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hours. when lie lay dying in the Capitol.
Adams was unconscious, and be could not
know the honor paid him. His death forms
one of the most remarkable "reminiscences OF
the congressional halls. He had been for
wears one of the marked figures OF the house.
The only ex-presiden. who has ever sat upon
the floors of congress, his great age and his
wonderful career made him striking figure.
Always in his seat during both day and night
sessions. be was as active a member as the
youngest OF the representatives, and he had
arisen to present some petitions at the mo-
ment when death struck its first blow. 1t
came in the form OF apoplexy, and at tlrst
John Quincy Adams tried to withstand 1t.
He grasped hold of his desk, but he could not
support himself, and Representative Fisher,
of Ohio, caught him in his arms. The cry
went up: Adams is dyingw and it was even
So He was carried out and laid upon sofa
in the speakers room. As he fell back upon
the cushion he uttered his last words They
were: "This is the last of earth. am content"
By this time both houses had adjourned,
and the news had been telegraphed all over
the Union. Mr.. Adams lay unconscious for
several days and then died. His funeral was
that of president He lay in state in the
Capitol, and his remains were viewed by thou
sands The funeral ceremonies were cele-
brated in the presence of the army and navy
in full uniform, the supreme court in their
gowns, of the diplomats in full dress, OF the
president and his cabinet, OF congress, and, IN
fact, of all of Washington's then great men.
The body was first carried to the Congress
Sional cemetery. the funeral car OF President
Harrison being used, and this was drawn by
six white horses. 1t afterward lay in state in
Faneuil hall in Boston, and was finally IN
tered in the family vaults at Quincy.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
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Col. Stone was born in Tioga county, Pa,
about forty years ago. Heworked on a farm
and attended school during the winter until
the late war broke out, when, though only
about 16 years of age, he enlisted in the army
and went to the front with the Army of the
Potomac. He participated in number OF
battles, and was promoted for bravery on the
field to commissioned citizenship in his COM
pany. At the close of the war he attended a
normal school at Tioga, Pa, after which he
taught school, read law, was admitted to the
bar, and subsequently elected district attor-
ney of his native county, which position he
resigned to go to Pittsburg, where, in 1878,
he hung up his shingle and soon enjoyed a
lucrative practice. He was appointed United
States attorney for the western district of
Pennsylvania by President Hayes, and reap
pointed by President Arthur.
Mr.. Stone is feet 4 inches in height, weighs
24O pounds and is a decided blonde in appear
ance. He is married and has house full of
children.
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posed hollowness was called Symmes' Hole.
Mary Symmes and Hugh Moore had many
children. One of them. a young man, deter
mined to marry beautiful girl of Hamilton,
o. His parents opposed it violently. There
upon young Moore married the girl anyhow,
like a man, and went with her south to
Georgia. There he changed his name, owing
to the bitterness of the family quarrel. He
became CORTLAND Symmes, taking the name
of his mother.
The man whose picture here appears is the
son of this Courtland SynDes, and named
for him. He now brings suit to recover bis
fathers share Of the estates left by Hugh
Moore in Ohio. He is 32 years old, and is
Judge of the court for the district Of Bruins
wick, Ga. He is the youngest judge ever ap-
pointed in the state.
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was member OF WILLIAM A. WHEELER
the upper house of the state legis-
lature, and in 1850 was sent to congress-
He filled no other public position until
1876 In the meantime he entered the bank
ing business in his native place, and for some
time was president of the Ogdensburg and
Rouse's Point Railroad company.
The circumstances attendant and following
the election of 1876, by which, through the
electoral commission, Mr.. Wheeler was made
vice-president, are too well remembered to
need recitation here. Since his retirement
from the high position he was then elevated
to Mr.. Wheeler has lived very quietly at
Malone.
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five or six days; others for an
entire week. Merlatti offered to bet
that he could fast thirty-six days. He won
his bet, he says, without suffering in the
slightest degree. His present undertaking
does not frighten him at ALL He has good
stomach and unlimited courage, and he feels
certain of winning. The only nourishment
that he takes is pure water, a decanter filled
with which is always standing on his mantel-
piece. When he began his fast he occu-
pied modest little apartment in the Rue
Tronchet. Now, however, he is lodged in
more spacious quarters in the Grand hotel,
where he occupies handsomely furnished
apartments on the first floor. 1t is here Mer-
latti receives those who come to see him
physicians, scientists and journalists of all
nationalities
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AN ANNUAL CHESTNUT.

