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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPE
TUE3DAYY, FEBRUARY 26, 1907.
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ROYAL IFIRE BROKE OUT WHEN
BOOT CLOTHES 1 FIREMEN AT FUNERAL
ALTOONA LYRIC
THEATER BURNED
ALTOONA. Pa.. Feb
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24.—Arrange
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last M.
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C totion.‘and sained
to destroy the ;
JCugcne Stansill
and was fighting
roof when an ex
ert on the Interior,
round and severe-
.ised by cross'
on the stage. The hou.
ast November. The loss
. J. D. Hicks and D.
law offices
510,000
TOTAL $525,000
HELPLESS CARNIVAL j
FREAK BURNS TO DEATH
in the $60,000 FIRE IN MILLVILLE. N. J..
1 | STARTED AMONG CORN HUSKS.
d law library. Several other j
of the bui'ding lost heavily and |
ince Is only partial.
While running to the lire Win. W.
Redding, of Dixon, Ill., a visitor to the
city, was stricken with paralysis, and is
in a serious condition at the Altoona
hospital.
itting
out the
Slate roofing.
An Alleged Second PocaFiontas.
Bangor (Me.) Dispatch to New York
Fire- ! World.
1 man Frank Lyman was also severely
cut by flying slate, but not seriously.
Stansill was taken to the hospital and
I may recover.
MILLVILLE, N. J., Feb. 24.—A fire,
which started today in the livery stable
of Jere Clark, on High street, burned
out nine business places, and caused
a loss estimated at $60,000. The fire
is supposed to have been started by
the dropping of a match into a lot of
corn husks in the stable.
COLUMBIA. S. C., Feb. 24—-Wild
Rose, the monkey girl from Yucatan,”
freak which has been on exhibition
here by a carnival company, was
burned so badly last night that she
I died early this morning. She was for-
j ty-five years old. ignorant and idiotic.
; making her wants shown by inarticu-
’ late souds. She was left alone, locked
up in a room. A dog's frantic yells
! attracted attention to the fire.
BAILEY IN HASTE TO
GET TO WASHINGTON
EXPRESS RAN INTO
AN OPEN SWITCH
the Govern-
Elephant a Financier.
From the New York Times.
Gumbo, the trick elephant of Bronx
Park Zoo, and Jack Gleason his keeper,
have been in the banking business for I
several weeks under the name of
•Gumbo & Gleason.” This partnership
st dissolved yesterduy in con- j the papers, C*ipt. Smith mode 2. visit
hv ntnccon I to the Kennebec Valley, ascending the
river to the ; chief village of the Cabas-
sas tribe of Indians, located where now
Robert H. Gardiner, of Gardiner, has,
in rummaging through some old pa- |
pers relating to the early history of f
the Kc-nnebec river, discovered that Po
cahontas was not the only Indian maid
en that saved the life of Captain John
Smith—that there was a Pocahontas in
Maine named Seboois. who died ro
mantically while shielding the gallant *
captain from arrows aimed at him with
deadly intent.
In the summer of 1614, according tp I
STREET RAILWAY BARNS
DESTROYED BY FIRE.
WARREN Pa.. Feb. 24.—Fire today
destroyed the barn? and contents of the :
Warren Street Railway Company, and
jaused a loss of $125,000. Its origin
is unknown. Only four cars were
saved.
SCARED BY ALARM OF FIRE
ITALIANS STAMPEDED CHURCH
Jng will In
all the high
Shildren whenever they
s have up to now
-spring to a common
it by the royal physic-
hamlet In Asturias or
tyrant has always got
royal family than the
Even now King Al
ly bored by visits from
id is expected to pro
ber whole family, good
fifth generation.
fancy
the future King (or
and If not useful she
!. wearing the splen-
ime of these dames—
trimmed .with fecarlet
d. low-buckled -hoes,
gold em-
uence of the discovery by Gleason
es 1 of the business^methods of his asso-
se • elates. ‘ — ■
I- i A cigar box bearing the sign of the
io ' firm, “Gumbo & Gleason." hangs in
g. J front of Gumbo’s stall in the Zoo. In
i-’ this visitors are expected to drop them
it pennies and nickels. Gumbo aeknowl-
■s edges their donations by ringing a
lr little bell. £
rg Of late Gleason has noticed that re-
:e ! ceipts have been falling oft, though at-
>e tendance at Gumbo’s levees was as
large as ever. Accordingly, Gleason
put nails Into the cigar box in such a
way that, should his old friend and
partner be robbing him, the nails would
scratch his trunk. Still, returns were
small. Gleason resolved on strategy.
Seeing yesterday that Gumbo made
several trips to his back room, Gleason
closed the door, leaving Gumbo outside.
A careful search among the rafters
then revealed nearly fifty nickels and
thirty pennies.
