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DEWEY’S SUCCESSOR.
REAR ADMIRAL JOHN CRITTEN¬
DEN WATSON.
Wan Born in Kentucky and I* of Good
Lineage — Served on the Hartford
During the Civil War — Embraced
by Farragut.
Since the assignment of Rear Ad¬
miral John Watson to succceed Admiral
Dewey in the Philippines was an¬
nounced public interest has been
aroused in the man whom the navy de¬
partment -considered competent to
shoulder the responsibilities so long
and ably borne by the nation’s hero.
There is not an officer in the naval
service who is not keenly alive to the
cares and perplexities of the situation
at Manila, and realizes that there may
yet be chances to win undying glory
and fame.
“A thousand questions are likely to
arise,” said Rear Admiral Jouett, U. S.
N., retired—known in the service as
Fighting Jim Jouett—“to perplex and
bedevil the man who goes out to Man¬
ila as Dewey’s relief. Well, the depart¬
ment has builded wiser than it knew
In ordering Watson to the Philippines.
Watson is an admirable compound In
character of cool .courage in the hour
of danger and audacity.. He will meet
every trick and stratagem of the Fil¬
ipinos with one a little better, and there
is not a fitter man in the service for
that most difficult Manila detail than
John Crittenden Watson.”
John Crittenden Watson comes from
good fighting stock. He was born in
Frankfort, Ky., in 1842. His father
was Dr. Watson, and his mother was
the daughter of ex-Attorney General of
the United States and ex-Senator John
3. Crittenden of Kentucky, a union
man when it required courage to be
such in Kentucky.
It may be stated here as a peculiar
fact that some of the most dashing and
brilliant officers of our navy came from
Kentucky, 1,200 miles from blue water,
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but so it is. There is Jouett, chief of
them all, in his brilliant record of al¬
most reckless daring, whom Farragut ■
a Tennessee man—trusted as he did his
good right hand, in the fierce naval
combats of 1862-3-4. Then comes
Phythian Berry, William Nelson, a
naval lieutenant, whom President Lin¬
coln made a major general of volun¬
teers, killed in 1862, and latest Lieuten¬
ant Commander Lucien Young, whose
brilliant dash at Santiago is fresh in
the country’s memory.
Rear Admiral Watson is a nephew
the late Major General Thomas L.
Crittenden, who commanded the Twen¬
tieth corps, who died shortly after the
war. Another uncle was General George
R. Crittenden, who went south in 1861
and commanded a division in the con¬
federate army. Watson was appointed
to Annapolis in 1857, in his fifteenth
year, the age limit for youth then be-
ing 14 to 20. In 1861, a passed mid-
ehipman, he was on tbe Hartford with
Farragut, and there won the fnend-
ship of the great admiral by a feat of
courage that was as necessary as it was
daring.
It was a fine April morning in 1862,
when Farragut’s fleet ran by Forts
Jackson and St. Pfiilip, on the Missis¬
sippi river, fifty-two miles below New
Orleans. The ships of Farragut’s fleet
were all of wood, and General Duncan,
commanding the forts, with his second
Colonel Higgins, thought the Lord had
delivered Farragut and his fleet into
their hands, as they beheld it coming
up, formed in two lines, the Hartford
being easily distinguished admiral’s as the flag¬
ship by its broad blue pen¬
nant. The forts were admirably ar¬
ranged for effective gunnery, having a
barbette battery of sixty-fours and
quick guns that ewept the river for
ailes. Had not Farragut directed his
fleet to run in shore and under the gun
Are not a ship would ever have got
away. The forts are situated on the
two banks of the river, and about a
jnile and a hall below each other. As
the Hartford passed Fort St. Philip a
shower of grape from one of the big
guns tore the foremast into match-
wood, and seriously disabled the sail
power of the ship.
It was necessary to take in some sail
and set others, but the blocks hao
jammed and the Hartford was in dan¬
ger of swinging about and running
aground. The fire of grape aloft was
so terrible that the command, “Go aloft
and clear blocks and tackle on main
yard,” was not obeyed with that
promptness that follows an order given
by the commander of a man-of-war.
But the hesitance was momentary'.
