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NGRESSMAN L. F. LIVINGSTON,
DEAN OF THE GEORGIA DELEGATION.
BY BEN H. SULLIVAN.
[on. L F. Livingston, of the
il) District, is the oldest raera
jof the Georgia delegation both
Lgth of service and personal
Just at this time there are
Ira I questions be is interested
t the National Capital. The
Ltion of Finance, Tariff and
erWays question, the Road
ticn, and the extension of
1 facilities to the people. Mr.
ugstons’ course in Congress for
Ithese years gone by—17 of
fc—has been to do something
bis District, his State and his
itry at large. He has devoted
time and talents to this line
ler than making speeches for
Record. The amount of money
las sent into his District ex
Is that of any other Southern
igrPBsmati, outside of seaport
ns. Some of the appropria
barelusting in their benefits
time only can develop the real
|e to his district and the people.
e as an illustration the Federal
pi) near Attar ta. He spent
p than a million of dollars on
veral years ago, making ac
jmodation for 500 prisoners.
|s now having built an annex
tat prison that will cover 1000
itional prisonets. The materi
that building comes from his
District—Stone Mountain.
n that annex is completed the
ial appropriation covering the
:nse of caring for the prisoners,
officials salaries, and all other
dies will amount to $200 000
annual. That amount of
l e J’ annually is left in the Dis
• 00,000 a year in one spot
pe South will go quite a way
P-P > n the supply of currency.
|t is now spending $ 1 200,000
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F e ground and building of a
h’ost Office Building in Allan*
liiat will be quite a Jittlesum
honey distributed among the
jo-cutters, Mechanics. the merchants, and
3ese are illustrations, perhaps
ingest ones, of his policy as, |
oed; b«t there at, thousands
1 amounts that have
gone
; " e District in the way of
ps will and pensions and such like,
amount to a great deal of
*y. He has endeavored to
f jaad T uot his a class, but all the peo
efforts along this line
pot been confined to his own
[“Das s! f but thousands of persons
r ’ y> thev are all over
pate of Georgia, throughout]
e c ountry at large, !
p i d against Oratori- |
! when such i
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ry avail loi good I
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r than to the Con- I
He behevts that wej
1 iU that stage in the!
his Rh- ,n hi :!c - w -1 ien f * i
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intelligent to be j
y frills and fribbles
result- {iIui , , bis • propo- I
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meet that demand. I
: as mess than politi-!
men
^ h nild be
trusted with Na- I
isffai 1 s at this time.
!lf it 1
A’e can truthfully be
•!m that he is trusted I
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his fellow Congressman with sa¬
gacity, diplomacy, and unrelent
less perseverance in what he un¬
dertakes. He is very much at¬
tached to his people and he says
they have been extremely kind
and devoted to him, having given
him nine unanimous nominations.
While he has had opposition,
not in a single instance has that
opposition continued until the day
of his primaries.
He has been favorably spoken of
by numerous papers of his state as
a possible successful candidate for
the United States Senate, but if
the next House goes Democratic,
which in all probability it will, be
is entitled to the Chairmanship of
the Appropriation Committee,
which position he prefers to that
of a seat in the Senate. For 18
years, if it comes, he has looked
to this day with pride, for the
reason that it will place him where
he could do a greater good to a
greater number of people,
The Twentieth Century Bible
Is the Index System.
This is an age of condensation
and concentration. People ar*- ;
anxious to be accurate but
compelled to be brief. |
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The responsibilities and cares of
life consume the major part of our
time. The Index Bible enables
the possessor to spend only a few
minutes ^ach day to a practical
end and profit.
The Index Bible is alphabetical¬
ly arranged with reference to Bib¬
lical Biorgray, Georgraph, History,
and Theology. Giving the pro¬
nunciation of each word, original
meaning and definition, including
a brief history and description of
people, places and subjects men¬
tioned ju the Bible.
It is specially arranged to in
struct in the fine art of making a |
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life, ,,, frustrated , with . , . large
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bers of photographs of places of
E,bl,u ' 11 even,s as ,he *
day; making a sacred album 1 r
every borne, Has thousands ol
questions and answers pertaining
to practical and pertinent ques
tione.
If you monkey with the trigger
don't complain if the trap falls.
It is better to work than to be
worked.
Lon L. Flowers is the authorized
agent of “Uncle Remus’ >» maga j
zine in this section. See him at l
Ehenterpiise. 1
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Where a Multitude of Sias arc Covered j
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T lde . L. r o in. M t PATVT AIN 1 touni) , n ,. prs u ,, H ; ]
fects i:i previous paintings, and
wears for 10 t0 15 ye ars, because | '
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oxide of zinc-pure! !
wHl M and ou h , Ip r t0 make
the paint mixing . . three quarts! :
by
of linseed oil with each gallon of
paint. Its done in 2 minutes.
