Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1912 — Page 2

STORIES of CAMP and WAR

PRESENTED HAM TO GEN. LEE

Young Lieutenant Couldn’t Withstand Hungry Look of Superior and Gave Up Hia Meat, The Christmas story entitled, "Where the Heart Is,” by Will Irwin, In the American Magazine contains the following: “It was just before Christmas of *64 that I saw Lee last on the south bank of the Appomattox. I wonder if any of the northern army knew what it was to be as hungry as we all were those days? The captain sent me up with a report to the general’s house — he had an old farm buildingh-fpr bis headquarters. I went on foot, because we were sparing our horses. And right there happened about the greatest piece of luck I ever had in my life, I kicked something in the road. Well, I could scarcely believe my eyes ■when I saw what it was. It was half a boiled ham. How it got there I’ve never known to this day. Some raiders making camp dropped it, I reckon. If I found SIO,OOO in the street tomorrow, it wouldn’t seem so lucky. I wrapped it up under my cape, just unable to think of anything but how good it was going to taste. You see I wasn’t much more than a boy. I enlisted at seventeen in ’62; I was only nineteen then, and just wearing my second lieutenant’s shoulder straps. "Well, I came to the turn of the road, and looked up. And there came the general and his staff.* Some of the boys had been complaining. I’d heard them say that the general was living in a house, eating fried chicken while we were eating bran and going meat hungry. I thought of that, with the ham under my cape. I dropped it down so I could hold it with my left hand when I saluted, and stood there by the road at attention. “I hadn't seen the general for a year. But Lordee —what a year had done to that man! Then his hair was gray-brown —now it was almost white. Then his eyes were clear like a boy’s —now they were old. And his face was pinched and hollow. You couldn’t fool me. I’d seen that look -often enough before. The general was hungry. “Well, I went on up to headquarters with the report. And all the time I held the ham, and all the time I was thinking of the general and the way he looked. And when I got ready to start back, something struck me. I wasn’t much use to the Confederacy. He was everything. I just turned and went out to the kitchen. I found the nigger boiling a little handful of corn meal. I t6ok out that ham and said, ‘Get a knife, nigger, and slice up this meat. It’s for the general. And if I ever find you haven’t fed it to him, you won’t have to wait for the Yanks to get you.’ And I went back and ate a corn cake and a little sliver of bacon for dinner that day.”

Last Flag Out of Alexandria.

At a political meeting at Alexandria after the war, Col. Mosby was making a political speech at the court house. “Why,” said he, “my war record is a part of the state’s history. Gentlemen, I carried the last Confederate flag through this very town.” “That is so,” spoke up Fitz Hugh Lee, who was in the audience. "I was here at the time.” “Thank you for your fortunate reoollectlon,” gratefully exclaimed Mosby. “It is pleasant to know that there still live some men who move aside envy and testify to the courage of their fellow-beings. As I say, gentlemen, my war record is a part of the state’s history, for the gentlemen here will tell you that I carried the last Confederate flag through this town.” “That’s a fact,’’ continued Fitz. "I saw you do it. You carried the Confederate flag through this town, but Kilpatrick and Ellsworth were after you, and you carried it so blamed fast one couldn’t have told whether it was the Confederate flag or a smallpox warning.”

A Witty Lady.

President Lincoln was once busily engaged in his office when a young attendant unceremoniously entered and gave him a card. Without rising, the president glanced at the card. "Pshaw! She here again? I told her last week that I could not interfere in her case. I cannot see her,” he said impatiently. "Get rid of her; tell her I’m asleep; anything you like.’* Returning to the lady, the boy said: “The president says to tell you that he is asleep.” The lady's eyes sparkled as she responded: “Well, will you be kind enough to return and ask him when he Intends to wake up?”

Got Careless.

At the battle of Bull Run General Arthur met a soldier with a bad wound In his* face, running towards Washnigton. "That’s a bad woxfnd you have, my man,” said the general, “where did you get it?” “Got it fn the Bull Run fight.” “But how could you get hit in the face at Bull Run?” ‘•Well, sir,” said the man, half apologetically. “I got careless and looked hack,”

CRUISE WITH LONDON

Companion of Writer Tells of Voyage to South Seas. Keeping Five Thousand Natives at Bay With Winchester an Incident of Two Years of Wandering.

