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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1906)
MAGAZINE SECTION. MADAME JUSSERAND ..MERICAN GIRL WHO MARRIED A FRENCHMAN, NO A iS DIPLOMATIC SWIM. r rcnch Ambassador at Washington Given t’ositio.t Largely on account of Wife’s ha.-iv.ty—New Embassy Budding Proj-cted. llow much a wife can do to help or husband in a public career is cou incingly proven by the married life f Madame Jusserand, the American rife of the French Ambassador at .Vash in.gton. Indeed M. Jusserand cas selected by tlio Government of . ? rance to act as the accredited agent if our sister republic at Uncle Sam’s eadquarters largely because of the jet that he had an American wire T lio it was believed juld be of '•eat assistance to him in handling y negotiations which might have to carried on between the two na ,ions. -Madame Jusserand, although Am erican born, spent most of her life, up to the time of her marriage, in France. That site was thus an exile from the land of the Stars and Stripes was due to the fact that her father. Mr. Richards, was an American bank er in Paris, and thus his business In terests compelled him to reside al most continuously at the French cap ital. His daughter was educated on the banks of the Seine and speaks French quite as readily as she does English. Her husband has a great admiration for the American people—possibly be cause he is so fond of his wife. He Is an author of note and has trans lated several American i ernry works into French. Prior to coming to Washington. M. Jusserand and his wife resided in Copenhagen, Ihe capital of Denmark, where M. Jusserand acted its the envoy of his government. His promotion to Washington was a decided advance in rank and carries with it a big increase in salary. AX INSEPARABLE COUPLE. Both M. Jusserand and his Yankee helpmate are very genial and hospit able. but they are manifestly much Madame jusserand—wife of the french ambassador. wrapped up In each other. Indeed, when the French Ambassador visited the St. Louis Exposition alone by reason of the fact that Madame Jusse rand was prevented from accompany ing him because of an abscess on her forehead it was the first time in their married life that they had ever been separated, even for a few days. Madame Jusserand is rather dark complexioned and in many respects has the appearance of a typical French woman. She is a firm be liever in outdoor life as a source of health and pleasure. When in Wash ington or at their summer home on the coast of' Massachusetts she aid her husband daily indulge in long walks and spend hours playing tennis. Madame Jusserand is a most charit ably disposed woman and since her arrival in America has constantly but inconspicuously aided many causes. She has no children, but on several occasions she has given parties at her home for the French children residing at the national capital. NEW FRENCH EMBASSY. The lady !« looking forward to har ing the privilege of fitting np a new French Embassy at Washington that will be in keeping with the dignity c< our sister For years the ‘•branch office” of France in the United States was located in an old residence in Washington that was at one time the home of Admiral Porter. Tb»n a few years the F"°nch es tahlishment was mn r "l to the bouse owned hr P.ellarnr Store- —-be bouse which President Roosevelt leased tust after his election as Vlee-P-esident and before he bad anr thought that he would be called upon to go to the White House when he took up his residence In the city on the Potomac., <A4B) Mmtmmnn iftomtor. However, the government at Paris recently purchased a good-sized tract of ground iti the most desirable sec tion of Washington and will erect i thereon a splendid embassy home of its own. Madame Jusserand being an American woman and thoroughly conversant with the wauls of Atner can women aud Yankee conditions of life in general has been able to give .be French architect who journeyed from Paris many valuable pointers as to designing the new house and she will lie able to select the furnishings, etc., with far greater ease and suc cess than could a Frenchwoman not in touch with American ways. INSURANCE SIDE LIGHTS. Methods Employed for Gouging the Hard Worked Agent. During the recent scandal and the airing of insurance methods in general which followed, one of the tendered spots of that business was left un touched. It is the system known in the parlance of industrial insurance workers as “arrears and advances.” The taking of arrears and advances occurs weekly on the book of every agent, when the agent must pay for each week on ever" policy which is beyond the grace period allowed by t ie company, namely “four weeks.’’ Superficially it *dd appear easy to obey the company’s rules or—sup posed rules; but tin* cancelling of i policy or policies might precipitate what is known as “thrown off claim ing,” whereby the company refuses to pay further special salary until a sufficient number of substantial appU c.ants are .approved to otf-set tin* can cellations. So it may scorn expedi ent to the needful agent, to pay a dol lar for the current week, rather than to lose the prospect of receiving fifteen for the week following. He thereby borrows money from the company a’ ! a large rate of interest —one dollar for the loan of fifteen for one week—and If he wishes to retain this loan he must pay for the week following. Gradually but almost surely, it be comes a case of the “Spider and the Fly.” Unless he be an uncommonly good writer, or an exceptionally wary man, the web tightens and his source of livelihood wanes, until he is finally forced from that field of labor, to be followed by another whose experience is most likely to be a repetition of his predecessor's. This stupendous gouging system It startling in its vastness, for about two hundred thousand men are en gaged hr iis vocation thoughout the country as agents, and the amount of money thus obtaine 1 by one company alone (employing about fifteen thou sand men), is upwards of one million dollars annually. The officials resort to many methods of Intrigue to pre vent the real mission of t..r» “arrers and advance” manipulations from be coming apparent to the agents, among which Is tlie tacking of placards In the offices forbidding agents to pay on In surances which Is beyond the com pany's grace period. To the experi enced agent t reads, “we know you will pay.” Why this subtle system of graft has remained almost unmolested for more than thirty years is a subject for conjerture. < Xever Drink Water. There are many different kinds of animals that never in all their lives sip so mpeh as a drop of water. Among these are the llamas of the Andes and the gazelles of the far Fast. Many naturalists believe that the only moisture Imbibed by wild rabbits is derived from the green herb age they eat. Ocean steamers carrr from six to ten cats, whose duty is to keep the passengers’ ouarters free from mice and rat«- If the cats are not rat eaters, they are dismissed. / MOUNT VERNON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 2. uynfi. ! SOUTHWEST’S SMALL FARMS. WONDERFUL CROP RESULTS PROM A SINGLE ACRE Os GOOD IRRIGATED LAND. Instance of a Man Who Makes Good Living and Lu> s by lour iiunuicu Doll.ii s a V ear-it# lenr of Droutn or A allure. WILLIAM 3. SMYTHE. The Sacramento Valley of Cali fornia is a land of lug farms. Pri vate estates run all the way from one Uiousund 10 one hundred thousand acres. It was once prouuiole 10 lutm vast areas iu gram. Although this valley is blessed with most uuuudaut water supplies, irri gallon is not generally employed. There Is little raiufall from May to November, yet grain and deciduous mms ure grown without aiuueial HOW THINGS GROW IN THE SOUTH-WEST UNDER IRRIGATION., moisture. But the big farms are not prosperous. They are largely culti vated by tenants and are strangely devoid of features which make the true southwestern farm one of the most delightful home-spots in the world. The men on the land sell nil they produce and buy nearly all they consume. And so they pay tribute to others “going and coming.” 1 have been visiting a farm in the Sacramento Valley which consists of one single acre of Irrigated land and which makes a better home and larger net income for Its owner than many of his neighbors enjoy on places of thousands of acres each. The little farm Is at Orland, in Glen County, and Is the property of a man named Samuel Cleeks, who has grown old and gray while tilling It for the past thirty years. Mr. Cleeks tells me that he haR no difficulty whatever In making a com fortable living from this one acre of irrigated land. Not only ro, but he is tble to save an average of four hun- Ired dollars a year beside. He has money to loan, as wpII ns fruit, vege tables and poultry products to sell to hose who are getting poorer every year In carrying on big farms without irrigation. I was so curious to know how he could get such good results from so small an area that I asked him to give me a list of what the place contained. Here It is: ON A SINGLE ACRE. ’snrn ami Corral apm-e 75x75 feet Rabbit Hatch 25 x 25 "louse and Porebea 30 x3O 2 Windmill Towers each 10x10 fJarden 4<i x Ft Blackberries 10x90 ‘‘ Strawberries 05x90 Citrus Nursery, In which there are 2.300 budded orange, lemon and lime trees 90 x9B 1 row of Dewberries 100 feet long, 4 Apricot trees. 