“I ought to dissolve partnership after
that.” said Gleason, “but as the money
Is refunded and I know the hiding
place. I guess you’ll find us at the old
stand.”
stands the city of Gardiner. Seboois,
daughter of the chief, famed among In
dians for her beauty, seems to have
been something of a flirt for Captain
Smith had scarcely set foot in the vil
lage when she struck up an acquaint
ance and began the practice of all the
COLLEGE OF ST. MARIE BURNED
CHICAGO, Feb. 24— More than a
dozen women and children were in
jured. several of them seriously, in a
fire scare in an Italian church today.
Two hundred persons became fright
ened by escaping vapor from a radi
ator and rushed from the building.
Most of the injured were trampled on
or cut by glass from a window which
was demolished.
with a
r pagan shower of chains
the neck and long earrings.
rciest Flesh-Eating Animals in
Percentage of people, even of
ho feel an interest in wild ani-
that the largest
if brought
ek ru
fould not he capable
or the cat-like spring
>n. It would not attack, but
naln entirely on the defensive,
its adversary with blows of
dlty and terrific force as at
Uustrate Its superiority not
trength, but in action. I do
e that there is an animal in
! that can act more quickly
voly or can aim its ■ blows
iter certainty than the bear,
go brown boars of the ^Uaska
. south of Bering Pea. are
O largest bears of the world,
evident that there is no part
■ "id outside of America in
h large flesh-eating animals
The bears nro llesh-eaters.
arotis, yet there are none of’
depend upon flesh for food,
most of them flesh compris- s
y small percentage of their
New Shah Has Eut One Wife.
Persia’s new ruler has no harem, in
the sense of a multiplicltv of wives
chemisette, ! and odalisques, differing 1n this respect
nd knotted | from all of his predecessors on the
throne. He has but one consort, to
whom he accords a degree of com-
raderie and consideration rare in
Oriental life. She is a woman of much
education, and, like him, speaks French
perfectly, and is imbubed with ail
sorts of Gallic tastes and Views. Her
dress is always in accordance with
world ’are | the latest dictates of Parisian fashion,
nerally and she keeps a Parisian coutouriere
ages. I of some note, with two clever French
assistants and several modistes, per
manently attached to her household
and busily employed.
The Shah’s wife bears the title of
Anlsed Dowleth. which means “Com
panion of the King." and she is the
mother of the young Crown Prince.
Houssein All MIrxa, whom his father
has just proclaimed heir apparent. In
stead of waiting until the very eve
of his death to make any arrange
ments for the succession, which has
been the practice until now. When it
Is stated that the Shah Fath All had
over a thousand wives, and left 5,000
living descendants at the time of his
death, it will be readily seen that the
new ruler of Persia is a reformer of
the most radical type and a man im
bued with principles and views calcu
lated to commend him to the good will
of Western nations.
overfill al
together in
bassas feminine society in order to win
bis favor.
Although Smith was a most gallant
and courteous man, the princess, made
little headway, for the object of her
affection was occupied with important
affairs and had no time, even if he
had had the inclination, for. sentimen
tal adventures.
When, having been most cordially
received, Capt. Smith and his men
were ready to take their departure, one
of his lieutenants, named Hunt, a quar
relsome and ambitious man. mutinied,
and, joined by some of the party, set
out on a new expedition, taking along
with them several of the Cabassas tribe
as captives.
The chief of the tribe, not knowing
of the mutiny, and thinking the whites
to be all of one party, pursued Cap
tain Smith’s band with a large force,
eager for revenge. Schools, wishing to
warn the captain, ran on ahead of the
avenging braves and came upon the
white men just as they had encamped
for the night a few "miles down the
river. The chief and his warriors were
close behind and just as Seboois flung
herself in front of Captain Smith a
shower of arrows fell upon the camp.
One arrow pierced the devoted maiden’s
breast as she stood shielding the cap
tain, and thus, while he was saved, she
foil dead at his feet.
AT MARIEVILLE, CANADA.
MONTREAL Que., Feb. 24.—The
College of'St. Marie, at Marieville. was
burned to the ground Saturday. Two
hundred and twenty-five students es
caped. Many of them lost their ef
fects. The loss is $100,000.
$75 000 Fire in Elmira. N. Y.
ELMIRA. N. Y. Feb. 24.—A fire to
night on Gerity Bros’, wholesale dry-
goods house, at Lake and Carroll
streets, caused $75,000 damage to stock
and building.
Church in Elmira. N. Y. Burned
TROY. N. Y. Feb. 24—Woodsidc
Presbyterian church was destroyed by
fire today. The loss is $52,000.
$100,000 Fire at Muskogee, I. T.
MUSKOGEE. I. T.. Feb. 24.—Fire
today destroyed the Culberton build
ing. causing a loss of $100,000.
AMERICAN STUDENTS
The largo brown hoars
ind those of the Alaska
which 1 shall make spec
usually travel to the so
th
hit
skan Boar,’
e February
if tho North
Peninsula. to
al reference,
when first
t “Hunting
by Andrew
Scribner.
CABINETS; U. S. AND CANADIAN.
?eretar.v
remind
3 duties
Wilfrid lam
don: of Choi
Bob Evans on tile Navy.
From the National Magazine.