Kansas City.—Martin Johnson, an actor and a son of a Jeweler at Independence, Kan., cruised for two years with Jack London in the South Sea Islands on board the forty-three-foot boat Snark. A special delivery stamp on his letter gained Johnson the place over 3,000 applicants, he said, in discussing the trip. - The Snark, equipped with a seventy-horse-power gasoline engine, left San Francisco on April 23, 1906, with five men and. one woman, Mrs. Jack London, on board. Johnson was the cook. Honolulu was reached twentyseven days later, and the boat sailed from there to Tahiti. But a violent storm drove it 1,200 miles out of its course, and it was reported to the world as lost with all on board. It was overdue five months, and back in the states London’s mother began to settle up his estate. From then until in July 1908, the boat made its way leisurely through the islands. On the Island of Malaita the boat struck a reef and was on the rocks for two days. Five thousand natives were kept from attacking the boat’s crew only through fear of the white man’s Winchesters. The islands stretch from Australia, the Philippineu and Hawaii to a point half way between Australia and South America. At spare times on the trip Johnson was making photographs—--7,000 in all —and moving pictures of wild animals, the people, their customs and their tribal dandes. “There are no morals, almost no religion in the South Sea islands,” he said. “Only here and there has Chris-

TO ELECT GOVERNOR

Richest Indian Tribe to Name Successor to Kopay. Wealthy Osage Nation May Choose Full-Blooded Brave Who Was Appointed by Secretary of the Interior. 4 Oklahoma City, Okla. —While the election of a governor of the Osag# nation, the richest nation on earth, is eighteen months away, the Osage citizens are beginning to discuss the matter of a successor to Governor Harry Kopay,, a full-blood, who holds the office by the good graces of the secretary of the interior. That Kopay expectß to be a candidate seems to be a foregone conclusion, and that he will inject into the campaign much of the white man’s strategy and ginger is probable. Being a graduate of Carlisle, Kopay has the advantage of many other men of the tribe in political ability. Kopay has been on the pay roll of the United States government as an employe in a clerical capacity in the office of the Indian agent at Pawhuska for several years. When the last biennial election was held last June, Kopay was selected as secretary of the council. Bacon Rind, one of the sage men of the Osages, was elected governor. His alleged activities in the interests of the Uncle Sam Oil company caused his removal by the secretary of the Interior, and Kopay was appointed acting governor to fill the unexpired term. Bacon Rind succeeded Alf Brown, a part-blood Osage, who was one of the wisest men that has filled the executive chair in the history of the nation. The Osages are divided, to some extent, fey a line that marks the western boundary of the 700,000 acres of land held under lease by the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil and Gas company. Bacon Rind was accused of hobnobbing with an oil company in their effort to get a lease on the western half of the nation. The most important of these is a law that will permit the Indian to transfer with his title a full title to the mineral value of the land. Under present laws, an Osage, under certain conditions, may Bell his land, but the title tOk the oil and gas resources is held in the government, and the royalties derived from the sale of these prroducts are credited to a fund regularly distributed among the Indians. It Is held by those demanding a new law that the development of the country is being retarded because of this restriction. The lands are held to be worth, on an average, $25 an acre for agricultural purposes. Another demand is for a law that will protect the streams of the Osage nation from the pollution that necessarily arises from the hundreds of oil and gas wells. The waters of many streams are unfit for stock to drink and fish cannot live In them. Sometimes oil covers the surface of an otherwise beautiful stream for a distance of ten to twelve miles, and thousands of cattle and horses are deprived of water from that source. Sometimes the oil on these streams catches fire. These fires cannot be checked, but must.be left to burn themselves out. In actual cash and lands the 2,200 Osages are wciCtfa $60,000,000. Each

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE OF THE BALKANS

Mme. Ellka Perra N. Tamboraski, a rich Servian lady, who gave her palatial home and all her money to the Red Cross, is shown in the photograph on her way to the front at Pogerizvotz, where she organized the hospital corps.

tianity replaced the old belief in tribal gods and the‘veneration of ancestors. In many of the islands there are marriage laws, but mostly marriage consists only in the purchase of a wife, or as many as a man can afford, with cocoanuts. Money is practically unknown —$60 will support a man a lifetime.

“And there are rare plants, mostly

given $5,000 in cash by the United States government when the lands were segregated into allotments. Each was given 670 acres of land, and this is worth approximately $40,000,000, the acreage being about 1,500,000.

