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i THE TVYTCE-A-'WEEK TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1TOT- Famous Sons of Brown PROVIDENCE, H. I. M.iv 11.—What 'head of the university, Ur. Faunce. prom!*" to b lr n wav the most re- Governor Stokes who Is a Philadel- rr.irkable commencement ever ceie- 1 phlan by birth, came to the university d at • n \ being plannei nlumn! romint try it Is cxpi three Govern© American university is \ with a reputation for fine scholarship, at Brown, for among ; which he had made at the Friends' from all over the coun- School in this city, a Quaker Institu ted that there will be tlon. He was graduated from Brown a r;ov. Hughes or New tin the clans of "S3. York, Oov. Stokes of New Jersey, j Governor Higgins, who graduated In ar. l Gov Higgins of Rhode Inland, the daes of 1898. and who Is the young- Gov Higgins need only ride down > eft <*l«* executive ever e'ected in Capital Hill and then up College Hill, j Rhode Island, tells the following story. No other American college. It Is be- which shows not only how he came to Ilr-vcd. has ever had three graduates enter Brown but explains how through \ occupying Governors’ chairs at , one time, and the rare record will probably be made the occasion of a demonstra tion unique In the history of American institutions of learning. The three Governors are all enthusiastic Brown men—Mr. Hugh** is a trustee of the university—and can be depended upon to help their classes, those of '81, ’83 and ’98 respectively, to make the most of their reunions. Brown’s record In the political world is a most extraordinary one. Although no Brown man has yet been elected head of the nation, the university boasts of the greatest trio of cabinet statesmen enrolled in one college, namely. William L. Marry, of the class of 1808 who waa Secretary of State under Pierce; Richard Olney, who as President Cleveland’s right hand man was the real hero of the historic Ven ezuelan crisis, and John Hay, who be gan his political career as Lincoln’s confidential secretary a few years after his graduation from Brown. Olney and Hay were contemporary students, the former graduating In 1806 and the latter In 1858. When Hay entered Brown he took a room In the most historic-of all the college build ings here. University Hall, which was erected In 1770. and which during the Revolutionary War, when the college tVaa closed, served as barracks and hospital for the combined French and American troops. Olney was also a resident of University Hnll. Later. Hay took a, room on one of the upper floors of Hope College another ven erable building within the campus precincts. Mr. Olney, who Is still practicing law in Boston, was a straightforward student, eager. Industrious, painstaking, a youth of marked promise. The Ol- neys for so many generations have been Identified with Rhode Island pro gressiveness that the young man was the subject of great expectations. When Hay wnar a student at Brown he showed an aptitude for literature, and he had more poOtry than lnw In mind when he left the university to make a place for himself In the world. He wns then' a ’•shy, dreamy, poetic youth." Through his uncle. In whose office he began the study of law, he was brought Into touch with Lincoln, and after he had won Lincoln's confi dence he had the privilege of choosing between diplomacy and literature. 'By Brown men he Is remembered no less for his work as a biographer and poet than for his historical achievements In the realm of International politics. The year Hay was graduated. 1858, there was only about 200 students at. Brown. Of the small company of teachers at the university half a cen tury ago. 'but one remains—Professor J Albert Harknes*'. who Is said to have taught more Americans Greek and latln than any other teacher in the j country, Its !K>era!lty the university has always CHESS HEN Will E ATLANTA. Ga.. May 11.—Among the Interesting features of the coming con ference of business men on the subject of education, to be held In the Senate chamber at the capltol on Friday. May 24. will be a discussion of the subject of Federal aid to education, which has just now begun to widely agitate the public mind. An address on this subject will be delivered by Senator A. S. Clay, who is thoroughly familiar with Its past his tory, and who will be able, unquestiona bly. to give the conference some valuable had special attractions for ambitious j Information In this direction, hard working students; This conferem*. as has been stated, will “Twelve vein -t-c i-ct T„„e - be composed of 50 prominent Georgia bus- tJtJvn,,?, ^ ,1^ ’! une a 5f r C 1 iness mrn from every section of the State, tain young man graduated from a high , four being appointed from each Con- school In Rhode I'land. He was anx- gressional District, and six from the State lous to secure a college education, but ■ at large. The appointments were made his means were scant and inadequate ■ by S. M. Inman, of Atlanta, as the result Early In the following Julv he oddreas ; of a conference of Georgia educators re- ta, ‘i. a “ cently held at Plnehurst. N. C., and Mr. , a le.ter to President Andrew’s stat- j jnman will preside over the sessions held. Ing the facts In his case. The most the It is proposed through this conference young man had hoped for was some ' to Interest the business men of Georgia adviee as to how to get through Brown ' ln educational work which needs to be Within a few days a letter came back from Dr. Andrews, saying. ’Come In and register at the opening of college In September, and I will see that your tuition Is cut In half.’ That concession, continued through the four years of the college term, was a very material factor In aidlrv the young man to get a Brown Uni versity training. After commencement day. four years later, the young man walked Into the president’s bouse at the corner of Prospect and College Streets In Providence, and thanked him for his assistance. The young man was your humble servant^ and in view of the above facts, I want to ask you, my fellow Brown men. if you think it the slightest bit strange that I feel a special joy at every mention of Andrews’ name And a particularly grateful pride at every thought of old Brunonla." The coincidence of three Brown given an added impetus, and It is ex pected some important pkms for further ing the educational 'movement In the State will be mapped out. The program for this meeting was completed and sent to the printer today. It will be ready for distribution some time next week. The - morning meeting in the Senate chamber at . the State capltol will be opened with prayer by Dr. W. W. Lan drum. of the First Baptist Church. After a brief address by Chairman S. M. Inman, permanent organization will be perfected. The following addresses and discus sions upon the topics will then be made: “The Proper Scope of Education,” G. Gunby Jordan. Columbus. “The State’s Duty ln Educating Her Children.” W. A. Covington. Moultrie. “The Training for the Practical Affairs of Life Which Our Schools Should Give Our Children.” J. Pope Brown, Hawkins- vllle. “The Property Holder's Interest In the Education of the Masses,” Judge Thomas G. Lawson. Eatonton. “The Unification of ■ the Educational Forets of the State,” Judge E. H. Cal- men occupying gubernatorial chairs ! laway. Augusta, led Gov. Hughes at the recent dinner of thi> Rrnivn ohiia i<- v^m* 1 foe* Goor^i& Educjitinnsl Associtition, l T” York ’, t0 Prof. T. J. Woofter. University of Geor- refer to it by saying that it was slm- ! gia. Athens. ply a case of “Brown bunching her ! “National Aid for Education,” Senator hits.” and the happy use of the lan- ! A - s - Clay. Marietta, guage of the national game Instantly , Th ® visitors end members of the con- endeared the hero of the Insurance In- I ? wllj participate In a luncheon at vestlgatlon to all around him. “There SAYS HI RATES ME REASONABLE DECISION OF INTERSTATE COM MERCE COMMISSION IN EN TERPRISE MFG. CO. VS. GEORGIA R. R TYPHOID DISCOVERY. pivot, and since that time, several thousand years ago, the only great im- ~ ”—~ J _ provement has been the addition of a Case of Cook Who for Years Has Been t i ifYSTf" /—v Breeding Place of Germs. J ll Ull CO. I foot-power to revolve It ! The ruins of Bismva clearly revealed Holland, in the Philadelphia Press, the early history of the brick. Down • Some time in August of last year, the in the lowest and most ancient strata ! oldest daughter of Maj. Charles Eliot of the ruins unbaked bricks of mud -warren, cashier of the Lincoln Bank. been moulded into rectangular blocks. anfl a “° °f high authority in the Na- and placed in the sun to dry. The tlonal Guard of New York State, be- poorer of the natives of Mesopotamia • came 111, and there was speedy diagno- still employ no other building mate- j s j s 0 f the case as one of typhoid. Maj. rial. It was not far from 4500 B. C. ‘warren and his family were living ln a not Is a metaphor much in use at Al bany." the Governor went on- “about the value of three of a kind.” Se riously, Gov. Hughes said that he thought Brown was especially fitted tr> make Governors. "It is a college.” he said, "which dominates the life of its students and graduates and we can't escape from its Influences.” Gov. Hughes is as enthusiastic a Brown man as he was when, together the Atlanta Chamber rif Commerce, this luncheon five minutes' speeches will he made' by several members of the con ference and by guests. At S p. m. the final meeting will be held in the Kimball House hall room at w-blch the report of the committee on resolutions will be made. Tills committee Is com posed of C. IT. Candler. Decatur, chair man: H. A. Matlmw-s, Ft. Valley: L. C. Mandeville. Carrollton: Thowas G. Law- son. Eatonton: ex-Gov. H. D. McDaniel. J. N. Holder, Jeffersonville: W. S. West, Valdosta. Addresses will be delivered bv C. M. with another clergyman’s son, a boy , _ _ _. _. from Stonington, Conn., he occupied a Candler. State School Commissioner W. room in Hone College Last veer on E - Merritt Lawton B. Evans, of Augusta, room in wope uonege. Last year, on , at .,j c B oihson. of Columbus. the twenty-fifth anniversary of his l Addresses by Gov. Jos. M Terrell and graduation, his alma mater gave him ! Governor-elect Hoke Smith are reserved the honorary degree of doctor of laws, for the conclusion of the eonf“rence. the ; gathering of which is looked forward to j with much interest in educational circles. COTTON SEED CRUSHERS Great Britain, Germany and _ nl - ' Italy Will Have Been ASSOCIATION TO MEET PaidbyJaly . 1 ! WASHINGTON. May 11.—Payment ATLANTA. Ga., May 11.—L. A. Ran- [ of the claims of the United States and Plans are op foot to erect a building ! som. district manager of the Southern seven other nations will be begun soon here whleh will be known as the Hay Cotton Oil Co., who is chairman of the after July 1, next. At that time the Memorial Library, ai.fi which will rep- j rules committee of the Inter-State Cot- clams of Great Britain, Germany and resent the tribute of the alumni to the ton Seed Crushers’ Association, and it Italy will have been liquidated and man who is regarded in some respects i s sa j r ] w ju be elected president of this : the deferred creditors will come in for as Brown's most distinguished son. A association, will leave on May 16th a settlement.' It is estimated that six large sum has already been raised by j in company with E. P. McBurney. the years will be required to settle the subscription, but those In charge of tho j Georgia member of this committee, to claims held by the eight deferred cred- project are taking their time, so that ! arrange for the rules to be submitted itors. as they amount to something when the memorial is completed, It w hen the convention meets at James- i more than one-half of the total debts will be in every way worthy of the j toW|) on May 21st for four days ses- ! against Venezuela at the time the subject. The library will 'be used to s j on I awards were made by the Hague trib- In’ view of the agitation in France ; unal fo «r years ago. The preferred for an increase in the duty on cotton . creditors were Great Britain, 9,401,267 seed oil. and on account of the gener- i German}- _.091,908 _and Italy al conditions prevailing during the j 5,<8o,9®_. a total of l«,2i9.137 bolivars, crushing seapon just closing, the an- I The awards to the other c.aimants were WASHINGTON, May 11.