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9 THE SANDERSVILLE HERALD. Ltd B>* The Qoddvss of Liberty; Quided By The Star of Bethlehem. house for free seeds. lower branch of national legislature passes this APPROPRIATION. Members of Congress "Haze** Op ponents o# Free Seeds.—Confusion Precedes Final Vote on Bill..—Agri cultural Oratory. When the IIoiiso of Representatives took up the agricultural appropriation hill, quite a discussion arose over the elimination of the usual free seed item hv ilie committee'on agriculture. The iiouse gave to the country during the days of debate, a spectacle that else where thau on the lloor of that parlia mentary body, would have been kuown as “rough house.” There was a great tendency to "haze’’ members when they spoke In defense of the action of the committee. Much was said about the attempt to strike down the hard-working farmer mid take from him thnt helping hand iu the shape of free seeds which had been held out to him for so rnuuy years. None of the advocates of free seeds emphasized the fact that the total val ue of the packnge containing five small packets which forms the quota sent to each farmer cost the govern ment 1 *4 cents, and thnt each member had the enormous sum of $ir>o worth of these seeds to distribute among his entire constituency. The arguments advanced sought to prove that the withdrawal of this subsidy of less than 2 cents to each farmer would drive the entire agricultural voting strength of the country into bankruptcy. ELOQUENCE ON TAP. Some of the speeches made will go rolling down the ‘‘corridors of time” ns specimens of that matchless elo quence always on tnp In the House of Representatives when a great national issue is up for consideration. Mr. Henry, of Connecticut, submit ted innumerable letters from his con stituents and from organized granges urging the abolishment of the free-seed practice. Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming, delivered himself of a humorous speech in which he poked fun at the Department. Mr. Burleson, of Texas, opposed free seeds because he did not believe the Intelligent farmers cf the country expected the government to uld Jpem in t.ieir business. Farmers, uriier nil circumstances, he said, had supported the government and nu\er expected the government to support them. Mr. Burleson paid his respects, rather sarcastically, to certain mem bers who advocated free seeds on the floor and then In the cloak rooms sneered at the “Reubens” and “hay seeds” who demanded theip. Mr. Bur- ANTI-MONOPOL Y LA ITS. R jff U fff t . on ? ln , |rrnnce Wh, cb Rigidly Prohibit the Cornering of Neces sary Commodities. It seems that our anti-trust and mon- oply crusaders might learn something rioin the methods employed in ouf Sister Republic of Frauce. There, capitalists are limited In their opera tions of “cornering” commodities. This applies particularly to those products which are considered necessities of life, such as grain and its products, bread, meat, wine, vegetables, fruit, butter, vinegar, coal, wool, silk, etc. Any “cornering” of such articles is a criminal offense In France. It has been so, with varying forms of penalties dealt out, since 1793. The offense has been made so broad and sweeping that It now includes all persons who de stroy or permit to perlBh merchandise of prime necessity, whether it is their property or not. The criminal code prohibits mani pulations teudlng to bring about an advance or fall in price that Is not warranted by the law of supply and demand. The law does not Include tobacco, of course, for tobacco Is a government monopoly and controlled absolutely by it. The punishment met ed out to the violators of this law con sists of both Imprisonment and fine, the term and amount being measured by the magnitude of the offense. In addition to thl3 the offending manu facturer, merchant, or manipulator has his factory or business establishment placed under police supervision, the ex pense of which he pays for from two to five years. There Is no more trouble In handling offending corporations than Individuals. Every director or employee in a managerial capacity is responsible. For a secoud offense, the penalty Is so severe that it would re sult in the extermination of almost any establishment. MEMORIAL DAT. No memorial day, or Decorntlon Day, ns It Is more generally known, has ever come around, since after the Institution of the observance, more than thirty-five years ago, when a better state of feeling existed between the North and South, and between the men who fought in the war, than now. There hns been a decided ten dency this year to ail sorts of Blue and Gray proceedings. The Grand Army posts and the Confederate camps have mixed themselves up In n most genial way. This does not mean thnt the special value of the dny, to the northerner, as a commeniorntion of the services and death of the Union soldier hns lost its flue edge. On the contrary. It has gained in zest The soldier died for the Union, and those who lay flowers on liisgrave cannotdo