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FIGHTS TO A FINISH. WAITS THE SUMMONS. THE SILVER QUESTION, CUSSIE FREEMAN, BROOKLYN'S WOMAN PUGILIST. MISS NIGHTINGALE'S EARTHLY TASKS NEARLY O'ER. She Grew I'p Untutored unit Took to lloxlns ns a Duck Takes to Water Han lliiully Drifted Into the Saloon llUHllU'HH.

Quite Forgotten by People of To-day, She Is Passing Her Last Day In Kiigluiul A Pattern for Our Woulil-lle New Women, street, and offered to meet all comer, men or women, for a purse. A foreman In the rope walk induced Gussle to meet the woman. The house was crowded, and as soon as Gussle showed, which she did in the first round, that she could win the purse, the applause was tremendous. Police Captain Short stopped the fight at the end of the third round, and it was declared a draw. Gussle defeated Hattle Leslie three nights later, and was then engaged by Hattle's husband, who was manager of the dramatic combination, to travel and box with Hattle.

Gussle had never been off Long Island until she went on the road. Her ignorance of the ways of the world resulted in her being cheated out of her salary at the end of the season, but she had then seen much of the world and had been as far west as Chicago. She was engaged to appear as a boxer with a theatrical company in the J1 tf. (Brooklyn Correspondence.) r-g-a MMKmarevery lew stp instances on record 5 Of a great public woman, and particularly a great heroine, having throughout lived up to her reputation, It too often happens in these days, when notoriety is easily obtained, and when the public is so HE fin de slecle woman Is making such, rapid strides into the realm of man that it begins to look as though the weaker sex will become the stronger and man have to step aside in all vocations that have been exclusively his own. leaving to the and the whole la surmounted by three brilliant diamond stars, the celestial signification of which is obvious.

But perhaps the good and beauty of this jewel are eclipsed by the noble expression of the feeling of her Majesty in the inscription borne on the reverse: "To Florence Nightingale as a mark of esteem and gratitude for her devotion toward the Queen's brave soldiers. From Victoria 1855." From the severe strain which she underwent In the Crimea she has never recovered, but in spite of having been physically an Invalid since her return she has done as much with her mind and her pen for the nurses and hospitals of her country as she did with her hands for the soldiers she loved in the Scutari huts. And it is interesting to note that her work has been as much in the direction of the prevention of disease as in that of nursing the sick. This was exemplified in a letter which she recently addressed to village mothers. She advised them to see that their boys and girls grew up "healthy, with clean minds and clean skins." "After all," she wrote, "It is health, and not sickness, which is our natural state.

There are more people to pick us up when we fall than to enable us to stand on our feet." And the Introduction to that letter was as follows: "Dear Hardworking Friends: I am a hard-working woman, too. May I speak to you?" So characteristic! Florence Nightingale is a tall woman, rather stout, with gray hair, and fine, open face. Although a great sufferer she does not show a trace of it. She has not known what it is to be without pain for many years. Her features are finely modeled, while her hands and feet are very small.

Her voice is low and musical. She often reads aloud, and sometimes she hums a song or hymn. She is very devout and an omnivorous reader. Her room is littered with newspapers, magazines, writing paper, pencils, and letters. She Is always cheerful.

Miss Nightingale loathes anything in the form of publicity. To journalists she never opens her mouth, nor even her door, but to any one who seeks advice on a question affecting the interests of the sick or those who nurse them a hearty welcome and a word of encouragement and counsel are always cheerfully accorded. She has a very comfortable home on one of the best Streets in the west end of London, but spends most of the year at Claydon House in Buckinghamshire, the home of her sister, Lady Verney. Do You Want to Understand the Science oi Money? It Is Plainly Told in COIN'S FINANCIAL SERIES KXT 1'OSTHA I V. No.

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Cien'l 1IM Ho. Minion Chlonico, 111. Beeman's Pepsin Gum. ready to worship the celebrity of the moment, that a public woman falls to keep pace with public opinion and to maintain her position in public esteem through half a century. A great exception Is Florence Nightingale.

On the 15th day of this month she celebrates her 75th birthday as great a woman and as great a public benefactor, and as much of a heroine as she wa3 forty years ago, when she went forth from her comfortable home In England, not as a' mere nurse to attend to the wants of the wounded and dying British soldiers in the Crimea, but as a fearless organizer of a great field hospital system. No one had thought of the physical sufferings which would have to be undergone by the brave soldiers who were sent out with the prospect of a long winter campaign before them, without any adequate hospital arrangements having been made. When the great mistake was realized it was a woman who came forward to rectify the terrible blunder; and it may easily be Imagined that obstacles were thrown In her way by those whose carelessness and heartlessness it was her mission to involuntarily expose. But even in those days, when news traveled slowly and when newspapers merely recorded bare facts of news with but little comment public opinion was soon aroused, and when Miss Florence Nightingale arrived at the Crimea with her band of nurses she had the whole British people at her back. Few are aware that there is a pretty romance attached to Miss Nightingale's journey to the Crimea.

