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THE CAMESYILL TRIBUNE
1875.
UR MEN OF THE HOUR
[OMINENT IN POLITICS* RELIGION,
SURGERY AND THE LAW.
Ir William Whltaaray J * Deflanea ofBrit-
!•!■ Control—Sensation Created by a
Baptlct Minister—>The Beoord* Mod*
by Dr. Bull aad Lawyer Bullitt.
iSW, by American Pres* Aweeto-
Nearly Uou.j
^eminence every day some man ooanae Into
" m the champion of truth,
a
roanse or an idea. For this he gains
kme, often ephemeral, but occasionally
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SIR WILLIAM V. WIJ1TKWAY.
8 permanent Among ihoee whose recent
I 8 aetwtw h*v« brought them wide noh>-
itoty roast be numbered Sir Y> ill am V.
I ■ Whiter ay, premier of Newfoundland.
For years he has been cojispicu
A pii- M boms as a sta tewnan of more than
■ ordluRcy atality, but now hia name is
m know i wherever the English Language
I bread or spoken as that of a during
I "ookroUl” who has svcod at the bar of
f tee British house cf lords and protested
I against L'.'e re enactment of “a bill for
I 8 m better conduct of the treaties be-
| 1 tween tag the Great Newfoundland Britain mid fisheries.” France iespect-
This act. f^ir William declared, “em-
provisions cf an arbitrary and op-
pK»biv« character, wholly repug iaat to
those principles of lilierty ai:J justice
T'hich are held to be the Ixwis ot modern
British legislation.’* The poisoner got
no Mtisfaction. J-ord Salisbury and
I^oml ixuuUAxd—ibe latter of whom had
revived the obnoxious bill, which was in
| feroo would during concede the nothing. reign Seeu of George that IV— the
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I Tory policy “demanded the granting of
pririlogert to Froach {Liiermen which
wW impoverish the r«vidt«nU of New-
foairdiau'r Sir William’s Anglo-Saxon
spirit broke out in manly revolt, and he
walked from Westminster declaring that
tw and hie people would seek relief and
protectioH by abandoning the mother
country a«d eocnring julmiBslon to the
Ihhted Statea of America.
A hundred years ago Sir William’s
beck might have been endangered by
fkih ftflsertioa. Bat today men and «#•
fairs exist on a different basis.
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REV. DLL C. DH W. BRIDGMAN.
TV* Newfoundland premier’s attitude
id tbe political sensation of tho hour.
The current religious sensation is fur¬
nished by Dr. 0, DeW. Bridgman, pastor
of the Madteon Avenue Baptist ohurvh of
New York city. On a recent Sunday
Dr. Bridgman pvoanhed a sermon dis¬
avowing belief in hell as a place of
eternal Urmeut in which fire and brim¬
stone are the chief constituents of tort-
nra He declared that “tho hell against
which the Lord had warned the people
le just the inward depravity which self¬
ishness and unbelief and unfaithfulness
are certain to breed.” This. a« he under¬
stood it, was the doctrine with reference
bo hell fire. Certain members of his
congregation questioned the orthodoxy
of their paster, but they were silent at a
held to consider the matter, and
g unanimous vote of confidence was
passed. The reverend gentleman, not being
satisfied with this verdict, resolved to re¬
sign his pastorate. He did so in a letter
which was read to his congregation, and
in which he stated that his declaration
was fina l- A committee subsequently
waited upon Dr. Bridgman to try and
persuade him to reconsider his action,
but he would not A large number of
Baptist clergymen, it is* sfated, agree
wjtb him on the subject of eternal pun¬
ishment of the lib¬
Dr. Bridgman is one most
eral minded men in the Baptist church.
He is fifty-stx years of/ having been
born in Saagerties, ft ax. jjJan v l, 1835.
His first pastorate was in Morristown,
N. J. From there he went to Jamaica
plain, Mass., and thence to Albany, N.
Y. He has been pastor of the Madison
Avenue church. New York, since 182 3.
