The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 21, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 22 September 1910 — Page 7

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Story of United States Bank

How Head of the Savannah Branch Forced Stranger to Carry Away $200,000 In Silver and Checked Plot. The most famous president of the United States bank, which President Jackson forced out of business, was Nicholas Biddle of Philadelphia, who after being a director of the bank for a matter of four years, became Its president in 1823 and remained In that post until the bank went out of business in 1836. “Nick’’ Biddle, as he was known to his associates both In finance and society—he was a member of Philadelphia’s exclusive set-kept a firm grip upon the affairs of all the branches of the United States bank from his desk In the bank’s headquarters In Philadelphia. He was very careful to get reports from the branches regularly and as speedily as the mall facilities of the time cou«d deliver them to him, and he studied these reports with minute care. One day he noticed that a report from the Savannah' branch did not show the average reuemption of bank notes, and each sabdequent report showed a constant failing off in redemptions, so that Mr. Biddle became very much disturbed. At last he said to himself: "There’s going to be trouble of some kind at that branch. Somebody is collecting Savannah branch bank notes and they may offer them all of a sudden for redemption. But I will see tc that.” Thereupon he caused a large amount of silver money to be collected and shipped to Savannah. Then he waited. A few weeks after the silver had reached the Savannah branch a stranger called at it and stated that he had some bank notes which he would like to have redeemed at once in silver. He was asked what was the value of the notes. “Two hundred thousand dollars,” he replied. "Very well,” said the official of the bank, who was acting under instructions from President Biddle, “bring your bills here so that we can count them.” Whereupon, the stranger protested at the delay. “What,” exclaimed the bank official, “you surely do not think we are going to redeem notes until we have counted them and seen that the amount you give us is right?” So the stranger went aw’ay, returnin'speedily with a hand barrow filV with notes, and all the rest of the d the bank force was occupied in counting them. That task over at last, the manager of the branch turned to the stranger. "The amount you stated is correct, sir,” and your silver is ready. Can we help you in sending It anywhere?” “You’ve got the silver here?” gasped the stranger. “You’re going to pay me in silver on the spot?”

How “Gilded Age” Was Done , ■ —

— * Mark Twain and Warner Wrote It to Show Their Joking Wives Just What They Could Do When They Tried. The late Stephen A. Hubbard, who was for many years the managir editor and one of the owners of i Hartford (Conn.) Courant when seph R. Hawley was editor Charles Dudley Warner, the author and humorist, co-editor, told me this, the real story of the manner in which Mark Twain and Mr. Warner came to write “The Gilded Age,” which was published in 1573. “After Mark Twain came to Hartford to live,” said Mr. Hubbard, “he ■ early made the acquaintance of Mr. Warner, being especially attracted to him because of the success of the deliciously humorous book, ‘My Summer in a Gardefi,’ which gained Mr. Warner national fame, and which was the first of his separate writings. The acquaintance ripened into intimacy, and the families of the two men were j frequently together. “It happened that one evening, when the Twains had the Warners at a family dinner, something was said about the success of ‘lnnocents Abroad.’ Thereupon both Mrs. Clemens and Mrs. Warner began to twit Mark Twain; they made all manner of good-natured fun of his book, called it an accidental hit, and finally ended up by defying him to write another work like it. “In high humor Mark Twain turn; to Mr. Warner. ‘You and I will she these ladies that their laughter is unseemly and “a cracking of thorns under a pot,” ’ he cdied. ‘We’ll get together and write a story, chapter by chapter every morning, and we will . so interweave our work that these wives of ours will not be able to say which has been written by Mark Twain and which by Charles D. Warner; for once a week we will gather in my library and read the story to them as ft has progressed under «ur pens.’ "What was spoken in jest was acted upon in the spirit of jest, Mr. Warner