Makes cost only $1.20 per gallon.
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THE KNTERSP IE C VINGTONGA
NIAGARA
Fate of a Schooner That Was
Used as an Experiment.
-HE WAS DASHED TO PIECES.
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A Thrilling Sight From the Time She
Struck the Seething Rapids Until
the rviighty Falls Tcre Her Into
Splinters—A Pair of Tough Geese.
The following story of the first pub¬
lic excursion to Niagara Falls was
written at the time by an eyewitness:
"The schooner Michigan was the
largest vessel on Lake Erie at that
time. She was too large, in fact, to
enter the various harbors on the lake,
and, being somewhat decayed in her
uppers, the owner, Major Frazer, got
the idea that she would answer the
purpose of testing the fate of a vessel
that by accident might approach too
near the cataract and also the fate of
living things that might be caught in
the rapids. The proprietors of the
large public bouses at the falls on both
sides of the river and of stages and
steamboats made up a purse to pur¬
chase the schooner, aware that they
would lie amply repaid by the specta¬
tors that the exhibition would attract.
"For several days previous to Sept.
0. 1828 . the day for which the affair
was fixed, which was Saturday, the
stages and canalboats came to Buffalo
crowded with people. On the night
of Sept 5 wagons filled with country
people rattled through the village in
procession ail night long, and
on the morning of Sept 0 Buffalo it
sdf seclucd to be raoving in 015C mass
toward the point of attraction. Five
steamboats had been advertised to
leave Buffalo Saturday morning. They
were the Henry Clay. William Penn,
Pioneer, Niagara and Chippewa. The
Chippewa was appointed to tow the
schooner Michigan to the Niagara river.
1 was a. passenger on her.
"As soon as we got well under way
the scene became interesting. The oth¬
er four steamers came plowing along
in our wake, crowded to the guards
with passengers and bands of music
playing. The Chippewa towed the big
schooner to Yale’s landing, on the Can¬
ada side of the Niagara river, where
our passengers went ashore, as did
those of the William Penn. The pas¬
sengers of the Ileury Clay and Pio¬
neer landed on the American side.
Yale's Landing was three miles above
the falls, and the crowds • of people
were taken from there on down the
river in wagons of all kinds. The hour
fixed for towing the Michigan from
Yale’s Landing to the rapids was 3
in the afternoon,
<-rpj,j s task; an extremely hazardous
one. was intrusted to the oldest sailor
on the lake. Captain Rough. With a
yawl boat and five sturdy oarsmen the
old captain got the schooner under
way. They towed her to within a quar
ter of a mile of tl:e first rapids and
within half a mile of the tremendous
precipice itself—as near as they dared
approach. They cut the big vessel
adrift, and she passed majestically on.
while the oarsmen of the yawl had to
bend their every nerve and muscle to
remove themselves from the peril of
being drawn down by the rushing wa¬
ters. Indeed, such had l>ecn the fear
and apprehension of the tuhn that they
mutinied against Captain Rough and
cut the towline before the time he
had set. If they had obeyed the reck
less old captain, he. tiro yawl and its
crew would have preceded the Mlchi
gan over the fulls.
"The high grounds on both shores of
the river were lined with people as the
Michigan, unguided by human agency.
approached, head on. the first rapid of
the seething descent apparently keep
j n g the very course that a skillful nav
igator would have guided her in. The ,
American ensign streamed from her
howsprd and the British jack floated
nt jj er g ^ ern> xhe vessel shot the first
rapid unhurt, still head on, making a
Pl«nse. aWPPlnS: * and rising from
it in beautiful style. In her descent of
SCCO n ( j vapid, the water momenta
rily increasing in velocity and tumult, •
her towering masts went by the board,
giving the spectators a startling repre- :
sentation of tlie crashing of a vessel’s .
spars ill a shipwreck at sea. She !
svrupg argund aad presetted tier
j Droaiisiclet'to‘tbe dashing and foaming
water, and. after remaining, as it seem
' ed. stationary for a moment, swung
j around until she was headed upstream.
1 "Passing the third rapid she bilged,
but carried her hull to all appearances
whole as she tossed and groaned be¬
tween Grass island and the British
shore to the Horseshoe fall, over which
she was drawn stern foremost and
hurled into the thundering abyss. She.
was dashed to fragments before she
j struck Immediately in the after seething she waters below.
went over hun
dreds of people hurried below the falls.
