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AUTHORIZED COLLECTORS.

The following named are the only su-
thcrized collectors OF the LIGHT:
w. Il. SCHUMACHER,
II. G. SCHUMACHER,
FRED SMALL.
DAN HATToN,
Subscribers are requested not 10 pay
their subscription without taking re-
ceipt. B'JoHNsoN, Mgr.
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international Prison Congress.

PARIS, June 29.-The Interna-
tionsl Penitentiary Congress as
semble, in this city this week be.
ginning tomorrow. Many Ameri-
can delegates will be present who
will represent the different prison
organizations Of that country.
Prison reform will be thoroughly
discussed.
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Womsn to Race ON Wheels.

NEWARK, N. j., June pa BIZ
cycle race for women is ANNOUNCED
to take place at Caledonian Park,
this city, today under the auspices
OF the Institute Athletic club.
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Lawyer And Collective. Agency
CAMPBELL. A R, 125 West Commerce Street
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can reaoafy reaIrze ner Eaue0 UDWos
anee- But 1t Is different with - huo.
band: Imagine that were Bea Hollor
day living now, old and poor, It would
be difficult to appreciate his former
greatness
One OF the old time amuserents IN
Weston was TO twit Hoiladay about
something that was disagreeablet to him.
and hear him swear He w2s An artist
in that line. and never had a rival. AL
though a certain doctor often sttempe.
ed TO equal him. But the doctor wa.
simply swept off his feet BY the waves
of blasphemy Holiday dashed at him
In the days of his prosperity, with
counts and barons coming 10 see hi,
daughters, Holladay no doubt tried To-
OMIT his swearing, and couldn't do il
as is the experience Of most men. but
have a notion that If Holiday wers
living now, old and poor, he woula
revive his swearing. and his disappoint-
ments and reverseS would add much to
his old vocabulary, rich as II was said
to have been.
But were Ann Calvert, his wife. stir
living, | also have notion that she
would be as elegant as she was wheE
the mistress at White Plains, and tho
p2mpered favorite OF royalty abroad.
When r woman has once been some
thing" she does not give il up a. easily
as a man E. w. HowK.
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also operated ashoteI for tine, but ne
{ was natural born aristocrat, and a
natural born speculator, and soon en-
gagged in greater pursuits. There are
certain peculiarities in Weston streets
and lots to this day for which Ben
Holladay's scheming is responsible.
he married his first wife in Weston,
Miss Ann Calvert, daughter of Smith
calvert, and was compelled to run
away with her. Miss Calvert was only
school girl, fifteen or sixteen years
Old, and one day on her way home
from school, Ben Holiday met her,
and proposed that they get married.
lie was irresistible in love. as in every
thing else. so the girl got up behind
him on the horse he rode, and they
went over to the squire's, and were
married. During the ceremony, Miss,
calvert wore the apron she had worn
| IT school
| He built a beautiful home on sixty
| acre tract two miles out of Weston!
The place cost S36, 200, but the man
who lives there now got it for 1000,
1t has halls that you could drive
buggy through, and has white marble
mantels, but it is a small affair CONF
pared to the home to which Ben Holla-
day afterwards took his wife at White
Plains, New York. Whitelaw Reid,
late candidate for vice president on
the Republican ticket, lives in the
White Plains house now, and the pri-
vate chapel where the Reid family wor
ship was built by the Weston girl.
Ben Holiday had four children : two
girls and two boys. The girls attracted
the attention usually bestowed upon
the daughters of rich men, and one of
them married count, and the other
baron. Both left their worthless hus-
bands, and their father took care of
them. One of the daughters died on
Union Pacific train twelve years ago;
every member of the family is now
dead, including Holidays second wife,
who was governess to Ann Calvert's
children. Holiday lived awhile in
Washington, where he went to
prosecute claim against the govern
ment for depredations committed byi
Indians. He refused a settlement of
100000 and died a poor man in
Oregon, where it is said his brother
Joe did not treat him right. Holla-
days total claim against the govern
ment was 100000. In the original
papers the name of John J. Ingalls,
appears as notary public.
The man who lives in Holidays |
Weston house now was formerly an
express messenger; at this writing he |
is justice of the peace. His name is
Joe Evans, called ''Ivvans' by his |
Joe Evans was slow, but |
he was sure. 1t is the best way. /
Chas. A. Perry, who lived in the |
Weston house after Holiday, is at
present wretched old man living inJ
st. Joe, where he peddles vegetables !,
from basket. In the boom days of
Weston, Perry wasa government con-
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IT is MOST ANCIENT
A Little History With Reference
to Weston, Mo.
