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The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-16
Lincoln Ready with witty Story.

Col. Alexander of Topeka was an in
innate friend of President Lincoln, and
he can tell many anecdotes OF "Old
Abe" In 1862 the colonel visited Lin
coin at Washington and found him in
q greatly worried state of mind. This
being president isn't all it is cracked
up to be, is it, Mr.. Lincoin?" inquired
the colonel. No" said Lincoln, with
twinkling eyes. Il feel something like
the Irishman, who after being ridden
on a rail said: 'Bejabbers, if it wasn't
for the honor of the thing, I'd rather
Walk"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-16
The Modern Bandit.

First bandit-How is the lady mis-
sionary quoted by the brigands' com.
mercial agency?
Second bandit find that she is
marked "A-7-11-Xx~"*.
First bandit-What in thunder does
that mean?
Second bandit-It means that she
can be easily kidnapped, but that the
kidnapers will be lucky if they get any
ransom. There is a possibility that
her friends could raise 5000, but before
counting on this it would be well to
investigate the private archives of the
agency. That's all.
''Well. say, amt it a shame?"
''Ain't what a shame?'
"Why, that any woman should think
of coming out here as a missionary
without any rich friends to back her
up. It's too bad"
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-16
Towel Used at v,ok.burg.

Towel Used at vicksburg.
Recently the committee headed by
Gen. Rigby of Iowa, to erect monu-
ment on the Vicksburg battlefield COM
memorating the siege of Vicksbure'
addressed Gen. McGinnis and other
surviving members of the Eleventh In
diana infantry. which bore a conspicu-
Gus part in that siege, for data about
the square fort which was an OBJ
jective point for the division with
which the Eleventh was associated.
The fort was known to the assailants
as Fort Lee. and was sometimes des-
ignated as the Green fort" because Of
its well-sodded condition. The inquiry
disclosed that the damask towel which
was exhibited on the morning of the
surrender in lieu of the Evolutionary
white flag, was cut down after the sur
render by one of the Eleventh, and
while portion of 1t was divided with
his comrades as a souvenir, the greater
part is still in possession of Will G.
Phipps Of Cincinnati and is inscribed,
piece of the flag that surrendered
Fort Lee, Vicksburg, July 4, 1863"
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SENATOR WAS UNKIND.

uafeslins Comment by Blair on the
Pisty of His Colleague.
Ex-Senators Henry w. Blair and
William E. Chandler, both of New
Hampshire, were not on speaking
terms for a time, but since Mr.. Chan
dler's defeat for reelection they have
forgotten old animosities and are cor
diality itself when they meet. Both
happened to reach the Fifth Avenue
Hotel on the same day recently. Mr..
Blair sat on a sofa in the corridor
after breakfast when Mr.. Chandler ap-
preached. After shaking hands the
latter said:
I'm not feeling well this morning,
Senator 1 have a pain in my back
lumbago, or something"
What caused it?" asked Mr.. Blair.
Don't know" replied Mr. Chandler
81 was kneeling down to say my pray
ers last night when II caught me all
of a sudden"
1T must be discouraging to have
such a thing as that happen the very
first time you ever tried it, remarked
Mr. Blair as he turned smilinsly to
his newspaper-New York Times.
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Drive Disease Into Trees.

A very curious superstition APPEAR
to be gaining ground in Berlin, says
Health, and claiming large number
of supporters. Three doctors" have
established a reputation for eradicat-
ing disease from men and beasts and
driving it into trees. The cures are
effected at night on Tuesdays and Fri
days Of the week of full moon A
needle is stuck into the skin over the
affected part of the body and remains
there until few drops of blood appea1
The blood is collected in sheet
of paper and the paper is rolled in the
shape of a pill. The doctor" then
goes in a wood alone, carrying the pill,
selects a tree, and inoculates the bark
with the pill. The process Of bloodlet-
ting and incubation is repeated three
times
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-16
American ANN unition.