1 entered the navv in the old days "Of
sailing craft, when every man In the seev-
ii o was. first of all a sailor. Yes. I have
witnessed the flogging, which was then a
standard punishment In the navy, and am
familiar with many of the ol r customs
which have long since passed away: yet
which posses n picturesque and charm
ing Interest in story books. I now have
the proud distinction of belonging to the
new navy: and it is with this nwv—the
navy of today—that we have to uni. If
every American citizen eottld realize the
efficient and practical utility of the United
States naval service as it now exists,
there would 1“' no !:< ntuney in appropri
ating sufficient money to create and main
tain a navy adequate to our standing and
needs ns a nation.
I have long been interested in watching
the personnel of the recruits. We have
those high-tempered, quick, alert young
fellows—after they have learned the first
lesson of self-cni.tro!—the lesson of dis
cipline and obedience, that means as
much for themselves as it does for the
service—I love them.
They have made the American navy
■wlint it is today. There is a glint of
"go" and intelligence in tho boys who
pacq the decks of the American men of
war.' Strange as it may seem, a large
proportion of our best recruits have come
from tiie farms and interior, inland cities
of the Middle West. Once neensromed to
the sea. they seem to take to their duties
with a zeal and enthusiasm that equals
even that of the well-seasoned sailors
of the coast towns.
If you ,-ould see the boys as I have seen
them: working and studying to perfect
themselves and win promotion, you would
be no less enthusiastic than President
Roosevelt was after liis trip on the Louis
iana %> .•': ’ •• witnessed with his «.\vn
eves the progress whleh we are making.
Tile 1 . i' 111 d, - i V ■■ i to s ,.,. some export
target practice during the summer, and
we were fortunate enough to make a rec
ord which stands out prominently in
the history of marksmanship. When you
consider the difficulty under which this
Paul Nash. United States consul at
Venice, suggests that an interesting
comparison may be made between the
results of instruction in foreign lan-
uages in Italy and the United States,
showing the practical superiority of
the former. He says:
“Hundreds of well-educated Ameri
cans annually pass through Venice,
and although probably nine-tenths of
them have had several years of in
struction in an European language not
one-tenth are capable of speaking a
dozen connected words of anything
but English.
“Even college graduates, fresh from
prize winning in French or German
are generally unable to speak either
language, although capable of writ
ing an excellent thesis on their his
tory, philology, syntax, and litera
ture. This is the result of teaching
French and German in much the
same way that Latin and Greek are
taught. The pupils of the Royal
School of Commerce in Venice (one
of the schools which prepare for the
diplomatic and consular service), after
one year's instruction in English, are
able to understand and to make
themselves understood, and at the end
of the second year converse with com
parative fluency.
“If one desires to learn a language
for the sole purpose of reading it in
telligently, and appreciating the fine
points of its literature, then the meth
od employed in American colleges is
satisfactory. If, however, one’s object
is to be able to use the language for
practical purposes, it is obvious that
an enormous amount of time is wasted
by American students. I suggest that
the question be investigated by teach
ers at home, and shall be glad to an
swer any inquiries on the subject.”
Colporfers Visit
All Foreigners
Work Done Daring"
Year in Disseminating of
Christian Literature
THAT'S SO.
j work of firing : 1 1 sen i? carried out and
i the exactness with which the calculations
1 i.le til.nle- Tie; iilliv made. but executed —
' i: -t’.uvs tit.- r —which nmv he • ob-
j tnined hv what President Rosevelt lias so
j often Insisted upon—"preparedness.”
Silk Flowers For the Table.
j From the New York Press.
! One of the newest and most artistic
I table decorations, designed for the
l hoste's for whom cut flowers are not
available. Is of flowers made of ribbon
or silk with natural greens to show
them off. Miss Satterlee. daughter of
j tho Bishop of Washington, who is al
ways seeking new things for her Girls’
i-TVn.l'.y Sociotv. tolls of the way a
hostess decked her tabic when she was
asked to luncheon in eastern Maryland.
In th-' center of the snowy cloth was a
I large green straw box. home-made and
graceful, and the lid was
pink rose? and garland
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
Examine label on vour pa
per. It tells how you stand on
the hooks. Due from date on
the label. Send in dues and
also renew for the year 1907.
SARAH LINCOLN’S GRAVE.
Bloomington (Ill.) dispatch to Chicago
News.
The grave of Sarali Bush Lincoln, who
reared Abraham Lincoln, her stepson,
lies unmarked in Cole County. It is well-
nigh forgotten by the present generation.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln, who died after
giving Licoln birth, was the first wife of
Thomas Lincoln. Sarah Bush Lincoln,
the second wife, was from Kentucky. She
was the only morher Lincoln really knew,
and it was she who had the real influence
in formulating his character.
