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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
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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 -.
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Gordon in
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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
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