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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, 0. S. A.
———
oriffln U th» beat and mort proniiiiing littia
it, in ths Sooth. It* record lor the put
half decade, its many new enterprise* in oper¬
ation, building and contemplated, prove this
0 Ve a business statement and not a hyper-
olical description. and into
During that time it lias built put
most successful operation a |100,000 cotton
aatory and with this year started the wheels
„f« second of more than twice that capital.
It lias pnt up a large iron ond brass foundry,
»fpi-tiliier factory, an immense ice and bot-
tliug works, a sash aoi blind factory,
broom factory, opened up the finest granite
quarry iu the United States, and now has
our large oil mills in more or lees advanced
stages of construction, with an aggregate au¬
thorised capital of over half a million dollars.
It is putting up the finest system of electric
i eh ting that can be procured, and has ap¬
plied forftwo charters for street railways. It
has secured another railroad ninety mfleelong.
and while located on the greateet system in
the South, the Centred, has secured connec¬
tion with its important rival, the EastTen-
ueesee, Virginia and Georgia. It has obtain-
rd direct independent connection with Chat-
tanooga and the Wert, and wiU break ground
B a few days fora fourth road, connecting
with a fonrth independent system.
With it* five white and fourertored ehurch-
it bop recently completed a $10,060 new
Presbyterian ehureh. It has increased itspop-
slntios by nearly one filth. It has attracted
around its borders fruit growers from nearly
every State in the Union, until it in now sur¬
rounded on nearly every side by orchards
and vineyard*. It has put up the largest
fruit evaporators in ths State. It is.the home
ol thegrape and its winemakingcapacity has
doubled every year. It has successfully in¬
augurated a system of public schools, with a
seven years curricnlum, second to none.
This is part of the record of a half decade
and simply shows the progress of an already
admirable city, with the natural advantages
ol having the finest elimate, summer and
»inter, in the world.
griffin is the county seat oi Spalding coun¬
ty, situated in west Middle Georgia, with a
healthy,fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet
above eea level. By the census of 1890, it
will katyat alow estimate between 0 000 and
7,000 people, and they are all of the right
aort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de¬
sirable settlers, who will not be any less wel¬
come ii they bring money to help build hp the
own. There is about ouly one thing we
need badly just now, and that is a big hotel.
We have several small ones, but their aceom-
modations are entirely too limited for our
twine s, pleasure and health seeking guests.
If you see anybody that wants a good loca-
tiou for a hotel in the South, just mention
Griffin.
Griffin is the place where the Griffin News
e published—daily and weekly-the best news¬
paper in the Empire State ol Georgia. Please
enclose stamps iu sending for sample copies,
sad descriptive pamphlet of Griffln.|
This brief okrtchis written April 13th, 1889,
and will hare to be changed in a few months
o embrace new enterprises commenced and
ompleted.
professional directory.
HE.NKY C. PEEPLES,
attorney at law
nxMFTON, tmteU.
Practices in Oil the State and Federal
ousts. oct9d4wly
10HN J. HU- f,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
URiFFIN, OBOUliU.
Office, 81 Hill Street,, Up Stairs, over J. H.
White’s Ulothim- Store. mar22dJtwly
THOS. R. MILLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Wilt practice sties in In the the State and Federal
Courts. mrts. Of fflee over George A Hartnett’s
eorner. !•nov2tf
JOHN B STBWARV. BOUT. T. DANIEL.
STEWART & DANIEL
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over George ft Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice in "T"* the State and Federal
curts. taiyWdtf
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Cleveland & garland,
D6NTJ8TS,
GRIFFON, • : GEORGIA.
D. L PARMER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
, wooDnrnr, Georgia.
Will Pprompt practice attention in all given Courts, to all business where,
the and ’
ver business calls.
