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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
E RIOT;
ONE KILLED;
BATTLESHIP “GEORGIA”
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Bold Attempt Made to
Commit Assault at
Piedmont.
8p*Hal to Til. Georgian
Greenville, S. C, Sept. 14.—A email
race riot waa precipitated at Piedmont
yesterday afternoon aa a result of an
attempted assault on Mrs. J. M. Loner,
wife of a prominent farmer of the Pied
mont district, by BUI Henry, a deeper
ata necro about 40 years of age.
The attempted assault occurred In
the front yard at the Long home and
the negro had'formerly been employed
by Mr. Long.
Mrs. Long's cries attracted neighbors
and frightened the negro away.
Negress Barricaded.
A posse was quickly organized and
the negro pursued to an old negro
shanty, where, with a number of negro
sympathizers, he had barricaded him
self and was prepared to flgtg. The
l-isse surrounded the house and the
negroes came out armed for a light.
Woman’s Husband Wounded.
A pitched battle was engaged In with
the result that J. M. Long, husband of
the ladjr on whom the assault was at
tempted, was shot through the arm; Dr.
Trlppe, a member of the posse, was
shot In the breast and struck on the
head with a crowbar and one of tit-
negroes named Anderson was killed.
Negro Captured.
The negroes were Anally routed from
their position and Henry raptured and
lodged In Jail.
Three others Aed and are still being
pursued. If they are overtaken an
other battle Is expected.
Mrs. Long was not seriously In
jured.
Piedmont Is the place mentioned In
Dixon's tlansman."
The battleship Georgia which Is soon
to be commissioned, cannot get any
nearer Georgia waters than I or 4
miles off Tybee, and It will be the mid
dle of December next before she can
be sent that close.
This Information was brought back
from Washington by Governor Terrell,
who has Just returned from a ten days'
trip East, accompanied by Mrs. Ter
rell.
"The Georgia, which Is now at Bos
ton,” Governor Terrell said, “will be
turned over to the government next -
Bunday and accepted on Monday. At |
the time of her acceptance the officers;
of the new vessel will be commissioned ]
and ordered to man the vessel. Hecre- j
tary of the Navy Bonaparte explained j
the charts while I was In hi* office and !
we found that 3 or 4 miles off Tybee j
I* the nearest the new battleship can j
safely get to Georgia waters. The >
Georgia draws 25 feet 8 Inches, but
It Is not considered safe for her to go '
Into water less than 28 to 30 feet deep.
Secretary Bonaparte stated It would be ,
the middle of December before the bat
tleship could be sent to Georgia, but |
that this would be done If we desired It.
Of course we will have her come. I
expect to have a conference with Mayor
Myers, of Savannah, who In very much
inl»r«gtAft lit 1 hn , n o44oa ,....1 .. I_ ' ..s . 1.
BARRETT SAYS UNION
IS IN FINE CONDITION
National Association Moots
Here Next
Week.
The vanguard of the National Den
tal Association, the National Associa
tion of Dental Vacuities and the Na
tional Association of Dental Examiners
have arrived In Atlanta and the doc
tors are getting down to work at busi
ness Friday. The momentous questions
having to do with methods of pulling
teeth most painfully and how to ef
fectually gag a patient for torture are
not being discussed yet, but will soon.
The National Dental Association with
Ita clinics and things begins Its ses
sions Tuesday next.
The two association* which begin
their meetings Friday are In Atlnnta,
the one to discuss the business end of
dental colleges and the other to discuss
the admission of dentists to practice.
The faculties association begun Its
meetings at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon
In the Piedmont Hotel assembly room.
The membership la composed of 62 den
tal colleges located In all parts of the
United Blates. Home forty-odd dele-
. .sates are expected. Dr. J. H. Kenner-
ley, of Bt. Louis, Is president of this
organisation.
The examiners began their meetings
at the Kimball House In the morning,
but were not nble to transact much
business on account of the failure of
most of the members to arrive on time.
The boat on which the secretary and
the Eastern members came from New
York and Boston to Havnnnah was Into
and they missed the Atlanta train.
