About Twice-a-week telegraph. (Macon, Ga.) 1899-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1907)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1907. THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH H4 H1 I I I I I I I l -M 1 I 1 1-H-H-H; | Caught on the Wing ■H-HH-H-H I 1 I I 1! I I I 1 ! -H" in Atlanta ii^h By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET. The gavel used by Sheriff Pittman in calling »o order th" firs: term of th" App"Il»te Court on M' has an interesting hi-'t Tinted In Mrn n about forty years a The gavel was handed to Sheriff Pi man by Chief Justice HIM. It Used by J ild g" Hill's fat rti'njan In If. Hid- "hen gulshed Georgiar. "'a- p ?nat< ire.. hieh wa the Idem i T>< eeniber tlon follm. the r . n ti i r tile first je the close o has ■ he; s ferenee to consider the demands "f th' league, he was doubtless actuated by . spirit of compromise. Edmund Burke tlie great Irish orator fand McKenna you know, is an Irishman), said in hi- speech on the conciliation of America: 'All lovt-rnmi'i: — Indeed every huma. benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act—is founded or compromise." r-a rd th form l could subj Court ect purpose of p in and observation peak knowingly an . h" had visited ever; street frrm Ponlat iion w. lie ne Later. Judge Allen mber of the Commis- Iped to create. Boundary street. He declared that as ult iur talk advisedly on tuc liquor ques tion. tor- wtileh protnii During the present municipal cam paign in Savannah a political paper - i.b-d Th" Searchlight is being pub lished. It is opposed to the Oshorne- Myi-rs fiction. It has issued some very warm numbers. The People's Dcino ratic I.eirue sivs its ticket will 1- f'-at the Citizens' Club tick'-t by two thousand votes. The Searchlight 1st published in the Interest of the league. Th- election occurs today. There Is tome interest in Macon in the election. . ■ .Mayor Myers. Mr. Osborne and Mr. Ic-.b Collins are largely interested iti it railway. Mr. Collins ning side in the Leg; - isr year in Savannah, rnt municipal fight i the losers in the t the Mai intest Degis C- -■ i L N. Begs CHINFSe STUDENTS IN JAPAN. Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng. the Chi nese Mm-s-er. s' vs there is much mis understanding tt the .action of Chi- r. i in limiting th- number of young Chireso stud who are to go into i t; in t" mph-te their education. At I-res.-M there are about ltt.000 Chinese stud-nts in Japan, and of these per- | imps 8.000 are Chinese young men who have been highly educated, in their home and are in Japan to study for a few months preparatory to becoming teachers in China. Tie- Minister says that this system of having young men take such a brief course in Japan has not been satisfac tory either to the Chinese or to the Japanese. The university in Japan did not care to have men take brief courses and then pose as having been prepared especially for some line of work of which the institution made a specialty. Neither did that sort of preparation prove saisfactory to the Chinese. Con sequently the Chinese Government has decided to forbid the provinces send ing young men for such short courses and will insist that three-vear or four- i year courses be taken by students go- I ing to the Japanese schools. There is I no intention, the Minisiter says, on i the part of China to quit sending its j young men to Japanese schools, hut ! the present pian will result in the Chi- j nese getting much more of their edu- i cation in Japan than they have in pre- j vious years. The Chinese Minister attaches no ! importance whatever to .reports from i the Orient that China is about to boy cott Japanese goods and expresses the really talks more like an American ened or made bright by the absence or than an Englishman. presence of a knot of ribbon.—From Once he was talking about men and ' The Debts of Antoine." by W. B. Mac- menners to some friends. Suddenly. Harg in the pecember McClure's, in that quiet way he has of plunging into things, he said: | "I suppose most people think I am a snob. Wall my job is to try not to be one." This is Kipling the man: a simple, modest, high-minded English gentle man. with the enthuoiasm of a boy. yet the understanding of ages.—The Book News Monthly. A LONG WAR. From the New York Journal. , A little cable dispatch of not more than fifty words from The Hague, in Holland, tells in matter-of-fact fashion of the ending of a war which has last ed 243 years, probably the longest in the history of the world, waged cease lessly. decade after decade, by the stouthearted, dogged Dutch against the savage Macassars for the possession of the diamond-dusted. gold-crusted island of Celebes, in the East Indies. This war was begun when New York had been settled by these same Dutch men only thirty years before. Peter ACCOUNTS OP FATHER OP HIS COUNTRY Warrant* for Great Government Pur chases — Lafayette's Receipt — Old Mileage Books of Webster and Clay. The board of interesting relics and documents of historic significance at the national Treasury seems as inex haustible as the widow's cruse. The Treasury archives are rich in material showing the steps in the growth of a great nation and additional treasures are always coming to light. An auditor's office is rarely the shel ter for anything more lively than dry j Leg as dust papers, wearisome columns of Loyn of figures and long, dull accounts: but the j Roasting piece "baskitts" of fruit or vegetables: "col- lyflower" was a favorite dish, evidently. "Loyn of veal” was frequently pur chased. Very often wild fowl were purchased while on the march, and in many cases the expense of the horseback ride of the men sent mi'es away for the neces sary food is added to the account. The menus run very much the same throughout the books, but there is one page which holds the attention, in spite of its similarity to the others. It is dated Thursday. July 4, 17V6. It shows what Washington had for dinner on the very first Independence Day. The account reads: :.f mutton of beef How the German Officers Treat the Privates. The following is the experience df a German army private: "During the second maneuvers." he ^uvve^tthen^tdmMW I offlce of the Auditor of the Treasury. ) Cabbage"; beets and beans says. I was sent on ahead to select pVTaR dozen street* ' sa $’ s the Washington Post, contains Peas quarters for my company. The police lts J?. 311 ao ^ en streets edging: the ba\ supply the names of householders who , s wooden leg, lording it over the j are expected to shelter the soldiery, handful of people who, before the war . and I hud to decide on the number of r2 as " ere t0 become the 4.000.