The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-09-28
PERSONAL AND L,TeaARv.

-Ex-Senator James N. ecovel, a
New Jersey. after thirty-hve years Of
activity in politics, has turned evan.
gelist, and. under tho direction of
Dwight L. Moody, will hold revival
meetings throughout the United
Statea
Mr.. Walter H. Page has resigned
the editorship of the Forum. Mr.. Page
has been in tho service of this review
for more than seven years, and has had
exclusive editorial control for moro
than four years 1t was he who re.
duced the price of tho Forum to TWEEN.
ty-fve cents.
Capt. Henry Dundy, now sixty.
seven, il one of the most interesting
known as the ''sailor evangelist" and
for twenty years has been doing mis-
sionary work among the lake marines.
He distributes tracts, sells Bibles. and
when a family Is unable to purchase .
Bible he presents it with one.
"A lost set of poems by Goethe.
written when he was . student OF
eighteen at Leipzig in honor of his
fame, Anna Kattarina Schonkopf, and
entitled Annette" has been found by
DR.. Sulphen, OF Welmar, among the
effects of Goethe's friend. Fraulein Won
Gockhansen, TO whom the poet prob
ably presented the manuscript.
Ray York. aged twelve, and Erwin
F. Lake, aged seventeen, are holding
successful revival services in Missouri.
Ray was converted when six years O:
age, and not long afterward united
with the baptist church, Mt once be-
coming q preacher. Erwin is the pas.
tor of the First Baptist church OF
Mount Carmel. ILL.,. and is said to be
the youngest pastor in the world.
&C. II. Huffman, who has written .
book about Spain. says Of the girls OF
Seville, of whom Carmen was one and
over whose charms the world has gone
into ecstasies. that they arc ''black-
eyed, snllen-faced, tin elk -aukled, dowdi-
ly dressed. If I were asked what the
face of the Spanish woman most regu-
1ar1y lacks" says Mr.. huffman, II
should say goodne*7. One rarely sees
a good face in Spain"
There is a story OF Crockett, Of
"Sticlxit Minister fame. to the effect
that when he offered his first volum
to a Scotch firm they return it with u
polite note assuring him that there
was no market for that sort of thing.
The letter was marked mo. 800 b. " n
later years when the same pu blishers
asked him for one of his manuscripts
he politely requested them to refer to
their previous correspondence with
him MAJ l<ed 1896 D."
There are now only three men In
France who took part in the battle OF
Waterloo. The eldest Of these is Vic.
tor Ballot. He was born at Caresey
in 1898 and was caught in the last OF
Napolcon's conscriptions. lie was
taken prisoner at Waterloo after re-
ceiving a saber cut across the helmet
which fellcd him to the ground. His
chief recollection of the great battle is
that the grovvi ing wheat impcded tho
progress of the French army and cav.
airy were sent to ira nipple it down.
"A story as to the thickness Of a
negroes skull, which comes near
touching the record. is told and vouched
for by the Livingston (Ala.) Sun. 1t
says that a negro living near York.
Ala. was shooting rats recently with
a cap and ball pistol, and the cap
snapped and the charge failed to ex-
plode. The negro turned the pistol
upward and looked down the barrel to
see what was the matter, when tho
weapon went off and the bullet struck
him squarely between the eyes. The
bullet fell to the floor, hattened out,
and the negro was only hurt to the ex-
tent of an inconsidcrable flesh wound