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THOMASV1LLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER. D'WS.
TO BUILD A NEW FORTUNE.
NEARLY EIGHTY YEARS OLD,
FORMER SENA TOR STEWART
BEGINS LIFE ANEW.
akea his Young Bride to Cold Camps
of Nevada and Rears Comfortable
Home-Still feels the Vtlne of Youth
At the age of seventy-eight, after
baring seen two generations rise and
pass away; a former Governor of Ne
vada, a mine owner of great wealth,
a United States Senator for eighteen
years, William M. Stewart for long
known as the "Santa Claus” of the
Senate, Is starting life anew amid the
gold fields of Nevada.
With the virility of youth this robust
and hearty old-timer, says a dispatch
from Itbyolite, Nov., has, with his
yonng bride started In to make another
Fortune has played prankes with
Senator Stewart; at one time be had
been one of the rich men of that mil
lionaires’ club the Senate, owning one
of the most magnificent private houses
In Washington. In the earlier days he
extracted huge fees from the law suits
model dairy In Virginia which pnt the
last touches on a financial ruin that
was begun when he tried to force a
real estate boom In the direction Of
"Stewart’s Palace,” the gorgeous
structures he had put up when ho
one of the wealthiest men there.
Back Among the Boys.
The new Nevada home Is a on#
story abode, ornamented with red and
white stone. It has ten rooms, the
bathroom daxsels with tiles and trrnp-
plnngs and has a genuine shower
bath.
“I want to make It as comfortable
as I can for my wife nd daughter,”
said the old Senator, ‘They’re not
used to roughing It as I am.”
wide veranda stretches around
the entire house, and the pounds aro
being graded, fenced and sodded.
There Is a pretty stable and a
quaint little chicken house. The Sen
ator has purchased two hundred fowls
and In his stable. Instead or thorough
bred horses he 1ms a large, sleek pair
of mutes, which be considers more
appropriate to the country.
Of Another Generation.
CUM A’. B IN MANCHURIA.
of western mines; at another time he
has been down on his uppers; again he
has been engaged In n big dairying pro
ject In Virginia; at other times ho lias
dabbled again In Western mines and
.has run an Ejistern mule fann.
Retiring from the Henate last spring,
he was ngaln once more a poor man,
nnd with his advanced years It was
presumed by the unknownlng ones he
would sink Into obscurity but llko
some others, "Hill Stewart hns never
known when he was down and out,
and bo Immediately started forth a-
gain In the battle of life with the
purpose to again rebuild his fortunes.
The chances are more than even that
he will although he la nearly four
score years.
The Senator expects to reap a pro
fitable harvest from the various legal
matters arising out of the vast new
gold fields which have been discovered
In Nevada. He is an expert on min-
ntng Jaw nnd has at least the preced
ent established of having received In
former years a fortune as a single fee.
Not Crushed by Failure.
Whatever may bo said abont the
Senator politically, bis bitterest
enemies will not deny that the physi
cal muke-up of tbe man la marvelous
to tbe last degree and that his courage
Is splendid, lie Is of the type that
yearn younger than ho Is, and combin
ing a honeymoon with the first serious
battle In life. The mules please him
as much ns If he had never ridden be
hind the handsomest teams nnd In the
most luxurlouscarrlages In the capital,
'the bouse, pretty as It is, compares
to his Washington palace about as
a penny compares to a (20 dollar
gold piece, and yet he Is Immensely
pleased with lb
When you see him laughing, bolster-
ous and boyish, taking the keenest
pleasure in all his poor possessions,
and seemingly never giving a thought
to those he bad lost In his old age,
you bare to rub your eyes and say to
yourself:
“Can this really be Senator William
M. Stewart who has had the world at
bis feet time and again, the man who,
ns leading counsel for tbe Fair-Flood-
Mar kay syndicate on the famous Com
stock Lode, received In one fee
$250,000, then the largest sum ever
received by any lawyer In tbe world
In a single fee; tbe man who was In
bis prime when President Lincoln was
assassinated, and who la the only liv
ing person that saw the oath adminis
tered to Andrew Johnson In tbe Kirk
wood House; tbe man who will al
ways be remembered In New York
cafes as “the gayest old Santa Claus
that ever liked;’* the man whose
VIEW OP RHYOLITE, NEVADA, SENATOR STEWART'S NEW HOMa.
cannot conceive defeat but goes on
fighting.