"Come on, you sons of seacooks,”
yelled a young voice, and up the .rat¬
lines to the disabled rigging went a
midshipman, followed by the entire
watch, shamed beyond words at their
momentary hesitation. Running out
lightly to the end of the yard and
standing sixty feet from the deck with
the grape clipping ropes and tearing
great slivers of wood from mast and
spar, young Watson as calmly gave the
necessary grders as if he were at a
practice drill. One after another the
men were struck by the howling storm
of grape and either fell lifeless on the
deck below or was knocked out of the
rigging into the river boiling with the
stroke of shot and shell, but the Indian
fighting blood of his heroic ancestry
was up and John Crittenden Watson
never looked around. When everything
was taut and in working order, follow¬
ing the “jackies” down, Watson saluted
the admiral and reported, “All clear,
sir.”
Grim old Farragut simply seized the
daring boy in his arms, and how the
crew cheered. “Had we ever got
around there the confederate guns
would have destroyed us in five min¬
utes,” said Fleet Captain Percival
Drayton, of the west gulf squadron, as
he told the story to Captain, afterward
Rear Admiral Bryson. “Young Wat¬
son’s ready appreciation of the danger
and prompt action saved the Hartford
in my opinion, and Farragut always
thought so, too.”
There are many people still living in
Kentucky who are bound to the incom¬
parable Dewey’s succcessor by ties of
blood, and who will watch with interest
and pride bis career in our new far
eastern possession, Doubtless they
have no fear but that their distin¬
guished relative will be able to cope
with any and every question, and lend
fresh honors and luster to the names
of his ancestors.
How We Did It.
“I wish, John,” remarked Mrs. Fev-
ersham, “I wish when you get time
you would take down the parlor stove
and carry it to the attic. I’m tired
seeing it around this warm weather.”
“Very well, Maria,” responded Mr.
Feversham, “I will do as you wish.
Thereupon he proceeded to roll up his
hands and spit on his sleeves prior to
tackling the job. Carefully placing some
old newspaper around he removed the
pipe without spilling a particle of. dust
on the carpet. He then called an as¬
sistant, and the two men lifted the
stove as tenderly as they might an in¬
fant and transported it to the atic. Not
a profane word escaped the lips of eith¬
er man; neither did they bark their
knuckles against the close turns In the
hallway. On Mrs. Feversham’s return
everything was clean and shipshape,
and Mr. Feversham was sitting com¬
fortably smoking and reading the Sun¬
day World. The explanation of this
remarkable mystery lies in the fact
that John was a professional tinsmith
and was doing a bang-up job for his
own household. Those who expected
to read that Mr. Feversham got covered
with soot and the entire neighborhood
with blasphemy will now take five
minutes off to recover from their sur¬
prise.
Hardly the Right Word.
Codwallader—Funny that a woman
can never throw anything straight.
Jenkins (whose wife has red hair)—
H’m, not funny exactly; rather provi¬
dential, isn’t it?
MR. JONES 0E TOLEDO.
A RISING STAR IN POLITICAL
FIRMAMENT.
Ho Ilelleyes That the People Aro Un¬
titled to Some ot the Fruit, of
Tltelr Labor—They Also Believe In
Him.
Mayor Jones of Toledo is a peculiar
figure in the political and public life
of Ohio, and of the nation as well.
He is a Christian socialist, who after
having been elected mayor of Toledo
by the combined votes of the laboring
classes and the church-going elements,
proceeded to apply to the conduct of
public business as far as possible the
golden rule principle which has distin¬
guished his private life. His ideas, if
generally adopted, would revolutionize
the social and labor conditions of the
country. He advocates and applies to
his own business the eight-hour day,
pays his employes good wages, enters
sympathetically into their personal
concerns and contributes financially
and personally for their social enjoy¬
ment and improvement.
In the conduct of the vast interest of
his business he, has the enthusiastic
co-operation of every employe. In ad¬
dition to their regular wages for eight
hours’ work, he pays them a yearly
dividend from the profits of the busi¬
ness proportioned to their wages.
Every legal holiday means an enter¬
tainment or excursion for the em¬
ployes of his factories; if in summer,
out of doors; if in winter, indoors. A
year ago he purchased a piece of land
adjoining his factory, put a landscape
gardener to work and transformed it
into a park, with flower beds and wind¬
ing cinder paths, with seats and
benches under the trees for older peo¬
ple and swings, Maypole, tennis court
and games for children. Then he
opened the gate 1- free to the families
of the poor cf Toledo. He named it
Golden Rule park, and every Sunday in
summer there are good music and
good spf jkers. Mayor Jones was born
in Wc'.es in 1846, and came to the
Unit'' States with his parents when 3
yeais old. His parents were very poor
and it was necessary for the son, when
old enough, to go out to work, and he
says: “I bear upon my body today
the marks of the injustice and wrong
of child labor.” When 18 years old
he heard of the Pennsylvania oil fields
and went to Titusville, which place he
reached with 15 cents in his pockets.