The man stands on the tipsy box.
With all his reason fed,
And glares up at the stoyepipe JOINT
He holds above his head.
His hands are black with polish paste,
His face tatooed with SCOT;
And down his arms and down his back
Sharp pains unnumbered shoot.
Ten thousand ways, ten thousanu Niiiie''
He's tried to make fit;
The more of ways and times ne 5 trieu'
The more he is from it.
His wife and children are outside
All petrifed with fear,
Awaiting the catastrophe
That comes this time OF year.
Then comes burst of adJectves'
and then madman's roar,
And A man and box with earthquake sn n-SAS'
And stoyepipe food the floor
The doctor comes with arnica
and little blister cup;
The timer comes, as usual,
and puts the stovepipe up.
Omaha Sunday bee'
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TIE SCHOOL MARIN.

Oh, School Marin!
Thou who teacheSt the young idea
How TO scoot, and spankest the erstwhe
Festive small boy with hand that taketh the trick.
Who also lammeth him with a hickory switch
And crowneth him by laying the weight
OF ruler upon his shoulders,
Oh!
Thou art daisy.
Thou makest him the national emblem
Red, white and blue
Thou furnisheth the stripes
And he Seeth the stars
Oh, School Iarmi
We couldn't DO without thee,
And we don't want to try!
Thou art lovely and accomplished
Above all women, and if thou art
Not married, it is because thou art
Too smart to be caught that way!
All school marmS are women,
But all women are not school marms,
And, angels pedagogic,
That's where thou hast the bulge Oh thy sisters,
Oh, ScheoI Marin!
Thou mayest not get much pay here below.
But cheap education is a national speciality
And thou wilt get thy reward in heaven:
The only drawback being that thou stayest there
When thou gOest after it. and we
Who remain here below for our reward
Miss you like thunder
School Marin, if there is anything we can do for YOU
Call on us!
Apply early, and avoid the rush
ONCE hours from a. m. to 5 p.m m
We were a schoolboy once ourself,
And can show the marks of it.
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point, and that it was only by frugality thas
they could succeed. He lived very plainly,
lunching invariably on oat cake and
lemonade. and he kept himself free
from doctor bills by early morning
walks and abstemious habits. He left
a nice little inheritance to John Quincy
Adams, and what was better he saw that
John Quincy Adams had salary from the
government during the greater part of his
early life At 10 he made him his pri-
vate secretary as minister to Russia, and in
stilled into his mind that patriotism was not
only noble, but if properly worked it might
be made to pay both in money and i'll fame.
John Quincy Adams learned this lesson we'll,
and it is estimated that he received in salaries
during his long term of public life more than
$500, 600 He kept up at the same time the
abstemious habits of his father, and the ira
ditions of Washington are that he used to so
to bed at o'clock and rise at daybreak; that
he always took bath in the Potomac at sun
rise and long walk after it, Charles Francis
Adams married fortune in addition to the
nice little sum left by John Quincy Adams.
Like his father the most of his boyhood was
spent abroad, and when his father was minis
ter to Russia he took Charles Francis to st.
Petersburg with him. He afterward was
sent to school in London. studied law in
Washington when his father was president,
and had term also in the law Office of Dan
iel Webster at Boston. AT 90 he married the
daughter of a millionaire, and the Adams
family is now perhaps one OF the richest in
the country. 1t owns interests Of many
kinds, has great part of the stock OF some
of the great copper mines of Lake Superior,
and its safes are well filed with railroad
stocks and government bonds.
Intellectual economy made the Adamses
powerful as thinkers. None OF them ever al
lowed a thought, AN opinion or an experience to
20 to waste. John Adams, the first president,
made numerous notes i'll his reading, and he
iotted down the thoughts and doings OF the
day in ] is diary before he went to bed. John
Quincy Adams kept diary throughout hls
whole life. and it was the data contained IN
this that often enabled him to make such
wonderful speeches on the floors OF congress.
The Hon. Harvey Wattcrson, the father OF
Henry Watterson, was in congress WIN John
Quincy Adams during his last years, ard he
tells me that Adams seemed to know every
thing. and to have his knowledge always at
his tongues end. John Quincy Adams put
down the mnutest occurrences IN his diary.
He wrote out the table gossip OF every dinner
he attended. and one of the Bayards-l think
it was Secretary Bayard's grandfather
changed his boarding place because he did
not ike to sit at the same table with John
Quincy Adams and feel that every remark he
made would soon be recorded III black ana
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A VERY BUSY WOMAN,