The river was covered with fragments
j of the vessel. Nowhere could he found
as much as two hoards nailed together,
and her great timbers were broken into
bits like firewood.
“There were aboard the Michigan
fchen she started on her trip toward
the falls a wild hull buffalo from a
western prairie, two. bears from the
Lake Superior regions, two foxes, a
tow all these were let loose on the deck
except the buffalo. lie was inclosed in
i pen. The two bears got enough of
the trip when the vessel began the
descent of the first rapid, and they
climbed down the side next the Canada
shore, plunged into the swift water.
breasted its powerful sweep successful
Jy and reached the shore. They were
so exhausted when they got on land
that they made no resistance to being
captured. The bears, before they aban¬
doned the ship. climlied the masts of
the vessel and. as it was presumed,
from that outlook saw what their fin¬
ish would be anyhow and then deter¬
miner] to take the chances of getting to
land, slim as they were. The raccoon
ran up a mast and remained there un
til *he mast fell. lie was never seen
again. The foxes ran frantically up
and down the deck and went over with
the schooner, as did the buffalo bull
and the geese. Not a trace of foxes or
buffalo was ever fotiud. Two of the
geese swam ashore half a mile below
the falls. The other two met the fate
of the buffalo and the foxes.”
A. H. FOSTER,
ATTORNEY at LAW.
(Admitted to Bar in 1901)
General Practice in State & Federal Courts,
Loans Negotiated on Farm Lands.
Office in Court House.
Office Phone 254 Residence Phone 120
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
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OFFICIAL PROGRAM FOR MARCH
AT THE NEXT U. D. C. MEETING.
The next regular meeting of the
L. D. L. will be held with Mrs C j
I Las!) on Thursday, March 12,
at *5. o'clock.
The following is the Program:
for study sect ion :
1. Where dfd he receive his
education, and how wasbis mother
instrumental in sending him to I
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college ' i
2 Jell of his college career, !
' bis graduation, and what his 1
was
chosen profession?
, j 0 Give account of his
an
J service ,e to his state, first in the
| * 15W “ re - J 1 ””
> iL member of the secession
convention, j
j 4 What were his sentiments
in regard t < I fcecessioi ? After
[ Georgia cast in her fortunes with
j that u f the south, how did he show
his loyalty?
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5. Of what Confederate ass "in
bly was he a prnftiiiumf member in
1801, and what office did he hold
until close of the war? As Presi¬
dent Davis depended upon Gen.
Lee in the field, upon whom did
| he lean in the Senate? I
! 0. Describe hi« arrest ai.d im¬
j prisonment after the war.
j \\ bat active part did he
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take in the recoiiftruoth >11 meas
I which emaged these in:
j uies, so
■ command of the the state, that it
1 was recommended to President
■ Giant that Hill be banished- from
Georgia?
8 \\ hat writings attracted
wide attention, in which lie de-j
jSCtibed tlie positon of Georgians
at this time; “The complying
! accept, the resolute reject, none
approve, while all despise!”
y. When did Mr. Hill make
j his first appearance as a member
! of the House uf Representatives
1 of the United States, ami when
was lie chosen’U. S. Senatoi?
10. What speeches did he make
in debates national importance
wind) are pulls of Georgia’s as
well as the nation's history?
11 What were the last words
of Georgia’s matchless orator and
ip:ro sc itosm m?
12 Describe the erection and
unveiling of the Ilill monument.
How were funds for the tnonu
meut raised? Who beautifully
said “If I were asked from
Georgia’s history, to name the
three men who were fair types’ of
1 would .ako Ogl.
thorpe, the benevolent, Troup, thf*
daunt less, and Hill, the faithful. I H
Answers to most of the questions
may be found in The South in
History a.id Literature by Mias
Rutherford • Georgia Land anti
P-ople by Miss Mitchell, or Evan*
History of Georgia.
One Million Robins
Killed In Louisiana..
The announcement that abiut
one million robins have been killed
by hunters this winter in Louisi¬
ana, which is a winter home for
th" birds, was made by Frank M.
jjtiler, of the p.trt Louisiana
Audubon Society, Following this
announcement, George A. Howell,
a Gnverment expert was sent to
investigate the habits of robins,
said that, the Government may
p r0 ve that the eastward movement
0 f the boll weevil h^d been
facilitated Gy the reckless killing,
„f robins. The birds have been
killed xoi f »od.
Pay the Confederate soldiers at
anytime they desire. Defer to
the old gentlemen in* every way
they wish—Augusta Chronicle.