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Is A POSITIVE MAN.
AND HE SPOKE PLAINLY IN
HIS BOOK.
Elliott’s Biography of Heoker, the
Eaiillst Father Whose Book Has
Caused Such a Stir on Both Sides of
ttie Ocean.
Father Walter Elliott, the Pauliftt
missioncr, whose biography of his old
superior and friend, the Rev.- Isaac
Thomas Hecker, has occasioned such
a tremendous international religious
controversy, is a big man physically
and mentally. He has had a most va¬
ried and interesting career, and his
60th birthday is not far off. Father
Elliott comes of a family of sturdy
Irish stock that has been socially dis¬
tinguished in Detroit, Mich., for two
generations. His father, the late Judge
Elliott, was one of the pioneers of that
city. Its cemetery was once part of
his estate, and is called Mount Elliott
in his honor.
When the civil war broke out Father
Elliott, like so many other patriotic
young men, enlisted in an Ohio regi¬
ment and served all during the con¬
flict in the southwest. He was pro¬
moted to a lieutenancy for gallantry
before he was mustered out with what
remained of his regiment.
When Walter Elliott came back to
Detroit at the end of the war he turned
his attention to the law, and after a
due course of study was admitted to
the bar. He was engaged to be mar-
lied, but his fiancee died, Whether
this affected, his plans for the future
is not recorded, but he did not stay in
the law. He went to New York and
enrolled himself among the brilliant
band of novices that visitors to the
old church of the Paulists in Fifty-
Ninth street will remember made the
ceremonies there so impressive when
Father Alfred Young inaugurated the
service of Gregorian music twenty-
seven years ago. Elliott possesses a
magnificent deep-toned voice, which,
both as a singer and a preacher, has
given him marked prominence.
After the usual theological course
Elliott was ordained. He has had spe¬
cial success in the missions, for which
work the Paulist community was pri¬
marily organized by Father Hecker.
Father Elliott was made head of this
mission band, and as such is well
known all over the United States. He
has been engaged in this work in the
towns of the state of Connecticut
since the year began. He is a most
magnetic and sympathetic preacher.
His manner is gentle and simple; his
whole personality, in fact, winning and
fascinating, for his heart is as big as
the rest of his brawny frame. In ad¬
dition to his work on the life of Father
Hecker, he has contributed much to
publications issued from the press of
the Paulist community.
One of his associate Paulists, Father
Thomas Robinson, is a confederate vet¬
eran and the superior of the commun¬
ity. Father George Deshon is a West
Pointer. He was the lifelong -friend
adviser of General Grant, whose class¬
mate and chum he was at the military
academy. Another Paulist was a son
of the late General W. S. Rosecrans.
Father Francis B. Doherty, who is a
chaplain with the troops at Manila, is
also a Paulist. He comes from- the
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branch of the community in San Fran¬
cisco.
Obeying the Scripture.
There was, not many years ago, in
Paris, a well-known and brawny young
man, of rustic origin and of a very re¬
ligious turn, named Maximin, who,
after partial preparation for the priest¬
hood, changed his plans and studied
medicine, but did not relinquish any
of his religious ways of life and
thought. While a medical student, he
was one day dining in a cheap Par¬
isian restaurant, when another stu¬
dent, an abusive fellow, tried to pick a
quarrel with him.
Presuming on his meekness, the
quarrelsome young man announced his
intention to strike Maximin, and the
latter, following the Scriptural injunc¬
tion, offered his cheek to be struck.
The student promptly struck the blow.
Maximin then turned the other
cheek, and his tormentor struck that a
still harder blow.
Upon this Maximin gravely rose.
“I have now,” he said, “fulfilled the
command of the gospel, and since you
have shown that the spirit of it is lost
upon you, I shall punish you for your
wicked presumption.”
Thereupon he proceeded to hurl the
other out of the door of the restaurant,
smiting him hip and thigh as he did
so. His Scriptural meekness was not
further presun.VI upon by the imper¬
tinent persons wt the quarter.
The Emperor’. Dignity.
Offenses against Kaiser Wilhelm’s
dignity in the one year 1898 were pun¬
ished, taken altogether, with 2,600
years of Imprisonment, according to
the Nurenberg Zeitung, a Social-Dem¬
ocratic paper.
SAVED HER CHILDHOOD'S TOYS
Near Annapolis, Ind., there lives a
lady seventy-one years old, Mrs. Eliz¬
abeth A. Seymour Coffin, who has kept
almost everything that was given her
from childhood’s days, including toys
and innumerable collections of varied
playthings; and her first baby dress
and cap, shoes and stockings, She
has a library of books that date back
hundreds of years—many of them so
old that she keeps them wrapped in
muslin and cloth to prevent crumbling
to dust. One book Is a Testament,
dated 1792, given to lier by Naomi
Hale, of Boston, sister of Nathan Hale.
