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U8TICE SHIRA8,
of the supreme
court, is reported to
be contemplating •
tendering his res
ignation to the
president. . Justice
Shims desires to
return to the prac
tice of lsw at Pitts-
burp, and would
hare done so long
aro if Mrs. Shlraa
had' not intervened
and caused him to.
General Oliver O. Howard. In a remi
niscent mood, says that of the twenty-
seven commanders of union erwtfdi dur
ing the civil war only two survive- ’Qtn-
eral Schofield and himself.
♦
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler egll he In
stalled as president of Columbia eOHssc.
Now York, at formal exercises on .April
18 and IS. and President Eliot, of Har
vard, and. President Hadley,.of.Ydle^hhve
accepted invitations to make addressed.
George Res. a noted guide and path
finder, is dying in a lone cabin on Snake
river, Wyoming. Rea waa one of the
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"ind Some Other Way
T is well understood among literary
folk that one of the best tests of con
strictive and imaginative genius is
supplied by requiring many different
types of minds to complete coher
ently a story of which they have
but the-slimmest foundation plot,,
and the characters of which are but.
imperfectly developed. It is a con
test of this peculiar nature of Skill
which The Sunny South has brought
about through the “Some Other-
Way” serial contest which closed
ato the 15th of last month. The
editor of the contest has progressed
in his task only to. discover the difficulties and
unique problems, by which it is surrounded* A
recapitulation of the facts will do much to 'give
tbe reader and contestant* a hint of the arduous
perplexities connected with his position.
During November of 1901 The Sunny South be-
. | gan the publication of a serial entitled “No Other
Way,” by Sir Walter Besant, the famous English
writer. A synopsis of the story which by no
means covered the details, was submitted by the
publishers. Satisfied with the showing made in the
synopsic, the management was glad to secure the
last literary work of so talented and popular aq
author for its readers. The first three installments
f W” story ran smoothly enough. Sir Walter
peculiar vagary of English law, which be-
- repeal allowed lifetime imprisonment for
- any amount, as a background for his plot,
heroine was the widow of an English gen-
i refinement and position, but no wealth.
L e which hffjfe; ‘
nt expenditti 1
%
mee
ow
W>ns. was/^VtJK^
Will a “Merger'’ ’of Creeds
Ever Be Effected ?
HE irresistible, growing trend to
ward combination today has set the
wise as wett as the superficial man to
thinking. The onset of "Sonsolida
tion among our different industries
has- been so slow and gradual as to
be ’almost unnoted in the process,
and now that we are confronted with
the actual conditions, a dozen and
one difficult problems-have thrust
themselves, forward/ demanding
speedy solution. The central princi
ples of combination—economy,
growth and expediency, together
with lessening of friction and devel
opment of Judicious cooperation—might be ap
plied- partly to the religion of the twentieth cen
tury, with evejry apparent prospect of benefit both
. to creed and devotee.
"The‘story 7 of how much effort and - money is
wasted in attempting to spread and maintain re
ligion when it is divided up into numberless com
binations is an old one. All of the Christian
churches profess to base their principles and arti
cles of faith on one book—the Bible. We may say
that practically all creeds profess to have as their
motive two common principles—the improvement
of present moral ethics and the preparation of man
kind for an hereafter. We may then say, broadly,
that all religious organizations are actuated by the
same or approximately the same forces. But what
widely different road they travel to the same desti
nation! What is the meat of one denomination,
is .the poison of the other. What appeals to one
•class of people as eminently wise, logical or spir
itual doctrine, seemS to the other the rankest of
. follies or heresy. Yet all exist by reason of the
fact that they are striving to bring the world into
.closer touch with a Higher Power.
ft is the very sentiment which we have outlined
in. the foregoing, paragraph which is going to mili
tate strongly against the adoption of any “merger* 1
between the various creeds. While all may hold in
common the same vital principles, there is a mass
of minor detail which each will insist on retaining
in any joint religion which may be proposed. Hu
man obstinacy will play a strong role in the effort
to reconcile these differences, and honest diver
gence of conscience will play another. But there
are evidences that the day of harmonious agree
ment is nearer than at any time in the world’s his
tory. Religious tolerartce is daily growing more
broad and generous. The denominations, learning
from bitter experience, are allowing their members
more' latitude in individual interpretations of the
Scripture. There is less of bigptry and bitter
claims of infallibility on the part of specific creeds.
