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The Reformer.
^Bitora the monstrous wrong ho sets
him down—
Ob*
man against a stone walled city
of sin.
For centuries those walls have been
a building
Smooth porphyry, they slope and
coldly glass
The flying storn., the wheeling sun
No chink,
No crevice lets the thinnest arrow In.
He lights alone, and from the cloudy
ramparts
-A thousand evil faces gibe and jeer
him.
Let h.'m lie down and die! What Is
the right,
And where is Justice In a world like
this?
But, by and by, earth shakes herself,
Impatient
And down, in one great roar of ruin,
crash
Wateh tower and citadel and battle
ments.
When tho red dust has cleared, the
lonely soldier
Standi with strange thoughts be
neath the friendly stars.
—E. R. Still.
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11
The Plot
That Failed
(By Neal Martin.)
Iran entered the library and pre
tented a card to Giles Dawson.
Under the printed name, "Prince
Nicholas Barnakoff," a few words
were penciled requesting an inter
Tlew.
"Ivan," said Ur. Dawson to his Rus*
alan servant, "show the prince In at
once."
A moment later a tall, handsome
man. wearing the uniform of an offi
cer in the Gear's army, entered the
x.room.
He took the proffered chair, and
ttQgan at once to speak in English,
.with the perfect facility of the edu
cated Russian.
"Mr. Dawson, I have called to ask
from you in marriage the hand of
Tour beautiful ward. Miss EUnor
Bayle. You must hare noticed my
admiration for mademoiselle. You
know that I can give her an exalted
social position here In StI Petersburg,
and I trust that you will have no ob
jection to n/ paying her my ad
dresses."
-"Ah, you have not spoken to her
yet?" asked Mr. Dawson.
"Speak to her before I saw you!
I oould not commit such a breach of
Russian etiquette!"
"I am glad you have not spoken to
her. In fact. Prince, I shall be most
happy to consent to your marriage to
my ward, but there are difficulties.
Ton doubtless know that she is im
mensely wealthy, but she cannot
have control of her fortune until she
Is twenty-one years old, at which
time I cease to have any authority
over her," Mr. Dawson continued
alowly. "She will be twenty-one in
less than a month, and then—"
"Yes, and then?" asked the Rus
sian, looking intently at the mer.
ohaHL
Mr. Dawson did not answer the
question, but continued after a short
Interval:
*7 would not give my consent to
her marriage with a young English
man. I was so afraid that she would
do something rash, so 1 brought her
as far away from him as 1 could but
just when I was beginning to fee] se
cure, he arrives on the scene."
"Who, the lover?" asked Barnakoff,
with an ugly expression.
"Yes, Rallston Stainer—curse
him!"
"Do not distress yourself about Mr.
Rallston Stainer," smiled-the Prince
"There are various means in Russia
to dispose of an undesirable person."
Then the details of the transaction
were gone into. Mr. Dawson would
receive forty thousand pounds out of
Elinor's fortune if he succeeded in
making her marry Barnakoff.
When the Infamous compact was
completed Mr. Dawson rang the bell
and requested, that if Mise Bayle had
returned from her drive she should
come to the library.
A moment later she entered, tall,
beautiful, and exquisitely dressed,
trtngtog with her a breath of the
keen winter air in her bright gray
•yas, her wind-blown hair, and her
cheeks like many roses.
She bowed coldly to the Prince,
who stood erect and soldierly before
her, and, addressing Mr. Dawson,
•aid. with distant courtesy:
"You wished to see me?"
"Yes this gentleman has requested
the honor of your hand in marriage,
and it is my wish that you accept it.
It is such a union as your father
would have desired."
"I thank you. Prince Barnakoff, for
the honor, but it Is impossible! You
know," addressing her guardian,
that I love and am engaged to Mr.
Stelae*, and I shall marry no one
"You disobey me, then?" asked Mr.
DaWSon, purple with rage.
"No, I simply refuse to marry
.Prince Barnakoff."
"You shall, I tell you!" said Mr.
Dawson, ringing violently the bell,
llvan, call Mrs. Dawson."
A tall, haughty woman came in,
and she received orders from her hus
bAnd to watoh the refractory young
lady, and not to allow her to see any
one except her maid,*who was devot
ed to the Dawaons.
The next morning, when Elinor
was ready to go down to breakfast,
she found that her doors were lock
ed, and that she was a prisoner In
her own room.
V* ft Jr
u. 'f
On the day when Ur. Dawson de
prived ESllnor of her liberty, a hand
some young fellow was sitting before
hie mid-day breakfast.
