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THE- TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1907. ’ ; Caught on | the Wing I 1 1 I-1-H-H- 4-4 1 I I l“l By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET. The members of Mercer University's -U*n of 1905 are engaged In a very | You do. and 'no mistake:’ for murder Severs! verdicts that have been ren dered recently in murder trials in this State have been the theme of editorials In sundry newspapers. I was told yes terday of the argument of a lawyer for the defendant in a caee of capital crime, before a Jury—not in Bibb County, however. Said the attorney: “The Bible says. ‘Thou shalt not kill." Xow do you know, gentlemen, that if you go to hang my client the prisoner the bar, that you commit murder' to entitle him to the gratitude of her ' February 25th. 1852. His first poem citizens.” His name should also be was printed in a Dublin magazine forever treasured on memory's marble when he was founrteen years old tablets for his splendid work in behalf | graduated at Trinity College. Dublin, of the University of Georgia. To him when he was nineteen years old. The belongs the glory of being one of the A'St work which brought him into no- first with whom the idea of establish- tice was his translation of the Odes of Ing this splendid institution origins 1 — T " 1 trie iy and unique rivalry—one is murder, whether It is committed by should meet with the hearty ; twelve men in what is called a box i of President Koosevelt. On j —and a ‘bad box’ you’ll find it if you actuation day they formed a don’t give a righteous verdict—for a a t is they contributed a sum ! humble individual, like my client. , to remain In trust until 1910. i S’posing my client had killed a man: when It will b< used for the purpose ; I say. s’posing he had: is that any rea- r,f inlying a silver cup to be presented ; son why you should kl.l a man.— to the “on of that member of the class | twelve of you on one! So. gen-' beebroes the happy father ; of the Jury, you may bring the ted. In 1801 he purchased six hundred acres of land in Athens, upon which the university is located, and pre sented It to the college. On' May 11. 1808, President Meigs addressed to Mr. Anacreon. In 1803. he was appointed ! rogistra to the admiralty in Bermuda, i The office was uncongenial, and he i turned over the duties of the post to a deputy, who subsequently became defaulter, and involved Moone to the pul Milledge a letter, in which he sa!d: i lar * e 01 530.000; which how- “Your Institution has taken a strong ^ t com , pr °^ ise i^°\r a J;5l S „ U J?’ root, and will flourish: and I feel some : Mmmoohfi’ j. r - . . # m • o fUn* a UFtll lITiprO\ lflOIlC^, 2fa\ 6 fallal TTlUCli il” cent,^- hen P ee-n-hen M mL . vIl ' ttOUhle. He WPS fond Of the l 1 : ! drama, and this led to his love of Miss embosom thousand Of *.lie I ■«-»^»uA a , «f nn Trfch Georgian youths, pursuing the paths J!* e nr «♦ -hi he said ! ? ctor - " hom married in 1511. His nan?— ; 0 f science. It will now and then be said ! •--•men that vou gave this land, and I was on 2 1 K.L« ul ^ » r»-' c _ ; J . e ... - j popularity, which they retain to this n--- , the forlorn hope. It will be observed . _. _ . oinWnto nr hie works - i Georgia with Gen. Oglethorpe. He was born in Savannah in 1757. When another member of the class has de- collectively, you will nil ,of you be mur- , ijed to become a benedict. The re- I derers. It i* said that this pro.ound M n- t of this novel contest will be I argument had Its ef.ect. I he vernlct , the Revolutionary troubles commenced • ..'-jted with great interest. The of the Jury was: “Not guilty If he'll . he espoused the cause of the Amerl- rfAAe 1 Mlllt lllA Cl •off, 11 ! AAMA ') r> rl A O 1 I * A ,1 f« aIa A A«iV«% rv o n /I vuuua Aci.cmen agreed in 1995 to quit the State, r . et at the commencement of Mercer I A few days ago. W ?V'° riding on a flve years from that date, namely, j train which passed through several 1910. when the silver cup will be prosperous little towns I remarked to awarded, provided some one of them a fellow passenger about the number hi.s met the requirements of the test, of banns that were seen from the car The undemanding is that ail of the window—splendid evidences of the arrird roombere.and the members | growth of the State and the_prosperlty who have entered into matrimonial !if< by 1910 shall be present at the reunion with their wives, and all the child-en that they may have- The ■members of the celebrated class of 1906, and their postoffices at that that time, were the following: Lemon Merrill Awtrey, Acvorth; Cleo B. Ayers, Cartersvllle; John Henry Bar ber, Dacula: Solon Bolivar Cousins. Jr., Luthersvilie: Paul Ellison, Dun dee; Tom Fleming Flournoy. Ft. Val ley; Albert Martin Gates, Jefferson ville: John Benjamin Guerry. George town; Jfacharlah Pierce Hamilton, Ma' eon: Benjamin Burks Kendrick, Co lumbus; Frederick H. Klrton. Adel; Carey Johnson Lord. Commerce; 'William Henry McDaniel, Conyers; Augustus Franklin Martin. Jr., Jeffer sonville; Bartow Bee Mason, Canon: Benjamin Berner Mason, Wayside; Ivy Felton Mundv, Cedartown; Bd- of the people. In the course of the conversation the gentleman said that the negroes are also catching the mania-for establishing banks, and he related the following: “A cunning country negro named Pete, succeeded in making the darkies In his neighbor hood believe that banking was a very profitable business; insomuch that th'fy concluded to throw all their change into a common fund, and start a bank. Pete took good care to have himself constituted as the bank, to whom all the money of the negroes was to be paid. “And. now,” said Pete, “when ever nlggah borrow nickel out o’ dls bank to buy ’baccy, he got to cpme back in t’ree weeks and pay in two nickel, and in this way you see ebery nickel bring arioder nickel, till a'ter a while all de nlggah get rich.’’ Upon this principle, “the bank” went Into operation, old Pete always taking care that every darkey should “fork over” i _ , _, . , r« . inai r»er> oui nev oiiuu. wards Bobo Murray, Anderson, S. Cj. i accordinfr to -bank ru ies.” But in the Henry Bass Nichols Griffin: William I ourso of tfane some of the stockhold- Fieiding lOgburn, Oalnwjvllle; Jjfim en thought they .. snieU a rat ... an(3 Junius Phillips. Caraesvllle V. il am cal j c ^ on p c t e to withdraw their cap!