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A Contented , such i. Russeii e. — .— Gardner of St. Man * Louis. A remarkable man has been found In the Mississippi valley. His home i in St. Louis and his name is Rus sell E. Gardner. Perhaps there Is not another man in the world like him. He is contented, absolutely satisfied with what he possesses. lie is only 35 years old, yet he has retired from business with a quarter million dol lars which he has made during the past ten years. He says that making money is as easy as rolling off a log and believes that any man should se cure enough wealth by the time he Is 35 years old to live in comfort the remainder of his life. In the year 1900 he made too much money and a few days ago distributed SIO,OOO of his year’s earnings among his employes. Ill* Rapid It Nr. Ten years ago he was working at his trade of carriage making. He made up his mind that people wanted a cheaper, well-m3de, piano-box bug bv. He reasoned that if he could make enough of these buggies to sell them at a dose margin he could get rich. With this Idea he started in. Last year his shops turned out and sold 22,000 of these vehicles and on each one he only mada $2.50, but. the total net profit exceeded $50,000. His shops and office* are fitted up in the most comfortable style. In them he has in- RUSSELL E. GARDNER. To Stinrvulsjcte FaitKful The Presbyterian church has under taken to raise funds on an increased scale for the loginning of the new century, ancl in other ways seeks to stimulate the growth and effectiveness of the church, Rev. Ur. Charles A. Dickey of Philadelphia, the moderator of the general assembly of that denom ination, is devoting his time to the work, and at present is speaking in the west. He will visit all parts of the Union. The Presbyterians have not fixed upon a definite sura as their *oal. but their aims run up into the millions. Dr. Dickey's purpose is to stimulate the faithful to more liberal REV. DR. CHARLES A. DICKEY, giving for all the agencies of the church, for the payment of debts, for the support of colleges and missions, and for the aid of various philanthro pies. The- church already has a move ment under way to add 500,000 chil dren to the 1,000,000 already attending its Sunday schools. POWER FROM SUNBEAMS. Ah Apparatus llcvltel That Produce* 10,000 Degree* of Hunt. Many a person every day sees the moat powerful engine ever made, without knowing it. Not a wheel goes round anywhere in the world that is not driven, indirectly, by the sun. It furnished the coal used in the steam engine and provides the stream that drive the water wheel.- Without it there would be no plants, and theie- Ifore no horses, no oxen, no living crea- Ipre of any kind. ■ Great inventors have tried to find a |way to use the suu\s energy directiv. •Everybody has hoard how Archimedes troduced many novel features among which is a barber shop. Here his em ployes are tonsorially treated and if! a man calls on business or to have chat, he Is asked to have a shave or ai shampoo if his appearance Indicates* that he needs eitVer. Mr. Gardner* considers this hospitality as more prac-; tical than a treat to a cigar or drink.’ Then he finds a great deal of fun in' it. He says that the idea tickles every-* one and people talk about it afterward, thus making it a good advertisement. Kuiplojm (>l m Clianre. Mr. Gardner has turned his business over to his employes, but is still the owner of it. He says that should hef get tired of boating, fishing and gun ning he will return again to the shops, take off his coat and go to work. He has no desire to travel in foreign coun tries, but will spend his time in the Mississippi valley, which he considers the most beautiful and interesting sec tion of the world. He has a yacht on the river and intends to see every bit< of the noble section from St. Paul to! the gulf, to look up all its tributaries,- pry Into its hays and bayous and s'-e. its every island and natural beauty.' I’e is a jolly young man, free of care, full of happiness and with his wifej will enjoy life according to his own fancy, sun-rays on the wooden hulls by< means of a piece of glass. the man who invented the Monitor, made a small engine that was set iffi motion by sunbeams. William Oalver 1 of Washington has just invented an apparatus that in said to produce 10,- 000 degrees of heat by means of focused sunshine. The