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TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 8, 1891.
A)" .EXJJI'PLE FOR 0 UR Boy‘s.
The Ansonia Sentinel pertinently
says that the career of the late Secre-
tary of the Treasury, William Windom ;
contains a noble lesson to our strug—
gling young men.
deepest obscurity.
humble Quakers and at an early age he
vas apprenticed to a tailor. It was
while sitting on his bench that he first
showed the traits which have since led
him to eminence. He determined to
do his best and he became known as a
skillful workman with the needle.
Then he also became possessed with a
desire for an education, and entering
an academy he studied hard and
worked harder. Law had its attrac-
tions for him and he had mastered its
intricacies before he had mastered his
elementary education.
From law he drifted into politics and
when he moved to Minnesota he soon
became a leading lawyer and politician
——a politician of honor, it must be re-
membered, and not a heeler. He was
elected to congress, serving with ability;
sent to the senate, where he made a
name as a wise legislator, and from
thence into President Garfield’s cabi-
net. Then when President Harrison
looked around him for his advisers he
selected Mr. lVindom for his old posi-
tion because he was an accomplished
student of finance. Mr. W'indom’s
career from the humble home of Quaker
parents to the proud position he. occu-
pied at the time of his death, was the
result of application; the determination
to do his best in whatever station he
occupied. As at the tailor’s bench he
did his work well, so when at the head
of the nation’s finances he did his best
and gained the esteem and good will
and respect of all parties and nations.
Therein lay his power. He did not
wait until he held an important position
before he did his best. He did it at all
times. He did not think because he
was making a 20th that he would shirk
the work and get the job off his hands.
He followed the rule which has led so
many others before him to the height
of success and will lead many more in
the future. It is a lesson to young men
to do whatever they have to do to the
best of their ability.
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ES THERE A HONEY PLANT?
Trying to Find One at the Michigan .1:-
ricultural Experiment Station.
Professor A. J. Cook has been experi-
menting with three so called honey.
plants, in the hope that he might find
something that could be zelied on year
after year to furnish bee naitar. The
three plants were the Cleome mtegrifo-
lie. or Rocky mountain honey plant, the
lirhinops spherocephalus or Chapman
honey plant, and a foreign mint of the
:n-nus Melissa. The bees visited the
cachinops freely and obtained consider-
able honey. just at the time of year
triten otherblossoms were scarce. But
this would not be so dis-
Even
So the exp" :rwnt with the echi-
unsu- . l. The (lemme
must be planted. in autumn. Professor
(300k obtained some of
{'nlor::.'lo and planted it.
1
.mp5 “1135
did us: come up well in Michi-
;":12. though some of it was piani-
r-l upon 1:-.ly toil and other upon
c253: ground. Again, the flowers did
a bees worked
1,. secrete nectar, and 11h ._
on (2cm only occesi )nally.
211: 5) was a <li:3‘.:ppidutment.
Of the 111011.25’1L Profuase-r Cook sr j's:
The inelissa is an annual. 'We planted
if for two succr "-‘Lve yer It did well,
* iv and v 15 visited very
The clcome
l 1
3.. \somcd fr;
"‘15. continue to bloom for a month or
more. I regret to ny that it will not
self seed, and must be planted annually.
This is expensive, and it is doubtful if it
will pay. It is to be said, however, that
mclissa, in common with the other
mints, seems to attract the bees at all
times of bloom, whatever the season. So
i. am of the opinion that if any plant will
pay rxclusively as a honey plant it will
be some mint. Many of these are peren-
nial. As the three acres of melissa last
s:;xs<ni was singing with bees all through
the time of blossoming. and as our bees
swarmed in early August, a thing un—
' precedented in Michigan, it gives reason
‘to hope that with a large average we
might secure a honey crop each year
despite the season.
Thus I believe our experiments indi-
cate that special planting for honey
alone is of doubtful practicability; that
echinops and cleome, at least, are not
the plants for such special planting if. it
is ever to be a success, and that while
melissa or bee balm is not profitable, as
it is an annual, it is possible that the
perennial mints are the plants, if any
such there be, that will pay us to grow
exclusively as honey plants.
Unless cleome will seed itself it is not
the plant even for wayside planting. I
think we must look to some of the per-
sistent mints, or more probably to some
plant valuable for other purposes even
to plant on the roadside and in waste
places.
I hope next to try melilot or sweet
clover, not so much to find whether it is
a valuable honey plant, as we know that
now, but rather to find if this luxuriant
and vigorous clover may not have other
important uses; possibly for silage. I
shall also hope to plant small beds of
promising mints, in hopes for hints of
some plant that rill. pay just for nectar
and nothing else.
