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up of existing conditions which followed
are responsible for the Jack of records of
a continuous nature. By act of general as
sembly, ®ited January 12, 1805, the trustees
of the two schools were incorporated as
one body. The Syms-Eaton school was
now established on a firm basis, being
supported by the revenue from the sale
and rental of the tracts. Eater, in the
fifties, the school was united with the
public school system of the state. The
mortgage bonds in which the sum of $10,-
000, the amount of the fund at the time,
were safely guarded through the civil war
by Colonel J. C. Phillips and his family,
the latter taking them with it when it
refugeed to Richmond. A new brick school
j house was put up some years later and
in turn it has made place for the hand
some new academy which will be dedi
cated February 12. In its entrance hall
is set a tablet in memory of the two men
whose name the school bears and who
veritably laid its foundation store.
To the Daughters of the American Rev
olution and the Association for the Pro
tection of Virginia Antiquities and par
ticularly to Mrs. F. M. Armstrong, who
belongs to one of the best known fami
lies in the state, is due credit for the his
torical data relffrive to the eat.y history
of the Syms-Eaton school. Ivlrs. Arm
strong has compiled all of the data bear
ing on the growth of the free school move
ment from its very inception, especially
for the important celebration next month
and in the book prepared by her there
are few missing links, none of any im
portance.
Missouri’s Great Storehouse of Zinc; the
Process of Smelting
By Oscar Long
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nA'°°' jing parishes of Elizabeth City j master (to) educate and teach the children
viz: from Mary's-mount i borne within said county of Elizabeth
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to the Poquosin river, and de-
will and desire to be that the
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,nn are justly
that falls to their
..tothor of the public
i <? the T’nited States, and
g no expense stand in the
celebration that will take its
history. A number of sneakers of
./ill be present. The principal ad-
.,s will he delivered by Hon. John
j'finde. president of the constitutional con
vention of Virginia, and one of the most
energetic and successful laborers for the
betterment of the Old Dominion's school
system. Or. J. G. M. Curry, recently ap
pointed special ambassador extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary to Spain to
represent the president on the coming of
age of the young King Alphonzo. was ex
pected to make this address, hut pros
pective official duties abroad prompted a
negative response to the invitation from
Hampton. Dr. Curry is well known in
this section of Virginia, being a member
of the board controlling the Hampton Nor
ma! and Agricultural Institute for In
dians and the colored.
Hampton, which is probably the most
^ ^vfiamo and title of the worshipful
' ^(Commanders, and the rest of the
c jfeioners of this liberty), with the
‘,Pr and church wardens of the ’said
i of Elizabeth City, should see hi\i
will, from time to time justly and
/ performed, and further declared his
. and desire to he that when there
Mild be a sufficient increase of said cat-
.*. half of them should be sold, and the
/oney raised by such sale, laid out in
building a school house; and that the resi
due of the said increase after the school
master should have a sufficient stock,
should he applied toward repairing the
school house, and maintaining poor chil
dren. or decayed or maimed persons ac
cording to the directions of the said jus
tices. ministers and church wardens.”
The Virginia assembly, in March. 1642-43,
according to Honings' Statutes, accepted
the bequest and adopted the following:
“Be it enacted and confirmed, upon con
sideration had of the godly disposition and
good intent of Benjamin Syms. deceased,
in founding by his last will and testa
ment a free school in Elizabeth county,
for the encouragement of all others in
like pious performances, that the said will
and testament with all donations therein
concerned concerning the free school nnd
the situation thereof in the said county
and the land appertaining to the same,
shall be confirmed according to the godly
intent of the testator, without any alien
ation or conversion thereof to any place
or county.”
