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DECEMBER 15, 1906.
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Hidden in Worth Carolina Graveyard
for 108 Years, Body of Janies Wilson, Brilliant Signer of Independence
Declaration, Is at Last Given Proper Honor ^ ^
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ARDY honor lias jusL been
done the remains of James
Wilson, a signer of the De
claration of Independence
and the constitution of the
Vnited States.
For one hundred and
eight years his body lav
in an almost unknown
grave at Edenton, X. t\,
hut patriotic Pennsylvaan
ians have just retrieve!
their long neglect, and the
mortal remains of the p :( -
«r:.i: are now reposing beside those • *;
his wife in historic old Christ ohuivli-
> mil. Philadelphia.
fcWiium has su-‘h honor l»reu paid to
ti e remains of imj man as that wliielt
.•:ttt:ide,j the home-coming. State a.,1
■ tion joined in the tribute,
l iie governor <>r Pennsylvania person
ally superintended disinterment of the
hod and its es or; baek t.. Philadol-
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enemies an aristicrat. prevailed. Cerlain-
, ly liis conduct in this case, as in many
others, showed heartiest sympathy with
truly representative government.
BURNED IN EFFIGY.
Wilson’s eonspicuotis part in framing
the constitution is shown by the fact that
i as its champion, he was burned in effigy
in Pennsylvania by those who opposed
the new document.
Wilson sat on the supreme bench i al
right years, and those who had argued,
that -lie. would serve in this office lo the
interest of his aristocratic connections, j,
were utterly put to route when in- 1 ,
changed courts with Justice TredclI. so j <
that lie might not have to sit in judg
ment on the eases growing out of the
speculations of Itobert Morris, wiiose at
torney lie had been.
During his eight years on the bench,
Wilson passed on many important meas
ures. lie Used many first interpretations
on matters of present day moment, and
his ability or integrity were never im
pugned.
It. was in Independence Hall tiiat no; I
only the declaration, but tlie constitution
as well were framed, and only a few feet j
further down tile street in the eonnected j
building Wilson sat as a member of the j
lirst supreme court. j
It wits thus a happy feature <>! the re- ba
turn of tlie remains of the patriot, that ^ in
his coffin lay in state in Independence
Hall, so that his successors might I»ay
it a last tribute.
The deference paid on tins day shows
that not only Inis Wilson’s body come
back to liis own state, but the American
people at last do his memory justice.
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ne United States
for tiie nation,
added tile tribute
which race Wil
and
ii ia
Secretary of the
.’ etiei White, of i
. erne court, spoke
And row * "a: i u gic
a Scotchman, from
. tug. Alton B. Parker spoke for the
•nr n.' the nation, run! Samuel Dickson
i'-presented tin- bar ot Pennsylvania. Dr,
S Weir Mitchell .was a iitting s;-ukcsinau
■ : American letters, aiul William Drap-r
1 ewis a proper speaker for tlie Tuiver-
iy of Pennsylvania, which took an
live part in all tlie movements looking
t i -.lie ret-.rn of the body.
Although one of the greatest minds
i revolution. James \\ ilson lias until
:< recent revival of interest in him
:Ut-I as one *,; the lesser lights of tl-.c
'--morable . .inflict.
He "as not popular, or in the lime- I
: rlii. in the sense that men like Wash
-gi-on. Jeftersi.in or Adams were. lie!
■ i.i tint court tin- applause of the ero-.v.l, I
i ni lie was against extreme measures j
’Iw.i\ s. in t] u . ontiia-ntal congress ns t
' - ; - s op. of tie- |a~t to admit that a lime i
■ill ennie when it was unavoidable to j
•'ah with the mother country, but when !
mally he readied lliis eotivietion lie he. |
•ime one o. tlie most ardent ami uneom- i
roniising ell impious of eompb to free- I
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An Imported Sentiment ^
James Wilson, from a Painting in University of Pennsylvania Law Scliool.
government, but where action by tlie I figures in the convention that framed
FREEDOM AND JUDGEMENT. j
Put la- wanted freedom allied with i
i dgment. lie -was against any system j
- it did not provide for an all powerful j
| ational government that could at all
limes repress any Internal dissensions.
His luck of tlie spectacular and
states independently might conflict with
tie- general good, tlion till slate law must
give way to obligation of Washington to
lontro! for the best interests of liatijn
as a whole.