Thomas Lincoln died in 1S51 and his
wife. Lincoln’s stepmother, in 1S6D. „*\.ll
that is left of the old home of Thomas
Lincoln is a little cairn of foundation
stones and bricks from the fireplace,
which is shadowed by two old trees, now
dying. These trees had been set out by
| the elder Lincoln when he first built the
log cabin. The old 'Tirdon cemetery, in
which Thomas and \ rah Lincoln were
I buried and where the latter’s grave is un-
marked, is located a mile west of the old
Lincoln home. It is a typical country
I graveyard, aad is in a very isolated local-
I ity. A pile of brush has been placed over
] tlie grave of Mrs. Lincoln, a sorrowful
j neglect of the woman who had much to i the native lantniasres the nre^-
! Jo in giving the country a man whose rare jn me native languages me j>res-
| name is immortal
WASHINGTON. Feb. 24.—The
Washington meeting of the American
Tract Society tvas held today in the
Congregational church. Rev. Merrill
E. Gates, D. D.. honorary vice-presi
dent of the society, former president of
Amherst College, and now secretary to
the hoard of Indian commissioners,
presided. Rev. Z. R. Dyott, pastor of
the United Congregational church of
Brooklyn New York, preached the ser
mon, and Rev. Dr. Judson Swift, the
field secretary, made the report sub
ject of the sermon, “Religious Knowl
edge.” It was a most earnest and
eloquent plea for the dissemination of
Christian truth, showing that a true
knowledge of God, is the strongest force
for righteousness, both with the indi
vidual and the nation.
The secretary reported sixty-nine
new publications, and two new peri
odicals, and added to the society dur
ing the year. The new publications
include fifteen different languages and
the total number, of languages and dia
lects in which the society has published
Christian truth is 173 and the
grand total of all publications from the
home office for eighty-one years is
759.S43 C65 copies. , The report says:
Colporters Did Much Work.
“The colporters employed during the
year have made 279,430 family visits
and have distributed 63,520 volumes,
making the total results of colportage
for sixty-five years 15,955.853 family
visits and 16.651 458 volumes dis
tributed. and 9.375.9S3 in which prayer
was offered or personal conversation
had on the subject of Christianity.
“The greatest problem looming on
the national horizon is that of immi
gration. -The figures indicate that with
the fiscal year ending June 30 next,
more than four million immigrants will
have arrived during the preceding four
years. They must he lifted to the plane
of good citizenship. The Christian lit
erature published bv the American
Tract Society is indispensable in this
work. The society’s colporters meer
and welcome them at Ellis Island, the
nation's gateway, and also follow them
to their home? with the literature and
a personal visit. The children and
youth are not to the mission stations
and Sunday schools. The tract society
is distributing literature among the
immigrants in thirty-four languages
and dialects.
Mission Work in Islands.
“The mission work in the island
possessions is largely dependent upon
the Spanish publications of the Amer
ican Tract Society. It is over 300 dis
tinct publication in Spainish prove to
be the strong right arm of the mis-
sionery. One of the mission superin
tendents in Cuba writes, ‘your New
Testament with notes in Spanish is
like manna from Heaven for these
people.’
“The call for Christian literature at
the foreign mission station is unprece
dented. A missionary forty-two years
in the mission fields says, ‘with an
adequate supply of Christian litera-
Shall Millionaires Run
ment?
Wall Street Summary.
Wealth’s dominance in political and
public life nowadays has been the sub
ject of numerous criticism. So totally
changed are present conditions from
those of a former generation that
small wonder is expressed at the
thought that has arisen in some quar
ters, that the Government is passing
into the hands of the wealthy. The
United States Senate is no longer re
nowned for its scholarship, but for its
wealth. Statesmen have gone and
millionaires now fill their places. The
“millionaires’ club” is a facetious but
truthful alias for our Upper House.
Contending that none but men of
vast wealth can represent the United
j States abroad, Senator Albert J. Bev-
! eridge, in Appleton’s for March, perti-
I nently asks if the Government’s oper-
I ations are going to pass into the hands
j of the country’s millionaires. That is,
if the people are to be shut out from
participation in the conduct of their
own Government and hand over its
\ destinies to the plutocrats. One cause
; in particular, says he, is largely con
tributing to such a result. In verifica
tion, he cites the case of the late Sen
ator Hoar, who once said to him on
this question: “When I came to
Washington I had accumulated about
a hundred thousand dollars from my
practice of the law. If I complete an
other term it will practically all be
gone. It has been used up in addition
to my Senatorial salary, in the com
mon expenses of daily living.” “And
yet it is well known that this most
learned as well as one of the most
useful men in public life." says Sena
tor Beveridge, “lived in extreme sim
plicity.’’
Nor did he stop with Senator Hoar.
Several cases were referred to in
wjiich Senators lived in obscurity, tf
not meanness, to eke out a living and
do the full measure of their duty to
their country. These are men of long
experience in the Senate, upon whom
the country may look with pride and
admiration. Ono lives in a single
room: another in two small rooms on
the top floor of an apartment house.