- se j v men who should be assigned to each ^ the great metropolis of the W est, place. It seems that our major dis .. 5s 3d 6s 6d 5s 6d some records of commercial transac tions in the United States which form fascinating little museum in thern- Potatoes Black fish and lohste patched a courier with a message for our captain. For some reason or other, the message was not delivered. The next day the captain called me out and. in the presence of the whole company, j rebuked me for not delivering the mes sage: "I did not receive any message,’ ventured. "Shut your mouth, you liar,” he t V.'hltakr Smith Ti I gt Norili Chinese Government’s,action concern- ; ing its students going to Japan. Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng has just returned from a visit at Amherst, Mass., and called at the State Depart- tm 'hittl i' Nut- H- Mi L > . G. Holt, Hid .1 H. Hlount. Benjamin II. the central figure of this con- , the towering genius of the -. f Hf Hi id ini-lb low.* Ti-er indent hriii Gordon in 'PS. The d above John B. Bullock. Judge Daniel, has delivered Fellows and r.ed Me. is fond of politics. N tries conclusions with has been a delegate t - bert T. Daniel, of Griffin, con yesterday on an import- ; vis :. Judge Daniel is not I opinion that that rumor may have ri nit.en: member of the bar in j en out of the misunderstanding of the but he is one of the best rernal order men in Geor- prominently identified with of leading secret societies. lUthoritv a.*-, a Red .Man and dlow. In d the highest offict ■ ranks of the orsn st grand represen tativi grand representative to t he j Grand Lodge of Odd Fel-' i ; no one in Georgia bet- Odd Fellowship than No man in the State more addresses to Odd former order I nfent yesterday to discuss conditions in i the Orient. atUMn- I — 1_ 1 ligation. I The Pilgrims had been in Massachu setts only forty years. A locomotive was as unknown as a flying machine or an automobile: electricity was not dreamed of. and steam was not driving a single wheel anywhere. The world has awakened from a great sleep and I girded itself with the myriad modern j : devices while the Dutch have been sub- ! jugating these far Eastern Macassars. ! Charles II, the profligate, was riot- thundered. And again he bellowed: ing on throne of England in the Why didn't you deliver that message. | beginning of the Restoration: Napo- you ?” I told him a second time 1 ' eon ' who was to change the map of that I had not received any message. 1 Europe as only Julius Caesar had be- The captain's temper broke all bounds, fore him, was not to be born on the With an oath he rode his horse at me little Isle of Corsica for another hun- full tilt, hudlng filthy names at me dred years: England was only begin- tl’.e while. When he had ridden right ning to realize that Shakespeare had up to me—I fully expected he would just completed the greatest literary run me over, but 1 dared not move-— : work in the language: Rembrandt, he suddenly reined in his horse, and 1 Murillo, and Velasquez were painting drawing a long dagger from his belt, J their masterpieces in different parts of shouted, livid with passion: "I have j Europe, and Queen Victoria, still to be half a mind to stick this through your born, might have been merely a little, vile body, you Schweinhund!” I insignificant German princess, instead Once more he asked me about the 0 f "Queen of Great Britain and Ire- and once more I answered A TURKEY STORY. Judge Daniel v and then he e boys. He ntional con- Frorn the Atlanta Constitution. Iff parson snv, "Dat turkey Do bos' T ever see: I wonder whar dey kotehed it, An' whar de roost kin be. th ins ind elected .1 linn!! il con vane: and her of different of t he Democra and \ runnir r olli a: Z plot! ha.-- h s the a in- ?h rite . of ether politi- has been a mem- utive committees Democratic party. I. Bmith. of Hancock County, st. rday in Mn on. He lias rep- Hancock in the Legislature terms. He is a leading former tetion of the State. Mr. Smith rles:, unnssum'ng man. but he iderable influence with his peo ple. said to increase the hazard. Several yesterday s agreed ther In the sale i oe merchants were talking bout business and they hod been a great decrease f brogans. Formerly there old h pie It is unit? g, 11 good and how n to dwell together in j par: ray and .Clark Howell i a cc cruisf to Cuba. To- j err. editors soiled for Ha- | the a- tlie guests of H. M. j and Atkinson. "A life on the ocean wave" j shot will make them forget politics for awhile. 1 guess. Now that Dick and Clark seem to have kissed and made up. why shouldn't Hoke and Hnnip de ride that "Gladness of heart is the life of man. and the joy fulness of a man prolongeth his days.” and take a trip together as Clark and Dick have done? Then would the morning stars sing to gether. and all the sons of men shout for Joy. "I foun' him on the do'step - Des shiv'rln' in do storm; I fotched him ter de fire An' put him on ter warm. "An’ den I git so drowsy I r.oddin' up an' down. An* w'en I wake, de fire Had cook dat turkey brown.' Dat way he tell de story. When, sudden on dc do* Dar come a mighty knockin' Dat almost shook de flo'i De parson stomped de fire— Hit foot wuz fire proof! An’ den climb up de ohimblv An’ crawl out on dc roof! message him. "Then five days’ confinement and bread and water be your punishment, you liar!” he retorted. He repeated the question several times and increased my - term of im prisonment each time I answered in the negative until my term of im prisonment equaled fourteen days. I was placed under arrest. Next day I was released. I afterward found that the captain had discovered his mis take. but he never referred to it.