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THE NEW8.
Rox 870. Too* oa,Ga.
HIE COMMISSIONERS.
MEN WHO WILL ADMINISTER THE
INTERSTATE COMMERCE LAW.
I’orrralt* and Short niograpidrai
iskt-il licit of Mchmi-*. Cooley, Morrison,
Kchoon maker. Walker amt lira eg—A
Ikwnl Com potted Entirely of l .won.
The question of most intense interest just
now to railroad managers, ami indeed to the
great mass of Americans, whose pros|*erity
depends so largely on railroads, is to the
practical operation of the interstate com-
mercebiil. And it is not to lie wondered at
that opinions vary, from the warmest eulogy
to the most extravagant denunciation; for
the uct in not only a novelty in American
legislation, but Us provisions are so complex
then rmiKaur•to
proper construction, and the most ex-
peneuced managers are hopelessly at sea as
to their practical effect.
W;-.i!i* th,* bill contains many regulating
provisions, public interest centers chiefly on
two. One prohibits wlmt is called “pooling;”
the other forbids di-crimination in charges,
other than that corresponding with di-tbiice,
between long and short hauls. In other
words, a railroad company is forbidden, some
*«Sbt uraptHmovije, to , than
one-tenth as much for hauling«ton fUO miles
iw for hauling it 1 ,CXK> miles. It has long
boen the cause of angry complaint that com-
luting lines lietwcen cities oCK), 1,000 or I,f»00
miles apart hauled freight at a baro margin
«I»V 0 cost nnd ii.J-nimn-l ,l ll .„„elve, l,y
txtortionatu chars... l*t»oon adjacent
points where there was no competition.
Against this alleged abuse sect ion 4 of
the bill Is aimed, and there the «*ontrovorsy
will arise; for theseetion is confessedly am-
biguou.s, and contains exceptions and reservn-
lions on which lawyers may exercise their
iugeimity nt great length. The com mission-
ers must decide upon the force and effect of this
und other important s"«*tio;is: and it is
reasonably certain tlie mutter will go before
the Federal courts and must be finally passed
upon by the supreme court before its mean-
ing will be genei ally accepted.
Judge Thomas M. Cooley, of Michigan;
HoijUrJVi'Jiam It. Morrison, of Illinois; lion.
Ah.ute Aupstus T. Bchooumuker, W alker of Vermont, of New and York; Gen. lion. W
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WILI.IAM R. MORRISON. THOMAS M. COOLEV
ALDACE T. WALKER.
W. L. BRAGG. AUGUSTUS SCHOONMAKER.
V VJan. n ft, L m !■ A, ^I and T alter . acquinng ” . * . tM . a ^' fair „
education studied law ut Palmyra, und re-
moved to Michigan, where he served as d<*j»-
nty clerk and register in chancery. In 18.>»
ha was chosen by tho legislature to compile
the lnw*s of Michigan, and did U 10 work with
such ability that he was immediately after
to organize the law department of the
mm-d-sity at Ann ArlK,r. He was the
first profeswi appointed to deliver lecture*on
law in that dejKirtment, and also served as
reporter of the supremo court. In 18hl he
was elccteti justice of the supreme court of
Michigan, a place he filial for twenty-one
years with marked ability. His work
entitled, “Constitutional Limitations of
Legislative Powein in the States,” ranks
among the great American legal classics. In
188.1, Judge Gresham, of the United States
circuit court for the circuit including Indiana,
.PVOIuM him mriver of ttoW.W E«il-
wey eempsuy, and he was engaged Iu that
work when named a* commissioner. His ap-
pomtment on receiver was regarded ns the
iiest that could have been made, nnd bLs
present appointment gives equal satisfaction.
lie is a man o( mistvn' morals, strictly tem-
Iterate, an indefatigable worker and m poll-
ties a Republican.