greatest heat ever pro duced heretofore was 6,000 degrees, which was obtained with an electric arc. A number of mirrors are ar ranged in the new machine so that) the rays falling on each one are alii focused at a single point. Thick glassi and tough Russian iron are said tc| melt like wax under the focused rays. The apparatus will, it is said, bore a dozen holes in a soaking wet plank in as many seconds. It might, per-' haps, be used to advantage in smelt-i ing ore*. Its use in connection with the steam engine would be in produc ing steam without the use of coal Trlnceoa (mprltonnl Between Walla. Elevators are by no means the re cent invention generally supposed. An. amusing account of what was probably the first attempt at an elevator Is told by St. Simon and according to him it was from a M. Villayer that the idea of a “flying chair” first emanated. This Ingenious person set up a passable pro totype of the modern elevator in his house in Paris, working it up and down between the wall*. The daugh ter of Louis XIV. was so delighted with the novelty that she had one put up in her own apartments at Versail les.' This honor was. however, the un doing of poor M, Villayer's machine. The chair suddenly stopped moving while the princess was between two landings and she had to remain block ed up for three hours until the work men broke a hole through the thick wall. The king was so annoyed at this that he forbade any further experi ments in the same line. New Vegetable Wanted. Our present garden vegetables are cultivated varieties of wild species. Why do not our horticulturists seek for other wild plants that could be in troduced with profit to our tables? A fortune awaits him who does this suc cessfully, says Le Science Francalse. We may be shy, at first, of a dish ot iris, or a saxifrage salad, but the papers will relate how Bernhardt and Ooquelin ate and liked them, and then :h ' iris and the saxifrage will beccnm THE WEEKLY NEWS, CARTEKSVILLE, OA. j HEAD OF RAILROAD. GEORGE B. REEVE HAS CLIMBED THE LADDER From Holt uni Rung to Tup Hao| — Lately Appointed to the lflgheet Office In the Cilft of the Oread Trunk. George B. Reeve, the new- general manager of the Grand Trunk railroad. Is an Englishman by birth and is 60 years old. He was born in the county of Surrey. In 1860 he entered the serv ice of the Grand Trunk as a clerk in the freight department, from which, lifter two years, he was appointed tele ! graph operator. A year later he was promoted to train dispatcher, which GEORGE B. REEVE. exacting position he filled with credit, until 1865, when he was made a re ceiving agent. In 1870 he became a station agent, and in 1873 he was selected to the po sition of assistant freight agent. In this department his work was recog nized as being thorough, and he was promoted in 1881 to traffic manager of the Chicago & Grand Trunk. When Hays, who has accepted the position of general manager of the Southern Pa cific, became the general manager of the Grand Trunk five years ago he appointed Mr. Reeve general traffic manager of the entire system. THE SAILORS’ TERROR. V'avlgators Dread Not Wind nnd Wave*, but KXp’oSiORH. “Boiler explosions are the terror of the sea-faring man,” said an old-time deep-water captain. “Such a thing is bad enough on dry land, but imagine a catastrophe of that kind at sea! In 39 cases out of 100 it means the abso lute wiping out of the craft itself and every soul on board. “The average landsman would be greatly shocked in looking over the maritime records to see how many vessels disappear each year and leave absolutely no clue to their fate. They run well up to the 100 mark, and such ft mystery is not to be explained away by storms. A Chinese typhoon may swoop down like lightning out of a J clear sky and tear a ship to pieces, | but some floating wreckage is sure ito tell the tale. A boiler explosion, on I the contrary, will blow a hole as big us a railroad tunnel right through the center of the hull, and the stricken | vessel simply goes down like r shot. : There is no time to unfasten r boat ! 