,
fey far the oldest and most perfect set of
the ancient Egyptian jewels. A further I
example of the art of thai reign was two j
lions in ivory.
The handle of the royal land measuring
cord of Kins Den and two large stones
Inscribed with the name of Perabsen are
also relics of importance: but the richest
find comes from the tomb of King
Khasekhemui. Here were found the
royal scepter in good preservation, seven
stone vases with gold covers, two gold
bracelets and twenty copper dishes.
A few years ago nothing was known of
the beginning of Egyptian civilization;
even the fourth dynasty, the age of the
pyramids, was looked upon as so far in
the dim past that we could only marvel
at its monuments. Yet here is light upon
a time much older. We have the unique
picture of an indigenous people develop
ing through the prehistoric stage under
the influence of slow progressive change
of nature. Their arts improve, their re
ligion forms—they use pictures of fa
miliar objects to represent their thoughts
and eventually to express them. At this
stage a great prince arises who gathers
together all the people as a nation, and
their civilization has begun. He is truly
the founder of the monarchy and his name
is handed down as such through thousands
of years. It is obvious that nothing sug
gests an invasion and settling of con
querors; it may have been so, but it re
mains to be proved; had the prehistoric
people been recognized as such from the
outset, the title of new race would not
have been given to it; and that name
seems to have been the origin of the the
ory.
We have then before us an outline of
Egyptian history down to the second
dynasty. We note the changes of their
arts, and are familiar with their forms
and writings. Yet between this time and
the pyramid age existed a gap; massive
grandeur characterizes the latter, and del
icate workmanship the former. Of the
intervening third dynasty nothing was
known until the past winter, and much
depended on the nature of its monu
ments to decide whether or not there had
been at this stage a break in the con
tinuity of the country's history.» Some
years ago Professor Petrle had pointed
out the likely importance of a site lying
northward in the desert from Abydos;
and for last year, as director of the Egyp
tian Research Account, advised its explo
ration by that fund. Mr. John Garstang
iwas again intrusted with the expedition.
From El Alawniyeh, working slowly
jaorthward during the winter months, a
In Denver the newspapers were much
bent on exposing Schlatter. But they did
not succeed. Great crowds of hundreds
thronged about the healer—not alone the
ignorant, the superstitious, the credulous,
but persons apparently of almost every
station in life, and the universal enthu
siasm concerning the power of this simple
shoemaker was marvelous.
Schlatter, after leaving Colorado, went
to Las Vegas, then to Albuquerque, and
the last sight of him was crossing the
Southern Pacific railroad near Deming, N.
M. He then passed into Mexico and
through the desert to Casas Grandes,
found food and shelter for himself and
care for his burro with some lonely Mexi
can families who dwelt in the caves made
in the abandoned Mexican mines.
Here the strange healer lived several
months, and here he drew about himself
a small following among the Mexican
mine laborers and their families.
An opening in one of the caves led to a
large interior cavern fitted up as an altar.
Schlatter never commanded the following
among the lonely cliff dwelling laborers
of Casas Grandes that had thronged to
touch the hem of his garment in Denver
and Albuquerque.
Schlatter remained some three months
in the cliffs of Casas Grandes. Then,
mounting his burro, this strange man
started forth into the desert to fast and
pray, with the intention of ultimately re
turning to the United States. But it grew
hot in the desert and he had taken little
food and water. His Mexican followers
grew uneasy. They followed Schlatter up
and found him lying dead under a cactus
bush.
Miles behind on his back trail the heal
er's famished burro was discovered, and
still nearer was found the brass staff
which Schlatter always carried. In one
hand he clutched the Bible given by one
of the mast prominent women of Texas,
who believed Schlatter had worked mira
cles upon the body of her sick son. In
his pocket was found the watch given
by a prominent Burlington official whose
inherited infirmity had miraculously
yielded to the divine touch.
The Jeffepolttica of Casas Grandes was
informed that a body had been found. He
learned that it was the body of Schlatter
and gave it a decent burial in the old
cemetery near Terrages.
So the healer was buried, having passed
away, scarcely known, in an obscure Mex
ican hamlet, while the cities of the Rocky
mountain region were still ringing with
his name.
No healer in modern times has aroused
so strong a belief in his powers or won
as large a following. And still numerous
Schlatters now traveling throughout the
west are gaining the pecuniary benefit' of
the dead man's notoriety.
prehistoric burial ground and two settle- !
ments of the same period were examined i
in turn. An undisturbed burying site of I
the old empire yielded some results of in- !
terest, including a number of the curious
"button" seals, which the explorer be- |
lieves may have been the real ancestor of ■
the scarab that in later times became so j
popular; and a set of alabaster vessels of |
rare quality with a long gold necklet and '
jewels, which remain in the museum at '
Cairo.