- Rhodes, Alpharetta, Joseph Blunt I ta) from t}l(> bank, when the following Riley. Macon^RavErnestRob rt.n. , conver .s a tion took place between Pete inesvllle; William Judson Rogers, ; anrJ Sparks; Charles Banks Rosser. Jr., Atlanta: Clarence Janes Taylor, Buena Vista; Otis Odell Tolleson, McDon ough; Joseph Dunnagln Undertfood, Cleveland; Roosevelt Fruvn Walker, Macon; Robert Lawson Williams. Jr., Juliette; Arthur Eugene Wood, Fitz patrick. I have received the following inter esting communication from Cincin nati. which I havo been requested to publish: - Cincinnati, O.. April 25th, 1907. To the Honornble Senators and Membo-s of the House of Represent atives of Georgia, greetings from the Robert Patton Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy of Cin cinnati: A bill will be offered before your Legislature in June, asking for State appropriation of not more than $4,000 or less than $2,500 to he dis pensed in Confederate memorial -work In Ohio. For this bill we ask your generous support. Some two years ago a syndicate of Northern manufacturers had arranged to purchase a part of Johnson’s Is- dniul near Sandusky Ohio. This property included the cemetery where lie 15 Goff leers and soldiers of the Southern army 25 privates and 25 un known (Southern) dead. The Gov ernment. whose lease upon the grave yard has expired, refuse either to buy or re-iea.se and the owners offer ed it for sale. This little chapter with only a nom inal amount of money at command, undertook its salvation. By almost superhuman efforts it has been en abled to complete the purchase of that sacred spot by the payment of $1,800. Resides this, it has paid some $500 upon a bronze monument that Sir Moses Ezekiel is making for us in Rome, Italy. He was a soldier in Bob—“Well. Pete, we want to draw our money from de bank, .and quit dls banking business.” Pete—“Did you hear de news?” Bob—“No: what news dat, Pete?” Pete—“W’y de bank done broke las’ night.” Bob—“Who care what de bank do? I tell you I want my shar’ ob de money?” Pete—"Wall, but I tell you de bank am broke.” Bob—"I not talkin’ about dat. I say whar's de money? Pete—“Why you fool, don’t you know dat Wen de bank break, de money all gone, sartln?” Bob—"Well, but whar de money gone to?” •Pete—“Dat’s more ’an dis nlggah know. All he know ’bout it is. when white folks bank break de money al ways lost, and niggah bank no better dan de white folks.” Bob—“Wail, wheneber dis nlggah 'gage in banking again, he hope de cholera git him fust’ Pete—“Berry sorry de bank broke— berry sorry: but it can’t be helped now nlggah.” cans, and exhibited much daring and patriotism. When James Wright was Governor of Georgia, under the crown, Milledge was one of the party which took the Governor prisoner In his own house, "the first bold act of the Revo lution performed in Georgia.” He was in the party that rifled the pow der magazine at Savannah, some of the contents being used at the battle of Bunker Hill. On the capture of Sa vannah by the British he and MaJ. James Jackson fled to South Carolina. They were taken prisoner^ by a num ber of Americans who thought they were spies, and Just as they were about to be executed their identity was satisfactorily established, and they es caped an Ignominious death. Mr. Miliodge was an able Representative in the Georgia Legislature, and served with abilitv and influence in Congress In 1790, 1794. 1796 and 1800. He was Governor of Georgia from November 4, 1802, to September 23. 1806. and went immediately from the Guberna torial office to his seat in the United States Senate holding this high place until 1S09. Mr. Milledge died at the Sand Hills, near Augusta, on February 9, 1818. Day before yesterday there appeared in this column an article which I wrote on Nancy Hart. Of course, I did not undertake in my limited space to give all the particulars of her life. Several persons have spoken to me concern ing the publication, and yesterday I received a letter from Mr. L. J. Brown, a prominent lawyer of Bruns wick. which I take pleasure in print ing today. T will state now in this connection that Nancy removed from Elbert County to Brunswick soon after the close of the Revolutionary War. and her performance of the numerous heroic and patriotic deeds referred to The County of Baldwin, in which Milledgeville Is situated, was named for Abraham Baldwin, who was elect ed to the United States Senate from Georgia in 1799. and served in this po sition with much distinction until ho died on March 4. 1807, at Washington, D. C-, aged about sixty years. Mr. Baldwin was born at Guilford. Conn.. November 6, 1774. He removed Georgia and settled at Savannah soon after the Revolution, and won much distinction at the bar. He held various public positions of honor and trust, to- wit: He was a member of the Legis lature: one of the founders of the Uni versity of Georgia: a member of the United States Constitutional Conven tion: served in the first four Con gresses, and was one of the Georgia commissioners to settle the terms of the cession of the State’s western ter ritory to the United States. Baldwin County was laid out by the Lottery act of 1803. and was organized in 1805; additions were made to the county from Wilkinson, Washington and Hancock in 1807: parts added from Washington in 1812. and a part taken from Washington in 1826. The Legislature, while Louisville was ,tho capital of the State, in May 1903, passed an act locating the capital in Milledgeville. The State offices were removed from Louisville in 1804. The first session of the Legislature was held in the then new capitol In ISO”, the centennial anniversary of which fact will be celebrated today in the very room in which the House of Rep resentatives convened a century ago. the army of Northern Virginia and it f by me in The Telegraph. She was liv- Js to him a labor of love. He is ask- ing In Brunswick at the time her sori- ing of the chapter only the cost ofi in-law, Thompson, cut off the wagon- the material, having furnished the er’s head with a sword. When this model free and giving his valuable bloody occurrence happened Thompson time to supervising the casting of