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< 'I m 1801 mmomv oi' HAPpp.i«i»mf SEVEN DAYS. Z4aeo)a Heir to SI 60,000. I,is i J : In January, 1801. the Indian ea&oe was practically the uuly Seating ve­ hicle on the great lakei^ <Mtich hold# one-third of all the fresh witsr In the world. Today the lake fleet numbers several thousand steel steamers, with seventy shipyards on the shores of the lakes to add constantly to the num­ ber. ^ In January, 1801, there were In the world less than 50 shipbuilding yards. Today there are more than seven hun­ dred shipbuilding yards, turning out .n total of 1,000 vessels yearly. The first Iron war vessel buUt la the world was the United, States steamship Michigan, which is still in duty on the great lakes.; .. - The total value of the agricultural products of the United States In 1800 was $100,000,000. In 1900 it will be ap­ proximately $5,000,000,000, while the farms of the country are worth five times as much. One hundred years ago It took a month to cross the Atlantic. Now the trip is mad* between two Sundays. In January, 1801, there were 90S postoffices in the United States and 1,876 miles of poptal routes. In 1889 there were 75,000 postofflees and 497,- 000 miles of postal routes. In January. 1801, it cost twenty-five cents to send a single sheet by mall a distance of 400 miles. Today a let­ ter containing several sheets may go as many thousand miles for two cents. ; In January, 1801, tlie total exports of the United States Here 131,000,000. This year they are $2,<MH>,000*000. In January, 1801, there was not a cooking stove In the United States. Now we are beginning to coo fire by the aid of electricity. Within the century the population of the world has doubled. The popula­ tion of the United States has been multiplied by fourteen. The first practicable irtKaniboat -was built in 1802, and the first railway lo­ comotive in 1804. In January, 1801, a man could travel only by coach or on horseback. Today there are more than 250.000 mile* of railroad track in the United States alone, being more than six times the mileage of any other country* In 1848 it cost forty cents to send a letter from JJfew York to San Fran­ cisco. In January, 1801,there were not more than thirty colleges and other institu­ tions of. higher education in the United States. At the close of last year there were 480. with a total of 12,000 profes­ sors and teachers. bi'Ved in Three Centuries. The proposed new White House which may soon be built at the nation­ al capital will be really an extension of the present mansion. The plans have been completed and the model made for the enlarged executive palace of the president of" the United States. The designs are the work of Colonel Theodore A. Bingham of the engineer ofcrps, United States army. The plans provide for two buildings, one to be The Distinguished Dead ofI900 The literary world has lost Dimitri Grigorowich, a novelist, not much known out of Russia, but a writer of great ability; James Martineau, whose religious and philosophical writings have attracted wide attention; Rich­ ard D. Blackmore, whose "Lorna Doone" has become a standard work; Friedrlch Max-Muller, the distinguish­ ed Orientalist; Friedrlch Wllhelm Nltsscbe, the brilliant but erratic Ger­ man philosopher; Michael G. Mulhall, the statistician, whose work is the world's reference book; Stephen Crane, the young American story writer, who died full of promise; Charles Dudley Warner, the delightful essayist, and Prof. Moses Colt Tyler of Cornell uni­ versity. Music has lost Karl Millocker, the composer of light operas; Heinricn Vogl, the tenor, who achieved fame as a Wagnerian singer; Guiseppe del Puente, the favorite operatic barytone; Sir George Grove; Sims Reeves, the eminent concert singer; Marie Piccol- omini, a prima donna who was the rage a quarter of a century ago, and Sir Arthur Sullivan. Art has lost John Rusk in ; Jean Falguiere, the best of contemporary French sculptors with the possible ex­ ception of Rodin; Paul Jean Clays, the Belgian marine painter; Michael Mun- kaczy, the great Hungarian historicol painter, Miu three American artists of the old