On the toher hand the millionaires in
dulge in elegance and sumptuousness,
give elaborate entertainments, main
tain costly equipages and set a pace
that the Senator of slender means
must forego. Hotel rates are extor
tionate; from $3 to $3.50 a day for the
i cheapest room without meals, and no
_ | reduction for a monthly term. ■ Meals
laSt are still more expensive and together
I with the cost of entertaining consti
tuents, who are constantly “dropping
in,” make the lot of the struggling
statesman far from happy. Hence, he
says:
“None of these things is known to
the American people. All of them
should be known by the American peo
ple. They are causes which are work
ing an infinitey important change in
our Government. I doubt whether any
practical situation exists more serious
than this or fraught with more pro
found consequences to the American
people. The Government is passing
into the hands of the rich; the poor
man or man of moderate means is
being crowded out of the people's ser
vice.
As to the unreasonableness of this
extravagance • • and • prodigality with
such' pernicious results, he remarks:
“You will say at once that such a
scale of living is absurd, and I say
so. too; that it is flagrantly wrong, and
I say so. too. And it is to call the
attention of the nation to this con
crete. immediate, growing, and criti
cal evil that I am writing these words.
Let me repeat again that it is becom
ing every day more difficult for any
but a rich man. and a very rich man
at that, to live in comparative decency
in Washington.”
The reason for this is found in the
constantly Increasing number of vastly
wealthy men who have entered public
life and are living at startling expense.
Old-time simplicity is gone, and a re
gime of almost Roman luxury and
splendor has begun. The late Secre
tary Whitney was the pioneer in this
departure, and Calvin S. Brice and
Vice-President Morton nobly “kept up
the pace.” Thirty thousand dollars a
year is a modest estimate for one of
this gilded class to spend, and seventy-
five thousand dollars is the amount
spent by one man in one year to main
tain himself and wife!
Senator Beveridge contrasts the
riotous spending with the sober tastes
and simple economy of Conkling. Thad-
deus Stevens John A. Logan, Lot M.
Morrell, Sjimner, Wade and Fes?enden.
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 24.—'It is ex
pected that the findings of the legisla
tive committee investigating ' charges
against United States Senator Jos. W.
Bailey will be reported to the two
Houses of the Legislature not later
than Tuesday.
Senator Bailey and his attorneys are
urging upon the committee the need
of haste as Senator Bailey announces
he will leave Thursday in order to re
port in Washington by March 4, to be
installed as Senator. A discussion is
now on as to whether or not the com
mittee will have any right to .report
anything but the evidence. The , ... . ..
friends of Senator Bailey are of the I th A™thcnlgh ttu^'accident J 'c
PITTSBURG. Pa.. Feb. 24.—The Phil
adelphia Express on the Pennsylvania
Railroad due to arrive hero at 6:35 to
night. ran into an open switch in the
yards at Sixteenth street about 7 o'clock
tonight. The ambulances of the Western
Pennsylvania and Allegheny General Hos
pitals were hurriedly summoned to the
Union -station, but according to the rail
road officials and hospital physicians, no
one was injured.
The New York Express, due here at 1
o'clock narrowly escaped running into the
Philadelphia train and caused' a panic
among the already frightened passengers
One coach on the Philadelphia train was
telescoped and two others derailed. The
train was late and was running faster
heart
before it bec.tr
said a numbe
seriously injur'
porters were
street yards,
no person
the
opinion that tho committee can also
make its suggestion that there is noth
ing in the evidence to in any way re
flect upon Senator Bailey, if this
procedure is followed the minority of
the committee will bring in an adverse
report asking that the House take full > t j on was refused
recognition of the evidence and act |
upon it as they see fit. It is also stat
ed that some of tne opponents of Sen
ator Bailey will make an effort to pro
long the agitation, even to the extent
of taking the matter to Washington,
in the way of a memorial.
The following statement was handed
to the press tonight from Senator Jos.
W. Bailey's headquarters:
Statement by Bailey’s Frier.ds.
“Many friends of the supporters of
Senator Bailey throughout this State
have requested us to notify them when
the report of the investigating com
mittee would be before the Legislature
for final action and in response to tha
request from such a great number, we
deem it proper to say to them that our
information is that steps will be taken
in the Senate on Monday looking to
immediate and final settlement of the
issue in that body. We are also ad
vised that-the sub-committee of tho
House has about completed its labors.
This being the ease, tho full committee
will doubtless report to the House
some time Monday its findings. Based
on this assumption, the report of the
House committee will be before tjie
House for consideration on Tuesday
morning. In our opinion this report in
its findings will clearly exonerate Sen
ator Bailey and vindicate him: and it
would seem that no reasonable man
ought to deny him the fullest exonera
tion and the most vindication of every
charge made against him before he
returns to Washington to qualify as
Senator from the State of Texas for
another six years. However, we do
not desire to disappoint our friends,
or deceive the public. Senator Bailey
has many , political as well as personal
enemies who will doubtless seek as a
last opportunity to undertake to hu
miliate him at and injure him abroad
by casting their votes against such a
resolution of vindication as he would
be entitled to. There certainly cannot
be a very considerable number of
those after the committee hearings,
and most of them liretofore have
heard from their constituents.”
it
The
■me tit-
known.
