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k MASTER OF WORDS.
TARVIN OF KENTUCKY AS A
PUBLIC ORATOR.
He la lifting; Put Forward for the Vice
Presidency by Hia Adhcrcnta—A I)c-
loemluut of an Old Revolutionary
Family.
Judge J. P. Tarvin, of the Kenton
Circuit Court, Covington, Ky,, is a
man who has figured very prominently
of late in public affairs and whose
name has been so frequently mention¬
ed within recent months In connection
with the Democratic vice presidential
nomination. In the now seemingly cer¬
tain event of Mr. Bryan’s re-nomina¬
tion. The story of Judge Tarvin’s
career, while in nowise startling, is
noteworthy as the plain tale of one
who has attained a large prominence
and a host of loyal and earnest friends
throughout the nation, chiefly by
means of his own nativabilities and
personal qualities. He was born in
Covington, Ky,, November 13,1860, and
comes of distinguished parentage, his
father being W. H. Tarvin, his moth¬
er Eliza Pryor. He is the grandson
of James Pryor, circuit judge for
twenty years and cousin of Wm. S.
Pryor, judge of Kentucky Court of Ap¬
peals for twenty-five consecutive years.
Judge Tarvin was educated in the pub¬
lic schools of his native town, has liv¬
ed there always, has always been a
Democrat, and has been chairman of
his county committee several years. He
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JUDGE J. P. TARVIN.
has practiced law since 1892. In 1896
he was Democratic candidate for elec¬
tor at large in his state and was de¬
feated by 173 votes out of a total of
500,000 cast. It was in this race, when
he stumped the state for Bryan, that
his oratorical powers were first
brought prominently beiore the public.
He was nominated for circuit judge in
the Sixth Kentucky district in ’97, re¬
ceiving two-thirds of the votes in the
primary, and was elected by over 1,-
900 majority at the regular election.
He has always been a silver advocate,
and stumped the state in advocacy of
the white metal in 1895, 1896 and 1898.
He was one of the foremost figures in
the organization of the League of Bi¬
metallic Clubs of the Ohio Valley, in
Cincinnati in 1897, and in 1898 was
made its president, a place to which
he was re-elected for a term of two
years, at the recent Louisville conven¬
tion of the organization. Judge Tar¬
vin has quickly won a national repu¬
tation as an orator, his speech at the
dollar banquet in New York and at
the Auditorium in Chicago, where he
spoke in behalf of the “obscure peo¬
ple,” being perhaps his most notable
triumphs of oratory.
Coats at Second Hand.
As the well-educated native of India
emulates western manners as far as
possible, it is not to be wondered at
that he is partial to the frock coat.
From this partiality a curious trade
has sprung up. Regularly large con¬
signments of second-hand frock coats
are shipped out from England to Bom¬
bay, and are disposed of to the natives,
who strut about like peacocks in a not
Infrequently impossible coat. Add to
this that the wearers do not go in for
socks, and to a man wear glaring pat¬
ent leather shoes, and you have a pic-
ture. When is added to this fact that
the native head dress is worn, and
that the unmentionables are of linen,
and cut skin tight, with, many folds
around the ankles, the sight is often-
times ludicrous, So fashionable has
the frock coat become in India that
native tailors make the ordinary coats
of the natives largely on frock coat
lines, and it is no unusual sign to see
the athletic youths of northern India
disporting themselves in so-called frock
coats of as many hues as the famous
garment of Joseph.—-Waverly Maga¬
zine.
Mme. d’Alma's Unpleasant Adventure.
Mme. Alma d’Alma, an American
prima donna who lias recently been
singing with great success in Italy and
at Monte Carlo, has just met with an
unpleasant adventure. During a holi¬
day trip to Morocco she took it into
her head to disguise herself as a man,
in order to penetrate into a particular¬
ly sacred mosque. She was almost im¬
mediately discovered and came near
being killed. Fortunately she was res¬
cued by the police in time and sent to
prison. There she remained ten days,
until the sultan, at the demand of the
American consul, liberated her.
Jeulcchan in an Unsanitary Condition.
The Japanese town of Jeulcchan was
recently discovered to be in an un¬
sanitary condition, consequent upon
•which frequent epidemics occurred.
