Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 29, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 October 1908 — Page 7

David and Goliath By ;;i:;l—e:editli

(Copyright, by Shortstory Pub. Co.)

There is plenty of material for romance, both in the inmates of this grim jail, and in the wild canyon, with its towering mountains rising high over the flag-staff that surmounts one of the turrets. The warden, John Hoyt, looks like the ideal sheriff. His massive frame is in harmony with gray walls and mountains, and the men who have come 0 know him well have a great depth of regard, as well as respect, for John Hoyt. The visitor te this state prison would hardly have chosen Convict No. 411 as a hero. Except his great stature and splendid shoulders, which would have made him an ideal model for an ebon statue of Hercules, there was nothing about him to attract a second glance. Goliath was about 60 years old when he went to “the pen.” He was one of the few slaves who regarded the emancipation proclamation with feelings akin to disgust. The war had proved the Tuin of his “family,” the Culpeppers of Georgia, and had thrown Goliath on the world with but few ideas of his own, and no ways and means committee to suggest others. :

His jail experience had taught Goliath that the ability to sing a song, tell a story and mix a drink, to say nothing of his culinary skill, made him a favored and not unwelcome character with jailers and wardens. Hoyt was_no exception. , ~ The advent of a new prisoner is not a matter of much interest in a penitentiary, but when No. 623 was “sent up,” Warden Hoyt was moved to. pity. The boy was handsome and gentlemanly, but appeared stunned and halfinsensible as he stood looking out of the window of the long, bare room where prisoners are first received. “YWhat in time are you bringing the kid here for?” he said in a voice which he vainly attempted to render sotto voce. “You'd ought to take him on to the reformatory.” : The deputy who had acted as escort answered, curtly: “Oh, he ain’t such a lamb as he looks. It's a-man-slaughter case;\an' but for his hagin’ plenty of money to git a good lawyer, an’ bein’ such a young one to look at, he’d got 20 years, ‘stead of five.” _ “But he’s sick; he ought to be in the hospital right now,” objected the warden, who has a pride in keeping up the health record of his instiiution. “What was it all about, anyhow?” “He’s a tenderfoot,” said the deputy, “an’ he undertook to buck the tiger. The game was stacked on him, and when he found it out he didn't have the semse to quit, an’ they got to shootin’—he was hit pretty bad himself—an’ you- know the rest. Soapy Smith got killed, an’ the kid’s here.” “They ought to have given him a public banquet and a medal,” growled the warden. -

“For killin’ Soapy, you mean?” said the deputy. “Well, they couldn’t quite do that, but it’'s a light sentence, and it'll probably be commuted, if he behaves, an’ I ’low he will. If he had any pull he’d ought to git a pardon in about three year. I don’t think iQ’ll go fer to make you no trouble.” . Guliath and No. 623 soon became fast friends. At first No. 623 was a good deal of care to the warden. He was sick in mind and body, and the doctor’s prescriptions were of no avail. He kept entirely away from the other convicts, and on account of his weakness Hoyt gave him odd jobs that kept him more or less under his own eyve or that of Goliath, whose love for him was something beautiful to behold. The second year of No. 623’s imprisvnment was wearing to a- close, and Goliath's term was within four months of its conclusion when the Maine with her gallant crew went to the bottom. There was the wildest excitement in the prison, and war was declared there long before the president’s call for troops. Convicts who expected to get out very soon spoke eagerly of their chances to get to the front. No. 623, with only three years to serve, grew troublesome. : “Now, honey chile,” argued Goliath, “you-all doan’ wanter git into no wah. I'se been thu' ome, an’ I tole you, pintedly, dere ain’t no sassfaction in wah.” %