He found work and seized the opportu¬
nities that were presented and in 1870
became himself an oil producer. In
1886 he came to Ohio and entered the
Lima field, and since then has followed
the same business successfully In
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. He
made several improvements in appli¬
ances for producing oil, and establish¬
ed in Toledo a factory for the' manu¬
facture of his inventions. This fac¬
tory brought him for the first time
into contact with the labor conditions
of the city. He studied the social
problem and determined to do what
he could to better the lives of his em¬
ployes, both financially and socially.
He had the full sympathy and co-oper¬
ation of his wife. He announced this
rule: “Every man is entitled to such
a share of the product of his toil as
will enable him to live decently and
in such a way that he and his chil¬
dren may be fitted to be citizens of
the free republic.” In 1895 he estab¬
lished the wage dividend system, and
has maintained it ever since. The
first was issued on Christmas day, and
the cash was accompanied by a letter
breathing a spirit of true Christian fel¬
lowship. Since then the employes
have been guests several times at his
great house, which their work has
helped him to build and where the men
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MAYOR JONES OF TOLEDO,
and their wives or sisters were treated
by Mr. and Mrs. Jones as social equals
would be.
Workshops.
An attractive feature of the Paris
Exposition will be an exact representa¬
tion of the studios or working rooms
of famous actors, dramatists and ma¬
gicians. The rooms in which Talma,
Mars, Rachel, Gounod and Dumas the
younger studied will be faithfully rep¬
resented, even to the most minute de¬
tails. The study of the younger Dumas
will attract special attention, as it will
surely remind every one of the elder
man and of his “Three Musketeers,”
and will present in vivid contrast, as
it were, the different methods of work¬
ing of the two men—the hasty, impul¬
sive method of the elder Dumas, and
the slow, painstaking method of the
younger.
The Queen's Plano,
The queen is the possessor of one
of the best-toned pianos in the world.
It is a magnificent Georgiana, made of
Amboyna wood. There are in all six¬
ty pianos in her various palaces
THE LATE DR. MURRAY.
One of the most distinguished edu¬
cators of the country has recently
passed away in the death of Dr. James
O. Murray, dean of Princeton univer¬
sity. Dr. Murray was born of south¬
ern parentage at Camden, S. C., on
November 37, 1827. Ho obtained his
literary education at Brown univer¬
sity, but prosecuted his theological
studies at Andover Theological sem¬
inary. Entering immediately into min¬
isterial work, he became pastor of the
Congregational church in South Dan¬
vers, Mass., where 1 remained from
1854 to 1861. He v ;.s then pastor for
four years of the rospect Street Con¬
gregational church at Cambridgeport,
Mass. In 1865 he was called to the
Brick Presbyterian church of New
York city as associate pastor with Dr.
Gardiner Spring, then in advanced
years and failing health. After Dr.
Spring’s death Dr. Murray became the
sole pastor. In 1875 Dr. Murray went
to Princeton to take the Holmes pro¬
fessorship of belles lettres and Eng¬
lish language and literature to which
he had been elected by the trustees.
In 1886 the office of dean of the faculty
was created during the last years of
President McCosh’s administration,
and Dr. Murray was elected its first
incumbent. In this office he remained
to his death, continuing also to per¬
form the duties of his professorship.
He was also the vice’ president of the
board of trustees of the Theological
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seminary, and twice delivered the
course of Stone lectures in that insti¬
tution—in 1893 on “Skepticism in Lit¬
erature” and in 1895 on “Religion in
Literature.” His published works in¬
clude .the lives of Dr. Francis Way-
land, William Samuel and Professor
G. I. Chase, a church hymnal, entitled
"Sacrifice of Praise,” and contribu¬
tions to periodicals. Princeton college
conferred upon him the honorary de¬
gree of doctor of diviinity in 1867, and
in 1885 he received the honorary de¬
gree of doctor of laws from his alma
mater. He was eminently successful
as an instructor and was generally re¬
garded as the most popular professor
of the university. His success in his
department received a worthy tribute
when the trustees named the new
English professorship recently en¬
dowed for him.