In 1617. the Syms free school, as it was
then called, was upon a substantial foot
ing nnd of recognized importance, for the
proof is found in the following paragraph
in Force’s Tracts:
“I may not forget to tell you wo have a
free school, with 200 acres of land, a fine
The Syms-Eaton school house as it appeared from 1842 to 1861
flourishing town in the state, lies almost
half way between Newport News and
Old Point Comfort on the line of both
steam and electric railroads. It is next
to the oldest town in America and was
three times destroyed by fire, having pass
ed through three of the most remarkable
wars the world has ever seen. It com
mands a splendid view of the scene of
the memorable conflict between the Mon
itor and the Merrimac, as well ns other
naval operations of the civil war, fronting,
as it does, directly on Hampton Roads.
In 1629, a merchant living at James
town—Thomas Warnet by name—died,
leaving a will in which was this among
other bequests:
"To Benjamin Syms, a weeding hoe.”
With this unpretentious introduction
steps upon the stage of colonial history
the man whose generous impulse was re
sponsible for the first free
Tsha Man school in the colonies.
'Who Inau* Rmys was born in 1590. Ilis
Unrated jwill is dated February 12,
Free School 1631, and the following roc-
System ord of it appears on file
in the clerk's office of
Elizabeth City county:
“Seises! in fee simple of n tract or par
cel of land containing 200 acres or there
abouts, in the county of Elizabeth City
• * * devised the use of the said land
(by description of 200 acres, land being in
the Poquosin river) with the milk and in
crease of eight milch cows, for the main
tenance of an honest man, to keep upon
t{ie said ground a free school for the
education and instruction of the children
house upou it* forty milch kine and other
accommodations. The benefactor deserv-
eth perpetual mention, Mr. Benjamin
Syms, worthy to be chronicled. Other
petty schools we have.”
From its inception to this day there has
been no break in the history of the school
—this, too, notwithstanding its location
has been such as to expose it to the risk
of unavoidable neglect and of interrup
tion, while more than once it has barely
escaped complete destruction.
On March 11, 1634, Thomas Eaton, of
Gondon, “cururgeon” and contemporary of
Benjamin Syms, patented 250 acres “at
the head of Back river, within a mile of
the wading place, joining to the beaver
dams." It will be noticed that this
happened a month later than the date of
tlie Syms’ will, and the land thus taken
up is part of the tract bequeathed in 1679
by a deed of gift, the original of which,
fortunately, has been found on record in
the clerk’s office of Elizabeth City coun
ty, tin exact copy following:
“To all Christian people to whom these
presents shall come, 1, Thos. Eaton, of
Back River, in the County of Elizabeth
City (hereby) send Greet-
Wording’ of ing in our Gord God over
time Old lasting. Know ye that I,
j Will which tin said Thomas Eaton.
Gives Free being at present weake in
Schools body, but whole & (per
fect) in memory, praised
be God, out of my own free will (and the
love) that I beare toward the Inhabitants
of the County of Elizabeth City, I have
for the maintenance of an able school
City * * *
"Given, granted, assigned, set over and
confirmed and doo by these presents give,
give, grant, assign, set over and confirm
after the time of my decease for the use
aforesaid, Five hundred acres of land
whereon the (sd) Free school shall bee
kept being a part of a dividend of six hun
dred and (f—) acres granted unto me by
pattent bearing date of fifth day of June,
Anno 1638, Beginning from the beaver
dam •> * * westerly toward the head
of the Back River & Southerly * * *
Woods, with nil houses, edifices, orchards
and Rights to * * * belonging to it.
