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6 COLWTOT I Women, on the Farm [ Conducted By Mrs. W. H.Felton. J 4 Correspondence on home toplos or 4 4 subjects of especial interest to wo- 4 4 men to invited. Inquiries or letters 4 4 should bo brief and clearly writtea ♦ 4 in ink on one side of the sheet. 4 4 Write direct to Mrs. W. H. Fel- 4 4 ton. Editor Homo Department Semi- 4 4 Weekly Journal, Cartersville. Ga. 4 4 No inquiries answered by mall. 4 4 ♦ • »<t#»44«l 111 11111 l The State Socle ogical Society. It means a good deal when a body of earnest men. mostly physicians and mln inters, meet once a year to discuss the subjects which are most intimately related to human life*, and especially as there is no money to be made by the undertaking and no political prominence involved. 1 Buch a gathering took place to the dty of Atlanta a few days ago and its sessions were regular and according to program for three entire days. So far as one might judge, it was a movement pure and simple to do good and to plan for doing good in the very best and most accepted way, to conso nance with modern thought and usages. It sounded no trumpets, rung no bells to notify the world of its coming or going, but there was not a single question dis cussed which did not touch upon the seri ous and momentous problems which inti mately concern human life and which will make the world better as well as wi ser. if duly considered and acted upon. Dr. R- R- Kime, the president of the so ciety. spared nothing to make the meeting what it proved to bo, a body of careful statisticians, sound reasoners and wide awake patriots. He to himself well versed in the best thought of the subjects dis cussed at the meeting, and the society bids fair to become one of meeting places where cultivation, progress and experi ence will be attracted and edlficed. The negro problem was well and thoroughly discussed tn its relation to race troubles and racial hindrances as well as helps. Insanity was ably discussed also. A fine paper was sent by one of Chicago's noted physicians on the relation of insan ity to intemperance This paper should have wide circulation the in formation it conveys and its Intrinsic merit as an ably srritten paper. The tem perance question was treated to a con servative manner, giving facts and data that are valuable to the general reader without heat or prejudice. Tubercolosis had a full and free hearing, also the relation of the criminal to the general progress of society, and as a fac tor In disease and depravity. It was a long step, forward when so many busy and learned men freely gave time and service to making a success of the society, because the world moves so fast and men are so pressed with cares and duties that such a gathering was an . evident exception to the rule of doing something to make something by the doing In a selfish way. There w<re quite a number of ladies in constant attendance on the sessions, evidencing Interest and earnest co-operation. The Death of Mr. Potter Palmer. With the passing away of Mr. Palmer ene of Chicago's richest men has been taken, and the Democrats of the union have loect one of their stanchest and most helpful friends, for he was true as steel. ' Mr. Palmer started life as a clerk in New York state, and when he died his fortune was estimated at 05,000.000. His residence on frhe Lake Shore Drisr has been said to be even finer in equip ment. etc., than many royal palaces in Europe. His famous hotel Is known from ocean to ocean as a magnificent hostelry that pours tn an Immense Income from year to year to its owner. His wife was a beau tiful young girl of 11 when they were married and he h»s crowded her life with everything that money could buy or taste could suggest or hto admiration might compass to please and gratify her. He was generous and gracious to her people, for the wedding of Mrs. Palmer's sister (who married Mr. Fred Grant when hto father was president) was one of the finest affairs then known to this continent, and Mr. Palmer was the gen erous host for the occasion. Two or years ago when hto wife's niece. Miss Julia Grant, married a Rus sian prince at the Newport villa. It was the generous Potter Palmers who gave the wedding and Its essentials. He was beloved of his work people to his hotel. They said he was the most generous of friends In sickness and in trouble. He will be greatly missed among the lowly as well as the rich people that were about him. When the Chicago conflagration occur red he was 40 miles distant, but he saw the smoke and hastened to the city to find all his buildings in ashes. The Pal mer house was in process of erection, the walls were up to the second story and that was the most that was left to him at that time, but he went ahead and rebuilt and Invested in real estate until the last was a thousand times more valuable than the first. With Marshall Field and Levi Leiter he was for a long time a mainstay in the Windy City when It forged ahead like a giant with untold strength and power. AU three men were merchant princes and have left their Impress upon the early