Rallston Stainer had taken lodg
ings in a fashionable quarter of St
Petersburg, and according to the
country's custom, his landlady provid
ed him with the lighter meals of the
day.
All at once there was a sharp
knock at the door of his sitting room
then, without waiting tor an answer,
the door was thrown open and three
men In civilian clothes came into the
room.
Stainer'arose from his chair.
"What means this Intrusion?" he
asked.
The
he tallest of the men, who seemed
to the one In command, looked rapid
ly over a sheet of paper that he held
to hia haa4. ...
Tall, slender—yes brown eyes
and hair calls himself an English
man. No doubt it Is Jhe same," ho
muttered, looking at the young man.
"Monsieur," he then said, "we are
members of tbe secret police of St.
Petersburg and would like to see
your passport."
"I have had it looked over, and it
is perfectly correct," answered the
young man.
1 hare my orders also a search
warrant in case of resistance."
Rallston Stainer- shrugged hla
shoulders, as it thinking that Russia
was a queer place, and took irom his
pocket the official document signed
by the different consuls and officials
of the two countries.
The man looked the paper over,
then he calmly folded it and put it
in his pocket.
"What do you mean by doing that,"
said Rallston, agrlly.
"That this paper is forged," an
swered the Russian. "We arrest you
in the name of the Czar for a con
spiracy against his Imperial Majes
ty"
In spite of his protestations, and
nis expressed desire to see the Brit
ish Ambassador, he was hurried' into
a waiting carriage and taken away.
Two weeks he spent in a cold, foul
cell, and during that time ne was
taken three times before a court He
could not speak either Russian or
French, and the Judges spoke no Eng
lish.
They did not believe his assertion
that he did not understand Russian.
The heaviest blow came when the
Interpreter told him that he nad been
condemned to twenty yeard* exile in
Siberia.
On Friday of the next week he was
to start with a few other convicts.
in.
It was nearly midnight, and the
house was very still.
Elinor, sitting near the window of
her darkened room, began to prepare
for the night. Absently she went to
the door and tried it, expecting to
find it locked, as usual, but the door
yielded, and she knew that her maid
had forgotten to lock the door on re
tiring for the night
She threw a long, dark cloak over
her dress and pinned a black hat and
veil on her head. Then putting all
the money sne had in her little purse,
she left her robm noiselessly, and
went downstairs, meeting no one.
Near the front hall she heard a
noise, and she darted Into a dark
room next to the library.
The door between the two rooms
was ajar, t,nd she heard Mr. Dawson
saying
"So tomorrow he starts for Siberia
for twenty years?"
'Tes of course, his mention of
you, and your denial .to the Chief of
Police that you knew him, really set
tled him. It was very neatly done,"
an3 Prince Barnakoff laughed.
"Ah, Rallston Stainer," exclaimed
Mr. Dawson, "I told your father I
would be revenged! I could not on
•urn, but I have accomplisned it in
you—his only son."
The Ambassador was very much
startled when the servant ushered in
to his presence a distroctod young
woniau, who told him in aii incoher
ent maimer her story.
This gentleman, w.io k»» hor
well, also her lover, soothed her
Mid
placcd her into his wife's keeping,
then, late as it was, he started to' find
Count Gourkl, the Chief of the Third'
Section, of St Petersburg's secret po
lice. Next day was Friday, and there
was no time to lose.
By noon next day Rallston Stainer
held his beloved in his arms, and that
very afternoon the chaplain of the
British Embassy officiated at the
wedding of Rallston Stainer and
beautiful Elinor Bayle.
The Dawsons were ordered to leave
Russia within twenty-four hours, and
a fine of fifteen thousand rubles was
imposed on Prince Rarnakoff but the
ruined gambler would not pay It, and
he went to prison for five years.
When Your Feelings Are Hurt.
Keep still. When trouble is brew
ing, keep still. Even when slander Is
getting on its legs, keep still. When
your feelings are hurt, keep still, till
you recover from youf exctcement at
any rate. Things look differently
through an unngltated eye. Doctor
Burton relateB how once, in a commo
tion, he wrote a letter and sent it,
and wished he had not. "In my later
years," he said. "I had another com
motion, and wrote a long letter but
life had rubbed a little sense Into me,
I kept that letter in my pocket against
the day when I could look it ovei
without agitation and without tears.
I was glad I did.. Less and less it
seemed necessary to send it I was
not sure it would do any hurt, but
In my doubtfulness I leaned to reti
cence, and eventually it was destroy
ed.