William IL Morrison’s career as a lead-
ing Democratic congressman is too recent
and well known to require detail. He was
born in Monroe countv, Illinois, Sept. 14,
1825; graduated at McKendel! college in that
state, entered soon after on the practice of
law and served four term? in the Illinois legis-
lature. He has aerveii eight terms in the
national house of representatives. He nml
Judge Cooley are therefore men of national
reputation and the most widely known mem-
Uraof.b.coraramtoD,
Augustus Schoonmaker bas so far ouly a
state reputation, but in New York ho ranks
high as lawyer, legislator aud jrnlge. He was
born March 2, 1628, in Kingston, N Y. • ob-
tained only a good, common school education,
aud was admitted to the Ur in 1853. Ten
EirUktwcooiity*BodfSedUiatplave years after be was elected judge of the 3S court
years. In 1875 be was elected to tbe state
senate as a Democrat, and iu 1877 was chosen
attorney general over Lvmnn Tremaine bv a
majority of 11,541. In 1*879 he was defeated
,o, a. — Office by Hamiltou W«A He
Las taken a ratber active part »n |>ohtic3 and
terved as delegate to thi-ee uatiouai Demo-
cratie conventions.
Aldace T. Walker is a native of Vermont,
and i« 47 ve«rs old In 1861 be entered tbe
army as lieutenant and rose to lie lieu-
tenant colonel. He the..... ... W ■
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Rutland, Vermont, where he resides He
•Xn»7rMr n ;rvss
i hi* appointment is said to be offensive to the
j Democratic leaders of his state, who allege
that be was chosen at the instance of Senator
E,] mu i,ds.
Gen. Walter L. Bragg is the only southern
niember of the commission. He was born in
• Alabama in 1838, but resided in Arkansas
frciin 184.3 to 1 SCI. He was educated at I.ar-
vard university and Cambridge Law school;
and after the war settled in Alabama in the
practice of the law. In It'S, he was made
president of the Alabama state railroad com*
■ mission, and during his four years in
- office adjusted many questions concerning the
power of the state and the rights of railroads,
m» decisions giving great satisfaction to the
1 I tcp.e. but not to the companies. He was
Siof.a r“L,ns"’ ‘VominSm' ™ »hd* J .;sr * ?‘*i Mbe / ,t ? f <-‘h‘
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President Cleveland made a careful txamina-
tier, of Li* work in Alabama and pronounced
him eminently qualified for the place.
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TITF POLYT Vvbil I VA¥ I UA lUv'LlIvPj. ^IDTTUT?
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thf rri otLttJi-is rnpiTm i tu CMIth r-uicir r\r~ OF STAFF p T , r -
AND HIS EMPEROR.
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Leaving the Danish for the German
Army—iris Personal Appearance—Ills
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; TheKi-oat Held marsli.d of Germany, like his
em]K*ror, is vwyold. On the26th of Octolxjr
l*tst he celebrated his 83th birthday. He is a
childless widower, nml to his castle of
Kreisau, far from the capital, did he goto
spend his birthday. There his wife is bin ied,
in the center of a park, under a mausoleum.
None of his family have lived to enjoy the
great man’s, lame.
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Helmut Karl Von Molt ke, although serving
In th<-Danish army when but 21 years of age,
was not I sirn in Denmark, but at Parehiin,
in Mecklenburg, liis father, Baron Von
Moltke, a retired Prussian ollicer, owning an
cstale in that grand dm by. His mother
was only a burgher’s daughter.
Von Moltke's fatln r lost liis wealth with
the fall of the fatherland and entered the
service of Denmark, rising to be lieutenant
general. Helmut and Ins brother Frit z, were
sent to I‘aiterii Kinekbeer’s academy, in
llohenfelde nnd afterward to the military
a , :i(]i iny at Copenb gen, where they were
▼erv p«>or and where, as jiage, Helmut often
table.
\\ lam alisolvial from bis duties as page be
joined liis regiment. Denmark, as Napoleon's
ally, had lost severely. It was conqu llcd to
cnle Norway to Sweden, and became bank-
nipt. Many of the young officers surrendered
their commissions and t.K»k Rireigu serviro.
Among them was the present great strategist,
Von Moltke. Mis dismissal was granted with
a sneer.
Ills advancement mthe Prussian army was
slow. Not till he had served fourteen years
in under charge, and was past 33 years of
no n , ,iid he become a first lieutenant In
1 K.T» bo obtained h ave of absence for a short
oriental tour, wlm-h was, by force or axtraor-
dinury ciTcumsb'tnces, extended to four year*.