•This air makes me feel like a four-
year-old,” he said aa he landed In
Nevada with bis daughter and bis
newly-married young wife. ’There’s
no place like Nevada. I tell you and
I figure that I’ll be doing a big law
business here before long. Better to
wear out than to rust out you know.”
The Senator’s new house was built
from what be bad saved oat of hi*
political career has bad more crooks
and turns than a Boston street; tbe
man who controlled the state of Ne
vada absolutely; the man wbo has
not even great piety or overscrupu-
kms Integrity to cheer him In misfor
tune and enable him to look back
over a pathway of good deeds and
noble endeavors—can it be that this
happy, vigorous, hopeful septuagam
nnrifin j* actually Senator Stewart!
It Plays a Prominent Part In the
Fortunes of War.
The climate of Manchuria plays on
Important role In the war between
Russia and Japan. Up to the present
we have bad but little precise Informa
tion upon this point M. J. Boss has
lately given the Scientific American in
dications as to the climate of that re
gion and tbe character of the different
seasons, lie states that In the months
of March and April there arc strong
southwest winds which bring with
them heat and moisture. At the end
of March the winter season ends. The
undersoil Is still frozen at this time,
but the ground can be worked for agri
culture. April appears to be tbo only
month of spring. At the end of this
month the sowing of wheat commences.
Summer begins In May. and at the end
of June or the beginning of July the
wheat la cut Up to the end of June
rain Is rare and tbe sky la generally
clear, while cloudy weather Is nn ex
ception. The heat reaches n maximum
at the end of July nnd first part of
August Afterwnrd come heavy rains
or storms. It often rains for several
days and nights without stopping. The
soli is completely saturated and Inun
dations are frequent
September Is the harvest month,
while October gives some of the finest
weather of the year. At this time the
climate Is agreeable during the day nnd
the sky is clear, with bracing air, while
vegetation Is at Its height At the end
of the momn the first night frosts be
gin to appear, and In November the
cold weather commences aud keeps up
until March. At Mukden the temper
ature sometimes reaches a very low de
gree. During the day, however, the
cold Is not excessive, and sometimes in
the middle of tbe winter the sun’s rays
become very wurm, on account of the
southerly position of that locality. The
maximum temperature of summer is
100.4 deg. F. About ten months of tbe
year are dry for the most part, and the
excessive wet season only occurs dur
ing a month or so. At Nluchwnng, on
the north shore of the gulf of Liao
tung, the mean winter temperature la
lO.deg. F., and the mean fo the sum
mer, 74.8 deg. The moan annual tem
perature Is 47.1 deg. F. Tbe Itusslnn
maritime provinces have a very low
mean annual temperature. At Vladlv-
ostock the average for the winter Is
10.2 deg. F„ and for the summer It Is
only 30.0 deg h.
THE RIGHTS OF MAN.
They Should Include an Opportunity
to Make a Home on a Piece of Land.
The right to work, to employ one’s
self, comes from Nature, and not from
legislative action. If that Is true,
says the Detroit News Tribune, It fol
lows that legislatures have no right
u make regulations which will permit
•he cornering of opportunities for sclf-
cmploymenL The United States laws
governing our national domain of land
were originally designed to conform to
tbe fights of man. Our homestead
acts were designed to place the land In
the bands of those who would actually
use It productively, and much of the
land was so parcelled out to the
great advantage of aocicty. But cun
ning lawyera and unscrupulous men
wbo want to reap where they have not
sown, who seek to avoid productive la
bor themselves by controlling tbe op
portunities of self-employment, have
succeeded In cornering large sec
tions of tho United States, Tbe
revelations of tbe land frauds In
the West are worthy of great at
tention, but they excite less Inter
est than do our troubles with
President Castro of Yenexuela. Tbe
astonishing fact la learned that one
man has acquired nearly £3,000 square
miles of public land. He does not want
to use It himself, and his only object Is
to make others pay him for the privi
lege of using <t He therefore makes
It more difficult for men to employ
themselves, and tbe rights of man are
to that extent denied.
POLITICAL MACHINERY.
WAS NEVER SO PERFECT, FAR.
.REACHING AND EFFECTIVE
AS TO-DAY.
At the Same Time the Voter Has
Never Been So Independent—Edu
cational Campaigns a Feature of
Practical Politics.
J. J. Dickinson.
Only one aphorism Is known to hare
been publicly uttered and reiterated by
the late Orville II. I’latt. a Senator In
Congress from Connecticut for a quar
ter of n century and one of the really
great statesmen of our time and coun
try. It was this:
“Ours Is a government of parties by
parties for the people."
