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The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-13

A Kansas school board received the following letter the other day from one of the teachers: T would like to have the refusal of the school as long as you are willing to hold it for me, though can't say positively that I will not teach, nor positively that I will. If am married. as I think I will be, of course I will not want the school. But you know the old story about many job as we'll as the other"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-13

Edward Kimball, who died in Chca- go the other day. became we'll known years ago through his success in ras- ing church debts. When he lived in Boston, more than fifty years ago, he taught a class in the Mount Vernon church Sunday school and had D. l.. Moody as one of his pupils ''The amount of church debts raised by him. says the Chicago Tribune, "has been estimated at more than $10,000, 00O Among the churches that have been aided by MT. Kimballs efforts are the Lincoln Park and the Union Park Con- gregational churches, and the Imman- uel Baptist church, of Chicago. The largest debt raised by him was that of Dr. Robinson's Presbyterian church, of New York city, where s11000O was raised at two meetings. Although not a remarkably eloquent speaker, the force and sincerity of Mr Kimball gained success where oratorical efforts had failed. He was possessed of commanding presence, being over six feet in height, and until a few months before his death had maintained vigor- ous health.''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-13

HE WEEKLY OUKNAL, Issued Thursdays, One Dollar Ycnr.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-13

December 29, 1902, will complete two hundred years since Peter the Great sanctioned the appearance of the first Russian newspaper, and the Biblio- graphical Society of Moscow proposes to celebrate the anniversary by issuing an edition de luxe volume containing list of all the Russian nesspapers pub lished during the two centuries, with portraits of the more distinguished journalists. The proceeds are to be applied to a fund for the relief of Journalists in need.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-23

Men, mannerf cuftomf, artf and lawt
made known;
Here every page your wonder fhall ex-
light"
A copy of the second edition of a book
by one DR.. Campbell. entitled "Hermip-
pus Redivivus,'' or 'The Sage's Tri-
umph," published in 1919, tells of the
writer's discovery of a much sought after
elixir Of life. 1t Is a book wherein"
to quote the learned doctor, "a method Is
laid down for prolonging the life and
vigor Of man, including a commentary
upon an ancient inscription in which this
great secret is revealed; supported by
numerous authorities, the whole inter
spersed with great variety of remark
able and well attested relations" Doubt
less the doctors elixir, like all the other
elixirs, was not efficaceous enough to
bring it's discoverer fame, for the learned
doctors book is chiefly interesting be-
cause it was written by a. man whose
very name has long since been forgotten.
On fly leaf of the book is written the
name James Curtis and the date
'174S.' Doubtless James was a former
owner who mad purchased the book, at
tracted by its promising title.
A small volume Of the-letters Of Jun
David Hanna, Is much thumbed and
many of the passages are marked. An
examination of his books cannot fail to
convince one that Donnelly deserves the
title scholar" One cannot pick up
book in his library without coming across
marg nal notes, vigorous little comments
and bits of criticism all written in the
owners painstaking hand Such notes
written on the pages on an old Bible
fairly crowd the text. Many of the mar
g1naa notes on the pages of this Bible
are rather trenchant criticisms, but for
all that they were very evidently writ
ten in feryent spirit.
LITTLE MODERN LITERATURE.
The man who worked and wrote in that
library at Nininger had, apparently, a
fine scorn for modern literature, for in
but few of the bookcases do the so-called
modern novels" have a place. Indeed,
for that matter, fiction itself has been
almost entirely crowded out. Some
chance visitor had left on a little table
in the room copy Of "Alice
Of Old Vincennes." In its spick
and span and very ornate cover
1t seemed like an anachronism.
With modern flippancy the book touches
elbows with bound volume OF newspapers
published by Benjamin Franklin in Phil
adelphia, and entitled 1.-THE Pennsy1-
vania Chronicle and Universal Advertis-
err" The file, which Is complete, includes
the papers published between Feb. 1, 1853,
and Jan. 25. 1749. The papers are fasci-
mating enough to keep a visitor prisoner
in the library for a year. An advertise
ment for runaway slave speaks disap-
provingly OF his addiction to strong drink
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-23