“Certainly,” said the bank manager. "Isn’t that what you asked for?’* “But ” began the stranger; “Yes,” smiled the other, “two hundred thousand dollars In silver; does make a very bulky parcel. I suppose you will take It to a vessel?” The -stranger hesitated, doubtless reflecting that if he took the silver it would cost him a pretty penny for insurance and another for freight. At last he said: “Well, I think I will take drafts on New Orleans On the whole, they will do just as good." This time a grim smile came to the banker’s lips. “You will not I take drafts on New Orleans,” he said. “You will take the silver, and you’ll take It at once.” There was no other way around It; the stranger had to lug off his two hundred thousand dollars In silver, and pay Insurance and freight charges on It to its destination In the north. For he was an agent of a group of state bankers in the north who had combined to break the credit of the United States bank. If possible. They hit upon the plan of getting together a lot of the bank notes of the Savannah branch and suddenly presenting them in a lump for redemption, feeling reasonably certain that the j bank would not have on hand sufficient silver with which to redeem at once, word would go throughout the' country that the United States bank at

He Posed as Prince of Wales

How Col. George Bliss Was Mistaken for .Edward by the Enthusiastic People of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. _____ . This story of the late King Edward, when, as the prince of Wales, he traveled In this country, was told to me several years ago by the late Col. George Bliss, who at one time was United States district attorned for the southern district of New York, and whose “Bliss’s Digest” is cine of the standard legal works throughout the United States. “At the time that the prince was here I was serving upon the military staff of Governor E. D. of New York,” said Colonel Bliss, I “ar ' I was detailed to represent the gover .or in pertain ceremonies, and partic ; ularly upon the occasion of the trip of the prince of Wales up the Hjidson river to West Point and Albany. "I remember vividly how interested the prince was in the scenery that stretched him on both i sides of the noble river, and I have; only to shut my eyes to see in fancy the shores dotted here and there; with large and small groups of pfeople,

agreeing to meet Mark Twain every morning for an hour op two so that together they could write a new story somewhat on the lines of ‘lnnocents Abroad.’ After they had been at work on their little joke for a little j while they became thoroughly Interested in k , and then, when Mark Twain proved to Introduce the character of olonel Sellers In the story, both he and Mr. Warner grew actually enthusiastic over it, and their wives confessed their deep interest in it as it was read to them as the writing progressed. “So the jest was carried on until the story was about half finished, if I remember correctly, when it suddenly occurred to Mark Twain that it might be worth publishing; if! it interested the wives of the authors, it ought to interest the public. Therefore, Twain approached his publishers and told them that he apd Mr. Warner were jointly writing a book, and he wondered whether he 1 could make arrangements with them to publish it. They jumped at the proposition. The book was published under the title of ‘The Gilded Age,’ it sold beyond all expectation for a while, and then, suddenly, the sales stopped. It is the one dead failure among Mark Twain’s works. Yet a sufficiently large number of copies were hold by subscription to repay the cost of manufacture and return some profit to the joint authors and the publishers. “Later, however,” continued Mr. lubbard, “Mark Twain made a tidy um out of the dramatic rights of the oook. About the time that the book was to be published he suggested to Mr. Warner that he would buy whatever dramatic rights that Warner might have in the work. The idea appealed to Mr. Warner, and I have always understood that Mark Twain paid him SB,OOO or thereabouts for his ' share of the dramatic rights and with that money Mr. Warner was able to 1 make a long winter tour through 1 Egypt. As for Mark Twain, he made thousands in royalties out of the play 1 based-on his utterly dead book." (Copyright. 1910, by K. J. Bdwarda)

Savannah had failed, and the other branches and the headquarters Itself would be Imperiled, If not ruined. But in building their beautiful scheme the jealous state bankers failed to take into consideration President Biddle’s painstaking study of the reports of . his bank’s branches, and so they were confounded, and not he. Three men vouched to me for this hitherto unpublished story of the old United States bank; the late Commodore Alfred Van Stantvoord, who, when he w-as a young man, knew Nicholas Biddle; the late Ashbel Green, who also knew Mr. Biddle, and ; who could have been governor of I New Jersey In 1877 had he not advised his friends to support the candidacy of Gen. George B. McClellan, and the late George S. Coe of New Jersey, whose financial knowledge was of material help to the nation during the Civil war. (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards.) Attention, Dictionary Compilers! A street preacher was haranguing a miscellaneous audience on one of the prominent street corners of the city. He was talking of eternal punishment, and came to that scriptural passage concerning the bottomless pit. This . seemed to call for an unusual amount of eloquent energy. Raising his voice and clapping his hands, he yelled: “And do you know what a bottomless pit is? I dare say some of you do not Now listen. For the benefit of those who do not know what a bottomless pit is, I am going to tell you. A bottomless pit, my friends, is a pit without a bottom.”