Two negroes called by the names of * * *
Twelve Cows and two bulls. Twenty hogs,
young and old, one bedstead, a table, a
cheese press, twelve milk trays, an Iron
kettle, containing about twelve gallons;
pot rack and pot hooks. Milk Pailes, wa
ter tubs and powdering tubbs. to have and
to hould the said land with ail other the
premises before mentioned for the use
afores'd. with all ye male Increase there
of, for ye maintenance of the said school
master such one as by the Commissioners,
Mynistor & church wardens whom I doo
nominate and appoint as trustees in trust
for the ordering and settling thereof from
time to time shall be thought fit, nnd T,
the said Thomas Eaton, do further order
& appoint that no free education bee al
lowed but to such children as shalbe borne
within the said county. An when there
shall he found to bee sufficient mainte
nance for the sd. schoolmaster that ye
overplus thereof shalbe employed for the
maintenance of poor impotent persons,
Widows and Orphans, in habitants in the
said county as by my said Trustees shtflbe
thought fit. Ail wch the premises before
mentioned to be enjoyed for the use afore
said, without anie manner or ciaime or
demand, disturbance, incumbrance or
hindrance of anie person or persons,
elaymi.ng by from or under mee forever
by these presents, and further know ye,
that 1, ye said Thomas Eaton, have de
livered at the time of the ensealing and
delivery hereof, part of the sd. land in
name of ail the rest of the premises be
fore mentioned.
“In witness whereof J have hereunto set
my hand & seal this nineteenth day of
September, Anno Dili. 1659.
“THO. EAB'ON (Seale.)
"Signed, sealed and
“delivered in the
“pr’s of
“Geonard Yeo,
“Wm. Hill.
“Henry Poole.”
'4f mi this time oil, the two free schools,
with their separate endowments, were
maintained according to the intention of
their founders, and in the oldest record
book of the county now in existence are
to be found references to them running
from 1692 to 1723. One of these references
reads as follows, the old style of using
’’>'" for “th" being followed:
“19 Xber, 1692.—Whereas Mr. Ebonozor
Taylor, late schoolmaster of Eaton's ffree-
school, his time being expired & having
had ye Benefitt & pquisetts. thereof. It is
thought reasonable yt a negroc woman
belonging to ye sd schoole should be
cloathed at ye charges of ye sd sehoole-
master, she being almost naked. It :s
therefore ordered y sd Taylor doe within
fourteen dayes next pvide and deliver un
to Mr. Henry Royall, one of ye ffeoffees,
one now cotton wastecoate and petty-'
coate, 3 yards of good new eanvis for a
shift, one pare of new shoes & stockins &
alsoe 3 barrels of sound Indian corn for
ye said negroes use wth costs als exon.”
In 1730 the general assembly passed “An
Act to enable the Justices of the Peace
of Elizabeth City County and the Min
isters and Churchwardens of the Parish of
Elizabeth City, in the said County, for
the time being, to take and hold certain
lands given by Thomas Eaton to charitable
uses and to lett leases th'breof.” On July 15,
1760, the trustees and governors of the
Syms school rented the property to George
Wythe for thirty pounds and five shill
ings annually, he to see to it that the
school went on uninterrupted and the
schoolmaster should be properly provided
for.
From the date of this lease until 1805,
the revolution and the general breaking
TSSOURI takes the lead in ]
the production of zinc in j
the United States. It has
been but a few years since
the great zinc fields were j
a broken lot of hills with j
occasionally a small farm j
located between the hills iri ]
a small valley. Here and
there were scatterciGsmall
settlements, with perchance
a long school or a country |
church building. The peo- i
pie were generally of the |
old Missouri stock, and their aspirations !
were in the direction of some day beeom- !
ing the owner of a coon dog and a pro- 1
ducer of a good crop of long green tobac
co. Fishing and hunting were their occu
pation and every member of the family
was an expert at his or her trade.
But after the Kansas City, Fort Scott
and Gulf, the ’Frisco railroads and other
lines penetrated the Ozark region, a more
progressive class of people began to move
into the country, and at once begun to
pry into the resources of the vicinity.
Previous to the finding of zinc in Mis-
witil pick and shovel, and shovel it into
carts, after which it is
Mow Zirsc hauled to the surface by
Is Exracled machinery, where it goes
From to th" sorter, where it is
sorted and the rocks and
EartH other such material taken
out of it. The sorting is
done by men who are experts at the busi
ness. Gend is invariably found in all
zinc. After it is sorted it is then loaded
into a car and shipped to a spelting com- |
piny, or as they are commonly called,
smelters, where it goes through the proc
ess of melting and molding into squares
of metal, weighing from 50 to 100 pounds. J
After this method is completed, it goes to
a roller mill, where it is placed in ma-
chinery constructed especially for rolling
zinc. It is then rolled out into long, thin
sheets of zinc ready for use.
