F FORT MILL TIMES.
VOL. X. FORT MILL, S- CM WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18,1901. NO. 10.
FOB NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Carnegie Gives $10,000,000 to the
United States.
ft UTTER TO THE PRESIDENT
R Fiiml For the E?ti?l?ll*hm?>nt of k ColIfjr
of Higher Education In WnnltlnrInn
? The (loreniment to Mold the
Money lo Trust. M In tho RmlthnouInn't
C??r-Detail*of tlie Project.
| Washington, D. C.?President Roosojrclt
l?a*? received a letter from Andrew
CarneRk; In which the latter of
fers to make a donation of ?10,lX)O.OOfi
ito the United States. The letter will
fee referred to Congress by the President
In a special message.
| Mr. Carnegie's gift Is for the purpose
of establishing In Washington n
university for higher education. As
far as his idea has been developed. It.
proposes a gift after the manner of the
bequest of James Smlthson. the Englishman.
who gave $1,000,000 for the
establishment and maintenance of
what is now known as the Smithsonian
Institution. Smlthson desired the
Institution founded by ldm to be a factor
in "the diffusion of scientific
know ledge."
I Mr. Carnegie proposes that the university
which he Is to endow shall be
the greatest Institution in the world
for (lie development of higher education.
The proposed university will
not Interfere in the least w"h the educational
Institutions alreadv estab.
Ilshed. but will supplement them. for.
According to the present plans. Its
Irtoors will be onen only to those who
idtslre to take up a post-graduate
Course. Mr. Carnegie also wants the
new university to take the lead in
original research, ro that the United
Ktat"s can eventually stand side by
Bide with Cermeuy, if not excel that
nation, in scientific development.
I Mr. Carnegie's plan dees not propose
a National University in the
Sense that an appropriation will he
tasked or needed. The Ccvornment is
(simply to be the trustee of the magnificent
endowment, fust as it administers
the fnn:l heoucatbed bv Smlthson.
' Mr. Carnegie has ken' the pronosed
endowment .I coo-iif mitil lin r>\ldd d.?r.
initcly arrange the plans and scow of
the now university. Even yet all those
5(1 e;ni 1 * have rot lieen arranged. so
jtlint little more thnr the outline of his
gift oan he published.
| It is known, however, that he tines
pot propose to ask from Congress a
jslmrle foot of land unon which the
university buildings will he constructed.
The entire expense Is to he borne
lout of his endowment. No site has
yet boon selected. It will, however,
necessarily he very large. as It is proposed
to erect a series of magnificent
istruetures.
! With the Catholic University, the
(Methodist University and the nroposed
(Carnegie University Washington, will
he the educational centre of the eouujtrv.
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?:u>,000,0->0 GIFT FOR STANFORD.
Mr?, .Tnne Stanford l*re?ontn Stork*,
I'.rmdi . and T/antl.
San Francisco. Cal.?Mrs. Jane L.
Stanford has transferred to Stat.ford
.University pronerty tvo tli apnroxljnntoly
S30.00n.0f >. Eighteen millions
tare in stocks and bonds, all gilt-edge
Securities, bringing enormous revenue,
while the remaining SI2,000,000 are in
real estate, comprising almost 1,000,?00
acres.
i The real estate lies in twenty-six
(Counties in this State. These securities
Mrs. Sianfor.l gives to the university
consists of income-hearing bonds and
stocks. Most of them are t'te paper
of California water eompanies. street
railroads and mnnicip. 1 bonds. All
<he bonds are frst mortgages and all
tare paying g od rates of interest,
f I>y a separate deed Mrs. Stanford
gives to the institution her home in
this eity, estimated to be worth not
Joss than $400,000. and it will be concerted
into a miiseuin and art gallery.
3n spite of this big g'ft Mrs. Stanford
still retains several nti'Hon dollars with
which to ctre for many pot charities
tand for lier own private uses.
ANNEX FOil THE WHITE HDU3E.
