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MAGAZINE SECTION.
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1905.
PAGES 1 TO 4.
NEW PONTOON BRIDGES.
to the republican committees In the
last three presidential campaigns,
and John A. McCall, president ot the
New York Lite Insurance Company
admitted that he bad contributed
$150,000 of the company's funds to
the same committees. In fact the
big companies have frequently been
contributors to both political parties.'
Public May Demand Legislation.
There are two questions Involved
In any fair consideration of these dis
closures. The first Is the desirability
of corporations taking such an active
and Influential part In political cam
paigns and the second is the moral
ity of. corporation officers making
contributions on their own Initiative
out of funds that are really trust
funds.
Of course a law can be made pro
hibiting campaign contributions by
Insurance companies or other corpo
rations. This may correct the abuse
or it may not. Laws are not always
obeyed or enforced. There, for exam
ple are the laws of Moses. The world
has been violating them for thou
sands of years. It might be consid-
Intelligible. Among the hundreds of
such which she received the other day
was one addressed to "Ygnac Lech,
Combryja Co, brot stryt no 903,
Szanony ran,” ' -
How many, or rather how few, peo->
Collapsible Boats of Canvas Which
ban -• Carried by One Man.
The soldiers ot the United States En
gineers' Corps seem to have solved one
of the greatest problems which has
confronted generals In command of an
army when on the march. Small un-
fordable streams ore often encountered
hy the army and these must be crossed
In the shortest time possible. In. fact
large rivers often confront an army
when about to give battle to the enemy,
and It would take weeks, it not'months,
to construct even temporary bridges
to allow the men with their heavy
armaments to cross. The pontoon
boat, of course, Is well known to every
reader ot history, for this most useful
LEGISLATIONLIKEL T REQUIRING
PUBLICATION OF ALLLARGB
CONTRIBUTIONS.
TEE ROOSEVELT FAMILY CELE
BRATES IN THE GOOD OLD-
FASHIONED WAY. -
UNCLE SAM’S DEAD LETTER EX
PERT GUIDES STRAY CHRIST-
MAS GREETINGS.
Always Have Huge Rhode Island Tur
key Which Is not Spoiled by French
Cooks. — President Himself Does
the Carving.
Old fashioned cooks and old fash
ioned cookery hold the fort In the
White House kitchen at Christmas-
tide. When the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt give one of their great state
dinners to eighty or one hundred
guests, they usually entrust all tho
preparations to professional caterers,
but when It comes to the dinner which
Such a Bill, Introduced Last Year,
was Looked upon as a Crank Mens-
ure-WIII .be on a Different Basis
This Session. ,
Exposure of the practice of the
great life Insurance conquinlea and
other corporations, ol making contri
butions to political campaign funds
and of devoting large amounts of
money to Influence legislation will
bring before the next session ot
congress the question of the passage
of a bill similar to that introduced at
the last session ' by Representative
Iiourke Cockran, of New York, and
familiarly known as the “Corrupt
Practice” bill. It may not be that
this bill will be taken up and given
the serious consideration which It
was denied at the last session, but
that a bill containing provisions of
the same general description as'those
of the Cockran bill will be Introduced
and pressed to a vote Is a moral cer
tainty.
The Cockran bill provided that
every contribution of more than $50
to a national campaign fund should
be reported to the merk of the dis
trict court of the United States,
Sends out Many Presents to Children
—Has a Remarkable Memory and
Knowledge,and Deciphers the moat
Puzzling Addresses. >
Tucked away 1& a little corner ot
the Fostofflcs Department at Washing
ton behind a desk which has held a
thousand Interesting stories alts a
charming white haired woman whirls
'known the length and breadth of the
land as “Mrs. Santa Claus.”
The woman to whom this suggestive
ly dear'name has been given Is Mrs.
A facetious student at the University
of Virginia wrote to a young society
girl In Washington and addressed the
envelope entirely In Creek. It takes
greater obstacles than that to balk
Mrs. Collins and the young woman re-
reived her letter as promptly- as If
It had 'been addressed in the most
legible English hand. The list of such
letters Is almost unlimited In length.
A Spaniard sent a letter .to “Sr. Fcr-
nado Maya, Puerto galen Colo” and It
was promptly forwarded to Mr. Maya
at “Port Garland, Colorado.”
Mrs. Collins Is a charming woman
and occupies a tiny apartment In one
of Washington's fashionable apartment
houses.
Senator Harris Balked.
Henry Clay Evans, late consul gen
eral at London, was once In Congress
Public sentiment Is rapidly crystal-
What Is known as the "pontoon train.”
The German army recently adopted a
sort of sectional pontoon boat which
allowed of greater mobility to the
train.
_ However, the soldiers of the United
States Engineer Battalion have been
drilling In the use ot pontoon boats
made ot heavy canvass stretched over
Collins finds out the addresses of these
children, sends them some little thing
they have asked for and gets her
friends Interested In them until she
has now earned the title which cams
to her so long ago merely through her
associations with this part of Uncle
Sam’s, postoffice.
a wooden frame. These boats are wa
ter-tight and when assembled are cap
able of supporting six or more men
be, can be sent forward with a much
smaller guard than is necessary when
the cumbersome pontoon train wagons
each carrying a boat or section; are in
i-iust entetstmas.
lM>t, Seng ago to. Wit* Men, weantatd,
laden with Myrrh nnd frenklnctnac andyatd,,
Jeerncyed afar, and round I be Fhcnhcrd’a Ibid
On the flrat Chrletmaa Day.