The Turkish sultan chose Von Moltke to
reorganize his army, and for nearly five
>'7‘ s made him his chief adviser and coun-
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wesn.-.-itde,l i«Tmissi.m to wear s.leeeretion
r j Vl n tab him by the sultan. He had written
some s of ibe orient, and these falling into
JJ** hand* of Miss Mary Burt, an English
F l! 1 i,n 'i steinlaiighter of his sister, inspired
niarriwl ;lfto ' he w J p roni oted to the rank of
i major, and lived together happily for a quar-
ter of a century; but she died before her bus-
band Iss-ame celebrated.
IVussia learned \ on Moltke's value during
j ***>seven days’'campaign in Austria; and he
: ^haTfaniou? fi* 1
French campaign, and when, on
day in 1851, tho emperor, with his victorious
soldiers, re-entered the Brandenburg gates at
Berlin with Bismark and Moltke at his siile,
* b V nionarch showed bis apjjreciatiou of bis
c|)icf of staff. He created him count. With
S?“w’dJTSd'bf'Vranra ’
bought tbe estate of Kreisan
Count Von Moltke looks like the photo-
gra|>h* and engravingsof I im. Idke Idncoln,
j the meanest wood cut intended for him re-
bim. His face is clear cut and clean
Kbave n Bis lips are thin and decisive look-
, bls . are blue, his Roman, and
* n « ; eyes nose ^
He has acquired fame in many ways. He
might be said tbe almost product to is. l« As a strategist, universal
genius, author, nu-e ns musician and linguist be
as painter
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talk. He is known at Berlin as “The Silent.”
In the reichstag he gives Bismarck bis vote,
but not his voice. Neither does lie talk
privately with bis colleagues.
It has been asserted that tbe atmosphere,
P h V * i cal a, V l F ental - of th « P .^ ,au k ‘ ,1 Z*
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. - .^thera Inn, frotn
. 1 „.»thn« to prevent
euW that be bars out all tbo predictions
about, bis Ions Ufa One story says
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number of ladies and gentlemen, passed a
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The nartv w ho wore all in fortune?told walkimr dieca
entered the hut mid had their in
succession, sealed, the last. king, whose Preciosa identity held’his was hand con-
coming
a long “I while in silence and then said:
«"•» yrcat crown, great vietori« and
hut your’iast davswill 'hrin-'nianyUoubS “
and muc h sorrow.”
in Th-king forgot all about the prophecy till
1884, when, nt a ball at the Russian ern-
Lossy in Berlin, the Hungarian Countess
-idody, whose mother was a Tsigane, was
{ioT i't^-ns^ncillent iliv^IiSSriTHit
countess The possessed held the gift hand of chiromancy
emiKMor out. liis and tb<* coun-
tess, “You after examining destined the lines, live gravely ninety-six said:
may sty is to
years.” The emperor, it is added, was much
struck by tin? coincidence.
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LOlM«l -___’ R 1 ANF
^ Enthusiastic Frenchman XVho Has
«««•» Honored with » Statue.
Louis Blanc, whoso statue was recently un-
« yry n..f,l his tin..., thong!, he lived
tu havo ,uost ot lus earty ho l K * s blighted and
tr> 8ee a new France which disregarded liis
ideas. He was one of that wildly enthusias-
tic band of young Frenchmen who began
early in Louis Philipjxi’s reign to agitate for
the most radical social reforms, and in the
I>oIitk>ai nomenclature of 1840-50 he was
ranked as a Socialist, though he never main-
taiiied tho extreme views now attributed to
Socialists. Born in 181!, he was still under
ago when the revolution occurred which
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Iied . Louis Pmhpiic, not king of France,
f a ot ‘ kl f t! F]rei as T his significant
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r j ‘vng9 o ot phrase 1830. shows Ail sorts tne spirit of plans ot the for rev- the
betterment of the condition of laborers were
.birring in the French mind, ami at a very
early age Louis Blanc threw himself into the
tUei’.‘ ,^ b emhusi-
f; Ho then.classed ns a Socialist, and
«*e anstoeraUe party regarded him as a dan-
one; but time and experience modi-
fied h » views, and he is now known chiefly
; as a historian and social reformer.