But No. 623 refused to be comforted. “Think of it!” he said, walking up and down the long kitchen. “Just think of it! The Townsends have been in all the wars there've been in this country, since before the French and Indian war. My father was with Jee, and my grandfather was at Lundy’s Lane, and my great-grandfa-ther was one of Marion’s men, and when it comes my time I'm just a common jailbird. I reckon it’s enough to drive a man to desperation!” He dropped down on a chair, and buried his face on his arms on the kitchen table where Goliath was peeling potatoes. Goliath’s dark face was sorely troubled. = Half an hour passed with no sound esave the splash of the potatoes as they fell into the pan of water at Goliath’s right hand. Finally Goliath said, slowly: “Marse Davy?’ “Yes, uncle,” came in a muffled ‘“Honey, what’s a substitoot?” The boy-lifted his face with a dlm expression of surprise: . - “Why, a substitute’s a man that takes the place of another man. But you couldn’t g 0 as a substitute for me, Uncle Goliath. They won't take anybody over 40. And I want to go ‘mysell.” “] wa'nm't thinkin’ of goin’, Marse Davy,” said Goliath. “I was thinkin’ of stayin’. My time's up de las’ ob June, an’ I could stay, an’ do you' time ﬂ‘ﬁ”ﬂ as not, ef dey'd let yo’ go B e sabe mo dan my bo'd an’ wages on de L = ,§;~» b iamaT e s

I reckon I'se a heap sight better oft hyaf." we .o The boy’s face lit up for a moment, then he said, dejectedly: “Oh, Uncle Goliath, I couldn’t let you do that for me, noways.” - : S But Goliath was stubborn. He didn’t often have an idea, and he realized the gravity of the occasion. “Now, looky hyar, chile,” he said, solemnly, “doan’ yo’ go fo’ to cross me, cage I'se powful bad niggah when I'se crossed. You-all jes’ ask Marse Hoyt fo’ de ink an’ papah an’ write de guvernah. Yo’ tell him all dat stuff 'bout you' daddy, and you’ grandaddy, an’ you’ gret-grandaddy. Yo’ tell him how vo’ is a Townsend fum Vuhginny, an’ ’bout you’ ma bein’ f'um Cuby, an’ den tell him how yo’ sholy is going to wah, an’ gwine come back and finish out you time, ef dar is any. An’ tell him while yo’ is on de parole you’ uncle gwine to stay right hyar, whah hie can lay he finger on him any time. Yo’ tell him I is gwine tu stay fo’ you’ substitoot.” :

Very doubtfully No. 623 wrote his letter to the governor, inclosing a letter from the warden telling something of his conduct, and a good deal of the faithfulness and ability of Goliath. It was the 3d of July when the governor's special car was pulled up on the siding near the prison, and his excellency entered the gray stone gateway. ‘“‘How’s everything, Hoyt?” he said. ‘“All right? .That's good. If all the institutions told the same story it wouldn’t be so much like work to be governor. And now I can’t stay Icng, but what's this remarkable talk about No. 623? A-d who is Goliath?” Hoyt told the story briefly, and then cent for No. 623. Ih - spite of his cropped hair and striped clothes the convict- looked every inch a man when he came into the room. The governor noticed that he bowed with the natural grace of the born and bred gentleman. He looked at him sharply through his glasses, and said, abruptly: “The name under which you were tried is not your true name. I don’t blame you for concealing it then, but you must tell me now, if I am to help you. What is your right name?” “David Fairfax Townsend,” answered the convict. “The warden knew from my letters. He’s got my watch and things and can show who—my folks are. He told me he wouldn't say anything to any one. I'm the first one to bring disgrace on my family, governor, and I'd rather die than have them know. I can’t ask you to pardon me—there isn’t any excuse for a man to be a fool—but if you could give me a parole till the war is over you wouldn’t have any cause to regret it, sir, and I ’give you the honor of a southern gentleman,” he glanced déwn at his clothes and shuddered, then threw back his head proudly, “of a southern gentleman, to return and complete my sentemce.” e “But how - about this—ah—this friend of yours, who wants to act as your substitute and make a kind of vicarious atonement for you?”’ queried the governor. A 7 The young fellow’s face softened. “The warden is fond of him, and 1 reckon to make it up to him when I come back.” A “But if you didn’t come back?” said the governor. ‘ : : “If I am Kkilled my folks in Virginia will take care of him for my sake. I don’t ask pardon,” he said, desperately. “I can’t expect the law to forget what I must always remember, but if you could give a parole I'd feel like a man again. It isn’t justice but mercy that I ask!” B :