Whore the Famous Zen Holiday Made
Els Start-A Town That Had 5000
People ia 1850, and Has Only
1,o0e In 1898.
GCOPYRIGHT.l

The town Of Weston, Missouri, 8 few
miles above Fort Leavenworth, on tn,
ether side of the river, is the oldes
settlement in this section of the west
In 1850, four years before Kansa.
territory was opened for settlement
Weston had five or six thousand peo
pie, several miles of paved and guttered
streets, and gas works. Weston was
the largest town in Missouri, outside
of st. Louis, up TO 1855: as late as l845,
the present city of st. Joseph was
known as Robidoux's Landing. The
census of 1890 gave Weston a popala-
ton OF 1,127; it has less than that
number OF people now.
The "Platte Purchase" was ceded to
Missouri in 1885, and consisted o: wha.
IS now known as Platte, buchanan,
Andrew, Holt, Nodaway and Atchison
counties These counties lie in the
northwest corner of the state, extend
ing from Iowa 70 Kansas City, and
bounded on the west by the Missouri
river. Originally the west line of Mis-
souri, followed the west lines of Clay,
Clinton, DeKalb, Gentry and Worth
counties: the platte Purchase" IS
al that part of Missouri lying be-
tween the counties named and the
Missouri river. On the map, the
"Platte Purchase resem bles 4 ham
IN shape. In 1897 the Sac and
Fox Indians Lest the purchase, and i:
was opened 10 settlement. The tract
was called the platte Purchase" be-
cause the Platte river runs through its
entire length.
Weston was practically the first set.
Element in the platte Purchase and
the man who laid out the town was a
private soldier of the same name. who
was discharged from the army at Fort
llcavenworth about the time the coun-
try was opened. Fort LeaveDworth
was laid out in 1897, by Colonel Henry
Leavenworth, who in that year COM
Inanded an expedition against the In
dams of the west. His command pulled
q number of Mackinaw boats up the
river by hand, and Sergeant Tom Ellis,
who ''blazed' the trees to mark the
Original site of Fort Leavenworth. COM
1nitted, sricidein later years in Weston,
by hanging. The older settlers Of
Weston remember Sergeant Tom Ellis
well, and quote him as saying that
Colonel Leavenworth himself suggested /
that the new military post be given his /
name. Colonel Leavenworth was after /
wards breveted brigadier general.
A soldier named Insepb Mocra ,,re-
empted the land on which Weston was /
built, In 1897, but his comrade, Tom
Weston, traded for the TOWNSHIP, and |
gave 1t his name Thea. Jordan, who
is still living in Illinois, surveyed the
townsite.
John S. Woods, known as Uncle
John" arrived at Weston in the spring
of 1888, with his fathers family
Woods is now rs years old, and claims
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tONGFELLOwS FIRST POETRY.
ne was More Than Thirty When His firsf
Volume Waa Publtahed.

he was More Than Thirty When His Yirss
Volume Was fabiished.
Toward the end of 1895 he took IN
his abode n Cambridge, where he was
to reside for the rest of his lifc-fcr
forty-tve years He was made 10 feel
at home in the society OF the scholars
who clustered about Harvard, then al.
most the sole center of culture in the
country. His work for the college was
not so sxacting that he chad no, time
poetry returned; yet the next book ha
published was the prose Hyperion"
which appeared III 1899. and which,
though 1t has little plot or action. NAV
be called romance The youthful
and poetic hero, a passionate pilgrim
IN Europe, was more or less n refiec.
ton of Longfellow himself
A few months later. in the same
year, he published his first volume OF
poems-"Voices OF the Night"-in
which he reprinted certain of his EARL.
er verses, most of them written while
he was at Bowdoin. Some of these
boyish verses show the influence OF
Bryant and others reveal 10 US that
the young poet had not yet looked at
life for himself, but still saw il through
the stained glass windows of tradition.