so without think- IS OLD AS HE FEELS. AT EIGHTY•FIVE YEARS, SENA- OR PETTUS DISGUSTED AT BEING CALLED AGED. Constituents Idolize Him—But They ore Preparing to Hold an Election to Decide on Successor-in Case He Dies. Something unusual Is happening in Alabama. The people unanimously want Edmund Winston Pettus to con tinue to serve them In the United States Senate as long as he lives. Yet they are preparing to hold an election to decide upon his successor. The rea son Is that when Senator Pettus’ pres ent term expires, in 1909, he will be 88 years old, and the election Is to be held because Alabamans fear he will not live longer than that. But “Grand pa’* Pettus Is Indignant. He sayB he is as spry as he was at 60 and that ho expects to live out the whole six years of another term. He is candidate for re-election on the platform; “A man is as young as he feels.” Senator Pettus had reached the time for chloroforming, according to the so-called Osier doctrine, back in ’63— about the time he was performing deeds of daring In defense of Vicks burg, fighting with the Confederate army. It seems that the situation had become desperate; volunteers were called for a forlorn hope. A brigade of reckless Texans offered for the service, and PettuB offered to lead. And he did lead—led where fight was hottest, and at the head of the column, his six feet four looming large in front, that protruding lower jaw set on tak ing those works at any cost. Where that tall figure rose and that black straight mane waved those Texans followed. They loved him for his dar ing, and when all was done and they learned that he was from Alabama and not from Texas they insisted on adopting him for their State, and by one acclaim he was christened “Old Texas.” Pettus was a Forty-Niner He rode from Alabama to California on horseback with a company of some forty of his neighbors. He was a mere lad then of twenty-eight, but had al ready had adventures in the Mexican war, in which he fought. At eighty live his record Is said to be something like this: Enjoys a game of cards reads his Bible, loves flowers, runs no bills, carries a red bandana, culls his wife sweetheart, has a fund of subtle humor and being a Senator who works hasn t time to think whether the Grim Reaper is twenty or only ten years off. That, his friends believe, Is a good enough platform in Itself. Joys in Tree Planting. In the early spring the tree fakir Is thriving upon the fad for foreign trees and shrubs. About the time the snow disappears in early spring the tree fakir takes his grubbing hoe, his prun ing shears and a ball of twine and goes Into the woods. There he grubs up tree sprouts—sumach, oak, alianthus, hick ory, beech, poplar, chestnut—or almost anything else will serve his purpose. These he trims and prunes and ties up in bundles for removal to the place where they are to be stored. When the spring tidying up of the home garden commences the tree fakir makes his appearance In public. He will show pictures of rare Japanese or Chinese or Mexican or East Indian shrub trees and offer to supply you sprouts at a figure that is most invit ing. You see an opportunity to get a plant worth $12 for $1, and then you think of the envy which that queer, red-leafed, wide-spreading hush will excite in the breast of your neighbor— and you buy. By and by you shout with joy and call your wife out to see the tiny leaves, and then you begin to brag and look down upon your neighbors. You invite them in to see the wonder, and you talk learnedly of horticulture in Japan or the East Indies. And then your glorious tree bursts Into leaf—when you discover that you have bought an. ordinary, common, everyday sumach or a maple, or, per haps, a scrawny little peach tree. Then you lie In wait for him, and you meet with another disappointment. He doesn’t come around any more. RED TAPE IN DAYS OF >Gt. The Best Way to Get Brooms Was to Ben tbe Money and Buy Them. A veteran of the civil war. In com menting on the so-called Panama circumlocution olflce, gave some amus ing reminiscences of the working of the “rep tape" during the days of 1801. “I was quartermaster sergeant in a New York regiment and had been detailed to assist in handling u bunch of recruits,” he snld. “At tlio end of the first week I discovered tlmt we were out of brooniH, and when I re ported the matter to the lleutonant he told me to stop off at the ordnance store when I rode iu to get the rations. CONFEDERATE DAUGHTERS. MRS. GOODLETT OF NASHVILLE- FOUNDEIt AND PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL ORDER. Strove for Years to Unite Various Southern State Organizations— Active Worker In Many Charitable Institutions. Pew have accomplished more for living patriotism as well as perpetuat ing the memory of the heroic dead of the Southland than Mrs. M. C. Good- led, of Nashville, Tcnu., the founder and Urst president of the United SCENES IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETRY. Where Are Burled 20,000 Union ami Confederate Dead. 1. Monument to 2,111 "Unknown