*®~ Collections a specialty. *
$75 to $250 '!££!,*
preferred who can furnish a horse and giv
thrir whole time to the business. Spare mo
mente may be profitably employed also,
lew vacancies in towns and Cities. B. F
JOHNSON A CO., 1009 Main St., Richmond
N B.—Please state age and business experi
nee. Never mind about sending stamp foe
HEV CROP TOMP SEED !
direct from
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in 'TiSSuJ&Sf.
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THE OLD JINSANG MAN.
A QUEER CHARACTER WHO ROAMS
ABOUT LAKE CHAMPLAIN.
He Gatltors limits and Herbs for the BCedl-
clno Makci-M »utl Hub Great Faith In Hie
Own Simple Itamodtas—A Curious Home
In u UttMt.
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»<iv*cUU C«rptts«ondauce. 1
WHITKHAI.L, N. Y., August, 16 .-Those
who liuye Iwcn fortunate enough to
travel through Lake Champlain may
have noticed a cross between a flatboat
and a yawl hug-png the shore and
never venturing out far. It might risk
It without danger, though, because it
has beam and stability enough to fight
a severe storm. On the top is a wooden
cabin, not flimsily built of hoops and
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TUB JINSANG MAN.
cloth, but a solid structure, as firm as
the hull itself. A small mast at the
bow and a bit of -rusty stovepipe stick¬
ing from the end of the cabin—those are
all that show to any one that passes by.
But if you will take your time—it may
be like the time of the flatboat, very
slow—you wijl rpn across the “jinsang”
man and be will talk to you of his house
on the water and of the strange kind of
life ho leads.
He Uvea at Whitehall, on the southern
end of the lake. As soon as the roots
are In good condition, by the middle of
every summer, he starts on a tour, skirt¬
ing all the shores of the lake. He gath¬
ers and dries the roots of the ginseng,
the mandrake and whatever else he can
sell: loads up his boat and starts for
Whitehall, where he ships his load to
wholesale druggists in Boston or New
York. Then he takes another turn
about the lake and returns to Whitehall
loaded again. Thik ho repeats through
the summer and in the fall he gathers
the bark of the birch afrd the wild cherry
until winter comes.
“How long’have you kept at this*
work?” I asked.
‘‘Ever since I returned from California.
I was one of the old forty-niners. You
will find my name cut in a tree at the
entrance of the Sonora dulch. It is
nearly 40 years now since I took up thin
work.”
“And have you always been alone on
the lake?”
“Nearly always. I have taught two or
three boys the work, but they get tired
of it and run away. There are mighty
few boys nowadays that are worth hav¬
ing. I have a family of girls at home
that I have educated and brought up
well from the profits of my work.”
“I see a stove there. Do you board
yourself?"
'“I should say I did. See here! Walk
inside.” And he led the way into the
interior of the cabin, which must have
measured about 15 feet by 7 or 8. It
was high enough for a man to stand up
in, and the sides were lined with shelves
on which the roots were drying. In one
corner was a bunk and in another cor¬
ner was a small stove fitted out with
two griddles. Under the deck in the
bow was a pork barrel and several bas¬
kets and boxes filled with potatoes, on¬
ions and other vegetables. I saw at
once that I had disturbed the old man in
the midst of his preparations for supper.
Apologizing to him for coming so unex¬
pectedly, I was met with this reply:
“Don’t you mind that a bit. Just sit
down here and talk with me, and when
the supper is ready we will have it to¬
gether.” So I let him go on making his
biscuit and slicing his onions into the
stowed potatoes, with every little while
a comment like this: “A little onion in
everything: that is my motto. I tell
you what, I could teach some of those
housekeepers how to make warm biscuit
tor tea if I had a mind to do it,” etc.