Dr. H. Wood Campbell, of Huff!
interested In the matter anil also' of the
presentation of some suitable gift to
the new vessel. We will doubtless bo
able to arrange to have the people who
want to visit the Georgia taken down
to Tybee on vessel * of some kind. It
will take three months to man the ves
sel atrain the crew and for this rea
son It will be Impossible to get the
Georgia here before December."
Will Help,New Schools.
Governor Terrell also brought back
some Interesting Information regarding
the new district agricultural colleges
which nre being established In Geor
gia. He had a conference with mem
bers of the Southern Education board
and they agreed at the|r next meeting
to take up the question of extending aid
to the Tech and to other Georgia edu
cational Institutions.
The governor was fortunate In secur
ing some Immediate aid for the new
agricultural colleges to be established
In each congressional district. Under
the law establishing these colleges no
money will be available until January
’ 1907.
/There Is much preliminary work to
bo done in connection with the estab
lishment of these colleges," Governor
Terrell said, "and the Southern Educa
tion board has agreed at Its own ex
pense to send such experts to Georgia
as we need to map out the curriculum
and give such other aid as they can to
the trustees. The bonrd also agreed to
pay the preliminary expenses of the
trustees In the work of establishing the
colleges.
"Further than that the board sent Its
secretary, Dr. Wallace Butrlck, to
Washington with mo to see Secretary
Wilson and Assistant Secretary Hayes
of the detMrtment of agriculture. They
agreed to send two experts to Georgia
to old In the work and lend such other
aid as the department can give under
the law.”
COL. GEORGE W. HARRISON.
Who retired from Franklin Print
ing Company,
J. L, TURNER 4 CO,
BUY THE PLANT OF
Big Printing Establishment
Sold by George W.
Hamson.
IN WRECKOF BUGGY
Mrs. Martin Has Narrow
Escape From Being
Killed.
I Otsl Campbell, of Huffolk,
Va., president, was on hand, but the
association could nm get along very
far without Secretary Charles Meeker,
of Newark. N. J. Practically the only
business transacted was the adoption
of a resolution on the death of Dr.
Charles Chltlenden, of Madison, WIs.,
former president of the examiners’ as
sociation and also of the National Den
tal Aaaorlatlon.
It Is expected that both these auxil
iary aaaoclatlons will be through with
their business before the lay dentists
begin their sessions September 18.
EXCHflHGTpLflCEWflLK
UP FRIDAY AFTERNOON
An Interesting meeting of the streets
committee of council will be held Fri
day when the petition of Joel Hurt will
be considered which asks that the side
walk on Exchange Place be widened.
Mr. Hurt has fought the proposed
line of the Atlanta, Griffin and Macon
Electric Railway since It Arst asked
for franchise on Exchange Place. If
his petition Is granted by council Mon
day the railway will not have room
enough to come down the street.
The franchise of the railway will also
come up for passage Monday and the
outcome of the rival documents Is be
ing watched with Interest.
Kelly, of Jackson. Miss., but
formerly a merchant of Atlanta, caus
ed the arrest of a negro cab driver
named Jim Clements Friday afternoon,
claiming that elements had robbed him
of 358 while he was drunk. Clements
drove Kelly to the police station Thurs
day and Kelly was given a berth where
he might sleep off his liquor. When he
awoke Friday morning he claimed that
be had been robbed by the negro.
Mrs. W. B. Martin, of Hammond, Ga..
was seriously Injured In Jumping from
her buggy Friday afternoon at Williams
and Ellis streets. She Jumped to avoid
being killed by a heavy wagon which
overturned the buggy, and received In
ternal Injuries when she fell on the
sidewalk. The wagon was driven by a
negro named Robert H. Arnold and
was owned by the Denny Coal and Ice
Company. Mrs. Martin refused to go to
a hospital. The negro was placed un
der arrest.
STICK TO BRANNEN
TO THE BITTER END
Lieutenant Colonel A. Gordon Tas
sels, of the First cavalry regiment,
state troops, Savannah, Is In the city on
hla way to Carteravllle, where he Is
going with his wife and family for a
visit.
Colonel Cassela la one of the dele
gates to the First district congressional
district, now In session at Btatesboro,
and which Is dead-locked between Hon.
J. A. Brannon, of Bulloch, and Hon.
W. W. Sheppard, of Liberty. Mr. Tas
sels Is one of the Sheppard delegates
from Chatham, but had to leave the
convention at this time, In order to
do which he put one of the alternates
In hla place.
