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BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC
How Julia W'ard How’s Great Song Was
\Vritten.
I heard Mrs. Julia. Ward Howe not
long ago tell how she came to write
her famous “Battle Hymn of the Re-
public,” and the story was so inter-
esting I have thought others may care
to hear it: ‘
“It was during the second year of the
war,” said Mrs. Howe, “that I had gone
to Washington with my husband and
my pastor, Rev. James Freeman Clark.
I had wished so many times that I
could do something for my country,
but the. way seemed closed. My hus-
band was too old and ill to go; my son
was only a. boy. My children were so
young I could not leave my home'for
long myself. While we were in Wash-
ington there was to be a. great review
of the troops across the river. We
drove out to see it. While this review
was in progress there was a dash made
against some of our troops by the en-
emy. It was repulsed, but the further
progress of the display was abandoned
and the troops came thronging back to
Washington, and we with them.
“The progress of our carriage was
very slow, the roads were so crowded
with the soldiers. To encourage the
men we began singing various songs
and hymns and they would join in the
chorus. After we had sung ‘John
Brown’s Body,’ Dr. Clark turned and
asked me why I did not write some new
words for that music. I said that I had
tried several times, but never could
seem to write any good enough.
“The next morning just about 4
o'clock I woke suddenly. As I lay there
in bed the words of the hymn began to
form themselves in my mind. I got
up, and by the faint light of the early
morning scrawled them on a piece of
paper, and then went back to bed and
sound sleep again.
“That is the way the hymn was writ-
ten. I tell the story today that any
who hear it may see that if we really
want to do a thing which is right for us
to do, God will open a. way, though not
perhaps the one we looked for. I could
not help my country as I wanted to, but
as gave it to me to write this hymn.”—
Max B. Thrasher, in Outlook.
4'. an
EMPRESS TAITOU.
Some Idiosyncrasies of Abysslni a's Rather
Remarkable Queen.
There is no European Queen Consort
filling a more dignified station than the
Empress Taitou, of Abyssinia. She has
I. large household of her own,,her lord
stewards, chamberlains. butlers, cooks
and guards. She directsall the grand
feasts, has immense appanages all over
;he empire. and resources in kind. She
’eads a. sedentary life because there are
no interesting promenades, but when
she shows herself in public she is sur-
'ounded with ladies, mounted on richly-
iarnessed mules, with runners, umbrel-
la bearers and other attendants. The
imbrellas are of many colors, but Tal-
:ou's is red.
The Empress is a. stickler for eti-
1uette, to which Menelek attaches no
mportance. Nobody who has not been
formally presented to her must gaze on
ier even within the precincts of the pal-
tce. She has a large kitchen garden,
which is one of her many delights, but
:he moment the red umbrella appears
:he gardeners mus: retire. All the serv-
tnts stand aloof with downcast eyes
is she walks by. Not taking much ex-
ercise, Taitou is lost in fat. She is won-
verfully well informed, converses clev-
erly, and can be charming. Her letters
are well written, and in a bright, nat—
ural style. They might put to shame
those of many a well—educated Euro-
pean lady. The dress of the Empress
s only distinguished from that of her
'adies by its impeccable cleanliness and
newness—London Standard.
Angkor-Wat’s Mysterious Temple.
The great mystery about Indo-China,
ind one which must ever be insoluble,
s the story of the lost race and the
ranished civilization of that strange
:ountry. The mighty walls of Angkor-
Wat, rising in the midst of sparsely
Jopulated jungles, remain as the mem-
irial of a great empire which has ut-
erly disappeared and is altogether lost
:0 history. No one will ever know
vho planned this gigantic temple, or
vhat tyrant hounded on his myriads of
)eople to build up those immense
)locks of stone and cover them with
he most elaborate of sculptures. Ang-
tor~Wat is one of the most astonishing
monuments in the world, and lthis for-
‘otten temple was built so as to endure
.5 long as the earth itself, were it not
or the irresistibly destructive effect
f plant life on the strongest walls that
can can raise. Only a highly civilized
.nd very wealthy people could have
rectcd Angkor-W’at—a very different
ace to the Annamite of modern days.