progress of Chicago. Hto widow is in the prime of life and her two boys, now grown, will have magnificent property from Mr. Palmer's large estate. All who met Mr. jPalmer to his home or In hto great hotel could not fall to be impressed with hto gracious hospitality and liberality. « An Object Lesson for Boys. It to said sometimes that a boy must go somewhere else than where he to brought up to win money and fame—but there is a Georgia-raised boy. who now makes NOD for a lecture of less than two hours, and that amount is willingly paid by- his own country people to hear him make the lecture. The Atlanta papers tell us that Hon. Thomas E. Watson receives 1500 for a lec ture. and "as yet he has made but two to Georgia or elsewhere (at Milledgeville and Atlanta), both within a month. He simply leaped to the top at one bound. He did not have to go to Boston or Omaha to get an audience. He did not have to pander to the peculiar notions of abolition sections to become a favorite lecturer and he has not been obliged to have two phases to each lecture (accord ing to the locality where each to deliver ed). one to please the men that fought with us. and another for those that were "egin us.” He loftily stepped on the top round of the ladder—spoke the plain truth about the situation and hto hearers paid a dollar a chair to listen to him. This would seem to me to be a small sized miracle to look at It from the stand point of amazement, but when all that sort of bran is sifted out of my imagina tion I find out that Mr. Watson has been making himself ready for this remunera tive work for a great number of years. He did not erect a hasty scaffold on which to mount to fame within a few e=. 1 .. .... —~~ ■ 1 =a BIRMINGHAM BUSINESS COLLEGE Offer* advantage* for students entering new. Reti res *. tar: paid. PoaXKxu guaranteed- Birmingham nc.li boockeepen red I enographen Wnte for 11- toetrsted catalogue free- WILLARD J. WHEEL ER. Preset. Birmingham, Al*. hours. He was digging down to the clay, when he was a small red-headed country raised boy. just like many other Georgia bora and Georgia raised boys, that you and I know. The foundation was laid when his work was hard and hto privileges few, tout he laid the stone and filled to the mortar very carefully, in those narrow days of self denial and heroic resolution. He grew so fast under this severe discipline that he stepped far ahead of his time In politics. After awhile, some of these days, hto advocacy of government owner ship of public utilities will become the fad of reformers, and. we will find govern ment ownership as popular for telegraph, telephones and railroads as for the post office department, which Is owned and operated by the government so well at the present and which to another object lesson of our time. But few men ever had such a harrowing experience to politics as Mr. Watson, and he to but a young man still, as years are counted. His fight was made against odds, if not against numbers; but who will say that this school of political an tagonism was not a help to the coming historian and lecturer? Our young politicians may incline to the belief that present success is the test of final victory, but that is a mistake. Nothing is ever settled that to not settled right; and all things come 1 to him who stands firm and waits. The man who yields or compromises, or condones, may get to and stay to so long as his mana gers ean use him, but he surrenders that crowning excellence of manhood, namely. Independent thought and feeling. I'd rather be a little bench-legged flee and be at liberty to go and come at my pleasure than a delicate full-fed spaniel in a palace, with my master’s collar on my neck, and my owner's name on it in plain letters. The object lesson that the boys of Geor gia may find in Mr. Watson's marvelous career is the triumph of independent thought and the Ijomage that to finally given to intellect and genius. It to like the gold in the sand or In the rock crevice, or to the waters of the great ocean, wherever it is discovered it is royal gold and speaks for its own dignity and excellence. When I read of these flve-hundred-dol lar-a-night. lectures my mind went back to certain scenes that occurred at the polls in the city of Augusta a few years ago. My! my! It would have been called a ' far cry" from that era of Mr. Wat son's life to the royalties he gets from two or three well written books and these high priced lectures! But he did not rub an Aladdin's lamp to produce these won ders in a few years. He. as before said, put dqwn solid masonry in hto youth and young manhood and his feet now rest in solid structures; Mr. Watson's victory to what may be called a triumph of mind over matter. He will be known to fame when hto antagonists will look like 30 cents, according to the school boys' epithet of contempt for failure. Splendid School Books. After my Interest in our present school system had been fully aroused, I also be gan to look into the school books—readers, spellers, geographies and histories. The display really astonished me with its mag nitude and good