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CPWTTHE u & ‘atare's Matchless Exhibit in the Horticul- tural Department at the World's Fair, { | {EVELATION OF FLORAL MAGNIFICENCE upeth Troploil Plants Gorgeous Orchids, Lovely Rosos, Magulficent fthodod droos wid Other in Infinite Vari ty. foveliest of all that the world offers to the | | have been an understanding among the memory of Columbus in the city of white Bp ilaces is the splendid horticuitural display Dear old John Thorpe, who looks like Abra tham Lincoln and can make a dry stick blos gsom, is the real head of this department He presides over a vast building, from the middle of which rises a plass dome 122 feet high and 180 feet w diameter, The space hunder this fune has two great wings ending In pavilions, But the most notable point in horticulture B is the outdoor exhibition. Right in front of the huge building is a wooded island in the lagoon. From its shores trail aquatic plants in curious patterns, At the southern end is a garden of 50,000 roses laid out in a labyrinthal design and surrounded by a gar landed fonce of roses eight feet huzh. In the center rises a pagoda covered with clematis of all hues. "This garden is an acre and a quarter in extent and contains over 16,000 arieties of the rose, Theve are forty-eignt exhibitors, and they have revived wmany of the roses that were once fasnionable but have been forgotten I'wo-thirds of the roses are hardy and the vest arve tender, like tea roses and other varictics that need the b protection of hot housés as a rul The finest display comes from Belfast, Irelund but Californiu, Holland and Germany are close competitors. The beauty and nee Y of thisspot may be imagined by the fact that the margin of each group of roses is made up of flowering honeysuckles trailing on the ground. Just south of the rose garden are the rhododendrons of England, Holland, Belgiom 'and America grouped for effects of massed color, and scattered among them are hundreds of Jupanese, European and Amer ican lilies Turning northward on the little istand the visitor comes to a plateau of old-fashioned English garden flowers, the sort of things Lord Bucon mentions in his quaint plan of a perfect garden. Here are marigolds, sweet Williams, vrumroses, larkspurs, Michaelinas daisies and scores of other sentimental sug- gestious Floral Feagrance, Then eom large group of trees Birubs gathe togethor for strange ¢ nd showing departures from norn i re quivering aspens. tall poplar shes, birches, willows, ma ples shosund sinular trees, all leading toward a dafnty, sweet smelling garden of annual flowering plants ke sweet pe mignonette and nasturtiums Beyond this are to be found all manner of flowering shrubs-—spirea dutzia, hydrangea, Rose of Shaton—and stll farther on the German group of evergreens, among them rare cedars, junipers, arbor vitic and tamar- acks. Rising in the green confus will be clusters of dahlia: Here the Japanese villuge, surrounded by its native garden, comes into view, Th ¢ garden is one of the most interesting sights on the island. It is caved for by Japanese gardeners i costume and working with primi- tive apparatus. All sorts of dwarfed pine cedars and other growths will mingle their fai shape in the gencral plan, from which the visitors can at a glance see the P origin of much that is wild and grotesque in the decorative art of Japan. There are mwany wonderful palms and stunted trees that have grown for centuries and ave still wvigorous. The tern effect is heightened by rock work and tinkling, murmuring wate falls. Coming back from the island by a grace- ful bridge one stauds in the roadway facing the east facade of the horticultural building i wnd sces spread out before him a gorgeous, spectacular display of massed crimson, scar- let, orange und salmon colored French can nas dispiayed by New York., Pennsyivania and New Jersey. This magniticent “field of color is a thousand feot loug and eighty feet deep. It contains over 20,000 plants in bloom, And behind this royal scarlet pomp, in the recesses between the wain entrance and the wings, are planted over a hundred thousand pausies. Thirty-seven thousand of them, selected for the beauty of their tints, combined 1 one vast scrolllik de There are in this exhibit 640 varieties pansics, representing the growers of the whole world. The cannas and pansies are v out of doors and form a striking base for the fine architecture of the monster buildine. On tho west side of tne building is an out- door exhibition of small greenhouses und gardens showing how eusily and cheaply they may be obtained aund kept. This dis play is intended to encourage the amateurs 10 o further than potted plauts placed in panny windows and to inspire garden build- ing wmong the common people. A Tropical Forest, Tuside of tho building, under the vast dome, is a tropical forest covering a moun- tain, at the base of which are arvanged the most beautiful plants known. New York, New dersey and Pennsylvania have a third of the space ut the foot of the mountain und the late Jay Gonld's costliost palms, A.J. Drexel's vare growths. W. Childs' sago palms and trea in fact the bulk of s fine collection —and remarkable specimens from the con gervatories of . B, Colgate and Erastus Corning. Iu the tropical forest are six or eight contury plaets, and they have been selected so thut there will alwiys be one in bloom during the fair. Mr. Thorpe has seoured the country for specimens of night blooming coreus and has secured over 200 ‘Phis wili enable him to show two or three in bloom every evening by clectrie light Under the tangled growth of the forest is | | & crystal cave. ‘The walls and roof contain four car loads of crystals and stalactites brought from Deadwood. The cave is lit by electrici'y. Water drips from the stalactites and Hashes into crystal pools. In this glit- tering space the horticultural department will make sced tests and keep growing plants in order to learn how long they will live | under a strong electric light Australia leads all other countries in the range and character of her display. The Australians have explored the wilderness in scarch of horticaltural wonders, and have sent to Chicago specimens rare and wonderful that the specimens themselves may never again their equals. Think of tree ferns thirty feet high, with their fairy like branches spreading out over your head like vast green plumes, Hovtienlturists who have traveled far and wide look with amaze- ment at these extraordinary ferns and ex amine thew for hours. Then there are birds® nest ferns with a spread of ten feet, rising toa height of eight feet. The stughorn ferns, which