Although a physician of eminence, the
name of Dr. William T: Bull, ot New
York city, did not become familiar to
tho people of the United States until he
numbered among his patients Mrs. James
G. Jr Tho marital wore of that
young woman and prospective actress
have been widely published. She is now
in Dakota for the purpose of securing a
divorce. The conspicuousnens of her ill-
ness brought to her physician a certain
public notice which even his. surgical
akill bad not before attracted.
f The surgeons now perform operations
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successfully which no one wculd
d * red to attempt twenty or wen
years ago. Afflictions from which men,
and especially Women, formerly died
iwt only palliated but cured bv
°f the th boldness ® knifa to A try man who has had
and the skill to perform new operations,
fully, is such success¬
a public benefactor, ««d the
reader cannot fail to be mterreted in his
Prooaality. Dr. William T. Hell is a
■trijdng example of the younger school
of surgeons. After being graduated at
the College of Physicians and fikrrgeoos
be was a private pupal of the celebrated
Dr. Henry B. Sands. He studied in
Karope for two years, and in JS 73 began
his career in New York. From that
time hie hospital experience dates, and
be still regularly attends one er more of
these Institutions. From Be,fame he
went to the New York Dispensary, and
ftnm there to the Chambers Street hos¬
pital, of which he had chargo.
It was while he was the surpsew there
that he performed an opera! on whteb
brought him fame nil over the rorld. A
woman was brought to the ’^ambers
Street hospital with two bulh-% wounds
in her abdomen. She died. After the
autopsy Dr. Bull concluded V. at by n
incision the intestines could have b*‘*«
removed, cur^i. repaired and replace- and tie
woman The next tim< he hau a
similar case he resolved to try this op¬
eration. In a little while a v inn was
bronght in thus wounded. D*. Boll ex¬
perimented and succeeded, Since than
many other surgeons in Am <rlca and
Earope have performed the «, n? opera¬
tion with success, but Dr. Bui pointed
the way.
Dr. Bull isaRingularlyhandimuemtm,
with a dark mustache and pr maturely
gray hair, fn manner he is graceful,
genial and easy. He is a natir; cf Rhode
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DR. WILLIAM T. BUI.’*
Inland and a graduate of Hat vard. His
patients come from all over tl.e country,
and are usually sent to him by other
physicians.
Mr. John C. Bullitt, who is osio of the
leaders of the Philadelphia b» *, mjo*
in Kentucky about sixty-five years ago.
He began practice in the Q-taker City
when a young man, and earl r achieved
both famo and fortune. Ho s bow and
has been for maay years the lawyer for
the Drexels, and those banks b never go
Into any considerable transaction until
bo has been consulted. Mr. Bullitt man¬
aged the affairs of Jay Cooks when he
got into difficulties while attempting to
build the Northern Pacific ra Iread. The
property was nursed with such skill that
Mr. Cooke became a millionaire again
In a very few years. Mr. Bullitt has
tried many notable cases, tl e chief of
them probably being the Whitaker will
oase and the Fit* John Porto* court of
Inquiry. He was the leading lawyer in
both of these affairs, and in loth he was
successful. He prepared the bill which
established the present met tod of con¬
ducting the city government of Philadel¬
phia. almost, entirely,
Tho mayor has if not
abeolnto power of appohitm-mt ned re¬
moval of subordinate city oft sets, w.d it
la to him that the citizen* lock for a well
ordered condition of affairs. The tew is
said to work very well, bn; of coarse
everything depends upon the ability and
integrity of the man choaea t-x be mayor.
Mr. Bullitt, from his practice md bis joe-
ioees ventures, has becciae vi ry rich He
owns the great Bullitt baildi vg in Phila¬
delphia, and large blocks of real e tat*
in Washington and th« » i^hboraood
thereof . He is a director in -everal rail-
roods, b ust companies and b.-rnks and
stands almost as high in bn riueas he
does in the law. As a lawyer Mr. Bul-
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JOHN C. BCLLTTT.
litt is noted for the thoroughness'of hi*
preparation in every case that he con¬
ducts. No detail is too trivial to
his attention. This makes him an un¬
comfortable adversary.
Cephas de Werde.
Lack Of • shoemaker * Approatico.
A wealthy merchant of Carter abe
dates the beginning of his go<xl foitnne
to the hour, fifty years ago, when he saw
a child of three fail from a balcony
caught her in his arms, thus
Ufa. The child Is now the Grand Duchess
ot Baden, and the courts of Berlin and
Baden annually celebrate the even t
Her rescuer was a shoemaker s
tioe. Now he is the richest man iu the
city where he lives.
A single company controls twenty-nine
thirtieths of all the diamond mines in
t he world. At the richest of these de-
pc^ts— Kimborly, South Africa— a karat
jg found tor every 2,000 pctmds of
esaisijted.
