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1896-09-24 [P ] ‘UNCLE TOM” LIVES. strous arm y of 3,0*7,000, w hich serves While the Vanderbilt car carried a •’Shot?" as a neuclus for the more gigantic CANADAS PREM IER. chef and a well-stocked larder, the THE LATE F. H. HURD. “No’p.” force of 12.918,000 in tim e of trouble. magnate, soon after entering the South •’Sick?” The Germans come next with their ex­ HERO OF MRS. STOWE’S NOVEL WILIFRED LAURIER THE NEW Park country, felt a longing for a CAREER OF ILLUSTRIOUS EX­ “No’p.” IS AMONG THE LIVING. penditures, th a t th e ir arm y of 584,734 LIBERAL LEADER. glass of fresh milk, and when the train CONGRESSMAN OF OHIO. The old man reached behind him for may be ready for emergency, when the pulled into Como he sent his servant a stout club which he used aa a cane. force can be increased to 3,700,000. into the depot hotel to get the desired “Jim,” he said, nervously, “Jim, ye Ill« Real Xante I* Lewis George Clark F ran ce expends £24,500,000 to keep The Recent I,«n«Utltle In the Queen*« article. The servant returned accom­ tpopl.ii I« the ('ante of III« Death— didn’t desart ?” anil He Was for Many Y rar« a Slave 524.768 men in tra in in g ready to bo Domlniou« the Kenult of Aliuont Twenty panied by the hotel proprietor, Char­ 111* Many Contest« for the National “No, we’re whupped.” of ttie Kennedy« of Mue Gr.ii augm ented into a force of 2,930,000. Yearn of Mlngovrrainent by the Con­ ley Benedict. The latter carried a Legislature — Aspiration« for Office Re­ “What!” The cost of Great Britain's army is but f a m e . servât Iven. glass of milk, refusing to allow anyone cently Laid Aside. “ Yes, we’re whupped. Lee has sur­ £17,500,000, w hich is an econom ical but himself the honor of serving such j rendered with hia army and we laid ARRIET Beecher sum, considering that at home and [RINDER the leader­ a distinguished patron. RANK H. Hurd, ship of Laurier the down our guns.” Stow e's "U n c 1 e abroad the British have on their pay­ Vanderbilt quaffed the milk, pro­ the eminent states­ Canadian Liberals "Jim, how did it happen?” Tom's Cabin” opens ro lls a force of 865.421. Spain m a in ­ nounced it excellent and handed man and lawyer, have succeeded in a ® “Well, pap, we all fought our beet as with the sentence, ta in s an arm y of 95.000 a t a cost of Benedict a $5 gold piece. The hotel died in his apart­ Rousting the Con­ long as It was an even shake; but we / "In the quiet, little ,000,000 per year, although since th e man said "thanks" and started to make ments in the Boody servatives from uns all found out ’at the Lord wee a M tow n of P------.” start of the war in Cuba that sum has his exit. House, Toledo, power in the Do- Yank an* It waa no use. We uns laid | ’’P --------” m ea n s more than doubled.—-London Daily “I say,” called the railway king, Ohio, recently af­ Mail. SfR minion, The re- down our guns an’ cum home.” M 'Paint Lick, in “don’t 1 get any change?” ter a few days’ Ill­ '! jSsult of the polling jGarrard county, Ky. “ No, sir.” ness. He was able throughout thf Do­ A Fanion« g«fllakn«s. “Uncle Tom's Cab­ About Lntly llurrourt. “How’s that?” to walk about his % minion caused an in” first appeared Lady Harcourt, the wife of the lead­ “Well, you don’t get any. That’s room until the pre­ George Tin worth, whose marvelous ft outburst of unusu­ panels representing sacred subjects forty-five years ago er of the opposition in the house of how .” vious day, when al popular enthusiasm. Even dyed-in have made him the most famous artist as a serial in the National Era of commons is not so well known as her “Milk la pretty high out here, isn't he was stricken with apoplexy. The the-wool conservatives, who had voted Washington. Mrs. Stowe saw fit then distinguished husband. She has, how­ it? ” recurring attacks rendered him uncon­ In terra cotta of bla generation, was for the govenment in response to the to call Paint Lick a “quiet little town.” ever, a distinct claim to notice in that "Y ep." scious, In which condition he lay until born In London, Nov. 5, 184«. Tbs crack of the party whip, admitted that, son of a poor wheelwright, he culti­ It is today, and only the slightest she is the daughter of John Lothrop “Do you