and the VIOLIN Another, asking for a
clerk, states that only one accustomed
to writing with ink on a table Will do
and that sit will be folly for anybody
else to apply
If there is modern spot in the library
1t might be called the south corner, for
here are filed away five fat and strongly
bound scrapbookS filled with newspaper
clippings about Mr.. Donnelly. Everything
that has ever been said or written about
him, good, bad or Indifferent, praise Or
abuse-alas! it is mostly abuse-is to be
found inside those scrapbooks. The mer-
eileSS cartoons are there also, some Of
them scathing enough to make even q
stranger wink. Besides these there are
several notebooks that form almost g.
complete diary. A box close by is filled
with letters written to Donnelly, not a
few of them by famous men. One writ
ten by Gladstone shortly after Donnelly
published his Atlantis covers four
pages in the grand old mans" villainous
chirography.
The modern corner is also a strongly
political corner. Everything that bears
any reference to the many political battles
fought by the. Sage of Nininger has
place. there. This modern corner almost
persuades one into the belief that two
men owned the library and worked in it.
blow for blow, hurting at his foes keen,
witty, sometimes, indeed, vituperative
words; the other scholar, happy only
when delving in the musty chronicles of
the past, living the shadowy life Of far
away period. Which was the stronger
side of that puzzling personality? Was
1t the scholar who played with poAtics,
or did the politician find amusement and
a brief forgetfulness while he toyed with
books? 1t would be difficult, perhaps, to
say. But sitting IN that old library, fin
gering the well-thumbed volumes tracing
the lines Of the restless pen that printed
Donnelly's own individuality on every
margin, one is forced to believe that his
heart was with his books They Were
evidently his closest companions. Doubt
less he had many opportunities for con-
trasting the satisfying companionship of
those faithful friends with that of those
other and not quite so dependable friends
Of the world.
He felt every satirical or abusive thing
said about him. said his wife, who still
lives in the Donnelly homestead with the
books, "and every one hurt him. But
when he was surrounded by his books
he seemed to forget the world. There
was a look Of content on his face that
he never carried with him outside the
library
And indeed, 1t would seem very easy
to forget the world at Ntninger, Only
the river that hurries by, Just at the foot
of the lawn, has a suggestion Of its rest
lessness All the rest, the BIRDS the
books, the trees and the flowers, are hap
PLY and drowsily content.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-23
Thousands of Rare Volumes Testify to the Scholarly
Tastes Of the Sage of
Ninnger.
Nininger.

oVal-framed portraits on the wall tie
splndle-legged furniture the old-fash-
Toned AID cumbersome piano, all take
one back quite half a century when fur
nlture was made for use and comfort
and the rooms for bigger people, The
library is exactly the length of the draw
ing room, but large as it is it Is not
large enough to hold all the books in
the house, which number, perhaps, about
4oOO volumes. Some of these books have
spilled out into the hall. The rooms up
stairs are filled with them, and one is
continually coming across g. little heap
OF them stored away in out of the way
nookWs and crannies about the house
ATTRACTED BY BONAFARTE.
Like so many modern men, men Wha
rave worked hard and studied much.
Donaelly was evidently strongly attracted
by the complex personality of Napoleon
Sonaparte. Everywhere are to be found
portraits of the Little Corsiean. A fine
picture of him hangs In the drawing
room, another in the library, and in
this latter room, near Donneliy's writ
ing desk, there hangs the death-1rask
OF the restless intriguer. Autograph pic
lures of men noted in history gaze stiff
~ at each other from the walls There
is picture of Gladstone with his own
almost in1ecipherable signature under
4ASS~SAAI Ol4C VI A41I1COll, with his name
| scrawled below in uncouth but strongly
individual writing; one of James A. Car
field, the signature correct and scholarly
like the man himself; one of Pasteur, and
many others.
Far removed from the living rooms Of
, the house, the library at Nininger has
an atmosphere all its own 1t is an Eliza
bethan atmosphere. Indeed, the supersli-
tious entering the room that has been
closed for many months, might easily be
! persuaded into believing that the shades
of Bacon. Shakespeare, and those others
who made the history of that brilliant
Elizabethan age, had taken possession OF
the low-ceilinged room DonnelIy, per-
haps, understood more completely than
any other scholar of his time that fas-
cinating period in English history. He
surrounded himself with every book ever
written on the subject. The shades
if indeed they have taken possession of
the library, and there Is an uncanniness
about it that would lead the credulous
to believe in such a tenancy-must GER
! tainiy FEEL at homo The big elass-door-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-23
Margins of His Books Are Covered
With Notes Written in His
Own Hand