There was a sound of shuffling feet in the hallway and a clinking of glasses. The door was pushed open and Goliath entered. “So you are Goliath?” the governor said. : ; “Yes, marse,”” answered Goliath, proudly. “I is Goliath Culpeppah, ob de Culpeppah fambly db Georgia.” “And you want to be a substitute for this—young man?” - “Yes, marse; de Townsends lis secont cousions of de Culpeppahs. Ob co’'se I gwine do anyting to ’blige a Townsend. " An’ ’deed, Marse Guvernah, I doan’ mine stayin’ hyar nary mite. His folks doan’ know whah’ he am now, but ef he doan’ go home fo’ to ’list fo’ de wah, dey gwine fine out, an’ it brek his mammy’s heart—an’ deyall is kin to we-all!” The governor swung round and filled out a blank, which he gave to No. 623, and then turned to Goliath. “How would you like to cook for me, Goliath?” he said. “I don’t eat near so much as ‘Marse Hoyt,” but I put on lots more style.” ; “I'll come," Marse Guvernah, jes' soon as I git quit wid Marse David’s time. I’'se done wisht dat Marse Hoyt go fer to put on mo’ style, for I fo'gits how to make salad an’ cook a tarrapin. I'se proud fo’-to be axed, an’ I comes jes’ as soon as I gits froo hyar.” “Weh, come right now, then,” said the governor, brusquely, conscious of the tense figure and white face back of him. . ; “Governor,” gasped the boy, “It's a pardon!” 3 ‘ : “Yes,” said the governor, even more sharpiy, for there seemed to be something wrong with his eye-glasses. “It's the custom to pardon somebody in this state on the Fourth. ' You'll have to wait until the one o’clock train to2ight.” : : Goliath’s mighty cheést was heaving and tbe tears running down his face. “Marse Guvernah, Marse Guvernah, I gwine to cook fo' yo’ fo’ uver an’ uver,” he said, then he.threw his arms about David’s neck and gave him a good hug. They passed mﬁﬁo hall together. Hoyt looked at the scenery througk the open door as if he hadn't been looking at it for 15 or 20 years, and

Blessed Prudence. How completely blessed is prudence in a good disposition.—Diphilus.

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The Klamath basin in California and Oregon, even to citizens of those states, until recently was terra incognito. Historically connected with the Modoc warfare and massacre, this strangely interesting region of “burnt out fires” has remained almost an undiscovered country until a few years ago. ; Remote from railroads and centers of population, surrounded '‘by mountains clad in primeval forests of pine and fir, the beautiful valleys of this broad basin remained almost untouched by plow. The stockman, whose flocks and herds fattened on the rich grasses which covered the slopes and grew rankialong the shores of the numerous lakes and marshes, was an indifferent farmer and did but little to develop the natural resources of the country. : True, here and theére were hamlets, straggling and scatteréd communities, and faintly traced in blue in a broad landscape of dusty sagebrush were a few tiny lines of irrigation ditches that encircled small stretches of vivid green—the alfalfa fields—little islands of emerald resting in a sea of brown that threatened to submerge them. Such was my Impression when I first looked over the Klamath plateau, the work of man seemed to have been so ineffective in the subjugation of nature. .

The federal engineers, backed by a generous government, came to this virgin field a few years ago, attracted by the almost limitless possibilities which this region possesses and which were so apparent. Their report was so favorable that plans for a most unusual and unique irrigation work were approved May 17, 1905, and work begun in the spring of 1906. From the inception of actual work of construction the Klamath basin began to be talked about. Settlers commenced to flock in and the upbuilding of the commonwealth has progressed with a rapidity almost unbelievable except to those who have actually witnessed it. The millions which the government has been expending in stupendous canals and tunnels have brought in an army of laborers and thousands of horses, the feeding of which has furnished a market for all the.products of the farms such as was never before known. The hamlets have become towns, the towns are growing into cities which are assuming metropolitan airs. Electric roads are projected and building, a steam railway is about to enter the basin, power plants are being erected, sugar beet factories are suggested, and sugar beet factories are suggested, and everywhere there is an atmosphere of hustle and bustle that betokens an awakening to the potential greatness of a region which has long been dormant. Best of all, the sage brush is disappearing and the settler’s modest home marks the beginning of a new square of green and the receding of the sea of brown. ‘The Klamath project stands unique among the 26 irrigation works of the reclamation service. It involves features of irrigation, drainage and 'storage in unusual combination. Desert and swamp lie close together, one worthless because of lack of moisture, the other of egual uselessness because of an excess of water. In the basin are about 400,000 acres of land, of which 187,000 acres are included in this system. Some of the topographic features are singularly interesting and are easily understood from a study of the map. Elevated 50 feet above the main valley is Upper Klamath lake, the outlet of which is Link river, which flows through Lake Ewauna at Klamath falls' into Klamath river. Upper Klamath lake. is the principal source of Jsupply to the lower part of the project. By means of a deep cut and tunnel the waters of this lake are drawn into a large canal and carried southward into the valley. Lost river, which rises in Clear lake, winds its tortuous way for 60 miles, finally emptying into Tule lake, of which it is the only source of supply. Tule lake is only six miles from the source of Lost river. It is proposed to create a reservoir in Clear lake by means of a dam. and to utilize the stored water as well as the entire flow