attach themselves to teakwood trees and v time suffocate thew, are mon- sters, Nothing like them hus ever been seen bofore. Sowie of them are from six to eight feet high and seven to eight feot in divmeter. They are perched on teakwood stumps and overerown with vines, illustrating the con aitions in which they thrive, Japanese Daintiness. I one of the wings the Japanese haye built an indoor garden, with little fish ponds, bridges, lighthouses. pillar lauterns and a well. The odd groupings of small flowers | are surrounded by spaces filled with sand of varlous wlors, on which are traced patterns which chunge every day. The sand takes the place of grass i a Japanese indoor gar- den. In order not to disturb these traceries the visitor steps on stones luid in an ipregu- lar pathway. “This garden is eotirely the work of the Jupauese and no one else will be "!W 0 touch it A glance reveals the TWENTYSECOND YEAR. ;FAUTIF ULASAPOET'S DREAM } fact that they are content with flowers as | they find thém and make no attempt at hy- | bridization or crossculture of any kind. They have no double roses. There never was i simpler or more certain evidence of the in fluences that have governed Japanese decora- tive art from time immemorial Germany has an_exhibition of azaleas, palims and rhododendrons without a touch of grace or imagination about it. Belgium's section is filled up with bay laurels and handsome tree peonies, Great Britain has a superb array of orchids from Kew gard and other famous conservatorics. Jose Chamberlain and Sir Trevor Lawrence have made princely contributions AlL through the British eshibit can be found proof that Ingland is the country for rare and costly plants and that in spite of Amcriean millionaires a higher price will be paid in London for a really unigue plant than in any ocher place. ‘There seems to British exhibitors that no ordinary plants should be sent, so that their section is really 4 sort of horticultural museum Mexico has a good showing of orchids and acti, Costa Rica displays coffee plants and Guatemala illustrates all her peculiur native | growths. the American Section, In the big American scetion are to be scen all the notable plants of commerce, such as sugar canes, cotfees, teas and dycs, The famous anthurium from the white house 1s there to be scen, with its long, slender leaves and searlet flower. Missourt is ¢ spicuous for yucens, century plants and india rubber trecs. Massachusetts furnishes rare palms and among them is the fine cocus Aus tralus from the conscrvatory of Prof. Sar gentof Harvard university Beautiful curtains of blooming cobea scandens hang from every conceivable point « the beams and ceiling, I'he whole in terior of the building is draped in this deli cate greenery, touched with purple blossoms. T'he vines hive been so skillfully arranged thut at times they seem to be part of a voven fabric through which the light softly filters from above Herc and there in unexpected uooks are pitcher plants, ice plants. scusitive plants and Venus' fly traps, Visitors are allowed, mder proper supervision, to experiment with some of the curious growths. Liorder to heighten the general effect of the horticultural display there will be masses of begonias and other brilhaat fowers grouped about in the green spaces from time to time, Sixty-five huge bushes of Marguerites and o similar number of scarlet sages are minzled together as one effect for the opening day “The cut flower show consists now prinet pally of roses, hyacinths, tulips, lilies and carnations. They will be followed by peonies, ivies and contemporancous blos soms. These flowers are for sale to a linited extent I'o the west of the horticultural building e the great greenhouses, in which delicate or miniature plants are kept until ready for exhibition, Between the pgreenhouses are situated the furnaces and the room in which seeds are planted 1t will surprise visitors to know that most of the lovely flowering plants which bear the names of distant countries were not brought to America in pots. The horticul twal department simply received the dry seeds, with brief descriptions of the y and the names of the exhibitors. A ma of these seeds were planted in boxes year by Mr. Thorpe's assistanis aund wero developed durimg the winter. There was no way of telling in advance whether seeds were worth all the labor and study devoted to their care uutil the plant grew and blos- somed, Feast for Orcd Lovers, From time to time there will be interna tional displays for awards of particular flower: hid show, for instance, will be on May 9. ritain and America will exhibit nearly 4,000 plants. Mv. ‘Thorpe siys that it will unquestionably be the finest exhibit ever seen i Y wher coun- try. The principal American amateurs in Ahis competition are Mr. Kiuball of Roches- ter, N. Y., My, Corning of Albany, and Mr. Ames of Boston, So far the horticultural department has found that outside of New York state and one or two points in other eastern states there is no serious floviculture worth speak- ing of. The west is poverty clen in the matter of fine cultivated flowers and shrub Mr. Thorpe says that this exhibition will have a wonderful effect in stimulating a love for rare growths, and that just as the sculp- tures in the art section will soon begin to ap- pear in the architecture of the western towns and cities, so the mavvelous flowers and leaves brought from the famous con- servatories of the world will take their plices in thous: of western conservi- torics. Only a few weeks ago there was a display of Persian violets, flowers that had never been seen in the west before, and already the western people are planting them. - INLUSTRIAL. For several years past nearly all the slate pencils used throughout the United States have been made atone factory in Charlottes- ville, Vu. The fine Japancse cement is made by mix- ing vice lour with a sufficient quantity of cold water and then boiling gently, with con- stant stirrving. The Tin and Sheet Ironworkers union of has formed an alliance with the id Skylight Makers union of the same city. The unions have mutually agreed to demand a minimum of 35 cents per hour and eight hours per day. The demand will probably be granted. The greatest work of printing ever under- taken is supposed to be the publication by the government piinting office of 10,000 copies of the “Records of the Warof the Rebeliion™ in 120 royal octavo volumes of 800 pages each, at a cost of $1,200,000. This work will prob* ably be finished next year The souvenir committee for the Inter national ‘Typographical convention offer u prize of $0 for the best specimen of u title page for