Mammoth Meat-
On Feb. 8 a Swede and his partner,
while marking their claim on Domin¬
ion Creek, discovered, according to a
Dawson newspaper, a body of a mam¬
moth forty feet below the surface.
The story was that the body was in a
perfect state of preservation. Unfor¬
tunately there were no scientists in
Dawson to examine the body, but, ac¬
cording to press statements, it meas¬
ured 44% feet long. Its right tusk was
broken, but Its left tusk was perfect, so
that it was probable that the right
tusk may have been snapped off in the
fall that caused its death. The tusk
which remains measures 14 feet 3
inches in length and 48 inches in cir¬
cumference. The flesh was covered,
with woolly hair 15 inches long, of a
grayish-black color. The neck was
short and the limbs long and stout,
the feet short and broad, and had five
toes. The flesh was cut and tasted
sweet. Mammoth flesh has been
tasted on other occasions. It is very
unfortunate that an expert geologist
was not upon the ground at the tilde
of the find, as it is of considerable im¬
portance.
Don’t Spoil It.
Any one who lights one cigarette
from another and then lights one of
the same brand with a match will per¬
ceive that the latter smokes much
fresher and sweeter. When you light
your cigarette by applying it to that
of your friend you draw some of the
stale smoke and accumulated nicotine
of his into yours. This spoils the
best cigarette made. In fact, no one
who appreciates the fresh flavor of
newly kindled tobacco would think of
doing it. Should you be short of
matches, or particularly economical,
however, there is a method of lighting
one cigarette from another by which
you can escape the evil consequences
described. This consists of applying
the whole surface of the end of the
end of the unlighted cigarette to the
red end of the other, and blowing, not
drawing, gently through it. The kin¬
dling occurs more rapidly and com¬
pletely than in the old-fashioned way,
and, in addition, preserves all the
flavor.
just a Suggestion.
"Vain, vain!” he cried in agony. “For
I am a poor man, while you have been
reared in the lap of luxury, into her
eyes came a dreamy look, such as or¬
dinary persons affect when their corns
hurt them; but she was no ordinary
person. “One lap gets mighty monot¬
onous,” she observed, for there was
her maidenly reserve to be thought of
LIVED FOR OTHERS.
THE MAN WHO INVENTED WOOD
PULP PAPER PROCESS.
It Has Become One of the World’s
Leading- Industries While He Hhh
Become a l’au per—Tleartlessucss of
Capital Illustrated.
Woodpulp paper, though it is popu¬
larly regarded as a recent invention,
is more than half a century old. A
German journal was printed on it in
the year 1845. The man who made
this paper (with his own hands), and
who invented the first practical meth¬
od of making paper from wood, was
still living a few years ago, almost in
poverty, in a small village of Saxony.
Frederick Grottlob Keller was neither
a scientist nor a paper-maker, but
only a poor weaver, like his father be¬
fore him. He was born in 1816. When
23 years old, happening to read that
the increasing demand for paper had
made the discovery of some substitute
for rags an imperative necessity, he
became absorbed in this subject.
Chance directed his attention to the
paper-iike nest of the wasp. He studied
the insects at their building operations
and was fortunate enough to see them
tearing off the woody fibers of plants
with their mandibles, which they laid
together to form the walls of the nest.
Keller’s first attempt at paper-making
was made by soaking sawdust in
strong soda lye to separate the fibers.
It was not a success. His next ex¬
periment was more fortunate, He
ground up a block of wood on an or¬
dinary grindstone running in a water
trough, and as the wood dust fell into
the trough the water grew milky. Aft¬
er a time a pasty mass collected at
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the bottom. Emptying the trough in-
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to another vessel, he allowed the fiber
to settle, and poured off the water.
Then he abandoned his experiment for
the time being, and returned to his
loom. In the evening Keller placed
the vessel of pulp on the table, which
was set for the evening meal, and
stirred the mass violently. He didn’t
know just why he was doing it, but
chance came to the aid of this man,
who knew nothing of paper-making.
He splashed some of the pulp on the
table-cloth, which quickly absorbed
the superfluous moisture. There re¬
mained a tiny disk of pulp, which Kel¬
ler quickly raised with a knife, pressed
it in a book and dried it in the oven.
The piece of paper so made—about as
big as a dime—he preserved as a me¬
mento through all his later years, to¬
gether with the wasps’ nest, which
gave him his first inspiration. From
this small beginning the way to com¬
mercial success was long and hard.
