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c^rniblc. This is accounted for by the fact that the night before Lincoln had been,given n,reception and such a multi­ tude of people had grasped his hand that it was greatly swollen the following morn­ ing when Volk made the easts. In the museum there are two life-size oil por­ traits of Ijineoln, one of which is 'by Lambkin, the celebrated Philadelphia art- st, and an oil portrait of Major R:~C. Todd, a brother of Mrs. Ijineoln. This is aotable for the fact that Todd was in the Confederate army , and had charge of Castle Thunder prison, Richmond, during the war.1 Besides this collection there are many other interesting Din coin mementos in Ghtcs-jj©^ Tlvo priViitc collcctioiv lic- ing owned fey Charles F. Gunther. The most important^ the many mementos that he possessed is a duplicate copy of the Emancipation Proclamation. This is RELICS OF PRINCE AND PAUPER. Romance of Edwin FiulHs/ tiiC "Dnke of Toinbstoffi." He used to be called "the Duke of Tombstone*' when an Arizona settle/ inent marveled at the recklessness of li man who bathed three times a day and water 5 cents a gallon at that! Edwin Fields in those days changed his white flannel suit whenever the smallest blemish in the way of dust was1 notice­ able and rode behind a pair of jsorses that were a sensation in a community where burros were the highest type of d y q f t " ' y l n y i l g ^ ^ -- s -- . Now lie is "poor old Ed Fields." and when he gets out of the bounty hos­ pital, where a Harrison street police ambulance took him last night, he will be taken to the poorhouse at Dunning to spend his few remaining years in contemplation of the time when lie owned a large part of the city of Tomb­ stone and a mine worth more than half a million. Too proud to ask for help, yet sorely in ned of it; too proud to*ask for money, and yet having a brother whose fortune Js, vast, he was taken from a.lpdging- house at (IS'13th street; .--JUis ' will, on the strength.ol' a certificate ob- taiiiedifroni Dr. A. W. Cowley, who had found thatJhis mind was failing and. that lie needed some slight comforts "he once would have scorned. v-/\- : . Dr. Joseph H; Greer, of SOT Oakley avenue, knew: Fields in Arizona, aud has assisted hiui from time to time dur- ! ing the past three years in Chicago. "I went to Tombstone. Ari., in 'ISft)/* said Dr: Greer, "and Fields was there before me, although the town contain­ ed only seventy-five people at that time.. He was squatting on some mining" property, which was not supposed to be of much value. But the town grew to 15,000, and he ow:;ed two-thirds of the town site, so that his rents increased until they gave him an income of over $4,000 a month. The mine which Lie owned was called 'The Gilded Age,' and proved to be a rich property. Fields' title to it was a little shaky,-but he was backed by Boston an$r ^tyw York capital, and in the end secured a perfect title. He sold the mine in 1881 or 1882 for $000,000 in cash, every cent of which went.toMm. After the town grew and Field# amassedhis wealth he assumed a mode of life that made him the most conspicuous character in the West. He was known everywhere as the "Duke of Tombstone' on account of the gorgeous manner in which he carried on his establishment. He rode behind a handsome pair of bays, and kept a negro valet. He dressed during the summer in white fianuei, and changed suits three times a day. When water was selling in Tombstone at 5 cents a gallon he took three baths a day and broke a bottle of Florida water in every bath. He started as a nine days' wonder and grew to be the most talked of man in the country. "'I left Tombstone and settled iu Chi­ cago. One day during the World's Fair period a seedy-looking individual stepped into my office and I recognized Edwin Fields." I asked what he was doing and he told me, with a mournful smile, that he was 'store man' at the Southern Hotel. His salary, he said, was $14 a month. Where had his mon­ ey gone? Well, I asked him that one day. for 1 could not understand how a man that never drank, never played cards or gambled to tmy knowledge, could have squandered a cool million of