'rom the davits or cut loose a spar. “In the opinion of seamen, this is the story of at least 90 per cent of the ; i hips that leave port and are never | i'eard of again. Luckily, the modern i system of marine boiler inspection is j extremely strict and thorough, but It Is impossible to absolutely prevent J carelessness and fraud, and often mough, no doubt, the fault lies with i Iht engineer. j “ There is an old story of a drunken I Scotchman who mistook the thermom- I *ter for the steam gauge and ‘cussed j mt* the stokers because he eouldn’t I cet the pressure above 80. That yarn will hardly hold water, but I've seen tases almost as bad. lam glad to say, ! fcowever, that during the past ten rears there has been a steady diminu | (ion in the number of vessels which mysteriously disappear.’ That is due, j >eyond all question, to the increased itringency of boiler inspection, and he greater strictness of examinations efore a license Is issued to engineers. tfeverthelos3, there is still consider ible room for improvement In both iranches.” A POST OF VAST POWER. Sraae Heseonalblllty That float* with the Urltleh foreign Office. The man who keeps the British em )lr* in line with the rest of the civi izetl nations stands paramount among he world's statesmen. On him, more :han any other man, perhaps, depends the peace of millions. In his keeping ire the interests of one-quarter of the human race. No empire has so many vulnerable points as his; no man's acts so nearly affect the empire'* safe ty. The words he speaks, the things he does, may rebound for good or evil long after he has gone and his name is forgotten. It is, Indeed, hardly an exaggeration to say that the British foreign office is the guardian of the peace of the world. An indiscreet word, a careless act, and there is not ft corner of the earth, however re mote, where some powder magasine might not explode. It is not a thing to be lightly talked of, this guiding of the great British machine, which may set every fourth man ir. the world at war against his three neighbor*. "Grace Before Meat" Boxes. By means of small boxes, called ‘grace before meat” boxes —put on the table for the receipt of coppers as a ihankoffering for meals —the total ?mount collected by the Salveiion Amy ku:i year, in England, was £ll,- CASH IN A BAC. Feccllar War Kaffir* Bars of Ranking Their Money. The natives of that part of South Africa which to a great extent is in habited by hushmen and Hottentots have a peculiar system of banks and banking. These Kaffirs among whom this curious system of banking obtains live near Kaffraria, in the south of the Colony country. The natives come down south from their country to trade in the several villages and towns in large numbers and then return to Kaf fraria. From those who trade of their own number they select one, who for the occasion is to be their banker. He is converted into a bank of deposit by putting ail the money of those whose banker he is into a bag, and then they sally forth to the stores to buy what ever they want. When an article is purchased by any of those who are in this banking arrangement, the price of the article is taken by the banker from this deposit money bag, counted several times and then paid to the seller of the article, after which all the bank* depositors cry out to the banker in the presence of the two witneaues selected: “You owe me so much,!" This is then repe?. f ed by the wit nesses. The general accounting comes between the banker and his several de positors when all desired purchases have been made, after which all the natives depart for their northern wilds. MINE WORKERS’ OFFICIAL.. One of the most intelligent labor leaders in this country is John Hunter, district pre-sklent of the United Mine Workers of America and fraternal del egate to the recent British Trades Un iOHN HUNTER. ion Congress. Mr. Hunter has been of great assistance to President John Mitchell in organizing the miners, who now constitute the greatest labor un ion in the world. Mr. Hunter was warmly received in Great Britain by the miners’ delegate, and brought back many ideas which will aid him in his work in the great coal mining section'.