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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.
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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
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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.
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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. He never forgot the beat
ing, and he never risked getting another,
by being unruly to his keeper.
The Woman To Marry.
The Utica Press.
In his latest book Max O’Ren offers these
words of advice to men on the subject of
matrimony:
“Marry a woman who has a soft voice and
who looks you straight in the face when she
speaks to you. Marry a woman who can see a
joke, has a sense of humor, and who looks on
the bright side of things.
"Lovable people are seldom, nay never, per
fect. They always possess a few little re
deeming faults or foibles which prevent them
from becoming models, or, I should say, in
sults to the rest of the human race. Indeed,
it Is often the very possession of those little
faults or foibles which makes them lovable."
The bureau trunks have several full length
drawers in the lower half, the remainder being
given over to smaller compartments for collars,
cuffs, and the like. The cover is often prettily
lined, and a good sized mirror to set in tha
center. .....
MAKING BURGLARS’TOOLS.
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"In my youth I was a machinist, but
the business didn’t pay at all. A thick
set man came to me one morning and
showed me a jimmy. ‘l’ll give you $lO
for a duplicate of this,’ he said, and I
took him up joyfully, for in my Inno
cence I didn’t know what a jimmy was
and, besides, I foresaw a 90 per cent
profit in the job. So I made the burglar's
tool, and afterward I made the thickset
man some other Implements, and after
that again I fixed up an outfit for a friend
of his.
"Thus, In a year,” continued the man,
according to The Philadelphia Record, “I
had more work than I could do; eight or
ten villainous-looking individuals brought
me In big orders every day. and In four
years I had saved $19,000. ' Then I quit. I
pulled out and went Into my present line,
which pays me well enough, though its
profits are nothing to those that you
will find In burglar-tool making. I often
wonder who inherited my old-time trade.”
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