—Liv ingston Wright, in The World To-day, for December. ABOUT HOME LIFE OF BIRDS. De Sheriff say: “Dat turkey De bos’ t ever see! I knows des whar he kotehed hint— He gwin,- home wid me.’ NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. a hig trade in this kind of shoe. Icularly nmoftg the negroes, and to nsidernblo extent with white farm- hut this is now almost a thing of past, relatively speaking! .Whites negroes wish a better quality of shoes. A leading dealer said to -me that he makes large sales of patent leather shoes to saw mill negroes, and that he has ever known of negroes 1 also renew for the year 1907. plowing in patent leathers. Owing to j prosperity and a more aesthetic tast. the negro is rapidly bidding a Ion farewell to his old and ereaking friend | Threeofthe moBt distinguished Examine label on your pa- ! per. It tells how you stand on course the books. Due from date on tber movement m the-united the label. Send in dues and States for the protection of bird- and whose work has donemuch toward es- If “all the birds of the air fell to sighing and sobbing when they heard of the death of poor coekrobin,” or words to that effect, the same little creatures should have sung with much rejoicing at the Audubon rally held by I the members of the Maryland Field Studies Course and the Audubon So- I ciety of Maryland at ’ the - Women’s j College Saturday next. I Mr. William L. Finley, who is lec- j turer of the National Association of i Audubon Societies, was the chief ' speaker. Others were Dr. Henry Oldys, , Of the United States Biological Sur vey. whose delightful lecture on birds few weeks ago in the field studies made him heartily welcomed last night: Dr. T. S.J Palmer, ^official land, by the grace of God, Defender of the Faith and Empress of India." if William Henry, the Stadtholder of Holland, who began this war against the Macassars, had not become Wil liam III of England. The last thousands of the dusky Malay tribe, driven hack foot by foot from the southern coast of the island, made their final stand in a wild fast ness on the topmost crag of the crater of one of Celebes’ extinct volcanoes. With its natural battlements of solid rock and up on “the roof of the world.” it was more like an eagle’s eyrie than a fortress. But the Dutch soldiers, trained to meet their enemy by the lessons, of the almost interminable war! pushed their way up the mountain side, through the tangled tropical forest, and ringed themselves around the crater. At last the natives surrendered, end ing a war of more than two centuries. TEDDY ON PANAMA. I UNDEFEATED FOR SIX YEARS. From the Washington Post. If the genial we, days continues wr song of Solomon: is past, I he tain i> ther of the past few will he singing the "For. lo! the wintc over and gene: the and stand-by—the brogan. flowers appear 0:1 the earth: the tlnao of the slfiging of birds is come, anil the voice of tile turtle Is heard in our land." Mr. Graham Forrester, of Lumpkin, was formerly connected with the press of M:ic"n. lie has for some time been Solicitor of the County Court of Stew art. His Macon friends will he inter ested in I lie nnouncement that comes from Lumpkin to the effect that Mr. Forrester lias resigned the Solicitorship for the purpose of entering the Baptist ministry and will commence his minis- j Roll, of the Ninth district, boards terial labors as a missionary pastor at ~ Valdosta. He has taken consid erable interest in politics and has frequently been a delegate to po litical conventions. Mr. Forrester goes to his new field with the best wishes of all who know him. Mr. T. T. James Do you know where the Georgia Con gressmen reside In Washington? If not. I will tell you. so you will know where to find any of them in ease you get “broke" when in Washington and ! wish to make a "touch." or desire to I get a job. or are anxious to see them ! for any other purpose. James W. Overstreet, of the First district, hoards at the Metropolitan. James M. Griggs, of the Second district, hoards at the Bancroft. Elijah B. Lewis, of the Third district, boards at the Metropol itan: William C. Adamson, of the Fourth district, boards at the -Oxford; Leonidas F. Livingston, of the Fifth district, boards at 1910 Biltmorc street: Charles L. Bartlett, of the Sixth dis trict. boards at the Cochran: William M. Howard, of the Eighth district, hoards at the Bancroft: Thomas M. | the Iroauois: Thomas W. Hardwick. I of the Tenth district, hoards at the j Shoreham: William G. Brantley, of the j Eleventh district, boards at the Chapin. The above addresses are obtained from I the Congressional Record. It will he observed that the Washington resideni has been appointed by Governor Terrell j 0 f every Georgia Congressman is given to sue il Mr. Forrester. What is fame? An Atlanta newspa per c ails it lhi "Boykin Wright"'anti- bucket shop hill. Now what do you think of that? Jim Boykin, of Lincoln County, was the author mf the famous bill and not Boykin Wright, of Rich mond County. And speaking of Wright, Jim thinks the Boykin law is all right. Jack E. Brantlc Here he was bo: many friends. T hear that he has is a Macon boy nad here he has • will he glad to hcen app tinted city except that of Congressman Gordon Lee, of the Seventh district. His ad dress does not appear in the Congres sional Record. Perhaps. Gordon doesn’t know that his rare of last year with Judge Fite is over