The Japanese officials selected a spot
in the neighborhood that could be well
,drained. Streets and public places were
'laid out upon it. Buildings were erect¬
ed, and the entire inhabitants of the
city of Jeukchan, numbering 40,000,
were removed to the new site. As
the buildings were slight v/ooden
structures, the scheme was practicable
GUIDE {>OSTS OF A BLIND MAN
Ills Feet and Nose Pilot Him Through
the Streets of a City.
From the New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat: There is a blind man living in
the heart of the old quarter who walks
nearly every day to a little restaurant
near Canal street. The distance each
way is from sixteen to twenty blocks,
according to the route, and to see him
sauntering carelessly along one would
never suspect his infirmity. Talking
with an inquisitive reporter, he de¬
clared that he saw his nose and feet,
and this was the way he explained it:
“When a man has no sight,” he said,
"the smells of the street are all mixed
up, but when he’s blind he learns to
separate them, The smells of the
shops are almost as plain to me now
as the signs used to be over the doors.
Some of them you would hardly sup¬
pose to exist. Take a dry goods store,
for instance; It smells of cloth, and
cloth has a very peculiar odor. Iron
and tin have smells of their own, and
I can tell a hardware store immediate¬
ly. I pass two book stalls nearly ev¬
ery day, and I scent them yards off by
the old books. Then there are a great
many indescribable odors by which I
know this place and that. Of course,
my feet are my principal guide, and
I’ve been over the same ground so
•often that I have learned every little
inequality by heart, but I couldn’t get
along with either nose or feet alone.
They work together, and where one
fails the other helps out. Between them
they make very good eyes. The secret
of my stepping out is this: I’ve
learned how to step. People who can
see hurl themselves forward like loco¬
motives. That’s why the shock is al¬
ways so unexpectedly violent when you
collide with another person. I put no
extra power whatever in my move¬
ments, and if the toe of my boot
touches some unknown obstacle I stop
stock still instantly.” This clever blind
man leads a very tranquil life. He has
a small income,and lives with a grand¬
daughter. A servant is hired especially
to read to him every afternoon. Many
of them who know him are unaware of
his blindness.
HE GOT A FRESH CROP OF HAIR
Terror at tho Danger or 11 in Son Caused
a Man’s Hair to Change Color.
Everyone has heard stories of men
and women becoming gray-haired in a
night as the result of grief or terror.
Many of these tales are doubtless the
mere imaginings of the writers of
sketches, but that such phenomena are
of occasional occurrence has been fully
demonstrated, A Chicago physician
relates this instance in a medical jour¬
nal and vouches for its truth: The
subject was a laboring man in the
stockyards district, aged 38, who was
not of a nervous temperament beyond
being slightly emotional. His hair was
abundant and of a dark chestnut color.
One evening as he was returning home
preceded by his horse, on which was
mounted his son, aged 8, the animal
slipped and the child was thrown oft
and trampled on several times. He
was only severely bruised, but the fa¬
ther thought he was killed, and in try¬
ing to save him was terror-stricken.
He trembled and had palpitations and
a feeling of cold and tension in the
face and head. Next day the hairs of
the head, beard and eyebrows began
to fall in quantities, so that after eight
days he was absolutely bald. At the
same time the skin of the head and
face became paler. Without delay the
hairs began to grow again in the form
of a colorless down. Soon all the af-
fected regions were covered with finer,
more silky and a little more thinly
sown, completely white hair.—Chicago
Chronicle.
MADE HIM A PRINCE.
Emperor William of Germany has
conferred upon Count von Munster-
Ledenburg the title of prince in recog¬
nition of his services as head of the
German delegation to the peace con¬
ference at The Hague. Count von Mun-
ster-Ledenburg, or Count Munster, as
he is popularly known, is close on
eighty years old and has been for
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many years in the diplomatic service.
He was for some time German ambas¬
sador to England and was then trans¬
ferred to Paris, where he now is. When
he was transferred to Paris he became
a favorite in society, and was noted
for giving sumptuous dinners and ele¬
gant entertainments, at which he was
always ably assisted by his daughter,
Countess Marie von Munster, a maiden
of fifty, who for a quarter of a century
has been his dutiful companion, She
is a woman of spirit, and when an at¬
tempt was made to connecther with the
Dreyfus scandal, some time ago, she
made such a vigorous protest that an
ample apology was made to her and
her venerable father.
Where Ue Fooled Her.