—Decisions in six cases were handed down today by the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, one of the cases, that of the En terprise Manufacturing Company, of Georgia, against the Georgia Railroad Company and others, involving the rates on cotton goods and cotton waste from Southern points to Pacific coast terminals, being of great importance: The decision in this case was rendered by Commissioner Lane and is against the complainant, it being held that the higher freight rates on such goods from the points in the South to the Pacific coast are just and reasonable. In its announcement the commission says: "The fact that such rates from the Southeastern States are higher than those obtaining from the New England States does not in and of itself estab lish the unreasonableness of the high er rates, as the conditions existing at the two localities are dissimilar. "The New England mills, which sug gest by the competition of the more favorably situated Southern mills from the standpoint of the production, are entitled to such advantage in rates as they have from being situated at points closer to ports where cheap wa ter competition has been established to the Pacific coast points of consump tion. The existence of a lower rate in the somewhat remote past does not necessarily prove anything of value in ascertaining the reasonableness of a rate existing today.” In the case of Tomlin-Harris Ma chine Company, vs. the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company and others, it was shown that the rates on coal and pig iron from Birmingham, Ala., to Cordele, Ga., from $1.70 per net ton and $2.75 per gross ton. respec tively. and from Birmingham to Macon, Ga.. are $1.60 per net ton and $1.60 the Wing -H-H-fr* By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET. Yesterday while Hon - . W. A. Coving ton was delivering his splendid ad dress at Wesleyan Female College there passed in review before my mind’s eye some of the distinguished men of the past who have spoken that the first burned bricks were made, i v>„,. The inventor no doubt was some ob- ; s “ rnme r cottage at Ouster Bay, serving half-naked Babylonian who ■ more than a half mile distant from the noticed that the soft mud upon which : summer home of President Roosevelt, from the platform of Wesleyan. There he built his camp fire became as hard ! Xo other case of typhoid was reported vrere bishops. United States Senators, as a stone. So well were the early . ■ thqt vi] ] asro but -..ifh the excention p on S r essmen. foreigfi ministers, bricks burned that even now after | in e „ , b "‘ ,, v , ® ^ P !„" Judges, cabinets members and others more than 6 000 years, upon the upper j “*<• Marren himself, his son, a lad prominent in the highest walks of surface of every brick may be seen -.of ten years of age, and one of the public life. I saw Judge Augustus the Impressions of the fingers of the ; servants, the entire family was soon Baldwin Longstreet, the delightful hu man who shaped them. Because of their convex surface they could not well be laid flatwise in the wall, as modern bricks are placed so the an cient mason set them upon edge, lean ing them against each other, herring- bone-wis.e, as the archaeologist would say, leaving large spaces between them to be filled with soft mud or with the bitumen from the hot springs near by. The Brickmaker’s Mark. The maker's mark upon our modern bricks is not a recent invention, for it has been employed from the time bricks w-ere first made. In ancient times, bricks were not manufactured by one person and sold to tne general trade, but, as now In some parts of the modern Orient, if a person wished to build, his first duty was to make and bake his bricks. It was then the king alone who aspired to structures of burned bricks, and, therefore, only the royal mark appeared. The first mark upon a brick of about 4509 B. C. was made by Jabbing the end of the thumb into the soft clay; the thumb mark was succeeded by an impres sion from the end of a round stick. Between 4500 and 3S00 B. C., an in teresting series of brick marks was developed. The first of the series was a line drawn lengthwise with the fin ger along the surface of the brick: the next generation dre\y the line diag onally.-the third added another diago nal line which crossed the first. The other rulers continued the series with two. three, four, and five lines. In prostrate with the disease; in three cases assuming something like a ma lignant form. There were six cases in all, including those of the servants. After a prolonged convalescence, all were pnonounced cured. This unusual case was brought to the attention of Dr. Soper, who has act ed frequently for the State of New York when there have been epidemics more or less widespread of typhoid fe ver. He Is a recognized authority upon i morlst. whose “Georgia Scenes'* and “Ransey Sniffle” will live forever. His genius illumined the literature of the South and won him national reputa tion. He was one of the very first trustees of Wesleyan, being appoint ed in 1836, the year the institution was incorporated by the Legislature as “The Georgia Female College,” t’-e name being changed later to Wes leyan. The doors of this “Mother of Female Colleges” were opened to the this disease, as well as upon sanitary i public on January 7, 1S39, and at the engineering. Dr. Soper caused a thor-' close of the exercises that year Judge ough analysis of the drinking water to ! Longstreet delivered an address, the be made, and this disclosed no typhoid first literary oration in the "history of germs. He thereupon made careful in- j the Institution. Longstreet was spection of the plumbing and sewage, known as a lawyer, author and educa- and of the grounds around the house, j tor. He served in the Legislature, and of the seashore, for some surmised that ! in 1822 was elected circuit judge, the contamination might have come. | Later, resuming the practice of law in as it sometimes does, while bathing, j Augusta, his naitve etty, he establish- There was absolutely nothing to justi- j ed the Sentinel which, in 183S, was fy even a suspicion of the origin of consolidated with that other venerable this disease, and no other case was | paper, the Chronicle. Judge Long- reported anywhere in the village of Oyster Bay. It remained, therefore, to obtain record of the manner in which vari ous members of the family had lived within the period necessary for the development of the typhoid germs. That