The process of making jack into metal
is quite interesting. Smelters are located
at Nevada, Joplin and Rich Hill, Mo., and
others at Pittsburg and Galena. Kans.
These are what are known as coal smelt
ers, using slack coal for heating purposes.
Then in the gas belt of eastern Kansas, at
loia. Gas City, Ganyonville and Gaharpe,
iSystr m in
Use Is
V ery
C o in pli
cated
There are several processes of stirring
and mixing the roasted jack before it goes
into the furnace. The process is known
mostly by those who work
at the business. After
the ore is melted it is
drawn off into large ket
tles which swing on pul
leys and are operated by
a wheel and chain. Then
it is lowered to the ground, poured into
iron molds and left standing until it is
cooled sufficiently to load on a cart and
he haulecf to the scales for weight. Then
it. goes to the storage house or to the cars
ti be shipped to the eastern markets or to
a roller mill. A smelter employs several
men to operate it. Being very hot work,
they get good wages for their labors. A
largo pottery, crusher and engine house
always are found in connection with first-
class smelters. The following scale of
wages are generally paid employees: Half
shifts, $1.35 per shift for four hours’ work;
kiln men, $3.20 per day and night; metal
drawers, $3.35 per day; yard men, $1.35
per day.
'Southwest Missouri has an enviable rec
ord as a zinc producing country. In the
souri coal in very payng quantities was
found in tin region . Rich Hill, in Bates
county, and farther north in Cass county.
Rich Hill sprung into a city of several
thousand souls in a very short time.
Veins had been discovered measuring 6
feet in thickness. People flocked into the
ing army and fortunes
y by some who dealt
town lil
wore m
ad va
in coa! lands.
When zinc jaci
Jonlin. the mini!
was discovered near
element almost went
wild. Jonlin spri ng up like a weed in
the night and in a few months was a
prosperous city, t ulay being the largest
city in southwest Missouri. Tt can truth
fully he said of Joplin, "Webb City, Cur-
tersville aniT several adjoining towns that
“jack built them,” for jack is their mam
stay.
Zinc is mined from the earth much the
manner of coal or salt. Men dig it loose
A zinc mine mar Joplin, Mo.
are found several large-smelters known as
gas smelters, using gas as a fuel. Because
of the cheapness of gas. the coal smelting
pro-ass is cm the decline, and it will be
but n few >c-ars until the coal smelters
for smelting zinc will ho a tiling of the
past.
When the jack arrives at a smelter it
is unloaded and shoveled into a dryer,
where it is jostled and jolted through a
funnel-shaped piece of machinery • which
is heated by /team or from a furnace im-
ti’ it becomes thoroughly dried, when it
goes to the kiln or roasting ovens/ where
it Is kept for several hours at a ryd heat,
it requires heating until the flash or
glistening leaves it, when it is drawn out
of the opening near the bottom of the
ovens, and is then sent to the furnaces,
where it is mc-ited into metal and drawn
out through a spout known to smelter men
as a retort or condensor.
hills surrounding Joplin and vicinity the
general thrift of business is astonishing.
The companies pay their hands at the
mines every Saturday night. Smelters
pay twice a month. Men earn plenty of
money and spend it freely, consequently
business is good all the time, and they
move on. in further search for the riches
of old mother earth.
The weekly statement of mining and
sales of the various mines show astonish
ing figures. It is not known how long
mining will hold out in this country. But
it is generally conceded that all the Ozark
mountain district of southern Missouri
and northern Arkansas contain riches of
untold value. Time will only tell what the
bowels of the earth possess. In the pro
duction of zinc, Missouri stands at the
top of the ladder, the peer of any state
in the union, and figures prove the truth
of this statement.