."he whole nation has disappeared as
itterly as the busy myriads who once
)opulated the wastes and solitudes of
IIemphis.—Singa,pore Free Press.
A Judgment of Solomon.
A story is told of Admiral Sicard
vhen at Yorktown with his fleet for
lrills and maneouvres. A force was to
and and capture an inland railroad
)ase against a. defense force of little
nore than half its size. The two com-
nanders of these forces were discuss-
ng before the Admiral the details, and
each contended that the other would
lave superior advantages. The Admi-
-a1, after puzzling over how the differ-
ences might be adjusted, finally said:
“Gentlement, it is evident that the
matter can be reconciled in only one
.vay. Suppose you swap forCes and
ight the other way." -
The battle was fought on the original
Elam—New York Tribune;
“Ef de average ye ung man," said Un-
.le Eben, “ud be willin' to go froo as
such hahdship tcr git useful knowledge
.5 he did learnin' ter smoke 'his fust I
:igar, dar wouldn' be nigh ez many re— '
:rets in dis here
llfe."—Wa.shington
Star. ,
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ILLEGIBLE wan INU.
Some Eminent MenIWho Wrote Remark-
, .. ’ "ably Bad Manuscript.
Carlyle, would not have struggled
with 'a keyboard, but it would have
prevented that miserable compositor
fleeing from Edinburgh to London out
of his Way if he had. Carlyle’s, how-
ever, was a copper plate to others that
'could'Plie lm-enitioned. Hugo’s manu-
scripts, we'ar'e told, presented the 'ap-
pearance o‘f’a sort of battle field on
paper, in which the killed words were
well stamped out and the new recruits
pushed forward in anything but good
order. Napoleon was unique in ev-
erything, even in his handwriting.
His letters from Germany to Josephine
were at first taken for maps. of the
seat of war. And his signature ‘was
an indistinguishable hieroglyphic.
Byron and Dean Stanley wrote atro-
cious “fi'tsts,” and it is said that Syd-
ney Smith’s was no better, although he
used to chaff Jeffrey badly. He used
to say that he read Jeffrey from left
to right, and his wife from right to
left, but neither could make out a syl-
lable. JulesJanin would rather re-
write than attempt to read over again
what he had written, and Montaigne
could never read ,what he had written.
The acute thinker mended matte-rs by
employing a secretary, whose writing
was absolutely und'ecipherable. Balzac
was as big a sinner, and Dickens's mi-
croscopic characters, written on blue
paper with blue ink, appalled many
seasoned compositors. A terrible hand
had Henry Ward Beecher. His daugh-
ter once declared that she had three
guiding rules in copying it—if a letter
was dotted it was not an “i,” and if it
was crossed it was not a, “t,” and a
word with a capital letter did not be-
gin a sentence. Jacob Bryan said of
Archdeacon Coxe's caligraphy that it
could neither be called a. hand nor a
fist, but a foot, and that a club one.
His ‘hieroglyphics formed a. clumsy,
tangled black skein that ran across the
paper in knots, which it was impossible
to unite into a meaning—London
Globe.
FATHER 0F FORTY-ONE CHILDREN.
Levi Bradshaw of Connecticut the Banner
Father and Grandfather ol‘ the Country
A short ride from Mo-osup in what is
known as the Sparks district, in the
eastern part of Killingly, lives Levi
Bradshaw, whose record for populat-
ing the earth is such that he deserves
to become famous. Bradshaw emi-
grated from Canada, and has lived in
that vicinity about thirteen years. He
is now in his seventy—first year. He
has been married three times and he
is the father of forty-one children,
forty of whom are now living. By
his,first-wife he had six children, in-
cluding a pair of twins. His second
wife bore him twenty-four children,
half of whom were twins. His pres-
ent wife presented him with eleven
children. .
Bradshaw was not 14 years old when
he married the first time. , The eldest
son is now 44 and has several children
and grandchildren. Twenty-nine of
the old man's sons anddaughters are
married and all have children. The
grandfather does not know just how
large his family of grandchildren and
great-grandchildren has become. He
can enumerate up to 150, but is in the
dark as to the remainder. He esti-
mates that t‘hey may run up to 200 or
so.