LUKE SHARP, THE HUMORIST.
Something (atereatins About the Well
Known Detroit Free Pre*» Mon.
It was once observed by a celebrated
cal war correspondent that it took a surgi¬
operation to get a joke into a Scotch¬
man’s head, and
yet it seems that
“Luke Sharp,”
the celebrated hu¬
morist of the De¬
troit Free Press,
x is a Scotchman,
A bora in Glasgow
forty years ago.
i That is wrong something in this
observation is
evinced by “Luke
Sharp’s” career,
for coming to the
A United States
when he was four
years of age, his
sense of humor
l m seems to hare re¬
ceived an impetus
from which,from
“LCAE SHARP.” all appearances,
it will never re-
cover. Twenty years after landing in
America Mr. Barr—for that is the real
name of “Luke Sharp”—Robert Barr—in
looking about for some occupation got
work on the Detroit Free Pres 3 . Since
1880 he has been the London representa¬
tive of that journal.
“Luke Sharp” is somewhat above the
average height, broad shouldered, with
striking head, brown hair, wide brow
and purely Grecian nose, and eyes that
look yon straight in the face. He wears
a short, pointed beard, and look 3 as
though he might be a well to do farmer.
He smokes cigarettes, which he makes
himself. Mr. Barr does all of his work
by means of a phonograph, and he can
be seen almost every day in the Detroit
Free Press office, in the Strand, London,
sitting in a comer of his sanctum en¬
gaged in talking down a funnel.
“I never could dictate to a stenog¬
rapher,” he said recently, “becanso I
never could find one who knew less than
I did. Imagine dictating to a man who
you felt was infinitely your superior in
every way! I've tried it, but I never had
the cheek to continue it.”
Mr. Barr is a great admirer of Kipling,
“who deserves all the fame he has got.”
Speaking of his own methods of work,
he said recently:
“I haven’t any. I should take notes,
but don’t The danger of taking notes
is that your things become too uote-
booky. I get the illustrations of my ar¬
ticles from a portable camera.”
He has never been able to settle the
question os to which he likes best—Eng¬
land or America,
“I have given it up,” he remarked.
“After I have been in London a year or
two 1 think America is Loif^r and un
back. When I am there a year or two 1
come to the conclusion that England is
preferable. Last year the problem—and
the climate—drove me out of both coun¬
tries. I sat on the shores of the Mediter¬
ranean and pondered and pondered and
pondered, but it was no use. I returned
to England because it was nearer than
America.”
It Is unnecessary to enter into a de-
icription or analysis of “Luke Sharp's”
work. That speaks for itself. The pict¬
ure of the humorist which accompanies
this article has a history. It was taken
In the interior of a house in Pompeii, on
©no of Mr. Barr’s photographing expedi¬
tions, and the remarkable thing about it
is that the cap was taken off the lens by
an Italian soldier, who was sent with
him to keep him from photographing.
“When the Italian army,” Bays Mr. Barr,
“starts out to prevent au American news¬
paper man from taking a photograph
with his camera, it has to rise earlier in
the morning than is customary in Italy.”
Tom Masson.
He Was a Ring la Samoa.
Ex-King Tamasese, of Samoa, who
died recently of Bright’s disease, was put
eu the throne by the Germans after
Malietoa had been deposed iu December,
188a Mataafa was subsequently de¬
clared king by A
Malietoa’s people
and several con-
filets occurred the sub¬ be- §|jj
tween
jects of the rival «
monarchs. The
trouble led to a
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protest by ^pjag^
against United the States m
of the Germans, L't
who supported 5 s
Tamasese, and
the matter of the TAMASESE.
sovereignly of Samoa and its equal pro¬
tectorate by the English, German and
American representatives was settled at
the B 3 rlin conference iu 1883. Admiral
Kimberly, of the United States navy,
established ..... between , , Matiuua , and .
Tamasese, and Mabetoa was restored to
the throne.
The Charm of a Great Name Gone.
How the passing years dim the fame
of those who once were mighty! Half a
century ago an autograph of, or an arti-
cle that had been used by, the first Na-
poleou was something almost priceless
to a Frenchman. He reverenced it, and
if it could be bought emptied his pock-
eta to make the purchase. But now the
collection of Napoleon relics made by
the late Prince Jerome is fairly going a
b0g g is g. There is no market for it, the
being that “Bonapartism is out of
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i gj, e Lo*t » Pi*’* Task.
