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THE STORY OF A NOBLE LIFE.
Miss Clara Barton has again been
brought conspicuously t«fore the pub
lic by the proposed relief work for tbe
thousands of destitute and helpless
men, women and children in Armenia,
whose suffering tbe world has, tbusfsr,
been unable to relieve. As soon as
the necessary money is raised, she and
her assistants will start for Constanti
nople; Altheiigb between 63 and 70
years old she enters upon the difficult
undertaking with the ardor and zeal of
ber youth. No one has yet been able
to penetrate to the suffering districts,
(foe mar, entrusted with $15,000 for
distribution among the Armenians,
has within a month, returned borne
with the money, having failed to ac
complish his mission; but it is believed
that the Red Cross, protected as it is
by its international treaty, of which
Turkey ia one of the signers, will ac
complish what no one else can. In
connection with this new undertaking
a sketch of Miss Barton's life will be
read with interest. The following is
taken, in rart, from tbe "New York
Tribune."
MISS BARTON'S LIFE-WORK.
For more than forty years Miss Bar
ton has made ber home at tbe National
Capital, where she is a well-known and
familiar figure, although she lives a
qniet and retired life, devoting herself
entirely to the administration of the
affairs of tbe Red Cross Society, of
which sbe is tbe director. Many of
these years have been spent away from
here, wherever duly called iter, on bat
tlefields, in hospitals, succoring those
made destitute by floods and fire, and
nursipg the victims of pestilenoe.
She was born in North Oxford, Mass.,
in 1830. She was only sixteen when
she began teaching school and from that
time until now ber life has been lived for
tbe good of others., It was when re
covering from 8n illness induced by
overwork in establishing a free school
in Bordentown, N. J., that she came
in 1853 to visit relatives in Washing
ton and to rest. Miss Barton possess
es the nervous strength which is seem
ingly inexhaustible. She burns bei
candle at both ends and accomplishes
an incalculable amount of work. Her
indomitable will supplies the power
after ber physical strength is gone, and
invariably finishes'tbe work she has in
hand: but, that done, sbe gives out
like tbe snapping of a watchspring, and
must lay by for a season to rest. From
these periods of rest sbe bas again and
again been called t> undertake other
work, and during ber first visit hère,
when she came to recuperate from her
labors at Bordentown, she was per
suaded to take charge of a divison of
tbe Patent Office, the affairs of which
were in inextricable confusion, owing
to tbe duplicity of certain clerks who
bad given out information concerning
tbe patents.
Miss Baiton's wonderful executive
ability was shown in ber work here,
and she succeeded in bringing order
out of chaos, although every possible
stumbling block was put in ber way fay
men who resented ber presence among
them. Miss Barton is said to have
been tbe first woman appointed to a
position in tbe Government depart
ments. There is no record of any one
proceeding ber, but this is a subject
prolific of disputes. She was discharg
ed in Buchanan's Administration for
her intense Republican sympathies,
but which sbe took no pains to conceal
was recalled during the same Admin
istration, it having beeu impossible to
find any one to continue the work Bhe
had begun, and at Hie beginning of tbe
war sbe still occupied this plaee, which
she at once resigned to serve her count ry
on the field. A general of the Army
once said that during the whole war
there were no belter soldiers than Miss
Barton and those devoted women like
her who went to the front to nurse the
sick and wounded.
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DURING tiie civil war
In tbe early days of the war women
nurses were not permitted to go to the
front, and their field was a very limited
one, but immediately où entering the'
hosptial service Miss Barton set about
convincmg lier division commander,
'Genen 1 J, G. Ruckwvuf Die value ber
services would be there, and finally suc
ceeded in persuadiiig. bim to furnish
her with transportai ion, and received
his permission to go wherever there was
need ofber. Froni.t his time until with
in a yéar of the end of tbe war, when
she was called home by a death in her
family. Miss Barton was active in field
and hospital woik, organizing and
directing, training people to help her;
driitnining up supplies—doing every
thing, in a word, that her strong and
capable hands found to d i, and with
her clear and logical brain, her syste
matic methods and her unselfish devo
tion to the. work, making herself a
power and establishing a repu: at ion
which tpread all over the world.