the : and his wife were en route to Bruns- statuo. Upon this work another pay ment will be due in July 1907, hence we appeal to you. Veterans of the Confederacy—comrades of the gallant dea.l on Johnson's Island—and Sons of Veterans for aid to accomplish our purpose. We feel that the time has come when the Southern States should bear their share of this memorial burden, for who shall say that this small body of Southern women in a Northern Stale has not done a wondrous work thus far” Comptroller General W. A. Wright, of your State, who is a member of this Ohio Memorial Com mission is deeply interested in this cause and will lend most active aid to the passage of this measure. Into his hand-; vou can Trust the funds so appropriate which will be spent on the cemeteries. Camp Chase and Johnson's Island. There are some twenty-six Georgia soldiers buried in that <ld island graveyard and over 2aa in Camp Chase. Columbus, O. These martyred braves died of hun ger, cold, disease, and ho"'e-«iekness far. from home camp and friends— aye gladly died rather than subscribe to the Federal oath and win dishonor able freedom. Thev have left a lega cy to the history of Georgia of immor tal heroism and devotion to duty. To honor thev gave nW—their bright young lives. It is at least the most we now can do to honor their memory and preserve their names from oblivion. Relow you will find the list of dead of your State. For the sake of “That Drummer Boy from Georgia"—his mother's Joy and pride, whose name is lost to us. give us the help we ask. that Geo gia's name will be .recorded In granite on that monument, as loyal to her sons who sleep under Northern skies in those neglected graves. Gentlemen of the South where knighthood is always in flower, we leave this matter in your hands as sured that Georgia could not if it would, forgot its own—for. where the ashes of even one Georgian lies there ■ is a part of Georgia—and his memory i an eternal trust. Georgia's Dead on Johnson's Island, j Capt. E. M. Tuggle. 35th Ga. Inft.: > T.t. W. E. Haskin, 1st Ga. Inft.; I. M. Reeves 1st. Ga. Civ.; Capt. I. P. N. King. 9:h Ga. Inft.; Lt. W. N. Swift. 34th Ga. Inft.: Capt. I. Middiebrook. 40th Ga. Inft.: Lt. H. R. Dawson, 1st. Ga. lr.ft. Co. I; Lt. 1. N. I,and, 24th Ga. left.; Capt. X. Y. Barnes. 10th Ga. Cav.; Capt. F. Cooper. 52nd -Ga. Inft.: Capt. P. Nichols ic- N’rholas ) 6th Ga. Cav.; Capt. J. W. Day. 55th Ga. Inft.; Lt’. T. W. McRae 67th Ga. Inft.: Lt. R. P. Bolling 6th Ga. Cav.; a private f ont Georgia. a Confederate from Georgia a musician from Georgia a Southern soldi*'. Georgia: a Confed erate soldier. Georgia: unknown.Geor- I pla; unknown. Georgia: unknown. Ga.. unknown. Ga... unknown. Geor gia: a drummer boy. Georgia: 12 more ; found. Fraternally yours. _ The Robert Patton C'lin'er. rrr s 1 v. d. c. ’ By Ma-y Patton Hudson. President of the Board of Trustee- of the Cemetery. k wick to take up their abode with Nancy. Nancy was 1n Brunswick when she heard of the homicide, and the incarceration of Thompson in the Jail at Waynesboro, and she went from Brunswick to Waynesboro and effect- j ed Thompson’s escape from prison. ' The following is Mr. Brown’s inter esting letter, written at Brunswick under date of May 27 Instant: “After reading your story of Nancy : Hart In The Telegraph of this date. I beg to say that it Is a fact well au- . thenticated from records and tradition I that Nancy Hart and her husband lived in Brunswick from some time during 1797 to November 18. 1802. Ben- j.-iimn Hart, her husband, dying during that time. How long they lived hero before then, the records do not dis close. “In 1797, Benjamin Hart bought from the commissioners of the town commons of Brunswick fifty acres of land on the south side of an adjoining of what is now known as the Old Town of Brunswick. “On November 18, 1802, Ann Hart, widow of Benjamin Hart, Sr., and Thomas Hart, gave a power of attor ney to Benjamin Hart. Jr., to sell the estate, real and personal, of Benjamin Hart, Sr., deceased, reciting that the three were named executors of Benja min Hart deceased, and that the two first are about to leave the county. “I took an interest in your Story be cause Hart is my native county, and I have often heard the story of Nancy Hart “I have also felt some pride in the fact that Georgia was the first to honor her patriotic women by naming a county for one. It is a fact worthy of notice and pride also, that Georgia has led in marv things that would tend to honor and elevate woman. Among those things, not of the least, is the first college for woman, the Wesleyan, and another, the laws of Georgia pertaining to the property rights of woman. “It Is therefore natural and proper that Georgia should lead In the move to erect a monument to the women of the Confederacy.” Today is the anniversary of the birth of a man. who, as a song writer has never been surpassed, and who once challenged Jeffrey, the Scottish critic, and Byron, the English poet, to fight a duel. Thomas Moore was Ireland's greatest poet and sweetest singer. His muse has swept the highest flight of sentiment, pathos and wit. His lyre was delightfully attuned to the ancient and exquisite music of his native country. The old airs of Erin pervade his songs, and in 'his melodious verse abound “the tear and smile,” so char acteristic of Ireland’s sons. His poetry has done much to keep alive the na tional spirit of the Irish, and It nerved them in their struggles against the English Government. It will be recall ed that once the eloquent and daunt less Robert Emmet was sitting bes'de speaking of Lalla Rookh says: “The effect of the whole is much the same as a magnificent ballet, on which all the resources of the theater have been lavished, and no expense spared in golden clouds, ethereal light, gauze- clad sylphs, and splendid tableaux.” This brelf and simple description of the four Eastern stories, beautiful poems, in a delicate setting of beauti ful verse, has been made by a witer: “The Princess Lalla Rookh journeys with great pomp, to become the bride of the youthful king of Bokhara, and finds among her attendants a hand some young poet, who beguiles the journey by singing to hew these tales in verse. The dangers of the process became manifest—the king of Bok