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The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1897-07-17
FATALITIES IN CINCINNATI.

Heat Continues to Do Deadly work.
Thirty-six Die In Four DAYS..
The death list from heat in Cincin-
natl Tuesday is as follows; L. Denton,
fruit commission merchant; Mrs.
Dina Breckinridge; unnamed infant;
infant daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph ODonnell; Philomena Sorg;
August Wyan, . newspaper solicitor
from Columbus. o.
This makes Ave fatalities for the
day and thirty-six deaths in four days.
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LAW WAS AGAINST 1T.

Sullivan and Fitzsimmons Did Not Spar ut
New York, ~ Scheduled.
A New York dispatch says: The
exhibition sparring bout between Bob
Fitzsimmons and John l.. Sullivan
scheduled for Monday afternoon at
Ambrose park, did not take place.
Martin Julian announced to q large
crowd Of spectators that the polite
had forbidden the contest and thai,
therefore, the principles had concluded
TO withdraw rather than violate lawl
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TO ARBITRATE NINE STRIKE.

Indiana Labor Commissioners To Take
Up the Matter.
The Indiana labor commission has
sent letters to the labor commission of
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois, in
viting them to meet with them in con-
vention in indianapolis at as early
date as possible to consider the posi-
bility Of arbitrating the coal miners
strike. ...
The Indiana commission hopes for
favorable responses.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1897-07-17
New Wage Scale Prevails.

The National Tin Plate Company
of Anderson, Ind, and the American
Tin Plate Company Of Elwood, started
their plants Tuesday according TO the
new wage scale.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1897-07-17

MAY-Your last sutton, Mr.. Wait,
seems very magnetic. Believes,
gave him. both poles. May What
do you mean9 Belle A positive
negative.-Truth.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1897-07-17
AWOMAN5lNF LUENCE

was different. I wish we lived under
Bellamy's order OF things.'
Wilson smiled. II fear such order 10
too Utoplan ever to be realized, he an
swered. tft f3rr
Perhaps, though Idsre gay Are
you really goingf Well, then ! must
say good-by. Hope 1t is not necessary
for me to repeat the assurance that
Elmwood always holds welcome for
and wish you to remember that up.
preciate more than / have power to ex-
press the--happlness You have helped
TO give me-" rtt
no MORE said Wilson, with painful
absuptness. my service is not worth
such mention"
Without another word he pressed her
land ana was gone, leaving ner ratner
surprised at his unusual manner.
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which is chiefly the Republican machine of
Cook county, could not nominate Martin
Madden, the Chicago alderman. Billy
Mason was much respected by the Repub-
lican leaders throughout Illinois, and was
not Objectionable to the Cook county ma
chine. 1t was not so very hard to settle
on him, therefore. He is a rOly-poly per-
son, short, corpulent, curly-haired, round-
faced and iolly-faced devoted To his wife
and his family of six or seven children,
hearty, sincere and brainy. He will make
you a good speech on any topic, and he
will be listened to in the Senate.
Says a friend of his: 'Since the first
baby came in the Mason family, some
twenty years ago, the family cradle has
never been empty, unless the last toddler
I knew has graduated to tie trundle-bed.
The first child is now six feet two inches
high. ami weighs part OF a ton. photo
graph OF the seven children. taken two
years ago, showed them standing in row
ranged according to their ages, and each
was Just seven inches taller than the next
in line. / went with Mason one summer
night to his home, when the members OF
his family were absent. When we retired
for the night he called my attention TO a
little cTumpled shoe in the cradle beside
the family bed. DO you see that little
shoe in there he inquired. Wei, that 5
our baby's proxy. Since the first baby
came that cradle has never been empty
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genuineness Of the volumes above na&ed
has never been disputed
The Bible is opened at random for the
new President, and there is always great
curiosity to know the verses of the Bible
upon which the lips fall The sUperstitiOus
watch for such things carefully, and it is
curious how chance sometimes thus brings
good words to 4 Predident's lips. Presi-
dent Arthur, for instance, kissed the first
and second verses of the 31st Psalm, " which
are as follows:
In Thee, o Lord, do put my trust; let
me never be ashamed deliver NE in Thy
righteousness.
Bow down Thine eartome: Deliver me
speedily; be Thou my strong rock for
house of defense to save me.
Vice President Johnson vas sworn in at
his room at the hotel Only half dozen
men were present. Chief Justice Chase was
asked to administer the oath, butthere was
no Bible at hand and one had to be sent
for AS Mr.. Chase pronounced the oath he
held one end of the Bible and President
johnson held the other, and as the Chief
Justice closed President Johnson kissed
the book. He said a few words about his
Cabinet, and walked OFF 10 a room on the
floor above
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Where Some of the
Bibles are that Pres
idents Have Kissed
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