Think what the full fruitin'of this gradual alter
ation means. The uniting 6f the world's strongest
and purest minds in furthering the cause of jus
tice and morality; tha combined spiritual force of
a multitude of souls which defies enumeration ; the
creation of a common ground between classes and
Miss tan
Y.-unieU L 00 Miss Lacy, being alo
In me * r -*^~)iad mure neea or sunn
Ludy to mother her and look alter he!
than any of ner-brothers and sisters; ei;.'
KrNamiyntui become -the Queen reir 0 /
of the .ittie fiat which—caUcd iu<lt Oil
trees *»vjs dileirt*. i of the h
..nffi”!/ 4 tradespeople**-* -
akuiotfa1^^e* , London dress-
5ongs From
Many Singers
The Cathedral
The waning fight sifts softly through th«
pan*.
art of ages, mellowing its bssm.
martyr’d Christ with suffering eyes
O
Look up,
Ah.
That
glory ot her
-LILLA J. WBALON.
Atlanta, Qa.
. . The Last Visitor
Enter, Death! I . have waited long for
you;
Wait now for me. until the cock shall
crow,
'And timorous dawn, slow-trembling to
the pane.
Heralds a bustling day I shall not know.
Put back your hood. I have so longed, so
longed.
To see your face, O Death, benignly
grave.
When I have felt you near, in the wind’s
bush.
Or overheard you in the ebbing wave.
Inalienable peace is in your eyes,
Who looks therein straightway are com
forted.—
Lonely no more, nor anxious, nor un
wise,—
Men call them dead. O happy, happy
dead!
The sands sink in the glass; hark! the
cock’s crow!
The tale is done—’twas long. Write
here: The End.
80. Gently close the cover. Let qe go
Down, the long, qidet way now, friend
with friend. \
-LULU WHIDON MITCHELL.
Evanston, Ills.
By Faith Alamo
■ maker. The latter planned that the heroine should
marry an inmate of the debtors’ prison, who, un
der the law, could assume’ the debts of his wife.
Thus the latter would be entirely free of all finan
ce .1 obligation, the only disadvantage being the
secret of an ignominious marriage. Should the
scheme bfe successfully pushed through, the dress
maker’s debt was to be discharged in full, while the
other creditors would be left with the bag to hold.
With much reluctance, the heroine agrees to
' this proposition, and together the women visit the
prison. It develops that the scheming dressmaker
has chosen as spouse for the lady an ill-starred
young Irish barrister, incarcerated for some paltry
debt. Touched by his brilliant talents, his sad his*
tory and wretched plight, the lady declines to
saddle the young man to the prison with her debts,
promises to pay off his small indebtedness and set
him free. Annoyed at this unexpected turn, the
creditor who is engineering the unusual deal in
forms heir of the last chance to secure immunity
from her debts. She must marry a criminal con*
demned to die within a week, who will assume her
debts In exchange for sufficient money to buy rum
until his death day.
\ Thus far, the author managed splendidly. All
\ the sympathies of the reader were enlisted with
I - the unfortunate lady, and admiration for her self-
^ »icrifice in offering to liberate the young barrister.
But all the possible turnings which must have ap
pealed to him he seemed to reject for one so gro
tesquely hideous, so repulsive and nightmare-
breeding, at ieast to southern ideals, as to chal
lenge appreciation.
Sir Walter Besant forced the heroine, a beauti
ful, pure-minded woman, with all the inherited
charm and. peculiar strength of the Caucasian race,
id many a negro murderer—twice a criminal, as
He was atl$o a bigamist. And this monster was to
. harass and make miserable, blur and blot the
woman's life! There could be no position more
Savagely! wounding to southern sentiment.