"We have made proposition after
proposition to tho Brannon people,"
he said, "hut they persistently refuse
either to consider any proposition from
or to submit any proposition to us.
We have for the third time proposed to
take the matter back to the people and
hold a second primary, but this has
been persistently declined. '
"When I left there Friday night it
was understood that the Brannen peo
ple would withdrawn Brannen today
and nominate another man. then charge
us with lack of party loyalty In the
event we refused to come over to him.
But the Sheppard delegates are not go
ing to be caught by any such plan aa
this. We held a meeting and It waa
determined that Bbeppard's eighteen
delegates will stick to him to the bitter
end."
The Franklin Publishing and Print
ing Company, occupying the brick
building on Ivy atreet, near the corner
of Edgewnod avenue, has been sold for
3100,000 and, after thirty-three years
of prosperity under the management
of Colonel George W. Harrison, will go
under different management Monday
next.
The business has bien bought by J.
L. Turner A Company.
Colonel Harrison retires for the pres
ent from active business, and will, aft
er getting his alfalts straight, travel
for one year. He will then return to
Atlanta and again engage In active
business.
Tho Franklin Publishing and Print
ing Company Is one of the largest con
cerns In the South. For tho past thir
ty years It has held the contract for all
state printing, with the exception of one
year, when The Conslltutlon Job Print
Ing Company was successful In getting
the work.
The company waa Arst established In
1859. In 1873 It was taken under new
management and Colonel Harrison waa
placed at Its head. Blnce that time,
through his able management, the com
pany has done work for nearly every
country In the elvlllzed world.
Among the best known publications
put nut by tbe concern la The Southern
Cultivator, which has a large clrcula-
lion in this and other countries.
The pay ruff of tho company amounts
to 350.000 a year and 160 men have
been kept constantly at work for the
past thirty years.
Colonel Harrison, through hla work
In connection with the printing house,
and for the prominent part he has
taken from time to time In politics,
has become one of Atlanta's best known
cltlsens.
He has been on the staff of Gov
ernors Northen, Atkinson, t'undler, and
Is at present on the staff of Governor
Terrell. For three successive terms he
served the Atlanta waterworks In the
capacity of commissioner, being presi
dent of the board during two terms,
and has held other political positions.
This is no time for Uncle Sam's 6
0 soldiers' to go to Cuba. They 0
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0 weather came when a Southern O
O pleasure trip would be real pleas- 0
O ure. But it's npt to be still hot- 0
0 ter down there unless Uncle Sam 0
0 does something. 0
0 But to talk about Atlanta 0
0 weather. It's summer again. It O
O was 88 degrees ^it 2 o'clock and O
O no clouds In sight. And there's 0
O no promise of Improvement. The 0
O weather prophet says: 0
O "Generally fair tonight and Sat- O
0 urday with no marked change In 0
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Charles S. Barrett, president of the
National Farmers’ Union of America,
was In Atlanta Friday,
j Mr. Barrett, who Is a native and
; resident of Upson county, Georgia, Is
t recognized as the strongest man In the
j Immense organization which has 750,-
000 members. /
He says the organisation Is In splen
did condition for most helpful work for
the farmer.
CHARLES SIMON BARRETT.
Georgian who heads Farmers' Unionl
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Rswsrd ffcr Short.
Governor Terrell today paid a re
ward of 1100 to John A. Short, of Up
son county, for the arrest of Henry
Rosser, who was wanted In Meriweth
er county for the murder of Buck In
gram In April, 1906. R,.ss«r was re
cently convicted of the crime and sen
tenced to life Imprisonment In the pen
itentiary.
DEADLOCK UNBROKEN
AFTER 461 BALLOTS
Special to The Georgian.
StntPHlM»n». <In., Hept. 14.—The emigres-
Blnnal convention of the FI rut Georgia tl|
trlet rontpiwl here again tills ninrnlujr nf
ter no adjournment nt the conclusion of 481
Billiot* without n choice. The feature of
yesterday'* Herndon wn* it *|>eech by Judge
. Moore, mill nnother l»y Colonel Lee
Moore, In liehnlf of Mr. Ilrnnnen. Colonel
l«ee Moore *|>runir quite n sensation by
rending two affidavit* that Mr. .Sheppard on
the ilny fid low lug the primary, thinking ho
hail the popular majority In the district
wn* heard Severn! time* to remark that for
that roaaon he should la* nominated. Now
that It npiMMir* that Mr. Hrnunen recelviM
« popular majority of over 1.3U0 vote* Mr,
Mheppnrd refu*e* to yield.