PreclilcDt l.onirvrlt tlx* Ullt VrctMitfil
For l? 1.000,000 Structure.
Washington, 1>. C.?President Itoose(Yelt
does not want u new While House
or any additions to the old White
House, but only a now building nearby
which he can use for enieriaiu>ments
niid for business, leaving the
tWhite House free to be used simply as
a residence.
I Senator Lodge has presented n bill
providing for such a building, in which
;the th'st tloor would be given over to
dining and reception rooms, with the
UtaMitlrn tK? ? ?? ./!
? ? . w u<uv\ o v;u uic dci.uuu HUUi.
;A million dollars is appropriated by
itlir bill. It will probably puss the Sen
ate. but may lie delayed In the House
unless President lloosevelt personally
presses It.
SIan Wlio Stole SS'^OUU u Pauper.
James Henry, who has served a
seven-year sentence tor the theft o,
$tjU,OlHJ from the United States in in.
iiat'urson City, Nov., and who refusci.
tf take a pauper's oatb recently wen.
tiefore the Coiuinisslouer and took
the oath and was released.
| KcUcl* Kill forty lurkluli Solilirra.
j Forty Turkish soldiers have hem
killed in Yemen, Arabia, in u eoiiilic.
(With tribesmen, who had rebelled on
account of excessive taxation.
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NEW WAY TO FIGHT BOERS
Blook Houses a Third of a Mile Apart,
Connected .by Wiro.
Only Kffteetlre Method ( Dealing: TTltU
ftnerlllae, It I* Aenerted, and Man j
More Trnopii Are Needed.
London.?A correspondent of the
Times. wiring from Pretoria, say*
much remains to be done in the way
of partitioning the country by means
If? ~ m 4 lu>
<11 ill ftfiuiit iiuunra i/ui uiu nu'
British mil hope effectually to clear
the Boers away from the large districts
of the Eastern Transvaal. It is found
that block houses a mile or more apart
are useless in preventing the passage
of Boers at night when they are determined
to cross. Nothing short of
block houses six or seven hundred
yards anart and connected by means
of formidable wire ? : tangleiuents will
prove effective.
To thread the count"y In this way.
says the correspondent, requires time
and men. but In the opinion of the
military authorities It Is the only
method of dealing with an enemy who
refuses to tight and adopts guerilla .
tactics. The British public must therefore
be patient.
North of the Delagon Railway line,
the dispatch goes on to say. the Boors
are momentarily free from the presence
of the British columns. Tho
mountain ranges afford endless hiding
places for the enemy, supplies are plentiful.
and wheat, which llnds its way
nil over the country, is carefully concealed
for future use. It is impossible
to avoid this unless the Boers are kept
moving, and to effect this many more
troops are required.
The most notable development In
the Orange Itiver Colony is the concentration
under I>e Wet, south of
Iieilbron. of 1000 men.
CASHIER TAKES SIC.0.003.
Drflcll Discovered liy ORIrlal'* Ab>*ncfl
From Ln? .AiikcIch Hunk.
T.os Augeles. Cal.?II. J. Fleishman,
Cashier ?.f tlio Farmers' anil Morclmnts'
Hunk, lias disanp a rod with a
Mini nf thp bank's money, which VicePresident
H. W. Hellman estimates
at S 100,000. Fleishman has not ho n
seen for two days. Hp informed the
hank people that lie was ill and would
not he at his desk. Nothing was
thought of the matter at the time.
When lie failed to report within two
days his accounts were examined and
the shortage was discovered. The exact
amount has not vot been ascertained.
Fleishman has been Cashier and Assistant
Cashier of the Farmers' and
Merchants' Hank for many years. He
began work for the hank when a hoy j
in 1K75. Hi was under bond with a
surety company for $.'10,000. In addition
to this he has real estate and
personal property In this city sufficient,
in the opinion of .It*. Hellman, to protect
the bank from the loss of a dollar.