CRAWFORD AND HIS CRITICS

At Least One Man Had Read All of Novelist’s Works. The popular American novelist, F. Marion Crawford, has a beautiful villa in Sorrento. The villa, on the edge of g;ch brown cliffs that fall sheer, like a wall, into the blue waters of the Mediterranean, offers a superb view of the shining sea, of Capri, of Naples and Vesuvius. v Mr. Crawford has written an incredible number of novels. Indeed, it is said of him that he can, without any difficulty, write a long and quite readable novel in ten days. Hence it is not strange that with his wealth and fame he should be the lion of Sorrento. £ | In a Sorrento hotel sat a group of tourists. rt"l‘he.»mtlves here,” said a tourist from Duluth, “talk of nothing but Marianna Crawfoot—Marianna = Crawfoot. I have found out at last what they mean. They mean, bylm great American novelist, F, Marion Crawford.” L

of Lost river to irrigate several very fertile and attractive valleys in its course. Tule lake, robbed of its supply, will dry up. The lake will be irrigated from the main eanals = supplied from Upper Klamath lake. Lower Klamath lake will- be partially drained by canals and by means of pumps electrically driven by power developed in Klamath river. Its ex posed bed will also be irrigated from the main_ system : Owing to the remocteness of the basin from transportation and the scarcity of laborers, t‘he work of construction has been attended with difficulty and delay. Notwithstanding this, however, 70 miles of main canal and ditches, embracing 20,000 acres, were excavated and water was actually supplied to nearly 10,000 acres in 1907. The attractions -of the Klamath country are numerous. Its climate is moderately warm in summer and not excessively cool in winter. ' The annual precipitation is between 15 and 20 inches, but little of which occurs® in . summer. The air is dry, bracing and exceptionally healthful. The sun shines 300 days in every year and is rarely obscured for an entire day, even in stormy weather. No destructive storms have ever occurred.

The soil of the uplands is mainly a rich, sandy loam, similar in character and fertility to that of the famous Yakima valley in Washington. The marsh lands are composed of soil of great depth and fertility. The land will produce alfalfa, grain, the common root and tuber crops; soil and climate are favorable for a large variety of field and vegetable crops and in favored localities for hardy fruits. Exceptional opportunities abound for the development of the dairy industry. The demand far exceeds the supply. California annually imports 3,000,000 pounds of butter, while Oregon and Washington also require supplies from other states. : The peat lands when drained will probably be devoted to the production of asparagus, celery and allied crops. Other industries awaiting development are lumber, milling, canning and meat packing. The *Klamath country offers opportunity not only to the practical farmer and stock grower, but invites the mechanic and the laborer. Thousands of men in the cities, tired of the uncertainties of their present pousition, who have saved a few hundred dollars, would find a-“happy change in the Klamath country. - This is the day of the small farm, and no occupation in life offers more substantial reward and solid satisfaction for the labor and capital invested than the operation of a small irrigated tract in such a region as this. It opens a future of independence and comfort and freedom from drudgery that cannot be found in city life. With small farms all about there is no loneliness, no isolation. The advantages of schools, society, churches and many of the luxuries of city life are enjoyed in these irrigated districts. . The irrigator is the king among farmers, as he is more independent of local conditions than other farmers. With sunshine every day of the growing season and controlling das he does the water supply he can regulate crop production to the highest degree of perfection. Of course capital is required, the amount depending upon the individual and kind of farming he desires to practice. The man who. wants a home of his own, where he can rear his family in comfort and independence, will find no more inviting place than the Klamath basin,

. Manchuria. : The distance overland from Pekin to Mukden is about 1,100 miles. The traveled route passes through Kalgan and Dolon Nor and thence generally eastward through southeastern Mongolia to the center of southern Manchuria. The country is rolling to about 100 miles north of Jehol, but from that point on it is perfectly level, and for the most part it is good grass land, occupied by Mongolians and their flocks. There are no high mountains, no wide rivers, no growing forests and no indications of mineral wealth, but the country offers fine agricultural and stock raising possibilities.

