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IRancially to Be a Hero—Clifford, Who
ried to Save Barnato, Won Wife
and Wealth
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HSs, and now in the
jfipiro is ceded as the
lorious arms.
l y? Watts, the famous British
'.'A introduced i.Uo London a
MPKjII gSxTa in the monumell line which
be adopted in some of our
@®s. /He is now erecting in what is
pnown as Postman’s park at \lder-
'gate, a cloister or pavilion of artistic
design and imperishable materials, in
which will be placed, from time to
time, tablets commemorating deeds of
heroism of people in the humbler walks
of life. Postman’s park is a little
breathing spot in the crowded section
of the city, much frequented by work¬
ing folks, so that the examples will
have an influence upon the moral cour¬
age of the lower classes. The London
County Council and the Park Board
have made appropriations of money,
and the remainder of the cost, which
is $60,000, will be met by private con¬
tributors. Mr. Watts is now search¬
ing the newspaper files to learn of
brave deeds recorded in recent years.
A typical case is that of Alice Ayres,
a nursery maid who rescued three
children from a burning house at the
sacrifice of her own life.
After four years of experimenting,
W. W. Wentworth, of Karney, Texas,
reports success in his effort to intro¬
duce the culture of Egyptian cotton in
this country, and his notable triumph
is affirmed by the Cotton Growers’
Journal, of Waco. It appears, further,
that Mr. Wentworth’s crop was not a
sTjbrajU cessiwnud -irire. unprofitable nor the product coddling. of ex-
has grown fee Egyptian cotton by the
acre, has gathered 1500 pounds from
six acres, aq^ has nfafeeted it in Bos¬
ton at fourteen cents a pound, or about
three times the price prevailing for
ordinary cotton. Tha Egyptian cot¬
ton can be grown in Texas, Mr. Went¬
worth asserts, on ordinary cotton
land, “from the Gulf to Bed River,
and from the Sabine to the Rio
Grande,” will produce as much per
acre as the ordinary cotton, and is
even superior to the cotton grown in
Egypt. Papers in -other Southern
States are quick to suggest that what
can bo grown in Texas can be’ pro¬
duced elsewhere in the South, and it
is probable that extensive experiments’
with the imported seed will soon be
undertaken throughout the cotton¬
growing section.
Farmers throughout Sweden com¬
plain bitterly of the increasing diffi¬
culty of obtaining servants. Nearly
every servant who has any aggressive¬
ness at all tries to get employment in
a city or emigrates to America. Those
who, for one reason or another, re¬
main, ask wages which, a few years
ago would have been regarded by the
farmers as preposterous. The demand
for higher wages is general, and may
be due to the general prosperity, but
the migration to the cities may have
other causes. A girl working in a
factory or as seamstress in a city
knows that at the end of her working
day she can go wherever she pleases
and that she is free from drudgery
eve.y Sunday. A city servant there
may get a Sunday afternoon off once
in a while, hut a farmer’s servant,
male or female, has no fixed hours
free from work. Servant girls who
have been in the United States have
pride in saying that in America they
haYe certain hours of their own every
week, and the advantage of this is
duly appreciated by tbe listeners, who
often for this reason alone are willing
to try their luck abroad. The only
Swedish approach to the systematic
American plan of giving “days off” is
. found in tbe “week of liberty,” just
Tended. Servants in the country there
a rule are hired by the year, and at
■^^nd of the year of service they get
Hs freedom, beginning with
Thus once iu a year
'"“" JgfefW Hfe^^relatives days in which they
3 without
M HE last act of
Barney Barnato’s
life was to make
the fortune of a
| young ship’s Diamond o'ffi-
cer. The
j^VTTX ' King who of* South had been Af-
■ v\ fcgjk )_W rica, bless-
- the ruin and
' ing of so many
/// | '-i* lives, probably did
' 1 1 ’ - n o - t contemplate
this result of his suicide when he
leaped from the saloon fleck of the roy-
al mail steamer Scot on the way from
Cape Town to Southampton. Out of
1,600 person on board the ship but one
was willing to court destruction- Tor
the chance of saving Barney Barnato,
whom he barely knew. This was W.
