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GENTLEST OF MEN, SAYS HIS DAUGHTER. All Intl.:pate l'ortrAlt ore Respect for Children r pe 1“ii..i.cosio SP.Oeb Other It Meta Dominated Fireside Life Private Habit& (Speeuti (2orrespondence.) T is a melancholy fact that the imme- diate surroundings of a great man are usually the last quarter from which • he can hope for un- alloyed acciamae tion. Yet it must be that the little- , • nesses of the hero himself are to blame for the decay of his cult, for when some fortuitous conjunction of circumstances does produce a hero great enough to be tinder and con- siderate at home, it is in his family that he will reap the richest harvest of adoration, and at his fireside that he will find his most faithful adherents. It was my inestimable privilege to be born the child of such a man; one wit...3e sense of justice was so exact , \INto that he - v. everenced the rights of every creature i his environment with the same scrupu us consideration that he applied to great political questions— one who covered the failings of others with a mantle of charity and sympathy JEFFERSON DAVIS. so large that every penitent could find shelter beneath its folds and every weak or helpless creature assurance against oppression. We children always believed that there was no problem too abstruse, no natural upheaval too stupeneous to be dominated by our father. I remember distinctly crying to be taken to him in an earthquake and feeling perfectly safe and happy. when placed in his arms. Nor, on the other hand, did we ever feel that anything which annoyed or hurt us could be beneath his notice, for he was one of those delightful peo- ple who seem always possessed of an abundance of time to listen and an end- less store of sympathy to expend. The confidence we reposed In him was prob- ably the outgrowth of one of his maxims, to which he strictly adhered. He would often say. ''Never joke with a child or a savage; they will not un- derstand, and you will only destroy their confidence In you.\ Indeed, he carried this rule no far that he would give a scientifically accurate answer, although expressed in the simplest possible terms, to any queries put to him, and it is wonderful how universal- ly he made himself understood by chil- dren. Ile contended that even were his explanation beyond their compre- hension, they at least grasped the sin- cerity that animated his response to their honest questions. His sole deviation from this rule, If that could be called a deviation Which he would have gladly made his earnest request, was a little playful habit he had of asking his friend's children if they would not like to go home with him. His invitation was eagerly ac- cepted, even by the shyest. Indeed, he sometimes found a little traveler on the doorstep, waiting his departure, with a hoard of baby treasures gathered for the journey, and oh, the weeping and wailing from the would-be visitor when parental interference obliged my father to go away alone! It was the corollary of his democratic VARNA ANNIE DAVIS. faith In the vested right of every human being to the expression of an honest opinion -the doctrine of mental liberty that Induced him to listen patiently, as he always old, to the jejune opinions of the very young and impelled him or lginnlly . to champion the then tinpoeular effort to legalize negro t est Immey The necessity as well as the right (I/ free speech was nearly a mania with him, and made hirr al- most, invariably side with a child or slave against what he ealleii \Irmspon- table authority.\ It did not appear to him as, alas! it does to many grown people, that suppression Ls the only healthy spiritual food for children. and that logically, the little soul who has never been allowed to exercise its un- derstanding or rejoice in freedom of choice will thus be best fitted for the full and reasonable use of its liberty when it has come to years of discretion. On the contrary, my father was studiously careful to leave a power of decision with the very youngest, when It was poeallace, and hven where that was not the case his commands were als ways given in the form of a suggestion that left us with the flattering sense of having freely chosen to do his will for love of him. He never offered obedience at a rea- son for its own sake to the very most insigacant person. He had an abid- ing faith in the power of persuasion and common sense, which was certain- ly justified by the absolute subserv- ience he won to his wishes. He uncoil- eciously impressed it upon every one about him that he expected the