I touched the bid man in a tender something spot
when I asked him to tell me
•bout the roots that he gathered and the
Hfe he was leading. He went on in
something like this style: “Professor
Huxley mid he believed that a plant
existed to meet the exigency of any dis-
to which man was subject, or, ia
Huxley’s own words, ‘a plant to yield a
cure for every disease that flesh k heir
to.’ I believe so, too. When I was in
California and on the borders of Mexico 1
found out that, from Chiapas and Tabas¬
co up to Sonora and Chihuahua, the In¬
dians make good use of the herbs of the
field and forest The Indians who live
around the little hill called the Penol,
near Mexico City, can cure intermittent
fevers much more easily than our physi¬
cians, and in the state of Queretaro
the inriions have a remedy known
only to themselves, and the secret of
which they mort jealously Wood guard. diseases, This
cures the worst forms of
as many foreigners there can testify.
So canning are these Indians that they
employ a medicine which has the ’prop¬
erty erf paralysing temporarily the sense
of taste, and thus their patients pan get
• rude practittonew will
of typfctkfever. In the
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treatment of the small pox tbelxrtflms
u£ttt8 20 oars TOOJDBf tJuw penmiviug
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. SUN DAI AUGUST 18.1HHR
illy passing
over the body of the patient, while some
herbal remedy is continually administer¬
ed. That the Indians of the country
towns and of the little hamlets up in the
Sierras are healthy is plainly to be seen.
They live often to an incredible age, and
say themselves that the white man is a
sickly fellow who has gray hair while
their own is still coal black.”
“Then I suppose that you sell to the
Indian herb doctors and the patent med¬
icine men?”
•‘Oh, not at all. 1 was only telling you
what the Indians could do with herbs
and roots. As to the patent medicines,
there have been no such things since
1888. From 1851 up to that time the
manufacturers of specifics had to get out
patents and pay Into the United States
treasury 4 per cent, of their receipts. Aji
there were 5,000 articles on the list, the
government derived a large revenue
from this source. The amount for the
twenty-two years reached 136,000,000.
In 1888 the tax was abolished. Since
that time there have, been no patent
medicines. Now, do you see this root?"
lie held up a small, cream colored toot
somewhat the shape of the human
figure. It was so clear that one could
almost see through it.
“This," he said, “is what is known as
ginseng—a root that has been celebrated
for hundreds of yearfi. Formerly it was
grown in the Chinese empire, but now
the great supply comes from the United
States, where the product is half a mil¬
lion pounds every year. Some of it is
found in the mountains of West Vir¬
ginia, Pennsylvania and the Carolines.
Ohio, Indiana and Minnesota furnish
some, and a little of it we find around
this lake. A great deal used to be found
in New England, just across the lake.
More than 100 years ago the Rev. Dr.
Jonathan Edwards wrote a letter to the
effect that the root had been found in
the woods near Stockbridge and in other
places in New England, as well as in the
country of the Six Nations. The traders
in Albany have been eager to purchase
all they could get of the root to send to
England, where they make great profit
of by it. all Thi* lias occasioned our Indians
sorts, young and old, to
spend abundance of time In the
wobda, and sometimes to a great
distance, in the neglect of public
worship and their husbandry, and
also in going much to Albany to sell
their roots, which proves worse to
them than going into the woods, where
they are always much in the way of
temptation and drunkenness. The
plant has a smooth round stem about a
foot high, which divides at the top into
three stalks for leaves. The flowers are
small and greenish and the fruit is a scar¬
let berry. You will see hy this root,
which is a fair specimen, that it is spin¬
dle shaped, from one to three inches
long, about as thick as the little finger,
and terminated by several slender fibers.
When dried the root is yellowish white
and wrinkled externally, and within Con¬
sists of a hard central portion surrounded
by a soft whitish bark. It has a feeble
odor, and a sweet taste somewhat like
that of licorice root. You will never
find it on cleared land unless it is shaded;
and you will never find it except in rich
soil. The root gathered in the spring is
worth very little because it is full of
water.
“Iu preparing crude ginseng it is Only
necessary to wash the root thoroughly
and so dry it, either in the shade or sun.