This speech of the president gave im
petus to the movement .tin any on fool
t i bring the body of Wilson back to Phil
adelphia, that In- might b< buried besi ie
liis wife, and - lose to the. historii
big in iwiiieli lie performed the act that
ensures his place in history.
It is appropriate that Wilson shoul 1
find liis last resting place in Christ
church, for 'here are few buildings m
the I'nlted States more filled with his
tone memories than this old edifiea in
which Washington worshiped, and "u
whose yard are interred the remains of
Cozens of famous revolutionary figures.
tho constitution, and liis services were
of that time frankly acknowledged, but
it was tlie misfortune of Wilson lo of
fend tlie radical wliigs, by his attitude
on many questions. -Vs foremost law
yer of liis state, lie received eases from
wealthy and unpopular clients, and suc
ceeded so well in tiiese that it became
build- ;u popular habit to regard him as the
{mouthpiece of tin- monopolists—a form
|of accusation that sounds strangely
modern.
To such an extent did this prejudice
go tiiat Wilson anil a number of his
friends, including Itobert Morris, who
financed the revolution, were attac.— in
Wilson's house, at Third and Walnu-
streets. ^Philadelphia. A pitched battle
lensued, in which three lives were lost.
IJIKO San bad been think
ing vaguely -about it. for
some time; but when his
friend Jokiehi San (.lokicui
San, whom everybody re
membered qiiiie .well black
ing foreigners’ shoes in
Yokohama a few years
ago so that he might learn
Lite foreigners’ tongue)
came baek from Ameri a
with a foreign wife and
the prospects of a chief-
secretaryship, Sitiro Sail
suddenly decided to marry a foreign wife
o" Sliiro Sail knew little about Amer
en. and still less about American ladies.
It was only natural, therefore, that ho
fhould look upon the foreign wife as the
eause rather than the effect of Jokiclii's
prospects, and emulate liis friend's ex
ample accordingly. At iieai t he was
profoundly indifferent to the blond, blue
eyed beauties of the west; but blond,
line-eyed beauties had somehow got
•nixed up with the Javanese idea of prog
ress. individual and national, just as pot
ha Is and white cotton gloves, horse-hair
chairs and green red curtains had got
mixed up with it: so he felt the time-
had tome to bow i long farewell
Fuji San and O Yaki San. O Hanna San
and O Maya San. and all the other swee-
r.Imond-eycd t ik’ Sans who had served
him in the tea houses with dancing and
singing and samisen playing, and to adapt
himself to t lie mailers of Tsukiji. til
foreign quarter of Tokio. I do not know
whether tlie long farewell cost Sliiro Sue
very much, hut the bow was very grace-
ful. aiul little Miss Wisteria Blossom sui(^
something prettily despairing about going
, i sleep with tlie stars in tlie lake of
the tea house garden. You see, Japanese
sentiment is such a decorative thing.
Though Sliiro San smiled quite confi-
f'ontly when lie snoke of his matrimonial
projects to his foreign friends, after th.i
candid manor of ids countrymen, he was
by no means at ease. A foreign wife
could not sir on tlie floor, she could no*
eat with chopsticks, and she would alter
tlie whole aspect of the back garden if
she had the temeritv to step into it.
Then, worst of all. a foreign wife might
demand some exhibitions of affection. Sli >
might even ask him to kiss her; and hts,
a Japanese gentleman, 'thought all exhi
bitions of affections, and especially kiss
ing. vulgar, notwithstanding tlie repartee
of a pert little yankee tiiat she thought
“it was just ten limes lit tier having one
wife and kissing her than six and not.’’
Tint one morning Sliiro San read some
thing in his paper which reassured him.
-and tilled his small brain with all sorts
of hopes. A foreign lady tourist, intent
upon studying the Japanese life, and re
volved upon adopting the Japanese style
during her stay in the country. had ar-
rived at the Grand hotel of Yokohama
Meaty revision, claimed in-i- silently when
she wilily feared "In- was a dreadful di
plomatist.” And Sliiro Sun's foreign
friend, marking tln-se tilings, said wick
oily, right out before all the company:
“Sliiro Sun is going to Europe in a
fortnight. you know, .n: i In- naans to
bring back a foreign wife with him.”