It was| with the intention of avoiding the publi-
, fation of this unnatural denouement, and of giv
ing southern literary aspirants an opportunity to
fiy their iskifl on a stoiy of length, and in this cru-
manner* that the management of The Sunny
,£bath inaugurated a contest. A prize of $100 was
v = ; offered to the person who, taking the plot and char-
f ^acters of Besant, best finished the tale, in a manner
* satisfactory to southern tastes. The results of the
contest have far exceeded our expectations. One
v , hundred and thirty-nine bright serials have been re
ceived from the southern states, and so far as the
editor has progressed in his task, he can pronounce
them excellent as an average—from the point of
literary style and construction.
Now that the facts have been recounted, con
testants and their friends will appreciate the in
finite difficulty in deciding nice points of superior
ity in the competing manuscripts. The reading is
progressing .rapidly, however, and probably next
week a revised list of contestants from among
whom wjjl be selected the prize-winner will be pub-
^ lished. Announcement of the actual winner of
(^^kJthe $10 prize will be made early in March.
i
vidual 1
she soon consumed in
r^^.t last finding her- nations of diverae characteristics and tempera-
»«o. woe f- “* 1 “ ■; the presenting of a solid front to sincere and
lievers, who can now taunt Chris-
rejigioRS with/wasting shot on
e sante-hsffipiwy
/Jtaiy. If religion is the sheet anchor
e; if the home is the producer of indi-
ipiness and the strong prop of successful
and upright government, now great should be the
hope that this at present somewhat remote “mer
ger” may hasten its coming to vitalize the very
life-blood of all that stands far happiness, develop
ment, and the stability of our national and individ
ual institutions.
Ability As Valuable At
45 As At 25
N intelligent mechanic of Chicago
has started a discussion as to the
term of a man’s usefulness which has
drawn forth comment from every
section of the country, and all sorts
and conditions of minds. The con
tention of the Chicagoan is to the
effect that after a man has reached
the age of 45 years he should be
dragged out and shot, having passed
the; age of usefulness. “He is dead
timber in the‘pathway of progress
under modern industrial conditions."
Certainly an astounding and painful
confession to'make, and one which, .if it is held
actually-true, would not reflect credit on the judg
ment or kindness of those responsible for those
conditions.
People are struck more forcibly by events at
their very doors. If then, we confine ourselves to
the literal terms of the charge which our friend
brings, let us see how far he is correct in our per
sonal observation. Take the profession of mechanic,
for instance—and it covers a very wide field. Peo
ple who live in the city and country as well,
must agree that elderly, almost old men, are about
as plentiful in this occupation as the younger set.
Provided a man keeps his health, the hand is
steadier, the eye. surer, the judgment riper at 45
than at 25. Take the trades of carpentering and
brick laying—elderly men are seen on every impor
tant stricture in almost every capacity. The ma
chine shops are full of them, they operate locomo
tives on every railroad, they are in evidence in
every direction in which we turn.
In the professions purely mental, the percentage
of men past youth’s first flush is even larger.
Writers, thinkers, artists, architects, preachers,
lawyers and doctors rarely reach the fullness bf
their powers until they have invaded the shady
side of the forties. To be sure, young men are pre
ferred where they bring to bear greater ability and
willingness to learn. All the same it is silliness to
assert that employers of help shy at a man simply
because his hair may bear a tinge'of-gray. The
meat of the matter is a man keeping himself well-
informed and posted, and if any one is being
shelved, it is the short-sighted individual who be
lieved that his education ended with his school days
and who, having failed to adapt himself to chaneed
and radically improved conditions, is essentially
unav lilable. And then, there is the proviso of ill-
health, which may incapacitate the most able of
mechanics as w«»l! as the nimblest of brain-work
ers; the youth of 21 or the^'lean and flippered pan
taloon” of 55.
Because I had the bleaaed gift.
To humbly work
Until the Master's
My burden at the
My Brother scoffed
He cited other men.
To whom success
Fame’s golden
Lias, his wprda all
Burned deep Into my
Until I cried, "It la
To hope, and strive
To make the railed
Spin out my lab^e’j
To weave It
"For
wait.
ehould
jibed me sore
o’er and o er.
and strong,
watching .othe£ ^
id not -c*
at thread
length,
gold and red,
rttttWtk!"
i
Busy World
N the near future
Dowager Queen
Margherlta is to
make a tour of the
United Staten incog
nita. She la, in
many respects, the
most remarkable °i
the royal woman of
Europe. She le the
only daughter of the
late Prince Ferdi
nand of Savoy, and
i is nofr entering on
Margherlta her fifty-second
year, in’ her youth Margherlta waa
Perhaps the most beautiful prin
ces* in Italy, and waa regarded
by good judges as one of the finest-look
ing women in Europe. But' aside from
Ibis her gentle disposition and her fine
intellectuality would have distinguished
any company of women in any
of Christendom. The queen is
versed ” in Latin and Greek', and
speaks fluently many modem languages.