T. Clifford, fourth officer of the Scot,
one of the bravest men and most pow¬
erful swimmers in the British mer¬
chant marine. His heroic effort prov¬
ed futile, but it pays to be a hero for
all that, since young Clifford has just
won for his bride Miss Gertrude Rod¬
ney, a beautiful South African heir¬
ess, who witnessed her lover’s gallant
action and used it to win over an ob¬
stinate father.
Mrs. Barnato, morever, has settled a
handsome annuity on Clifford, and his
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bank account Is swelled to good- pro¬
portions by several testimonials of
£500 each, the gifts of
citizens All ’South and Africa two steamship has been comp|^H grealffJ^B
courtship, terested in and the the outcome happy of Cliffc^H
of it, which is to take place in
Elizabeth, Cape Colony, and it will
the occasion for a town
and general rejoicing among admirers
of the brave young Clifford.
SENTIMENT AND SPITE.
Great Britain’s War In the Soudan—
’ Beneficial Results.
The battle of Atbara was a severe
engagement, says the National Review.
On that occasion the Angio-Egyptian
force’was 16,000 and there were 545
casualties. It was, of course, to be ex¬
pected that on these figures the senti¬
mentalist would look in with hi3 pious
exclamation of a “battue.” There was,
however, no alternative but to kill just
as many dervishes as chose to fight us,
and—there was never a race that so
richly deserved killing. They had been
the scourge of the Sudan for fourteen
years. It may be laid down as an
axiom that the greater the number of
the enemy killed and the fewer upon
the victor’s side the more brilliant is
the victory. War means killing the
enemy, we can’t get out of that. It is
very dreadful, and all humane people
declare the fact, but the history of the
world shows that it is a means of prog¬
ress and civilization. It may be truly
said that of al’ the wars Great Britain
has embarked in during her loilg his¬
tory none has been more certain of a
beneficent result than the one we have
just brought to a conclusion in the
Sudan. We can afford, therefore, to
disregard the selfish sentimentalist who
espouses no cause, but, like the lotus
eater, exclaims: "What pleasure can
we have to war with evil? Is there any
peace in ever climbing up the climbing
wave?” We can equally afford to de¬
spise the venom of the French journal¬
ist which found expression in quoting
a "shopkeeper in the Strand” as a typi-
1 Briton who said to him: “There
not enough men killed in this
battle at Omduman. I should have
preferred the slaughter of more than
three-fourths of the dervish army with
heavier loss on our side; for a great
battle pleases us only when there has
been a great butchery.” Such is the
stuff provided by one of the grands
journeaux of Paris for its readers.
To Remove Line* of Age.
When the fine lines begin to show
under the eyes procure a small pack¬
age of fullers’ earth and mix it with
an equal quantity of wheat flo- kTake
a little of this and mix it into “paste
with clear water, Spread It beneath
the eyes and let it remain an hour,
then moisten it and gently wipe it off.
For wrinkles on other parts of the face
make a paste of white wfyX and oil of
sweet almonds, and appjj It as hot as
can he borne, using a I le stick
tor the purpose, thatJ applied
to the line and nojgR
RUSSIAN KEELY CURE.
Inventor Coming to New York—His Staff
IVomlerful in composition.
Keeiy, of Keely cure fame, has a
Russian rival, ope Michael Georgevitch
Alaverdoff, who, according to his own
account, having tackled successfully
the Demon Rum in the empire of the
czar, is now in London preparing to
save the drunkards of England. After
ho has accomplished his mission in
England he will probably come over
here- and try his hand at New York.