From Town Topics: She—I suppose
it will break your heart for me to say
I can be only a sister to you? He—
Net at all. my dear. I never knew a
girl who didn’t say the same thing to
me
BACK FROM ICY LANDS
WALTER WELLMAN AND PARTY
FAILED.
They Discovered Some New Plant* of
Interest However—I< n sunje of the
Latest Arctic Expedition—Start Made
in June* 1898.
Walter Wellman and the survivors
of the Polar expedition led by him, ar¬
rived in Europe Aug. 17 on the steamer
Capella, having successfully completed
their explorations in Franz Josef Land.
Mr. Wellman discovered important new
lands and many islands. The expedi¬
tion brings a grim story of arctic trag¬
edy. In the autumn of 1898 an out¬
post called Fort McKinley was estab¬
lished in latitude 81 degrees. It was
a house built of rocks and roofed over
with walrus hide. Two Norwegians,
Paul Bjorvig and Bert Bentsen, the lat¬
ter of whom was with Nansen on the
Fram, remained there. The main par¬
ty wintered in a canvas covered hut
called Harmsworth house, at Cape
Tegethoff, on the southern point of
Hall’s island, latitude 80. About the
middle of February, before the rise of
the sun to its winter height, Mr. Well¬
man, with three Norwegians and for¬
ty-five dogs, started north. It was the
earliest sledge journey on record in
that high latitude. On reaching Fort
McKinley Mr. Wellman found Bent-
sen dead, and Bjorvig, according to
promise, had kept the body in the
house, sleeping beside it through two
months of arctic darkness. Notwith¬
standing his terrible experience the
survivor was safe and cheerful. Push¬
ing northward through rough ice and
severe storms, with a continuous tem¬
perature for ten days between 40 and
50 degrees below zero, the party found
new lands north of Freedom island,
where Nansen landed in 1895. By the
middle of March all hands were confi¬
dent of reaching latitude 87 or 88, if
not the pole itself.. Then began a suc¬
cession of disasters. Mr. Wellman,
while leading the party, fell into a
snow covered crevasse, seriously injur¬
ing one of his legs and compelling a re¬
treat. Two days later the party was
aroused at midnight by an icequake
under them, due to pressure. In a few
moments many dogs were, crushed and
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the sledges destroyed. The members
of the expedition narrowly escaped
with their lives, although they man¬
aged to save their precious sleeping
bags and some dogs and provisions. On
Mr. Wellman's condition becoming
alarming, as inflammation set in, the
brave Norwegians dragged him on a
sledge, by forced marches, nearly 200
miles to headquarters, arriving there
early last April. Mr. Wellman is still
unable to walk and will probably be
permanently crippled. After reaching
headquarters other members of the ex¬
pedition explored regions hitherto un¬
known and important scientific work
was done by Lieut. Evelyn B. Baldwin
of the United States weather bureau,
Dr. Edward Hofma of Grand Haven.
Mich., and A. Harlan of the United
States coast survey. The expedition
killed forty-seven bears and many wal-
ruses. The Capella arrived at Cape
Tegethoff in search of the expedition
July 27 last. Aug. 9 she met the Stella
Polar, bearing the expedition headed by
Prince Luigi, duke of Abruzzl, which
had sailed from Archangel to recon-
noiter northwest Franz Josef Land hnd
to meet, if possible, the Wellman ex¬
pedition. Mr. Wellman and his com¬
panions found no trace in Franz Josef
Land of the missing aeronaut, Profes¬
sor Andree.
The Wellman expedition was started
in June, 1898, and is the second which
he has led in search of the north pole,
the first one having taken place in 1893
and 1894. On his first attempt Well¬
man’s ship, the Ragnoald Jarl, was
crushed in the ice, but he came back
undaunted, ar.d determined to make the
trial again. Mr. Wellman went abroad
in 1897, and laid his plans for the sec¬
ond expedition before Nansen, the ex¬
plorer. He- unfolded the details of a
sledge trip of 110 days for 550 miles to
the north pole by way of Franz Josef
Land, which lies almost north from
Nova Zembia, and had previously been
explored as far as latitude 82 and said
that he intended to establish a supply
station at Cape Flora, in latitude 80.
