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MAG -NE SECTION WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1906. RICH WEDDING PIEMENTS. GIFTS TO PRESIIEXT'S PAUGII TER THE MOST MAGNIFICNT EVER PRESENTED. Valued at Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars-Rare Tapestries, Silk, Jewelry and other Ornaments from Every Country. No other American girl has receive0 wedding presents so numerous, valu able or interesting as those which have been showered upon President Roosevelt's oldest daughter. Nl I Grant who, next to Alice Roosevelt, had the most brilliant White House wedding received many costly gifts from all parts of the world but her trophies pale by comparison with those of the first White House bride of the present century. For one thing there were only two hundred guests at the marriage of Nelly Grant and Algernon Sartoris whereas nearly one thousand persons were invited to the White House wedding of 1906 and of course the number of presents in the latter case outnumbers those in the former instance in the same proportion. Recognized as Great World Power. Then too, Uncle Sam was not near ly so much of a World Power in the days of President Grant, as he has been since the Spanish-American War and consequently if is small won der if the varjous rulers of the world have manifestId greater interest in the nuptials of the daughter of the pr. ent Chief Magistrate than they od in the similar event a quarter of a cen. tury ago. However, it should be explained just here that 1resident roo.vel's daughter has received very few pre sents from foreign governments-al most all of the gifts having come from the sovereigns or other rulers as in dividuals. That the governments should not send tokens was the express wish of President and Mrs. Roosevelt and was clearly indicated to the IM I .. ..... PIECE OF GO3LIN TA Unitbed States Ambassadors and Min isters in the various capitals of the world. Two governments, those of Cuba and France had already made all arrangements for governmental gifts ere the intimation came from Washington and ef oourse, in each case ,hle oi~rinal plan was carried out bult at the other courts of the world the covernmenlts took no action but mere IV~ left matters in the hands of the r:'lers who were, to be sure, at entire liherty to send presents provided they 'aid for~ them out of their own pockets. Incomnparable Gobelin Tapestry. Of the thousands of wedding pre r-ms valucd at hundreds of thousands of dollars whi':h arrived at the White llouse during the first half of the month of Fehruary undoubtedly one of the most attra-tive was the won derful pieces of Gobelin Tapestry. the gift of the Republic of France and which was presented to Miss Roosevelt in person by M. Jusserand, the Frenich Ambassador to the Tnited States. This giut he es'nesial sicrnifi-ance from the fact thct t~e fo"tory wherre it was manufaatur~ed was established by Louis XIV anil i3 '-'-f ir ~ c trol of the .goverlnent of Prance. Never before have the looms in this French governmental tapestry plant ,rodued a work of art that was not esigned as a gift either for royalty or for some distinguished son of France and even such honor has been paid but rarely. It was the wish of the French people and officials to p:-esent to the White House bride the most exquisite and i)recious thing that could .be selected and quite naturally they selected a special product of their best workshop. This Gobelin tapestry,-the only one of the kind ever sent to this country, -has as its design a reproduction of a painting made by Ehrman of Stras burg, a famous Alsatian painter. The tapestry is two feet wide and four feet long and the predominating colors are blue, green and yellow. It was made fully fifty years ago and the subject is allegorical in character, re presenting a woman of the lMiddle Ages dressed in long flowing robes of blue and yellow and standing before a lecter, making illuminations upon a scroll. The figure is almost in pro file and the dark hair is curled about the head in classic style. Around the main picture i a border wider at each end and narrower on the sides ii which wreaths. leaves and medal lions appear at intervals. This tap estry, small as it is, is said to be worth from $25,000 to $50,000 Jeweled Necklace from Cuba. For the new Republic's gift to the uaughter of President Roosevelt the Cuban government appropriated the sum of $25,000 and