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ERMIT OF WABASH luse to Spend Last Days With Children in Paris. vable Old Naturalist Who Lived Thirty Years in a Cabin Near Terre Haute-Befriended John Brown. Terre Haute, Ind.-F'rom a cabin rmitage on the banks of the Wa sh to Paris, France, is the transi n now being made by a recluse, own as Captain Roland B. Smythe, o for thirty years had lived the e of a hermit, though loving his Smythe and His Cabin. ow-men and welcoming them to solitude of his cabin when they to come. -ell educated, graduate of the Uni tY of "Virginia, said to have been the staff of General Lee, a colonel e close of the civil war, a confi of John Brown in the last days e man from Osawatomie while ng as an officer in the Virginia s On duty at Charlestown, the an has preferred the isolation life of a naturalist. He never e a misanthrope, ncr disliked anionship. ce only did he leave his small 1 gg twenty miles below Terre , pre-empted v4en he arrived t thirty years ago, and that was he came to the city to witness atrical performance, his son be tz:, member of the compajay. Until tars ago his children did not 'where he was. Then a woman 4,.ident refinement arriving at nea tivn, skedfor vgas S . "at night he said to a friend: "My children have found me o~ut, and want me to come back, but I . want to live out my life here." Though a ready talker, he never grew reminiscent to the extent of dis closing his early life. except ,possibly *to two or three men to whom he could trust his secret. One story is that his name is Caskey. Whatever it is he has finally yielded to the appeals of. a son and daughter, who live in . Paris tg p'ome to them. There is enough a.uthentic informationl current in regard to him to furmash a few . facts concern1ing his life. Besides there Is his own story of his intimate connection with John Brown after the latter was condemned to die for the raid on Harpers Ferry. .At the en.d of the war, in 186D. 'ythe, who had been rich, was poor b 'ken in health. He wished to aw y from all that reminded him s ormer life, and, always a na st lient, he chose a life of sohi 1 the middle west. F~or some e was on the Mississippi river, r.e is no definite information as ~the did. years ago his houseboat put Stte banks of the Wabash. emen on shore asked. "What his e might be." He repli~d that It gb be Smiythe." atain?" they asked, halif in jest, y soberly replied that it was, ptIn Roland B. Smythe," and so be y known for the thir-:y years. He s now more than elgrity years oe ut has the appearance of a man el .fifty. He has still the military ng first acquired in th~e Virginia -a and later in the Conifederate mvte' health improved steadily Sr he came to the ban'ks of the r. notwithstanding he sqdatted in ivi lace where the pioneers suffered a chills and fever. widely known he early days as "the Wabash n--es." He has not been ill a day. ha without glasses, has a firm rend the grace- of an athlete. step did not like publicity or noto H especially in the pose of a her riet ut he welcomed visitors. espe ;ihit' those with whom he could talk 'ciall atters worth while. AMked to .on as a naturalist, if not of his writ. scences, he replied: "That remi be a petty satisfaction of van woul id if I became a successful ity, it would defeat my purpose of writ out my years as I am doing." livi was a few years ago. and. T enting on vanity, he said: "I corn not seen my own face in any have f mirror for eight years, except kind sturbed reflection of the water." the ferred to live his song rather He .to si'ng it. tha :g will the lovable old man be bered by those who visited rem - His gentle voice, sweet tempera him. sdignified and gracious bearing. men ad children and showed them He e ts ofhis own, now grown to WAS THEI FATHER OF BOXING Jem Mace Originated Present Style of Fighting, and Was Invincible for Years. London.-Jem Mace, the English prizefighter, who 4ied recently at the age of 79, was at one time worth more than $1,000,000, but of recent years has been dependent on friends. Occa sionally he had appeared in music hall exhibitions. Mace was born at Beeston in Nor folk and in his day was one of the greatest of boxers. His first great fight was with Bill Thorpe, whom he beat in 18 rounds. When Tom Say ers retired from the championship in 1860 Mace was regarded as his legit imate successor, but his supremacy was soon challenged by Tom King. The two met in January, 1862, when, after 43 rounds, Mace was given the verdict. For the next ten years Mace was practically invincible. Mace Is regarded as the father of the preserit'style of boxing, because he is the originator. When the former English champion entered the profes sional prize ring the boxers stood toe to toe, with spikes in their shoes, and banged away at each other until one or both dropped to the floor exhaust ed. At first Mace engaged in this style of fighting uider the s'o-called London prize ring rules. Owing to the sturdi ness of the men of his day he had little chance at that game and con cluded to use a style of his own. He originated his style and for the first time in the history of the prize ring was seen fast feinting with both hands, side stepping and ducking. Mace wagan artist at scientific boxing and for that reason beat all his oppo nents easily. He struck a hard blow with all his cleverness and time and again in his battles blinded his oppo nents with his jabs and hooks. Seldom did he come out of a bout bearing a mark of any kind, as he avoided all the attempts of his adversaries to land, with his ducking, side stepping and blocking. When Mace originated this clever style of boxing he feared no man and was matched with fighters weighing as ji j / I .'; I -| Jem Mace. nuch as 50 pounds more than himself. n those days his style of footwork, which he originated, was a revelation to the enthusiasts. It struck the mar :uis of Queensberry so forcibly that-he :aused the present rules to be drawn up. Mace also may be said to be the riginator of -the marquis of Queens berry rules, because his cleverness at boxing prompted the makers to draw them .pp. SOUTHWEST BORDER MARKED Many 4Varble Monuments Show Boundary Line Between the United States and Mexico. El Paso. Tex.-Between El Paso and the Pacific coast the boundary be tween the United States and Mexico Is marked with marble monuaments. These are surrounded by steel picket ed fences, the tops of the pickets bent inward towards the stone. No. 258, the western one of the line, is shown In the illustration herewith. No. 1 is two miles west of El Paso. From El A Boundary Monument. Paso east to the Gulf of Mexico the boundary is the Rio Grande river. In cidentally, "Rio Grande river" is a misnomer, for "rio" means "river,' while Grande would be translated -great." Thus "Rio Grande del Norte," the Mexican name of the river, means "great river of the north." while El Paso, in Spanish. is 'El Paso del Norte," or -"The Pass to the North." 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