Fleishman married the daughter of
A. J. Hnrroll. a wealthy cattleman tf
Visalia. lint was divorced some time
ago. He was a man of forty-two years,
of medium build and with a smooth
face.
The Farmers' and Merchants' Rank,
of which I. V?". Hellman is President
and II. \V. Ilellman \ ice Preside it. Is
the oldest am strongest bank in Southern
California. Its capital is $"110,000,
with n surplus of $l,OOt),000 and deposits
of $5,500,000.
MARRIED BY TELECRAPH.
#lie Briilf Wan tn Kentucky unit the
Ut*l(le?voum In Tcxnu.
Powliuj; Green, Ky.? Miss Mantle
Wilcutt stood in the telegraph ofilce
hero and became the bride of I)r. J.
\V. Simmons, of Peaster, Texas. They
were married l?y wire. The questions
were asked from the Texas end by a
Justice of the Peace and were answered
by Miss Wilcutt.
Miss Wilcutt at present Is teaching
school In Hut or County. She and Dr.
Simmons recently met while traveling.
The operator and newspaper acquaint*
ances were the Howling Green witnesses
to the marriage. Mrs. Simmons
inter left for Texas to join her husband.
L B3Y PRISON KEEPER DEAD.
Union Trot?i>? Threatened to Hani; Turner,
Hot He l.lvril Sixty-three Years.
Suffolk, Vu. ? Ciiptniu Diehard It.
Turner, Ueepei of the famous Lihhy
i'risou at lCiclinioud, dropped dead in
isle of Wight County, \ irgiuiu, aged
sixty-three years.
\\ neu taken a prisoner at Uiclunond
by the incoming Federal troops, who
were told ot the liarsh treatment oi
t nion soldiers by the prison ottieials,
Captain Turner was locked up, with
the promise that lie should bang 011 the
nex l morning.
Ills hair turned white during the
night. At the time of his death lie was
Democratic County Chairtuau and a
successful lumber dealer.
Guide Guilty of Triple Murder.
A verdict of murder in the tirst degree
was returned at Dover, .Me.,
against Henry Lambert, a young
clench Canadian guide and whjusman.
Lambert's crime was a triple
murder, the victims being .1. We?iey
Allan, a protiimcm farmer of 8hirtey,
?ils wife anu tueir daughter. The murderer
set tire '.o the tarni buiidtugs in
an effort to cover up the crime.
1'ilKiliiiit Oruwnril.
A steanvr mat was conveying Catholic
pilgrims to the .siinue 01 s?t. i- iaucis
at tiua, t'oiMignt, has rouuuercti,
urowuing l ib persons tiny yaruo troin
the shore.
OUR INFLUENCE IN CHINA
The Fart Taken by the United
States in Establishing Peace.
Exerted a Salutary "Inflnrnce In the Caune
of Moderation, Humanity
and Justice."
Washington, D. C.?Secretary Hay
has transmitted to Congress a report
from W. W. RockliUl, Special Commissioner
of the United State* to
China, in which the part played by tha
United States in the negotiations resulting
in tiie establishment of peace
between the Chinese Government artl
the Powers is set forth. The notable i
circular note addressed by Secretary .
Hay, on July 3, to all the Powers
concerned In the adjustment of the
Chinese troubles was never departed 1
from by the diplomatic otlieers through
whom It was transmitted, Mr. Kockliill
says, and he adds:
"Bearing these instructions in mind
the task of the agents of our Olovrrn- '
ment in l'ekin was a comparatively <
easy one. Throughout the negotiations i
our object was to use the influence of
our CJovernnient in the interest of Ju-?tiee
and moderation and in a spirit ,
of equal friendship to the Powers ne- J
gotlating Jointly with us and the Chi- |
ucse Nation."