Her eminent ability was recognized
by ber appointment as superintendent
tbe Tenth Arm^ Corps hospital,
near City Point, arid her » experiences
here, her work oq; f$q battlefield,, her
'whole war service, in fact, would make
a thrilling volume. It is doubtful If
any one was more tenderly loved or
more popular with the ''boys. " In her
a man's courage, fortitude and energy
were united with a woman's tenderness
kindness and sympathy, and sbe became
known as "the angel of the battlefield.
When tbe war was ended Miss Bar
ton was appointed by President Lin
coin to attend to the correspondence
Telative to th ose piisioue r s mia.-ing af- I co
ter the exchanges were made. She I
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of 1,300 graves of buried soldiers at
Andersnnville she was able to identify
all but 400. There was do appropria
tion made for this work. Hie expense of
which Miss Barton paid out of her own
purse, and when subsequentlyjCongress
voted to reimburse her she refused to
accept the money.
In 1869, completely worn out by in
cessant work, Miss Barton went to
Europe for a much needed rest. This
vacation had the same ending as the
others, and before her health was
completely restoaed she was asked to
again put her bands tothe plough.
It was while at Berne that Miss Bar
ton, whose reputation preceded her
across the ocean, was called upon by
a committee from the International
Committee of Relief, out of which Red
tbeCros8 Society grew and asked to take
part in the convention at which the,Red
Cross Society w as formed.
ON FRENCH BATTLEFIELDS.
The Franco-Prussian war breaking
out at this period, Miss Barton at the
request of Dr. Appia, went to the front
and served through the bloody struggle
with the same devotion that had
marked her service in her own country,
and her experience and counsels were
of the greatest assistance to the hospi
tal authorities. In recognition of her
work the Emperor and Empress of
Germany preseuted to her the Cross of
Merit, and Grand-duke and Duchess of
Baden a Red Cross brooch, the Gold
Cross of Remembrance and the colors
of Baden,
When she returned home ia 1873,
Miss Barton set about persuading this
Government to sign the international
treaty of the Red Cross Society, which
had already been signed by all other
civilized nations and by some only half
civilized, but it was not unMl 1882,
after nine years of inccessant labor,
that the bill authorizing the President
to sign the treaty p issed both houses
of Congress.
In appearance Miss Barton has
changed but little during the last ten
years. Her soft, gray hair waves back
from a low intellectual brow, her eyes
are deep set and kindly, her features
are large and strong, and the lines of
her face tell something of the story of
her long life of self denial and hard work
She could hardly even in her youth,
have been considered a beautiful wo
man, except when her smile, which
is full of sweetness and inexpressible
kindness, illumines her face.
No one could know Miss Barton,
even superficially, without being im
pressed with her force, energy and
resourcefulness. Whatever duty pre
sents itself she accepts without hesita
tion, without discussing it even with
herself, and no complication seems
either to alarm or'discourage her. She
sees events with the clear vision with
which an astronomer looks at the
heavens, and maps out her work far
ahead with the wisdom of the seer,
who can foretell what will happen.
With her secretaries, aBd the people
whom she has been called upon to di
rect, she is accredited With wonderful
power, and her personal magnetism is
very great. She is as generous with
her money as with herself, and draws
on her private fortune to help through
any project in which she is at the mo
ment interested.
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It would lead back to oar kitchens. In fact,
tl»e secret of good health is good cocking.
If well cocked, foods are partially diges«
ted; if poorly cocked, they are less diges
tible.than in their raw state. If yon
Victim of faulty cocking; that is, if yon
suffer from Dyspepsia, the rational cure
must be looked for in an a rtificially diges
ted food, and a food which will atthe same
time aid the digestion of other foods. Such
a preparation virtually rests the tired di
gestive organs, thereby restoring .them to
tbeir natural strength.
