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WSUKEJROMANCE
‘Career of the Boy Currency
Comptroller.
THE RESULT OF A SLIP OF THE PEN.
Why the Young Man Was Put on His
Mettle—Mr. Wellman Feys a High Trib
ute to Young Eckels—His Successor In
Office.
Washington,Deo.lo —[Special. |— Comp
troller Eckels of the treasury department
has sent his resignation to the president,
and will retire in a few days to take the
presidency of a bank in Chicago. Mr.
Eckels is the last of the important officials
•of the Cleveland administration to get out’
-of the government under the present Re
publican regime. He retires voluntarily,
his term not expiring till next March. It
is not generally known that the term of
office of a comptroller of the currency is
five years, and the incumbent is not re
movable by the president except for rea
sons given in writing, which must be sub
mitted to the senate. Congress wisely
provided that this most important office
should be at least this far removed from
political action. President McKinley
•would have been glad to have Mr. Eckels
'remain till next March, and might even
have gone so far as to have reappointed
him, but Mr. Eckels wished to go into pri
vate business. He gives up a salary of about
$5,000 a year as an officer of the govern
ment to take a salary of $20,000 a year as
the president of a bank.
Eckels’ Successor.
Mr. Eckels’ successor is Charles Gates
Dawes of Illinois, also a young man. He
is almost as youthful looking as the retir
ing comptroller, who was spotted as a boy
when he first came to Washington. Mr.
Eckels’ youthful appearance led to the
telling of many stories about him, some of
•which were truthful and some of which
were not. The comptroller does not deny
that an important government official once
called on him at his office and asked to
see Mr. Eckels. “My flame is Eckels,”
said the comptroller. “But I wanted to
see your father, sonny, ” replied the visitor.
Mr. Eckels also admits that it is true he
has at various times had difficulty in mak
ing people believe in his identity while
traveling about the country. For instance,
he was once Invited to make a speech at
the annual meeting of a board of trade in
a New England city. It was shortly after
his appointment, and he was not as well
known then as he is now. When he made
his entree to the hall where the dinner was
to be given, and asked to be shown to the
seat reserved for him, the young men in
charge of the seating politely but firmly
informed him that he was carrying the
joke too Jar; that “no kid like him could
run himself in on them as a ringer.” Mr
Eckels explained in some detail with a
smile on his face that ho was the only and
.original Eckels, “the boy comptroller,”
and he was escorted to his seat with pro
found apologies.
A Romantic Career.
The Washington career of James H.
Eckels reads almost like a romance He
was really appointed to his office through
. a mistake made by Mr. Cleveland. The
late president intended to appoint Eckels
to be comptroller of the treasury depart
ment. which is quite a different office from
comptroller of the currency. The former
has to do with warrants drawn upon the
treasury. It is the duty of the comptroller
to see that they are in accordance with
law, and that there is authority for their
payment. While it is an important office,
now and then being called upon to make
decisions which mean a good deal to the
government and to individuals, it does not
compare with the comptrollership of the
-currency. The incumbent of this office
has under his direct charge the great na
tional banking system of the country, with
its almost infinitely important relations
to the prosperity of the people.
W’hen by a slip of the pen Mr. Cleve
land nominated Mr. Eckels for the latter
office when ho had intended to name him
for the former, he decided, in Mr. Cleve
land’s characteristic fashion, to let it stand.
Eckels was then a young lawyer of La
ealle, Ills. He and his partner had helped
William C. Whitney swing the Illinois
delegation in line for Cleveland at the Chi
cago convention of 1892. Ho was a pretty
good lawyer, and might have made a good
Injv nffioar of.
in the blood.
S When the liver fails to
T Es do its regular work of filter-
IV ing this bilious poison out
of the circulation, it goes on
poisoning the entire constitu
/ tion just as surely as if a man
-was drinking prussic acid.
Every part of the body is polluted. The
digestive juice# are suppressed and weak
ened. The kidneys and skin are clogged
with impurities ana the lungs and bronchial
-tube* overloaded with morbid _ secretion
which eat away the delicate tissue, and
bring about bronchitis and consumption.
