Coldwater Review from Coldwater, Kansas • 1

COLDWATEK, KANSAS, JANUARY Iftth, 1886. Vol. 2. No. 8.

By John 'A. Templeman. THti MSaXtillSIIED DEAD, dirtiest, touchiest, slowest customer we THE ART OF "SHADOWIXG" its powers. The 'longer a clviia can ne kept young and Innocent the more -com SOME LONG LOST ESTATES. i V.

i KilHons of Money Awaiting American Heirs and Many People Made Dupes. Nbvt York, Dec. York always has a class of people who are constantly getting enormous fortunes from England. Deluded by some second rate lawyer they are often led to subscribe suras of money, more or less largo, for the purpose of obtaining' their rightful share in some vast estate in England, which, it existing at all. is usually pretty well secured to some heir across the water.

The: Townley estate, which is valned at a milliob dollars, has occupied the atteotioo of more than one impecu ever knew. They used to call him "Dirty Bill" and "Slippery Bill." His real name was William Phite. But be was such a greasy chap, that the boys nick named him as above. Yes, and they called him ''Greasy and "Dirty don suppose there was ever a man who filled the high, and moral, and res ponsible and exalted position of editor who was as slovenly a cuss us "GreaBV Bill." 1 But there came a "grass widder" to Potts ville, who was gushing, and pretty. She was petite also, and her merry laugh and flashing black eves sent a shaft clear through the gizzard which belonged' to "Greasy Bill," and he went to grass, so to speak.

Bill wasn't used to slinking taffy at the girls, but somehow he captured the widder and they were spliced. The writer helped ''shivaree'' the happy couple and we had a boss time. And what a change it made in Bill How clean he was afterwards, Jle slicked up awful, woru a plug hat, and was just too utterly utter for anything. And his paper, the Pottsville Weekly Bugal and Herald of Liberty, how it slicked up, too! And how Bill's circula tion increasedl We mean his paper circulation That vas years ago, when the writer of this was a kid so to Rpeak. Since then Editor Bill Phite has repre sented his district, in Congress, and twelve olive branches climb upon his knee.

That's what marrying did for a dirtv editor. Bill Phite has always blessed the day he met pretty Mrs. Clara Moss. Now who knows but what editor Jen nings, of the New Ilepubh may get to be postmaster, or go to congressl We think editor Jenningj would make a good postmastes, though, on principl we are opposed to ed itors having post- offices, flie Evening News wouldn't have a postoflice as a gift, and don't any one dare to pass a postoflice down towcrds 319 Douglas avenue. Don't do it, unless you want to be taken op to Doc Purdey's and treated to a Turkish bath.

7 Marrying is a great institution if you happen to strike the riaht sort of a female If you miss it, and get hitched to a shrew or a woman's rights female, who is bound to Boss the big the best th'ng you can do is to slide out of the uncultivated West, and go to Chicago for a divorce. We hope editor Jennings has struck it rich, like Bill.Phite. Gunning for Sparks. Washingtoh Jan. 3.

would not be says a Western member of congress $una'ay Capital to day, "to hear at any; time that an attempt whs maije to assassinato Commissioner Sparks of the land ollice. You have no idea how incensed the settlers of the Northwest are over his refusal to issue land patens. There are now between 50,000 and G0.000 oases piled up in the land office, in which Sparks has refused to issue patents, and some of them yes, twoHhirds of them representing the savings of" a life Public indignation is so great that Gen. Sparks would be lynched if he should appear in any town of Dakota, and I would not be at all surprised if some desperate settler came down to shoot him. I knw that he is receiving a great many threatening letters, and a friend of mine at Huron.

wrote me the other day that at a gathering of homesteaders near that place, ajcrazy frontiersman announced his intention to go to and cut the commissioners heart out, Of course, these threats are empty. No man who bad such an intention would advertise it beforehand, bat there are plenty of people out West who would not hesitate to revenge themselves in such a way. The thirty days of mourning for the late Vice President Hendricks have expired and the department and other public buildings were yesterday divested of ihe mourning drapery. The hook and ladder force was required to remove the black cloth from the pillars of the White house portico. Alfred Litte of Jackson, Kr-.

has becn disbarred from practicing as an attorney before the interior department. Someoftho Eminent Whom 1885 Has Slain. Tupekft Capital Eighteen eight-five has been a fruitful year for Death. His arrows have hit an unusually large number of shining marks. Many have gone over to the silent ma jority from places of distinction, from useful lives, from honorable eminence.

