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The Winslow mail., 1899-02-11
HOW BRADY LOST HIS MONEY.
The Bowery Celebrity Died the Day
Before the Annual Vanderbilt
Check Was Due.

BY the death of John Brady, who
cboked to death on a mutton chop late
ly, the Bowery has lost one of its typ
zeal characters. He was known to shop
and hotel keepers from Chatham square
to Cooper Union. Brady bore the repu-
tatiOn of an honest man who loved
horses and reveled in races, who thought
the Vanderbilts "up TO the limit" and
who was faithful follower of Tam
many Hall. For several months he had
lived at a hotel at No. Bowery. In
the last day of 1898 he went into a res
taurant and with friends ordered drinks
ard mutton chops. While eating one he
became purple in the face and fell to
the floor, where in a few minutes he
died, reports the New York Times.
Since Brady came to this country
from Ireland, so years ago, he had con
tinually hung around race track sta
bles. His favorite story was how he
Saved the life of Vanderbilt. and he
had just finished telling it WHEN he did.
Several years ago." he had said. "a
team came running down Fifth avenue.
A spanking team it was, boys, with
footman and coachman full OF buttons
sitting on the box. A lady all dressed
in furs and silks was sitting in the car
riage. The coachman had lost the
horses heads and they were tearing
down the avenue like wild. saw them,
and there's no man knows more about
stopping wild borses than l do; so l
steps out in front of them, grabs the
brides as they got to me, and in half a
block had them stopped as still as
mouse. The lady thanks me and the
coachman drives away. Next day gets
word to come to the Vanderbilts' house
c. the avenue, and there l gets S1O0.
Every New Years day till now got my
$1OO, and tomorrow 1 gets it again"
He pointed at the man opposite and be-
gan to resume the story, when he
choked
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-11
MORAL VALUE OF A QUEEN.
4 Woman on the Throne Furnishes
Coed Example In Life for
Her Subjects.

In addition to political there is also
clear moral gain in the fact that the
constitutional throne is filed by wom-
an. 1t cannot be doubted, says tn
London Spectator, that the court OF d
queen makes more obviously for hu-
manity and for morality than does thai
of a king. At the present time, it is
true, most of the European monarchs
have a singular!y coed record, and
some of them are clearly on higher
level than the average OF their SUD
iects. All are humane men, some are
even men of an austere morality, and
the presidents Of the two great repub-
lies Of the world are embodiments OF
the homely virtues which are the bull
warks of national strength. But we
cannot forget that it has not always
been so; nay, that it was not so but a
few years ago; that the world has not
forgotten the orgies Of Louis Napoleon
or Of the great galantuomo Of the house
of Savoy, and it knows that what has
been may easily be again. But it is i'm
possible to-day for the first lady" of
any land not to be a force making for
morality; it is impossible for her to be
other than a woman of purity Of life,
and so an example to the nation. We
pardon Victor EmmanuePs amours Tor
at least we overlook them) for the sake
of his courage and devotion; but no
pardon could or would be extended to
a woman On the throne who had lapsed
from virtue or had even given reason
able occasion for the tongue of scandal.
Who will deny that this is great gain
for the great sovereignty of a crowned
re n1l hlic 2"
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-11
WOMEN AT MEMS COLLEGES.
There Has Been Large Increase
I'm the Number of Girls At
tending Yale.

Women are rapidly invading the do
main of the men in college work in
America as they are competing with
the members of the sterner sex abroad
The large number of women students
enrolled in the graduate department Of
Yale at the present time calls attention
10 a feature of academic life which is
assuming larger proportions every
year. 1t was in 1892 that the educa-
tional world was somewhat startled by
the information that the corporation
Of Yale had decided to open its grad
uate department to bachelors of art
without distinction of sex, and. there
were many forewarnings concerning
the failure of such an iconoclastic de-
parture.
During the six years that the expert
ment has been under way the women
students have had to struggle against
innumerable difficulties, but it is be-
Geved that at last they have established
their position upon a permanent foot
ing. There is hardly any member of
the faculty who does not have a good
"Olu ~ say III lAelI idfOT, anu even the
undergraduates are beginning to re-
gard their presence upon the campus
with Indifference. The official cata-
logue of the present year has not yet
been published, but it is known that
there are, at the present time, about 40
women students at Yale, and there are
not lacking those who claim that it
would be impossible to find among the
$500 members OF the university 40 stu
dents who contribute more to the real
scholarship of the institution, and who
are regarded with greater respect by
the professors under whose instruction
they come.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-11
AptIy Criticised.

