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•« the Kimball Houm and th* Pled*
•rvant Hetel la Atlanta.
■XATTLE OP THE TENDERLOIN."
It la pasSRA^ If society baa any In-
gMaota af aaM- preecrra-tfon left that
the Thaw MM MU haw. fha effect to
fcrti* ahoat a revolution In Jndloial
paaeaadlnfta hadnf t* do with arotte
It la tacalealatfl* tba flar-
utoa and tllltaltaMa aril that ana
aaah trial MR do. and It la astounding
whaa aaa oseUy Chlaka at It that aaeh
Mag* aa tola «MMa apaotaola an al-
laaaad ta to paraded uarttl foe whole
■wU to SBad wtth to In ImIh, wa
aaa toM, to* sufrjeat attract* aa aruoh
•Manat aa to Aaearlaa And what la It
la Its laat asriyetaff St la tha "aseee-
aary arU" towito tola tha famtltar ln-
tsmjanrsa of arary ataaa, aaadMan, aaa,
aat aaa of tha people. TT»a “tattle of
Dm taadeNata,** aa Mr. Jerama tarma
It made tha household topic aat ta ba
dtacnaasd. It la true, hr member* of
tha family balwaaa thamoelve*. and
pat ta ba dtaooaeed with auk and etwy
■ePtor, perhaps. through thalr dally
and ftmMtr "foedp," tha aawapapar.
Hot# tha hlatoey, preoaaa aad arouse
asr thla font axpkoalon. It break! aat
through tha aacrat ahannels between
tha "upper ornat” called aoclaty aad
too under world. Prom flma to time
aoma helnoua crime result, from these
■oderground communications between
the two; a public trial Is necessitated;
tha lid Is blown off; tha foul denizens
are dragged to toe light; the seething
caldron of vice Is exposed and the
svorld 1s permitted to handle and view
tha tael thirst to fhsninarJze Itself with
fha "tattle of the tenderloin,” otherwise
tabooed by society, sntll tba dlaltac-
tiene and demarcations between virtue
aad rleaj between alaattaeae aad dirt;
between petit* tatereour.se and rulga-
atanlsm are aeadbwndad If not obliter
ated. It la not extravagant ta oon-
«*•** toad the affect of tha Thaw trial
MR ba to bring about earns regtaatlen
whereby tha dataila of this class of
crime shall be rigidly precluded from
the pram loan one puhtte view. Some
such restriction must ba exereieed or
eerieto wetorty and criminally will be
aBawad to drift farther aad farther out
Into a aaa of blaoknaaa In which no
tori pot eater shlaee ta guide and eteer
toe human aaae dear of the engulfing
waters af Ma ri rises carnal suture.
WHMI OflLMAB PELL DOWN.
Tba Attaato Georgia* recalls that
toriphln N. Drimis "directing tha Thaw
defense In Haw Yota, had a great op
portunity to beoome a great man at the
St Inuls oanswnflon of 1901, and be
came very near ta utilising It but not
grite.“ Ha was put forward to noml-
aafa Haaret for tba Trasldeney and be
gan beaatWully, the Georgian says.
Idfllrg bis finger and pointing aa
ha apok'e until it seemed as if he al
most touched the other end of the
feerizoo, he said in deep and thrill-
ft|E |OTM|:
hCallirorala, California.’* he mid
It torlee—''^California, for the first
tints in her history, presents a na
tive atm for the ’Presidency af the
United States."
The sentence la Its brevity, com
prehensiveness and magaatlem
swept tha audience like a west
wind aad the orator caught them
with bis opening word. He went
an for fire minutes In a strain of
Impressive eloquence that rivaled
Bryan's, and if he eorid have eus-
talned It he would have stood
shoulder to shoulder with tha fam
ous Nebraskan as the hero of the
convention, aad would have carried
home a national and enduring
fame.
®ot suddenly, somewhere, and
without warning or explanation,
fha magnetism died from the
speaker's manner, tha thrill left his
voice, the pulse of his oratory fell
from exalted heights to mediocrity,
and he spoke for tan minutes
longer on (he dead level of the te
dious speeches that had gone be-
fora And from tha moat superb
baginning which any orator had
made in the great assembly, and
from tha moat highly raised ex
pectation that had coma to tho
convention's life, th* California or-
b*®**'wl»ae power was put Into his
opening word, dropped from the
heights to th* level plain and be
came a groundling Ilk* th* rest.
XYom his great exordium h* drifted
into a tame peroration end sunk to
silence and oblivion simultaneously.
The Georgian marvels and gropea for
•a explanation of “the sudden drop
of the brilliant Californian" after be
had soared to hie initial Bight. The
explanation la simple. Daniel Webster,
who waa qualified to speak on tha aub-
faot If aver man waa, said lhar* war*
three essentials to a groat speech: a
great occasion, a great water and a
groat eubfeot Delates may bo a great
orator; ho oestrinly had a groat occa
sion; but ho trippod up on hto ash-
Jeot Tho elements af greatness were
not present to Burst and Dolmas was
brought down by toe imitations af his
subject
DAN-FEL WEBSTER ANO STATE
SOVEREIGNTY.