The list was largely made up of men and women who had passed beyond the corner of half century. Yet but few of them were really aged. First in importance comes General Grant, A year ago on Christmas the public learn ed for the first time that he was ailing. In the summer he passed away, having lived 64 years. In May another great rniud disappeared.

That was Victor Hugo, who died in Purls, aged 83. Vice-President Hendricks, in his sixties, left us but recently. Ex-Senators Gwinn, Fenton, Sharon and Toombs all departed for the land we name Eternity. Jacob Thompson, ex-secretary of the interior, died ia Memphis, in March, aged 75. Richard Grant White, eminent in magazine literature, died in New York, in April, aged 63.

Dr, Rufus Gilbert, projector of the ele vated railroad system in New York, died in July, aged 53. T. 8. Arthur, well known as a writer and publisher, died in Philadelphia, March 6, at the ripe age of 76. Dr.

Damrosch, the famous musical director, died in New York, in February, aged 53. Susan Warner, author of the Wide, Wide World," and other books, died at Highland Falb, in March. She, on the last half.of the century, Queen Emma, of the Sandwich Islands aged 50, was one of Death's victims. The mother of General Craut, died in Jersey City in May. King Alfonso, of Spain; was 'the young est of the long list of! th'e' yeara'a distin guished dead.

F. J. Fargus (Hugh Conway) was the next youngest. He was only 87. General Gordon is believed to be among the dead.

Horace Claflin, one of New York's best known merchant, is among the number of the absent. Seuator Frelinghuysen, exGovernor Gratz Brown, famous as the candidate for vice-president on the Oreeley ticket; Cardi nal McCloskey, Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, Dr, S. I.

Prime, Dr. Benjamin F. Teft, Sir Moses Montefiore, Dr, Nachtigal, Afripan explorer; Franz Abt, the composer, William Page, artist: Alphonse de Neuville, painter of military picture; Geuerals McClellan McDowell, McDougal and Marshal Serrano are among the distinguished military dead. Schuyler Colfax, too, has gone, and John McCullough has left the stage of life forever aged 53. Henry vW, Shaw, (Josh Billings) wil make us laugh no lie died eged 67.

H. Vanderhilt, the richest man in the world, was suddenly called from his material possessions to a world where dol lars are unknown; Helen Hunt Jackson will never charm us with the products of her pen again. Dr. Joseph Rowan Helper, and Dr. John Draper, are no more.

Perhaps the saddest story of all is told in the death of James W. Marshall, the orig inal discoverer of gold in California, who died, old and poor, at Kelsey, Cal, on the 10th of August. ABOUT GETTI.NO married v. What it Did for an Editor. Wichita Duly Newa Since editor Jennings of the New Republic, took onto himself a wife, his paper has- improved tone and appearance and is really readable.

Besides it is one of the cleanest and best printed papers i hat comes to the table of the Evening News. Marriaze often works wonderful changes in men and things; We once knew an editor who was an old Bach. He published a little paper at Poiter8ville. Pennsylvania. He was the plete will be its development, the stronger and healthier will be its manhood or womanhood.

What if it Is at school a class lower than another poorer trained, congested little mind of the same age? What if it is bashful and awkward among strangers! What if It tears its clothes and gets its face dirty, Let it alone entirely rather than harden it into premature maDhood, which is only an arrested development. If it can be a healthy happy child at 18 all the better, it will be more likely to live beyond the three score and tan aud to escape Buffering" during middle aaro. Health strength ind beauty are the most attractive attributes even in society, and the manor woman who has been a child the longest will outshine the artificial product of whom every body has tired before it ws grown. Parents who think they fulfil a duty by spurring their chidren rapidly toward i literary and social knowledge are wofully mistaken Any horse breeder. can tell, them better.