school, William H. Beard, Frederick Church, and Jasper F. Crop- Bey. Science has lost but one eminent repretentative, St. George Mlvart. Prominently identified with the ac­ tive affairs of the world there have passed away John Sherman, ex-Sena- erected on the east and another on the west, each of these being about the same sise as the present mansion and connected with it by curved wings. The quadrangle will be completed by rebuilding the conservatories on the south end of the grounds. In detail the new White House will be rich. The main columns will be fluted. The basement will be of granite and the walls of concrete and marble, inclos- tor John J. Ingalls, Senator Cushman K. Davis, Count Mouravieff, the brill­ iant Russian minister of foreign af­ fairs; Dr. William - Liehknecht, the atue leader of German socialism; Dr. Leslie Kcelty, discoverer of th» gold cure; Lender J. McCormlek, c*pt:iin of Industry, and Collis P. Huntington, captain of finance; General Joubert, of the Boer army, General Osman Pa­ sha of the Turkish army, ani Rear Admirals Philip, Stempel, McNair, Si- card of the American navy, and Ber- esford of the British navy. ThJ sole representative of royalty in th^ list is Humbert, kins of Italy, slain by an assassin. % v y Must 1*ay Bcc/or'j Bi/fo. Two of the physicians who attended' Mr. Goebel in his last sickness and the lawyers who represented him in his contest before the legislature are going to sue his brothers for fees. The brothers, Arthur and Justus Goebel, thought from the great sympathy ex­ pressed for their brother in Kentucky when he was killed that there would be no charges for medical attention. They state this and seem surprised that they should now be called on to par. ' • i" ,? » The three daughters of Senator For- aker. Miss Julia, Miss Louise and Miss Florence, are the three prettiest sisters in Washington. More than that, they are very sensible girls, having been carefully trained by their wise and still handsome mother. The average height of the heavy raincioud is 1,680 yards; of the deli­ cate, fleecy cirrus, 9,700 yards. JWebv Storm Cannon. Peter Surprise is the most aged man •jjx Indiana and one of the oldest in the %>untry. With the coming of the new Hear his life covered the nineteenth Sentury, and dipped into the eighteenth djnd twentieth centuries. He came to what is now Lake coun- Indiana, eighty years ago, and he lived there ever since. He was f ^|orn In lower Canada in 1792. Mr. Surprise is a most industrious ter. Scarcely a day passes that he not find something useful to do m. m * PETER SURPRISE. • :,ti "corn his night's repose.": Ha is £oor* active and spry when at his work than most men who are 40 years his Junior. He still retains possession of his faculties, and is never so happy as When, his labors done, he can sit and tell the young folks of 60 or 70 his wonderful tales about this country in the infant days and of the great men who are now historic memories, but whose doings he followed when they were throbbing with life and stirring the world with the greatness of their deeds. The centenarian ex­ pects to live several years more of healthy, happy life. He thinks he can hold out to be 120, and so do most of his friends. ̂"Dartn£ British Of/tciai. William St. John Brodrick, who has caused a tremendous sensation In Lon­ don -by reopening the Colville case,thus threatening to ex- pose other scandals of the Boer war, has but recently entered upon his duties as British war minister. In 18% Mr. Brodrick was appointed to his first post of prominence, that of under secretary for ^ gt> John Brod_ war. Three years ago he was raised to the >privy council and appointed to succeed Lord Curzon as under secre­ tary for foreign affairs. On the reor­ ganization of the cabinet during the late fall he- was raised to the office of war secretary in place of Lord Lans- downe, who was transferred to the portfolio of foreign affairs. Mr. Brod­ rick i« a young man, but evidently a determined one. w READY FOR ACTION. Bridges Smith, mayor of Macon, Ga., made his first money selling newspa­ per® on the streets. Do fferin \r Varied Career. The marquis of Dufferln and