Gen. Chafree was not long in proving
beyond any doubt that the Cuban could
never be a match for the ordinary
American soldier. This was strikingly
illustrated in the following Incident:
When Chaffee was advancing on Ell
Caney he sent a Cuban officer with
some Cuban soldiers over to take a
certain Spanish Dlockhouse. They
marched away tr;umphantly and took
q position several miles distant on a
convenient and comfortable hill. Here
they rested the officers and men shoot
ing in the direction of the blockhouse,
but, of course, not reaching anywhere
near it. An American scout, think
ing the blockhouse had been taken,
went around it, and to his surprise
discovered that 1t was filled with Span
ISL soldiers all sound asleep. He went
away and reported to Chaffee. Soon
afterward the Cuban officer rode up
with much excitement and said:
I'VE are all out of ammunition. Give
vs. more"
1.-The kind OF ammunition you are
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-16

Apropos Of tie present craze Tor In
dian pictures, Indian corners and ev-
erything or anything Indian, do you
know that the nation maintains with
in this Mecca OF the tribes and races
q photograph gallery for red men only!
I happened into this unique tnsts-
tuition day or two ego, says corre-
spondent of the Philadelphia Times,
happily at the moment while sat pos
ing, midst all the awe and majesty OF
a king, q picturesque and stolid chlef
of the wild lands-an aboriginal
brave bedecked in the richest ST rfqs
and puppies, besmeared with the
gaudiest of barbaric cosmetics, beneck-
laced with the formidable claws OF
the grizzly beearringed with BELLS
whose jingles kept cadence with each
toss Of his proud head.
This proud chieftain had journeyed
far to greet the Great Father" The
portrait for which he posed was one OF
the perQuisites Of his mission. In
dressing room adjacent to the studio
his suite of attendants had consumed
a full hour and a half in grooming him
for the sitting.
Fifteen thousand negatives repre-
senting practically every aboriginal
tribe OF North, Central and South
America, have been made by the Off
cial photographers, partly in this stu
do and partly in the field. All this
work IL done under the Bureau OF Eth
nology, of which the studio is a part.
Every savage photographed receives,
gratis, one artistically mounted print
from each negative for which he ts
willing to pose. Those portraits the
raves take home and tack up in their
wigwams and tepees. exhibiting them
to their friends with great pride and
gusto. Some improvise crude frames
from the wood and bark OF their viz
gin forests.
Indian portraits were scarce articles
prior to this enterprise Of the Bureau
of Ethnology. The more uncivtlized
the red man, the more intense
is his fear of the camera Only
stealth and diplomacy have overcome
these scruples among the wild tribes.
Willingness to pose has been one OF
the Accomplishments of gradual en-
Iightenment
The uncivilized or semi-civilized
tribes look upon a camera just as they
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Suspend Objects In Midair.

Here is a very surprising trick, ana
it is calculated to create much aston
ishment Before the company assem-
bles place a fine black silk thread
from one side of the room to the other,
about six feet from the floor. Do not
have too much light. First wave a
handkerchief through the air and drop
it gently on the line, continuing to
make mysterious passes. Borrow a
fan and fan the handkerchief until it
falls to the ground. You next suspend
light cane in the same manner. After
performing the last trick be sure to
break the thread. SO that the COM
pany will not detect your hidden
power.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-16
Value of Time.

The value Of odd minutes is Illus
trated by story told in a curious lit
tie volume, recently published. of adj
vice to young draper. A large Arm
required a manager for one of its de-
partments, and appointed IL o'clock
for arrangement of terms with the
selected applicant. He arrived at five
minutes past IL, to find a dozen direct
ors waiting, the chairman watch in
hand The chairman announced that
they could not engage a subordinate
who had wasted an hour of his en-
ployers' time. And on the applicant
deprecating such eXaggeration the
chairman explained that each director
had wasted five minutes, and that
made an hour in all.
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Yakina Brave.

do Calling gun. Fear of material
harm is but one scruple. Terror of be-
witchment is another factor to be reck-
oned with.
To give any man ones image is to
give him supernatural control of ones
life int1uences-a power which also
would be assured did another possess
a hair of ones head or even pairing
from ones finger nail. This is a part
of the creed Of many tribes.
The average Indian is averse to hav-
ing his profile photographed. Those
of whom this view is made invariably
fail to recognize themselves. Although
Poor Lo is the embodiment of all hui
man vanities, he has never perhaps ar
ranged his mirrors to present to his
eye a direct profile view of his stoical
features.
Me no like. No, that no me. That
half man This, or words to this
effect, is the comment made by many
red braves upon whom is brought to
bear the persuasion that profile por-
traits represent them.
The superstition that a profile por-
trait will cause the side turned away
from the camera to wither up and die
is one which has been confided
to the photographers by several In
dianS.
to pose for profile portraits, 1t is the
object of the bureau to obtain of each
fuli-blood both the front and side
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-16
In the Wrong Place.

