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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-16

sojourn In Vermont Npllng ever heard tn"
story OF old Matthew Lyon.
81 have the tradition as II was given to ne
down in Kentucky and it runs like this Mat
thew Lyon as the school United States his
tories viii tell you, was born somewhere il
Ireland more than a hundred and fifty years
ago When ne was a mere stripping he emil
grated to this country, but he could not pay
his passage, the captain Of the ship sold him
gudented Is the proper word, I think-to
Connecticut farmer for the amount due That
was a perfectly legal proceeding II those days
Of course.
But before Lyons term Of service expired
some kind man came along and bought him out
-ransomed him. in fact, a. Bagheera ransoned
Mowgli-for a fine bull that the Connecticut
farmer very much wanted, only It was i've
bull. not dead one, like Bagheeras.
-Now. the story goes that al through the
Revolutionary War, when Lyon served with the
Green Mountain boys and got into all sorts OF
scrapes as an officer in the Continental Army
and afterward when he was member Of Con
eress from Vermont and, later still, in Ken
lucky. down TO the last days Of his life among
the Cberokees, he never forgot this benefactor
of his in Connecticut and he constantly swore
nv the Bull that bought meg heard the
story in Kentucky before l ever hearu Oh
MoUygli or Bagheera And would Ike 10 Emo"
whether the Identity OF MOwgHs oath ana MAJ
thew LYONS is mere coincidence or whether IN
$40 story I heard in Kentucky Is current n
vermont and served as "a InsRIat4on " by
ling
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-16
by TIE BULL fHAP BOUGHT ME-"
NOTE ON A PHRASE OF MowG1.Ps

NOTE ON A PHRASE OF MOwGI.Ps
A native Of New-York State who has long
been a resident OF Kentucky was very much dis
appointed when he arrived on a short visit to
the city lately, because Rudyard Kipling had
made his escape to Europe before he, the ex-
NewYorker Kentuckian, could catch him He
wanted to ask Kipling question he said
7 want him to tell me where he got that say
ing which he puts in Mowgirs mouth in The
Jungle Book by the Bull that bought mer
I want to know whether. In the course Of his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-16
"TATHEk" BEcKFoRD's TOWER.

From The London Sketch.
The progressive Corporation OF Bath have
Just placed A commemorative tablet upon the
house in Iansd1Wne Crescent once occupied by
william Beckf,rd. the author Of 'Nathek.'
R.ckford erected q great tower on the hill
mile above his house at Bath wherein 10 study,
and when he died his remains Were LAID above
the ground at the foot 10 granite saico Nd
e[ie which vas rrcuared during his lifetime.
The property was then sold for tea garden
but his daughter the Duchess Of Hamilton
repurchased {. and. 70 save II from desecIa,lon'
cave II To tie rector of WaCOt as cemetery
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-16


Francis, Count Lutzow QIteratures OF the
World Seres) Il mo. PIP. XII, 81 d. Appleton
Co l--.
There Is a popular Bohemian song. written by
one Rubes a minor poet Of to-day which bears
the proud title, 'T am Bohemian. and who is
more7' The line has winning sound, in Eng
lish II runs after this fashion IN Bohemian:
ia jsem Czech kdo je vic?" The difficulties
lying in the path Of the English speaking stu
dent Of Bohemian literature are obvious Count
L1tzow has a serious task before him in the
Interpretation TO US OF his countrymen's work
in poetry and prose But he Is sanguine and
laborious He has no doubt that book on
Bohemian writers belongs In a series given TO
The Literatures OF the World" and he has
written il with loving care, celebrating his
heroes with sufficient biographical data and
piously translating from them whenever he can
introduce a fragment OF old literature into his
narrative Though It Is impossible to share his
enthusiasm, one soon becomes interested in what
ne has TO tel
he talks OF epical poems among the earliest
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-16
SEALED ORDERS.