investigation caused a strange and un defined suspicion to attach to the cook, who was the only one of the servants irot smitten by this disease. She had come into the family within the time or practically within the time necessarly for the perfection of typhoid germs, With this faint clue, Dr. Soper began other investigations. He speedily learn ed that in the family from which this _ , 3SOO B. C., Sargon the king who ta per gross ton respectively. Cordele he- j trodueed square bricks, was among the , , , „ „ „ , m ing a nearer point. Under complaint i first to stamp his name and titles unon ! cook had come to Maj. Warren, there that such rates to Cordele are unrea-; them a cus tom which has survived i aati sonable and unduly discriminatory the : j n one form or another until now. commission, in an opinion by Commis- j - We are tola that the dress of the sioner Lane, holds that upon the facts ! ars t human pair was made by fasten- shown the coal rate, is not unreasona- j ] n g, go. leaves together. The dress of ble or discriminatory, but that the pig j ( be ear ]y Babylonian, as we learn iron rate is unjust and excessive. The i (rom th 4 statues and statuettes from carriers are ordered to put in force on [ the Bismva ruins showed but little im or before June 15, 1997, a rate of $2.1. r per gross ton on pig. iron from Bi.r mingham to Cordele. EASTERN RllllS TELL STORY OF B« to put in force on ' the Bismya ruins showed but little 97, a rate o( provement upon it. The dress wa narrow band about the loins, which, in time grew wider until it extended from the waist to the knees. It is difficult to distinguish upon the erode clay and stone images the material employed in the dresses, yet it appears to have con- i sisted of bands of leaves overlapping each other as shingles upon a roof, or of skin, or of strips of wool, lightly attached together. Weaving by the Babylonians. It is not known just at what tftne the ancients first wove cloth. Proba bly the weaving of cotton and wool or house tho enormous quantity of mis ccljuneous books which the college has received and collected from time to time.'’It will be entirely distinct from the celebrated John Carter Brown Li brary. which Is devoted exclusively to Americana, and which is used by spe cial students from all over the country. The Hay Memorial Library will be used for general purposes. It will be to the students at large what the library of tho old dnys was to Hay himself, as follows: France 2,667,079 bolivars Spain 1,974,081; Belgium 10.89S.643; Sweden and Norway 174,359: the Neth erlands 544,301; United States 2,333,- 711 and Mexico 2,577,328, a total of 38,- 429.376 bolivars. A bolivar is worth about twenty cents, making the total debt about $7,685,875. nual convention becomes of great im portance. not only to the crushers themselves, but to the cotton growers of the South as well. Any condition that might unfavor ably affect the cotton oil industry , ...... . . . would react on the cotton growers, not place of intellectual refreshment and , only in the value of the seed, but in ..V/ln on ' tt i | the markets for cotton seed meal and if Brown University had done little hulls now so extensively used for tat- i a ttui iniTCTT AA a i/pp else during the last half century than tening cattle and for dairy cows. The AIIY JUUfcl I lYlAlVCO to lav firm nnd broad and Fure the \ cotton seed manufacturing* Interests j foundation of thorough training and ! has within twenty years become one of j sound thinking in the mind of John | the South’s important Industries. The liny," said one of the speakers, at the most important committee of the As- lnst commencement, "she would have ! sociation. Is the rules committee, whose ' gone far to Justify her existence. No ! duty it is to prepare for the considera- hlgher tribute to the worth of her j tion of the convention, the rules that govern the trancation in cotton seed products between the members of the association and in the trade generally, both in this country and in Europe. The commerc'al exchanges of the SENSATIONAL CHARGE mental discipline could be paid or ask ed. She showed what she could do with an intellect of the first rank." Of the three graduates who as Gov ernors of States will be proudly wel comed here In June, the best known Is country '.Ike the Atlanta Chamber of Gov. Hughes, of New York, who en- I Commerce, N. Y. Produce Exchange, tered Brown In the sophomore class Savannah Cotton Exchange. Savannah Jn 1S73 and wns graduated In 1881. : Board of Trade. Cincinnati Chamber of Gov. Hughes had spent two years at Commerce. Memnhis Merchaots ex- Colgate. then called Madison, but h*. * c*-„,ngo. New Orleans Board of Trade, wanted to live ln a larger world and Columbia Chamber of Commerce. Louls- tn he came to Brown. Gov. Hughes has been claimed by no less than four colleges, for after leaving Brown he studied law at Columbia University and later he taught law for a while a LEXINGTON, Ky„ May 11.—Attor ney Beverly Jouett, in his opening statement before the jury here today in the case of Judge James Hargis, charged with the murder of Jas. Cock- rill, at Jackson, made the sensational statement that he would prove that Hargis said that he would not kill Cockrill himself, but that he would help defend the man who would kill him. Jouett said that he would prove that Judge Hargis and Ed Callahan paid Curt Jett. Jno. Smith and John Abner to do the killing. Jouett referred to a newspaper In terview with Hargis in this city five davg after the murder, when Hargis said; From the New York Evening Post. As the excavator uncovers the ruins ; the fibres of plants, was suggested by of long past civilizations, in ancient ! tIle re ®^ taats which were taafie at an exceedingly early date. • No woven Egypt, and especially in Babylonia. p00ds ^ the % arUest Babylonian the antiquities which he discovers, i times have survived, but that they crude as they may seem, often tell a 1 existed, we are certain. In the ruins story of unusual interest. A shape- „f a house, containing inscriptions less piece of clay, a minute fragment | a a tj n g from about 3S00 B. C.. we un- of earthen jar, a bit of polished stone, [ covered an earthen jar which had been a sea shell, or some other apparently j sec urelv sealed with mud. Breaking worthless object, if