Mr. IVindom was Q
born poor and his early life was one of .
His parents were '
,‘ no won/loosens
iThe Last Sad Rites Over Our La-
menfed Cabinet. Officer. '
: WASHINGTON IN MOURNING ‘
. The Services Conducted at the Secreta-
ry’s Lute. the
Church of the Covenant—Diany
Floral: Tributes.
Residence and in
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Funeral services
over the remains of the late secretary of
the treasury, Hon. \Villiam VVindom, were
day. The vast concourse comprised more
officials of President Harrison’s adminis-
tration than have ever before gathered to-
gether in one edifice. The scene was im—
pressive in its solemnity and awe inspiring
in its simple grandeur. Gathered within
the walls of the stately white marble
church were the nation’s greatest states-
men, the most renowned diplomats of for—
eign countries, the highest oflicers of the
army and navy of the United States, the
most brilliant women of the social
world, while mingling in the vast
crowd were many whose plain dress be-
spoke their position'in social life, and em-
phasized the great truth that “death levels
all, rank.” To a large majority of those
present the dead secretary was personally
known, his long public service having
given him an extended and varied ac-
quaintance, and with many he was per-
sonally, as well as officially, intimate.
began filling with carriages and pedestri-
ans bent on the sad mission of paying a
last tribute of respect to the dead. Grad-
ually the space about the church filled up,
private residence on Massachusetts
Congress on Saturday adjourned over to
attend the funeral.
Buildings Closed.
The executive departments, district gov-
ernment. buildings. postoflices and public
schools were closed in respect to the mem—
ory of the deceased. The supreme court of
the United States met and I'CCOSe'lxl until
after the funeral services. The entire city
seemed to be in mourning; the flags on the
executive departments drooped at half-
mast about their staffs; the great treasury
building, the scene of the secretary’s great—
est achievements, and all its bureaus
heavily draped in mourning, rendered the
scene about the city decidedly impressive.
The navy department shrouded in mourn-
ing for George Bancroft, late secretary of
the occasion.
pervaded the entire city.
At 11 o’clocka private service for the
family and intimate personal friends was
conducted at the family residence. Rev.
Dr. Hamlin, of the Presbyterian Church
\Vindom. the Misses lVindom, the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Harrison, Secretary and
Mrs. Blaine, Secretary and Mrs. Proctor,
Secretary and Mrs, Noble, Secretary and
Mrs. Rusk, Attorney General and Mrs.
Miller, Postmaster General and Mrs. “Tana-
maker, Secretary Tracy, Mr. Charles M.
Hendley, Secretary VVindom’s private sec-
retary, and Mrs. Lucretia Garfield.
t does not bloom until the sec- 5
. ands‘eed must be planted every ;
' Before the remains of Secretary \Vindom
reached the church the doors were opened, .
:..-:11» at any time and so prove a 511- i and those “having cards for reserved seats
‘ . . w ere admitted.
- edifice and the space that was left was soon
The church had been .
,5 appropriately decorated for the occasion.
Upon the platform were placed a number ‘
' 2.1g. but the seed may fail to ger— i
it fresh from ,
He found it 3
‘ tempt at decoration, being in consonance .
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At the Church.
At the conclusion of the private services .
the funeral cortegc moved to the church. ‘
' private advices that make me confident of
These nearly filled the
filled by the public.
of drooping palms, which was the only at-
with the well known simplicity of the Pres-
byterian faith.
Banked against the foot of the altar .
were a number of floral pieces, the offer- l A- MOI‘I‘OW, 0f the FlI‘St United States in-
;ings of friends. i
were a design from the plate printers of
, the bureau of engraving and printing, ‘
, with the legend “Plate Printers, 3,837” in
' violets, inserted in a bed of white roses,
Among the offerings
fringed with ivy; a floral wreath from Mr.
1 and Mrs. Hitt, a floral cross from the sec-
' I . V" » . retar "s of’fic ' n p '
generally by the bees. It grows w:.-s.l on ; 3 e’ d“ d a Shleld from the office
both sand and clay, and bysowing early .
will commence to bloom early in July i
of the register of the treasury.
Dr. Hanllin’s Eulogy.
At ten minutes before 12 o’clock the re-
mains of Secretary Windom arrived at the
church, and Dr. Hamlin recited the begin—
ning of the burial service, commencing
with the words, “The Lord giveth, and the
Lord hath taken away.”