■ strange things are turned into
\jy people with a passion for oddi-
j ^ Chicago woman offers a reward which
recovery of a pig's tusk
while on her way to church one
> g^^day recently,
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i The Japanese empire has one phy-
sician for every 10,000 inhabitants,
which shows that the people are quite
healthy, or that they believe less in doc-
toring than the nations of America and
f Europe.
AMERICA'S FIRST PHOTOGRAPHER.
lie gun Lire*, and Delight* to Talk of
HI* Career.
Despite reports to the contrary,
thew B. Brady, the pioneer photographer
of the United States, still lives and eu-
joys good health.
Probably no art- J*S$L
1 st in the world
has taken so
many pictures of wfipg
celebrated men.
He was born in basjg
1838, in Warren
county, N. Y., JL
and early took an
interest in por-
trait painting. w \
Morse, the in- CM
ventor of the tele¬ \v
graph, was the
first to tel! him of Matthew n. rradt.
the wonderful discovery of Daguerre in
France, and thereby suggest to him the
career which was to make Brady famous.
He had a studio in New York city for
fifteen years before the civil war broke
out, and from the first was actuated by
a desirt to preserve the faces cf the his¬
toric men and worn n of America. At
that time daguerreoiypes cost from three
to five dollars aph-ce. It was not until
1855 that the treatment of glass with
collodion caused the photograph to sue-
ceed the daguerreotype.
Among the many public characters
whose lineaments Mr. Brady preserved
to the world were Andrew Jackson, Eld-
gar A. Poe, Father Mathew, Kossuth,
Clay, Calhoun, Lincoln, Horaoo Greeley,
Cardinal Wiseman, Jefferson Davis,
Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, Jenny Lind;
Washington Irving and James Fenni-
rnore Cooper.
In 1851 he went to the London exhi-
bition and took the first prise, The
same year he visited the galleries of
Europe, and found his pictures every¬
where as far as Rome and Naples.
When the Prince of Wales visited
America in 1860 he and his suite
frequently availed themselves of Mr.
Brady’s skill. During the civil war he
photographed many battle scenes, and
had a staff cf assistants in all parts of
the army making pictures of stir¬
ring events. This enterprise cost over
$ 100 , 000 ; the government subsequently
bought the plates.
Mr. Brady is a man of trim, wiry, square
shouldered figure, with white mustache
and goatee. Nothwithstanding his sixty-
seven years, he is still an enthusiast,
and delights to talk of his past triumphs.
He lives at Washington.
THE OLDEST BANK PRESIDENT.
Ho I* Still la Active Business, Though
Ninety-Three Years of Age.
The oldest bank president in New
York state, and probably in America, is
Daniel Spralrer, of the National Mohawk
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old Saxon family, his grandfather,George
Spraker, immigrating in 1755 aaxd settling
in the town of Palatine, where he be¬
came the owner of a large tract of land.
His father, Joet Spralrer, succeeded to the
estate and kept an old time tavern,
which was much frequented in stage
coaching days.
Daniel, who was bom in 1788 and is in
his ninety-third
year, was engaged
in mercantile
| pursuits at Spra-
w A > ker*s 1858. Basin Ho until Avas
one of six broth¬
SL ers. They organ¬
ized the Fonda
\ / bank in 1855,
wmrm ^ and Daniel, who
jr was elected pres¬
wv ident, to reside went in there 1856,
DANIEL SPRAKER. and has lived
there over since. The brothers always
operated in business and politics to¬
gether, and each amassed a large fort¬
une. Four of them are dead.
For several years the old bank presi¬
dent has been almost totally blind. He
bas good general health, however, and
attends to business every dar. «o 1 still
takes a lively interest in all p*\ 5 and
financial affairs.
VieVvcd from ft New gbtndpolnt.
A series ot Sunday evening lectures at
present being delivered in London by
the Rev. Mr. Haweis is creating a deal
of comment. Tho general iitlo of the
addresses is “Some Misunderstood Char¬
acters in the Bible.” These c mprise
among others Cain, Jadaa Iscaiiot and
Pontius Pilate. Labouchera demands
'hat while he is at it Mr. Haweis shall
make the job complete and give a clean
bill of moral health to Satan.