Queer History of the Railroad in Georgia
and the South
Constipated Old Age
Isn’t it too bad that so many people, when they get old, get cranky and
rickety and mean, and don’t feel right toward themselves or anybody else;
yet it need not be so.
Cascarets make me feel so light-hearted and
lively, that though I have seen three score
lively that though I have seen three score stipation contracted during th© War of the
and three, a few more scores I yet.may see." Rebellion. The result is wonderful and I ad-
—James 8. Millar, Villa Park Cal. vise all old soldiers to try them.”
—Jas. Putman, late Capt. 53rd III.. Haney, Wis.
A nun ivciiiij HUH (Hill
headache, cold feet, and couldn’t sleep well.
I took Cascarets. and in four M eeks gained 15
pounds. Am feeling fine now.*’—A. B. Story,
veteran Mexican and Civil Wars. Kpworth, la.
*1 have been nsing Cascarets for some time
for constipation, and their greatest benefit
has been to cure me of asthma. I am in my
06tli year and had been suffering with asthma
for years.**
—T. M. White, Bob Lee, Georgia.
For many years I have been troubled with
constipation. I used one 25c and two 50c boxes
of Cascarets and they have effected a per
manent cure. Since my discharge from the
army in 1065, I have never before found a
lasting remedy.”— H J. McGwern, 949 Chap-
line Street. Wheeling. W. Va
*‘I was troubled with something that baffled
the skill of physicians for 35 years; I used live
boxes of Cascarets and am in better health
than ever before."
- C. C. Redick, Chase City, Va.
All old people’s muscles get weak and flabby, and it’s the same with the
muscular walls of their intestines as with the muscles of their arms. When
the bowels grow weak, the old folks get constipated, bilious, sick, help
less, irritable, and that’s the chief cause of their death. Old folks
should take Cascarets Candy Cathartic bowel tonic, keep their liver
lively, their bowels regular and strong, and live to be a hundred.
Bert for the Bowels. All druggists, 10c, >50, 50c. Never
sold in bulk. The genuine tablet stamped CCC. Guar
anteed to cure or your money back. Sample and booklet
free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N. V. tU
By R J Massey, M D
HE state of Georgia is not
*2*8 the pioneer state in railroad
building. But it is a pio
neer state in this cause.
The term “railroad” in this
article is intended to in
clude not the short roads
in use for local purposes
several years before long
roads were projected. The
Baltimore and Onto railroad
is accorded the honor of
being the very first long
railroad commenced and
finished in the world. Th- South Carolina
railroad comes next. If really not ahead
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in its
early inception, the South Carolina, from
Charleston to Hamburg, S. C., was com
menced in 1828 and completed in 1833. For
many years -there lived in Atlanta a Dr.
Smith, was here in 1895. who worked when
a boy on this road in 1828. This good old
gentlemen was wont to deal in many in
teresting reminiscences in the first rail
road building in the south.
The first 10 miles from Charleston were
completed within the first twelve months.
It was the feat of the age—unprecedented;
nothing in history to compare with it.
The greatest trouble was not how to
build a road, for experience had positively
proven that railroads could lie built and
that expeditiously, for had not 10 miles
already been built and in good running
order? There was the road to show for
llself.
But motive pewer was the serious ques
tion to be solved, and solved at once.
Three motors were proposed—horse power,
sails and engines. Horses were first
tried, failed to give satisfaction, and wore
dispensed with. Sails came next in or
der. An expert sea captain was employ
ed to manipulate the concern. For sev
eral successive trips the sail was a suc
cess, a decided success. The old captain
was heard to brag that on one occasion
when the wind was propitious he had
made the 10 miles’ run within the hour.
It was the talk of the town. No one. in
his wildest anticipation, had ever dream
ed of living to see a riding carriage make
such rapid travel. The proprietors of the
road were happy, and Charleston wild
with excitement.