Dead.” 2. Mansion House of Gen. Robert E. Lee. 3. Amphitheatre Where Memorial Services Are Held. ieson challenged anybody to show a single resolution passed by an organ ized body of farmers favoring this ' species of graft.” Mr. Mondell held tbe attention of the House until he had concluded, and his speech was the one cool, dispassion ate episode of tbe dny, "The question is,’' said he, “Shall we continue to en dear ourselves to the hearts of our constituents by distributing among them a few packages anaually of seeds of unknown vintage and uncertain heredity of the fragrant onion, tho luscious rutabaga, and the humble but glorious—‘the kind that mother used to make—pie promoting pumpkin, or shall "* e , with Spartan self-denial, forego this ancient and potent promoter of our claims to statesmanship?" Mr. Mondell concluded by convulsing the House with a famous poem writ ten by the “poet lariat” of his State on the subject under discussion by the House. When Mr. Cocks, the representative of President Roosevelt’s district on Long Island, began to denounce the free-seed evil he soon had the House by the ears. Messrs. Sulloway and (Continued on next page.) ! ing of the Union and its sacredness. I But the Union is now secure forever. The rancors of war time are dead. The work of the hero of that war is complete. There is now no further occasion for maintaining the conflict that lie had part in. At the side of the soldiers’ graves, i in this year of 1900, many stalwart grandsons of men who are buried there will stand with flowers in their hands. 1805 was a good while ago. A certain amount of the decorating this year will be done by veterans’ great-grandsons. For there were old felloes In the ranks of Bull Run und at Gettysburg on both sides. But there were youngsters, too, and thousands of these we have with us still. They are honored above all other men, and pro perly, on Memorial Day. It is their day. Nothing can be more impressive than their annual turuout. It Is the nation’s most beautiful spectacle, and the honoring of it weaves Into Amer ican lives the enduring pattern of patriotism. Boston has a public school teacher— Miss Clara Doane—who has taught continuously for fifty-seven years. Afterthoughts. The ratio of married couples living to celebrate tbe golden anniversary Is 1 to 11,000. According to Pekin reports, the Chi nese bandits are almost as active as East Side rioters in New York. A Milwaukee poetiess won a barrel of flour In a poetical contest. Few poets are so lucky in landing the dough. “Chicago bristles," says Henry James, proving that they took him on the usual sightseeing trip through the stockyards—hogs and cattle. The baby that was born In a parlor car on the Lake Shore road can claim that whatever success he achieves later in life was due to early training. Henry James calls himself a “frus trated American." Those of us who have tried to understand Mr. James' books belong in the same class. The Washington State 3upreme Court has given George H. Melse $14,- 000 for the loss of. a leg. George’s financial standing is now assured. Dr. Wiley, the Government Chemist, Is looking Into tbe question of how long refrigerator plants mtiy keep food with out detriment to the consumer. He Is, of course, after the cedd facts. MRS. M. C. GOODLETT, President United Daughters of the Confederacy. t made out a requisition for half a dozen brooms and he signed it. When I got to the store I showed it to the sergeant in charge ahd he laughed ut me. “ ‘You must get It signed by tbe mnjor,’ he said. “I finally hunted up tho mnjor and he told me that the order must bo on army form 790,897K, and not on foolscap. I told him that my party were recruits and we had no station ery. He told me to go or to send to Washington and get some. I explained that this would take long and that the brooms would not do any good if we did not get them sooner. He then asked if the lieutenant was the com mander of my corps. I answered that of course he was not. ‘Then,’ I was told, ‘he must put under his name “For Officer Commanding.’ ” “I went back to camp, and after writing out a new requisition had the desired improvement made. When I returned to tho major lie explained that it was nil wrong. Instead of saying ‘required for such a regiment and company, six brooms,’ I should have concluded it with ‘brooms six.’ I scratched out the line and rewrote it. I was then told such corrections were not allowed, and a new requsi- tion was necessary. I drew up a new one and asked if It was all right. The major reluctantly said he thought it would pass. I then rode back to camp and got it signed. Taking it to the ordnance store I was Informed that nothing could be issued on such an )rder. It had to bo registered. I asked for further particulars, and was in formed thnt this could be done at the mnjor’s office. Once more I trotted hack and eventually a corporal placed my paper under a little stamp and in flicted a mark something like a no tary’s seal. Again I went to the ord nance store. “ ‘Is this all right now,’ I asked. “ ‘Yes,’ answered the sergeant. ‘It’s a bit irregular, but it will do.