Nansen approved the plans, and after
Wellman had returned to this country
he also secured the approval of the Na¬
tional Geographical society, of which
Professor A. Graham Bell was presi¬
dent, and that organization, as well as
the United States coast and geodetic
survey and the United States weather
bureau, co-operated with him in the
scientific preparations for the enter¬
prise.
ROTHSCHILDS’ DAUCHTER.
England’s richest young heiress. Miss
Evelina Rothschilds, daughter of Lord
Rothschilds, has recently become en¬
gaged in marriage to Lieutenant Clive
Behrens, of the Royal Horse artillery.
Lieutenant Behrens is the son of one
of the wealthiest merchants of Man¬
chester, but he wears no title. Like
his bride-elect, he is of German-He-
brew origin and comes of good stock.
His branch of the family has insisted
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on retaining the Jewish faith as well
as the original spelling of the family
name; whereas Mr. Alexander Berens,
on marrying into the aristocracy of
England, changed both. Mr. Alexan¬
der Berens is the father of Lady Ross,
whose divorce case was the sensation
of the London season two years ago.
Lord Rothschilds has only three chil¬
dren, two sons and this daughter. Her
fortune under the circumstances will
be one of colossal proportions. Lieu¬
tenant Behrens will now probably en-
ter the banking business and give up
military life altogether.
HOW IT IS DONE IN GERMANY.
Tree Culture Is One of the Most Prizde
Occupations of the People.
While congress and the several state
legislatures have for years been flood¬
ed w'ith petitions and proposed laws for
the preservation of the forest trees of
the country, nearly all of them more or
less defective, the people of Germany
have solved the problem with very lit¬
tle ado. Germany is an old country.
Centuries ago what we might call its
virgin timber was exhausted and the
country found itself with a dense pop¬
ulation dependent on a limited area of
land to supply its needs for wood ma¬
terial. What should they do? Should
they stint their use in this direction
to a niggardly amount? Should they
call on the stock of newer countries
for their supply? They did neither of
these things. They went to work to
develop the resources and capabilities
of their own lands. The states and
the nobles supported the work. Scien¬
tists labored and managers experiment¬
ed. Forest schools were established
to spread through the land the knowl¬
edge that had been gained. Finally
they piled up a mass of exact informa¬
tion about trees and everything re¬
lated to their life,and established a sys¬
tem of forest management that is one
of the finest monuments of the thor¬
oughness, the conservatism and the pa¬
tience of the German race. And to¬
day the forest stands as one of the
prime objects of the people’s regard, a
source of health, wealth and national
independence.
Miss Fortune.
Mr. Stubb—“There comes ‘Fortune.’
Mrs. Stubb—“Who, John?” Mr. Stubb
“ ‘Fortune’; the female book agent.”
Mrs. Stubb—“Why in the world do you
call her ‘Fortune’?” Mr. Stubb—“Be¬
cause she knocks at every man’s
door.”
STEAMER COTS
BOAT ASUNDER
Forty Passengers Strug¬
gled For Life In Water
BOAT WAS ClIT IN TWO
Steamship Was City of Aogusta, of the
Plant Line-Accident Occurred
At New York.
The Pennsylvania ferry boat Chi<
cago, plying between Jersey City and
Now York, was cut in two l>y the
steamer City of Augusta, of the Sa¬
vannah steamship line, at 12:35 Tues¬
day morning, on the New York side of
North river. She went down in seven
or eight minutes. There were between
thirty and forty people aboard, four
being women.
In spite of the severity of the acci¬
dent, there was no panic. Most of
the people were cn the upper deck
and only half a dozen persons were on
the lower deck. Most of the persons
managed to obtain life preservers:
some others who could not, about half
a dozen, swam ashore. j I
The five or six persons who started
from , the , , lower deck , , assisted • , i each i other
in getting ashore. One or two were
life preservers, but they all
assisted each other and succeeded in
getting to the safely. , ,
pier for ;
There was considerable shouting
help, the people on the boat calling
for small boats to come to their assist-
„ >io small ,, , boats , were x launched, v 3
Alice.
however, probably owing to the brief
period of time which elapsed between
the cutting in two and the sinking.