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j l ', 1 -l t that >’ ear be consummated the , peculiar
j j nm 0 tie which resultwl iu the marriage of
i ms son. Due de Montpensier, to the younger
of iho 8{vanish princesses, and of her older
sister Isal^lla, to the Duke of Cadiz, Don
Francisco d’Assd*. There were well known
^?V S f ° r Lelitt ^j"= that thi f J® sfc Ilia,Tia ^
ukl I> ‘‘°' ? childless, and the universal
j > P ir,), > 51 01 Europe T was that Louis Philippe
bad planned that Isabella should die without
children and his son’s wife succeed her as
queen. Isabella, however, had offspring, nml
J 1 * “>• ™i" °< T^vnis
I^uhppe. bis ntixt The ut<>:ratic reformers turned precipitated against him; tho
a move
revolution of 1848, he fled to England, and in
tbo stirring scenes which followed, Louis
Blanc Imre a conspicuous part He was in
tbe prime of life, ardent and eloquent, and
obtained the title of “Tribune of the People.”
.a txireuwlf d«muc*itic ra-
P a ,lu » «>tu some prov isious for the special
protection of the laborer; and we find some
of his schemes embodied in the government
actually adopted,
JS, b ™ “S' ™ ndl '
aat< ^ for lh « presidency, but Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte was now at tho front, tho prestige
of bls family name overcame all else and lie
secured an overwhelming majority of the
votes - He augmented his power, but
»* the conp aVrat toot place-th.t l S , the
,^ representatives of the people Vgh.ered were arrested
*treeto ^ the .apportera “citiaen president, ’ as on be had the
been called, soon became Emperor Lotus Na- r
poleon, the thh'd Bonaparte, aiid Louis Blanc,
jP* France and A^Js&.SSr2 did their work with wisdom,
more
He died in 1SS2, and now the French people
honor him with a statue in the Place Monge,
1 he ceremony of unveiling was attended by
the ministry and both houses of the assembly,
The speeches were highly eulogistic of Louis
Blanc s work as a social reformer. His repu-
has rather grown than decreased since
bis death, as the practicability of his plans is
proved, and he has a warm place iu the hearts
t ^ u common people.
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TAYLOR.
Appointed Minister to Liberia, the Negro
Republic,
C. H. J. Taylor, lately appointed minister
*> Liberia, Was born in Alabama in and
*<***;*» years old. He was
graduated
Ober 1 i n , Ohio,
when he was but
20 years old. He
afterward took a
course in the law
school there, and
began practice in
Leavenworth,
Kl “‘- Ho
there but a
time, however, and
then moved to
Kansas City, where
he has since re-
8idwJ . Mr. Taylor took ,ho stumpdurins tho
ca,n P“'S 1 ’ of Gen. Wade Hampton In South
Carolina in 1875. He is one of the youngest
foreign ministers representing our govern-
ment
JobnE.W.Thompson,ofNewYork,mm-
ister resident and consul general to Hay ti;
Moses Aaron Hopkins, of North Carolina,
m ndster resident and consul general to bi¬
Leria. Henry C. C Atwood, of Louisiana,
consul New? to Ran Domingo, James C. Matthews,
cf York, recorder of deeds foi tne Dis
tnct of Columbia, in the place of Frederick
Douglass, resigned, and James M Trotter, of
Massachusetts recorder of deeds in the Dis-
tnct of Columbia, in place of Mi. Matthews,
are other colored men given good positions
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DAKOTA’S PIONEERS.
How tlie Women Go to Market—A
J*ri»lrj© Ilunici
The settlement of all our Western land IS,
trom tho da >* that Plymouth and Philadelphia
we, ‘ e border towns to the present, has been a
task of much hardship and exposure,
^biglod with much that was enjoyable. In
Dakota, however, some unusual obstacles are
^ OUU! l i‘i the long stretches of treeless plains
find the winter winds of tho far northwest.