In the recent debate In the Senate
on the question whether to describe the
war ef secession as a "rebellion” or a
“civil war," to which we have already
referred. Senator Bacon In the course
of his speech, said:
"Some time, I think about tbs
year IttO—I have forgotten the
exact year—there was a vary re
markable libel case tried In the city
of Boston, In which Daniel Web
ster waa the prosecutor and a man
whose name I have forgotten, a
prominent man, was the defend
ant. In that suit tbs prosecution
was based on an alleged libel
against Daniel Webster, the great
advocate of the doctrine of the
supremacy of the Union and the
great advocate of the maintenance
of the Union. There cou:d have
been no case in which he could
have been more directly Interested
or In which every utterance must
have challenged his attention, be
cause the prosecution—It" was not
a civil suit, but a criminal prose
cution—grew out of an alleged
libel against Daniel Webster,
charging him with having been in
active sympathy with those promi
nent Influences in New England
which opposed the war of 1812 and
threatened secession on account of
that war.
"I have a book, unfortunately not
now at hand, which was sent to
me from a gentleman In Boston,
Col. Benton, who prepared a his
tory of that libel suit. In which
there Is not only a narration of the
suit, but there are also copious
extracts from the record, among
other things, of the argument in
the court, the opinions of the court,
etc., and in the course of It, with
Daniel Webster an interested par
ty present, the fact is stated not
as an individual opinion, but as a
conceded fact and principle of the
Government. I think by the court,
or in the argument in the progress
of the case, that it was the right
of a State to secede; and Daniel
Webster present and the proposi
tion having a most material bear
ing upon the case In which he was
ao deeply and personaly interested,
and neither he nor any other per
son present challenged the state
ment that auch was a generally
conceded proposition.”
The book referred to by Senator Ba
con la a monograph written by Joslah
H. Benton, Jr., (Goodspeed, Boston,
1904), entitled "A Notable Libel -Case”
and Is the story of the criminal prose
cution of Theodore Lyman, Jr., by
Daniel Webster in the Supreme Judi
cial Court of Massachusetts, November
term, 1828. The attention of one of
the editorial writers for The Telegraph
waa recently called to this interesting
reproduction of forgotten records by
Mr. Chailea Francis Adams, of Massa
chusetts, who delivered the Lee cen
tennial oration at Lexington, Va., on
the 19th of last month.
The interesting passage referred to
by Senator Bacon will he found on
page 90 and occurs in the argument of
Samuei Hubbard, who defended Ly
man, and who waa afterwards a justice
of the Supreme Court of Massachu
setts. His assertion, which apparently
was not challenged by any one, was as
follows.
"A confederation of the New
England States to confer with each
other on the subject of dissolving
the Union was no treason. The
several States are independent and
not dependent. Every State has
■ right to secede from the Union
without committing treason.”
For this reason, Hubbard argued, the
accusation made by Lyman against
Daniel Webster could not be regarded
as libelous. The well known charge of
John Quincy Adams that from 1807-8
to the end of the War of 1812 the lead
ing Federalists of New England were
engaged in plots to sever their section
from the Union was referred to at this
trial. 'Being one of the leading Feder
alists and an early disciple of Timothy
Pickering, Webster was included in the
charge made by Mr. Adams. Professor
Van Tyne in his recent "Letters of
Daniel Webster” has shown that the
great New Englander, speaking on the
floor of the House at Washington dur
ing the War of 1812, intimated that. If
driven to it, his State would defy the
Federal Government and secede from
the Union. When Webster "threatens
that the State Government will inter
fere,” pointedly observes Professor Van
Tyne, "we wonder if Hayne and Cal
houn went any further.”
The suit against Lyman in 1828
indicates how sensitive about his
early record Webster—then and
ever thereafter a champion of the
Union—had become. The record of the
trial in the book referred to shows that
the Jury disagreed and the case was
dismissed. Senator Bacon might with
point have added that Massachusetts
threatened defiance of the Federal Gov
ernment as late as 1844-5 in the reso
lutions of its Legislature on the sub
ject of annexation of Texas.
Review of Thaw
Trial Up to Date
By JAMES H. MOORE.
The first week of the Thaw trial has
passed with varying fortunes fully as
sensational and pyrotechnlcal as any
one could have expected.