The Digestive Cordial, as prepared by tbe
Shakers of Mount Lebanon, is just such a
preparation, and a single 10 cent bottle
will convince you Of its value. If your
diuggist doesn't keep it, lie will be glad to
get it through bis wholesale honse.
Laxoj is the best medicine for children.
Doctors recommend it in place of Castor Oil.
Mother—Why a~e you crying?
Daughter— Why, when I got a check
book of my own I went through it and
signed all the checks right away, and
Harry called me a little idiot.
With step as noiseless as the summer air
Who comes In beautiful decay? Her eyes •
Dissolving with a feverish glow of light and
on
Her cheek a rosy tint, as if the tip
Or beauty's linger lalntly pressed R thçre!
Alas ! Consumption U her name.''
This terrible disease which -has numbered
Its victims by millions, comes in the fnost In
sidious way. Getting one's feet wet; a slight
cold, a cough, end then other indlscKtlons
until it gets a firm hold. Why fall a victim
when a cute Is within reach? Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical ' Discovery will effectually
cure consumption in its earlier Stages. For
weak lungs, spitting of blood, asthma, linger
ing coughs and kindrrd ailments, it Is a sov
ereign remedy. _
. "Ella," said Marion, as they were
seated on Ure veranda of their country
bouse,/Fi- went fishing with George
this morning.
"Did you? What did you catch?"
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whlch make men prematurely a^d,
pale, listless, low spirited, languid, easily
tired, forgetful and, Incapable; Ml mad -booses
swell the Usts of suicides; separate boa
hands and wives; bring untold sufffering to
millions, even unto the third and fourth gen
eration.' '/. - S
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H E Repu 1 i c ba u
House does not
propose wasting
any time while
waiting for the
tariff and bond
bills to be repor
frnm the Finance
committee and
acted upon by the
the Senate. It is
the policy of the Republican leaders in
tbe House to make the session a - short
one, so far as the action of one branch
of Congress can do so, and in accord
ance with that policy tbe reglar appro
priation bills are to be passed as rapid
ly as possible. The pension appropria
tion bill will be reported to the House
this week. It carries an appropriation
of $137 900,000 and three important
amendments to the pension law. First,
one providing that no pension shall be
suspended on a charge of fraud until
the charge shall Lave been adjudicated
in a U. S. District Court, except where
the alleged fraud constitutes a plain
violation of statue, -as in tbe case of
the remarriage of a widow; second,
one providing that any claim granted
under the act of 1890 shall date from
the dat9 of application, instead of from
the date of adjudication as at present;
third, one repealing the section of the
act of 1890 which requires a widow to
show that she is dependent for her sup
port on her dai'y labor.
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It is expected that tbe Senate Fin
ance Committee will report one or more
bills to the Senate this week, but it Is
not certain that it will, and tbe exact
nature of tbe bill or bills which will be
reported is even more uncertain, al
though the -impression is growing
among Republicans that the tariff bill
will be reported without amendment,
just as it was passed by the House, and
that it will be pushed to a vote at an
early dale. - It is for the finance com
mittee to decide whether the tariff or
bond bill will be first reported. It is
now regarded as probable that if Mr.
Cleveland succeeds in making a big
bond issue he will feel independent of
the revenue provided by tbe 'tariff bill
and will veto that measure, if the Sen
ate passes it, which it will almost cer
tainly do.
Representative Clark, of Iowa, has
introduced a bill providing tbit green
backs shall be paid bv the Treasury on
ly in exchange for gold, an l th it n me
of tbe gold now in the Treasury shall be
paid out until the total amount on
hand exceeds $100,000,000. The dif
ference between this bill an l the j tint
resolution offered by Senator Shermin
is that this bill would ffcip the redemp
tion of greenbacks an l Tr eaaury notes
until tbe gold reserve exceeded tbe
sum named, while Mr. Shermau's re
solution provides for the continued re
demption of those notes with gold ba;
prohibits tbe reissue of notes so re
deemed except for gold.