quality. When I look back fifty years and remember my strug gles with our old-time school books, arith metics and various other books, my as tonishment to great—that children are no smarter than at present. I am beginning to suspect that they are helped too much and the best results follow privation and a struggle after knowledge. I am ready to defend this proposition if need be. Actually the subjects are made so plain and easy to them, that he or she who runs may read. ' I have been looking over several United Stales histories, according to the grade and suitable to the age of the pupils. Our children should be absolutely perfect in the general history of the Federal union of states after they go through the series. I am greatly refreshed in my own recol lection of these mattera They are sim ply splendid books. Those I have looked into have done justice to the south with no injustice to the north. History, to be worthy of the name, should be eminently truthful and accurate. In antebellum times we fell into the habit of buying all our school books from our enterprising northern book men, who knew a god thing when they saw it, and never forgot to "turn a-nimble penny" when the penny could be handled long enough to turn it. The southerner went to college and then played the gentleman and landed proprie tor. He eras well up on politics and kept in touch with the best of English litera ture. but he did not write any books, espe cially to make money out of them, in the flush times of the early republic. In con sequence. the northern writers made the books and naturally told the story from their standpoint. Nobody censures them for so doing; tt was their business to boom their own section and tell of their own glorious deeds, tn the books they made. We were furnishing presidents in the south, for Virginia provided a Washing ton. a Jefferson, a Madison and Monroe, while al the other states had furnished but one, namely, John Adams, in the ear ly days of the republic. Virginia lead eas ily. The south furnished the leaders, and the north recorded their doings as they saw it. The southerners could have written aq good books perhaps, but they did not do it; hey simply bought and used those pro vided. And It was a great mistake, as we now discover. But our modern historians are now aroused to their duty. These splendid United States histories, in which the southern sentiment has a showing, please me very much. I feel as if I would be glad to put twenty years back on my life, that I might have time to encourage, en treat, stimulate, and shout for the good things that are our own, and which our children should appreciate. Girls to Be Punished. A young woman employed in one of the departments at Washington city was dismissed because she wrote a newspa per criticism of some legislation that she thought worthy of censure. She was promptly dismissed and the rea son was not covered up under any ex cuse. She had offended the Republican authorities and they gave her le grande bounce. All of which goes to show that you lay down your independence of thought and action when you accept an Appointment under the administration— so long as you occupy the place. Os course everybody knew it meant that much all the time, but the civil service fraud was continually hoisted up to make a pretense of something different until now. A school girl tn a Kentucky public school was ordered to recite "Marching Through Georgia" a week or ten days ago. That was not pleasing’to this young southern sympathizer, so she declined and she was dismissed from the school, and censured by the teacher. All of which goes to sbow that you must surrender your independence of thought and action in certain school localities or get out of the school house. Thus it goes! It seems to be a day of small men and small spite when girls are to be thus corrected and driven out of their places. A servant can impart more Information in an hour about a family's history than a genealogical tree can tell in a year. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1902. ANOTHER ST. PIERRE UNEARTHED IN AMERICA The destruction of St. Pierre has solved a mystery for the cowboys of the Rio San Francisco valley, in New Mexico. Ever since the capture of Geronimo permitted the cattlemen to occupy the extreme western part of this territory, the cow boys have been digging for pottery in the homes of an extinct race of Indians that once lived along the Rio San Francisco. These homes were dugouts—cellars—with stone walls built into the second bank or bench of the river valley. The pottery differs from that of the cliff dwellers, and it is very beautiful. But.when digging the dirt from the old dwellings the cowboys immediately notic ed that It was not like that to which the dwellings were dug. The soli of the bench where many of the dwellings are found Is a broken-down granite, while that used In filling the old homes was a soft, black loam, fit for a market garden. One had to travel far down the valley to find such soil as that. Then, as they gleaned out the old dug outs the cowboys began to find