But Sliiro Sail thought lie had belter
many tin- foreign wife first
I want lo nine
parent oho lias
chilriit'ii at heart.
It is lri-e to ou lor tlie mere trouble of asking
for il. It is a book ot uispiiatioii and euruuragement
lor tile ,\i.tmg i t bulb sexes. |t is full of (j.iod, pi-il--
lira! advice written from the standpoint of the cverj
d:iv man of business. It, j„ „ bunk tiiat v.dl be read and re-read.
'-ii -. loung or middle aged, can read it. without being nerved to great*
effort. Ii tells ;ou what traits of character tint should pose:.; or .i.
'run-, what .ton should know, and what. ; ou should do in order t
•ui-ei i-d. It. i illustrated with half-tone portraits of Captains of Ii
dus.iv win, have el untied the ladder of stuvess. It, contains eonliiln
.Uni;. Jroni -1 ,-li well known living Americana a .li,l- i Wanamak'
Item ” a,-us, Marshall Field. S lr William Y - . Horne. I I
n. » iI. .foilit A. McCall and othci-?. it contain’- »•>
Iriim tlm wminus and spec.-lira of 1're.sidcnls, educators. libn
rnj>lomats. ion••lumf« and others <•n S»i««es . If, ijontaius * |.
*uul opinions ot sii-!i uu'n ;,s Pavid Shirr .roidan* .tnJm .1. I
*Hiwr >Vf‘i?dril Holm*'-. Jas. A. \ ’I NIf'.v;* \\
I’hilliic. Hut ard Tayliir. Hamilton Wright. Alabir. f, 0 f.
I-r.iwn. .lar.ie, A.itliony l-'roufle and others on
leal sneerss in life. I; al-n tells you all about (be
( nr.ltl.M'uMiKM-1'; SCHoObS; what the institut
it dot’s, ft id Is \ou about our Employment li
We Obtain Positions for Our Graduates
or in
If ton are ambitions and wish to s
I "Hpire arid help you. II you arc in
position, this hook will point out the way lo better
! waul, to improve your position in life, send me *
address, and I will send toil this book, and t'llvo'i
which
I Will Teach You Bookkeeping.
book and advice may ho all tha
I Ii in
, ‘ . . . , , ' 5 lr,i book and advice may no aii that i.tauch bptv,.rn a, . »
was lat(‘ v.lion a Juptuip.-v gontiC- salary and a promising future. Sit down now and fiJl' cut' vi,‘„r n !m 7
m ill, with a luce as solemn as only -i and mail it to me TODAY. This slight effnt on'yr.ur pan miv 1
Japaiiesc gentleman can wear, wanrlerea then-fore'do'not. pn't”' „ fi‘ r- .VvH .Vg * lor C G i' V.orlk 7 ’' ‘ J>. V" pp xow'"
meditatiligiy out
H’larter of stern, tall,
1 be ilclieions fantasy
paper they dll Tuki
beams seem t.. take
• all gently
there sit-o*
1’sukiji—out of * lie
strong houses, in! >
*>: wood ami white
liven the moon-
par tiular care to
iv-r Tokio, and the i-.eoiilo
is lightly as they laugh or
i- :: .*•-.!. with -i I.irgei
-s on tlie coupon be.
tnroirg point et yo- r
culOitanee than tin-;
urs. ttobt. J. Slioe-
COMIVIERCIAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS,
2S9 D, Commorolsl Building, Rochester, N. y.
an entirely new development in the
ouaintance:
, in Hie shape
n’t c a die. But the Japanese gentleman I ami a letter which Tomi. the
i bad hrought home something of fp-dtiji I brought into tlie lady tourist’s
I that night -something new and Im-.mi re- ] Gtrly on Xew Year's day. The
But those can wait.'
f iL parcel little knowing look.
“I am afraid the;
pii* *1 tin; lady touris
a fra hi 1 sliail have-
111 lisilile—and it weighed heavily upon
Ii in. ii was a sentiment. Xot tin-* sentl-
: -enl in- had entertained regarding O
seemed so very like the
it 'h a eherrv blossom naiutt-d a.-ross
lower; anv-
maid.
room
parcel
contained a fish, and the letter the wish
<il a “Xew Happy Year and Christmas
Merry.’’ besides the information that ai
.d-d, with n.
wait." re-
nnly. “I am
",i beliind to
present most; began.