Senator Elkin3, of W. Ya , gave
out some very interestin' figures while
be wa3 speaking in favor of His res da
tion against the dispm! of binli by
private contract or in any other way
tBan by public advertising. He bad
searched the Treasury rec >rd a id
showed by tbe official fi«urea th it the
U. 8. Government bad only piid ab >ir.
$5,500,000 in commissions to the b ink
ers who asssisted in selling the $2,500.
000,000 of bobds'which represinted the
debt incurred during the late civil war,
less than one half tbe am iuik m id j by
the syndicate which took tbe 1 is. $52.
000,000 of bonds issued by the Cleve
land administration. It is not sur
prising that Congress sb uïdbe opposed
to Mr. Cleveland's regioned deal for
another issue of b nds through the
same syndicate. The only fling that
prevents CongresrdeprivMi ; Mr. CI«veJ
land of the au horny to issue mue
bonds uuder the old la v is the fear
that such action might be used by ilie
European money gougers to - cause a
financial panic,
No surprise was caused in Congress
by tbe publication of Ambassador
Bayard's alleged intention to remain
iu England afi.er he retires from office,
and about the only comment heard is
that if we had the right sort of admin
istration he would in t have to wait
long for his retirement. The repoit
that Bayard had been reprimanded by
Secretary Olney is nut believed here. -
Utah having become a full fledged
state is now represented in Die House
by its first Representative, in the per
son'of Hon. C. E. Allen, and Dele
gate Cannon retires from the House to
•go, bis friends believe, to the Senate.
Representative Allen says of Utah:, for
?*I think the state will remain Republi- ]
can for a long period, because oar peo- Ttct
pie are decidedly ia favor, ef bhe pro- he
„«.»opi.im ulo tb. fa
of the two senators U be elected by tie.
the Utah legislature, father than that ask
they would both be good Republicans and
and that one would be a Mormon.
The Venezuelan B niudary Commis-,
Sion made an excellent star by elect
ing Justice Brewer, of the U. S. Su
preme Court, piesidrn'. It will bold
its next meeting nn 1 he'll b inst.
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DAUGHTER OF THE "OLD ROMAN
MAKES A RICH 8TRIKE IN
THE WEST.
O .ce ibe belle of Washington and
now (he bonanza queen of a Colorado
mining camp, Mary Thurman, the
yonngest daughter of the "Old Roman,"
the late Allen G. Thurman, has bad
one of the most romantic careers of
any woman in America.
Mary Thurman bas b en for the last
five years a social exile from the fash
ionable circles of Washington and Ne w
Yoik, where her brilliancy, originality
and independence, and her father's na
tional repute formerly gave her pres
tige and position. While in Washing
ton she made what was supposed to be
a brilliant marriage, but a divorce fol
lowed and sbe went West to San Diego
and took up lier abode at Tia Juanna,
on the Mexican line.
Since then she has made two extraor
dinary marriages, and whtn si e visited
her old home at Columbus, O., shortly
before her mother's death, her father
turned her irom his door.
News has just come from the mining
camp of Picacho, near Yuma, that for
tune has played the game into Mary
Thurman's hands again, and that after
years of luckless fa e she will probably
become one of the riebest women on
the Pacific Coast, She has made the
richest strike known in any of the desert
camps for years, and while prospecting
in the hills found a vein of ore that
promises to make her a bonanza queen.
The romance is enhanced by the fact
that her find was made within a few
days of the brilliant marriage in London
ofher first hesband, Lieutenant Com
mander William S. Cowles, a naval at
tache of the United States, to the heir
ess, Miss Roosevelt, sister of James
R. Roosevilt the Secretary or the
United Embassy.