skeletons in queer positions. An old man had been buried apparently while he sat leaning against a house wall, with a pipe in hto mouth. Near him a papoose, wrapped and tied on a piece of bark In Indian fashion, had been standing against the wall. Elsewhere a woman had bees buried as she knelt behind a metate, or corn-grind ing stone. One hand was on the stone and the other on the bowl of corn—and the corn, though blackened, was recogniz able. Plainly this man with the papoose and the woman had died suddenly and un expectedly. Other skeletons were found, showing that death came so swiftly that no move could be made, while some were piled up as if there had been a rush for the house entrance when death entered. ST. PIERRE A PIRATES’ HOME. PHILADELPHIA. June 28.—They are nearly all dead now, but here and there along the American coast can be found an old salt, laid up tn an ordinary, who, when he first began hto seafaring' life by cruis ing to the West Indies In rum-and-mo lasses hookers, heard many tales of the pirate named AUdain. Indeed, it is likely that a few remain who have seen the smooth rascal. A more remarkable of au dacity, pugnacity and hypocrisy was never seen In the West Indies than Audaln. He came originally from Bristol, England, where he left a wife, but whether to mourn or rejoice over his absence to not known. He reached Martinique some time near 1820, and landed at St. Pierre after a brief sojourn at St. Thomas. St. Pierre was then noted for Its res taurants and hotels kept by women. There was Betsy Parker, "one of that numerous tribe of good natured hostesses whom West Indians rejoice in—cunning and obsequious to whites as if to negroes and as proud and despotic over negroes as if they were whites"—for light colored mulattoes, every one, they were. Some were handsome and willowy like Betsy Parker some were handsome and rotund like Hannah Lewis, but all employed cooks that were unsurpassed and all knew how to mingle the juices of limes and pineapples with good rum and how much Madeira should be poured into the gashed side of a guava. Well shaded hotels were these, and the dining tables stood, on ve randas overlooking yards or cour|i filled with tropical foliage and flowers. Audaln stopped at the house of Dolly Michaux. Dolly was accounted the shrewdest and richest of her class, and there to no 4oubt that she outweighed the largest of them. Audaln was often heard to say during hto career that more than any other feature he “admired bong polne in a woman." Very likely he told the truth, and was therefore more or less sincere In his admiration for Dolly Mi chaux. At any rate, he won Dolly’s heart and a most liberal share of her wealth. Then, without open break, he managed that Dolly should grow weary of him, when he slipped away to Dominica, and at Roseau announced that he was come as a missionary. Because he asked no salary from the people, and because he was a fluent talker, Audaln soon commanded a considerable congregation. How long this kind of work lasted Is not recorded, but after a few months Audaln built, with money he had obtained from Dolly, a small schooner of wide beam and shoal draft, which sailed ostensibly on a trading voyage to Mar tinique. As It happened, this schooner returned to Roseau on a Sunday while Audaln was preaching. She was slowly towing a dis masted bark, and when Audrain saw the two vessels found the weather point and head for the anchorage he broke off hto sermon and poured forth an enthusiastic song of thanksgiving. The bark was deeply laden with Mar tinique sugar, rum and other valuable products. The crew had disappeared— "lost undoubtedly in the hurricane that dismasted her," said the captain of Au daln's schooner, and everybody believed him. , Os cqurse, the wreck was taken before an admiralty court, and a large sum was awarded Audrain and his men for sal vage. But when the schooner crew ob tained their ehare of the proceeds they got drunk to a man, and some of them said things about the discovery of that dismasted bark on the high seas, and a steel-and-powder gale that had destroyed the crew, instead of the plain West In-' dlan gale the captain had mentioned. The talk did not amount to evidence that Audaln or hto men had violated the law. and nothing was done about it; but Audaln thought it wise to make friends with the government officials, and that proved such an expensive business that he went afloat In his schooner to retrieve hto fortune. He landed at Basseterre, St. Kitts (a British Island), and by means of presents and arts familiar to those who trade with simple minded people, like Indians, he managed to load hto schooner with negroes and send her away for a market in Mar tinique. But on her way she was captured by a privateer that hailed from St. Nevis, and this speculation was ended then and there. On hearing of the capture Audaln be came wild with anger, and going to St. Nevis, he challenged the owner of the privateer to fight a duel. The man re fused. and Audaln not only posted him as a coward, but for four days paced to and fro before the courthouse, armed