Later in the season Mr. Garstang's at- j
tention was called to a large construction J
described as an ancient fort, high up in j
the desert from Beit Khaliaf, westward \
from Girga. The place had already been i
examined by a French archaeologist, so it j
appears, and pronounced to be Greek; but
the necessary concession having beeu ob- I
tamed its excavation was commenced. A I
secret stairway revealed itself, and soon ]
the name of Neter Kha, impressed upon j
the seal of a wine jar, made clear the I
importance of the discovery. This name j
was already known as that of the build
er of the famous pyramid at Saqquara,
the oldest of those .great monuments of
early Egypt.
From an adjoining mastaba, built in im
itation of the step pyramid, came also a
name new to history, Hen Khet being the
king apparently who succeeded the former.
In the site around were large mastabas
of the servants of these kings; the plans
of their tombs at once supplied the miss
ing link with those of the earlier times.
Meanwhile, the excavation of the great
tomb showed the stairway to descend un
der an arch —the earliest known —steeply
into the sand, and to be protected at in
tervals, portcullis-wise, by massive doors
of stone.. Eventually, at a depth of ninety
feet from the surface of the mastaba,
were found eighteen underground cham
bers, disturbed and plundered, yet filled
with relics.
At Naga Der, on the opposite side of the I
river, Dr. G. A. Reisner has also achieved !
important results for the University of j
California. The period of his finds em
braces all those considered above with
which his results work out in striking
analogy and confirmation. In addition to
a large set of vessels, of alabaster, slate,
diorite, and other stones, he has nearly
twenty of the early stone cylinder seals,
which are now attracting much attention;
a gold seal with the name of Mena, and a
gold pendant bearing the name sign of
This. His sold jewels form a remarkable
collection.
At Abu Sir, still bearing on the old em
pire, Dr. H. Schaefer and Dr. L. Borchardt
f6r the Germans, have continued their
work on the site of the temples of Ra
and of the obelisk. The startling find is a
groat brick built boat of Ra, on the south
side of the temple; but of equal impor
tance is their uncovering of traces of
the inclined planes by which the buildings
were constructed —confirming at last a
much abused theory.
At Abu Roash the director of the French
institute, M. Chassinat, has unearthed
parts of statues of King Ra-ded-ef.
At Thetoes Percy Newberry contin
ues his untiring labors among the pri
vate rock tombs. The 'burying place of
Rekhmara has not been found, but much
valuable copying and exploration has been
done. In the debris before one tomb were
found three bronze dishes, perfect Bpeci
mens o>f the are of their time, in each of
which is an ox in the center, so that when
the ibowl is filled the animal appears to be
standing in the fluid and drinking from it.
In the Fayoum 'Messrs. Grenfell and
Hunt have also continued their regular
labors, They have again been fortunate
in the number of papyri found, but un
happily many will be unserviceable on
account of the damp. With a view to
escaping from this constant danger they
have been inspecting a site in upper
Egypt for next year's work.
The official work of the department has
been continued with conspicuous energy.
At Karnak the fallen columns and those
in danger have been removed and "num
bered, with a view to being rebuilt. At
Thebes Mr. Carter has prepared for public
view the three royal tombs of-Tbothmes
I. and 111., and of Amenhetep 11. Mr.
Carter's scheme for the lighting of the
tombs by electricity and the application
of X-rays to the examination of valuable
mummies are commendable and opportune,
With regard to Philae and the effect of
the new dam, it is to be feared that the
islands beauties and relics are doomed
The system of pinning and underoinnine
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAH
which is being carried out will save It for
a time, tout as surely as the water rises
up its courtyard, so surely must the
structure sooner or later collapse like a
pack of cards. At the museum itself a
late acquisition, in addition to the share
of excavation finds, is a large statue of
Marenptah from Eshmunen. Of the cata
logue' the following sections are now com
pleted: Bronze Vessels, Alabasters, Pot
tery, by Yon Biasing; Egyptian Ostraka,
by Daresay; Coptic MSS., by Cram; Cop-
A WRECKING CREW STOLE A JAIL
How It Was Carried Away on a Train in Order to Rescue an Im
prisoned Comrade —War of Town vs. Railroad.
Chicago Tribune. j
There was always a cruel and relentless
war waging between the C. J. and F. K.
Railroad company and the Town of Manikee.
Manikee was a small town, but it didn't know
it.- In its own estimation Manikee was a
metropolis, and it pained Manikee that the
C. J. and F. K. railroad had not recognized
that fact.
Manikee felt certain that the -C. J. and F.
K. railroad owed most of its prosperity to the
fact that Manikee was on the line. Yet the
railroad seemed singularly unmindful of pli
that it owed to Manikee. Several things had
happened to widen the growing breach be
tween the town and the railroad. One of
the things that hurt Manikee most was the
running of the St. Louis cannon ball express
through the town at the rate of about a
mile a minute. If the people of Manikee
wanted to go to St. Louis on this particular
train they had to drive six miles south to v
town named Hamptonville, the hated rival
of Manikee.