One of the best criticisms of Scott's
novels was given by an Irish cobbler
as related in the biography of William
Stokes"
DIR. Stokes had often loaned the cob
bier odd volumes of Scott to read,
Walking beside him one day on the
road, the doctor said:
'Well, Denny, what did you think OF
the last book lent you?"
'It's a great book intirely, docther,
an Sir Walter Scott's a thrue his
torian."
''I'm inclined to agree with you, re
piled Dr. Stokes. ''But what do you
mean exactly by calling him true his
torian?" E5 ee 8E
81 name, your honor, he's thrue his
torian because he makes you love your
d."-Youth's Companion.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-11
He Had No Choice.

The wife of a dynamo tender went to
a kaberdasheE's TO buy a necktie for
her husband. She selected a brilliant
red one, ready made; whe-e dp1E ti,e
young and inexperienced salesman,
with compassion for the future owner,
was moved to remark:
Excuse me. missus, is this for Your
husband5"
1T is, said the woman.
Don't you think he'd rather have
some other color? I'm afraid he won't
wear this rcd tie" i
~oh, yes, he WILL" said the woman,
hrnly; he'll have to-he's dead
Electrical Review.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-11
A CHRISTMAS LETTER.
Issued by Firm of Shoe Merchants
which Dickens would Have
Liked to Know.

We subjoin, with much pleasure, a
copy of letter from large wholesale
shoe house to its employees, who found
it in their pay envelopes on Christmas
eve.
We wish this letter could be read by
every merchant and manufactures
throughout the morld.
1t is the kind of greeting and prac-
teal demonstration of good will toward
employees, which, if generally followed,
would 60 far toward allaying unrest
and murmurings among the employed,
thus bringing us nearer the time when
justice and liberality in the world of
commerce and industry shall replace
tyranny and avarice:
Our business for the past year has
been fairly satisfactory.
"We feel disposed to share, in meas
ure, with our employees, and we here
with incIose check for -, which is
ten per cent. of your salary for the
year 1895. This we have done TO all
our store employees who have been with
US for one year or more.
"yVe want your help and cooperation
to make this business still more of a
success in 1899 than it was in 1898.
when 60 intelligent people are COM
bincd in their efforts toward one end.
success is sure to follow, and we want
cacn one to 90 his ugs 0st to make this
business a success ara show big in
rcase in 1899, and to save every dollar
lie can to the house.
''1'he united efforts of all will perform
wonders in improving our service and
reducing loss to the house through
carelessness or in other ways.
"It is to this end that we make this
division of profits, as we want every
person to feel that he is just as much
interested in the success Of the house
as We are, and also that the amount
of his salary is contingent upon the
success of the business.
"In this connection there is a rule
which we think should apply-all er
ness or inattention of any employe be
charged to the person making the err
ror. and all absences be deducted from
salaries.
1--WE shpll be pleased to have you re.
main with us another year, salary the
same as in the past Kindly give US
your reply to this in writing at once.
eve would also ask you to give US
in writing at as early a date as pos
sible the suggestions that may occur to
you in regard to an improvement of the
service and a possible saving of cost
in running your department. Yours
truly,
"P. S.-We learn that employees in
many houses now have combined and
have among themselves an insurance
against sickness or accidents. We would
suggest that it would be wise thing
for cur employees to do this, and hope
you will confer together in regard to
it."-Hide and Leather.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-11
building Thousand years old.

land is remarkable building, evident
ly very ancient, but wonderfully well
preserved, at Dingle, in County Kerry.
1t is popularity known as the "Oratory
of Gallerus." Who Gallerus was history
does not say, but as the oratory has
stood practically uninjured for more
than 1000 years he was probably one
of the converts of ST. Patrick.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-11
The English LanGuage.

A correspondent Of the London News
notes the growth of the use of English
on the continent. Wherever he went
he was able to converse with states
men and diplomats in his native tongue
He found that as a rule the governing
classes in Europe could understand and
speak English. In the Russian royal
family especially English is the IA
miliar language of conversation. The
car, for instance, invariably speaks in
English to the czarina and his little
daughters.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-11
Evidence TO the Contrary.