hara is forgotten, and the heart of the unfo-tunate is won by the beauty and the minstrelsy of the youthfifl poet. What is her relief and her joy to find on her arrival to find the unknown poet seated upon the throne as a king, who had won her heart as a humble bard!” This beautiful and popular work was published in 1S17, for which Moore was paid $15,000 by the publishers. By this time her little daughter Sukey had returned from the spring, where she had gone for water, and who had been given directions by her mother to blow the horn in such a way as would inform her husband, or his neighbors, who were in hiding, that there were Tories in the cabin. On entering the house Sukey said: “Daddy and them will soon be -here.” The Tories con eluded it was time for them to be leav ing. and decided to make a general rush on Nancy, and get possession of their guns. Nancy immediately fired and another Tory fell, badly wounded Sukey had another musket in readiness which her mother took, and posting herself in the doorway, called upon the party to "Surrender their d-d Tory carcasses to a Whig woman.” They agreed to surrended. Just then her husband and others came up. and we about to shoot down the Tories, but Mrs. Hart stopped them, saying they had surrendered to her, and, her spirit being up to boiling heat, she swore that "shooting was too good for them.” This hint was enough. The dead man was dragged out of the house, the wounded Tory and the others were bound, taken out and hung. Once. Nancy, with several other wo men and a number of children were left in a fort, the men having gone off on some mission, and the fort was at tacked by a party of Tories and sav ages. All in the fort were panic strick en. except Nancy. In the fort there was one cannon, but Nancy was unable by her efforts alone to place it in post tion so she could fire at the enemy She discovered a young man hid under a cow hide,and a drawing him from bis retreat, threatened him with immediate death unless he assisted her with the cannon. He rendered the assistance, and Nancy shot the gun. which frightened the Tories and Indians that they fled. On one occasion, when in formation as to what was happening on the Carolina side of the Savannah river among the enemy, was desired by the American troops on the Georgia side, no one could be induced to cross the river to obtain it. Nancy prompt ly offered to discharge the perilous duty. She crossed the river on a raft Moore was the author of some very ' of logs held together with a grape vine important prose work. The Epecurean is very melodious, and is justly regard ed as exquisite classical romance. His Histo-y of Ireland is a story of ardent patriotism. Some regard his "Notices of the Life of Lord Byron” as his most important prose work. A. biographer says that ten years before Byron had entrusted to Moore an auto- biog aphy ext.-i’.dirg to 1820. to lie pub* lished after his death, which Moore in 1821 disposed of to Murray for $10,- 090. The sudden death of Byron in 1824 revealed the existence and the pro jected publication of this manuscript, and Moore was pursuaded into an ar rangement by which it was repur chased from Murray and burned, on the ground that it contained disclos ures affecting the character of many persons, living and dead. The object ionable passages, according to Lord John Russell, did not exceed three or four pages. With such materials as Were subsequently procured, Moore compiled" a biography, for which he re ceived $24,350. Bryan presented his au tobiographical memoirs as a gift. A pension of $1,500 was bestowed upon Moore in 1835. This was in the nature of a literary pension. His “Memoirs Journal and Correspondence” were sold for $15,000 and they were published in eight volumes. The Journal embraced a period between ISIS and 1847. Moores’ expuisite cadences will live forever. The cause of Ireland was his most inspiring 6cene, and today wherever the Sons of Erin may be they will pay honor to the memory of the delightful poet whose songs echo in all hearts that love music and where sentiment and pathos abide. entered the enemy’s line and secured valuable facts concerning their strength and plans, returned and com municated it to the eGorgia troops. Moore while the poet sang the pa triotic me’cdv "Let Erin Remember the Days of Old.” when up jumped Em met. and exclaimed: "Oh that I were at the head of twenty thousand men marching to that air!” It was not long 'before Moore thus wrote of this Young patriot, who Ciad died on the scaffold for Ireland: "O, breathe not his name! let It sleep in the shade. Where cold and unhonored bis relics are laid; Sad, silent, and dark be the tears that we sbed. As the night dew that falls on the grave o’er his head. “But the night dew that falls, though In silence It weeps. Shall brighten with verdue the grave where he sleeps: And the tear that we shed, though ifl secret it rolls. Shall long keep his memory green in our sou!s.” I have received a note from a school girl asking this question: "How many counties in Georgia were named in honor of women?” Only one—Hart. The county was so called in memory of that remarkable woman. Nancy Hart, who performed numerous daring and patriotic deeds during the Revolu tionary period. Her husband, Benja min Hart, was a brother of the cele brated Col. Thomas Hart, of Ken tucky. who was the maternal uncle of the famous United States Senator, Thomas Hart Benton. Nancy’s maiden name was Morgan. She and her hus band removed to Georgia: before the struggle for American independence and settled on Broad river in Elbert County. I am informed that an apple orchard marks the spot where they When Augusta was in possession of the British, the American troops in Wilkes, then under the command of Colonel Elijah Clark, were very anxious to know something of the intention of the British. Nancy as sumed the ip.vments of a man. pushed on to Augusta, went boldly into the B-itish camp, pretending to be crazy, and by this means was enabled to ob tain much useful information, which she hastened to lav before the com mander. Colonel Clarke. Nancy had six sons and two daugh ters. Her eldest daxighter. Sally, mar ried a man by the name of Thompson. Sally and her husband, while on a journey, passed through Bqrke