the work about to be issued under their direction. The conditions are that the page is to be printed in one color, type measurement to be forty-two picas decp and sixty-one picas wide. Specimens to be sub mitted not later than May 1 Papier mache, which can be compressed almost to the solidity of iron, promises to come into vogue as a building material. A portable hospital large cuough to accommo date twenty beds has been made of com- pressed paper. Every partof the vuilding is numbered and thie whole can be packed up in such away asto be carried by three transfer trucks. These trucks are so planned as to form the basis of tne hospital, T-shaped joists of iron keeping the founda’ tion steadily in place. Over this comes a tlooring of compressed and varnished pape boards, which adapt themselves admirably to cleanliness. The walls and ceiling ave of the same material, while the beams, com posed of thin galvanized ivon wire, conncet parallel walls. ~ Holes are boved between the walls and ceiliug for purnoses of ventilation and the windows are wade of wire gauze with & transparent coating. Such a build: ing would be of great scrvice in tropical countries, especially, it 1w addition to its lightness and strength it can be mude five- proof. A promising industry has beenstarted in outh Australia in a somewhat curious way. ‘The central agricultural bureau of South Australia was recently notitied that a weed of very pronounced odor and negressive growth hud taken possession of ubout three acres of soil iu the southern portion of the colony. The settlers iu the neighborhood of the swamp where the plant had established itself were iuclined to look with distinet dis- favor upon the “weed,” which the horses and cattle would not eat and which spread so rapidly. It was presently found, how- ever, that the weed was no other than the luvender plant, which, though of no use as a fodder, was otherwisea most profitable vrop, as twoor three tons of green stulf tuken from it will yiela when distilled by a very simple process $00 woith of luvender oil 1u addition it would give 1,600 pounds of lay- ender water, worth 16 cents a pound after the first distillation and 36 cents a pound after further distillation. T'he settier who wus shrewd enough o make inguiries before rooting up Lis unknown crop has decided, on only to carefully cultivate what lavender he has, but to plant seversi acres besides, the evidence of the ugricuitural bureau, not l ATIONS CONGRESS OF TIIE Midway Plaisance at the World's Fair the | Abiding Place of Orientals. HABITATIONS OF ARABS, TURKS AND MOORS An International Beauty Show Which is the for Lovesick A Model of St. There are many queer things at There is the “Midway tor instance. s that mean? most people ask when they ar it for the first time. mean elsewhere, in Chicago it means simply on of side show is an avenue entertainments 165 10 it is hard to guess, committee of leading up something it. “nobby." and no other To call the thing rided, was too common cousidercd vul with queer Whatever it may The “plaisance name was s who wanted to toned, or, as they put tainly a very nobby nam word so well describes it. nue, it was Indian names are by many Illinois people, and so they rowed a word from the Fre Itis along the “Plus-sance vronunciation that is the that the jayhawk Moors und all mannerof wild wmen living iu subjection to the laws of [linois, but doing unwashed and others unointed with gr and perfumes. But the jayhawis has to pay In the “Plus-sance of dozen shows aud it costs to see cach one. This side show avenue is a mile long und it smacks just a little bit of Coney Island. the eye of the fair man- grounds, strictly speaking, admission being included with a a0-cent World's fair ticket is operated under It is very broad; pays a percentage of his receipts to the World's fair ways and means committee. Guaranties are bt the exhibits are worth the price of ad- On the Tower A Tower of It is 400 feet fud hasa diameter at the base of 100 feet This tower deviates from the planof the oviginal by having a double truck cf from the be is installed at the which a good view of the grounds is had. ¢ Aberdeen hiave been inter- ng a display of the cottage in- Towering over a row of Trish cottages in facsimile 18 & reproduction ‘hroughout this exhibit are specimens of the work of and some of the people themselyes, w has been brought over specially us of livetihood. ud sold heve. se homes, like e to the top. sted in mak istries of Ireland. one of the Laces and shawls > simple architecture of the tof the convent of La Rabida, is a pleas- ant relief to the eye after the stucco flowers and figures crowded on to so many of the Cowe with me to Cairo. scene peopled with Egypians who were taken from the of their dancing, smoking and trading and dumped into the Windy beauties from dance voluptuous measures,look upon the Yankee, their big eyes winning hi attention as soon as they flash them upon him, wear spangles, chiains, beads and gilt Kiralfy bas shown us what they are his spectacles, i wait upon the dainty cover their faces in It is shown | Dark brown coqueltishly e slave “boys the modest fashion of Arab trader: ers ure there, forming in the theate beads, turbuns or shells from the Red and other curiosi donkey boys and camel driv- While the dancers are per- the merchants sell all at Chic nuke charmers subdue reptil the magicians show their familiarity performing , 100, and parrots, glimpse of an eastern city, and here and there oues gets a whiff of 1t. An old priest goes up into the tower of the mosque 4t daybreak and calls upon all beliey ers in Mohammed to pray. their ablutions When they have done this the chants take their pipes and zaars, looking indolently at The people per- long bearded me; squat in the b the passers by, children gaze in wonder and smile knowingly at the ignorance of their ways betrayed by the Au ericans who are as gre: them as they are to the purchasers of ad- mission tickets. Somewhat Fat, But n Beauty. wudily dressed woman, s the beauty of the party, and among yptians bearing such Fatima Osiian, Hosma Bint, Mitwali N, weih and Falmi Houri will be found on signs fair is over, for the the prosperity that they sce 'y, Curiosities of divers sorts from the museurns of Cairo und them are I Some of these names in Chicago after the people from round them in From Cairo isn’t much of a ts of Stamboul is anted with people from that ecity and Constantinople, who same sort of entertainment us their ratures 18 u five | reproduced pretty much the department city of the Golden whiich has u big is slung on' pole of the natives, When they reach the fire the water'is