Ava, chairman of the London and Globe ftaance corporation, which started the yresent crash in London banking cir­ cles, Is 74 years old, and is bred out of the best Irish blood on both side* of his house. On one side--his fath­ er's--his ancestors have been proud of their Irish birlli for ten generations. His great-grandfather was Richard •.'pWUBley Sheridan. Dufferln, in spite :;||f Jtfs many and high-sounding titles, - Is a great man. To run over his record In the service of Britain as an ambas­ sador and agent would be to write of the history of England and Its for the last part of half & cem- In 1871 he was created a British Mri. Then came, in 1872, his appolnt- ment as governor general of Canada, hrtllch he held for six years. Then he went into diplomacy as am- ifcassador to St. Petersburg, 1879-81, and laaabassador to Constantinople, 1881-4, '•With a special mission to Cairo in 1882. •!lH 1884 he became viceroy of India, j*nd during his administration annexed J&armah, and won for himself a saar- quisate with thfmew title of Ava add­ ed to his old one of Dufferln. In 1888 he became ambassador to Rosas and in 1891 he was transferred to Paria m LOITTTDUFFERIN. lord Dufferln held the position nearly five years and was reknsed fromlt with regret. nearly a-TOMMmd delegates, the g r e a t e r n u m b e r representing Aus­ tria and France, A few roars from the gun adopted, which is shown in the accompanying cut will, it is claimed, frighten the elements when they are bent on sending down des­ tructive hall, so that they wilf weep only the gentle and helpful rain. The machine has been on exhibition at the congress in Rome, and thou­ sands of delegates from all over the •world have inspect­ ed and approved of it. The fleetest quad- ruffed known does not approach the speed of certain birds, while it soon succumbs to the fatigue they hardly seem to ex­ perience at all. Three or four hun­ dred miles in one flight is nothing extraordinary for the artificially bred carrier or passage ' pigeon. ]f-' ... In Rome they have been holding an International congress to consider the employment of heavy guns to ward off hailstorms which have been found to be so destructive to crops. At the opening sitting there were present JTaltf Is Hi* W*hxir of Lift. In 11ns with the statements of Prof. Loeb and Prof. Llngle that com­ mon salt in the blood causes the heart to beat Is the experience of C. R. Vandercook, 82 years old, a pio­ neer of Chicago. When seen at his home and asked the cause of his # longevity he took C. R. Vandercook.fro® his , ***** » small vial, and pouring a quarter of a teaspoonful of its contents into the palm of his hand and eating it with seeming relish said: "This is my elixir of life, this is the cause of my longevity--common table salt. I have not been without a bottle of it in lay pocket for twenty-five years and I could attend a hop tonight and dance until morning as nimbly as I eeuld fifty years ago. Salt preserves the human Bystem as it does pork in the patching house. It induces circula- jtlon and purifies and increases the iuMlty af the Wood, Salt prvaomt ~ Gen. Xsaa£ Mofakhammftd Dor- let, the new Persian minister to this country, is a prime favorite in Wash­ ington already. Hie general is not yet 40 years old, handsome, rich and a bachelor. the lime on the lungs and without lime the lungs dry up. Oldest Ship in ^Acti%fe JFerOic*. The recent storm on the Atlantic coast, 1n which so many stanch vessels were lost, calls attention to the famous old schooner Polly, which was one of the more fortunate of the coasting fleet. The Polly is older than most men, for it was built ih Amesbury, Mass., in 1805. If the hull timbers of the sturdy little 65- ton ship could speak they might schooner Polly, tell many an excit­ ing story of adventure on the salt seas, tor they have seen nearly a cen­ tury of active service. When the Pol­ ly had been off the stocks but seven years the second war with Great Brit­ ain broke out The boat was then owned and commanded by Captain Ju- duthan Upton, a patriot, who fitted ths tiny vessel up with cannon, put on board an armed craw of twenty men, lng a steel framework. At