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UtK0~ MAGAZINE SECTION. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6,1906. HISS ALICE TO WED. CONGRESSMAN NICHOLAS LONG- WORTH, OF OHIO, THE MOST FORTUNATE OR MEN. crew. He also was a member of the freshman class of the football team, and actively participated In the pro motion of college athletics. A Grand White House Wedding In Mid- February—Culmination of Romance Believed to Have Occurred on Ocean Voyage. There Is to be another wedding In the White House, and society at the capi tal Is already looking forward to what undoubtedly will be the most brilliant event in'the history of the mansion. It Is Just about two years since Rep resentative Nicholas Longvferth, of Cincinnati, began to lay siege to the ' heart of the charming daughter of the President, and his attack has been un remitting Now he has captured the heart of Miss Alice, and will lead her to the altar In mid-February. Several times during the last year * Mr. Longworth's engagement to Miss Roosevelt was rumored, but It was never confirmed, and the social world began to conclude that a warm friend ship was about all that existed between them. Chance of a Lifetime. It was when Mias Roosevelt deter mined to accompany Secretary Taft's party to the Orient that Mr. Longworth apparently aajw his crowning opportu nity, and he forthwith became one ef the party. Throughout the jaunt his attentions to the daughter of the Pres ident were more marked than ever be fore, for in his wooing he had tbe ad vantage of being the only courtier In the field. Though his friends now say that they had observed the glint of a glori ous victory In his eyes when he re turned from tbe long voyage, be never confided his triumph to a soul, and the first Information of tbe engagement did not reach society until Mrs. Roose velt told It to a few personal friends In tbs White House. Then, of course, so ciety soon heard of 1L Win Tour Europe. It Is expected that after their mar riage the distinguished couple will take a leisurely trip throughout Eu They will, of course, be certain splendid reception everywhere, espe cially In all tbe capitals of the Old World. Miss Roosevelt has never been In Europe, although she has had several opportunities and Invitations, notably • jrhaa she was Invited by Mrs. Whlte- •“ r Rsw Reid when Mr. Reljl went to Eng land as special ambassador at the cor onatlon of King Edward. In Paris, too, the Longworths are certain of lavish entertainment, as Mr. Longworth's sister, the Viscountess de Chambrun, lives there. Miss Roosevelt, who Is the only child of the President's first marriage, will be twenty-two years cld In February, . and is named for her mother, Alice Lee, of Boeton, to whom the President became engaged in his college days at Harvard, and whom be married In -1881. On the death of her mother, one year after the latter’s marriage, Miss Roose- was admitted to the bar in 1894. He served as a member of the school board of his home city until elected to the Ohio House of Representatives In 1899, by the incredibly small majority of 4, being the only Republican elected that year. Subsequently be served In the State Senate until elected to ihe Fifty-eighth Congress, and was re- SERAM'S DEATH MRU). ENTIRELY OVERLOOKED AT CAP ITOL, WHERE HE HAD SERVED MANY YEARS. Due toConvIctlonfor DcfraudlngGov- ernme-nt of Lands-Both Oregon Congressmen AIM Under Indict ment or Conviction. * All precedent was Ignored by the United 8tates Senate In the case of the death of the late Senator John H. BON. NICHOLAS LONGWORTH. veil became the charge of her aunt, Ux William S. Cowles, who was then Miss Anna Roosevelt, and to the pres ent day is as much the child of Mrs. Cowles' affection as though she were • htf of her niece. ‘ Her Debut In Washington. Miss Roosevelt msde her debut at a ball given in the great East Room early In January, 1901, since which date she has enjoyed a succession of - attentions never before offered any American girl. At the World's Fair In St Louis, when she was the guest of Miss Catlln, Miss Roosevelt was, admired by thou sands who saw -her, and was voted a true type of the American girl. Thou sands followed her wherever she went but her demeanor did not Indicate that she was any more than a plain Amer icas. Her sweet smile completely cap tivated the throng, and In 8t Louis or the West tbe President's daughter will always be welcome. Mr. Longworth Is tbs only son of the late Nicholas Longworth, one of the great millionaires of the West His - r inherited all of the estate of his turned to the Fifty-ninth Congress by an overwhelming majority. There la a great light In “Nick” Longworth's eyes these days. JT&af Became of Ihe Change. Gen. Chaffee was onde asked by a soldier to lend him a quarter. “Didn't you receive your month's pay yesterday?” asked tbe General. “Tee,” said the veteran. "Where’s your money now?" "Why I left tbe post an0 crossed tbe