anxious to get a glimpse of the future ruler of England. Through it all the prince was very affable and accommodating; he was always ready to step to some conspicuous place upon the upper deck of the steamboat and courteously acknowledge the salutes and cheers which came to him from the shores. “Some miles before the boat reached Poughkeepsie there was brought aboard it by special messenger a pouch of mall for the prince. He had not heard from home for some time and he was anxious to read the letters; you must remember that the Atlantic cable, though laid, was not working at the time. So, taking the heavy mall with him, the prince went into the pilot house and soon was deeply Immersed in his letters. He was still reading when we arrived at Poughkeepsie, where it seemed as though the entire city and all the people for miles around about had turned out to greet him. “Hastily, word was carried to the prince that an enormous crowd, covering the steamboat dock and stretching away back to the foot of the. hill, was anxious to give him the tribute of their good wishes. But, as luck would have it, he was in the midst of peruan especially irhportant letter and was not willing tb be disturbed. Therefore, I stepped to the railing of the boat upon the upper deck, to give some Intimation to the crowd that the prince was in retirement, when, of a sudden, I discovered that the people below me had taken me for our distinguished guest. They set up a great cheering, hats were thrown in the air, women clapped their hands and waved their handkerchiefs —every eye was fastened upon ma “What could I do? I could not tell them that I was not the Prince of Wales, but only a member of the governor’s staff; I could not have mads myself heard three feet away in all that welcoming uproar. So, almost involuntarily, I bowed and made a mill tary salute. The people went wild, and as I stood there receiving all that misdirected homage, I certainly had a feeling of what it is like to be a king in reality. “For perhaps a minute I received the enthusiastic greeting of a city; then the boat started and all Poughkeepsie returned home, satisfied that it had seen the prince. In fact, years later I heard residents of that town telling with not a little pride how they had been bowed to and saluted by the prince. They - never knew of the mistake. “But as soon as the prince had finished with his mall and returned to the deck, I related to him how I had been mistaken for him. And the story amused him greatly—not In the sense that It was an absurdity that I should be taken for him, which It was, nevertheless, but because he seemed to see In his mind’s eye a vivid picture of that great throng hail ing a plain citizen of the Unite States as the prince of Wales.” (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards.) Misjudged Brilliant Son. Lord Ampthlll once found Bismarck reading Anderson’s story on the Ugly Duckling, which relates how a duck hatched a swan’s egg, and how the cygnet was jeered at by his putative brethren, the ducklings, until one d*v a troop of lordly swans, floating dowr the river, saluted him as one of the race. “Ah,” observed Bismarck, was a long time before my poor me er could be persuaded that In ha ing me she. had not,produced a goo

STheodore IfooffldT Mendacious Journalism ; Reprinted from an article by Theodore Roosevelt in The Outlonfc hv arrangement with The Outlook, of which Theodore Roosevelt is’cnntrnKftui Editor. Copyright. 1910. by The Outlook Company All Rights Reserved!