She has a tea-pot, ornamented with
characters of the flood, which was used
by the revolutionary soldiers. A good-
sized room is set apart as her museum;
and here you find shells and pebbles
from every ocean, and flowers and
plumage of birds from every clime.
The walls are hung with paintings by
her own hand, some of them scenes
from recollection of her childhood’3
home. She gives much time, when
household duties are done, to painting
wild roses of the West and water-lilies.
Her eyesight is remarkable, her nerves
steady, and she spends long evenings
with her pencil and brush, She is
neat with the needle, and delights in
embroidery, tracing her own designs.
She is an intelligent conversationalist
and a constant reader. None of her
faculties are impaired. She can enter¬
tain one right royally with past his¬
tory. She has a way of looking on
the bright side of life, and always has
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a good word and smile for everybody.
She was born in Berkshire, Mass., near
the old historic town of Great Barring¬
ton, where in 1774 occurred the first
open resistance to British rule She was
baptized by the eminent divine, Rev.
David Fields, father of Cyrus, the
chief justice, and of Rev. Henry and
Jonathan Edwards Fields. Her par¬
ents were wealthy; she received a good
education, was thrown with prominent
people, and her reminiscences are in¬
teresting.
WUlielmina and Woman's Work.
A most interesting, and for Holland,
unique exhibition, was opened at the
Hague in connection with Williel-
mina’s inauguration, and was viewed
with sympathetic interest by her.
“Women and their Work” is the name
borne by this exhibit, which it is said
may be of large results. It was plan¬
ned and carried out in all its details,
by Dutchwomen, the woman editor of
a Dutch magazine being leader. The
carrying and wheeling of burnt and
moulded bricks is done by women in
Holland, and a woman sculptor show¬
ed this in a piece of statuary. There
were pictures showing fish-wives and
women engaged in oyster culture; and
there was a real woman shoemaker
making shoes and providing thereby
for her babies. A Frisian straw-mat-
plaiter sat busy at her trade in a cozy
little kitchen, A lot of rosy, merry
lassies were engaged in weaving the
beautiful carpets for which Holland is
famous, their peculiar methods of pul¬
ling the levers resembling vigorous
and graceful gymnastics, Diamond
cutting was illustrated and number¬
less forms of industry. There was also
a congress of mothers, at which moth¬
ers and educators met and talked over
music, nursing, physical culture, edu¬
cation, work, morals, religion, etc.
This was one of the most interesting
and best patronized features of the in¬
auguration week. The results of the
exhibition are beginning to show in
many ways that the young queen’s ad¬
vent is to have a marked influence it
is believed on the work of Dutch¬
women.
Men Whom Surgeons Admire.
The old proverb, “While there’s life
there’s hope,” gains a good deal of
force from these brief sketches, given
in the Golden Penny, of men who tri¬
umphantly survived almost every form
of accident:
A few months ago died Thomas
Rushton of Walkden, Lancashire. Most
of his life was spent in hospitals con¬
sequent on his many mishaps. When 5
years old he fractured both his thighs,
and before he had fairly recovered he
fell downstairs and sustained a double
fracture. Thenceforward his life was
one long series of misfortunes, for be¬
sides breaking both legs twenty-four
times, he sustained many other in¬
juries and underwent countless oper¬
ations.
A short time ago the Lancet men¬
tioned the case of a man who had
fractured Lis limbs six times, and on
each occasion the accident occurred on
the same date—-namely, August twen¬
ty-sixth. Before he was 16 he had met
with five mishaps, so he resolved for
the future always to remain at home
on the fatal 26th. It chanced, how¬
ever, that twenty-three years later,
forgetting his resolution, he went to
work on the unlucky day, and on his
return slipped down and broke his leg.
lt Is not death that Is the evil, but
that which follows it.—St. Augustin.
THE SEXTON'S PERQUISITES.
Complaint 1* Made ot Tardy Payment,
and Had Debta.
The sexton carries a regularly
monthly account with the wholesalei
and gets a commission of 20 per cent
for his share. For opening the church
he receives a fee. For digging the
grave the charge is generally $10, ol
which the sexton gets one-half. Thus
he is enabled to conduct an under¬
taking business at a liberal profit with¬
out the risk of maintaining an estab¬
lishment, and is at the same time sure
of furnishing work of the first class.