Mary Thurman was her father's fav
orite child in her girlhood. She was
named after lier mother, who was a
Miss Mary Dunn, of a well known
LexingtoD, Ky., family, and she had
much of her mother's social charm,
with the mental endowments of her
father. Her sister is the wife of ex
Gov. McCormick, Arizona, afterwards
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in
Washington and -iow in New York.
Uutil the domestic difficulties which
led io Mary Thurman's divorce from
Lieut. Cowles, the two sistes lived at
Richmond Hill, near Jamaica, L. I. in
houses presented to them by their
father. Mrs. McCormick still lives in
New York the greater part of the year,
end from here was summoned to the
death bed of Judge Thurman a few
weeks ago.
Mary Thurman presided over her
father's house in Washington, so grac
iously that it became a centre of social
life during his terms in the Senate,
although Mrs. Thurman bad little taste
for gayeties. Mrs. McCormick's bouse
adjoiued lier father's in Washington,
and the two mansions were thrown to
gether when either gave a large enter
tainment. The two sisters, one the
wit and the other the beauty, were
soon leaders in the younger social set
Mary Thurman had a curious relig
ious vein in her character, and
rowiy escaped entering a nunnery in
her early youth but the counsels of ber
family prevailed against ber religious
zeal. Sbe was educated in the Ursu
line Convent, Broun County, Ohio,
and though she never became a mem
ber of the Catholic Church, she was a
regular attendant at the Cathedral on
Broad street, Columbus.
lier marriage to Lieut. Cowles took
place with great eclat about sixteen
years ago. He was then in command
of the Despatch, a small vessel wh ich
lay at the Washington Navy-Yard,
and was used for pleasure purposes.
Their married life was an uubappy
one, and by mutual agreement Mrs.
Cowles secured a dirt ice through
Ohio court. She Dieu went West and
while traveling in Southern California
met hi d married a dashing young ad
venturer—Thomas Scott Gifford — v ho
was born of English paten 3 in Spain
and, instead of castles in Cmtile,
pioved to have a wifeaud two children.
Mary Thurman then proc ired a
0 id divorce and astonished her friends
by marryiug "Bug" Holiday, the
uoied baseball player.
She bas lived a wild, adventurous
life for the past few years, and is known
in all the mining camps of Southern
California. Always prone to enthusia
sms, she caught the prospecting fever
1 n 1 her lonely walks among the lulls
have made ber a familiar figure of the
region.
Wuat the bonanza queen will do
ith Ler fortune, should it develop
riel ly as it promises, is interesting beri
friends. It is scarcely probable that
sbe will care to come East to the scene
of her social triumphs and misfortunes;
but in the role of a bonanza queen all
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QUEEN
Bloat Letter That Reached Him From
the Interior Department,
: The following anecdote is related of
fludge Cox, who was once secretary of
the interior : There is a class of people,
and a large one, who find pleasure in
with the departments on
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despondence indefinitely. A gentleman,
S t ns call him Mr. Jones, was one of
ese persistent specimens yrho wrote to
the interior department Although re
plies were made to his inquiries, be al
ways returned to the front with another
unimportant question. His case became
a subject of conversation among the
clerks, and at lunchtime one day some
one referred to Mr. Jones' ability as a
letter writer.
"H I had my way, " said a clerk, "I'd
soon put an end to his nonsense. "
"How would you do it?"
"Why, I'd write him a letter like
this, " and he wrote as follows :
Dear Mr. Jones—Y oure of tbe 9th bist
received. In reply I would say that your in
tellectual capacities are rather inferior to
those of a boneless oodAah. I am tired of yon.
Hoping you will not write again, I remain,
yours respectfully, -.