It was by this rulo that the fine old
Yankee squared bis vote at the polls
and In tbe Senate. It guided his
thought and action. It accounted for
his partisanship, which, though never
Offensive, wns always rubusL
Insensibly the American people hnvo
adopted the I’lutt aphorism. Party or-
20th Centtaty Empire BaUdlng.
Great a* to tbo power of war In the
bnlldlng of an empire—and the Jap-
aneoe-Rusiton war will probably make
a great nation- of Japan—there la an
even greatei force at work In the
world that will In tho end decide the
fates of peoples. This to the power of
one nation to absorb the Individuals
rather than to wipe out or swullow
another government The Twentieth
Century will probably witness the
greatest centralization of peoples
under vast empires, that the world
haa seen since the days of
Roman greatness. When tho cen
tury ends, tho outlook Is that there
will be a half dozen first nations,
created by assimilation Instead of war.
Japan will be one, with Its Influence
felt throughout Eastern Asia, Russia
will, of course, advance, Germany will
"robably have absorbed Austria. Tbe
Latin races of Southern Europe may
have combined for self-protecilon.
England will go on empire building,
and the United States will have
spread over tbe continent, am> maybe
two continents, besides having ab
sorbed vast numbers of peoples from
all countries of the earth.
HON. GEORGE B. CORTELYOU,
Chairman Republican National Committe*.
gnnlzntlon wns never so strong nnd
carefully nurtured as at present; party
discipline wus never so rigid; party
leadership was never so placidly recog
nized and Implicitly obeyed by party
workers. The change has come about
in comparatively recent years. In
fact, the present generation of voters
have witnessed Its coming. Sumucl J.
Tlldcn showed the wny. As a result of
his teaching, not party principle, but
party organization, won for the Demo
cratic party sweeping victories in Re
publican strongholds and was started
fairly on the road to a long lease of
nntional control. Then nppenred tho
Into Marcus A. Ilanna from Ids business
cloister and gnve lmpulso within his
party to a movement similar to that
which, under tbe tutelage of Tlldcn,
had brought surprising victories to the
Democrats.
The spirit of organization which now
animates both of- tho great parties is
not Indolent or lukewarm between
campaigns. In an Important sense. It
Is as active now as it was when tho
lines of battle were drawn after the
national conventions of last summer
had done their work. Tho difference
between them Is mndo conspicuous by
reason Of the fact tbnt the Republican
party is In power nnd Its central or
ganization—the National Committee—
Is necessarily more In evidence than Its
counterpart In the opposition orgonlza-
"J
the President’s request, he could direct
the militant forces of Republicanism In
the Inst campaign, has not been able
to even nominally surrender the reins
of party management, although the
vast responsibilities of the Postmaster*
Generalship devolved upon him at tho
beginning of this year.
It was under tho Hanna regime that
permanent headquarters of the Repub
lican National Committee were estab
lished in Washington. Mr. Hanna set
the fashion of the chairman of the Na
tional Committee settling quarrels be
tween warring factions, quarrels that
threatened so to disrupt the party be
tween campaigns as to seriously darken
its prospects In intervening State, Con
gressional and city elections.
The Democratic National Commit
tee’s headquarters are nominally In the
ofllces of Chairman T. T. Taggart, in
Indianapolis, though much of the work
of that organization Is still done In
New York by August Belmont and Wm.
F. Sheehan, the leading members of tho
Executive Committee In the last cam
paign. As the Democrats have no Fed
eral patronage to dispense, the work
that falls to Messrs. Taggart, Belmont
and Sheehan Is of a purely advisory
and supervisory character. It goes
without saying, of course, that the Hon.
William J. Bryan has very great influ
ence in the decisions as to policies,
even though he la clothed with no oin-
clol authority.
The organizations next In Importance
to the National Committee are the
State Committees. In each of the forty-
11 ve States both of the old parties main
tain central committees, whose func
tions within tlielr respective jurisdic
tions are similar to those of the Na
tional Committees.
The Congressional National Commit
tee stands next In the line of our mili
tant political system. These commit
tees are of comparatively recent origin,
aud are a logical development of our
party government system. Each party
in Congress selects Its own committee
in caucus In Washington usually just
before ike expiration of the Congress
then In session. Each committee In
turn selects its officers, who, as a rule,
are members of the nouse. Both of
t .eso committees have i>ermanent head
quarters in Washington, from which
are conducted those fierce biennial
struggles for control of the House of
Representatives. Attached to each
committee is a corps of salaried assist
ant secretaries, stenographers, etc.
