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THE TWICE-A-WL'EK TELEGRAPH
FRDIAY, APR ft 18, 1907. / ? T
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Valdosta
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name ami the arms of his wife’s fam
ily—that Is to say, the Boltons—was
subsequently, by reason of his political
influence as a territorial magnate,
raised to the peerage as Lord Bolton, jj.
Shah Wanted to Buy Her.
Lord Allendale, whose death has Just
[ taken place, enjoyed his honors and
j. j. ]■ j | j. ] |-j.* j M-H-l-i- master or the duke's household. Lard
+ Monson’s uncle, the seventh baron of
T j the line, who was also Viscount Oxen-
I j bridge. was master >f the hors-'- and
f treasurer of he household to Queen
Victoria: while there has hardly been
a king or queen since the reign of
James I who has not had a Monson
among his entourage. They all bear-' prerogatives as a peer for only a few
was the original capital | the peculiar Christian name of "Dp- months and will be far more widely
County, n.rni'd In honor i bonalre. which seems singularly ap- . remembered by his former name of
Troup, the old-time Dem- proprlate to :.-ie career of courtier, for Wentworth Beaumont. For nearly forty
that stood for State rights and j which they one and all manifest so _y ear << he represented Northumberland
rule. ; much liking.^ One of the features of : | n the House of Commons, and was ore
when the capital was removed t Lord Monson's ancestral home In T..n- n f the largest and richest landed pro-
present site it was given the j colnshlre. at Burton. Is the sort of co- j prietors In the north of England. Here
of Valdosta after Gov. Troup's j Jumbarlum of carved ornamental stone, young Herbert Beaumont, who married
in Laurens County. bearing the Monson heraldic device? Miss Elisa Grace, of New York, eldest
Troupvill
of Lownde
of old Gov.
norat that
home rule
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horn
Well, this Valdoe
leaps and bounds. H
away Just one year and visits the city
again amazed at the wonderful
progress Dwelling hour- s adjacent to
ju business section are pulled down
and gr'sii brick -tores and warehouses
stand in their places. Valdosta Is the
pride of the plney wood country-
Not many days since appeared a
beautiful poem In The Telegraph from
one who lev- l "the pines.” He must.
In days gone by, have lived In Val
dosta.
The writer once heard Miss Fanny
Andrews. Georgia’s most talented fe
male author, say she "loved the pi not”
of Southern Georgia, that they re-
edited to her so much of the pleas
ure of he- girlhood days, when she
roamed in the wlregrnss. sheltered by
the pines, hunting wild flowers. This
love of the woods and the flowers led
to studies In botany, and Miss An-
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schools. And her love of flowers, cul
tivated amid the pines, has filled her
lap with that which drives care away,
and filled her lap with the golden
sunshine of plenty.
Yet, railroads made Valdosta. She,
In all her pride and glory. Is the "pro
duet of railroads. When Valdosta,
with her splendid surrounding country!
became a railroad center, then her
fate was decided. It was then writ
ten that she should bo the pride of the
pine country. And railroads have
placed upon her triumphant head that
crown.
If one will travel from Macon to
ca Wadley. from Waflley to Waycross,
,,r from Waycross to Valdosta from Val
vr ‘ dostn. to Thomasvllle. from Therms
'' ir vlllc to B.alnbrldgo and from Bain
bridge to Cuthbert and back to Macon
['j he will find a section literally honey-
•“ combed with railroads, to such extent
, that in said .area, more farmers can
“ hear the whistle of the loeomtlve than
any same given area In the United
fr States.
I* Then hurrah for the pines!
ol Then, .away with those who would
ret.,rd progress, who would block the
building of even more roads in these
same pines, for more roads are need
ed, and one from Albany to St. An
drews Bay. Fla, that splendid port
should be built, and the rails for It
would now be In process of "laying.”
but capitalists took fright at our out
burst of 5 906 against railway corpora
tions. and held aloof to see what the
clamor of JOOG meant!
Valdosta hopes that same clamor
will not thwart Hon. J. Skelton Wil
liams in his new enterprise, which will
still add to Valdosta’s prestige and
place another Jewel In her already re-
splendant crown.
I We some times have curious ideas
ns to what will benefit us. Tho Farm
rrs’ Union. In assembly recently in At
lanta, passed Insistent resolutions
that the next Legislature pass an
eight-hour law! Yet, if the Leglsla
♦ nre passed such a Jaw it would ruin
[ every farmer in Georgia who hires ne
J gro labor.
] And further, tho Hon. Hooper Alox-
4 ® ander. appearing a few days since be
fore the railroad commission, in ha-
hnlf of a two-cent rate so that the
poor laborers could indulge in perpetual
excursions, declared It an outrage that
a car load of stock feed from South
Carolina cost him more If ho stopped
It at his station, seven miles of At
lanta.
If the ear load could be stopped for
him. it could be stopped all along the
line for others. Then what? He has
turned a through lino of freight cars
into a way freight. To convert through
linec to distributing points into way
freights, by car lots, would destroy fast
j I) through freights. and r.-iis* the freight
J a rate tremendously. So It is cheaper
(J * to ship from South Carolina to At
lanta—the distributing point—and pay
the loea! rate back to Mr. Alexander's
station. The railroads were giving him
a cheaper rate by their plan than
could possibly he under the plan pro
posed by himself. So. wo do not al
ways see what Is best for us.
And what will the Atlanta freight
bureau, organized for purpose of ex
tending Atlanta’s trade and territory,
say to Mr. Alexander’s proposition to
convert the through lines into way
freight, not by truck loads, but by car
lots? The Atlanta freight bureau will
se? Mr. Alexander down as a kinder
garten pupil in freight procedure.
The science of medicine never had
as many ouaek doctors as now appears
for regulation of the railroad busi
ness.