The casket, borne on the shoulders of
eight members of the United States treas-
ury guard, was preceded up the broad
aisle by the members of the cabinet, who
constituted the honorary pall bearers,
namely, Secretaries Blaine, Proctor,
Tracy, Noble," Rusk, Postmaster General
\Vanamaker and Attorney General Miller.
The honorary pallbearers were followed
by members of the family—Mr. YVil’liam D.
: \Vindom and Mrs. \Vindom, the Misses
\Vindom, brother and sister-in-law of the
late secretary; Mr. Charles M. Hendley,
Ms. and Mrs. J. Stanley Brown, Mrs. Gar-
field, and the members of the \Vindom
household; the president and Mrs. Har—
rison, Mr. Russell Harrison and wife, Mrs.
McKee and Mrs. Dimick. '
\Vhen all were seated the choir sang
“Jesus Lover of My Soul,” after which the
Rev. Dr. Hamlin read selections from the
Revised Testament. The hymn, “In the
Cross of Christ I‘glory,” was then render-
ed by thc choir with excellent effect. Dr.
Hamlin, without taking a text, epitomized
ceased in the words:
“Charming, affable, of unfailing cour—
tesy, of quiet dignity, of beautiful refine-
ment, a lawyer of wide reading and marked
talent, a legislator of unswerving industry
and undaunted courage, a prominent
financier of broad views and sound policy,
of abundant aggressiveness and of safe
conservatism, a man unsullied, a citizen
of unflinching patriotism, a model hus—
band and father of tenderest manly love,
a Christian of sturdy faith and sincere
simplicity—such was William Windom,
and such all men knew him in his long and
varied public career.” .
He likened the deceased to Lincoln and
Garfield in his early career and public
Origin, and the energy he displayed in ris-
ing above his surroundings. He pictured
his early struggles, and glancing at his eu-
held at the Church of the Covenant Mon- I
The hour fixed for the funeral ceremony
was 12 o’clock, but by 10:30 o’clock the av— '
enues and streets leading to the church _
and at 12 o’cloek, when the remains of 8150— l
retary VVindom were brought from his 3'
av- ;
enue locomotion had become ver ’difl‘icult. ‘ . A
’ 5 ; old, the daughter of George H. Potts, a
allow members of the res ective houses to ‘ ., . . . . .
p , bury Park, l\=. J ., dled of morphine person-
the navy, and the department of justice '
draped in mourning for the late Attorney 2
General Devens, added to the solemnity of ;
Indeed, an air of sadness '
of the Covenant, officiated. Among those .
present at the private services were Will- :
iam D. \Vindom, son of the secretary; Mrs.
.his conception of the character of the de- ?
‘ doubtedly a hoax. Mrs. George M. Price, of
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tranceointo public life, gave a succinct out-
line oflhis pelitical career.
His course in the senate was touched
upon and Mr. VVindom was praised as the
compccr of \Vade, Conkling and Hen—
E dricks, with whom he served. The speaker
3 then touched upon the financial career of ,
3 Mr; VVirndom, andhe was classed with ,
Hamilton, Gallatin and Chase in his cou- ;
duct of than treasury, and his last effort in
New Yorlc was characterized as a proper
closing to a. conservative career.
At the close of the services the body was
slowly borne- from the church, and amid a
' sea of revere-idly bowed and uncovered
j heads the‘fnnzeral cortegc started toeonvey
‘ to its final resting place all that was mor-
tal of ‘Villiam W'indom.
,nonmmt HENRY carrunnn.
He Stole a Million and a Half in Canada
:vaid Flcd to lVchico.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—The Pinkerton de-
tective agency in this city has been in—
formed by its agent in the City of Mexico
that the Mexican police had arrested James
N. Henry, who‘is wanted in Canada on the
charge of robbing the Bank of Montreal of
cash and secui-itziw amounting to $1,500,000.
Henry’s big haul was made on Dec. 13
last. He was an exchange broker at
Chatham, Ont., and usually carried a large
:amount of the bank's securities. ()n the
above date he disappeared, and an investi-
gation showed that the theft was one of
the largest that ever occurred in Canada.
: He was known to have crossed the Ameri-
can border, but by the time Pinkerton’s
'men were notified he was probably in
Mexican territory.
In the early part of January the Mexican
authorities were notified of the robbery,
and were given a full description of the
stolen securities. All the banks in that
republic were also notified. In the mean-
time a stranger had arrived in the City of
Mexico and attempted to negotiate certain
securities with the agency of a London
bank. They kmew that the securities were
'part of those stolen irom the Bank of
Montreal, and the. latter institution was
advised of Henry’s whereabouts. Detect-
ives were sent after him, and his arrest fol-
lowed.