Tile, lady
t.-.uig ljut the sentiment In- had expected I
a foreign wife to instifre— a foreign wife j
win. was to In- in his life what a room
° i furnished in foreign style would be in j
Ins house —a proof thn
Of tlie times, that In
to his countrywomen
mong them wii
walked abreast
>gnizi-d Ids dutv
bringing some
wore a tournuro and
ie piano. The lady
onlv t he last t w i
a- could argue about
bad r* ad Mr. Xorman
an 1 she had told him
o. but dared not teti
as- a “dreadful «1 ii>lo
fish bad .been sent a;
cliaraoteristic of native sty!*-
tourist penned iicr thanks for his
“'-uarming souvenir'' in tlie most appre
ciative terms she could find, and at the. '
same time hoped she should soon have .
an opportunity of expressing them in
person. Shim Sun sent back a reply ;
two hours afterward, to the effect that, j
as he wrote, tier not*-, which was tho
soul and heart to him, hung over the I
mantelpiece, and he could not help ;
reading it as often as he could. In fact,
when he got it iie was overflowing with I
before
now a
makim
ments
followed hi- n]
“foreign style,”
tiiat have ben
Sliiro Sail laid
but somehow t
t twenty-eight ii
f just as they <■ i
of eighteen. T
answ'-red bv 11,
irgnniciits
Id. old ergu-
i- tin world
r used tiici-i
lory fibbings musing
trembling little flam
gravely addressed u> .
crawling up the up;
lady having sue
liis
conditions, but s
Confucianism, sue
r -n treaty revisinii
what lie longed
himself, that he i
ma 11st.”
pliiro San was in Tovo a I*Kuiopcos.nc.
riiougli Shiro San was in love n ]*Eu-
ropenno, Sliiro San was still a Japanese
and love was a quid pro <p:o. He had
never seen a ladv tourist before: but he
knew, o;- !.-e thought lie knew, how to
win a lady tourist’s heart. Fo he took
r.rr to all the .government schools, the
state prison the court house and the j high and noble sentiment amor,
lie lent her
whispered I" a solitary
branch of a leafier, cher..
There was another long, long
and in tin; pause something l"U.-li
hand.
It had never been touched ju;
, , that hfcloi’tf, aiitj \ »’t m1i»* i jit I not \
emotion, and started at once lor Tsukiji;! turn her ii a.i t<*
but the thought of conversing with a! A week later Fir
accomplishments j rope on
museum; he lent her Perry, and lie pro
cured for her six foolscap sheets of tn
i.u’ts and statistics with which every
writer in Japan in turn enlightens Ills
readers, and which no cons- iciitious lady
’oursi should be wthout. Then he though;
she must understand lie wanted her to
marry him. She did midei 'stand so mo-
thing to that effect when “he desired so
much of Japanese women should experi
ence influence of sm-h learned lady,” and
yet wondered why the “learned lady"
could not go to Europe in a fortnight.
Blit the whole affair up to tiiis point was
unsatisfactory and indefinite. The lady
tourist had not come to Japan for facts
Facts were harrowing and Inconvenient;
they warped tlie imagination, and might
always he brought up against one. She
; before a half dozen poeple. as was us-
i itally the case, deterred him. She might j
laugh, and he did believe he was too
! exclusive: but lie thought it unpardon
able on tho part of any gentleman not
j to make an opportunity of talking alone
j to a lady who could
| an influence
could there be any happiness and com-j
I forts in this world of mortals without 1
worn- ]
Then lie proposed the above men- j
the Mikad*
remained behind in
! pressions. — St. si*-- !
tinned opportunity should
L^OIFS FV^RY'vhfrf use it
,, . ... The use of Paxtiim Toilet Antiseptic is
could exert so excellent j becoming quite general in .-very la.iv,
•er Japanese women; for [ toilet in Atlanta.