Valdosta has a few quack doctors in
railroad science herself, but the city
Just grows and grows and the people
Ql become more prosperous year by year
in spite of the quacks,
i Those not quacks will hope for more
railroads, and pray that the hysteria
of 1906 will not cripple railway devel
opment.
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| Oaughrt on
the Wing i
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By JOHN T. BOIFEUtLLET.
I am in receipt of the following
communication from a Macon sub
scriber to The Telegraph:
"On pne occasion, at the close of an
eloquent speech, an enthusiastic ad
mirer of Seargent S. Prentiss said.
’Die, Prentiss, die. You will never
have a better time than now.’ Will
you please state in your column on
what occasion this exclamation was
uttered, and give, please, a brief
sketch of Prentiss, and the oratory of
h!s day?”
__ In 1S44 there was an immense and
Hastings. The latter. indeed, was \ historic Whig meeting in Nashville,
fought on the very site of Battle Abbey. ; Tenn. Many distinguished politicians
Michael Grace’s English son-in-law j and famous orators were In attend-
wlll come Into a yerv. large sum of anee. Henry Clav was the idol of his
money through his father’s death, for : party, and its unanimous choice that
the late Ltrd Allendale was at the head j year for the Presidency. The Whigs
of the lead mining industry in Dur- i were in a flame of enthusiasm. The
hamshire and was enormously rich. oratorical display at Nashville was so
Both Hubert Beaumont and his elder ' brilliant that it Illumined the entire
brother, the new Lord Allendale are I country. In the blazing eloquence on
sons of the late peer's first wife, a sis- that occasion Seargent S. Prentiss, of
.. - .. .... ter of the present Marquis of Clanri-i Mississippi. shone with dazzling
the name, the titles and the other cus- , enrde. whom the Government is en- j brightness. In the presence of more
tomary data concerning the person * ,] e avpring to deprive by legislative nr- j than twenty thousand people this
sacs aw,aa: j ffwtffjsaaa Suers
ZJsrsusss .juntas! pi1
iea and which has caused hi* name to The swell and rear of his matchless
be eveere.ed from one end to the other voice struck upon the ears of his en-
of the Emerald Isle.- His s'ster, Ladv '
Margaret—that is to sav. the first wife
of the late Lord Allendale—was a re
markably beautiful woman and when
old Shah Nasr-ed-Din of Persia visited
England way hack in the ’Til’s he was
so much smitten by her charms that he
offered her husband end her family
$500,000 if he might take her away
with him to Teheran. After her death
rs?"rrh?. ■»« « c*wTb»: m “r
jumps with ‘ and arms, which is destined to receive daughter of Michael Grace, who now
who remains J J he urns or silver Jar. containing the makes his home in Battle Abbey, erect-
ashes of the Monsons now living and j e( j as every one knows, nearly a thous-
as yet unborn. and years ago as a monastery, the
It was built by the late Lord Mon-on j monks of which had It as their prin-
immedlately adjoining the private , C jp a ] duty to pray for the souls of]
chapel, and with the object of avoid- those who had fallen at the battle of !
lng an enlargement of the ancestral — —
vaults and family mausoleum which
would otherwise have been necessary,
owing to the number of dead which
they contain. The Monson columba
rium Is something in the shape oi a
sanctified pigeon house, there being
tiers of pigeonholes, one above the
other. Each pigeonhole, on receiving
its urn of ashes, is hermetically sealed
with a pane of thick glass while .a
brass plate Immediately below gives
that exordium to the close the audience
vsa under the spell of the man.”
and this is naturally leading to the
abandonment In a great measure, of
ancestral vaults and of the old family
mausoleums, and the substitution in
their stead of columbariums, such as
that of Lord Monson. These columba
riums, in spite of their ornate charac
ter, do not however. Inspire the feeling
of solemnity aroused by the stately
tombs that adorn so many of the an
cient cathedrals, abbeys and churches
of the United Kingdom.
Asked For Baroness’ Letters.
W. Burdett-Coutts, Member of Par
liament for Westminster, and widower
of Baroness Burdett-Coutts, wh<v died
a couple of months 07 so ago. has
issued an appeal for the loan of any
letters which may have been written
by the baroness, for use in compiling
her biography. During the course of
her long life, extending over a period
of four-seroe and ten years, she be-
A biographer says: "The address
delivered by Seargent Smith Prentiss
at the dinner of the New England So
ciety of New Orleans in 1S43. “Fore
fathers’ Day.” attained immediate cur
rency and excited the admiration it de
serve^. It is without doubt, one of the
best examples of the ornate style of
oratory. He was born at Portland,
Maine, September 30. ISOS, but histori
cally he is completely identified with
the State of Mississippi to which he
removed after his graduation at Bow-
doln College in 1S26. For several years
he was a tutor in a private family, but
on beginning the practice of law at
Vickburg he easily became the leader
of the bar of his adopted State and the
most usccessful ‘jury orator’ of the
Southwest. He died at Longwood near
Natchez, July L 1S50.” Mr. S- A.
Crump, of Macon, told me yesterday
that he has visited the grave of Pren
tiss. It is on a lot enclosed; by a high
brick wall, upon which grows ivy, and
four large trees keep sentinel over the
dust of the great orator.
ladies and of as great or greater fami
ly than yours.” Without more ado. he
made for the lips of the haughty Por
tuguese Princess, and despite her re
sistance. kissed her three times on tho
mouth before he released her, with an
exultant laugh.