suy plied to them by carriers, who bear leathe bugs that are refilled from the wells as fust their contents are used up, ‘lurkish luucheons are peddled s who serve them from a tray. These moving lunch counters S among those not of Everywhere is observable the tumed natives do a big busi- suspicious nature rastern indo- wessenger boy or officcholder can have any- thing to say about leisure in the presence of 1dle belonging to the sultan of Turkey od in the trans tion builaing, and why there, heaven alone knows eved with red plush and gold, Mr, Barnum on his own ground. by its owner only on the most solemn oce ions, and there cannot be any oceasions in Turkey, it is supposed, until it Arab horses’ of pure the sultan to the Turkish wanted to allow Ameri- cans to see how inferor his steeds are to those bred on this side of the acean. On a Bed of Siiver, A silver bed, owned by one of the sultans of Turkey and said to weigh two tons, 1s in the collection, and a Turkish tent once be longing to a Persian shah and used by him It is wade almost wholly of is returned to him. law, but lus majest in traveling. ar the Tualsian and Algerian secti o Moorish paluace modeled after one of the ola style temples which ave found in :3pain and northern Africa. modating 500 people in the palace shows that practical races building is an immeuse collection of gold A restaurant accom- the Moors An’ Algerian who erected wil- lages at the three last | ris expositions has in which are quartered a natives who maintain a n which are displayed preeious MORNING, APRIL 30, 1 stones, swords, pstols with antique flint locks, daggers, laces, brocades, cushions and tfble covers. In another store are found perfumery, seraglio pastilles, attar of roses and sweetmeats, though these are not halt as sweet as the dreamy damsels who sell them to you. A Bedouin camp, presided over by a feal Bedouin chief, who, of course, vould cut a throat with no compunction, is shown. Tho dancing girls who sway and tremble with simulated emotion keep the hali crowded with spectators. Javanese, to the number of seventy, have built a village in the style of their country on the Midway plaisauce. It is mu bamboo poles, split bamboo and palm leaves and thatched with native erasses. A screen of split bamboo and_ leaves encircles the vil lage to keep out those who haven't paid The Javanese girls dance to the music of an orchestra and puff cigarettes. They are lit tle bits of creatures with black shiny hair. In the center of the settlement are two big bamboo poles with holes cut throush the, When the wind whistles through these holes a strange melody is produced at makes the Javans feel homesick and ro All sorts of bilious and maudlin ughts travel thegugh their brains while this music is being played by the gale. They get more of this music in” Chicago than m Java, us there 1s a greater supvly of wind With the Juvanese is an oid priest named Hadji, who has a great influence over his flock. They are a very lazy race and get tived of work about once a day, throwing down their tools and saying they huve had enough in a way that would commund the admiration of a labor agitator. Not a Labor Agltator, But the old priest knows his business. Just as soon as they quit he has a vision in which it is revealed to him that if they do not at once resume they will be devoured by red devils or develop horns and a tail. Being o knowing man, the priest always sides with capital, and if he sces any visions favorable to a general discontinuance of all labor he cavefully keeps them to himself. Humility and paucity of clothing ave char- acteristics of the Javanese and both char- acteristics have been carefully encouraged by the Hollanders who control the islana One of the a real prince named Raden Sockmadilaga, speaks Duteh and German, but no English. Some of the dancing girls are quite comely, They wear their bluck hair in knots and cut away the bangs from the forehead with a razor. When the weather gots warmer they will be seen in a single piece of cloth wound round the body, it the opponents of decollete dress i Chicago will allow them to. il that time ar- rives they are to be erved in heavy trousers, wondering if summer will ever come A remarkable display in the Plaisance is that of feminine beauty. A building has been-put up and in it are installed fifty young women, who represent the style of fuce of various nations and their fashions in cos- tumes. They were got together by 4 Chicago beauty colléctor who spent some months in Kurope advertising for types of the different races, Minister Lincoln when the party were in Southampton notified them that they were violating the contract labor law in coming to America, which was not so, as congress exempted the World fair from the law. After they arriyed in Chicago all their costumes were burned in a five that very nearly burned them, too. All these had to be duplicated and the girls sit in their pavilions »nd smile day after aay. The management contracted for smiles lust- ing six months, Where the Lovesick Linger. Lovesick Romeos linger round the beauty building and make the air resound with therw mournful lamentations. As the show is under the management of the fair every- thing is correct as far as chaperonage and protection from champague supper offers are concerned. There is a tacit agreement that none of the girls are to get marvied until the fair is over, and then ihey will be able to soleet any kind of men they prefer from the wild seramble that will sake place for their hands. 1t wus thought that it wonld be hard to get half a hundred girls —each one prettier, in her own opinion, than any of the others to agree, but there have been no fights and few displays of jealousies on account of real or fancied superiorities of costume. The V! 5 4 and others have ac: plishments as dancers, Russia, Greec aly, Germany, France, England, Austria, Bohemia, Hungariz and Chicago are equally well represented, and there are beauties from different parts of the United States. Things run largely 1o eating on the Plai ance. Chicagoans are never really happy unless they canuse the the suflix “‘orium” on their words. In varibus parts of the city isa “Scenatorium,” a “Massagovium," where massage is administered, and it is even said 4 “Peanutorium, whére edible nuts are displayed on sale. Itis therefore unot sur- prising to find among the side shows a “Natatorium." This institution is really a Vieona bakery and restaurant with ‘a swimming bath attached to it, 50 as 10 give some excuse for the use of the name. * Special luck it is said attuches to all buildings the names of which end inorium.” In Chicago the termination