Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1899 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The most famous Jefferson banquet occurred in Washington April 13, 1830. At this banquet Gen. Jackson—“ Old Hickory”—then President of the United States, was the « guest of honor. His toast created an enormous sensation at th® an d hks never been forgotten - It was: “Our Federal Dion '> It filff fllP ml'" Must Be PreservJf Ji ed ‘” South < -' aro * IP i*lf / lina was in th* “ v ' throes of nullificaandbew jackson. tion. The doctrine of State rights was being preached in Congress and out of it. The historic debate between Webster and Hayne had just taken place. Sturdy old Andrew Jackson determined to do what he could to turn the tide the other way. His toast was followed by that of John C. Calhoun, then president of the Senate and recognized defender of the doctrine of State rights. Calhoun proposed: “The Union: Next to our liberty the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States and distributing equally the benefit and burden of the Union.” Gen. Fred Funston won his wife in much the same dare-devil spirit that he won Calumpit. He simply took the fair young Californian, who went to gaze at the •troops of the Twentieth Kansas in camp at the Wife Presidio field, by storm. w W Soon the general was A'er' / spending his evenings at the girl’s home, and the engagement followed. Then love’s was suddenly shattered W MT by orders for the regi- *w.JCFL “ ment to sail for Manila, mbs. funbton. The brave girl determined to become Mrs. Funston at once, and did so. No officers’ wives were allowed upon the transport, but she dressed up as a bugler, and was soon safe on board. But Gen. Otis discovered the trick and ordered her to leave her husband at Honolulu. She did so, but followed her husband in the next ship for Manila, where she has lived since. The measures taken by the Government against Edward Atkinson in seizing the pamphlets he was sending to the soldiers the Philippines are much less severe jl than those which ■■ President Lincoln tEL adopted in dealing with . Clement L. Vallandigham in the ’6os, and who was charged with similar ” offenses. Vallandig- * ham, in 1863, made a speech in which he VALLANDioHAM. declared the war to be “cruel and unnecessary.” For making this speech he was arrested and sentenced to imprisonment in Fort Warren, but President Lincoln commuted the sentence to deportation beyond the Union lines. Accordingly Mr. Vallandigham was taken South and turned loose in the enemy’s country. Alfred and Mrs. Crawford, the Georgia farmer and his wife, victims of the negro Sam Hose, who was burned alive for his crimes. Louis Gathmann, whose gun cotton shell was tested at Sandy Hook, has been long known to army men over all the world through his great inventive genius as the deviser of high \ s pressure guns and powerful explosives. « i {Oi Mr. Gathmann is aMxwTkX German who English with a slight accent. He is 56 years old, and left his ' tive Hanover thirty-' fW'S, f * twa years ago to “ come and live in gathmann. America. The officers qf the American army believe that m an inventor of ordnance Mr. Gathmann has no equal in the world. The experiments with his cannon have been in progress at Sandy Hook for two years. Among its mgny other distinctions Kansas is the only State which has sent an • American Indian to Congress. The repreesentative of the red man is Congressman Charles Curtis of the Topeka district. Mr. Curtis is au Indian of the Kaw tribe. He was born in Shawnee County, went to school in Topeka, studied law, > and was elected county attorney. He has served three w- terms in Congress CHAKLKBCUKTJB. for the fourth. Naturally Mr. Curtis is lhe most conspicuous “friend at court” of “the noble red man.” Miss Margaret Dunn, Springfield, Mo,, a cool-headed professional nurse, fought with a burglar who entered the room of 1 the woman she was nursing, and almost W a overcame him. She knocked him down \ twice, and bears on her body many of the desperate Kii, till fl Mi Hnt nrrww