A big Sunday excursion was given,
crowds wont up ot>the car, the wind was
propitious and a splendid sail was the re
sult. to the infinite delight of all parties;
none were more happy than the projec
tors themselves. In those days the terms
“hoards of directors.” “stockholders,” etc..-
were unknown. All such were known by
the pet term then in use—'’projectors.”
At 4 p. m. the captain changed tack for
Charleston, when, to the dismay of all
present, the wind had died out. There
was a calm, consequently
Failure 0/ no propulsion power. The
Breeze- cars, we did not call them
Ptxts a Pe- trains in those days,
riod to Sail would not budge an inch.
Power M ist of the party accept
ed the situation and foot
ed it 1*7 miles back to Charleston. Ot.,ers
remained up the road, getting the best
I accommodation for the night to be found
j in the fiats out from Charleston. Horses
j came up next morning and the cars went
hack to town, arriving at 4 p. m. ’Phis
forever put a quietus to the sail as a mo
tive power in railroading.
Some truant boys, without the knowl
edge or consent of thc-ir parents, were in
this excursion. 1'pon their return home
a flogging was a reward for their truancy.
One of these truants, a worthy ante
bellum partner of mine fer many years in
business, is my informant. This good old
man lived to see railroad excursions grow
front this 10 mile Sunday ride out of
Charleston in 1829 to a continuous all-rail
route from New York to San Francisco,
a distance of approximately 3,000 miles;
or. still greater, the Canadian Pacific rail
road from Montreal, Canada, to Vancou
ver. .*
What an eventful era in railroad de
velopment!
After this grand sail fiasco steam was
next resorted to. The first steam engines
were as tiny toys compared to the grand
moguls we see on the roads of today. The
fuel was wood, kept in a.’ large barrel on
end. and there were no accommodations
for the engineer, lie had to stand all the
way.
To the first contractors waste dirt
was a great bother. Cuts through the
hills could lie made easy enough. They
were made then about as they are now;
but it was a great problem what to do
with the dirt gotten out of these cuts.
It was many years before fhe dirt was
used to fib in between cuts in the shape
of embankments. All the ravines or low
places front hill to hill were tre^tled over
and the superstructure of tics and rails
laid on these trestles, and the dirt from
the cuts spread out on waste places. In
my boyhood I can remember that I rode
over a South Carolina road over these
trestles. I remember well the inclined
plane at Aiken. The town of Aiken, S.
C., was a high hill, at least 50 or 60 feet
above the country between it and Augus
ta, Ga. It was a question among the civil
engineers for quite a while how *to get a
train up or down this hill. Finally an
inclined plan? was resorted. An im
mense pulley was placed at the top of the
hill and an engine was kept see-sawing up
and down the side track on this plane
lo pull up or let down the cars by a large
cable on the main. It was slow business,
First
Railroad
Projected
in
Georgia
But it was nevertheless interesting. This
contrivance was the wonder of the age,
and the passengers, before arriving at
Aiken, were always on the lookout to see
the “inclined plane”—"to see one engine
go up and one go down to get the train
up.”
Referring to the South Carolina rail
road, 1 quote from the pen of the gifted
Mrs. W. H. Felton:
“1 have a letter written By my father
to my mother before I wasi r - which
he tells of his trip over tms railroad to
Charleston to purchase goods. She was a
very nervous woman about the risk he
was taking, as the railroad was built up
on trestles, and he wrote her that he had
reached Charleston after a most eventful
trip, anil to be of good cheer, that he
believed a railroad was really a moderate
ly safe conveyance.”
The first railroad projected in Georgia
was the Central from Savannah to Ma
con. An experimental survey for the road
was made in 1831. In
April, 1836, the company
was formed and prepara
tions made for commenc
ing the road without de
lay. It was completed
to Macon ;n November,
1843"—a compa'ratlvelj short period un
der the most discouraging circumstances,
and in the face of a doubting public.”
The Georgia was next chartered in 1833
and 1835, and finished to Atlanta in 1845.
Ten years in completing 171 miles of rail
road.