with a sword and four big pistols. Falling to get a shot, he went back to hto preaching; and that he was able to do so is an interesting portrayal of West In dian ideas tn those days. Soon, however, he was afloat again. Dolly Michaux waa appealed to not in vain. Audaln. hto own captain this time, cruised about with his eyes wide open and his teeth shut tight, until he saw alee, on a fine, breezy after noon, a big, high-hooped Spanish galleon deeply laden and homeward bound It was the chance of a lifetime, for such ships always carried large quantities of precious metal, cochineal and other valu able products. Rarely was such a prize worth less than skuo,ooo, and some were worth over 11,000,000. Easing his sheets, Audaln ran within good viewing distance, when he came to the wind and looked carefully for guns; but not a gun could he see. Then with a whoop,he reached for her. but when with in pistol range 14 ports opened mysterious ly and 14 guns came out on the run. With a groan, but with his utmost speed, Au dain let go all halyards and surrendered. Then he dived Into the hold, turned a big empty cask bottom up, and with his mate crawled under. The Spaniards, boarding the schooner, killed all the men on deck, found Audaln under the cask, and dragged him on deck. Seeing the lava on the hilltops and mesas round about the stream, It was easy to imagine that an outflow of suffo cating gases from some volcano had kill ed the Indians, even though a hundred Square miles of territory show certain pt-oofs of this remarkable slaughter, but the unsolvable mystery was the fact that these old cellarlike homes were filled with a kind of earth not found near at hand. If every one In the pueblos was killed — and that was plainly the case—who filled In the homes? If Indians had come from other parts of the territory to fill them they would have prepared the dead for burial In the usual fashion. Moreover, no man could have shoveled dirt Into the rooms and filled them without disturbing the pose of many of the dead who, beyond question, had been burled as they fell. But now everybody can understand the matter. As at St. Pierre, a blast of gases struck dead every soul In the valley of the Rio San Francisco. A tremendous flow of mud came next, and It flooded those homes and very likely filled the valley full. When all that was over the rains began washing out the valley, aril In the course of the years and centuries since the mud has beeto cleaned from the old arid granite sand; but it remains, of Course, In the cellarlike homes where a prehistoric race lived and made beautiful things for every day use, and were de stroyed in a breath as they followed their usual course of life, as were the people of St. Pierre. WHY TAKE ANY CHANCES with some new and untried medicine for such serious troubles as diarrhoea, cramps, dysen tery, when you should know that for over half a century Painkiller has cured millions of cases) Look out for imitations, there is only one genuine, “Perry Davis’." , where the light was better for carving before they served him to the sharks. But as Audaln reached the deck the Spanish captain saw him and said: "Walt; this man's life is sacred, and that of the other for his sake.” When stopping at St. Thomas, Audaln had saved the captain’s life, but under what circumstances neither he nor the captain would tell. Audaln was landed, and once more made hto way to Martinique, where Dolly was wheedled Into buying a schooner for hon est trade with San Doi jingo and Haiti negroes. The schooner reached San Do mingo, and Audaln sold her cargo to great advantage. He also sold the schooner and settled down at one of the south side ports. But having the Anglo-Saxon pride of race, he found It difficult to pay court to negro officials. A quarrel followed, Audaln challenged two of them to fight him with pistols, met them both at once, and at the word shot them both. Another affair on the field of honor (it to known that he fought 13 duels in all) must be mentioned. In this duel Audaln fired twice and missed each time. Throwing the pistol on the ground he turned to hto sec ond and said in a tone that meant much: “Sir, don't let this occur again." He supposed the seconds were purposely leaving ths balls out of the pistols. Then, as the work of loading began again, Au daln walked over to hto antagonist, and saying, "Something be. ween, something between, good sir,” Knocked him down. Os course, the seconds stopped the duel, and Audain was wild with rage for * time. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Pktaburr Dispatch. , Torchon lacaaf any pattern can now be made by one machine, owing to a recent invention in Vienna. —For 310 years London had its lord mayor’s show on June 12th. The date was altered to No vember Sth in 1751. Hair is alleged to be restored to the bald and plumage to naked birds by the waters of Cas ciana. North Italy./ Berlin statisticians have found that only 597 Christian names are employed for the 41,000 children born there each year. “Snuff” is the local name of a mysterious malady which has already caused the deaths of many sheep in Cardlanshlre, Wales. On a motion for urgency a speech lasting seven hours was made recently by one of the deputies in the Austrian reichsrath. Another huge old anchor, much encrusted with barnacles and seaweed, has been dredged up off Cromer. It weighs nearly a ton. Its neck broken by a passing train, a fine dog otter, weighing 31 pounds, was picked up re cently at Galgate, near Leicester, England. Cremation has become so popular in Paris that the municipal council has decided to great ly increase the number of the city’s cremato ries. j Devonport (England) Public Library has been presented with the flag of a pirate junk cap tured in Chinese waters by H. M. S. Plover. A contract for the building of a sugar mill by the state of Arkansas has been signed and ratified by the state penitentiary board and the governor. A monster mushroom has been gathered tn a field at Northwood. It weighs 21 pounds 2 ounces, measures 39 inches in circumference and grew tn three days. When free from ice the Yukon river is navi gable for large steamers 1,965 miles, a distance more than twice as great as that from Chicago to New Orleans. In Berlin a student who wrote Jor the news papers has been fined heavily for publishing the substance of a professor’s lectures in his arti cles without permission. "Christians seek not yet repose,” was the midnight chime from the church steeple which announced the conclusion of peace in an out of-the-way Perthshire (Scotland) village. An unmarried woman's estate of 3625.75 was lately distributed by the probate court of In diana among 39 heirs. The largest amount any one received was $74, which went to surviving brothers and sisters. The smallest amount was $3. the portion grandnephews and grandnieces received. By, a new law in Montreal. (Juebec. all bread must be sold by weight after September Ist next, except fancy bread under one pound. The council passed the law after a bitter contest lasting for months past between the races, the English bakers opposing it and the French bak ers Insisting that it must be enacted as a pro tection for the poor, who, they claimed, have been frequently defrauded. It is the opinion of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican that Amherst was the first of Amer ican Protestant colleges to give an honorary de gree to a Roman Catholic. It bestowed the de gree of doctor of divinity on Augustine Francis Hewlt, the noted Paullst father, in 1877. He was a graduate of the college in the case of '39. Seven years later the pope bestowed the same degree upon Dr. Hewlt. Miss Mary S. Anthony has paid to City Treas urer Samuel B. Williams, of Rochester, N. Y., $71.67 as city tax on her property "with a pro test,” as she writes to bim, “in the name of 10.000 other taxpaying womtn of the city of Ro chester. who are deemed by the lawmakers fuK ly capable, intellectually, morally and physi cally, of earning money and contributing their full share toward the expenses of the govern ment, but totally Incapable of deciding as to the proper expenditure of said money. The most interesting of the new departures made at the English war office is the appoint ment of a lady on the staff. This is the first time a lady has had a local habitation in the building. The lady in question served at the front as a nurse, and, having recently returned, has been appointed to a position at the war office. She has a private office and a separate little sub-department of her own. She is charge within the war office of the affairs of the army nursing department. YE FASHION CORNER. Chicago Tribune. Embroidered ribbons in sash widths come in various pretty design#. Double ring dots in red. scattered closely on white satin ribbon, form one of the showy patterns. An applique design of cherries and leaves in the natural colors is the novel decoration of the linen collar and cuffs of a walking costume of shepherd’s plaid. An odd watch fob is in the design of three dogs’ heads in silver, connected with fine link chains. The eyes of each are Jeweled, and the design looks prettier than the description sounds. Tiny fans, all of plain ivory, are college fans. They are in several designs. For the young girl there is a fetching dress of white net over pale yellow silk, this evident ly a French model, for the skirt flounce and bodice are lavishly trimmed with narrow rows of shirred pink ribbon, a combination on the whole rather pretty in the delicate tones in which it is seen. There are many varieties of seals in crystal. These are comparatively expensive, as crystal always is. and It Is costly to have them qut. |3l Said Wit to Wisdom— | I full stomach maizes I. • Said Wisdom to Wit— x If. |\| ■ Uneeda L -fl If Biscuit yrL O By k 1 Cent*a Package. NATIONAL BIBOUIT COMPANY tWWIk Z IV'O WILD WEST MAN ONCE DRANK WITH THE QUEEN NEW YORK. July s.