- of the United States. STATE CAPITOLS. Building* L’pon Which tli Tmlem) lit to Expmid Million*. The cornerstone of a $1,000,000 state cnpitol for Arkansas was laid recently at Little Rock. A few days ago a con tract was given out at Jackson, Miss., for building there anew state capital at a total cost of nearly $1,000,000. The present capitol and grounds at Jack son are of the estimated value of $400,- 000, and the Little Rock capitol and ground of the value of only $250,000. Many of the older settled states have capitals which were built many years ago and were designed to meet condi tions which nearly every state has since outgrown. The capitol of Alaba ma, at Montgomery, represents an in vestment of only $50,000, that of Louis iana, at Baton Rouge, $250,000, the grounds being included in this *stl mate; that of Kentucky, at Frankfort, the scene of the Goebel shooting. $500,- 000, grounds included, and that f .Maryland, at Annapolis, $300,000. There has been a general tendency ta replace the old bulldlnga by new and more costly structures, as is being done in Arkansas and Mississippi. Thus in Sacramento, the capital of California, the new building and grounds represent a total expenditure of $3,000,000. Austin, Tex., has a $6.- 500,000 capitol. Pennsylvania has at Harrisburg a $2,500,000 capital. The little state of Rhode Island ha* at Providence a $3,000,000 capitol, and the lowa state capitol, at Dr* Moina*, represents a total investment of $3,- 500.000. The Illinois capitol, at Spring field, represent* a total investment of $4,500,000, and the Nebraska capitol. at Lincoln, represents a cost of $750,- 000. The Wisconsin capitol, in the small town of Madison, represents an investment of $1,000,000, and Mlc-higaa has at Lansing a $1,500,000 capital. In the smaller cities of the country there are to be found usually the moat expensive capitals, a circumstance which has given rise to the expression “the smaller tha capita] town the mors expensive the capitol building.” Colo rado ha* a $2,500,000 capital, and Wash ington ha* completed one at Olympia costing sl,ooo,ooo.—New York Sun. no***> SbM Wlfbln( Out Dane*. The smallest horse probably that was ever fitted with a set of shoes by any horseshoer in California occupied a place in the shop of Howard & Mll lerick of Petaluma a few days ago. It was a six-mouths-old Shetland pony, one of a band a Ix>s Angeles man was bringing down from Mendocino coun ty, where they had been pastured dur ing the summer. The rough roads had worn its bare feet and necessitated shoeing. The shoes, fashioned out of a steel bar. when fitted to the pony’s feet were a trifle larger than a silver ■.dollar oirro and the full so", vrt igbed just four ounces, an ounce for each A GEAND OLD MAN. HON. FREDERICK HOLBROOK Or VERMONT. \Vr Governor Who Is Now .OS Years ow He Recently Celebrated the l-.lghty-Elghth Anniversary of HU Mirth. bound in health, his mental vigor unimpaired, I rederick Holbrook, war Governor of Vermont, celebrated the 88th anniversary of his birth at his home in Brattleboro the other day. Gov. Holbrook is one of the grand old men of the nation. He is probably the oldest ex-Governor In the country and one of the few Burvivors among those men who were at the head of State governments during the civil strife. Gov. Holbrook was born In Con necticut, but his parents went to the Green Mountain State when he was a mere boy, locating at Brattleboro, Where his father was engaged in va rious lines of trade and manufacture and was one of the foremost citizens. He attended the Berkshire gymnasium at Pittsfield. Asa young man he was elected captain of a militia company. HON. FREDERICK HOLBROOK. which did not conform to military standards of dress, but appeared in all sorts of apparel, some in straw hats, some In caps, some in stove pipes, others in shirtsleeves and some in linen dusters. It was a motley aggregation, but its discipline was good and it did not reflect discredit ably on its commander. At 21 Hol brook married and soon thereafter took up agriculture as his vocation. He applied himself to a scientific study of farm work and, by writing for various farm journals throughout the State, he attracted attention to himself. His -writings were read far and wide and had much to do with his introduction to public life. When he went to the State Senate in 1849. he was not a total stranger to the people of his State and before he had been there long they knew him as one of the stanchest men in that body. The following year he was re-elected. In 1850 he vm made president of the Vermont State Agri cultural Society which had just been organised and he remained at its head 10 years. In 1860 he was elected Gov ernor and served four years. He was one of Lincoln’s most loyal support ers and it was upon his suggestion that the martyr President called for 800,000 volunteers in 1862. The same year the Governor secured the estab lishment of a military hospital at Brattleboro and Invalid soldiers were sent there from the southern battle fields. At one time as many as 2,000 sick soldiers were being cared for In the buildings and in tents. At the close of his second term Gov. Holbrook resumed his agricul tural pursuits. He had a genius for inventing mechanical implements and improving on those already made. A firm in Boston kept him almost con stantly employed. How the Govern or is spending his old age may bs gathered from the following: "I am happy and contented. I try to make myself useful. 