The Bible upon which Mr Mckinley takes
the oath of office is a new book just nom
the press of a Chicago publishing house A
few days after the election the President
elect was visited by delegation OF Inin-
listers of the faith to which he ana LIS
wife belong, who asked the privilege or
providing "a special Bible to be used at his
Inauguration. The request was granted,
and the Chicago publishing house iinme-
diately got the order. Itwas printed with
great care and handsomely bound. ms
is the first instance of the special publlca-
ton of a Bible for an occasion or this ch;ir-
acter. The book was delivered to Major
Mckinley five days before his departure
from Canton. 1t was taken from Chicago
to Canton by an officer high in the coun-
ellis of the church. This unique book VIII
be given to Mrs. Mckinley as memento
OF her husbands elevation to the highest
office in the republic.
In times past it has been the custom to
use Bibles which have been handed down
from mother to son. Bibles upon which
Presidents have taken the oath of office
find their way of6entines into remote parts
of the country and some OF them into
somewhat peculiar places. The Bible which
Abraham Lincoln kissed when the oath
of office was administered to him by Chier
Justice Taney at the time of his first
inauguration, is the property Of jewe!er
and clock maker in New York. The
manner in which he became the owner
OF that particular Bible has an interesting
history.
The clock maker was at the time Of
the asSa assination OF President Lincoln also
engaged in the manufacture Of wooden
clocks or rather imitation clocks, used as
signs in front Of jewelry stores. These
were the first OF their kind made in this
country, though similar devices for use
as signs had long been in vogue in England
On the day of the tragedy in Ford s
Theater the New York clock and clock
sign manufactures had received in the
rough number of unfinished dummy
clocks which, TO make ready for market,
necessitatcd the painting OF the dials and
hands upon the face side of the signs;
for frequently both sides had dials and
hands in order the better TO serve as
swinging signs calculated to attract the
attention of passers.
President Lincoln died as the hands OF
the clock in the little two-and-a-1aif story
house On Tenth street opposite the theater,
whore he was taken Immediately after the
firing of the fatal shot, pointed to seven
taep minutes past g. When the dials were
painted upon the new lot of dummy clocks
| they were made to record the exact hour
and minute of the martyred President's
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Horace Taber,s Ups and Downs

Therecsns sale OF ulture nInein Arizona
to osecure a loan of S24. .O1O marks about the
last that will he public of Horace a W
Tabor, once Senator from Colorado. A5
one time re was worth many millions OF
dollars, and from this one mine Of bis
over ten million dollars in gold ore were
taken. Taber was lavish. extravagant,
and foolish ia his days of prosperity,
reckless in his latter day investments,
andis supposed to have paid an enormous
price for his thirty days service in the
United States Senate Today ex-senator
Tabor is again delving in the earth, hoping
to find another fortune in the way in
which he found his first one But for
the Hastily magnificent Tabor Oper
House. in Denver, there is left TO
remind one of his princely life.
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Went AIakiun ,.n,.,.a .aIIs.

Something happened only the other day
which has never happened before in all the
seven years which Mrs. Cleveland has
spent in Washington She went forth with
the multitude TO make Cabinet calls. OF
course. the wife of the President is not
obliged to do anything Of the sort; il is
enough il she is at home TO her friends.
and now and then To the public, but it is
very much like Mrs. Cleveland TO do it.
She wore pearl gray cloth gown. with a
little toque OF violet velvet. and made the
rounds OF all the Cabinet receptions TO the
delight of hostesses and guests Dr. Rry'
ant accompanied her.
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He shuck IT. He DID