A precocious 6 yeHr old child is like a precocious yearling colt. It has done its best, and at maturity its unnoticed com rade will be worth twice as much. People do not seem to understand that an overwrought young nature cannot go on developing. The process prevents devel opment. The race will never reach its best until the children are kept young and growing as long as possiple.

If animal life lasts but three times as long as it takes to mature a human being whose growth is stopped at fifteen or sixteen will probably die before fifty or if it does not die forces will be exausted in which case it were hotter dead. Io stead of being proud of precocity, parents ought ratbea to fear it as if it were a dead ly disease. There is wisdom in laissez aire applied to child-raising. Kansas City Times, Prophetic. In Theodore Parker made the following prediction concerning Kansas In the year of Our Lord, 1900, there will be 2,000,000 men in Kansas, with cities like Providence and Worcester perhaps' like Chicago and Cincinnati Her laud will be worth $20 an acre, and ber total wealth will be $500,000,000 in money; 600,000 children will learn in her schools.

There will be a Pacific railroad -perhaps more than one. The 114,000 spuare miles of Kansas (32,000 of which have since been given to Colorado) will fill up with educated and industrious men, each sharing the labor and govern ment of society, helping foward the wis dom and progress of all: aiding the or ganization of Chiistianity and Dem-mocracv. The south will share with the north in this better organization of things and persons the development of indus try and education. There will never foe another slave state nor another elive president; no more kidnapping in the north, no more preaching against the first principle of Oklahoma to be Opened On Dec. 2lst' a bill was introduced in the senate by Mr.

Van Wyck to extend territorial jurisdiction over the Indian territory including in its provisions Oklahoma and No Man's-Land, and providing that the lands in the two latter localities shall not be occupied through pre emption or commutation, but subject only to bona fide homestead settlement. It further provides that a commission compos-ed of two army officers and three officials of the Indian and land bureau shall award a sufficiency of lands to the Indians in severalty and the. 'interested tribes for sale of the remainder to be govern merit to becotnepart of the' puWlc domain. If further contemplates a repeal of the grant of lands through the Indian territory to the Annuls all existing leases except for the actual cultivation of the soil; fixes the legal rate of intest 6 per cent, and provides for the appointment of the usual territorial offices "John Bigelow, who was recently appointed assistant United 'States treasurer, at New York aad confirmed by the resigned his office. The Most Difficult And The Most Scien tific Of Detective Work Chicago News, i "Shadowing" says a Chicago detective is toe iivont difKml; and the most scintific work in my profusion.

al hn great cases Allan Piiikerton depend ed-mainly on wlint hV learned by If a man is well shadowed fortw week so ra ich cm Im dis covered concerning his habits, Ins aaao-ciatos, hU- iHiii'itioiM, hU secr.it acts short' of It is Hlmost a li'Tt'ect biography of him can he written. Every mail" 'docs' maiiy' characteristic things when he thinks ho is alone that he never would do when in company, and the 'shadow' l-jains a man's true character liy witnessing bis natural life. More people than you imagine have been for the inlorination of both friends and enemies. Many curious acd sometimes suspicious wives have their husbands rpauy, a husband has lock-id up in his desk a 1 mirror of his wife's privaty life, in the form of a 'shadow's' report. -Nearly every man in Chicago, proininuut in business, politics, or religion has been 'shadowed' and there is'goinewhure filed away document that would make the eyes of the subject open could he read it.

"Every man connected with a bank, from the president down is Large business firms get periodica! reports on the private lives of trusted employes. suppose Marshal Field can tell auy of the heads of departments in his store whether they drink brandy or mead, smoke cigarettes or opium, play penny ante in a friend's harlor or falo in a gambliug house. "I know that the head of a well known detective agency In Chicago has been 'shadowed, by naarly every other agency in the city, and they nil have record. "It is hard work to 'shadow? a man. You have to get up an hour earlier than lie does in order to get your breakfast and lay for him at his home, Youf.