—Major John M. Burke is the , only American man In ex istence who ever stood up to an American bar and took a drink with the woman who Is now queen of England. When this story was first heard Its reliability was doubted, but he acknowledges Its truth. He never speaks of the Incident unless asked about It, and then Is rather uncom municative. Major Burke has been connected with Buffalo Bill’s wild west ever since it was established by Colonel Cody and Nate Salisbury, and an acquaintance with more people connected with the show business and the press all oVer the world probably than to possessed by any other man living. He has come In personal contact with every royal family, and enjoys friendli ness of pretty nearly every monarch now reigning in Europe. It was in the summer of the late Queen Victoria’s jubilee year that the wild west reached London, and her majesty hearing much about It, decided to see it for her self. This was the first time she emerged from her retirement to honor any exhibi tion by her presence since the death of the prince consort, twenty-two years previous ly, and a special performance was given expressly for her. Colonel Cody marshaled hto forces in the field and Nate Salisbury explained to her majesty the features of the exhibition. One Incident of the royal visit will proba bly never be forgotten by any who wit nessed It. When, after various detach ments of Indians, cowboys and other horsemen had ridden Into line, Sergeant Bate came dashing across the arena car rying the American flag, the queen arose from her seat In the royal box and bowed profoundly to the stars and stripes. What a oheer the assembled forces sent upon seeing thto graceful and really un premeditated ac<? Five years later, while the court was still In mourning for the Duke of Clarence, her majesty sent for the wild west to go down to the Windsor and again gave evidence of her enjoyment of the performance. As mementoes of these occasions Colonel Cody possesses a magnificent signet ring and Salisbury and Burke each a scarf pin, representing the Imperial crown In the miniature set with diamonds, the gift of the late queen. King Edward—then Prince of Wales accompanied by the present queen, then the princess, and their three daughters, and having as guests four kings, half a dozen crown princes and numerous other members of royal families, who had come to London to attend the jubilee celebra tions, vtoited a special performance of the wild west previously to the first given to Queen Victoria. It was on this occa sion that Colonel Cody personally drove the old Deadwood coach with royalty as passengers. The King of Greece, the King of Den mark, the King of Belgium and King Al bert of Saxony, whose death occurred last Thursday, rode in the old Deadwood coach of Buffalo Bill’s show during the queen’s jubilee In 1897. The Prince of Wales—the present King of England—remarked that it was probably the first time Buffalo Bill had ever played to four kings. "No," In stantly replied Colonel Cody. "It Is not the first time I have had four kings, but it to the first time I have had four kings and a royal joker, too.” All the royal ladles, by the direction of the Prince of Wales, who took personal charge of the kings and other gentlemen, were put In charge of Major Burke and a most weighty responsibility it was, for the group comprised four queens, a number of crowned princesses, and. In fact, members of all reigning families In Europe. "What struck me most,” the major will say, whenever he can be Influenced to talk of them, "was their simple, unassum ing, democratic ways. A party of six com mon councilmen's wives would have’ put on more airs than all these royal ladies together. Knowing their exalted rank, I was at first embarrassed, being a com mon, every-day sort of an American citi zen, unused to the ways of court, but they were so charmingly natural and unaffect ed that In five minutes I had forgotten that they wore crowns upon occasions. They talked delightfully about the per formance and asked no end of questions concerning the Indians and the cowboys and many other things that were complete novelties to them. Then I took them through, the camp and the stables and they expressed great interest In the way the outfit lived. There was one thing, curiously enough, about which they didn’t need to be told—they all knew a good horse when they saw it, and they could appreciate good horsemanship.” Major Burke lived in a little two-room log cabin on the earl's court grounds that summer. It was fitted up ln<egular fron tier style, with rude but comfortable fur niture made. of natural wood. This "shack” received many royal visitors, and all were requested, before leaving, to take a seat upon a certain chair; fashioned out of a big log and covered with buffalo hide. That piece of furniture before the summer ended had held more royalty than any throne in the world, and the major pro posed to bring it back to this country as a souvenir, but, alas! one night during hto absence from camp some chilly cowboys split the log Into firewood, and when he returned there was only a heap of ashes in the big fireplace to remind him of hto loss. • • x The Princess of Wales liked the wild west so well that she paid it several visits, and then one night came, accompanied by the crown Prince of Denmark, Colonel