Ply WALTER HEERI1s POLLOCK
Death is Spirit.
Those who have seen Kim nearest
Hold him dearest,
For rar ness iu his CLCice
When. At his Masters Voice,
He Seeks for his own call,
The braEest. best " all
When il seems unbetimes
That one both good and great
Should pass the shadOWy gate
Opening 10 stranger climes,
Then may so feel full sure
The soul has grown so pure
That it must needs incline
Into the Vast Divine.
Death is a Spirit!
We deem his pace too swift;
To our eyes,
Though We be- passing wise,
1t is not given
To see across the rift
Between ourselves and Heayenl
on earth We rear kneIl-
Elsewhere there Leals bell
In welcome for A guest
New % the W0ndrous Quest
Whereof no man on earth
May ever know the birth
Only God knows, and they
Who have joined His great Array.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-16

bohemian writings, but the first quotable thing
We reach in his book Is this lyric ~ one laws:
Now all JOY has left me-
Now for ne all comfort has ceased
Ny heart sWims in wistful blood
All this because Of the beloved one for whom
! long.
BY the glance II her eye
she has sharply struck my heart
! live Ia flaming yearnng,
Ny life sickens with love,
All for the sake of her dear beauty.
NV longing cannot decrease;
Pity me. Oh arr pity me, all creation
Carhuncles sapphres. and all precious stones,
RAYS Of the sun and rything on the earth
Pity me- lilies. pity me, most precious roses.
Nv bl owed wishes TO take my little life from me
II she will not have compassion on me.
The sentimentality in this IS not often illus
trated in Count Lutzow's book, but the hyper
hole Of Zavs was evidently a national and per
n,anent trait 1t is constantly coming to the
surface One Of the Romanist songs against
the Hussites contains the following amabe
strophe:
You are wanton like bulls
Cows mice. MooTs;
Murder robbery. unchristian craft
These form your religion:
Woe to you. Huss,
II was Bohemian. Lobkoyic, who published
an epigram stating that even the guardian OF
hell had declined to admit Pope Borgia, as he
might corrupt the other inmates 81 the Internal
regions The same writer could find nothing
more urtane to say Of Gregory Gelenus. who
had translated some Of lis Latin verses into
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-16
BOHEMIA.
ITS LITERATURE EXAMINED By
NATIVE

A HISTORY OF BOHEMIAN LITERATURE. BY
Francis, Count LNtZow. Qlteratures OF the
World Series0 L mo PIP. xii, Is d. Appleton
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-16


You see as 20 all these matters do the DOCKS
manly f,r voU ard one Or Two others he pup
L. does not really care about them damn
vb,ch &c stale But ! tell you 7 want you TO
have them, and finally you shall yours aAeC-
tlonately, ---1--1A-- -
The Morris Of this letter is clearly portrayed
hv NJ Mackan If the Morris Of a thousand ar
t,stjc literary and socialistic exploits Is not
Therein lies the value Of this biography We
are dissatisfied with It's treatment Of Morrlss
work. but il Is beyond praise in the gLmpses II
r5ves OF one Of the most vigorous personalities
Al the century. "Once at the Red Lion Square
he hurled fifteenth century folio, which IN or
ainary circumstances he would hardly have al
lowed any one but himself to touch at the head
Of an offending workman II missed the "oiA-
nan and drove a panel out Of the WORKSHOP
door, In vignettes like this the volumes are
r4ch Here is another; "A person or importance
called 70 discuss the ca-peting Of his new mousse
The best specimens Of the HammersmIth car
pets. then produced in a complete range Oh pure
color were sub Iitted 10 his inspection he gave
uloAe1n somewhat impatient and Wahdef'ns
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26

If you want fine smoke try Anna
Held cigars.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26
Reflections.

When we are young We think every
one is unjust to us; when we are older
we know every one is unjust to every
body.
Time is not so large as eternity, but
it seems to take up good deal more
room.
The things most silent and oftenest
questioned are stars and graves.
To be immortal is nothing. To be
worthy to be immortal is the great
thing.
When prosperity goes at a jog trot 1t
isn't bad for US; but it shouldn't break
into a run.
If we could only help ourselves to the
bait and leave the trap untouched, how
much happier life would be.
1t is an open question as to whether
indecison or rashness has assisted us
to make the greater number of mis-
takes.
The man who has never learned to
write his own name is not so likely to
get into trouble in this world as the
one who has learned to write another
mans.
One never realizes how little he really
knows until he has read page or two
of the dictionary.
Serene infexibility is an admirable
quality-in kitchen poker.
A dead rose is sweeter than live
poppy.-E. W. in Truth.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26
THE FORCE OF WATER.