best, their very best, of them In all things, and I think that this dignified attitude to humanity in general, united to his keen sense of justice, was the chief characteristic which won for hint such devotion from the Indians in his early life, and later from his negroes, who would appeal to him from the overseer with the assured confidence of chil- dren. eelying on the loving partisanship of a father. Where it was a matter of personal courage or self-control, he expected the utmost effort, but I have never known him neglect to smooth away the possi- bilities of friction where he found it practicable. In my own case I remem- ber that he never, by any chance, sent me on an errand at night, knowing that I shared the unreasonable terror of the dark common among children, but if I objected when some less considerate person bade me carry a message into that ghostly territory, he would look at me lovingly and say, \My little girl will go, I am sure; my brave little girl is not afraid of the dark,\ and I went up stairs with my knees shaking to- gether, but so proud of his confidence in my courage that nothing short of a lion in the way would have induced me to disappoint him. His anger against one who frighl t ened or abused a child was appalling. The deprivation of liberty visited upon young offenders was, he thought, in- comprehensible rreeltv. and the re- membrance of it he laid bitterly to heart. Once, when we were talking about a book on juvenile penology, he sat listening with his usual considerate attentior., then turned to my mother and asked her if she had forgotten their visit to a reformatory many years before the war. After telling me of the \poor little prisoners,\ he went on to speak of a small negro boy who, in- stinctively recognizing a friend, had caught him by the coat, with the plea, \Please buy me, sir, and take me home wid you.\ \I tried to procure the lit- tle fellow's liberty, and offered to take hime and guarantee his freedom,\ said my father, \but he was in a free state, and I could not get him. It was bad enough to keep white children there, but it was inhuman to ince! , cerate that irrespensible negro child.\ • WINNIE DAVIS. He extended his considerate kind- ness and respect for the seriousn6em of the nascent intelligence even toward the lower animate. I cannot remember ever seeing him take any of the liberties with his dogs that people usually think necessary to ingratiate themselves in the favor of the brute creation. He would pat his collies now and then, softly, as he might caress the head of a child. hut he never indulged In the common earpulling and romping. Yet the animals about Beauvoir fairly adored him, and seemed to priderstand the self-sacrifiers that took him daily to the sea shore, he the weather wet or dry, hot or cold. that thee might have their swim after the sticks he threw into the water for them Great as his affection WWI for dogs, hie love for a horse transcended it, and he seemed doubly endowed with that sixth sense horn in a truly good horseman which enables him In understand his mount and at the same time to make his horse trust and obey him. A horse was never simply a means of conveyanee to my father Each animal had a definite per sonality for him, too decidedly marked ever to be forgotten even after the lapse of years Ile Individdialized his saddle horses especially, however. and remembered their names and charac toriatics as one might those of tried friends In hie old age nothing pleased! him better than to talk of the four - footed companions of his earlier life, those useful friends by whom he was never misunderetood and In whom he found no shadow of turning VARNA ANNIE DAVIS. fitannIne Article. lie Was roet ed to the R.,ot Not f..ble'\ he gaeriedi dazedl by what he saw ranging only to he sure that the wo nan IIR I ly alighted from flit' Rt root ear while facing towarn the front, the knight errant hastened home and donned his heaviest eost of mail \She Is not fable,\ he kept mutter- ing to himself. \She exists.