She Write* well and' has published a few
entertaining books that have had a wel
come reception in Italy. While traveling
in America she will He called the Countess
Stupinigl. The exact time of her tour is
not jet announced.
♦
R. J. eZ RUS-
sell, a prominent
Brooklyn physician,
in order to prove
.that vivisectors are
not heartless, but
investigate for the
interest of the hu
man race, has offer
ed himself as a sub
ject for vivisection.
‘Twill myself," he
said, “wher\ able and
competent, assist
Jam Mdwla gammott my vivisectors by®
such notes as may be of interest or value
to them or me. The experiments can be
conducted until I am top exhausted to be
cf further value as a subject or until I
succumb.
"Should I revive at ’the end of a year of
Observation and experiment, I stipulate
that I may elect to be released from fur
ther service should I so desire.”
Dr. Russell is about 40 years old, of ath
letic physique and in perfect health. He
Las a wife and two children. His brother
physicians have so emphatically negatived
his proposition that its realization is im
probable.
>
My Brother 'saked.*- “H<ff! did your boat
Find seas sobroad Said fair?"
I answered him from out my heart,
"The gift God gave was good.
To weave a patterri was my part
In life, I understood.
And though the threads were dull and
gray
The Master potloned me.
His sweet voice called: "There’s work
each day, •
For you to do for Me! v
Gp, gather thou. from life’s great store.
What e’er you can of light.
And color what was dark before.
Make thou thy pattern bright!"
This, did I, oft.with troubled eyes,..
That scanned the’lonely years.
This, though above, oftimes the skies.
Were dripping bitter tears.
But finally there came a Voice,
Which said, "Enough! Well dene!
Brave soul, sail into port! Rejoice!
By faith alone you’ve won!”
—LOLLIE BELLE WYLIE.
♦
, The Sealint (fit Atlanta)
. The violets -peep
From tb$lr winter sleep
As Pbyiils and I Wander by;
And I call her my. Daffodil,
Modest and shy,
With her gold-gleaming hair
And her violet ,eyel
(Fascination!) ''
The' bobolinks sing
By the woodland spring
And the summer grows drowsy and fair.
I call her my wild rose
So dainty and rare,
With ‘her sweetly flushed cheeks
And her sun-tinted hair!
(Adoration!),.
When the autumn is here
With a sigh and a tear.
And the leaves In the woods are aglow.
Then I call her Chrysanthemum
In her chapeau
With its great pinnies’ atosS
As the chilly' winds blow!
(Ihfatuhtton!) '
But winter is here!
My heart’s sad and drear!
All our joys are unknown and forgot.
No more do we lplter
In sweet, hidden spot.
I can call her no name
But my coy Touch-Me-Not!
(Vaccination!) ■
—BEULAH R. STEVENS.
Atlanta, Ga. >
♦
' Angelina
When AQgeline expects her beau
- She wears her hair done up just so;
But when it’s Bees or’ only me.
She .wears it as she does at tea.
I’ll not complain lest worse befall—
She might not wear her hair at alii
-R. EMMETT CLOUD.
Tuscumbla, Ala.