It is unequaled for overcoming tiie of
fensive odor from and curing nasal c-r* ■
tarrh. and for sore eyes, sore mouth 1
sore throat it has no equal. T'sed as a
louche in local treatment of t.-mini-i
made on i ills its effe
are immedia
fhh’o San went Uie same evening to the liad come for impressions, and Shiro San
reuse of a foreign friend in Tsukiji t
find out some more about Ibis lad
government may to a large
-•lain why h*- never ranked as a hero,
i’* nnsylvanians never gave their affe :-
i .ii to their able young signer. !i<- was
• uly 33 when he put his name to the
immortal document.
Ai the dedication "f liie new apil :l
n Harrisburg recently President It'iosc-
* It. appealed for tin memory of Wilson,
lie pointed out the far-reaching import
ance of Wilson's teachings and doctrines
and gave him credit or' being the lirst
member of tiie American h r to point out
• ie great truth that in cases where the
niteq States oonsiiti lion does not il* le
gate the power of action to the fcdeAii
CHRISTMAS ISSUE
Troopers Guarding Body of Wilson in Independence Hall.
t.al |
Wilson was 24 when he went lo Pliil-
nolphia. He was born in a foreign
[land, and lie died in another state. He
i was a great debater, with a most pro-
found knowledge of law. but his speech
j entirely kicked in magnetism.
IN THE FIF.ST SUPREME COURT.
Yet so much of a factor was he in ex
pounding the constitution that Washing-
lion appointed him a member of the
first supreme e-uirt of the nlted States,
I because he felt tiiat Wilson's powers
would l< ml invaluable aid t" -lie proper
application of tlie new organic law in
the cruci: I period of the young nation’s
j history.
J It lias been said by Carnegie that n >
{Scotchman who came to this country in
thi eighteenth eentnrv played a more
OF important part in its history, or brought
to tho. a >'!irpw«ler an<1 better
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education. n- eive.l in
I him to i*e immediately
placed as a teacher in the University
nf Pennsylvania, and after serving there
for .i short lieu, he tool: up the study
el law. end made a notable reputation.
in the seven years intervening he-
iween tlie time in signed the declara
tion *if independence, and i is fortieth
year, lie forged uucad so rapidly that at
tlie time of tin; constitution;!! convention.
In- was the admitted 1-ador of the Penn
sylvania bar.
His capacity is attested by tin- many
trusts he was assigned.
Wilson became on*, of the foremost
It continued until tn
chased the mob.
This incident went far l*> drive W ilson
: to a change of residence, it was not
| in his proud nature to explain or strive
I to justify himself. Wilson always telt
that liis services t<« tlie nation had been
J of a kind that should have kept iiis rno-
i tives from being misunderstood. In the
; closing days of his life he withdrew to
Edenton, X. C.
Yet tiie belief that classed Wilson with
aristocrats was totally unjust. lie was
j one of tin* most aggressive advocates for
I choosing a president by means of the
direct -popular vote. lie always denied
j the utility of the electoral college, that
] cumbersome body, which is some day '•* r-
| tain to be done away with.
• In tlie body tiiat drew up the consti-
i tution were many who contended that the
president ought to be selected by a vote
I of congress. It was against these that
i the ideas of Wilson, proclaimed by liis
i
t
tourist, and there, to his infinite sntis-
liction. lie was presented to her.
"What a find:’’ she exclaimed softly,
fixing a lady tourist's eye upon him,
where lie sat on Uie edge of a chair,
laughing all over, and drawing himsclt
together as if he thought he was occu
pying too much room and wanted to take
ill a tuck. “What a type!" she continued,
examining Sliiro more closely, his dainty
;eet and his delicate hands, his green ti;
and liis waistcoat, for -whose shortness
an *>bi but half-atoned. Then she noted
his quick eyes, peeping out from behind
liie i hiu drooping lids, ins brushy hair, |
his sunken brown cheeks, liis thick, ruth- i
er sensuous. lips. and. last anil least liis
n ustaehe and beard. But when she
noted his mustache and beard she smiled.