yet. and he is still running in the Seventh district, and will take up his abode in Washington after awhile. Of the Georgia Con gressmen your "Uncle Lon" Livingston is the only one who does not live at a hotel. It will be noticed that the Geor gia delegation do not bunch together, but are considerably scattered. No other Georgia Congressman stops at uisville and the Cochran with Judge Bartlett. • some lime Griggs and Moward board at the Ban- passenger agent of th Nashville fur Atlanta. Mr. Brantley has been superintendent j croft, and Lewis and Overstreet stop of one of the departments of the fleer- j ;1 t the Metropolitan, hut each of the pin Railway and Electric Company of j other Congressmen boards at a sepa- Atlanta. rate hotel. Senator Bacon resides at — _ 1757 Oregon avenue, and Senator Olay A dispatch from Raleigh. N. C., says | boards at the Normandie. It is related Jhat at a meeting of the L. O’Branch j 0 f Congressman Bartlett that when he Cam), of Confederate Veterans of that j fi rst went to Washington as the Rep- | resentative from the Sixth district, he i ity a resolution was passed petition ing the incoming Legislature of North j Carolina to pension worthy negro ser- j vants who followed tlie fortunes of the Confederacy and rendered valuable service. This action on the part of the | North Carolina veterans recalls the i fact that some years ago an effort was I made In the Georgia Legislature to I pass a bill pensioning those negroes | who had lost a limh or had become I otherwise disabled while faithfully serving their Georgia masters in the Civil War. The measure failed on the I ground of unconstitutionally. There is | an old negro man named Mike Guyton living in Lauren.- County, who accom panied the late Col. C. S. Guyton, of Laurens, io the wa vant. and during one of th wlatrrs of that long four years' con test Mike was so unfortunate as to have his feet so badly frostbitten they had to be amputated. From that time until now Mike has always walked on his knees, and has continued to reside on the Guyton plantation, in a house which was given to him by Colonel Guyton. The knowledge of Mike's worthy case prompted a legislate!' to try and get a pension for him. and other faithful negroes who like had become disabled in the war. Mike applied at a hotel for board for him self and wife, and the price charged him was J400 per month. The judge didn’t faint but softly inquired of the ■ terior wa „. After his death there were proprietor if he eouldn t make the | many go]d lockets worn in England j race horses in the world’s history lived | and won their laurels about the same time. These were Eclipse, Herod and : Conductor, all of whom performed j prodigies on the English turf more than a century and a half ago these Eclipse was far the greatest : Professional turfmen the world over | know his history, but it Is doubtful : if the laymen of the race tracks know , much of him. The great Eclipse was foaled in I April on "AH Fools' Day,” away back ; in 1764. He was bred by the Duke of i Cumberland, and at the death of that • patron of the turf, the prize ring, and I everything else sporty, was sold to a gentleman named Wilfer. Eclipse was : a bright chestnut nag, having a large blaze down his face and white on his hind legs from his hocks downward. ; He had an unbroken list of victories, j for six years. When he was foaled ; the sun was in /in eclipse, and from I that fact and because the Duke of ' Cumberland's trainers and grooms had i an idea thdt he would shut out any | other horse as a racer he got his noble i name. He had a wonderful stud ca- ! reer. and got a great many thor- j oughbred foals, many of whom met i ! with much success on the Oak: I by. Leger and other races. | Eclipse, in his younger day: two of the greatest favorites in Eng land. and after that no horse dared to run against him. In his youth he was a regular bad Indian of a horse. His temper was atrocious. He kicked and hit and shied and struck out with his forelegs like a boxer, but some pretty rough treatment by a poaching rascal who was engaged to tame him down and who rode him about all day and the great part of the night when he was on his poaching expeditions, made the horse's lion heart Ijuieter. But it didn’t break his spirit, and it is related that his favorite jockeys, Fitzpatrick and Oakley. never at tempted to hold him. but sat patient and wondering in their saddles flying through the air till the horse stopped. This paragon of horses died in the twenty-sixtieth year of his age of colic and inflammation af the bowels, and at his interment royal honors were given. There is no well regulated road house without Eclipse's framed picture hanging somewhere on the in- Der- beat tablishing legal restraint against kill ing birds, and Mrs. Charles W. Lord, president of the Marj-land branch of the Audubon Society. “The Home Life of Wild Birds’* was the subject of Ur. Finley’s lecture, which was illustrated with wonderfully beautiful pictures of birds, taken by himself. Hi- arrangement of th? pic tures was delightful and effective, a Of series of pictures beijig given, begin ning with the egg. until one could almost see the young bird grow before one’s eye. The flicker, redtail hawk, owl, wren, chickadee and hummingbird were treated in this careful and • charming manner. Mr. Finley gave a brief history of the national association, saying it -was organized in 1901, and incorporated in 1995, calling It the “father of State or ganizations.” ’’But for this society.” said Mr. Finley, "the most highly plumaged birds would have been ex terminated.” He then explained how. . with camera and note book, he had liv- I ed for weeks during the summer study ing the : fe of the little citizens of the air. j Of th? flicker the speaker said: “He will puncture every stump; he is not as particular as some birds: a ' dark den suits him as well as a man sion. His voice