In the New York Evening Post of ■ Friday, August 26, there appeared in an editorial article the following statements: “ ‘I will make the corporations come to time,’ shouted Roosevelt to the mob. But did he not really mean that he would make them come down with the cash to elect him, as he did before? For a man with Mr. Roosevelt’s proved record it is simply disgusting humbug for him to rant about the corporations upon whose treasurers he fawned when he was president and wanted their money for his camI paign. Does he think that nobody has a memory which goes back to the life insurance investigations, and that everybody has forgotten the $50,000 taken from widows and orphans and added to Theodore Roosevelt’s political corruption fund? Did he not take a big check from the Beef trust, and glad to get it? And now he is going to make the corporations come to time! One can have respect for a sincere radical, for an honest fanatic, for an agitator or leveler who believes that he is doing God’s will; but it is hard to be patient with a man who talks big but acts mean, whose eye is always to the main chance politically, and who lets no friendshin, no generosity. no principle, no moral scruple stand for a moment between himself and the goal upon which he has set his overmastering ambition. “ ‘This champion of purity, this roar- ; er for political virtue, is the man who was for years, when in political life, < hand in glove with the worst political corruptionists of his day; who toaded to Platt, who praised Quay, who paid, court to Hanna; under him as president Aldrich rose to the height of his nower, always on good terms with Roosevelt; it was Roosevelt who, in 1906, wrote an open letter urging the re-election of Speaker Cannon, against whom mutterings had then begun to rise; it was Roosevelt who asked Har--•tman to come to the White House secretly, who took his money to buy votes in New York, and who afterwards wrote to “My Dear Sherman”— yes, the same Sherman —reviling the •'■apltalist to whom he had previously written saying: “You and I are practical men.’ ” The Evening Post is not in itself sufficiently important to warrant an answer, but as representing a class with whose hostility it is necessary to reckon in any gefiuine movement for decent government, it is worth while to speak of it. There are plenty of wealthy people in this country,- and of intellectual hangers-on of wealthy people, who are delighted to engage in any movement for reform which does not touch the wickedness of certain great corporations and of certain men of great wealth. People of this class will be in favor of any aesthetic movement; they will favor any movement against the small grafting politician, against the grafting labor leader, or any man of that stamp; but they cannot be trusted the minute that the reform assumes sufficient dimensions to jeopardize so much of the established order of things as gives an unfair and improper! advantage to the great corporation, and to those directly and indirectly responsive to its wishes and dependent upon it. The Evening Post and papers of the same kind, and the people whose views they represent, would favor attacking a gang of small bosses who wish to control the Republican party; but they would, as the Evening Port has shown, far rather see these small bosses win than see a movement triumph which aims not merely at the overthrow of the small political boss, but at depriving the corporation of its improper influence over politics, depriving the man of wealth of any advantage beyond that which belongs to him as a simple American citizen. They would be against corporations only after such corporations had been caught in the crudest kind of criminality. I have never for one moment counted upon the support of the Evening Post or of those whom it represents In the effort for cleanliness and decency within the Republican party, because the Evening Post would support such a movement only on condition that it was not part of a larger movement for the betterment of social conditions. But this is not all. In the struggle for honest politics there is no more a place for a liar than there is for the thief, and in a movement designed to put an end to the dominion of the thief but little good can be derived from the assistance of the liar. Os course objection will be made to my use of this language. My answer Is that I am using it merely scientifically and descriptively, and because no other terms xpress the facts with the necessary precision. In the ar- > Hole in which the Evening Post comes