It is never dried by a fire because of the
danger of burning. Once scorched it
has no value whatever. The clarified
ginseng is generally prepared in a build¬
ing erected for the purpose. The ‘green’
roots are shipped to the city works,
where they are washed by machinery.
This is followed by a process of steam¬
ing, and then the roots are placed in
driers. These driers are wooden frames,
covered with canvas or wire netting, all
of one size, so that they can be packed
closely together. The ginseng is spread
on these driers, and they are placed in
the dry room, which is heated to a tem¬
perature of 170 degrees. The crude gin¬
seng is white, the clarified straw color.
But I do not take all of this trouble. 1
only dig the roots and dry them. Do
you see this little grub hoe?”
I looked at the man more closely than
I had before and saw that the crown of
his black felt hat was a piece of cloth
sewed on with rude stitches, and wbea
he handed me his little hoe I said,‘“It
strikes me that you have been in some
pretty rough places with this hoe and
that hat."
“I should think I had. It’s all a man
can do to get into some of the places
where I have to get. I wear out three
or four of these patent tops to my hats
every week. No one is round to sew
them on and so I have to sew them on
myself.”
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HOME or THS JINSANG KAN.
“Do you get any herbs beside your
roots?*'
“Not many. 1 get bugle weed, red
clover and a few oth<j_- things. The bugle
weed, a low growing plant, the whole of
which is made Use of. Is highly esteemed
among herbists ah as a consumptive remedy.
Taken in infusion it is excellent to
prevent bleeding at the longs. Red
clover is mort effectual for relieving the
pain of cancer. Wormwood is the arnica)
of the lerbalirt. Moistened with hot
water, mixed with salt, and laid 1 on flan-
poultice, say it
will tabs down swelling quicker than
any arnica can. Did you ever stop into
the slum of a herbiat? There arc only
four of them even In the city of New
York. They keep something tike 800
different kinds a of__ of herbsjbarksand root*,
which are called for by people who still
make their own medicines. The ones that
are called for toe most are these: Hoar-
hound, sarsaparilla, catnip, camomile
flowers, yellow dock; burdock, stillings sassafras,
mandrake, cherry bark, and win¬
tergreen. Nearly all Who but patronise the
herbists are Americans; there is a
little sprinkling of foreigners. There Business
is hot what it used to be. are to¬
day very few believers in the old coun¬
try women’s remedies of bottling and
brewing. The city man or woman of to¬
day ache rushes off to a doctor' at the first
or pain. His prescription, it is
quite likely, is some herbal extract, for
doctors do not always give mineral rem¬
edies. But he uses toops herbal ex-
tenets prepared and by the them ’large drag
firms, prescribes namei—so Under
their long Lathi people
won’t know. If queffiRoned very
closely he ia likely to %cknowledge
this, but he will add: ‘Not in the raw
state. Hiey are first chemically pre¬
pared, refined and purified.’ But the old
fashioned woman wifi shake her head,
declare that nature is It good enough foi
her, she’d rather trust anyway Hum
the principles of commercial herb prepara¬
tion, and that ‘there’s an for every
pain.’ Bat the doctor sugar coats his pilb
nicely» &nd tho herb remedies &ro often
of very nasty taste. And then a few
drops of an extract will suffice, while oi
decoctions and infusions of the herb*
themselves quantities and cupfuls must
be taken. The knowledge and experi¬
ence required to brew and boil, while the
woman erf the old school ii in her glory
in deter the the midst of it, girl are quite the enough wrestle to
young from
over tho fire."
“But your ginseng is almost all of ii
sent to China?”
“Yes, that is so. There is little use
for it in this country. I wish times were
what they used to be when I could sell
it for more a pound than I can now.
Even when it Is at its best I only gef
something like twenty-five cents a pound
for this root; and it is very light, as you
will see."