Mr. W. W. Orr to 8paak.
Mr. W. \V. Orr will speak Friday
night at the Capitol Avenue B. Y. P. U.
on the "Triumph of Christianity." All
are Invited to this meeting.
New Depot at Cornelia.
The railroad commission Friday Is
sued an order requiring the Southern
Hallway Company to submit to It plana
for a new depot at Cornelia, Qa., the
Junction point of the Southern and the
Tallulah Falla railroad, on or before
October 4. These plana are to be aub-
mltted in accordance with the details
already agreed upon between represen
tatives of the Southern and the people
of Cornelia, who have for acme time
complained of Inadequate depot faclii-
tlea. It is stated the railroad haa ex
pressed a willingness to erect the new
depot, but the people are tired of the
delay, hence the action of the commis
alon.
DISPATCHER GONE
AFTER BAD WRECK}
TWO WERE KILLED
Special to The Georgian
Anniston, Ala., Sept. 14.—Aa the re
sult of a head-on collision three miles
north of Attalla last night, about 10
o clock, between a local freight and a
work train, Engineer Thomas H. Clem
ents and his negro fireman, named
Charles Griffin, were killed dutright
and several members of the two crews
Injured. The collision occurred near
Ivalee Station, and but little is known
as to the cause, although current ru
mor places the blame on the train dis
patcher, who has mysteriously disap
peared. Immediately after the accident
a wrecker was sent from here and
another froth Birmingham, the tracks
being clear late this afternoon.
E FRIGHT
Negress Screamed That
Snake Was Trying
To Bite Her.
THIEF STOLE METER
FAMILY HAVE NARROW
ESCAPE FROM DEAT
Special to The Georgian.
Columbus, Ga.. Hept. 14.—A thief enter*
ed the home of L. A. DImon, on Third
avenue, Wednesday night and stole the slot
ga* meter, leaving the gas escaping Iti the
house. Mr. Dlmon was awakened by the
fame*, nnd on Investigating found lilt
mother Iti one of tbe rooms almost nsphyx
la ted.
The fTeah afr revived her.
TO DIXIE CITIES
TO MAKESPEECHES
He Leaves For Virginia to
Enter Daughter in
School.
COLUMBUS BAPTISTS'
- MEETING ADJOURNS
Special to The Georgian.
Cqlumbus, Go., Sept. 14.—After selecting
KUerslie, On., for holding tjie next meet
ing, tho Columbus Baptist Association
closed n three days’ session here. The
meeting ha* been largely attended, nnd
much Important business bus been transact
ed.
OPEN CONVENTION
First Day’s Session Held
Friday at Ara
gon Hotel.
An unknown negro woman who ran
a dozen block*, acreamlng at the top
of her voice, dropped dead on the
lawn of the Rev. C. P. Bridewell, at
Spring and Luckle atreet*, Friday af
ternoon at 1:80 o'clock, while an officer
was holding her for the patrol wagon.
No cause ha* been assigned for her
death.
The woman frightened the residents
of Spring street with her cries and an
officer waa summoned. Call Officer
Luck responded and placed the woman
tinder arrest. After she was hand
cuffed and had been quieted she sud
denly exclaimed that there was a snake
trying to bite her and after Jumping
Into the air several times and tearing
the clothes almost entirely from her
body she sank to the ground and died.
A short while before her death the
woman said she lived In the rear of
184 Formwalt street. She could not
tell her name hut snid she was run
ning from her husband and had run all
the way from Mitchell street.
SALESMAN KILLED
DURING QUARREL
IN WILMINGTON
Special to Tbe Georgian.
Wilmington, N. C., Sept. 14.—Early
this morning. In a general fight at
questionable house in'the eastern sec
tlon of the city, W. L. Williams,
young traveling man, was mortally
wounded.
