Irwinton bulletin. (Irwinton, Wilkinson County, Ga.) 1894-1911, September 23, 1910, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextIN CHARGE AT WEST POINT old command. After three years in the Seventh General Barry was trans iferred to the infantry arm and assigned to the First infantry as a first lieu tenant. Two years later he was promoted daptain, and after that passing । through every grade until in August, 1903, President Roosevelt made him a brigadier general. In April, 1908, the same president promoted him to his present rank, the highest under the present law that an army officer can ;attain. General Barry as superintendent at West Point is the second officer of his rank to hold that post since West Point was founded. The other was Lieut. Gen. John M. Schofield, who was a major general when appointed superintendent in 1876. No officer in the army has a finer record than General Barry. In the Spanish war he was an adjutant general, and after the close of that war he saw hard service in the Philippines. When the Cuban government failed to make good several years ago, with the result that the Americans had to reoccupy the island, General Barry was designated by President Roosevelt as commander-in-chief of the Army of Cuban Pacification, as it was known, and in that capacity he did his work so thoroughly that when the island was for a second time turned back to its own people to rule General Barry was accorded when he left an ovation such as few 7 officers have ever received at home or abroad. FEDERAL CHIEF OF MINES Three great delegations visited Washington early in the summer to urge The appointment, the managers of Sixty collieries joined in the laudatory .chorus, and sixty-two senators put their names to a petition in his behalf. All this recognition was won by Dr. Holmes while serving as chief tech nologist of the technological branch of the geological survey. In this capacity he was carrying on in a minor way the work which he now will develop to the fullest extent. While the operations of the technological bureau have not been -wide spread, because of lack of funds and authority, still the men under Dr Holmes were able to diminish mine disasters. They personally saved the lives of many imprisoned miners by going to their rescue in the face of (gan gers which would have meant death to less experienced men with poorer equipment. The work of making mines safe has occupied the attention of Dr. Holmes for years, and he has made rapid advancement in the finding of effective means to the end which he has sought. He gained the confidence of labor and capital, and it is well known here that his subordinates are loyalty itself to the chief. WOMAN WHO COST A MILLION Infatuated with her. It is said that Leeds paid his wife one million dollars for a divorce. Mrs. Worthington also secured a legal separation from her husband, and three days later the wedding took place. Leeds made his new bride the present of jewelry worth over a million, a steam yacht, and a two million dollar palace in New York city. While or a visit to Paris, Leeds bought his wife a $200,000 pearl necklace. She wore this on several occasions, had them unstrung and they were exported in £ hag to the United States and entered at the custom housd as loose pearls. Then began her battle with the treasury, which has become celebrated. Although the pearls were apparently imported by a Paris jeweler, the cus toms authorities considered the action a subterfuge and demanded the 60 per cent, customary duty on a necklace. Mrs. Leeds insisted that they w ere dutiable at 11 per cent, as indiscriminate pearls and won the day and inciden tally some $50,000 which otherwise would have gone to the government. TO HEAD THE GOULD FAMILY ■working early and late and has gone over every foot of the 9,000 milea of the system, meeting the managers, foremen and even the laborers and study ing the conditions. There is hardly a mile of track in the whole system with which he is not familiar. With the prospect for a continuation and increase in good times Mr. Gould says he is entirely satisfied. Conditions In the southwest are very promising. The only possible deterrent Influence is a political one afid he (believes that will disappear after the fall elections. Maj. Gen. Thomas H. Barry, U. S. A., who has become superintendent of the United States Mill tary academy at West Point, is what Supreme Court Justice O’Gorman recently termed “a typ ical product of New York city.” He was born and reared in the old First ward, and there are now in New York men who will tell you that “Tom” Barry was the handsomest boy in the old ward, and that when he came back from West Point on furlough the younger boys W2.ro "wont to point him out as their, hero. General Barry was one of the popvlw cadets during the four years he was at the academy. As an athlete he stood in the front rank, and he stood high as a student. In June, 1877, ho received his diploma, and as a second lieutenant was as signed to the famous Seventh cavalry, Custer’s In the appointment of Dr. Joseph A. Holmes to be director or the new bureau of mines it is con ceded in Washington that probably the best equipped man f.s? the position in the United States has been gained for this important post. Ever since congress passed the bill creating the bureau and giving it authority to investigate mine disasters, make experiments and suggest means whereby accidents may be decreased and the yearly casualty list shortened, efforts have been made by hundreds of Interested persons to have Dr. Holmes selected as chief. The indorse ment of all the coal operators’ associations has