Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 March 1898 — Page 6

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TENNESSEE'S SONS UNITE IN EULOGV OF OLD HICKORY.

4Some Ifow Anecdote* of the Hero of New is Orleans—Congressman Moon a Bright Luminary— His Eloquent Tribute to the Country Newspaper. [Special Correspondence.] a WASHINGTON, March 14. General

Jackson may be alluded to as the man who lost bis right to a celebration of „his birthday anniversary on account of ®tbe greater glory of the 8tb of January.

It he hadn't fought and won the battlo of New Orleans, more attention would be paid to tbe fact that he was born oa the loth of March, 1707, two years before Napoleon Bonaparte. But if be bad not fought that battle and won that

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great viotory be might not now be laud ed as tbe hero that all bis fellow citizens now bold bitn to be.

Learning that tbe Jackson Democr&tio association had announced a dinner and speeches in commemoration of its namesake's birthday, I made a canvass of tbe various Tennessee representatives and senators here, just around dozen in all, to ascertain tbo drift of their prospective remarks. The first one to honor me with an opinion was the latest luminary arisen above the congressional horizon, Representative John A. Moon. Congress* man Moon is but 48 years of age, but he had long served bis state as judge of the oirouit court before called to take part in tbe councils of the nation. He is not often beard, but bis remarks are forceful and cogent. "I know nothing at all of General Jackson," he said in answer to my question, "for I was born in 1856, ten years after bis death oocurred, and I do not live in tbo district where be dwelt. But there are some contemporaries of Jackson still living in our state, notable among them being old Colonel A. S. Colyar, who has more anecdotes of him than have ever been printed."

The Country Newspaper.

I was disappointed, for I knew that what Mr. Moon said would be interesting, having just listened to his eulogy of the American country press in his speeoh against the increase of postage on second class matter. "The country newspaper," he said, "has been the unfaltering, tbo faithful and conservative counselor of the people. Its searohing investigations open up the mysteries, break the silence that bars tbe pathway to truth and avenge injustice to the innocent. When the spirit of eternal vigilance is lulled by the sordid views of life, when oommeroial considerations would obeok the flow of patriotic blood, it is tbo country newspaper that oalls back tbe memory of the immortal fathers who died for the republio and invokes anew tbo blessings of liberty upon our people. It turns the minds of men to the love of country, of home and of ilresido and arrests tbe decay of patriotism that freedom may live with posterity."

Now, a man who can tell the unvar nisbed and flat footed truth in a way like that ought to havo some views of General Jncksou worth promulgating. But bo referred mo to his colleague, John Wesley Gaines, who was born the year tho war began and is tbo youngest of tho representatives from Tennessee. He has a face as clear cut as a antique cameo, an engaging and energetic manner. He said: "My grandfather was an intimate friend of tho general, whom he resembled, and he owned for years a cane which Old Hickory gave him, and which be treasured as one of his most prized possessions. By a strange chance my grandfather once loaned this cane to a neighbor to assist him in walking

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to his home, and that same night the man's house was burned and with it the invaluable walking stick. I bav« the honor of representing General Jack seal's old district and had the pleasure i" of making my first political speech at his erstwhile residence, Tbe Hermitlinage.**

tpu flnfewd RlfWdio#. Perhaps the most noted of Tennessee ant in the house is the Hon. James IX Richardson, who is now 85 yean of age, and who served four yean on the Confederate aide daring the war. Tall and thin, with a oommanding

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always alert to discover the weak points in his opponents' ranks, always on the watch for a breach into which to lead his willing followers, Mr. Richardson has long been recognized as a foeman worthy tbe most active efforts of the othorside His long, lean finger is rather too ready to point itself toward the speaker's chair, and his eagle eye gleams witb a steely glitter, but in conversa tion ne is amiable and pleasing. Tbisis the sixth congress in which he has represented his district, and he may be regarded «5.s one of tbe veterans, but he, too, was

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ure of Genera! Jackson's acquaintance. However, he had an anecdote which he thinks has not yet appeared in print, and which well illustrates tbe opinion of Jackson held by those with whom he came in contact. General Jackson, like Washington, had a' body servant, who survived bis master's death, but whether he was as numerous as tbe alleged body servants of General Washington he cannot tell. After Jackson's death the old negro was asked where he supposed his master had gone—if he thought he had gone to heaven.