An old printer is quoted as author
ity for this story of Horace Greeley:
"One day as he sat at his desk he
looked up and saw a small boy stand
ing beside him. Well, sonny, what
do you want?' he piped. L want a
place to work in your Office And
what do you want that for?' asked the
old man. L want to grow up and get
rich was the answer. Mr. Greeley
looked at him for a moment. Get
ricb?' he said. Il guess you didn't
motive that this is a newspaper office.
You must be looking for the druggist
next door,"
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yvI,AT the PANAMA. nouTE Is.

q Il 1905 Miles Long and Follows
ChaRrss River Most Of Distance.
The Panama route Is but 49.09 miles,
long from ocean to ocean, which Is but
little more than one-fourth Of the total
length OF the Nicaragua route. There
Is, therefore, less room for variety of
features than is found on the Nicara-
qua line. The city of Colon. formerly
called Aspinwall, was chosen by the
old Panama company as the Atlantic
terminus. The route then follows
along the marshes in southwesterly
direction to a little place called Gatun,
on the Chagres river. From that point
it follows the line of that river in a
general way to Obispo, thirty miles
from Colon.
At Obispo the route leaves the Cha
gres and enters the Emperador cut,
which merges into the great Culebra
cut, where the line crosses the CONT
mental divide From the latter point
its general course lies along a small
stream called the Rio Grande until IL
reaches the waters of Panama bay.
This route has attained great promi-
nence within the latst twenty years in
consequence of the work done on 1t by
the old Panama Canal Company, a
French corporation of which Ferdi-
nand de Lesseps was the head. 1t was
not until 1883 that work upon a large
scale was begun. The plan adopted
was that OF a sea-level canal and in
cluded bottom width of seventy-two
feet and navigable depth Of 29.5 feet.
The entire cost of the work was esti-
mated by De Lesseps in 1880 at about
1928 900 900, and eight years for the
time required.
Work under this sea-level plan was
prosecuted actively until the near end
Of 1887, says q writer in Scribner's,
when it became evident that the canal
on q sea-level plan could not be con-
structed for the amount of money and
ime then available to the company.
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nIr. mor<an.. Liber.liev.

Every New Year J. Pierpont Nor
gan gives to every one of his employees
in the great banking firm a certain
bonus in proportion to the salary they
are drawing.
This year the highest sum was An
even $25, 600 to one man. The lowest
was $50, to a new messenger, who also
got his pay raised S120 a year. Wall
street figures that every year MI.
Morgan gives to hts employees one
twentieth of the net earnings of the
bank for the year. II Wall street is
right, the bank made $4,000 clear
last year. How much Mr.. Morgan
himself made, with his reorganizations,
mergers and special fees for financial
work, no man could tell.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-16
Had to Have His Counsel

At banquet of the directors of the
Pennsylvania Railroad company some
years ago President Roberts in his
after dinner speech referred in compli-
mentary terms to Archbishop Ryan,
the guest of the evening. When he
had finished the archbishop turned to
Wayne MacVeagh, who was Mr.. Rob-
erts' counsel. and who was seated be-
side him, and said:
II suppose will now have no diff
Guilty in obtaining passes whenever j
want them"
YES" replied MacVeagh, but Mr..
Roberts will expect you to reciprocate
by giving him a pass to heaven
The archbishop replied: We'll, but ]
understand he cannot get along with
out his counsel
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-16
Was at the Battle of Waterloo.

Gradually each year the circle Of
"eye witnesses of famous battles
grows smaller. and especially is this so
of the circle of those who can remem-
Der Waterloo.
In the little village of Ro!nenden, in
England. lives Mrs. Barbara Moon,
who was present as a child at the bat
tie OF Waterloo. Although about 80
years of age she distinctly remembers
being on the battlefield in a baggage
wagon and tages great pride in refer
ring to that memorable time. Her
father was a color sergeant in the
Third Battalion Rifle Brigade. and
she was born at Gibraltar in 1871.
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-16
Women =. ,a.ur.nc. R.lz..