The Savannah liner was evidently
coming up the river at the time of the
accident, while the ferry boat Chicago
was beaded straight across from the
New Jersey shore for the New York
slip. stopped j
, f r . lie City of Augusta » . . after
the accident, but apparently no boats
were launched, and in the brief space
of time which elapsed nothing was
done to assist the persons in the wa-
ter. Estimates made by persons who
succeeded in escaping vary widely,
Some thought that no loss of life
resulted, while others believed that at
least a score of persons were drawn
into the whirling stream as the ferry
boat sank.
Captain Durham, who commanded
the ferryboat Chicago, succeeded in
making his escape. He says that he
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thinks that Fromme was either
drowned or crushed to death in the
stoke hold.
HOBART SINKING.
Vice President’s Condition Reported
As Atarming---Suffers Reiapse.
A New York special says: Yioe
President Hobart, who has been ill
for weeks at his home in Paterson, N.
J., suffered a relapse Monday morning
He had a succession of choking spells,
resulting from an imperfect action of
the heart, an old affliction complicated
with inflammation of the stomach.
Mr. Hobart has not been able to at¬
tend to his private affairs for some
days, and an intimate friend has b«en
given power of attorney to sign cheoks
and attend to other matters of that
character.
One of the physicians in attendance
said at li o’clock Monday night that
while the condition of Mr. Hobart was
serious, he was some better.
A Washington special says: The
news that Vice President Hobart has
suffered a severe relapse, and might
not be able to survive the latest attack,
shocked Washington, where he is de¬
cidedly popular and highly respected.
It had been known for some time that
a sudden attack might completely pros¬
trate him at any moment, and it was
realized that his days of activity were
over, but nevertheless his friends at
the capital were not prepared for Mou-
day’s news.
The vice president’s case was alarm¬
ing a large part of last winter, and at
Thomasville, Ga., his condition be¬
came so grave during a visit with the
president to the home of Senator
Hanna that it could not longer be con¬
cealed from Mrs. Hobart, though kept
from the sick man himself. Vice
President Hobart returned north ear¬
lier than expected, because the south¬
ern climate did not give him the relief
hoped for. He fai ed to improve much
and has been almost an invalid ever
since.
Bank Dividend Declared.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared a 2J per cent, dividend in fa¬
vor of the creditors of tho Oglethorpe
National bank, of Brunswiok, Ga.
CHARLESTON~FEELS STORM.
Hurricane Attained Velocity of Fifty-
Eight Miles an Hour.
The storm passing up the coast was
quite severe at Charleston Monday
night. The wind reached a velocity
of fifty-eight miles, blowing down
many fences and trees. A small frame
dwelling inhabited by a colored fam¬
ily was wrecked. One child was kill¬
ed and three others injured.
Shipping in harbor suffered no dam¬
age and no marine disasters are yet
reported.
44 Duly Feed
Man and Steed ."
toed your nerves, also, on pure blood if
yoo ’would have them sttang. Men and
tvomen who Are nervous Are so because
their nerves are starved. When they
make their blood rich and pure •with Hood's
Sarsaparilla their nervousness disappears
because the nerves are properly fed.
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A Molher Stork’s Devotion.
Among many stories of the affection
of dumb creatures for their young, this
from a German paper is peculiarly pa¬
thetic: “At Neuendorf the lightning
struck the gable end of a barn where
for years a pair of storks had built
their nest. The flames soon caught the
nest in which the helpless brood was
piteously screaming. The mother
stork now protecting sprend out her
wing over the young ones, with whom
she was burned alive, although she
might have saved herself easily by
flight.”—-Christian Herald.
Findley’s Eye Salve Cures
Sore eyes in 8 days; chronic cases in 30
days, mail, nr money bank. All druggists, or
by Texas. 25c. per box. J. P. Hxvtkh, Deca¬
tur,
Many a man who Ir unable todrive a four,
in-hund will wa-te three-quarters of an
hour in trying to tie one.
How’s Thlg?
Wo offer One Hundred Hollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & < 0 , Props., Toledo. O.
We, the iindersljrned, have known F. J. Che-
ney for the last 15 years, nnd believe him per-
fectly honorable In all business transactions
“''d financial]v »w« to carry cut any obitga-
tlon made by lh« ir Arm.
weft & huax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Kwmj , * Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio,
Hall’s Cfttanb Cure 1S taken intertmlly.net-
lng , dlreetly uyrn the Price, blood and mucous sur-
faces of the system. 75e. per bottle. Sold
by all pniggistK Tcstiimmiais ree.
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