Tho KeoIatSofi of the Orange,
The evolntioaists now cite the orange
as a new proof of the truth of their
ihaarr regarding the gradual progress to
a higher state of all forms of life. They
say that the orange was originally a
| beny, and that it took unnumbered
years to bring it to its present perfec¬
tion.
Tlio Oldest United States Pensioner.
At Fishfciil, Dutchess county, N. Y.,
lives Mrs. Anne Hyde, who haa passed
her 102d year. She was bora in the vil-
lage on April 38, 1TS9, two days before
Washington’s inauguration as president,
She is extremely deaf and her eyesight is
dim, but she rises
at 7 o’clock in the 1
morning, retires (i
at 9 in the even-
ing. and is bless- r
ed with a good < W
appetite. She con- < «
verses gently intelli- r>: W
and is fond
of relating remi-
i i nisoences days. of her 'Sak
early
! Mrs. Hyde is a * 1 %
widow of a veter-
au of the war of
1612 and the old- mrs. anne hyde.
est pensioner on the rolls of the United
States government. On March 31, 1889,
she was awarded a prize of fifteen dol-
Urs by the Poughkeeptue Sunday
rier aa the longest lived resident of Cl-
ster and Dutchess counties.
H W 0 NOTABLE
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AN ENGLISH MARQUIS WHO
PROVED A CONSTANT LOVER.
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I After Forty Year** Delay He Will E*-
pons* the Woman Who Charmed
Youihful F-*ney—Costly Gift* for a New
Tort Bride.
| Probably the most famous bride of the
present London season will be the
Dowager Duchess of Manchester, who is
to wed the Marquis of Hartington. The
duchess is fifty-five years old, well pre¬
served, clever and brilliant; the marquis
is fifty-eight, of very distinguished
appearance, and one of the foremost
statesmen in the British empire. While
he is colvl and unenthusiastic in politics
fie has been a patient and exemplary
lover. Many years ago he was the
accepted suitor of the duchees, who was
then the C’ountoss Iconise Fredericke
Augusta, daughter of the Count of Alten,
Hanover. In those days, however, Lord
Hartington was more anxious to become
a poet than a statesman, and he so dis¬
appointed his lady love's ambition that
she discarded him and wedded the Duke
of Manchester, who was ten years his
senior.
This was a sad blow to the romantic
Hartington, but it spurred him to take a
more active part in public affairs. He
rose rapidly in politics. In 1663 he be-
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HARTINGTON—DUCHESS OF MANCHESTER,
came a lord of the admiralty; in 1866 he
was secretary of war, aud from 1863 to
1871 he whs postmaster general. His
last political distinction was his appoint¬
ment ns chairman of tiro new labor com¬
mission.
During all this time ho remained true
to his early attachment. When tho old
Duke of Manchester died, a year ago, it
was whispered that it would not be long
before the marquis would lead the duch-
®® s to the altar, Great preparations are
being made for tho marriage, which will
take place in June. The marquis is very
wealthy. Chatsworth, tho family seat
in Derbyshire, is one of the most mag¬
nificent of England’s stately homes. It
has been occupied very little since the
ancestral turf covered the remains of
Lord Frederick Cavendish, who was as¬
sassinated in Phcenix park, Dublin.
The present Duke of Manchester mar¬
ried Miss Yznaga, a famous New York
beauty, when he was Lord Mandeville—
GfteyVis jsjsyv&i
his alliance with a wealthy English girl.
Another noteworthy wedding of the
season will be that of Miss Elizabeth
Thompson, the Detroit heiress, to Harry
Le Grand Cannon, of New York. Mr.
Cannon is a well known society leader
of considerable wealth, and has achieved
some reputation as a sculptor, painter
and musician. He is also famous in co¬
tillon circles, and whenever a dancing
party is given by Mrs. William Astor,
Mrs. William C. Whitney or Mr. El-
bridge T. Gerry Mr. Cannon’s genius in
inventing humorous or intricate figures
is called into requisition.
Mr. Cannon is thirty-two years of age,
of medium height and elegant appear¬
ance. Miss Thompson is twenty-two
years old, and has a very pleasing face.
She is a blonde, rather under the medium
height, with a slender, graceful figure.
While nominally a Detroit girl, she has
lived a great deal in New York, where
she has the reputation of exquisite taste
in the selection of ball and street gowns.
In fact, many say she is the best dressed
woman in society circles.
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H. LE G. CANNON—ELIZABETH THOMPSON.
