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I GREAT NAVY
i BUILDERwv
The retirement from active service
©f Ctiief Constructor Philip Hichborn,
. 'he United States navy, on account
t>r riie ige limit. Is a severe loss to thit
Inuiorfant branch of the serv.ee of
tinele Satn. Although dib name is not
©a familiar to the general public as
lit >*e ( f Dewey. Sampson and Schley,
t>ov Tthalese he was one <>f the men
Vii esc genius made possible the gior
l**l s work of our navy during the war
*llh Spain. Wheu the country was
Ifliiglng with the praises of the officers
fcud men who carried our victorious
©mbiom Into Manila bay and who
arrowed the coast, of southern Cuba
With ,ie battered wrecks of Spain’s
Irost tlghtiVig vessels, and honors and
prnmnMnns came thick and fast to j
tuosH wiio participated in tile engag<‘-
©iein.s, there were three men at the
linnets of three naval bureaus in Wash
ington whose work did not receive the
recognition t’hat was due them, at |
least by ihe public at large. These men
Were Chief Constructor Hiohborn,
Cleorge W. Wallace, enginoer-in-chler
©f tbi< navy, and Charles O’Neil, head
Cf tiia rdnance bureau Theirs were
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I'li Mituter Mi ad t
CHI at planned the hulls of our modern
gr-sseis of war; that designed the
Hugnty engines which carried them
(rwife y and surely Into the enemy’s
Wafers, that were responsible for the
■owarful armament and various muui
(lonH of war which enabled our Jackies
humble the proud Castilian That
Vmso chiefs have not been accorded
4hn public lecoguitiou due them fur
the distinguished service they ren
© iiel the country in lu time of need
1h not due to lack of appreciation, but
t- general Ignorance regarding the
important part which the bureaus un
*>r ineir control play lu the construc
tion of an up-to-date navy. Their
lira Ins planned about all of the vessels
In our present navy and that they
liullded well Is recorded on history’s
pages it is no wonder, then, that the
tetirerneut from the service of one or
these men Is looked upon, by those
Vho know liis worth, as a public ca
ls inlfy.
Philip Hicliborn was bora sixty-two
> !Hrs prior lo (ho dale on which he
retired. March 4, in Charlestown.
Hass., and came of an old Colonial
family, one member or which, De
borah Hichborn, was the mother of
UMAR ADMIRAL PHILIP HICHBORN.
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The Chicago Institute, as the aca
•emie and pedagogic school established
t>r Mrs. Emiuons Blaine is called, is
to become a part of the University of
Chicago, as a separate department to be
fsUla.l the Emmons Blaine Phllosoph-
MKS. EMMONS BLAINE,
leal and Pedagogic Institute. Thanks
t<> the munificence of Mrs. Emmons
X*.i tine this Institution is endowed in
the sum of of $2,000,000, which Insures
CHIEF CONSTRUC
TOR HICHBORN
TO RETIRE.
’ Paul Revere. He graduated f'Jm ths
j Huston High School and when HI. at
! the direction of the navy department,
j he received a special course of instruc
-1 tiou in ship building, etc., in the Bcs
j (on navy yard. In 1861 he took a trip
ia- carpenter on a ship going from
' Poston to San Francisco, and entering
j the Mare Island navy yard there, rose
to Mi- position of master shipwright.
In 186!* he was appointed an assistant
naval constructor with the rank of
lieutenant. Two years later he was de
tached from duty at Mare Island and
ordered to the Portsmouth navy yard.
After passing a competitive examina
tion at the New York navy yard, in
which lit distanced all competitors, he
was in 1875 commissioned a naval con
structor He became chief constructor
of the navy in 1893 and was appointed
for a second term In 18&7.
Since he firsst entered the navy as
an assistant constructor in 1869. his
life has been one of uninterrupted ac
tivity in the Immediate concerns of our
naval vessels. Asa government ex
pert he has inspected the principal
navies of Fnrope and has made ex
haustive reportt on their condition and
efticieney. In 1899 he was promoted
to the rank of rear admiral, and in
the same year was elected an honor
ary member of the Institute of Naval
Architects, then in session in Lon
don.
A IMutlucllon Itnrely Conferred.