All the diseases caused by this subtle pro
cess of bilious poisoning are cured by the
-marvelous alterative action of Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery. It directly in
creases the liver’# natural excretive and
purifying powers; gives the digestive and
blood-making organs power to manufacture
-Bn abundance of red, rich, healthy blood.
It drives out all impurities, and vitalizes
the circulation with the life-giving elements
which restore perfect nutrition, solid mus
-cular power, and healthy nerve-force.
“In August 1895,1 was taken down in bed with
>• burning and severe pains in my stomach and
■nder my shoulders, and dizziness in my head,’’
writes Ira D. Herring, Esq., of Needmore, Levy
C». t Fla. “My home physician was called and he
•aid my symptoms were more like consumption
than anything else. I lingered in this way seven
inonths trying different kinds of medicine. Noth
ing that I ate would digest, and I had great dis
tress in my stomach. I was persuaded to try some
•f Dr. Pierce’s remedies or to see what he thought
of my case. I wrote him and received an answer
-Stating , that my suffering was from indigestion
and torpid liver, and advising me to take Dr.
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. The first
bottle gave pleasing results. I have taken four
bottles of the 'Golden Medical Discovery’ and
•three small vial* of the 1 Pleasant Pellets.’ lam
able to do my work and eat what I could not
’Sefore I took these medicines.”
he knew nothing abouffinahoe. ’&6, when
the president decided to let him stay in
the office in which a mistake had put him,
the young man was put on his mettle.
A Popular Official.
His success there shows what a young
American of brains and determination can
do. Ho studied finance from morning till
night. He familiarized himself with the
financial and banking systems of this and
other countries. No man ever worked
harder than Mr. Eckels did during those
first few months of his incumbency of the
office. The result was that when the panic
came on and banks began to fail and trou
bles to accumulate the young comptroller
knew his business. He handled it, too,
with celerity and confidence. He won the
oonfidence and admiration of the financial
and business world. He handled a greater
number of bank failures, with larger lia
bilities and assets, than any former comp
troller had ever done and larger than any
similar government official had ever done
in the history of the world. The responsi
bility was great, but he met it admirably,
and it is now a common saying among
men of both parties that Mr. Eckels has
made the best comptroller the government
ever had.
The popularity of the boy comptroller
may be judged by the fact that he has had
a greater number of invitations to speak
at dinners and conventions throughout the
country than any other official of the gov
ernment. He has, too, been more often
asked to write articles for the reviews and
magazines, .nd the amount of work of
this nature which he has turned out is
something marvelous. In all these ways
he has made himself a power in the world
of thought. Congress asked him to ad
dress committees, and men of both parties
listened to him in admiration. President
McKinley and Secretary Gage have valued
his advice. Such is the story of “the boy
comptroller. ’ ’ Walter Wellman.
The Coming Woman
Who goes to the olub while her husband
tends the baby, as well as the good old
fashioned woman who looks after her
home, will both at times get run down
in health. They will be troubled with
lose of appetite, headaches, sleeplessness,
fainting or dizzy spells. The most won
derful remedy for these women is Elec
tric Bitters. Thousands of sufferers fron}
Lame Back and weak Kidneys rise up
and call it blessed. It is the medicine
for women. Female complaints and
Nervous troubles of all kinds are soon
relieved by the use of Electric bitters.
Delicate women should keep this remedy
on hand to build up the system. Only
50c per bottle. For sale by Curry-Ar
rington. ,
Elephant Life In the Jungles.
Without elephants jungles would be
virtually impassable. The great beasts
are a mixture of strength and weakness,
of craft and simplicity. The paths
through the jungle from village to vil
lage are merely tracks from which the
interlacing foliage has been cut and
thrust aside and the virgin soil trod
den into a black mud. After a rain this
mud is many feet deep, and no living
creature except an elephant, a buffalo
or a rhinoceros could labor through it.
The elephant makes his way by lifting
one foot at a time and inserting it deep
into the slough in front, withdrawing
another with a sound like the popping
of a huge champagne cork. Nothing but
a ride on an earthquake could be com
pared with the sensation of being run
away with by an elephant As for stop
ping him, some one has well said that
you might as well try to stop a runa
way locomotive by pulling with your
walking stick on the funnel as seek to
check an elephant at such a moment
with a goad. —Exchange.
BUCKLEN’S ARNICA SALVE.