Williams was shot by Lonnie Snipes,
a dellvsry clerk for the Portner Brew
ery. Death resulted at 4:30 o'clock. -
Williams was a young man of re'
finement and prominent socially. Hi
traveled North Carolina for a Colum
bia, S. C., house.
The remains will be sent to Coving,
ton, Ky., his former home.
Hoke Eaton.
Hoke Eason, a 2-year-old boy, died
of diphtheria Friday morning at his
home in South Bend. The body was
carried to Fayetteville Friday at 1
o'clock for interment.
Commitsionsrs to Msst
The Association of Commissioners of
Agriculture of the Southern State* will
hold Its annual meeting at Jacksonville,
Fla., November 27 to 29, with Presi
dent W. W. Ogtlvie, of the Tennessee
department of agriculture. In the chair.
Commissioner T. O. Hudson, of Geor
gia, will attend. All of the commis
sioners have been cordially invited to
attend the Florida stale fair at Talla
hassee on November 29, where some
unusual exhibits Hill be displayed, and
It Is expected they will go In a body.
The opening session of the American
Public Works Association convention
was held in the Aragon Hotel Friday
morning, when a number of papers on
subjects pertaining to engineering, wa
ter work* nnd other feAures of public
work were listened to with Interest. .
J. Samuel Bllcer delivered the open
ing address and Introduced Mayor
Woodward. .Mayor Woodward deliver
ed an address of welcome and was
thanked by a rising vote.
Those In attendance at the conven
tion will be taken by the committee on
entertainment over the city Friday af
ternoon. Another session will be held
Snturday, after which the convention
will adjourn.
Those present at the opening session
were:
J. I,. Watson, Atlanta; N. B. Hudson,
Newman, Ga.; J. K. Lord, Atlanta; A.
J. Mitchell, Atlanta; Charles C. Wil
son, Columbia, 8. C.; R. C. 8. Anston,
Hattiesburg, Miss.; M. W. Thomas, At
lanta; William 8. Wilcox, Meridian,
Miss.; Algernon Blair, Montgomery,
Ala.; J. W. Whltner, Roanoke, Va.; J.
W. Gemux, Atlanta; William B. Klg.
Washington, D. C\; Mark Dean, New
York; W. W. I»avl», Harrisonburg, Va.;
J. 8. Sheer, Atlanta; Paul Wesley, At
lanta; Charles F. McKensle, Augusta;
C. M. Isold, Chicago; George McKay.
Philadelphia, Pa.; John C. Sharp,
Chattanooga, Tenn.; P. J. Crlmmtns,
Chattanooga, Tenn.; T. J. Halsey, Balti
more, Md.; A. W. Jones, Atlanta; E.
M. Cole. Atlanta: M. F. Cole, Newnan,
Ga.; J. E. Brady. Cincinnati, Ohio; M.
Lewellyn, Chattanooga, Tenn.; P. Dodd,
Atlanta; A. J. Brown, Birmingham,
Ala.: E. J. O'Brien. Atlanta: William C.
Flint, Chattanooga, Tenn.
The Unwitting Scholar.
FOR GERS IN CHIC A GO
HAD GOTTEN $200,000
Chicago, Sppt. 14.—In the arrest of
live men, who are held today at Har
rison street police station, the police
say they have captured members of a
gang of forgers that have perpetrated
frauds aggregating 8200,000 and have
attempted to swindle every bank In
Chicago by bogus checks.
So daring have been the operations
of the gang It Is said that a concern
was Incorporated by them for >1 000,
000 to further their Interests and an
other Incorporated for a lesser sum,
both of them having branch offices In
New York.
John Hill, Jr., member of the board
of trade, Is the man who caused the
arrest of the live men, one of whom I*
a broker who had offices In LaSalle
street. Hill says he represents the
banks. .
DAUGHTER OF ROOSEVELT
UNVEILS M’KINLEY STATUE
Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 14.—A statue,
erected to the memory of President
McKinley by the people of Ohio, was
unvellad here today. Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth, daughter of President
Roosevelt, did the unveiling, while
Senator John W. Daniel, of Virginia,
representing the South, and United
States Supreme Court Justice Day, for
the North, delivered the principal ad
dresses. The Rev. Washington Glad
den offered the Invocation, after which
Governor Andrew Harris spoke In be
half of the state.