"Time works wonders. Walt till
you speak calmly, and then you will
not need to speak, maybe. Silence Is
the most massive thing conceivable,
sometimes. It is strength in verj
grandeur. It Is like a regiment order
ed to stand still in the mad fury ol
battle. To plunge Is twice as easv.'
§t#g Tha Dark Americans.
Nn one could have attended th
Class Day of Columbia College with
out being struck by the prevalence oi
dark young men. Out of 120 or so
there were two with hair of fiery red
and three with flaxen locks—flve
blonds in all. The rest were elthei
decidedly dark, looking in their black
gowns like young priests in Rome, or
were darkish brown of hair and eyes
A study of names and faces reveal
ed French, Welsh, Flemish, Spanish
and Jewish derivation, in many cases,
but perhaps a majority were native
Americans by many generations and
of the native American tint, dark
brown.
The professors, older men, show a
much larger proportion of blonds.
Gladstone used to say that during
his long life the average English com
plexion visibly darkened. Is the
same process going on here even more
rapidly? By A. D. 2,000 will the
"sandy complected" American be a
rarity.—New York?
V-S? Improving Old Phrase.
An English Instructor in a rather
comprehensive talk to the wise young
women referred to the period that ex
tends "from the crade to tbe grave."
Then he stopped abruptly. "No," he
went on, "that Is an obsolete phrase.
There are no more cradles and soon
there will be no more graves. The
modern form should ba 'from the bas
slnet to the crematory.'"—New York
Sua.
LIFE IN THE BEAUTI
FUL VEST INDIES.
WHERE PROSPERITY
•4WUTS TOE MAN
OF
An Engilsh writer who recently Vis
ited the West Indies found business
and financial conditions so greatly Im
proved over the state of affairs that
existed on a former visit that he con
fidently declares that the islands are
destined to again become as rich as
they were before the abolition of the
slave trade and the introduction of free
trade In sugar.
Fruit and timber and tobacco, as
well as sugar and a hundred other
things, will bring bnck the wealth and
power which, truth to tell, has only
been lost to the Caribbean group by
the Inertia of the planters and the
want of enterprise In the commercial
men. The Islands have never lacked
natural wealth and an abundance of
raw material. Only the genius of
trade has been lacking. Until very re
cently West Indians displayed no signs
of being able to help themselves. But
the Influence of traders from more
prosperous countries, American as well
as British, has stirred the people out
of their lethargy and nowadays the
THE VOCKOEU GENERATION.
looks abroad for fortune thinks only
of Africa, Australasia, Canada or
America and usually It Is In one or
other of these places that he elects to
settle though It Is doubtful whether
the Islands do not offer him chances of
prizes greater than any to be found In
the other colonies. It can be said of no
country In the world that It Is more
beautiful than Jamaica It can be said
of few, If any, that they are richer.
True, there Is no gold, no great min
eral wealth but there are the soil and
climate, the rich forests and richer
valleys. There are the sugar planta
tions, tho fruit gardens, the tobacco
fields and the cattle pens. There are
the cities also which, even to-day, are
not too well stocked with merchants
Alert men make money quickly In
these islands not so quickly as those
lucky adventurers who find potato
sized diamonds and rich gold "pock
ets," perhaps, but quickly enough and
hunger Is a thing almost• unknown
even to the poorest West Indian ne
gro. The fields and the hedges pro
vide rich fruits—the banana, the or
ange anil the mango, and In the towns,
fruit enough to last a mau a whole
day can be purchased for a copper caln.
In Jamaica the life of the white man
Is almost Ideal. If be is a planter, he
lives in a substantial house, built In
the center of a lovely garden which Is
always aflame with the most brilliant
flowers In the world. He has a saddle
horse and a buggy, and he will flnd a
club In the nearest town (which can
not be many miles distant)) and all
the English sports at hand. Though
he may not be a rich man, though he
may never make money enough out
of his plantation to return to the old
country or purchase a landed, estate,
he will never want for comforts or
ordinary luxuries.
I have heard It said, and I believe It
to be true, that In these Islands a man
with a capital of flve thousand dollars
can, when he has gained a thorough
knowledge of practical planting, make
an Income of from $2,500 to $3,000 a
year.
Indeed, Jamaica Is a happy little
place. The sun Is always there, and
the thousand rivers which dance along
tile mountain slopes and flow swiftly
through the valleys toward the sea,
always suggest pleasant music and
healthfulness. The negro workers are
a merry people they laugh at their
work and on their way to work they
laugh when they go home to bed and
when they rise In the morning. The
men laugh and the women laugh, and
the children are as merry as birds In
summer time. It Is almost Impossible
to be unhappy In the place.