Mr. Holker Abbott, of Boston, will be
the groom’s best man, and Elisha Dyer.
Jr., Hamilton Fish Webster, Augustus
Gurnee and George Bird will act as
ushers. The wedding will take place iu
St. George's church, on Juno i*. and is
expected to be one of the most brilliant
events of the season. It is probable that
the value of the presents will be $ 1 , 000 ,'-
000 .
Mr. and Mrs. Cannon will spend the
honeymoon iu Europe. They will re¬
turn to New York in the fall, and take
np their abode on Fifth avenue.
Advice to Unmarried Editor*.
The wife of a newspaper editor appre¬
ciates her position and responsibilities
and is also appreciated by her husband.
At least that is the conclusion reached by
Mrs. J. J. Penny, of Pinckneyville, Ills.,
who recently read a paper before the Illi¬
nois Press association on “Country Edi¬
tors' Wives.” Here is a bit of counsel
from her address well worth perusal:
cry married man preseot will :j?ree with me
j that the wife ot the editor is t > the coumry
lated nevs-spaper. aad a man bad a* well try to
: do business without advertising a 3 to publish a
S really flrst cia -3 pai^r without ! Uspimtion
shop or home. For instance. , e n her boa-
haad grits behind with his w-,r-t. r-r help is
set* type. told* paper, m^kwaptn*
even maaipuiate the roiier be old hand
i pres*, with very uttie edon --he <--<»ker* up
j the personAis aad society arr,.- rr- ^ proof
&a p 06 ** ' *•
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i j.. neouie ^ nuuw't ^
. renting turtles
: u e red-
taurants for advertising pu: 3 .
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AN ANGEL OF THE SLUMS.
Tbe Charitable Work Undertaken by a
Bedridden Invalid.
In a small house on the east side of
New York there dwells an invalid
an whose entire life is devoted to chari
table deeds. She is Mrs. Bella Cooke,
who has been unable to rise from her
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MRS. BELLA COOKE.
bed for many weary years. The couch
upon which she lies has iron cogs anf
cranks for moving her. It is dressed
with snowy, scented linen. Mrs. Cookr
never denies herself to visitors, and the
poor of the district have learned to re
yard her as their wannest friend ami
&enef act ress.
Five hundred garments are yearly
given from Mrs. Cooke’s bodsine, and an
average of ten babies a year receive their
first outfit from her hands, while io
money she often disburses as much a
$ 2,000 per annum to the poor and di*
tressed. On Thanksgiving days she pro
rides turkey dinners for 150 poor fund
lies, selecting the fowls herself as (hoy
are placed before lier, and tying round
the nock of each a paper containing a
vci'fce from Scripture. Many people havo
told li°r that the first impulse toward a
better life was giveu by tuo holy words
on a turkey necklace.
Mrs. Cooke is not wealthy herself, but
has been made the almoner of a number
of rich friends. At Christmas eighty
old women and widows with young chil¬
dren are provided witli suitable cheer
for the season. She has been engaged in
this work twenty-five years, and, not¬
withstanding b;r afflictions, is as svvoet
and cheerful as though she were blessed
with \most perfect health.
A STUDENT FROfvl A FAR COUNTRY.
VITlieii Graduated lie Will Practice
Medicine Among the Sj riaii*.
Timotheus Tamincsian is the son of a
Syrian shoemaker, and by far the most
picturesque and interesting character at
the Michigan university at Ann Arbor.
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TIMOTHEUS TAMINOSIAN.
He was born at Antioch, and the mak¬
ing of sandals for his countrymen so
irked his ambitious spirit that hearing
of th? great country at the west of the
world he cut loose from tae parental
thatch and came to America to get an
education. He is studying medicine
and is the observed of everybody as he
walks the streets in his native costume,
to which he still clings out of loyalty to
the historic land he left. Like all the
other men from foreign countries at the
university 1- he excels in scholarship and
will graduate with high honors. He is
twenty-nine years old, and will doctor
Syrians after American methods when
he gets his diploma.
The New Urigmlier General.
Several promotions have been caused
in tho lino of the army by the appoint¬
ment of Colonel A, V. Kantz, of the
Eighth infantry, to be brigadier general.
Lieutenant Colonel Van Horn, of the
Twenty-fifth infantry, takes the place
vacated by Colonel Kantz. Major An¬
drews, of the Twenty-first infantry, will
be lieutenant colonel of the Twenty-fifth,
and Captain Wherry, Sixth infantry,
will become major of the Twenty-first.