Manikee had wailed loudly over what it
called the unjust discrimination of the rail -
road company, and the company had sent a
man all the way from St. Louis to explain to
Manikee that the reason the train stopped
at Hamptonville was because there was an
other railroad there which crossed the C. J.
and F. K. at grade, and therefore both roads
were compelled by the state law to bring their
trains to a dead stop at the junction. But
Manikee refused to accept the apology. The
express stopped at Hamptonville,, and, there
fore, it ought to stop at Manikee.
To be sure, there were hardly three persons
a week who would have boarded the train at
Manikee if it had stopped there, and one of
these was old Mrs. Pierson, who would only
have to go as far as Hamptonville to see her
sick sister, while the other two would prob
ably have been a stray drummer for a gro
cery house and old Squire Leonard, who used
to be in congress and who was the great man
of Manikee. But just the same the fact that
the cannon ball express did not stop at Mani
kee made a deadly enemy of the town against
the railroad.
The town council passed the most strict
laws against the railroad running trains
through the town at a greater speed than
thirty-five miles an hour, and the town mar
shall, Jake Salters, used to stall the freight
trains like a deer-hunter and arrest them
every time they left a freight train lying
over a crossing for one second over three
minutes. Jake had a watch atiout as big as
a saucer and a star like a tin plate. He
j would sneak down behind the old mill and
i peek out at the freight crew switching cars
about in the yard. When a box car would
be left blockading the street longer than the
| time fixed by the town council of Manikee,
| Jake would converge on the scene, waving his
I cane and holding his watch as high as his
head. "Surrender, surrender, gul darn ye,"
the town marshal would command. "Sur
render, b'gosh. Ye've kept that ther' cross
in' clused for fpur minits, and th' law says
ye shall only clus if fer three minutes. Come
on, darn ye, to jail."
Jake w.ould arrest the conductor of the
train and a brakeman or two if he could find
them and march them down to the office of
Squire Rubens, where they would be perhaps
- fifteen or twenty minutes before the station
agent could get them released.
The trainmen on the C. J. & F. K. finally
became so angry at the town of Manikee they
would have cheerfully burned the place off
the map if they could have done so without
j taking any chances of going to the peniten
\ tiary. They resorted to all the small tricks
j they knew of in the way of revenge. The
j engineers opened their whistles wide when
i they went through the town, and every engine
| went screaming through the silent watches
[ of the night at Mauikee like insane demons.
| The freight crews threw coal at the dogs of
| Manikee in the day time and at night they
: pelted the houses along the track.
Manikee got even by increasing its police
j force by one man and vigorously enforcing all
: the blue laws against the railroad that the
j town council could think of. It was a favor
! ite pleasantry of the town marshal and his
I force to arrest a brakeman or conductor at a
i time when the justice of the peace could not
I be found at his office or in his house, so tha*
j the railroad men would have to be confined in
I the calaboose until the magistrate returned.
I One night three brakemen were arrested for
j keeping a crossing closed for four minutes.
I The agent piteously protested that the freight
■! train could not be delayed, but the president
I of the town board was relentless and the
j three men were locked up, and the freight
I train had to watt on the aide track until a
j crew could be sent down from Hillton to take
the places of the men being held in durance
vile. The three brakemen did not remain in
jail quite as long as the jubilant citizens of
Manikee thought they would. The brakemen
INDIAN SQUAW OF ROYAL BIRTH
She Traces Her Descent to King Philip, and Has Lived a Long and
Evening Wisconsin.
Chllton has the distinction of harboring
within its limits the oldest resident of
Calumet county and a direct descendant
of King Philip of colonial fame. The per
son who lays claim to this royal preroga
tive is Mrs. Catherine Stanton, a full
blooded Nyantic Indian woman. She is
of "very great age, probably about 90 years,
although some declare that she has passed
the century mark. She is certainly' what
she claims, a descendant of the great In
dian sachem, and a genealogy of her fam
ily from the time of Ninegret, the chief
of the Nyantics, and son-in-law of Philip,
corroborates her assertion. In her own
words it is thus:
"Ninegret had, among other children, a
son named Charles Augustus, who in turn
had a son styled by his people as Great
Harry. Great Harry had a son named
Christopher, who was the father of a sec
ond Christopher and a daughter named
Catherine, who was my grandmother.
Catherine was my father's mother, and
her brother Christopher had two children,
Augustus and Mary, the latter being my
mother. So I am a descendant of Nine
gret, the son-jn-law of Philip, on both my
father's and my mother's side, and conse
quently I claim an undoubted relationship
to Ninegret." It will be observed that
she is descended not from a son of Philip,
but from his daugther.
As the descendant of Ninegret, she is
one of the few claimants to a large tract
of land reserved by him about the time of
King Philip's war. One portion of this
reservation was thirty l.iles of water
frontage, ten rods above high water mark.
