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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17
FAME WON BY ACCIDENT.
Bastien Lepage's First Successful Picture
Was an Advertisement.

Bastien Lepage's First Successful Picture
Was an Advertisement.
The great French painter, Bastien
Lepage, was pursued by unmerciful dis
aster through his youth in his efforts to
study art. His mother worked in the
fields to keep that sickly boy at school.
At 10 he went to Paris alone, starved
for seven years, painted without success.
but still painted flo had just finished
q picture to send to tho salon when Paris
was besieged, and he rushed with his
comrades to the trenches.
On tho first day she'll fell into his
studio and destroyed his picture, and
another shell fell at his feet, wounding
him. He was carried home and lay i'll
and idle for two years. Then he re.
turned to Paris, and, reduced to abso-
Lutte want, painted cheap fans for liv-
ing. One day manufacturer of some
patent medicine ordered picture from
him to illustrate its virtues. Lepage
who was sincere, gave his best work to
the advertisement. He painted land
scape In the April sunlight. The leaves
of tender green quivered in the breeze;
group of beautiful girls gathered
around fountain from which the elixir
of youth sprang in bubbling stream.
Lepage believed there was real merit in
1t.
'Let me offer it at the salon." he
asked his patron.
The manufacturer was delighted.
"But first paint rainbow arohing over
tho fountain. he said, with the name
of my medicine upon it" Lepage re-
fused. "Then will not pay you sou
for the pictured" The price of this pic
ture meant bread for months, and the
painter had long needed bread. The
chance Of admission to the salon was
small. He hesitated. Then he silenced
his hunger and carried the canvas to
the salon. 1t was admitted. Its great
success insured Lepage place in public
recognition and his later work place
among the greatest of living artists. -
Current Literature.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17

"This won't do" said the general
passenger agent in annoyed tones to the
map maker. II want Chicago moved
down here half an inch. SO as to come
on our direct route to New York. Then
take Buffalo and put 1t little farther
from the lake.
you've got Detroit and New York
on different latitudes, and the impress
sion that that is correct won't help our
road.
"And, man, take those two lines that
compete with us and make 'em twice as
crooked as that. Why, you've got one
of 'em almost straight
"Yank Boston over little to the
west and put New York little to the
west, so as to show passengers that our
Buffalo division is the shortest route to
Boston.
when you've done all these things
I've said, you may print 10, 900 copies
but, say. how long have you been in
the railroad business, anyway?"s
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17
Loss of the Musical Faculty.

"Amusia, or loss of the musical fac
ulty, has been reviewed by Professor
Edgren Of Stockh ohm. The disease
proves to DO strictly analogous to
aphasia, the loss of speech, which may
or may not accompany it. Two general
forms are recognized-the sensory form,
where tones cannot be appreciated by
the ear or notes read by the eye, and
the motor form, in which the patient
cannot sing, play or write notes. Bal
let places the expression Of music be-
tween the emotional and the artificial
or verbal language. Music is less COM
plicated and earlier appreciated than
speech. Many children sing before they
speak, and Reyer has told of child of
0 months who could repeat the notes
exactly as played ON the piano. while
Dyorak, the musical composer, is said to
have had son who sang the "Fatinitza"
march with his nurse at the age of
year. London Public Opinion.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17
Somber Christianity.

The Aud LIGHT kirk when DR.. Chal-
mers visited it was a terribly bare little
building. The elders were grim set.
They kept their bonnets ON their heads
till the minister entered, and they had
each large stick in his hand, which
they used for "ohappin" their noses
through all the service. The minister
wore no gown or bands. He gave a
very long sermon full Of sound divinity,
but without the smallest practical APP
plication and without vestige of feel
ing. At length DR.. Chalmers got out,
the dismal worship being ended. and
his word was, "If these people ever get
to heaven, they will live on the north
side Of 1t. "--San Francisco Argonaut
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17
The cour.ship Of Miles standlsh.