is added to nouns to convey the idea of immensity. A museumorium mesans a big museum, & concertorium a large concert, a stationorium a4 huge railroud depot. ‘The bakery teaches the art of making good bread. It is said by some people that good bread was not 5o common as it is now in the United States before the Philadelphia ex- position was held withits intererting Vienna bakery. Most of the Moorish palace, which was built by a Chicago firm, is devoted to a res- taurant, or, as they calt it sometimes in Chi- cago, o “gastronomorium.” There tho way- faver is not fed in Moorish suyle, buv can get a bloodrare porterhouse steak if he wants it Carl Hagenbeck, a famous German ani- mal tamer, has a buildipg with & hall seat- ing 5000 people, in which he gives his per- formances. He domesticates the lion so that he will lie dowa with the lamb, and tigers and wildeats become so tame under his care 1t is said, that they are no more daugerous than guinea pigs. Such animals as these he does 1ot coop up in - cages, but gives them plenty of breathing space and they live to- gether without fighting. Germany has a village in which the artis- tic and mercantile tastes of her people are combined. The Germars have put up u model of & town of the middie ages, and there houses of the Black forest and the other divisions of the empire. The houses are filled with original furniture. Dr. Ulric Jahn of Berlin manages a Germun ethnologi cal museum, A model of St. Peter's at Rome, which w begun in the year 1600 and finished in 1700, is exhibited in the Midway plaisance by L. ae B, Spiridon. It is of carved wood, coated with a substance in imitation of marbie, and is constructed on a scale of oune-sixtieth, This makes it about thirty feet long, fiftcen feet wide and fifteen feet hagh. It is pluc in a builaing of Rowman style, which contains besides the model the portraits of many of the p Then there are models of the | cathedral of Milan, the Piombino palace, St Aenes church and the Roman Pantheon of Agrippa. The attendants in this building re dressed in the uniforms of the Vatican guards. ———— A bus iness man from Cincinnati tells of the harsh means he aaopted to secure peace in his neighborhioed. The place was afiiicted by a young man who practiced on the piano he practiced loud and long with the win- dows open—and the people writhed and groaned and cursed to no effect. The busi ness man, who lived next door to the pianist, hired a hand organ by the day, with a boy to go lone with it, and the boy's instruc- tions were that he should play at an open vindow, striking up as soon as his employer had gone to his ofiice and letting up as soon as he got home. At the end of the second day the pianist moved. —_— The strength of the linguistic instinet in children is shown by the remarkable shifts they will make to find forms of expression for their perceptions or feelins An exum ination of these shifts will show that the encrgy of the child manifests itsell along precisely the same linep us have been taken by the language of the races of mankind to ward their ultimate forms. Thus, lacking the word “'wide" a little one said: “Open he door loud,” extending the meaning of the word ‘“loud” precisely as we do when we apply it wuoqn‘).lly to colors. 93- TWENTY PAGES. GOV, MKINLEY 0N GRANT Eloquent Eulogy of the 8ilent Soldier Deliv ered at Galena, Il SUPREME IN WAR, SIMPLE IN PRIVATE LIFE His Youth and the Struggles of 11is Earl Munhood—+A Man from the People, for the People and Never Above the People.” Thursday of last weei the inaugural cele. bration ot the birthday of Geuneral U S Grant occurred at Galena, 11l Among the | tributes paid to the memory of the dead h was that of Governor William McKin The governor said S“Mi. PRESIDENT, CITIZENS OF GALENA LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: [ cannot forbearat the very outset to express to you the very great honor which 1 feel in being permitted,in the city of Galena, to share with you in the observaticn of the seventy-first anniversary of the birthof t great soldier whoonee be. longed to you, but who now belongs to the ages. No history of the war could be writ ten which would omit the state of Illinois or the city of Galena. They contributed the most conspicuous names in_all that great civil contlict, the civil and the military rulers—Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S Grant. [Applause.] Aud no history of Ulysses S, Girant can be written without coming unbidden from every lip the name ot the city of Galena, and no history of that great soldier can be told that will not men tion the name of General John A. Rawlins also a resident of your city. [Applat “You have a proud history: Grani gave his sword ana his services to his country at Galena and gave the country back to the | people at Appomattox. e presided over the first union mecting ever held in Galena and he presided over the greatest union meeting ever held beneath the flag at Ap pomattox wtapplause. | He was little known at the first meeting; the whole world knew him at the last Not a Nation of Hero Worshipars, “We are not a nation of hero worshipers our popular favorites are soon counted With more than 100 ycars of national life crowded with great events and marked by mighty struggles, few of the great actors have more than survized the genoration in | which they lived. Nor has the govern ment and ‘its people been ungenerous to its great leaders, whether soldier or states mau, for the republic has been just and, [ belicve, generous to its public men, yet less than a score of them are remembered, and the student of history can_only recall sowe of its most distinguished, but now forgotten, names. Who can recall in this great audience the presidents of the United States in the order of their administrations! Who can recall the governors of this great common- wealth since its formation? Who can recall the United States senators who have rep resented this great commonwealth 1 that greatest of all parliamentary bodies in the world—the senato of the United States! They were representative men of their times; they were popular favorites, and yet they have passed from mind and m recol- lection and are left with the relic hunters to discern their greatness and disclose their names. “Let me call to your mind the list of those remembered: Washington and Adaws, Hamilton and Jefferscn, Madison and I lin, Clay, Calhioun, Webster, field, Soward, Chase, Sheridan and Grant. These so impressed the times; these so molded and shaped idens; these so directed legislation; these so promoted and enlightened public sentiment that their work o'erleaped the limit of their lives