Smiling Nature.
As you walk along the country
roads, encli bunch of natives stops and
smiles at you and returns your friend
ly greeting. You see the market wom
en swinging along under the weight
of their heavy head-burdens. They are
the most graceful walkers In tbe
world.
The colored men pass you, too but
they are idlers compared with the
women folk. Alas! It must be admlt-
ted that In the West Indies the women
are the willing workers the men for
tbe most part prefer to loll under the
shade. It may be that most of tlioni
inherit all the fallings and weaknesses
of the African savage, but though they
are not too anxious to work nt all. they
make good enough laborers If they are
forced to earn their dally bread.
The West Indian white mnn Is a
Briton who might Just as easily |e
seen walking about the tea planta
tions In distant Ceylon. Ills face Is
very brown or else a deep mahogany
red In the country he wears a slouch
hat and walks only when It Is Impossi
ble for him to get his sain... _jrse
or buggy. But In the cities he Is par
ticular about the cut of his coat and
the condition of bis linen. As a rule
he Is a heavy cigar smoker, and he Is
the most hospitable man In the world.
If you come across him at his bouse
you will find It difficult to tear your
self away, even though the mnn Is a
stranger to you. If you go to stop with
him for a day you will probably find
It Impossible to get away under a fort
night. You will find that your host Is
a pretty good band at golf, pigeon
shooting, cricket, tennis or bllllnrds,
and there will never be any reason for
you to complain of dullness.
The Islands have a little army of
their own, and the black Tommies and
white officers who go to make up the
West Indian regiments are not the
least efficient or brilliant of the sol-
THE NEGRO WORKERS ARE A MERRY PEOPLE."
Antlllean Islands .show every sign ol
a commercial revival.
It Is curious that these beautiful
West Indian countries, possessing as
they do a perfect climate and a most
abundant wealth, should have so long
remained commercially stagnant. Eng
lish emigrants have not considered the
Indies In their calculations as to the
advantages offered hy the various col
onies. The young Englishman who
diers of the king. They have parlia
ment bouses also, and politicians both
black and white. Yes, it Is a wonder
ful corner of the world, this group of
little isles so flnely set In the golden
Caribbean. It may be that It Is a
pity that places so beautiful should
have to be concerned with trade at all,
yet the packages of merchandise whlct
line the dock quays and fill the ware
bouses of the wblte-bullt cities, and
the plantations of wavy banann trees
and sugar cane, are not unlovely and
it Is always pleasant to hear tbe noises
of labor and to witness the industry of
the husbandman.
Just as Jt was In the days of old,
when the wealth of the Indies fascin
ated, the whole of. England, and laid
the foundations of the fortunes of fam
ilies who have long ceased to remem
ber the origin of their riches, so It
will be again In the near future, when
strong young men go out to the west
to flnd new homes and new work and
new wealth. The Jamalcas of to-mor
row will be as rich as were the Ja
malcas of yesterday, and we shall find
that the Caribbean islands are capable
of doing more than supplying the
world with sugar and rum.
For the rest, the Islands are -good
to look upon and worth seeing, even
though our thoughts are notion trade
or money. The fairy Islands,'all green
and yellow In the midst of a sea of
the richest blue, are fascinating to all
who love beauty for Its own sake, or
who like to look at places which still
reminds one of times before cities were
filled with factories and before the
HAVE MOTOR FIRE ENGINES.
Several BnslUh Cities Supplied With
This Upto*Date Apparatus.
Steam-propelled fire engines are in
use In Liverpool, Brighton, Plymouth,
Portsmouth and other English cities,
says Consul Walter C. Hauuu lu a
report. London has now, It claims,
the largest and most powerful motor
flre engine yet built. It Is of fifty
horse power and capable of throw
ing 500 gallons of water a minute to
a height of 150 feet. It is propelled
by steam water tube boiler situated
betweeu the rear wheels. It is heat
ed by ar petroleum burner of new de
sign, in which the fuel is sprayed Into
the furnace. This gives a hot flre
which can be regulated with nicety.
In front of the boiler is the engine
with a pair of inverted cylinders driv
ing two direct and double-acting
pomps.
The pumps can be disconnected
from the engines In a few seconds
and by throwing into gear pinion
wheel the motor drives a countershaft
from which the power is transmitted
ly chains to the wheels. Thus the
same motor takes the vehicle to the
Are and on arrival pumps enough pe
troleum for a forty-mile Journey, and
as a fresh supply of fuel can alway*
be obtained at the scene of flre the
machine can keep going for a week
If necessary. The engine Is steered
by handwork. It Is fitted with single
solid rubber tires and "nonsklds," as
the risk of side slip on the roads of the
metropolis must be taken Into account.