City, ward, county aud precinct com
mittees, State legislative and senatorial
committees,Congressional committees in
each district of the States, judicial dis
trict committees, not to mention the
myriad host of political cluba of mush
room growth and others of stable life
and permanent habitations, complete a
lino of political organizations that
ramify every avenue of our activities
and are in the woof and web of our na
tional life.
Nearly every candidate for President
keeps always In his employ—rarely, of
course, avowedly—a well-organized ma
chine, usually headed by one or more
alert and enterprising press agents and
seconded by practical politicians rang
ing In the social scale from the highly
respectable corporation president to the
much-abused ward worker. These pri
vate machines are grinding from the
close of one Presidential campaign to
tbe opeulng of the next In tC word,
so numerous ore the political organiza
tions, so varied are their methods, so
unceasing are tbelr activities tbnt the
American voter finds it virtually impos
sible to escape surveillance.
With all this mnrvclous perfection of
political machinery, however, it is
worthy of note that at no time in tbe
recent history of the United Staes has
tbo American voter shown more Inde
pendence of thought In fact this is
one of the reasons for tho tmceaslng
labor and vigilance of party leaders.
To test public opinion, to follow popu
lar sentiment in the making of plat
forms and tbe nomination of candidates
is one of the Important functions of or
ganization. Tho American voter Is In
telligent, alert and Independent The
party machinery of to-day is not cre
ated for the purpose of driving men,
like sheep, to the polls or In the ex-
icctatlon of hoodwinking tbo voters.
It exists for the purpose of crystalliz
ing and making effective a particular
political creed. It can do nothing more
than this.
ANCIENT AND MODERN JEW.
Peculiar Customs In Blowing the
Rams on Jewish New Years.
The customs of different religion!
bodies have undergone many changes
Since their Inauguration, and these
changes are as marked among the
Jews as they are other religious ^bodies
A few ancient customs, however,, are
still followed out, as they were In the
days of Moses, by the strictly ortho
dox Jews, especially In certain parts
of Europe, and among those orthodox
Jews who, owing to persecution at
home, have come to America to make
this land their future home, where
With His Pavorite Punch.
From the Washington Post.
Colonel Watte raon said he weald
lifer the political arena again in the
fall, bat declined to tell jast how, soya
tbe New York San.
IPs a safe wager that he will enter
It as usual, prodding the elephant
THOMAS TAGGART,
Chairman Democratic Natl >nal Committee.
tlon—the Democratic National Commit
tee. These central bodies of tbe two
great parties have lines of subsidiary
organizations reaching down through
the States, cities, Congressional dis
tricts aud counties to tho voting pre
cincts.
Between campaigns, tho National
Committees are neither idle nor an-
watchful. The permanent headquarters
of the Republican National Committee
are in Washington, and are under the
immediate supervision of Elmer Dover,
the committee’s secretary, and former
ly 8enat' r Hanna’s private and confi
dential : xretary. The committee’s
headquar era occupy rooms in one of
tbe fine! : office buildings In the Na
tional Capital Tbe Hon. George B.
Cortelyou, who vacated a seat at Presi
dent Roosevelt’s Cabinet board to suc
ceed Mr. Hanna aa chairman of the
National Committee in order that, at
ANCIENT MANNER OP BLOWING THE
RAM’S HORN.,
they may enjoy religious liberty.
On September 30 Is the Jewish New
Year, this year Number 5GGG, one of
the most sacred holidays to the Jew,
when nil petty quarrels are forgotten,
aud every man is at peace with bis
neighbor.
Tho Jewish New Year Is observed
In accordance with the Injunction:
’’And in the seventh month on the
first day of the month shall ye have
a holy convocation; no servile work
shall ye do; a day of blowing tho cor
net shall It bo unto you.”—lumbers
xlx.l.
But It Is observed quite differently
by tho orthodox and the reform Jews.
Tho cornet mentioned in the blble
Is made from a nun's horn, and Is
known as the ’’shofar,” and Is used In
all Jewish synagogues on this New
Year’s day. a
MODERN JEW BLOWING THE RAM’S
HORN.
In the strictly orthodox church the
man wbo has the duty of blowing the
shofar must be an exceedingly strict
Jew. He must not have shaved his
beard; Indeed tho ancient Jew never
shaved. He must not have committed
any offence which would bar him from
this sacred office. When he Is ready
to blow the shofar he dons the “tal-
llth,” a silken cloth, and takes his
stand a the altar, beside the rabbi,
and at certain places In the service
blows the solemn sounds.
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