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PEEPAKING A MEAL
By tills time the skillet had sizzled foi
some time with a mixture of salt pork
potatoes and onions; and the tea biscuil
were ready. These were as light and
nice as any housekeeper could wish tc
see; and I sat down to a friendly meal
with the old “jinsang” man, as the na
fives call him around the lake. He went
over again all of his mining life in Cali¬
fornia, not forgetting to impress me
every little while with the faot that he
was one of the best amateur doctors in
all that part of the country. Unfortu¬
nately I was not sick in any way so that
I could try him on the spot. Perhaps
some one else will be going that way
pretty soon. If so, he will be sure tc
meet with a hearty welcome from the
old man, especially if-he will go througl:
the motions of trying some of his reme¬
dies—the one for curing the bite oi
rattlesnakes, for instance. But itisnol
necessary to have interviewed a rattle¬
snake first F. G. Mathek.
Great Yarmouth.
New Yobk, tSoeclal OorreWxHidepceJ
August. 16 .—While I was in
Home England of I poked ujp’to Great Yarmouth.
Yarmouth bloater, herring,
Robinson Crusoe and Peggoty. Engaged
lodgings. Hall’s court. Fisherman’*
wife. Young. Stout. Cheeks, brick-
dust color.
First morning at Great Yarmouth.
Entire stranger. Went out to buy pro¬
visions. Tea first Eater store. Platt,
grocer. Platt obliging, willing, sub¬
servient, semi-servile, sociable. Remarks
while weighing tea, “Stylish wedding
that this morning.” Entirely ignorant
of wedding. Conclude, however, I’ll
not be entire stranger in Yarmouth.
At least in theory. Remark, “Yes, it
was." Implication of general know¬
ledge of subject To save useless ex¬
planation. One stylish wedding very
like another. On any side of Atlantic,
any way.
Further remark by sociable British
grocer: “There were seven carriages at
church.” Replied, “Indeed!” Didn’t quite
see Platt’s drift Ominous inflection
in P.’S voice. Felt it meant something.
Waited to see meaning. Platt's next re¬
mark: “They’ll do well to keep it up in
that style all their lives.”
Begun to see daylight Had got Platt’s
bearings. Latitude and Platt longitude. Frit
Platt’s inwardness. jealous of
townsman. Townsman’s son or daugh¬
ter had been doing matrimony. Put on
too much style. Had hit Platt And
probably Mrs. Platt joined On jealous chord.
Feeling sociable, in. Stranger.
Strange land. Strang* town. Hungry
to talk with some one. Anyone. Didn’t
care about what Had been bottled up
talkie* for days. Starved colloquially.
Joined in with Platt Merged into Platt's
jealousy. Pifltt Became for minute part of
fii wmtimrni aronv .
agant couple. Prophesied they'd come to
Saw ’em with " Liv-
money i spent
rood means Saw' iaw ’em poor. Put
ret Lowered ’em
Paupers. Buried ’em
All inside of ten min-
did Platt good. Me
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MRS. KATHERINE CHASE.
A TALK WITH A WOMAN WHO HAS
HELPED MAKE HISTORY.
She Boa a Caras Near Washington Row
Whleli She Manages Herself—Tho Daugh¬
ter of One of the “War Secretaries,"
Whose Life She Is Writing.
IKtxwtol Corrrsnoo ]
Washington, August lft—Ou a Rill ov* i-
looklfig the capital city, in a house so old
that nobody knows when it was built,
fives Mrs. Katherine Chaso. The former
social queen and national belle is still a
beautiful woman. “There is only one
accomplishment of which I am proud,”
rite says, “and that is the art of taking
care of one’s self. I do claim to be a mu¬
ter of that art, not only for myself, but
for my children. I am always well, and
for a woman to be always well is in
these times to be quite abnormal, extra*
ordinary. I have had my share of trou¬
bles In this world, but even my greatest
troubles I have endeavored to bear in a
philosophic farmer manner. Since becoming a
I have learned that it is very bad
policy to borrow money, but even bor¬
rowing trouble. money is preferable to borrowing
I never borrow either.” >,
“Then you are a farmer now?”
