Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-12-07
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL.

There Is legend about Chicago OF
\ man who smoked cheap cigars. wax
inc rich he bought finer brand. Then
be rot n tobacco heart. Returning to)
The humber variety bis heart resumed!
No ordinary jogging gait. There Is no 2,
moral attsahsd TO this story anu W. ~
not vouched for. ~
--McGarvin, q C fcrnia fisherman
who lives at Aim altos bay, Is nm OK.
per. shark catctf. lie fishes for them
bv means of Stout lines fastened 70
stakes on shore. Recently no csughs
eighty In one day. They are sold Tor
the oil In them. and abe Chinese con-
slider thcr fms quito o delicsey.
Mrs. Eunice Russ Davis, the only
surviving member of the Womsn's
hp.i.siavery board, OF Boston, and the
oldest fentals nbclitionist In the unit-
ed States, observed her ninety-hftn
birthday anniversary ut her home In
Dedham recently. Her father was
white man and her mother . iuil-
blooded Narragansett Indian.
"A life OF Christ Is about to he pub
lished, with colored photographs after
James Tissots pictures, by NM. Mames
the Catholic publishers OF Tours the
Grst twenty impressions OF which VII.
be sold for 81, 900 copy and the rest OK
the 1000 copies at $500 apiecs. The ad-
vertisement, with one specimen picture
and some sketches in black and whites
cost ST.
Mr.. David Plunkett, member OK
Dublin university, who has just been
raised to the peerage, though not .
wealthy man, has probably more
money standing In his name than any
single private citizen In the world. he
Is trustee for many rich people, In
Guiding the Guinesses, and generally
holds In that capacity from $3.50, ooo'ooo
TO 5000 900, OC0 worth Of securities.
Lorna Doonc bids fair to be Inn
mortal In the country OF the Doones,"
for her name Is seer everywhere
throughout Exmoor. Coaches have
been named for her and inns have her,
counterfeit presentiment on their sign
boards. Many Of the places mentioned
In Mr.. Blackmore's delightful book
are plncarded for the benefit OF the
tourist. and the charming volums serves
rs guide-book to the region.
How completely the Boulanger
cult has decayed in France Is indicated
by the scant observance OF the fourth
anniversary, which occurred recently
of the burial OF the general. Only q
single friend visited the cemetery near
BRUSSELS where he Is buried, and only
three gifts OF flowers came. Roche.
fort, Boulauger's ardent supporter, APP
pears TO have given up his pious pill
grimnge to the grave, for he did not 90
there this year.
Moses may easily have written the
Pentateuch and the Israelites OF his
dav have read and understood 1t, Prof.
Sayce told the recent church congress-
Mt Norwich, for the age Of the Exodus
was rs literary Us that Of the Renais.
sance in Europe, Babylonian cities had
libraries then, some Of them six thou-
sand wears old, and when Abraham
was born q Chaldee poet was ending q
long period OF verse by writing poem
In twelve books.
The Fisherman's institute. OF
Gloucester, a house Of refuge and on
religious help for seafaring men, has q
notable character rs its chaplain. He
is n Scandinavian, q converted sailor.'
and although he is graduate OF NO
college, his power over the weak and
SHINING, his helpfulness to the suffer-
ing, his self-denial in order that no
may aid others, are such that, rs one
who knows him we'll has said, hc has
come to represent the Christ ideal TO
his peoplc. At his Bethel he and his
family are slowed away in the basement
while the large upper chambers are
kept us reading room for fishermen;
and us n hall where services are held
on Sundays, and meetings and enter
tainments during the week.