* “‘May I have the brooms now?’ “ ‘You can’t have them at all,’ an swered the sergeant, severely. ‘“Why, in Heaven’s name, can’t IV’ “ ‘Because,’ he replied as he turned away, we haven’t uuy. We are all out of them.’ ” Daughters of the Confederacy. No one but a woman of such force of character united to the social training that comes from inheritance through a long line of ancestors, together with parliamentary experience, could have conceived and firmly established In so short a time a society that now num bers 40,000 members. Mrs. Goodlett is very modest in speaking of this cherished child of hers, whose birth has given monu ments and loving tribute to both liv ing and dend Southern heroes. Her object in uniting the women of the South was to bring them together, to pull shoulder to shoulder with tho Confederate veterans in extending all necessary old to tho needy survivors of the war between tho States; to protect Historic places of tho Confederacy; to record the part taken by Southern women, ns well In untiring effort after the war in tho reconstruction of the South ns In patient endurance of hardship and patriotic devotion dur ing the struggle; to honor tho memory of those who fell In tho service of tho Confederate States; and to cherish ties of friendship among the members of the society. She worked for years striving to organize tho United Daughters of tho Confederacy before even her own association of which she was presi dent would co-operate with her In call ing a convention and Inviting other Daughters of the Confederacy to unite in forming a national association. At this time, besides being President of tho Tennessee Daughters, she was a mem ber of the National Conference of Chnrities and Corrections, the mionnl Prisoners Association, and the National Humane Association, and was edu cated up to the point where she could see the advantage of consolidating the scattered forces of Confederate work ers who were few and far apart. Her work with the national associations showed her the great possibilities In concert of action, and, having time, means, and social Influence to back her In the work, she determined to carry out her plans, and unflinchingly fought opposition from start to finish. The result was that on September 10, 1894, the Society of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was organized at Nashville, Tenn. When the Tennoseoans announced a little over a month ago that they pro posed to have a portrait of Mrs. Good lett painted and placed in the museum at Richmond, Va., appeals came at once from the chnptcr of the States re questing that they might also con tribute toward honoring their founder. Tho requests were complied with and the portrait was unveiled at Nash- vllle, Teuu., June 8, 1905. Granted, At the Grant family dinner Major General Frederick D. Grant told this story on himuoit; “I was booked to speak at a large dinner In town and the toastmaster felt it incumbent upon him to make my path as smooth as possible. He therefore spoke of my father and said I strongly resembled him. This had the desired effect on the people present, and they gave me their blest attention. “Although I spoke aa well as I could, I felt that everyone was disappointed in me and I sat down with relief that it was over. “The toastmaster rose and smiled at me. Then he said to the guests: “ ‘Didn’t I tell you he was Just like his father? He can’t speak worth a cent’ ” Scrutinize your change carefully; a dan- jerous counterfeit thousand dollar bill has jeen discovered. Pirates have stoleu a Standard Oil vessel. There Is apparently no longer honor among members of the profession. Dr. Wiley, chief chemist of the Agricul tural Department, says that bottled whis key Is the safest. Of course It is, as long as it stayB bottled. The Chicago News says that a man may flirt with some of the girls all the time and all of the girls some of the time; but that no man has a right to flirt with all the girls all the time. It Is solemuly asserted that the two great political parties together, only spent four million dollars during the lust presidential campaign. How could they muuuge to pay for stationery alone with such a miserly allowance. SHAHS \S ftShffNlHE IT IS NOT AN EASY NATTER to make a million people believe that so good a magazine as Maxwell's Homemaker Mag- ogive can be published for ten cents a year. But we are jloing^lt because the magazine speaks for itself and tells its own story. Here is wbat one ot our subscribers at Crockett, Texas, writes; ‘‘The March number of your excellent magazine is before me. It is certainly filled with helpful articles, and I would be glad to know that every family in Texas had the benefit of its teachings. The first article in this number, ‘ A Homecrofter’s Garden,’ should be preserved for reference. The Article * Health in the Home,’ if carefully followed, would save sickness in every family. 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