the west end the large room will be suitable for a state dining room capable of seating more than 200 guests. Ths end building will probably be used as a kitchen and storehouse. In the east and west additions provisions have been made for the reception of a large number of guests with all the neces­ sary details of dressing rooms and wardrobes. On the second story at the west end will be a suite of six bed­ rooms and four bathrooms. At the east end of the second story are six additional rooms intended for offices. The new work on the White House will cost $1,100,000, Including partial fur­ nishing. The plans will be presented to con­ gress and must bear the approval of both branches thereof Mora work may be begun. Lady Cursnon's floxJelty. r - ELEPHANT PARADE IN CALCUTTA. Yady Cur ion, vicereine of India, now glories in the possession of a herd of elephants, the gift of the Maharajah of Dhurbunga, and elephant parties divert India's most swell society per­ sons. Nobody, strangely enough, had ever thought of elephant parties be­ fore. True, Europeans went tiger hunt­ ing on elephants, a sport which has his animal with a solid silver spike. been authoritative­ ly described as •try exhilarating so long as the man hunts ths tiger. But to saunter about the streets or through the green fields In a howdah, is a nov­ elty and the young American woman .Who represents the Ijpieen of England there is entitled to the credit of it. Of course, all ^Calcutta Is agog. 8ueh gorgeousness is is shown in the '^Tappings of the a i l e p h a n t s m a k e s even the Hindoo, accustomed to the magnificence of their oriental poten­ tates, gaze in wonder. The howdah In which Lady Curson rides is of solid silver, and the sun umbrella above it is of white silk embroidered with pearls. Her mollah wears the royal livery of crimson and gold and prods Ttuo Canal "Routes Compared. Arthur P. Davis, chief hydrographer of the Isthmian Canal commission, contributes to the January Forum an interesting comparison between the Panama and Nicaragua canals on the basis of cost. Adopting the most re­ liable estimates from all sources re­ duces every element of the problem in both cases to a basis of dollars in­ vested. Assuming that in either case the annual tonnage passing through the canal wjll be 10.000,000 tons, and balancing the advantages of one ca­ nal against those of the other, he esti­ mates that the Panama route would be the cheaper by $35,400,000. It is the original cost of construc­ tion that makes this scort of compari­ son unfavorable to the Nicaraguan canal at $134,800,000 and that, of com­ pleting the Panama canal at $91,100,- 000. This leaves a balance of $43,700,- 000 adverse to the Nicaraguan route. But Mr. Davis also answers the ques­ tion, "Irrespective of cost, which would be the most desirable canal if con­ structed?" The answer is that Nicar­ agua would save $15,600,000 as com­ pared with Panama. The latter would have the advantage of being shorter and fttraighter, making navigation through it easier to the extent of ths Interest on $23,000,000, but Nicaragua would have the advantage of being nearer to the customary routes of commerce, which alone is worth ths interest on $35,000,000. The Items of healthfulness and of local commerce add $8,000,000 to the Nicaraguan ac­ count, which is not offset by Panama's advantage of $5,000,000 on the score Of maintenance, operation and winds. Mr. Davis' conclusion is that if ths United States can buy out the Panama canal for less than $30,000,000 it should do so. If that canal can not be had for less than $40,000,000 the Nicara­ guan route should be given the pref­ erence. It must be understood that in discussing the question Mr. Davis doss so from a purely commercial point of view. Whether one route is to be pre­ ferred to the other for the military considerations which induce so many Americans to favor the construction of an isthmian canal is a matter he does not go Into. Canada's Freedom from Crtm*. The annual report of criminal sta­ tistics of Canada shows that there Were only twenty-five indictments for murder in the Dominion during 1899. on British shipping. A