WOMAN FLIRTS MAN TO CELL

Mrs. Mary Way Holds Alleged "Peeper” by Her Bmlles Until the Police Arrive. > Chicago.—Holding a loaded revolver behind her back, Mrs. Mary Way,* twenty-three years old, opened a front window in her home on the first floor at 122 West Superior street and “flirted” with an alleged “peeper” until her husband, Harry Way, ran to the Chicago avenue police station and summoned policemen. The prisoner gave his name as Benjamin Cordova. He is twenty-three years old and has been living at 441 Rush street. Municipal Judge Caverly fined Cordova, wlip says he Is a Mexican, SIOO and costs. When Mrs. Way entered her bedroom to retire about 9 o’clock she heard a commotion on the sidewalk and saw the face of a man at the window. She called to her husband. Then she took his revolver and, bolding it behind her back, opened the window. “It’s a swell night,” Bhe said, smilingly. “Oh, fine,” replied Cordova. When the police arrived Mrs. Way still held the man in conversation and he was arrested. ‘T kept the revolver In my hand ready to shoot if he tried to harm me,” Mrs. Way said. “I Just kept talking to the man until my husband could get the police. He never dream-

CRATER LAKE IS MARVEL

American Geographical Society Members Express Admiration of Oregon Scenery. Medford, Ore. —Declaring Crater lake to be the greatest scenic wonder in America that they have yet seen, publicly announcing they will urge the construction of government roads to "the lake and enthusiastic over 1 ' the, public spirit of Medford citizens, which made their three days’ excursion to the lake possible, the seventy members of the American Geographical society who are touring the country in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the organization returned to Me<jford and left promptly on schedule for California. t The two days at the lake were spent in examing the rim of the lake, climbing to the crater of Wizard island and making notes on the topography and geologic features of the natural phenomena. That it is properly a caldera lake — that is, a pot-shaped depression caused by the blowing off or submersion of the original crater, and is not scientifically a crater lake at all, was generally agreed upon and that the lake is probably 25,000 years older than has heretofore been supposed was held bj’ many scientists, though it was planned to/held further investigations by individual members to establish or disprove this contention. Prof. Mark Jefferson of Michigan carried on some extensive investigations, considering the time allowed, and was the chief advocate at ‘ the preglacial theory of existence. Prof. W. M. Davis of Harvard uni-

orchids, where the streams are canopied over with beautiful foliage. And the ugly, leering faces of savages are painted and tattooed with hideous designs, their bodies cut with great scars of tribal wars or tribal dances. Here I am wearing trousers and shoea Why, out there where the sun always shines, clothes are a thing apart from a man.”

ed what I had in mind and we were still talking when the policeman came and seized him. I knew other women had been bothered and I just decided to have the fellow locked up."

PILGRIMAGE OF THE BLIND

New York City Doles Out Cash tc Sightless—Each Unfortunate Receives $49 Every Year. New York. —Five hundred and fortyeight sightless men and women tap ped their way through Misery Lane the other day in their annual pilgrimage to the office of the department oi charities, at the foot of East 26th street, where funds are distributed to the destitute hlind. Each received $49 in cash. In line were old and young, black and white and representatives oi many nations and creeds. There were husbands being led by wives, wives led by husbands, parents in the case of children and others who slowly felt their way alone. The anual distribution of funds has been observed since 1875.

DE MEDICI LETTER IS SOLD

Brlngs $1,350 at Hoe Bale and Refers to Due d’Alencon, One of Catherine’s Sons. New York. —In the sale of the Robert Hoe library an autograph letter of Catherine de Medici brought $1,350. The letter, which apparently refers to the affairs of Due d’Alencon, one of her sons and brother of Henry 111., probably was written about 1680. A Cicero “Tusculanarum,” printed on vellum by Nicholas Jensen In Venice In 1472, went for $2,025. The day’s sale realized $10,719, making so far $59,079 for this part of the sale. Three parts of the library previously sold brought $1,609,135.

versity was Inclined to the same view, but declared more exhaustive research must be made before such a theory cpuld be established.

ENDS 16-YEAR-OLD CIGAR

Man Finishes Bmoke Begun When Bryan Was First Beaten for President. Clifton Heights, Pa. —E. V. McKee the other evening finished smoking a cigar which he lighted in 1869, when Bryan was defeated by McKinley for president. McKee is an ardent admirer of the commoner, and when Bryan was defeated he lighted a cigar which he threw to the floor. Thomas Gaffney picked up the cigar, put it in an envelope and kept it for McKee, telling Mm he could smoke it when a Democratic president was elected.