“Oh, yes. My place here I manage all
alone. I have a farmer, bat he works
rather than manages. If I had to pay
tor superintendence I am afraid I
shouldn’t make farming pay. What I
don’t know about farming I try to make
up in caution. All my plans are very
carefully laid. Here, see, I have sketches
of all my fields. These I mark just how
I want them plowed and planted, and
then take good care that my plans are
followed. Often I go out into the fields
and literally follow the plow, walking
along behind the fanner as he turnstile
first furrows, watching to see that he
lays out the the ground nicely. Then I come
into house, go up stairs and look out
the windows to see how the work ap¬
pears from a bird’s eye view.”
Mrs. Chase’s house stands on a hill
almost in tho center of the farm, and a
view xnmxr from frnm tha the windows wWIrvitra brings Hnlwrra all oil flam the
fields Within easy range of the eye. One of
lbs. Chase’s theories is that with small
additional trouble and no extra expense
a little landscape art can be applied to
practical agriculture. Though she has
not as yet worked out all her ideas in
this direction, one would have to travel
a long ways to find a prettier farm than
the one which lies along'the slopes of
Edgewood. Mrs. Chase not only man¬
ages the farm, but goes almost every day
to town to buy supplies. Everything
that oomes to the place is purchased by
her, from reaper to wrench, from draught
horse to pullet. She is a good financier,
and actually manages to make her farm
of some fifty acres pay a handsome profit.
It is an exceedingly exceedingly valuable valuable farm, farm.
Bpt a mile from the c’.ty limits, and only
two miles from tho Capitol, it is already
surrounded by suburban villas. An elec¬
tric railway runs through the property,
making it exceedingly desirable as a site
for dwellings, and every day of her fife
the handsome and amiable mistress of
Edgewood ia called upon by real estate
operators who want to purchase the farm
and subdivide it into lots. Mrs. Chase
is not ready to sell. Her Idea is that the
farm, for which she could now get prob¬
ably 82,000 an acre, will ultimately bring
twice or thrice as much, and that her
children will, some years hence, have
greater need at the proceeds than they
have now. Besides, Mrs. Chase loves
the old place, and hopes to be able to
keep it as long as she lives. It has hal¬
lowed memories of her father clinging
about it, and Mrs. Chase’s love for her
father is deep and tender.
Mrs. Chase is now engaged upon a task
that could he fairly called & labor of this
love. She ia writing the life of her
father, Salmon Portland Chase. She has
been engaged at this for three or four
years, and cannot yet say when the first
volume will appear. “I work .very
hard,” she said the other day while sit¬
ting on the veranda of Edgewood house
looking down upon the Capitol that was
the scene of so many of her father’s tri-
umps, “but find that I am making slow
progress. I rarely retire before 3 or 8
o’clock in the morning, because I like to
work after everybody else is asleep and I
know I shall not be disturbed. In this
work I am harassed by a wealth of ma¬
terial Ydu have no idea Of the enor¬
mous quantity of stuff that has poured
in upon mo. Letters, newspaper articles
and documents are stacked up two or
three feet thick all around the shelves
of my work room. The most precious
material I have is my father’s diary.
Throughout his public career bed it was his
daily habit before going to to take
a few minutes or somethnes half an
hour to jot down memoranda concern¬
ing the occurrences of the day. In this
way he has left behind him a record of
every cabinet meeting that was held
while he was secretary of the treasury.