The profit from this source to the sex¬
ton of one large down town church Is
estimated at, $10,000 annually, The
more fashionable the church the larger
the profit. In one respect the sexton
is like the corner grocer. Both find
cause for complaint in tardy payments
and bad credits. Said one sexton:
“The undertaker of a small church has
to be a genius if he makes any money.
His people are slow to pay, and it is
frequently a hard matter to mention
the subject of credit. The sexton must
pay his wholesaler promptly, and un-
iess he has a comfortable bank ac-
count he is likely to get stranded.”
There are other duties devolving on
the sexton, however, which give his
life a pleasanter tone. Weddings are
cheerful and good for his pocketbook.
The collection of pew rents is some-
times ,, unpleasant, , . but . . he receives i a „
commission ____. , And . ..... in the performance .
of his other duties he is the recipient
of frequent fees Thus, without cap-
ital or worry, the sexton of a wealthy
church may draw a bank presidents
salary-due to the consolidation of
business interests. New Aork Evening
FAITHFULNESS REWARDED.
The Heppner, Oregon, Gazette tells
a story of a dog’s double devotion,
which will tend to increase the re-
gard of all lovers of dogs for those
faithful creatures. Mr. James Kinney,
the chief shepherd of the flocks of Mr.
Thomas Quade, had occasion lately to
change camp from the mountain-range
to his feeding grounds. The distance
was three miles. One of the collies
had at the range a litter of five pup-
pies, seventeen days old, which, as she
was needed in the drive, she had to
leave behind. The first night, as soon
as the sheep were folded at the feed-
ing ground and her responsibilities
over, she went straight hack through
a driving snowstorm to her young and
spent the night with them. Next morn-
ing, however, true to her master, she
was at the corral bright and early for
her duties. She remained all day,
guarding and herding the sheep, and
at nightfall started back to her babies,
This continued for eleven days. On
the morning of the twelfth day the
dog was late at the corral, and Mr.
Kinney felt some uneasiness about her.
After a time she appeared, bringing
one of her pups, which had now grown
to considerable size, in her mouth,
She had struggled all the three miles
with it, over a rough road. It was evi-
dently her intention to bring the pups
all up to the corral, one at a time,
without sacrificing any of her time
with the sheep. Somewhat conscience
stricken at his neglect of the litter so
far, Mr. Kinney hitched up a wagon
and went to the range after them. He
secured them all, and gave them and
their mother a warm nest close to the
hearth in the farmhouse.
SAVING BURGLAR SOUVENIRS,
Chicago furnishes another unique
story. Miss Agnes Neagle, an athletic
young woman of that city, is saving
burglar souvenirs—that is, momentos
taken from real burglars whom she
catches herself. She has already ac-
quired three souvenirs. One of these
is a coat tail, another a hat and the
third a tuft of hair. These the plucky
young woman succeeded in confiscat¬
ing from burglars whom she captured,
and who left the souvenirs behind in
their hasty flight, after Mies Neagle
held on until her hold slipped. Miss
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Neagle declares that she is ready for
the next burglar. She says this bur¬
glar catching is most exciting sport foi
a young woman, and while she is ner¬
vous after each battle, yet she’s taker
a liking to the business. It may be
that Chicago will engage Miss Neagle
as a special burglar policewoman. She's
a handsome young woman with broad
shoulders, sound teeth and a wealth
of black hair, She is unusually
strong.
Earliest Men.
Dr. Ranke, of the German Anthropo¬
logical Society, recently undertook to
describe the physical characteristics of
the earliest men, as ascertained from
the examination of prehistoric graves.
They were of a yellowish color, he
said, and had coarse hair. Their heads
were peculiarly shaped, the part of the
skull which contains the brain being
large, relatively, to the face,'while the
face was small.
STUDENT’S IN JAPAN.
COEDUCATION UNKNOWN EX¬
CEPT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Whole Class Often Strikes and Refuses
to Attend a Certain Unpopular I*ro-
fessor's Recitation, Thus Compelling
the Trustees to Dismiss Him. a
It was nearly 1,000 years ago that
the imperial Japanese university was
opened for the instruction of youths
of the nobility, writes Rokuro Naka-
sako, in the John# Hopkins University
] News Letter, The courses offered
were in history, moral philosophy,
jurisprudence and mathematics. Be¬
sides, th§ arts of medicine, soothsay¬
ing, almanac making, writing and
painting were introduced from time to
time. Many young men were also sent
by the government to study abroad,
Later on, about 400 or 500 years ago,
the political condition of the country
had changed entirely and the country
was divided up into so many petty
principalities, whose heads were, al-
though nominally subject to the throne
of the one and the same everlasting
royal family, continually engaged in
warfare among themselves, and who
had no leisure to pay attention to the
cultivation of art and science. Then
education passed into the hands
of Buddhist monks, and the higher
culture was only preserved within the
Buddhlgt t ]es . About 300 years
J unification of the coun-
un(Jer the al sove reignty,
gchoo , g an(J geminarieg were again
eslablished everyw here, and education
Qf the gong and daughterg of the no _
b j eg an( j warr j ors was given, not only
j i n the peaceful arts and literature, but
also in military drills. Indeed, the
art of fencing was the most prominent
task in these seminaries. In the mean-
\ while the sons and daughters of mer-
chants and peasants continued to get
education through the Buddhist monks.