Dp to this time there was so little rail
road Building the notions and appliances
wore crude in the extreme. In its anfaney
But littie was known. I remember some
amusing incidents, of which the reader
will pardon the mention of a few.
Tradition has it that the TIeorgia rail
road was surveyed or intended to pass
through Washington to Athens, Ga"
Athens was to he the western terminus of
the Georgia road. In fact, several miles
were in process of construction when the
Athens and Washington stockholders be
gan to count ip that the regular stage
made only two or three trips a week, and
some five or six passengers at a trip, and
as for freight, the farmers would haul
all that; that they had their own wagons
and teams, and Jet what would come, they
would hault their cotton to Augusta, and
rather than come back with empty wag
ons, they would load up and bring back
the merchants’ goods as cheap as the
railroad would carry them, if not cheaper.
So then good Athens an J Washington cap
italists Backed out and went down to
Augusta and begged to be let off from
their stock in the Georgia railroad. Seme
wiser capitalists in Greeneshoro and Mad
ison, hearing of this renigging of Wash
ington and Athens, applied to be allowed
to take their places, In view of the fact
Continued on loot page
FIFTH FAGh
New Evidence Jis To the
Roosevelt Marriage
(Disclaiming any desire or intention of
provoking a controversy, the editor pub
lishes this letter In justice to the. parties
concerned. Since the agitation of the
matter, the public has also been keenly
interested.)
By Jeff J> Dunwody
X December 15th last, an
article appeared in The
Sunny South hgaded
“Roosevelt M a r r 1 age
Claimed for Rev. Pratt."
This is not a matter of
public intenest, but as my
uncle. Rev. James Bulloch
Dunwody, has stated
through the public press
that he performed the
marriage ceremony that
united Theodore Roosevelt
to Miss “Mittie” (Martha)
Bulloch, this statement is made to ap
pear incorrect by the article referred to.
In justice to my uncle I beg leave to
submit the following evidence, which 1
most respectfully assert is sufficient to
positively settle the question and not ad
mit of further argument:
First
I attach a letter from my cousin, Mrs,
Galeah Dunwody Waddell, who is a
daughter of Rev. James Bulloch Dun
wody:
“Staunton, Va., December 26, 19(11.—Cap
tain C. A. Dunwody. My Dear Uncle:
I iearn today that the accuracy of the
statement that my father. Rev. James
Bulloch Dunwody, performed the cere
mony which united Theodore Roosevelt
to Miss Martha Bulloch has been called
in question. It is the first time in his
long life that any statement of his has
ever been doubted. Fortunately I was
an eyewitness of the ceremony and can
corroborate his account.
“Father was invited to go to Roswell,
Ga., to marry his cousin, and as my
mother had recently died, he did not like
to leave me alone, so took me with him.
We traveled two days in his carriage to
reach the train at Midway, on the South
Carolina railroad. Thence we went by
rail via Augusta and Atlanta to Marietta,
Ga., where we. again took private con
veyance to Roswell. This journey of
three days to Roswell and back to our
home in South Carolina would hardly
have been undertaken for the. small
honor of ‘pronouncing the benediction’ at
the close of the ceremony performed by
another clergyman.
“As a child I was much more occupied
with the dresses and flirtations of the
tridesrraids on the evening of the mar-
j riage than with the older guests at the
I wedding, so I do not recall whether my
: uncle. Dr. Nathaniel Pratt, was present,
| nor do I know whether he was in Ros-
| well at the time.
> “But of this I am sure: No dtscour-
! tesy was intended to him, for the it ar
I relationship and loving intimacy be-
j tween the Dunwody and Bulloch families
! made it natural and proper that if his
! cousin “Miitie" asked my father to per-
| form the ceremony no slight was in-
I tended to the greatly honored pastor of
j th-. church.
j “This is cf little public interest, but
j as father’s statement to the newspaper
correspordent has been denied, justice to
him requ res that the truth S-hould be
re-stated. Afteetionatelv your niece,
“GALEAII DUNWODY WADDELL.”