It is a reoord which cannot be disputed,
and which probably nobody will try to
dispute when it is made public. This
diary I prize so highly, not only be¬
cause it was kept by my father, but for
its intrinsic worth as a contribution to
history, that I keep it in a burglar
proof, fireproof vault While the actors
hi those scenes still lived the state se¬
crets recorded in my father’s diary
could not have been made public with¬
out a violation of the proprieties. But
now that the men are dead, the diary
does not belong to me, but to the coun¬
try, and the country shall have it A
great deal of my manuscript is finished,
and I hope soon to be able to get out the
flirt volume, though of the many offers
made to me by publishers I have not yet
accepted one
“I am working carefully and slowly,
because I do not want a single statement
in my book that cannot be supported by
the proofs. I do not want to be com¬
pelled after publication to wish a single
fine <rf it had been omitted. I am un¬
willing to write history as Mr. Hay and
Mr. Niooiayhave been doing doing it-diyUie it—i
distortion of facts, the quoting of
of sentences, the omission on of of vital
and other garbfings. I
do my work in that imniwr. It i* m..
present intention t<» issue the Imok i:i
two volumes, the first t.» deal with the
period in which mr father was n mem
bt-r of tho Uncoin cabinet. My father’s
career was really divided lute four
epochs: First was his natural career as a
private citizen and lawyer; then came
his career os governor of Ohio and sens’
tor of the United States, involving all
tho great questions of those times—state
rights. Missouri compromise and the
Kansas-Nebraska bill: third, and to my
mind most important of all. was his ser¬
vice ns a member of tha government
during the war and life creation of the
fiscal system, which historians have al¬
ready declared saved tho Union. My
father’s services to his country in this
respect have, of course, been appreciated
in a general way by his countrymen,
but the keenest insight into the value of
those services, the best comprehension
of what they signified, I have found,
oddlj enough, among distinguished for¬
eigners, notably Mr. Morgan, foundet
and London partner of the great firm of
Drcxel, Morgan & Co."
In the forthcoming volume Mrs. Chase
wfll not endeavor to give many of bei
personal recollections of the great men
and women whom she has met ah both
sides of the Atlantic. She says rite is
not fond of gossip, and that the writing
of her recollections would be to her a
difficult and ungrateful task. Such a
book she may bring out later on, but foi
the present her hopes and her energies
are fastened upon tho life of her father.
No one is so competent as she to describe
the career, the daily life and work of the
great much statesman. By circumstances as
as by disposition forced into the
self reliance of womanhood while yets
mere girl, her father early learned to
trust her with his confidence and to seek
her advice. When no more than 14
years old she was at the head of
her father’s house, the governor’s
mansion, at Columbus, O. Even at that
tender age she had influence in the af¬
fairs of state. Politicians sought her
friendship, and mothers and fathers,
eager for pardons for their if erring sons,
counted the battle half won they could
enlist the governor’s daughter on their
side. .u. tr Yet A she r* _ v knew t her •*. father n______ well _
enough to have a very firm conviction
that it would never do to ask him for
clemency on any but the best of grounds,
and so she formed the habit of carefully
investigating every case that wa* pre¬
sented to her. When she mode her re¬
port, either for or against a pardon, the
governor usually ratified with his signs-
tore and the seal of tho state the conclu¬
sions of his girl minister. Governor
Chase found the girl so apt at this work
that he naturally fell into tire habit of
turning many of his pardon eases over
to her.
“It often wrung nay heart to
point the petitioners by handing in
adverse report.” saysMrs. Chase. “There
was was one ono case case I I will wifi remember remember to to mv my dv- dy¬
ing .day. The mother of a convict came
to my house to see me. I was busy al
the moment with another caller, and tie
woman cat down on the doorstep. Pres¬
ently our big cat walked up to her purr-
ingly, and the poor woman seized the
cat, held it in her arms and said: ‘Kitty,
you know the trouble I ana in, don’t you!
You would help me out of it if you
could, wouldn’t you, Kitty? - And then
she told the cat the whole Btory of how
her boy had been led into evil ways by
bad companions and finally seat to the
ponitontLary. heart It was done so naturally—,
her was so full she had to pour oui
her anguish on somebody—that I was
deeply affected. But the circumstances
were such that I could not recommend
the young man's pardon."