charge everybody |5 a death. on the whole, they did not altogether early life, «ret changes have been made in it since Motley, the famous historian and au­ glass for milk?” Frank Hurd was born ftt Mount vated wood carving in the story was written. thor of the Standard History of the regret that a change had taken place. "No; some only pay 5 cents." as a diversion and afterward, having There was a feeling among many of Vernon, Knox county. Ohio, Dec. 25, Lewie George Clark, the prototype Dutch Republic. Lady Harcourt was “Why do you charge me more than 1841. H is fath er, Judge H urd, took taken lessons of Lambem, pursued the the most loyal conservatives that the art as an avocation. In 1884 he en­ of “George Harris,” the most promi­ Elizabeth Motley, and was Mrs. J. P. o th e rs? ” great pains with his education, and nent figure in the novel, was owned Ives when she married the English leaders of the party, especially Sir “Because wo fellows out here only tered the academy schools, soon de« Charles Tupper, had, as the result of a at an earlier age than is usual he by Gen. Thomas Kennedy, Garrard get a chance at you once in a lifetime," was sent to Kenyon college, at Gam­ county’s first representative in the gen­ long and uninterrupted lease of power, and Benedict bowed himself out of the come to regard Canada as their own bler, where he graduated when but 17 eral assembly of Kentucky. He first car.—Chicago Times-Herald. years of age, taking the highest honors belonged to John Banton, who was a ,Vr special property, and the "National policy” as a charm to conjure with for of his class. The next four years were party to the famous Banton counter­ HAVING SOME FUN. spent in his father’s office, In the study feiting plot. all tim e. Ï- On more than one occasion, notably of the law. At the age of 21 Mr. Hurd Banton's detection led to the sale of BoclalUlle Candlilst«« fur the l'r«ildeor> in the cases of Montreal and Winnipeg, was admitted to practice, and from the young Clark to Gen. Kennedy, then the of the United State«. beginning took a high rank in his pro­ wealthiest man in the Blue Grass sec­ they showed they had the idea that they could not only ignore but actually The national socialistic labor party fession. In 1863 he w as elected prose­ tion of Kentucky, and a large deal;r held a national convention in New cuting attorney for Knox county, and in race horses and slaves. When Gen. snub those cities when approached by York recently nominating as candi- In 1866 w as sent to th e sta te senate, Kennedy died he bequeathed 100 slaves their representatives with a request for m where he served one term with distinc­ to his son, Thomas Kennedy, Jr. Among tion. them was Clark. A house boy, Nor­ In 1868 Mr. H urd w as appointed to man Kennedy, was given to Robert m e codify the criminal lawB of Ohio, which Argo, and he still lives to tell of commission was ably executed. In “George Harris,” “Uncle Tom,” and 1869 he cam e to Toledo and form ed a other characters in “Uncle Tom's partnership with Judge Charles H. C abin.” Scribner. During their partnership A correspondent visited the old Ken­ Harvey Scribner was admitted to the tucky homestead, yet a comfortable Arm, and when Judge Scribner retired residence, and found old Norman work­ to go upon the bench, Mr. Hurd re­ ing in the garden at the Argo place, tained his connection with Harvey GEORGE TINWORTH. which he has never left, though freed LADY HARCOURT, S cribner u n til Jan . 1, 1894. statesm an in 1876. S ir W illiam w as veloped a high order of talent, and hit more than a score and a half of years In 1872 Mr. H urd w as first nom inated exhibits of figures, solitary and lB ago. m arried first, in 1859, to Lady T heresa for congress, and his career as a na­ Lewis, the widow of Sir George Corne- groups, challenged such marked atten« Norman is a midget. He is 95 years tional character began from that time. tlon that he obtained a permanent ap« ^old, only 3 feet and 9 inches tall, and wall Lewis, Bart. He met his present He was defeated in that canvass by I. wife during the time her father was pointment In the great Doulton art weighs less than sixty pounds. 'i/i R. Sherw ood.
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