Among the many hulls designed by
Admiral Hichborn are those of the
battleships lowa, Kearsarge, Alabama,
Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois. Wiscon
sin and Maine, besides several cruis
ers and many gunboats and torpedo
boats. So successful has been his work
that the various types of his creation
are being literally copied by the prin
cipal foreign governments. In 1880 ho
superintended the construction and
completion of the monitors Terror,
Amphitrite and Puritan, and it is due
to him that two of these vessels were
converted from double-turreted moni
tors of doubtful utility into double
barbette-turreted coast defense vessels
of a very formidable type. These
highly efficient barbet'e-turrets, famil
iarly styled ‘‘Hichborn turrets," were
unanimously approved by the board oi
bureau chiefs, and have since been im
proved and perfected and become pari
of the construction of every turreted
vessel of the navy.
I its perpetuity. The purpose of the
school is to promote psychological and
philosophical investigation by teachers
and to furnish opportunity for mental
culture. Beside the advantages it ofTers
teachers, the school has kindergarten
and academic branches, and nature
study, domestic economies and man
ual training are also taught.
The founder of this school. Mrs. Em
mons Blaine, is a daughter-in-law of
the distinguished Maine statesman,
James G. Blaine, and a daughter of
the late Cyrus McCormick, of reaper
fame. She is a business woman, and
has an office in the general offices of
her brothers, who are among the fore
most business men of Chicago. Her
estate amounts to several millions,
and she looks after it herself. She
has ideas of her own regarding eduea
, tion and the social problems that per
| plex great thinkers. She believes that
I text books are a sin and a shame and
| that examination papers are the device
of the evil one. She believes that her
servants should be obliged to work
j only eight hours in a day, and she
i believes that a rich woman should
have brains enough to look after her
owu property. Mrs. Blaiue is 35 years
I old.
Confusion is the enemy of all com
; fort, and confusion is born of pro
crastination. —Amici.
THE WEEKLY NEW'S, CARTERSVILLE, GA.
BREED BETTER MEN.
A Chicago Prenchor Suggest* is Car#
for Social ErUs.
"When society is wise enough to
| take as much care in the breeding of
| human beings as it does in breeding
; cattle, race horses, cats and dogs, muen
of the evil of life will disappear,” said
Rev. R. A. White of Chicago Sunday.
"Heredity conserves the moral and in
tellectual capital of the race. It must
also conserve the evil tendencies. God
could not make a river which would
iioat only ships bound on errands of
righteousness. That so many are born
with evil tendencies is due to the fact
that parents somewhere along the lino
have broken laws of health or morals.
A case Is on record that out of 709
descendants of criminally inclined an
cestors 106 were illegitimate. 162 were
beggars, 181 of the women were dis
solute, 76 were criminals, 7 were con
demned for murder, etc. Five hundred
and ninety-six out of the 709 were
tainted with the criminality of their
ancestor. Yet society hanged some of
them, imprisoned and hunted others,
built poorhouses for others, and talked
piously about divine providence. But
it permitted these people to marry and
intermarry with their kind and con
tinue to stock the earth with beggars
and dissolute women.
“Society should see to it that crimi
nals are not permitted to intermarry
and rear broods of criminals. By law
or moral suasion marriages between
persons physically diseased should be
discouraged. No sentimentality should
interfere with reasonable measures to
prevent the perpetuation of disease and
criminality. Society has no longer the
excuse of Ignorance. Modern knowl
edge has revealed the law of trans
mitted tendencies.
“Thousands are born every day in
tenements reeking with disease-breed
ing germs; reared in sunless rooms
and alleys, never a bit of clean dirt
to dig in, never a bit of green earth
to play in. Such children, or many
•)f them, grow up sickly and criminal.
Wo build hospitals and prisons and
gallows for them and talk of provi
dence. Better talk of the criminal
carelessness and indifference of a so
doty which permits in an underpopu
lated country like ours, with our mani
fold means of production, the poorer
'lasses to so live and so rear their
children.”
COMES OF A LONG LINE.
Rev. Ernest Morehead Paddock was
installed as pastor of Emanuel church,
Allegheny, Pa., the other Sunday.
Bishop Whitehead of the diocese of
Pittsburg was in charge of the ser
vices and was assisted by many well
known Episcopal clergymen. The new
rector was formerly of St. John’s
church, Washington, D. C. This is the
most fashionable congregation in the
capital, and among its parishioners
are many families of national fame.