Some Big Results in Its Use for Hy-
draulic Mining.
From the New orleans Times-Demo-
crat.
A little group of solid citizens We're
standing on Baronne street watching
a cleaning gang at work with the hose.
THAT reminds me of old days in CAL
ifornia," said one of the party, as the
stream veered slightly and Iced off
the corner of a pile of dirt. Il never
realized how much force could be de-
veloped by jet of water he con-
tinued, until I tried hydraulic min
ing. 1t was in 1870 up on the Sacra-
mento river. They had brought a
stream down the Sierra Nevada noun
tains in a big fiume that ended in a
length of wireIwrapped hose and six
foot nozzle with arms on the sides for
couple of men to take hold of.
They played the stream against a
big bluff directly opposite, and it bored
out the solid, packed formation like liv-
ing fire eating into finder For dozen
feet from the nozzle the water seemed
like a hard blue bar, and there was
something so strange and murderous-
looking in the way 1T drove straight
out that it made my flesh creep to
watch it. Several laborers had been ac-
cidently struck by the stream, and in
each case the man was killed as sud-
denly as if hit by a cannon ball.
Il remember on one occasion some
rival claimants came down from Shas-
ia and took possession of cabin not
far from the end of the f1ume line. Our
boss, who was a big Irishman named
Murphy, told us to turn the stream on
the place, and as we were all spelling
for row we lost no time in obeying.
/ never saw such demolition in my life.
The shanty flew seven ways for Sun
day, and one of the fellows inside was
pitched bodily through the air and
landed into the river. The distance
was so great that nobody was killed,
but all were badly hurt, and after that
our gang was known as Murphy's
Light Artillery. Mark Twain draws a
vivid picture of hydraulic mining in
'Roughing It., and from personal ex-
perience I can assure you he hasn't
embroidered the facts in the least"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26
THE cHuRcH a PLACE OF REST
Sunday Service Develops the Mind and
Broadens the Areas of Knowledge.


Look at the steady strain upon you
writes Bishop Hurst discussing what is
the Good of Going to church," in the
June Ladies' Home Journal THE aver
age American week is one intense effort
to get beyond the limitations of the week
just gone. Every nerve and force of body
and brain have been under the stress of
excitement and rush. Six days are
enough for the severe tension, and break
many one down in the process. Let
the struggle be stopped every week by
one perfect day of rest. The church is
essentially place of rest. Every part
of the service furnishes relief from the
burdens and cares of the week. The mu-
sic brings calm and refreShment. The
hymns lift one above the plane of the sec
ular and commonplace. The lessons from
the Bible and the preaching on topics con-
nected with present and future accounta-
bility lead one into a new field of thought
serious significance not at all suggested
by the activities of business. The Sunday
service inevitably develops the mind and
broadens the areas of knowledge. Many
a sermon may fail to interest, but now
and then one is heard which brings the
nearer into a new region, such as that of
missions abroad, of humane work at
home. A new light may be thrown upon
the Scriptures by recent research: the re-
lation of Christianity to human society
may be seen as never before and the old
Bible may be found to apply in a re-
markable way to the current needs of
men,"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26
WHAT LOOKS LIKE RAIN?
Dialogue Between Purist and a Ordi-
nary Mortal.

From the Chicago Tribune.
1T looks like rain"
II beg your pardon. "
Il say it looks like rain
What does?"
''The-the weather"
1.-THE weather. my dear sir, is a con-
dition. Rain is water in the act of
falling from the clouds. It is impossi-
BILE that they should look alike
What I meant was that the sky
looked like rain"
Equally impossible. The sky is the
blue vault above us-the seeming arch
or dome that we mistakenly call the
heavens. 1t does not resemble falling
water in the least"
We'll, then, if you are so thunder
ingly particular, it looks as If 1t would
rain
LAS if what would rain?"
1.-The weather, of course"
The weather. as before stated, be-
ing a condition, cannot rain"
THE clouds, then, blame you"
All, here it comes! And / have
taken so much time in talking to you
that I shall get wet to the skin before
/ can reach yonder street car. Good
day
calling after him)-I may not know
as much about it as you do, but Nv
got sense enough to come in out of it
and you have not.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26
English View of Lynching.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
To Judge from the letters we have re-
ceived on the subject, the news of the
latest lynching of negroes in one of the
Southern American states has produced a
painful impression in this country. Yet it
was but one among many, and hardly
worse than many previous ones in it's
barbarity. 1t is, indeed not the first time
of late that a man has been removed
from or deprived of civil trial and burned
alive under the stars and stripes. In fact,
it seems as though the Northern Ameri-
can public were growing callous to these
horrors. They are loathed in the North
and West as much as they are in England,
but the civil power dare not strike and
put tkem down, as would be done in any
other civilized country in the world. The
preponderance of the negro in the South
is a truly terrible problem of American
life. and there would be every ground
to synpathize with the white race in its
determination not to be swamped by the
African, but these awful popular out
bursts of bloodthirsty savagery obscure
every political and social argument. Sew
eral of our correspondents ask us in all
seriousness to tell them If it is really in
the United States of America that these
acts are being committed. We most ear
nestly wish we could say no.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26