sometimes sounds | like a mechanical toy n'lund up. I knew flickers to build their nest in the steeple of a Presbyterian Church and i I feared very much that they would j arouse the anger of the minister be- ] cause they worked harder on Sunday than on any other day.” A nest of young flickers having been found and petted became as “tame as pet pussies" and would cling to Mr. Finley’s clothing, and, indeed, peck at his sleeve as if he wore his heart upon it. The most interesting adventure cited was th». photographing of a hawk’s nest 120 feet from the ground, high up in a cottonwood tree, when Mr. Finley and a fellow-worker had to cut at the base of a slighter tree until it could be bent and make a sort of ladder to reach the nest. Two eggs were found, and when the hawklets appeared these, too. were photographed. “For all their savagery, they never struck at us once," said the lecturer. Some young barn owls were de scribed as the "funniest, fuzziest, mon key-faced rats I ever set eyes upon.” “I have seen more family love in a chickadee family than in any family I have visited,” w From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In Panama the work goes on As fast as goddle let it. And everything is being done As fast as we can get it. The dirt is flying far and wide And each day rising higher. And any one who says it’s hot, Believe me, is a liar. In Panama our men pfloceed According to their lights. I know it, for I hung around The place three days and nights. There isn’t any fault to find. And it fs my desire To call the man who says there Is A scoundrel and a liar. In Panama the daily food Is very good and sweet. And it is ail nonsense to say They want for things to eat. The quarters where the men must live Are high ab'?ve the mire. And any one who says they’re not Is nothing but a liar. In Panama an army works. And mighty is the task. And no one has a^moment there To lie around and bask. The prospect of r.he cut complete Is all we could desire, And any One inclining to The contrary’s a liar. A Curious Custom in Philadelphia. The present-day parade of “Shoot ers,” numbered now only by its thou sands, is a result of slow growth. While the aforetime villages of Darby and Kensington and their ilk were sepa rate and distinct from the greater 'center about which they clustered, the New Y'ear’s Day fetes were largely, if not wholly, confined each to its own baili wick. Then the merrv-makors banded I These various records are in the care ful custody of Miss Mary H. Brady, who has herself dug many of them from tlie dusty oblivion into which they had fallen. A canceled check is a mere slip cf paper, generally worthless and uninteresting, but when its figures reach up into the multi-millions and it covers the purchase of a county or a State it is worth a second look. Care fully laid away in one of the black japanned boxes in Miss Brady’s desk there are several such checks held bv the Government as evidence of its big business deals. They are warrants for the payment of moneys appropriated by Congress, and they date back as far as 1S24. when $200,000 was paid to Lafayette by the United States in “consideration of his services and sac rifices in the War of the Revolution." This warrant is signed by William H. Crawford, Secretary of the Treasury, and is receipted on the back by La fayette himsirif. in the characteristic delicate Frentfi hand. The next warrant of importance is that which gave the Emperor of Rus sia $7,200,000 _for Alaska under the treaty of 1367. It is pompously word ed. beginning “Pay to the undersigned Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias.” The war rant is signed by F. E. Spinner, then Secretary of the Treasury. This draft was indorsed by Edward de Stoeoke, j the Russian Minister, and was depos ited in the Riggs Bank, one of the old est banks in Washington. It will be remembered that the treaty under which this purchase was made was nicknamed “Seward’s Folly." The war rant called for payment in coin and was so met. A Warrant for a still, larger sum and a far-more important-territory is that covering the Louisiana Furch amount being $15 000.000. Thi i der the treaty of 1803. I “Many people have an idea, too,” ’ said Miss Brady, "that we paid noth- : ing for the Philippines. They think we simply marched in and took the is lands and that that was all there was of it. Nevertheless, four warrants of $5,000,000 each, making $20,000,000 in all, were paid to Spain. These war rants were indorsed by Jules Cambon, the French Minister, representing the Government of Spain: this for the rea son that a treaty cannot be entered into by any country directly with one with which it is at war.” These various warrants, though can celled, serve as receipts and as Miss Brady announces ominously that in case of their loss the Government j might never be able to prove that the I moneys were paid, she hastily lavs ' them away again under heavy lock | and key. “And now I will show you my jew els,” she will tell you. bringing another black box of ancient cut and time worn decoration. Peering at its lid, you can faintly decipher some fantas tic gold lettering, and you read, guess ing at it here and there: "Accounts; G. Washington with the United State*. Commencing June. 1775. and ending June 17S3, comprehending a space of eight years.” Inside are three or four battered calf bound account books, all neatly filled with debit and credit columns in the smooth writing of the. great Ameri can parent. The. rounded letters, with their gracefully curiicured ments, and the beautifully formed WEARING HATS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS One looks at the members and rubs his eyes in ast inishment. says a most Interesting article in Appleton's Mag azine for December, for in this august assemblage, in the presence of the speaker in al! the majesty of wig and gown, undeterred by the sergeant-at- arms and his