A life-size statue In bronze of the
dead president as he appeared when
making his Buffalo speech the day of
his assassination stands on a pedestal
of granite and completes the memo
rial. It was designed by H. A. Mac-
Neal, of New York, ahd cost $50,000.
Judge Day, reviewing ' McKinley's
life, said, among other things:
“He conducted a short and brilliant
war, which liberated a people and
brought forth a new nation.”
.Vow, Willie was
wound up last.
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By WEX JOSES.
I.—Tbe Old Term.
dullard; be always
Ami every any by younger kids disgrace
fully was passed.
couldn't tell the capital of Oregon or
Mnlnc,
And thought the war wtth Mezleo part of
the wnr with Spain,
couldn't name it president; on polities
Was dumb.
Ami tried to do his algebra by a home-made
rute of thumb.
When told "six Bek for thirty cents-
rnuch for half a doseut"
He poudered and be pnssled tilt Ms brains
THE STORY OF THE TWIN ROSE BUD
By ANNA PEARSON.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 14.—Wll|ia ra
J. Bryan, accompanied by Mrs. Bryan
and their daughter, left this morning
for Redford. Va., where Miss Bryan
will enter school. From there Bryan
will continue his tour through th.
South, speaking In North Carolina
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and uth.’
er states. He will then return North
and take part in several state cam
paigns, notably In Ohio, Indiana, Mis.
sourl and Nebraska.
THE MILKMAID.
Aeroat tbe grass I see her psst;
Hho comes with tripping pace—
A maid 1 know-nnd March winds blow
Her hair across her face—
With a hey, Dolly! ho, Dolly!
Dolly shall be mine
Before the spray Is white with Mir.
or idoomi tbe eglantine.
The March winds blow. I watch’her go-
Her eye la brown and clear, ’
Her cheek la brown nnd aoft as down
(To those who aee It near)—
Wl|h n hey. Dolly! ho, Dolly!
Dolly ahnll be mine
" hot bna she not that they have got—
.The dames that walk In silk!
If she undo her 'kerchief blue,
Her neck la white na milk.
With n hey. Dolly! ho, Dolly!
. Dolly shall be mine
Before the spray Is white with May.
Or blooms tbe eglantine.
Let those who will be prond and chill:
For mo. from June to Jnee.
My Dolly's words nre sweet as curds—
. Her laugh Is like a tune—
With n hey, Dolly! ho, Dolly!
_ Dolly shall po mine
Before the spray Is white with May,
Or blooms the eglantine.
yriif wui j-rcm-jinew, unnw:
There’ll lie n bride at Eaaterdlde,
And Ifelly la her name.
With alley. Dolly! ho, Dolly!
Dolly shall be mine
Before the spray Is white with May,
Or blooms the eglantine.
—Austin Dobson.
WELL-BORN ENGLISH PAUPERS.
The newspapers had a pet phrase descrip- worthy of her. God knows, I thought no,
five of Judge Mllburn. "lie Is a man full nnd what 1 wild wmmimmI to iiupreiot her, nml
of years and honors.” It fitted him very she finally broke off the match. Hho monied
well und he seemed to like It. *
He was one of those large, cool, pale
>rlor to
eln** but once.
But Willie couldn't win It, he waa such a
hopeless dunce.
II.—The New Term.
Imagine, then, how Willie felt on getting
linrk to nehoot
To find that he no longer waa tbe elate*
i‘hitmplon fool. %
The kid* came up In spelling. "Spell tight,"
the teacher Mid.
It-e." Mbl Willie; aabl tbe teacher, "Go
up bead."
"Spell •dough.* ** then said the teacher to
got an awful Jar
Wh**n chased down to the bottom, while
Willie trteil ".l-o,"
Anti much to hi* astonishment found his
got |
In hi* Ih*U.
'nknnwlng that hi* ttusaha
one T. Roosevelt.
at but amt stuck It
men who
human weakness! a.
slightly cold. His face never changed a
hue. I. who was Imiietuous and unnoc4»unt-
alde, used to envy this man hi* noise.