How little a thing is glory. 1t con-
kists simply of thoughts of you in the
minds of others, and in a short time those
others will be dust and their very names
have persisted. Fame? Fame is nothing
We leave nothing behind us on this earth
that is permanent. Big or little, eminent
or obscure, we each contribute to that
intangible network of earth forces, for
ever renewing themselves with every new
brain that is born into the world"
On a clumsy, old-faShioned desk in one
corner of the library at Nintnger there
lay a little book written by Ignatius
Donnelly. The book was open, and the
visitor, entering the disused room one
day last week, CHANGED upon the book
and read the few mournful words quoted
above. The words are heavily under
scored, as if some one, impressed by their
special appropriateness, has done his best
10 make them point the moral of their
surroundings. Certainly they seemed es-
pecially significant read in the room that
for forty-foUr years was the authors
workshop, and where for almost half a
century he struggled for that elusive
fame his own words deride, fame that
was never quite within his grasp.
Nlninger is a library in woods The
house where Ignatjus Donnelly lived and
wrote-a roomy, white house. encircled
by broad veranda and with windows
reaching from ceiling to hoor-iS Sepa-
rated from the few other houses in the
village by a grove of trees. In our rapid
Western life, where buildings exist one
week only on paper and almost the next
week are very real, if not substantial,
affairs in lumber. Nininger seems an an
tiqGe The house was built in 1851 and
WAS the home of Mr.. Donnelly from the
day of its completion until his death,
which occurred last January. A huge
elk head hangs just above the side en-
trance to the house. 1t has hung there
for forty years. In style of architecture
the building resembles an old Southern
plantation home. A wide hall runs the
whole length of it. dividing a long draw
Ing room from the equally long library.
At the end of this hall is q winding
stairway and behind it the living rooms
The furniture of the drawing room be-
longs TO another decade. The quaint.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-23
IN IGNRTIUS DONNEILY'S LIBRARY

ed bookcases reach from the ceiling to
the floor and almost line the walls One
of the largest cases is filed entirely with
the works of Elizabethan writer's and
with books written about the famous Ba-
con-Shakespeare controversy. Many of
those books are doubtless valuable. The
Oldest volume Is a copy of Francis Ba-
cons DE Arguments Scientiarum," a
first edition folio, published in 1923. the
very year that the first edition of
Shakespeare's plays was published The
book is bound in vellum, but the binding
is now bent and discoIered. The wide
margins are worn in ragged edges and the
pages are yellow with age DonneMy did
not possess a 1923 folio Of Shakespeare
and when he first began to work on the
sreat cipher he was much handicapped
by the incorrectness Of the modern copies
he was compelled to use. Later, however,
he obtained Photographic production Of
the 1873 folio, and also fac smile copy
Of that first edition. Both these books
are filed with margininal notes made
while the writer was puzzling over the
cipher. He worked at first on the Henry
plays only, and so fine and close together
are the notes and figures written on the
margins Of the pages of these plays that
they are almost illegible.
SUGGESTED THE CIPHER.
A curious little book found among the
Shakespeare would seem at first entire
ly out of place until one has learned its
story. The title Of the volume is Every
Boys Book" 1t was presented to Dr..
1gnatius Donnelly, Ignatius Donnelly's
Oldest son, when the former was a very
small boy. At that time Mr.. Donnelly
was merely Shakespearean scholar and
the idea Of a cipher in connection with
the immortal works had not occurred to
him. The little book presented to his
son by friend contained 81 chapter on
ciphers and mentioned, among other
things, the Bacon cipher. That chapter
furnished to the scholar a clue that Don
nelly pursued steadily for ten years, in
the face of discoura cement, ridicule and
abuse The result was 1.-The Great
Cryptogram'' and later THE Cipher on
the Tombstone"
A book so old and battered that it's
crumbling covers are held together only
by means Of stout cords, is a geography
printed in 1777 ''for J. Cooke, at
Shakespeare's Head, No. II Pater Noster
Row." SO it says on the cover. On one
Of the leaves is printed this neat little
bit Of advertisement for itself, written in
quaint letters with all the ss's, ifs
ITO know the world, from home you
need not ftray;
Sit at your cafe and every cline fur
vey;
Empiref. kingdomf. stated and realms are
fhown1
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-23
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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-22
THE RA1HBUN CASE
A Woman Claims the Dead Body as
That of Her Son

Little Rock, Ark, November Is. -
The most interesting development here
today in connection with the Rathbun
case is the receipt Of d letter by Chief
of Police Mcmahon from a in
Peru, Ind, claiming the body which still
lies here in a vault at Oakland cemetery
as her son. The chief will not at this
time give out this letter, or reveal the
name of his correspondent. but says
that she sent him the DESCRIPTION sent
out by him of the corpse, which she
had clipped from some paper, assert
ing that it must be the body Of her son,
a man who a not, up to this time,
been mentioned in connection with the
case. The chief has his theories about
the whole matter and declares that
Everybody is on the wrong scent.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-22
Ihsnxes In the Senate