\ CRIME AT LEMONT. The Worst Go•erned Municipality on Earth 'The Citizens Basal 'Taken Af- fairs to nand Since the P Ire anti a Belga of Reform Has Begun. ALK DK TomA- hawk and scalping knife of earl) days when the defense of the graves of the fathers and the re- venge for injuries to person and prop- erty were the mov- ing spirits; talk of overthrow of em- pires where vast saiounts of property and kingly crowns were the price of valor; talk of knight- hood where death would be welcome rather than the oppression of the weak; talk of anything in fact where there is the slightest semblance of civilization, then turn to the scenes that have re- cently been enacted on the new drain- age canal and especially at Lemont, under the guidance of corrupt city of- ficials and a few others, and the mind recoils from the scenes as too awful to be even contemplated in a supposedly civilized, cultured and Christianized land. The saloons have been allowed to run wide open, day and night, gam- bling, drunkenness, debauchery, hold- ups, robberies have been so common that the public has almost grown accus- tomed to them and has endured rath- er than opposed. Among the late foul murders that stand out more promi- comMitted the murder was pointed out, nettling was done. There were many other tough scenes I In Lemont that night, sonic of which were tragic. Let us go back just a little and look at the case of Andrew Ry !ander, a !right) respected foreman on the drainage shamed, who held his po- sition with the same firm for fourteen years. He was generally a sober man and always considered honest and re- liable. On the night of his murder he was known to have on his person $2O. a revolver and watch. He Is known to have been in a number of different sa- loons and the report is current that he was last seen in a resort that Is said to pay heavy lips for \protection.\ In this establishment the lights were ex- tinguished and the man who was with Rynlander was run out. Next morning Rynlander was not at his post as fore- man. The firm suspected at once that something must be wrung. A few days later the body was found in the canal, money, watch and revolver gone. An effort was made by friends to detect the murderer, but no satisfactory solution of murder was unraveled by means of which the criminals might be brought to justice. These are but two, and the story of the score of others is bal., a repetition of what has been said of Rynlander and Szurpurt. The Swedes and Poles are aroused. Every respect- able citizen's indignation has been taxed beyond all forbearance. The ghosts of the Rynlander and Szurpurt multitude like haunting tragic night- mares cry out for revenge. Pulpit, press, the badge of mourning, and every home is crying out for freedom from this crime -stained, sin -cursed rule. The blood of the Rynlander mul- titude cannot be restrained. The Civic Federation Is quietly but carefully CORA QUINLAN. nently than the many others are those of Simon Szurpurt trnd Andrew Ryn- lander; the former born in Lemont of Polish parentage, the latter a Swede, who has lived many years in this coun- try. After each pay day vice and crime on \Smoky Row\ and some other tough dIstriets run wild and apparently wholly unrestrained. On the night of August 4, a little past midnight, in a saloon run by Peter Mh - kes and called \King of Hearts,\ on \Smoky Row,\ was enacted the foul murder of the young man Simon Szurpurt. whose pic- ture is printed here. Ile was but 19 years of age. He was married ouly a few weeks before to a young lady of about the name age. They hail been boarding with Village Trustee Kachon, who runs a saloon. About 11 p. tn. Kacbon closed his saloon on Main street, inviting Szurpurt to go with him to \Smoky Row.\ There were I went y or more persons in the \King of ANDREW RYNLANDER Ifeerta\ thinking. querroling and going through with the usual tough saloon program; mixed drinks and cocktail* seemed to be the order A quarrel arose, whereupon Szurpurt, who was always; ready to take the part of anybody need- ing help, etepped up to take the part of the weaker man The murderer than dealt the death blow in the ski n o f Szurpurt's head, tailoring him to fall helpless to the floor A nightwatr h men sits there and SAW it all A true tee was there and saw it all. Twenty men were there anti saw It all The coroner's inquest was held and while the man who was supposed to have working. Rev. J. P. Clancy has been sounding in trumpet tones the call for municipal reform: - The Cook County News has been a power for molding public senti- ment and urging for combined and im- mediate action to save Lemont and make otst of It an ideal town. Some little good has already been done. The saloons are now closed at 11 p. m. If it will only last that is one step in tne right direction. Lemont is to be a model town. Out of the burnt -out craters of vice and iniquity will be rearel institutions that will be an honor to civilization and enlighten- ment and culture and all that is en- nobling. The way has been made at as fe I cost. SAVED FROM EIOLMES. The only One of lbw illanIng Girl,. That Oa. Tornrwl I p. ('era Quinlan, about