There his people might fish undisturbed,
and that Ninegret exercised wisdom and
foresight in the selection of his reserva
tion is apparent from the fact tlat the
site is now occupied by one of the larg
est and most fashionable summer resorts
in the east. King Philip's war, so de
structive to the Narragansetts, left the
remaining few of the tribe homeless and
destitute, and Ninegret, seeing the dis
tress of his kinsmen, allowed them to set
tle upon his land. Here, undisturbed, the
remnant of Philip's people increased to
such an extent that, in sheer selfdefense,
Ninegret was forced to invoke the aid
of the state in removing them. Soon,
however, Ninegret died; and his followers
left the reservation. Thus the Narra
gansetts, returning, took complete posses
sion, and eventually sold the land. Still,
the descendants of Ninegret were the real
claimants, and Mrs. Stanton, believing
herself to be the sole heir, communicated
with the Rhode Island authorities, with
the result that she was offered the sum
of $100,000,000 on condition that she re-
Hnauish all claims to the land. As it
tic and Byzantine Art, by Strygowskl, and
the Archaic Relics by Quibell.
Next year will probably see the removal
of the whole museum, a priceless collec
tion, to the new building on the Cairo
side of the Nile, near the older site. For
students and officials there is as yet little
provision, tout the lighting and preserving
of the relics has been the object of much
care. The design includes two rooms in
the form of a T, each more than 100 yards
long.
got tired of staying in the calaboose about
midnight, so they broke down the door and
went away on the midnight passenger train.
After that it was hard to keep the railroad
men in the calaboose. They had a way of
breaking down the door or tearing the bars
out of the chimney that was discouraging.
Finally the town of Manikee voted money to
build a new calaboose with. It wasn't to be
large, but it was to be tighter than a drum,
and so constructed that there would be no
breaking out of it. It was built within a
couple of weeks, as it was not more than
twelve feet long by about ten wide. But it
was made of heavy timber, and the door was
of oak that would have defied an ax to chop
down. There was one little window near the
roof not more than six inches wide and about
two feet long, co that even if the iron bar 3
were pulled out it would be impossible for the
slimmest brakeman on the C. J. & F. K.
railroad to squeeze himself through.
"Now, gul darn ye," said Marshal Salters,
as he shoved Conductor Tom Donovan and
Brakeman Jim Rodgeds into the hot little
hole. "I guess ye won't break out of that in
a hurry."
"Good heavene," said Jim, as he aat per
spiring in the mean little calaboose. "I would
sooner be shut up in a smokehouse. If this
is what we're going to get as a regular thing
In this town, I think I'll hunt another job."
"It's pretty tough," said the conductor, "but
the worst part of it is that we will both be
fined about $20 apiece to-morrow and we'll
have to pay it. The company has had so
much to pay out in this town and has had
so much trouble with these people that strict
orders have been given the train crews to
avoid any unnecessary collision with their
blue laws here, and the old man further says
that when any of us are clearly proven to
have kept that blessed crossing closed longer
than the time allowed^ why we'll have to pay
the fine ourselves, that's all. And you know
I did keep that crossing closed about six min
utes to-night. I thought that old tin-starred
marshal was at his supper, where he be
longed."
"Well," said the brakeman, "I guess we're
up against it, but the worst part of this busi
ness is to think of the boys sweltering in
this b-.ke oven in summer. What train is
that whistling? Guess it must be the wreck
ing tratn that's been up to Cerro to put
those box cars on the track."
"Jim," said the conductor suddenly, "if
that train stops here whistle or something,
and see if you can get Pat Harris, the boss
of the wrecking crew, to come over here. I
want to talk to him."-
The train stopped and the brakeman blew
a siren-like note that lured Mr. Harris to
the calaboose window, where he had a long
talk with the gentleman .behind the bars.
Mr. Ha.-ris seemed quite taken with the
proposition advanced by the conductor.
"It's a go, Tommy," said the boss. "The
kellyboose Is only about tin feet from the
track an' 'twill be aisy. We're a goin' now
ten miles beyant an we'll come back about
midnight an' do the trick thin."
At about 12:30 o'clock the wreck train came
Ouletly back to Manikee. The car on which
is placed the big crane stood on the track
nearest the calaboose.
A jail delivery had been planned, but a
jail delivery on a scale that would have
alarmed a hardened jail breaker. The door
of the calaboose waS too heavy to be readily
beaten in -with an ax y and besides a few
blows would 1 have awakened the town mar
shal and his vigi'.ant'.staff, who were quietly
sleeping in their homes a short distance down
the street. The wrecking boss had a much
better plan. The great crane was swung
outward by the crew and the.heavy chains
dropped down around the calaboose. Then
with much squeaking and groaning the cala
boose was lifted bodily into the air and de
posited on the freight car.