One evening over our cigar* In hi* library
he told me bis love story. It came about
through uijr dlRCovcrlug quite by chance a
white rosebud pressed In* tween the leaves
of Robert Browning** "Pomegranate* from
Our English Garden.’* Just at "Evelyn
Hone." 1 looked at him Inquiringly, and he
sabl at once, in his calm, cool way:
"Yes, 1 am quite willing to tell you at»out
It. It was my chief love story. Every man
has more than one, 1 suppose, bat there Is
always a supreme one, anil It u
at middle sge. 1 am of “
second loves are best.’*
ur," I said.
smile, Gerard*** he said,
for flippancy. At
Udlrtal afr.
daughter of an obi friend
...... .mtate 1 administered. When
I footed up tbe balance the fortune could
be represented by one figure, and that
aero. She i*ame to work among the clerks
In my office. Hbe worked for Arc years
and then died of consumption. That was
all. to all outward seeming. For w*- “■**“
the two concerned knew anything
great story Wt the growth of love?
"It Is inch an Intangible nnd yet such
real thing. I used to think that my
Interest In her a
ting for her father,
at first. Then I noticed
face wan. I never saw her other than
amiable, no matter what the vexation of
florists to get some white roses for her.
R*d two flaunted n t me on every able,
but to have nffereii them to her wmild
have been to insult thnt white nou! nl-
ready more of heaven than of earth, so I
chose some white one*. Among them was a
stem bearing twin rosebuds. The nnmo left
ns for a moment, nnd I said: Ther-are
the symlmla of our love.’ Hhe smiled nnd
broke one rrotn the stem and banded It to
been to me,* she
through 1. .11 siih.-nt Vo™'" 1 ta ”
"That was the last time I saw he*. The
! h s** r,)orn «nd toll
thaf mjr v, &* causing
nelghi>orpntNl comment. She was a wise
woman, and would not have hail that nweer
j Missing soul smirched by a breath of fool-
*‘ h ** right, nnd I
I?-'! »**h.V* * l'***”\ out. knowing well
MtejL 1 b*; 1 m '*: n , hpr fnr ,h * l, »» f time.
told me who oe was 1 told her he was not family to the^shorc'aad k <^*bll«h ,, !hem
look toward her chair when»»ver the door
opened that I might see ^he smile with
which she greeted every visitor. It was
the smile of an angel, Gerard.
"She mote to me one day and told me
she had been engaged for two years, and
that the time for the wedding was ap
proaching. l*he said I seemed so much like
a father to her that she felt that she
ought to tell me and ask my advice. I hope
I took an Impartial view of the matter.
I asked her about the man. and when she
more cheerful after that. MU month* lif
ter that a young lawyer In my office pro
posed to her, am I she asked me hour «he
might reject him gently without hurting
bis feeling* too ranch. Together we wrote
the reply.
"One afternoon ns I was leaving the of.
flee she bent over her desk, her head rest
ing on her hand. She Imtked weary and ile-
ieetod. I leu n»'d over and kissed her f4>re-
head ns I might have kissed a child. She
started and blushed. I lifted my hat gravely
and went to court. Thnt net wa* never
repeated* but we seemed to understand
each other better afterward.
"My heart was racked ns I saw her
growlug whiter and weaker every day. The
doctor told me there was no question but
that the hand of death wa* on her. It was
only a question of whether It wouhl be a
matter of months or weeks until the weight
should crush her. Finally she could not
leave her home, nml I went to see her
every day. 1 waa trying an Important case
and these was a multiplicity 4>f pre *
uistdc—-»—» » —*——- * ■ -
Last of Many Famous Housss in Rt-
duced Circumstances.
It Is a fact well known to all students
of family history, said a genealogical
expert, that If you want to And the
“bluest blood” and the longest descents,
you must go, not to the peerage, hut
to the great middle classes, and even
lower, that many a proud wearer of a
duke's or an earl's coronet today has
a pedigree which will not compare for
distinction with that of some of his
tradesmen or tenants. Yes, I know
this Is a surprising statement, but it
Ib a sober statement of the truth.
There are very few of our present
peers who can trace their descent from
the great nobles of the day* of chivalry
or earlier. The founder of one line of
marquesses was an Innkeper; of a line
of earls a glazier, and so on; and many
of the greatest aristocrats of our time
owe their rank nnd wealth to the en
terprise nnd luek of city apprentices.