They were speaking of the heavy,
brutal-lool1ing man.
81 saw him in fight once" said ore
''You did?" exclaimed the other.
We'll, then he lied to me-"
"What did he tell you?"
Gle said he was a professional pugil-
st."-Chicago Post.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-11
Mushrooms as a Vaccine.

According to paper recently com
municated to the Academic des Sci
ences, Paris, NJ. PhisaliX has found that
some kinds of mushroom afford vac
cine" against the venom of snakes. The
Juice of the mushroom renders person
immune against yipers for a month or
two.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-11
You Can't Always Tell

Here is an account Of another beg
gar who died in apparent poverty, and
after his dealt it was found that he had
several bank books and some valuable
securities"
'The moral of which is, never be dis
respectful to your poor relations."-
Puck
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-11
cocoanut Shells for Fucg,

Cocoanut shells make excellent fuel.
The enormous amount of oil they con-
tain causes them to take fire at once.
Many hotelkeepers in England reeog-
nize the fact and buy large quantities
of them to mix with coal, as freight
erS
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-11

Canadians tn the House of Eortis.
Canada has three of her sons sitting
in the house of lords. viz, Baron Hall
burton the earl of CarnWath ard the
earl of Elgin,
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-08
Counsel for Dreyf,s Seek Out
side Assistance.
PLANS TO INSURE ACQUlTTAL.
summons For Late Foreign military At
taches-Eloquent Appeal Made TO
Emperor william and Hing
Humbert to Permit Subjects
to Give Testimony.

NJ. Labor telegraphed personal ap.
peals to Emperor william and King
Humbert to grant permission to Colo
mel Schwartzkoppen and Colonel Pa
nizzardi, German and Italian military
attaches in Paris in 1894, to come TO
Rennes TO testify in the trial of Cap
tain Dreyfus. This is the news of the
day, and the chief topic Of conversation
in the cafes and resorts of the Journal
lists this evening.
The appeals were couched in elo-
quent terms, invoking the assistance
of their majesties in the name of JUS
tice and humanity. They are quite
supplementary to the formal applica-
ton that will be made by the govern
ment commissary, Major Carriere.
The demand of NJ. Labor that the
court-martial should issue process,
subject to the approval of the two
sovereigns, came like a thunderbolt at
Tuesdays session. The step is fraught
with momentous consequences, as it
affords Emperor William an opportu-
nifty again to assume his ~favorite role
Of arbiter of the d~estinies Of the world.
No N will be surprised If Colonel
Schwartzkoppen, in the name of the
kaiser, makes a declaration that will
practically decide the result Of the
trial.
The first witness who was called to
the bar was Reporter Bassett, whom
the Matin sent to London to interview
Major Count Ferdinand Walsin Ester
hazy. The witness deposed that Es-
terhazy confessed to him that he
wrote the bordereau under orders from
Colonel Sandherr, who was then chief
OF the secret intelligence bureau. The
order, Esterhazy said, was to catch
the traitor at the headquarters of the
general staff, whom Esterhazy after
ward said was Captain Dreyfus.
Captain Dreyfus arose and in a clear
voice emphatically insisted that the
circular Of May II, 1893, announcing
that the practitioners would not go to
the maneuvers was written in the
clearest language, which the court
would see il it were read. He reiter-
ated that he had never asked to go
to the naneuvers, for he was abso-
lutely convinced that such a request
would not be granted.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-08
KEARSARGE is A SWIFT SHIP
Shows Az Average Speed OF Seventeen
and u Quarter Knots.

Shows Az Average Speed OF Seventeen
and u Quarter Knots.
The official reading of the log gave
the first class battleship K~earsarge,
which went on her trial trip, a speed
Of seventeen and %one-fourth knots.
which speed was retained nearly half
an hour. This is considered as phe-
nominal in view of the fact that the
vessels bottom is in a pretty filthy
condition, having been in the water
continuously for nearly thirteen
months. The steam and hand steering
gear were subjected to the most severe
tests, the mass of steel and iron re-
spending to her wheel almost as readi-
ly as a steam launch.
On the first trial she made n semi
circular turn inward, which was a sue
cess in every particular. All the ar
NOR and main battery of the K~earsarge
Is in place. Her secondary battery
will be placed on board, and she will
60 to New York for equipment.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-08
Saturday, September 2.