Literary News. 1893. 1895 to 1898, vol
umes IA and 16 to IS.
Munsey's Magazine, October, 1891, to
March. 1899 volumes to 20.
National Review. March, 1897, to Au-
gust, 1898, volumes 20 to 81.
National Geographic Magazine, 1885.
to 1898, volumes to 8.
New England Magazine, September,
1889, to February, 1892 10 volumes.
Outing, October, 1882, to March, 1899,
SO volumes.
Popular Science Monthly, May, 1872,
to April, 1899, 81 volumes.
Recreation, July. 1895, to December,
1898, volumes 3 to 8.
ST. Nicholas, November, 1873, to April,
1899, 251s volumes in 81
Yale Review, May, 1892, to February,
1892 7 volumes.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26
WATCHED THE WHEEL GO HOUND
Careless Workman Spilled Molten Pitch
All Over the Pavement

All Over the Pavement.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
There was gang of pavement mend-
ers working in North Clark street.
Among their properties was a wagon
and one of those mighty kettles on
wheels in which barrels of pitch are
melted. When the work was completed
the gang boss told one of the laborers
to couple the kettle on the wagon.
Everyone else was loading up tools and
gathering dinner pals and surplus gar
ments. Clearly the colony was ready
to move. The designated laborer un-
derstood that. So he fastened the two
vehicles together
But he hadn't been told where to
fasten, so he dashed the tongue of the
perambulating furnace to the rim of the
wagons hind wheel. And when the
colony started there were consequences.
At the first revolution the trailer
lurched forward and smeared the
wagon with pitch. At the second the
tongue went in between the felloes and
damaging the running gear. At the
third the trailer was capsized. spilling
molten pitch over 10 square yards of
sidewalk and running a tidal wave of
pungent smelling stuff clear to the
doors Of a millinery store. The stain
OF It Will not be gone for a month.
When the gang boss learned the
cause of the accident he said things.
1t is an error to suppose that the mate
of Mississippi river steamboat has a
monopoly of forcibe language. That
gang foreman outclassed any director
OF labor on earth for the novelty of
the workman's idiocy interested him..
And the beauty of it was that the
workman waited and listened to him
and seemed Impressed with his elo-
quence.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26
ADDlcKs WAS REPAID IN KIND.
How a Boston Alderman Turned the
Joke on the Delawarean.

From the Boston Transcript.
The spectacle of Mr.. Addicks' sena-
torial throes in Delaware reminds me
of an episode when he was engaged in
the gas business in Boston. Mr.. Ad-
dicks, as some people will remember,
was occupied here in an attempt which
involved a good deal of legislation of
one kind or another. During the prog
ress of his attempt he invited the board
of aldermen of the city of Boston one
day to go down the harbor on his boat
Now Then, and the invitation was ac-
cepted. When they started out Mr..
Addicks produced a lot of yachting
caps, which, as the wind blew fiercely
on the little deck of the Now Then,
were regarded as proper to replace the
more formal aldermanic headgear. All
the caps were blue except one, which
was white, and this white one Adj
dicks proceeded to present with a flour
ish to Alderman Farmer, saying as he
did So
II give this to Alderman Farmer to
wear as an emblem of purity"
All the other aldermen laughed, FOR
Mr.. Farmer had been prominent in his
opposition to Addicks' schemes in the
board. Mr.. Farmer accepted the white
cap and wore it without any protest or
for that matter, any complacency. But
some time later in the day, when the
party were lined up before a soda foun-
tain, Mr.. Farmer said:
Can you tell me, Mr.. Addicks, what
is the difference between the man who
runs this soda fountain and your
We'll, no, I can't" said Addicks
what is it?"
This man makes his money by put
ting gas into water and you make
yours by putting water into gas
This palpable hit at the Delaware
financiers operations at the time was
regarded by the company as a yer!
fair return for the joke of the whit,
cap.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26
Fighting the Smoke Nuisance.