found at a certain ■ t j, e mu ',j covering away, we found upon depth and with certain surroundings, j | ts un der surface the distinct impres- may reveal far more regarding primi- ' Pion of the threads of a woven cloth, tive man and how he lived, than the - The cloth itself had entirely disap- more beautiful antiquities'”Which adorn') peared, but the impression showed the show cases of the great' museums. • t bat it had been placed over the mouth Bismya. the Babylonian ruin, which | Q f t he jar. and then smeared over with the excavations for the University of j mna Chicago have recently exposed, and | T o most people it is a mystery how which represents the oldest city now j t ]j e American Indians formed their ar- known revealed in its lowest strata ) rovs . heads and other implements from material which has yielded an unusual i the hardest of stone. Still more re abundance of light upon the origins of j markable was the work upon stone in some most common things. As val- j t h e ancient Babylonian times. The liable as were the marble statues from | 0 hJef weapon of war was the sling, the Bismya temple, the gold, jewelry j w j t h its bails of hard clay yet stone from the graves, and the beautifully ! arrow heads have been found. The engraved and inlaid vases of alabas- ; most common of all stone implements ter and onyx, still rnore valuable for j was the flint saw. an exceedingly thin the study of primitive civilization were j p j ece Q f stone, about half an inch in the little fragments of clay and stone j -widtli and with notches upon both to which most people would hardly I edges to serve as teeth. With the frag- give a passing glance. I ment of one I had no difficulty in saw- Whlle X was standing at the edge of j j n? through a stick of considerable a trench which was bcing.cjug through j size.’ The lathe for turning stone was the residential portion of' Bismya, a i known as early as 4500 B. C., for beau- workman upturned with his pick a i tifully turned vases of onyx, alabaster, small clay object the.size of a large j j» ran ite. and • porphyry from that age j the~s'trait-jacket, a gentle but restrain orange. Carefully brushing the dirt appeared at Bismya, and a large num- j ins apparatus, did she at last submit her of small stone cylinders upon g be was placed Jn the ambulance and which were engraved various devices seven cases of typhoid fever. The head of this family was a man of affairs, whose name is a familiar one through out the United States, and even Eng land. Next Dr. Soper, having learned what family this cook was previously employed, made inquiries there, an found that in that family every mem her but one had been stricken with typhoid; and so on he carried his in vestigation back seme three years dis covering that in every family where the cook had been employed there had been from one to five or six cases of typhoid fever. Dr. Soper then learned the address of the family in which the cook had obtained employment after her ser vice with Maj. Warren’s family was end ed. That was a family living in the vicinity of Central Park, and in it there had been several cases of typhoid, one of which was fatal. Dr. Soper, had therefore demonstrat ed to his own satisfaction, at least, that it was something more than coinci dence. that there was some contamina tion or communication of typhoid germs for which this cook was uncon sciously responsible. A statement of that kind Justified action by the board of health and to that body Dr. Soper communicated the result of his inves tigation, and called upon it for assist ance. There was but one way in which assistance could be given, and that Was by practically taking this woman prisoner, and subjecting her to the in dicated tests, so that it might be dis covered whether or how she commun- ioeted typhoid germs. The officers of the board of health thereupon went to the house a few davs ago, where this woman was em ployed; she became hysterical when she was brought into their presence, really beside herself with fear; she ran out of the rear door, and in some way leaped the railing or fence that sepa rated the back yard in that block, en tered the house next door, and ran creaming through it, at last hiding her self, or trying to do that, in the cellar. Thereupon the board of health called upon the police for assistance; an am bulance was also summoned, and in it was a strait-jacket. Not until six po licemen. men -of great strength, had taken this woman and applied to her from it, he examined it, .and, observ ing that it was so light that it must be hollow, he shook It at his ear. A faint sound came from within. Later, as the clay became free from the mois ture of the ground, the sound became louder, closely resembling that made by a baby's tin rattle. Indeed, the lit tle clay object was the rattle of a Babylonian baby of 6.000 years ago, for that was the date of the inscriptions found in the encasing dirt. The rattle was made by placing a few pebbles in a small saucer-shaped dish, and be fore the clay was dried, a similar dish he is killed, and as County Judge will vllle 'Board of Trade, who have sent delegates to this convention, and others are governed in their dealings in cot ton seed products, amounting to over _ $100,000,009 annually, by'the rules of Cornell. Indeed he probably has the ' the Inter-State Cotton Seed Crushers’ “° k ‘‘ f tQ fin[1 OIlt hi< r widest university connections of any Association. It is of the utmost im- , ^r” P American today In public life. But his portance. therefore, that the rules com- j ou ’ ct t denied that feud feeling h-d alma mater is Brown and In Brown mittee or the association having this re s° lt ed in the Cickriil kTin- and his son. Charles Evans Hughes.'Jr., is matter in charge, shall exercise the that Harris had Cockrill killed and now a.student. In fact, the Governor’s , greatest care, based upon good judg- stood ta the way of Str,ta J, f the B sma >’. a Temple there 'ence In the prep- .wadis’ambftiL Touett- s i ?PP® ar ®? 