The wonder and consternation in Manikee
the next day was something startling. Who
had stolen the jail? Of course the railroad
company was under suspicion, but nothing
could be proved. The town council offered $25
reward for the return "of the Manikee town
calaboose, stolen by unknown parties on the
night of May 8," but nobody appeared to
claim the reward.
The disappearance of the calaboose seemed
to take the nerve out of Manikee. The town
was never quite the same after that. Tbe
other towns all about guyed the place until
gome of the leading citizens moved awayi
The town council withdrew the blue laws
against the railroad, and now the road keeps
their trains on the crossing for half an hour
if they're so inclined, and the fireman throws
coal at Marshal Salters if he so much as
opens his mouth. And Brakeman Rodgers,
who lived near the'yards in St. L-ouis, sud
denly added in a few hours' time quite a
snug little kitchen to his house. And one
window in the kitchen has bars across it.
Eventful Life.
chanced, however other and nearer heirs
sprang up, and they, objecting to such a
disposition of the property, appealed to
the national government. If their claim
is allowed, as in all probability it will
be, the old lady will come into posses
sion of a fortune befitting her royal
lineage.
From infancy to the age of 32 years
she lived with her family on the reser
vation, receiving not only the common
school education or Its equivalent, but
entering a Nev York high school for
Indians as well.
In her youthful days, among her people,
they had already felt the touch of civili
zation. Missionaries had come among
them, churches, singing schools, prayer
meetings and social functions of various
kinds were common. The day of the
wild, utterly untaught savage had passed,
and, although many of the customs were
still extant, the native language and dress
had practically disappeared.
After leaving school Mrs. Stanton, or
Catherine Ross, as her name then was,
entered the service of a daughter of
Senator Dickson as housekeeper, in which
capacity she remained until her employer
left for Europe.
Returning to her home among th"c In
dians, she married Cato Stanton in 1844,
emigrating the following year to what
is now the city of Canton, in Wiscon
sin. Ijt was in January, 1545, that they
arrived at their ne?v home and erected
a rude dwelling of logs close to the north
bank of the Manitowoc river. There,
alone in the barren, desolate waste of for
est, miles away from any settlement, and
not even the rudiments of a path to guide
them, they lived through that first winter, |
subsisting mainly upon unground corn and
potatoes, for no mill was anywhere near.
In the spring Mr, Stanton, with the
help of men brouglt from Brotherton,
erected a small gristi&ill, a temporary and
radifferent affair, though it enabled them
to supply flour for themselves and settlers
that came in the next few years.
For some time their log cabin was the
only dwelling between Manitowoc and
Brotherton, and often ' parties going
through would stop there, and to the
eternal credit of these two members of an
outcast and despised race be it said that
never was a man turned from their door,
whether he.was rich »r poor, good or bad.
Mrs. Stanton is remarkably keen and
alert for one of her advanced age. She
is possessed of more than the average in
telligence, and that her education was
not neglected her conversation amply
attests.
Mr. Stanton died many y earn ago, and
not long ago her sole remaimbig child, a
son, died, leaving her alon«7i>ne of the
remnant of a people that once ruled the
great land of the west. *
Pulpit and Pew
THE S. S. LIBRARY
First Thing to Consider Is the
Child, Not the Books.
HOME TRAINING IS A FACTOR
Paper. by Mitm Lawrence Before the
Summer School—Reasons for
'■' Attending; Sunday School.
"I make no attack upon the novel,"
said Miss Lawrence at the opening of her
paper read before a meeting of the sum
mer school at the university Thursday
afternoon. Miss Lawrence's paper was
upon ''The Sunday School Library."
The first thing to be considered is not the
books. The child should be the main
thought, and, after all, it is not so much of
a question) ac to the style of book which
enters into the Sunday school library as the
proper preparation of the mind of the child
for the reading with which it is provided. A
taste for good reading may be cultivated just
as surely as the taste for music. There are
good novels and bad novels, just as there are
good and bad Sunday school books, and it will
be, found that the child's surroundings and
home training have much to do with his or
her inclination for the best class of literature.
Incidentally much favorable comment
was made upon Bart's recent cartoon in
The Journal calling attention to the
statement of Professor Triggs of Chicago
University, that the average Sunday
school book of the present day was worse
than the dime novel; but discussion of
this phase of the matter was not in
dulged in.
Attendance at Sunday School.
Mrs. C. L. Place, formerly of the St.
Paul public schools, read a very interest
ing and instructive paper, taking for her
topic: "Do you go to Sunday School?
If so, Why?" Mrs. Place based her
conclusions upon personal replies re
ceived from 1,500 children between the
ages of 6 and 16 years to whom the ques
tion was propounded, and found that
about 82 per cent of that number were
regular attendants between the ages of
6 and 8 years, but that the ratio rapidly
decreased in later years, until between
the ages of 12 and 16 the percentage of
attendance was but 54 of the girls and
42 of the boys.