whom dark rumors had been circulated, is in Mich- igan well and happy. In connection with the many Insurance schemes of Ifolmee It is said that he had obtained an insurance policy upon the life of the daughter of \Pat\ and Mrs. Quin- lan, and that perhaps MIR had been made away with, and that If there was a girl In Michigan with the Quinlan relatives she Was Pearl Conner. But Cora says this Is all wrong, and so do the people around !sworn who haver known Cora and) her mother for a num- ber of years. \On the Fourth of July. 1891,\ she said. \my father. r. Holmes. Mrs Conner and Pearl came out to Lacota to visit my mother and myeelf All of them went hack after eptinding a week here, but she remained five weeke longer, when my father came and took her bark. My father Raid Mr. H01111(44 told him that Mrs. Conner had been married to a man who took her arid Pearl to California. 1 met Minryle Williams a number of times I w told that RIM. worked for Mr. Holmes. hut she did not act as If she was enioloyed by him. I do not re- member of seeing her later than two months after the first of Jaly.\ This assertion would coincide with the Psi dence Indicating that Minnie Willianor disappeered in the neighborhood of July 4. le9:1 All the personal memo: I A la of ('Sr lyle contained In the Chelsea h osss, lately turned Into a museum. consist of a battered trunk. walking stick, a a rPt , tiorl tin bath. a divirtdo top wash grand, and R stove pipe hat under a glass case. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report In the Callow Days of Youth He Meets the Maiden's Melting Eye. The first beau appears along about when we are 14 or ies There have been, of course, many little boy ad- mirers, but according to a writer the geauine gallant does not materialize until WI! put on long dresses and com- mence making ourselves up for young ladies, a comprehensive phrase that all girls will understand. lie is usually the brother of some special chum of ours, anti in this way we are enabled to see him more often than if we had no reason for going to his house. Be is exceedingly bashful before people, but can talk a blue streak when we are alone, lie squauders his allowances on ice cream, soda and caramels, and on rare occasions in- vites us to a church sociable or con- cert lie is always one of the group of youths who wait outside the church or Sunday school door, and he is the one always to escort us to our homes on such occasions. We are teased unmercifully about him and really enjoy it, dboiigh pre- tending to ba fearfully indignant and provoked about it. This sort of thing goes on until something happ)na, as some things have a way of doing, and either he goes away tomollege or we leave for boarding school, or perhaps a quarrel or change of residence occurs. At any rate, years perhaps will roll away before we see a bear led man who can bear the slightest resem- blance to a young, rosy-cheeked boy. Was She Complimented? A Lexington girl is puzzling her pretty head trying to find out wheth- er to consider it a compliment or not Here it is. Judge it for her: She is very bright and is something of a literateur. She visited in a country town and one of the rusti: youths thereabouts told her hostess that he would like to take her visitor to the picnic, but she was so smart that he was afraid of her. \You take her and I think you will be charmed,\ said the hostess. Well, he took her, and when he returned he drew his hostess aside and said. \I never had such a pleasant day before. Miss Mary is just as sweet as she can be. She just laid her intelligence aside completely all day.\ ale AMIN:Rai', Jest. Edward Everett Hale tells this: \A few years ago, in a fit of economy, our famous Massachusetts historical so- ciety screwed up Its library and other offices by some fifteen feet, built in the space underneath, and rented it to the city of Boston. This was very well for the treasurer, but for those of us who had passed sixty years, and had to climb up some twenty more iron stairs whenever we wanted to look at an old pamphlet In the library, it was not qttitet so much a benefaction. When Holmes went for the first time to see the new quarters if the society, he left his card with the words, 'O. W. Holmes, High-storv•eall society.'\ The Beheaded Bourbon Monarch, Louis XVI. did not behave with overwhelming dignity at his exeetitIon. On the contrary, he screamed for help, struggled with the exeeutionere, and . begged for mercy. Nor did the at- tendant priest say: \Son of SS Louis, ascend to heaven.