It was generally known among her friends at the time that she had bestowed her affections on a young officer in one of the first regiments to proceed to the seat of war. Although it was equally well known among the same friends that in any case Miss Nightingale would not have hesitated for a moment to accept the responsibilities and hardships of the position offered to her, there is no doubt that the labor of love was not only one of love of humanity and of doing good, but was also to some extent inspired by a desire to be near one whom she loved as a man more than as one of mankind. More than one generation of English girls reveled in the story of Miss heretofore lord and master little more than the drudgery of the kitchen or the nursery. One woman of Brooklyn ha3 stepped so completely into man's place that those who tremble at the success of woman's conquests against man In trades and vocations need only know her to give up the struggle and gracefully accept second place. ThU woman is Gussle Freeman.

She has been known as a handler of bales of hemp at Waterbury's cordage factory, at the head of Newton creek, and as a pugilist. Now Miss Freeman has added to her fame, and after having worked as a brick handler on the docks has become a successful saloonkeeper, the owner of fighting dogs that she handles, and of fighting cocks that she trains. The higher education of woman has had nothing to do with the progress Gussle Freeman has made in lines of work that are believed to have been monopolized by man. The lack of education is the principal one of the circumstances to which she attributes her unique position. She blames rather than credits the circumstances that have made her what she is, the strongest and most masculine woman in the city, if not in the world.

"I never had any education," she said, in her saloon in Cook street recently. "My mother was too poor to send me to school, and when I was 12 years old she sent me to the rope walk to work. I didn't like the work the girls did there, and whenever I could get out of the shop I would go to the yard and help load the trucks, and before I was 14 I could do as much work as any man. I was larger and heavier than any woman in the 3hop." Miss Freeman sighed as she looked down at the blue jumper and apron of the same material she wore. No one ever saw a tear in her eye, but there was a suggestion of tears in her voice as sh? went on: "I wsh I was more like a woman.

I don't like to be so much like a man, Kit I can't help it. I must make a living and I am not fit for anything but the kind of work I do. I have a flaf upstairs. It is the first home I ever had and the best thing I ever had." Gussie Freeman was born near Ridge-wood thirty-one years ago. Her earliest recollection is that she had to work from morning until night.

As her moth- OLD NAMES WITH NEW FACES GUSSIE FREEMAN, fall of 1893 and drew crowed houses for two weeks in Boston, where she defeated twelve men, including Prof. Bagley and Tommy Butler, but as her salary was not forthcoming at the end of the two nights she decided to return to Brooklyn, where she knew her salasy would be paid every Saturday night. But she was thoroughly tired of the rope walk, and worked during the winter of 1893 on the shore of Newton creek as a brick handler with a gang of men, and did as much work as any of the gang. She bought the Cook street saloon last June, and the few men who thought they could take advantage of there being no man behind the bar found that they had made a mistake. One of the men who made this mistake is Walter Hanigan, a local boxer.

When he attempted to play cowboy and run the place Gussie locked the door, whipped him in a round and threw him out. She has two bulldogs, one forty-five and the other twenty-two pounds. She handles them when they fight. She also has twelve game cocks. "If I only had some education," she said, "I would not be in this kind of business, but I must do something." "Did you ever receive any letters 'mash as actresses call them while you were on the road?" the reporter asked.

"Here is a pile of them," said Gussie, as she handed out a scrap book, "but I can't read and I only kept them because girls in the company wished they got as many as I did. I would never see the men who wrote them." "But you must have had admirers, men who made love to you?" suggested the reporter. "Say," she replied, "the men I have worked with here in Brooklyn are all good friends of mine, but they know that they must not talk any such nonsense to me. I have been among them all my life and under many circumstances, but no man lias evr kissed me. Those who thought of doins? so learned long ago that it was dangerous to attempt it.

I tell you I am not like other women. I have been among men so much that I never had a lover or let a man show any affection for me. as other women let them do." ShuUespere as a Lawyer and Mozart an Organ Builder. History, we are told, never repeats itself, but that is probably not the only reason why the bearers of famous historic names do not seek or find distinction on the same lines their predecessors followed. The second Julius Caesar known to fame was a Surrey cricketer, of a generation ago; about which time John Milton was breaking in horses in Piccadilly, and Isaac Newton was a flourishing linen draper in Leicester square.

The name of Congreve, the contemporary and friendly rival of Alexander Pcpe, again came into the mouths of men, but it was as a manufacturer of rockets, not as a dramatist, while Pope at the same time was a Drury Lane tragedian. William Shak-spere is now engaged in the practice of law in London. Hamlet (t) resides at Plaistow, Macbeth is a soldier in Dun-fermiline, Lear has made himselt famous only recently In verse, the melancholy Jacques (s) has got into the newspapers over a claim for the mythical Townley millions, and Romeo was a short time 'ago a captain of volunteers. Of other names famous in English poetry Byron and Shelley have both family representatives. Otway is a West Indian merchant, Addison a solicitor, Dean Swift a sharebroker, Samuel Rogers a dairyman, Southey a hosier, and Steele a loom manufacturer.

