The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-15

AuArIeS Les Nab Dufleu III the WAL
renton, Va, Cemetery more than half q
century AGO. The other day q tablet,
with the inscription that follows, was
| DIacad there In hia memory .ttEharles
Lee. 1915. Aged ffty-seyen years. At.
torney General United States from 1895
70 1907
Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, whose
gentle voice and pleasant manner are
worshiped by the poor people Of Glou-
cester, is a slender, graceful woman of
thirty-nine years. She has dark brown
hair, sympathetic blue eyes, q rather
long, thin nose, and q facile mouth,
WHICH is never at rest. She is In deli
cate health, brought about by her labors
among the poor.
L. O. G. Lamar is said By his Missis-
sippi friends to be one of the few poor
men in the United States Senate. OF
late years most of bis salary has gone to
pay old debts, obligations of a nature
that only a man of scrupulous integrity
would think Of paying.
Mr.. Conkling's law practice now brings
him in over Sl0o, 900 . year, whereas his
annual income as a statesman was only
$4,000. The Chicago Times thinks that
a man who is twenty times as good q
lawyer as a statesman should feel no
temptation to 60 back to politics.
John Bright makes notes and headings
Of his speeches, and with great care
writes down and commits to memory
all the Important passages. Gladstone
merely jots down facts and figures, and
for expression trusts entirely to the
moment The late Lord Derby, the
"Rupert of Debate wrote down every
word and committed his speeches to his
memory, In one of his letters he says
that all his principal speeches cost him
two sleepless nights-one Ia thinking
what he would say and the other in
lamenting that he might have said it
better. Theirs was equally precise.
on the impulse of the moment.
A gentleman from Washington was
stopping in a Texas hotel recently. As
he was absut to leave he approached
the clerks Office, and, putting his hand
behind him toShis hip pocket for his
purse asked the amount of his bill.
Nothing pard,n replied the clerk, dog
cling behind the desk. Don't draw for
Gods sake!" The lawyer says that the
clerk thought he was drawing a pistol,
and when he tried TO explain that he
was getting his purse the clerk informed
him that men in that section didn't have
room in their hip pockets for anything
but q pop"
The estate of John Nicholson, Of Phil
adelphia, who died in 1900, is just emery
ing from the network of litigation i n
which it has been involved for SO years.
and its representative appeared in the
Orphans Court on Monday to ask for
the distribution Of 81 800 coming from a
settlement of m Of the suits. AT the
same time q claim against this sum was
presented in behalf of another estate,
which is the possessor of SIX notes made
by Mr.. Nicholson In 1885, payable to the
order of Robert Morris. But the judge
held that the notes were outlawed and
disalloWed the claim, and the 81 1000 was
set aside for distribution.
The following is, Jan extract from a re-
Gently published letter written by Abra-
ham Lincoln in 1916 about the present
secretary Of war, then q child: I have
been elected to congress. We have an
VbuCs wy bOAh uuC AVtu VA NAhlCus AlG
Is very much such q child as Bob was at
his a~ge-rather of the longer order. Bob
lie short and low, and / expect always
| will be. The new boy talks very plain
ly and is quite smart enough. I some
times fear he is one of the little rare ripe
sort that are smarter ST about 5 than
ever after. Since / began this letter q
messenger came to tell me Bob was lost,
but by the time ! reached the house his
mother had found him, and I had him
whipped, ssd by 10 very likely he has
run away again.
Mr.. Henry III. Faxon has sent to the
various Sunday-schools Of Quincy, Mass,
without regard to denomination or stu
alton, his check for money to be used
exclusively in holiday gifts for the chill
dren, the sums varying according to the
size of the school, from $25 upward. The
local societies of the town are also re-
membered, and even larger checks are
forwarded to them.
In the treasury the''scrub WON en-
alone get over $13, 900 per year. though,
as there are seventy-fYe of them, it is
easy to see that their salaries are not
munificent. They 60 to the treasury
building IN the afternoon, Just ais the
clerks and other employees are leaving,
and as soon as they are out Of the build
ing set to work to sweep and dust and
scrub the whole building, and are done
their duties within a couple Of hou RI.