The Killingly patriarch married his
last wife in Danielson thirteen years
ago. 'Only one out of her eleven chil-
dren has died. The rest ai'e healthy
and robust, like the father. Mr. Brad-
shaw is believed to be the banner fa-
ther of New England and the banner
grandfather of the United States—New
London, Conn, Day.
PATAGONIAN MARKSMANSHIP.
_Can Kill Water Fowls Afloat 200 Yards
Distance.
The Yahgans live nearer to the South
Pole than any other known people.
They occupy certain small islands ly-
ing south of Terra del Fuego, and are
found also on the south beach of that
great island itself. The territory they
occupy is a maze of mountain peaks,
and the conditions under which they
exist are almost beyond realization by
a civilized person. ,
The typical weapon of the Yahgan‘s
is the rawhide sling, wit-h which they
are able to kill water fowl afloat at
200 yards. To hit any bird at that
distance would be called right good
shooting. They can knock down and
stun a. guanaco with a heavy round
pebble up to a hundred years. The
reason for the sling as a tool of de-
struction is found in the fact that the
Yahgans live on the beaches, Where
plenty of round pebbles are always at
hand. These islanders try out oil
fro-m whale blubber and store it for fu-
ture use in the bladderlike leaves of a
kind of seaweed found everywhere in
that region—Boston Transcript;
What Would Mither Say.
A poor old Scotsman, who could
no longer till his “wee bit land,” was
obliged to accept the kindly proffered
[hospitality of some English friends.
! On the day of his arrival they, thinking
I he would enjoy it, procured some cress,
[which was added to the luxuries al-
iread-y on the table. The poor man,
{accustomed all his life to fare of the
lplainest kind, hesitated to partake of
,such a decided novelty as cress, and
fwas induced to 3try it only by fear of
lhurting his hostess’, feelings. In a
short time she noticed that tears were
coursing down Andrew’s cheeks, and
inquiry elicited this reply:
i "I’m thinking what ma puir mither
Would say gin she could see her son
eating grass like a coo!”
Ref—I'd give up my life for you.
F-‘he——Wnuld you really give up the
run are living?———Boston Courier.
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_ L 1 nHEmvnn1n GOAZE—TT—E
. - FUNERAL FLOWER macs.
How It Is Drummed tip by an Enterpris-
lng Pennsylvanian. ” '
Traveling men -who,,pass through .
east Pennsylvania cities when looking
over the Ideal newspapers are fre-
quently surprised at the quantity of
flowers which are mentioned in the
published accounts of funerals of peo-
ple not in public life. In many of the
cities the business of drumming up the
funeral flower trade is quite scientific-
ally done. A funeral flower trade
drummer told the other day of his
mode of operations.
“To get ear-1y information of deaths
I stand in with the obituary reporters
of the daily papers. They cover all
the undertakers'in the town. I get
all the deaths up to 2 P. M., and then
get out to business. Of course, in
these busy days, most people haven’t
time to go to greenhouses for flowers.
Hundreds of people are willing to send
some dead friend a nice token of re-
membrance, but many don’t think of
It, and the others haven’t the time.
Now, I make it a business to do all
that fer them. W'hen I hear of a man
dying I get the names of his near rela-
tives, lodge associates, business con-
nections, if any, the. I have sample
books of bouquets, crosses, crescents,
anchors, stars, sickles, harps, lyres,
hearts, gates aj-ar, doves, sheaves of
wheat, clusters of lilies, wheels with
broken spokes, pillows, pedestals, and
many other set pieces. I have price
lists of these and of cut flowers, roses
at-so much per dozen—in fact, any-
thing people are likely to want. I'
call on the friends of the dead person,
ask if they wish to order anything,
and promise to deliver ’the goods on
the morning of the day of the funeral,
fresh and handsome, with their cards
attached, all in proper and satisfactory
shape. .