After an exposition of what was accomplished
by tlu> international envoys j
at Pekln. Mr. Itoekliill gives a brief ,
summary of the attitude of the United ,
States. "While we maintained coin- ,
1.1.,I.? 1
|in i\ imn jTinirm r, lit- JMI.vrs ^ I* i
we able to act harmoniously in tile con- ]
oort of tin* Powers, the existence of
tvliloh was so essential to a prompt .
and satisfactory settlement of the sit- ,
nation. We retained tin* friendship of <
all the negotiating Powers, exerted a .
salutary intiueneo in the cause of mod- |
cration. humanity and justice, securing
adequate reparation for wrongs .
done our citizens, guarantees for their .
future protection. and labored success- (
fully in the interests of too wliole j
world in the cause of equal and ini- |
partial trade with all parts of the Chinese
Empire." I
WANTS 9109,000,000 FO:? CANAL
Senator Morgan Introduces Ilia 1*111 For
the I'rojcct.
Washington, L>. C.?Senator Morgan ,
has introduced a hill providing Si SO,- !
000,000 for the construction of the
Nicaragua Canal, of which $.">,000,000 |
is made immediately available, ami .
of which aggregate sunt such amounts (
as arc necessary arc to bo appropriated |
by Congress from time to time.
The control of the canal and of the ,
canal licit is vested in a hoard of eight (
citizens of tile t ailed States, in addi- .
lion to the Secretary of War. who is
to he President, each member of the ;
hoard to lie paid $SOOO a year and to *
lie chosen regardless of political allination.
,
Then* is a provision authorizing the j
establishment*of a regiment from the
regular army on the canal licit to j
guard it properly, and Courts also arc
authorized conformable to the powers ;
granted liy the (Joveruments of Nlcar- *
agua and Costa Ricn.
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WEALTHY WOMAN SENTENCED. <
Convicted of Itiirnliii; Iter House to l?e- |
Iratid Insurance Companies.
Bingliamton, X. Y. Mrs. Mary John- t
son. who, with 1. II. Radford, of liuffillo.
was indicted for inirnlinr tlio .
Dnvidge summer residence :it Newark
Valley, en the night of July 4,
anil who was convicted of the crime, r
was sentenced hy Judge Mead in Owe- 1
go. to serve tii'teen years in Auburn.
Mrs. Johnson Is a wotunn of con- t
slderable wealth and refinement, who )
has resided in Chicago and Buffalo. :
It is charged that she entered into a 1
conspiracy with several business men \
to systematically defrau i the lire in- <
suranee companies, and placed an In- t
sunnier of $S."iOO on the Dnvidge residence.
which she bought through Had- <
ford, and then burned it. *
Her lawyers have secured a stay of t
k nteiiee pending an effort to secure a s
certificate of reasonable doubt, and a
a new trial.
CANNIBALISM IN PHILIPPINES. ,
Native Sentenced lo Onttti IV ln> Killed
Coiii]>:tni<>n anil At?i liudj.
Washington. D. C.- Cannibalism has '
nppeared in the varied li-t of crimes (
charged against Filipinos by Aim ricau (
miliiary conns. According 10 inr record
of a court-martial convened in the
Department of the Viseuyas. 1*. I.,
which has been received at the War
Department, liaymundo Fonte, a native,
found his working companion.
I.i hern to lU-nliro, sleep in his (Fontc*s)
boat. ;
Fonte became enraged, killed the
slumbering man with a blow of an
oar, cut off bis nose and ears, aid,
according to bis own confession, '
cooked and ate part of the body. He '
was sentenced to be liaugcd in Cupiz, ]
Fanny. ,
SllOti Ti'llllfl Kuli l v Arllce
The hoot ami shoe trade Is still ;
fairly native, but the busy buying sen- ;
son is drawing to a close, as most of
the largo jobbers have already {dared ]
orders for the hulk of their ret]'?ire- i
incuts for another season.
ril pliin* Kriii-w Tto-lr Attnckn.
Tlie Filipino natives are aroused by
the recent closing of ports, and are renewing
attacks 0:1 the American i
troops. V
MrKinlev l??.v In Intlinnn.
Churches in Indiana wi.l observe
ibo third Sunday in January as Mc-i >
Kinlcy Day.