ferry with glSfiO. I met a friend, and we had dinner. The bill was 8 8.00. Then I bought $1.00 worth of cigars; then we went to tbe theatre for 84.00. After theatre we went down to the Bowery and 1 spent 82.00 there.” "That makes filfi-00,” said the Gen eral. "What became of tbe other fifty cents?” The < old soldier seemed pussled„and finally said: "Why, I must have spent that fool ishly.” Enty When You Know How. A farmer left to bis eldest son one- half of bis seventeen horses, to bis second son one-third and to his third son one-ninth. Tbe executor did not know what to do as seventeen will not divide evenly by neither two, three or nine. In tbe afternoon a neighbor drove over and learning of the diulcul- ty said, "Take my horse and you will then have eighteen.” Tbe executor then gave one-half, or nine, to tbe eldest son; one-third or six, to the second son; and one-nlntb, or two, to tbe youngest, and tbe neighbor took bis horse boms and ever after called him "Problem” in thb morning and "Solu tion” in tbe afternoon. -. Wholesome Sort of a Man. The future son-in-law of tbs Presi dent is on enthusiastic lover of-outdoor sport* as his splendid physical r ‘ ‘ ' ;y Indicates. He is I t plainly Indicates. He Is an ex pert on the golf links, a crosscountry rider, a good marksman with shotgun- end rill* and a veteran fisherman. At Harvard he was a member of the ‘vanity, rowing crew, and for three yean subsequently rowed in the olass Pence Now Relgna. After warring, for more than a hun dred years. In which time thousands of lives have been sacrificed and the greater portion of the Washoe and Pluto Indian tribes wiped out, peace has been declared between those tribes. This arrangement was brought about by Capt. Pet* head chief of the Washoe tribe, and Capt Dare, head chief of the Piute tribe. They met la Ban* Nevada, and through Johnny Kay, Capt Den'S lieutenant the two old warriors shook hands and for an hour or more over the pipe of peace discussed the p that led to tbe ending of boetiu Now they are planning a big peace It will take place at Sparks, and for six days both tribes will Join la celebrating the big event Tbe Piutes once constituted one of the largest tribes In the Northwest and the Washoe tribe was a close second. The forestry station at Dodge CHty, Kansas, Js giving away trees at tbe rats of ooojooo a year. Since tbe In auguration of tree planting on an ex tensive scale there have been remark able changes in the climatic condl- HrtflM |yMM- Mitchell, of Oregon. Tet there is no body of men on earth which Is a great er stickler for ceremony governed by precedent than Is tbe United States Senate. But the Mitchell case pre sented a unique situation. Tbe official recognition of the death of a Senator Is always a solemn and affecting pro ceeding, but even the usual funeral rites were omitted In this Instance. The Oregon Senator had been convict ed of a grave crime against the gov ernment. Excepting Senator Burton, of Kansas, no other members of the hS« ever had to face a.crlmlna! court trial. The Senate has expelled members and has often exercised its constitutional prerogative of unseating a Sepator, but with the two exceptions above stated. It has never been con fronted with such a situation as was forced upon tbe public attention by Senators from Oregon and Kansas. The Vice-President, who is the President of the Senate; did not ap point the usual committee to attend the funeral held in Portland, Ore. Senator Fulton, tbe sole representative of Oregon left In Congress, had intend ed presenting a brief resolution, re citing the death of his colleague, and asking that the Senate adjourn as a mark of respect, but even this was not done. Not even was the desk which the late Senator occupied veiled In the heavy mourning drapery as Is the cus tom. In a word, the Senate, In sad ness, passed over the death of its for mer Senator as quietly and unostenta tiously as possible. There have bee\ no eulogies. His successor, sppolnt- ed by Governor Chamberlain, a Dem ocrat, comes to Washington from the far Pacific slope and the sovereign State of Oregon will again have Its full representation In the Senate. Scats Vacai.t In the Houm, Oregon’s representation In the House will remain vacant until the courts have finally passed upon the Indictments and trials of the State’s two Representatives, Messrs. Blnger ann and John Newton William son. Mr. Williamson already has been convicted by a Federal Court of of fenses similar to those for which Sen ator Mitchell was made to suffer, and Is now awaiting the outcome of the of his case, as was Sen when death gratefully lleved him of further humiliation and always thought he was until the ex posure of his wrongdoing was made, then he must have welcomed death as a happy Issue out of all his trouble. He was an old man. He had sounded the depths and shallows of life. He had run the gamut of human emotions. He had felt the glorious thrills