Encouraged by the hearty welcome
given to these two American poems,
Longfellow, in 1868, published third.
"The Courtship of Miles Standish. !"
In this he told no pathetic tale of part
cd lovers, nor did he draw on the quaint
lore of tho red men. He took his story
from the annals of his own ancestors,
the sturdy founders Of New England.
As it happened, he himself (like his fell
low poet, Bryant) was direct descend
ant of John Alden and Priscilla, the
Puritan maiden, whose wooing no mar
rated. 1.-The Courtship of Miles Stan-
dish" is only less popular than its pred
ecessors, "Evangeline" and Ottawa
tina" All three have been taken to
heart by the American people, all were
composed during the brightest years of
tho poets life, when his family were
growing up about him, when he was in
the full possession of his powers and had
already achieved fame. - Professor
Brander Matthews in st. Nicholas.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17
OLD BELLS IN NEW YORK.
Two Metal Messengers Whose Tones HaS
Sounded to Many Generations.

Two Metal Messengers Whose Tones Have
Sounded to Many Generations.
Whether it be due to patriotic or
poetic instincts it is nevertheless true
that famous old bell always arouses O
reminiscent feeling Its very presence
suggests story-the glad cry Of liber-
ty, the joyous peals of wedding festivi-
ties, the somber tone of funeral process
sions. Weather stained and hoary, an
old bell seems like messenger of fate
Hence it is not to be wondered at that
the bell in the yard of the Collegiate
church, at Fifth avenue and Twenty
ninth street, daily attracts throng of
inquiring faces, closely pressed against
the high iron railing surrounding the
church.
From the quaint Latin inscription ON
the bell one learns that it was sent in
1895 by the people Of Amsterdam as a
gift Offering to the North church in New
York, then at Fulton and William
streets, where 1t had been erected in
1898.
Hanging high above the city, at
Forty eighth street and Fifth avenue. is
another link that binds US to the past
This great bell bears this Dutch insorip-
ton:
"Een leegat aan do Neederdeutsche
Kirke, New York, 1881. -
1t appears from the old will of Colo
mel Abraham de Peyster that he ordered
bell to be made in Holland for the
Middle church, then occupying the site
Of the old fort at the Battery. The peo-
Pile of Holland were so pleased at being
thus remembered by one of their num-
Der in America that great number of
coins were thrown into the smelling
pot which contained the metal for the
bell as an evidence Of their apprecia-
ton. During the Revolution the Middle
church was put to strange uses. Re-
moving the pulpit, gallery, pews and
flooring. the British dragons converted
it into riding academy.
John Oothout was granted permission
from Commander in Chief Lord Howe
to remove the De Peyster bell to a place
of safety. Accordingly, in the most un-
obtrusive manner possible, the bell was
sent to Chambersburg, Pa.
When peace was restored, the bell
was hung in the steeple of the Middle
church, afterward leased to the federal
government for postoffioe purposes, and
which many remember as the old Post
Office building. A little more journey
ing and the De Peyster bell reached its
present haven.
The Collegiate oonsistory carefully
preserve the relics of their several
churches. A pewter plato bearing the
date 1859 and giving a history of the
old North church is slowed away with
a charter granted in 1000 by William
III empowering them to incorporate
themselves in New York. Here, too,
is zealously guarded the old will of
John Harpending, now yellow with age,
bequeathing, in 1913, much Of his land
to the Collegiate corporation. New
York Herald.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17
LlNcoLN'S APPARlTloN.
He Saw Ghostiy Image of Himself In
Looking Glass.