Montague *and Mrs. Clarke, wife of the prince’s equerry. Previously Colonel Mon tague sought out Major Burke, explained that the princess wanted to enjoy herself without the bother of ceremony that pub licity would entail and ask him to take charge of the party. The major caught the idea at once and placed them in an or dinary box a long distance from the state box devoted to royal visitors. Harry L„ "the grandstandchief,” came along and the major delighted the princess Immense ly by Introducing her and the Danish prince to him as "Colonel and Mrs. Jones, of Texas.” They were supplied by the major with paper bags of peanuts and popcorn and after the performance he took them around to the cook house, where they drank coffee out of tin cups and lunched off “agate ware” plates. Then the hospitable major asked them to have a drink with him. and they ac cepted and were taken up to the American bar at the end of the grandstand. The princess was asked what she would have. She said she had read of an American drink called the sherry cobbler and would like to try It. The others chose the same, and watched the compounding with great interest. The princess insisted that the major should join them, and he. suppress ing a shudder because hto preference to the beverage produced in Kentucky, ac quiesced. His explanation of the use on such occasions of an Indian salutation was received with delight, and everybody lifted a glass and said "How!” before drinking. And that to how Major Burke took a drink with Queen Alexandra. No word of this, visit was permitted to get Into the dally papers and nobody in the outfit who was cognizant of the facts mentioned It till long afterward. But the next issue of the Court Circular had a paragraph undoubtedly Inspired by the princess referring to a most enjoyable and recreative evening spent at the wild west by her royal highness after the fatigues of official diitlee attending the jubilee. Now the major's specialty to "the de partment for the promotion of publicity,” and how he refrains from "writing up” the Incident for the paper* to something that no press agent can understand. A NEW SORT OF LOTTERY. New York Evening Sun. A group of clerks waa gathered at one end of the counter to the patent neglect of Its remaining length—some thing of unusual Interest was transpiring, and the tall girl was evidently the heroine of the occasion, for she dimpled and smiled with excess of happiness. "Kitty has it. she’s drawn the slip with ‘marry’ on it,” quoth the radiant one, and forthwith handed the lucky one a small package. Then the lottery baing concluded each girl flew back to her ap pointed post just in time to escape the eye of the vigilant floorwalker. "Were 'you drawing lots for something?" asked the customer, who had a weakness for accumulating facts concerning others. "Yes," answered the girl to whom the question was addressed, "Miss Pratt— that’s the tall girl in brown—to going to be married on June 10, and we drew lots for hes apron. Whoever wins the apron ought. to be married Inside of a year." "Do you think it will work this time?” pursued her inquisitor. "Oh! yes, I’m sure it will. Kitty Wright, the girl that won It, to going with a young man steady —I think she’s engaged now, but she’s too foxy to let on." “Well,” said the customer in. conclusion, " I hope you are a winner at the next lottery.” The girl smiled consciously at her modest little amethyst ring. "Some of us don’t need aprons,” she said. \ Subduing an Elephant. / There are probably not many people who know why elephants are so easily controll ed by their keepers. It Is true that an elephant never for gets or forgives an injury, and that is the very basis from which all trainers derive their power. Some years ago there was a very un ruly elephant belonging to a certain cir cus. The man who had been his keeper was getting old and wanted to give up his position If another man was found who was willing to take the place. The trans fer of keepers was made in a small town in Indiana. Early one morning the ele phant was led into an open space o’utslde the tent, and was then chained very se curely. Hto new keeper took a position nearby where he could be seen constantly by the elephant’s cruel little eyes. By a little teasing he succeeded In annoying the animal until he struck viciously at him with his trunk, which was exactly what the new keeper wanted. At that In stant he and some circus men who had been waiting out of sight betiind the ele phant began to beat him and prod hto tough hide with elephant hooks. He shrieked with pain and rage and tried to reach the new keeper, who *ras the only man hto chains pc-mltted him to see. But at each attack th elephant tried to make the blows descended harder and harder, and finally he ceased, convinced at last. In his dull way, that each time he struck at the man he was punished. After he had stopped trying to’fight and had become quite conquered, his new keeper advanced boldly, loosened hto chains, and triumphantly led him back to the circus tent. 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