The majority of companies charge
women higher premiums, the differ.
ence in this respect being illogical
while not q small number make NO e.
ira charge whatsomever. The claim 10
made that the increased risk fs actual
ly justified by the function OF mater
nifty, says American Medicine. Some
companies, therefore, make no extra
charge after the age Of SO. II is per-
tnently asked why some companies
find female risks profitable at ordinary
rates. We suspect the explanation OF
the whole problem will be found to
lie in prejudice and custom. and that
great financial success will come to
those companies which invite the
ladies at ordinary rates. There is no
reason in vital statistics for exclud'
ing or fining them.
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" Social Fayorife szA
BoAutiful American Women Who ReiGns
by Right ira London.

was looking for, and very soon After
that he began to accumulate money in
large sums, and all he mad prophesied
up there on the mountain top when
l used to cook his dinner in the little
cabin came true. 1t is like story.
except that 1 cannot feel like the he
roine of anything.
MIR. Newhouse tells some very
amusing stories about my ideas OF
finance. When l first went to Paris,
of COURSE. wanted pretty frocks. and
my husband left me there to attend to
my dresses and he went over to Lon
don.
II had lovely time ordering gowns
right and left, and as didn't trouble
about prices had to approximate the
amount of money I should need.
wrote Mr.. Newhouse that l feared
had been rather extravagant, and
thought l had spent $1,000 on dresser;
then l enumerated the things l had
ordered. And my husband replied oy
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Especial L.etter.)

sk0VSCloA 4/oIISI.J -.l
! s ! ! !: :;
NE of the reigning favorites
~ In London society, and q
III woman who. it is said. has
captivated the entire royal
set, Is Mrs. Samuel New
house, the wife of an Amer
lean who won his fortune in
the western part of the
United States after struggle with adj
verse fate lasting many years. And
Mrs. Newhorse is not ashamed to ac-
knowledge even now when she is a
petted favorite of the most exclusive
society In London that she once did the
cooking Tor the mining camp with
which her husband had cast his lot. A
correspondent recently called upon
MRS. Newhouse at her palatial London
home and obtained from her the story
of her life, which she gave without
hesitation
Mrs. Newhouse does not look more
than 30, although she laughingly ac-
knowledges that she has been on this
mundane sphere several years more
than four times eight. my life has
been an unusual one,' she said to the
correspondent, and I have lot for
gotten the days I spent in q little hut
on the top Of mountain when my
husband was seeking the fortune he
now has. / was the only woman and
did all the work. Never mind how it
was done. My husband thinks there
never was such q cook, and we both
think the less said about the laundry
end OF the housekeeping the better.
You see, my husband was one OF
the many young fellows who have
gone west to sack a fortune. We met
in Denver, Col / am a southerner by
birth, but We had moved to Denver
several years before Mr.. Newhouse
came hero. l was reared as most
girls are, carefully and tenAsriy. We
were not rich, but comfortably OF.
Il was only 16 when l marrisA-a
love match. We had very utsle capt.
tai besides our deep love for one an
other, but we were rich in youth and
hope, and we were as happy as pos
sfble, living in a very modest way. Ny
husband had an interest in several
mines, and the result did not please
him.
zone day he told me that his one
chance was to go to the property him
self and stay there watching and work
ing until he found what he was look
ing for.
well, you see I am not very strong
looking now, and l was slighter then
and sixteen years younger than l am
>-day, but l insisted on going with
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-. s.
MIS-. NeWhOuse.

I would laugh and say, All right,
Sam, but of course 1 couldn't quite
see myself in the picture my husband s
fancy painted.
Pm like every other woman, sup
pose; love pretty clothes and com
forts, but / was happy and contented
wife on the top of that mountain. with
my husband for my che friend and
companion.
but we had one terrible expert
ence-we were caught up in the
mountain in fearful snowstorm.
Our hut was entirely buried in the
snow and we should have perished to
a certainty If rescuing party had not
come to our relief
'.They had to cut q tunnel through
the snow and 1 was carried through
the tunnel to the open and taken down
the mountain. That one experience
makes me shudder even to recall.
'.1Er. Newhouse had found what he
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-04-16
POWER OF SWEET SOUNDS.
Wounds Healed by the Music Of .
Violin.

