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THE TWICE-A-WL'EK TELEGRAPH FRDIAY, APR ft 18, 1907. / ? T *H-MH Valdosta <-H"l-H I-I-l -H--1--H- By J: -H-M-H-I-K-l- 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 Ju xo X whe ’ nnm 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- Qrvmn was Induced by a Northern tht set Wl chi otl ha l-H-W-i-rH 1 1 I I I ■! i—f—1— W ,»r ■ h< ■« er I I le i ai ' lo cl firm to write a botany for use 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. , h | Oaughrt on the Wing i •i-K-t-H-I-I-l-M I I I..;..; I I ! H-H-I-I-* 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. era nm day Polly F fifth TVjke r shir nduce continue to i ‘ theater. Th' without legitimate i? extensive property wood Park, in Ham Park, in Yorkshire, to IPs nieg daughter. Jean, who mar:-: -.1 7 Or.le. secretary to the Duke Inn 1 when the latter was Y ! Ireland toward the cln- ■ of ■ F-enth century. Thomas lug. with tho consent of the cro.- 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 ” INDISTINCT PRINT