Boston is conducting vigorous cam
paign against the smoke nuisance. The
superintendent of streets has just sent
a circular letter to all the coal dealers
warning them against the sale of low
grades of soft coal In the missiye he
says: your attention is called to this
matter now so that there may be no
cause for complaint on your part later
on in the event of trouble that your
customers may be fully advised as TO
the action which this department will
certainly take unless proper coal is
used"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26
The Savage Bachelor

Geese" said the sweet young thing,
with side glance at her victim, are
considered emblems of conjugal bliss
in China"
In China?" snorted the savage bach
elor promptly why not the world
over?"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26
Poor Consolation.

Jones had the impertinence to say it
would take surgical operation to get
joke into my head"
Jones was wrong. 1T would be more
of d job for a CARPENTER"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26

Moderate prices for mouldings, pic
lures and picture framing at Schatz-
lein's, IA West Broadway.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26

Julia Marlowe shoes and oXfords,
black and tan, $3.50 and So. so. Tasselrs,
Is w. Park.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-02-23
FINE WORK OF FIREMEN.
Blaze in Patrick Fahey's Carpenter Shop
Quickly subdued IN the Face of Difficult

Blaze In Patrick Fahey's Carpenter shop
Quickly subdued IN the Face of Difficult
ties.
Officers and members of the Fire De-
partment covered themselves with glory
Thursday afternoon by quickly SUBJ
DUNG blaze in Patrick Fahey's car
penter shop, at Third and Connell
streets, in the face of turbulant ele-
ments and other difficulties.
Shortly before A o'clock smoke was
seen issuing from the second story of
the building and an alarm was turned
in from box No. 70, at Fourth and
Franklin streets. The district COM
panies responded, and, Notwithstanding
the condition of the streets there being
high drifts of snow in some places, the
scene of the fire was reached in very
short space Of time by all of the COM
panies in the district, except the Della
ware truck, which encountered such
high banks of snow while proceeding
up Seventh street from French to King
that it was an impossibility to reach
the top of the hill. The apparatus
was stalled for more than an hour,
but was finally pulled out of the drifts
without serious damage.
While the Phoenix Co. s truck was
IcoIoulluB bub VI lllb bllrtb llOTSBS lbll
at Eighth and Market streets, but was
quickly on its feet and proceeded with
the others to the fire.
When the firemen reached the build.
ing they saw clouds of dense smoke
issuing from the second story anc
directed their efforts toward that por,
tion of the structure, and, notwith
standing it had gained considerable
Roadway, the blaze was confined to tn,
room in which it started, and was ex
tinguished in about half an hour.
The fire originated in a place wher,
Mr.. Fahey had some cots stored ant
it IS believed to have resulted iron
spontaneous combustion. The loss will
probably reach SO, 200, upon which Their
is an insurance $1,000.
While Second Assistant Enginee
Purcell was looking after fighting tn
flames in the building a boy on tn
outside threw a snow ball, breakin,
one of the windows, and Mr.. PURCELL
forehead above the nose was badl
cut by one of the pieces of glass.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-02-23

New York, Feb. 16. -Four alarms
were turned in last night for fire in
machine shop No. % in the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, at the east end of the
yard. The machine shop was totally
destroyed. In this building were stored
and kept patterns and models Of the
various warships built from time to
time. All of these models and patterns
were destroyed. The loss is estimated
at s1,000,000 at the lowest and it il
very probable that it will reach a
higher figure, as all of the patterns and
models were expensive of construction.
The records and models of the battle
ship Maine, which was blown up in
Havana harbor on February 18th, 1898,
were also destroyed.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-02-23

Washington, Feb. ia statement,
prepared by the auditor for the Navy
Department shows that the total num-
Der of claims tiled to date on account
OF that disaster, under the net Of
March 30th, 1898, is 1926, amounting to
1923, 342. OF these 90 are claims for in
demnity by survivors, amounting to
$50, 636. Two hundred and four are
gratuity claims, aggregating sS7, FOG;
20 claims are now on hand awaiting
evidence, and 30 cases are yet to be
heard from. The records show that
the total number of persons on board
the Maine at the time of tho explosion
was 355, of which a6l were killed and
04 survived