#
TV statue of Queen Victoria which is
to be placed in front of the Ontario par
liament buildings in Toronto is a replica
of the one erected in Hong Kong,the work
of Signor ReggL The pedestal will be of
Canadian granite. There will be bronze
panels on two sides representing scenes in
the la(e queen’s life. One will represent
her first council meeting. The other has
not been definitely selected, hut win
probably be the golden-jubilee ceremony
ISS ACKERMAN,
who Is a traveling
missionary for the
National Woman’s
Christian Temper
ance Union, and at
present in Japan,
has announced her
engagement to a
man who, she says,
saved her life. In
a letter Just re
ceived at national
headquarters of the
JSokormaa union, in Evanston,
kerman says she has been "cap-
and hand by a Russian no-
d that they are to be mar-
as she finishes the tour she
“-- 'name of the prospective
given. Miss Ackerman,
£>, while phewas
urWTfl-RUsSlA
a mob,* and would
aa it not been for the
nobleman. An attach-
soon ripened Into love sprang
up between the two at that time.
have
appea
ment
whic
The justice is said to prefer the
ment and the profits of private practice
to she routine and hard grlnd-of an asso.
elate justice of the .supreme court. The
confinement of the work is not pleasing
to him. It gives him very little leisure.
When he is not devoting his time to
writing opinions he is upon the circuit
composed of the -states of- Delaware,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey perform
ing dutieB which are exacting and oner
ous.
Justice Shtras has’ never been able to
convince himself that the social aspects
of the life of a justice of the supreme
court constitute sufficient compensation
for the sacrifices which a good lawyer
must make to accept the position.
HEODORE ROOSE-
velt, Jr., the 9-
year-old son of the
president, is seri
ously ill with pneu
monia at Groton,
Mass., where the
bas been attending
school. The iad was
wont to indulge in
long cross country
runs with his play
mates bareheaded.
The bitter cold
weather and con
stant exposure, superinduced the at
tack. The alarming condition of the pa
tient prevented the president from ful
filling his engagement at the Charleston
exposition. Both he and Mrs. Roose
velt are at Groton, so as to be within
easy reach of their son, should devel
opments necessitate their presence. Xhe
hoy has been improving, but the. crisis
of the disease has not yet been passed.
It is probable that if he does not mend
speedily Prince Henry will defer his
visit to this country. The president Is
in receipt of telegrams of inquiry and
sympathy from almost every country
in the world.
T»m Koomovmlt Jr
HE brother-in-law
of the sultan,
Mahmud, who was
charged at the
Turkish court with
being a leader of the
Young Turk party,
an5 fled from Tur
key two years ago,
has been condemned
to death, and will
be executed if he
returns to Turkey.
Mahmud was one of
MaSudPmtha the richest men in
the sultan’s dominions and had been
cabinet minister and - 'held other offices.
He is now ^in Paris and threat®
reprisal of! the sultan’s death
- _ / __ thw lattei**
modes oi jt
has stc’od off the"
his domain for so
ISM.
!ib
slde-
flrst men to explore Yellowstone park,
and is often referred to as the Daniel
Boone of Wyoming.
♦
The crown prince of Germany, at pres
ent at school at Bons, plays the piano
and sings well, and has inherited his
father’s poetic talent, as is shown .In •
little poem recently printed in Germany,
entitled, “Spirit of. Evening."
’
Alderman Michael Zimmer, of
has Introduced a resolution In
asking his brother aldermen to
from chewing tobacco during
they may be better equipped to
enforcement aga4nst spitting on
walks.
A French minister of juqjfee proposes
to reform the obscure legffl phraseology,
which Is even worse In’ France than In
England, and substitute plain, straight
forward sentences which even the most
uncultured people will be able to under
stand.
♦
W. C. Arnett, of Sissons, Cal., 18 trying
to cure himself of gout by fasting. For
thirty-one days he took no nourishment
but that got from smoking a pipe, and
reduced his weight foam 289 to 210 pounds.
He has now added an orange to hli dally
diet.
-*■
A Tippecanoe monument will be erected
in memory of General William Henry
Harrison's defeat of his savage' adver
sary, Tecumseh, November 11, 1811, at
, the confluence of the Tippecanoe and
Wabash rivers. In Indiana. Congress la
to be asked to appropriate 150,600. -
■a
John Cannaa, of WiUl&msport, Pa.. Is
about to be placed on the pension list of
the Reading railroad, after continuous
service of fifty years, during wt>tpb time
he has been off duty but twelve days.
Even that was through illness, from
which he suffered last year.