sword, fully half tho members are wearing their hats! And they wear them in tlie most decil- may-care sort of way: not at all as if it was a matter of pride with them to have cultivated the most acute angle at which a hat could be worn and stiil remain on the head. They wear them aim \st touching their noses: they wear them almost touching their necks: they wear them tilted far hack on their heads: they wear them well over their ears; and they loll back against the benches and fold their arms and in quiet time* gently slumber: but the hat is always there. It is very pecu liar. A member may wear his hat in the House so long as he is sitting, but the moment he rises he must uncover: and of course no one remains covered when he addresses the chair. Buf here is one af those paradoxes that make the House always so delightfully interesting and ■ its rules so unlike those of any other legislative body. When the House Is dividing and a member desires to raise a point of or der, the rules require that he must ‘speak sitting and covered.’ On one occasion Mr. Gladstone raised a point of order and for the moment forgot the rule. No sooner did he begin to speak than the House shouted a: him “Hat! hat!” Every cabinet member has a private room where he leaves ” his hat, and Mr. Gladstone as usual d the House hatless, and so had ministers around him. There was a frantic search for a hat, | much to the malicious delight of the opposition, and finally a hat was snatched up and Gladstone put it on his head. But Gladstone’s head was the larg est in the House and the hat belonged to a member who had a very small head, and it perched on iris head liko a vaudeville artist’s ’’tile." Gladstone was always a man of tremendous en ergy in speaking and as he spoke the little hat wabbled all over his crown and was in danger of falling off. TO prevent this catastrophe, a member sitting behind him leaned over hint and carefully held the hat in place until Mr. Gladstone had stated his point of order. Last summer a mem ber raised a point of order and. like Mr. Gladstone, found himself without a hat. A fellow member quickly folded up his order paper into a cocked hat. such as children wear when play ing' soldier, and offered it to-his friend. Who graveiv wore it. much to the amusement of the House, and thus complied with the technical require ment of the rule of being “covered." The House likewise has its own in regard to the partaking of liquid and solid refreshments. A mem ber making a long speech may take a drink, and the House is liberal enough not to care whether the color of the contents of the glass is white or brown, or black, whether, in fact.* the glass holds water nr whisky or bber. Mr. Gladstone's egg flips, which his wife carefully compounds for him and embellish- brought to the House in a bottle, classic. But woe betid? the man chase, the i eate f« d th j! H: s was un- ! i 1 , 1 _ the . ofhcr , led their parades to stretch out lit tle by little into the territories of their neighbors. At last, and so recently as to be remembered by most of those who now line Broad street to watch symmetrical figures, are eloquent proof of the painstaking exactness brought into play in. even the minutiae of his affairs. These accounts were kept mainly while on the march, yet they were brought up from day to day with the greatest accuracy, arid the recapi tulation at the end of each book is de tailed and .comprehensive. The ac counts cover money of Washington’s j own spent for the Government and j Government funds expended by him. J His conscientiousness is shown In a footnote, calling attention to have paid for which he had no receipt. This themselves into local clubs, and the good American spirit of competition I i”” 1 t rt ejenieU onf lib I DUt he deducted from his own credit until th*> matter should be definitely set- tlf*L Seme curious little differences in courtier and rupid. tinker, and Turk, j bookkeeping phraseology are shown dance past like so many crazv human j? 1 these books. For instance, the top butterflies, these lesser processions be came merged into greater one. The one-time prizes offered by local' busi ness men’s associations have been gen erously supplemented, if not ed by cash awards totaiin; as $10,000, offered by the City Coun cils. And these same Councilmanic worthies stand for hours shivering on a reviewing stand that they may fitly decide which individuals and which clubs are to divide the financial spoils. How they do spend the money, these New Year Shooters! Their giddy get- ups may be ever so laughable, but they represent usually hundreds and often thousands of dollars, when one reckons them up club by club. These men are earners of wages, not salaries: their homes are in the poorer part Jas*one of~the charac- | of «>' en the slums, so nearly rate $416. "What for? My price is 3409. and I do not see why you should wish to pay me more than I ask,” an- j swered the proprietor. “Well." you sec it is lik? this." replied Bartlett, •'mv salary as a Congressman is $416 I per month and if I pay you only $400 j for board I wouldn't know what to do with the remaining $16.” Tlie judge didn't stop at that hotel. teristlc things Mr. Finley said. The home life of the hummingbird was the last and most charming of the was is now quite aged and a pension would be a great blessing in his declining years. Mike has not been an idler by reason of hig maimed condition, but has been very industrious. Although forced to walk on his knees he has been an excellent farm hand and can yet chop an acre of cotton a day and pick one hundred pounds of the fleecy Staple daily. Judge Allen Fort, of Americu his body-ser- j j n Macon yesterday. He appeared in better health than I had seen him for some time. Formerly. Judge Fort took a very active part in politics. When judge of the Southwestern Superior Court Circuit he was an able and im partial jurist. Judge Fort