Am* yet, such is the indomitable spirit of the
Yankee that Dakota has filled more rapidly
in the past seven years than has any other
western state or territory, except, possibly, mining.'
California in the flush days of gold
Two pictures illustrating pioneer life in north
Dakota are given: tho settler’s first residence,
and the frontier wife returning from market
on a rude sied drawn by one ox. Both these
pictures are reproduced from Frank Leslie’s,
The dwelling is a “shack"—so called from the
Indian cabin, on which it is but a slight ira-
provement. Sometimes the homesteader
lives in an even ruder dwelling than this—in
a mere “dug out” on tho hill side, tho uphill
end of the roof almost on a level with the
ground; yet those .UveUings are re-
markably warm and dry. After
two or three years in this rude
dwelling tho pioneer will have full title to his
land and a feneo around his fields; the soil
will have been turned and rotted and (ha soil
begin to yield good ciops, and then ho will
a ix-Lter home. For the present he
must do ns lie can, but he is cheered with tho
certainty of a good homo and farm in no long
time; so it is not wonderful that Dakota has
gained over 500,000 population in a few years,
So rapidly is settlement in progress that on
both sides of the national boundary n»w vil-
lages appear every month. One mMit think
the stillness of death reigned iu winter over
t] )0se vast stretches of snow, w here the mer-
pyj.y f or ,j 0 y S together never gets up to zero
and which would seem sacred to solitude mtwI
desolation. Yet railroad^ villages -re sr.ri.cri no* Ttix! „ n
a ion" ^neu'i*. the now And t 0
1„ on the British side, the shite
population is considerable, every available
quarter sei tio.n within the grant of tho Cana-
di.m Pacific is taken and mail stages (sledsi
make daily trips from northwestern Dakota
to Moosiman on that road Well mieht Ed
pnw, break out in rhapsody on that hardy
S1> h it which has pursued wealth and braved
pen! “from the aurora borealis of the north
to tbe frozen serpent of the south ”
m
returxixg from market.
Many thousand cattle are driven from Mon-
tana into Dakota for the winter, and no part
ot the. Union can boast of more nutritious
Lay or better prairie pasture. In tbe coteaux
many beidere nevei sleep in a house for many
weeks of winter. With the mercury coquett-
ing playfully from zero to 40-legs, below.one
would think a “dog tent” in a timbered hoi-
low or dry ravine a poor sleeping place, yet
the Lerdei * come up smiling iu the spring and
swear that it is nothing after you get used to
IL It’s a wonder how they do it, but they do.
Among north Dakota ranchers are men
who have mined on the bar in Montana,
others who have hunted and trapped in Brit
ish America, and still others who have served
in the regular army, officiated ou the Indian
reservations, mined in the Black hills, or
surveyed far and wide on the public lands.
Such men think nothing of starting any day in
tbe winter with a local ot freight, for several
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days’driving Many trust soleTv to their judg-
in a blizzard where he cannot get into a tim
bered hollow, he must keep himself and team
moving or freeze. A man without a team
can’’hole up" for the night By this process
dne can sleep sound and warm under the
snow, but he must not get scam! and wander
about till exhausted. When the skilled
frontiersman finds that he is lost and a blix-
zard is co ming on, he seeks the leeward side
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of a hill, digs a hole in the drift, crawls In
and wraps his blankets about him; the snow
soon drifts over him as lie lies, shutting off
the cold toind, and be is warm as in a stove
room. It is the man above the snow who is
frozen; and more than once a man’s life has
been accidentally saved by the snow when he
had given up and laid down to die, but lay in
a ravine or sheltered by a bill.