He Saw Ghostly Image of Himself In q
Looking Glass.
Mr.. Noah Brooks, in his personal rem
iniscences of Lincoln in The Century,
tells the following strange story;
On the day mentioned Lincoln mar
rated an incident the particulars of
which l wrote out and printed directly
after. These are his own words, as
nearly as they could then be recalled:
''It was just after my election in
1860, when the news had been coming
in thick and fast all day and there had
been great 'hurrah boys, so that
was we'll tired out and went homo to
rest, throwing myself down on lounge
in my chamber. Opposite where l lay
was a bureau with swinging glass
upon it, (and here he got up and placed
furniture to illustrate the position),
land looking in that glass saw myself
reflected nearly at full length, but my
face, noticed, had two separate and
distinct images, the tip of the nose of
one being about three inches from the
tip of the other. l was little bothered,
perhaps startled, and got up and looked
in the glass, but the illusion vanished.
On lying down again, l saw it second
time, palmer If possible than before,
and then noticed that one Of the faces
was little paler-say five shades
than the other. got up, and the thing
melted away, and went off, and in the
excitement of the hour forgot all about
it-nearly, but not quite, for the thing
would once in awhile come up and give
me little pang as If something uncom-
Portable had happened.
"When went home that night, l
told my wife about it, and few days
afterward made the experiment again,
when" with laugh 'suro enough the
thing came again, but / never succeed
cd in bringing the ghost back after
that, though l once tried very indus
triously to show it to my wife, who
was somewhat worried about 1t. She
thought it was a sign that was to be
elected to second term of office, and
THAT tho paleness of one of the faces was
an omen that l should not see life
through the last term. "
This is very remarkable story--a
coincidence, we may say-to which
some significance was given by the cruel
death of the president soon after tho be-
ginning of his second term. l told Mrs.
Lincoln the story and asked her II she
remembered its details. She expressed
surprise that Mr.. Lincoln was willing
to say anything about it, as he had up
to that time refrained from mentioning
the incident TO anybody, and as she was
firm in her belief that tho optical illu-
sion (Which it certainly was) was
warning never again referred to the
subject TO either tho president or his
wife.
Subsequently Lincoln s version of the
story was confirmed by Private Secre-
tary John Hay, who, however, was of
the opinion that the illusion had been
seen on the day of Linooln's first nomi-
nation, and not. as have said, on the
1av NJ hia frat alnctinn
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17
TIE GARDEN.

Clicked with i'll weeds my garden lay a-dying
Hard was the ground; no bud had heart to
blow,
Yet shone your smile there, with your soft
breath signing,
"Have patience, for some day the flowers
will grow.
Some weeds you killed; you made plot and
titled it.
"My plot" you said, erich harvest yet shall
give"
With sun warmed seeds Of hope your dear
hands filed it,
With rain soft tears OF pity babe them live
So, weak among the weeds that had withstood
you,
One little pure white flower grew by and by.
You could not pluck my flower. Alas, how
should you?
You set the seed but let the blossom die.
Pail Mall Budget
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17
HIS SMILE WENT WITH THE POSE.
The Model In the Life Glass Smiled Sim
MY For the Sake OF Art.

The Model In the Life Glass Smiled Sim
ply For the Sake OF Art.
An amusing incident occurred not
long ago in well known New York
art school. The girl students were draw
ing from life study of the Dancing
Faun." A good looking Italian boy
was the model, and as he assumed the
requisite pose his face became wreathed
in smiles. He was gazing directly at the
class, and each girl imagined the smile
was directed at her.
"How very embarrassing, said n
Long Island girl. II wish to goodness
he wouldn't grin at me-. -
In spite of the indignant glances cast
at him the son of Italy continued to
smile at the blushing girls.
Presently stolid German girl looked
up and noticed the smile, which she
imagined was aimed directly at her.
lyon sohtop dot schmiling. We don't
want you to sohmile at u.s." The boys
figure instantly Strengthened up, and
he stood before tho class the very i'm
personation of offended dignity Us he
said:
Ladies', l no smile OF any one.
pose to you as 20 Dancing Faun. Ze
smile goes wiz 20 pose. New York
World
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17
A Great MEMORY.

The Journal of Speculative Philoso-
ply gives a remarkable instance of a
farmer In Indiana who could remember
what he had done on every day for 20
years. He was repeatedly tested by ref
erence to the notes made on previous
examinations, and never failed both to
name the day Of the week and to tell
what occurred to him ON that day. The
words used in his narratives often
varied, but he always had the events as
he had mentioned them before.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17
LabIache's Voice.

Lablache had the most magnificent
bass voice ever known to the lyric stage.
IL had compass of two octaves. from
e fiat below to E fiat above the bass staff.
He was a man Of prodigious size and
strength, and his voice was proportional
to his physical Dimensions. Nothing
was able to overcome or drown it, and
through tho tones of tho largest chorus
it doomed out as Justify as though alone.
Moro than once he broke window pane
by the strength of the vibrations caused
by his monstrous voice.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17
A Dilemma.