A demonstration of this motor flre
engine's capacity was made a few
days ago. First of all was a run up
Blacfcheath hill. This has a gradient
of one foot In nine or ten feet at the
steepest part and horsed flre engines
go lip at a walk with the men on
foot The motor engine went up with
a fuli load of eight men, hose and ap
pliances at the rate of fifteen miles
an hour under a full head of steam
and was gathering speed on the stlffest
part of the climb. Its suction and
throwing powers were also shown to
be excellent.
WANTED—A NEW CHICKEN.
Restaurant Mail Looking for One That
Shall Be All White Meat.
"Luther Burbank la doing great
tWngs in the cultivation of flowers,"
said the contemplative restaurant
mnn. "He Is making purple flowers
grew red, and red flowers blue, do
ing all' manner of wonderful things
with plants, and all flue and beauti
ful, but what the country really needs
Is a chicken raiser who can make
chickens grow all white meat.
"As It stands to-day, in my business
we are always In a quandary. It is
a familiar fact-that the wing part of
a chicken yields white, .the leg part
dark meat. We cut a roast chicken
Into four portions, of whicll two are
white meat and two are dark, and that
Is the best we can do.
"We can do things with some meats,
but you can't make the dark meat of
the leg and second Joint of a chicken
white meat. And here comes the trou
ble.
"Nine out of ten of a restaurant's
customers, when they order roast
chicken, call for white meat and to
supply these demands with chickens
growing as they do Is of course, sim
ply impossible. We would like to do
It, but -we can't.
"We have to give some dark meat
and that disturbs the people who get
It. They see white meat served to
other folks and they wonder why they
can't have It We explain to them
about how chickens are made, andi
why we can't always serve everybody
with white meat but that doesn't In
terest them much they ordered white
meat, and that's what tbey want, and
really all that we can do is to trust
that they will get white meat the
next time they order.
"As a matter of fact we serve white
meat as far as we can but what we
want In our business Is a chicken that
Is all white meat and the man that
can produce It would not only confer
a boundless benefit upon us, but for
himself he would become rich beyond
the dreams of avaiico, wealthy be
ypnd the veriest nlghtmnre of greed.
"That's what the country needs, a
chicken raiser who can make chick
ens grow all white meat"—Kansas
City Journal.
Views and Notions.
President HadldJ, of Yale, and a
young man whose appearance was
that of a student once mett says the
Searchlight, In Yellowstone Park, In
the midst of the wonders of nature.
President Hadlcy turned to the
young man for sympathetic comment.
"This Is a wonderful scene, Isn't
It?" he said.
*The young man smiled and nodded,
and turned without speaking to gaze
at the prospect spread before them.
"Do you think," asked President
Hadley, confirmed in his Idea that he
was talking to an ardent student
"that this chasm was caused by some
great upheaval of nature, or la It the
GOING TO MARKET IN JAMAICA.
worth of a country was measured by
the wealth of Its people.
In Jamaica and Trinidad and Bar
bados and the rest, people will flnd
a climate and a beauty Indescribable.
They will see all the glories and won
ders of the tropics without the Incon
venience of traveling iu countries
where life Is cheap and laws upheld
only at the revolver mouth. In any of
these British West Indian colonies life
is as ssfe aud peaceful as it is in a
little village in the Surrey hills. Yet
all the places are tropical, and all are
filled with that wild luxuriance of
blossom and foliage which is only
found in lands that are near the line
which marks the center of the world.
result of erosion or glacial action
What are your views—"
"My views," said the stranger,
quickly, opening a bag containing
photographs, "are only two dollars a
dozen, and dirt-cheap. Let me show
you some."
Told In Pantomtn*.
Theodore Thomas, In conducting an
orchestra, seemed Impassive, Imper
turbable. A writer In the Outlook,
commenting upon this, says that
was apparently without passion ot
feeling. Yet the appcarance was not
reality, and at one of Mr. Thomas'
rehearsals It was fully contradicted.
At a certain point in the syhiphony
the orchestra was playing In perfect
time and tune, but with a certain
mechanical effect which no r.ne had
noticed until Mr. Thomas suddenly
rapped the music-stand before him.
The orchestra stopped. The-i with
bis hand be Imitated the action of an
organ-grinder.