There being forty-five states, each
titled to Two seats In the senate, -
senate consists OF ninety senator's. but
there is scarcely a possibility OF a full
senate before the end OF the first ses-
sion of the forty-seventh congress.
When that body on the Sec
ond day Of December there viii De
more than lone vacant chair The
state of will be entirely un-
represented. leaving lightweight sena-
tors to answer to roll call. The man
who some years ago split the repubh-
can party in Delaware into two hostile
factions is responsible for those vacan-
cies. While not able to get himseif
into the senate, he had strength enough
to prevent the election Of anybody else.
Delaware naturally deplores these q
c~ancies, but the decency of the state
prefers no senators to he alternative
presented by Addicks. And Ii Is a some
what notable fact that republican SEN
timent throughout the country, as rep
resented by the influential republican
papers, applauds the choice made d.
Delaware decency.
When all the state legislatures had adj
iourned last spring there were hfty-two
republican senator's, twenty-sfx demo-
cratic senators, six populist senators,
three silver republican senator's. n
George l. Wellington, who was elected
as a republican. but deserted his party
ana mao no pOill1Cdi CIdcitiSdtioh. AA[
return of senators Stewart and Jones.
OF Nevada. to the communion and :
lowship Of the republican party U
the silver republican contingent to u
Senator Teller. OF Colorado AID
raises the republican figure to hfty-
four.
The November elections Of this year
have resulted In a gain OF two senators
by the democrats but the change viii
not take effect until the Fffty-eigntn
congress comes In on the 4th OF March.
1903. Then Arthur Pue German VIII
succeed George L Wellington. and De-
Doe, of Kentucky, viii give place to q
democrat.
In one respect, at least. the demo-
! cratic party resembles ruth History
| shows that, when crushed 20 earth. IL
does not stay down. II cannot get con-
troll Of the senate IN the fifty eighth
, congress-, but IL certainly has a good
fighting chanc for tie house-Wash-
ington Post.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-22
Fnipinos' DeIfcacies

A Kansas soldier serving at TarIas
in the Philippines. writes home: The
natives here are not SO backward In
many things. while in others they are
no better than savages. Some OF them
have good educations, and about 70 per
cent. a read and write. b they are
idle and lazy. Their food is not choice
in the least. They a baked grass
hoppers and June bugs with relish.
Snails are another great dish for them.
OF course. these are delicacies for Them
they don't have them every day. Rice
is their main dish. They cook a bic
pot OF IL, ana the all sit down around
it and eat with their fingers. Knives
and forks are unknown to them Yet
some OF these very same people can
read Latin and Greek. and talk proba-
bly, two or three modern languages. ]
have been studying Spanish. but II WI
be along time before / can talk IL uu-
emily. I tried TO get my discharge to
teach school here. but my captain dis
approved Of it"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-22
yIRGINA,s PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Amendment to b Consti
tuition Under Discussion

Richmond, Va, November 15.-The
constitutional convention look UP and
discussed the education report in COM
Imittee of the whole today. Mr.. Parks.
of Page, in the chair.
One of the most important amend
|ments adopted was that offered by Mr..
Lindsay. adding the superintendent Of
the deaf, dumb and lind school in
Staunton to the proposed new board
of education of the state.
There was a debate between Chair
man McIlwaine, of the education com
|mittee. and Senator KeeSell, the latter
having suggested that the committee
seemed to propose to have college pres
|idents control the free schools, when
they should be in h hands of a board
closer to the people.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-22
THENEw YORK CoLLECroRsHIP
state Senator Stranahan Given the
Place without solicitation

Washington, November 16.-State
Senator Stranahan. of Oswego, n. Y,
after a call upon the president today,
made the following statement:
president Roosevelt this morning
rendered me the office of the collector
of New York, with the understanding
that L shall assume it's duties April 1st
next. The office of collector comes to
me absolutely unsolicited and, l may
say. with the cordial concurrence of the
president and Senator Platt. The SEN
atOr undoubtedly desired he reap
pOintment of Mr.. Bidwell, but if this
was not to be DONE, he is entirely salts
fled with me-"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-22
TO CHANGE DUMMY CLOCKS
Plan of Jewellers in Memory of Presi-
dent Mckinley

A plan started in Denver to change
the hour at which the hands of dunn
my clocks point has not been consid-
cred by jewelers. in Savannah. and
nothing has been done in that direc-
ton. ALI dummy clocks that are sent
out from the factories now mark the
hour Of SITE.
It was at that time tina President
Lincoln was assassinated and the story
Is told that the hands of the dummy
clocks were made to point to the hour
when a calamity fell pom the nation.
The Denver jewelers. want h hands
to point to the hour that President NC
Kinley breathed his last and intend to
have the National Association Of Jew
slers AXE h matter up. 1t has been
claimed that the story Of President
Lincoln's connection with the time
marked by the clocks used for adver-
Using purposes is a romance, but it is
generally credited.
Several Savannah jewellers who were
spoken to about the matter believe the
story and say that there must be some
reason for the fact that on all dummy
clocks the hands point to the same
time. That is the hands point to S:17h
on the clocks when they are SEM out
from h factories. There are quite a
number of dummy clocks in the city
that do not point to the time mention
ed. but 1t was explained by a jeweler
that they were probably uniform in
that the change was made by painters
employed to do them over. It may be
that the n jewellers will have
their way, n hat hereafter the dunn
my clocks will point out the hour tina,
President Mckinley breathed his last
Savannah News.