Prentiss had two duels with Henry
S. Foote, who defeated Jefferson Davis
for Governor of Mississippi. Savoyard
says that Prentiss could be a man of
infinite jest.-' On one occasion he vis
ited a sick man. down with delirium
tremens. The doctor said if the pa
tient could sleep he would recover. "O.
damn it give him Foote's book on Tex
as: if he can read, that will put him to
sleep.” Foote had written a book en
titled “Texas and the Texans." Foote
heard of Prentiss’ remark, and as a
result of it they had two duels I am
net certain, but I think Foote was
tranced heaters in deep and musical • wounded. I know that he was wound-
cadence. His every nerve was strung, ed in two duels. Ho had several meet-
His entire frame was quivering with'
emotion His action was intense m3
majestic. As he closed in a perora
tion that enchained and held .captive
the great multitude, he fell, so a well
known writer says, in as wc.cn in the
arms of James C. Jones, himself a
magnificent orator, who hugged him
” «-■- > - • * ' in
ings on the field of honor.
Prentiss indulged in wine sometimes^
and also played poker. A writer re
lates that on one occasion Prentiss was
a passenger aboard a Mississippi
river packet, and became engaged in
a game of poker. Fortune was his.
an | The cards appeared to obey his wish.
The Esquimaux are said to rub noses
as a substitute for kissing. Even in
this day of advancement and progress
they are far from being civilized. Like
wise the New Zealanders, with whom
osculation is unknown. There may be
other races of barbarians. Shame on
Jonathan Swift for saying: “Lord! I
wonder what fool it was that first in
vented kissing.’’ He is the same man
that said “The reason why so few mar
riages are happy is because young la
dies spend their time in making nets,
not in making cage?.*’
Southern armies in the field from 1561
to 1S65. Cassenove G. Lee is. accord
ing to the Boston Transcript, “a recog
nized authority on Civil "War statis
tics.” A printed statement says that
Mr. Lee's figures show that ’he to
tal enlistments in the Northern army
were 2.773.304. as against 600.000 in
the Confederate army. The foreign
ers and negroes in the Northern army
aggregated 6S0 917. or 80.S17 more than
the total strength of the Confederate
army. There were 316.424 men of
Southern birth in the Northern army.
I Here nre Mr. Lee’s figures:
I In the Northern army:
"Whites from North 2.272.333
I Whites from South 316.421
l Negroes 3S6.017
Indians 3,530
ernv Coifed who^was^in cSmm-nd^f ‘‘ DIp ^ rentis -'- , dl f : 7°” w!n j After'a while hehad'“w7m“ alihis ad-
the British troors on tbe“n of SoCunUv'” an0ther 50 grlor,OUS an ° P ' Tl, V v,ne had
their disastrous defeat by the Boers on P° r ' umt -'’ JW J Vh , en , tho
Mnliilin TTiit in tha i clof:e a he rested his head upon his
more than a^nuarier n* n ! Prentiss flourished in the days of i hands nrone on tho table, and appeared
more than ^quarter of a century ago. those master minds and orators. Cal- J to be in profound thought. Suddenly
Reichstags New President. houn. Clay, Webster. Choate. Corwin- he aroused himself and said - “If the
Count Udo Stolberg. the new* presi- Marshall. Wise Menifee. McDuffe and j archangel Michael would come down
dent of the Reichstag, or Parliament, other great spirits that overwhelmed ! from heaven and play poker against
came acquainted with many distin- °f the German Empire, is the chief of audiences with the magic of their elo- ! me at a star ante I would obliterate
guished Americans, some of whom aro one of the branches of that princely quence. He was at his brilliant j the firmament before midnight.”
■ zenith when dramatic fervor and |
Half-Yankee Nobles
From the New York Tribune.
Lord Monson's little son. whose birth
has Just taken place in England, will
constitute another addition to the
ever-growing number of English peers
and foreign nobles who. through their
translatl.intic mothers, are half Amer
icans. Heading the list nre the Duke
of Manchester and Lord Vernon, in
England, and the Due de Richelieu, in
France, it is as yet too early to form
any judgment as to the extent
to which t’.iis admixture of Ameri
can blood will effect the strain of the
old European aristocracy in a physi
cal and intellectual sense. But from
the phenomenal success already achiev
ed by tba: precocious young statesman
Winston Churchill, the virtual admin
istrator of the whole of England's vast
colonial empire (exclusive of India),
who is tho offspring of Miss Jennie
Jerome, of New York, and of the late
Lord Randolph Chur, hill, son of the
seventh Uuko of Marlborough, the liv
ing results of these international al
liances bid fair to prove extremely In
teresting.
The arrival of the Monson baby, of
course, puts somewhat out of joint the
Jiose of Sir Edmund Monson. former
British Ambassador at Paris, who has
until now been the next heir to the
peerage, the baronetcy and tho estates
of his nephew, the present Lord Mon-
son. The Monsons are a very ancient
family, and. save in one particular in
stance, have always been high in fa
vor at court. The exception was Wil
liam Viscount Monson. who. although
a member of the household of Kh-g
Charles I, betrayed his royal master,
for which, after the Restoration, he was
dragged with a halter around his r.eek
on a hurdle to the gallows at Tyburn,
and then imprisoned for the remainder i
of his days in the Tower of London.
The present Lord Monson. who Is \
married to the widow of Lawrence
Tumure. of New York, daughter of !
General Rev Stone. 1' S. A.. was
•qucrry to King Edward's sailor broth
er. AliYed Duke of Saxe-Coburg and
of Edinburgh.until that prince's death,
succeeding his father, who had been
still living, while many are dead. With
these she maintained a correspondence,
and in the probable event of her letters
having been preserved their owners
would do well to place them for a time
at the disposal of her American-born
husband, addressing them to him at his
home. No. 1 Stratton street, Piccadilly,
London.