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GREAT 1U1E[ PROIECT
New Jersey and Long Island to be
Connected by a Subway.
BIG UNDERGROUND TERMINAL
n??i roanaylvanU It n tiro ad'* Plan to Kntor
New York City?Will Connect With
I.onc Inlnntl and Hhortfii Time to
Kuro|>o by n Day?A Tunnel I'rom
llitilson Hirtr to Riant Itlver.
New York City.?When the Pennsylranin
Railroad's plans, as officially
announced by President A. J. Cassatt,
ire coin])letcd, trains will run from the
Pennsylvania linos in Jersey City to
Lhe Rons Island Railroad station in
Long Island City, while the North
River, Manhattan Island and the Kast
River will he tunneled. Through this
[treat tuunel electric motors will draw
trains, which may have come from San
Francisco, to Long Island City, on their
way to the eastern end of I>ong Island.
The two railroads will have a joint
treat underground terminal and sta- |
lion in tills city under the blocks
bounded by Thirty-first and Thirty- !
fourth sireets and Seventh and Ninth !
avenues. The Pennsylvania Railroad
is now inlying the land for this stalion.
It will cost $8,000,000 to $10.>00.000.
The surface of the property
will he improved with huildinga that
will help to repay the enormous out
lay.
The tunnel under the North River
will strike Manhattan Island souieivhere
between West Twenty-third and
West Forty lifth streets, presumably
;s near as possible to West Thirty- |
fourth street. The tunnel under the
East Uiver will strike Manliattau Islind
just south of East Thirty-fourth
street, and approach Broadway and
the terminal on the line of Thirty-third
street. The railroad tunnel will pass
under the subway on Fourth avenue.
I'assengers can he easily transferred
iv elevators and stairways to the subways.
A line of steamers starting from the
aslern end of Bong Island will cut
iff a day from a European voyage.
Work on the tunnel will he begun
is soon as the necessary autlioriiy is
;ranted.
These are some of the salient Tenures
of tin- plan of the IViiusyivania
tad of the Bong Island Railroa'1 to extend
their lines to a jojnt teio^nus lu
li? heart of New ?ork Ci< .-ytcy*-There
ate to ^^k?rce
stretching under e?a ? end
two under the w fining
it a central station.
This station is to he located in a
tnace at Seventh and Trnlh avenues,
riilrly-llrst and Thirty-tliird streels.
The station is to he one of the largest
ever eonstructod. men n; lag 1."iJ0
feet in length by ft'JO feet in width.
Beading to it will l>e fifteen miles of
Illinois.
Tito tunnels will have an Inside di
iiiK'irr or cignircu leet six indies,
riu're will lie a single track in eaeli.
There will he a total of twenty-five
racks in use at the central station.
iVhlch Is to lie three ileckeil.
Klectrie motors will lie employed In
muling trains through the tunnels, anil
i.v this lfieans it is claimed that the
uhes will not lie choked with foul air.
II will put Loug Island relatively as
dose to the centre of New York City
is the Bronx is now.
A railroad company, which Includes
mum* its Directors officials of the
Pennsylvania and Bong Island Roiloads,
has been incorporated at Albany,
o rperate a railroad through the prolosed
underground tunnel connecting
few Jersey with Long Island. The
mine of the company is the lVnnsyl anin-New
York Extension llailroad
'oninany, and its capital stock is Sl>00.00!).
It will he necessary to incorporate a
onniany tinder the laws of .Yew Jersey
to buShl the North Rive:- tunnel
o the dividing line between New Jcriey
anil New York City.
A Proposed Trolley Tunnel.
New York City.?Edward I\ C.
i" iriig. President of the Nortii Jersey
"treet Uaiiway Cmunany. has an
icuuecd that there will sum he a tro!e.v
tunnel under the Hudson River,
onnccting the metropolis and .Jersey
,'lty. II said that 1; was the iiib ltioii
a eouipleto the old abandoned North
River tiiuul. It is said that HiPennsylvania
Railroad is back of this
proposed tivdley tunnel.