PUPPY’S BITE CAUSES DEATH

Bride of Three Months Succumbs— Two Dogs Also Die of Hydrophobia. Cleveland, Ohio—Bitten on the arm three weeks ago by a puppy, Mrs. Florence, a bride of three months, died of hydrophobia in a hospital here. The bite was not thought to be of much consequence until the puppy bit' another dog and both canines died with symptons of rabies. Four days ago Mrs. Diets became seriously ill, and delirium and death followed. The puppy that bit Mrs. Dietz was a wedding present from her husband.

MOLTKE ACCEPTED THE FEE

Occasion When Great, Though Taciturn German Soldier, Must Have Felt Like Laughing. Sidney Whitman’s book, “German Memories,” Is full of Interesting stories about Prussian statesmen, soldiers, artiste and writers. Here are tyro: “Moltke paid repeated visits to his nephew’s villa, and it was there that a droll incident occurred under the chestnut trees of the picturesque garden. One day a stranger looking over the garden railing saw an old man, whose well worn stfaw hat seemed to betoken the gardener. ‘They say that Moltke Is on a visit here. Could you tell me, sir, whether it might be possible to catch sight of him?’ The old man replied that if the gentleman would come again In the course of the afternoon he might perhaps see Moltke in the garden. In his joy the stranger tendered a mark to the communicative ‘gardener,’ who promptly pocketed it. The stranger’s consternation may well be imagined when on his return in the afternoon he beheld the identical old ‘gardener’ walking arm in Major von Burt. Moltke waved a greeting, andjwith a smile called out to him: ‘I have still got your mark.’ “Any one who happened to be in Berlin at the beginning of the ’Bos and was in the habit of riding in the tramcar from the Brandenburg gate to Charlottenburg between six and eight o’clock of an evening might often have noticed an elderly gentleman of striking appearance among the passengers. He was of medium height, of slight figure, his face clean shaven and full of wrinkles, set off by a head full of long silvery hair. A pair of dark, illumlnatingly expressive eyes peered through his spectacles. On entering the tram he always looked out for a seat near the lamp at the back of the car, and.invariably succeeded In obtaining it. Thereupon the old gentleman would draw a newspaper from his pocket and soon be engrossed in its contents, notwithstanding the dimness of the light. When the tramcar stopped at Charlottenburg he had generally finished reading. He would get up and hurry to the March Strasse, in which his unpretentious house stood. This was Theodor Mommsen, the renowned historian of ‘Ancient Rome.’ ”

Victimized French Government.

The European spy mania Is likely to reach the reductio ad absurdum if there are many imitators of the ingenuity of a certain Herr Glitch, who has succeeded in victimizing the French government to the tune of several thousand dollars. The resourceful Glitch has a considerable knowledge of military tactics, sufficient to enable him to prepare an assortment of plans for the invasion of the French frontier and to give them the necessary professional! tint. These he sent to the French) government with a hard luck letter about gambling debts and the pressing need for money. By return mail came a letter enclosing $5,000 In bank potes’and a request for as much mtyre on the same kind of information as could be procured. Glitch put the money in his pocket and laughed. Moreover, he told every one why he was laughing, so that they also might laugh. But there were no corresponding sounds of revelry from Paris.

Changes In Faces of Cards. Faces of playing cards as printed today date from the middle of the seventeenth century, at which time the portraits were becoming conventionalized. In France they underwent a number of changes, between the time when Louis XVI. waß beheadedv until the fall of the second empire. Then republican cards were again devised. Their inventors tried in each suit to symbolize one of the great republics of the world —the Roman, American, Swiss and French being those most usually selected. The symbolic figure of each republic became the queen of the suit; its great hero became the king, while the jacks were secondary heroes, and the aces showed historic pictures. It Is from this time that dates the card in which the American republic was the spade suit and George Washington’s portrait appeared in place of the king.

Overcoming Insomnia.

One hears frequent complaints of Insomnia from persons who tell in the next breath that they have slept from four to five hours but who thick that in order to maintain perfect health eight or nine hours of sleep are necessary. As a matter of fact, there are periods in everyone's life when health is so abundant that five hours, and, in exceptional cases, four hours sleep are ample. Persons who Bleep for five hours and no longer are not suffering from insomnia. They are enjoying exceptional bodily health. But the entire five hours must be devoted to a sound sleep, or otherwise the body will not be sufficiently rested.

Many Uses for Bamboo.

Bamboo, one of the most provident gifts of nature to a people, is put to so many uses by the natives of the tropics, especially in the Orient, that it is difficult to see, how they could lire without It. Among the principal uses to which It Is put may be set down: Building houses, furniture of all kinds, casings of artesian wells, water buckets, rafts, pipes, window shades and blinds, mats, umbrella ribs, hats, rain coats, outriggers on native prows, cover for Junks, palanquin poles, blow-pipes, picture frames, decorative purposes, including paintings, paper and paper pulp, baskets, small bridges, walking sticks, and flute*.