The old retainer scratched bis bead awhile then said, "Well, sail, I don' kow wedder he done gone thar or not, but if General Jackson, sab, done want to go be dciie went!" "We all know,"said Mr. Richardson, "that whatever General Jackson determined to do that he did, regardless of consequences. Now, there was his fight with the United States bank. In 1829 that bank bad a capital of $35,000,000, a deposit of public moneys aggregating some $7,000,000. private deposits of as much more, a circulation of $12,000,000, with annual profits of at least $3,000,000. It bad branches in important towns and cities all over tho Union, one-fifth its stock, which was at a premium, was owned abroad, and its notes were good all over tbe world. Yet General Jackson had the courage to at tack it and tbe energy and persistence necessary to destroy it."

A Jacksonian Republican.'

One (ft the most ardent lovers of Jackson is tbe Hon. Henry R. Gibson, who, strangely enough, ui by no means a Jacksonian Democrat. He is, in fact, a Republican, and tbe only one which Tennessee has to represent it in congress. More than this, he is the only member from that state who served in tbe Federal army.

An interesting figure and one who owes his present position as junior senator from Tennessee to his war record is Hon. Thomas B. Turley, who was appointed last year to succeed the late Senator Harris. The latter, as all who ever saw him must remember, was one of tbe fiercest looking and most truculent appearing of tbe dignified body to whioh he belonged. Senator Harris,

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with his martial aspect, his long twirling mustaches and his air of having a chip perpetually on bis shoulder, used to remind me of the commander of some pirate ship temporarily absent from tbe deck of bis vessel. But, notwithstanding bis fierce appearance, Senator Harris of Tennessee was one of the most genial and admirable of men in private life. He was also an able parliamentarian and ocoupied the speaker's chair on innumerable occasions and always to his credit.

Senator Turley, despite his record as a stubborn and tenaoious fighter^ is most amiable of aspeot and, if one may judge of bis private life by his public manner, a true friend and winning companion. He is only.53 years of age, and this is the first publio position he has held since ho left tbe army.

This ends my Jacksonian symposium, which, no matter how one may differ politically from those who so ardently revero the memory of the great Tennesseean, shows bow green and flourishing is his memory in the state of his adoption today, more than 50 years after he has passed away.

In tho department of state is an aged clerk, Mr. George Bartle, who has been in service there for more than half a century. His recollection of Washingtonian events dates back to Jackson's first administration, and he has many reminiscences of the general and his times. Among others which he related to me a few weeks ago was one which shows the futility of speculating in real estate in this vicinity. It seems that some speculators started a boom for a spot across the Potomao and got the general interested by promising to call the future metropolis Jackson City. More than this, be was at the laying of the cornerstone, and my friend in the department of state says that he went over with the presidential party in order to see tho president and get some of the dinner that was announced as an attraction. There was such a crowd, be says, that, though he made best time for the table, he got only a chicken wing. The general was to make a speech, but the rash was so great for the tables that he had to struggle for his life and nearly got hift in the head by a turkey which two men bad grabbed by the legs and were squabbling -I

Jackson City today has little but its name to indicate the site of this projected rival to Washington. It is situated in Virginia, just across the Potomac, at the end of Long bridge, and has long been celebrated for its race tracks and gambling dens. There are bat seven buildings in the city at the present time, and at least five of these are saloons, with gangs of loafers hang* ing around the doors. F. A. Obsb.

