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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, i 4 lli Wu ?/ w 7: vv i Mr % 4 I / \\ . \Y\ All h i 'ft m A' m i W < m ADMIRAL WATSON. 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 mstm V ."J . § v • a cm m z £ w 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 pijgj m M\ a mm M I •> r/^ _■' v5 .v MA 1 ! l\\ \ : '///A JAMES ORMSBEE MURRAY, 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 ’ the bottom. Emptying the trough in- Hr ■ 1 ft m <i i A A wm m. m* m / % /' 7 I > / m > PM Si A WM WM m 7 F- F. G. KELLER. 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.