That mansion which formerly be
longed to the baroness’ father. Sir
Francis Burdett of Parliamentary
fame, and whieh is one of lhe most
familiar landmarks of the British me
tropolis. is stocked almost from cellar
to garret with papers and correspon
dence going back more than a hundred
years, connected with historic events
and great names and touching, innum
erable interests. None of the-'o have
over passed outside its walls. W. Bur
dett-Coutts purposes to use a selection
of them in publishing the life of the
baroness. What may be described as
the corollary of the story—that is to
say. the letters which the- baroness
wrote in connection therewith, and
which kept her pen busy for a period
of seventy years—are. of course, miss
ing. and it Is these that her husband
is anxious to secure for use in com
piling her memoir.
The latter is to be a work entirely
distinct from the reviews of her life
published at the time of her death and
will shed not only an entirely new light
upon her wonderful career, but will
likewise contribute a wealth of new
material to the inner history of tho
ixtv years of reign of Queen Victoria.
W. Burdett-Coutts states that he has
not quite made up his mind whether
to write the memoir himself or "to en
gage a more competent literary hand
for the task.” IBut, in any case, he
purposes alone to select what of the
correspondence shall be used and what
eliminated. being naturally better
aware than any one else could be of
the wishes and views of the late bar
oness in connection therewith. I need
scarcely add that all letters of the bar
oness placed at the disposal of W.
Burdett-Coutts will be treated with
the utmost care, and returned intact
ns soon as possible after the necessary
extracts have been made from them. *
A New Power at the "Times”
Sir Edward Tennant, Liberal Mem
ber of Parliament for Salisbury and
brother of the wife of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, will have a large
share in the control of the London
Times, being the most important and
authoritative of all the new board of
directors which takes over the manage
ment of tho Times this month from
Arthur F. Walter, who has until now
exercised, like his father, grandfather,
great-grandfather. and great-great
grandfather before him. an absolutely
autocratic sway at Printing House
Square. Sir Edward Tennant is quite
the larcrest individual owner of stock
in tho Times, for the Walter holdings
are divided un among a considerable
number of members of the family, some
of whom are at daggers drawn with
one another.
Sir Edward will thus be in a position
to dominate not only the business but
likewise the politics of the “Thun
derer.’ and we may therefore expect it
to swing round to the present adminis
tration and to become the organ of the
Liberal Government. Inasmuch as the
Campbell-Bannerman Cabinet is
pledged to Home Rule for Ireland, the
change in the politics of the Times will
be the biggest of all those which it has
to its record, and old subscribers who
recall the mint of money spent by thg
"Thunderer” to defeat Home Rule and
the campaign which culminated in the
memorable Parnell Commission will
rub their eyes in amazement when they
see the ponderous leaders of their fa
vorite paper calling upon them to ac
cept the doctrines which it formerly so
fiercely denounced.
Sir Edward Tennant is exceedingly
rich and is married to one of that
lovely trio of daughters of Percy
Wyndham. whose famous portrait,
painted by Sargent and exhibited at
the Royal Academy, was happily de
scribed by King Edward as
Graces." Sir Edward, like his father
before him. derives his vast wealth
from the greatest chemical works in
the United Kingdom.
Lord Curzon’s New Home.
Lord Curzon has terminated his lease
of tho priory at Roigate and has rented
Lord Bolton’s oountrj- seat. Hackwood
Park near Basingstoke. The house is
a very stately mansion, designed by
Inigo Jones and among its most fam
ous mistresses was Lavinla. wife of
the third Duke- of Bo!ton. who had
married her from the stage, where she
had obtained much renown as Poll' -
Peacham. in Gay’s “Beggar’s Opera.”
It :? Interestimr in these days of big
salaries to theatrical, artists "to recall
the fa,-; the: R: h. her mcrig- p. when
the pace :n qu'srmn dr-.v : h«
fashionable world in town to !:: =
house raised the fair Lavinia’s re-
House of Stolberg wh’ch in December.
1991. celebrated the seventh centennial
of its foundation. It is one of the me
diatized and formerly sox’sre’gn dynas
ties of Germany, and its members still
retain the right of mating with royalty
fervor
thrilling oratory were in flower. He
lived in the age of magnificent speech,
when the destinies of the republic
were being shaped. Prentiss w^s won
derfully gifted. He had a powerful
on a footing of perfect equality: thus j mind and a phenomenal memory. He
the late Prince Alfred had as consort | was invincible on the stump, and a
a daughter of the ruier of the princi- I magnificent advocate in the court
pality of Waldeek and Pyrmnnt. In- j room. It is claimed that he had a
deed there is hardly a reigning family ! career of unbroken successes at the
in Germany that is not matrimonially j bar. the only case he ever lost being
connected with the Stolbergs. Some one in which he was personally in-
of them are princes and others counts, j terested, and where he lost the larger
but all figure in Part II of the Alma- j portion of his fortune. On one occa-
nach de Gotha. The Castle, of Stolberg , sion. when Prentiss was only 25
was built in the Hartz Mountains in [ years old, he made a powerful argu-
the thirteenth century and the Castle ment in the Supreme Court .of the
-TYhen Roosevelt thinks of Parker and
Harriman does he regard himself as
being like Benjamin F. Butler was. in
one respect? It is related that at a
dinner in a New York club, Gen. 'B. **,
Butler remarked that he was personally
acquainted with the three greatest liars
in America.
"Name them,” shouted the company.
“I don’t like to be personal in my
remarks." said the general, looking out
of his funny eye at- Eli Perkins, who
sat three seats away.
“Out with 'em,” demanded the crowd.
“Who are the three greatest liars in
America?”
"Well. Mark Twain is one of them,"
admitted the general, “and Eli Per
kins is the other two.”