and stretched out and into the futuve. They are remembered because they stood for ‘ideas. They represented some preat cause, and in the main contributed some great good for munkind and for the race, and they will be remembered because their work rests upon the bedrock of great re- sults, anda gratefut people have already crowned them with unfading laurels and will guard with sacred vigilance their illus- trious names. General Grant was one of these, ~On Friday morning, July 23, 1885, at a few minutes past 8 o'clock, General Grant died at Mount McGregor in the state of New York, aged 63 years. He had been an in- tense but patient sufferer for muny months from a dread and fatal disease, and while death had been looked for au any moment, when it at last did come it sent grief into the hearts and homes of the American people. penetrated with sorrow all lands and all nations. His Early Life Un:ventful, “The distinguished citizen whose life we commemorate, and the anniversary of whose birth we pause tocelebrate today, was born at Point Pleasant, in my own native state, on the 27th day of April, 1522, His early life was an uneventful one. He did not differ from the boys of his time, and gave 1o more promise than did a multitude of the youth of his own age and station either of the past or the present. He sprang from plain but in- dustrious parents, and with faith and courage, and with a will and mind for work, he con- fronted the problem of life. At the age of 17 he was sent from one of the Ohio districts a8 a cadet to the West Point Military acad- emy. His predecessor had failed to pass the necessary examination and the vacancy was filled by young Graut. At tne academy he was marked as a painstaking, observing, plodding, persistent pupil, He neither grad uated at the head nor the foot of his class, but stood twenty-second in a elass of thirty nine, His rank at graduation placed him in the infantry arm of the service and in 1843 he was commissioned and breveted second lieutenant in the Fourth United States reg- ulars. On the Blst day f Jul 1534, he resigned his commission in the army, after ecleven years servic thercin—a service creditable to him in every particular, but in no sense so maurked as to distinguish him from a score of others of equal rank and opportunity. ©As 4 private citizen he was little known, either at St. Louis, Mo.. where he first took up his residence, or here at Galena, where he subsequently located his home. In busi ness he did not get on well. His business undertakings in Missouri proved mortifying | failures, and at that time he would have been culled a very unsuccessful man. His father-in-law had given him a few acres of land near the city of St. Louis and there he coustructed a log house for the family resi denc As indicating his ill luck and hard lines at that period ne sigmificantly and with that unaffected frankness always so conspicu- ous called his humble home *Hard Scrabble. Joining his father in this city in the leather | busiuess he was more fortunate, and when the war came on he was faicly comfortable nothing more. In his years of poverty he demonstrated one high uality, that of in dustry ; he was notafraid of hard work. He made'a full hand in felling timber and haul ing it to market. He labored with his hands in his father's tunuery. These accomplish- ments were not taught at West Point, but his strong and sturdy nature, so marked in later years, did not shrink from the roughest and wiost menial labor to provide for and maintaio his family. First to Respond to the Cull. *He was 89 years old when Sumter fell, and within ten days he was in the city of Springfield, 111, with a company of his fel- low townsmen and yours, offering their services for immediate duty at the front. Although friendly toward the south as he had always been, his old army associates and closest friends being chiefly from that section, he was not for an instant irvesolute orin doubt as to the pathway of duty, but swift to tender his skill, his experienc if required, his life for the cause of upnion. On the 19th of April, 1861, when other men were hesitating and wavering, he wrote to a friend: ‘Now is the time for men to prove their love of country; vow all party distinctions should be lost sight of and | every true patriot be for maintaining the in tegrity of the glovious stars and stripes the union and the constitution. No impar. tial man can conceal from himself the fact that in these troubles the southerners have been the aggressors, and the administration ood purely on the defensive, more on the defensive than she would dare have dong but for her conscioustcss of strength and the certainty of right prevailing in the end.’ Then his'eyes penctrated the futive, and in the same ‘letter he declares that ‘in all this Eean but see the doom of slavery.' His broad vision saw with clearness what few others were given 1o see or believe at that early day, and he lived to witness his propheey of 1991 ripen into glorious fulfill ment, and to him more than any other man, living or dead, citizen or soldier, was Abra ham Lincoln indebted for the power to en force the great proclamation of emancipa tion. [Great applause Successtul from the First, From this loyal prairic state he marehed with his re nent to the turbulent state of Missouri, where outhreass were rife and open war was threatencd, foimng the forces under General Fremon On - August 2 following he received a commission as briga dicer general of volunteers, which was his first recosnition from the president of the United Stat He was successful almost from the beginning of his military com mand. His earlior, like his later, blows were telhigly disastro: to the enemy First at Paducah, then fighting with Polk and il low at Belmont, again at Fort Henvy, which he captured. Then he determined to de. stroy Fort. Done and with a rare cool ness and deliberation he settled himself down to the task, which he successtully ac complished on the 16th day of Febriary, 18620 After two duys severe battle 12,000 prisoners and their belongings fell into his hands and the vietory was sweeping and complete, He was immediately coummis sioned a or general of volunteers in aee. oguition of his brilliant trinmph, ant at once secured the confidence of the president. the trusting faith of the loyal north, while the mer at the front turned their eyes hope fully to their coming commander. Fol lowing Donels came bloody Shiloh almost lost to the union army on the first day, turned by his skill and porsist ent determination into a glorious victory on the second. Then Tuka and Corinth, sud cerded by i series of deSPraALe ensEc nents Then the