The best salve in the world for outs or
braises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblain
corns and all skin eruptions and posl
tvely cures piles, or no pay required. It
is guaranteed to give perfect satisijotlon
or money refunded. Price 35 cents per
box. For sale by Curry-Arrington Co.,
druggists, Rome Ga-
The Relation of Structure and Function.
Reproduction and dispersal are the
two great aims in the life of every plant
and animal. All else is but the means,
the mere contrivances, to gain the best
advantage in the accomplishment of
these ultimate efforts. Every species,
every individual, exists by virtue of
having striven to attain these ends. In
the structure of each one is the record
of the attainment, partial or complete,
as the case may be, and each man and
woman of us is toiling in his or her
way toward the same goal, unconscious
of that something within us, greater
than ourselves, that “guides ns, blind
fold but safe, from one age on to an
other. ”
The burs and “stickers” that cling so
persistently to our clothes are but a part
of the same great effort. It is the only
way sweet cicely, desmodium, the bur
marigold and their kin have of travel
ing through the woods, and so on from
forest to forest, from swamp tangle to
swamp tangle, Jbey live their lives as
truly as a man lives his, with equally
as good a purpose that is equally as well
attained. Each embodies those essential
qualities of living that the Great Teach
er discerned when he bademen “consid
er the lilies of the field. ” —Professor 8.
Trotter in Popular Science Monthly.
■■ M. I "
Time’s Changes.
“You, ” said she as she came down
the stair, leisurely pulling on her gloves
—“you used to say I was worth my
weight in gold. **
“Well, what if I did?” he asked,
looking at his watch for the third time
in 15 minutes.
“And now you don’t think I’m worth
a wait of two minutes. ” —lndianapolis
Journal.
Liquid Air.
A tablespoonful of liquid air poured
on a fluid ounce of whisky will freeze
it at once into flat scales, and a hand
kerchief saturated with it is charred
and destroyed as quickly as if placed in
a hot oven. As an agent of destruction
liquid air is powerful, but no useful
office has been found for it as yet
Many a man
who would be
startled at the
■ bare thought
■of sitting
■ down and
I deliberately
I drinking a
dose of poi
son, allows
himself to be
regularly and
systematic
ally poisoned
:-day after day
by accumula
tions of bile
THE ROME TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, IHH7.
ANNEXAWAVORED
Congress Seems Disposed to
Take in Hawaii.
/
SECRETARY SHERMAN TO RETIRE.
Walter Wellman Predicts the Resignation
of the Head of the State Department
Within a Few Months—The Hawaiian
Delegation In Washington.
Washington, Dec. 11.— [Special. ]
Whether or not Hawaii shall be annexed is
the chief topic of conversation in congres
sional circles just now. No one doubts
that in one way or another the Pacific is
lands will be brought into the great re
public. If it cannot be done by ratifica
tion of the treaty with the Hawaiian gov
ernment, it will be done by a joint reso
lution to pass the two houses and be signed
by the president. That there is a large
majority in both houses favorable to an
nexation appears to be beyond question.
Some of the ablest men in congress are
opposed to taking in Hawaii. They ob
ject to abandonment of the traditional
policy of this government, which they
claim has ever been opposed to a colonial
system, and therefore to the acquirement
of territory lying beyond the mainland of
our continent.
The friends of annexation answer to this
that the time has come for the United
States to broaden out a little; that while
we are not going extensively into the land
-grabbing business so zealously carried on
by European nations, while we are not
“land hungry,” it would be fodlish to re
ject such a valuable acquisition when it is
offered to us.
Already Americanized.
Os course there are a thousand opinions
as to the advisability of taking in a coun
try the majority of whose inhabitants are
not of our own blood. But every one who
visits Hawaii returns with a distinct im
pression that he has not been outside our
own country. Except in the matter of
climate he could while there all the time
easily imagine himself in the southern
states. The customs of the people, their
style of' dress, the architecture of their
houses, everything pertaining to their
commercial and social life is borrowed
from the United States.
This is seen to be true by the character
of the four Hawaiians who are here to op
pose annexation. Though some of them
are natives of more or less pure blood,
their conversation and manners are those
of American citizens. They are intelli
gent, shrewd men, and if any one can see
why they would not make good citizens
of this land he has keener perceptions than
most of the congressmen with whom they
have talked.