At n downtown restaurant few days
ago a waiter brought on a glass Of iced tea.
decorated with en- inch-wide collar anGsa
piece OF cut lemon The inGuisitive bOarCier
turned 20 the waiter and asked:
TON, what is that fcam on top of ths
tea? Is it whipped cream of the white Of
an egg?''
'.Dat'sshuck, "saidthe waiter. .whoseemed
surprised that the question should bs
asked.
'.shrck, :" repeated the inGulsitive board
er. ''what's shuck?''
II dun shuck it, Miss said the waiteI
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The new Senator from New YorkeXhibits
most remarkably Of all recent political
careers the poetry of ups and downs Poll
ties is war, Mr. Evarts used to say; andnot
only must one take punishment as well al
give it, but he must give and take in the
other sense. That is, he must do, If he
would be done 10y. 1t is admitted now,
since the Albany dinner in honor of Mr..
Platt, that his behavior at the time OF the
famous resignation of the New York Sena-
tors IN the Garfield administration was
true and loyal. The close friends OF Mr..
Platt have always knownthis; and unques
tionably it is true Of him as il is OF Quay
and all other political leaders who really
last. that they are true and loyal. They
keep their promises and they dc things; for
politics. whether ii be played at society,
or business or public affairs, is the science
of really doing things.
Conkhng sulked Platt became a better
party man than ever. From his plain bust
ness office in lower Broadway he managed
the Republican machine of the greatest
State. not by distributing patronage, sure
IL, for usually he was without proper re-
!ations either with the National or with
the State government. 1t must have been
his will power and his wisdom. then, which
caused the various Republican leaders Of
the State. big and little, TO follow him,
and unquestionably it is true that this re-
election TO the United states Senate after
fifteen years came TO him practically IN
sought the more so since Mr.. Platt's real
ambition in later years has been known TO
be the Sccretaryship OF the Treasury.
Some have called Platt greater politi-
clan than Quay or German. He has never
appealed freely and with success to the
people themselves, as Quay has done; nor
has he managed both majority and a
minority party in the Senate. as German
has done with matchless tact; but for ten
years-for fifteen years. it may almost be
s;lid-he has managed without any public
authority the affairs Of his party in New
York: has been one OF the three or fOuI
most important factors in national conyen
tions. and has been absolutely essential Il
the eiec1ion of at least one President.
This is Thomas c. Platt, briefly: A
medium sized, slender man, quiet, intro
spective, inciSiye, indomitable, smooth
confiding, graspinG great public questions
better than your Presidents, managing MI
mute details better than your niultifariou
executive committee men, remembering
his friends; also remembering his enemies
if not to punish them, at least to preyen
them from Furnishing him again.
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death, and from that day to the present
all the wooden clock signs throughout the
country bear the same silent record.
The clock maker, being devout adj
mirer of Lincoln, came to Washington
when the body of the President was pre-
pared for the funeral train to take it to
its last resting place at Springfield. He
asked the privilege Of possessing the his
toric Bible upon which the President had
taken the oath of office, and it was given
to him. 1t is in fine state of preservation
and guarded with as much care as if it
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early recognized as one of the moving forces
on the Republican side, this by reason of
his eloquence and real political insight,
and in spite of his small size, for Senator
Spooner is not large or dignified looking.
His friendship for Uncle Philetus Sawyer,
SO long a Senator from Wisconsin. and the
friendship of Uncle Philetus for him, was
always noticeable; and they were a very
valuable pair of Senators for any State
to have-Sawyer with his money, and his
accomplished, old-fashioned ways; Spooner
with his dash and capacity for public
speaking
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at the inauguration of John Quincy Adams,
nor by whom it was presented to him. 1t
is supposed to have disappeared while he
was P resident.
The country is familiar with spurious
Bibles, their owners claiming historic value
for them because of their having been used
by various Presidents ut the time of their
inaugurations. The authenticity of sew
eral alleged historical Bibles, which are on
exhibition in various public institutions
throughout the country is cues toned. The
The morning times., 1897-03-04

A peculiar fact may be noted about the
Bibles used by the Adames father and son.
The one used by John Adams was owned,
when last heard of, by the captain OF a
trading vessel sailing from Boston. The
book was stolen from the ship while at u
cAor in an English port. Since that time
all trace of it has been lost, yet it does not
appear ever to have been offered for sale.
The prevailing impression at the time was
that the person who stole the hook was
INT of it's historic value and destroyed
it. Nothing is known OF the Bible used
The morning times., 1897-03-04
Thirteen New Senators