3 ® veral . P r .d nary sea-shells, . . _ , , , was inverted upon it, and as the edges Cockri.I was a bad man, I am glad j were pressed together, a hollow spher ical clay ball, with the pebbles inside, was formed. The lamp is a common thing, perhaps so common that it may seem to have always existed. In one of the lower son lives In the same hall in which his ment and long experience am tlon of these rules. TRAIN AT CROSSING father lived, though not in the same room. Gov. Hughes had n brilliant record at Brown. At the end of his Junior ; year he was awarded one of the spec ie:! premiums for English literature lad bo also received an appointment | -p.is7/v nf\A7C f/II ¥ r— r\ ntv t the select literary fraternity, the TWO OOYb KILLfcl) BY ,il Beta Kappa. In his senior year he took another special premium for general attainments and won the po sition of class prophet Otherwise, his student career was a quiet one. He was noted for bis devotion to English literature: in fact, in his sophomore year he was suspected by his fellow students of spending more time read ing novels than doing anything else. The reason for this wns that he had gone back a class in order to im prove his knowledge of modern lan guages. So far as Latin and Greek and mathematics were concerned he was qualified to enter the junior class when he v-ame to Rrown. The spare time that came to him through his having already met clnss requirements as to ancient languages and mathe matics he devoted to improving his n-.lnd by reading standard English fic tion Hence the idea which his class mates got that he was simply drifting with the tide. This idea was upset when, later on. bo began to study for rank and won some of the most high ly prized honors. But Governor Hughes never became a grinu.” He wr* a prominent mem ber of the Delta ITpsllon farternlty all through his college course, and in tlrs cotini •::'■> found opportunities enough to Indulge his aptitude for debate. “He v ■> a g >od. reliable student," says one c;' hl> professors, "and in this respect was ik most clergymen's sons.” Brown wns still comparatlvelv small n quarter of’.: eenturv ago. In Governor Hughes’ w-,1 ’moot of i- caused a sensation as this is the first ^ t im e these direct charges have been three dal's ahead of the convention on May 13th to take up this important ’ wprk - OIL COMPANIES FINED FOR FALSE CERTIFICATION ““"S’- .cements ; £'The interior' of which still clung "a WILMINGTON, N. C., May 11.—In the United States District Court here today before Judge Thos. R. Purnell, i the Laurinburg Oil Company and the May 11. Jud Lumberton Ginning and Oil Company. ed nine and against whom indictments were re- FITZGERALD. Ga.. Rook and Jno. Rook. J “’even vears, respectively, were killed turned earlier in the week by the grand bv a train on the Ocilia and Valdosta J ur >'- charging them on eight counts Railroad this afternoon. The boys ® ach with having violated the Inter- were driving in a wagon. As they ap- state Commerce act, in obtaining a preached a crossing they failed to see freight rate lower than that in effect the train, their view being obscured by ' vith the common carrier serving them, a warehouse and some box cars on a by means of a false certification of siding. Nor could the engineer. Dan weights, submitted to the charges as Meeks, see the boys in the wagon. The corporations and were fined $10,000 and train was moving slowly and could the $6,000 respectively together with the engineer have seen the boys he could probaly have stopped it in time to prevent the accident. As it was the : team struck the engine and the boys I were thrown beneath it. one having i his head cut off and the other hav- I ing his body severed at the middle. I The coroner’s Jury exonerated the I train crew. ;ALLEGED QUADRUPLED MURDERER ARRESTED 5-1 it the and under his not univer? ROANOKE, Va.. May 11.—Policeman W. J. Rlgney. of the Roanoke city po lice force, this morning arrested Sam Moore, a negro, who is charged with the murder of his wife, another ne gro woman, and two negro men in Danville. Va.. several weeks ago. Tr.e dead bodies of the four negoes were discovered lr. a room at the Rev. W. H. Atwells. Suspicion pointed to Moore as the slayer of the quartette, it being alleged gonce on his wifi whisky which his victims drank. Moore made hi< escape and came to Roanoke costs. At the suggestion of District Attor ney Skinner the cases as to the offi cers and directors of the mills were nol pressed, with the exception of the case of R. E. L. Corell. superinten dent of the Lumberton mill, for whom the corporation would not become re sponsible. The case as to Corell was continued to the October term. The maximum penalties in all of the counts aggregated $S0,000 and the cases have attracted attention because of these being the first cases of their nature instituted by the commission, the ship per and not the transportation com pany being the defendant. Child Murdered for Vengeance. JERSEY CITY. N. J., May 12.—A child murder, with vengeance upon the father as the suggested motive, today furnished the police with an unusually sensational case. To all appearances initc 25-i stud- it being alleged that he sought ven- I Andrew, the four-year-old son of John Today the | gonce on his wife and poisoned some ; Mullaney, superintendent of the Bow- ’ .* s:::il- ) whisky which his victims drank. Moore , n Cotton Mills at Cedar Grove, was ban 900. ; made hi-' e.-.-ape and came to Roanoke deliberately killed by a blow on the taken ! w ere be has been living since the head and the body thrown into a clump Dr 11- rime. He made resistence when ar- of bushes within 300 yards of his home ! rested today and will be carried back j The little fellow went from the house t, the present • to Danville to face the charges. ■ to play this afternoon. black deposit. For a long time it was difficult to understand the purpose which the shells had served. Later, as we were digging at a higher level, we discovered a conch-shell, from which a section had been cut so that it formed a perfect dish, while the valve resem bled an elongated nose of a frying pan. In this shell also was a biack deposit. The conch had clearly served as a lamp. The sea-shell, therefore, seems to have been the first lamp of primitive man. Centuries later, -when lamps be came more common, and shells could no longer be found to meet the demand, stone was cut into the shape of a shell and its valve. A number of beautiful alabaster and marble lamps, some plain and others more or less decorated, were found at Bismya, all resembling the shells