2 Oak treea, 3 Peaeh trees, 0 Fig trees. 10 Locust trees, 30 Assorted Roses, 20 Assorted Geraniums, 12 Lemon trees, bearing, seven yem* old, 1 Lime tree, Dine years old and bearing, from which were sold last year I*lo dozen limes, 8 Bearing Orange trees, 4 Breadfruit trees, 5 Pomegranate trees, 1 Patch of Bamboo, 3 Calla Lillies, 4 Prune trees, 3 Blue Gum treez, 0 Cypress trees. 4 Grapevines, 1 English Ivy, 2 Honeysuckles, 1 Seed-bed, 1 Vlolet-berl, 1 Sage-beil, 2 Tomato vines, 13 Stands of Bees. ERA OF THE SMALL FARM. Time wa« when the man who had said that a living could Is* made from 5 acres, much less a single acre, would have been considered a dreamer or a greenhorn. Now, how ever. all through the Southwest, In great sections of California and Ari zona, where the sun is warm, the soil is deep and fertile, and the water for irrigation ample, little farms are mak ing for their owners more money than many of the big ones. Two, three five and ten acre tracts closely and faithfully cultivated have become. Io hundreds of instances, veritable gold mines. Some of the communities of '-on*hcrn California. comoosed of the**** little ranches, resemble the suburbs of *» villa "C. so close are the farm hott«i*». irizons |s not so far alone In this class of settlement, because it Is a newer country, but the enthusiastic claim is made for many parts of the Territory that the climate and grow ing conditions arc superior even to ilio.se of southern California. There is a great future f*r this southwestern corner of America, and it will some day I>e peopled as extensively as Us wonderful rums show it to have oeeu unknown centuries ago. The IVuadcrcr Returns. It was old-home week, and the re turned sons and grandsons had been telling with more or less pride of the changes time had wrought for them. At last Edward Jameson spoke: -- 1 went away from here twenty years ago a poor man. with only one solitary dollar in my pocket. 1 walked the four miles from my father’s farm to the station, and there 1 begged a ride to Boston on a freight car. Last night 1 drove into town behind a spirited pair of hor. os, and nty purse guess how much my purse holds iu money to-day, besides a large check,” and Mr. Jameson looked about him with a brilliant audio. “Fifty dollars!” "Seventy-five!” “A hundred!” shouted the boys, filled with admiration. “No,” said Mr. Jameson, drawing a large flat purse from his pocket when the clamor had subsided, “none of you has guessed right. When I paid tho 25 cents to Ozzy Boggs for my re freshing drive In the conch, I had besides my trunk check (which I re tained for financial reasons,) exactly 4 cenls. I have come back, my friends, to stay. Any little jobs of sawing and splitting will be gratefully re ceived.” —Y'outh’s Companion. - - * Worked the Double Cross. “This," said the Jeweler, “is what happened here last month, “Mr. B. drove up In a hansom and entered my shop, accompanied by Ills valet, who carried an oblong box of steel. Mr. R. asked for a private inter view and 1 took hltn Into my office. There he opened the box exposing a splendid array of diamond and pearl necklaces, earrings, tiaras, anil stom achers. ‘“Mrs. 11.,’ he said, ‘ls now abroad. Before she returns 1 want you to ex tract all these stones and to replace them with good imitations, selling the real Jewels and giving me the money. j This, of course, Is to he a confidential \ transaction. Mrs. B. Is to know noth ing of It.’ "I looked at Mr. B. 1 think I blushed a little.” “‘My d'*ar sir,’ I said, ‘I should l>e glad to do what you ask, but it Is Impossible. Two years ago Mrs. B. called here on the same errand that now brings you, and (tils errand. In her case, was successful. The paste Jewels that you offer me are worth little more than the hlr> of the hansom awaiting you outside.’ ” He Liked the Game. “A seedy looking Individual, ap parently from the rurals, entered Flockner’s barber shop one day last week," says the Hobart News-Repub lican. “He got in the second chair, and told Charley he wanted the ‘whole works.’ “After Charley had trimmed him up till he would have passed for Leslie Nlhlack, he woke lilrn up. ‘“Hair cut,’ says the sleeper, drows ily. “‘Hair’s cut,’ says Charlie. “‘Shave,’ says he, still half asleep. “ ‘Done shaved you.’ “ ‘Shampoo.’ “ ‘You’ve got ’er.‘ “ ‘Shine.’ ‘“Been shined.’ “‘Neck shave.’ “ ‘Already been there.* “‘Singe hair.’ “ ‘l’ve burned it.’ “The customer settled down In the chair until he was sitting on his neck, and says, ‘Full a tooth.’ ” The Other Fellow. The butcher thinks the baker has an easy time through life; The baker thinks the doctor’s path is ever free from strife; And to us all this truth comes home as through this life we bob — It's the other fellow every time that has the easy job. Football as Ployed. “T hear yottr son has been winning high honors at college?” “He has, Indeed He has been a 1 quarterback, a halfback, a fullback, and now ’’ “Yes. what. Is he now?” said the speaker eagerly. “Now.” replied the other, “he’s a hunchback." THE ARMY TRANSPORT, PACIFIC SQUADRON IS A MODEL FOR HANDLING THE GOVERN MENT'S TROOPS. Private Steamship Companies Said to be Unequal to the Tusk of Trans porting soldier Boys—l he Cost i-* Greater. Along the l’aeifie Coast the army transport service in operation with the Philippines and intermediate points, is not regarded with favor. Private steamship companies covet the busi ness which is now being done by the dozen and a half vessels making up the transport fleet. During the last fiscal year the Sheri dan, Sherman, Thomas, Logan ami Dix carried to Honolulu, Guam and Manila .’II,OOO passengers, 115.000 tons of freight, 800,Ni>i pounds of United Stntes mall, and $2,478,000 in United States money, besides u considerable amount of Philippine pesos coined In the San Francisco mint; and In Jan nary, 1000, tho schedule was doubled, that is, instead of one sailing a month j there are now two. The army prefers to do its own | frel lit and passenger business on <* Pacific for the following reasons: Primarily, private companies secur ing contracts could not furnish the ser vice desired without specially con structed vessels, an expense which, though demonstrated absolutely neces- I snry by experience, they would not j undertake owing to the uncertainty of J the traffic. Secondly, the present service Is found more economical, the cost of operation last year amounted to $750,- 000 less than the lowest estimate pre sented by any of the private con cerns bidding for the business. Lastly, the exigencies of the service which might at any moment demand the rapid transportation of large ship ments of troops and supplies would necessitate the holding In reserve of a considerable number of vessels, an Impossibility to a private steamship company which is forced by compel I j tion to operate with strictest economy COMBINED COMFORT AND CAPACITY. In explanation of the first of these reasons—the average transport Is a type of marine construction peculiarly individual. While exteriorly It has nil the appointments of a modern ocean going steamer, it differs essentially in its Interior arrangement. The trans portation of large numbers of troops across an ocean distance of 7,00 > miles, the greater part of this mileage lying within the tropics, demands tlio host possible ventilation and sanita tion. 'Tin* sleeping accommodations for soldiers are between decks, and the entire space allotted for Ibis purpose is often from end to end. Metal berths in tiers of three, one above the other, make the place resemble a giant honeycomb. Shower baths, read ing ami recreation rooms are pro vided, and a regularly equipped hos pital with isolation wards Is In charge of a surgeon and assistants drawn from the army Medical Corps and tin* Hospital Corps. These quarters ure p»;rr: y "*”<] jj^3 X * '*> ;.