to the defense of those in present con trol of the Republican party in 'lew York state, whom it has affected tc oppose in the past, the Evening Post through whatever editor personally wrote the article, practised every known form of mendacity. Probably the Evening Post regards the decalogue as outworn; but if it will turn to it and read the eighth and ninth commandments, it will see that bearing false witness is condemned as strongly as theft itself. To take but one instance out of the many in this article, the Evening Post says: “It was Roosevelt who asked Harriman to come to the White House secretly, who took his money to buy votes in New York, and who afterwards wrote to ‘My Dear Sherman’ —yes, the same Sherman—reviling the capitalist to whom he had previously written, saying: 'You and I are practical men.’” Not only is every important statement in this sentence false, but the writer who wrote it knew it was false. As far as I was concerned, every man visited the White House openly, and Mr. Harriman among the others. ’ took no money from Mr. Harriman secretly or openly to buy votes or for any other purpose. Whoever wrote the article in the Evening Post in question knew that this was the foul est and basest lie he wrote the sentence, for he quotes the same let ter in which I had written to Mr. Har ; riman as follows: ‘What I have to j say to you can be said to you as well i after election as before, but I would like to see you some time before 1 write my message.” I am quoting without the letter before me, but the quotation is substantially, if not ver bally, accurate. That statement in this letter to Harriman is of course on its face absolutely incompatible with any thought that I was asking him for campaign funds, for it is ot course out of the question that I could tell him equally well what I had to say after election if it referred in any possible way to getting money before election. This is so clear that any pretense of misunderstanding is proof positive of the basest dishonesty in whoever wrote the article in question As a matter of fact, when Mr. Harriman called it was to complain that the national committee would not turn over for the use of the state campaign in which he was interested funds to run that campaign, and to ask me to tell Cortelyou to give him aid for the state campaign. Mr. Cortelyou is familiar with the facts. In other words, the statement of the Evening Post is not only false and malicious, is not only in direct contradiction of the facts, but is such that it could only have been made by a man who, knowing the facts, deliberately intended to pervert them. Such an act stands on a level of Infamy with the worst act ever performed by a corrupt member of the legislature or city official, and stamps the write: with the same moral brand that stamps the bribe-taker. I have seen only a telegraphic ab stract of the article, apparently containing quotations from it. Practically every statement made in these quotations is a falsehood. To but one more shall I allude. The article speaks of my having attacked corporations, and, referring directly tc my Ohio speeches, of my having “sought to inflame the mob and make mischief.” In those speeches the prime stand I took was against mot violence as shown by the labor people who are engaged in controversy with a corporation. My statement was in effect that the first duty of the state and the first duty of the officials was to put down disorder and to put dowr mob violence, and that after such action had been taken, then it was the duty of officials to investigate the cor poration, and if it had done wrong to make it pay the penalty of its wrongs and to provide against the wrongdo ing in the future. It is but another instance of the peculiar baseness, the peculiar moral obliquity, of the Eve ning Post that it should pervert the truth in so shameless a fashion. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Cheyenne, Wyo., August 27, 1910. The Only Way. “Why did he leave all his money tc the black sheep of the family F’ “He said the other children were too good to go to jail.” “Well?” “And he wanted to fix it so the J black sheep would be too rich.” Pa’s Idea of IL Little Willie —Say, pa, what i» pride? Pa—Pride, my son, la walking witl a gold-headed cane when you are nolama.

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STYLE FOR BRIDES INEXPENSIVE SILKS FOR PERSONS OF MODEST MEANS. - « Traditions of Modesty Allow less Waists With Sleeves That Fall 9tior* of Elbow—Stripes and Dots Prevail. New fashions for brides are not always conventional in the matter of the high-necked and long-sleeved bodice. Traditions of modesty waive a point here, allowing collarless waists very often, with sleeves that tall far short of the elbow. The “oldK //? 1/ r 4 !■ I ■ 1 11 fashioned” girl and others who find the high stock more becoming accept only the cuts approved in the past, and surely this correct veiling of the throat and arms seems more proper tor bridal attire. But yokes and undersleeves are all very filmy, and though lined with chiffon or net they are all still diaphanous enough to be becoming. In fact it is the exception to see the wedding frock’s own material carried straight up to the throat, while a sleeve without some underdrop in a more airy textile is altogether behind the times. In point of material many quite inexpensive silks are used by persons of modest means, these with stripes, dots or tiny floral sprays, or else a