M. Alaverdoff declares in his mani¬
festo that he has discovered a wonder¬
ful herb which, when administered to
the victim, will cure him .completely,
“even though he has drunk every day
for more than fifty years from five to
twenty bottles of alcoholic drinks.” One
would think that the condition of a
man who had “drunk every day for
more than fifty years from five to twen¬
ty bottles of different alcoholic drinks”
would be such that the herb to cure
him would have to be plucked on the
further shore of the River Styx; but
Alaverdoff is from Russia, and the
Russians have long been noted for
powers of bibation of the Gargantuan
order. When this wonderful Russian
arrived in London the Daily Chronicle
sent a reporter to interview him. As
there was no man on the staff who
spoke Russian, they chose one who had
moderate taste for vodka as being the
host qualified man available. Through
an interpreter Alaverdoff said to the
reporter that his prescription consisted
of 36 per cent spirits of wine and 64
per cent of distilled water. As these
numbers made 100 per cent the report¬
er asked where the curative parts came
in, and, undisturbed, the Russian re¬
plied, “6 per cent of acid of lemon and
my herb.” When the reporter pro¬
tested that there was not room, Alaver¬
doff smiled blandly and said: “Ah,
that is my secret.” Then two glasses
of the medicine, diluted copiously with
most excellent whisky, being poured
out, the reporter and the “doctor” pro¬
ceeded to test the discoifery, and had a
most sociable time. So far the reporter
has not noticed any improvement in
his Russion or any diminution of his
moderate taste for vodka. Alaverdoff
says he has cured over 3,000 inebriates
in Russia, and if he can do the things
with “jags” that he does with mathe¬
matics, there does not seem to he any
V.1 to. ills K<
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$10,000, and she has recently refused
to sell her interest in the mine for
$ 100 , 000 .
Queer: Place for Rlectric Shock.
When a Bar Harbor well digger com¬
plained that he received electric shocks
while descending a well in. that fash¬
ionable resort, his fellow-workmen
laughed at him. But when a dog fas¬
tened to a platform, was lowered to
the surface of the water he howled
piteously for an instant and was dead
when hauled to the surface.
Flsbeti That Solid N<*stg.
There is a fish found In Hudson b:
which absolutely builds a nest, ’m
it does by picking pebbles mM
mouth and placinjj a in a rJB
way on a select^ & the bHj
of the b b
deep.
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Charles H. Summers Pioneer Gavg^H Expert^
the
the Telephone 1
HALLES 4 H. SUM¬
i MERS, the cele¬
brated . electrician,
who died in Chica¬
go* the other day,
was born in Flem¬
ing county, Ken¬
tucky, of parents
who had emigrated
from Virginia, It
I was an old Virginia
family. In his
younger days he was a good horseman
and an excellent pistol shot, and
though he possessed a mild character
and gentle disposition, he was abso¬
lutely without fear. When very young
he studied telegraphy and began the
practice of it at a time when telegraph
lines were strung along turnpikes and
highways and not along railways. In¬
deed, there were hut few railroads in
the west at the tjlme he commenced
with telegraphy. His first engagement
was with the old Pittsburg, Cincinnati
and Louisville line, and he remained
with this line, receiving from time to
time many promotions, till it was final¬
ly consolidated with the Western Union
Telegraph company. Then he visited
different points in the northern coun¬
try, working at short engagements in
many different places. . In 1859, while
working at Indianapolis, he accepted a
good position oij Indiana railroad lines
with headquarters at Indianapolis. In
that position he continued till 1867,
when he was made superintendent of
the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and La¬
fayette railroad lines, with his own
headquarters at Cincinnati.
In 1864, when the civil war was in
progress, he had frequent occasion to
go to the union front and set up or re¬
pair or take down telegraph plants.
On one of these occasions he ventured
too near to the confederate lines and
was taken as a prisoner of war, but not
being a belligerent in the true sense he
was soon let go.
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It
much hraS
pressed invent® ujIh|
s»nt cM
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an inventor,^
been the mil
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ward dev^J
evid ingly ep§§ |H
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and that it !
which enables
ed. Hence it
Mr. Summers
since become I
and ocean telq
Mr. Summe
the first ineax
plant in the J
early in the 1
first Bell telel
Chicago Bell’s father-] by Gj
sets of to lnstrj Mr. is
taken frej
ed. A line
(now Fort SI
town was mil
telephoning o|
from Mr. Sun
There are il
these early exl
ment with “talldl w|
magic
conspicuous I
offices in thel
corner of
streets, Chi<® ;
idan, then
ment of the*
Mr. SummenJ yl
singing and
if a riot wal
found that over] it |
created
wooden box d
traveling trill
question the'I
But he was I
tioning anj/ 1
might do, i'orl
of the electril A£tl
joking. t(J
used often
that box coni
got Mr. SunJ
“Old Rosin tl
of his occasi(■
His offices bfl
cral curiositiB