With only a word to Indlcr.tc tho
bar at which the orchestra irns to
take up the.music, he struck tbe rack
before him for attention, and with a
movement of his baton gave th«
signal.
The orchestra repeated the passaga
he had criticized by dumb show, ant)
this time they played with spirit and
lire.
The people down In their hearts ad
mire the father who refuses sit on
the back porch for any daughter's
beau.
An automobile Is like a woman: 11*
able to sulk at any time about up th
ing.
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SOME AMERICAN CHURCHES OF NOTE.
IS
Tbe sick, the lame and the afflicted
from all parts of the country have long
made pilgrimages to a plain little
church iu the village of Carey, O., to
a "healing shrine'' where many people
claim to have been cured of their In
firmities. This church, known as Our
Lady of Consolation Church, is one
of several church iu the Buckeye
State which have become famous
throughout the Nation. Tbe late Pope
Leo recognized it as a pilgrimage
church, and better still he sent to It
an ante-pendium and altar outfit.
The interesting history of this
church dates back to the arrival in
this country of a band of people from
the European province of Luxem
bourg—the province iu which pestil
ence wrought most dire distress in the
Sixteenth century. It will be recalled
that the few who survived this
scourge erected in Luxembourg
church to the memory of the Holy Vir
gin. At the dedication of this church,
It Is claimed, a statue of the Holy
Virgin and her child was found upon
the altar wherenpon its orlglu was
generally accepted as divine. Many
CAREY riLGRIMAGE CHURCH.
people came to this altar Just as they
now come to the church at Carey to
be healed. The people who came to
Carey, O., from Luxembourg at once
laid plans for building "the church
shown in the accompanying. photo
graph. It was begun in 3808, but not
completed for seven years thereafter.
1l this church was placed a facsimile
of the statue at Luxembourg.
Beside the Blanchard river in Pot
nam County, O., is situated the little
German village of Glandorf, a place
of less than 700 inhabitants, where
both the customs and the language of
the Fatherland are
adhered to. In this
quaint little village
stands a church
which cost more
than $50,000, and
which equals in
magnificence many
of the finest church
es of the largest
cities Iu America.
It is built of brick
$30,000
EDIFICE
and ornamented with white sandstone,
its dimensions are 175x70 feet, while
the spire reaches 225 feet above the
ground. The pulpit alone, which Is
hand carved, cost $1,200, or as much
as some cburchcs lu smal.l towns.
SMALLEST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Within this church there are wax fig
ures brought from Germany aud upon
the walls there are life-size paintings.
Among the churches of great historic
Interest In the United. States Is the
Moravian Church at Gnadenbutten,
JOHN HAY.
Late
Becretary of 8tutc Heifarded as
Greatest Diplomat of the Day,
By the death of John Hay the life of
the leading diplomat of the day has
ended. Not only had lie established
himself lu such exalted position, but
be had formulated, developed and
completed what has of late been
nowu us American diplomacy, the
I'ect method of pursuing negotiations
itardlng matters in controversy be
tween nations. So successful had be
come this method that he had em
ployed It not only lu controversies be-
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JOHN HAY.
tween this country, and others, but In
matters between other countries when
questions arose which only Indirectly
affected the Interests of the United
States. In short, John Hay has made
the United States a factor In the poll
tics of the world to bo reckoned with
on every occasion In which, by Its In
terests. the United States can be re
garded as a participant. John Hay
was regarded as not only the leading
diplomat of the day, but the greatest
diplomat that ever occupied the office
of secretary of state.
John Hay was born In Salem, Ind„
Oct. 8, 1838. He was the son of Dr.
Charles Hay. He wag educated at
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which commemorates the work of thf
Rev. John Ileckewelder and which
stands uear the site of the British
MORMON TEMPLE AT K1BTLAND, O.
massncre of the Christian Indians,
March 8, 1772. Concerning this no
table history-making period of the
Revolutionary war, William Dean
Howells has said "The annals of the
Moravian Chnrch link in the same
chain of sorrows and calamities the
burning of John Hus in 1415 at Con
stance and the murder of the hapless
Christian Indians at Gnadenhutten on
the Muskingum." Mr. Heckewelder
was a missionary among the Indians
for more than fifty years, and was at
one time commissioned by Washing
ton to make treaties with them. Mr.