The same volume contained also soma
more recent poems: The Beleaguered
City," and the Psalm of Lifer-per.
haps the first of his poems TO win q
swift and abiding popularity. These
lyrics testified that Longfellow was be-
ginning TO have q style of his own. As
Hawthorne wrote to him. Nothing
equal to them was ever written In this
world-this western world, / mean"
Certainly no American author had
yet written any poem of the kind 81
good as the best of those in Longfellow's
volume of Ballads" printed two
years later. Better than any other
American poet Longfellow had mas
tered the difficulties of the story in
song; and he knew how to combine tho !
swiftness and the picturesqueness tho
ballad requires. His ballads have
more of the old-time magic, more OF
the early simplicity than those OF any
other modern English author Of its
kind, there is nothing better IN thu
language than THE Skeleton in Ar
NOR" with its splendid lyric swing,
and THE Village Blacksmith" and
The Wreck of the Hesperus' are al,
most as good In their humber sphere.
Excelsior" in the same volume. voices
the nobler aspirations Of youth, and
has been taken &c heart by thousands
of boys and girls-Prof Brander Mat.
thews, IN st. Nicholas.
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cate Of cremation. a few years ago
he built crematory, and presented ii
! to his native town, and when he dies.
| his body win be cremated. Mr.. Os-
/ borne spends portion of his time at
! AtchiSon, where two of MS daughters
live.
Weston rallied in 1861. and secured
an extension of the railroad, which
had in the meantime been built to
Atchison, but it was too late. It's rail
road was extended on to Kansas City,
and Weston has never been able to
get another one. During the three or
four years the railroad ended at Wes-
ton, line of boats ran between ,Wes-
ton and Kansas City.
On the 1st of July, 1861, daily stages
began running from Atchison to Fol-
som, California, the eastern end of the
central Pacific: the freighters soon
followed, and Weston had little left
except recollection of its former great
ness. This line of daily stages was
tablished as a result of the Pony eX-,
press, which carried mail from the
Missouri river to Folsom, California,
IN nine days. The object of the Pony,
express was to establish the fact that
there was safe and feasible route for
carrying the United States mails over
what was known as the northern trail.
The Pony express lasted little over a
year, and was Immediately followed
by the overland stages, which were
operated by a company headed by VIM.
ii. Russell, who started the Pony ex-
press. Russell was a member of the
big freighting firm of Russell, Majors
81 Waddell, which got into difficulty in
1862, and Ben Holiday took the line,
having loaned the company lot Of
money.
The Majors mentioned above has
lately been prominent because of his
wife and daughter applying for adrnis-.
sion to the poor house at Kansas City.
Majors is now living in California. old,
feeble and poor, but he still has enough
energy left to keep up vigorous quar-
rel with his family. At one time he
was immensely wealthy, and his family
lived abroad.
Ben Holiday was a Weston man.
and lived there ten or twelve wears.
Tie came west in 1888, and located first
at independence, No. 4 few wears
later he appeared at Weston, and was
the principal citizen of the town until |
1850, when he went west again, and |
only appeared at Weston occasionally |
10 visit his family.
Ben Holiday became the most prom
nent figure in the west, and was known
everywhere. He ran stages from the |
Missouri river to Folsom, California.
and to Helena, Montana. and his name !
was on every tongue. Mark Twain. in
'InnocentS Abroad tells of an i'm.
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TO be ths Oldest inhabitant The onlv
man who disputes his claim is w. G.
Noble, or Boss Noble, who saws that
he came before Woods did. Woods
contends that he came IN the spring of
1888, while Noble came the following
fall But the distinction of being the
Oldest inhabitan certainly lies between
these two: they have no rivals for the
honor. Noble is - years old. and =
stouter man than Woods, who is two
years younger.
Woods says that when he reached
Weston in May. 1888. he found tbree
log cabins on the townsite. but the
town improved rapidly. and there ara
several citizens still living who landed
there in 1910; among them the RaiIer
bros, bankers, who have been there
continuously ever since. One of them
was married few months ago. at the
age OF a wears.
Up to 1870, the only steamboat that
ran above Weston was the .Clanne,. -
which went up to the head waters .,
the river IN the spring, and returned
in the fan, loaded with furs. Early in
the tftIes, there were I26 sidewheel
steamboats, on the Missouri river. and
probably all of them ran above Weston
James O'Neal, an old river CAPTAIN now
living IN St Louis. is authority for this
statement.
Weston began declining in 1854. dnr.
Ing the Kansas excitement. Previous
u that time it had been 4 great ont.
fitting point for the west. In ;ba
memorable excitement following Tho
opening Of Kansas, Weston was To-,
sight OF. and Leavenworth began -
attract attention. About this time
the first railroad was projected. and
was chartered to run from Hannibal
or the Mississippi, TO Weston. on the
Missouri But some Of the citizens .,
Weston saw that st. Joe was mora
desirable location for a town. ana wba,
the railroad was finally completed. in
iS59- il ran Into 81 Tose9b ar5 ~
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! tractor, and Joe Evans worked for him.