The prisoner will start for Canada this
"week.
.An Aumteur Pharmacist’s Deadly \‘lork.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.~—Helen Potts, 20 years
wealthy railroad contractor living at As—
ing at the Comstock select school. The
drug had been prescribed to her for in-
somnia by Carlyle XV. Harris, a young
medical student and a friend of the un—
fortunate young girl‘s family. Miss Potts
wasahandsmne brunette and was an ac-
complished musician and singer. About a
year ago she. entered the school where she
died tolinish her studies. Young Harris
had been very attentive to the girl and had
taken her to theatres and concerts, but
always under the chaperonage of his
mother. The young man is liable to arrest
for making out the prescription.
Green Goods lVIen Arrested.
ERIE, Pm, Feb. 3,—Cliarles and Eugene
Duryea, two green goods swindlers, were
arrested by Constable Shreve near Union
City in a very Clever manner. They had
made an appointment. with Miles \Vulrod,
a butcher, to meet him in the woods near
that place, and for :R300 deliver to him the
sum of $5,000 in spurious currency. W's". -
rod concealed Constable Shreve in a large
meat box on his wagon, where the officer
overheard all the conversation, and at the
proper time, with the aid of \Valrod, he
captured the swindlers. Emma Duryea. a
sister of the defendants, is now under bail
‘to appear at the next term of quarter ses-
sions to answer to the same charge. More
arrests will follow.
O’Connor Is Hopeful.
WAsnixGrox, Feb. 3.—Hon. T. P. O’Con-
nor is at the Arlington. “I can tell you,”
: .he said toa representative of the United
Press, “that there is every prospect of a
satisfactory conclusion of the Boulogue
conference. Indeed, I have recently had
.a speedy adjustment of all difficulties. So
far as home rule is concerned, while the
cause may have received a temporary back
set, it is sure to triumph in the end.” Mr.
O’Connor will remain in \Vashington sev-
eral days before sailing for Europe. On
his return to England he will begin the
publication of a Sunday paper, to be mainly
devoted to finance and politics.
Gen. Biol-row Dead.
HOT SPRINGs, Ark., Feb. 3.—-Gen. Henry
fantry, is dead. He had come here but a
few days ago in hope of recuperating his
health. Gen. Morrow entered the Mexican
war as a private, and when the civil war
broke out he was made colonel of the
Twenty-fourth Michigan volunteers. For
bravery 0n the field he was several times
promoted, being breveted major general
at the close of the war. He then entered
the regular service, in which he died. His
station at the time of his death was Fort
Sidney, Neb.
Think New Is the Elan.
lNDIANAPOLIs, Feb. 3. — Indianapolis
of President Harrison believe he will call
Col. John C. New home from London and
make him secretary of the treasury. It is
known among the friends of Mr. N cw here
that he could have had the secretaryship
of the treasury when \Vindom was ap—
pointed, but he desired a more remunera—
tive position and asked for and received
the appointment of consul general to Lon-
don. It is doubtful if Mr. New would
come home to take the secretaryship if it
should be offered him.
England \l'ius Her Point.
‘VAs'IIINGTOX, Feb. '3.——.ln the supreme
court of the United States Monday Chief
Justice Fuller announced that the court
had decided to grant the British govern-
ment leave to file an application for a writ
of prohibition in the Behring: sea matter.
A rule directing the district courts of
Alaska to show cause why the writ should
not be issued was made returnable on the
second Monday in April.
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Doc \Vilson Not Dead.
UXBRIIME, Mass, Feb. 3.—~’l‘he supposed
death of Doc \‘Vilson in Arizona is un—
this town, has justlreceivcd a letter from
\Vilson at Chicago stating that he was
alive and well, and had plenty of good
clothes and good cigars.
Struck Against low “‘ugcs.
FALL RIVER, Mass, Feb. ii.—J\l)f)llt twen—
ty weavers struck work at the l [:u'grcaves
mill, alleging low wages as the cause. A
delegation from their number waited upon
Agent Borden, but no satisfactory settle-
ment was reached.
They ‘Vcrc Jr‘ooling‘n'ith u Revolver.
LAXCASTIH, Pa, Feb. :E.-~l*’runk Ault
was probably family sue-.37 by his friend
and compumon, .lus-‘pil Cranier. 'l‘ne oovs
were feeling with a revolver, whiz-n was ,
discharged, the bullet entering Ault’s left
eye.
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