The tedious work of selecting the
Jury having been finally concluded the
previous week. District Attorney Je
rome made a quiet but masterly pre
sentation of the case of the State
against Thaw, showing to the jury in
the briefest way the cool, deliberate,
apparently unprovoked act of Thaw
walking up on White from behind and
without warning shooting him down,
firing two bullets into him after be
was dead, in order to make sure of his
work. Having averred in the indict
ment in the time-honored words of the
law, that the prisoner took White’s life
deliberately and with malice afore
thought, it was only necessary to show
the simple facts of the killing, as the
by his poetic pleader that he put him
In charge of the "conduct of the case,
unceremoniously displacing the Napo
leon of the “unwritten law” trans
planted from California who had held
himself in reserve to take up at the
proper stage the conduct of the case
along the lines upon which Thaw's
chances for life really lay. Gl.eason
was not fortified with either facts, wit
nesses or technical knowledge to es
tablish his arbitrary theory of tempo
rary and single subject insanity. He
led off with a presumably expert wit
ness who was as illy qualified as him-
so:f both in facts and technical knowl
edge of the subject of insanity, to sub
stantiate the theory and they both fell
into the trap that the wary Jerome had
ready for just such a situation and
which they should have foreseen, but
did not. Jerome had studiously qual-
national bank notes—we had In the
country in the fall 'of last year nearly
$7,300,000,000, less the 8337,000,000 1“
the treasury. We had a per capita cir
culation of J33.OS, or nearly eight dol
lars more than the abundant circula
tion of 1896.”
■•H-H-i-H 1 i-H ■l-I-I 'l-I-H-l 1 H-l-H-fr
Caught on
the Wing
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By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET.
There are thirteen thousand dollars
($13,000) worth of memorial windows
in the magnificent new St. Joseph’s
Catholic church, in this city. They
are all beautiful, but some are more
elaborate than others. The colorings
and finish are exquisite, the product
of the finest art. Biblical Incidents,
scenes, figures and groups are por
trayed upon the glass; some are very
impressive and teach enduring les
sons. For instance: One that shows
our Lord as a child in the work-shop
of St. Joseph might serve as a regu
lar kindergarten for the children of
the church—an object lesson. And
then side by side are Saint Aloysius
and Saint Berchmans; the former was
prince and heir to the throne of
other was the great abbess of many
monasteries in Ireland.
The following windows are In the
left nave of the church, extending from
the transepts:
St. Peter Clnver, S. J., who had
special care over negroes. Is upon the
window given by Mrs. S. L. Taylor.
He was a favorite apostle.
The window given by the Dingier
family represents St. Vincent of Paul,
founder of the Sisters of Charity.
The window with St. Veronl-ca was
the gift of Mr. and Mrs. M. Callahan.
This Saint holds in her hands a towel
with the Imprint of the Lord's face
upon it. When our Savior was on His
way to Calvary bearing His cross He
sank to the earth exhausted, from the
weight of his burden, and His face
was covered with sweat. One of the
women who met him in the way wiped
His face with a towel, and the imprint
of the face was left upon it.
erected. Father Wlnkelrrii has bee
at this church since isss. He has
devoted and able assistant in Re
John P. McDonnell. The Jesuits :x:
suined possession of the church here ,
1S87.
Mrfand Mr^ 5 Matthew Daly gave the ^bl^and «« stn
indow which shows Saint Elizabeth. ; Macon
Th!! Nine, such quantities that I was almost
window
Queen t-
charitable and her husband, the King,
just the reverse. She had to slip food
clandestinely to the poor. In the pic
ture of the Queen on this window she
has in her hands a dish of roses par
tially concealed by her mantle. The
story Is this: Once as she was car
rying In the folds of her mantle some
provisions for the poor, she met her
husband returning from the chase.
Astonished to see her bending under
the weight of her burden, he asked her
what she was carrying. She replied
“Roses.” He opened the mantle which
she kept pressed against her, and found
in it nothing but beautiful red and
white roses, although it was not the
•aw would infer the malice, under these ! ified himself to discuss the subject of ■ Italy, but he resolved to leave the al- i season for flowers. By some unseen
circumstances, which was requisite. In insanity and his opponents had not. It
the absence of explanation, to make is not surprising tjhat he made a fero-
tho deed murder. Mr. Jerome then j clous meal of them. The entire insan-
rested his case. It was up to Thaw ; ity plea was apparently demolished at
and his counsel to show legal justifi- j the very threshold of the trial. It was
cation or excuse for this highest of- j a day of fierce joy for Jerome and of
fense, in the eyes of the law, against ■ deep gloom for the defense. The Im-
both the human and divine law, taking . perturbable De mas—he of the Napo-
from a fellow-creature the life that • leonic lock from the Golden Gate—saw
only God could bestow, and which not bis Waterloo In his associate's blunder,
even God,
laws, coui:
lurements and ^glitter of the worid and
become a religious, and the other was
a peasant of Holland. Thus standing
abreast are king and peasant, so to
speak, which teaches that the Catholic
church makes no difference, before
I God, between the throne and the hut
power the provisions had been turned
into roses. Bidding the Queen pursue
her way, he took one of the marvelous
roses, and kept It all his life.
The gift of Mr. and Mrs. G. L.
Blaess, and Mr. J. C. Hanse was the
window showing St. Francis Xavier,
3, without violating his own j and beat the table as he cried:
i:d restore. | "It’s a farce, a d—d farce.”
(He held the opportunity of his life
in his hands in the story which the
faultlessly drilled Evd yn Thaw would
repeat to the jury and he was com
pelled to sit still and see his associate
The Thaw side opened up with a
double-barrelled defense. It laid the
foundation for the plea of a hereditary-
temporary insanity and of self-defense.