* of pass'
d and many nev
rushed to tlir Sixteenth
Aside from stating that
n injured, all informa-
itrst rep
had b,
■soaper ■
of the titles the “Georgia Lumber Com
pany” had become financially embar
rassed, and was unable to meet its
indebtedness to the Western Bank of
New York, at Rochester, and the lands,
which were pledged as security for the
debt pas?ed into the possession of the
State of Indiana. By authority of the
Legislature of Indiana the lands were
sold, and in the course of time were
transferred from owner to owner, and
in 1S77 became the property of George
E. Dodge of New York, in whose honor
Dodge Countv was named. Many per
sons think that the county was called
after Norman W. Dodge who died in
New York State last week. Norman
W. Dodge was a brother of George E.
Dodge, and the lands in question were
sold and transfered to Norman W.
Dodge by George E. Dodge somewhere
between the years 1SS6 and 1SS9.
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By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET.
Speaking of immigrants. One of the
most brilliant minds-that ever flashed
its brightness in this city and State
was an immigrant. Ha. came to this
country a poor Irish boy, and settled
first in Athens, where he commenced
business life as a drug clerk.- On one
occasion the struggling youth: made a
speech in a debating society in the
Classic City, which, .attracted the at
tention of that great Georgian. Chief
Justice Lumpkin, who suggested to
him that he become a- lawyer. Ho
accepted the advice, read law, and by
a special acrt of the Legislature was
allowed to practice. He located in Ma
con to pursue his profession, and soon
became noted as an orator and advo
cate. The brilliancy of his intellect
and the magic of his' eloquence at
tracted the attention of the State, and
these qualities brought him. fame, for
tune and high judicial position. He
had a most delightful personality and
a sunny temperament and generous na
ture, that made him very popular. He
was judge of the Macon. Superior Court
circuit, and in 1S71 was. made chief jus
tice of the Supreme C-ourt of Georgia.
On his retiren it from -his exalted po
sition he. became general counsel of the
Pullman Sleeping Car Company. The
foregoing is an epitome of the career
of the Irish immigrant, youth—O. A.
Lochrane. .....
Soon after George E. Dodge came
into possession of the lands he com
menced to develop the immense timber
interests. Great wealth immediately
flowed from the wonderful forests, and
a tremendous business was built up in
lumber and naval stores. The construc
tion of railroads through this timber
domain wonderfully increased the value
of Dodge’s possessions, and- if the de
parted spirits of the Portland company
couid have looked back from the un
known country to which they had long
since gone they would have seen
George E. Dodge realizing their once
bright dreams of untold wealth from
the products of the primeval pines In
which they invested a half-century be
fore. But while Dodge was growing
richer and richer year by year from
his capacious saw mills, turpentine and
export lumber, he was having his trou
bles with .alleged squatters and so-
called “land grabbers.’’ “Under the
j laws of Georgia, mere possession by
! residence, or fencing or cultivation of
a lot of land for twenty years, under
i claim of ownership, will give tho
squatter a prescriptive title- and a
mere color of title a deed from a man
who has no title at all. with posses
sion under it for seven years, will give, ’
in its practical operation, a prescrip
tive title superior to that of the true
owner of the legal title, unless the true
owner, when he brings his suit against'
the squatter, can show that the latter •
actually knew that the person fr:m
whom he bought had no title or other
fraud facts which it is seldom prac
ticable to prove.” Mr. Dodge brought
a great many ejectment suits ns tho
records in the United States Court at
Macon will show. Yesterday I described
a good deal of this litigation in an
article on the famous trial of Luther
A. Hall et al. I believe that many
persons who settled upon these lands
purchased them in_j;ood faith and were
in no sense parties to any fraud. In,
my opinion, some of these so-called
squatters honestly believed they were
the legal owners of the lands which
they claimed. Among them were up
right and law-abiding men. In this
timber section is the abode of some of
Georgia’s most sterling and trust
worthy people—men who conscienti
ously believed they had lawfully come
into possession of lands claimed by the
Dodges.
TO
PREVENT WIDENING
BREACH IN CREVASSE.
NEW ORLEANS. La.. Feb. 24.—Con
trol was secured today over the danger
ous crevasse near Jesuits Bend, the State
engineers succeeding in “tying in” tho
ends of the broken levee so that the
breach did not widen. It was announced
that if the situation become threaten
ing the crevasse can be closed, although
at great cost. It was decided to let the
break flood the surrounding country at
least for a few days.
It is not often' that' one hears of a
man of the age of seventy-two play
ing on a violin more than a half-cen
tury old. Captain John W. Dozier, of
Earlier, m the days of Clay, Calhoun i Macon has lived two years beyond the
and W ebster. living expenses were still allotted three score and ten, and fre-
less. Adverting to the general in- j quently he enjoys life by playing ™
MUSCOGEE SUNDAY TRAGEDY
IN WHICH NEGROES FIGURE
honeysuckle, but when the lun
was over the hostess lifted the lid of i
; her centerpiece and displayed her fa-
vors. an assortment of similar ribbon
" -e? dainty as if they had just been
plucked from the garden.
Hawaii Has a Sea Serpent.