dollars, which amount he certainly possessed at one time. He told me that he had lost most of his property in spec­ ulation on the Board of Trade, and had then taken to the bucket-shops, where the rest of his money had taken wings. He was at that time, even with his pit­ tance of a salary, drifting daily to the bucket-shops in the vain endeavor to retrieve his lost fortune. He lost the' most of his money in St. Louis, but car­ ried on his speculations both in that city and in Chicago. I do not know his birthplace, but he was an Eastern man and was well connected. He has a sis­ ter living at SteubenviilevOhio.a broth­ er at Parleys. New Mexico, who owns a big sheep ranch, and another brother who owns an immense cocoanut planta­ tion in the Samoan Islands. Such has been his pride, or his perverseness, that he never would seek aid from them. He has roomed at the house of Mrs. Fitch, 08 13th street, whenever he was without employment. I fear he will not live long, as he is suffering from a complication of diseases and is now an old man."--Chicago Times-Herald. INTERESTING COLLECTION OF THEM IN CHICAGO. Tbcy Bring Back to tlife Memory Event* in,the History of tlie Mar­ tyr President--From Boj-hood Days to the I H-Fated Night in the Theater. Reminders of a Great Man. Had Abraham" Lincoln'livedountil now fee would have been.87 years Of age. But fei* degtfay was not such. In the fiill^ prime of ,th(f greatness that lie liadTichiov- •d he was struck ddwn by the assassin's hand without the .warning of a moment. The long war that had marked his admin­ istration and the terrible cimmistances •attending his death made it deeply im- presaive. A general gloom pervaded the whole country. Flags hung at half-mast »ud public buildings and private resi­ dences everywhere were draped in black. Lincoln was the third President to" die while occupying the official chair. Wil­ liam Henry Harrison died April 4, 1841, one month after inauguration, ahd Zach- «xy Taylor July 9, 1850. The death of •liincoln ..occurred- April 15, 180o,, and the fourth "and last President tp die in office was Janies A. Garfield.'who met a fate similar to Lihcaln's ifi 1881. . Lincoln was President during the most difficult period of the history of this, coun­ try, during .the greatest civil-; war the •w*>rldhas'-'ever known, .'life nobJc char- portrayed ujar-ihg the whole of that mcttmrabie struggle, impressed upon the people a reverence that never wili be forv gotichV and" his birthday will always be' fittingly remembered everywhere in the. United States. But, says the Chicago Tribune, while these memorial services impress upon the imnd<s of the people the memories of that illustrious martyr, there is no fear that Ghicagoans will ever forget him. for right among them 'are more mementos of-the war President than can be found in any other city of the Union. The largest of these collections is at the Libby Prison War Museum, and Manager Macloon be­ lieves it to be the most authentic collec­ tion of Lincoln material-extant. In connection with his early life there are original photographs of the house in which Lincoln's father lived and died in Ooles County, 111., and also an original photograph of the house that Abe Lin­ coln and Dennis Hanks built and occu­ pied in ~Mereer County, in 1830. where Lincoln made fame as a rail splitter. This house was on exhibition at the Sanitary Fair held in this city in 1805, and Mr. and Mrs. Hanks lived in it during its exhibition in Chicago. It will be remem­ bered thai; Dennis Hanks taught;Lincoln Iris first lesson in reading and writing, and this collection contains a good pho­ tograph of th"?! old gentleman. There is also an original copy of the Sangamon Journal of Springfield, *$11.. of Nov. 11. 