To quote Burke:
"Let us look back only as far ns the
year 1637, and we shall find the great-
rrandson of Margaret Plantaganet,
lerself the daughter and nelrese of
George, duke of Clarence, following the
cobbler's croft nt Newport, a little town
in Shropshire. Nor Is this the only
branch of the tree of royalty that has
dwarfed and withered.
"If we were to closely Investigate the
fortunes of the many Inheritors of the
royal arms, It would soon be shown
that ‘the aspiring blood of Lancaster'
flows through very humble veins.
Among the lineal dlacendants of Ed
ward of Woodstock, earl of Kent, sixth
son of Edward I, k.lng of England, en
titled to a quarter the royal arms, oc
cur a butcher and a toll gatherer—the
flret a Joseph Smart, of. Halesowen,
the latter a George Wllmot, keeper
the turnpike gate at Cooper'e Bank,
near Dudley.
“Then again, among the descendants
of Thomas Plantaganet. duke of Glou-
ceeter, flftb son of Edward 111, we dis
cover Stephen James Penney, the late
sexton- at St. George's, Hanover square
a strange descent from the ewohd and
epter to the spade and pickax!"
The last head of the great Scottish
house nt Lindsay, and de Jure earl nt
Crawford, died In 1734, In the capac
ity of hostler In an Inn at Kirkwall,
In the Orkneys; nnd In four genera
tions the descendant! of Sir Richard
Knlghtley of Fawsiey tthe head of
one of the oldest and most distinguish
ed families In England) and his wife,
daughter of the great Protector Somer
set, ended as obscure London trades
men—drapers and oil men outside the
city gates.
Sir Thomas Conyers, the heart of s
family which had held vast estates,
owned castles and enjoyed high rank
In the north of England almost from
the days of the conquest, died n pau
per In a Durham work house. A grand
son of Oliver Cromwell and a kins
man of Thomas Cromwell, earl of Es
sex, served behind the counter In a
Snow# Hill shop, while one of Id"
nieces ended her days In A w.nk
house, and of his great-nieces, one
married a butcher's son and the olm-r
a Cambridgeshire shoemaker.
Among peasants and laborers, farm
ers and small tradesmen are many de
scendants of the great feudal hou.-t-
of Scrope and Greystoke, Neville ur.J
D'Arcy, and many another noble Hue*
who can claim kinship with our blu-
r—j —a\ —— •— -.a pressing
buslnessldemaiuls; lint I always found time
to go to see uiy darling, who wa» fo.Hn-
every dsy In s wrntth. T have In-on n Ims
msn, Gerard, but I bare no pitrlomv wttl
the men who nre 'too busy' to see the worn
nn they love every dsy.
"Once on the way there I stopped at s
tho pedigree of the duke
id figure farmers
lore, w
of Northumberland flgui
haberdashers, husbandmen and papei
stalners.—Tld-Blts. '
there for the summer. It required three
days to do thin, end on the third evening,
ne I paced the platform of the little eeaelile
K'nltlii-r tt\p lha train thaf tVH S
. .. . Alien luuiiriiij •• :
out on the Wtxou a small, white eloml: cfmt
hud l»et*u floating nlmlesatj about iHs-'P*
In tbe sunset glow. . . ,
"I looked Ht nnr watch. It waa 8 •> •*‘ , "* k -
"That night the ntirae called ttp;*n m> ■
Hhe wn* admitted here. T thought I wmil'l
tell you myself, Jmlge Mtlbnrn. that Mis*
Emuia died at 8 o'clock. Hbe fiieil ns J
aa though she were falling asleep, awl ;«■
*he wns going she smiled and *|*»ke
name,*
"And thnt’a nil. Gerard. If I h»'J n ’J
bid ties that no man »t boa or roaW |,r r :, “
she would hare lieen my wife. She hn«
l*»en dead ten yenni, and I am glad * v *
known her. She ha* made me a I*”'*'
iunn nnd a greater man.* When I nrep.i r*-j
that esse, the conduct of which they any
put me npon the supreme liench. I
»hnt she was beside*me. I felt the »*;*! *
Ing influence of her gentle presence. I «•*’)
It at nil the crises of n»/ life. Hhe triu
t*e with me when the en<l cornea, and
will lie with me afterward. I know It-
That Is tbe atory of the twin
Gerard."