Heckewelders' ancestors were exiles
from Moravia who fled to Saxony,
leaving behind them all they posses
sed for conscience sake. Mis parents
settled In Bedford, England, and en
gaged in the work of the Moravian
Church. John was born on March 12,
1743. In 1754 the family came to
America In a vessel owned by the
Moravian church, and eight years
later John begun missionary work
among the Indians at the Indian capl-
I of Tuscarawas. In 1772 Hecke
welder and Zelsberger, another well
known Indian missionary, established
a settlement In the vulley of the Mus
kingum river, and within a few years
thereafter a cluster of Christian com
munities of converted Indians arose
MORAVIAN CHURCH AT GNAOENHUTTE2T
and prospered. The first church of the
new settlement was erected in 1803,
the second and third church In 1820
and 1852, respectively, and the new
memorial church In 1903. The pastor
ot this church today is the Itev. W. H.
Mee, B, great-grandson of the Kev. Mr.
Heckewelder.
St. Matthews church in Madison
township, Muskingum county, Ohio, Is
of some national Interest because of
Its size, especially If it is the smallest
Protestant Episcopal church building
In the United States, as It Is believed
to be. This church Is but 48x24 feet
In dimensions, the nave Is 30x24 feet
and the chancel Is 18x10 feet The
style of the church Is also unique. It
being claimed that there Is none
like It lu the United States, unless pos
sibly it be one In Virginia. The walls
are of rubble work, built from glacial
granite boulders brought from the
farms In the surrounding territory, and
the buttresses are capped with dressed
blocks of red sandstone quarried In the
locality. The windows are of stained
glass. The timbers used In the con
struction were of giant proportions and
the entire structure Is built to stand
the test of ages—n memorial to the lit
tle congregation of some 25 earnest
farmers who worship there. The en
tire cost of the church was $3,300.
Another rural church building of na
tional reputation in tbe Buckeye State
is the temple at Ivlrtlaud, Ohio, the
first Mormon temple In the UnltM
States, and to-day used by the Reor
ganized Church of Jesus Christ of Lat
tor-day Saints. It was In 1831 that
the early Mormons came to this spot
from Manchester,.N. y.
Warsaw aud Springfield, III. He was
graduated at Brown -University in
1858.
In I8G1 he went from Springfield,
III., to Washington to become Presi
dent Lincoln's secretary and later he
served In the civil war. He reached
the rank of colonel and was at Lin
coln's bedside when the President died.
He .then went to Europe and filled sub
ordinate diplomatic positions at vari
ous capitals. In 1800 he was appoint
ed ambassador to England.
In the seventies, when Mr. Hay was
acting editor of the New York Tribune,
he wrote fanciful verse of the soil,
which became more celebrated than
his more serious literary efforts—one
of which Is a life of Lincoln, for which
he received "$50,000. Mr. Hay's house
in Washington was one of ..the most
beautiful residences In the city, and
his library was filled with rare pic
tures and rarer books.
As a literary mnn John Hay would
have won fame sufficient for the most
ambitious. His life of Lincoln Is- an
able work aud his poetry was of a
high order. But as secretary of state
under McIIlnley and then under Roose
velt, Mr. Hay brought the diplomacy
of the United States Into the first
rank. His ability was splendidly
shown during the Boxer troubles in
China. Hay alone kept China out of
the Russo-Japanese war. Limiting the
zone of conflict was one of his great
est diplomatic victories.
Gechaw and Glddap.
Farmer Geehaw—Sim Walton has
got forty gals comiu' to board with
him this summer.
Farmer Glddap—Dew tell! How did
he manage to git so many?
Farmer Geehaw He advertised
that nuthln' but college students wua
employed on the furrn.—Philadelphia
Bulletin.
When a* young man asks for the
hand of an heiress he means the one
in which she carries her purse.
As all girls expect to marry million
aires, they naturally think It a waste
of time to learn the art of cooking.
"Is she sentimental?" "Very! She
will even weep over her old divorce
papers."—Judge.
Hewitt—How many meals did yon
have on the voyage. Jewett—Gross or
net?—Brooklyn Life.
It seems Woodby has discovered
that he has a family tree." "Yes, Iff
an outgrowth of his successful busi
ness plant."
"So the lawyers got most all the
estate. Did Ethel get anything?"
Oh, yes. She got one of the law
yers."—Judge.
Employer (to new office boy)—Has
the cashier told you what you are to
do this afternoon. Office boy—Yes,
sir I to wake him when I see yon
coming.—Scraps.
Magistrate—You say your machine
was beyond your control. Chauffeur—
Yes, your honor. If I could have con
trolled it the cop wouldn't have canght
me.—New York Mail.
Poet—I see you nccepted one of my
poems and refused the other. Editor
Yes I took one of them out of sym
pathy for you, and refused the other
out of sympathy for the public.—Ex.