Second
Letter from Rev. James Bulloch Dun
wody :
“V. alterboro. Colleton County. S. (’.,
January c, 1(02.—Captain C. A. Dunwody,
Dunwoody, DeKalb Co., Ga.; Dear Broth
er;. In regard to. the statement you wish
me to make. I am ne w as you know re
siding in Wnlterhoro. S C., and on tho
2tth day of September, 1901, completed my
eightv-iifth year.
“I am a Presbyterian minister, and
looking back over my past life, among
the marriages it has been my pleasant
duty to rtrform was that of my cousin,
Martha Bulloch, of Roswell, Ga., to
Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, the
father of our president, at the time. I was
pastor of the little church at McPher-
sonville, S. C. The invitation was ex
tended to me by my cousin, “Mittie,”
and the ceremony was performed by me
at Roswell. Ga., December 18, 1853.
“After returning to my charge at Mo-
Phersonville, S. C., I made a record of
the marriage in the church book. Your
affectionate brother*
“J. B. DUNWODY.”
Third
Copy of record church, book at McPher-
sonville, S. C.:
"Married, by Rev. J. B. Dunwody. 18.73,
December It, at Roswell. Ga.. Mr. Theo
dore Roosevelt, cf New York city, to
Miss Martha Bulloch, of Roswell.”
“The foregoing is a correct transcript
from the registry of marriages kept by
the Store-*' Creek Presbyterian church
of MeFhersonville, S. C., the original
record being in the handwriting of Rev.
James B. Dunwody. then and afterwards
pastor of said church.
“Witness my hand at MeFhersonville,
this 31st December, 1901.
“O. J. C. HUTSON.
“Clerk of Session.”
In a recent conversation with my un
cle, Charles A. Dunwody. of Dunwody.
DeKalb counts', Ga., he stated that while
on a visit to his brother, Rev. James
B. Dunwody, last winter, the occasion
of this marriage was fully discussed and
Uncle James remembered the fee of $50
that was given him by Mr. Roosevelt.
At that time it was considered very lib
eral and just about paid the expenses of
the trip from McPhersonville to Roswell
and return. It may be well to state that
the Bulloch, Dunwody and Pratt fami
lies lived at Roswell and that the Re\
James B. Dunwody married a niece if
Rev. Nathaniel Pratt.
EATING IN HAVANA.
Yankees Club Together.
In Havana it is the custom to servo
only bread and coffee for breakfast. A
little colony of Americans that felt they
could not do their work until noon on
this kind of a diet clubbed together and
began importing Grape-Nuts Breakfast
Food.
One of them writing about the matter,
says. “The modern cooking range had
never been known in Cuba until the
American occupation, and even now they
are scarce, so that a ready cooked food
like Grape-Nuts recommends itself to
start with; then the Yankees were ac
customed to the food and felt they could
hardly get along without it. They began
buying in five case lots and one by one
the larger grocery stores began keeping
Grape-Nuts in stock so the business
spread until now great quantities of
Grape-Nuts are used in Cuba, and it is
not only used by the Americans but the
other inhabitants as well.”
This is an illustration of the way the
famous food has pushed itself into all
parts of the world. Wherever English
speaking people go they demand Grape-
Nuts. They can be found in South Af
rica, Egypt* India. China, Japan, Aus
tralia and South America.
Many Americans speak of the home
like feeling it gives them to see the
numberless busses in the streets of Gon
don decorated with great blue signs with
the word, "Grape-Nuts.” done in yellow
letters, and all over England the great
purveying shops distribute Grape-Nuts
English roast beef has largely given
way to American roast beef, and the old-
fashioned English breakfast bacon nnd
potatoes is now supplemented with Grape-
Nuts and cream. The change was made
for a reason. It has been discovered that
almost magical power rests within the
little granules, and this power is set free
in the body that makes use of the fa
mous food.