Thus my readers will be prepared to
understand how the religion (Budd-
hisrn) and the education were so in-
, timately interwoven among the mer-
chants and peasants, and how the war-
like spirit and the belles-lettres were
so inseparably amalgamated and de-
veloped into the spirit of chivalry
which we are so proud of and which
we call the “Yamatodamashie.” In this
i connection it may not be uninteresting
j to quote what that great Commodore
Perry says in the introduction to his
report of the United States Japan ex-
pedition—“Xavier says that in his day
there were four academies in or near
Miako (Kyoto), each having between
3,000 and 4,000 pupils; and he adds
that much larger numbers were taught
at an institution near the city of Ban-
done, and that such seminaries were
universal throughout the empire,
There would seem to be something like
a common school system, for Meylau
states that children of both sexes and
of all ranks are invariably sent to
rudimentary schools. Here the pupils
are all taught to read and write and
are initiated into some knowledge of
the history of their own country. This
much the meanest peasant child is ex-
j j pected to learn. There are immense
numbers of cheap, easy books con-
tinually issuing from the Japanese
press. Books innumerable of a higher
i order are provided for the rich, and
i all, of both kinds, are profusely illus-
: trated with wood cuts, so that in our
j I modern printing inventions in colors of and stereotyping in and
our manu-
| faoture of cheap literature for the peo-
! pie generally, Japan has anticipated
us by centuries. Reading is a fa¬
vorite occupation with both sexes, and
it ? s said to be common in Japan to
see, when the weather permits,, a
group of ladies and gentlemen seated
by a cool, running stream, or in a
shady grove, each with a book.”
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The Russian army has been con-
ducting some very interesting exer-
cises in military telegraphing, the ob-
ject being to establish telegraph sta-
tions in the open with the greatest
possible rapidity. The illustration
shows how the operation was con-
say that half a century ago. when Com¬
modore Perry visited my country, la¬
dles and gentlemen may have had such
a fine time together. To-day, how¬
ever, the society does not permit a
college young man and a college young
lady to walk together by a happy run¬
ning stream or to ramble together In
a dreamy, shaded grove. Excepting
the primary public schools, there is
almost no coeducational school at
present. So far as my knowledge goes,
the only coeducational institution of
high rank is Dr. Hasegawa’s Medical
college In Tokyo. Beyond the age 'of
15 the girls and the boys are tempo¬
rarily and forcibly separated from each
other. Besides boat rowing, baseball
is also just as popular among college
students. But all these are purely
voluntary games, in contradistinction
from the compulsory military drill of
four hours a week. After being grad¬
uated from these colleges they must
still fulfill one year's military service,
after which they get the rank of sec¬
ond lieutenant of the landwehr. Then
they are .left free either to continue
in military service or to pursue or¬
dinary civil life. Thus the combina¬
tion of warlike occupation and liter¬
ary study which was existing in old
Japan on so grotesque a scale is now
being revived, compelled by the in¬
ternational relations of new Japan, un¬
der a better form. The habit of col¬
lege students of Japan Is very rough
and doarse and they utterly lack the
refined gentlemanliness of the Johns
Hopkins students. The emphasis laid
on the military drill tends to make
them combative and it is not Infre¬
quent that a whole class combines in
a “strike,” as they call It, and refuse
to attend a certain unpopular profes¬
sor’s recitation, thus compelling the
trustees to dismiss that particular pro¬
fessor.
POTENTATE
Who Ruled the Hotel Register in His
Own Royal Way.
New Orleans Times - Democrat:
“When I was in business with W. C.
Coup, the famous circusman,” said Mr.
J. A. Whyte, the impresario, “we once
had occasion to make a business trip
to the northwest, and stayed a week or
so in a certain big city, the name of
which isn’t essential to the story. We
put up at the leading hotel, which is
one of the finest and best known in
the United States, and would have en¬
joyed ourselves if it hadn’t been for
the head clerk. He was one of a breed
that has since become obsolete—thank
heaven!—a haughty, disdainful poten¬
tate, who considered it beneath his
dignity to show the slightest courtesy
to any of the guests of the house. Mr.