Friend-Have you completed your
novel?
Author--Not yet, l am sorry to say.
I have made six couples happy for life.
but have still got an old general and
a shoemaker's widow on my hands, and
somehow they won't match. -Fliegende
Blatter.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17
How riies walk on window panes.

The microscope reveals the neat con-
trivance which enables fly to walk up
a window pane or defy the laws of
gravity by gliding along, back down.
ward, ON the ceiling. The magnifier
shows the foot to be made up Of two
pads covered with fine, short hair, each
pad having hook above it. Behind
each pad is bag filed with sticky
liquid which oozes out whenever the fly
puts his foot down. The amount which
is pressed out of each foot is very small
indeed, but taken all together 1t is am
ply sufficient to hold the insect in any
position he chooses. st Louis Repub'
liz
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17

Henry Clay had voice of medium
strength, but of singular purity. He
spoke with strong southern accent and
in pleasant, sympathetic tone that
carried the audience with him from the
start
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17
A LIES gPILoeuE.

turn the tiny key and scan with care
My reliquarys treasure unbeholden.
tell their tale, those boarded locks Of hair,
The sheeny black, the silver gray, the golden
What envy yon singers, lofty throned,
Who voice each mood in life's eternal proem2
No sweeter love than mine their lips have
moaned,
They sang their songs-but have Lived my
Grant Allen
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17
The Correct Term.

"Do you know the count actually adj
dresses her in public as his treasured"
Treasure? His English is o little
off. He means Investment. Indian
apolis Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17

Gallygascoynes, commonly corrupted
10 gallygaskins, were combination
brooches and hose.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1895-04-17
THE HARDWARE DEALER.

A MAGAZINE brim full of practical ideas from
hardware men. The cream of 900 brains. ll6
pages. Only 81 90 a year. Send iOc. for copy.
D. T. MALLETT. Pub. rs Reade ST., New York.
April II 4w
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-09-12
CAN EJECT SETTLERS.
Important Ruling in the Famous
Portage Lake Canal Case at
Marquette, Mich.

Marquette. Mich. Sept G.-[Special.l-
Arguments in the case of the Keewenaw
association Qimited vs.. George Cole and
John Connors were concluded in the fed
eral court her at noon and promptly on
reassemblng this afternoon Judge Swan
rendered his decision in favor of the
plaintiffs.
This is one of the cases brought by the
plaintiff to eject settlers from landSs~ur-
chased by them from the Portage Lake
Canal company, who had selected them
pursuant to a grant from Congress to aid
in the construction of the canal. Defend
ants set uD a claim that the lands were
designated in the proclamation of Presi-
dent Fillmore as mineral lands and there
fore were not subject to selections under
the grant of Congress and a certified copy
of the proclama ton was submitted in evil
dence.
The title to about 10000 acres, some OF
which is the choicest mineral lands OF
Michigan, was involved Judge Swan
ruled that the lands were not properly
designated as mineral lands and were
therefore open to selection by the Canal
company under terms of their grant.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-09-12
An Unappreciated Story.

A story told by an English paper, and
claiming the merit of absolute truth,
evidences once more the memorable
purity and womanliness of Queen Vic
toria's character. At Windsor party
of young princes and princesses were
chattering with members Of the royal
household on various matters. The
Queen was present, but was not MOTTO
ing them especially, when a heartier
laugh than the rest aroused her interest,
and she asked to be told the fun. Now
the laugh had arisen from an anecdote,
which was not really risky, but just a
little bit so. There was a demur at re-
peating it to the Queen. Everybody
felt slightly uncomfortable. The Queen
said again that she and Princess Beat
rice would like to hear the story. It
was told. The Queen listened, and then
said with her inimitable dignity and
simplicity: eve are not amused"
It is not the example set by it's royal
head that has given to the English
smart set it's uneviable reputation IN
the matter of morals big and little.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-09-12
No Song. No Supper.