HIS GIFT IN STEEL BOND j.
'iirn>;lf'it OflVr Camlnc Snmr l"u?'.?arr.i?linrnt
(o the Administration.
Yt'ashingtou, I>. C. It has been
earned that the gift of $10,000,000
vhleh Andrew Carnegie tendered to'
['resident Roosevelt for the fou liling
if a great institution for higher e Illation
was net an offer of $10,000.0JO
111 cash, but the par vein- of that
imount in bonds of the United States
Steel Corporation.
The offer of there bond"! Is cmlwr
iv.sV.uk to the Administration. iwin.v
to the roiuplieatir ns which mis;h; r:he
if the tlovernnirnt accepted them, r. nl
the I'rcsii'a in. it is u~ders ocd. 1:; now
in corro. pondence with Mr. ('arncfjio
3bent tli2 matter.
It i-; understood to b.e the President's
desire that the bond i be convcrtctl
'.i to cash. If this is done, the ot.iy
r>b??i!-io in (lie path of the accept:*tic
f the ,'jift of Mr. Cnrri'Kie will 1 e
removed. Pcndint; the result of tl i:
corvt spondo ice, Mr. Carner.le'.; oL'cr it
LcIjk withheld frcu Cousrevs.
PROUD OF MORGAN.
Bill Arp Says Alabama Senator Is a
Great Mao.
HE IS AN OLD MAN ELOQUENT.
Then Arp Talks About Great Men
Georgia Mas Produced - Paper Read
At Warm Springs.
As I lokod upon the likmc* of General
Morgan that graced the Nicarauga
headlines in The Constitution I could
not help "aying to myself. "There is a
great man. 1 pray that ho may live to
see the canal completed and bo the
honored guest of the boat that makes
the flrst trip across from ocean t..
ocean." It looks like Providence roared
him up to champion that great
work and has preserved him in health
and devotion until at last the b.Il has
passed and all obstacles are removed.
I know that he is happy and f?eis
serenely triumphant. If 1 was an Alabaman.
I would fee! proud of Morgan.
If 1 was a Tennessean. I would feel
proud, for ho was born there and there
spent ten years of his youth. Hut I
am proud of him anyhow, for he is a
Southern man and all his long publiclife
has been unselfish and true to his
people. His good health and well preserved
faculties encourage me to live
on and cn just as long as 1 can. for he
is just two years older than 1 am and
is stil vigorous a\jd useful, l'^ is the
old man elorp nt and like Nathan'el
ataeon never said an idle or fuoi'.sh
thing. Ho is as solid as a rock, .--olfpoiso:l
and self-prepared on nil great
questions. In I .SO 1 he volunteered as a
private and soon rose to major and
then to lieutenant colonel; next lie
raised and equipped a regiment and oceanic
Its colonel. In ISM he was nominated
for brigadier general by Robert
R Uee. but declined it. Hater on he
was constrained to accept the honor
and was with toe General Johnston to
the close. Tn ISTd he was elect d to
the United States Senate and rocl'vt. d
in 1882. in 1888. in 1S94. and again in
IftOO. making his tlftli successive teim.
He well deserves a monument aft<T he
dies and a place in the Hall of Fame,
it Is a comfort to us all to lie assured
that no man ranks him in the United
States Senate, for he is a treasurehouse
of knowledge, an I there is not
a cloud over his candor, his truth or
his integrity. When he speaks he has
something to say and knows how to
say it and when to unit. Tom Ronton
said of Nathaniel Macon. "He rarely
spoke but a few sentences, but utteri d
more good sense In getting up out of
his chair and sitting down again than
was contained In the long and elaborate
speeches of most Senators." General
Morgan's long career reminds ire
of Maeon. for he. too. was a private in
the revolutionary war. He held public
office for fifty seven years and John
Randolph said of him. "He is the wisest.