She pronounced in sounding platitude
Her universal gratitude.
For men of every latitude
From the tropics to the poles;
She felt consanquinity,
A ssterly affinity,
a kind of kith-and- kinity
For all these foreign souls.
For Caledonian Highlanders,
For brutal South Sea Islanders,
For wet, and moist, and dry-landers,
For Gentle, Greek and jew;
For Firms and for Siberians,
For Arabs and Algerians,
For Terra-del-Fuegians,
She was in constant stew.
o, II worried Miss Sophronia,
Lest the men of Patagonia,
Should all die with the pneumonia,
With the phthisic, or chills;
Yes indeed, she worried daily,
Lest a Group or cold should waylay
Some poor Soudanese or Malay,
Dying for the lack of pills.
And she toied on without measure,
And with most unstinted pleasure,
For the good of Central Asia,
And the Pagan people there;
But meantime her little sister,
Died of a neglected blister,
But Sophronia hardly missed her,
For she had no time 10 spare.
s. w. Foss in Tid Bits.
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Cincinnati in its
early days. Miss
Symmes was the
81 IS ster of j o b II
Cleves S Synmes,
who promulgated
the theory that the
earth was hollow,
and in its interior,
from pole to pole,
ran a wide open
space, hundreds OF
miles across, in
which seas washed
continents and ISL
ands smiled with
l TIL c-
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-12-23
THE DRUMMER.

The drummer saw an EZ way
when he SAs to sell;
lie spreads before you an RA
OF samples that XL.
Then talks and talks with NRG
Until you DZ grow, =
And, feeling he's your NAiE,
An IC manner show.
You say YOU don't want NE thing;
No PIT he displays,
Then, getting mad, say UL fling
Him out in KC stays.
He'll SO then to take smile"
And tell HS nut tale =,
And thus la your anger while -
ia PC he makes sale. ~
II YOU should OK place TO hide
With glee he'll CO, too,
And when at EV leaves your side ~
He's sold his goods s-&U.
A drummer cannot CA snub
And will KOS a kick,
Like w doesn't fear club
And 10 UE will stick. /
O. what HEX drummer shows
And what an IN jaw.
He saves IL sense for he knows
That st can the law.
II. c. Dodge in Detroit Free Press.
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MOody's Chicago Church Burned.

CHICAGO AVENUE OR MOODY'S CHURCH.
The friends of Dwight L. Moody, the cele-
brated evangelist, were panied to hear that
the church for which he had collected $780,
100 from all parts of the globe was destroyed.
The fire was caused by an overheated fiue,
and will only cause temporary inconven-
ience to the congregation, as, although the
interior was destroyed, the loss will be but
$4,000, while the insurance is $780, 900 on the
building.
Moody's church was begun in 1878 and fin
ished in two years. The main auditorium had
a seating capacity of 1900, while the lecture
room would accommodate about 900 more.
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HENRY NJ. STANLEY.