the Cuban Minis ter at Paris was entrusted with the task of purchasing the handsomesi jeweled necklace that could be obtain ed with this sum. The White House bride, by the way, has received sever al pearls and diamond necklaces. Most of them have come, however, from relatives of the bride and wealthy New York friends. The German Emperor did not take the world into his confidence with re ference to the present sent to th young lady who christened his yacht but it proved to be a jewelel bracelet for which the Emperor and Empress personally selectee and matched the 'N GT2 FRM FANC cms Te aiers nvy n meic oDemsd hn. The KasrsenoRnAeprent ative's fellow Congressmen from Ohio gave a silver loving cup said to have cost $800 and the Congressmen re presenting the State of New York made up a fund and p-trchased a splendid set of ornamiental glass made by Tiffany. The White House bride has reason to congratulate herself that all foeign donors, including the Eur opean and Oriental sovereigns arrang ed to themselves ray the duties on their won derf~ul collection of silks, Irugs, vases and other ornaments. If the President's daughter had been iiged to defray from her private funds the import tax on these sou venirs it would have played havoc for sme time to come with her personal 'income of $3,000 a year. A Vast Greenhouise. The atmosphere of the earth acts very much in the same way as does 'ne glass of a greenhouse-it allows the rays of the sun to pass through, ~ut imprisons the heat. Thus it is colder on the top of a mountain than at the sea level, because, though the mountain-top is slightly nearer the su, heatmosere is very much less M- EGAN A GOOD LOSEil1 VENERABLE ALABAMIAN SHOWNT NOT TO BE A PANAMA CAVAL OB1STRUCTIONIST. f t Is Second O'dest Man in the United States Senate, But Possessed of Great Vitality-Strong But Always a Square Fighter. Senator Join T. Morgan of Alabain. eighty-one years old, or eighty-one years young, is, with the exception cf his colleague, Senator Pettus of Ala bama, the oldest man in the United States Senate. s He is one of the very active men cr the Senate, and of late years has 4 achieved considerable fame because s of the vigor with which he champion- a ed the Nicaragua route as the proper j way for the trans-isthmian canal, and h also for the ardor and perseverance Of e his opposition to the Panama route. 1 Because of the bitterness of his antag- E onism to the purchase by the United f States of the concessions of the t Franco-Panama canal companv. and s because of his determined effort to de feat the adoption of the Panama route, Senator Morgan has in some quarters gained the reputation of be ing an obstructionist. A Square Fighter. Nothing cou'l be farther from the truth. He is a great and strong fighter, but his opposition is fair and square, he has resorted to n,,"e of the tactics employed by Congressional ob structionists, and when he has been beaten he has admitted It. This is clearly showN in a recent letter to the Panama Canal Commission, declining an Invitation to accompany the Com mission on a trip to the Isthmus. In this letter the venerable Senator says: "Since the ratification of the Hay Varilla treaty, which I opposed, I have done all that I could and much more than I thought could ever be of advantage to the country to sustain the government ii its purpose to construct a canal at Pana ma. Yet I have not believed that success' could crown their efforts. even in their most costly and desperate form. You may find the key to unlock the barrier that nature has interposed at Panama. If you should be so fortunate, I will applaud your genius and courage. I will vote to provide you with every reasonable au thority and power to accomplish your task and to meet your tremendous re sponsibility." This letter shows that Senator Mor- A gan Is a good loser as well as a good fiiter. To be a good loser is -, al admirable trait He does not rankle n over defeat and does not nurse a cause h which he ses is Irretrievably lost. h This is practical statesmanship. s An Active Record. Sentor Morgan has had an activeT life. He was born at Athens, Tenn., V June 20, 1824, and with his parents s went to Alabama when he was nine years old. He was admitted to the bar of Alabama in 1845; was a Presiden tial elector in 180 for the State a large and voted for Breckinridge and Lane; was a delegate in iSG1 from Dallas county to the State convention which