“Crawford is a wonderful writer,” said a tourist from Boise City. “He thinks nothing of turning out a novel in three days.” i “I doubt that,” a tourist from Baltimore said. “Yet it is true that Crawford has written a great many books, over 100, I think the figures stand. And he is still young, remember. He may yet break all records.” “I don’t believe any living man ever read all Crawford’s books,” said a tourist from New York. A tall, broad shouldered gentleman, who had been listening on the outskirts of the group, with something like a sneer, lifting his sweeping mustache, spoke up impatiently at this juncture. ' { “I have read them all,” he said. The tourists looked in surprise at the stranger. : : “You have, eh?” said a Chicagoan. “And who, may I ask, are you?" “LI am Crawford,” was the reply.~~ Baltimore Sun. - =

GOD’S PROMISE ~ TO DAVID

LESSON TEXT.—I Chronicles ;’7:’l-14. Memory verses 13, 14. . GOLDEN TEXT.—‘“There hath not failed one word of all his good promises.” ~1 Kings 8:56. & : TlME.—About the middle of David's reign. Not long after the ark was brought to Jerusalem. PLACE.—Jerusalem. PROPHETS.—Nathan, now first .mentioned; and Gad who had been with David in his exile. The second period of David's reign. Comment and Suggestive Thought. David, in his magnificent palace of cedar, looked out upon-the place of worship for the nation and saw only a tent, which must soon decay, as the Mosaic tent had decayed. It did not seem right and fitting that any private house, even a king's should be more beautiful and costly than God’s house. It did not honor God nor religion. The prophet Haggai (1:4), five centurieg‘ later, uttered the Lord’s rebuke to his people, “Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?” v The king, with a noble longing for the good of his people and the honor of God, desired to build a temple that would worthily express the nation’s feelings toward their ‘God and strengthen their religious moral life. Accordingly he consulted with Nathan the prouphet. : V. 2. “Nathan said . . . Do all that is in thine heart; for Gog is with thee.” David’s desire was right. * V. 3. “The same night, : . . the word of God came to Nathan.” In a vision (2 Sam. 7:17.) : The prophet was right in the assurance that the object of David’s desire was pleasing to God, but there was need of light upon the best way of accomplishing it. God had a better answer to David’s prayer than David imagined. '

V. 4. “Thou shalt not.” Emphasize the pronoun—“THOU shalt not build me a house to dwell in.” It shall be built, but not by David’s hands. " There is a deep lesson for us in God’s treatment of David's plan. We are tempted to do a right thing in a wrong way, or a second best way. God approved of Jacob’s possessing the birthright, but not of his method of obtaining it. The early Christians were right in their expectation of the fact of the early coming again of Christ, but not necessarily of the exact method of his coming. God approves of our desire for the conversion of men, for the unity of the church, for the reformation of the land from certain evils, but that does not necessarily carry with it his approval of every method and saying of revivalists and reformers. ; : * Instead of David’s building a house for God, God will build a house for David. “I tell thee . . . the Lord will build thee an house.” The emphasis is on thee. His descendants shall be on the throne for evermore. - V. 14. “I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever.” The real kingdom of God consists of his people, gradually increasing in numbers, in character, in power for zood, till the kingdom shall include the wide, wide world, the spiritual temple in which God dwells, and is worshiped by all creation for evermore. Through the whole history of Judah there was but one dynasty, while in the Northern Kingdom there were seven different dyunasties in their 19 kings. : “After the destruction of the temple and the extinction of David’s dynasty in Jerusalem, the writer in Chronicles and the post-exilian Prophets regard the promise as still in force, and still in process of fulfilllment to the seed of David, with no limit to its eternal operation.” This was the period ot transition from the formal to the spiritual, but none the less real, kingdom and inheritance of David. The complete fulfillment was in Jesus Christ, “great David’s greater Son.” In the works of Keil, “The posterity of David could only last forever by running out in a person who lives forever; that is, by culminating in the Messiah, who lives forever, and of whose kingdom there is no end.” ‘“The prediction of Balaam, of a scepter and star arising out of Jacob, is now to be unfolded in the scepter of David’s line” The New Testament repeatedly speaks of Jesus as the son of David, and inheritor of the promises (Luke 1:31-33; 20:41-44; Acts 2:29-31; 13:22, 23.) - Soon after Christ’s death, authority and almost existence as a separate nation was taken away from the Jews, at the destruction of Jerusalem. But before this time Christ set up his king. dom, which was David’s. kingdom, in another form, for David’s kingdom was in his time the visible kingdom of God in the world. And thus David’s kingdom, through his descendant and heir, still continues, and will abide forever, bringing all nations and peoples under its sway, and more than realizing all the visions of glory which filled the Jewish heart. . Practical Points. : God will answer our sincere prayers, but often in a better way than we had planned for ourselves. ‘ Note the glorious blessings God promised to bestow in place of the small one he refused, a spiritual temple for one of stone; an eternal temple instead of a decaying one; a house built by God instead of one for himMost of these blessings it was.impossible for David to receive in their fullness during his lifetime. And the very blessings he had asked for were granted in a better way, at a better time. " ! e S