The picture hefe given of the African ex-
plorer will present him to our readers in a
new face The portrait of him familiar to
most people is that of worn, thin looking
Young man with white hair and black
mustache. He showed in every feature tie
perls he had passed.
Here, however, we have handsome, well
fed man, who looks as if the world went very
well with him. Let US hope it does. There
is nobody in America who tries to belittle
the services Stanley performed for geog-
raphy. 1t took the savants of Europe to do
that. Stanley has just arrived in his own
country, to make a tour of lecturing this
winter. May he be successful. He is
brave man and true. Besides that, he is
newspaper man, and these deserve success in
their undertakings if anybody does. They
mostly work hard enough. 1t is said Stan
ley's hair turned from white to dark again
after he got rested from his Congo explora-
ton.
A romantic history is Stanley's. An orphan
asylum in the Old World is hardly the place
whence genius add fame would take their
rise, yet thence stffts Stanley. He was born
in Denbigh, Wales, and his original name was
John Rowlands. He had right to change
it if he wanted to, and he did so. Stanley
was the name of New Orleans merchant
for whom the bow worked. When he was IL
years old he left the orphan asylum in Wales
and started outt to shift for himself. He
shipped as cabin boy from Liverpool to New
Orleans, and thuS he first came to America
Few men have had SO adventurous life
During the war lie served both in the Con-
federate and the Union armies. Then he
wandered aWay fO find TivinpStone and in
another journey explored the Congo. Those
are his two greatest exploits. After he found
Livingstone, Queen Victoria presented to the
nameless orphan Welsh boy gold snuff box
His Congo explorations opened up to civilized
man a water way nearly 5000 miles long.
through rich and populous country.
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and was beaten by about 5000 votes,
while President Cleveland was defeated by
nearly 1900 on the same ticket This year
Mr. Adams was again put in nomination and
was successful Governor-elect Adams is but
Sc years old and was born in Iowa county,
Wis. His father was country merchant
and gave his son common school education.
In 1871 young Adams started out to "hoe his
own row." He settled in Colorado and
worked for wages for awhile. Later he en-
gagged in the hardware business, which has
been his business since. In 1872 he married
and has boy II years old. In 1876 Mr..
Adams was elected to the first state legisla-
ture, that being the only office be has held.
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NduPiid, III INC IfnOtO by SteVsuSOnJ
Peioponnessus, was besieged by a large
body of Turks. Gen. Ypsilanti, famous
Greek chieftain, selected a picked body Of
Greek warriors, who made a sortie from the
fortess, during the night, fell like thunder
bolt on the camp OF the Turks, killing hun
dreds of them, and created such panic that
the Turkish pasta raised the siege of Nauplia
on the next day, and that part of Greece was
liberated from the presence of the Turks.
When the news OF this glorious deed of arms
reached new town in Michigan, it created
such an enthusiasm, that a meeting of citi-
zens was called, and it unanimously decided
to call the town "Ypsilanti," /" in honor of the
great general
This matter has just been recalled and
made public through the presentation to the
city of Ypsilanti of an engraving Of the
general, after whom the city was named, by
d. NJ. Bottassi, consul general of Greece, in
New York.
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THE ADAMS FAMILY.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-The death Of Charles
Francis Adams recalls story of his boyhood.
The incident occurred during the visit of La
fayette to this country while John Quincy
Adams was president. A reception was given
at the White House in honor of Lafayette,
and during the evening the great Frenchman
paid particular attention to Charles Francis
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CHAS. FRANCIS ADAMS. -: -:
lated, and Mrs. Adams smilingly urged him to
so on. He then said: "Well, then, remember
ing all this, remembering the temptations Of
ambition to which these boys are liable, beg
you to impress upon their minds that they
must not expect to succeed to the presidential
chair unless they do so at the call of the
people" Mrs. Adams told Lafayette that she
would do as he wished, and she had a hearty
laugh over his anxiety. The truth is that his
French nature and education taught him to
fear usurpation, and l doubt not the possibil-
ity of the Adams family becoming the royal
one Of the United States went through his
mind.
The Adams family has been one OF the
most remarkable of the United States. 1t is
family, judge, which has succeeded more
through hard work, temperance and economy
than through great natural ability. The
first we hear of the Adams family in the
United States is that they came to New Eng
land shortly after the landing of the Pill
grims In 1880 they owned land near Boston
and were plain farmers. The first of these
Adams farmers left an estate of about $500.
His descendants held to the land which he
had settled, and this land forms a part of the
Adams estates to-day. John Adams father
died in 1850, leaving property worth S6,50e.
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NaAO ~
was that that city
bore the name OF
one of the most
illustrious families
Of Greece. The re-
ply of the mayor,
only recently pub
lished, will satisfy
an inquiry tha5
has burdened more
minds than that of
the Grecian min
lister. 1t was: That
during the Greek
revolution in 1922
or 1923, the city of
=. "a
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was in his seventies,
and had been one
of the most impor-
tant citizens of his
adopted state. He
came to Missouri
from the east in
1887 and settled in
Springfield, in the
southwestern por-
ton of the state,
and was elected to
the legislature in
1S42 and to con-
gress in 1914. He
~Aa2 -. -
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-12-23