“I make out a complete list of the
ofierings, with full description of flow-
ers, with names of flowers correctly
spelled, all type-written, and give it to
the reporters. Then my customers see
their names in the- papers as having
kindly sent in a beautiful floral dona-
tion, so when I call next day to collect
my bill they cheerfully pay. I never
lose anything."—-New York Sun.
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Two Audacious Collegians.
William Wetmore Story was fond of
telling the following tale of James
Russell Lowell and himself:
“James Lowell and I were very an-
gry with Webster for staying in old
Tyler’s Cabinet, and as 'he was to
speak in Faneuil hall on the evening
of the 30th of September, 1842, we de-
termined to go in (from the Harvard
law school) and boot at him, and to
show him. that he had incurred our
displeasure. There, were 3,000 people
there, and we felt sure that they would
boot with us, young as we were. But
we reckoned without our host.
“-Mr. Webster, beautifully dressed,
stepped forward. His great eyes look-
ed, as I shall always think, straight at
me. I pulled ofi my hat; James pull-
ed off his. We both became as cold
as ice and as respectful as Indian cool-
les. I saw James, turn pale; he said I
was livid. ‘ And when that great crea-
ture began that mest beautiful exor-
dium, our scorn turned to deepest ad-
miration, from abject contempt to be-
lief and approbation."—San Francisco
Argonaut. ~ ,,
A PRHSCESS LOOKING FOR A MISSION
She Li ngs to be a Wage Earner-Designs
Patterns for Book Covers.
Princess Victoria, the only unmar-
ried daughter of the prince and prin-
cess of Wales, is a woman looking for
some bseful mission that a royal girl
may fill without disgracing her family.
She does not wish to marry, though
divers good offers have been made for
her hand, since of the three sisters she
ls far and away the most clever and
c‘ompanionable, and a number of eligi~
b-le young German and Swedish princes
and grand dukes have really wished to
have her to wife. But the Princess
Victoria has not yet found a husband
:0 her mind, and to her mother’s great
lismay she cherishes an ardent ambi-
fzion to be a genuine wage-earner. Two
years ago she fitted herself for nurs-
ing and announced her intention of
entering a London hospital. There
were serious family conclaves, and not
intil sent to interview her very decid-
ed grandmam-ma on the question did
:he young princess relinquish the
plan. Inheriting a decided artistic
iaste from her mother, this royal spin-
;ter is now turning her attention to
)ookbinding and the designing of book
:overs. The library at Sandringham
5 really enriched with some of her ex-
:ellent work, and at a. recent exhibi-
:ion of book covers in London two ex-
amples contributed by a Miss ,Mat—
:hews won prizes. It ,wasnot until
Necks afterward that the judges, dis-
aeusers of prizes or the royal family
.hemselves knew that the energetic
arincess had won these testimonialsito
ier excellent taste and handicraft un-'
ler so common-place a name—Chicago
Record.
A Lot of Rheumatism. ,
Old Lady—Where is your husband,
Virs. De Long? '
Mrs. De Long—He couldn’t come. He
aas the rheumatism all over him.
Old Lady—Goodness me! And he’s
Iver six feet in heEghtl—New York
Iournal. , -
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Good Intentions.
Junior Partner—Do you think the
new officeboy is trustworthy?
Senior Partner—Pam sure of it. I've
ioticed that when he hasn’t any thing
to do he never pretends to be busy.—
Puck.
The Quarrel at Its Height. _
Jack—I want to, marry my opposite. n
Maud—I don’t know @ng Ferny girl I
oright enough to suit yous—Judge. l
the nerves.
Care of Plants.
