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The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23
THE PRESIDENTS seoaeHAass,
Position Requires Qualifications
Business Man ana Dfpiomat-SS

Position Requires oualfRcationS Of
Business Man and Dipfom at-sS
The position of Secretary to the
President of the United States 4s AN
arduous one. In the rendering 81 its
multitudinous services it calls for the
business qualifications of a method
zeal and systematic clerk, in the per-
Torrance of the daily routine of OFF,
ciai work. and the fnesse of a prac-
ticed diplomat in meeting rad salts
factorily adjusting situations which
naturally come before him as an in
termediary between the President and
an assorted public, each individual Of
which believes himself entitled to
portion of the time and interest Of
the chief executive.
The task of handling and answer
ing the White House mail is in itself
no small one, the President receiving
from 200 to 1000 letters day. I'm
portant or not. each OF these COM
munications receives due attention,
the secretary carefully sorting and
classifying them; presenting some to
the personal attention of the Presi-
dent. referring others to the depart
ment or person to which each prop
teous acknowledgement from the
Presidents representative.
The Secretary is also required to
meet and dispose of the numerous Wis
itorS who call on the President at
times not set aside for his public re-
ceptions. and whose business ranges
all the way from that relative to the
appointment of Supreme court
Judge or the governor of a turbulent
territory to the obtaining of the pres
idential autograph for schoolgirls
album.
To deal with this heterogeneous
mass in such way as to best serve
the ends of both business and cour-
tesy requires endless resources of
tact and good judgment.
The Secretary is also expected to
keep at his fingers ends, says Sue
cess, the details of all the official bus
mess of the executive Office, and the
President is likely to send for him
frequently each day to consult him
regarding official gements which
have been made by him, to seek in
formation and advise with him upon
some matter under consideration, or,
at a moments notice, to bring papers
and data in some case demanding i'm
mediate attention.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23
Indian Territory Coal Deposits.

Some idea of the value of the coal
deposits in Indian territory can be
gained when it is known the average
thickness of che vein is four feet,
which will produce 1000 tons to the
acre. These lands are leased in lots
of 900 acres each, which means that
$500 900 to 100000 tons can be pro-
duced by those leasing the land. On
this output the lessees pay royalty
of s cents a ton The output during
the last year was 1.90o 1877. as against
l,4Oo441 tons the previous year.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23
Especial letter.


," He domestic infelicities of Eu--
ropean royalties have never
come SO prominently before
the public as have the difficult
ties of Queen Wilhelmina of the
Netherlands. 1t is realized that Hoi-
lands scandal may have grave political
consequences for Europe. and hence
it's developments are followed closely
by statesmen. There are grave appre-
tensions for the future.
England is more deeply concerned in
the scandal going on in Hesse. where
one of Queen Victorias granddaugh-
tiers is on the verge of separation from
her husband This youthful marriage
the Grand Duchess of Hesse was only
10 when she exchanged her British title
for a Continental one-has proved to
be one OF the most unsatisfactory
among all the royal matches; and the
climax. is is believed would have
been reached ere this had it not been
for the late Queen Victoria imperious
influence The Duke of Edinburgh's
other daughter, the Grown Princess of
Roumania. according to common re-
port also leads a none too happy mar
tial existence, though recent rumors
OF open rupture are ileG VIII SlleI-
Gus official denial. However, no one
in England would be surprised to hear
that she is figuring in a role similar
to that of her sister, the Grand Ouch
ess OF Hesse.
Then there are scandals going on in
the Courts of Belgrade and Lisbon, but
these have been so long before the pub
lie eye as to need no comment.
Those Liberals who have always
been opponents to Mr.. Chamberlain's
policy are very we'll pleased with the
result of the Liberal conference at
Derby. The conference condemned
the concentration camps they pro-
tested against martial law, they ex-
pressed confidence in Sir Henry Camp
bell Bannerman and they resolved that
| a Special Commissioner should be sent
to South Africa, as Lord Durham was
sent to Canada more than 60 years ago.
with full power to negotiating and con-
| Guiding peace.
| OF course this last step will not be
| taken. The opposition cannot govern
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23

ties. AS it is there is a superabund-
ance of churches in the land and re-
igious sentiment in France is rapidly
on the decrease. The buyer of monas-
tic grounds wants a bargain since it
will be costly to pull down the enor-
nous sanctuaries upon them. Only q
few of these edifices have passed into
the hands of the Protestant denomina-
tions, which are working zealous!y to
fan the dying embers of faith IN
France.
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EranciS nstnh ut TRhIe.