The letter was passed around and read
and finally carelessly thrown aside oils
desk. It remained there until evening,
when it was collected, with others, by
the messenger whose duty it was to car
ry letters from the several divisions to
the secretary for his signature. It
chanced to be among some letters relat
ing to routine matters, and Secretary
Cox affixed his signature without read
ing it. Then it went through the mail
to Mr. Jones. The following day the
secretary received a communication
from Mr. Jones. He was shocked and
grieved ; he was fearful that the govern
ment was tottering to its falL When a
cabinet officer descended to penning
such sentences, he said, he feared for
the welfare of the country. Mr. Jones'
wounded feelings were soothed by a per
sonal letter from the secretary, and to
show that there was no hard feeling on
his part Mr. Jones at once renewed his
correspondence with the department. —
Washington Post
NEWS OF LINCOLN'S DEATH.
An Uliutration of the Improvement In
the Means of Communication.
Writing upon the subject of "The Ro
mance of Our News Supply," Mr. W.
G. Fitzgerald tells a story about the
death of President Lincoln which strik
ingly illustrates the improvement effect
ed in our means of communication dur
ing the last 80 years. In those days
there were no.Atlantic cables working,
and news of the shooting of the presi
dent and his subsequent death had to
come by steamer. All night after Wilkes
Booth's fatal Bhot had been fired Reu
ter's agent at Washington waited for
the announcement of Lincoln's death,
which was known to be imminent.
The president passed away at 7 :80 the
next morning at the very moment a
great steamer was leaving for England.
The energetic agent hired a fast tug and
pursued the departing steamer until ho
was near enough to cast on her deck a
tin canister containing the mournful
tidings. This was the only intimation
of Lincoln's death received in England
by the mail. It was the custom in those
days for swift yachts to meet the in
coming Atlantio liners off the coast of
Ireland. Tin cans of special construction
were thrown overboard by the officers of
the steamer and picked np by the yaohte,
after which the messages were conveyed
with all possible expedition to the near
est telegraph office.—London News.
Marine Mnsio a Failure.
Until some recent discoveries by Pro
fessor Haussier of Yevey, Switzerland,
It was not suspected that fishes were af
fected by music. In a shallow inlot Pro
fessor Sauseier found a queer arrange
ment of strings in the wgter which' de
manded examination. ~~
fair from a distance wi
scope he saw that some 1 fishes, which
had, by the usual painful method, gain
ed possession of several fragments of
fishline, were passing them around two
sticks thrust into the water by some fish
erman. When the strings were strung,
the stakes were wedged apart by piling
stones between them so as to tighten the
strings, three or four fishes rolling a
stone along the bottom with their noses.
The operation was necessarily slow.
The professor watched it at intervals for
two or three days
Finally, when all was ready, the lar
gest fish seized a stick or bone, and,
using it as a plectrum, twanged the
strings with it, while the other fishes
gathered around to hear the music. Of
course, there was none, as the sub
merged strings refused to sound. After
several trials the fishes tore np their wa
ter harp in disgust They had probably
caught their idea from Aimee Haussier,
the professor's daughter, who was in
the habit of playing a harp by the bank.
—Boston Journal
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An Even Thing.
"My friend," he said in the soft
tremolo which bespeaks the mendicant,
"I'm in bard luck."
The man whom he was endeavoring
to touch only jvalked the faster.
"I'm hungry and sleepy and I ain't
got a thing ter eat nor any place ter lay
my head."
"I haven't anything for you. Fve
heard all that before. ''
"Heard it before I Why, look 'ere,
mister, this ain't no prize contest for
originality. And if it is, you ain't got
none the best o' me,"he went on, slack
ening his pace, and dropping behind.
"I've heard what yon said before 'bout
'leven thousand times at the lowest eal
c'lation. "—Washington Star.
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Not a Crying Bril.
See the young woman. x
Is the young woman being suddenly
and unexpectedly kissed?
Ah, yes.
And does the young worilän reise»
fane and cry?
The young woman raises a alight hoe,
but no cry.—Detroit Tribune.
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Beggar—Bog pardon, sir, but I have
Men better days than this. Passer
by—Si bave I. The weather is horrid
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