Speaking of the Exchange Bank, the
Central City Purchase and Loan Asso
ciation was granted a charter, with
banking privileges, in April. 1S71. The
late S. G. Bonn was president. The
office was in the basement of the pres
ent Bibb County Court House. This
was exactly thirty-six years ago. Each
stockholder was to pay one dollar ($1)
per weelc on each share until the
amount reached one hundred thousand
dollars ($100,000). This amount, and
considerably more, was soon raised, and
as a result of it the institution was
changed by a charter, early in 1872.
to the Exchange Bank of Macon, with
S. G. Bonn, president; R. F. Lawton,
cashier: J. W. Cabaniss. teller. Cap
ital, $150,000. Messrs. Bonn and Law-
ton are dead, but Mr. Cabaniss still
lives, and is now the president of the
bank, having been with the institution
ever since the first hour of its organ
ization: in fact he was connected with
the Central City Purchase and Loan
Association, out of which grew the
Exchange Bank. The only living mem
ber of the first board of directors pf the
Exchange Bank is Mr. William R. Rog-
Total .
Southern
army
.2,778,304
. 600.000
In an editorial yesterday in The
Telegraph on kissing it was stated
that Prof. Hopkins, of Yale, has been j ers. one of Macon’s highly esteemed
tracing the origin of the osculatory j citizens. He-has continued a director
custom, and he finds that the genuine I of the bank from the beginning up to
of Wernigerode. which is much more
picturesque, dates from a hundnsd
years afterward.
The Stolbergs are somewhat imperi
ous in their ways and impatient of
contradiction, and it may be questioned
whether the new president of the
Reichstag, where the sessions are
sometimes so turbulent, will possess
the necessary calmness of mind and
patience for the office. ' He Is now in
his sixty-seventh year, took part in the
wars of 1866 and 1S70, being severely
wounded at Sadowa. and for many
years was Governor of East Prussia.
Like so many other members of the
old aristocracy, he sided with Count
Kanitz when the latter headed the
movement of the land-owning, titled
classes against the legislative measures
designed by the Emperor for the pro
motion of trade “with foreign countries,
and was in consequence thereof for
some years in the bad graces of the
Kaiser. While he has been restored to
favor, it is just a question whether
Emperor William and Prince von Bu--
low would not have preferred a man of
less inviduallty and of more pliability
than Count Stolberg. His predecessor.
Count Francis Ballestrem. was a mere
noble, of minor rank, ready at all times
by reason of his birth and training, to
defer to the crown, whereas Count
Stolberg. firmlv imbued with the belief
that his family is quite as ancient,
blue-blooded and illustrious as tthat of
the Hohenzollerns, is much less in
clined to give way to any imperial sug
gestions. and will not allow himseir to
be swayed in any way.
Bar on Posthumous Children.
It was his cousin. Prince Wolfgang
Stolberg, who perished so mysteriously
only a few days after the demise of his
own father, being found in the park of
Wernigerode. with the top of his head
blown off. through the discharge of his
gun, though whether by accident or
with suicidal intent or by some crim
inal hand remains a mystery .to this
day. His only son and successor, the
present 14-year-old Prince Wolff Henry
of Stoiberg. was born only three
months afterward, this leading to a
very bitter controversy. For posthu
mous children are frowned upon by
German laws, as set forth by the new
Code of. the Empire. tvTiich declares
that only those children shall have a
right to their father’s heritage which
have been born prioi to his demise.
The mother, however, put. forward the
contention that member? of the media
tized houses of Germany are governed
in matters of succession, marriage, etc..
by their own family statues, enacted
by the adult male members of their
house, and this contention was ulti
mately allowed to prevail. It is only
in Germany that these laws with re
gard to posthumous children prevail.
Everywhere else, indeed, the law does
its utmost to protect the interests of
the unborn heir.
MARQUISE DE FONTENOT.
United States, being opposed by very
learned and older'counsel. At the con
clusion of his splendid speech. Chief
Justice Marshall said to Prentiss:
“Young man, if you were not the
greatest of orators I would pronounce
you the ablest of lawyers.”
DR. JOHN JOHNSON, OF
CHARLESTON, PASSED AWAY.
CHARLESTON, S. C.. April 8.—Dr.
John Johnson, D. D., LL. D.. rector
emeritus of St. Philip’s Church, major
of engineers in charge at Fort Sumter
during the siege of the sixties, author
of “The Defense of Fort Sumter,” and
the Three | other historical works, died tonight at
the age of seventy-eight years. He
leaves a widow and several sons and
daughters.
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Ireland toward the cln- ■ of ■
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HEALTH
INSURANCE
The nan who insures his life Is
wise for his family.
The man who insures his health
is wise both for his family and
himself.
You may insure health by guard
ing it. It is worth guarding-
At the first attack of disease,
which generally approaches
through the LIVER and mani-
Prentiss reveled in politics, but held
few offices. He represented his State
in the Legislature in 1835, and in 1836
was elected to Congress from Mis
sissippi. The Democrats opposed, him
taking his seat, claiming there was
no vacancy. The fight in Congress
over the contest was memorable, emi
nent men taking part for and against,
Among those who supported the con
tention of Prentiss were Millard Fill
more, afterward president of the United
States. Caleb Cushing, Thomas Cor
win. Richard Menifee and Henry A
Wise. He was fought by Hunter, of
Virginia, Legare, of South Carolina,
and other distinguished men. Pren
tiss made a matchless argument in
his own behalf. Congress was thrill
ed. So dramatic was his action, and
so entrancing was his oratory that the
Congressional reporters forgot their
duty, sat with riveted gaze upon him,
and failed to report- his speech. Later.
Prentiss wrote the ispeeeh, and I find
this closing paragraph of the glowing
oration in a highly interesting essay
by that always entertaining writer,
Savoyard:
“You sit here twenty-five sover
eign States in judgment of the most
sacred rights of a sister State—that
which is to a State what chastity is
to a woman, or honor to a man,
Should you decide against her. you
tear from her brow’ the richest jewel
which sparkles there, nad forever bow
her head in shame and dishonor. But
if your determination is taken, if the
blow,must fall, if the Constitution
must bleed, I have but one request on
her behalf to make. When you de
'cide that she cannot choose her own
representation, at the same moment
blot from the star-spangled banner of
the Union the bright star that glitters
to the name of Mississippi but leave
the stripe behind, a fit emblem of her
degradation.”