passed the ordinance of secess [on; joined the Confederate army ind 1861 as a private in the Cahaba Rifles, n and when that company was assign ed to the Fifth Alabama regiment P John 3forgan was elected a major and later lieut-colonel of the reniment He was commissioned a colonel in 1832 and raised the fifty-first Alabamn regiment, and came out of the war a brigadier-general in command of an Alabama brigade, lie was Presiden tial elector' in 1876 and voted for Samuel 3. Tilden, and was elected to the United States Senate to sueceed ~ George Goldthwaite, taking his seat a March 5th, 1877. He has been in the Senate ever since, and will probably remain there as long as he wishes, or as long as he lives. MESSAGES UNDERGROUND. A Jlesuit of Pennsylvania the Invent-o or of a New Wireless Telegraph ' System. Father Joseph Murgas of Wilkes-a Barre, Pennsylvania, expects, within the next month or two to be able to send wireless messages to Europe by means of his new system which is now in practical operation. Since the completion of the aerialC wireless system and its developmenta to its present stage of perfectiont Father Murgas has been experiment- - ing with an underground service which he believes will be more valu-t able tihan the aerial system. His ex periments so far have been limited to short distances with moderate elec. trical power and shallow holes. ButI he is now completing undergroundC stations in Wilkes-Barre and Scran ton and will conduct the experiments - on a larger scale. So far a-s he has proceeded with this wo'rk, so successfully has his theory of underground wireless tel egraph worked out that recently he announced he had no doubt of his ability to send an underground mess age to Europe and that the expert ment will shortly be made, despite the fact that it is estimated it will cost $22.000. To accomplish this, he says, a shaft 3.000 feet deep must be sunk In this ccuntry, and one of similar depth in~ Europe. Each of these will have to be concreted to render it impervious to dampness, which would destroy the efficiency of the wires with which the sending and receiving apparatus will be connected with the surface. A great deal of power will also be re quired. The shafts eat Wilkes-Barre andi Scranton ars 300 feet deep and the ditn Is eigeen miles. The shaft .t the former city was completed and lartiy concreted when it filled with vater and another one will have to be ored. The Scranton shaft is now iearly completed. Father Murgas' wireless system dif ers from all others by dispensing with he Morse system and substituting iusicai tones-each tone represent ng a letter or a code word or group f words, so that a speed about ten imes as great as the fastest Morse ode can be attained. REWARDED BY CARKEGIE. liss Maud Titus Presented With a. P Medal and an Lducadion. When Miss Maud Titus of Newark, 1. J., rescued her friend Laura Reif nyder from drowning in a yachting ccident in Casco Bay, Nova Scotia, uly 30, 1904, she did not know that er act placed her under the watchful ye of Andrew Carnegie, the Steel ing. Miss Titus and her unfortunate 4 riend were out yachting on that fate ul day when a sudden squall upset ieir yacht. Miss Titus is an expert wimmer, while Miss -Reifsnyder un t t MISS MAUD TITUS warded Carnegic Medal and Zducational Fund. I b ble to swim, quickly sank in the deep i4 ater. Upon coming to the surface, b owever, she was seized by the Newark f eroine who brought her safely to t 2ore. For her act of heroism, Miss Titus, o ho is only sixteen years old, was a s arded a Carnegie medal, although t the time her name was under con Lderation, hundreds of other persons 'ere brought forward as worthy of re- r -ard. Since receiving the medal Miss 'itus's father died leaving insufficient oney to send her to college as she raved. Miss Reifsnyder, apprised the arnegie commission of her friend's esre for an education and the com iission decided to grant her $2,500 've hundred dollars of this is to be aid upon her entrance to a school. 