New Explosive Agency. - A new discovery in the ignition of explosives is creating great interest in Germany, where its use is increasing. It has been found that an alloy of iron and cerium, or any other of the rare eafths (such ay are used in the manufacture of gas: mantles) will create luminous sparks on being struck by some metal tool, such as a knife-edge or a file, the sparks being sufficient to ignite not only gas, but even a wick saturated with alcohol, naphtha, ete. It is claimed that these iron alloys are efficient in igniting all sorts of explosives, the utility varying according to the percentage of iro -

* YOUNG M'KINLEY’S HEROISM. Tablet Unveiled Showing Him Serving Cofiee During Battle. Washington.—Williamn ' McKinley as a commissary sergeant in the union army, serving hot coffee to men on the firing line during the proggess of the battle of Antietam, has been perpetuated in bronze in a tablet which was unveiled at Wilmington, Del,, a few days ago on the anniversary of the death of the president. # Erected under the auspices of the McKinley ‘Memorial association, of which George Gray of Delaware is

(i e/ N M »5( ST et A T EeVen B Bronze Tablet to McKinley, Erected at Wilmington, Del. president, the tablet’s unveiling was made the occasion for the gathering of a great concourse of men who helped to win the war of the rebellion. As told by Gen. J. L. Bostford of Youngstoyvn, 0., who was at the time quartermaster of the Twenty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, of which MecKinley was a member, the, story of heroism thrills with interest.

“McKinley was commissary sergeant | of the regiment at the time of the battle of Antfetam,” Gen. Botsford says, “and his duty should have kept | him with the supplies, which were about two miles from the firing line. | During the hottest course of the bate tle, however, the young man, who was only 20 years old, conceived the idea of making coffee for the boys at the front. Pressing into service some of the stragglers, he filled a wagon with hot coffee and hardtack and personally conducted it into the midst of the fighting men. | “Tremendous cheering heralded his arrival, and our division commander, Gen. Scammon, sent me to learn the cause, which I very soon found to be McKinley and his hot coffee. Tue rousing welcome he. received from both officers and fhen can be readily imagined when the fact is considered of his leaving his post of security and driving into the middle of a frightful battle with a team of mules. It showed, even then, the character and determination which were a part of the man whose later life proved hisstability. . “He was ordered back time and again, but he pushed on, and, as he gave a can of coffee and a hardtack to a soldier who had been shot the man murmured: ‘God bless the lad.’ Those words, McKinley afterward told me, alone repaid him for the trouble and danger to which he had exposed himself in ministering to the needs of his comrades. . “The result of this sort of thoughtfulness on the part of McKinley had a .tremendous effect on the limes, and when, later, the final order came to charge the men fell to with renewed vigor and energy.”