Authorities are after a Lincoln con.
cern which sells diamonds on the in.
stallment plan, but which is supposed
to be a clever lottery scheme.
The different companies Of the FRS,
Nebraska were warmly welcomed at
their home towns. At Creighton, where
there was but one soldier, they gave a
banquet and a big time, and honored
the solitary soldier until he became
worn out.
The monthly weather report shows
that the month of August was a little
hotter than usual, the average for the
month having been rs, against the
average of IS for the last fifteen years.
The maximum velocity of the wind was
forty-eight miles an hour, on August IL.
A stranger giving his name as Duck
Allen was found across the railroad
track at Lincoln too drunk to walk.
On his person was found a letter say
ing: Dear wife, am at Crete and
what is worse, l am drunk" The let.
ter then went on to state that by the
time she received the letter he would
be dead. He was taken ear of by the
police.
The East Lincoln Milling and
Manufacturing company, which has
just completed a large cereal mill on
North Twenty-seventh street, will be.
gin operations in a few days. The
products turned out will be hominy,
pearl barley, fake wheat, a line Of
breakfast foods and vinegar. The
waste Of the factory will be fed TO
cattle.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-08

Some Lincoln post-ofice emplove.
have named themselves the "Busbnen
Sluggers," and will try to warm Nm
the p~ost-ofice employees of Omaha.
Charles Yancey and "Sloppy" Smit,
the two men arrested in Des Moines
for the shooting Of a Northwestern
passenger conductor Wednesday, nre
possessed of a police record in Omaha
They are alleged TO have been members
Of the Mcvey gang. In the event Of
their being discharged by the Iowa
authorities the police say they may be
brought to this city to answer unset.
tied charges.
John II. Hopkins, warden OF the
state penitentiary, fled suit in the dis.
trict court yesterday against the Lin.
coin Cooperage Company, +. NJ. Hall
and Elizabeth c. Welch, for SO, 49,. "a.
claimed due from the company accord.
ing to a contract made in September,
1897, with Warden Leidigh. The case
has been expected some time, having
been promised by the state authorities
since a demand was made for a settle.
ment and the settlement refused.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-08


Yellow fever has appeared at Vim
ccnncs, Ind, Key West and New Or
leans.
San Domingo rebels await the COM
ing of General Jiminez. They have
faith in his leadership.
A boiler explosion at the Republic
Iron works at Pittsburg, Pa, shortly
before daylight Friday, killed five men
and seriously injured seven. Fire
which broke out following the explo-
sion added to the horror. The mill
was partly wrecked and the entire
plant was compelled TO close down.
Friday was a very satisfactory day
for Captain Dreyfus, the testimony be-
ing weighty and almost wholly In his
favor. The Beaurepaire witness, Ger.
main, who was to prove that Dreyfus
attended the Alsatian maneurers
found his statements denied by q repu.
table witness while German himself,
IL was proved, underwent two convic-
tions for swindlipg. This was the
only testimony against Dreyfus, the
remainder of the dispositions being In
his favor, several of them being
very weighty, as In the case of Captain
Carvalho, General Sebert, and Major
Hartman, who testified that Dreyfus'
acquaintance with military movements
had no solid basis.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-08
Monday, September 4.

The yellow fever at New Orleans and
Key West Is now under control.
Walter Endee OF Chicago, killed his
wife and child and then hung himself.
Thirty buildings were burned at Bay
City, Mich, In which the loss by fire is
estimated to be $4,000.
A terrible forest fire is raging near
Englewood, s. ID. II has reached q
strip of timber twenty miles wide.
Herman Felzenthal, president of the
Bank of Commerce, died Sunday from
heart disease, at Chicago.
Weather permitting, the Shamrock
will take her initial spin under racing
sails in American waters today.
Wedding invitations are out for the
marriage of Julia Dent Grant to Prince
Michael Cantacuzene, September 25.
Three men were killed on the Chicago
& Northwestcl n railroad near Cedar
Grove, Wis, by being run down on q
grade.
food stuff advancing and people are
fleeing from Johannesburg on account
Of the expected war between Great
Britain and the Beers.
Disastrous forest fires are raging
in the southern portion of Calhoun
county, Ark, and great damage has
already been done. Unless rain comes
20 the loss will be incalculable.
One of the subjects to be considered
at the convention of the American
bankers association, which begins at
Cleveland today, will relate to the es-
Establishment Of a comprehensive credit
rating system.
About one thousand persons, includ-
ing representatives of a number of
labor organizations, yesterday cele-
brated sixtieth anniversary of the
birth Of Henry George at the Grand
Central Palace, New York.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-08
Tuesday, September B..