Eight reasons were assigned for attend
ing Sunday school, chief among which
were a desire for religious and moral
training and for general knowledge. Mu
sic, the teacher and the library showed
the smallest percentages.
The meeting was under the auspices of
tbe state library board, and was ten
dered the summer school through the
courtesy of Miss Countryman, assistant
librarian of the public library.
CHURCH SERVICES TO-MORROW
Congregational.
Bethany—Maurice B. Morris,, morning and
evening.
Como Avenue—Morning, J. M. Hulbert;
6:30, evening service, led by Y. P. S. C. E.
Vine—John S. Rood; morning, "Bearing
Our Own Burdens"; evening, "How God Calls
Us and to What."
Park Avenue—Morning, Rev. J. E. Me-
Connell, of Northfleld, Minn; 6:15 p. m.,
Christian Endeavor meeting; no evening ser
vice.
Forest Heights—Adam Murrman; morning,
"The Church, a Spiritual Hospital"; 7 p. in.,
"What, Why and When?" (Both services to
be held in grove near church.)
Oak Park—Morning, "The Struggle for the
Life of Others."
Lyndale—Rev. C. E. Burton; morning,
"Jesus Sitting by the Wells of Life"; even
ing, "God in Zoology; ■ Lessons from Sdi
ders."
; First—Moi-ning, Rev. E. W. Shurtleff;
I evening, union service, Rev. William Love.
'• Ph. D.
I Lowry Hill—Morning, Pastor Seeby, "The
: Hero of a Stormy Voyage."
Plymouth—Morning, Rev. George R Mer
rill, D. D., "The Daily Burden"; 6:30 p. m.,
joint service, church and Endeavor societies.
Pilgrim—Rev. Samuel J. Rogers; morning
: "The Twentieth Century Church"; evening
; "The Rainbow, the Sign of God's Grace."
Methodist.
North—Morning, Rev. David Morgan. No
' evening service.
; Broadway—Rev. Donald McKenzie; morn
ing, "Believing in That Which He Cannot
See"; evening, "The Sin of Covetousness."
| _ Thirteenth Avenue—Rev. T. F. Allen 1
morning, "Captivity Led Captive"; evening]
: "Samson and His Hair."
Franklin Avenue-^Rev. J. G. Morrison
morning, "Wide Versus Straight—Broad Ver
sus Narrow"; evening, "God's Logical
Chain."
St. Louis Park—Evening, Rev. W. Burns,
Ph. D., "En R"bute to Rome."
Richfield—Morning, Rev. W. Burns, Ph. D.,
"Paul's Shipwreck." No evening service.
Fowler—Rev. A. R. Lambert, D. D.; morn
ing, "In the Lap of Nature." No evening ser
vice.
Central German—Rev. C. L. Lehnert; morn
ing, "The Great Commission"; evening "The
Tragedy at a Thief."
Forest Heights—Morning, E. P. Overmire
Evening, Rev. M. B. Smith.
Bloomington Avenue—Morning Rev C H
Sweatt. Evening, Rev. Charles Fox' Day's
"Searching for God."
First—Rev. Win. Love, Ph. D.; morning
reception of members and communion ser
vice; evening, union service at First Con
gregational. Dr. Love will preach.
Park Avenue—Rev. G. G. Vallentyne, morn
ing and evening.
Foss—Morning, Rev. David Tice.
Baptist.
Immanuel—Rev. George A. CleavelanJ
niorning, "Baptism" (by request).
What I? the Ordinance?" evening "Why
Was It Instituted?"
Tabernacle—Rev. G. H. Gamble, morning.
The Christian Race"; evening, "Water into
Vv me, or Whatsoever He Saith unto You, Do
Xorwegian-iDanish—Rev. <R. A. Sa^r;
morning, "Eternal Life"; evening, "Reflect
ing as a Mirror."
lOllvet—Morning, .* Rev. Frank H. Cooper,
"The j BrogUe lof Ashdod"; evening, union
service at First Congregational.
Central—.Morning, '. Rev. W. W Dawlev
D. (D., "Applauding the Wicked"; no evening
service. . ."'*
First—Rev. W. B. " ißiley, morning and
evening; evening, "The Antichrist and His
Associates,' a fifth study in Revelation.
-Berean Branch—Evening,' Rev. A. E. Peter
son, missionary service.under the auspices of
; the B. Y. P. U. •-;■».■ ; : .....*■ *- .
i Calvary—Rev. H. G. De Witt, D. D., of
Fresno, Cal.; morning, "Leaving Home, or
! Abraham's Guide ;to a New Country"; even
ing, "The Web of Life and How We Weave
[lit." -' ,:"■ ••-' ' ■■/■■.■■••... -, - " - .