If Harry Thaw was truly insane when I dissipate it all with a poet's absurd
ha slew White he would not be re- j dream of "glaring demons.” There
sponsible for his deed. If he believed • was but one thing . to do Napoleon
that his own life was in danger from m Ust assert himself. Napoleon did.
White and that If he did not kill White
White would kill him, it would be some
legal justification for the deed, al
though not such as would exonerate
him from blame, because the law as
to the plea of self-defense requires a
man to retreat until his back Is to the
wail or his life Is in Imminent danger
before taking the life of his adversary.
There is a third defense—the "un
written law," upon which Thaw and
! The’ windows came from Munich. Ger- \ the great apostle, to the Indies, preach
ing to the Japanese nobility.
The Redmond family presented the
window showing St. Aloysius. He was
of noble family, heir to the throne of
Italy. Became a Jesuit and was the
patron Saint of youth.
The window given by the M. Fitzger
ald family shows St. John Berchmans,
of Holland. He sanctified himself by
a strict observance of the rules of tha j
Jesuit order.
many, and, with but few exceptions,
have been placed In the church by
loving relatives in memory of depart
ed kindred. Yesterday I had the priv
ilege of viewing each of the windows 1 ,
and I thought some mention of them,
and by whom given, and in whose
memory they were erected, would be
of interest to the readers of The Tele
graph.
bench would tell the jury that the un
written law had no standing in his
court? What mattered it that Evelyn
Thaw’s story of her wrongs were irrel
evant to the Issue in this case except
his oounsel really rely to save his life, j through the unsubstantiated plea of in-
The day that Delmas put Evelyn
Thaw on the stand Jerome’s triumph
and joy was dashed with the pres
cience of perhaps inevitable defeat.
AL hat mattered it that the judge on the | j n memory of her brother, George.
Our Lord at the age of twelve among
the doctors in the temple, is the sub
ject upon the window given by Mrs.
There are seven windows in the
sanctuary. The life of Saint Joseph,
from his espousal to his death, is rep
resented upon five of these windows.
The center window, showing the death
of St. Joseph, In the company of Je
sus and Mary, was given by a friend
of the church.
The window at the right, showing
the nativity of our Lord, was the gift
of Miss Amelia, Henry, Julius and Ed
ward Horne.
The window at the left, the gift of
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Burke, represents
the annunciation.
The espousal of St. Joseph to the
blessed Virgin Mary is upon a win
dow erected by Miss Josephine Greene
City Mules and Farm Mules.
To the Editor of The Telegraph: Har-
I ing read an article in Sunday's issue
I ’ of the sale of the old mules belonging
to the city, and special stress was put
upon old Net and her faithful old
driver, Henry Wallace. His chief grief
seemed to be that she would fall into
| the hands of some heartless farmer.
AVhy old Henry should think that
! farmers were heartless to their stock
seems very queer to me.
j From my observation of stock owned
; by farmers in this vicinity they fair
much better than the beloved mules
[ owned by the city. During my many
I residences in the city of Macon, I have
n the mules brought out from their
the streets
from
in
quantities that I was almost un-
j able to tell the color of the mule, and
the cltv of Macon today, does not own
a mule that is In any better condition
(unless it is of recent purchase) than
those of the average farmer of Bibb,
or any adjoining county.* I fear that
Henrv Wallace's grievances are more
from "fear of having to handle a young
mule, that he will have to lead up oc
casionally. (as he won t know what
"come here” means) or he might walk
beyond a pile of trash a few feet,
which would cause Henry some trouble
or extra steps, or it might not want to
stand in front of some gate, while lie
enjoyed a half hour’s chat by the cook s
fire "eating the white man’s rood. In
this vicinity there were six mules that
belonged to the late Ellison Edwards.
Arch. J. Smith, and Mr. John Her
rin, that made an average of twenty-
six crops while in their possession, and
I do not know how many they made
before they were purchased by these
men. I will also mention three mules,
one of which belong to the late and
venerable Mr. Bedingflcld and two Ik 1
longing to the late Minis Railey
lived on an average of over fifty
years, and they were not sold at pub
lic outcry when they be'eamo o'd :,n ”
decrepit, bu t were handled as though
they, were an aged human being. As
far" as the hard ground is concerned.
It has always proven a luxury to a
stove-up mule, instead eff a burden.
thers. Waiter
that
but which nominally they are com
pelled to repudiate because the court
does not recognize it. Even this de
fense, which though barred out in
name is ever present and all pervading
in the trial, does not, as yet disclosed,
appear fairly and squarely applicable
to the case.
Tn a ftougfetfol editorial aa John tD.
Rockefeller** magnMeent gttt of 8M,-
•oo.ooo to edoeatton. Che Charlotte Ob
server sum* it op a« “a splendid, bat
enervating gift." The point to perhaps
well taken *«■> ether and even more
vital standpoints toaa thee* wentlened
by th* Observer.
The Atlanta ttonraal to aratring orwr
the presence ta that city ar ttaeeto Na
tion. Atlanta can have h«r.