1842, which contains the notice of his marriage. Tihe collection contains many DEXM3 HAXKS, WHO TAUGHT TJXCOI.N TO READ AXD WHITE. not one of the published fac-simile copies, Of which there are many, but is an. exact duplicate, bearing the original signatures of Lincoln and his cabinet. Among the other original manuscripts in this collec­ tion is a poem in Lincoln's handwriting written in 1853, an address on thirteen pages of foolscap, delivered before the Springfield Library Association, a letter to a committee regarding the Boston, Mass., Thomas Jefferson celebration in April, 1859; the original record leaves from Lincoln's father's family Bible in Abe's harklwriting; several of the trans­ fer deeds to the different lands owned by Lincoln's father and mother; a piece of his copy-book, used when he was 10 years of age; the phaon of the watch that he carried in boyhood days, a number of in­ teresting war documenisv-loCkiroFhis hdir,. and many personal effects, including a number of pieces of clothing worn by him. Mr. Gunther also owns the carriage used by Lincoln in Washington, and later by Mrs. .Lincoln in Chicago. This is at the Libby\Prison Museum. The watch that Lincoln wore on the night of the as: sassinattion is now owned by Robert Todd Lincoln, and was changed from a key to a stem winder fifteen years ago. John Net- erstrom, of Lake View, owns a cane that was sent to the White House in 1862 by RAISING A POLE. Some Suggestions that Coiue Haudy in Campaign Times. Raising a long, heavy pole is a diffi­ cult and often a dangerous work, un­ less suitable provision is made for the operation. Two plans are shown in the illustrations, in either of which, by the aid of a dozen men, a pole from sixty to one hundred feet in length is readily placed in an upright position. The plan in Fig. 1 is intended for a pole not over eighty feet in length, and then it should be a slender one. The center of the tripod of poles is about one foot to one side of the hole in which the pole is to stand. It is evident that the dis­ tance from the ground end of the pole to where the tackle rope is attached LINCOLN, PINKERTON, AND M'CLERNAND, interesting manuscripts of Lincoln, of which, perhaps, the most noted is his fanjous last dispatch to Gen. Grant. In this collection of Lincolp mementos at Libby Prison there are many things worthy of extended notice, but to make it brief.the fallowing are a few of them: the key, a^piece of the curtain, and wall paper of the box in which lie was shot at Ford's Theater; six of the chairs used in the bo* on the ill-fated night and an orig­ inal program of the play; Lincoln's library chair, a sofa from his residence, and the bed upon which the body lay while the physicians were holding the autopsy; his old bootjack made by himself, and all of the portraits of himself ever published. Among the original photographs is one that shows what an unusually tall man he was. It is a picture of Allen Pinker-! ton, Gen.,McClernand and himself at the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac. TOhe three men are standing before an open tent, Lincoln, in the center, tower- fag head and shoulders above his two companions. There are also portraits of Lincoln's wife and family. J. WilkeS Booth, andyphotographs of the conspira­ tors; photographs of the> ittteBior of the some unknown admirer. It was carved out of a piece of apple wood, and is a marvelous piece of artistic work. It was so unique and so different from the many other canes sent to Lincoln that he prized this particular walking stick above all others of the many that he had received. Charles Rector is a son-in-law of Mr. Peterson, who owned the house in Wash­ ington in which Lincoln died, and he keeps as a valuable and interesting me­ mento the picture that hung over the bed upon which the President died. The pic­ ture is not a valuable one except for this fact. A son of Mr. Peterson, now living in Baltimore, Md., owns the quilt that was on the bed at the death, and Mrs. Magruder of Washington, D. C., owns the original bed. The house still stands in Washington. I4TH OF FEBRUARY. A Hot Day. An old colored man s!it on his frout doorstep hist evening doiug his best to keep cool. Cliloe, his wife, was sitting near him and said: "Say, Sambo, it's dun been a purty hot day, ain't it77 "Yes, Chloe, it flun. has. an' heard a gemman say dat it was 00 in de shade." "Why. what duz 96 in de shade mean?" "I dunno, just 96." "Oh, dere must be sumting more ob it dan dat." Sambo scratched his wooly pate for a few minutes and then gave this very satisfactory explanation: "Well, honey, TI jus' guess it must be dis way: You know when dey play som of d^S^g^ines dey say a man got so many out of a 100. Now I durt'gttess dat a hundred's just f-' hot as it Can' he.,andw<le96 to­ day means dat we wuz only four points TOgaf bffiig de 'fittest* we could "be."