Honolulu Cable to New York Herald.
Native fishermen have been driven
from their favorite firounds through
terror of a sea serpent. The monster
-.? described by them as a serpent, but
-°me of the less terror-stricken peo
ple think that it is an eel. In any
went, the monster is about ten feet
n length, and is about as big around
: -.e body as the neck n£ an averaged-
si:e n-..r.. It attacked some natives
recently, causing them to drop their
spears an t lights in terror and flee
The grave of Thomas Lincoln was only
marked by a white oak board, placed
there by Abraham Lincoln himselg in
overed with 1S51. until in 1SS9. when the present plain
of trailing ! white marble shaft was erected. On its
hv j'
.1^ u - ^uches Ji
today disci
jury as justified.
d by the
her recently, and it
e eel followed some
h inside of the reef,
-s an he induced to
'ater in the neigh-
the big serpent or
face is the following simple record:
"Thomas Lincoln, father of the martyred
President. Born January 6. 1778: died
j January 15. 1351.”
The last visit of Abraham Lincoln to
the graves of his parents was In 1861.
just before he was inaugurated. He en
tered the old homestead where his step
mother was waiting for him. He took her
in his arms an- tried to comfort her
when she commenced weeping. She de
clared that she would never see him
again.
■"Why. mother?" he asked.
She replied: “Abe. you are such a good
man that thev will kill you.”
He little dreamed of the prophetic char
acter of her words. Lincoln then cut sOrr.e
markers with a saw and axe and placed
them on his father s grave. He marked
the initials of the dead with his pocket
knife. These markers were stolen by
tom,- wretch after he was assisinated.
In the afternoon at the old town of
Farmington, a mile north of the Lincoln
home. Lincoln was given a farewell re
ception. He there bade farewell to his
beloved stepmother. He adored her and
she loved him even bettor than she loved
her "Wn children. The parting was a pa
thetic one. She was so old at th»- time of
his death that she was completely pros
trated and could not go to Springfield. It
is a sad commentary on the justice of
mankind that while so much is said about
the neglected condition of the grave of
Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the woman who
gave Lincoln birth, few. if any. remember
Sarah Rush Lincoln, who was the one 'ho I
insp ired him to higher aims.
could do
ent force of missionaries
much good ten-fold.’
“The crying need of the hour
Christian literature abundantly sup-
crease in living expenses everywhere
throughout the country, he makes a
telling point when he says: “But not
withstanding this, the salaries of Con- ]
gressmen and Senators remain precise-
lv what they were forty years ago.”
The desire of the wealthy to live on :
a scale proportionate to their means ;
he dees not consider reprehensible, “but
the result of it,” he sagely adds “is
a very serious matter to all of us.”
Literature and law are resorted to for ;
additional income, hut the former is
meagre and the latter fragmentary.
The only paying practice for a lawyer .
today appears to be “corporation” bus- i
iness, and that “in some form or an
other touches national legislation, eith
er directly or indirectly, in a variety
of ways.” Hence, it is forbidden ter- j
ritory.
Salary increases will not materially
aid in this dilemma. The only solu
tion is for the people to make up their
minds to keep rich men out of office
unless of rare and conspicuous states
manlike proportions. This would give
the nation the service of rich men who
are real- statesmen, like Washington,
and of poor men who are real states
men. like Lincoln. “But if this is not
done the Republic must be exclusively
a violin that was given to him by his
father fifty-one years ago. And what
is more, he is often accompanied by
his wife on a guitar which was pre
sented to her fifty-four years ago by
her cousin, the late Mrs. Thomas
Hardeman. Mr. E. B. Dozier, chief
operator at the Western Union office
in this city, joins in with his parents
and makes music on a bass violin
which his father gave to him when he
was eight years old. Quite an arrav
of old instruments, and a very musical
family.
COLUMBUS. Ga„ Feb. 24.—Musco
gee’s Sunday tragedy today was at
Lindsay's creek, a few miles north of
the city. West Rodgers, negro, shot
and fatally injured Doss Williams, an
other negro, and is at large. The past
several Sundays in this county have
each been marked by some shooting
affray.
plied and well distributed. The forces : ff° ve rned by the lords of gold who may
that make for righteousness must be I statesmen may-be^ figureheads, or
both encouraged and emphasized may be something else. His trenchant
throughout the nation. Education , . , ,
alone is powerless to make character I Decidedly the rich man who is not
or transform the individual or com- | P re '® m j, nent , in statesmanship must go.
monwealth. The public schools, col- also the demagogue must go.
leges and universities do not have as ■ Decidedly something more than millions
a distinctive part of their curriculum i a purchased public reputation on
the saving of souls or the training of ? ne hand, and flaming appeals to
Christians. The gospel truth on the passion and class hatred on the other
It is surprising the number of people
in Macon that have mining invest
ments. There are several companies
represented here, and the outlook is
more are coming. Some are interested
in mines in Arizona, some in Colorado,
others in Mexico others in Alaska, and
still, others in Lower California, and
perhaps elsewhere. In this connection
it may be stated that Mr. Fabian Min
ton. after having been with the Ex
change Bank of Macon for twenty-sev
en years, will retire from this institu
tion on March 1 and devote himself to
his duties as secretary and treasurer of
a mining company, with headquarters
in this city.