few months after the Polly was captured by his British majesty's ship Phoebe, of 44 guns. The captain and his men were sent to England, where they were im­ prisoned for seven mqpth. The prise crew placed on board the Polly, how­ ever, revolted and went over Into ths service of the United States. At ths present time the Polly Is owned and commanded by Captain McFarland of Calais, Me. For ninety years it has been known as one of the fastest sail­ ing vessels on the north coast, and It can still show a clean pair of heels to many of its more modern rivals. It has been a long time since ths Polly made a regular ocean voyage. It Is now employed in trading (between ports on the Maine coast. Of these only two were left- without final action; nine persons were ac­ quitted, three were detained as insane, and eleven were convicted and hanged. There weie no lynchlngs. This is a remarkable record for a country of over 6,000,000 inhabitants, where the people are so widely distributed as to make constant police surveillance im­ possible. One cause for this happy result is that Canada hds not, like the United States, great cities whose crimi­ nal population is swelled by offenders coming from other parts of the world. Nor do emigrants from southern Eu­ rope, who are more addicted to deeds of violence than the races of northern Europe, settle in the Dominion. Yet even these favoring causes are not sufficient to account entirely for the remarkable smallness of Canada's criminal record. British Army Sean* The request for the resIgnatiMv Gen. Colville of the Transvaal army, is taken as the first move by Britain to clean out the 'social favorite" gen- GEN. COLVILLE. ersli who are blamed for South Afri­ can disasters. General Colville has re­ fused to resign. 1 Robert E. McKlsson, formerly mayor of Cleveland and a declared fos of Mark Hanna, announced his Intention to take an active part in the spring mayoralty campaign, though he ifill not be a candidate. ' N A new kind of lightning rod far fril- Iftd started qpia* a Lienors Is t]g. Iftmttoa at ft Eurom*. The German emperor was at Lets- llngen on December 1, when the cen­ sus was taken, and he filled up his own card.. Under the heading "pro­ fession" he wrote "German emperor, king of Prussia." The card was fram­ ed and it is to be kept in the munic­ ipal archives of the palace, while a certified copy of it has been made and sent in with the other cards. Died $n a Foreign Land. Bishop Hale, whose death occurred in Egypt a few days ago, was born in Philadelphia in 1836. The Epiacopal church was his home from his en­ trance into life, as he was born and reared within the pale of that denom­ ination. For sev­ eral years he was dean of the cathe­ dral at Davenport, lowa, and in 1891 he was elected bishop of Cairo, Egypt. He was closely identified with ths eastern church, especially the Ru&» slan and Greek, both of which lan­ guages he spoke fluently. He was well known in Jerusalem, Alexandria and Constantinople and by many Russian prelates with whom he was in almost constant touch by correspondence. For many years he -was secretary of the commission on the ecclesiastical rela­ tions with the orthodox churches of ths east. • • _ CQftl cotts $S| te VLvk* Bishop Hale. Edmund H. MoUerf„a hard harness maker of Lincoln than thirty years, will sofm possession of an estate in worth $750,000. Moller was •oils born to a Dublin silver his wife, an Irish woman The father went to Australia nearly fifty years ago. The mother started In search of him with her tlM» but failed In her mission, dyllig in ^Few Orleans. The elder brother took op tha search for the father, found him lick in Sydney, New South Wales, and com­ municated the tidings to Edmund^ who soon engaged in correspondence in which the father acknowledged IBd- mund was his son. The father died many years ago, and his family in Syd­ ney refused to consider the son in America. Moller, through correspond­ ence with the American consul at Sydney, has gained information that will secure the fortune to which hs la heir. The estate consists of monSy, lands and city property in Sydi^^V pTf' Cbange* on IUIaote Central. Important