"George certainly is a man of ac
tion." "What hag he done?" "Why,
the very next day after the heiress
accepted him he gave up his Job at
the bank amTjoined the Don't Worry
Club."
'You'll .take a couple of tickets,
course. We're getting up a raffle for
a poor cripple in our neighborhood—"
"Noue for me, thank yQU. I wouldn't
know what to do with a poor cripple
If I won him."
"Well," asked the architect who had
been commissioned to make a set of
plans for a New York hotel, "how do
you like them?" "They won't do.
You have provided for only six differ
ent kinds of dluing-rooms."—Ex.
Kind lady—You can get work beat
ing carpets two doors from here—they
are cleaning house. Homeless Holmes
—Thanks, mum. I mighter bumped
right Inter It if youse hadn't warned
me. I'll steer clear of it, mum—Cleve
land Leader.
Jones (to Brown, who has been re
lating his wonderful adventures in
Russia)—And I suppose you visited
the great steppes of Russia? Brown—
I should rather think so. And walked
up every blessed one of them on my
hands aud knees.
Office boy—Miss Keyes, please let
me look at your face? Miss Keyes—
What for? Office boy—Why, tbe boss
said some of the paint was scratched
off his typewriter. I didn't know
whether he meant you or the ma*
chine.—Chicago News.
The three-year-old daughter of a
leading minister resents too great
familiarity. A few evenings ago,
though she seemed a little unwilling,
a caller took her upon his lap, where
upon she said with great gravity: "I
want to sit In my own lap."
Mabel (not in her first youth)—First
of all he held my hand and told my
fortune and then, Evle, be gazed into
my face ever so long and said be coul)
read my thoughts! Wasn't that clever
of* him, dear? Evie—Oh, I suppose he
read between the lines, darling
Punch.
"What did you discuss at your li
brary club this afternoon, dear?"
asked the husbuud In the evening.
"Let me see," murmured his wife
"oh, yes, I remember now. Why, we
discussed that woman who recently
moved into the house across the street
and Longfellow."—Ex.
Pausing uncertainly befbre a desk
In the big insurance office, the Hibeiv
nlan visitor said to the clerk: "Ol
want to tek out a pawllcy." "Life,
fire or marine?" drawled the dapper
clerk with infinite sarcasm. "A1 three,
O'im thinkln'," retorted the applicant
"Orm goin* fer a stoker in th' navy.*\
—Puck.
Mrs. Younglove—Our cook says
those eggs you sent yesterday were
ancient. Grocer—Very sorry, ma'am.
They were the best we could get. You
see, all the young chlckeus were killed
Off
for the holiday trade, so the old
heus are the only oues left to do the
layin'. Mrs. Younglove—Oh, to be
sure. Of course. I hadn't thought of
that.—Chicago Record-Herald.
New England Justice.
Ebenezer Snell, the grandfather^*"
the poet William Cullen Bryant,
described as a good type of the Ne.w
Englaud farmer, In whose nature
Puritaulsm, with its stern rigors of
conduct and conscience, was overlaid,
with many of the amenities of Yan
kee humor. Bryant preserved several
anecdotes of his grandfather,, one of
which, quoted by W. A. Bradley* in
his biography of the poet, may serve
to indicate the way in which he exer
cised his humor, and also to show
the patriarchial conception of justice
that was held In a remote ftew Eng
land community at the end of the
eighteenth century.
My grandfather, said Bryant, once
found that certain pieces of lumber,
Intended by him for the runners of a
sled, and called in that part of tbe
country sled-crooks, had been taken
without leave by a farmer who lived
at no great distance. These timbers
were valuable, being made from a
tree the grain of which was curved
so as to correspond with the curve
required in the runners.
The delinquent received notice that
his offense was knowu, and that if
he wished to escape a prosecution he
must carry a bushel of rye to each of
three poor widows living in the neigh
borhood, and tell them why he
brought it
He was only too glad to comply
with this condition.
from Appeiiranoee.
When the six-year-old son was
taken in to see the new baby, says the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, he ex
claimed:
"O mamma, it hasn't any teeth! O
mamma, It hasn't any hair!"
Then clasping his tiands In distress,
he cried, "Somebody has cheated us!
It's an old bahy."
Freedom for One Evening.
"Well, Emily, did you have a good
time at the masked ball?"
"Oh! 1 had the time of my life, I
had got my husbaud to dress up as
a knight lu heavy armor, and he
wasn't able to budge from one spot
all night."—Fllegende Blaetter.
It doesn't require as much patience
to put a baby to sleep as it does to'
fish, but the men can't see it that way.