♦
Ex-Empress Eugenie recently visited
the state library at Paris to inspect doc
uments obtained from the TuUeries cgt
the downfall of Napoleon III, and It' has
led to the revival of the story that She is
putting the finishing touches to hair me
moirs. /
♦ /
Lewis Nixon, the new Tammany leader,
a hard worker himself, tells this story
of Edison’s Industry: A fond parent, who
was a great stickler for punctuality, took
his son to visit the great, electrician. Alt
before leaving he asked Mr. Edison to
give
Primeval Georgia, When Malls Were
Snail-Like and Reputable Citizens
Didn't Wear WbisKers
By BJ Massey, M D
the boy a word
■rift o'a! Inventor,
r wivt _«/
tmas Daja
t Cheltenham,!
puddings; we it;all
—la Westminster Abbey.
N The Postmaster’s Ad
vocate of last month is ai
interesting announcement.
It is In such striking con
trast with anterailroad times
when stage coaches, pranc
ing bays and bugle blasts
were the excitement of the
day, I am sure that the
reader will pardon my In
troducing it in the present
connection. It is this, that
“an engineer of Jersey City
announced to the postmaster
i general that he has a method of carrying
the mail which will rattle the world by
means of electricity through under
ground circuits, at the rate of 300 miles
an hour, and from five to ten tons every
minute.”
For .many years the stage coach,
loaded with four to eight passengers,
and one to three hundred pounds of
mail matter, including first, sec
ond, and third class, drawn by six
fiqe prancing horses, would start early
every other morning from Decatur, the
western end of the line, for Augusta, a
distance of some ISO miles, which after
six or eight relays of fresh horses. It
would make next day by 6 p. m., thus
making in thirty-six hours half the dis
tance this Jersey man proposes to make
in one hour, carrying one-ei^Jith' the
quantity of mall that he proposes to
send by his underground circuit. There
was not. however, as great a necessity
of carrying so much mall in those days.
The exigencies of the times did not de
mand It There was not many letters
written and few newspapers printed. I
refer to middle Georgia As oddly as
it may seem, there was practically no
correspondence between this part of the
state and Savannah ~ and the country
surrounding Savannah. The habits,
taste, trade and interests of these two
sections were foreign to each other;
nothing in common. "There was no social
connection between Savannah and the
upcountry.”
■a
The middle Georgian wrote but few
letters, and got but few. When the
farmer went t| town on business he
seldom thought of going to the postoffice
for a letter. At that time the postage
was paid by the receiver of the letter.
For a small distance the postage was
Gulp («V4 cents). For a greater dis
tance a seven pence (12H cents). For
the greater distance. 1,000 miles or
more, it was 25 cents. At resent the
postage on twelve and one-half letters
amounts to just what it would cost to
carry one letter in 1835.
I remember a curious circumstance
occurring In middle Georgia when my
father, who lived 5 miles from Madison,
in the town one day and the post
master asked him to tell one . of his
neighbors that there was a letter in the
office for him: had been tliere for a
couple of weeks. To "bring 25 cents up
and get Us letter,” Mg father told Urn.
-The old gentleman did not have the
money, and went to several neighbors
none of them had the money. What did
they want, with money in the middle of
the year? They raised, everything oh the
farm they needed. So he carried a bush,
el of-wheat to town. At that time corn
Was 1 worth 50- cents a bushel;' wheat,
peas and oats always half what corn
was/ He tried all over town and could
not sell the wheat. Most of the citi
zens j>f the town were well-to-do farm
ers, and raised their own surplus, so
they did not need to buy wheat or any
thing’ else. So, late-- in the afternoon
the postmaster (McKay was his name)
bought" the wheat, paying him 25 cents for
it In money. The farmer then paid him
back the' 25 cents for Us letter.
Some busybody (there Were Paul Prys
even in those days) notified the depart
ment at Washington, city that Postmaster
McKay at Madison was selling postage
for wheat. An inspector was at once sent
out (there were no United States commis
sioners as at present). It took the Inspec
tor a week to come, one to return and
one to Investigate the case, three weeks
in all, just because old man Littleberry
Jenldns or any of his neighbors did not
have as much as 25 cents to pay postage
on a letter which proved to be of no
earthly use to him or anybody else.