unmatched triumph at Vickshurg on Independence duy. 1865 [Cheers] This was the erowning glory of Geant and his noble army “President Lincoln publicly thanced him for himself and in the name of the people fc his inestimable services to the union cau I the widst of all these honors the silent soldier stood unmoved, with gratitude, and not for i single instant lost his steady head Fawning flattery did not spoil him nor public acelaim shake his rugged nature. He moved amoug his men and before the country the same great, unostentatious, self-reliant com mander as you see in youder statue in vour beautiful park today, erected by your friend Mr. Kohilsaat, here in your city.” He looked the first time I saw him as he looks in this beautiful lawn today Commander of All the Army. +On the 17th of Mar a little more than three years fr it arture from Galena,” where he was drilling your locul company, he assumed control of all the federal forces, wherever located, and in less than fourteen wonths Lee's army, the pride aud the glory of the cenfederate goverument surrendered to the victorious soldier. “The union was saved with liberty and we pray both may be eternal, The liberal terms given to Lee at Appomattox revealed in the breast of the hard fighter a soft and gen- erous heart. He wanted no vengeance, he had no bitierness m his soul, he had no hates te avenge. He believed in war only as ameans of pen His large, gentle nature made the surrender as casy to his illustrious foe as was possible said, with the broadest humanity: *Uake your horses and side arms, all of your personal property belongings, and go home-—not to be dis- turbed, not to be punished for treason, not to be out , but go. culti the fields whereon you fought and lost. Yield faithtut adlegiance to the old flag and the restored union, und obey the laws of ) General Giani's Private Life, After discussing General Grant's political 4 since the war the speaker said: private life was beautiful in its pur- simplicity. No irreverent oath. it is said, ever pussed his lips after he arrived a manhood and Lis conversation was as chaste and unaftected as that of simple childhood His relations with lus far were tender and affectionate, and with his officers and soldiers cordinl and considerate. He was a typical American, free from ostentation, ly approached. His whole life gave proof of his nationality: a man from the people, of the people, for the peovle and neverabove the people, [Applause.] For weelks during the seige of Vicksburg he was without haggag ant, camp chest or tent, sharing the rations of the private soldier and sleeping on the ground with no covering but the heavens above him. On one occasion, in_the department he was com- manding, the steamboat captain discrimi nated against the private soldier and woula not permit him to ride as a cabin passenger on equal terms with ofticers and the travel- ing public ally. This coming to the general’s knowledge heissued an immediate and peremptory order forbidding such un- Awerican treatment and punishing with ex- treme severity in; future discrimination against the brivest and best, his allies in the great couflict. His tenderness and re- for the volunteer soldiers was pro- in every army wherein he served, and any slight to them he repelled usa per nal indignity Only a few years ago, in one of his jour- neys through the south when he was receiv- ing a great ovation, the colored men crowded his hotel 1o look nto his face and grasp the hand of their great deliverer. To this in- trusion objection was made, and the colored men wero about to be ejected when the old hero appeared and in his quiet way, full of earnest feeling, suid: ‘Wiere I am they shull come. [Greav applause | Ho be- licved in the brotherhood of mau, in the po- ul equality of all men; he had secured them with his sword, and’ was prompt to in all places and everywhere iends, death had marked him He fought it with his iron will old-time courage, but at last 3 i, the first and only timo the groat soldier wias ever van quished : he had routed every other foe, ho had triumphed over every other cuciny, but this last one conquered him, as in the end ic conquers all. It, however, stayed its fatal hand | it him to finish the of his life—to write the his tovy he had made. Truc, it had already been written; written in blood, in the agony of the dying and in the tears of a sufering na tion; written in the hearts of a patriotic people. ‘The ready pen of others had told more than a thousand times the matchless story: the artist had a bundred time: placed upon canvas the soul-stirring scer in which he was the central figure: the sculptor had cut its every phase in enduring marble, yet a kind Providence morcitully spared lim a few months longer that he who had seen it and directed it should sum up the grest work wrought by the grand army of the vepubbc under bis magic guid an i P Marrisge asa swindle is being turned to profitable account by a counle in Indian Ter- ritory. They go to a minister, employ his services to unite them in the bonds of mat- rimony; the mau then tenders n bill and asks the clergyman to take out 8 and give him the change. The §0 bill is a counterfeit. Then they go uutil they find another unsuspecting clergyman and repeat the process, The game has worked so well that this interesting pair have accumulated asurplus. ‘There is no question of the va- lidity of their marriage. The Bon Marche in Paris is said to em- ploy 100 men who do nothing but wateh for shoplifters. This one establishment alone arrests from 12,000 to 15,000 people annually who huve been caught stealing. Prohably if 80,000 or 40,000 more who don't get caught are added, an idea can bo formed of the way Keptc 3 s in France. -~ Amoug the Indians of Washington, Ore- gon and British Columnbia all white men are known us *Boston mwen,” and even the wagon vond is called *Boston hooihuv.” The hub is nuturally proud of this. 1t 1s supposed that the celebration of Boston n the vernacular of Indian tribes ou the other side of the con- tinent came from the fact that wany of the early waders hailed from Boston, A A A A A A AN A At it PAGES 1120 ——r— NUMBER 215, RELATIVE OF WESLEY IN RAGS Story of a Man Found in a Little Hovel in Omaha, POVERTY AND PRIDE OF AN OLD MAN His Only Possession an Unfinished Hymn of Clinrles Wesley That Has Never Been Pablished A Mome Aftor Years of Privation, In the past the bottoms Lying to the norths eastand south of this city have frequently been the homes of men and women who have seen better days. They have been inhabited by men who have held positions of trust, men Who have been statesiien, mei who used five flgures