Evans was once on the plains six
months in Perry's service, and during
that time delivered corn to government
posts amounting in value to 81, 9l2, 900.
The profit to Perry on this transaction
was a quarter of a million dollars
Still, he is peddling vegetables from a
basket, and Joe Evans, his former
clerk, lives in his house
Theodore F. Warner was another
prominent citizen of Weston who made
great deal OF money in the early
days. He died very poor in Kansas
City. In the good old days of the
town, there were five enormous hemp
and tobacco warehouses in Weston.
These were so crowded with teams un-
loading that many hemp and tobacco
haulers We're compelled to remain in
line over night to get a chance to I'M
load the next morning. Hemp was
worth $500 ton then, and a good acre
would produce two tons. Hemp has
disappeared, however, like the ware
houses; you never see it around Wes-
ton now. 1t was no uncommon sight
in the old days to see ten steamboats,
lying at Weston, loading hemp and to-
bacco, and unloading merchandise.
According to the people of Weston,
Warner backed Holiday in all his
earlier enterprises. During the Cali
fornia emigration in 1s49, Warner out
fitted Holiday with eight mule teams,
and loaded the wagons with merchan-
disc Holiday had no money. but was
considered shrewd, and took the train
to Salt Lake, as Warmers partner,
Holiday sold the goods at an enor-
nous profit, and invested the proceeds
in cattle at from 81 to Sc head, which
he drove to San Francisco, and sold at
500 head. He also bought -four of
the Mormons. and sold it to the gov
eminent at the various military posts
in the west Holiday made great
profit, without doubt, but none of it
came back to Weston, and Warner
finally went west to see about IT,
He returned as poor as he went: in
fact. poorer. for he had raised money
from Holiday by giving a mortgage
on his homestead. Warmers home was
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sofa TO satisfy the noiiaoay

Afterwards sofa TO satisfy the Holiday
mortgage.
81 know it to be fact" John Woods
said to the writer, TO-, cried the sale
myself"
Warner lost $4,000 in one year in
Weston, buying hemp and tobacco, and
it was about this time that he gave
Holiday the mortgage on mis- home.
Weston people generally speak in
the highest terms of Warner, but few
of them speak well of Holiday. The
story of Holiday selling Warmers
home is admitted, but some of the
more conservative say that Holiday
was himself in tight circumstances.
and could not avoid doing what he did.
The conservatives further say that
Warner finally recovered from Holla-
day the money he actually put into the
| mule train, although he never received
eny Of the profits, which were enor.
nous. II is also stated that while
Warner & Holiday sold great quanti-
ties OF beef cattle to the government
ut Fort Leavenworth, Holiday man.
aged the business in such way that
warner, who Pit up the capital, never
received any of the profits. One of
holladay's very first ventures in Yves
ton was buying a lot of pack horses
driven in from the plains by an army
officer.
Citizens of Weston tell of famous
fight between Ben Holiday and Geo.
Nv. Dye. Dye had whipped Ben's broth
er Joe, and Ben took it up. The men
were very evenly matched until Dye
got Holidays thumb in his mouth,
when the latter .'bellered like calf"
as Uncle John Woods expressed it.
This fight occurred in 1850, and made
Ben Holiday so mad that he LETT the
town for good.
Ten or twelve years later. Holiday
was the biggest man in the west, and
at that time the west was attracting
great deal of attention much more
than at present. He had valet, and
IN manicuring his employer, possibly
the valet wondered where that thumb
was manned: possibly Ben Holiday,
made up a story, and explained that it
was chewed up in bear fight out west.
There was great deal of fighting in
Weston in the early days: fist fighting,
as rule, as knives and pistols were
frowned upon. 1t was no uncommon
thing in the flush times TO see five or
Six fist fights in progress at the same
time: two men would become engaged,
and their friends would take it up.
Fist fighting is very rare now, but it
was very common in the early days OF
Weston. When citizen had griev-
ance against man, he took it out OF
his hide at the first opportunity, pro-
viding he was able. There We're a
humber of noted scrappers in the town;
Uncle John Woods himself was some |
what of a dead game sport when in his |
prime, and until few weeks ago, his |
son was city marshal. The city mar
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plous youth named Jack. who was
listening to an enthusiastic pilgrim in
the Holy Land tell about Moses guild
ing the children OF Israel three hundred
miles in forty years.