-- Hartford Post. Vivisection at Harvard. Tender-hearted Bostonians became so excited over vivisection a short time ago that the professors of the Har­ vard medical school issued a statement of what sort of vivisection was prac­ ticed under their supervision, what its use was and how it affected the dumb creatures most intimately concerned. The repoH was not satisfactory, bow- ! ever. Photographed an Exploding Meteor. While testing a new camera on the night of Nov. 2o, Mr. C. P. Butler of Knightsbridge, England, made, quite by accideut, an extraordinarily interest­ ing photograph. The plate in tho cam­ era was exposed to a definite region in the sky for about ten minutes. During that time, but unknown to Mr. Butler, although noticed and recorded else­ where, a meteor appeared and exploded iu that part of the heavens. When Mr. Butler developed his plate lie found upon it a photograph of the meffcor, showing clearly the trail of light it had made as it shot through the atmos­ phere, and the sudden outburst pro­ duced by the explosion. The photo­ graph also shows that after the ex­ plosion a remnant of the meteor con­ tinued to move on, but at an angle to the original direction of its motion. In 1893 Mr. John E. Lewis of Ansonia, Conn., photographed the track of a meteor in a similarly unexpected man­ ner, but in that case there was no ex­ plosion, or at leastMid'ue was pictured on the plate. JtAISING A HEAVY POT,} Valentine f Common Sense. Youf eyes are not stars, they're too near to me, quite,' And surely not fixed with tlieir distance the same; Besides, as to twinkling and winking at night. The very idea would fill you -with shame. Your lialr is not gold, nor a peach Is your cheek, ' „ For the former is finer and lighter than . silk. j Of the hue of the nut--nor would breezes dare seek To ehcarmlne with blushes a face, white as milk. Your teeth arc not pearls; they're more use­ ful by far. And are good for a square meal three times every day. Your throat is no lily, whose frailness would mar The volume of voice that comes gushing that way. Your form's not like Yeuus; I'm thankful 'tis not. For your arms are complete, and your vir­ tues as well. < Perfection of contonr may well be forgot In remembering the graces within you * that dwell. In short, my dear sweetheart, no similes fit The charms that have set my poor heart in a whirl; And even St. Val., at whose feet I now sit, Teaches me that you're-simply a most charming GIRL! ». - --Roe L. UeiMtet&c, in Puck. "Yankees Can'tfehoot." Our Civil War, several wrong ideas w^iicti^ymyA bee in a Scot's liontiet,^ bufc£ed alike In the heads of Soutberneraand Northerners. Among these Was the belief that most "Yankees didn't know a gun from a pudding-stick," and "couldn't shoot." The Washington Correspondent of the Chicago Times-Herald reports a^con- versation between Southern gentlemen in which Colonel Howell told bow that notion was quite impressively taken out of him, "Speaking of Yankees," said Col. Evan Howell, of the Atlanta Constitu­ tion, "I recall, just as the war was breaking out, a speech Ben Hill made up my way. It was a war meeting, and you should have heard j Hill talk. I remember distinctly how lie exhorted us to enlist. .' "'The Yankees,' lie said,*' 'are good people, but they are deficient in manly accomplishments. They can't shoot, Novel Fire Alarms. There is a high tower in Stamboul and another on the other side (if the Golden Horn at Galatea, both of which display flags on the alarm of fire. The flags •are supposed to Indicate the locality of the fire, but as several localities are sometimes enlivened by fires about the same time these indications cannot al­ ways be very explicit. " - LINCOLN IN ltorse and Horse. 'I am not going to take my meals at the Hash restaurant any longer." "Why not?" "I heard the proprietor tell a delinquent customer to /pony up!"'--Detroit Free Press. /