County, and camped fo- the night on the road side. Next morning,a white man who was employed as a wagoner, on be ing ordered by Thompson, in a per- empory manner, to do some particular thing, returned rather an insolent an swer, and refused. Thompson, en raged, seized a sword, and with a sin gle blow severed his b ea d from his body. Ho then, with apparent un concern, mounted the team, drove on himself until he came to the first house, there ho stopped and told the inmates he had "just cut a fellow’s head off at the camp,and they had best go down and bury him!” He then drove on. but was pursued and taken back to Waynesboro, adn confined in jail. This brought the heroic Nancy to the scene. In a few days after her appearance thereabouts, Thompson’s prison was found one morning open, and he gone. Mrs. Hart, speaking of the occurrence said rather exultantly “That’s the way with them all. Drat ’em. when they get into trouble they always send for me.” Soon after this Nancy’s husband died, and in due time she married a young man. and the two went to the West to grow up with the country. So far as I have read this was the last ever heard of >?r. Some one uttered this sentiment concerning her: "Poor Nancy—she was a honey of a patriot but the devil of a -wife.” The editorial in The Telegraph re cently which stated that Thomas Hart Benton was the bearer of a dueling epistle from John Randolph to Dan iel Webster has suggested some one to lived. It is related that near bj* them ! ask me if Benton and Andrew Jack- ttju! nroblr o-nv»+-r-fv-»e* PrcoA enn fnnp’hf n flnol Vn* hint TfW*lr«jnn was a creek emptying into Broad river which, during the war of the Revolution, was called “War Woman’s Creek,” on account of the many mar velous exploits of Nancy Hart. Nancy was about six feet high, very muscu lar and erect in her gait; cross-eyed as well as cross-grained. She was a sharp-shooter. The county -which bears her name was formed in 1856, and at first it was proposed to call the county seat Nancyville instead of its son fought a duel. No; but Jackson came very near losing his life in an encounter with Benton and his broth er. Jesse Benton, in front of the pity Hotel in Nashville, Tenn. Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson had been warm friends, and some years after the bloody meeting in Nashville cor dial relations were resumed between the two men, and when Jackson was President Benton was ardent and un wavering in his devotions to "Old let from the barrel of Jes«e Benton. Mrs. C. J. Kendall, of the Woman’s who etands behind him. Jackson ts clvo. Chicago, who is new in England thus dropped weltering In his blood adlir.g as secretary for the "Society of with a desperate wound. Thereupon American Women in London.” furnish- Coffee thinking that Tom Beaten's es the Lyceum club literature from pistol had done the work takes a'm which the quotation is taken. In the at him misses fire and is making fer courso of a brilliant tribute to the his victim with the butt end when an . great scheme' of Cecil Rhodes as the opportune cellar stairway opens to ; "big new departure” of the opening Colonel Benton who is participated to century, Madame Kate Thayer, who the bottom. Meanwhile Stokelv Hays presided at the dinner, said: "In the arrives intent on plunging the' sword belief tha this work of International- which he drew from his cane into the ism !les distinctly within a woman's body of Jesse Benton. He deals the sphere. In April 1903. I formulated the th-tist with unction but striking a international scholarship scheme for button its force is lost and the weapon | women, the object of which is to raise shivered. A struggle on the floor f «? ds „ to endow in perpetuity sholar- then ensues between the parties, tne / or th® women of those English fatal dagger of Hays being raised to speaking countries whoso men benefit transfix b's wounded victim, when it u " der Mr. Rhodes’ will. The scholar- is intercepted by a bystander, and the X^r ^ ea £ s murderous and bloody work is over. “ a te course at Oxford, Cambridge, or Such was the famous Benton feud- f % a s,ude P t and drove Colonel Benton to Missouri. ! ?}««*■ fiSfw? 8 * ^P™ 1 ^ There was a long interval of mutual j ^F ad “" hostile feeling, to bo succeeded by a [ b ®,, Se r t devoted friendship of no ordinary »n- | SkSMEJSS. tensity. This Benton affray tookj, place on September 4. 1S13.” In ex planation of the action of General Jackson as serving as the second foe Carroll in his duel with Jesse Benton, the b'ographer just quoted says that "Carroll, who received the challenge, was unfairly assailed, and appealed as a friend, to the generosity of Jackson to protect him. Taking a duel very much as an every day affal*:’ Jackson probably thought little of the absent Tom Benton.” In Missouri, hie new home. Colonel Tom Benton had several disputes which led to duels, in one of which ho killed a gen tleman by the name of Lucas, “an event he deeply deolored, and all the private papers relating to which he destroyed.” Jackson also had a num ber of “affairs”, tho most Important of which was the one in which he kill ed Charles Dickinson, who was famous as “the crack shot of the country.” *Tt was ten years after their encoun ter in Nashville before Benton and Jackson met again, “when they found themselves together, fellow members on the floor of the United States Sen ate,” one representing Missou- E and the other Tennessee. Savs the biog- vwcher: Benton’s support of Pres 5 - dent Jackson in his warfare against the United States bank was constant and unwearied, and raised him to the rank of a debater of the first class The old ‘feud’ which had separated the two men. violent as it was, with its horrid accessories, was felt to be accidental, and they grew together 'n mutual respect and corjality of feel ing. which lasted to the dving mo ments of Jackson at the Hermitage, and has finally been perpeMmted in the writings of Benton.” For three years Benton ably and unremittingly fought in the Senate to have exnumred front the records of the Senate the resolution that was passed by .that body in 1S34 fcr« the condemnation of President Jackson because of his actfon relative to the removal of the bank deposits. His battle on this subject is one of the