participated in one of the hottest Congressional campaigns ever known in the Third district. It was when he was a can didate against Elijah B. Lewis, of Mon tezuma. The echoes of that conflict are heard until this day. Judge Fort him ) had a great deal to do vjlth the pas- " sage of the bill creating the State Rail- in which were inclosed precious relics series shown. Mr. Finley called hint It Is now a case of "Shoot. Luke, or give up the gun.” The Mayor and ; road Commission. He was a member ■ of the Legislature at the time, in 1S79. : The Constitutional Convention of 1S77 i adopted General Toomb's idea that the I General Assembly should regulate rail- j road rates and prevent discriminations | in freight and passenger tariffs. Hon. j W. R. Rankin, of Gordon County, and Hon. Allen Fort, of Sumter, introduced bills in the General Assembly to carry ■ out this provision of the Constitution, i There was a !ong v and hard fight over the matter, but the measure finally Council will have to decide the whisky passed the Legislature, and on Oct question, which has been brought be fore them by the Anti-Saloon League. They are face to face with the issue. When Alderman McKenna suggest ed that certain aldermanic committees and representatives of the Anti-Saloon League and whisky men meet in con- ber 14. 1679. became a law. Thus the Railroad Commission came into life, and its powers have been enlarged by several subsequent Legislatures The first Commissioners were appointed by Governor Colquitt, with the approval of the Senate, and were: Ex-Governor James M. Smith, Campbell Wallace and the "mite that possesses the tiniest soul in feathers." and said he had spent four different nesting seasons trying to photograph him before he had secured the pictures. "He lives in the sun al most as a fish lives in water," said Mr. for December. Finley. Dr. Oldys spoke of the work of the Audubon Society in saving the birds I and declared educating the children is j the way to preserve the birds. ! Mrs. Lord made an earnest plea for j the cause of the birds. H’varninp nn xrnnr no I About forty members of the field i!iXd;iniI16 1 clD61 Oil your pBr j studies course, under the guidance of per. It tells how you stand on ! Mr - Arthur Barneveld Bibbins. director of Eclipse's red chestnut mane. George IV.. always fond of racing, as have been all the scions of royalty from the days of Henry VIII., when the sport was introduced into Eng land. to the present day. had one of Eclipse's hoofs mounted as a cup. and for a long time it was a challenge prize at Ascot. as Philadelphia may properly be said to hold such within her homey limits. For three hundred and sixty-four days they-are used to close economy, if not actual poverty, and lo! on the three hundred and sixty-fifth they flaunt forth in a prodigal pomp which would put to shame Solomon in all his glory; Warwick James Price,_in The World, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. BEAR MOURNS DEAD FRIEND. the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907. of the- course, made an excursion to the crow roosts between Lansdowne and Arbutus.—Baltimore Sun. An Alien of the Slums. The neighborhood was hostile to him chronically. He moved in this society of mingled races, to which one might Kipling >$he Man. There is a very graceful act connect- j tfjirjR nothing could be alien, as an alien ed with Kipling that few people know. For years no literary man received so many requests for his autograph. He hit on this plan to supply all who want ed them, and to do a good deed at the same time: He sold the autographs for a dollar apiece, and presented the proceeds to the Fresh Air Fund of the “New York Tribune." As a result the fund has been increased by thousands of dollars. His modesty is sincere. Once a par ty of tourists stopped in the road in front "of his house and stood for a while. "That's the penalty of being a great man." said one of the .author’s guests. Nonsense!" exclaimed Kipling: “they are looking a: this fine old Elizabethan place.” Kipling talks very rapidly. There is little, if any. of what is commonly known MM the English accent. He —not understood, not understanding himself completely: so lonely that sometimes his heart was near to break with it: in uncontrolled sympathy laughing and weeping with the joys and sorrows of people who never gave a thought to him. Antoine worked in a lithographing establishment: in his room was a shelf of books which he read continually: he cooked his meals over tt stove no larger than a silk hat. and smoked innumerable cigarettes while he was cooking. It would have surprised these people who regarded him with suspicion and had never seen the inside of his little room, to know that sometimes it seemed to him that they flowed into it and filled it. so that he was no long".- lonely, feeling them about him—the hardwork ing fathers, the worn mothers, the wild sons who hung about the street cor ners, the girls whose lives were dark- FVom the New York Sun. Oyama, the little Japanese black bear, late of den 9. the Bronx zoo. is dead and Togo, the hig Himalayan bear, mourned his dead friend so deeply that it was many hours after Oyama's death before the keepers were able to give him burial. Oyama was a sprightly little chan, and during his lifetime at the zoo was rather a thorn in the side of the more dignified Togo. The Admiral, as Togo is called by the keepers, had never shown much affection for his countryman during the latter's lifetime, but when Oyama died. Togo mounted guard over the Mack bear's bofiv and neither force nor offers of food could move him. He dragged Ovama's body within the den and stood guard. It was not a quiet wake. The other bears, filled with the curiosity of their tribe, shuffled forward to find out why Oyama lay so still. Linie- vitch. the great Russian bear, w.o^ most persistent, but so fierce was Togo's de fense of his friend's