There are more dry, clear winter days In
north Dakota than in any other section of
our country, and a more southern resilient
cannot conceive of the beauty nnd brilliancy
of the northern nights. When tho weather
suddenly turns warm and snow clouds form,
double, triple or quadruple lunar haloes may
be seen, which puzzle the scientists to explain
by tbe principles of refraction. But when
tho mild weather is succeeded by a light
storm and it clears off cold, the air dry and
still and the mercury coquetting around 30
degs. l »olovv,then do the heavens indeed declare
tho glory of God. The blue sky seems like
an actual substance, a bard and polished
dome brought nearer to the earth; tho stars
seem to stand out from the deep blue, to look
down on one with a conscious intelligence,
and the lines of glittering light which run
along the little rifts of snow take ou quiver¬
ing lints of delicate red and blue. Now and
then a blaze of pure light flames up in tbe
north—a light absolutely without color—nnd
if there is any frost flying, one may see the
minute particles in tbo air like 10,000 little
jewels. All these phenomena, of course, are
setm farther south when the conditions suit;
but here they arc presented in such cold, un¬
earthly tirely splendor as to seem liko views en¬
new.
The habits of wild fowl and wild game in
this cold northwest are quite as curious as
tbe experience of men. The hunters insist
that the true wild goose only touches the
ground to rest and feed ami that none of
them have ever nested in our territory. The
fowl that does nest there is the Canada goose.
In its north ward flight it begins to leave colo¬
nies as far down as Iowa; they increase suc¬
cessively northward, and thousands of their
young are hatched and reared in iliecoteaux
The true wild goose joins them there for a
time, and during most of October and the
first half of November the hunting is equal to
any in the world. During the season this
game is a drug in the market. The brant,
snow goose, mottled goose and white fronted
goose—tbe four varieties of the true wild
goose—only pause for feed and rest—then tlffFMc¬
move on. And the surveyors on
Kenzie report them, in still increasing flocks,
1,500 miles north of the national boundary,
still winging their flight northward.
Deer are still tolerably abundant in
Dakota, but the buffalo is gone, und tb«
moose is fast following him to extinction.
INGENIOUS MR. PARKER.
The nrlttsh- American Claim Agency of
New York.
At intervals, for some little time now, the
telegraph wires have been clicking and the
newspapers have been printing the story of
the Brit.ish-Anlerican Claim of New
York aud its tall,
handsome presi¬
dent, George F.
Parker. Readers
who follow the
news will remem¬
ber that Mr. Par¬
ker was arrested
not so very long
ago aud thrown
into a dungeon be
cause of his pe¬
culiar operations,
and that when the
circumlocution re¬
quired by the
courts had all been
compassed he was
brought to trial on
the charge of hav¬
ing swindled Rob¬
ert Be rest on 1, an
aged laborer, of
Brooklyn, out of
$5. F rom Beres-
ford’s testimony it
appeared that on
Sept. 27 last lie
read an advertise¬
ment of Parker’s
agency, setting
forth that billions
of dollars' worth of unclaimed property is
now in chancery in England and other coun¬
tries waiting to be claimed by some unknown
owners.
Among tbe names printed in tbe advertise-
ment as those of people entitled to vast estates
was that of Eeresford. So he visited Parker
in his office, and its elaborate furnishm*”, the
presence of over a dozen busy clerks and tbe
magnificence of Parker himself seemed proof
of the good character of the whole concern.
Beresford went away with a worthless book,
for which he paid fifty cents, filled with
mythical names and mythical stories of men
who suddenly found themselves millionaires
through the assistance of either Parker or
other claim agents. One paid of the hook in-
formed Mr. Beresford that if he desired the
Christian names of the vai*ious Beresfords
who bad died leaving big estates, be could
get them from the agency for $2. Parker got
the $2 next day in his mail, and sent Mr.
Beresford a list of some eight names. Among
them was tbe name Thomas. Thomas was
Mr. Beresfords father’s name and Mr. Be res*
ford, without hesitA:ing, uave Parker $5 OcL
h last, for which he was to .receive a c ert ifie<|
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GEORGE IT PARKER,
TOCCOA NEWS
JOB OFFICE
We are Prepared to
LETTER HEADS,
BILL HEADS,
NOTE HEADS,
STATEMENTS
CIRCULARS.
LAND DEEDS,
MORTGAGE NOTE
MARRIAGE LICENSE, AC.
I copy of a certain advertisement published
f’&rjtjrzz srr
In the course of the trials that followed—
five indictments had been found against
Parker—a number of persons from various
parts of the country appeared who had in-
trusted money to him, as had Beresford,
without receiving any return worth
f peaking of. But, though every effort poe-
sible was made to convict the man who
was said to have lived so long on the ere¬
dulity of others, and although it was shown
that he had been an inmate of a state prison,
be was discharged because of a defect in
New York law. But bis claim agency busi-
ness has probably been permanently broken
up.