It was so lirave an attempt—the bravest,
perhaps, she had seen—and yet it fell so
tar short of the reality: it reminded her
so forcibly of her forests at home after
a spring lire when all the undergrowth
had been burned and only a few charred
trees are left standing. But flliiro San
suspected nothing, and chattered with a
nervous volubility that s irprised even his
foreign friend. Though 1 fear lie was
oblivious of the fa T that the lady tour
ist’s eyes were large and round and blue,
that her mouth was not an ugly one, anil
her smiie rather pleasing in its way, lie
throbbed with quite a novel sensation
when she spoke of Confucius, chuckled
delightfullv .when she talked glibly about
would persist in making ihe most disap
pointing ones. Sin* had thought of Japa
nese loveinaking just as she had thought
of Japanese houses: both would be filled
with an infinity of dainty conceits. But
she found the one furnished with a china
vase, and tlie other with a bow. It is
true that Sliiro San ere long perceived
the -present situation demanded something
further. But it only made matters more
-provoking; for. though his phrases be
came a mixture of “I van hoe,” Darwin j
md the novel of the last century, liis I
pesiTiou always remained the same, a [
neutral one 6 feet off.
Seven days .passed since Shiro San first j
met tiie lady tourist, and then there was
the. morrow, when ho would take her to
the only government school she had not ! before us.-d sm It
yet visited. 1 bealimr am
She had hoped lie would choose some | p ‘. IS
moment as they sauntered in the star
light by the moats, as they stood
watching sunsets over Fujiama, or wan
dered through the shadows of the parks,
bin lie did not. 11
Modern Japan!—the hour of tiffin
European restaurant. Shiro San sat on
one side of tiie table, and tlie lady tour
ist on tlie other. T'p to this point Shiro
San, being of the east, and never having
seen America, had no doubt that when,
after due preliminaries, it should please
him to make his final and definite prop
osition, it would be accepted
“T never
■leans’i'g
C
vei y suffering woman knew ahon?
is a local treatment for inflammation
or ulceration, it has done so much fei
nt e. I am sure I will never bo wituu u
it in the toilet."
The sale of Paxtine i.- rapidly increas.
... . ing, because as fast as one woman uses
hose—O Spirit of and learns of its value she has fid
others. Have you tried Paxtine'.’ 50c
at druggists. For sample address T*n;
R. Paxton Co., 60 Pope -building, Boston.
Mass.
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hesitation. But now suddenly, fqr some
inexplicable reason, everything seemed
changed; and in the silence of a deserv
ed dining room, witli no other eye upon
him than that of tlie lady tomist, the*
masterful oriental in him began to
quaver horribly. I-Tis -face was pitifully
anxious, his manner even more nervous
than usual, and his little laugh a ghast
ly little echo of itself.
“I suppose you know why we have
arrived in this place.” said Shiro San.
abruptly rising to poke the fire.
“Yes.” said tlie lady tourist very in
nocently.
“Then don't you come next week to
Eu rope?"
“To Europe!” she echoed more inno-
ently still.
to Europe; don't you come?’’
“J. . . I can’t see how T am going j
to influence your countrywomen if I go
to Europe next week.”
“You can influence them afterward.”
•‘Afterward? But I can't imagine
how 1 shall ever return to Japan.”
“Yes,” you .shall return," poking tiie
lire more frantically, and bending low |
GRAVEYARD TO LAKE SHIPS
(From The Milwaukee Sentinel.)
The most picturesque cluster of d
without j iicts on tiie great lakes is at Store
bay. Gathered there are oid hulls, aban
doned schooners with stately masts, tugs
and steamers, some sunken and lying on
tiieir sides like helpless giants, and
others floating, moored to tiie shoal by
their anchors whi -h served them well
through a long career. The most striking
wreck in this group is the Fountain City,
a passenger steamship which was the
queen of the lakes in its time. Xow,
this ship is lyink half sunken in the wa
ter with its pilot house bridge and a
part of the deck protruding. Strewn
about it on the shore are the remains
of many unburied ships, washed and
buffeted by the waves in time to be
broken up and set adrift into the bay
beyond.
The Fountain City was built at Cleve
land in 1855 by Captain E. M- Peck of
the firm of Peek & Masters, and it was
owned by the Buffalo 'Western Transit
Company.
The span of years that covered the life
of the Fountain City saw many changes
in tlie marine development of tlie great
lakes. Starting out a palatial steamship,
as large as it was then deemed possible
to build lake craft, it saw boats thr<
,, T , r „ , , . times as long with a multiplied capacity
.vev the flames. _ I know I express not I |f - tonnago> lake its place. It saw the
well, but.’
with
little
Cabbage Plants,
Celery Plants,
boge ready now.
and ail kinds ot garden plants. Can now
furnish al! kinds *.!' cabbage plants, grown
in ihe open air am! will stand great cold.