Rev. Mr. Paddock comes of a long
lino of Episcopal ministers. His fath
er, Rev. Wilbur Fiske Paddock, is rec
tor of St. Andrews, Philadelphia, and
two others of the family connection
have been bishops in the church. Rev.
Ernest Morehead Paddock graduated
from the Episcopal Theological School
nt Cambridge and from Harvard. He
went first to Boston where he did a
great deal of slum work. He was then
called to Washington. He is a cousin
of Rev. R. L. Paddock, rector of the
Stanton Street Mission. New York, a
man who has done more to purge the
criminal element from the lower end
of the metropolis than any other of
recent years. Some months ago Kev.
Mr. Paddock was insulted by a police
captain of New York and the case was
taken up by Bishop Potter. The result
was the cleaning out of the Tenderloin
REV. ERNEST M. PADDOCK,
district of New York and the passage
last week of a bill in the legislature
reorganizing the police system of New
York.
Civilization'* Kol* In Chin*.
Two Chinese heads were stricken off
Tuesday in Pekin in compliance with
the demands of the powers that pun
ishment should be inflicted upon cer
tain officials who were identified with
the recent anti-foreign outbreak In
China. Others remain to be punished,
some by decapitation, and others still
by compulsory suicide. Placing a
sword In the hand of civilization which
then offers it to the Oriental with the
command. “Thou must kill thyself,”
is something new to our code of eth
; ics.
When Tree* Reach Maturity.
Authorities on forestry say that sev
enty-five years are required for the
oak to reach maturity; for the ash,
larch and elm, about the same length
of time; for the spruce and fir, about
eighty years. After this time their
growth remains stationary for some
years, and then decay begins. There
are, however, some exceptions to this,
, for oaks are still living which are
; kiowo to be 1,090 years old.
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THE NUPTIAL KNOT.
MA3SACHUSDETS WOMEN DE
TERMINED TO TIE IT.
I.<l bj Sir*. Marlb* Hoy* They Have
i’etltioned tU*> Legislature for the
Privilege of Joining Candidate* in
Wedlock.
The latest desire of the woman suf
fragists of Massachusetts is for per
mission to tie the nuptial knot. From
time immemorial the performing of
the marriage ceremony has been
man’s special privilege, but the twen
tieth century woman has resolved that
it shall be a part of her rights to say
the formal words for happy couples
in search of wedded bliss. This move
ment, which has originated in Boston,
has been formulated into a petition to
the legislature of Massachusetts that
“special commissioners” may be au
thorized by the governor, like justices
of the peace, to perform marriages.
“Special commissioners” is applied
to certain women in Massachusetts
who are qualified for a period of seven
years to take depositions, witness
deeds and perform other duties such as
are performed by any justice of the
peace. In fact, they have practically
the powers of a justice, with the pain
ful exception that they are not entitled
they reason that a fee in a woman's
pocket is as good as in a man’s.
An lal-re*tlng Woman.
It is one of these commissioners.
Mrs. Martha S. Hoyt, of Boston, who
started the petition and who intends
to see it through. When she starts
out on a thing she does it with a de
termination to succeed, so it may not
be long before bashful and shrinking
couples can be made one by a “faire
ladie” without intervention of priest
or justice.
Mrs. Hoyt Is an interesting woman
in more ways than one. For one
thing, she has the unique distinction
The Late Senator 'ZOhite
Former United States Senator Steph
en M. White, who died at his home in
Los Angeles a few days ago, was one
of the most remarkable men that Cal
ifornia has produced. Born within a
STEPHEN M. WHITE,
few years after the great rush to the
“Golden Gate,” he was essentially a
Californian, and to many of his fellow
citizens of that state he represented
the best that the term could imply.
His qualities won for him a remark
able following, and in the opinion of
GROWING FASTER THAN EVER.
The Mormon Church and Tt Shrewd
Policy of Colonization.
The Mormon church is growing fast
er to-day than ever before in its his
tory. It is building more churches,
planting more settlements, maintain
ing more missionaries all over the
earth. The general public appears to
know nothing of it except polygamy.
And polygamy Is only the ornamental
buckle on its shoe. Behind that is the
s.uruy body and enterprising brain of
a great materialism, which possesses
attractions far more potent than a
plurality of wives. Whatever myster
ies may be embalmed within the ex
clusive precincts of Mormon temples
there is nothing occult about their
method of gaining converts and mak
ing those converts prosperous and con
tented.
The Mormon policy is colonization.
The Mormon method is co-operation.