The EmLe or Fr nc Joseph CT AIS.
tria is very plain in his tastes auo
habits. says London NJ. y. +. 1t c
o'clock in the morning he takes his
breakfast. consisting of some cold
meat. coffee and fresh made bread an
cake. Between T. and | o'clock he
takes his Cricmor, two dishes OF met
and some ordinary pastry. Dinner is
served a IS o'clock sharp. All his
meals are served in his library at his
writing desk. Not even Il tablCclCih is
spread. His personal valet on duty
receives the dishes in an antecha mber
on large tray. and puts the tray be-
fore the emperor at his desk. Very
often the emperor takes spoonful of
soup between two signatures. He is a
very busy man. The emperor does not
care much for wine. He prefers a
glass of beer Nor does he indulge in
expensive Havana cigars. \ Plain
hor@ made cigar. the So-called Nlr-
ginia cigar. long and thin. with a
straw running through it. is his favor
lite smoke These cigars cost only five
kreuzer-that is, about four cents
apiece
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presidency OF the Red Cross. as has
been runnors /. but remains at its
head. Although advanced in years.
she is the same energetic. CHEEKY per-
son as ever, Work, she says-respon-
Utility. the laborihg for other-leeps
her young, and she proposes to die in
harness.
Ambassador and Mrs. Choate were
conspicuous figures at the social func-
tons Of the last week. Many dimes
were given in their honor, and they
, Were assiduous in making visits. The
ambassador is in fine health and spir
it's, and speaks with enthusiasm of
his stay at the capital.
Foremost in our higher natior-.I leg
islative body is, of course. the Presi-
dent Pro Tempore of the Senate, Mr.
Frye, senior senator from the state of
Maine William Pierce Frye was born
at Lewiston. in the state he nov so
ably represents, on the second day of
September, 1881. He served in the
42d, 43d 44th, 45th. 46th and 47th con-
crosses, and was elected to the United
States Senate in 1881 to fill the va
cacy caused by the resignation of Hon
James G. Blaine, and has served CON
tinuously in the latter body since that
time. He was reelected TO the Senate
last year to serve another term begin
ming with March 4. 1901.
No more prominent. persistent and
earnest advocate of subsidies to the
merchant marine than Senator Frye
lives His whole mind and being are
conferred up this important subject
an he says in no uncertain tone that
a ship subsidy bill shall pass Congress
at this session. A grzzled old fighter
he commands the earnest attention of
the Senate always.
Senator Frye is, besides being Pres
ident Pro Tempore of the Senate
chairman of the committee on com
merce, one of the most important of
the standing committees of the upper
house During the last session he had
charge of the river and harbor bill,
carrying appropriations amounting to
more than seventy millions of dollars.
Mrs. Roosevelt held largely attend
ed informal card reception Tuesday
The guests were received in the Blue
room by the Presidents wife, who
wore a light lowered silk gown with
diamondtipped pompadour aigrette in
her hair. Miss Alice Roosevelt who
3SSlSLGu her HlOJlleF, wore Il gown
white wool with Irish lace.
An interesting history attaches TO q
chair which Representative Robert r.
Hit has just installed in his library
1t is heavy oak piece, deliberately
carved and very suitable for such a
place. but its chief value consists in
the fact that it is the chair in which
Mr.. Hit sat when he first came 20
congress twenty years ago. The treas
ure has been placed in Mr.. Hits resi-
dence on K street
Former Senator Chandler of New
Hampshire, president of the Spanish
treaty claim commission, will present
to senator Lodge of Massachusetts n
handsome cigar boa made of sixteen
parts of silver and one of gold, and
fittingly inscribed, to commemorate
the fact that to Mr. Lodge is due the
honor. if honor it may be, of having
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23

ing. but for this great opportunity that
has come to her. Had the teacher
known less 81 the value of Edna 5
voice she might still be working hard
to play and sing for recital which at
most would bring her but S25. 1t was
really Miss Carrick who discovered
this embryonic artist. y year ago she
had the child sing for Damrosch, and
the great interpreter OF Wagner praised
her.
Edna and her mother had their
Thanksgiving dinner with the fairy
godmother, and it was a dinner that
none of the three will ever forget.
Mrs. Darch was the silent one, for
back of the thankfulness for her chilo s
good fortune was the thought of sep
aration.
But / shall not steal her away from
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23
.Jnpane.e Religion.