OF the sufferers before the governor Of
Pennsylvania himself had acted. This WAS
Joseph Benson Foraker. He was q brave
private soldier, winning commentator from
Gen. Sherman-as another former governor,
John p. Altgeld, was a dashing Union
cavalry soldier, thing about our public
men that we forget too often. So, For
aker was governor OF Ohio, the idol of the
younger and more aggressive Republicans
by reason OF Ills brilliant oratory and direct,
pugnac.ous leadership. He was intended
for election TO the Senate when John Sher-
man was lest reelected, but II on. Charles
Foster, assisted by the Federal admins
tration OF Benjamin Harrison, and also
by tie present Mr. Hanna, defeated him,
though his pledges in writing represented
a ma,ority Of the Republicans OF the leeis-
ture. Foraker took no public fund, but
returned TO his practice of law in Gin
cinnati. The same old friends, evidently,
did not forget him. They kept the legis-
lature Republican, and elected Foraker
United States Senator at the next opEor-
tunity.
This is a man rather above the medium
height and fairly stout; man with
flashing eye and resonant, persuasive
voice; an affectionate and winning man
ner, fiery in debate, impetuous in leader
ship. great strength Of Foraker is his
friends They have enabled him to keep
the upper hand in Ohio politics for years,
though Sherman, Hanna, Mckinley, Foster
| Grosyenor and Butterworth have at one
time or another beenin combination against
him. Lately lie seems to have thought il
best to let the appointment of Mr.. Hanna to
the Senate go through.
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the figures will be much enhanced by the
sparkling streams of water that will play
around and over them.
The centerpiece OF the group is
figure OF Neptune, eleven feet high. The
pose is one Of latent strength, as becomes
the sea god, and the figure is marvelously
well executed. A patriarctal beard adorns
the face, and the massive muscles stand
out with Herculean impressivenesS. This
figure is flanked on either side by
The morning times., 1897-03-04

Gen. Edward W. Pettus, of Alabama,
will be one of the new Senators and one
of the Oldest members in the body. Gen.
Pettus comes to the Senate at the ripe age
of seventy-gix. He has been active in the
political life of Alabama for more than
forty years. he was conspicuous before
and during the war, and held high rank in
the Confederate service. He was delayed
in reaching the Senate by the circumstance
that Gen. Morgan, who has long repre-
sented Alabama in the upper branch, is
also a resident of Salem; but at last the
people determined that even if two good
men happened to live in the same town it
The morning times., 1897-03-04

Probably Thomas c. Platt, of New York,
would easily be called the shrewdest and
most experienced political leader among
ali the new Senators, Boies Penrose, OF
PENNSYLVANIA, the most promising tand that
means very much1, Joseph b. Foraker, OF
Ohio. the most dashing and brilliant ora
tor, and William L. Mason, OF Illinois, the
most humorous. John c. Spooner, OF WIS
consin, is himself passionate orator also,
and he possesses great ability Eor must
The morning times., 1897-03-04

parts Of the great basin The water will
come from the mouths of monster turtles
lurking in the front Of the basin, as If in
defiance of the sea king and his attendant
nymphs.
In the day time the effect win be
beautiful enough, but at night, when
the electric light fHuminates the scene
and the splashing waters scintiIlate with
a thousand sparkling flashes, it. viii be
dazzlingly fine
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The new Senator from Delaware, Richard
r Kenney, is the lUckieSt and the youngest
of them all. Up to the time when An
thoGy Higgins was sent to the Senate by
the Republicans of the smallest State,
only two dynasties, the SalisburyS and the
Rayards, had ruled Della ware politics.
The Bayards had sat in the Senate for
four or five generations and the Sails
burys, though newer family, were hardly
less remark able. The scan dals of this
three-county State arc too familiar OBJ
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Hon. John C. spooner, the new Senator
from Wisconsin, has been absent from the
Senate SIX years. He was replaced by Mr..
Villas, and now replaces Villas He was
born in Indiana in S44, and served year
in the army as a private soldier. Later
he was private secretary to Gov. Fairchild,
and then he became a lawyer and attorney
general of Wisconsin. He came to the
United States Senate first in 1885, and wss
The morning times., 1897-03-04