Miss Chase took warm interest in the
public institutions of her state. She
was known to the inmates of the homes
and asylums, and it is said that at one
titno she knew every prisoner at tho pen¬
itentiary by name. Largely before through
her efforts, put forth she was a
woman, the Ohio idiot asylum, still a
useful institution, was founded.
“I can hardly remember when my
father did not place confidence In me far
beyond my years,” says Mm. Chase.
“When I was a mere chick of u girl,
not more than 7 or 8, we lived in the
outskirts of Cincinnati, where father
practiced law. Every evening he used
to drive home along the turnpike, he and
I together. The horse was a fiery,
speedy liked animal, which very much dis¬
to have any other horse pass it on
the road. To make matters worse, this
turnpike was used by the owners of
fast horses as a speeding track, and
great numbers of sulkies were whizzing
along in both directions at the hour
when we usually drove borne. Well,
father bad a habit of sitting in the car¬
riage entirely oblivious to everything
that was going on about him. On such
occasions ho handed the lines to me, could an
parently with full confidence that I
manage the spirited animal and escape 1
ail the dangers of the road. How con¬
trived to get father and myself
alive is more than I ever understood.
Probably it was the capacity of toe
horse.”
In speaking generally of the national
sin of decrying people when their backs
are turned, Mrs. Chase said: “My
was a model man in this respect, if in no
other. In all the years of my confiden¬
tial relationship disparaging with him 1 never heard
him utter a word of any one. ”
Mrs. Chase has with her at Edgew-ood
her three daughters and a son, the last
named, and eldest of the children, being
now nearly 25. Ho is employed in a
printing office, but wishes to become a
civil engineer. The eldest daughter,
Ethel, now 18, and a bright and pretty
girl, has been in New York studying for
the stage. She worked so hard that her
health was threatened, and Mrs. Chase
brought her home for • long rest. The
Misses Sprague are all accomplished and
daring horsewomen, and are often seen
galloping along the country roads. Ik
would not be easy to And a more inter¬
esting faintly. The remarkable woman
who engaged the confidence of many
great statesmen, and from whom even
Abraham Lincoln has said he was often
glad to take advice, is as vivacious t
fc s'’instin^ ns when “* ‘ yg i|p| \forki y
at her feet.
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that interests rite
than what is to be
and where woman's 1
will go my pen, yea,
to wade through
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the modest nnd f|
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mohair braid
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the trousers three or
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dren and to a certain e
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seaside place*, the
are anything but m
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long cloak over the
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children going hand 1
bath houses, and from
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or father his daughter.
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belles who can carry their t
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toe keeps hers at t
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(dons should be of such .
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and, therefore, for or'
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than anything else.
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meres are apt to
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its principal claim is
flexibility. AR who g
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should without **
go
as there is always a
phere. Feathers, dmiupniwi except t™
ruined by the 1
ora ftaffrr than thin oit£&
ai 16 costiirul'd
of dark blue serge, withal
of cream surah, with a b
embroidery up the cent*
hat with, cream leo* <
child’s dress is of tw<
serge, ^trimmed with white |
• The other day I
tag jewelry house to 1
and among the macu. .. ,
, leather bands and (hated a
neckwear for rich folks’ fa
found several stiver chains i
three yards long, and I t
it those were to lead the d
clerk said no, that they i
ladies to wear in their hair, i
showed several different 1
gold, some copper and fc
sides these were several —
gold and silver. These I fa
sold to young ladies who baYi
that this style of dressing the I
coming to them. The fillets i
baser metals ora tor day u
more precious ones for evening.
I am glad that women have c
realizing i |BMO that each i
style of hairdressing for I
actly becomes 'allowed, her style. «
latitude la httt t
or curls of hair lying over
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the front h»ir th
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as far arou
women wear a o