Y, sixty-six years
ago, and choosing
the law for his pro-
fession, S tu d lie q
was admitted ana
for a number OF
years practiced law
in his native vii
lage. Somewhat
early i'll lie he
turned his atten-
ton to public af-
airs, and was elect
ed a member of
the state assembly,
in 1850, serving'
two years. In
1857 and 1858 he
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economical Travel in England.

People travel economically in England. on
the London and Northwestern railway curing
the six months ending with June, 1880, 20
1861 passengers were carried. VI 'nese
%, ,457, GO Travelled third class, 1,6Sl, ,4ol sec
ond class and 6,592 first class. The same
proportions characterize the travel on all tne
other roads New York Tribune.
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STATUE OF COLUMBUS. him. That poor
satisfaction was stolen from him. He died SO
poor that he couldn't have paid for doctors
prescription to go out of the world respecta-
bly, on. And if he had known beforehand
about Washington city and the United
States congressman, he certainly never would
have discovered America. He would have
minded his business and kept his eye on the
wool carding line.
So far as is known there is not in North
America this day a single monument to Girls.
Our country treats him as everybody else did.
One in st. Louis will be finished by 1892 and
dedicated on the 4O0th anniversary of the dis
covery of San Salvador. Thus st. Louis will
be the first to build statue to the man who
was the greatest crank of his time. The
statue is the outcome of a movement on the
part of ST. Louis citizens. 1t is to be cast at
the great government bronze foundry i'll
Munich, as the Cincinnati fountain was. The
same artist also designed it, Ferdinand Won
Mueller himself 1t is to be Of heroic size,
standing ten feet high. In it Christopher the
Crank is supposed to be standing at the prov
of his vessel, beholding the first sight of land.
The monument wiz be set up in Tower Grove
park, and will have a pedestal designed by
Professor Rohmeis, of Munich.
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JOhn Adams MADE
some money at the
law. He saved dur
ing his whole life,
and his letters e |
his wife Abigail
are full Of SEN
tences remarking
upon the beauties
Of Industry and
household econo-
my. During the
r 70 lutio he
wrote to her often
that their expenses
ought TO be cut
<lou,, rna 1owaSf
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white to rise up
against him in the
/ under
stand that the Adj
anses of today
still keep up their
diaries, and if so,
a publication OF
the whole would
form a very spicy
and inte tin g
story of certain
parts of American
history. John Ad-
q M S as n Q t
thought a valuable
catch about Boston
at the time be was
married. He was
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short. fat, dunpy law student, with
: h;g head. both as to size and pride, at
Tho time he courted his wife, who was the
d.uebter I of a clergyman. His wife's father
o-,,osed the match, and when it was consuni-
.,sa, sd he considered that his daughter had
aur;ad beneath her. Abigail Adams was
fullv @ th. equal o; John in ability. Her let
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Adams s and his
brother. He evil
dently admired the
two boys greatly,
and he told Mrs.
Adams as much,
saying: Madam,
I admire your sons
very much. And
/ remember that
their grandfather
was president of
the United States
and til at th ir
father is now the
president. F" Here
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and John Quincy
Adams, notwith-
standing his great
advantages, Ii ad
little aptitude for
social life. In his
diary he says that
lie knows nothing
about the art OF
conversation, that
he is by nature a
silent animal, and
t h at his dear
mothers constant
lacSou in childhood
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The Thing lie was Most in Need of.

Applicant-Id like a-a-a-pl-place in
the-the-postOffice.
Postmaster-Ah, indeed! Have you any
preference?
Applicant-The-the-i im-immediate de-de-
livery de-department, sir.-Pittsburg Chron-
icle.
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years in congress and for seven terms
was chairman of the ways and means
committee. He left congress in 1862
to enter the Union army as colonel of
Missouri regiment which was employed in the
home guard service. In 1876 he was elected
governor of Missouri as Democrat and
served four years. He was governor during
the big strike of 1877.