The vote on seating Prentiss result
ed in a tie. and Speaker James K. Polk,
of the House, cast the deciding vote
against Prentiss The Speaker was a
Democrat and Prentiss was a Whig.
Polk fovever afterwards remained un
der Prentiss's displeasure, and in 1844>.
when Polk was a Democratic candidate
for President. Prentiss called him “a
blighted burr that has fallen from the
name of the war-horse of the Hermi
tage.”
When Congress declined to seat
Prentiss, he returned to Mississippi,
announced himself a candidate for
Congressman, made a brilliant canvas
of the district and was triumphantly
elected. This was in 1838. He served
only one term in Congress, but main
tained his high reputation as an ora
tor, his principal speech being against
the sub-treasury bill—a measure which
was tlie beginning of our present mod
ified. developed financial system. On
leaving Congress he was invited to
stieak in historic Faneuil Hall Boston,
and made an address that electrified
all New England and whose echoes
went resounding throughout the entire
country. Savoyard says that it is am
ple praise of It to say that during its
deliver-.- Edward Everett asked Daniel
Webster if he bad ever heard it equal
ed. and the response was. “Never, ex
cept by Prentiss himself—a compli
ment says Savoyard, not rruch- dis
similar to that his rival naid him when
Joseph Holt said: “Prentiss is the only
man I ever saw -whose performance
equaled his reputation.”
kiss was invented by a woman. Per
haps so, but the fellow who performed
on the lips of the beautiful Fatima
evidently knew- his business and gave
ft sample of the genuine article, for
later, when she was thinking about it,
she rapturously exclaimed:
“O love! O fire once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul
through
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.”
I have the assurance of Tennyson
that these words were exactly what
she said. Then the bridegroom, of
whom Shakespeare tells was just as
ardent and genuine in his osculation
as Fatima’s beau, but he was more
noisy, for
“He kissed her lips with such a clam
orous qmack,
That, at the parting all* the church
echoed.”
According to the poets, and other
writers, man generally seems to be
the one v.-hose mind runs on kissing.
Here is what another fellow says, to
his Celia:
“Leave a kiss but in the cup.
And I’ll not look for wine.”
And I find that another gent thus
addressed a maiden fair: “Take the
cup to your lips and fill it with kisses,
and give it so to me.”
Prof. Hopkins locates the first kiss
in ancient India. It may have been
there, but other investigators of tho
origin of the agreeable practice say
that it 'began with the Greeks. And
Greek lore, like Indian legend, gives
to lovely woman the honor and praise
of its invention. Helen Pitkin says
the story goes that a beautiful young
shepherdess found an opal on one of
the hills of Greece, and w-ishing to
give it to a young shepherd, whose
hands were busy with his flock let him
take it from her lips with his own.
Thus the kiss w-as invented, and, so
Miss Pitkins thinks, perhaps the pop
ular superstitution against the opal
may be traced back to this same in
cident. for osculation has been fraught
with great moment in the world’s his
tory. Among the serious kisses she
mentions those of Antony and Cleo
patra and of Henry TUI and Anne Bo-
levn. Both of these. It is said, shook
an empire. Charlemagne once caught
his secretary kissing the emperor’s
daughter at midnight. The lady, that
her lover’s footsteps might not be
traced in the snow, carried him home
on her back. The emperor heard of
it. and made her take the secretary
for the rest of her life, w-hich she was
not at ail unwilling to do.
this good day. and no doubt will re
main on the directorate until the
ledger of life is closed. In 1878 Cashier
Lawton withdrew from the Exchange
‘Bank to engage in banking on his own
account, and Teller Cabaniss was pro
moted to the office of cashier. The
bank was then located in the present
office of the West-:/! Union Telegraph
Company, on Cherry street. On th ■
death of President Bonn. Mr. John 0.
Curd was elected tc the presidency.
When Mr. Curd died, the late George Ii.
Turpin became president. Col. Henry
J. Lamar succeeded Mr. Turpin, and
upon the demise of Col. Lamar. Cash
ier J. W. Cabaniss was chosen presi
dent,, and has occupied the position
ever since, a period of ten or eleven
years. Hand m hand, the Exchange
Bank and the city of Macon have
come -down the aisles of time, keeping
step to the march of p-egress.-
North’s numerical excess 2.17S 304
In the Northern army thcro were:
Germans 176.S90
Irish 144,200
British Americans 53.500
English 45.500
Other nationalities 74,900
Negroes 186.017
Total 6S0 917
The number of foreigners was 494.-
900.
In the armies at the war’s end:
Aggregate Federal army May
1. 1S65 J.000.000
Aggregate Confederate army
May 1, 1S65 ....
Number in Battel
Seven days light .
Antietam
ChancellorsvUle ..
Fredericksburg ..
Gettysburg
Chickamauga ....
Wilderness
At Appomattox Lee’s lighting force
was less than 10.000. and Grant’s army
numhered 162,000.
Federal prisoners in Confederate
prisons. 270.000.
Confederate prisoners In Federal
prisons. 220,000.
Confederates died In Federal pris
ons. 26 433.
Federals died in Confederate prisons,
22,570.
. 133.433
Confed.
Fed
. .S0.835
115.240
. .35.255
87.5 64
. .57.252
131.661
..7SJU0
110.000
..62.000
95.000
. .44,000
65 000
. .63.987
141.160
It is claimed by some that each side
underestimated the strength of the
other, and made a mistake in under-
valueing each other. A speaker once
said: "The North and the South in
their meeting in that war remind me of
the two Irishmen who met one day.