EULOGIES ON DEPARTED
• IN HOUSE AND SENATE.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 24.—Eulogies
on the lives of the iate Senator Rus
sell A. Alger, of Michigan, and the late
Representatives Henry Cullen Adams,
of Wisconsin, William H. Flack, of
New York, and J. H. Ketcham of
New York, were pronounced today in
the House, which convened to pay trib
ute to these statesmen. Many of the
members delivered euiogie?. Mr. Lever,
of South Carolina, was among those
who spoke in eulogy of Mr. Adams, and
Messrs. Hay and Lamb, of Virginia,
among those who paid tribute to Mr.
Ketcham.
printed page must be proclaimed
throughout the land.
“The tract society’s resources are
exhausted and all of its work crippled
and enlargement impossible owing to
the absence of funds. Not less than
one million dollars is needed imme
diately to enable the society to greatly
increase its colporters and provide the
Christian literature required for
world-wide evangelization.”
Sorry.
From the Cleveland Leader.
A correspondent who wishes to remain
anonymous sends us some verses entitled
“A Winter's Dream." The author says:
”1 hope you will print this, as I want" to
earn a little money." I don't know where
I ever gaye anybody the impression that
I paid money for "ontributions. The Lead
or pays me to fill this column with my
own stuff, and I’m cheating when I use
any one else's. anyhow. Only sometimes
when a contribution is good enough—or
bad enough—I consent to use it. But
iioney—nay, nay.
hand, must be required of would-be
public men if the Government of, by
and for the people is not to be run ex
clusively by Croesus and Jack Cade.”
LIFE.
From an Exchange.
Life—what is It?
Ah, who knows?
Just a visit.
I suppose;
Joy and sorrow
For a day,
Then tomorrow
We're away.
Youth, and morning.
Manhood, noon;
Age—the warning—
Night comes soon;
Shines a star to
Light us: then
’Tis not far to
Home again.
What are the Dodge lands of which
we have heard so much in the United
States Court at Macon, in the news
papers and elsewhere? About three-
quarters of a century ago. on October
18, 1833. soon after Macon had been
incorporated as a city, a number of
capitalists of Portland. Maine, formed
themselves into an association to buy
large tracts of pine land in Georgia,
and for this purpose sent Abram Col
by, Stephen Chase and Samuel E.
Crocker as their agents to this State.
They bought three hundred thousand
acres of land in what was then known
as Wilkinson County, but now lying in
the counties of Dodge. Telfair, Laurens
and Montgomery, these four countie?
having been created since the said pur
chase. The deeds were taken in the
names of Colby, Chase and Crocker,
but on the granting by the Legisla
ture of a charter to the “Georgia Lum
ber Company.” which legislation was
obtained by the three men. they exe
cuted a deed from themselves to the
company, which was composed of the
Portland capitalists for whom Colby,
Chase and Crocker had been acting as
agents and with whose money the binds
had been bought. Fifty years after
wards certain parties claimed that the
deeds were defective and had not been
properly executed. But before this at
tach had been made on the the validity
BATTLE FOUGHT IN
CENTRAL AMERICA.
CITY OF MEXICO. Feb. 24.—Dr.
Baltnzaar Estupinian. minister to Mexico
from Salvador and Honduras, tonight re
ceived the following vague cablegram
from the Honduran government:
' 'Nicarauguan forces have invaded Hon
duras. Fierce battle ensued.”
This is the first word Dr. Estupiyfan
has received from the government of
Honduras for several days and gives no
details of the. battle or where it was
fought.
No further Central American news
has reached this capital during the part
24 hours.
CHARGED WITH BRIBERY
ERAMLEY GIVES t-’F
COLUMBUS, O.. Feb 23.—M. F Bram-
ley, president of the Cleveland. TrinHad
Paving Comnanv. charged with giving
Fred Lied, dirf-ejor of nubile service of
Columbus, a bribe of Si 030 to procure a
paving contract, arrived tod.-iv and sn--
rendered at police headnuarters. In bonds
of $500 Bramley was released. ’ A vr-ni
affidavit, charging Bramley with having
agreed to give $3,000 each to Direct s
Lied and Tunnel, with the board of public
service, has be°n fled. ’ ur Orly one war
rant has been issued. Mr. Bramh-y de-fi. d
that he hai] offered ?. bribe or that he
had authorized any emnloye of the paying
company or any other person to pay
money to procure contracts.
Exauisite sarcasm.
Fro mthe Philadelphia Pr ?.?.
Being a press humorist is
for a cripple, but . it does
though a healthy. • abje-hodi
ought to be willing to work fo:
Touching Fidelity.
From the Washington Tin-' ~
That worried look or the fr -
member of Cpngr.-. s is .it- > t/
that he may not be • able :.
extra $2,500 worth of work.