.There' were so many letters sent out
by mail and not taken out by the person
addressed because the receiver did not.
care to pay the postage unless he knew
the contents of the letter, and the name
of the sender,'-Shat the department intro
duced the useof stamps so that the party
sending the letter could prepay the post
age if he wished to do by buying a stamp
and placing it on the letter.
As aq. inducement to prepay, the stamps
were reduced to 5 and 10 cents, so that
for a while a letter would cost 5 or 10
cents if prepaid, or 6>4 cents, or 12% cents
if not prepaid. This worked so well that
Che department soon established the rule
that all letters should be prepaid and
stamped before sending. Nor were there
any envelopes Air many years. There was
much attention paid to the folding of the
letter so as to present a neat package.
This was also before the time of gum
and mucilage. The letters were sealed by
bright red wafers. The beaux and beilea
often conveyed their sentiment in wafers
with mottoes inscribed thereon. Nor were
there any money orders by which to send
money. Often a debtor owing 820 would
get a 820 bank bill and cut it in half and
remit one half; as soon as notified of the,
receipt of this section of the bill he would”
Temit the other half. Of course neither
half could be used until the other half was
receivedr Then the two would be fas
tened together and the MU would be as
good as at first.
There were no dally newspapers. Ev
ery man took a weekly. The poll tics’was
whigs and democrats, and the prevailing
religion was Baptist and Methodist. It
g«1
*4 h?»
Mr.
keys, was'
:et. In retu:
gift he suggested
"Here lies a man who knew bow
around him men much cleverer than
self.” ,'
♦ ' ’■" ‘ .
Many of the admirers ’ of Mme. LUI
Lehmann did not know that the
singer Is a vegetarian until they learn*
tbit the Vegetarian Society-of New Yo:
had. arranged a banquet In her honor
this month. Nonvegetarians have '
requested to subscribe "to- the
but they must expect to he satisfied,
a strictly vegetable *ipenu. .War. L11U
Lehmann began her vegetable, dlejt, seven
years ago for her health and-bas kept It
gfeat
iy/
Representative Befdler, of the Cleveland,
Ohio, district, has a fad. Ho ib. interested
in the falsing of tailless' boot After
many experiments Mr. Beldier has now a
fine litter of dogs which' hare no tails.
They are odd-lookfhg little anlthals and
bear the same relation ' ^o other! canlhes
as a human being does »8 a monkey. Mr.
Beldier.does not say what advantage is
gained- by thus Improving u^on.’ jiaiure,
being apparently satisfied ajth demon
strating that tallies^ dogs are a possi
bility.
♦
Mr. Pettus, the venerable United States
senator from Alabama, is one of the beat
poker players hi congress, but at tluea
has extraordinary runs of bad luck. As
attorney for some bondholders he . once
earned a 875,000 fee and lost nearly all of
It next winter playing poker In Montgom
ery. Mr. Pettus is father of the remark /
often heard in some form ait the poker ’
table: "Chips haven't any permanent
habitation.” <-
♦
Congressman Lacey, of Iowa, feeently
received from a constituent a request for
some volumes containing memorial ad
dresses on dead congressmen "There is
nothing I read,” said the writer, "that
I !Se so well ah these obituaries." Rep
resentative Cushman, of Washington,
shows a letter beginning: "Please send
me six reindeer and don't cut off the
horns, either. If you are coming home
soon you better bring them With you."
♦
The board of trade of Springfield, Masa,
was anxious to secure Chinee Minister
Wu-Ting-fang as a speaker at its annual
dinner in March, and Congressman F.
H. Gillett, who was urging Min to accept
thw invitation, was startled by the .ab
rupt question: “Where is Springfield,
anyway?” When told that It was the seat
of the largest small arms plant in tbs
world and the home of the dictionary-
making in the United States, the Chinese
diplomat said he would go. s
♦
Edward Tuck, of Paris, has promised
to give Rockingham County, New Hsmp-.
shire, for display in the court house in
Exeter, • a portrait of Amos Tuck, his
father, who was one of the first free-Soil
representatives In congress. He was
chosen from New Hampshire in 1841, af
ter a hotly contested battle, and was „
twice reelected. President LineolA
him naval officer of the port of :
180, and after bis retirement
was easy to tell a man's religion and pol
itics by going intoJW^iouse. There would | officers engaged in Urge
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