Arizona silver belt., 1901-02-14
The World One Hundred Years Ago.

ne world One Hundred years Ago.
 January sl 1901
 The busiest man in Washington city at the close of January was President Adams. It was now evident that the federalists, whatever they might do with the tie between Jefferson and Burr, the republicans, afer the na- tional election was thrown in congress, would not place him in the executive chair agaln. Consequently, Adams was making the most of his time in the White House by appointing his friends to official positions and sending the nominations to the senate as rapidly as they could be ground out A greater portion of his time had been thus consumed for more than a month, and it was kept np to the hour of mid night on the evening of March 3, the last day of federaist domination. John Marshall was then secretary of state and had been honored himself by Mir. Adams, who flied the vacancy on the supreme bench of chief justice, since John Jays resignation, by giv- ing him the position Marshall was now employed signing Adams com. missions with jealous dispatch. A dramatic tale represents Levi Lincoln, who was to be attorney general under Jefferson, going into Marshalps office, with Jefferson's watch in his hand and staying this process of office filling precisely at l2 o'clock, though many unsigned commissions still lay on the table. But the work of Adams in crowdlng in with whip and spur these new appointments went for naught Jefferson, once in office, termed 1t an outrage on decency, and declared that 1t should not have it's effect except Tn life appointment; the other nomina- tions he considered as utilities Thus the foundation of one of Jackson's fundamental principles many years later that Ito the victor belong the spoils'' was laid. Adams was prompt ly rebuked by the removal of twenty four persons appointed in the two months previous, and other removals soon followed, for what was later called offensive partisanship." In all, tke new president got rid of ninety nine Ofcourse Marshall remained as the chief justice, though in his ap- pointmenU Adams scarcely foresaw that he was to be the greatest of Amer ican jnrists. Marshall had been Adams secretary of state for less than a year, succeeding Pickering upon his re- moval in May, 1900.
 While serving an apprenticeship as joiner and csbinetmaker at Stalham, England, William Cubitt, who after ward distinguished himself as an en- gineer, invented selt-regulating wind mill sails which were later patented and universally used Prior to that the wIndmiils were encountered with sails su large that they proved exceed ingly difficult to handle durlng storm.
 Yachting was one of the infre quent paStimes Of the wealthy Of England. The Cumberland society, consisting of gentlemen partial to this sport, gave yearly q silver cup to be sailed for in the vicinity ot London Very few yachts or any size, say thirty i've tons, existed at this date, however.
 Among the births of the first year of the century of persons who won fame in life during it were:
 Robert Francis W. Aston, Ameri- can agriculLuraiist and statesman.
 Sherlock J. Andrews, American jurist.
 The Rev, John Ayre, Biblical scholar and author
 Benjamin Franklin Bache, Ameri- can surgeon.
 Joel $. Bacon, American clergyman, professor and college president.
 Theoran Baldwin, American Con- gregationalist. clergyman, educator. Copyright, 1901, by R. E. Hughes. Louisville.
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