And now bath young and old, rrltb ablolns eyes
Gather to watch thctrPabyta glad ettrprlse,
Waeeataaiea, hie joy. hie iteetol cries,
Oa his first ChriMtm*a dAjro
garding the threatened extinction of
many species of wild animals.
Of late, however, some of the world’s
millionaires have begun to devote their
attention to tho task of preserving
them, and numbers of wealthy men
have established or endowed parks
and prlvato zoological gardens, In
which buffaloes, antelopes, giraffes,
gnus, and other dwindling species are
carefully cherished. In some cases
herds of bison aro kept, after the fash
ion of deer, on thb estates ot great
landowner*. * *
_ Nor are Europe and Asia behind-
Oh Baby, Baby, may thy lift be aweett
May Cod-acnt qngcO guide thy little feet,-
May erery day to come be as complete
Ay thy tint Chrletmaa day.
Criminal penalties were provided for
lsfng Into the conviction that corpo-
vlolations ot the law.
Looked Upon as a Cockran Oddity.
The bill was-treated with derision
last winter, both by the dally press
and by gentlemen of tue i.-UM.- of
Representatives, tho Benate and
Third House. It was worth a laugh,
people Said. There was very little
corruption, they averred. The Idea
that corporations employed legisla
tive agents and disbursed huge sums
of mouey for or against certain bills
was moonshine doled out by sensa
tionalists to gratify tbc morbid fancy
and the appetite for scandal of a pe-
collar class of Deorflc. —
The legislative Inquiry Into the af
fairs and conduct of the Equitable
Life and Mutual Insurance companies
at New, York seems to have placed
the matter of campaign contributions
nnd legislative dl«t«ir~ments In
other than a humorous light It mat
ters not whether the corporations
come forward voluntarily with their
eontrlhntlona to wmnsi-n fond, or
whether they are solicited and bound
ed by campaign collectors until they,
contribute—tbc rcsnlt Is the same. 1
Vice-president Gillette of the Mu-4
tual Life Insurance Company testi- - „
fl»d that bis company contributed) llshed. with the i
$02,500 of the policy holders’ money j “Uncle Tom’s Cal
rate contributions -should either be
made Impossible or else required to
be made In such public fashion that
they would be robbed of their bane-
f.A .ffoat
Christmas dinner at tho White
House is served In the evening and the
President,arouses an appetlto for it by
(Continued on next nags,)
hand. Largo preserves of big game
are to bo found In Prance and Ger
many, and In England the Duke of
Bedford has made a wonderful collec
tion of wild animals at Woburn Park.
It comprises many rare animals, In
cluding waterbuck, gnus, sable ante-
streets In various cities of Europe led «“<• “M nothing. They did not rewOg.
to her compilation of a street directory W™. nnd kept on talking about
of Its countries. - th0 miserably poor representation, their
The value of Mrs. Collins’ work In State bad in Congress. "It Is a pity,'
ferreting out addresses is all the more said one of them thzt.a State like
notable when It is considered that each ours should have suchpoor worthless
Dostolllce in all the large cities has a men at Washington. Our senators are
dtaWon especially set apart for do- no good, old Harris Is played out ami
Ciphering Illegible and -otherwise puz- Jostah Patterson is Him only man In
sling addresses. So after this has been the House that amounts ,»o anything’
done letters which are still unclaimed At this remark the stranger arose and
are sent to the postofflee at Washing' 111 a tone of thunder began to hnrl
ton. Invective and abuse at the two men
“it is about time I was taking part in
Knows All Languages. this conversation ” he yelled £nd went
Mrs. Collins has made such a study on to tell s few warm things to the
of this rather psychological work that astonished party of two. When he
she* knows Just what sectUn of the had subsided bit one of them akked
country, even to the cities. In which "But who are you to get so msd about
various natlonaltles have settled. She it?”“Who am It WelL I am Senator
can put her finger on the Japanese, Harris, ding you, and I have much
the Chinese, Greeks, Spaniards, Italians more to say to scoundrels like you."
and all the rest of them. Both men were amazed and they has-
This particular talent has enabled tened to apologize. They all became
Mrs Collins to decipher many a letter friendly, and the old man often told
which would have been otherwise ua- the story on himself.
person of either sex applied for a po
sition, seldom refused outright, but
gravely handed them tho following
lines, and asked them to commit and
repeat them to him correctly In ten
minutes. If repeated wljh ao error,
he promptly took them for trial.
That there could be no collusion
with those who applied later, he fre
quently phanged the order‘of the lines
and the proper names:
So she went Into the serden to.cat a
cabbage lest to make an apple pie and
at that time a great abe-bear coming up
the street pope its head Into,the shop.
What, no soap? .80 he died and elm very
Impudently married the berberrand then
were present the Plcnlnnlsa, and the Job-
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of deer. ~j; f
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"’Rastus, where’s that-rake?”
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"Well, then, where’s tho hoe?”
“Marster, da hoe’s jrld de rake."
“Well, ‘Rastus, confound It, where
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"Deys boff togedder, Marster. 'Pears
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dls mawnln’. You leave de regulatiu
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out to* yo’ Interests.”
if so,
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Time to Move.
Oh that I wore where I would be,
Tnen would I be where I am not,
For where I am, I would not be.
And where I could be, I cannot.