500 annually in advance for three ears, and $500 at her graduation 'his Is the larf:est rcward ever given y the co:nn ca:, te highest previ us being $1,000. TIicd Celebrities. Edward VII, King of England 'and mperor of India, is imposing enough ut such a slender collection of words ould never serve to fire the Oriental magination, and the Sultan of Turkey s known as "The Finest Pearl of the Lge and the Esteemed Centre of the Iniverse, at Whose Grand Portals tand the Camels of Jutice and Mercy .nd to Whom the Eyes of the Kings .nd Peoples in the West have been )rawn; Lord and Master, the Sultan *f Two Shores and the High King of wo Seas, the Crown of Ages and the ride of All Countries, the Greatest of .11 Khalifs, the Shadow of God on arth, the Successor of the Apostle of ( he Lord of the Universe and the Vic- I orious Conquerer Sultan Abdul-Hanmid Chan." The kings of A'a and Ceylon each almly appropriated to themselves the1 ttributes of divinity and proclaimed hemselves "God," to which His Iajesty of Ava added "King of Kings, w'hom all others must obey, as he isj he Preserver of all Animals, the Re ulator of Seasons, the Absolute Mas er of the Ebb and Flow of the Sea rother to the Sun and King of the 'our and Twenty Umibrellas," an anti ~limax essentially Oriental. Te Persian Shah takes his title ipon the instalment plan, making up n number what each lacks in length. TIe is "Shahin Shah." "King of Kings," 'The Rose of Delight," "The Branch of ~onor," and others of note, to say 1thing of what his subjects call him .mong themselves. Perhaps the oddest and most truth 'u of them all is the title of the King >f Monomopotapa, who was styled 'Lord of the Sun and the Moon, Great Taician and Great Thief." After such glories as these European nonarhs might be forgiven envy, hough it is not apparant that such ias developed, and democratic King dward is content with 'Your Majesty' r even "Sir." Size of Bralins. large brain does not necesaily ndicate intellect. The brain of an Illiterate person has been found to wveigh more than of the most c'elebrat ad scintstS, poets, and philosophers IOES FOR CITY WEB. VUMBERLESS ORPHANS IS GREAT CITIES--MANY DELIBERATE L Y DESERTED. i.ight Million DoLars in Charity Last h.ar in New York Alone-Louncry Homes Provided in Cases WhCrC Practicable. At one of the vacation Bible classes ast summer, some tenement children vere taught a word-guessing game. )ne of the words celected was 'home." The little girl whose turn it ras to guess failed to get a clue, and a >Oy trying to help her, said, "Think of ometning that smells awful and you vant to get away from iick." The bild guessed "house." The dirt and oul atmospihre of his home is dis usting to even the tenement child imself, yet home is the child's great est necessity. Authorities on the sub ect strongly advoca'. tha prate ortunes of philanthropists as 'we as tate and municipal funds be devoted, ot to building Institutions for depen lent children, but to pensioning wid ws with families and finding foster >arents for orphans. Of the 600,000 children under 14 rears of age who form 18 per cent of he population of New York City, 2, 00 are homeless waifs. About half of hese forlorn little ones are babies be ween the ages of two and four. The causes that cperate to bring bout this pitiable condition are those hat'fill the workhouses and prisons, leth of one or both parents, injury rough accident, consumption, vice, rime, inability to obtain work and in ompetence, desertion, juvenile de ravity. Many Half Orphans. Complete orphanage is less frequent ban Is generally supposed. In most ases that come under the attention of be chaities associations, the children re half orphans. However when the ather is the surviving parent, the re uilt as far as t- 1-'eaking up of the ome Is concerned is the same. A ian rarely succeeds In keeping his hildren together. If they are very oung a woman's care-is imperative, nd where poverty prevents the hiring f nurses, the charitable Institution i the alternative. If a widow Is left rith a family the childTLa. stand a etter chance, 'or not only is It a notor nis fact that a mother will work arder and more effectively than a ither to keep the brood together, but 2e charities commissioners, recogniz ig the value of even the poorest kind a home to the child, will give sub tantial, if limited, aid to that end. The Great White Plague. Consumption carries off 1-8 the met politan population. The lingering i ness in tubercular cases is more dis SCENES OF CHILD2EN WHO HAVE strous to the family than sudden eath of the providing head. The Lealthy members are deprived of the ~ecessaries of life tn provide some light medical aid and a small measure f comfort for the invalid, so that by he time the end comes the whole fain ly Is frequently half starved as well s wholly impoverished, and