Yet, after many failures and much dis¬
couragement, Keller succeeded in turn¬
ing out, with his wife’s help, a num¬
ber of small sheets of paper. The pulp
was spread on old pieces of cloth laid
upon a home-woven wire netting, and
the press was a rude, home-made af¬
fair. The product was crude, yet it
was undeniably paper, and with it Kel¬
ler went to the capitalists seeking fin¬
ancial aid for the improvement of his
process. But the infant was so weak¬
ly and misshapen that the capitalists
refused to adopt it. He tried the gov¬
ernment bureaus, and received appre¬
ciative words but no assistance, and
he was afraid to go to the papermakers
lest his invention be stolen. Thus
thrown back on his own resources,
Keller got a new grindstone, and, still
aided by his faithful wife, proceeded
grind out a lot of pulp. They did
this work at night, as the day was
fully occupied working for bread.
Wisely restricting himself to the first
part of the process, Keller sent the
pulp, the fruit of many nights’ toil, to
a paper mill. It came back to him,
mixed with a third part of rags, in
the form of several reams of large-
sired paper. A portion of this paper
was used in the 1845 issue of the
Frankenberger Kreisblatt. Shortly
after Keller, with the assistance of
some friends, got possession of a pa¬
per mill, but he had not sufficient cap¬
ital for an efficient plant, and his en¬
terprise seemed likely to fail, when a
sheet of his paper fell into the hands
of a papermaker named Voeiters, who
saw the value and possibilities of the
process, and purchased from Keller,
for the pitiful sum of 700 thalers, the
individual right to use it. Voeiters'
knowledge, and experience enabled him
to make the process of commercial
value, and he and Keller took out a
joint patent. But the profits were so
small that when the patent expired,
five years later, poor Keller was una¬
ble to meet his share of the cost of re¬
newal, and Voeiters became the solq
owner.
Keller was thenceforth "out-of the
game,” and got none of the large prof¬
its that subsequently accrued, for the
process developed on an enormous
scale. He was forced by lack of cap¬
ital and a series of accidents to give up
his own mill even, and in 1892 he was .
running a little workshop for survey¬
ors’ tools. The sum of 4,000 thalers,
secured to him by friends on the re¬
newal of the American patents, to¬
gether with various voluntary contri¬
butions from German papermakers,
have reimbursed him for his actual
outlay, but he has never received any
recompense worth mentioning for his
valuable invention, nor for the toil and
thought it cost him.
A GOOD INDIAN.
Grandson of the Famous Chief Osceola
Dead.
Osceola Cook, who died recently in
Providence, was a grandson of th«
famous Seminole Chief Osceola, al¬
though he was not proud of It by any
means, steadfastly claiming that he
was a Mexican. As a matter of fact,
his father was a full-blooded negro.
His life, if all its details were fully
known, would furnish material for a
dozen romances, for he was restless
and adventurous in his early years and
left a few shadowy spots in his per¬
sonal history which are better not in¬
vestigated perhaps at this late day.
During his later years he conducted a
hootblacking establishment in Provi¬
dence and made fully $50,000, very lit¬
tle of which he left, however, At his
death, as he handled money with a
lavish hand. At the time of his death
he was 45 years old and weighed 449
pounds, but in spite of this was the
strongest man in Providence, some of
his prodigious feats of strength being
the pride of the sporting fraternity of
that city. When a boy he followed the
sea, shipping up and down the coast
before the mast. After the civil war
he enlisted in the regular army, served
in the Southwest, became mixed up in
one of those shadowy affairs, slipped
off to Mexico and joined a wandering
circus. After a succession of wild es¬
capades he became a bull fighter,
where his fine physique had a fair
chance to display itself, and became
involved with a senorita and a ro¬
mance, and retired again from circula¬
tion. A two-year period followed here,
about which he was always most reti¬
cent, but at the expiration of that time
he suddenly appeared in Providence
with a fluent control of the Spanish
language and money enough to opsn
the first artd most successful boot¬
blacking stand in that city. Even in
his business career he had to have a
certain amount of excitement, and his
shooting affairs with bullies of various
grades were picturesque in the ex¬
treme.
Why He I* Tired.
“Jenks looks weary of late. Have
you noticed it?” "Yes. His boy is
getting old enough to want him to ex¬
plain things.
Stars on the coins of the United
States are six-pointed. Those on thf
flag have five points.