Those men that undertake to train
birds how to sing the notes of musical
instruments usually teach their pupils
in classes-seven birds to class, for
instance. Girls and boys that have
studied under the best Of masters, at
the best of schools, have an enyiable
time compared with the poor birds,
who are shut up in dark room to
start with, and are, moreover, half
starved if they are too long in begin
ming their task of imitation. On the
other hand, if they get on nicely and
are fairly ''quick at the uptake," the
light will be gradually admitted and
their hunger will be partly relieved,
to reward their efforts and encourage
them to higher things. AS soon as
they come to find that little light and
food accompany song, in the long run
they learn to sing of their own accord
for these necessities of life. The flute
Is the chief instrument used in these
bird classes.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-09-12

not robbed her OF any comfort or neceS-
sity, or of money or lands. Why had he
been so unlucky as to have taken such an
overpowering fancy to girl like Nora,
unapproachable save by the tremendous
sacrifice of marriage? This was really
the handspring of his misfortunes.
AS to the future, he shuddered to think
of it. Why should he not escape it? As
to his solemn promise to Mrs. Ruthven,
that weighed but lightly on his soul.
What stayed his hand was partly the de-
moraliZation which seemed to paralyZe
him. but chiefly his dread of being hope
lessly disgraced in Nora's eyes. She had
immense power over him, and he had
said truly, that all of good in him was
linked with his feelings for her. No! he
might have had resolution to end his
ruined life, had he not felt convinced that
Mrs. Ruthven, furious at being robbed of
her prey, would tell all and make the
worst of all to Nora. No; the one shred
of comfort in the hell he had created for
himself, was to remain unblemishcd IN
Morals eyes. He would affect to release
her by noble effort of sef-denial, and per-
haps she would give him kind thought;
perhaps. when wearied Of monotonous
life with Winton or some other prig, g
regretful thought.
What sham life was altogether! Was
Nora as true, as real. as she seemed?
Yes, now, he would swear, but how long
would her truth last the wear and tear of
the world?
Well, he had escaped detection. and for
Nora's sake, for his sisters, his names
sake, he had better drift with the tide
which seemed sitting in his favor. Ills
only way of enduring existence was to
forget there was yesterday or e. to-mor-
row.
But dine with that woman, who was
his mistress in the cruelest sense, he
could not--at least, to-day. No; to-day
he must be alone; he must be free to sval-
low, unchecked, such an amount Of bur-
gundy, champagne brandy, us might
drown the intolerable rage and rcmorse
that maddened him.
His incoherent note OF excuse, however,
only brought Nemesis upon him, in the
shape of Mrs. Ruthven herself, wrapped
in shawls and furs, who sent up an urgent
message, and sat in her carriage at fne
hotel door till her captive joined her, and
was taken off in triumph.
Gro be continued.J
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-09-12

The Scotch Archbishop Foreman Gn
the sixteenth century, was so poor a
Latin scholar that, when he was oblig
ed to visit Rome he found great diff
Guilty in conforming to some of the Gus
toms of the Pope's table, to which he
was invited. Etiquette required that
the Scotch bishop should take part in
uttering a Latin benediction over the
repast, and the illiterate guest had
carefully committed to memory what
he belived to be the orthodox form Of
words. He began with his "Bene-
dicite," expecting the cardinals to re-
spond with 'Dominus," but they re-
spond withldtbmdh Ma, ;bw-nie defb
plying Deus" italian fashion, so con-
fused the good bishop that he forgot
his carefully conned phrases, and, Gin
good broad Scotch" said: ITO the devil
l give you all, false cardinals, to
which devout aspiration Pope and car
dinals (who understood only their own
language) piously replied, "Amen."
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-09-12
FIREBUGS BURN A CHURCH.
Handsome Westminster Edifice In
Minneapolis is De-
stroyed.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Sept. 6.-West-
minister church, handsome brownstone
structure at Nicollet avenue and Seventh
street, in the heart of the retail business
district, was Quilted by fire at an early
hour this morning. There was a high
wind blowing and as the fire broke out
in tower on the lofty roof the fire de-
partment worked at great disadvant-
age. Nothing is now standing but the
heavy walls. The building was erected
fifteen years ago at a cost of $15O,OOO
The congregation is the wealthiest and
largest of the Presbyterian denomina-
ton in the state. 1t has had but three
pastors-Dr. r. F. Sample and DIR. David
James Burrell both of whom were called
to New York, and the present pastor,
Rev. Pleasant Hunter. The fire was
clearly incendary