Forty years :" Jack said. contempt
uously. Three hundred miles, Bah
Ben Holiday would have fetched them
through in thirty-six hours"
Slade. the outlaw who killed TWENTY
SIX men. was division agent for the
overland stage company. and the west
ern literature Of that time was full of
the name of Ben Holiday. Mark
Twain. &.rtemus Ward. Horace Greeley.
Albert d. Richardson and Governor
Bross were among his passengers. and
they all wrote about him.
Ben Holladay was both rich and
great. but he began life in Kentucky
n farm hand working with negroes
When he first appeared at Weston he
built 4 two-Storv log house. with \
saloon on the lower floor. and a gam
olng room above. He had what Tho
Weston people call Guinea pirrer.,
for b2rkeeper. and the drinks yvera
sold over q linn slab for bar. Wb;sl,v
was sold in those days fo- twenty cents
. gallon by the barrel, but Ben Holla-
nay retailed It fo- twenty-five cents a
oFlnk, and very naturally made money.
'u' IN the yard there was Z stump and
ID Ga axe, where patrons OF his bar
s'll' half dollar silver pieces in two. as
f~aF'er dollar pieces We're scarce.
ne loaned some Of She money thus
armed 10 a druggist. and was anallv
'o'ii -'ea.ea 10 take the drug store lie
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WILL THE COMING MAN sLEgP7

| A Process of Evolution May Develop M~p
Who Can Work Twenty-four Hours q
Day.
An assertion by n prominent medical
authority that the early rising theory
!; Is mistake and that the vital forces
do not come fully into play until midi
day is refuted by another writer, who
saws that he would like 20 acquie,ce,
but can not conscientiously do so i'm
the light Of scientific evidence 10 tho
contrary.
Little can be deduced from the hab-
its of the lower animals, be thinks, aa
these are TO be judged wholly accord
ing to circumstances The question Of
sleep should be considered W view Of
the necessities OF civilized life. All
animals, human and otherwise, having
sight, sleep primarily because Of ths
alternate recurrence otlight and dark.
ness
Primitive man, having 10 artificial
light, slept from nightfall 20 daybreak,
for the simple reason that there was
nothing else for him 20 DO. With each
advance in the quality OF lights, how
ever, the human race has exhibited a
tendency 10 stay awake longer and IN
do more work at night. Future devel-
opments. among which Il the posslbil-
ity o. light without heat, may eonceiv-
ably make man independent OF the
light Of day for The carrying On OF bus-
mess
IN that case the fttest man will b.
he who can keep awake the Longest
and get through the most work IN tho
twenty-four hours Even now. al the
hours Of the night and day being svsil-
able for work. the man who prefers
long sleep Is at 1issd vantage.
IL the Darvinisn theory be correct
be Will die out and be replaced By =
more active type with an organization
adapted % the new conditions The
writer considers The anCGEs q time
spen: in sleep By me average ra&a
nothing short Of dreadful
Twenty-avs years e lie are often
thus wasted. he says. a. tec4cE~ Of the
CO night ard DAY. he con-
,!Edes that though . VIII take many
generations for this change 20 b~ .s-
Tscted. the races % men VII tend .,
0se their fsczl;T for slssy. and ,ha..
with night ,zrueA lnt0 day. tasre u no
reason Why they shozIt
to-
II - only . snail portion - ID. rsrx
"a systez That slesP~ TIE bodily
emotions 20 O. Continually. Why uos
ne Intellectual functions a. re!I7 "a
AZ - y. sun
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The aa1ieha Daily Eagle ghusday ornimg aau So 1895

EnowIi as the hannibal & st. Joseph.
This resulted in several of the hest
citizens of Weston removing to st. Joe.
notably the Bnrnes brothers, and Yves.
ton was left in bad shape, with Atchi>
pom and st. Joseph above, and Leaven-
worth and Kansas City below. To this
day old citizens of Weston tell how
they were sold out in the railroad deal;
how their member OF the legislature
traded them off for two places IN the
land Office at Savannah. They also
abuse certain citizens OF 1869, who
were Indifferent to the railroad, fear
ing the locomotives would scare the
game away, and give their negroes a
rapid means of running away.
VIM. Osborne, who built the Hanni-
bal q st. Joseph road, is still living, at
Naterville, New York. at the age Of
81. lie is somewhat noted as an advo-