of tri umph and the panga of disappointed ambition. He had associated, the world around, with the men who give Impetus and tongue to the uplifting thoughts of mankind that are hurry ing us on to a civilisation that will eventually realise the poet's dream of Utopia, “What he must have suffered In Ills last days—what devils peopled his brain, what repinlngs of what might have been must bave depressed his soul—who can Imagine these, let alone tell about them? Napoleon fretting out his proud life on St. Helena never was as unhappy as John H. Mitchell must have been while suffering tbe stings of humiliation after expos ure and conviction came with suddenness that carried him to the depths of despair. He told more than one Senator who had seen him since his trouble that he would never go to Jail.” Had there been attempt to consider cesolutlons of respect for the memory of Qpnator Mitchell it la likely that there would have been objection. There Is a precedent for such action, for when Senator Broderick, of Cali fornia, war killed In a duel with Judge Terry, of tbat State, resolutions of re spect were offered In the Senate. They were opposed by Senator Foster, of Connecticut, and tbe resolutions were referred to a committee and never Were heard from afterward. GHOST POINTS WAY TO.GOLD.] Mr. Hermann Is yet to be tried. It thus happens that there was no one In the House from Oregon to make for mal announcement to tbat body of the death of Senator. Mitchell, so that no official attention was paid the Incident There Is so little that can lie said of the strange, tragic, pitiful case of Senator Mitchell that the men of the Senate who knew him best who liked him best who had served In that great forum with him longest and who are most grieved at the sad ending of his career, have been disinclined to speak of him at all. “He Is dead," said one Senator, "and that ends alL U he were tbe man I M Miner's Story of Discovery of Rich Mineral Deposit In Unexplored! Canyon. Bringing a larfeo bottle filled with almost pure gold, taken from a lode long hidden In mountain fastnesses, not a great distance from Seattle, W. E. Bartlett and M. C. Black, both well known local business men, are reported back after a perilous trip to the Caa- Theirs, however, was labor richly rewarded, though the story is so In terwoven with spiritualism and ro- -mance that It la well-nigh Incredible- Bartlett is the grandson of D. E. In- gels, a miner of the early '80s In these parts, who wa» murdered In the hills by his partner. The Bartlett family are spiritualists, and Bartlett declares that his dead and murdered grand father, through a Portland medium, appeared to him and described how he could find the lost mine and that he would be Independent for life. Bartlett asserts positively that he received specific directions from the spirit of his grandfather how to pro ceed to the lost mine. Moreover, he was told to select M. O. Black to ac company him. The men will not tell of the location of their find, but say It cannot be reached save by making an extremely dangerous trip and one filled with hardship, especially at this time of the year, when the mountains are firm in winter’s icy grasp. In the spring they will return and develop their find. In a rough and mountainous section, they say, they found a gray quarts ledge, literally filled with precious metal. Small pieces were broken off, pounded up In' a frying pan which they had with them and the gold picked out Should- the ledge prove as rich as tbe samples, or even a quarter as rich, a man could pan- out In a week's tlmo enough of tbe gold to make him wealthy. As an evidence of tbelr find they have the bottle .of gold dust, which has already been viewed by doxens of peo- FOILS THE LAND THIEVES. SECRETARY 1 HITCHCOCK’S RE LENTLESS PURSUIT OF LAND GRABBING THIEVES. -Was Earliest and Strongest Advocate of Government Irrigation-Irriga tion Work of Hie Department Highly Successful. By-Richard H. Byrd, It Is rumored that among probalile Cabinet changes Secretary Hitchcock Is to shortly retire from tbe Interior Department of which he has been tbe bend since tbe second McKinley ad ministration. It will be recalled tbat more or less definite statements as to Mr. Hitchcock’s retirement and his probable successors have been of very frequent and regular occurrence, but tbe reason therefore Is probably not hard to find. Mr. Hitchcock has made a very great Secretary of the Iaterior. He has tom to pieces a vast fabric constructed to steal, not acres, but square miles of the public lands, to grab from the government great tracts worth millions of dollars. The land grabbers have been men In high po sitions; they have employed perjury, bribery and forgery, to say nothing of more-forceful crimes to defraud tbelr country. Tbelr ring was backed by wealthy and Influential men and In cluded members of the legislatures, United States Commissioners, special land agents, notaries, etc. Tbe