‘How are you. Pat?’ said one. *How
are you, Mike?’ said the other. 'But
I am not Pat.’ answered th" first. ‘And
I’m not Mike,’ said tho other. ‘Faith.’
said the first, ’you took me for Pat
and I took you'for Mike, but, bejab-
bers, It’s nalthcr of us.'”’
Tho most honorable kiss on record,
in the estimation of Miss Pitkin, is
that which Queen Margaret of France,
in the presence of the whole court
one day imprinted on tbe lips of the
ugliest" man in the kingdom. Alain
Chartier. whom she found asleep. To
those around her she said: “I do not
kiss the man, but the mouth that has
uttered so many charming things.”
He was called the father of French
eloquence. I guess that his lips
spoke more beautifully than ever after
this complimentary incident.
What blissful recollections are
brought to the minds of nearly all of
us by these lines:
Who ran to help me when I fell.
And would some pretty story tell.
Or kiss the place to ./make it well?
My mother.”
The kisses in our childhood on “the
place to make it well” are “dear as
remembered kisses after death.”
In 1838 there was a great Whigmeet-
| lng at Havre de Grace. Prentiss
I Henry A. Wise and Richard Menifee
were the speakers. Wise and Manifee
j preceded Prentiss and did not measure
i up to public expectation, so Wise him-
I self said: “This crowd was immense,
I the heart intense, ’he political excite-
J ment at fever heat.” Prentiss appear-
i od as fresh as the dawn, with his
matchless voice in splendid tune and
I every nerve ready for ’he strain. It
J was then that he uttered what ten
i thousand school boys have since de-
fests itself in innumerable ways \' ciiia ;-.?. by the Father of
Waters at New Orleans'I have said
Fc'-iow Ci'r -ns: on the banks of the
beautiful O'”'o I have said Fellow Citi
zens; here I say Fellow C'tizens. and
I a thousand rile? beyond this North.
1 thanks l • to Ged I can still say Fellow
j C'r« "
•■"'Ir s->ys that ne never saw
I such --Tie effort as that which at-
tcnded those opening words and from
TAKE
& & ^
And save your health.
Kissing, it is said, was first introduc
ed into England by royalty. It is re
lated that the British monarch, Vorti-
gern, gave a banquet in honor of the
Scandinavian alljes, at which Rowena,
the beautiful daughter of Henhist, was
present. During the proceedings the
Princess, after pressing a brimming
breaker to her lios. saluted the aston
ished and delighted monarch with a
little kiss, “after the manner of her
people.”
In ancient Rome kissing was a cer
emony of religion. Writers say that
the nearest friend of a dying person
performed the rite of receiving his or
her soul by a kiss, supposing that it
escaped through his or her lips at the
moment of expiration. The further
statement is made that later, in Rome
Tomorrow is the forty-second anni
versary of the surrender- of Robert E.
Lee to U. S. Grant at Appomattox. On
April 9, 1865, the two generals met
in the house of Mr McLean in the
village of Appomattox court house and
agreed to the terms of surrender of
the Army of Northern Virginia. The
story of the apple tree is a myth.
About 27.000 men were included in
Lee’s capitulation, but his fighting
force numbered less that! 10,000. His
soldiers were famished, foot sore, no
food, no shoes, no raiment This hand
ful of tattered uniforms was hemmed
in on every side by 162.000 well-fed,
well-clothed and well-armed men un
der Grant. Lee yielded to overwhelm
ing numbers to avoid the useless sac
rifice of the remaining few of his gal
lant band. No tongue or pen can fit
tingly describe or picture the parting
scene between Lee and his veterans
at Appomattox. It has been truly said
that the anguish of those noble he
roes at separating from their beloved
commander was the severest pain they
had suffered during tbe entire four
years of hardships, sufferings and tri
als. The general and his comrades
mingled their tears together. His last
spoken words to them were: “Men,
we have fought through the war to
gether; I have done mv best for you.”
The next day he issued h's memorable
and' touching farewell address to the
Army of Northern Virginia, to-wit:
“Hd. Qrs. Army, N. Va., April 10.
1865—General Orders: After four years’
arduous service, marked by unsur
passed courage and fortitude, the Army
of Virginia has been compelled to yield
to overwhelming numbers and re
sources. . I need not tell the brave
survivors of so many hard-fought bat
tles who have remained steadfast to
the last that I have consented to this
result from no distrust of them; but.
feeling that valor and' devotion could
accomplish nothing that could com
pensate for the loss that must have
attended the continuance of the con
test, I determined to avofd the use
less sacrifice of those whose past ser
vice to their country has been so val
uable and noble.
“In the terms of agreement officers
and men can - return to their homes
and remain till exeahnged. You will
lake with you the satisfaction that
proceeds from the consciousness of
dutv faithfully performed, and I earn
estly- pray that a merciful God will ex
tend to you his blessing and protec
tion. With an unceasing admiration
of your constancy and devotkn to
your country, and grateful remem
brance of your kind and generous con
sideration of myself, I bid you an af
fectionate farewell.
R. E. LEE, General Commanding.”
Even now, after an elapse of forty-
two years, no true Southerner can read
these lines without a tear.
A writer says that defeat did nofi
wholly quench "the spirit of fun. After
the surrender, when City Point was tha
center of exchange for prisoners, an
old Confederate soldier, with very rag
ged clothes and wholly soleldss shoe
tops, was sitting on a fence, whittling
a stick while waiting for his train. A.
dapper young officer in blue, with fresh
gold addressed him and tho question:
“Say. old man, how long will it take
me to get from here to Richmond?