body that the Rus sian bruin retreated in bad humor to nurse his wounds. ■Cord of Togo's devotion reached Direc tor Hornaday ami he became interested in what to him was a new phase of bear psychology. He hurried to the don and gave orders to the keepers to throw in a quantity of hay and dead leaves. As soon as this was done. Togo charged the other bears to the extreme end of the rnn and ten dragged th" leaves and hay into the den and carefully covered Ovama's body. Curator Hornaday says that Togo's ac tion is all the more peculiar since he naid no attention when an American black bear d:ed a few days ago. Tt was not until late in tlie afternoon that the keepers, taking advantage of a moment when Togo was engaged in battle with J.ioievitrh. suecedep in dragging the black bear's body from the den. line of a column that is carried for ward reads sometimes “brought ' up.” or when he is very businesslike in deed, "to foot of other side brought upplant- i up.” Occasionally one finds ‘‘brought as high over from other side.” or “Contra— credit side.” The accounts are in Eng lish money. Equally interesting are the old mi leage books, showing the sums allow ed members of Congress for transpor tation to and from Washington. Their traveling was done on horseback or in stage coaches and they were paid so much a mile by the Government. The thirteenth session of Congress, one of .the books reads; and one of its en tries. for $963 mileage, is receipted in a faint, uncertain hand, “D. Webster.” A payment was made to Henry Clay of $560 for 111 days attendance. Con gressmen were paid by the day, and their pay deducted for every day they were absent. Clay's signature was found to have been cut from the book, when it was unearthed not long ngo from 'he musty cupboard where it had lain for many years. The paper in these old books is of beautiful quality, and except for the edges, which have cracked like old ivory, it is still in excellent shape. Holding it .to the light, the royal water mark is disclosed, showing a crown, with the entwined letters GR below, the paper being of English make dur ing the reign of George III. Some of the watermarks show the English eoat-of-arms with the crown above it. Perhaps the most interesting of these old account books are those showing the personal expenses of Washington and his military “family”—evidently his immediate staff. The accounts were kept by Caleb Gibbs, and are generally headed “Headquarters, on the march,” headquarters being sometimes N"w York, sometimes Valley Forge and oth er historic points. They cover pur chases of food supplies, for the most part, though here and there such items appear as who scorns drink and must have meat. Contemporary recollection only recalls one member rash enough to disregard this rule. It was about fifteen years ago in the stormy time of the home rule de bates.' that an Irish member, in the small hours of the morning, produced from his pocket a paper bag and drew out a bun. which he proceeded calmly to eat. The House was Instantly in an uproar, there were loud cries of "Order! order!” and that bun was never, finished. No member may rend a newspaper in the House. Tf he had the temeri ty to smoke, the s^rgeant-at-arms would quickly place him under lock and key. In the course of the very interesting article In Appleton’s mag azine from which we quote, the author describes many other quaint contrasts between our House of Representatives and the English House of Commons. THE ALLOTMENT. From the Columbus Press-Post. First, ma. For her We’-ll get a fur. She needs a fur, you know, And dad, I wist, Will never miss Three hundred plunks or so. Next, sister Grace. Some old point lace Would make a pressent rare; And a= for dad, He should be glad Four hundred bones to spare. For brother Ned, An auto red To drive around the mall. And pa can raise At thirty days The filthy wherewithal. And ere we stop, Let’s think of pop. He needs must labor hard. He finds life grim; We’ll buy for him A real nice Christmas card. To cash for a broom that Peter bought some time ago 6d Cash paid for mending the chariot. Is Agreed with Peggy for 4s per month for the General s washing and 4s per doz. for the gentlemen of the family. On July 9, 1776, the entry is made: This day Mrs. Thompson came to keep house for his excellency, Genera] Washington. On July 10: Bought 11 doz. of Maderia wine of Mr. Thomas Martin. 3 pounds. 12s a dozen. On July 12: His excellency had a present of two barrels cyder. The spelling in all the.--" accounts is most quaint. Here and there appear , People. Mohammedan Women. In Turkey there are 1,500 schools In which girls receive education. There are forty secondary schools having 3.000 girls on their rolls. The learning of Koran is compulsory, and arithme tic, geography and elementary- science are taught. Teaching has now become a respectable profession, and young la dies. after passing the normal exami nations, elect to.become tutoresses in distant parts of the empire. Those who are in a position to prosecute I their studios in the higher standard | learn the French. English and German ; languages, which they sneak fluently, j In Constantinople young Jadios go up I for the medical profession, and there i are more than 300 nurses at the pres- ; ent day. Female educators Is not an j innovation among the Mohammedans j of the present day. Arab and Moorish women in their j palmy days, when their European sis ters were steeped in ignorance, would deliver, sermons and would profess in colleges and schools. The present de plorable condition of the Mohamme dan fc-m.ales is due to the general degradation of the nation. An awak ening is now taking place in some parts of the Mohammedan world, ^and the day may possibly dawn again when the stain of ignorance may be wiped off from the Mohammedan !a- die.* of this country with the help of Government.—Calcutta Country and I Distinct print