from which they were copied. It would be interesting to know what oil the 'Babylonian of 6,000 years ago burned in his shell lamp, and how he discovered that oil could produce light. We can only imagine that the fat of the mutton, which he was roasting over the campfire, ignited, and, flaring up, lighted the darkness about him. In time he learned to collect the mutton fat into the dish, and to place in it a wick of the cotton which grew wild along the Euphrates river. Fragments of Pottery. Down on the desert level, far below a large temple which was constructed about 4500 B. C:. and beneath thirty feet of earlier ruins, we found a thick layer of clay pottery fragments of an antiquity so great that it is difficult to estimate their approximate age. Some have come to light. The cylinders, perfectly turned, are of the hardest stones—lanis-laznii. crystal, jasper, and meteoric stone. The devices unon them are so exceedingly well exe cuted that the attempts of the modern manufacturer of spurious antiquities are general inferior. Various explanations of the origin of t>*r* phuroh have beon advinowi. Whether the clock tower of the mediaeval cathedral, or the dome of the Jewish syn agogue. or the Mohammedan mfnaret, or the Egyptian obelisk he regarded as an aneestor. we find its first parent in the temple of the earliest Babylonian days. The first temnle was but a mound of dirt, unon which the Image of the god anq fbe offerings to it were placed. As civilization increased the mound grew higher, with various stages and exterior' stairways. Later, chambers for the priests about t'“t base of the tower were constructed, aft! the shrine was transferred from the sum mit of the tower to them, yet the tower remained. The ruins of one tower near Bahylon will reach 153 feet above the plain. brought to the Reception Hospital. After a little while her terror was subdued, and she became persuaded that no one wished to harm her, nor was there any intent to keep her in prison, as she feared. In due time thorough test revealed the amazing fact that the vital organs of this woman were veritable breeding places of ty phoid germs. A little inquiry showed that she had been desperately ill with the disease some six years ago. but •had perfectly recovered her health, to all appearance. Yet, since, twenty- four patients have fallen ill with ty phoid because of communication of this disease from her to them. One of these cases, at least, was fatal. It may be, of course, that there Is something in the case of this woman that is abnormal: that her .record is unlike that of the majority of those who, having suffered from typhoid, have recovered. But on the other hand the woman in her vital organs carried for street was president of Emory College about ten years, his administration continuing until 1S4S. He fell to sleep at Oxford, Miss., September 9, 1870. In this review I also saw Walter T. Colquitt eminent as an orator and statesman, especially renowned in the golden days of eloquence as a stump speaker. At the Wesleyan commence ment of 1S45, while he was famous as a member of 'the United States Senate from Georgia, he delivered an oration. Like Judge Longstreet, he was named one of the first trustees of Wesleyan, in 1S36, and like Longstreet Colquitt was a circuit judge: and also like Longstreet he was licensed to preach by the Methodist Church. He was re peatedly elected to the lower branch of Congress, and in 1S43 was chosen United States Senator, resigning in 1848. He was considered almost in vincible in political debate. His meet ings with Alexander H. Stephens on the hustings are among the traditions of the State. It may not be generally known, but in his day Senator Col quitt was -celebrated as a violinist. This brilliant man died at Macon in 1855, aged about 56 years. Thus civilization, which we are inclined I a (- ] caff t s i x years living and powerful to think is modern, or perhaps never | tvt>hoid germs .although she had her- quite so advanced as now. and which we JfSL.-1 rp h would believe is largely the fruit of our ) self recovered from the disease The own labors, is shown to he of an exceed- ; germs which infested her were power- inely slow growth. To almost more than | less to do her no other harm, since those any other man the gratitude of the wo-id which had brought her to a sick bed is due to bim who discovered that the \ w ith typhoid had done all the harm clay beneath his camn fire had burned hard—he thus discovered the brick of which most of the great structures of the modern world are made: or to that other ancient who accidentailv revolted the board unon which he was shauing clav. for he invented tho potter’s wheel. a hd the beautiful shapes of modern ceramic art resulted: or to him who first inter- possible. Distillery Destroyed. PELLEVILLE. Ont., May 12.—The distillery and grist mill of the H. Corby Company were today destroyed by fire, originating, it is believed, - The twineq tho fibres of the leaves as a cover- from spontaneous combustion, ing for his • nakedness—lie invented the loss Is placed at $250,000. art of weaving. EDGAR JAMIES BANKS. Field Director of the Recent Rtbvlonian Expedition of the University of Chicago. SAVANNAH DISCOVERS UNWRITTEN ORDINANCE SAVANNAH. Mav 11.—"While . try ing a case before Recorder Schwarz today Attorney Dan Chariton sprang a surprise upon that official and all the police. The defendant in the case was arraigned for having left his horse untied on the streets. The attorney asked under what law or ordinance the arraignment was made. The Re corder stated that it was under the city ordinance prohibiting the prac WATTERSON RISES TO INSIST. of the pots from Which the fragments j tlce aad prohibiting hackmen going to came had been made by hand: others i slee P ln their hacks. showed traces of a most primitive pot ter’s wheel. The potter who, while forming a vessel, turned with one hand the flat board or stone upon which the clay was resting, a.s he shaped it with the other, invented the wheel. The earliest “thrown” vases were not ex actly circular, for the board upon which the clay was formed did not revolve evenly as about a central pivot. The first step in the development of the '•.Wheel was to attach the board to a Says Roosevelt Positivoiy Tabooed Third Term. From a Louisville Dispatch of Yesterday. In answer to a direct interrogation of the Boston Journal and the Washington Times as to his authority- for saying that he accepts Mr. Roosevelt’s word touch ing his renunciation of a third term. Henrv Watterson will print the following in the Courier-Journal tomorrow: “Most willingly we answer. Except that the editor of the Courier-Journal had direct and precise information, he would have made no such statement. It came to his knowledge last winter that in a company of journalists—many in number —the President said: “ ‘I know that you do not trust me, but whv can't you trust me? Why can't you believe me—have faith In me? I tell vou now. upon my honor, that if the next Re publican National Convention nominates me and adjourns it will have to reassem ble, because I will not accept the namina- tion.’ “This came to Mr. Watterson straight from Washington. It came from two re sponsible sources of information. It was There is no such ordinance,’ said 1 coupled with the assurance that those Mr. Charlton. Sure enongh there was not. The minutest search failed to discover it. Since the time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, fines have been imposed for these offenses. The Recorder says the city will have to refund all such fines, aggregating many thousands of dollars.^ He will at once ask the passage of such an ordi nance. who had believed the contrary', went away convinced that the President meant it and would abide by it. and hence they took him at his work and dropped their former opinion. “As there was a number of journal ists present and the incident haopened in Washington, the Washington Times at least should have no trouble in verifying the truth of it. Anyhow, the editor r.f the Courier-Journal believes it and accepts it as final, and hence he. too. hag said .■Sie ‘takes the President at his word.’ ” I saw L. Q. C. Lamar, the Southern paladin, master of eloquence and rhetoric. He was conspicuous for his ability and oratory ln an era of ex ceptionally brilliant Americans. Ho was a leader among patriots and statesmen, and stood in the first rank .of jurists. He was the commencement speaker at Wesleyan in 1855, and his address was a classic. Soon after this the eloquent voice of Lamar was heard in Congress for the first time, and ln due season his wonderful gifts carried him to the zenith of fame. His en counter with the lordly Conkling in the Senate, in 1879. is historic. Conkling had been balked in certain procedure by the Democrats. He was exceeding ly angry, and became rather insulting to the Democratic side. In his arro gance he charged the Democrats with bad faith. This accusation stirred tho Southern blood of chivalry and cour age which coursed through the veins of Lamar, and he said: With reference to the charge of bad faith that the Senator from New York has intimated toward those of us who have been engaged in opposing these motions to adjourn, X have only to say that If I am not superior to such- at tacks from such a source. I have liv 'd in vain. It is not my habit to in- duge in personalities, but I desire to say here to the Senate that in intimat ing anything inconsistent, as he has done, with perfect good faith, I pro nounce his statement a falsehood, which I repel with all the unmitigated contempt that I feel for the author of it.” The imperial Conkling was astonish ed Several feathers had been plucked out of his lofty plume. The lance of the Southern cavalier had well nigh unhorsed him. But this was what he said in reply: Mr.* President, I was diverted dur ing the commencement of the remark, the culmination of which I heard from the member from Mississippi. If I un derstand him right, he intended to im pute, and did in . plain arid unparlia mentary language impute, to me an intentional misstatement. The Sena tor does not disclaim that 1 understood the Senator from Mississippi to state in plain and parliamentary language that the statement of mine to which he referred was a falsehood, if I caught his word aright. Mr. President, this not being the place to measure with anv man the capacity to violate de cency, to violate the rules of the Sen ate, or to commit any of the impro prieties of life, I have only to say if the Senator—the member from Missi3- gippi—did impute, or intend to impute to me a falsehood, nothing except tho fact that this is the Senate prevent me denouncing him blackguard, a coward, and a liar, and understanding what he said as I have, the rules and the proprieties of the Senate are the only restraint upon me.” . .... The stillness of death pervaded the Senate as Conkling finished speaking, and all eyes were turned upon Lamar, who calmly arose, and with perfect coolness and deliberation gave this burning retort which blistered Conk ling all through his life, and lives in flaming letters till this day: “Mr. President, I have only to say that the Senator from New York un derstood me correctly. 1 did mean to say just precisely the words and all that thev import. I beg pardon of the Senate for the unparliamentary lan guage. It was very harsh; it was very severe: it was such as no good man would deserve, and no brave man would wear.” While in the Senate Lamar was ap pointed Secretary of the Interior by President Cleveland, but retired from the cabinet to become associate jus tice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and was occuping this high office when he died on January 23, 1893, in Macon, the City in which he commenced the study of law in 1S45 on his graudation at Emory College, Georgia. I would In this line of illustrious men who passed in review and were commence ment speakers at Wesleyan, I also saw Herschel V. Johnson, who was the ora tor on this platform in 1853, the year he was first'eleeted Governor of Geor gia. He had previously been United States Senator. He was distinguished as a jurist, orator and statesman, and as a candiate for Vice President on the ticket with Douglas became known throughout the nation. I saw Henry R. Jackson, of Savan nah, patriot, soldier, jurist, states man and poet; who was also an ora tor of great fervor. He was the Wes leyan speaker in 1S52, and In the fol lowing year ho went as minister to Austria, serving until 3S3S. Lat er he was appointed minister to Mexico. He was a colonel in the