One would scarcely ’think that it
would the worth anybody’s while to
tamper with flowers and sell them as
other than they really are; But it is
an elaborate art. For instance. a ma-
tured tulip can be turned into “a young
thing just on the point of blowing”
by carefully plucking off the bloom,‘
and leaving the bulb with its few ‘
leaves beneath. “Only two shillings,
sir; it’ll bloom in a week, sir,” and
the uninitated buy and wait vainly for
the promised blossom. Owing to the
popularity of the parsley fern. the
"flower dodger" has found a most em-
cacious and cheap method of supplying
customers. He plants a carrot in a
dark place, with the consequence that
its leaves at the top become fine and
of a very delicate green; then cutting
off the crown of the carrot and putting
it in a 'pot he sells it as a “parsley
fern.” As for scented flowers all the
neglect of nature is supplied by these
people with a scent—bottle, and they do
“not hesitate to produce “new and
strange varieties," by subjecting well-
known flowers to the action of aniline
dyes. With flowers that absorb a
large amount of moisture, their work
is very easy, as they change their color,
with extraordinary rapidity.-
1
Published tor 1,400 Your. ’
The oldest newspaper in the world
Is not, as is generally stated, the thou-‘
sand-year-old “Kin Pan," of Pekin,
but the “Tsing-Pao," or “Pekln News."-
which was first published more than
500 years before.the Norman Conquest,
and which has been published without.
intermission for nearly 1,400 years. I
The “Tsing-Pao” has the appearance
of a yellow-backed magazine of twain;
ty-four octave pages, each page com-'f
taining seven columns, and each col-f
umn consisting of seven “character-s}?
Two editions are published—an edition;
de luxe for the Court and the upper.
classes in China, at a cost of 24 cents;
a month; and an edition, inferior mi
paper and printing. which costs 16,
cents a month. -
The “Tslng-Pao" is the "Times" of
China, and chronicles the wealth and,
movements of the Emperor, the life at
Court, and the reports of Ministers;
It is painfully significant that every
error in printing the latter is punished
with death. ' .
The Cause of Nervous-neon.
"Over-work and under-exercise re-
sult in nervous diseases," said 3a phy-
sician recently. “Preventive meas-
ures may be summed up in two wor ,"-
he continued—“physical development.
Worry annually kills more people than'
work. One should strive, however, to:
avoid all things that tend to disturb
Throw away the pen that
scratches and a pencil that has a hard
spot in it. Discard a needle that
squeaks and a basin that leaks. Use.
sharp tools, wear soft garments that
do not rustle. Oil the hinges of the
rheumatic door and fasten the creaking
blind. These may seem trifles, but
such trifles irritate the nerves as much‘
as a piece of woolen does a sore.
Charles Lamb once said that a can.
penter's hammer on a warm summer
morn would fret him more than mid-
summer madness.” -.
Fashion Hints.
A handsome bodice is of burnt
orange taffeta, the waist frorn the yoke
down being made in alternate clus-
ters of fine tucks and applique inser—
tlon. Where the bodice joins the
yoke are triple revers of silk, edged
with three fine tucks of white taffeta,
and the top rever is covered withap-
plique lace. The yoke is circular and
in clusters of wave tucks, 'with a nar-
row insertion between the clusters,
and the sleeves are small, with pointed
decorations. - .. f.
The visiting and reception gowns
this season are gentle reminders of
ages gone by, the demure quaker colors
and lavenders so much worn in the
old days being once more in vogue. A
pretty gown is of lavender-colored
crepe de chine, with a trimming of
point-applique lace and not
For middle-aged women stylish
gowns are made of black silk warp.
Woolen goods are made with a Skirt
having two bias milliner’s falls, head-
ed with a fancy Silk gimp. The front
has an Eton effect, with square revers
and belt. pointed in front, of satin.
Vests and collars of white silk are cov—
ered with cream lace.
A Dainty Gift.
A dainty mcuchoir is always a wel-
come gift and as the variety is end-
less there is no excuse for anybody be-
ing without one. The prettiest takes
the form of a very large envelope in
fine white linen, the front and back
beautifully embroidered in some effect~
‘ivs flowers of different colors, which
gives a very artistic finish. In larger
mouchoirs they are painted on satin or
delicate silk, and when decorated with
raises form 'a very charming case.
These affairs are “always well wadded
and lined with soft silk, the edges often
finished with a pretty lace border.
Wisconsin to Row.
lt~ isreported that the University of
Wisconsin. Will’a'ccept the invitation of
the ‘ rowing" association composed of
Columbia. Cornell and Pennsylvania
to f'OW‘With‘ theEastern‘gcrews next
June in the eight-cared shell races of
file 'varsity and freshman crews.
Norwalk Chronicler