most memorable of the. famous fights in the Senate In 1837 victory crowned his efforts, and the objectionable resplut'on. was stricken from the record, notwith standing the opposition of_Clay, C'al houn and Webster. Clay was the author of the resolution which con demned Jackson. In protesting for the last time against Benton’s .prop osition, Clay said: "The deed is to be done—that foul deed wh'ch like the blood-stand hands of the guilty Mac beth. all ocean’s waters will never wash out.” Benton exclaimed in one of his heated hurts of oratory: “Let this resolution for the condemnation of Preslden Jackson he expunged from the journal of the Senate. Let it he effaced, erased, blotted out, obliten- ated from the face of that page on which it never should have been writ ten. Would to God it could be ex punged from the page of all Irstorv. and from the memory <jf mankind!" Benton’s resolution to expunge the resolution of censure was adopted by vote of twenty-four to nineteen, the original resolution had 7>een pass ed years before by a vote of twenty- six to twenty. Benton closed his final speech on the question in these words: "And now. sir. I finish the task which three years ago I imposed on myself. Solitary and alone, and amidst the jeers and taunts of my op ponents I put this ball in motion. The people have aken it up, and rolled forward, and I am no longer any thing but a unit in the vast mass which mow propels it.” INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR AMERICAN GIRLS present name Hartwell. A Georgia Hickory.” As some writer has ex Congressman once endeavored to have pressed it: “Benton’s friendship an apnropriation made by Congress for i Jackson was a passion.” When tho a painting to be placed in the rotunda • war of 1812 commenced with England of the capitol at Washington, repre- j Jackson tendered his services to the senting Nancy Hart wading Broad I United States Government and the river, with three Tory captives in front ; same were accepted. He called for of her, on the way to Col. Clark’s sta- i volunteers, and soon had two thousand From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The United States Is In sore need to day of an'aristocracy of intellect and service.” said the president of Colum bia University in a recent address. “Be cause such an aristocracy does not ex ist in the popular consciousness we are bending the knee in worship to the golden calf of money." The scholars know. An aristocracy of intellect and service is the only one to save, not for America alone, but every nation and tion. but the Congressman failed in his effort. History and other printed rec ords contain numerous interesting sto ries and anecdotes of this remarkable woman. From sundry such sources I have compiled the following: •Sad, sweet and plaintive were many One evening. Nancy was at home with her children, sitting around the Jog fire with a large pot of soap boil ing over the. fire. Nancy was busy of the strains that floated away from stirring the soap, and entertaining her the golden harp of “the poet of all : family with the latest news of the circles.** But alas! ttatv On^ nf famiTv “The hnrp that once tfarourh Tara's halls The sou! of music shed. Now hargs as mute on Tara’s walls As if that soul were fled.” war. One of the family discovered some one out side peeping through the crevices of the chimney, and gave a silent intimation of it to Nancy. Without stopping In her work, she kept her eyes upon the spot indicated, and suddenly, with the quickness of lightning, she dashed a ladle of boiling soap through the crevice full In the Moore, in 1804 or 1805. made a'tour of the United -Sta tes. In 1806 he nub- ' fac e of the eavesdropper, who, taken ’•stfied his Epi'tles, Odes and O’her , by surprise, and blinded by the hot Poems which bore upon his visit to soap, screamed and roared at a tre- this country, and contained comments j rrendous rate, while the indomitable upon American institutions and liter- j Nancy went out. and bound him fast ature. Francis ,Teffr°v. in an article in the Edinburgh Review, severely criti- c'sed the work, and denounced the volume as "a public nuisance.” and “a corrupter of public morals.” Moore was incensed, and challenged Jeffrey. as her prisoner. He was a Tory spy. i On another occasion, having met a Tory In the road, and entering Into conversation with him. so as to devert hfs attention, she siezed his gun. and declared that unless he immediately The symphony of a mighty past will be heard in Milledgeville today. The occasion will be the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the first ses sion of the Legislature of Georgia In the old capitol in that historic town. Several distinguished Georgians who participated in the affairs of state be fore and during :he Civil War will be prominent figures In today's proceed ings. The hand of memory w'll sweep over the strings of xhe harp of Au!d I.ang Syne, and the golden days of eloquence, and the brilliant deeds of patriots will be made to appear vividly before the audience. Right here. I be lieve. it will be apropos to make some mention of the eminent Georgian. John Milledge. in whose honor Milledgeville was named. He was a patriot, true and tried, and a statesman who re flected lustre upon Georgia and honor upon himself. One of his most signal services was his opposition to the Yazoo land fraud. He ably resisted “the v!Io machinations of the specula tors. and If he had performed no other service for Georgia, this- alone ought A meeting took p’.arn on the field of : took up the line of march to a fort lionor. which was Interraprfed by the not far distant, she would shoot him. police before a shot had been fired. An account says: “It was sutsennent!y discovered that one of the pistol* had no bullet, and Byron, in his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, made a ludicrous allusion to this hostile meet ing. saying: “When Little’s leadless pistols met his eve. And Bow-street myrmidons stood laughing by.” for which Byron wa« ca’Ied to account by Mocre. A second due] was. how ever. avoided, and thenceforth Moore was on terms of warm friendship with hoth Jeffrev and Byron. In 1601 Moore had nubllyed a s^r'e* of orotic poems, entitled “The Poetical Works of the