1 walk sev eral miles every pleasant day. I at tend to my correspondence. I do my own writing. 1 read aloud several hours daily, largely from the poets and works of imagination. This tends to prevent introspection when one is old. I try to be a young old man. I’ve been smoking ever since 1 was 15 years old. and you see I'm alive yet. 1 enjoy the weed. I don’t smoke strong cigais now. I have one of our manufacturers make ma some cigars every now and then. He puts the best material into them and. as you see, they are very small and mild. I smoke a cigar after each meal, and sometimes I go beyond that limit. I believe in moderation al ways.” Libelous to Call a White a gro. To call a white man a “negro” in Louisiana constitutes a libel, under a rt ' ?nt decision of the supreme court of that state. In the cam decided the pontiff is a Methodist minister, v. ho. by mistake, was referred to as a '"&+■ gro” in an article published by th defendant. He brought suit for libel for $5,000 and obtained a verdict of SSO. which was sustained by the preme court. The mistake was mad. by the operator of a telegraph com. pany in sending the words “cultured gentleman, as colored gentleman “ which words were changed by the proofreader of the defendant into “negro.” The newspaper correspond ent who sent the dispatch had in. tended to compliment the minister and referred to him in the original telegram as a “cultured gentleman"’ and said that “his arguments • • were eloquently presented.” The su preme court, held that the libel had been committed, for which, on the fact* in this case, actual damages could not be recovered, but for which exemplary damages could be obtained. REV. EDWARD P. GOODWIN, D. D The suddeu death in Chicago of Rev. Dr. Edward Payson Goodwin, re moved the dean of the clergy of city and one of the most eminent di vines of the west. Dr. Goodwin's demise was due to heart failure and the end came while he was dining at the home of William H. Busby, a prominent Chicagoan, whose guest h* was. The deceased came into promi nence during the reconstruction period in Chicago which followed the great fire of 1871. As pastor of one of the wealthiest congregations in that city and whose church, fortunately, escaped the flames of the great conflagration, he performed noble work in succoring the poor and needy and providing shelter ancl sustenance for the thou sands rendered homeless and destitute by the lire. Edward Payson Goodwin was bor in Rome, N. Y„ July 31, 1832. Gradu ating from the Rome academy, he en tered Amherst college and on complet ing his collegiate course, in 1858, en tered the Union Theological seminary in New York, matriculating in 1851 Following his ordination Dr. Goodwin took up missionary work in Vermont and in October, 1860, received and ac cepted his first call to preach at Columbus. 0.. where he remained seven years. He left Columbus to accept the pastorate of the First Congregation*! church of Chicago, a position which he filled for thirty-three years. Hl* was obliged to resign last July owing to enfeebled health. I)r. Goodwin had made a study of the conditions and life of the poor e< a great city and it was through hh* charities and good works in that direc tion that he had become best known. His name aad been for years a house hold word among the poor of Chlcag* and a synonym for goodness and prae- THE LATE DR. GOODWIN, tical Christianity. He was scholarly and eloquent and had achieved an en viable reputation as a pulpit orator. In September, 1860, Dr. Goodwin was united in marriage to Miss Ellen M- Chamberlain at Burke, Vt. Besides his wife deceased is survived by three children, Paul. Margaret and Albert, the latter a student at Princeton, and a sister. Mrs. Henrietta Townsend, of Rome, N. Y. Among the students at the Univer sity of Paris last year there were 1,30® from foreign countries. ...