! ..T-'V'': ' : .. ; ' Presbyterian. " . ... - \ r .. :
I , First—Rev. !J. B. Helwig, D. D.; morning,
j"Christ c the . True Priest for the People"; no
\ evening service. * •»• ."{
[. Shiloh—Rev. Willard S. Ward; moraine,
"Following ; after God," reception' of new
members,; evening, "One Thing Thou Lack
eat''. 1; (open air service on church lawn). ..".,.
9 House of Faith—Rev. Charles Scanlan;
morning, "The /Power ■'■ of Personal Life";
[ evening, ."Each Life a Plan of God" (union
j service, Open Door Cngregational church).
■ Oliver—Rev. ; H. M. Pressly; .'morning,
"Three Bible Pictures, Gen. xi., ■ Acts 11. aud
Rev. " vll. 1';" evening,' "True Philanthropy." ;
;.Stewart j,- Memorial—Rev. R. K. Porter,
morning and evening. ; *
Westemlnflter—,Wm. C. Covert of Sagl
naw, : Mich.; morning, • "Feelings and Charac
ter"; * evening, "God's Method -In Widening
Ute."'-:-j '■■_■- ' ... " - . ; ;:,- 1' : •,-*;..
Franklin '''■. Avenue—Rev. W. O. Wallace;
morning, ; "Thoughts • of ■ Comfort"; - evening;"
the service will be held on the lawn. *
■', ' _■'.; <■■? . Uiiiveraalist. -/ x ■.'.■
Tuttle—tMorning, Rev. R. H. Aldrlch, "Sto-;
rlea.la Life.". - ' ; . •
:■■',■■"- ': "< ? i '■' •'., Episcopal. .... '
(Transfiguration — Rev. ; Isaac Houlgate; i
morning ; service, 10:80; . Sunday school at
noon. ■ : * ■•-».-' •-,<i\ ."•'* .../ . % i.'.'Z
. 'iy >;■ - ChrUtlan Science. , t '
First (Fifteenth street, between Park and
Portland avenues)— Morning, "Love." »
Second ;: (Lyceum ;! theater) —Morning,
"Love." ■■*■•..•• \ ■"■'-'. :- '. * -':. ',*■ . ■■■
v» • -■. ■;•:■■■::>•_■ ,;. AdventUt. v ."-J*,.. : ■-_....*.: .
Advent Christian—Rev. O. M. Owen; morn
ing^'i'Progressive Steps in the Work of
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Christ"; evening, "The Hope of Which None
Should Be Ashamed."
Spiritualists.
Christian Spiritualists (Labor Temple)— 3
p. m., E. Swenson; 8 p. m., lecture by Pro
fessor J. Zeno.
Band of Light-^Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes, aft
ernoon, grove meeting at Excelsior avenue
and Lake street.
Miscellaneous.
People's Mission—4 p. m., gospel temper
ance meeting. Evening, revival service.
Church Notes.
"Putting Away Chiidlsh Things" will be
the subject of a • practical, twenty-minute
talk to young men, at the Y. M. C. A., Sun
day afternoon, at 3:30 o'clock. Rev. W. S.
Ward will be the speaker.
Rev. L. A. Clevenger, pastor of Calvary
Baptist church, is attending the meetings
of the Baptist Young People's Union in Chi
cago. His pulpit will be occupied to-morrow
by-Roy. H. G. Do Witt of Fresno, Cal.
Rev. W. Whitney, former superintendent
of missions in Minnesota, and for several
years pastor of the Baptist church at Man
kato, will preach at the Fourth Baptist
church to-morrow, in the absence of Rev.
Mr. Holt.
The Chicago Avenue Baptist Christian En
deavor Society, which held its annual picnic
at Lake Harriet Friday evening, will conduct
the evening service at the church to-morrow
evening. This is one of the most progress
ive and enterprising societies in the city.
The all-day Pentecostal meeting for July
will be held Tuesday, in the Methodist Epis
copal church at Richfield. Take Washburn
Park car to the end pf the line*. Carriages
will meet cars at following hours: 10 to
11:30 a. m., 2 to 3 and 6:30 to 7:30 p. m.
Preaching at 10:30, 2:30 and 7:30.
At the First Baptist church, Sunday even
ing, Rev. W. B. Riley will preach his fifth
sermon in the series on "Revelations"; sub
ject, "The Antichrist and His Asosciate9."
After to-morrow, the chorus will take a va
cation of a month. The music for the day
is as follows: Morning—"Jerusalem (Par
ker), chorus, with solo by Mr. Woodward;
'"Art Thou Weary?" (Holden), quartet.
Evening—"Hark, Hark, My Soul" (Buck),
chorus; "Savior, Source of Every Blessing"
(Abt), quartet.
Rev. William C. Covert, of Saginaw, Mich.,
will occupy the pulpit at Westminster to
morrow, both morning and evening. Mr.