I itiy years of expanding prosperity
have shown that this i a winning com
bination. There is no reason to sup
pose that it will appeal less effectively
in the future than in the paat. On
the contrary, present economic ten
dencies more urgently favor emigra
tion and co-operative industry than
those of twenty-five or fifty years ago.
Where the missionaries of other
churches speak chiefly of security in
the life to come Mormon missionaries
add their prescription for security here
and now. The missionary who holds
out the hope of "three square meals a
day” in this world has a striking ad
vantage over his rival who deals only
in the hopes of futurity.
The great social and economic tacts
which alone give the Mormon religion
a habitation and a name and enable it
to survive the assaults of congresses,
presidents and all the churches of the
land have been overlooked. The truth
is that the Mormon church is a great
plan of co-operative settlement, to
which thousands of people have fled
as to a rock of refuge. Those who ask
this church for bread do not get a
stone. They get an Irrigated farm.
They get the shrewd but kindly as
sistance of able men in making their
way from servitude to self-employ
ment and landed proprietorship. All
the church asks in return is obedience.
of behag the only woman In Boston
who bears a United States commission
empowering her to eoliect pension
claims. For another thing, she does
an enterprising real estate business,
and for a third, she has been In politi
cal life in Kansas.
She is the widow of a clergyman.
She was born “way down east," but
after her marriage went to Kansas to
reside. Then, of course, she voted,
and in other ways she took an active
to perform the marriage service, and
part in politics. On one occasion she
closed up a saloon, though she did not
resort to the sure methods now In
use by Mrs. Nation and others, A
MRS. MARTHA S. HOYT,
man from Missouri came to the town
in which Mrs. Hoyt lived and opened
a barroom. Mrs. Hoyt and another
woman secured a formidable list of
names petitioning his removal, and
then calmly proceeded to the barroom,
walked in and read the petition to
the irate proprietor. The next day he
left town.
the people of his state nothing was too
good for “Steve” White, as he was af
lectionately called.
His father, William White, who be
longod to a well-known family of New
Yo k state, went to California in 1849.
Stephen White was born in San Fran
cisco forty-seven years ago. He at
tended the Jesuit, college of Santa
Clara and was graduated in 1871.
He began the practice of law in Los
Angeles in 1874. Entering politics, he
became in succession, district attorney
of the county, state senator and lieu
tenant governor. He was chairman of
the National Democratic convention in
1888, and again in 1896. He was elected
to the United States senate in 1893.
Former Senator White achieved a
national reputation as a lawyer, and
during the last twenty years argued
many cases before the United States
supreme court.
Tf the King VUlt* Ireland.
Should King Edward VII. visit Ire
land this year, as may happen, he will
be the first king, with his consort, who
ever visited the country since it be
come part of the British kingdom. Dur
ing that time six kings of England
have visited Ireland, but unaccompan
ied by their queens.
In South Australia there are only 85
women for every 100 men.
Succession to European Thrones.
Many people have been confused by
the various laws of succession which
prevail in Europe. There are three
different systems, the most general be
ing that known as the Salic system,
under which women are completely
excluded. This is the rule in Bel
gium, Sweden and Norway, Italy, Den
mark and Germany. Then there is the
German-Dutch system, under which
males of all degrees of relationship
take precedence of females, the throne
passing to the female line only in case
of the extinction of all the male lines,
however remote. This is the rule in
Holland—from which It takes its
name —Russia, and some of the minor
German states. The third system is
that prevailing in Great Britain, under
which females are excluded when thero
are males in the same degree of rela
tionship. but take precedence of males
whose degree of relationship is not so
close as their own. Thus an elder
daughter of the ruling sovereign of
Great Britain gives way to all her
younger brothers and their issue, but
takes precedence of a male cousin or
a nephew. This system is the rule in
Spain and Portugal as well as in Eng
land.
A Dmlils* Worth Millions.
The decision of the New York Court
of Appeals declaring unconstitutional
the prevailing rate of wage law, will
have a far-reaching effect throughout
the state. The law was passed in 1897
and provided that a contractor per
forming public work should pay hla
workmen at a rate which “shall not be
less than the prevailing rate for a
day’s work in the same trade or occu
pation in the locality.” It also pro
vided that eight hours should consti
tute a day’s work.
