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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 £ —V n il iPlp f- Ml ^n m % REV. WALTER ELLIOTT, C. S. P. 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 ■A ; I ' : / A 1 /A m mm ii b i MRS. ELIZABETH A. S. COFFIN. 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 1 W Wl 1 p| m £ % :> WIIiWmS. ' ( . #s%>, gss; VO MISS AGNES NEAGLE. 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.” In regard to this last point I must 0 rw £0 3* ;S®r -V. wm m M / u » ira i > V * I Ml it ■ / "4 . v v q igjgs •t.j Vs r -". '■ • < •- 5- !■! i 4 < y, / I J rinnK ■ 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. - 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.