Discussing the appropriation by the
House of 11,000,000 for the Jamestown
Exposition, with rulings safeguarding
Its return to the Treasury, the Wash
ington Post says: "It Is now certain
that the celebration of the founding of
the American nation will be on a sca.e
worthy of the historic Importance of
the event and of enduring benefit to all
Americans who flock to the Old Do
minion to see with their own eyes the
marvelous contrasts between the past
and the present which will be visible
on every hand.” The Exposition man
agement will be pushed to employ the
money to advantage within the limited
time. The appropriation should have
been made long since.
There has been much said and writ
ten about the "unwritten law,” but it
was not until quite recently that any
one had ever essayed to definitely set it
forth or codify it. Judge Thomas J.
Kernan, of Louisiana, in an address
before the American Bar Association
last summer on the “Unwritten Law”
enunciated ten cardinal laws of this
"Jurisprudence of lawlessness,” which
have no pi:ace in the statute books but
which, nevertheless, In so many cases
shape and dictate the verdict of juries.
The two laws of this decalogue bearing
most approximately upon the Thaw
case are given here because of the
large part that the "unwritten law”
will play in the trial and its determina
tion. They are as follows:
LAW IT.
Any man who commits adultery may
be put to death with Impunity by the
injured husband, who shall have the
right to determine the mode of exe
cution, be it never so cowardly.
LAW in.
Any man who seduces an Innocent
girl may, without a hearing, be shot
or stabbed to death by her. or any near
re.ative of hers, and If deemed neces
sary by the slayer, such shooting or
stabbing may be done in the back, or
while laying in wait.
There are some distinctions that
must be broadly stated ’before Thaw’s
case Is brought under these outlawed
statutes. The injured husband is pre
sumed to have the right to avenge his
present wrong, but haw No. II does not
ha\e any retroactive provision which J ba ] r of his precious carcass may be
reaches back to a time when the hus
band was not and had no rights. On
sanity and the effect the teMing of It
to Thaw Is alleged to have had to drive
him mad? The one essential fact re
mained that it would go to the jury
and nothing could ever erase it from
their minds. They would lose sight of
Thaw and his crime in the enormity of
White’s murder of a soul. What
booted It that he might pick the story
to pieces, mayhap force Evelyn out of
her own mouth to confess she had lied
again and again In the construction of
her story to meet the case? White Is
dead. His lips are closed. He cannot
rise from the tomb to defend himself
against the woman who once called
him friend. Possibly he would not If
he could. Who knows? He had his
sins—black ones possibly—but not as
black as painted. Not black enough
to add one straw to the infamous or
deal which Thaw, out of alleged love
for his wife, has subjected her to in the
effort to rescue himself from the pen
alty of his crime. White was human
In his frafAIes—human doubtless in his
better traits. It is very possible to
conceive of him destroying the body
of Evelyn Thaw for his pleasure, but
to drag her woman’s soul through the
hell and grime of a public avowal and
exposure to a gaping world to save
himself from the penalty of his sins, it
is easy to believe he was too much of a
man for that That remained for the
spoiled boy who never was denied any
thing; who coifid not take his own
pleasure without adding to others’
pain; who is still the spoiled boy at 36;
who cannot let his own lawyers con
duct his case without capricious In
terference; who cheerfully involves his
entirely family connections in a plea of
hereditary Insanity and bares his wife’s
shame to a maudlin puttie that not one
Mr. Crutchfield's br
Upon the window over the main en- i Adams and others, used to send the r
trance of the church is Hoffman’s pic- 1 mules out to the firm of tne
tlir of - VI > _ « ' YTrt _ aIA Vir-Kn* filirl AT 1Y>
by Mr.
Pa Over S one of the entrance doors is a j preparatory for the winter’s work. The
window called Ecce Homo. It was ! average farmer does not have very
placed there by Mr. T. C. Burke in
e of the church is Hoffman’s pic- | mules out to the farm of the late
sf the last supper. It was erected 1 Wingfield Nisbet, and of my husband,
r. Henry Horne In memory of his j Mr. Edward S. Srn.th, that thej m •« t
ts | t> e plowed and their joints limbered up
X
John Hurley and children, in memory
of her husband and their father.
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Carling gave a
window showing the apparition of our
Lord, after His resurrection, to Saint
Thomas.
The gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chris. Sher
idan and children, represents Saint Ig
natius, the founder of the Jesuits, and
his companions, at Mont Martie, Bar
is.
K. L. Russell does a funny cartoon
for the Washington Post In the dis
tance stand* the Cincinnati customs
house with this sign hanging out:
"Wanted, a Surveyor of Customs." In
th* foreground appears the Charleston
customs house with Tillman standing
on Its portico and shouting, "Here’s
one!" aa he extends toward the Cin
cinnati recency a dusky figure hang-
tag by toe seat of its trousers from one
of th* prongs of his pitchfork. The
erriggiiag Gear* 1* labeled “Crum.”
the contrary, the civil law has a maxim
which bids the buyer beware of a
questionable contract, and Thaw was
fully advised of the character of the
transaction into which he entered with
open eyes.