The colossal bronze figures recently
finished by Sculptor E. d. Perry, Of New
York, are placed in position in front of the
Congressional Library, and the Capital City
is able to boast of one OF the finest heroic
groups In the entire country. The army
of visitors now in Washington from all
parts of the country because OF the in
auguration have an opportunity to see
and admire them. They are to form / art
of a large fountain, and the beauty OF
The morning times., 1897-03-04
Two Colossal Groups of Statuary
In Front of the Congressional Library

the figures of sea nymphs, mounted on
strange creatures, with heads or horses
and tails OF fish
The nyInphs are eight and a half feet
high, and their mounts are Of equally eolos-
sal proportions The nynphs bestride the
animals with graceful strength and grasp
the names in a manner suggestive OF per-
feet dominance. The figures are nude.
and will seem to be riding into the midst
of the various streams OF water that will
play upon the necks Of the animals from al
The morning times., 1897-03-04

and 1 can imagine no happier condition
than to have baby in it all the rest OF
my life. And so, you see, when the
baby's gone l have his shoe TO fill his
''seat," so to speak, and my servants would
as soon burn the house down as TO take
that shoe away
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The rollicking Billy Mason is the new
Senator from Illinois, well known every
where as humorist; not known enough as
a serious, able and Inexperienced public man.
He is forty-siX, a New York boy, who
taught school and practiced law III Iowa,
and then went to Chicago and into public
life, and TO the State legislature, and To
Congress- His election to the Senate is
somewhat poetic, at least from the home
point of view; for it became his fixed am
bition after he retired from the House Of
Representatives in 1880, to come to the
upper branch some time.
The Republican machine in Illinois,
The morning times., 1897-03-04

One of the gaunt, gray army that sur
rendered at Apr omattox with Lees brave
legion of northern Virginia is a Senator
from bleeding Kansas. William A JaIris
is a VirginIan by birth. He was a student
OF the Virginia Military Academy before
the war, and a private IN the Confederate
army, and afterward an officer-although
one of the few who wore the gray that did
not attain the rank of colonel. Soon after
the war he settled in Kansas, became the
owner of a large ranch. He became prom
inent in the Farmers Alliance also, and
naturally driftcd over to the Populist
party. In 1892 he was elected Congress
man-at-large for Kansas by the Populists
and Democrats. For reelection two years
after, he was defeated by Capt. Richard A.
Bliss. Last fall he was elected to the State
senate of Kansas, and was to take his seat
in that body when promoted at one bound
from the senate at Topeka to the Senate at
Washington.
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The brilliant Young Senator from Penn
sylvania, Boies Penrose, is only thirty
six All Harvard graduates OF the eaIly
eighties remember him very well, tall,
rather slender, standing among the highest
in his class, apparently without effort,
either. perfect fiend in mathematics, one
Of the fellows with three or four brothers
in college. all high stand men, apparently
without effort. of a fine family, but never
Dragging about IL. Well, PenroSe went
into politics, and on q partisan Repub-
lican basis. contrary to the customary
Harvard fad. Quay, the Easy Boss Of
Philadel phia, as well as the rest of
Pennsylvania, always liked Peurose and
sent him TO the State senate. where 10y the
means of the efforts of his friends, yhich
were, in fact, his own efforts, he was
made the president. He was slatesl by the
Quay people to he mayor of Philadelphia,
but Dave Martin threw him down. Mr..
Quay used to tell his intimate friends
months ago, perhaps a year ago, that
Boies Penrose You'd be Senator from
Pennsylvania TO succeed Don Cameron.
After this discoura cement in the Phila-
delphia mayorality the certain progress
of Penrose towards the Senatorship seemed
all the more striking.
PenroSe makes a dashing and thought
ful speech, knows practical politics from
the wardroom up, studies deeply, keeps
his word, doesn't lose his head with his
successes. works incessa ntiy, loves his
political friends, among them Mr.. Quay,
whois very lovabie when you really know
him, and promises n lifetime of honorable
public service in the Senate.