Japans religion has no creed. no
ceremonies necessary to its practice,
no sacred legends or mysteries, and
nothing of the machinery of spiritl.--.
power which characterizes great re-
iigions in other countries. 1t makes
40 proselytes. 1t opposes no belief
and insists on none. But it is the
animating spirit that causes Jap
anese to love his children, to be kind
to his wife. to help the stranger. to
be loyal to Japan. to devote his life
to her service.
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public schools an assignment was
given reporter of a paper that has
to illustrate its news matter, to get a
picture of the youngster entering the
school building. So the photographic
reporter stationed himself near the
front door of Force School, on Mdssa-
chusettS avenue and awaited the COM
ing of the White House carriage with
its precious load. An hour after the
opening hour the watcher gave up the
job, having taken no notice of the
first lady of the lady, who had walked
with her boy from the White House,
entered the building, saw him properly
enrolled and seated and departed In
the same unobtrusive manner. The
second day the watcher was just as
unsuccessful. for the youngster dashed
into the grounds on bicycle and was
behind the fence in the yard before
he could be identified. And the third
day it was no better. On that coca
sion he rode up in an express wagon
and from it vaulted the fence into the
yard, still unspotted by the camera
fiend. With that the reporter gave up
the Job.
Mrs Roosevelt has ordered a large
supply of linen from Porto Rico for
use in the White House. All of it will
be embroidered with the coat of arms
of the United States. While in New
York Mrs. Roosevelt became much in
terested in the work of the Porto
Rican women, and wishing to assist
the enterprises of the island. as we'll
as secure rare linen for the White
House. she gave the order.
Members of the rivers and harbors
committee regard the passage of riv-
erS and harbors bill as a certainty of
the present session of congress. Their
present plan contemplates a bill the
passage of which will cost the govern
ment from $50 900 900 to S65, 900 900.
Clara Barton will not resign the
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23

Bartho,di. the sculptor of the statue
of Liberty. has made "A colossal statue
of NercingetoriX. the hero of Gaul
which is to be set up at Clermont-
Ferrand. $50 miles from Paris. The
statue is fourteen feet high and six
teen feet long and weighs four tons
AS it cannot be conveyed by railroad
the experiment viii be made of carry
ing it one block by an automoDlie
wagon from Paris.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23

The marshy ground of the Gangea
delta, with it's vast masses of Ve2e-
tation. decaying under a tropical sun
is the native home of the cholera. In
that pestilential region the cholera
and plague are found every year anu
all the year round. Every cholera
epidemic which has desolated Europe
every visitation of the plague, is be
lieved to have started from the mouth
of the Ganges.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23
LONDON HAPPENINGS

Hour, his country home 4 Long Is-
land, will be accompanied by her two
children, the eldest of " I'M il the
little Marquis OF Blandford. who was
born Sept. IS. 1897. Duchess ConsnelA
was married to the descendant OF tho
great John Churchill in 1895, and since
then has been mistress OF Blenheim
at Woodstock. az sH@2
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23
Production of Oroue.

British medical journals of high Az
thority insist that ozone can be ar.
tifcially produced at reasonable ey
pense to purify the air in tunnels
sewers, and other places in London.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23
Emperor ym.an,,- servants.

In the twenty odd palaces of the
German Emperor some $500 servants
are employed. about 1000 OF these be-.
ing women. A huge income is. of
course, required for keeping up estab-
lishments on this scale. and the Em-
peror's total expenditure is estimated
at some So. 900 q day
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23
Peat as u locomotive Fuel.

Pressed ana u4leu peat Ior locomo-
tive fuel is being experimental with
on the Vislanda- Bolmen railway OF
Sweden.
In late test. though the engine was
built for using coal only, an expert
mental train of 10 freight and one
passenger car made the Camille trip
ahead of the regular ii ne schedule, ar
irving at the terminal station Is min
utes in advance of the schedule. A
time table for lower speed than the
regular train had -been ARRANGED.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23

and charitable lines and her personal
piety but because of her unceasing eff
forts in behalf of the Church of Rome
in America. Up to this time only two
American women have been distinc-
lively honored by the Pope-Mrs
John Sherman and Miss Gwendoline
Caldwell-who We're decorated with
the Order of the Golden Rose. Mss
Leary is well known for her many acts
of charity. Bellevue Hospital has
been a favored recipient. Another of
her charities is the Stony Valid SAM
tarium for consumptive working girls.
and she has given literally to many
churches and educational institutions.
Miss Leary's father WIS a wealthy hat
ter and the personal friend of John
Jacob AstOr.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23
New York Countess.

Miss Anne Leary of 8 Fifth avenue.
New York. has been made Countess
BIZ Pope Leo in recognition not alone
OF her munificence along educational
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23

Homer, most illustrious of poets. YVES
at&sle time a beggar.
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Especial letter.