Neither would Law No. IH appear to
cover Thaw’s case, as at the time of
the alleged wrong done Evelyn Nesblt
by White Thaw did not stand in any
of the relations requisite to qualify
him as her avenger. To plead this law
woU:d also imply a retroactive pro
vision to which it makes no pretense.
However, the court trying Thaw does
not, as before stated, recognize these
laws although It is highly probable the
whole case will turn on them in reality.
Mr. Gleason, who mad* the prelim
inary address for the defense, stating
the grounds they would go to trial on
and the facts they expected to prove in
support of them, disavowed the "un
written law” plea and built up in his
own mind and outlined to the Jury a
defense constructed on the theory of
Thaw’s hereditary tendency to insanity
being wrought on as a result of
White’s conduct and excited to a pitch
where he truly if Illusively regarded
White as a "demon glaring at him”
and one whom It would be pleasing In
the sight of Providence for him to re
move. Thaw was so pleased with the
fanciful and unreal picture presented
singed or one moment of his vicious
freedom curtailed. And all this in the
name of the "unwritten law” usually
invoked by supposedly manly men to
protect the weaker vessel.
In the transept before the altar of
the Sacred Heart of Jesus are the fol
lowing windows:
One, representing the agony in the
garden of our blessed Lord, with three
of His apostles, was erected by Mr.
and Mrs. L. G. Cusson, in memory of
their young son, Leon, Who was
drowned in the Ocmulgee river a few
years ago with Gordon, the son of Mr.
Jerome B. Pound, of Chattanooga.
A gift, by Mr. John Lacey, shows
our Lord blessing the children.
The apparition of our Lord to tho
blessed Margaret and Mary, is shown
upon the window given by Mr. T. C.
Dempsey and family.
The window portraying the appari
tion of our Lord, after His resurrec
tion, to Mary Magdalene, was the gift
of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Schoneman.
Saint John reclining on the bosom
of our Lord at the last supper, is
shown upon the window erected by
Mr. Dugei Fern in memory of his
father and mother.
In the transcept before the altar of
the Blessed Virgin Mary are these
windows:
The first one In order Is a gift of
friends of the church, representing the
apparition of the blessed A r irgin Mary
to the shepherdess at Lourdes.
Next comes the window given by
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Sheridan, Il
lustrating our Blessed Lady, at the age
of three years, being presented by her
■mother in the temple to the high priest.
The assumption of our Blessed Lady
into Heaven appears upon the window
erected in memory of Mr. and Mrs.
A. McKenna by their children, S. E.,
William, Nora and MacSelino. This
window is from the famous painting by
Muriilo.
The Sodalities of the Blessed Virgin
Mary gave a window representing
Saint Dominic receiving the rosary
from the Blessed A r irgin Mary.
Our Lord as a child In the work
shop of Saint Joseph, is the scene
upon the window presented by Miss
E. A. Ward.
THE MONEY WE HAVE.
"Have we enough money?" asks
Harper’s Weekly—meaning, of course,
as a nation. In 1896 the amount of
money in the United States was equiv
alent to 825.62 a head, while only
821.44 of this was in actual circulation.
That is. the business, pleasure needs,
and extravagances of the country had
use for about four dollars less than
could have been had from the banks
and the treasury. Since then the vol
ume of money 'ha3 Increased, both In
this country and In Europe, and the
volume of business also. “In the mere
matter of coin, the United States is
coining annually about 8300,000,000 in
gold; Great Britain, nearly 860,000,000;
Australasia, a littie more than Great
Britain: France, about 835,000,000;
Germany, about 825,000,000; and Ja
pan, more than 830,000,000. In this
country the amount, on the 1st of Oc
tober, of gold and silver coins and cer
tificates and of United States and na
tional bank notes, was 83,148,735,532.
Besides the actual money in the coun
try, there were in the banks Individual
deposits to the amount of 84.199,938,310.
If we add to this amount, against
which checks could be drawn—and
checks constitute currency as well as
In the right nave of the church, ex
tending from the transepts to the prin
cipal entrances, are the following win
dows:
First, Saint Patrick, illustrating to
the King and Queen of Tara, through
the three leaves of the piece of sham
rock which he holds In his hand, the
doctrine of the Trinity and the Father,
the Son and the Holy Ghost This
window was erected by Mr. W. P.
Doy:e in memory of Mr. P. Doyle and
family.
Saint Alphonsus Liguori, a great
doctor of moral theology, is the sub
ject upon the window given by Mr.
and Mrs. M. O’Hara,
Air. and Mrs. Ignatius Daly gave a
window having Saint Antony of Padua
with the Infant Jesus in his arms.
The gift of the Cassidy Brothers is
a window containing the figures of
Saint Rose of Lima, and Saint Agnes.