■*; ;> ' |W 4 ''■' *" '*’■— ■ | f V; .' ,' ,"" A f fl! TRANSPORT |'■ ij <ml 1 if "TIIOMAH" I ' ’ f j Pw SAJI- KOIt THE |(| *1 ,l,t j ■'}) i« <sb|HmHd. . ’*> » f V 1// *l fc> I rT'T^^^"*^wßc^HL**^n'r ; I|f j! 1^ not such ns rm* provided Tor steer age passengers on the Pacific, anti if vessels ho equipped were owned and operated by a private line, that line would be lons in setting rid of them, should the army be suddenly recalled from the Islands. Furthermore, the army transport must carry a battery of rapid lire suns in her bows, some thing for which private steamship companies have very little use. The second argument advanced by the adherents of the present system needs no comment. The third and last contention Is best supported by a report made on Janparv it of this year by the Gen eral Staff of the Army to the Senate Commit tee on Merchant Marine, in which it was stated that “to embark a division would require ten 6,500-ton ships und nine 5 500-ton ships. With the strength of the regular army two divisions could be made ready to eat bark in fifteen days. Assuming this ratio, it would require, to strike the tirst quick blow of a force correspond 111>4 to our present military establish meat, the entire shipp ; on the At lantic and more than me entire ton nage of tlie Pacific.” It is doubt ful if any private line would care to hold enough ships in reserve to trans port two divisions on a fortnight's notice. The Quartermaster General gave it. ns Ms opinion that, "In view of the futile efforts of the Quarter master's Department to obtain suit able transports from the merchant marine in IMPS for the transportation of the army to" Cuba, and of the further fact that when withdrawn from regular line service the trans ports can not he advantageously dis posed of, owing to tlieir peculiar in terior construction, it would he wise policy to retain a sutHcient number of I mats as part of tin l equipment of the army, to lie economically cared for and kept in such condition as to be prompt ly available for any emergency whicli may arise requiring the transportation of troops on the ocean." Since the whisper of trouble in the Orient, two tirst class troopships have been held at I anchor in Manila Hay. and until Janu ary nil the freighters of tlte transport I service were out of active service, with tin exception of the I>ix. PACIFIC FLEET A MODEL. The army lias built up its Pacific transport fleet after long and trying experience, and it is generally eonced !ed that the vessels are models of their kind. Representatives of foreign | governments have asked for and re ceived copies of tlte specifications. The transportation of live stock has been fruitful of disasters. The first consignment of mules shipped to Man ila was a source of great anxiety. Every precaution was taken, and fi nally- the fatal precaution of belly banding the animals caused the loss of all hut one, who became known In Manila as (lie hundred thousand dol lar Jack. Tlte rest all died of the tin accustomed exercise of swinging on their stomachs. LEARNS LANGUAGES IN JAIL. Herkmnnn, Who Triad to Kill Henry C. Frick. Becomes I Ingulst. When Alexander Herkmnnn left the Allegheny County prison In May last, after having served fifteen years for an attempt to kill Henry C. Frick, the coke and steel magnate, lie found himself aide to converse fluently In eight languages. The years behind prison bars have converted him from an avowed an archist to n student and philosopher. Many persons have forgotten both Rorkmann and Ids crime, yet they startled the nation during the days of the great. Homestead Rtrike of 1892. Mr. Frick was one of the managers of the steel industry when It grappled In the gigantic struggle with Its work men. Berkmnn.i was so radical, at the other end of the scale, that he was classed as a lending annrehlat. During tlte excitement of the indus trial controversy Herkmnnn found his way into the Pittsburg offices of Mr. Frick, reached flint magnate’s pres ence and shot him twice, then attempt- ing to complete the work with a dag ger. Overpowered before he could accom plish his full purpose, Berkmann was hurried to jail. Being convicted at his trial he was given a fifteen year term in the penitentiary for attempt to kill. This was supplemented by a one-year term in the Allegheny County workhouse for carrying concealed deadly weapons. Once behind prison bars he gave up all his leisure time to study. At the beginning of his term he could read and write English ami German. Dur ing the first years of his imprison ment he eagerly perused all books In those languages that he could secure. In course of time he mastered the Slavic, Polish and Hungarian lan guages. and also acquired a good gen eral knowledge of Italian, Spanish and French. PART TWO.
