The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-11-23

- 49, s4me ume. Again, when
sne Question = : knotty one, there isno an
x~er' ana thsn the preacher says: II
soouent %; You know all the easy ques.
uoos. but none Of the hard ones." II some
one ventures reply and It does not har-
NOME with TIE preachers idea Of the an
swer. ne stops the speaker abruptly. "You
~ wrong. Mr; you are looking at the
qussuon from . secular standpoint "No.
madam, would not believe that for the
World" And then he goes on to throw
nGns upon the matter while the class
Listens win eager interest At the
exparsuon Ct two hours he stops, and
never doso he end in tho same way.
sometimes Il % Ike this: Better 20 home
now. Wen sing . hymn, and you take
.n's question home and think about It. I'd
me 20 stay hers all night and talk with
you put can't Study Il for yourselves
ana come prepared next Tuesday night to
40 better" Sometimes it Is story. and
snen the great audience arises, sings the
ooxoiogys the benediction b pronounced
ana the people 80 home. Nowhere in the
world could such class Of Bible students
exist IS in Brooklyn, and may say that It
u unique even In the City Of Churches.
THE CHILDREN OF PRECEDENT ARTHUR
Quite often see . dashing young woman
on Filth avenue. whose name at one time
was household word.
Who does not remember Nellie Arthur?
When General Arthur was in the White
House he often had as his companions his
son and daughter. Allan and Nellie. The
former Is sevsral years older than Nellie,
and he looked upon her as quite child.
Whoever attended the receptions given
by President Arthur and his sister, Mrs.
McElrey, ct the White House, will doubt
less remember the two young people
who helped to enliven and make merry
the large house Of the nations chief execu-
tive. Nellie was : vivacious little blonde
with long tresses and dreamy blue eyes.
Allan Was ssdats and not given to merri-
ment.as mush Is his younger sister.
Since General Arthur's death both have
passed out of the focus Of public attention.
Those who visit the White House now
and remember the happy days of Nellie
and Allan there. perhaps wonder where
they vanished to, and what they are
doing in this busy, forgetful world.
Allan has just arrived at manhood's
years and his sister Is still IN her teens,
attending the fashionable school at Great
Barrington. in Massachusetts. There she
studies and prepares herself for the social
world which she will enter after leaving
school Her faithful aunt. Mrs. McElroy.
resides in Albany and tenderly looks after
her young niece. When Miss Nellie has =
vacation she goes to her aunt's house. and
also spends few days in the city.
How does the once gay pet OF the White
House look now? Have her eyes lost
their dreamy beauty. and has her laugh
the same merry ringf
Her friends think she is more beautiful
than ever. She has grown to be . young
woman in size and thought, and her
dresses are much longer than when she
lived ct the White House. She now fulfls
Gautier's incompatible description OF the
romantic, willowy young lady:
Whose form in motion poems speak.
Whose eyes are stars that lovers seek
whose hair in flowing tresses line.
The picture makes maid divinei
But Miss NeiIie's hair does not fow. be-
cause che wears IL carefully braided, droop-
ing over her well-rounded shouidera 1t
VII not b. long before she graduates, and
then she will be known a. Miss Arthur.
Mrs. McElroy will probably 60 to Europe
with her after she graduates, so the Young
lady can have the advantage of foreign
travel Among her schoolmates she is
quite favorite, and the young men who
chance to meet her instantly admire her.
The brother, Allan, Is fully six feet high
and we'll built In time he will make .
much stouter man than his father.
Young Arthur has . rowing disposition
and d now travelling in Europe with COM
panion. When last heard OF he was in
Egypt ct the Pyramids. He went abroad
nearly two years ago aud has evinced no
disposition to return.
GRAVES or THE DEPARTED GREAT.
Few people know that .om Hyer, the
world famed pugilist, is buried in Green
wood cemetery-perhaps the most beauti-
full burial place in the world. Visitors often
seem astonished when walking leisurely
along they espy the small monument
erected to his memory. They look at it with
more than eager curiosity and ask all sorts
of questions about it. The old gardener.
who led me to the spot few days ago.
told az that there were very few per-
sons who knew that Hyer was
buried in Greenwood. and only on
rare occasions is there flower placed upon
his tomb. do not remember whether he
left family or not, but l have the gar
dener's word for it that no loving hand
ever places flowers on his last resting place
or no one seems to take the slightest inter-
est in whether the grave is well kept or not.
Not far from Hyer's tomb is the last
resting place of the notorious Bill Poole, At
whose funeral there was following larger
than any Greenwood has ever seen. But
where are all those trends now? The
grave il Is sadly neglected as that Of Hyer.
Another tomb, where rests the remains
Of the greatest political boss New York has
ever seen, is also neglected. 1t is the grave
of Bill Tweed. II is severely simple in de-
sign and is seldom or never visited by
friend or foe.
The grave of another famous person
that has almost passed into decay Is Lola
Montez. The headstone reads: SACRED
to the Memory OF Eliza Gilbert" Not one
person in 10000 who passes the tomb
knows that behind that name there is
history as dark and deep AMI tragic as was
ever enacted in real or romantic lie.
There are no flowers there, only tangle OF
veeds. FOSTER CoATEs.
Prosperous Colonel Dan Lamont.
New York World.
Colonel Dan" is good deal OF man
these DAYS. His influence is more eagerly
sought than that OF any other man in
wen straat of his wears and it NAV be