Coup, as all who knew him will con¬
firm, was a polished man of the world,
totally careless of money, never com¬
plaining, hut accustomed to punctil¬
ious service. He bumped against the
majestic ruler of the register several
times and endured his affronts in si¬
lence. At last he told me quietly to
secure quarters at another hotel, which
I was only too glad to do. I reported
that arrangements had been made, and
he went down to settle our account.
‘What is our bill, Mr. King?’ he asked
suavely. ‘My name’s not King,’
snapped the clerk, and he proceeded to
figure up the amount. Coup took out
his ' pocket bood. ‘Strange,’ he said,
pensively, ‘but I have been under the
impression all along, that your name
was King.’ ‘Well, my name ain’t
King,’ retorted the clerk, ‘and I don’t
know how you got that idea.’ ‘Nor I,’
said Coup, ‘unless it was because you
act so much like one.”
Vienna’s Bicycle Paths.
Vienna has made a beginning of
construction of bicycle paths through
its streets. Ground has been conceded
for the construction of a new street
on condition that a strip be prepared
for the use of bicyclists.
ducted. A cavalryman starts off at a
gallop. He carries strapped onto his
back a sort of “bobbin,” about which
is wound a roll of telegraph wire, and
which turns of itself on an axis. The
end of the wire is held by another
cavalryman, who secures it to a tree;
ENGLISH IN INDIA.
What JudgeH In the Lower Courts Are
Obliged to Cndergo.
A Calcutta correspondent sends a.
specimen of "Baboo English" to the
London Sketch. This speech was Ac¬
tually made before a civilian magis¬
trate at Barisal a short time ago:
“My learned friend with mere wind
from a teapot thinks to browbeat me
from my legs. But this is mere goril¬
la warfare. 1 stand under the shoes
of my client, and only seek to place
my bone of contention clearly in your
honor’s eye.
"My learned friend vainly runs
amuck upon the sheet-anchors of my
case. Your honor will be pleased
enough to observe that my client is a
widow—a poor chap with one postmor¬
tem son.
"A widow of this country, your hon¬
or will be pleased enough to observe,
is not like a widow of your honor’s
country. A widow of this country is
not able to eat more than one meal a
day, or to wear clean clothes, or to
look after a man. So my poor client
has not such physic or mind as to be
able to assault the lusty complainant.
Yet she has been deprived of some of
her more valuable leather—the leather
of her nose.
“My learned friend had thrown only
an argument ad hominy upon my teeth
that my client’s witnesses are all her
own relations. But they are not
near relations. Their relationship is
only homeopathic. So the misty argu¬
ments of my learned friend will not
hold water. At least, they will not
hold good water. Then my learned
friend has said that there is on the
side of his client a respectable wit¬
ness—namely, a pleader—and, since
this witness is independent, so he
should be believed. But your honor,
with your honor’s vast experience, is
pleased enough to observe that truth¬
fulness is not so plentiful as blackber¬
ries in this country.
“And, I am sorry to say, though this
witness is a man of my own feathers,
that there are in my profession black
sheep of every complexion, and some
of 'them do not always speak gospel
truth.
“Until the witness explains what has
become of my client’s nose-leather he
cannot be believed. He cannot be al¬
lowed to raise a castle in the air by
beating upon a bush, So, trusting in
that administration of British justice
on which the sun never sits, I close
my case.”
The Gooee as a Thermometer.
The flight of geese is an unfailing
sign of coming temperature. When
they fly south in their wedge-shaped
phalanx the northern blast is behind
them, while if they diverge to the east
or west the cold snap will be only
temporary, On their return when they
fly from their winter haunts to their
great summer resort in Siberia sum-
mer follows them, as well as awaits
their coming. A feather from a wild
goose in its flight will bring back an
errant lover to the maiden who has it.
Missionaries Were Needed.
A West African, on a visit to Eng¬
land in connection with a missionary
society, was shown a collection of pho¬
tographs. “What is this?” he asked,
gazing wonderingly at one of them.
“That is a snap shot taken during a
scrimmage at a Rugby football game.”
“But has your church no missionaries
to send among these people?” he de¬
manded.
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Nervousness Expelled.
It is averred by a famous Chinese
doctor that nervousness is kept out of
the Celestial empire by the use of soft-
soled shoes. The hard soles worn by
the Anglo-Saxon race are said to be
the cause of their extreme nervous
| temperament.
then two more troopers start off be-
hind the first, holding up by means of
forked poles the wire at a height suffl-
cient to be caught here and there to
the branches. The maneuver is said
to have been a complete success.—
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.