in estimating theie wealth, Wwomen who were queens in society, women retined and possessod of all the accomplish - ments that money could holp them to ac- quire. Tnese homes have Lot been selected from choice, but from necessity, huving been brought about by business failures in other cities, by misfortune aud scores of other causes Yesterday, however, the county agent, Dan Bure, unearthed a case that is of more than usual mterest, as the party s from stock that has a worldwide reputation and stock that played an important part ia spreading the Christian religion throughout this country Burr was investizating a number of applis cations for aid which came from the north bottoms. In passing a small shanty covered with tar paper, situated at a point that would be the intersection of Sixth and Grace streets, if Graco was extended, he koocked at the door, thinking to en‘er and see if the occupants were in need of the nec- essaries of life, Ina moment the door of the little hut was opened by o eweet-facod old man whose white hair, neatly combed back behind his ears, hung i il waves ahout his shoulder His form towered six feet in hefght and was as straight as an arrow. He seemed in per- feet health, though nearly blind. Beside him stood o woman, white hafred, small in stature and possessed of a face that might serve as a model for the art of the sculptor, Accepting the invitation, the county agent entered the little house, to find it neat and clean, although it was almost empty, so far as houschold furniture was concerned, onl, containing a broken stove, an old bedstea 4 table, three chairs and an old-fash' foned bair trunk. Sitting down unon one of the chairs, Burr engaged in couversation with the old man, who said that his name was John Wesiey Hop- Kins, and that he was 70 years of age. The name struck B being somewhat peculiar, and he atonce propounded a series of interrogatories. The questions were all answered, and if the answers were true they show that for some time Omaha has been the home of a noted individual who most successfully coucealed his identity. Mr. Hopkius declared that he was a divect lineal descendaut of Charles Wesley, the great Metnodist hymn writer of England, He said bis father was o second cousin of Charles Wesley; that he was born near Ep- worth, England, and that with his parents he came to this country when a mere boy, settling at Geneva, N. Y. He had fr x\wul{y heard both his father and mother spenk of Charles Wesley Burr doubted the story, but to furnish conclusive evidence of it truthfulness the ol mun went to the trunk and drew forth a swall package of manuscript, yellow with age and upon which the writing was almoss obliterated. This was piaced in Burr hands, with the injunction that the greatesf care was to be exercised in its handling. He ansisted that 1t was one of Charles Wesley's hymus which had never been com- pleted and’ consequently had never been published. After somé persuasion Burr was allowed to makea copy of tl document, which is as follows: Ever nearer, blessed Lord Shines on e, Thy spirit. Purest riches ih Thy wor Shall my soul inkierit; Allabout'me bewms Thy grace Than the sunlight clearer And the blessings of Thy fuce, Nearer, ever nearer, ATCT, OVET NOATOr, NOATer wy oul, to my soul, Cometli heavenly groeting, Blessod words repeating, rer, ever uvarer., er nearer, ev'ry hour, Cometh Thy tamorrow, And the stnners shrink and cower *Neath their gullt und sorrowy But my soul exultant cries As (o Wiy grows drearer, Allis bright where Jesus liés Nearer, ever nearer, Ever nearer come Thou down, When the night 15 durkest, And the stars—— foregoing beautifu} s doubts were dispelled and was convinced that the old man was the person ho represcnted himself to be, but his inquisitiveness led him to make some further inguiries Taking up the thread of the narrative the old man told the county agent that after se- curing the best education that could be ob- tained in the little towns surrounding his ‘hed his nnjorllx he went to Virginia, wh married and at once engaged in farming. He accumulated wealth very rapidly and becamo a slave wher. Atone time he was possessed o fifty slaves, all of which he freed in 1861, just before the breaking out of the civil wars Having at that time about $5,000 in he, with his wife and one son, the only child, removed to the old French town, Cahokia, in linos, a short distance below St. Louis, where he resided until five years ago. Dure ing Lis residence in Nhnois he did not pros per and things kept going from bad to worse, until one year ago, when he came to this it Upon reaching L the little sum of money was about exhausted, and being too old to work hard, too proud to ask for chars ity and too honest to steal, this old man and his wife lived the lives of a couple of her- wits, having nothing to do with their neigh- bors, the other bottom dwellers, After hearing the story the county agen asked the old man if he would accept ai from the county. The question was an- swered with a positive *No,"” he saying that he had received a letter from a son residing at Wirt court ho W. Va., and that he had intended to th as soon as he could get away. The letter contained a check for $100 and a request to come aud spend his few remaining years in ease Oue thing he would ask of the agent, and that was to assist him to the Missouri Pacifio depot. This Mr. Burr was willing to do, and tuking off lis coat he was soon at work helping to pack the trunk and a small box, both of which last night found their way to the Webster street depot, fro.n which the night train bore Mr. and Mrs. Hopkius on their way to meet their son, who years ago gave his pareuts up as dead. e Coin collectors especially value the ‘“‘trial picces,” or experimental coins that are made by artists connected with the mint for sub- mission to the. coinage committee of con- gr when & change of design is contem- plated. Asonly tenor a dozen strikes are made of each pattern, they are extremely rare. ‘The secretary of a late member of the president’s cabinet says that the cone gressmen who get these trial pieces are Usually ignorant of their value, for he has scen them paid out for shoe blacking and cold tea Muhammed A. R. Webb, the Americal mussulian, say “The nm)uril{ of the in- tellectual moslems today believe little in the supposed miracles attending Mohammed' nativity aud youth. The koran itself says that Mohammed was merely & man, and he himself tauht that he was no more than others. There is noreliable evidence of any: thing supernatural nueuw bis life beyons what is compatible with rn theosopb,

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