late Thomas Little, a psudonyme sug- j as thou "-Asted bv Moore’s diminutive statur- There was much in the volume the He obeyed the brave woman, and she delivered him to the commander of the American fort. men. and at their head started on the march to New Orleans. Col. Thomas Han Benton was Gen. Jackson’s aid. At Natchez Jackson received orders from the Government to suspend the movement of his men. After remain ing inactive for a month the troops people under the sun. Thousands rule the world. "The march of intellect.” as Goethe aptly puts it. "licks all the world into shape.” The injur'ous cant, "not men, but measures.” fails still, a-s Burke’s wide vision prophesied, and the great minds and the great ages moves on together. To foster intellect, develop mind, pro mote knoweldge. must therefore be the truest work to which the benefactors of the human race can devote them selves. When the great imperialist. were disbanded by the Government. I Cecil Khodes, established the Rhodes Jackson had to bear the expense of ; scholarship he builded perchance ven the transportation of the two thousand j better than he knew in that very path volunteers back to their homes, jt of Anglo-Saxon progress and conquest was on this return march that his sol- ! jvhich his ambitious and Brl.ton-lov- diers. by reason of his patience kind- ' l n $> -'oul desired should cover the whole ness and endurance, bestowed upon him the now historic appellation “Old Hickory.” Jackson drew a draft on the Government for the amount he had to pay .out. Payment was refused Then it was that Col. Benton went to Washington city in behalf of his friend Jackson, and so eloquently pleaded the obligation of the Government to defray the cost of the transportation of the soldiers that the administration as sumed and paid the indebtedness. earth. The greatness of his dream is already beginning to be greater than the dreamer and promises to make the Ang’o-Saxon spirit and brotherhood deep and broad as humanity itself. Intellect and education are heavenly forces that soon break through any m'st* or barriers of prejudice or race, and link soul to soul in the bond uni- vesal. "My country is the world, my countrymen mankind." is the voice of the scholar and master everywhere, since Socrates himself gave the sage’s verdict, "not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” The spirit his friend, Jackson, he received word from his brother. Jesse Benton, that he had been wounded in a duel by a man named Carroll and for whom Jackson had acted as second. The in formation made Col. Benton furious, as he considered Jackson's conduct the basest ingratitude. He came to Nashville and spoke of Jackson in the In Nancv's neighborhood the edict I most abusive manner. The language of the Tories was circulated that all | reaching Jackson’s ears "Old Hickory” who were not with them would have was thrown into a fury, and he swore: Just as Benton was on the eve of leaving Washington for Nashville, and f internationalism , s the crowning hope was glowing with pleasure because of , f mankind and the pduca .tion that fos- the successful service he had rendered ; those countries. This scheme was tak en up with enthusiasm by the edu cation committee of the Society of American Women in London, of which I was the chairman at that time.” Rhodes’ Name Honored. Cecil Rhodes’ name is known and honored throughout the length and breadth of America, and the name of Madame Kate Thayer, whose splendid and untiring efforts for American girls brought about the "international scholarship scheme” in her behalf would surely stand side by side with it. Her large brain originated the splendid scheme and her great heart clung to it until a work was accom plished for the Aberican woman sec ond to none in her whole history. Far beyond her own shores, too, will the benefits reach, and Shakespeare's mer ry measure, “for thy more sweet un derstanding a woman” takes on a deeper note for~jrll mankind. Out of the very heart of the uni versities themselves comes a testimony to the need which the intellectual movements of the world have of a woman's influence and co-opera|ion. “The fact is pretty generally admitted,” says even the closest reasoning and conservative German scholar in a re cent article, “that many intellectual leaders among men who have accom plished most in the domain of mental culture remain small and insignificant in personality. The woman promises to do better than this. In her active life she is sometimes so sharply ac centuated between knowledge and con duct, and to reconcile and unite the higher intellectual culture with moral culture.” With a farseeing scholar and psy chologist like Prof. William James submitting that “many of the best- educated men are the most powerful antagonists of generally accepted ethics.” and “not a public abuse on the whole eastern coast, but receives the enthusiastic approval of some Harvard graduate.” an element or agency which could “abolish the difference between knowledge and conduct and reconcile intellectual and moral culture,” is cer tainly not to be despised in the. world’s struggle for the light. Some deficiency in their own ranks here appears to have been (recognized by men and scholars. That march of intellect which licks the world into shape said Goethe, “has even reached the devil." If only to counteract the evil, one would think that woman’s pious influence in intel lectual fields would have been invoked long ago. Yet to turn those fields quite over to the devil rather than nlsk a woman in the furrows, seemed long the sagacious male preference. Woman’s struggle for the higher edu cation La only equaled by the pleasant time the women’s suffragists are hav ing with the noble and refined authori ties at the seat of learning, law and civilization at London. Noble and cul tured women, like Mrs. Cobden-San- derson, flung into jail, and, as a Lon don sheet gives it. “sfcript of all hep things save a wedding ring. and.re dressed in jail garb, forced to live on dry bread, tea and potatoes, make coarse bags for postmen, receive a' treatment worse than that meted out to the most desperate of ariminals.” and all because “she made a protest in way she deemed most effective, against a law that she held unjust” That