Saint Rose has the distinction of be
ing the only American saint represent
ed on any of the windows in St. Jo
seph’s church. "This lovely flower of
sanctity, the first christened Isabel,
but the beauty of her Infant face
earned for her the title of Rose, which
she ever after bore. As a child, while
stiil in the cradle, her silence under
a painful surgical operation proved
the thirst for suffering already con
suming her heart. At an early age
she took service to support her im
poverished parents, and worked for
them day and night. In spite of hard
ships and austerities, her beauty
ripened with increasing age, and she
was much and openly admired. From
fear of vanity she cut off her hair,
blistered her face with pepper and her
hands with lime.” 'She was forever do
ing pennance. Saint Agnes, the other
figure on this window, was beheaded
at teh age of twelve years because
she would not sacrifice her purity.
In her arm she holds a lamb, and In
her hand a palm, emttems of Inno
cence and martyrdom.
On the next window, which was giv
en by Erin’s Sons, are St. Teresa and
St. Bridget, the one was called to
reform her Order of Nuns, and the
memory of his father. Air. Christopher
Burke. And over another door is a
window erected by the same gentle
man in memory of his mother. Airs.
Catharine Burke. It is entitled Mater
Dolorosa.
Above one of the tower entrance
doors Mrs. Fanny Sheridan has placed
a window representing our Lord speak
ing to Nicodemus. The memorial is in
memory of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Valentino.
Over the other tower entrance door
is a window showing the baptism of
our Lord, by St. John. This was
erected by Airs. Julia Barter in mem
ory of her brother, Mr. AV. A. Doody.
All of the windows that have been
mentioned are on the first floor of the
church. The following are the win
dows above:
St. Augustine and St. Ambrose, two
of the great doctors of the church.
This window was erected by Airs.
Emory Speer and Air. Cecil Alorgan, in
memory of their parents, Dr. and Airs.
Ethelbert Morgan.
Mrs. Donnelly and children gave the
window representing St. Peter and St.
Paul, in memory of her husband and
their father, Mr. T. M. Donnelly.
The window, St. Catherine, of Alex
andria, was the gift of the Tracy faml- ... ,,
ly. This virgin Saint was martyred, i the beginning President Roosevelt dis
A beautiful legend relates that Cathe- | countenanced the plan of making the
much hard ground, and very few dull
plows. Plow points are too cheap for
even the poorest ones to use dull ones.
We can always tell tho success of the
farmer by the success of the city. If
the farm is a failure, it can more
readily be seen In the city, more
especially Macon, Ga.
Very respectfully.
AIRS. E. E. SMITH.
Smithjield Farm, R. F. D. No. 5.
House President Wes Born In.
From the New York Herald.
After having failed to be preserved
as a memorial to President Roosevelt
and figuring in litigation. No. 28 East
Twentieth street, the house in which
the President was born, was sold yes
terday by Herman Wronkow to a buy
er whose Identity has not been dis?
closed. It .occupies a lot 25x92, and is
a four-story and basement structure
remodeled for business purposes.
Air. Wronkow bought the property
last August from the Roosevelt Homo
Club, an organization formed to pre
serve it on account of its associations.
The club bought the house in 1905 and
used it as a club house, and several
meetings were held in it to raise sub
scriptions to pay off a mortgage given
to cover the purchase price of $60,000.
It was intended to take up the mort
gage 'by popular subscription, but from
rine having prayed that no man might
touch her body after death angels bore
it to the grave.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Schneider gave the
window, St. Simon and St. James,
Major.
The window, St. James, Alinor, was
.erected in memory of Dr. and Mrs.
Damour by C. and Aletta Damour.
In memory of his mother. Airs. E.
Damour, Air. C. E. Damour, gave the
window, St. Thaddeus.
Frank Kloffled presented the window,
Frank Klopper presented the window,
St. Thomas.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Holloway gave
the window, St Mathis.
The window, St. Bartholomew and
St Philip, were given by the Yaeger
family.
The St Cecilia window was the gift
of the choir. On the evening of her
wedding day, with the music of the
marriage hymn ringing in her ears,
Cecilia, a rich, beautiful and noble
Roman maiden, renewed the vow by
which she had consecrated her vir
ginity to God. The death appointed for
her was suffocation, and she remain
ed a day and a night in a hot-air bath,
heated seven times its wont But "the
flames had no power over her body,
neither was a hair of her head singed.”
The lictor sent to dispatch her struck
with trembling hand the three blows
which the law allowed, and left her
still alive. For two days and nights
Cecilia lay with her head half severed
the pavement of her bath, fully
sensible, and joyfully awaiting her
crown; on the third the agony was
over.”
The ladles of the Altar Society, and
the League of the Sacred Heart gave
the window, St. John and St. Andrew.
In memory of Mr. Michael Daly, his
widow erected the window St. Gregory
and St. Jerome, two great doctors of
the church.
St. Bernard, the founder of the St.
Bernard religious order, is the subject
of the window erected by Mrs. Rosalie
The family of Mr. F. AV. AVhlpple
placed in his memory the window rep
resenting St. Francis of Hieronimo. He
was the great Italian missionary of the
Society of Jesus.