to make natters worse the survivors are apt to ;pend the last cent on the funeral. Tice and crime are yet more disco Ir ,ming sources of distress. The nm wr of children rendered homeless rough the misconduct of their par nts Is large and is increasing. In eperace is the most common form )f vice and brings countless evils in. ts train. Sooner or later the "Gerry" ient comes down on the miserable bAnme. The parents are sent to pen! bentiary or workhouse, or are simply 'ut under bonds to contribute to the npport of the children. The children pass through the Children's Court to in aslum, and are sometimes gla~d to "scape from their homes. public chari v meaning to them warmer clothing, lufficent food and comfortable bed. nability to obtain work In New York usually neans Incompetency. rodon is full of the unemployed but that Is hardly the trouble as yet in te American metropolls Law Aainst nleqertion of Childern'. Deserton has become so common that several states have recently pased laws making It a felony. P~nder these laws the authorities aine nhle to mpose heavier penalties and also to secure extradition in case the deserting parent has gone to some othe ante The number of children1 eft dependent on New York's public :harity through the desertion ot the )arents is reckoned by the thousands. As to the little unfortunates who are !lassed as ungovernable, who run tway from home, etc.-the fault lies argely in the home. Indifference, 2eglect and ill treatment are the auses of juvenile crime. Third class theatres and their flaming advertise nents are frequently the incentive to ,etty thieving in order to obtain the price of admission, while the gay !areer of the villain in the play fires ,he imagination of the slum children whose surroundings all tend to give aim a cros-eyed view of morality. rhough the gallery hisses the stage rillain, it admires his good clothes and lashing pose, and the boy who has ;tolen a piece of lead pipe to pay hia way in thinks he has just the nerve ind wit to save himself from the mis ?rable climax which finishes the bad nan on the stage. Ild victim of poverty and Its t evils in New York who, iirough the death or incompetence of ts paients or its own depravity, comes within the jurisdiction of the public !harities Is usually first sent to one ot ,he city's ksaitutions. There are 127 >f them, and to each the ,ty pays 38 cents a day for each Infant cared Mr and $2 a week for each child over two years. The vidower sending his 1ild -n to one of these institutions Is equested to pay something towards their support. It he fails the city pays. A municipal officer is sent to risit the surviving parents of the chil iren once a year. and where conditions iave improved to the point which as mres health and comfort, .the child 1i eturned to its home. The parents are ot always anxious to regain possess on of their children. It is a sad com nentary on human nature that they mhibit more eagerness In this direc on after the child has reached an age where it can earn money. To Make Better Citizens. New York gives more largely to !harity than any other city and Its nethods are most severely criticised. Tear'y $8,000,000 was contributed last rear, almost half of which went to in titutions for the d-'tute. It has' *en universally agreed, however, that he best means for caring for the waifs f great cities is by providing them rith homes in country families. The irecaution of first .making sure that he child's parents or relatives wiR tever be able or willing to care for It s urged. When this point has been stablished and a family can be found rilling to accept a foundling, the child nay be adopted outright. But If here Is uncertainty on this point, or or any reason the family Is unwilling o deflinitely adopt a child, he may be ent out with the understanding that e is to receive wages for such work s he may be fitted to do, but be treat d as one of the family. In Masa. FOUND HOMES IN THE COUNlTRY. husetts and Pennsylvania children In he second class are placed In country ~amilies and their board paid by the state.. Since taking up this method of pro riding homes for its charges, the Children's Aid Society of New York City has had 23,5''8 children legally udopted and secured homes in the country for 25,537 others who receive wages. At present It is placing an (Continued on next page.) ?!TRN F REE ! 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