Seven lives were lost in the sinking
of a sailboat at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Black Hawk. the noted Winnebago
chief, died at Black River Falls, Wis
The G.. A. II. encampment attend
ance at Philadelphia is up to the av.
erage, and the attractions are greater
than ever before.
In the last Of the trial races at New
port, Il. L., for the defender Of the
Americas cup, the superiority Of the
Columbia over the Defender was ad.
mitted.
In the strike of British seamen at
South Shields, England, 1000 men
have gone out, and they express a de-
termination to remain idle until their
demands are granted.
Two men have confessed to murder
ing young koeller while at school ut
Dixon, Ill. This has cleared up q
mystery for which. a number Of sus-
poets have been arrested.
A dispatch from the Transvaal coun.
try says the Beers long for fight, veto
any peace plans of president Kruger.
and are ready to declare war in forty
eight hours. They are confident OF
their ability to whip the British.
Charles Bentheim, at one time EN-,
ployed in a German government Office
as a map eng raver, but who is now in
this country, says German officers
bought maps and army secrets OF
French officers, and that they were
shipped from France in the bodies O.
dolls.
In the Dreyfus trial today, foreign
testimony was admitted against tn,
prisoner, and NJ. Labor will now in
sist on admitting the telegram from
the French ambassador ut Rome, re,
ferring to payment to Esterhazy by al
Italian agent, which has been refused
before because M foreign testimon,
was to De taken. Six to ten days Il
the outside limit for the further dura
ton of the trial.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-08
HE Is TIRED OF WAITING.
Food Commissioner Will Sue the Auditor
For Salar

Food Commissioner viii Sue the AuditoI
For Salary.
Mandamus proceedings will be com.
menced by Food Commissioner Hib-
bard against Auditor Cornell to secure
the allowance of a salary claim. Audi
tor Cornell was reported to have al.
lowed Mr.. Hibbard's salary last week
after he had paid a disputed appropri.
alton of 81 500 to the state horticul-
tural society, but the report turned out
TO have been a mistake.
The food commission law created a
food commission and closed with the
assertion thai an annual appropria-
tion of SIS 900 should be made to up
port the commission, but that the
amount paid for salary and expenses
should not exceed the amount Of fees
received by the commission. Auditor
Cornell doubted that the bill legally
carried an appropriation with it.
The Red Cloud chief., 1899-09-08
AWFUL TALE OF SHlPWRECK.
Two Survivors Of Fifteen on q Nor
wegian Bark.

Two Survivors of Fifteen on q Nor
wegisn BARK.
The British steamer Woodruff has
arrived fromHamburg. On August 81,
ESQ miles south Of Charleston, the
Woodruff picked up Maurice Anderson
and Goodmund Thomasen, survivors OF
the Norwegian bark Drot, wrecked
August Is off the Florida coast. Ander-
son is a raving maniac and his com
panion is shockingly mutilated from
bites of the crazed man. Thomasen
tells a dreadful story. The captain OF
the Drot and seven seamen were swept
overheard and lost in the recent West
Indian hurricane. The mate and seven
other men put TO sea on q raft made
from decking. The raft parted soon
after, and the mate and one man were
separated from the others. The mates
companion was landed at Philadelphia
by the German steamer Titania on Au-
gust 90. He stated that the mate sui
cided. OF the six men on the other
part of the raft one became crazed
from exposure and jumped into the
sea. The others, exhausted from suf-
fering, fell overheard and were lost.
Anderson, Thomasen and q German
seaman drew lots as to which should
be eaten, as non of them had had a
mouthful to eat since they took to the
raft. The lot fell to the German. He
was killed and the blood sucked from
his veins by the survivors.
Soon after Anderson lost his reason
and savagely attacked his only COM
panion. Thomasen's breast and face
were bitten in several places, chunks
of good size being torn out. Both men
are now in the Charleston hospital, and
the Norwegian consul has taken the
case in hand.