Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-05
PsRsoNAL ANp tMPERsoNAl-

Prof. Charles Rollins Keyes. OF
Iowa. has been elected state geoiogit
of Missouri He has been connected
for three years with the United States
geological survey.
1t wounds the susceptible semi
bilities of Congressman William
Everett to be called professor and
certain public men in Washington who
sought to win his good graees by adj
dressing him with that title speedily
discovered their blunder.
-Ex-Secretary of the Interior Colum-
bus Delano, OF Ohio, whs was first
elected to congress in 1874, the year In
which Gov Mckinley was born. is now
nearly So years old. but he is still able
to ride a horse for exercise on his farm
near Mt. Vernon, Ohio, andsis as vig0r-
GUS mentally as most men of fifty
Gen. Dabuey a. ATaury tells in his
''recoilections of Virginian'' OF an old
lady in Fredericksburg who was 70
duced TO taking in boarders in order to
make both ends meet On one occasion
of peculiar stress, the larder was 50
empty that the good lady took to her
bed and summoned her servant Nancy
she said. there's nothing in the. houss
for my boarders to eat except mlIsh-
tians. they will accept it in resignation
and thankfulneSs. And if they are nos
Christians, it is deal too good for them"
Mrs Martha Moore Avery, the 50
cialist leader from Boston, prides her
self on her sympathetic ways with the
commonest people. She was riding the
other day in Philadelphia car, when
a ragged newsboy boarded the car
Mrs Avery put on an attractive smile,
and the boy hurried to the end OF
the car and flashed his papers on her
mo, thank you, little boy" said the
lady. Il don't wish for paper, but I
am ever so much Obliged to You for
coming in here The boy walked re-
proachfully away, and, as he left the
car, he remarked to the conductor
Say, it's a wonder de woman didn't
ask me if me wife was WELL
-Schumann was emotional to a pain
full degree. As a child he was once
known to rise from his bed in a dream,
go to the piano and play, weeping Bit
terly the whole time. His musical COM
positions give evidence OF his over
strung nerves. He was made unhappy
all his life by a self-induced misfor-
tune. Anxious to attain the highest
possible technical skill. he invented
third finger of the right hand, with
the result that the tendons were over
strained, and his hand was ruined for
piano work. This accident caused him
to ta-n his attention to composition,
and led 80 his wonderful piano produc-
tons
At one period of his life Horace
Greeley was close student of FOurser-
ism, many of the phases and phrases OK
which were hard to understand The
operation of the ''phalanstery" was OBJ
scure to him, and so also were the
universal analogies.'' and the law un-
der which attractions are proportional
to destinies,'' and the method by which
the ''series distribute the harmonies-"
One day in the Tribune office, while
trying to comprehend the ratiocination
of Fourier. he got puzzled beyond en-
durance; he bent over the book upon
which he gazed; he rose from his seat;
he moved about uneasily; he talked
angri1y to one of his fellow laborerss
he was out of temper with Fourier and
his theory and himself. At last he
flung down the book, and piPed out his
wrath in the highest key of his peculiar
voice, exclaiming: "Confound the
thingI Here I've been reading it for
hours, and yet 1 don't know, and can't
tell, whether it is the series that dis
tribute the harmonies OF the harmoniesa
that distribute the seriesI' Mr.. Greeley
drank a glass of water and left his
office, to which he returned in a half
hour and sat down to write an editorial
upon the tariff