STORY is b e l n g
told in Washing
ton showing the
democratic taste
and habits of the
White House fam
lily. When it was
decided to send
the second Roosa-
welt boy to the
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23

The man who has the big head" in
variably wears a small hat
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-01-23

~ He domestic infelicities of Eu-
ropean royalties have never
come SO prominently before
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-08-15
THE NEWER ARITHMETIC.

Henry had seven pet rabbits worth
80 cents each until Johns yellow dog
was turned into the shed with them
over night. How much more did Henry
lose than John?
If molasseS costs ~ cents per gal
lon. and James drinks three pints of il
while returning from the grocery. how
much is there left, and what is the
value of what he drank.
Homer is sent TO the grocery with %
cents to buy three pounds Of sugar at
seven cents a pound. How much
change should he bring back and what
did his mother Wallop him for?
If it takes Joseph 20 minutes to
walk two blocks TO Sunday-School, how
many minutes would it take him to
walk eight blocks to Buffalo Bits
show? Don't get this so minutes in
stead of 10.
There are $50 bumblebees in a nest
and five boys set out to break it up
How many bees are there to boy? If
the five boys tumble over four fences
six feet high to get away, what is the
total height?
\ boy with four teeth to be pulled
taken out. How many yells in all?
He meets 10 boys during the day and
brags to each one that it never hurt a
bit. How many more boys than teeth
-Boston Globe
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-08-15
The REMEDY.

The Rutland Herald seems to think
that consideration of the cost of license
will prevent the violation of license
law, although the heaviest fines and i'm
prisonment lose their terrors in COMPARE
son with the profits to be gained from
violations of the law. In view of this
established fact, imagine the terrors
which the loss of Clements proposed
five dollar licenses would have for a
violator of the law, who could renew the
same in the name of some other member
of his famiy.-Burlington Free Press.
The desire to get money by selling
liquor is the root of the evil.
Let the state sell, by duly appointed
state agents, in every town where a
majority of the legal voters want liquors
sold. Let the towns so voting have the
profits.
unlawfully, as no one can compete with
the state as buyer or in price as seller.
Just so long as majority in any town
want liquor just so long will there be
found persons who will sell if the state
does not sell and supply the demand.
This, in a nutshell, is the system of
local option that is now in force in
several states, among them South Caro-
lima, and is giving good results.
1t controls and restricts the traffic
better in these states than any other
system yet devised or tried.
These is no saloon under 1t, where
treating, gambling, and etc, take place.
1t Is simply store where liquor in
sealed packages, only, each with the
seal and label of the state guaranteeing
alike the purity and the quantity, from
pint to gals. can be purchased the
same rs other merchandise.
The traffic should support the paupers
it makes, and 1t does under this system
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-08-15

Vergennes has local option club
that is neutral on the governship ques-
ton and whose sole object is to elect
local option candidates to the legislature.
This club will be heralded as a Clement
club in other parts of the state, and why
not? The good book says that HE that
is not for me is against me; and he that
gathereth not with me scattereth" The
Register is sorry to note that any but a
republican club has been formed in that
city. There is plenty of work for all
republicans to do this year.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-08-15

was bound to be a success If well adj
vertised. No bank in the state has been
more carefully, Systematically and thor
oughly advertised. The result is that of
all the state financial Institutions the
listers give its stock the highest valua-
ton, $3.50, par 500. We have before us
q little booklet telling of the methods on
which this bank solicits business, its
success, etc. 1t is good advertising. If
other Vermont savings banks and trust
companies would copy some of its
methods, especially its advertising
methods, they would find their business
would likewise increase. Copies of this
booklet will be mailed free to all who
write the treasurer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-08-15
Old Home Week.

This is the week set apart by law in
which to welcome home the wandering
sons and daughters of the old Green
Mountain State.
Why are not the hill tops ablaze with
bonfires, and why are not the towns
celebrating the event?
New Hamshire, Maine and Massachu-
sets have made this event great sue
cess.
Why is it practically failure in Yer
mont?
Partly because of the all absorbing
political situation, which is the one thing
uppermost in the minds of the people
this month.
started right last year.
Most of the towns that celebrated Old
Home week last year made it a spectacu-
lar show, with attractions much like the
old fashioned circus. Many towns spent
hundreds of dollars in shows and attrac-
tons to interest and amuse the visitors.
This was all wrong. Old Home week
should be celebrated by grand informal
picnic at some central point in each town.
The absent sons and daughters should
be invited to revisit the happy scenes of
their childhood, and to attend this picnic,
where they could meet more of the old
friends and neighbors than at any formal
gathering. The exercises should all be
of an informal and social nature. Most
of the absent ones, especially those who