changes are announced In effect on the Peoria and Indiana a&d Illinois southern divisions of the Illi­ nois Central. Mattoon Is made the middle division point of the Peoria di­ vision and the western terminus of ths Indiana and Illinois southern and the latter division comes under the juris­ diction of Superintendent R. B. Star- buck of the Peoria division. Through traffic is sent from Switz City, Ind.» over the Indiana and Illinois Southern to Newton and thence over thhe Peoria division to the Chicago line at Mattoon. This eliminates the thirty miles be­ tween Newton and Effingham on the Indiana and Illinois Southern and ths heavy grades between Effingham and Mattoon on the Chicago branch. 1 <' * £ "" *"" /> { J ** <j pi *'-V jl5 .. • V 4 i ' • W9 Coal Miner* RHDIUI Waik." It is reported from Springfield that the 160 miners of the Black Diamond Coal company, who struck because Robert Solomon, one of the owners of the mine, refused to allow his sons. Rev. John Solomon, engineer, and Peter Slomon, boss driver, to Join ths - union on demand of the miners, have returned to work pending settlement of the matter by Herman Justi, commis­ sioner of the Illinois Coal Operators* association, and State Secretary-Treas­ urer W. D. Ryan of the United Mine Workers of America. Pending a set­ tlement of the case the two Solomons are laid off. . • " , - ) .. > S- " *" £/" eiti Northwestern University at Evanston was the recipient of a New Year's gift in the form of an oil painting of Pro- ^ fessor George Hough, director of Dear- vl ' born observatory. The painting Is life sise, and is the work of George " ^ Betts of Chicago. It was presented by the Chicago Astronomical society , : through its president, Ellas Colbert. It , will be hung in the Dearborn observa- | 'if i • 4"" ^ ' JI&<K '] ^ ~ 4 -f' ' *>' '* ' S4"' j The remains of George W. Northrop, ths deceased theologian of the Uni­ versity of Chicago, lay in state in ths .A. assembly-room of Haskell HUEI while ' numerous friends paid their Tsspscts to the departed divine. After a prayer, %,/' i'j offered by Dr. Henderson, ths dutplaln of the university, the casket vas left : > u*" in charge of the guards, was held Wednesday. Tfc» v . -- ar ^ XaeCljrBMftt-Barr«Mgbft Kupttalfc Miss Carrie Mabel Burroughs, only ; ^ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Bur- roughs, was married to Harry A. Mac- 1 Clyment of Chicago, the ceremony he- * ' ^ , ing performed at the bride's home In Peoria. The groom is a young elec­ trical engineer, associated with a Chi­ cago railway supply house. Mr. and Mrs. MaoClyment wlU r<»i4e C o l o n i a l h o t e l . * t . ' f ' 8 . ~ i t Y ' . 1 - * ' v V : - • Kiw TMtpte' Dedicated. " The new Odd Fellows' temple, Beo- rta, erected by Fort Clark lodge at a cost of several thousand dollars, was dedicated with elaborate ceremony. Members of the order were present from all parts of Illinois and the event was in many ways a notable one. Grand Master J. R. Kewley of Chicago presided, assisted by all tibia members of ^is staff. , ' • -;,j» *- ••a Jpdge fliilp >MM(t Vlea» . Charles Bennett, one of the most distinguished lawyers in southern Illi­ nois, died of heart disease at Mattoon. He was a union officer in the civil war, county judge one term and for ten years trustee of ths University of Illi­ nois. The funeral -was held under Ma­ sonic auspices. John Ahlmeyer. one of the w< and most prominent farmers of Adams county, was thrown from his wagon by a runaway team. He was run over and sustained injuries from which death ensued. He was 80 years old. itettreats Umm Dice / - While** J. F. Avery, agent of the Wabash railroad at Forrest, was sit­ ting in the wait ing-room of the Polk street depot, Chicago, he suddealy fttt to the floor and died. ^ ' .. I'-' 9%$ a? lUlnoteaa Weda a Sles«« Miss Vivian Palmer, a notedldfci prano singer of St. Louis, and Laur­ ence H. Hamilton, formerly of ths Springfield till;) News, were married at Phoenix, Aria. They will retwra t» Springfield. B«r KUle* ttr Trete. • Washington Decker, aged' - both legs ami his left hand eat by a train at Mascoutah. He The lad while jumping off a-1 gad under ths