Wounds Healed BY the Music of .
Violin.
A man was conveyed to hospital In
Paris, suffering from an accident
which resulted in a serious wound.
This wound refused to heal, and all
the various treatments applied to it
failed to effect the desired end. The
man was attacked from time to time
by violent paroxysms, and death ap-
peared certain. At length the surgeon
enlisted the services of a good violin
player and treated the sufferer to a
musical remedy. The patients par
oXysms ceased and from that time the
wound began to heal. The violin play
ing was continued at intervals till re-
covery was assured.
In another case the wound continued
to suppurate despite all that could be
done; the patient was calm and re-
signed, but nothing could be done for
the wound. The violin was called into
requisition in this instance also, and
the instrument was played close to the
injured part, which was barred for the
purpose. The surgeon soon observed
a change; the wound assumed a
neaithlef appearance, ana the process
If healing began and progressed rapid
".
1t is an undoubted fact that certain
vibrations can effect cures, but the vi
brations must be strictly in accord
ance with the malady or nature of the
wound. Some enthusiasts go so far as
to assert that the character of indi
yidualS can be changed by the constant
application of the proper vibration.
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A Useless Gift.

There are some people who never
think when buying gift further than
the beauty and desirability of such n
gift for themselves. Oftentimes thl
gifts are like carrying Goals to N
castle" or perhaps they are as All
as the following:
Mai. Pruden, the presidents prIU
secretary, is very bald, and rs he N
did one OF his many Christmas giffG
the look of pleasure died from his facs
as he said:
Nov, why in the world did that fool
send these things to me?"
Mai. Pruden held up for inspecticM
as he spoke a pair OF handsome geaA7
mounted military hair bxushes.
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Students at tho Colleges.

DR.. Garman, the registrar of Colun-
bia University, has taken some pains
to learn the enrolment of students
and instructors in the larger univer-
sites of the country, and reports that
in order of population they rank this
year as follows: Harvard, 5,576 Stu
dents; Columbia, APP; Michigan,
1916; Chicago, 1927; California, s.
$40; Minnesota, 1886; Cornell, 3,216;
Wisconsin, 2,S12; Yale, 1850; Penn
sylvania, $500.
So go the ten largest. Johns Hop
kins has 655 students, Princeton T.
1862 and Stanford 1,22S.-Harper'S
Weekly
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TWAS kind, good String" the Top
exclaimed,
"Of you to set me spinning.
Pm full of movement and of life
My travels are beginning.
81 skip with ease from place to place,
Now that your coils are undone.
! ought to see the world, and SO
I'll journey up TO London.
"Good-by, old String! That you can't
come
With me seems quite pity.
1t would be nice if you could share
My visit to the city.
"Ah. well, descriptions you shall have;
I'll not return without 'em.
The Tower, the Zoo, the Monument
I'll tell you all about EN-.
81 mean to do the wax works, too"
The Top was heard to mutter.
And then he staggered, ceased to twirl,
And tumbled in the gutter!
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Giant With Long Reach.

Early in 1866 the Chinese sent to
England Chang Woo Cow, one of their
people, with King Foo, his wife, and
Chang Now, a Tartar rebel dwarf. The
giant was then z feet 9 inches in height
and 10 years of age. He was interest
ing and an intelligent and able scholar
He visited the Prince and Princess OF
Wales, and at their request wrote his
name OF the wall of the room in which
he was received at a height Of nearly
ten feet from the ground.
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Beard Nearly Eleven Feet Long.

One of the notabilities of the town
of Montlucon. France, in the Depart
ment of Allier.is man named Coulon,
aged 76. whose beard measures 10 feet
1919 inches. and his mustache is over
a yard and a half long. He spends
every Sunday dressing his beard, and
when he exhibits his luxurious growth
the Inhabitants of the town come out
to see him go by.
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Minister with a Record.

The minister who in 1901 claimed
the record with reference to the grand
total of marriages and funerals CON
nected with a long minister's life is
Rev. ]. H. Haughey of Mason City, &c
miles north of Pekin, Ill. During his
career as preacher. a period of 40
years. he has married 1887 couples
and conducted 1.50 funerals