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AFRAID OF DYNAMITE

A RAILROAD ENGINEER WHO LOST HIS NERVE HAULING THE STUFF.

Bather Than Bear the Strain Involved He Gave Up His Job—A Big Explosion at Council Bloffli—Experiments In a

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DETROIT, March 15.—Two men who had both passed through a number of rather thrilling experiences with dynamite met at the Hotel Cardillao today, and explosives being a natural topic of conversation at this time their stories were intently listened to by quite a little group of wayfarers. "It was 20 years or more ago," said one, "that I managed to get away from handling the uncertain stuff. I had been an engineer on a branch road in the northern part of Michigan for some time when I was one day informed that my run was to be changed and that I would be required to pull the dynamite train until further notice. I must confess that down to that time I had hardly known there was a dynamite train, and I knew nothing as to how it was run, but I objected at once, and as stronglv as I dared, to taking tbe job "My objections were not of the slightest use, however, and I began at my new work the very next night. I don't know how they manage the transportation of explosives up there now or whether they carry them at all, but at that time they used to haul dynamite some 90 miles for use in the mines, and tbe consumption was so great and so steady that the train was passed over the road every 24 hours. The run was made at night for two reasons—first, the danger to life from accidental explosion would be much less if the train were run when every one along the line was asleep, and, second, it might be possible to keep the people from knowing there was any dynamite train at all. "We always made up the train most carefully. Contrary to the general rule, we used to put the caboose next the engine next we put in eight or ten empty box cars and last of all the car containing tbe dynamite. It was always packed so tightly that it couldn't move, and everybody agreed that it couldn't possibly explode unless it got a good lively rap, such as might come as it jolted about loose in a car. Still I was frightened almost out of my wits tbe first night I took the train out, and my efforts to sleep next day were all broken up by repeated and horrible dreams of explosion and sudden death. And the worst of it was I could never get used to the business. It was utterly vain for me to reason that even should the stuff go off I would be in no personal danger, since tbe empties would abundantly protect me, as they surely would. "At the end of six months I was little more than a shadow, my nerve was all gone, and I had to tell tbe super that I'd have to have another job or quit tbe road altogether. He let me go, of course, for what he wanted was a man to run that train. I never heard that they had an explosion after I left, but I sometimes dream even now, as I used to, of the most horrible accidents in the last oar of the train. I have never touched the throttle of an engine since I left that job." "Your story reminds me," said the other man, "of an explosion of dynamite on a railroad car standing in the Rook Island yard, I think at Council Bluffs, say 15 years ago. There was always something mysterious about that explosion. It was in the dead of night, and, so far as known, no person was near by at tbe time. I forget now how much dynamite tnere was, but it was sufficient to raise hob with about everything in the yard—cars, buildings and all—and to kill all the night workers and watchmen in tbe yard. For miles around it was thought a young earthquake had broken loose. Of course there was a big investigation, but all tbe evidence was destroyed, and it amounted to nothing. "Tbe Santa Fe road was just then considering a proposition to carry dynamite to Yuma, A. T., and tbe explosion oame near bringing about a negative decision from the officers of tbe line. A shipper went into the Omaha office one day, pulled a stiokof dynamite from his pocket, shaved off a piece and threw it into tbe open grate fire. Of courso it burned quite harmlessly, but the official whu was present nearly had a fit and told the man not to make any more experiments there. "Before tbe matter was finally decided the road officials made some investigations on their own hook which scared one chap out of a year's growth at least. It was claimed by the dynamite people that nothing but a sharp, heavy blow could cause explosion so long as the nitroglycerin did not run oat of the clay that was used to soak it up, but it was admitted that tbe experiments to prove this bad all been made in a comparatively cold climate, like that at Omaha, for instance. Now, Yuma, as you know if you ever read Mark Twain, is hotter than tbe very hinges of Gehenna's doors, the temperature sometimes rising to the unbearable height of 185 degrees in the sun and 125 in the shade. So a man was sent down there with some dynamite and instructed that he was to expose several sticks of the stuff to the direct rays of the sun. If the outside paper got greasy, that was a sign that the nitroglycerin was leaking and he would Jeat look oat for himself. Sure enough, in *bout half an boar the greasy look that was feared appeared, and the chap started to run. He was so near dead with fear that he fell down before he bad gone ten yards, bat he may he running yet for all I know. "The road finally carried the dynamite on regular freight trains next to the caboose, as nearly all western nods do. There have been a few small explosions, too, bat it has always been so carefully packed that no great has been done that I ever heard of and no one killed.Gbablss Afpljebkb.