Covert will have for his theme in the morn
ing, "Feelings and Character." In the even
ing, the order of service will be as follows:
Organ prelude, Andante (King Hall); anthem,
"Sweet Is Thy Mercy" (Barnby); responsive
reading; Gloria; Scripture lesson; hymn;
prayer; offertory, "In Heavenly Love Abid
ing" (Lassen); hymn; sermon, "God's Method
in Widening Life"; hymn; benediction.
A JUDGESHIP MIX-UP
A Mistake Nearly Caused the Wrong
Man's Confirmation.
Saturday Evening Post.
Late in the year 1900 it was decidSd by
the powers that be that Daniel H. McMil
lan, ex-state senator of New York, and
for many years general counsel, in the
city of Buffalo, for the Vanderbilt sys
tem of railroads, was to be appointed
associate justice of the supreme court of
New Mexico.
This appointment had been urged not
only by those who knew Mr. McMillan in
the state of New York, but by lawyers of
Santa Fe and of other cities in New Mex
ico, who knew of him and desired to see
him obtain the place.
Toward the close of 1900 with Governor
Otero of the territory, Mr. McMillan was
on a Lake Shore train speeding toward
Washington. When the train stopped at
Painesville,, Ohio, newsboys boarded it.
The governor of the territory and Mr.
McMillan bought a paper; and in that
paper they reas in glaring heanlines that
Silas Alexander of Santa Fe, had received
the appointment to the vacant judgeship.
Mr. McMillan, the morning of his arri
val in the capital, went at once to the
office of the secretary of war.
"How did it happen I was not ap
pointed?" he asked.
"Why," said Mr. Root, "you ere ap
pointed!"
"Why," said Mr. McMillan, "you are
mistaken;" and he drew from his pocket
the Cleveland newspaper of the day be
fore. Secretary Root turned all colors.
"This is a mistake," he said; "an ab
surd, strange mistake, for I have it. from
the president's own lips, corroborated by
Mr. Griggs, attorney general, that your
name was sent yesterday to the senate
for action and that the recommendation
was duly signed by President McKinley."
Then the merf went to the state, war
and navy building and found Attorney
General Griggs.
"But you have been given the appoint
ment," said Mr. Griggs.
"Then what does this newspaper report
mean?" was the reply.
The attorney general was dumbfounded
I cannot conceive what it means " he
said. He tapped his bell, and when a
messenger came in response he requested
the attendance of the clerk, in confiden
tial relations with him, whose duty it is
to fill in, pon appointment blanks
the names of those who are designed for
appointments by the executive.
The clei* appeared, "Mr. Blank," said
the attorney general, "find out at once
whose name was sent yesterday to the
senate with the recommendation by the
president that he be appointed associate
justice of the supreme court of New
Mexico."
"I will look," said the clerk. He soon
returned with a memorandum slip in his
hand.
"Mr. Alexander," he said; "the man
from Buffalo."
Then a glimmering of the truth dawned
upon the group. "Are you sure," said At
torney General Grigga, "that the name
was not. McMillan?"
"Certainly," was the reply; "the name
was Silas Alexander."
The situation was remarkable and time
was important.
The president of the United States had
inadvertently, by the error of a subordi
nate, been made to set aside the man
whom he had intended to name.
There came a pause. Mr. Griggs broke
the silence.
"Well, gentlemen," he said, "the fat is
in the fire, but we must get it out. My
subordinate has made this mistake and I
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must do my best to get it rectified, and
perhaps the fault is partly mine, for I
told him to fill in the name of 'the Buffalo
man,' and he, probably, seeing the name
Alexander and identifying it with the rep
resentative of the same name, prominently
known in Washington as coming from
Buffalo, thought that he was to be the
appointee."
And so the three men went to the presi
dent and explained matters and as a con
sequence a messenger, preceded by a tele
phone message, sped rapidly toward the
capitol with instruction to seek immedi
ately the leader, of the senate and prevent
any action on the mistaken nomination,
and to make the statement to that leader
that it was withdrawn.
The messenger arrived just as the sen
ate was about to take action, and if the
telephone had been relied upon the nomi
nation of Silas Alexander would have
been confirmed by th« United States sen
ate and the will of the president of the
republic would have been defeated.
NATURAL ENOUGH, TOO.
Brooklyn Life.
She—Why, no. The stolen Gainsborough
was not a hat; it was a picture.
Her Husband—Oh, I thought from the
value it was a hat.
ffIIIJIFACES,
SOME HAVE THE SLOW OF HEALTH AND
SOME ARE SICKLY PALE.
A Physician Talks .Entertainingly
on This Subject—Some Useful
Hints to Mothers of Grow- : . •
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"A woman's face," said a well known
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pale, sallow or greenish complexion, and
a languidness of step that bespeaks dis
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ment is not properly resorted to and per
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enriched and the functions of life become
regular. Upon parents rests a great re
sponsibility at the time their daughters
are budding into womanhood. If your
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i 3 tired out upon the slightest exertion, if
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pain in the side, if her temper is fitful
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