been given, every prominent mining engineer in the country, including John Hays Hammond, has made his plea for Dr. Holmes, and the miners’ union has added its efforts in his cause. The series of exquisite gowns worn b^. Mrs. William B. Leeds of New York, Newport and Lon don, has been the feature of the season at the ultra-fashionable watering place of Deauville, France. She is reported as having had great so cial success and has given a succession of de lightful entertainments. Mrs. William B. Leeds, it will be remembered, is the woman who cost her husband one million dollars, and who refused the importunities of royal and noble suitors who were after her fortune, estimated at thirty times that amount. Her maiden name was Nannie Stewart. She was the daughter of a wealthy Cleveland banker and was said to be the handsomest girl in Ohio. She married George E. Worthington. They dis agreed, and Leeds, also c, married man, became One of the sons of the very rich who does not believe that bis life should be given up to idle ness and sports is Kingdon Gould, the eldest bi the seven children of George Jay Gould. Kingdon is only twenty-three years old, but he knows a whole lot about his father’s interests and, for that matter, about the interests of the entire Gould family. This is as it should be, for he is destined to take his father’s place as the head of that multi-millionaire family. He is a well educated man without evil habits and with a love for work. This week he left to join the rest of the Gould family in Europe. He would have gone with them last spring, but he felt that he wanted to familiarize himself with the Gould railroad sys tem in the southwest. So instead of lolling about the various resorts of the old world he has been The Best wR for / I* । F° ur / \ 11/ seiier । ) ations There is no I I guess-work, no un- I certainty, about this world- I famous remedy. Since first pre- 1 scribed by Dr. D. Jayne 78 years ago it has brought relief and ef fected cures in millions of cases of disease, and is today known and used in all parts of the world. DR. D. 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Foley Kidney Pills cure kidney and bladder diseases promptly, and give comfort and relief to elderly people. C. A. Hodges, Gordon, Ga. ts Portable and Stationary ■IIS AND BOILERS. Saw, Lath and Shingle Milla Injeetora, Pumps and fittings, Wood Bnws, Split ters, Shafts, Pulleys, Belting, Gaso line Engines. LARGE STOCK AT lombard' Foundry, Machine and Boiler Works Supply Store. AUGUSTA, GA. THE OUTCAST GYPSY Now the Modern Ishmael Among Civilized Nations. England and the United States Now Turned Against Them—Efforts to Induce Them to Settle Down Unavailing. Washington.—Everywhere through out the civilized world the hand of mankind seems to be raised against the gypsies. The last two refuges to which they betook themselves —the United States and England—have set their faces against them. Hereafter in England they are to be treated like common vagrants, without visible means of support, while in the United States the immigration laws serve to debar them as idle and dangerous nomads. France decided some years ago that the gypsy was a public menace and, in the summary fashion of the republic when it makes up its mind to a thing, expelled him as relentless ly as it has expelled the monks. Germany, which is a grim manufac turing establishment, after all, sim ply ordered its thousands of sentinels along its bayoneted border to turn back every gypsy who showed his nose at the line. Wrathful and perplexed, the Rom any moved on to Belgium; but hostile bayonets met them there. Desperate, for they hate water like so many wildcats, they took to the canals of placid Holland. But the phlegmatic Dutchmen, every tradition of their plodding industry outraged at sight of the gay wanderers, drove them out again. Meanwhile, the Balkans, where the gypsy has ever roamed as free as any other bird of prey, have begun to feel the call of settled prosperity—if Bal kan politics will ever give agriculture its. chance —that attends the lowing kine and the importation of Ameri can reapers and binders. Sheep steal ers and horse swindlers are impres sing the fiery-souled mountaineers less than they used to, and the bars are being steadily raised against the gypsy, on the ground that he is a common tramp, who contributes nothing to the country and deserves nothing from it. Transylvania, time out of mind, has been the gypsy's native heath. The hills and caves let him live the life of the early troglodyte, and the industri ous among the population afforded him sustenance. But all Romany 4r' // IrW’ American Type of Gypsy Woman. can’t subsist on the loot of Transyl vania, and Hungary and Austria re ceived the first overflow. Maria Theresa a hundred and fifty years ago had a brilliant idea for squelching the dangerous nomads. She provided doweries for all gypsy maidens who would marry her Aus trian subjects. It was the most popu lar move any empress ever made, es pecially with the gypsy maidens. They applied for the dowries in beautiful, bridal droves; got them; and ran off with their gypsy hus bands and lovers day after day, until Maria Theresa concluded that gypsy maidens were likely to prove unprofit able investments. Emperor Joseph 11. thought he had them fixed forever when he gave them houses and lands, seed, grain and farming implements. The seeds were promptly eaten; the houses became horse stables; the implements were sold, and the owners moved on. There are believed to be 300,000 of them in Austria and Hungary still; 100,000 in Turkey; 150,000 in Russia; 200,000 in Spain and Portugal; 