HATS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE Millionaire’s Wife Pays, Without Question, Fabulous Prices for Artistic Headgear. The millionaire wife pays anywhere from $25 to S3OO for a hat, and she buys half a dozen hats or so every season. The days are past when the hat plays second fiddle, so to speak, to the gown. The hat and the gown are of equal importance now. “How is it possible to put such a price on a hat?” The question has been asked a thousand times by astonished husbands who pay the bills, and even by the women themselves who buy. Well, in the first place, the plain hat itself is imported from Paris, and costs the milliner from $lO to $25, as against $2 to $lO only ten years ago. This hat, though it follows the prevailing fashion, and though this fashion may be ridiculous in the extreme, is nevertheless, artistic in lines and general form. Perhaps it is desired that the hat should be green. The artist milliner has in her employ a Frenchman whose business it is to color hats to any shade or tint that may be wished. He brings his dyes from Paris the pale, soft colors he uses are to be had only in that city and has himself received his training there. No American can do -this work. The trimmings and materials for this hat are, of course, imported also. A $75 imported feather may be the body of the trimming. Perhaps on the green ground it is decided that pink and blue roses will harmonize best with the rest of the wearer’s outfit. It is in deciding such things as these that the art of the milliner is called into play. It is a French woman, too, who does the work on small hats and toqes. She has been a worker for one of the famous firms in Paris—lor Charlotte, possibly, or Georgette, or Camille Rogers. If her specialty is sailor hats, she has probably been with Marie Louise. A woman of wealth buys all her hats between September and July. During the hot months the milliner may fit out a dozen theatrical companies If she chooses, but she cannot do this in the winter time, for the two elements, the social set and ! the theatrical profession, must come to the milliner’s parlors at different times. Four sets of hats become a necessity to the woman of unlimited means, as follows: (1) city hats, (2) counv bats and seashore hats, (8) hats • February and March in the south, j hats for European travel.

twilled or corded weave. Marquisette and other fine veilings are much employed in conjunction with satin, rich lace, and chiffon, this combination turning out *the most fairylike wedding frocks without great expense. One wedding dress shown by a leading importer was of embroidered batiste over satin. It was short, with a Dutch neck, and fairly incrusted with needlework. It was to be topped by a broad hat wreathed with white crape morning glories and snowy roses in the same airy texture. The materials used show endless shades of white, but pearl, snow-white and a delicate cream are the most satisfactory ones. A pretty arrangement for the veil is to put it on after the manner of a straight gathered curtain, with the sides covering the cheeks and the rest of the face uncovered. The tulle or fine net used, is left unhemmed and it is shirred to a wire under a round wreath of orange blossoms. Our illustration suggests an attractive and girlish design for a cloth frock braided with soutache that would be needed for walking or traveling. Here one of the new cloths with a rough finish is employed, the color a delicate tan, with the braiding and other trimming black. The skirt is plaited with a closely fittingSoke, and the upper part is a species of polonaise, with the neck rounded out and kimono sleeves cut with the side portions of the bodied. White net embroidered with black dots is used for the guimpe and undersleeves. Any wool of a solid nature would do for, this frock, and machine embroidery may be bought for the trimming if the braiding seems difficult. The upper part of the dress could also be made of veiling and the lower part of silk, and with this arrangement an embroidered guimpe and undersleeves of white batiste would be very pretty. But in seeking for a rich effect remember that a black note in the trimming will always give 4t, and for that matter, a gown in almost any color might be trimmed solidly with black and be in excellent style. Smart Pump Bows. The newest bows for smart pumps have the advantage of being serviceable as well as good looking. They are made of leather to match the pumps, are small, stiff, with wellpointed ends. Pumps and slippers for evening wear still sport the large rhinestone buckle more than any other bow.

CONVENIENT KNITTING BAG Will Prevent Many Mishaps and Will Keep Ball Clean and in Good Condition. Few things are more aggravating in a small way than to drop a ball of knitting or crochet wool or thread, more especially as such a mishap , only too often ends in a hopeless tangle, while the ball is being hunted for on the floor. A useful knitting bag of the kind shown in our sketch will altogether prevent any accident of this description, and will, moreover, keep the ball clean and in good condition. This bag is made in silk or linen, lined with soft silk, and interlined with thin cardboard and bound at the edge with wide silk ribbon, which, - ‘ : 'wi M '-V * \ M /Sv' • '■'Will i ■ wll r 1 ' B— Vw' '**l lilt in its turn, is edged with a line of stitching. The handle consists of a loop of broad ribbon, tied in a bow at the top and made sufficiently long to allow the bag to be slung comfort’ ably over the left arm while at work. On one side there is a hole through which the thread may be drawn without disturbing' the ball, and with no risk of pulling it out of its place. The sides are of linen to match the front and gathered into a binding of ribbon, while on the front of the bag the word “Knitting” is lightly embroidered In silk, chosen in some contrasting shade of color. Anti-Ants. A small quantity of green sage aced in the cupboard will keep way red ants.