First Lieutenant Thcmas G. Townsend,
cf the Sixth, becomes captain.
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general a. v. KAETZ.
The vacancy thus created would be
filled by Lieutenant Hampton M. Roach
bat for the fact that he was tned by
court martial and sentenced to dismissal
f or duplicating his pay acconnts. The
case awaits the action of the president,
General Kantz haa n yet received com-
mand of a department. He graduated
‘ from West Point in 1852, and iu the
volunteer service during the civil war
attained the rank of brevet major gen-
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Dressed in a Little Brief Authority.
When Gen. Grant, Vice Prcaktaat,
and soon to be President, Arthur ant.
: party on a special train reached IB-
heron, where President Garfield Hit
; (lead, a gentleman in fine array appeared
first on the platform . His manner vx«
haughty, and the lefty poise of his hand
seemed to imply that he felt very mark
at ease with this world. A New York
newspaper reporter assigned to meet the
tram approached the gtmttomsn with a
casual inquiry, and was meet pre-
uouncedly snubbed. “We don't propose
to bo bothered by a lot ot‘ buzzard re¬
porters," quoth the gentleman, with an
extraordinary emphasis on the “wo.*
After disposing of this idea little senti¬
ment the gentleman’s liaughtii»i* in¬
creased visibly. Ho wasn’t quite saris-
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THE CLNiCRAL AND THE IIEPORTER.
Bed with the gentlemanly exhibition he
had already made of himself, but broke
out again with: “We don’t want you
around here, any way. Skip!”
Just at this moment the car door was
thrown open, a compact figure stepped
out on the platform on his way to the
ferryboat. He heard the agreeable re¬
marks of the austere gentkmaa, and he
turned around half in surprise, half in
shame, and then, as he reoognuaed the
reporter, he genially extended his hand
toward him and called oat, “Come alo 3
wiUfct me, my boy, and Ill tell you
about it.”
The speaker was Gen. Grant. The
haughty one wag a secretary—taken i^i
trial. It need scarcely be added that bis
trial was brir*
SENATOR REAGAN
Is Appointed Cbsirmao of tbo TexM
Railroad Commission.
Austin, Tex., April 28. —Governor
James A. 17<-gg has appointed United
States Senator John H. Reagan chair-
in his Ifc&er "'aflafedR*!"*? ih
governor pays a warm tribute to his
course in congress, urging that he can
render tho most effective service to the
people at home. Among other things
he said:
Continuously and for many years, our ag¬
ricultural commercial interests have
been severely depressed, for which there
are three causes. First, burdensome and
unnecessary federal taxes, called tho
tariff; second, want of more money as a
circulating medium ; and third, oppres¬
sive local freight rates. With the evifr
of the first two the federal government
alone deals. The third is within th»
executive control of the state govern
menfc. The time has come for it to b»
handled.
The secon^member of the commission
is L. L. Foster, late insurance cov«r*ia-.
Binned
Good for a Healthy Development.
Any event that causes men and woman
to take an account of stock on themselve*
U good for a healthy development, and
New Year’s, by custom and by association,
has become such a reckoning time. It is a
day to renew ami cement acqnaintapo*
with the good in one’s nature and disposi¬
tion, and to discourage, if not to cut the
bad.
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Daohaway— Did you have any trouble fa
balancing up your cash to the 1 st?
Goeasy—No, I just tossed up a cent.
Inrmenaat Powhaten Clarke, of the
Tenth United States with Cavalry, the Westphalian has been
detailed to serve
Hussar regiment, No. 111. This is the
first instance of a United States a fray
officer being detailed to serve fn a Ger¬
man regiment.
Development in Advertising.
In no department of the modern herwa*
1 paper has there been greater and more
! display Of taste Slid literary Style XU thfl
composition, and an evident effort fa
refinement of the reader. This 13 seen
not only in the advertisements of the
large mercantile establishments, where
. the three line advertisement v.-hich fa
written by the advertiser him& If, and
i which, in terseness and direct iere of
style, can lay claim to great literary
merit. The development of advertising
may yet lead to the establishment of
special courses of training in business
colleges. Already nearly |25,000,000 are
spent annually in the United States in ' >
newspaper advertising, every d liar of
which, if used judiciously, has r turned
a large piyiff i nte res t to the investor -Phils-
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