the purest and best man I ever
knew." ' Twice he declined a place In
the cabinets of two presidents, but af-)
Inr U ~ >, .1 -? ! " ' "" * '
.< i un Him i miii-u iiim was i j. years iir.i
hp accepted thp offirn of justice of the
peace in his home district. Tie never
recommended any of his kindred f ir
appointment to office, lie refused pav
for his service as a soldier and refused
to receive a pension afterwards?and
voted against all pensions or rewards
or gratuities. He died as calmly as
Socrates, but without the poison, and
his grave is on a high, barren ridge
marked with no marble, only a pile of
stones, which was according to his
will. Nathaniel Macon was my father's
ideal of a great and good .nan.
He placed him above all other statesmen,
for he declared that he was as
wise as Solomon and purer than David. ^
When J was in Warren county <romc
years aco I was told that Macon's father
lived In an old-fashioned double
log house. For some years it had mud
and stick chimneys above the flre-iams
and was covered with boards of Ills
own make. In course of time ho tore
away the chimneys and rebuilt them
of stone and brick, and tore, away the
hoards and cov red with shingles.
1/iter on as li" cot able he weatherboarded
the oats de with plank and
ceiled the inside hv beginning at ihn
top of the wall and letting the plank
lap up Instead of down, so that his
wife c cld pour hot water in the cracks
.in ! kill the bedbugs. 1 reckon that
Tom IP-nton. who wrote his biography,
git his antl-pens'cn principles from
Mncnn fop TP-it.on In n rriot ?nf> in
the Senate opposed a prnsion to General
Harrison's widow an?l railed it "a
new dmarturc that would load to thi
bofotnle^s rulf of pensions and pratuitlrs."
We)| it Is a bottomless gulf
both to tlio State an 1 nation.
In this connection I ruminated on
who were our preatest rv n in Gcorga
who most, drservers a niche in 'he
temple of fame. Tly rn-nmon consent.
Oglethorpe seems entitle-! tr? the first
place, but a iloren or more have advocates
for the second plaee. I reckon
however, that Crawford -Lone will ret
It not as a statesman or soldier or inventor
or nhilantroolvt. h"t rather as
a thootrbtfel discoverer like Jonner,
who d' covered ti'e hralinp art of v >rcm'
hi The question is a very pern!e\inq
one. for some a; e preat in 0"C
phase of eharaeter and some in another.
My wife thinks that liishop Pearco
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whs tho grou.*e?t man, because he had
the greatest c: lling and filled it as no
other man lias done, and she quotes :
that verse from Daniel which says, \
"They who have called many to I
rlghteousntS3 shall shine as tho stars
forever and forever." M.v wifo grew
up under his matchless preaching, and
is a pretty good Methodist yet. This
remlndH me of a dollghtfol sketch I
find in the nroceedines r?f Fhn n?t
Georgia Flor Association held al Warm
Springs In July. The subject Is "Thw
Georgia Lawyer" viewed by a woman.
The woman is Mrs. J. Render Terrell,
of Greenville. The papers generally
read at these annual meetings ar dry
and prosy to everybody save the Jawyersr,
but this paper Is charming, entertaining
and instructive from beginning
to end. The first sentence attracted
me. and I Kepi on to tllo last, and
my feeling at Its close was?well, that
woman Is a trump, she is a historian,
a philosopher and a first-rate lawyer,
even though she be a woman. I road tt
aloud to my female family. She closes
with a poetic apostrophe to the Geor.
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P>i4v ia??; ti hiiiv 11 uj.iuij- uu uiliui kUUakV
defendant will appreciate:
"The parson points the way to heaven.
And then with ten lor <-ure
The doctor consummates the work
And sonds the jiutiont there.
"But the Georgia lawyer would tlelap
Departure with such cries:
Hold! Can this man read his title clear
To mansions in the skies?
"In doubt he files a brief and seeks
To hold the ignoramus
And stops his flight to heavenly bliss
By injunction or mandamus."