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RUSSIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER. FAY TEMPLETON HIS WIDOW. The Burlesque Atres Left 100.000 by the Late Howell The will of the late Howell Osborne, the noted man about toivn who died in was admitted to probate in New York last week without opposition, Fay Templeton, the burlesque signing her waiver Temple-ton-Osborue, formerly Fay Templeton." The Man Whose Ambition Knows Mo Bounds. Prince Lobanofl, the new. Russian minister of foreign affairs, is a soldier IN FIGHTING COSTUME.

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It leaves to his favorite cousin, Henrietta Olive Trowbridge, pictures and works of art to the value of $1,000 to be selected by herself; to William B. Oliver and G. II. Worriner, his private secretary, pictures and works of art to the appraised value of $500. Out of the residue of the estate property not to exceed $100,000 is left to Fay Templeton.

which she is to select for herself. The testator stated that in his opinion some relatives for whom he might naturally wish to provide have already been provided for under the wills of his father nod and smile to many more, but she could not do it to all, you know, for we lay there by hundreds; but we could kiss her shadow as it fell on the wall at night and lay our heads on our pillows again, content." They have heard, too, and cannot hear often enough, the story of the dinner given to the officers of the British army and navy on their return from the East, and how, when Lord Stratford suggested that every guest should write on a piece of paper the name of the person whose' deeds in the Crimean war would engrave themselves most indelibly in the history of the British people, and when the papers were examined every one had written the name of Florence Nightingale. Never has a victorious army received such a welcome' on it3 return home as did the Nurse-in-Chief of the British forces in the Crimea, and of all who welcomed her, by word or In spirit, there was none whose welcome was more sincere than that of her Queen. The beautiful ornament which her Majesty presented to Florence Nightingale as a decoration was a symbol of the gratitude shown by a Queen to a subject. The decoration is oval in form, the ground of pure white enamel, on which in diamonds are the letters and the royal crown.

The latter Is inclosed by an oval band of black enamel black being an emblem of good counsel on which is inscribed in gold, "Blessed are the Merciful." On each side rise branches of palm in green and gold enamel, denoting the peaceful occupation and triumphant result. The color green also implies eternal friendship. The label bearing the word "Crimea" i3 in azure blue. in the rope walk was a terror to the girls and frequently chased them and pulled their hair until Gussle became their champion and punched his head. She did not scratch or slap him.

but stood up and hit out from the shoulder. So manfully did she whip the bully that her fame spread and she was called upon by meny girls to protect them from boys at whose hands they suffered injustice. She was always ready to fight for a girl or a woman when the enemy was a man. Three years ago she went to her sister Lena, who was a dressmaker, and said she was tired of the work she had been doing and wanted to do woman's work. Hr sister offered to teach her dress-in iking, and Gussie gladly accepted.

S'ie left the rope walk and became her 8 ster's apprentice. But, although she could throw a 100 pound ball of hemp vith any man she could not handle a 1 ieedle. "I tried ever so hard to stick to the work my sister gave me," she said, "and I did all I knew how to learn dressmaking; but it was no use. I would get bo tired that I would go to the street, which wa3 being repaved, and throw paving stones to the pavers for recreation. My sister told me it was no use, and I gave up dressmaking and went back to the rope walk." Gussle was destined to do more masculine work than she had done bafore she made the unsuccessful effort to become a dressmaker.

In November, 1892. Hattie Leslie, a woman pugilist, appeared in the Uniaue theater in Grand mi SHORT LINE and mother, his grandmother, uncle and aunt. Therefore, he leaves the residue of his estate, including his interest in the estates of deceased relatives. In trust for Henrietta Olive Trowbridge for life. Upon her death her property is to go to her descendants, if there are any, otherwise it is to be applied for the benefit of Minnie Garson and other relatives.

Howell Osborne was one of the most conspicuous of the gilded youth about town for years, during which his extravagances and dissipations were the envy of his associates. Hi was a great admirer of stage beauties, and finally centered his devotion upon Fay Templeton, long an ornament of the burlesque and operatic stage. For a few years past his health was not good and last winter he succumbed to the grip and a general break down of the constitution. He was less than 40 years of age. Most of his large fortune was tied up in trust by his parents' wills.

Whatever was unincumbered was spent years ago. PRINCE LOBANOFF. as well as a statesman and his ambition knows no bounds. The acquisition of new territory to the already large empire will be one of the chief object3 of his administration. It is not impossible that within a year or two we may hear of Russian aggressions on the Turkish frontier.

He said recently: "Never was our holy empire- more thoroughly prepared to extend the blessings of Christian civilisation than now." By this he means that the time is opportune to crush the Ottaman em-plif, seize India, the Suez canal and Eypt. An alliance with Japan and France is necessary to this program and some triple agreement may be SEATT I. FRANCIS, Gen'l Pass'r Agent, OMAHA. NEB. N.

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