50,000 in Italy; 10,000 in the United States, and several thousand in South Amer ica, to whose broad pampas and rich plantations their nomad fancy has been turning for some years past. In all, the whole race of gypsies, as known to the white nations, numbers fewer than a million; and the whole mass of them is forever moving on. The great traveler and ethnologist. Sir Richard Burton, whose translation of the Arabian Nights has immortal ized him, is one of the few genuinely scientific men who have studied the origins of the gypsies in a genuinely scientific manner. He does not con demn them utterly, and is at pains to note that the race has, at times, pro duced men of real distinction. He quotes the families of the Hungarian Hunyadis, the Russian Tolstoys, the Scotch Melvilles, the Cassilis and the Contis In France under Louis XIV., and the famous gypsy chief, Thomas Pulgar, who, in 1496, gave Bishop Sigis mund the help he needed to beat back the Turkish invader from Europe. ITS GLORIES ARE NOW DEAD Samarkand, In Russian Turkestan, Once the World's Most Splendid City, Now a Ruin. Bokhara, Asia. —At one time Samar kand in Russian Turkestan was as much the source of power and influ ence in the affairs of the world as London is today; its architecture was as much admired as that of Paris or Vienna; its scholarship was as famous as that of Athens and its ecclesiastical prominence as great as that of Rome. Its universities were sought by stu dents from every corner of the earth, like those of Germany are today, and pilgrims came from every part of th® Mohammedan world to worship at its shrine. The empire of Tamerlane, of which Samarkand was the capital, at the end of the fourteenth century extended i* s' sk s'/ AM The Rigistan of Samarkand. from the Volga and the Danube rivers; to the Ganges and from the Indian ocean to the polar sea. The tribute of a thousand tribes and the homage of seven-and-twenty conquered nations were laid at his feet here. But all this glory has departed and for five centu ries Samarkand has been dying. All the imposing structures that once gave Samarkand its reputation as the finest city in Asia have either dis appeared or are in an advanced stage of decay and dilapidation. They have been almost entirely stripped of the adornments that made them famous, and the earthquakes that occur every few years diminish the number of tur quoise and azure domes and the dimen sions of the enameled walls, and in crease the heaps of debris which now cover the ground. No effort has been made by the government or the priests or the people to restore or even to ar rest the ravages of time or to protect or preserve the architectural monu ments that have stood here for ages against the vandals, the earthquakes and other destructive agencies that have made Samarkand a wreck of its former magnificence. You would think there would be suf ficient pride, piety and patriotism in the Mohammedan world to perpetuate monuments and institutions chiefly ec clesiastic in their origin and purpose, but the same conditions appear in every country where Islam prevails, except in Constantinople, Ci ho and one or two other cities. Islam is a dying religion. It has reached a hopeless stage of decay, if the appearance of its mosques and me dresses, its shrines, the mausoleums of its saints, its cemeteries and other pub lic institutions may be accepted as evi dence. I have never seen a new mosque in any Mohammedan country; I do not know of one that has been built within the last century, and few have been repaired. Everywhere the indifference is the same; everywhere the same degree of dilapidation may be found, even in the most fanatical cities like Bokhara and Damascus. The Persians used to call Samar kand the center of the universe, the hub, like Boston. It was the Athens of Asia for learning and cuture, but a Babylon for extravagance and vice. The luxury and immorality of its. rulers and its citizens was the cause of its decay. Its population at the zenith of its glory was a million; now it has scarcely 175,000 Inhabitants. What Alaskan Indians Smoke. Seattle, Wash.—How would you en joy a pipeful of wood shavings satur ated with a strong solution of pepper as an after dinner smoke? This is the strange substitute used for tobac co by Indians along the Alaska coast. Their mouths are often made raw by the practise, and the eyesight of many is affected by the strong fumes. It is no uncommon practise among farmers to smoke the leaves of the to-, mato and potato plants. While both! these plants contain a narcotic poison,, the smoking of leaves in moderation! is harmless. Excessive use, though^ produces a heavy stupor, from whichi the smoker awakes with a terrific] headache and a feeling of utter ex haustion. Insanity and suicide have] often been caused by the immoderate; use of these two weeds. Rhubarb,; beet and even garden sage leaves are; all smoked by farmers, but are per haps the least harmful of substitutes: for tobacco. Do They Own Cincinnati? Cincinnati.—Not long ago the lineal descendants of George Washington, caused the probate of his will to be opened, 107 years after his death. Their object in doing so was to prove, if they could, that they were entitled to the greater part of the land on which the city of Cincinnati is built. Their claim rests upon an alleged grant of this land by congress to Washington as a partial reward for his services in the Revolutionary war. They profess to have the original documents in which the land was ceded and which were overlooked at the time of the general’s death, partly because of the fact that at that time, the land had no particular value.