liow him to bis office, to lunch, on his business rounds every where, When he is.on the street you never take your eyes off him, and I tell you Jt makes your. head swim, You follow bint home to supper, and down-town again in the evening- You note everybody ho speaks with and every lady to whom he bows. must tay with him till he go? to bed, and then write your, report before you get to slerp. are nftenest 'shadowad', when in trouble, and they rush; here, and there, talk to scores of men, enter of places, and get up early and go to bed A good lively subject will lead, the 'shadow' a wild and mm-ry dunce, und two weeks of it will wear a good man out." John Brown's Family. Qwen Brown, the son of John Brown, and the last survivor of tlif raid into Virginia in 1859, is now in California, His brother, and, sister, Ruth Thompson, with her husband, children and grundchil dren, are living on the mountain side, near Pasadena, where they have taken up land for a fruit farm.

lh another pat of Cali-. fornia, Saratoga. Santa Clara county, two daughters of John Brawn are living, Sarah who was for some years employed in ihe San Francisco mint, and Ellen (Mrs. Ful These daughters own a fruit farm there which was their mother's the widnvr of John Brown, who died nearly two years ago. The other daughter, Ar.ne (Mrs.

Adams), is living with children nt Rohnerville, in northern and her brother, Salmon, who owns a sheep ranch and a large flock sheep, lives Bridgeville, Humboldt county, not far from Rhonemlle. None of the family are vrrv prosperous in worldly goods'. The second comptroller has decided SoMier honorably discharged for' proim-tion are entitled to the bounty l'r in the act of July 22 1 General Atkins, coid niij-sioiii-r of Indi.n affairs, says the government has no ntlieul information of ho attack upon do Imlinn camp tie El Paso, in whicii levf Indians aie reported to have Lccu killed nious lawyer and caused to be fleeced of bis hard earnings many an unfortunate supposed to-be heir. Last week the Townley affair was agitated again by the discovery of some papers, which will it is claimed prove that the Herbert family was related to the Townleys. The documents were fonud by Alderman Herbert of New Brunswick, N.

and among them was a marriage certificate of Han nan lloumo and Richard Lawrence at Flushing, L. in 1717. This is the long missing link and another delegation will be sent England to advocate their claim, But meanwhile "another long-lost es tate has come to light. There is a Carpenter estate in England which is only prevented from dropping into the pockets or a number of Carpenters in Ameaica by four trustees' who have retired to private life so thoroughly as to leave no trace of their whereabouts. The story of the estate is somewhat imperfect.

William Carpenter, who died in 1700, was the only son of Richard of Wales, who was born August 23, 1601. On August 19, ,1707, the estate, valued at 2,716 8s lid, was turned over to the custody of the crown and trustees appointed. In 1845 the Carpenter family residing, ar Provi dence, R. and heirs of one Wiliam Carpenter, who died "in" London, about 1700. P.nmmpnfif r.vnoaixHntia fn rannvnr the above estatewhich, in 138 years had augmented to considerable value, but after a long litigation it was decided that they wero not the heirs Various subterfuges have been resorted to by the English lawyers, such as reporting that the claim was mythical or that such an estate might have but had been swallowed up in some mysterious man 1845 these same lawyers were compelled to admit that the estate not only existed, but was awaiting an owner, when the' Carpenters of Rhode Isleind were defeated the Carpenters now work ing for the estate set about completing a chain of evidence that would prove them to be the legal inheritors.

The records do not show who ihe trustees are. They were not appointed in the legal way, but after the adjournment of the court by a tpecial order. One of the trustees is said to be known, but the others are scattered about in New York, Philadel phia and Boston. The estate In question does not compare with the Baker or Townley claim, nor will her majesty be compelled to clap a mortgage on Westminister abbey in the event of their suc cess, bat the claim will involve many millions, one-tenth of which would more than satisfy the parties interested. Keep The Children Young-.

Fashion periodicals give directions for making childeren's ball dresses. Daily papers publish accounts of society events id which the belles and beaux range be tween six and twelve years of age. Little creatures who ought to be in bed at nine o'clock after a euppar of bread and milk are found at parties almost until midnight dancing, eating indigestible stuff and learning all the. shod-tiiness, the petty rivalries, the mean desires which are the mo6t prominent characteristics of the part of a community which is called How is it possible to produce a high grade of physique, intellect or soule upon such a regiment Children learn too fast. They are crammed at school, forced in social knowledge and neglected at borne.

The longer itttkes a life to mature the longer it will last and the stronger will be all.