Mr. Chris. Crimmlns made a gift of a
window portraying St. Francis of As
sisi, founder of the St. Franciscan or
der.
A friend of the church gave the
window St. Ursula, the founder of the
Ursuline order.
Mrs. V. C. Barker presented the win
dow showing St. Francis of Sales, Bish
op of Geneva.
St. Benedict, founder of the Benedic
tine order, was the subject of the win
dow erected in memory of Mr. F. J.
Detllng by his wife.
Mr. and Aire. A. Heilker made a gift
of a window representing St. Aionica.
The window given by Mrs. A. Doug
las represents the great apostle of Ger
many.
house a memorial to him. As a con
sequence the public did not respond’ to
the appeals, and the club was glad to
sell the property to Air. Wronkow at
the price he bought it for. At the time
the club was soliciting subscriptions
It was charged that Its officials were
using the names of prominent men
without their consent to swell the net
amount.
Representative Herbert Parsons took
an Interest in the plan at its start, but
he soon dropped it. Scarcely enough
money was raised to pay the expenses
of the club for stationery and postage.
When the Roosevelt Hocne Club sold
the house it did so with an option to
buy it back any time within three
years. It is understood the last sale
is subject to that option.
Between the lower windows are
scenes beautifully Carved In Carrara
marble representing in fourteen sta
tions the passion, or way, of our Lord
from the palace of Pilate to the sep
ulcher. These views were sculptured
near Florence, Italy, at a cost of four
thousand dollars ($4,000.)
The elegant organ In the church
could not be duplicated ‘for le^v than
fourteen thousand dollars ($14,000).
St. Joseph's church cost as It s'-inds
about one hundred and fifteen tho sand
dollars ($115,000.00.)
The church now has only three hells,
but these will be returned to the fac
tory and a chime of twelve bells will be
obtained, which will play almost any
thing. They will cost $6,600.
Father Joseph M. Winkelried is the
frithful priest in charge of the parish.
He is a holy and much beloved man.
By his earnest labors this magnificent
new SO. Joseph’s church has been ,
Porcelain Houses Coming.
London Cable New York American.
The dweller in glass houses may be a
more or less Tabular idea, but the dweller
in a china house will soon be a common
personage. The home of the future will
be built of porcelain. It is now possible
to build cheap, simple and cleanly houses
with, sheets of porcelain instead of bricks
and slate and concrete, and to dispense
with paint, wallpaper, and spring clean
ing.
The porcelain used for building this
Utopian house is produced by a new metn-
od, in sheets about an Inch thick, but
equally as strong as a brick wall. It is
made of a mixture of Cornish clay and
French flint bowlders in certain propor
tions.
The raw material is worked into a liquid
state, then pressed and rolled into sheets.
When dry the sheets can be decorated in
colors, by hand or by a printing process.
The final process is glazing and firing
used in the ordinary potter's trade.
Glazed on both sides, the porcelain
walls reduce construction and interior
decoration to simplicity itself. The out
side and inside walls of the house have
decorative schemes burned into them in
delibly before the house is put together.
Cleanliness Is one of the greatest merits
of the porcelain house. Water and wash-
leather only are needed to replace the
annual household terror known as
"spring cleaning.”
r
Lonely In New York.
From the New York Sun.
“Lonely in New York!” exclaimed the
little woman. "I was never less lonely in
my life. Before I came here from the
West I thought I should probably never
make any acquaintances, but. on the
contrary. New York seems to me to be
the easiest place in the world to ge ac
quainted. True, you may not know your
next door neighbor. Acquaintance does
not go by locality here but by similarity
of tastes. If you can get the tiniest open
ing wedge, in the shape of a club or a
church guild or a charitable society or a
political history class, the whole of that
world receives you. If you play bridge,
or even euchre, you can make acquaint
ances at once. You need not even wait
for invitations. There are places where
bridge is played for charity. Those are
available to any lady who cares to buy
a ticket, and there she will make many
acquaintances. New York hostesses
seem to me amazingly hospitable. I have
known more than one of them to Invite
entire women’s clubs to receptions, when
perhaps they had never seen or heard of
a large number of the women."
Set Fire to Carload of Paper.
From the Baltimore World.
Nicolo Donata, driving a junk wagon
loaded with scrap paper, jumped off at
One Hundred aod Thirty-eighth street
and Willis avenue, yesterday afternoon,
to chase small boys who threw snow balls
at him and hit his horse. One small bc.y
sneaked back and set fire to the paper.
Somebody ran to a fire box and called
the engines. , . . .
The fire engines rushed up. whistling
and clanging, and Nicolo turned and Saw
his wagon afire. The small boys danced
around and sang.
The horse became frightened and ran
away. Small boys, grown-ups. Nicolo and
the fire engines chased after it. The horse
outdistanced them and got to-One hun
dred and Forty-third street, where a po
liceman stopped it. and the fire engines
poured water on the fire.
There was nothing left of tho scrap
paper and the wagon; but what broke
Nicolo’s heart was to see that his good
horse had all the hair singed off his tail.
The small boys escaped.