Brown from seed of tin- most reliable
seedsmen. We use the same plants on our
thousand-acre truck farm. Plants carefully
counted and properly packed. Celery ready
5 last of December. Lettuce, Oniou ami
Bed plants same time or earlier. Cab-
Redueed express rates promised, which, when effective,
will wive us 00 tier cent less than merchandise rates. Prices: Small lots, $1.50
; large lots, $1.00 * r $1.-5 per thousand f.o.b. Meggetts, S. ('.
per thousand; —„ , _
“Special Garden Fertilizer” $5.00 per sack of 200 pounds, f.o.b. Meggetts
South Carolina. The United States Agricultural Department has established
,n experimental station ou our farms, to test all kinds of vegetables, espe-
ially Cabbages. The result of these experiments we will be pleased to give
Yours respectfully.
an
daily Cabbages
vou at any time.
N. H. Blitch Co.,
MEGGETTS, S. C.
he French say,
j the same, and ever
I especially one bavin
j ment."
The lady tourist had one eye on her
plate and the other on Sliiro San.
; Shiro San had liis back to the table
There was a pause
“1 ... I thought we had come here
to talk about Japanese women,” mttr-
. mured tiie lady tourist.
“We have come here to talk about
something of much more serious,
plied Shiro San. turning round sharply
and looking straight at her. very grave
ly. “We have come here to talk about
you and nn*, and liow you marry me."
She avoided his eyes. She stopped peel
ing her persimmon and cazed fixedly
into tlie fire. She was wondering how
she would ever remember exactly his
words and his expression, and she was
hoping she had left her notebook in
; the jinriksliaw and not at the govern
ment school, as she feared. But nobody
; but another lady tourist could have
guessed tiiis.
laugh, in these ' come down from iho mast, and a 1
affaires de corps, j nl * the propelling power supplied
from
suppose it is all
lady understand,
high accompiish-
tho engine room. Xow it rests in pic
turesque seclusion in the graveyard
ships at Sturgeon bay.
The life of a boat is a natural one.
braving the storm and enjoying the sum
mer skies, but it is rare that its death
is any other than a violent one. Hie
derelicts nt Sturgeon bay. and those at
Green island, have been towed there and
left to lime aiul the elements.
Milwaukee has no ship.-' graveyard. As
soon as a boat is abandone I here, it is
usually towed to Jones island or So ;*
Point ami left to tiie- mercy of the waves
ye- , which will soon break it up into dr-:;
wood.
“I have seen many boneyards,” said
Captain Van Patton *>f the United States
inspector's office, “but never so interest
ing a one as that at Sturgeon Bay. E'. i*-
basin at Cleveland has a number of hulls
that has a history; the graveyard a
Buffalo is a pathetic place where tlie • >• I
boats are breaking up. They have the
appearance in many places of old junk.
But at Sturgeon bay the poetic s : de o."
the old ships is emphasized. The Foun
tain City arching out nf tlie water ' c
worth taking the trip to see."
Ships’■ graveyard will soon he a thing
of the past. Many uses will he fouim
for the material of tlie old hulls
while il is not poetic to think of a beau-.
Tombstone Erected by Wilson To His Wife in Wall of Christ Church. His Body Now Rests at the Point Marked X. [
"1 know it is surprise so quick.” w
on Shiro San apologetically, remember-j ti ful bo.-u degraded t*> baser uses.
; ing how the foreign courtships of tlie . practical and ex. tnplifies the spiri
last century usually lasted three vol- | n
! times, “but I had to hurry since I go!
■ next week.”
j “it is, indeed, a surprise.” said tlie
j lady correspondent slowly, still gazing
i into the fire.
j “That’s what I say. it is surprise.”
answered Sliiro San pettishly. “Don
i you come?”
{ “You are so kind.”
! “Oh, it is my pleasure."
“Your pleasure to be kind. I know.”
said the lady tourist, smiling her sweet
est smile upon him. “How shall I ever
; thank you for your goodness?”
“Ah, I can do much more to serve
| you,” said Shiro San. regaining eour-
[age. "You have not seen yet our hos
pital, nor the lunatic asylum, nor the
fire department and the new fire alarms.
irit
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