troll even led to tbe bead of the General Land Office, Into tbe national House of Representatives and Into the United States Senate. Tbe loose land laws of tbe country made tbelr task possible It not oasv. Crime In High Places. Secretary Hitchcock, shortly after he became u member of the Cabinet, bad his attention called to evident frauds In tho acquirement of government land. He set to work a quiet Investi gation. It finally culminated In the Indictment of great numbers of people and In tho recent conviction of a United States Senator and a Member of .Congress. Perhaps, though th# cul mination is not yet. No man knows where tbe trail may lend next or how much evidence Mr. Hitchcock has and Is working up. It is stated to bare been a good deal of a surprise to tbe wiseacres at Washington, and in fact throughout the country, to see the way In which tbe Secretary of tbe Interior bas “made good” in bis land frond prosecutions. It was never supposed last winter that the government could ever secure a convldon of any Congressman or Senator In Oregon. It was announced tbat tbe Secretary bad been Illy ad vised and 'bad gotten himself Into a deep hole, the outcome of which would be disastrous to himself. Tried to Have Him Removed, Tbe Secretary remarked on several occasions that tho land frauds were astounding In their magnitude' but that be proposed to stop them. He was laughed at but just the same some of tbe land grabbers began to get a little nervous and-tbe newspaper rumors began, to tbe effect that Sec retary Hitchcock would probably re sign—In tbe course of two or three months, after he had f airbed with cer tain Investigations being made at that time. But tbe Investigations bave never been finished. Before one batch of frauds has been disposed another sensation has been sprang In some other state so that there has never been a time when a change in tbe Interior Department would not bake been hailed as a victory for tbe land grabbers. dent McKinley's administration, were as strong recommendations of this pol icy as have ever been written. He - called attention to the fact that a vast fortuno was allowed annually to waste Itself througboutrihe West; that a wa ter supply was uselessly running to tbe sea which would Irrigate 70 million , acres of the most fertile desert land In tbe world, and be called attention to the fact that an Irrigated west was capable of supporting the entire pres ent population of the United States. It was not In keeping with the spirit of the times that this great oppor tunity for home building should be ne glected by the nation. Then wbeqi Colonel Roosevelt be came President, tbe Irrigation bill was passed and the administration of the law was entrusted to the Interior De partment Mr. Hitchcock was ready. Tbe Geological Surrey, a bureau of his departementf bad been making ex tensive surveys ready for such was Immediately ptead of eight or ti prepara- HON. ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK, Secretary of the Interior, tlon and reconnaissances and surveys, such as bas been the history »in the great Irrigation works off every other country, there are to-day in course of construction, a doxen huge projects, and last June, Just three years.after the law was passed, the first project was completed- Of Vast Import to Nation. Secretary Hitchcock's vigorous work In saving tbe public domain for home- seekers, and In bringing loth prececal operation a policy for the absolute creation out of a desert nothing, of thousands and eventually millions of prosperous American homes Is, la reality the greatest work of tbe gener ation. The actual benefit of this great internal development andimprovement of the nation's property far surpasses tbe work of any other department of the government (- ofthtrtfrrt A GROUP OFIFRAUDULENT LAND ENTRIES. pie, and assays have been made which irove that the mineral Is the real thing. Hops were Introducod into England In 1824 by a native of Artorie-tbe home of the Artesian welL Physicians denounced tbelr use as dangerous and Henry Till forbade brewers In kingdom to use hopes in making For nearly half a century the sew ing machine has been In.use, and yet for the shirt we wear the poor work woman receives but sixty to eighty cents adosen. The Secretary's rugged honesty and unswervable determination to weed out tbe despoilers and The grafters who are looting the agricultural and timber landk of the west bave called Xorth many high enoonlums from thoughtful people who have followed his course. No public official ' taken more literally to heart the strong expressions against public land grabbing of tbe President in his an nual message to Congress. Believes Irrigation Croat Question. Closely connected with the land question In the west Is the Irrigation question, and since be first came Into office Secretary Hitchcock has been an ardent friend of national irrigation. His annual reports, even under Free!-