seems to be the interesting and refined state of things political in our mother country toward women, many of them of the noblest blood of the realm, and all of them, whether right or wrong in their methods, fighting for a principle and with an eye single to the glory of God, and the upbuilding of what gentle Maria Childs called her womenpeople” To the ultimate end, too. of unbuilding all people, even to these ruffainly men peode. who never more effectually declared their need o< upbuilding than in these barbarian de monstrations In what was supposed to be our better days. “Do not believe what you read in the newspapers of these suffragettes,” writes our Amer ican clubwoman from London, “for there was never a movement on earth so misrepresented as this one, nor ever a company of more refined, cultured, attractive and womanly women con cerned in one. They are actuated sim- reach its best estate till woman can co-operate with man in ail the laws and principle* that govern it. Opportunity to Condone. In the earnestness and courage of their convictions it seems to be a case where later statesmen than Balfour might copdone their offenses In mas culine eyes on the general principle that “what they thought they might require, they went and took the same as you.” as Kipling might put it, or, as a great American statesman has it, peaceabiv if we can, forcibly if we must.” Right or wrong, however, in their ways or views there seems no reason why the irrational "grievanco of sex” should forever keep the world in strife, and that it more effectually falls away in the atmosphere of the schools where intellect and achieve ment know no sex, is a potent reason - T why education, more than suffrage, seems the point to aim at "We should all be perfect,” said a beautiful Bour bon belle, “if we were neither men nor women,” and in a better sense than the coquettish French woman designed it. may be true that we should all be great if we concerned ourselves less about the small matter of the man or woman in any proposi tion, and more about the mighty and all-mastering mind that knows no bounds of sex or flesh, yet has never . come to its own in either man or wo man. Those "pecked potentialities ” which to swing. Nancy refused to leave her home. One day six Tories called at her house and ordered Nancy to cook dinner for them. &he complied. They had cautiously stacked their guns where they were in view. While they were eating. Mrs. Hart had slipped two of the five guns through a h-->le to the outside. She was detected in the act of putting out the third. The party sprang' to their feet. Quick Mrs. Hart brought the !d to her shoulder, and de clared she would kill the first man who was polished but there wis also a j approached her. All were terror great deal of questiomb> morality, j struck, for Nancy’s obliquity of sight Because of Phis production Byron call- j caused each one to imagine her aim »d Moore “the young Catullus of his i was at him. At length one of them day.” made a motion to advance upon her. I True to her threat, she fired. He fell Thomas Moore was born in a little dead upon the floor. Instantly s e ; z ing grocery store in Dublin. May 29th. 1 another musket, she brought it to the 1779, and died at Slopertown cottage 1 position in readiness of firing again. “By the Eternal. I will horsewhip Tom Benton the first time I meet him.” Benton was duly informed of Jack- son’s oath, and knowing Jackson as well as he did he knew that Jackson would endeavor to carry out his threat. Accordingly Thomas and Jesse Benton armed themselves and waited for the attack by Jackson. They had not long to wait.* The encounter occurred at the door of the City Hotel, as already stated. Biographer E. A. Duycklnck thus describes the thrilling meeting: "The of mankind, and the education that fos ters it the grandest development of our i jjme. Thayer refers, to in the interna- age. j tional scholarship scheme, may mean JVhat Cevil Rhodes has done for this i more than the fondest dreamer yet great cause Is growing more and more ; dreams in the unimpeded march of apparent throughout the civilized world But for those who accent the first prin ciple of philosophy which makes it quite out of the order of moving bodies for one-half to swing forward without the other, something yet remained to be done for the woman’s half of the mind along the great highways of be ing. That mind helps mind and ail nations and individuals have some se cret of the eternal way to communi cate to each other, as' well as wider lights and uplifts for the human path- wav, is so self-evident a truth in tha great human whole. -^Qr trere there , Q f mortal being and the mu- wanting fhose^ from the higher peaks , tua j dependence of man on man, that of know edge to discern the n“cd and “spirit of internationalism” would come nobly forward to fill it. The So- 1 * - - ome noDiy torwara ro nu it. i ne jo- seem ' to be r |ghtiy ooevil with national ety of American Women In London i e3C | S t ence . Old as Chaucer, is the ver- 'rnrTml^ i diet for the individual life. "I hold a recently the founding of scholarships for Amer ican women similar in eharcter and ob leke that mouse’s wit not worth 1'^ I ! hath but one hole for to enter in." men. “Is It net possible that" Won i ?r as Poj*_ Parphreres it “the mouse that always trusts to one poor hole ^drgsszi&ss i “ s» v -4 two Bentons are in the door way, to the boy is the royal outcome of It. I °f l and that thus declares itself and his friend. Colonel Coffee ap- j of the incepMon and purpose of this ] to European eyes. Nevertheless. Cow - proach. Jackson with a word of [great work no betted idea can be gfveji j per’s remo r>< warning to Benton, brandishes his riding whip: Colonel Benton fumbles melodious for a pistol: General Jackson aims his own; and at the insant receives in his comment remains than bv quoting from a toast offered I true, “how much a dunce that has by the founders at a recent dinner been sent to roam excels a dunce that held in honor of the Rhode*? scholars has been kept at home.” under the auspices of the ‘'American J Wise or foolish, help comes to any jLrrry aod ahoulder A sluff and bui- circle** of the Lyceum club of London* * human beinsr from association .with mnT^TTT^rPT pp-nvrm