CHAUTAUQUA’S BIG FIRE. 4
Pictures Showing the Ruin Worked and
Its Relative Extent.
Everylxxly is interested in Chautauqua.
Everybody! Well, perhaps not quite every¬
body > strictly speaking; but a larger number
of persons probably are intereated in that de¬
lightful place than are usually meant whoa
one refers to “everybody.” And s» when the
news was flashed over the country that a
large portion of the cottages on the Chautau¬
qua grounds was in flames a great many
people were interested.
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THE BURNED DISTRICT?.
For Chautauqua cottage owners are to bo
found in nearly etfery state in the Union, and
shareholders in the different club houses are
also very widely distributed. And the num¬
ber of people indirectly interested by reason
of devotion to the Chautauqua idea and
tbo membership in the Chautauqua circlet
is legion. It was at flret feared from
the nature of tho news received that
tho buildings on the entire ground would gq,
but later dispatches placed tho number of
destroyed cottages at fifty-five and the loss at
$75,000. Of course this was bad enough, bqt
no important assembly buildings were burned,
and tho proportion of buniod to unburned
buildings is small. One of the accompanying
cuts gives a fair idea of the relative stee of
the burned district
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bird’s eye view or ASSEMBLY grousds.
(Burned district in black.)
Chautauqua lake Is one of the most beauti¬
ful sheets of Water in the world, and its his¬
tory is a very interesting one from the tima
when, after its discovery by the whites, 1?
was used by tbe French as a link In tbe water
way from Quebec to New Orleans. It has
been the scene of romances and orfruc®,
rowing matches and gospel meetings and its
“boom” seems to have hardly begun. Th*
coming season is expected to be more of %
success than any season in the past has been,
and very likely tbe recent fire will prove to
be a help instead of a hindrance. And It to
quite likely it will awaken Chautauquans to
tbe necessity of devising a sure fire protec¬
tion scheme.
Uncongenial and Unseftthctfo. 4
Olive Logan, who has been trying to raak*
her home in Washington, has concluded to
return to London and Paris. *8he has lived
so long abroad that she finds the fairevt cities
of the republic dull, uncongenial
testhetic.
Since Mr. Gladstone has chopped down as
many trees it is now remarked ho ought
to plant some.
all those — — «*»—« science
has „
told all men they are liable. Pasteur is
its god, and the microbe it* Mephistopheles.
A French writer defined it the otbar day as
the age 0 / the “infinitely littlei* It might be
also defined as the age of absorbing self con-
iciousness. It is eternally placing itself in
innumerable attitudes to pose before the
camera of a photographer; the old, the ugly,
the obscure, tbe deformed delight iu multiply¬
ing their likenesses on cardboard, even mors
than do the young, the beautiful, tbe famous
and tbe well made.—Ouida in North Ameri¬
| can Review.
American Cooks Getting A head.
“Do you know,” said a prominent hotel
mau th ? otlier ^ay. “that the American cooks
are rapidly supplanting the French and Ital-
* a n ' a l ' Le hotels and restaurants
, ta ‘ s coant:r T* Two or three of tbe big
^ . Cincinnati ha%e American head
m
£ ook? * " ‘“te 111 Boston tbe * ankee cooks now
: Lave almost full sway. One reason for tbo
P rev t |^ *? u f b ch of °\ *. industry nterest amon has been 8 Americana tbe
,D s ran no¬
ftavE* t^i^ a L | nob a nrof^ion fl‘ iy F u £ a _f® rei Sn« r c ° n
t e
States have met with great success. It’aa
good first class paying hotel[receives occupation. A head cook tn a
from $100 to tl50 per
jaontb. with bis board and room thrown m.
ie American cooks, it is now conceded,
j ^ £^f arm & roas fc beef and
I branches’of EnqlSer. the culiMr^A^^rinrinn^l cuhnary art—CmcmnaU 1
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