- NEW COMMANDER OF G. A. R. New Jersey Man ‘Honored by Veter ans at Toledo. Toledo, O.—Col. Henry M. Nevius of Red Bank, N. J., was elected com-

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Things Going His Way. Bill—Was the umpire struck by a pitched ball? : Jill—No, but I guess he was struck with everything else!—Yonkers Statesman. : : ﬁ : Not Altogether Painless. . Patience—Are that dentist's methods painless? : Patrice—Not all of them. He has a phonograph in his office!-—Yonkers Btatesman. : No one is useless in the world who lltmen& the burden of it for anyone "”""‘ ckens, B

MISS ESTHER HASSON HIGHEST PAID WOMAN IN NAVY.: Is Superintendent of Division Created by Last Congress—Has Had Wide Experience in Caring for Sick and Wounded. - Washington.—No appointment of recent years has excited more favorable comment than that of Miss Esther V. Hasson of Washington as head of the new Woman’s Nurse corps of. the navy. This corps, which’was authorized by the last congress, is similar to that which did such effective-work during the Spanish-American war in hospitals and on the Relief, and its permanent establishment in the navy is a source of great - gratification’ to the medical officers of that service, who realize that there are many times in peace and war when the hand of a woman, especially a trained woman nurse, is indispensable to the sick and wounced. ‘

Although Miss Hasson was notified of her appointment only a few days ago, she is already installed in a newly created division of the bureau of medicine and surgery at the navy department, and at -the Naval Medical school, and has begun preparations for a series of examinations ‘of candidates for eligibility to the-corps. At these examinations 20 young women will be selected to take a preliminary course at the Naval Medical Hospital school. After taking the course there for six months, they will again be examined, and those who pass will be sent to

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one of the 18 naval medical hospitals on the coasts of the United States. From time to time thereafter other examinations will be held, and within a few years the eorps will number about 150 hi¥hly trained women ' nurses, who will be under the command of the surgeon general and prepared for any sort of .duty. Several of these women will be sent to the United States naval hospitals in Yokohama, the Philippines and Henolulu, while others will be stationed in the United States. : Miss Hasson’s selection to head the new corps is wholly due to her record of exceptional merit and almost.a lifetime spent in the care of the sick.’ Her record during the Spanish-Ameri-can war and since that time is equaled by few other women in the annals of the war department. . : Although a Baltimorean by birth, Miss Hasson has since her early childhood been only a short time in any one city, as her family for generations has been connected with the army and was constantly traveling. In 1895 she was graduated from the Connecticut Training School for Nurses, and- until the outbreak of the war she was stationed at several hospitals in New York. For more than three years she served in the war, first in the camps in this country and late? on the hospital ship Relief, in Cuba and Porto Rico. After the close of the war she was sent to'the Philippines, where she remained for two years at the First Reserve hospital in Manila, and at a hospital in Luzon. 'S‘i_nce'“that time she has been engaged in private nursing. Her army training has made her enthusiastic over the prospect of building up a nurse corps for the navy. She is a great believer in the efficiency of women as nurses, even on the field of battle, and, although she is axtremely reticent coneerning. her recbrd, officers who served near her in the war tell that many American soldiers owe ‘their lives to her care and persever-’ ance. At present she is the highest paid woman in the navy department, her salary being $l,BOO a year. Before her appointment she- was compélled to take a rigorous examination at the hands of a board of surgeons, and her high marks demonstrate that she is fully capable of bringing the nurse corps to the highest state of . efficiency. ' ; . , = An unusuai feature of Miss Hasson’s genealogy is the fact that relatives of hers have served in practically every war which has been undertaken by the.United States. A great-grandfather on her. mother’s side was one of those who fought under Braddock in the French and Indian war; o'i‘;er» greatgrandfather on her father’s side took up arms during the revolution, her grandfather was a volunteer in 1812, her father served as surgeon in the civil war, while she herself was engaged in the war with Spain and in the Philippine insurrection. - =7 _ Portraits and Sentiments,” In this game the players sit in a yow. Each whispers to his righthand nkighbor the name of some person and to his left-hand neighbor some sentiment, original or quoted, supposed to be written under the portrait of that person. Each then announces aloud whose poriralt has been presented tohiim and what {s Inscribed nder It. 2 "WW& o S ;&w@%ﬂ &:‘fiv ~ e PRy A s A "« hpea . T

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