By the decision of the Court of Ap
peals New York city Is benefited many
millions. Within the last two years
the city has been deluged with claims
for back pay. Thousands of employes
have demanded compensation for over
time work and extra pay for services
performed for less than the rate of
compensation prevailing at the time.
These claims, in the aggregate, have
reached an enormous total, by some
computed at $10,000,000. The decision
kills the claims.
BACK TO THE SENATE.
MITCHELL OF ORECON Rp
TURNED AFTER FOUR YEARS
”** U “S • Led r In th ,
Folltlo. or hi, State LIIt
Other. Who Have Grown u p wltu
Far West He Wa* Korn Uowu E** t
Alter an absence of four years from
the senate, the tall form of John ?
Oroon - be welcomed
back to Wasnington by his colleagues
He was elected recently and has al
ready taken the seat of John W Mr
Bride.
Mitchell was first elected in W 2
serving until 1879. Previously he had
JOHN H. MITCHELL,
been an unsuccessful candidate for the
place, having been defeated by oad
vote in the party caucus of 1866. la
1882 ne again received the nomination
but was defeated in joint session. He
was successful, however, in 1886, when
be was chosen to succeed James H.
Slater, Democrat. He retained his seat
in the election of 1891 and retired from
the senate at the expiration of that
term in 1897. While he has been a
leading figure In Pacific coast politics
for many years, Mr. Mitchell is a native
of Pennsylvania, having been born in
Washington county June 22, 1836. He
was educated in the public schools and
by a private tutor, studied law and was
admitted to the bar. When he removed
to the West he settled in San Luis
Obispo, Cal., and later went to Ban
Francisco, practicing law at both
places. He removed to Portland in
1860, continuing the practice of his
profession, and at once beginning po
litical activity. His first public office
was that of corporation attorney of
Portland, which he held for one year.
He was elected to the state senate in
1862 and served four years. In 1865 he
was commissioned by the governor as
lieutenant colonel of the Oregon mil
itia. In the next year ho entered the
contest for the United States senator
ship and smee has held a prominent
place as a political leader of his state.
LADY CURZON’S PARTIES.
New Form of Entertainment Which
Amuien lullin'* 4DO.
Elephant parties are the latest form
of amusement to be invented by Lady
Curzon to entertain India’s 400. It
seems that several of the native rul
ers have taken a great fancy to her,
and the Maharajah of Durbhunga re
cently made her a unique gift by plac
ing at her disposal a magnificent herd
of elephants.
The vicereine was at a loss to know
just what to do with the gift at first.
Then the idea occurred to her of giv
ing an elephant party. She arranged
it so that each animal was to bear a
young woman and an attendant saint
to a rendezvous, where tiffin was to be
served to the assembled pairs.
Lady Curzon herself rode the largest
elephant in the group, and in her how
dah of silver was protected from the
sun by an umbrella of white silk, bor
dered with pearls. Her mahout car
ried a silver goad and fly fan. The
trappings of her mounts were em
broidered in silk and gold, while a
festoon of pearls hung around the ele
phant’s ears.
The first party was such a success
that her ladyship gave several more,
and now the fad has developed Into
almost a craze.
The humorous side of these affairs
was supplied by the elephants them
selves, who insisted on testifying to
their affection by snatching treasures
from passersby, or from the bazaars,
and bestowing them upon the rider.
This thoughtfulness on the part of the
elephants several times became em
barrassing, especially when the gift
happened to take the form of a naked
Indian child. One chubby little boy.
the aon of the elephant’s keeper, wear
ing only a string of beads, was lifted
into the vicereine’s bowdah, causing
great amusement to the party. Lady
Curzon received the gift graciously,
and gave the child a present to take
home.
Lincoln and His Law Cae*.
All clients knew that, with "Old
Abe” as their lawyer, they would
their case—if it was fair; if not, then
it was a waste of time to take it to
him. After listening some "rime one
day to a would-be cHjs n f S statement,
with his eyes on the illns. •“
suddenly round in hl&~ ch alr and
claimed: to'
“Well, you have avf L ett y good
in technical law, but iki’ b ad one
in equity and justice. |*** You’ll have
get some other fellow ;v w j n this case
for you. I couldn't dofcir the time
while standing talklnee ’ {o that J ury
I’d be thinking,i‘Ling you're 3
liar.’ and I believe I sas" forget ®>’
self and say it out lq r. 10
|lii _ -
What is play ta th* gtro ag ! s dc3t
to the weak.