And so, while loolJiug around for *
the greatest man. wo might well
pause and hear what Mrs. Terrell
says about John Forsyth. She says.
"Forsyth was a champion for the establishment
cf our supreme court,
aiul earnestly advised it in his message
in IMiS." lie said, "It is an awful
reflection that life, liberty anjj
reputation are dependent upon the decision
of a single judge uncontrolled
and uncontrollable in his circuit."
Then she continues, "Forsyth's matchless
oratory and the puiity of n'.s
private cz.:\ political life won for him
a name that will be honored and rc^
vered always. While in the United
States senate lie bad no superior as
an orator, and was called the equal of
Lord Frskine" If 1 had a paper cf my
own 1 would publish every line of
Mrs. Terrell's delightful paper. And
the next Sunday 1 would publish the
paper read by J. 11. Merrill, of
Thomasvllle. on "The Ilihle in the
Lawyer's Library." Why. this paper
ought to he read and studied not only
by the lawyers, but liv every preacher
In the land. It is is fit for a text-hcok
in the colleges, and it is so interspersed
with gems of good wit and
mi hum mm one aocs not get urea.
And there is nn admirable paper on
the same line by II. Warner Hit). ^J
called "Historic l.andmarKs *>f the /
Law," and he, too. has dlllgoutly
perused net onlv the Tlihle. but :be
Apoehrypha. His story as to how
Daniel made his reputation as a lawer
will be new to most readers. I wish
1 had space to make mention of all
the prood things in this little volume.
For. ns there were giants in the nays
that are gone, even so we have great
men and great, women among us now
Hero we have learned sketches i?y
Bueh men as J. C. C. Black, Reuben
Arnold. Roland Ellis, C. A. Turner,
W. L. Scruggs. L. Q. C. Lan.ar,
Svlvanus Morris. Wimhish, Persona,
Charlton. Bryan, and last, hut not
least, a good lot of side-liar ?alk by
the venerable Justice Bleeklev who
closed the exercises by proposing to
endow the association with $100,000.
and was readv to give his note for
that amount. If I live, and can travel,
1 shall attend the next, meeting, and
hope that Mrs. Terrell will tie there
and read another paper?sometimes
the dessert is the better part of tno
feast?Bill Arp. in Atlanta Con3tlti?tlon.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Carrie Nation has suspended hor pallor,
tiic* Smashers' Mail.
fount I.on Tolstoi has recovered from
his recent illness, takes daily walks
ami has resumed his work.
Sautos-Duinont will hereafter make
his home in l.oinlon. lie lias become
a inemher of til.' New Ku^lish Aero
l "lllll.
John T>. Kocekefelhr has offered to
Rive S'it'O.OOO to I'.ryn Mawr College
ii* SJ.-Ji.ooo more is raised from other
sources.
M. I .azure Weiller, agent of the
French tlovemntonl, who will Investigate
trusts in America, says he will
give four months to the work.
Sir William MncCormar, JJart, President
of the I toy a I <!ol! g.< of Surgeons,
died suddenly al Itnih. Knirlniul- wh?w??
ho had been Inking tho course of
waters.
Tho l.onl Mayor of I.ondon. Sir Joscjih
Dimxdalc, was oducatod at lOton,
and is tlie lirst Kton hoy who has
lillod the ollloe of Lord Mayor for a
period of lii't years.
It is said that the house which (!ovornor
llill. o.' Maine, is huihling in the
city of Augusta, and which is to cost
$ lit >0,000, will he the most costly private
res'ilcnee in the I'inc Tree State.
When Senator Aldrieh went to WashIn
pit on twenty years ago he was comparatively
poor; to-day he is reputed
to ho worth ?t!,iMK),000. Most of his
money was made in street railroad
enterprises. ^ .
Senators I'etias :i?d Morgan are the
oldest m:>mhers of the tipper house of
Congress. The former is cighiy and
the latter sc.eniy seven. Senator
liailey. of Texas, wlio is thirty-eight*
Is the youngest. *
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