\ The expression was used for hirn by a l'aris evening paper M:oldglr1 i5flgling for compliments , — Oh, .hear' W11011 the wind blows my hair like this. it makes no look bomber than ever Mr Newinnn earntoptiv i But I /I. - sure you it doesn't! (And he wondered where the cool breerecanie from )--Truth , 'The hghwaymen were foiled in thelr efforts te I hold tip the train •' \Who op- posed them ri \Nobody. it ran off the track before they mild get a crack at it.\ —Truth Pain IN hot eonduolve to pleasure, especially when orp-spinned iycorn.* itmeereoras will pletisr tot., (curl. remo•e• iiCtit 1...fleetly The word ascertain formerly meant nothing more than to dinke certain of a fact. Take Parker's Ginger Tonic home with yen. Yen son tied It to ...reed p.tir espe,lattess to abating ...Ida, sod many Iii.. aches aud wrilkuetwell. The most popular woman now is the women who can make good corn fritt are The Greatest fledical Discovery of the Age. KEINEDY'S MEDICAL DISCOVERY, DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS., Bas discovered in one of our common pasture weeds a remedy that cures every kind of Ilurmir.fr , sn the worst Scrofula du own to a c.)trirn , m Pimple. Ile has tried it in over eleven hundred rases, and never tilled extept in two CaSes (both thunder humor). Ile has nee in his possess it nfl t rver t hundred ertiticatcs of its value, all within twenty irides of Re's'. in. Send postal card for trot A . A benefit is always eaperiemed from the first bottle, and r perfect cure is war ranted when the right auantity is taken When the lungs are affected it causes sheoting pains, like needles passing thrmigh them, the same with the Liver or Bowels. Thi- i) callteti by the chsts being stopped, and always disierears in a week after taking it Read the label If the stoma, it is foul or it Will cause squeamish feeling) at tirst. No change of diet ever necessary. Eat the best VIM can get. rtIgil of' h Dose, one tahlespoenful in water at bed- time. S. 'Id by all I wise cuts She Caught the Wrong Mao. Pleasing down one of the side etreetai toward the main thoroughfare she thought she saw her husband in all the glory of hie new suit stand- ing on the corner. The clothes had come home the night before, and had been pronounced quite unique. \Not another like it in Boston,\ said ite wearer. Now this same husband is always railing at women for standing on the streets talking and impeding the progress of busy traffic. Deciding that she had caught him this time the lady gave the gay lounger a gentle poke with her parasol and said: \Really standing still on a corner, sweetheart''' . Lie turned around. It was another man. The Modern Beauty Thri) es on good nerd and sunshine, with plenty of t•xorciae. lit the open air. Her form glows with health and her face blooms with Its beauty. If her system needs the cleansing aetion of a laxative remedy, she uses the gentle and pleas- ant liquid laxative, Syrup of Figs. Beight of Men. According to Topittard, the average height of Laplanders is 60.7 inches; of Bushmen, 62; of Chinese. 61; of French , men, 85; of Russians. 65.4; of dier- mans, 66.2; of Danes, 68.2; of Irish- men, 67; of Englishmen, Scotchmen and Swedes, 67.4; of American Indiana, 88.8; of Patagoniatts, 70.3. ZIT1 1— \=\C`Aftrar. r_ilL'Erl': Pa rs\ Illarvelonacures. Treatise\ and e us trial buttle y free Ss Slice/sea, bead to Dr. itlineXIArcblit.,PhIla- A man can wish he is dead with the sat- isfaction of knowing that he has at lest made a wish that will some day Le granted. Piso's Cure for Consumption relieves the most obstinate coughs —Rev. D. Suellen eu.sa, Lexington, Mo., Feb. 24, '94. A Illatt'S misfortunes begin when he gent so old that when he does wrong his wean's' folks no longer say he was \coaxed.\ \Manmon'• Magic Corn thaws.\ Warranted to cure ..... ney rebinited. Amic yout druggist for it. Prise le cont.*. l'retty g,rls are %cry apt to treat their aequaintatrees as if they thought their yinitil and beauty would last forever. Coe , . Cough liallsam Is it. oldest and neat, it t. ill breair up atiold guise. Cr than anything else. It Is alwains reltable. Try it OMEN'S FACES VT —like flowers, fade and witlicr with tune, the bloom of the rose is only known to the healthy woman's cheeks. The nerv- ous strain caused by the ailments and pains peculiar to the sex, and the labor and worry of rearing a family, can often be traced by the lines in the woman' , i ice. Dull eyes, the ,allow or wrinkled face and those \ feelings of eeakuess\ have their rise in the derangerneuts and irregularities peculiar to women. 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