The Hawaiian Delegate,.
These Hawaiian delegates are guests at
the hotel in this city where the former
queen, Liliuokalanl, stops. Every day they
gather round the stocky figure of their
former sovereign, seemingly glad to pay
her homage. Though she does not answer
very closely to the average American con
ception of a queenly person, these Hawai
ians look up to her with sincere reverence.
It is a striking example of the truth of the
old adage that once a queen always a
queen to some at least of the subjects.
The Hawaiian delegates say with evident
candor that it would be the- happiest day
of their lives if they could get their old
queen back on the throne.
Some of the natives in Hawaii are rich
men. There is one down there, Parker by
name, who is said to be worth $10,000,000
or $12,000,000. He made it in the sugar
business. He opposes annexation. As a
rule the natives who have acquired prop
erty are for union with the United States,
because they want to enjoy the security
and law and order which a strong govern
ment will give them. Congressman Taw
ney, who has recently returned from a
visit to Hawaii, says the most earnest op
ponents of annexation among the natives
are the women, who fear for their social
status. If the white government predomi
nates forever, they may fall to the unde
sirable social level of being regarded as
negresses, While if they can get their queen
back again they will be looked upon as the
first ladies of the land. But it is not like
ly the social aspirations of the women of
Hawaii are going to have much weight
with congress.
Correspondents Favored by the President.
When the president’s message was sent
to congress last Monday, we had a curious
illustration of the advantages enjoyed by
the newspaper correspondents in the Capi
tol. The very instant that Secretary Pru
den arrived from the White House and an
nounced “a message from the president of
the United States” pamphlet copies of the
message were distributed to the corre
spondents in the press ga'leries of both
the senate and the house. In this way the
correspondents were able to sit with copies
of the message in their hands and to turn
at once to the most interesting parts of it,
while the statesmen on the floor below
were compelled to wait till the reading
clerks could mumble over the long para
graphs of this most important document.
Doorkeeper Alonzo Stewart, who is always
looking out for the interests of the sen
ators, did manage to borrow enough copies
from the press gallery to make a show of
distribution on the floor, but for the most
part the senators, with all their dignity,
had to wait till the press was supplied.
Sherman to Retire.
Secretary Sherman is not enjoying the
best of health. He suffers much from
colds and never leaves his office to step
out to his carriage without being warmly
wrapped up. His secretary always accom
panies him. Mr. Sherman’s memory is
notoriously weak, and he is, besides, a
very good natured man. In his old age
he has mellowed very much and is always
glad when he can do anything that his
callers want him to do. For this reason
the embassadors and ministers are fond of
going to' Secretary Sherman when they
have business with this government of
such nature that a little laxity on the part
of our officials may give them an advan
tage. They keep out of the way of As
sistant Secretary Day and the other assist
ant secretaries, Messrs. Adee and Cridler,
if they can. Mr. Sherman is the man they
like to do business with.
Despite all denials I am able to say that
Mr. Sherman will not remain in the state
department more than a few months.
Walter Wellman.
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Public Notice.
The board of commissioners of roads and
revenue of Floyd county will receive blds on the
first Monday in January next for keeping Veal’s,
Freeman’s. Troutman’s, and Beal's ferry for
1898, the board reserve the right to reject any
and all blds. This
Clerk.
Pawtucket Fur Company,
294 Main St, Pawtncket, R, I.
WANTS ALL KINDS OF
Raw Furs, Skins, Ginseng, Senaca, etc
Price# quoted for next 60 days are as fol
low#: Silver Fox, $16.00 to $150.00: Bear,
$5.00 to $25 00; Otter, $4.00 to $9.00; Martin
$2.00 to $9.00; Beaver, $3.00 to $3.50 per
pound; Wolf, SI.OO to $2.00; Red Fox, SI,OO
to $2,00; Mink, 75c to $1.00; Skunk, 25c to
$1.00; Gray Fox, 50c to 75c; Rat, 20c to 25c
Price list on all other furs and (kins fur
nished upon application. Full prices guar
anteed, careful selection, courteous treat
ment, and immediate remittance on all
consignment#.
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