'KUlfK MAIL, 3IAKCH 19, 1898.

After Dinner Oratory.

Although "forensic oratory" is fast becoming a tradition, although college debating at its test calls out but perfunctory interest from the body of stu-" dents, although what is left of congressional eloquence is worth, speaking comparatively, but a passing mention in the press, although the address is supplanting tbe oration and is itself tolerated as a perhaps necessary bore, yet there probably never was a time when tho "after dinner orator" flourished as be does today. "Epochs are signalized by their eatings," somewhere remarks Kenelm Chillingly, the nineteenth century philosopher, and our own is signalized by tbe bad digestion which waits on oratory a la mode.

It is typical of tbe American way of doing things—just as we play our national game by crowding around a "diamond" to watch professionals play it for us—that at our dinners we havo our talking deno for us, if not by professionals, at least by men who make a profession of it. These are the men who, as ono of their number wittily described it, are to be found regularly each dining season traveling "the postprandial circuit They are popular, recognized purveyors of this kind of oratory, as distinctly marked as a class as are clergymen cr actors.—Outlook.

Origin of Graham Bread.

It would be interesting to trace the rise and fall of a fad. In 1832 Sylvester Graham, a Yankee preacher of the Presbyterian faith, decided that the surest way to cure the people of intemperance in drinking was to cure them of the flesh eating habit. He went up and down preaching vegetarianism and became the leader of a great following. He not only condemned liquors, but tea, coffee, butter and salt, and wrote a book to prove that the only bread fit to eat was that made of unbolted flour.

This resulted in the Graham flour brand, called to this day in his honor. "Graham boarding houses" were established everywhere, at which these doctrines were practiced. Horace Greeley found his bride at a Graham boarding house, and for a time followed Graham's teachings. Graham advocated that following his diet would cause one to live to a Biblical age, but he died at the early ago of 56.—Atchison Globe.

A Jast Rebuke*

Lord George Bentinck did not like a debtor. When dining once in his club, he noticed a man whom he knew as a defaulter also dining there. The latter called for bis bill. As the waiter was bringing it, I*ord George interposed, and in his commanding, incisive tones said, "Waiter, bring that bill to me." Coolly casting his eye over its items, Lord George said, in a voioe beard al) over the room and with a severity of tone which made his unfortunate victim wince, "Before Captain orders such expensive dinners he should pay his debts of honor."—San Francisco Argonaut.

Easily Pleased.

"Yes," said the young woman, "I think I shall marry Herbert." "Well," replied Miss Cayenne, "you at least have some assurance that he won't be one of those husbands who are difficult to please." "How do yon know that?" "He is so well satisfied with himself."—'Washington Star.

Tennyson's Revenge.

A lion hunting lady once pestered Tennyson to lunch with her and meet a large party. The poet at length gave in, but had his revenge, since he spoke bnt once during luncheon, and then to say, "I like my mutton cut in ohunks."— Chicago News.

A gold plate which Charles Bonapaite pawned in order to pay tbe traveling expenses of his eon Napoleon to the military school at Brienne has been placed in the town museum at Ajaccio.

Macaroni is taken from a Greek derivation whioh means "the blessed dead,'' in allusion to the ancient custom of eat* ing it at feasts for the dead.

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