TORIES HARSHLY USED

WRITER GONDEMNB ACTION DURING REVOLUTIONARY WAR. In Life 1 of John Hancock Lorenzo Bear* Points Out That Decree of Banishment Was a More Bitter Story Than Evangeline. If the Tories had seen the crown triumph, their treatment of the rebels, as they called the Whigs, might have been no better than they themselves received. The human nature of a single race is not changed by party names or the fortune of war. Therefore, it is an interesting speculation to .conjecture what a victorious Tory would have done with defeated patriots.-- It is safe to say that Samuel Adams and John Hancock would havo been sent to England for trial, if not for execution as traitors; but toward the people at large there was a growing spirit of conciliation as the war went on, for reasons which cannot ba detailed here. It is unfortunate that it cannot ba Bald with equal truth that as the patriot cause looked more hopeful, and even w'hen independence was assured, the hostility toward resident or ban?_ ished loyalists was diminished. During the war every species of intimidation had been used to bring them into the patriot ranks; indignities not usually practiced in dignified warfare had been thrust upon them. Eighty-fiva thousand had been driven into Canadian exile alone, besides other thousands who had fled to other British possessions, leaving houses and lands, business and friends. Confiscation followed exile, with poverty and distreaa in Btrange and inhospitable regions. The Acadian story which excitea American -sympathy has at least th* mitigating feature of removal south' ward to gentler climes; while the Colonial dispersion was chiefly into northern latitudes, which our Saxon ancestors used to designate as the domain of a chilly goddess with a name whfch, by a singular inversion of meaning, and the addition of one letter, now belongs to a place of fiery torment , So the exiles themselves used to place in the same category "Hell, Hull and Halifax.” Yet the best terms that Great Britain could secure for its loyal colonists when terms»of peace were agreed upon were, that/congress should “reoommend leniency to the several states" in their treatment of Tories. For its own part the home government employed as many as it could, and for the temporary support of the unemployed it expended more than $200,000 annually before the end of the war. Afterward additional burdens were ungrudgingly assumed for the expatriated; five hundred acres of land to each family, building mat% rials, tools and even food. In this way nearly nine million dollars were spent in Canada before 1787. - In’addition, some nineteen million dollars were paid for losses of property by the well-to-do on their claims for forty millions. Among these were governors, judges, councillors, commissioners, college presidents and clergymen. After all that was done for them they were dissatisfied and unhappy. In Canada they were wretched; in England they were disregarded and thrown back upon the companionship of the lower classes. There was little left for them but to drag out a lonely existence to the end of their days.—From “John Hancock,” by Lorenzo Sears.

Lands of Fire. It is rather singular that both of the "landß of fire” are near the ©old extremities of the globe—lceland, far to the northward, and Tierra del Fuego, remotely south. Iceland, to the eye, seems at first glance to be better named by the cold appellation. Its glacial fields are not only numerous, but in some-cases these and the connected snow stretches are hundreds of square miles In extent. But only a little travel into the Interior, say to the site of the ancient Icelandic Parliament at Thingvalllr, discloses miles upon miles of such decolation as is possible only in a "land of flreu,” It is a very Island of volcanoes, and, while they have been exceedingly well behaved for a hundred years or so, the great hot springs In the neighborhood of Reykjavik, the capital, indicate that t£e subterranean heat, if passive, Is still very much alive. Huge glaciers also mark the “cold land of fire” at the other end of the earth. Thus each of the two parts of the universe is properly named, whether the name be worm ol cold.

Compliments.

John Drew,, the eminent actor, at the age of 69 looks no more than 35. Complimented on this fact, Mr. Drew said: " "I try to keep my hair on and my stomach off—that is the true secret of perennial youth.” Then he told one of his famous sto rles Illustrative of his horror of oor pulence. "A fat man,” he said, "could not help laughing one day at the ludicrous appearance of a very bow-legged chap —one of those arch-looking chaps, you know. “Though a total stranger, to him, the fat man slapped the bow-legged chap on the back and said:. “*By Jingo, brother, yoqjook as li .you’d been riding a barrel.’ “The bow-legged man smiled and poked his forefinger deep into the fat man’s soft, loose stomach. “’And you look as If you’d bees swallowing one,’ he said.”