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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- Acetylene? lopes, and some .almost extinct species of deer. ~j; f Strong on Details, "’Rastus, where’s that-rake?” "De rake's wld de hoe, Marster. "Well, then, where’s tho hoe?” “Marster, da hoe’s jrld de rake." “Well, ‘Rastus, confound It, where are they both?" "Deys boff togedder, Marster. 'Pears like youse pow’lul tickler 'bout details dls mawnln’. You leave de regulatiu of all dat to me, Marster, and I'll look out to* yo’ Interests.” if so, We Want to Send You A SAMPLE BURNER Wo believe we hare th*» very cheapest line of Acetylene J'umers. will lit ow better than we t an expla it would ray you to u*e our burners. Walla lA-ilau bln n kind of Gene- htaxups to cover Write w mtoru-ed, encl<u« postage, and we w A Sample Bnrner W. M. CRANE COMPANY 1131-33 BROADWAY Room 10 New York, N. T. 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.