There was no reply, the old man only
whittling, and squirting tobacco juice
to a great distance, so the query was
testily repeated. Then the Confed:
“I was a-thinkin’, an’ I dunno. It tuk
about 400.000 better men lhan you four
years, an’ all o’ them didn’t reach It.”
GRAFT ERA PASSING.
General Lee then mounted old “Trav
eler.’ the faithful horse which had car
ried him so well all through the war.
and started for Richmond. As he
journeyed, “men, women and children
crowded around him. cheering and
waving hats and handkerchiefs. It was
more like the welcome to a conqueror ! the public objects it is consigned to
than to a departing prisoner on pa- j perdition. Men who build fortunes con-
World is Getting Better by Exposure
of Wrongs, Says Ida Tarbell.’
"From the New York Times.
“The Indolent acceptance of things
as they are by the Intelligent classes
in this country has made us the scorn
of the world." said Miss Ida Tarbell in
a lecture given before the Woman’s
Municipal League at its clubrooms, 19
East Twenty-sixth street, yesterday af
ternoon. “Democracy has come to mean
with us the liberty to rob and throttla
each other. 1 ’
Miss TarbeU’8 lecture was upon “In
tellectual Integrity.” She said at the
beginning that if the audience had
gathered to hear any discourses or
caustic comments they would be dis
appointed, for her paper was to be a
quiet, serious one..
“The only thing which makes ono
free,” said Miss Tarbell, “is found in
one’s self: It cannot be found in another
man’s books. Most m,en learn more
from books than from what they think
themselves. You can send a man
through college, give him ail the ad
vantages of education, but what mav
it amount to? You cannot make any
man an athlete by putting him through
the paces.
“It is not only by our lazily letting
things go, but self-interest, which works
aginst our intellectual integrity Should
a man sacrifice that for worldly chance?
There is a man in the Senate now who
was asked to assist In cleaning up a no
toriously bad city, but he refused. He
said:
• T know the rascals rob me person-*
ally of large sums each year, but I be
lieve it is to my advantage to let it go
and keep in my business and make
up for the loss in that way. Cleaning
up a city is work that lakes a long time,
and Is expensive. It will be better for
every man to do as I do.’
That man was helping to build up
he system we have today. Pulpits are
full of men who can give the reasons
for the troubles of the Jews in ages
past, but they- have no conception of
the affairs of the present. The reason
men cannot point out the failures of
the present is due to intellectual bar
renness and self-interst. There can
only be a complete horizon when we
take in the city, the State, the county
and the world.
“Our catpains of Industry seize upon
privileges without regard to the effect
upon the country. The Tailroads are
for the people, and the law says that
all shall be treated alike, but the oil
Trust exists because It has special rail
road privileges over its neighbors.
“The public owns the street? and
wants its rights. But the Consolidated
Gas Company gives us the poorest serv
ice and highest prices, and acts as if it
was working In its own private door
yard. There could hardly be a more
vulgar and unscrupulous betrayal of
trust. Any one who tries to use our in
stitutions for private gain is immoral
and unpatriotic
“In the Legislature it Is the same
thing. It is put to private uses, and if
this was done in order to know whether
they smelt of wine, because the Roman
ladies. In spite of the prohibition, were
sometimes foiled to have made too
free with the juice of the grape.
I had forgotten the l’ttle kissing af
fair in which Cardinal John of Lor
raine figured, until it v.-.as brought to
mind in an article by Miss Pitkin. It
seems that he was presented to the
Duchess of Savoy she gave him her
hand to kiss, greatly to the indignation
of the .churchman. “How. madam!”
exclaimed he: “am I to be treated in
this manner? I kiss the Queen, my
mistress, who Is the greatest Queen in
the whole world, arvl shall I not kiss
vou. a dirty little Duchess? I would
have yuu know I kissed
role.”
trary to good laws show bad judgment.
TYe are paying a great price for our
lac!- of commercial integrity in the
threatened bitterness of those who feel
themselves wronegd.
“When we accent things as they ar<*
we strengthen rather than weaken the
Horace Greeley in 'his "American
Conflict,” says “Of the proud armv
which, dating Its victories from Bull
Run. had driven McClellan from be-
. fore R’climond. and withstood his best
near relatives were ailowed to kiss effort at Anjietam. and shattered Burn- I system—we confuse oar values woefui-
tbeir female kindred on the mouth, but side’s host at Fredericksburg, -and Iy. Mental dullness to the real things
worsted Hooker at Chancellorsville. and about us is the greatest danger to the
fought Meade so stoutly though un'uc- nation.
cessfully before Gettysburg, and baf- I “Men In high places are calling out
fled Grant’s bounteous resources and I because the President draws attonf 'c.n
desperate efforts in the Wilderness, at I to collusion between corporations: they
Ronttsvlvania. on the North Anna, at | object to the exposure of the
Co'd Harbor, and before Petersburg
and Richmond, a mere wreck remained, j
It is said that 27.IMM men were includ- j
ed in Lee'=- rapltidatien. but of these)
not more than IPAOO had been able to j
carry their arms thus far on th»ir hone- |
less and almost feodle«s flight. . The )
rebellion had failed and cone down: j
hut the rehel army of Y-'reinla and
its commander had not failed.”
trusts and talk of the ’man with the
muck rake.' The met who call on* are
the pessimists, though they call them
selves the optimists.
“I believe this Is the most hopef"!
time the world has ever known. T-e
world grows better as men with into’-.
ligence who see the truth come forwn-1.
It may be of interest Just at tills
time to giv- some figures as to the
3 handsome I relative strength of the Northern and
Men are not agreeable who
world by the ears, but if the w->rid '.s
to be better it must he exnos'ri n-r n
there is anything to ovo.-we. W<* — -v
be silent if it does rood, but if at>L it
is the worst of cowardic ”
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